1939-05-15 — Page 26

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

May 15, 1939.

DIVORCE, Fun Fair At 250,000 Leave China's Capital In Three Days

GRACIE SEEKS

HUSBAND TO FIGHT They Have Been Married 16 Years

She Won Fame In His Early Revues

GRACIE FIELDS, EX-MILL GIRL WHO HAS BECOME

BRITAIN'S HIGHEST-PAID STAR,

RECENTLY

SOUGHT A DIVORCE FROM ARCHIE PITT, TO WHOM SHE HAS BEEN MARRIED FOR 10 YEARS,

He defended the suit,

Mr. Pitt is a theatrical producer and actor. Her sult is listed as Sellnger G. v. Selinger A.—Mr. Pitt's real name.

Gracie was married at Wandsworth Register Office when she was making her name in the touring production of her husband.

The show in which she first attracted notice was his "Mr 'Tower of London," which started during the war and ran for years. Before that Gracie had worked in a mill her native town, Rochdale, Lancashire, and played in amateur theatricals,

Gracio is 41, her husband 10 years older.

Her case came up for hearing in the Divorce Courts recently. The King's Proctor is inter- There were 71 sulla brought on the vening in the divorce suit ground of incurable Insanity.

brought by Mrs. Hilary I. E. Wilmer against David Wilmer, one of the four "Mayfair men" sentenced at the Old Bailey in February 1938 for a jewel hold up in a West End hotel.

Wilmer WON sentenced years' penal servitude,

to five

In March the same year Mrs. Wilmer was granted a decree nist on an undefended petition. The mar riage took place in 1935 when Mrs. Wilmer was only 18.

On the Nail

Is your boy friend = finger-

nall chewer?

snd,

If he is, you'd better laten to the manicurists of Balt Lake Clly, Utaht

"Highly-strung, nervous and. Irritable generally speaking, it's easter to get along with a baxx-mw,"

Here's-some-more-pearls of· wisdom from the samo source: Don't trust

with WOETSAKI

a triangular-shaped" finger-nafl. She can't keep secrets.

A man wlib slim finger- nalis, is not a "good provider." He may be artistic, but be "Inst won't bring home the bacon.”

Serenade By Telephone

CLEVELAND, O. Patrons of a gypsy cafe here were: startled when the whole orchestra crowded Into and around a telephono the Law Society has suggested to Reason: A gypsy orchestra lender in To relieve congestion in London, booth and played into the mouthpiece. the Divorce Court president that at

was doing Icast one judge should visit every Akron, 35 miles away, Arizo town periodically to deal some courting and felt the need of

genuine gypsy strains. only with divorce cases.

Nazi Girls At

Shanghai

Fun was order of the day recently at the Great Western Road Camp. Shanghal, of the Second Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment, when the officers and men ecfebrated the "Day" An excellent fan fair, proceded by a parade, was held in the spacious grounds. Pictures above show some of the participania and spectators. At top left an officer, dressed as child, is seen being driven in a baby carriage by a Chinese mah. at top right was the leading participant, "Lady Godiva on a donkey. Lower picture shows part of the highly amused spectatorm

FRANCO VICTIMS

Peace In Britain 'SHOT LIKE DOGS'

Bexhill. and the Baroness, dark and smiling, The judge exercised discretion in THERE was no crisis recently were surprised when asked whether, her favour.

at the Victoria Augusta in view of the International situation, Among other suits is n petition for College, the finishing school here, any of their distinguished pupils had

returned to their native country. divorce by. Mrs. L. M. H. M. Gonella where the daughters of Ger- against N. C. Gonella-Nat Gonella. many's most aristocratic the famous jazz trumpeter.

diplomatic families The suit is defended.

their education.

SECRET WEDDING

In the same list is a petition by Mrs. Martyn, formerly the Hon. Phyllis Bethell, daughter Lord Bethell,. millionaire Inndowner, against Captain

Harrison Martyn.

Clive

"Why should they?" demanded and

Principal Rochall "There's not go- complateing to be a war. There is no need for panic of any kind, and it's lessons

as usual here.

A tall Tudor mansion, whose sleek green lawns overlook the sea, the

*Indeed, so convinced am I of peace college has 18 young ladies from Ger- for years to come that I have just many on its register,

taken over another big establishment. "This will be opened shortly as an Among them are the Countess international college for boys, where Haldenberg, niece to German Am-100 young men from all over the bassador Herr von Dirksen, and Isa world can be educated together." The marriage took place secretly von Bergen, daughter of Herr Hitler's In March 1933.

representative at the Vatican.

Studying

vivacious

in 1928.

Rote Teaching Declines

In 1925 Captain Martyn marrieds Clogs Bett a von Ribben the Hon. Vera Pearl Jessel, second

Bettina von Ribben-{ daughter of Lord Jessel, in St. trop, daughter of the German Foreign

Minister, George's Hanover-square. She died in a motoring accident which necessit- until she received injuries

ated her return to Bavaria.

AUSTIN, Tex. Run as an exclusive educational Texas school teachers are giving establishment, the school is conducted their pupils more practical instruc- by two German women, Frau tion and possibly less "book learn- Rochall and the Baroness von Korff. Ing." Dr. Hob Gray, University of

Both Frau Rochall, fall and stately, Texas education professor, said.

Nearly 400 defended suits were carried over from last term, and the courts were faced with 819 con- tested matrimonial and probate ac-

tions.

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TRAGIC story of the shooting of towards the foreign Fascists who now

thousands of Spanish Republican "lord it" in Madrid, M. prisoners in Franco goals was re-declared. vealed recently in exclusive state-

ment from M. Charles Tillon, a French | deputy, who was himself d prisoner

for a month.

He arrived at Cerchere recently. At least 100,000 republicans are

imprisoned in Madrid and neighbour

ing communities, he stated. In the| Barcelonu region there are 80,000.

Men are being shot like dogs after a farcical trial; some are not even brought into court,

"Even in the ranks of the Spanish Fascists there is a sharp rivarly be tween the red-capped monarchists, the Phalangisis and the Catholis

Action Group,

Unemployment is increasing rapid- ly. All relief has been stopped and

food prices are continually going up. Frontier Closed

The French-Spanish frontier at Le Perthus was closed recently, no

reason being given.

A party of 25 refugees from the camp at Barcares, who had been A typical example was that of a given safe conducts to re-enter Spain, crippled 65-year-old Mexican, living had to turn back. in Barcelona, who was summarily nhot when the police searched and found a bruise under his armpit.

I was caused by his crutch, but the polica declared that it was caused by a rifle. Within two minutes bo was dead.

All persons, other than natives of Madrid and Barcelona are now barred from the two main cities.

Hatred of the Spaniards is greatest

SUPPLY YOUR MAN

A.R.P. Test Made Her Speechless

a woman research student during an A WHIFF of phosgene gas given to A.R. P. examination made her so ill that she was put into an oxygen tent, Describing the case in a letter to

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British Medical Journal, Dr. Mary Radford, of Oxford, says that a minute regulation phial had been broken in a bottle and the woman, who is speechless and

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She carried on as usual until the following afternoon and then, while motoring, had sever attacks of coughing.

In the evening the attacks were so severe that Dr. Radford sent her into a nursing home, ordering oxygen and complete rest. Next day her condi- tion was much worse and that night she was put into an oxygen tent. This relleved her condition.

ONLY ONE SUFFERED

Dr. Radford points out that the case might have been fatal and sug- gests that the use of this gas in A.R.P. examinations be reconsidered.

It Was stated at A..P. headquarters in London that the use of gas in the

Cases was on the same lines as in army and other Service examinations

"Hundreds of thousands of people must have been through gas courses and there is only one case traceable where anyone carrying out the regula... tions has suffered ill effects," said the official. The quantity of gas can only be described as minute.”

Gipsies Lose Their Queen

•

EIGHTY FIVE-YEAR-OLD

Mrs. Esmeralda Groome. described as "the rightful Queon of all Gipsies," died recently in hospital at Rhyl, where she was taken a month ago following a road accident at Prestatyn.

Gipsy heroine of three books, and the Inspiration of several poems and paintings somo - by. - Min, Dante Gabriel Rossetti-she was married at 15 to a Shropshire 'magistrate.

The marriage was dissolved, and at 17 she

* married ⠀ Francia

Hinder

Groome, son of the then Archdeacon of Suffolk, who became -an expert'on gipsy an exper

pay lore death of her husband she

wandered about the country until finally, she settled 'at Prestatyn, where her only companiina were a dog and two cats.

CHUNGKING, May 14.7

ABOUT 250,000 REFUGEES were evacuated from Chungking on May 5, 6, and 7 alone, according to a responsible official.

More have left the wartime capital by boats provided by the Government since then.

After arriving at their destinations, those refugees aro accommodated in dwellings ar- ranged by service corps or in refugee camps established by the Government. Food and niodical supplies are provided by the Government, and adequate protection is accorded.

For removing the debris and set- | ting the streets in order General Láz

Chib

Garrison Commander for

Chungking, has: designated special

Protests At

Expulsions

Nazis Don't Like Own Medicine

BERLIN, May. 14. "GERMANY does not recog-- units of troops to co-operate with the nise a single case in which Ger service corps organised by various government offices,

mans have been expelled during Government and private organisa- the past few weeks from various. tions which have to remain in and countries, no justified" declared around Chungking will be registered Herr Ernst Wilhelm Bohlc,.

General Ho Kuo-kwang, the now

Marlor i Chungking, is expected to leader of the National-Socialist further Ughten and rehabilita-Party organisation in an inter- tion work after his assumption of view to-day. office-Central News,

spare,

The statement was made in his capacity as a Secretary of State in the the Foreign Ministry.

Refugees In Macao SHEKKI, May 14.-Since Japaneso invasion of Kwangtung, Herr Bohle called attention to the Chinese refugees have been flooding fact that the British Government had into Macao.

expelled three leading Germans from All the dwelling houses in the England during recent weeks, and Portuguese port are densely popu- then followed up this netlon by six lated, leaving not a single room to

further expulsions.

It was due to British pressure that begins to show in the census taken newspaper and the leader

A litle decrease In the population the Cairo representative of a German of the on April, which reveals a total of German colony in Baghdad had to 541,554, compared with 547,833 in leave those countries. He also men- March,

tioned recent expulsions from France. Owing to the critical situations in and Poland. Chungshan and Sze Yap districts, ""I should like to emphasise,” he de- however, more Chinese refugees are ciared, "that Germany does not re rushing to that colony, and will,cognise a single case of expulsion or increase its population to a greater being justified, because we know that extent.-Wah Kiu Yat Po,

the expelled Germans never violated the hospitality extended to them.

"Hatred"

Joan of Arc Festival

These

measures by, responsible governments, therefore, lead only to the_conclusion that Gerans abroad are being used as victims for venting the hatred which is felt for the strong and unassailable Reich.

"Since it is not possible to harm the -

Military Display Relch, it is believed that Germans

In Paris

abroad can be mistreated with in- punity To all fair thinking people- such an attitude is a mockery of no- tural hospitality which has always PARIS, May 14. been granted by one country to the THE JOAN OF ARC festival, citizens of another. And in my which is held here every year opinion, it is an indication of weak--

ness, or a guilty conscienco. for eight days, following a

"Dospotic Acts” similar event in Orleans, opened

"Germany is not in a position to to-day with a military display prevent expulsions, but she is deter- in front of the Joan of Arcmined not to tolerate such despotle- monument in the Rue de Rivoli, Įncts, and to retaliate in every case!!

Headed by Premier Deladler, the

-Trans-Ocean. French Government attended the parade af

troops, ranging from atudents at the St. Cyr military Mr. G. A. Avrana, residing as the academy to modernised motorised Peninsula Hótel, has reported to the uniis.

Police that his wife lost. gold Afterwards other organisations in-cigarette case valued at £37 some- cluding the French Nationalist Party, where between the Hotel and the- marched past-Trans-Ocean

Star Ferry yesterday.

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