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Even without the periodical series of questions in the House of Commons, China is still an important topic in the Home papers. The so-called "Fall of Peking" was given special prominence. Interest continues. And latest news from China will be welcome to people at Home.
This week's "Overland China Mail" describes Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's arrival at Peking, not so much as a conquering hero, but as a person who has fired the imagination of Chinese who have not seen him before. The events leading up to his journey to Peking are also recorded in the "Overland," together. with reports of occurrences in all parts of China in the public cyc.
Following the inquiry into the foundering of the British
s.s. "Kochow." the Chinese s.s. "Lee On" sank. Reports are included in the "Overland," together with an exclusive photo of the "Kochow" salvage.
The "Overland China Mair is the only ILLUS- TRATED weekly summary of Hong Kong and China news.
Among the features of this week are reports of Independ- ence Day observances, the arrest of a bobbed-hair girl Com- munist of 19, the discovery of an arms and dope cache on the hillside, and the latest Naval and Military movements in Hong Kong and China.
WHEN YOU GO ON LEAVE.
Hong Kong's spring exodus has begun. Are you going Home on leave this year? If you are, you will be surprised by the number of persons who will ask you about China and Hong Kong. You will be astonished at the number and type. of silly questions put to you in all good faith. And you will
• have to admit reluctantly (if only to yourself) that you are not quite certain. Will you be believed, though? Keep in touch with Hong Kong and China by having the "Overland China Mail" sent to you for a stipulated period.
By spending a little time while you are on holiday, you can keep yourself well informed if you have the "Overland.” The articles which you will seek are written to help non- Chinese to understand. In any case, you will not regret, from your own point of view, being posted with the main develop- ments (reported in brief) while you are away.
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OCCASIONAL ROW. COLONEL'S ROMANCE COURT CURTSYING.
M.P.'S GOLDEN WEDDING CONFESSION.
AND WHY HE REMAINED A BACHELOR.
SEVEN AMERICAN GIRLS AT BUCKINGHAM.
SIR HARRY AND LADY FOSTEK. IN SPITE OF WEALTH & FAME.
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QUEEN MARY'S SMILE.
"What people, having average Ascot-Colonel Ralph Peacock,
Seven American girls-one character and individuality could who died in his ninetisth year, leav-of
them was rather older apend 12 months together without ing £12,000 to his housekeeper, Miss but just as excited as the rest- differences?" Sir Harry Foster, Jones, had lived a lonely life at his went to tea with Mrs. Houghton, Conservative M.P. for Fortsmouth house at Ascot.
wife of the American Ambasender, Central, asked Lady Foster at their
in London. But they spent most of flat at Buckingham-gate, S.W.
tea-time practising cartsies. "Nono could," replied Lady Foster.
Sir Harry and Lady Foster were celebrating their golden wedding. Sir Harry said to a "Daily Mall" reporter:
Every one of our 50 years of married life has been a happy year, but in each there was some- thing that would have prevented us from truthfully claiming the Dunmow Flitch. Call them dif ferences, if you like, or disagree- ments.
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Wealth came to him, but he never quite recovered from a shattered romance of his youth.
Ruth Draper, the actress, had Colonel Peacock was known to come straight from the theatre, three generations of railway en- Lola Davidson, the soprano singer, gineers. Seventy-four years ago, from her debut concert at the Wig- when railways were growing from more Hall. They were all present- their infancy, his father, then only ed at the Court a few days later. 18, but already superintendent of And one afternoon they went the Leeds and Selby Hne, visioned again to Mrs. Houghton's house for what was to come, and with a tea-the folliest tea-party in Lon-| friend, Mr. Beyer, built a locomo-don, with only one topic for conver five work at Gordon, Manchester, sation-the Court presentation."
Love at First Sight, They became famous, and when young Ralph Peacock left school his father set him to work through the engine-shops to learn for himself every corner of the great works he was eventually to control.
We are not ashamed of them. One of the most boring persons to meet is he or she who always agrees. That habit of agreeing can grow from a little thing to
At the end of his apprenticeship, menace. It can destroy all when he was 22, his father sent him' character and individuality, . to Paris to study French, business Not that I would disavow a methods. Paris was gay after the fairly frequent use of the much- triumph of the Crimea, and the talked-about give-and-take policy. young Englishman was very wel A mixture of that and their own come at the great houses of the opinion should help all except capital. what call flabby people to lead happy married lives. Smilingly Lady Foster agreed, "After all," she said, "there is
Jullo. Maniu, loader of the op position in Rumania, who is backel 200,000 strong in this greatest po litical movement that country has experioncod. His eloquence as leader of the Peasant Party may result in the ousting of the present Bratianu regime,
nothing that makes one appreciate a person more than if he or she dis- agrees with. one-provided, of course, that it is not too often."
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MRS. MEYRICK'S TWO PEEK SONS-IN-LAW.
I had leftéra of introduction He had met many everywhere. people before his introduction to the daughter of a high family of Paris; they fell in love at sight.
There was no obstacle to their troth: both families approved, and the wedding was arranged. The troussenu was being propared when the girl died.
Colonel Peacock never married.
X-RAY DETECTIVE,
A NEW DEVICE AGAINST
SMUGGLERS.
A new terror for drug traffick- ers and other smugglers was suggested to a reporter at the new electrical clinic which has been opened in Baker-street. For the first time in Britain, it is said, a new stereoscopic X-ray apparatus from Germany. has been installed which will show exactly what is in a box full of goods, or any article lodged in a human body.
Packages of anything made of wood could be X-rayed, thus sav ing Customs officers unpacking them, said Mr. A. T. K. Moir, who revealed coins in a wooden box, the sides of which were an inch thick,
The Maharajah, of Burdwan, who watched the demonstration, said that the apparatus would be of immense value in hospitals where the involved process of taking photographs would be eliminated and everything done in about two minutes."
Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter said that there was need for such installa- tions throughout the country. Every big town needed a similar clinic.
AMERICA'S STAKE..
"I didn't see the others there, at the Court," sald Miss Davidson to an "Evening Standard" representa tive. "Perhaps I was too busy gazing."
When I went in and sat down waiting for my turn, I was sure- ly dazzled. I never saw anything like that in America-all those Ane-looking men in all sorts of costume. Do you know, I'd ex- pected them just to be in "tails." And then in we went, across the chamber where the King and Queen were sitting, out by a far door, and then back again.
The Queen smiled at everyone as they went past. Slowly it came my turn. I curtsied, and the
Ex-Crown Prince Carol, of' Ra mania, heir to the throne of that country, but who renounced his rights a few years ago, will en doubtedly return to Ramants and become the ruler if the demands of the Feasant Party, who want the Promier and cabinet ersted; are adhered to. Carol declares that he is ready to return.
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Queen smiled at me and the King inclined his head to my saluta-
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Miss Davidson concluded: "I'l say it was all marvellous,"
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GREEK PRISONERS CAPTURED SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' HOME
IN 1922.
"Of Chinese Government bonds and other securities American After two postponements, the investors hold approximately Earl of Kinnoull was married re- $20,000,000 worth. Of railway cently at the St. Marylebone regis-bonds and similar securities
Athens. ter office to Miss Mary Ethel Isobel (about $18,000,000 is held in the
A great sensa- has been created Meyrick, daughter of Mrs. Kate United States. American manu-
here by the statement of Meyrick, the "Night Club Queen." facturers have extended long-
Many night club friends attended term credits to Chinese entera fugitive soldier that 1,500 the wedding, but it was stated that prizes and the amount of these Greeks are living as prisoners of no relative of the bridegroom was outstanding is another $10,000,-war in Asia Minor, where they present.
Banks, trading concerns were sold as slaves to Moham-
000.
tion
A few minutes before the time fix-and others have an investment in medan chiefs.
The soldier, Dimitri Athanas. ed for the wedding Lord Kinnoull lands, buildings and equipment in jumped barcheaded out of a taxicab. China running close to $80,000,- sopoulos, belonged to the 1st With him was his best man. Mr. 000. There is therefore a total of Battalion, Machine Gun Corps of Eustace Hocy, who is connected some $70,000,000 of American the 36th Regiment, 14th Division, money in business investments in which was captured by Mustapha with a night club.
Kemal's army in August 1922 and China." Mrs. Meyrick and her two unmar-
"This is exclusive of another for nearly six years, it is alleged, ried daughters, Kathleen and Nancy, attended the wedding. Her sum that has been invested by an- those who have survived have fourth daughter, who married Lord other American interest in China. been slaves."
It is difficult to get reliable figures de Clifford two years ago, was not on the amount of money that is present.
now represented in the missions,
Fellowes.
Women Carried Off.
"I belonged," said AthanasNo-
On the register Lord Kinnoull de- hospitals, schools and other re-poulos, "to the convoy which in- scribed himself as George Harley ligious, social, charitable, and cul- cluded 1,000 soldiers and about Hay, aged 26, 14th Earl of Kinnoull,tural activities of American or 100 Christian families. Most of the divorced husband of Enid ganisations in China. But the my comrades were murdered or Margaret Hay, formerly Hamilton-sum total would run close to the mutilated. The young women $70,000,000 of American business were carrled off, and most of the After the wedding Lord and Lady if it did not exceed it. This older women and children died. Kinnoull left by a side door, and money, which has been contri-The male survivors were trans. Mrs. Meyrick, her two daughters buted by thousands of people all ferred to Adana and then to and her daughter-in-law, ran across over the United States, has a grip Aleppo, where they were sold to the road to a waiting taxicab and on the imagination of the Ameri-Turkish proprietors as labourers."
can people far greater than many Athanassopoulos, with
drove away.
six
men
Mrs. Meyrick has for many years times the amount invested in others, escaped and thanks to the been prominently connected with business ventures could have. It assistance of the captain of an the "48" Club, which was raided on has also a strong hold upon the American sailing ship, landed In May 24 by the Flying Squad. On imagination of the Chinese. And the Piraeus. The
the amount devoted to eleemosyn were in a terrible condition, Saturday, 26 summonses were ary purposes grows every year They gave a list of their com- granted at Bow-street against Mrs, with little regard for the ups and rades who are still in slavery Meyrick and persons found in the downs of Chinese commerce or contrary to all treaties. club in connection with an alleged Chinese politica." Henry Kit-M. Mihalacopoulos, Minister of illegal consumption of intoxicants. tredge Norton in his "China and Foreign Affairs, will be question-
Mrs. Meyrick has made many the Powers." polico court appearances as a result
.
Ago figured in a
ed concerning the matter as soon as Parliament meets again. AKHIL of her night club activities.
romantic affair
Aleppo, which is now in the Mrs. Meyrick's daughters were when he arranged to marry Mr. French mandated territory of well known at her night clubs, and Trewartha Surle, an attractive Syria, came under French rule in the new Counters of Kinnoull took South African widow, but the mar-1928, nearly a year after the in- an active part in directing them. riage was stopped by the Registrar-cident described above is alleged
The Earl of Kinnoul six years Goneral, as the aarl was not of age. to have taken place.
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