1940-08-09 — Page 7

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 9, 1940,

7.

NANCY

HOW'S MY LI'L

OL' PAL-- EH?

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By Ernie Bushmiller

THAT WOMAN CERTAINLY DID LOOK LIKE YOUR

AUNT FRITZ!!

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B.E.F. MEN WADED OUT TO THEIR RESCUERS Earl Loses

GUNS

OF

INSTEAD

HATS

Dr. Edith Summerskill. Socialist M.P. for West Fulham does not intend to buy any frocks until the war is over,

She told women the other day that they ought not to buy clothes unnecessarily at a moment when their menfolk were in need of guns and tanks and airplanes.

DOZENS of soldiers wading and swimming from the beach af Dunkirk towards a British rescuing craft.

The sea is a millpond of smoothness in this most vivid glimpse shot by a Pathe Gazette cameraman.

Nazi Invader Might Ask For Stomach Pills

ENGLISH

REFUGEES couple of new belts and some white were they to overrun this coun-

IN COLONY

Slight Increase Shown in

Last Week's Returns

The number of refugees and des- titules accommodated in Government comps, etc., In the urban and rural areas for the week ended August 3 Was 11,233 us against 10,933 previous week.

"When all is said and done, women usually buy dresses only to compete against each other.

the cash?"

the have

are

Nullity Suit

"Did Not

Know I Was Marrying"

THE Earl of Craven's neti. tion for annulment of his 'mare. riage to Miss Gwendoline Irene Meyrick was dismissed in the Divorce Court and the Countess was granted a restitution decree with costs.

Lord Craven is NOW On navul service. At the lime of the marriage he was 21 and his wife 24.

He alleged that when he went through the ceremony at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, S.W., on May 3 last

year he was suffering from such an heute state of alcoholic poisoning that he did not know he was being Imarried.

According to his case he and his wife, after the ceremony, went 10 his

rouni at the Retreat, Bembridge, Isle, of Wight, He left her the next day and did not return.

Before May 3, 1838, except on one occasion, he had met Lady Craven anly at the "Slippin" night club; he felt no affection for her and had not given her an engagement ring or any presents.

"Still Loved Him"

+

The case

for the Countess of Craven was that she had known the Earl for 18 months before the mar riage. They had discussed marriage thoroughly previous neessions and Lord Craven had expressed affection for her. She still loved him and wished to make a home with him.

Giving judgme. Mr. Justice Hox- son said the partles occupied the some bed together on the night of the ceremony. A child was conceiv ed by Lady Craven and that fact was communicated-to-Lord-Craven-who, through his advisers, repudiated the Inurriage.

Lady Craven was medically ex nmined at the instance of the hus- band to determine the duration of the pregnancy, and after the birth a blood test was taken which did not help the husband. The opinion the gynaecologist gave was consistent with the child having been conceived on the night of the marriage.

Did Not See Family

of his own family nor any friend Lord Craven had seen no member from the time he left the night club until he was married. During that Lime he was in the company of his wife and her sisters.

"I haven't bought a dress since the spoken to you by the Germans,shot.

as she would be the mayor that if he lies he will be war began, but I've invested in a.

A whole section is devoted to ques plque collars and cuffs to give my try, is contained in a phrase hook the German troops to and their way '^ns which are intended to enable old ones new life.

issued to German soldiers, about the I went to the Bishop of London's copies of which have come into citizens will be assured that, "If you country. In this case garden-party this week-end." "Dr. Summerskill said, in a dress and coat the hands of the military au- tell the truth you have nothing which I wore on the same occasion which I have had two years, andthorities here.

There are also such phrases as "I The question, "Are you fast summer. It's my only party mayor" is followed by the demand, opium," or "Give me pills."

the stomach-ache, give me frock, and will remain so for as long "Open all cupboards" and "Where is ng the war may fast.

The

Would-be invaders obviously "I won asked to say," the judge intend to have clean linen, for they

continued, "that what happened is än The handbook then "instructs" the the people upon whom they thrust instructed how to demand from

outrage that these designing women Nazt soldier how to ask the mayor 10 themselves for board and lodgings, got hold of this young man and that was the that we can all achieve for ourselves the safe, and to try to find out. If

"Line is the important thing and write down the amount which is in that they shall wash two shirts, ane everything he did thereafter

done under their guidance and not "How? With a pair of scissors. By there is any more money in the pair of pants and three pocket land-

kerchiefs.

of his own accord at all, he being In the urban arcas, there were cutting away one or two of last building

soaked in drink, unstable to 1,244 at King's Park ne against 1,233, year's frills or turning a

Drivers are warned that if they in-with, and not fit to give his consent star! full skirt

Should he succeed in obtaining in- tentionally take the wrong turning 1,431 in Mo Tau Chung against 1,504, |Inte narrow one,

formation the

to marriage or anything else." "There

enemy "linguist" they will be shot. 1,290 in North Point against 1,288

There was no doubt that, when The booklet is similar to those marriage was discussed, Lord Craven to buy new clothes as

anfiscate all this money." Also, if he which Germany has produced in the Investment against the day when follows his handbook, he would tell Czech, Polish and Russian languages. necessary arrangements for the cere- was active himself in making the Hey become more expensive. They As regards Chinese soldiers, there make me cross, because they are so were 10 compared with 12 in hos-obviously only building up excuses pital and 714 against 713 in Argyle for themselves *Street,

and 542 In Morrison Hill against is we are women who say that it would then use the phrase, "I con- |

542,

The Tal Hang squatlers camp had dozens of

Dr.

her.

"Some

Summerskill has had letters women who agree 2,700 refugees and the Ngau Tau

of them-quite poor women Kok squatters camp 602 compared-have sent me the few shillings with 2407 and 630 respectively the which they had saved for a new hat previous week,

or scarf, saying that they had decided not to buy them after all and would see that the money went 'lowards the national cause."

In the rural areas, there were 2,835 in Kam Tin against 2,605.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

THE BOCIETY ASKS Fon

#35,000

in 1940 to meet the Increasing needs of alck and desullule children in Hongkong, against which the income to date is $21.000. only.

In order to continus its work, The Society ap- peals for the balanco of

$13,000

before the close of the Bnancial year on 31st October.

The Bociety now administers to over 3,000 children at sight Contres and, in addition, supports 25 children si variaus Institulious and to babies at

Crecho.

Ilon. Treasurers (from whom copy of the Amual Report for 1932 may be obtained):

Mr. A; McKollar, CIA,

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co..

PY & O. Bulkking.

M. Kwok Chan,

a/o The Banguo de L'Indo-Chine,

... HONG HANG

1st June, 1940,

Officer Brings Home

Boy He

Found on Battlefield

JACQUES VERGER, eight-year-old French boy, adopted on the battlefield by a British officer, is sleeping happily in his new home in London. The officer, Lieutenant Barrett, explained: "I found him on the Somme and I couldn't leave the poor kid to be killed, so I brought him home."

Lieut. Barrett was passing through, knew nothing about the child until

town on the Somme, and found the arrived home with him.” [boy with his mother. The father had

been killed...

He added that he thought the boy's mother was later killed or in- "I had seen women and children Jured by Gerinan. bombs. "The boy, machine-gunned and crushed under: was knocked out for two hours by tanks," said Lieut. Barrett, "and one bomb and for three weeks we

were in the thick of it," when I saw Jacques. I decided. I would try to save at least one young Life, So I offered to take him to

mony.

"Particulars were given in the

were marriage licence which

not correct in pursuance of the arrunge- ment that the parties had come to that there should be na publicity of the fact that a peer was gelling married to

Une of the Meyrick sisters."

Rang His Landlady

The vlear's secretary said that ‘at the ceremony he noticed that Lord Craven's breath smelt a little, and

the

what Impressed him was that when and groom embraced they bride. did so in a way he thought more church. sulfable to a bedroom than

Then Lord Craven went back

to Chapel Street, the house of the sister, and there he did a thing which inditated that he knew he had been married. He rang up his landlady in the Isle of Wight and told her he was coming down that night with Lady Craven, explaining that, sho

England, where my wife would look New R.A.F. Bureau was his wife not his mother.

after him until the end of the war. The mother agreed and we drew up

si temporary adoption agreement,"

More than 1,000 men and women called at the new RAF, recruiting Lieut. Barrett, who took Jacques inquiry bureau in the City of London with a steel, helmet Jammed, on hits on its first day open. (head-to-his new home in Fulham The bureau will bo opan dully from | Road, London, said: “Mrs. Barrett}9 aăm, lo 7 pin.

"It is suggested," said the judge, "that the husband' was acting under the wicked influence of his wife. 1 am not

All the evidne bi to find such a thing:

goes to show is this: that this man was acting very much of his own volition, without being spurred on by anyone.

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