1938-12-22 — Page 29

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 22, 1938.

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Merry

Xmas

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NAVY OFFICER SUES CLEAN OUT YOUR

AIRMAN Divorce Jury Told Of Wife's Cruise

A

SPECIAL JURY disagreed recently in a divorce case in which a naval officer complained that his wife and an R.A.F. officer occupied cabins near each other on a long cruise.

Lieut.-Commander Roland Charlton Allen, R.N., of Linden- gardens, Notting Hill, W., petitioned in the Divorce Court for a decrce against Mrs. Mora Allen, who lives at Pil Farm-road, Guildford.

The President, Sir Boyd Merri-¡ man, discharged the jury after the foreman had reported that the disagreement was substantial.

Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., had been briefed for Lieut.-Commander Allen, und Sir Patrick Hastings,) K.C., for Mrs. Allen.

Commander Allen charged his wife. with misconduct with Wing Com- mander John Valentine Steele, of: the R.A.F.. and claimed damages frum

him. The allegation Was denied.

The King's Pew

Was Robin's

Perch

A robin parched on the pow edge in front of the

King and Queen while they wore at morning service at the littlo village church of St. Paul's, Waldon, near Hitchin (Herts), recently.

The King and Queen look- cd at each other and smiled.

The robin had proviously been flying round the inside of the church,

In Dartmoor

Mother's Crisis Language Classes

Fears For Babies

Worried by the crisis, Jennie Margaret Dormer

Mrs.)

(29),

gas-

She learned that none were pro- vided for infants.

The marriage of Commander and of Wood Green, went to get Mrs. Allen took place in July 1925, | masks for her family. and there are three children. "CONSTANT VISITS"

Once the home of French prisoners of war, Dartmoor Prison is now a school for con- victs learning French.

Government report on prisons, and This was revealed in the recent

recently Mr. C. Hartley, a master at Tavistock Grammar School, who in teaching the men, said:

The classes have become CX- tremely popular.

Sir Boyd Merrimon, In summing-

That added to her depression. up, said that if the jury were satis-

At the Old Bailey recently, when

"I spend only an hour and a half fled that there was a gulity affection Mrs. Dormer was charged with the 4 week in the prison, but marking between Mrs. Allen and Wing Com- murder of her baby, Mr. Christmas the men's homework takes much mander Sicele it could not be dis- stumphreys, prosecuting, said she longer than teaching them. puted that there had been ample, had not fully recovered from the "They are absolute gluttons for upportunity to indulge it.

birth of her second child when the homework and There had been constant week-crisis came. endt visita of Wing Commander It had such an effect en ter mint Steele to

Mrs. Allen's house at that she put the baby in the oven, Guildford, some times alone, and and it died from gas polsoning. iwo prolonged cruises.

BOUND OVER

as a result make

rapid progress. I find that a man knowing no French at all usually reaches school certificate standard within a year."

SURPRISE FOR OFFICIAL The jury had been asked by Com- mander Allen to draw the Inference

Mr. G. A. Napps (defending) sald Several of the prisoners could pass Cx- that the visits and cruises were un that in the crisis Mrs. Donner did the higher school certificates dertaken beesuse Mrs. Allen and the not know whether to take her child-amination, added Mr. Hartley. Wing Commander wanted to com-ren to a place of safety or to stay mit inisconduct.

with her husband,

It was for the jury to say whether they were affirmatively satisfied that that inference ought to be drawn. There had been no evidence of indiscreet conduct оп either cruise.

WOMAN OF MEANS

Except for the statement of one of Mrs. Allen's servants, there had been no evidence of any act of endear- ment between Mrs. Aller and Wing Cominander Steele at her house.

Witnesses called by her from her household all said they had never

A Merry Christmas

Arrangements had now been made for her to stay with a friend in the Country until she had fully re- covered.

Mrs. Dormer's plea of infanticide was accepted and she was bound

over for two years.

seen anything wrong

When a French Government of- Belal visited the prison he was sur- prized to find men who could converse fluently with him in his own language.

Three of Mr. Hartley's pupils hove written him since their release to inform him that the French classes bad helped them to secure employ- ment.

One is now a travel agent and Dealing with the question of junother a taxi-driver specialising in damages, Sir Boyd sald Commander showing foreigners the sights of Allen was living on his pay, and his London. wife was a woman of considerable German classes" are now to be

started.

incans.

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