LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1919, Page 4

LATE NEWS.

fAUBIKALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

, MILITARY DIVORCE CASE, i LONDON, Nov. 13. , Mrs Sherwood Kelly is applying for a divorce from Colonel Sherwood Kelly, V.C.

In evidence, she stated that she married Colonel Sherwood Kelly in 1916, and after a four days honeymoon her husband returned to France. Later on they went to South Africa on- a visit. There several women fascinated her husband. He began to complain that he had given up, his liberty. They returned to, England, but they then lived apart. Petitioner said she wrote to him thus : “I am a proud woman, and' I’ would not beg favours. If you do not want me, tell me. I think that* the men and women who madei you out to be such a hero must have have turned your head. You will soon be an ordinary citizen. Perhaps you will sigh then for the effection you despise to--4ay-” . Her husband, in reply to this letter, said ho had decided not to return, j Colonel Sherwood Kelly was recently cburfc-martialled' for advocating, on his !' 'urn from North Russia, the withiwal forces in order to save a disas- . JUTLAND LOSSES. LONDON, Nov. 13. sir Robert Hill, Medical Directoraeral of the Nav.y, lecturing at the yal Society of Medicine, disclosed the t that the British casualties at the land battle were as follows Killed 6014 Wounded 674 WHAT U-BOATS DID • WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. It is now announcied that the German submarines early in 1918 cut a cable just out of New York. It was spliced by experts. j WAR PRISONERS. ; i. LONDON, Nov. 14. Mrs Harmsworth states that the number of British prisoners, including members of overseas forces, in Germany as yet unaccounted for is twelve officers and 591 men. The German authorities are assisting in efforts to trace these prisoners.

CHIEF’S GIFT TO SOLDIERS

JOHANNESBURG, November 13

■ At a meeting of returned soldiers here, it was announced that a Bechuanaland chief had offered to throw open six thousand acres of a diamond field, solely for the use of returned soldiers.

BULGARIAN ARRESTS OVER, WAR LONDON, November 15.

The Bulgarians have arrested a large numbers of supporters of the late Government for the purpose of trying those responsible for he war. Two hundred were arrested in Sofia alone. . A demand has been made for the extradition of ex-King Ferdinand and exPremier Radoslavoff. It is understood that, after her request for modification had been refused Bulgaria accepted the Peace Treaty. A FLAG INCIDENT. ! WASHINGTON, November 14. i A. report, from Portland, Oregon, states that some ex-soldiers removed an ■lrish republican flag from the Sinn Fein President, De Valera’s automobile as ft stood outside a hotel because the United States has not yet officially recognised the Irish Republic.

BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, Nov, 15

Probably Mr Asquith will be the Liberal candidate for Spen Valley in place of Sir T. Whittaker, deceased. The House of Lords has rejected: the Clause which the House of Commons inserted in the Removal of Sex Disqualifications Bill' for enabling Peeresses in their own right, to sit and vote in the House of Lords.

In the House of Commons' an amendment was moved to the Aliens Bill to exclude former enemy aliens from the United Kingdom for seven years, instead of the Government’s proposed 2 years,. The Hon; Mr Shortt offered three years as a compromise and this was- carried:

A > new clause was also carried prohibiting former enemy people from having: any interest in British land, in key industries or in shipping during the same period. The Bill has been passed.