1939-04-20 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. April 20, 1939.

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Baby Coat Cost Four Guineas "EXTRAVAGANCE" SAYS JUDGE

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FOUR-GUINEA coat for a child, the nephew of an earl, was described as "extravagant” and “an expensive necessity" by Judge Dumas in Westminster County Court recently,

The judge was hearing an action by Mrs. Campbell Chads, of Folkestone, Kent, against her son-in-law, the Hon. E. M. Child- Villiers, brother of the Earl of Jersey.

"HAD TO AGREE"

Mrs. Chads claimed £32 108. took no scenunt of the responsibilities 11d.. the price of clothing sup- of life which he underloolt. lied to Mr. Child-Villiers's son John. The judge found for Mr. Child-Villiers,

"At the same time, he was under age, and there is not much to be sald for a lady who allows her daughter to marry a man under age, and then with Dru- expects him to behave

Mr. Gerald A. Thesizer, for Mrs. Chads, said that a suit by her daugh- ter for the restitution of conjugal rights was now pending. (The wed-dence." ding was one of the social events of 1934; the couple parted last year.)

Mrs. Chads, in evidence, said that

there

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a marriage settlement

which gave the couple £1,000 a year. have been hard up ever since they were married. They have too many ears." "HARD UP"

Mrs. Child-Villiers was asked by the judge why she did not pay her mother. "Because I was hard up." she replied.

After examining the 1st of clothes supplied. Judge Dumas commented: "It strikes me as rather extravagant for an infant child of people who were hard up. There is a check coat at and two

of guineas

pairs knickers at £1 s. 6d. each." Mr. Boileau, for Mr. Child-Villiers, submitted that many of the goods supplied could not be called neces- sitles,

"Four cardigans and Ovo jerseys,

Mrs. Chads snid after the cave: "I had to dgree to their marriage. They had thren- tened to run away together un- less I did."

"That is

agreed her daugh- ser. Mrs. Child-Villiers, fall, im brunette, smartly dressed in a trim grey costume, with a large fox fur over one shoulder, had agreed with the Judge that her idea was that only the best was good enough for her child.

"I felt my son ought to be dressed according to his station," she said.

Malayans In Divorce Suit

London.

A Singapore ease was heard in the Divorce Court in London recently.

How would you like it if somebody jumped a horse over your table when you held, say, four aces? Yet these cavalrymen seem quite unconcerned at their game of cards as a fellow soldier takes the leap, during a horsemanship exhibition at Atlanta, Ga.

She Started Plan to Make the Duke.

of Windsor Ambassador for Peace

TDEA for the world-wide campaign by The Friends of the Duke of Windsor to appoint the Duke as "Ambassador-at-Large for Demo- cracy and Peace" came from in Englishwoman.

She is Miss Olive Murphy, North- end-road, Golders Green, a concert-

The petitioner was Herbert Law-singer, who recently moved to Lon- at a time 'when the young couple frence King, who was described as don from Leeds. could not live in their own house but now on leave from Singapore. had to live with mother certainly do' He asked for a divorce from his not appear to be necessitles,"

Rhoda Margaret, on the ground of her adultery.

said.

he wife.

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"The iden came to me just after the Abdication, when I read an article in the League of Nations Journal Euggesting a world-famous figure Judge Dumas' comment on this al

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might head a movement of all the the end of the case was: "It is a lot!.

It was alleged that Mrs. King had peoples of the world for peace." they of nonsense to say that necessities for a child who would be committed adultery with the co-res- | Miss Murphy said.

Kenneth Brotchle, ́ ́ with | warmly clothed with one cardigan pondent. and one jersey."

whom she left Singapore for England Dismissing the claim, with costs, on August 31 last.

"I wrote to an American magazine. the judge said: "I think this case is: Mrs. King and Bratchle subse-suggesting the Duke should have, the an attempt to get back at the hus-quently ilved in a London fat, the job, band. It must not be taken that I petitioner alleged.

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"They were very excited by the

have any sympathy with him. He is The judge granted King a deeree idea and The Friends of the Duke of

un extravagant young

waster who nisi with costs.

Windsur in New York' was formed,

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"We need somebody to attract people's attention from Mussolini would be and Hiller. The Duke ideally fitted for the post of Am- bassador-at-Large,

"I have not had Ume to devote

to a Landon organisation. It L very small as yet, but we have found that the run-in-the-street in extremely interested.

Man Fights Leopard.

London.

While the audience at the Empire "We hope to hold several meetings Theatre, Edinburgh, chatted and in the near future.

laughed,"waiting; for-a-performance When the "Friends" group was to begin, a man and a leopard were launched on the Duke's birthday last struggling on the stage behind the June in New York with a dinner, the curtain. The leopard, Sultan, used Rev. Reisner, addressing the diners in an onimal act, attacked its trainer, snid:

Josef Galz. Stage honda drove it off "If England continues to reject as leopard and iran rolled over ond him let us invite him over here. He over on the board. Gatz was taken would be a good man to put on the to hospital and his net was taken i Wagner Labour Commitice,”

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THE House of Lords recently passed the Second Reading of a Bill which, in certain circumstances, will make blood tests compulsory in cases of illegitimacy,

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It was Lord Merthyr's Bill, and women magistrates, he made the his main argument was that while daring declaration that "most of the blood test would not show that them regard any suggestion that a a man was the father of an illegi-woman has done anything wrong timate child, it would, in a certain sexually as a direct attack upon their number of cases, show that he wat own virtue." not.

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He suggested that with blood tests, one out of every three accused men might have been exonerated. So he cases facts could be conclusively wanted selence to be allowed to come to the old of the law.

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Lord Dawson of Penn spoke of the man of position and wealth put up as "a stalking horse."

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