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JACK OAKIE JEANETTE MACDONALD
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Farcel Romance with Songs
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中華民國庚午年十月二十日
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930.
VAST SUMS FOR U.S. DEBATE ON FUTURE
NAVAL PLANS.
Modernisation Bill Pass
for $30,000,000. ́
Washington, Yesterday,
OF BURMA.
(Continued from Page 1.)
The problem is one that has en- gaged attention for years, and the fact that the conversations is London which have taken place between the Indian delegates dur- ing the last few weeks have not as yet provided a solution,. Is no justification for excessive pessim-
The Government's first year ism. The discussions between the
tricate problem.
The
BEAUTY QUEEN'S
ROMANCE.
Dash to Gretna After
Brief Courtship.
Westhoughton, Sept. 18. Nellie Hurst, a "beauty queen"
him.
Mr. Peter
"We had no idea," said Mrs.
programme for naval construc- Indian' delegates were entirely of Lancashire, and Poter Brown. tion under the London Naval free from friction, but have been were married yesterday over the Treaty, calling for an expendi-marked by a mutual desire to anvil at Gretna Green-the reput- ture of $84,635,000, has been reach accommodation on a long-ed home of romance.
Peter and Nellie went to Gretna laid before the representatives of standing and unquestionably In-
Green because Nellie's parents the Naval Committee.
would not countenance the mar The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Sub-Committees at Work. C. F. Adams, provides therein
Three Sub-Committees of the riage. Nellie had only met Peter few weeks before, and her for the construction of one 7,500- Conference were at work this ton cruiser carrying six-inch morning on the subject of ideal parents thought that she did not guna, to cost $16,605,000; one six-relations, provincial constitutions know him sufficiently to marry inch gun, flying deck cruiser of and India-Burma separation.
Sub- The romance was the talk of the 110,000 tons, to cost $20,780,000;
Federal Relations
here, four 1,100-ton submarines, at Committee is meeting twice daily village of Daisy Hill, near $4,400,000 each; one seaplane in the hope that its report will be where the bride's father is the carrier of 18,800 tons, at $27,650,- ready for presentation to the fall landlord of an inn. 000; 10 destroyers of 1,500 tons Conference early next week. It, Brown lived in Glasgow. each, to cost $4,200,000; and is understood that the Indian Jone destroyer leader of 1,850 tons. States delegates, who take the Hurst, "that when Nellie disap-
to cost $5,000,000,
view that federation la the only peared she was going to marry the This programme excludes the practicable method of achieving man whom she had so recently We should have intended modernisation of the united India, have expressed brought home. battleships Mississippi, Idaho, freely their views on the condi-gone after her and brought her and New Mexico. Mr. Adams tions in which they are willing to back had we known.
"This morning Nellie's sister, emphasised that this modernisa-participate. They feel that the tion was the most important of all States should enter the scheme in- Mrs. Nightingale, received a letter the proposals bfeore Congress, dividually by separate conven- informing her of the marriage. and requested that the necessary tions, and that all States should That was the first intimation we funds be voted to enable the retain sovereignty and full in had, and it was a painful shock. carrying out of the work in 1981. ternal independence, save insofar We have not got over it yet
"The young couple, I understand, The Senate afterwards passed as sovereignty may be sacrificed
went to Millport, where they spent the $30,000,000 battleship moder-for federal purposes. nisation bill, submitter by Sena- Before any final decision is their honeymoon. We are anxious reached, however, the Princes de- to get into touch with the young New Dirigible Base. sire precise elucidation of the man's mother at Glasgow to ascer Mr. Adams advised the Com-rosition in regard to the Centre tain what she thinks about it,
"Nellie is twenty-one and has mittee that the Government in- and the Provinces in British tend to construct a $5,000,000 India, and it has been made clear won prizes in Lancashire beauty naval dirigible base on the west in the discussions that they would competitions, including the first coast. One million dollars had not be prepared to federate with prize at the Bolton civic week com been requested for beginning the British India as it is to-day-Bri-petition and the first prize ata construction of the second of two tish Wireless Service.
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Belgium normally an apple ex- porting country.. will this year im. port large quantities of Nova Scotia apples, if prices are within range, Antwerp. said Paul Lehmann of when visiting Kentville on this business. The Belgian crop, he says, is only from five to seven per
BODY FOUND AT FOOT OF WELSH CLIFFS.
FORMERLY IN CHINA.
London, Yesterday.
Liverpool and district competition. "She has had other offers of
marriage, but has turned them all
down."
NORMAN TOMBS."
INTERESTING DISCOVERY MADE BY RUSSIAN EXPEDITION.
An expédition sent out by the Russian Academy of Science re- ports the discovery. In the district' of the river Ojatj of a number of
cent. of normal this year while the A body found at the foot of the tombs of Norman origin. French and German crops are also cliffs of Aberystwyth has been Arms, jewellery and household amall. Purchases of Nova Scotia identified as that of Mr. Thomas articles, some of them of great apples by his firm, Gerard Koninck Richards, aged 57, a former Mis-artistic value, were found nearby, of Antwerp, will likely run between sionary in South Africa and proving that there must have been 50,000 and 100,000 barrels.
quite a big colony of the Normans.
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