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NAGGING WIFE- DECREE
GRANTING a Northampton manufacturer a decree nisl in the Divorce Court, Mr. Justier man's Buckmill found that the wife had:
Dug him in the back with her elbow and slapped his face to pre- vent him sleeping ai nigħi;
Perpetually narred him;
Damaged his Masonic regalia; Accused him of hypoerkey about
his religion;
Axulted him at his older.
The petitioner, Mr. William Henry Horton, based his case on the ground
him of the cruelty of
wife, Mrs.
Florence Georgina Hurton, who de
nied the allegations.
and
Civing Judgment, Mir Justice Full said that Mr
Mrs. Barton, who were married in 1902 and lurve two sons, were now sixty prars of age
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1935 M Harton left his wife.. asserting it was impotulide to with her They remained apart, and in 1937 there was a deed ut negara- tにみる In 1939 the husband Med the present petition
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And the Judge, the meatitime
ammatalion the husband formed an with another wornan and trew wishuel He did not meet thun to marry hy woman until nearly a year after he his departure had left his wife from his wife was not connected my way with the other woman The judge thought that is beome ber Mr impossible Icis
Horton with his wife because him townds him had made him
WOMAN WITH £10,000 JEWELS
A WOMAN refugee from France, when asked at a south coast port if she had anything to declare, pro- duced £10,000 worth of jewellery.
Another woman had gems valued at £1,000.
A Frenchman who brought his bleycle had a large quantity of jewellery wrapped in paper, tled to it.
Japan Will
Stake All
To End War
Offensive Expected
In October
{rungkinh, AA 27
It appears that all political issues have been pushed to the background, with the Chiese authorities concen trating all efforts on making preparen. fortheminc Etern to Japanese offensive
the
While there is no defnite informa. Bon regarding the future Japanese A believed here military plon
that the Japanese may launch a big uffeuuve m October, when they will Alake everything for the purpose of Crushing Chungking reuniones
the Japutime Exactly what form offenuve will take is diffevalt to pr diet that there are three possibilities
will mak Japanese ti the
westward towards desperate drive
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purpose of
The most serious charge against the wife was that, from time to time, nut, of jealous sple, she damaged various things belonging to him in particu-j Chungking along the south bank of lar, his Masonle regalia and a len of the Yangtie Rive vin western Hunan his spectacles, which she deliberately and Hugeh, (2) the Japanese will at scratched, probably with a diamond tempt to cross the Yellow River and
Invade Shend for the Acts
violence alleged by phystent 351
weising the atestegic Hangchung city. oceanion
which is generally considered as the when his wife snatched tita spectacles.
Rateway to Szechuan, from his home and they were broke),
(3) the Japanese
may attempt to and to an occasion when, he alleged,
Riyade Yunnno for the purpose of li wan assaulteri at is of
wetzing Kunming, automatically ke
Muren und Indo-Chin
tortan related to pis ocean
Judge cunilored
the
Mr Horton had also charged his wife with perpetual nagging There were also charges of typoetiky about his religion,
His wife refused to allow him to strep in a separate room or bed, and dug him in the back with her elbo and slapped his face to prevent him. sleeping
Ald
20
NORITY
Mi Justice FS FLEST thought Men Horton was AVARIAREK who said and did bobs sları forgot Evidence showed that Mi Horton was tond of lan home, his children and his dog and wanted to be fond of his wife
"I am satisfied that he ITER rood husband and father and was ditven from his home by him wife's conduct towards him." lordship
The Judge added that
tris
fir
Ing the
by way of A Japanese Offensive there there undertakings will be most dißhealt
A drive towards Chungking will men that the Japanese must send 11 unusually large furen Into the Szechune mountai without ty either in ? support exluzzies
Patikere will mean the total Joss of the man body of Japanese forers in Caska or crashing Japanese
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The crossing of the Yellow Rover Shanghan abs white the best units of the Chinese we guarding the Chinear side of the Yellow River
The vaston of Yungan is by an commeations. Indo. Chr Whether f:
Wednesday.
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FEW of them under six feet in height, these New Zealand troops parade somewhere in the desert of Atries are typical of the type of manhood the Dominions are sending to the de- fence of our Em- pire.
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Engine
Built in
Factory 57 Days
NEW records are being established in the mass pro- duction of aircraft engines, often said to be the chief "bottle- neck" in American aleplase building.
August 28, 1940.
Three Heroes of the
Welsh Guards
on their motor bikes under fire keep-
ing open communications.
CHOLERA INCREASING
Advice To Public
Potter was A reservist when the
Ten new cases of Cholera have war broke out ile WI a police constable around Victoria. You may been reported since Sunday, eight have seen his lanky Agure topped by being included in the official returna agrin directing the traffic in those for Monday and two being admitted. to Infectious Diseases Hospital yes-
parts.
Sald he yesterday: "I was glad to terday morning.
The Director of Medical Services, the cliffs of Dover again. You see, fishing is my hobby, ken fishing, the Hon, Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, And I knew the const well round yesterday stressed the importance of there. I'll know the coast well round inoculation and the taking of all
I'll be going fishing Dover necessary precautions regarding re and Brighton way again one day." fuse disposal, elimination of files and the whole
Booker, Potter, and King stand for the covering of food.
of the DEF. Another crack nt Jerry is all they ask, Booker, Potter, King and Co.
BOOKER, Potter and King-company cook, des- patch rider and medical or- derly. Ordinary names, here. but no ordinary men- three heroes of the B.E.F., all of the Welsh Guards.
They are back in England now, at camp.
IN between feeding his own com- pany and 150 extra in the defence of Boulogne, Lance-Corporal Benja- min Booker, M.M., fought the enemy, and afterwards saved two hundred Ilves, embarking some in a motor- boat and taking them to a destroyer.
He kl:
Free Scholarships
For Students
Local Chinese
He added that the Medical authori- tles have received reporta of cases of Cholern In Shanghai and Canton, while an extensive epidemie is re ported from various parts of Indin.
The official returns of notifiable diseases Issued yesterday showed that eight cases of Cholera (three each in the newspapers report Victoria and Kowloon, one in that in a reent competitive examina- Harbour and one in Shaukiwan), two of Diphtheria, ten of Typhoki, 14 of tion, the Commission on Chinese Overseas Affairs, Chungking awarded Dysentery, and 41 of Tuberculosis many free scholarships to overseas were reported on Monday.
The return for last week shows the students of poor families, who passed the examination with distinction.
following notifiable diseases: Three Hundreds of candidates sat for the res
(one imported), of Cholera rxamination, and 13 were awarded three of Diphtheria with two deaths, free scholarships, to enter any lead- 22 of Typhoid with nine deaths (one ing Chinese University for higher imported), two deaths from Measles,
They were
ns follows. In seven of Meningitis with four deaths, study, order of merit:
one of Typhus, 34 of Dysentery with 1st. Lam Po-lim, Swatow Girls 13 deaths (one Imported), and 10% of
deaths College: 2nd. Chan Poh-kau, Tenn Tuberculosis with 122 Koong College; 3rd. Tom Swee-fong. Imported). Tean Koong College: 4th, Lu Kok- Hongkong Commerce! Inau- hing,
Sat Ching At fourteen College: 8th. flo
"The bravest man I ever saw was a twenty-one-year-old Br!. gian out there, a weedy, annemic looking fellow 1 ano hkn kill the gunner in n German tank, get the gun away, and blow up the tank. He just laughed at the Germans
corporal's intes
And he likes a good book himself. The one he left behind him In France SATTA Kipling Barrack Noun Ralods “
The "Book."
Bookme in thirty-two
cali
hi
tute; oth, Luk Cu-ruk Sih Nam
he went to men as a chet. By the College; 7th. Yu Na-kong, Wah Nam time he grew to Bft, In. he was College; 8th. Lai
cook
Be
Tang-Inn.
(JAVA);
Oth
Cane
AIR ACE DECORATED
London, Aug. 27.
Michael Acting Squadron Leader Hu On-Nicholson Crossley has been award-
n Welsh Guards
was Free School fine and dandy at lurning out eclairs chang. Ling Tung College; 10th ed the Distinguished Service Order enemy air- and meringues for the officers when Leung Kong-lam, Chi Yong College; on bringing his total
and possibly stationed at the Tower of London, 11th, Ho Flu-cheung, Sth Nam Col-craft destroyed to 18
Mrs. Ben Booker has been Mra lege: 12th. Tang Kam-cheun, Home another. Crossley, who is 29 years Ben Booker for just a fortnight She Study: 13th. Chong Chi-mon, Cht jof age, was awarded the Distinguished anw her husband for a brief teave Yong College.
Flying Cross in June--Router,
after Boulogne
about his herolam
He told her nothing!
women could suggests that beut les quicker than men
"Give him a bit of send nag- King" Rays King "You know--- Take your frel off the mantel- pec. Jack ni my nice door mal-
HERGEANT J KING, D.C.M, la n Joker He goes out rabbiting with 1e keeps a stick minund the camp.
Jackdaws In his couple of tame
"But he brought me my break. fast in bed-egg and bacon and efficient he Very quick and K
And he washed up.
he'd carried "I beard how The factory covers $40,000 square wounded officer to hospital. But that fort
was only because the officer's wife It is reproof, with concrete financations and flooring, has a steel wrote to thank him." frame, and walls of constete, steel, mash and ginis
The Wright Aeronautical Corpora- tion. Ine, n mubsidiary of the Curtis-lent. Wright Corporathin, have built and
NOW IT CAN used a new factory in 37 days.
BE TOLD
Here
more stumes of the wear which could not be told at the time. SHORTAGE of
Y
found threatened innlater detachments al Teme | defence Lattalions during the
Wheat snow and frust of February
detachments
which will soon be turning out 1,000 micraft englers a month.
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CAR PARK
A.M. and P.M.
TWELVE young men marched to the mayor's parlour at Mar- showed the mayor, gate and Alderman G, B. Farrar, a cut dan't put your shaving water there ting from a London paper. 11 -what have you done with your was a leading article urging that
dirty
Rocks?that'd
teach
him.
In
"I intended to have classes only the evenings when shops and offices were closed," sold the ma~ amazing there is such yut. "It enthusiasm that I have had to ar- range morning drills as well.
When the young men of Margate are called to their regiments they will know how to march and drill and their muscles will be firm. It a penny and every not costing
The mayor's plan had only just He's never had a woman after him, young men should be given mill town could do it."
been tary training without having to
announced when the com- that's his trouble."
the local Parashota But in the retreat Medical Order- wait for rifles and uniforms.
mander of telephoned to ask whether his men The Weight Aeronautical Corpora~
King put his endless zest, resource-i ly
the tun began making afteraft engineness, and vitality into a big life-
could join in. "The more merrier," was the answer: so the 20 years ago on ben Noors of small
old brigade and the young brigade Wil
drill together.
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As soon as Margate decided, Daver do also took up the plan.
clas will be
He carried man after man, French and evening, every day. and British, to safety. Finally King car park In
heavy turned carrying Today they ate turning but, com-collapsed after opped such
The messing officer of one muliand plete from foundry casting to finish fellow a mile and a half up a hill. Neverthele
Alderman J. R. Cairns, mayor of ed engite, an 18-cylinder radial st:- GUARDSMAN THOMAS POTTER, the in the autumurtalion undertook to get two days malila v operations.
times M.M..
a policeman, former drill Dover, said that he would offer the ratione pound half a dozen ponds on coulert Cyclone engine
and his pal Llewliyn (Lew) taken by will be ret antetestitue if that cover
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powerful
are known as the Sulcide Squad" toj testructor in the Guards.
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wart," he added,
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Bread-trays, sacks, ashes frotto 450 h.p. private bins en route were aL,tvMrec』 Jani No. 2 has 1,250 new machines to help get the lorry out of snow-and has raised the company's payroll A stucky little RAS.C. manio over 10,000 anen Production and all the driving, and only one egg figures, of course, are not disclosed, out of several hundreds was broken it the output is generally conceded
to be the biggest in America. Why Rubber Went Up
An outstanding feature of the far-
A squeeze in the London rubber tory is Its lay-out. Raw materiala market in the early days of June enter at onc end and Bow right
buyers. puzzled
They could not through the various manufacturing understand why rubber was going up
processes in a continuous Ine with when supplies were neriving normal no back-tracking. ly in this country. Now it can be told
Machines are installed in 12 double lines separated by aisles. There are There WA delay Iri unloading three wide cross-aisles serving as rubber-carrying ships because terminal points for the collection and Highters and other craft had gone on delivery of parts.
the
their desperate venture to Dunkirk
to help in the rescue of the B.EY.
moored close to the shore.
One or two of the smaller ships sighted five large German seaplanes carrying rubber from the East joined that armada without waiting to be unloaded. That is why the price of rubber went up la June,
A
Message On The Egg
They were three miles away, and because of her orders the destroyer could not stop to deal with them. She had three minutes in which her salesman received a case of guns could bear on the target. pickled Polish eggs. One had some- In those three minutes she man- thing written on it. The salesman nged to blow up two out of the five sent it to the police, the police to the seaplanes while the destroyer herself censorship. The censorship to the was moving at nearly thirty knots. Ministry of Economic Warfare. Her gunnery officer is to be con-
gratulated.
First Wartime Darby
It was photographed and the mes- sage studied by language experts. Then by those skilled in rending Ulegible writing and cabalistic sigus,
Pont l'Eveque was the 10-win- At last, the message was de-
nee of the first wartime Derby, a colt ciphered as saying-in un obscure that had all along shown his best Polish dialect-elther that the writer form on rain-softened ground. wished England good fortune, or the Before the Derby he went for the Newmarket Stakes. On a sunbaked The egg was sent for from the course Pont Evequa started archives section for a further photo- favourite. graph to be made.
exact reverse.
Fred Darling his Beckhampton The egg had been broken, and trainer, did not have a bot on him. after its journeyings swept up and Pont l'Eveque was beaten by five thrown away at once.
There is an official minute stating that it is unproven, whether the CE6s were pro-British or not.
All In Three Minutes
lengths.
Racing writers could say nothing about the hard going: the public were puzzled.
They could say nothing, eliber,
A British destroyer, under orders when Pont l'Eveque completely upset to move urgently from Ymuiden to expert opinion by triumphing over the Hook of Holland during the conditions and romping home an easy German Invasion of Holland in May, winner of the wartime Derby.
The only ones left of the despatch- riders they went on spinning about
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