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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 17, 1940. By Walt Disney

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DET. HOOLEY-BEST MAN TO PRISONER

HALF AN HOUR before eighteen-year-old soldier James Essex and eighteen-year-old Eilen Corry were to have been married at Manchester register office James was in the police

DIVORCE FROM DEAD HUSBAND

IN the Divorce Court a man was presumed dead and his wife granted

derres nisi.

The wile IN Mrs Nosal Lena Crosse of the Plough Hotel, St. Botolphia, Colchester, Bisex. whose husband, Mr. William Stuart Crosse, disappeared in December, 1931.

Mr. and Mrs. Crosse were inurried at Penang Straits Settlements, in: 1026, returning to England in 1930.

Mir. Crosse became licensee of the Plough fotel, and disappeared while his wife was alweni from home. Despite two broadrast up-

court.

Ellen was there, too, Listening tɔ

the story that her James had not returned to his infantry reg when his teave was up

Detective Hooley had arrested him. And when Ellen heard the magis- tates order him to wait an escort. the thought there would be no wed- i clim

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LONDON.

Because of petrol ration- ing one motorist in three has not renewed his licence.

The Exchequer, as a re- sult, has lost £4,000,000.

BILLET WIFE

BOY WAS EVACUATED TO HIS HOME

By MARY WELSH

OXFORD.

A MANCHESTER · schoolboy

WORRIES LAW who travelled to school by train

WHEN

evacuated wife sum- moned her husband at Chertsey, But Detective Hooley explained Surrey, for alleged failure to main plon, and grid he would go to the tain her, the chairman ol the renkster offler and "see the business Matrimonial Court, Mr. H. Weller, re- through."

marked:

James and Eilen, and Detective Hooley sel Detective Sergeant Clark walked to the register office ITE

Princess-street-ond Detective James and Ellen, and Detective Hooley acted as best man, doti- fully holding the ring.

Detective Sergeant Clark was

"A wife usually has to five with her husband. but the evacuation | scheme seems to have knocked or dinary law on the head and we do not know where we are.”

from outside the city, arrived one morning to be evacuated. None of the boys knew where they were going. They formed up, marched into a train.

The train left Manchester. Next stop was the evacuation centre.

us

When the schoolboy put his head;

the tran out of the window stopped he was astonished to find he The wife was Janet Beers, of Pyr. was back in his home town. croft-road, Chertsey. Her husband,; The boys lined up again, marched Archibald Beers, of St. Dunstan's-ur to their billets.

peals there had been no trace of when the wedding party wallet road, Fulham, S,W,, did not attend.

Inter

Later, it was discovered that he owed suns mounting to £500.

A new and HBe-known provision in the Divorce Law enables a hus- band or wife to have the marriage disulved on the ground that the other party to the marriage mast be presumed to have died.

If lite person has been missing for seven years or mure, and the peti- tioner in thiol-tone has had no restron I believe the other has been alive, that is recepted as evidence that the missunit person is dead.

The line stopped. In the street! where the boy lived. He was allot- Back to the police court-James and His Two Homes

led a billet in that street, Ellen arm and arm in front, the de-

Mrs. Beers's ease was that she had He told the billeting officer, who tectives a few yards behind, and

Chertsey since arranged for him to go home. following them, James' mother and been evacuated to

'September and had previously lived

This sto was told at the Oxtord

story was Ellen's father.

to-day the

uf

Incor- court at Greyhound-road, Fulham. They conference the

porated

Association of Assistant had two children.

Masters in Secondary Schools.

Schoolmasters at the conference barangued the Government. de. When she wrote to him fornounces evacuation, and protested mancy her husband repiled that he against overwork and under pay for could not keep two homes going. three hours to-day. They were not happy together when they were at home.

They chatted outside then Ellen, bride of half and hour, kissed James goodbye until next leave, and he went inside with his best man to await his escort bark to the Army.

A petition for dissolution of the marriage tty then follow, and later marriage will be legal if the petition is granted..

Her husband, a general labourer, paid her 21 in September. She had been on relief since.

The case was adjourned.

MY TWO YEARS

WITH HITLER

FC.

Sir Nevile Henderson, G.C.M.G, Late His Majesty's Am-

bassador at Berlin.

BY

SIR NEVILE HENDERSON

LATE HIS MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN

This is a people's War and therefore it is only right that the people themselves should be told the whole truth.",

WITH

ITH these words. Sir Nevile Henderson, late His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin, begins exclusively in the "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" on Monday next, his own first-hand account of what actually happened in Nazi Germany from the time he arrived in Berlin in April, 1937, to the fateful day of September 3, 1939. Here. PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME, is Sir Nevile Henderson's own story-simply and vividly written of the tremendous events which led This is NOT a summary of an official document but eventually to the outbreak of war. a specially written personal narrative in which many new and important facts are disclosed. Hitler, Goering, Ribbentrop, Goebbels, Himmler--what manner of men are the masters of Nazi Germany? The Ruhr, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland! What really went on behind the scones? Sir Nevile Henderson now reveals to the world THE WHOLE TRUTH. This remarkable document-probably the most important ever to be published in a newspaper will appear in the "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"-starting on Monday, April 22.

EXCLUSIVELY IN THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Starting Monday Next

43 In One House

Mr. R. P. Trueblood, of Manches- ter, evacuated to Blackpool, jumped up from a front row chair, shouted: "I abject to the Government's re- gulation of evocution. They've proved they can't do it.

"They found unsuitable schools. " They ill-selected billeting officers, who made their own regulations to cover up their ignorance as to proper ones,"

One of the teachers, who toted a grand piano around France on an Army timber in the last war, was evacuated with his school to Black- pool when this une began. He said

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They sent us to professionu! undladies. One women,-in-on averaged-sized house, took forty- three boys, expected them to sleep three, in a bed. In another house 1 found eight boys sharing one bed-

room.

"My wife and I and thirteen boys were bunged into one house. It' the first time in my life I've got out! of bed at night to sit in a chair to rest. The beds were terrible."

New Camp At Kai Tak

For People Evicted From Insanitary Hovels

Over 200 people have already set up their shelters in the new camp established by Government near the village at Ngau Tau Kok, beyond Kal Tak Aerodrome, for those who were

recently evicted from

un- authorised and insanitary hovels in Kowloon City, and who do not wish to return to Chinese territory or go to the Put Heung refugee camp, or who have no funds to obtain accom- modation In tenement buildings.

Of those who have moved into the re-started new camp, many have their small industries, such as weav- ing of hand towels, etc. The shelters themselves built by the occupants

aro on siles marked out by the дго well medical authorities and cpaced for proper ventilation,

Owing to the scarcity of matting. temporary permission has been given to the occupants to construct their shelters in tin, but there is every probability that this will be replaced by matting before the hot summer months, for the medical authorities are taking steps to devise a scheme for the loan of matched materials to be financed from private funds placed at their disposal for the benefit of this clas3 of distressed

people.

The authorities have furnished a satisfactory pipe-borne water supply from a protected spring in the hills, and adequate sanitary accommoda- tion. It In interesting to note that the inhabitants of the neighbouring village appear to be so, Impressed

with the fairine accommodation that they proposed to crect one for themselves on the outskirts of the village.

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