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Wife Disgracefully Treated," Says Judge KING'S PROCTOR

DIVORCE SENSATION

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The president, Sir Boyd Merriman, said that in spite of Mrs. Wilmer's deception of the Court he did not feel justified in rescinding the decree.

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of it ever becoming one when this man comes out from the long rency and Fixed Deposis received fo term of penal servitude to which he has been sentenced.

"He had treated her in a most disgraceful way, and at one time had been brutal about her child. It would be a dreadful punishment to keep her led to a man to whose | history I have alluded."

STRIPPED NAZI MINES

THE secret of Germany's mystery mine, which has caused such havoc to British shipping in recent weeks, to-day stands disclosed.

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have succeeded The British salvaging three of the new German mincs.

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The salvage operation-a most delicate task in view of the sensi- tive character of the new mines- preserved them intact. It trus per- mited naval experts to examine them in detail,

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Condonation Denied

The King's Proctor had intervened to show cause why the decree nisi grunted to. Mrs. Wilmer, of Cheyne Row, Chelsen, on the ground of the adultery of her hsuband should no! be made absolute.

Wilmer, who in January last year

was sentenced to five years penal

servitude, did not defend the petition. In granting the decree, Mr. Justice Henn Collins had exercised his dis- cretion in Mrs. Wilmer's favour in respect of adultery which he ad- mitted with Mr. Patrick Henify Nocl Gamble.

The King's Proctor now alleged that Mrs. Wilmer had presented a false case, as she did not fully dis- close her own adultery, and had condoned her husband's adultery by living with hi

at as his wife Henley-on-Thames.

She again asked the Court to exercise its discretlers, but denied the King's Proctor's allegation of con- donation.

Mr. Gamble Intervened.

Wifo's Disclosure

Sir Boyd Merriman, giving juda- ment, said that about the falsity of the wife's disclosure of her own adultery there was

now no con-

11 was sufficient to say, that, while

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she was charging her husband-she tributed, subotom of the son with nounces that he is applying had, at the time she gave evidenc its firing mechanism uppermost. for naturalisation.

not merely committed several acts of adultery with Gamble, but had been The actuating device is a short. soft iron bar, wound with line wire. It is this which is affected by the magnetic field created when a steel ship passes overhead.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, und all Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th January, 1940, will be subject to rent.

All clams against the steamer must be presented to the Undersign- ed on or before the 2nd February, It was announced that the following 1940, or they will not be recognized. had been arranged in connection with To comply with the General Bond- plans to carry out contacts lost by ed Warehouse Regulations consignees Germany:

must have a Revenue Officer in Spain had decided to place coal attendance when damaged dutiable contracts with South Wales in ex-goods are examined, change for iron ore, and an order for IIe made his name in England openly skeping with him for werks

damnged A braken, chafed, and 25,000 tons of Welsh cant was conGoods are to be left in the Godowns, nearly thirty years ago by de-lat

frmed. signing the decor and the cos-which he had taken for her occupa- tumes for C. B. Cochran's "The Miracle," at Olympia.

He lives now

a time in a cottage at Henley

'tion.

The King's Proctor had not chal-

The evidence of

Italy has placed an order for 4,000,-where they will be examined on the 000 tons of coal from Britain. Of 18th January, 1940, at 10 a.m., by

Messrs. Goddard and Douglas. Pur it is a well known fact that every

this, South Wales will produce 2,000. lenged the account which Mrs. Wi-

No Fire Insurance has been effect- sheet ship is, in effect, a huge per-

000 tons. The remaining 2,000,000 mer gave to Mr. Justice Henn

ed. tons will be mined in Durham. manent magnet. That is one of the

with his wife and Collins of her very short nurried

Plans are being completed to re- Bills of Lading will be counter- reasons why compasses have to be corrected with other magnets to 10-year-old daughter Babette in life.

ftat in Hampstend. His daughter, he i

open mines in South Wales to carry signed by, condonation counteract the influence of the ship.

out contracts lost by Germany,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. The new mines are planted in tells me, hat also started to design against Mrs. Wilmer, Sir Doyd Merri-

Agents. man continued, depended upon the shallow water. When a steel ship costumes for the stages.

Hongkong, 12th January, 1940. evidence of two witnesses called by passes close enough overhead, the

Professor Stern Was born a the King's Proctor, Miss Green and magnetic field which in thrown off

of whom were excites-a-small-electric-current u Rumanian. but went to act schools! Miss Marah, both the colls of

wire surrounding the in Vienna and Murzich. He created staying in the house ht Henley-

In view of acute conflict of evi- soft iron bar. The result is that the

a reputation as a painter, Reinhardt dence the judge said he did not soft iron bar becomes temporary electrie inagnet. This magnet operates heard of him, and gave him an un-think he would be justified in ac- the firing device.

gagement in Berlin. He worked cepting Miss Green's evidence on with Reinhardt for 15 years.

this matter, although he thought she had given it honestly.

Mine Laying Technique

"The Miracle" was actually his, "I am satisfied,** he concluded. The mystery as to the manner of

England. Just that the alleged condonation did not laying the miries has been somewhat second venture in cleared up by study of the character before that he produced the design occur."

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dress rehearsal of the show."

Already 5,000 more Welsh miners are at work than there were at the beginning of September.

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of the mines themselves. They are for a show called "Sumurun" at the he hurried to Berlin just before the equipped with what is known as

button." "salamonine

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E Since "The Miracle" he has de-Worked On "Congress Dances" moniac, which is ammonium chloride. dissolves slowly in sea water. The signed many big musical shows as device ts arranged 50 that the well as on the les "Balammoning button" is dissolved He did some of the decor for after from 8 to 10 hours in the sea. "Bitter Sweet," and "White Horse Thus the raine e rendered safe, Inn" was drawn by' him. In 1830, until the planting vessel has done when he was producing the decor and its work and gone away.

costumes for "Song of the Drum," Bult put on t which Sir Alfred

The device itself, which renders the mine inoperative until a desired time clapses, is nothing new, It was ulled during the last war. But its presence in the new German device indicales that the method of laying The raines Is different from the ordinary procedure of dropping them overboard from surface mine-laying versels. It substantiates the belief that the mujor mine-laying work was done by specially equipped sub- marines and it also explains a reason for the German experiments in lay- Ing the mines from the, air,

The reason for this latter develop- the Germons cannot ment is that safely remine areas in which the new magnelle mines have already been placed. For the fact that the mines are dealt to sweep up es- tablishes circumstances under which the Germans can never be sure that all of them have been removed and they can hardly risk returning their own mine-laying craft to the mine- endangered waters. The result ha been the effort to supplement their mine-planting operations by the use of airplanes.

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He intends to continue with his Drury Lane, his wife was taken career of handling big, spectacular in Berlin, and in between rehearsals stage productions all the Professor Slam kept going back to happily, he says, when he has become his hotel for news of her. At fustja British subject.

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