1939-01-31 — Page 15

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 31, 1939.

NO DIVORCE AGAIN FOR "NAGGED "

A

HUSBAND OF

110

Re-married Wife After

First Decree

HUSBAND divorced from his wife 18 years ago and

later reconciled and 'remarried to her, was refused a divorce by Mr. Justice Langton in the Divorce Court, and the wife was refused judicial separation.

Mr. Wilfrid Lawson Spence, of Leamington Spa, sought a decree on the ground that his wife, Mrs. Yvonne Marie Spence, deserted him.

Mrs. Spence, who defended the case and denied her husband's allegation, asked the court to grant her a deerce of judicial separa- tion because of her husband's crucity.

Mr. Justice Lington, giving con- sidered Judgment, said that Mr. and Mrs. Spence married for the Ast Ume In July, 1913. The husband was an Englishman ant now over 70 years of age, and his wife, who was 20 years his junior, wus French by origin. In 1913 she was under 21,

Hunting The

Giant Panda

In November, 120, Mrs. Spence TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES- divorced her husband in Scotland on the ground of his adultery with woman whom Mr. Spenes afterwards; married,

THEIR SECOND MARRIAGE

Sir-In view of the interest arous- ed by the Import into this country recently of five live glant pandas by the American naturalist Mr. Floyd

Re-

In 1920 Mr, Spence divorced the Tangler Smith I would like to quote woman who had come between blin the following remarks from an arti- and his first wile, and in June, 1927, ele in the Chlua Journai by my friend Mr. and Mrs. Spence were married Mr. A. de C. Sowerby, of Shanghai: a second time.

During their first marriage two.

"We would like to suggest that children, à son and a daughter, were born

this business of capturing live giant The judge added that Mrs. Spence pandus for export to zoos in foreign was now content to answer her hus-lands is already seriously threatening band's petition on the grounds that the species with extermination. she was forced by his cruelty to purts have reached us that through- leave him and that her husband set the whole area inhabited by giant quiesced in her action in leaving the Pandas the native hunters are scour

ing the country in search of these matrimonial home.

animals as well as setting iraps for Mr. Spence was # nan whose

them. Already, according to Mrs. character was not difficult to read, Harkness, who was in

in that

last and he impressed his lordship as #spring, two big valleys in the Wassu perfectly honest man.

country, which formerly contained HALE AND, HEARTY AT 70 many pandas, have been denuded of these animals.

arca

re-

At the age of 70 he presented a ports indicate that many Mely

Alt

old

and young, brought alive to Chengtu by native hunters have died there before they could be shipped out of the country, while many more skins

hale nad hearty appearance and his mind was ntur, and acuic. 11e was, however, a man vi stien luigh temper and suen intensity of conviction that it was almost unposs.bic for hum to of dead ones have been offered for state any case uspassionately or sale in this city, showing that an in- fairly.

tensive hunting of giant of the going on. A rare and not too pienti- animal at best, the giant panda cannot long survive such persecution,

mun

He was obviously u most violent porucal views.

Ittl

pandas is

This is what is known as clean aerodynamic design-and Frobisher, now Imperial Airways airliner, is said to be of the cleanest design yet achieved in aeroplane construction.

Alr, the water, offers resistance to things passing through it, and that resistance can be decreased by making the frontal arcs smaller and so shaping the rest of the acroplane that it slips easily through the air. Even a nut or a rivet head projecting from the surface of wing or body makes it harder for the aeroplane to slip through. Jand-Austrella race in 1934, brought cut Frobisher as the fastest airliner Britain has yet built. She announced Following these principles, the de Havilland designers, who produced the Comet which won the Eng- her advent on Imperial Aleways" European routes by a service night from London to Paris in 53 mkiutes, the fastest ever recorded by a commercial aircraft on this route. It represented 238 m.p.li. and it was achieved despite sforms and with 17 passengers and freight totalling 214 tons.

Just A Guilty Look-And Science Can Prove It

Eye-Prints Are New Trap

For Criminals

BLACKPOOL.

THAT "guilty look" in your eyes when you've been

found out is no figure of speech.

28 Stone Woman Slims

17 Stone

The American Medical Association. revealing recently the case of a woman who weighed 28st. 10lb. re- ducing by 20 months dieting to 11st. 2lb asserted that there is apparently no limit to the extent to which excess weight can be removed by dieting, providing the diet is nourishing

Only win the greatest difficulty, and we strongly

Your eyes really do give you away-to expert opticians like said the judge, and he success in pre-authorities to take measures to pro-shire, Cheshire and North Wales optical practitioners.

urge the Chinese those meeting here recently at a regional conference of Lanca- venting Mr. Spice uncang upon tect this and other species of rare- a diatribe aganist disunguished ex-animals and birds in China against

And because eyes reveal secrets the police are taking a close Cabinet Muster WHO political what can only be described as whole-interest in the subject as an aid to crime detection. connections with Leamington,

sale commercial exploitation. The Mr. Spence deserited his wife as collecting and exporting of so many

It was stressed that the C.I.D., poses was awakened after it was having a "gemus for maggag and the of these rare animals from China can men of the future will look into was able to assist in the solving of enough.

revealed that a Lancaster optician worst sense of humour in the world," hardly be justified on and he was obviously ready to be grounds, especially when it is taken female, and "eye-prints," which the full shape of Mrs. Ruxton's head scientific the eyes of the prisoner, male or the Ruxton murder by calculating fleve that in meanness, avarice and into consideration the number that ingratitude she was without a rivar have already died since being cap are photographs of the retina of from the remains found. and beyond compute.

tured. We therefore appeal to the the eye, will become secondary Mr. Spence described his son as a Chinese Government to Intervene to to finger-prints for purposes of "lout who was too die und spoill save the giant panda from exter- ever to be capable of usetul work,"mination ücfore it is too late."

could

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WRA whom he

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Fidentification.

"An - eye-print,” Mr. -- Barker said, "is the pattern of blood: vessels in the retina. No two persons have the same pattern, and it changes little from birth to old age.

The Chief Constable of Blackpool, Although the existence of the giant Me. E. H. Holmes, and several police vy one serious alter- opinion when she used an ana has been known for 10 years, officers attended a lecture by Mr. |

and during this period it has been W. B. Barker, 56-years-old Munckes-tinal pattern cannot be altered. That Insulting expression-for which had

and, as it seemed to his led by many naturalists and ex- ter optician and

plorers, only three have actually been lordsp, win jusuneaton, boxed killed by white men. her cars-tored scarcely better at

prompty

his hunds,

lecturer at The skin of Manchester School of Technology. the giant panda was considered of SOLVED A MURDER little value as compared to that of

Mr. Barker said his interest

the

"And, unlike fingerprints, he re- would mean blindness. I cannot be Heve that the worst criminal would scrlice his eyesight to escape detec- in tion.

the takin, consequently there was no retinal photography for crime pur-THAT GUILTY LOOK

"FIRE IRONS" „CHARGE

inducement for local hunters to make Mrs. Spence was a woman of spirit any special effort to secure it. Skins and courage, and was bom able and can be seen occasionally In the huts ~determined to stand up for hersen, of wood-cutters, but these have She was a woman of exceptional generally been killed in traps set for obstinney and determ.nation.

taldin.

dressed by a doctor.

Mrs. Spence complained of series of acts which she had sought

When, however, a market is creat-

or bird, or!

Buffalo Quick Kicker

HEALDSBURG, Cal. William Walker, 17, probably

nervous

"Another way we can help the pollee is by identifying spectacled Mispecta from their glasses. By a better system of keeping records of prescriptions for glasses we could quickly identify particular lenses, tell the police where those glasses [were bought."

Mr. Spence had stated that he had 'had wounds, Inleted by his wite ed for living animal through the meatum of the irons, some part of it which entails the tnk-!

ing of life, whether it be the giant įknows more about the

Mr. Holmes pointed out to Mr. panda, the horn of the rhinoceros, actions of buffalo than

re-Barker that before retinal pictures the gland of the musk deer, or the American. On

the average could be used a simple method of to elevate to the height of legal feathers of the egret, it undoubtedly Franciscu zoo, he was so attracted by have to be devised.

visit to the San codification of characteristles would cruelty, but which did not amount becomes the thin end of the wedge the seven bison there that he could to anything more than her natural) of extermination. portion of the damage likely to

not resist the temptation to stretch look." accrue from a rough and tumble

jour

out his hand and pat one. Before he with a small, much older, but very) H., C. BROCKLEHURST, Captain could say "Jack Robinson," determined husband.

(Inte Game Warden, Sudan buffalo had whirled around and kick-themselves need not betray any per- Government).

ed him twice on the nose.

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A Tust word about the "guilty

"It is in the eye-print, not in the eye," said Mr. Barker. "The eyes

ceptible emotions. But the eyelids and the face muscles give you away."

Street Blown Up For A Mile

SIX persons were injured, and

a street surface was wrecked for a milo in a gas explosion in Lichfield Street, Handley, Stoke- on-Trent, recently.

It is thought that gas from the town supply, escaping from a frac- tured main, entered a Post Office duct through which pieces of cable became

Ignited.

Twelve manhole covers were blown -Into the air. Holes were torn la the lavement and pleces of pavlug-stone and wreckage were hurled over houro roots.

Some of those injured were walk- {ing over manhole covers as they blew up and one man, Mr. Edward Tomu-

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Hanley, had to be pulled out of a hole in the pavement.

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Many pedestrians thought for a moment that an air rald was taking place. The street loolted as if it had been bombed.

Dozens of house and shop windows were shattered and glass Ultiered the pavements, Many in the damaged building complained of shock,

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