1939-08-01 — Page 3

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

A MAGISTRATE CHANGES HIS

Wants Death Penalty To Go For

Five Years

DİR GERVAIS BENTOUL, the West

SIR

Londan nugistrate, hus become

a convert to the idea of abolishing capital punishment for at least on experimental period of five years.

Nine years ago, when a Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons thscussed capital punishment, Sir Gervais, a member, sald he believed that the case for abolishing the death sentence was "not proven."

ife was unwilling to sign the com- mittee's report, which advocated an j experimental suspension of capital punishment. Now he has come round to the committee's viewpoint. In the current issue of the Penal Reformer, the journal of the Howard League for Penal Reform, he states: "Even from the standpoint of deterrency the death sentence can only be Justined: if it is proved to be both necessary and effective. This is really the crux of the matter, and in my considered view it is neither one nor the other. It heeda but little imagination to realise the horror of an execution."

After describing the scenes attend- ing an execution, Sir Geravis states: Realising this, and without forget- whode ting the innocent victim on behalf the Inw is exacting its grimi vengeance, we are bound to ask our- selves whether it is necessary to in- flict so much suffering in order that

a due respect for the sacredness of

human life may be enforced,"

Aller two months of aimless wandering on the high seas, when they were not allowed to land in Cuba, Jewish refugees from Germany at last and a haven in Belgium. Here some of them are coming athere in Antwerp from German ship St. Louis.

Cossak's Career Was

Cut Short

A CAREER of twenty years' international adventure It adds that it seems to him there came to a halt at West London police court for Alexis

Is only an way in which the pro- Adelheim, 42-year-old ex-Cossack officer.

blem can be put to the test, and

that is by trying the experiment of

Umited period.

Travel In Threes

August 1, 1939.

Ubery, Suprama Coert

MIND MISCELLANEOUS BARGAINS

Britain Safe

In Raids

Mr. Winston Churchill. speaking recently at a national service meet- ing at South Woodford, Essex, Bald the dictator. States could not pursue their course of aggression farther without bringing about Keneral

war of measureless devastation.

To submit to their encroachment: would be to condemn large portions of mankind to their rule, To resist them either in peace or war would be dangerous, painful, and hard.

The League of Nations was being formed into a grand alliance which would not shed blood

except

In self-defence or common defence.

"We star together against vio- lence, and tyranny. Nothing but a dircet assault on law and freedom will draw us into conflict."

TARGET AREAS DANGER Mr. Church declared that alnety- nine out of every hundred square

this miles in

island would be

from practically inmune

air. inck. "Great expanses of the coun- iry will be as safe in war-time from the air as they are now from the depredators of the motor bleycle, he said.

"But a very different story pre- cents itself in the target orcasarens which can be attacked at night under the pretext of aiming at vital centres and yet inflet a cruel toll, upon the civil population."

Our Air Force had reached such

u condition of strength and efficiency that it would be "very dangerous, ZERNEZ (Switzerland). Moritz Honig, formerly

pros- very costly, for an enemy Power to al Merano perous coal merchant

make attacks by day in the air.

д

(South Tyrol), has had to sell up his "A loss of one in five of those business at a knock-out price at planes which came would very soon twenty-four hours' notice busi-bring any regular series of daylight ness which took fifteen years

to attacks to an end."

Mr. Paul Benuett sentenced him to four months' im-build up.

allching the death penalty for aprisonment for giving a worthless cheque for 25s. to a

Bayswater apartment house manager.

The Home Secretary could let it he known that for a period of, say, Ave years, he would advise the King to grant reprieve in every case of murder,

Marquess's Son "Floored" By Drink Test Sum

Lord Rhidian Crichton-Stuart, 22-| year-old son of the Marquess of Bute, was asked by a doctor to mal- tiply Ave Ogures by 79 as a drink feat. He gave up the sum "as a bud Job."

At Perth Sheriff Court recently he was fined £20 and disqualled for three months for drivlig under the Influence of drinks.

According to a detective Adelheim bed stayed at nine different hotels ln London and had left owing £83.

"must stop this career of yours," the magistrate told Adelhelm.

A dark-haired, broad-shouldered Jew, Adelheim was a Cossack officer under the Tsar, but tted to Germany when the Bolsheviks came to power,

BLONDE COMPANION Hitler's coming drove him to Bel- From there, with a passport santes. granted in 1933, he started a career of international adventure.

He was in the fruit trade

cabaret Madeiro, ran

in Buenus Aires, was connected with the Alm industry in Spain und South America:

In

In London in the lust few months he was often accompanied by a strik- ing blonde girl. compunton-u Swiss He had notepaper printed with the

Sherif Valentine asked Dr. R.hending "Adel Short Films Co.," with Ritchie, " hope the sum was an address in Covent Garden, W.C.

The address was that of a fruit Arin, whose offee Adelheim, was oc- casionally allowed to use.

writler,"

Dr. Ritchie: It was. He multiplied 13 by correctly.

Adelheim also had a

one-room

1

All arrangements had been nude for his passage.

He never took it up. He travelled instead round Bayswater hotels and "partment houses.

he carried two suitcases. They were When he moved into his last one found. to contain bags of potatoes.

"For luck," he said.

But they were put there to make weight. Apart from a few personal belongings, three was nothing in the bags.

6,000 New Army Officers

STAFFS at the War Office working overime preparing gazetie approximately 6,000 torial officers,

are

neross

With his wife

four-year-old and son he Ded from Italy the Swiss mountains to try to And refuge in England.

Honig was turned out of the

South Tyrol as part of Mussolini's speaking regton. He had been an attempt to Italanbe the German-A Italian citizen since 1910.

WELL OFF ONCE "Yesterday 1 was well off; now have to start over again," he said.

Wife's Decree Rescinded After 10 Years

DECREE nist of divorce granted

to a wife ten years ugo WUR reselt.ded by Mr. Justice Hodson in the Divorce Court recently.

The matter arose upon a summong. listed as "Bentley 1. against Bentley

J. D."

Mr. Clifford Nortimer, for the hus- The Italian authorities allowed band, said that in July, 1029, the him to take out only. £48 in parties became reconelled, and a child sterling, and he had to pay 140 was born in 1930. The decree nisi tire to the pound instead of the was never made absolute, and they lived together until last December, official rate of 80 lire.

when the wife left.

"I could have gone to another parti

The husband now contemplated

of Italy if I wished, but I decided divorce proceedings, but, as her de- that I had had enough," he said. eren nisi was still on the file, it was found that no fresh petition could be

Moritz Honig, who lived in Italy for thirty-seven years, believes that

to all the Duce's military and police Terri-measures will not turn the South Tyrolean peasants from their home- The lists, when published, will be land. They can't mow down 200,- The longest that have ever appeured. 08 of them," he said.

This unprecedented number of

Blackshirts now go about in threes Mr. A. Whitehend, defending: If

offieers to be accepted at one time is in the Merano district. you learn that Lord Rhidinn is abso-office in Oxford-street. lutely no use at arithmetic would that plate describes him as "A. Adelheim Army, which has been carried out tween Merano and Muenster, travel In the Val Venosta, the valley be due to the doubling of the Territorial | be any explanation for his inability shipper and importer."

much sooner than was expected. has now been taken over.

lers report heavy concentrations of The Territorial Army, as announe- Italian troops. They are reported "FOR LUCK"

ed a week age, has now approximate-to be coming there by train day and -Lord_Rhidlan, _n_20xl lieutenant of the Block Watch, said

-Before-he-had-to-face-the-police-410.000 members. Many retired night... In evidence

have) that he was very bad at arithmetic, court charge he was negotiating to colonels, majors and captalas

go to Uruguay on behalf of London again volunteered for service.

to do the sum?

Dr. Ritchie: Yes,

The nume

The office

He had never done any at school.

It was said that when he was park- fruit firma. ing his car under police direction, he A refugee organisation which first struck a kerb. The officer noticed assisted him in 1933, and has paid his speech was thick wid that his him altogether £79, was going to breath smelled of whisky.

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Although there is no definite policy, on the part of the War Office, in practice it is almost impossible to ob- aln a first commissioni other than

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Dawn Is

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The Court was asked now to rescind

the decree nisl and dismiss the wife's

petition.

Mr. J. E, M. Russell, for the sollet- tors instructed by the wife in the 1929 proceedings, submitted that the petition ought not to be dismissed until the husband had paid the costs as ordered.

Mr. Justice Hodson said he would rescind the decree nisi, but would leave the petition as it stood. That would also leave standing the order for-payment-of-costa-

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DAWN DICKENS, world famous mannequin who is to marry

During the September crisis many Mr. Kenneth Roberts, American technicolour expert, says “A enthusiasts who were, eligible for

commissions, but for whom there wife's place is in the home."

were no vacancies, joined the ranks. |

In Justice to them, commanding Twenty-four-year-old Miss Dickens, known professionally as officers have been more Ilberal in Down, plans to be married in California in the autumn, granting commissions to rankers thon

they would otherwise have been.

She said recently: "We shall live near Hollywood, but I

Owing to the needs for providing shall not accept film work. I shall be very content to be just as much training as possible for the

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Dawn first met Mr. Roberts at a West-end cocktail party

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