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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 12, 1940.

LOST BRITISH BATTALION SHE

This British Infantry regiment held the whole of a large sector of the Somme during a vital stage in the German advance. They were eut DIT from the main body of the B.E.F. They, commandeered vehicles and turned themselves into a motorised unit and went for the enemy for Ave day's continuously with great success. The photo shows them as they took up a defensive poslison by the teadside.

Italy Gives British Firms

a Boom in Buttons

SHE HE

Did Not Know She Was Married

Did Not Know He

Was 'Divorced

'A'WOMAN who did not know. she was married, and a husbandi who did not know he Was divorced, figured in two court cases.

A 26-year-olt Jewess claimed that sle did not know that she was being married when she and her flance went to a Londen register office Jast | year.

She was granted a decree nisi of nullity, with costs, by Mr. Justice Hodson in the Divorce Court,

Rosa

The petitioner, Mrs. Mary Pip, nes Roterberg, of Melryse Avenue, N.W., alleged that the cores mony was without her consent and that she was "tricked" into it by the respondent. M. Phineas Goldstein Phillip, who is also of the Jewish faith.

Mr. Phillip, of Darenth Road, Stanford Hill, N., denied the allega- Lions.

she

According to Mrs. Phillip's case. arranged to marry Mr. Phillip at

a synagogue. She thought that the register office ceremony was only the registration of intention 10 marry. She did not live with Mr. Phillip afterwards.

In his judgment, Mr. Justice Hod- son said that at the time of the cere- mony Mr. and Mrs. Phillip were aged respectively 43 and 24, and had known each other only about It month.

Mr. Phillip thought flint Mrs. Phil- p's mother was likely to be an ob- stacle in the way of a speedy wed- ding.

British button factories are, decreased considerably since the war expecting a boom. When the

began.

So It Die enormous demand for stocks

Italian "vegetable buttons is to be satisfied the North of ivory" buttons are exhausted, Country and Canadian button manu their place will have to be taken facturers will have to increase their

He (the Judge) believed that Mr. by buttons of plastic material, output.

PhilHp applied for the marrigue made here..

A leading City button wholesaler licence without the knowledge of Mrs. Phillip, and that when they "Vegetable ivory" buttons, which told me: "We cannot tell whether the SYDNEY HOWARD

went to the register office for the are made from the Corozo nut, were present large demand will keep up.

"If the Government decides to con- Lan hand-made. The nut. imported from

intention to Erundor, was dried and sliced by script all the available man power Ceremony she thought she was mere- sasull circular saws. It was a highly-the call for fancy and luxury buttons registering their

will fall off, and military

buttons morry. skilled process, but was done cheaply will be the demand. In Italy beca se of the low wages.

In "These are already produced In recent years Canada has been producing the durable plastic buttons. large quantities in the North of Eng-County Court that he did not know

land." These are superior to the nut bations| In that consistent colours ure oblain- able.

Rich Mr THAN OG HAPPI MLJET min

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Evacuation Criticism

The Andrian, magazine of

MANILA BROADCASTS

Quezon To Inaugurate

Mr. James Sutters, of the Royal Hotel, Russell Square, W.C., told Mr. Register Friend at Clerkenwell

his marriage had been dissolved until a friend told him.

He said that after two years of marriage ale left him.

friend said, "Your with has divorced you, I was so surprised 3 could not believe It, and I rang her up to see if it were true."

Mrs. Sutters said the ring was a

Judgment was given for Mr. Sut-

First Programme To U.S.ters, and the ring was being handed

Manila, Aug. 10. President Manuel L. Quezon will Sformally Inaugurate on August 15 the Andrew's, Kowloon, in its August, first international broadcasting pro- cditorial says:

This last month, has, for hundreds United States, over

gramme from the Philippines to the ul us, been an emotional earthquake, Voice of the Philippines,"

To laten-in to the broadcasts of wives to husbands from Manila and

to him when Mrs. Sutters' solicitor intimated her intention to appeal. The ring was retained in court.

KZRH, Refusal To

The first programme

"The

featuring

vice versa, and to read the corres-President Quezon and the 108-piece Philippine Army Band, will be broad- pondence columns of our local news cast at midnight, August 15, (8 0.171. papers proves the truth of that statement. Critles

Pacific coast time). The programme Government of

will be broadcast daily between 8 a.m. have,

of course, been numerous.

ousand 9 a.m, P.S.T. Somo on the other hand, have poured scorn on the

and asked

on KZRH will broadcast

tre-

critics them to remember that, after all, the quency of 11,800 kilocycles (25 meter Entre is at war and therefore that band)-United Press.

hardships must be expealed,

For curserves we

Bed the whole unples ant

bilair somewhat us

Quezon's Birthday

Chungking. AUE. :D.

follows. It is undoubtedis the policy A spectat broadcast-programme of the Home Government to

to try to will be given on August 18, eve of turn the colony of Hongkong into a President Quezon's birthday anni- tortress. The wisdom of doing this king time

to 7.30 p.m. Chung- versary from

Station over may be questioned but the fact seems

XGOV, doubtedly established. This

operating on 25.21 metres. incans the evacuation of us many people es Special features of the programme possible who would not be of value include a speech by Dr. H. H. Kung in die defence of the Colony. But Minister of Finance and another by obviously about a million and a half General Wu Te-chen,

people cannot be evacuated,

oted, 50, Overseas Affairs. diplomatic reasons, Gov argely for dipl

The programme in einment staff of the population,

a token evacuation" follows:

of a niere

ie.. about three

or four thousand Drillsh women and children. This does very little good,

pot, and is obvious- ly open to criticism. It is open to criticism in the following ways:

It invites the charge racin dis- crimination. We venture to predict it will take years to undo the harni dene in this connection.

Clearly, mukes scarcely any difference to the alleviation of a pos- sible food shortage.

The evacuation of three thousand women and children, or even ten er twenty thousand, won't accomplish the Government's purpose of turning Hongkong into a fortress,

Diplomatically it can have little effect on the Japanese, for not one British national has so far been evacuated from Japan itself or from other parts of China,

Minister of

full is

us

7.00 pm. National Anthems 7.04 p.m. Opening announcement 7.05 p.m. Chinese music 7.15 p.m.

Speech by H. E. Dr. H. H. Kung Speech by General Wu Te-chen

7.20 p.m. 7:25 pm. Other messages read and

translated

7.29 p.m. Closing announcement. Central News,

CHINA BLOCKADE

Japanese Sphere Of Control Enlarged

It breeds diasatisfaction because the whole policy has been badly

`Shanghai, Aug. 11, thought out and badly executed. Extending the sphere included in Admiting that women and children the proclamation issued on July 15 should have to go, yet why was it prohibiting the truffle of all vessels necessary to herd them all off like including those of third-Fowers along cattle so that one evacuee on the the Chekiang and Fukien coasts for Empress of Japan described the dia- reasons of milltury necessity, Vico- embarkation as a scene from Dante's Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, the "Inferno?". For ourselves we thought. Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese it very bad form indeed for certain Fleet In China Waters, issued a pro- correspondents in the Press to have clamation under date August 10 an the temerity to: criticise the evacuees nouncing additional areas in which for a grouse and a grumble when, shipping will be prohibited. they themselves are altting here in

in comfort and peace. It Closed to navigation - beginning- Hongkong is a good rule never to criticise other August 15 will be, according to the people's attempts to avoid hardships communique, Singhwa Bay, Pinghai. unless you yourself are suffering Bay. Melchowpo, Fort Matheson, Chuanchow Bay, Clamo Bay, and those hardshipat .....

As Christians we know that suffer-other areas on the Fukien coast with- in the line connecting Kerr Island Ing is at the very centre of our and Chimmo Point, through the high ligion, and for's great cause, such as We are engaged in at the moment cone of Plnghal and Pyramid Point. many of us would give our lives, but Foreign diplomatlé authorities and (and here is the point); us are unpre- pared to suffer and to give is the the Shanghai Maritime Customs have been notified of the contents of the cause of Inefficiency and stupidity proclamation through the Japanese It is not too much to say that "D| Consul-General, Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, Intelligent child would have made Drepel. fower blunders than have been

the local Government in this

blockado Reuter adds that the evacuation. However, the whole un-area extends from south of Foochow pleasant episode is for the moment to a point about 50 miles north of over, and it is best to say no more Hongkong, covering about 300 milles about it.

of the Chinese coast.

Billet Boy Costs £25 Fine

A Swindon man who disobeyed a bileting notice to accommodate a boy evacuee was Ained £25 with £2 costs,

Richard Leighfield, of Goddard Avenue, Swindon, told the magis- trates that he was willing to accept the child, but his wife was not and brought pressure to bear upon him. Mrs. Leighfield, in evidence, said that if her husband had taken the child she would have left her home ond the town.

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husband now agreed to take

Asked what would happen it her the child she replied: "I should leave the town and my husband."

She said she had the house to maintain, without any assistance, and three boys of her own.

Decoux Receives Nishihara

HANOI, Aug. 11 (Reuter)-Maior i General Iasoku Nishihara, head of the Japanese Inspection Party to Inde- China, accompanied by two aldes, called on Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, the Governor-General, yesterday.

The Governor-General is said to have assured the Japanese officer that he would try to maintain friend- ly relations between Japan and Indo- China.

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