THE LAW OF
SUCCESSION TO
THE THRONE
Act Passed In Reign Of William And Mary
PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S CLAIMS
TO-DAY
10-DAY'S, welding le a reminder that most people are very hazy on the rules, governing the succession to the Throne. They are containing in the Act of Succession passed in the reign of William and Mary.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934
OLD CHINA H.K. VOLUNTEER To-day's Short Story.
COMEDY
SUCCESSFUL
PRODUCTION
DEFENCE CORPS
Orders For The Coming Week.
Orders by Lieut.-Colonel B.
IN LONDON. L. Dowbiggin, O. B. B. Com
mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corva:
Hong Kong. Thursday, 29th. Nov., 1934.
GENERAL. Command
Sir Reginald Johnston "Homesick "
BRITISH ARTISTES IN DUMB SHOW
Those present included the Chin- esc Minister, Mr. Quo Tai-chi, and)
Second Lieut: G. C. Moutrie assumed command of Armoured Car Section on 1st. October, 1934.
December.
PARADE Corps Engineers.
·
Man With A Horse
TWE
By Michael Kent
THEN the hauling job was an The Compasses. He knew the day: extraordinarily heavy one of the week well enough. Satan: the foreman always sent for fetched the refreshments, à pint for Satan and the Bishop..
himself in pewter and a quart for
The young boss inaugurated the the Bishop in a pail. Whereon the Dame of "Statan" years ago when, Blah, dealing like a Christian with. beginning his studies in divinity, his pal's hospitality, would wipe his he learned what happened to little nose on Satan's sleave, jingle hla boys who disobeyed their mothers, name chains, fick his brass over onc At the best of timea Satan was eye and frolic back to stables with no model for a magazine cover and the joyous abandon of those talent- he was carting burat ballast when ed young ladies who dispert on Ep- the old boss said, "Take that boy som Downs with millions of public away from the mixers. Fred. He'll money on their backs. be getting his fingers in the chains." Satan, Fred Belcher by birth, roll-
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London, To-day. The operative paragraph kid The thousand-year-old Chinese
MESSING COMMITTEE down that if Queen Anne had no comedy, "Lady of the Precious There will be a meeting of the children "the Crown and regall Stream," was presented at the Messing Committee at Headquar Government. shall be, remah Little Theatre here last night, ters at 5.30 pm on Monday, 3rd. and continue to the most excellent with great success. Princess Sophin and the heirs of her body being Protestanta."
If the Prince of Wales were to his wife, Sir James Lockhart and Parade at Miniature Range on fed up with his conception of n ́rean-]
course the Bishop never car- die unmarried, his next brother Lady Lockhart, and Sir Reginald Monday, 3rd December. 1934 at 5.30 xuring smile, his eyes.
ried a halfpenny of anyone's bloodshot money, except when, set to yank a would succeed him, but Princess Johnston. The latter told Prof. Si p.m. -
with cinders. Elizabeth would succeed before the Hsiung, who prepared the play for
load out of a build hole, somebody "You don't know me," he said. sald, "Bet you a sprayser you don't eve-"But I've come to take you."
"Yes, I do," said the child, quak-trace horse."
shift it, Satan. Better hook on the ing but guiltless. "You're Satan. But I did cat my porridge!"
Thereafter Fred remained Satan for all-time.
Corps Signals Duke of Gloucester and before any British artlates, that the play was Parade' to Camp on Friday sons that might be born to the so good that it made him homesick ning, 30th. November. Dreas: younger Princes. The only cir- for China.
before.
ou
cumstance in which she would- The Chinese theatrical conventions) Parade nt Headquarters forfeit her succession would be the were carefully followed. There was! Tuesday 4th. December. Recruits birth of a son to the Duke of York, no scenery, but the lighting and coa--Miniature Range.
tumes were charming, and the ges Proceed to Camp on Friday eve-
SPLENDOUR OF ROYAL WEDDING
Continued from Parte 31. King and Queen of Denmark;
Princess Marina's sister;
tures, in dumb show, of the company aing 7th. December.
were clever.
Count and Countess Toer- ENGAGEMENT
RETURN FROM LEAVE
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Both Ways," by Peter Shannon.
Twenty years later he met the Bishop, a reverend gentleman from the shires with a long white nose, The hero and heroine (Roger Lieut. J. H. Bottomley returned feathery fetlocks and an ironic sag Livesey and Maisie Carroll) were from leave and resumed command to his underlip. A rare old pair of excellent. All the parts were well of Corps Signals as from 1.11.34. pals time made of them. played.
No. 812 C.S.M. A. Gillard, A.' 5. The Bishop understood Satan's
"Me and the Bish can do our job Prof. Halung was congratulated C. Cadre, returned from leave on way of talking which was brief, without King and Queen of Norway; by many friends.-Reuter.
any (plucky) tracer," 24.11.34. Princess Paul of Yugoslavia,
juried, and of a poignant harshness Satan would growl. "I'll take your No. 1708 Sapper H. W. Brown, rarely achieved before the invention (shiny) sprayser, Stannup, Bleh!" Corps Engineers, returned from of radio. Perhaps he liked the Though Satan spoke as one order- leave and reported for duty on 19. smell of him, too. Who knows then another scuttle of nuts for An- 10.34.
heart of a horse?
anias, the Bishop, beyond tottering No. 2013 Sapper H. J. Woolley, After ten years, whenever Satan slightly, would not stir. Corps Engineers, returned from had a holiday, he spent it in the "A jibber!" you would scoff. leave and reported for duty on 19. stables. They attained a pleasant "Hasn't the heart to try," which fellowship. Every Saturday at noon, only shows that the Bishop knew for instance, the Bishop jogging more about getting cartwheels out of No. 1309 L/Sgt. N. A. E. Mackay, home did not need to be checked at clay than you do. No. 14 Platoon. No. 3 Cay, reverts
Rolling a bloodshot eye he would to the rank of Private at his own
slowly sag from side to side till, at request and
the moment when he seemed about. transfer to No. 1 Company with, effect from 25.11.84.
ring, her other sister and her brother-in-law;
Prince Valdemar of Den- mark;
Prince George of Greece and Princess Maric of Greece;
Grand Duke and Grandl Duchess Cyril of Russia, par-] ents of the Grand Duchess Kyra, one of the eight brides- maids.
IN COLOURFUL
LAKE DISTRICT
Prince Paul's Villa At Bohinj
BLUE EYED PRINCESS
London mbers of visitors Tale you enter, with blue eyes. The wedding has attracted to HE young Princess Marina is from all quarters of Europe and strong natural eyebrows, and a light- from America.
hearted mouth. She wears her hair Throughout this week London combed into soft curls in the nape has been more crowded than it of her neck, and has the lightest has been for many years. It is dust of powder on her healthy skin. "gala" week in the West End. Her nails are polished rese pink. and hotels and restaurants, as
She laughs easily and has the
well as theatres, are enjoying re-most simple and charming 'manners cord business.
imaginable..
"We got engaged by the lakes at
10.24.
No.
TRANSFER
is granted a free LOCAL GIRL GUIDES to sing down and die, Satan at his
STRUCK OFF STRENCH Permitted to resign by Efficiency Board
Corp lat. Battery, as from 28.11.34. 1777 L/Sgt. J. S. Beach, No. 1693 Trooper E. Joseph, M.G. Troop, as from 18.11.34.
'(Sd.) P. S. M. WILKINSON,
Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps. AFFILIATED UNIT
MEETING
head yelled. "Howk her out, boy!" Then the Bish, heaving his mighty weight through his collar;
Combined Rally On Day would swing the wheels out of their
Of King's Accession
"e" da
rut, stab his toes into the soft earth and get the loosened wheels astir, a feat Grecian in its power and rhy- thm and beauty.
The Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Girl Guides' Association took "Yowk her up!" urges Satan with. Captain, place in the Sandilands Hut this utter contempt. "You pot-bellied)
morning. Amongst those present old work-shy," and up she yowke! were Lady Southorn (Colony Com- And if Satan treats himself to missioner), Mrs. G. E. L. Grist pint out of the "sprayser" you can (Deputy. Colony Commissioner), bet the Bishop has his bunch of car
At the wedding breakfasts, which will follow the Greek ser Bohinj, she said. George proposed vice, betwen 60 and 70 guests to me in the same room that my will attend. most of the members of the Royal exactly a year and a month ago
They will include sister Elizabeth got engaged in, Nursing Detachment, H.K.V.D.C. family and all the foreign Royal the drawing-room of Prince Paul's
guests.
During the afternoon the Duke and his bride will leave London
villa,"
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for their honeymoon, the first WEDDING THAT LINKS part of which will be spent in Warwickshire.
| EUROPE'S ROYALTY
WEDDING RITES
PARADE
EXAMINATION-HOME
NURSING
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Mrs. G. A. C. Herklots (Diátrict rots too.
Commissioner), Mrs. A. R. H. Phit-
But it is not the reward that sets After Camp, there will be
lips (Colony Secretary), Mrs. J. D. them jingling jauntily among the further parade until the New Year, Danby (Colony Treasurer), Mrs. J. buses on the level road. They have (repeated). when First Aid Classes will begin H. R. Hance (Badge Secretary), done what no other horse and men Mr. F. Elliott, Mrs. W. H. E. on the job could do, and Satan on Thomas, Miss H. D. Sawyer, Miss the shafts balancing the load for his M. Hannah, Miss D. Illingworth,jold pal, whistling his, whip lash Dr. H. Woo, M.B.E., and Miss G. ovor the Bishop's ears till dear oft Choa.
ladies shudder and cry "Sheme!" In presenting the Report, Mrs. would not change acate with Ma- Grist said that a combined Rally of Jesty riding down Birdcage Walk Guides and Scouts would be held between his halberdiers to take his next year, in honour of King oath upon the Rock of Bethel. George's twenty-fifty Accession, on
The following qualified in the Continued from Page 3.) Home Nursing Examinations on 22nd. November and 26th. Novem- Ill-health, however. interfered ber 1984 conducted by the Tutorial At the actual plighting of the again with the Prince's plans, and Staff, Government Civil Hospital.
in July, 1929, he was given inde- 22nd. November, 1934.
(Continued from_Page_3.j
help they had rendered.
Pvice to the humanities.
【ETROL has „ done some disser-
It brought Salan, after forty years of hauling, to the transport manager's office one Friday night.
"Ah," said the manager, "Belcher. You've been with the company u long time."
"Been with the company before It was a (flourishing) company," said Satan.
troth and the marriage the Arch-finite leave of absence from the Mrs. D. B. Butler, Mrs. D. W Wednesday, May 8, or on the 15th bishop of Canterbury will officiate. His Grace will then pronounce the
Foreign Office. For several Mortlock, Mrs. W. Sharp, Misa M. first of the marriage blessings.
months he led a quiet life, spend-Witheell, Mrs. D. E. Hole, Mrs. E.it wet then. ARCHBISHOPS' PRAYERS
lug most of his time in the open Hourihan, Mrs. D. Farmer, Mrs. Lady Peel expressed the warmest The Paalm which follows will, like air, and fulfilling very few public I. G. Willocks, Mrs. J. J. Garland, thanks on behalf of all Guide folk the rest of the vocal music, be sung engagements.
Mrs. C. C. Boswell, Mrs. M. M.In the Colony to Miss Hannah and by the Abbey choir, together with After visiting Norway in De Bohague, Mrs. M. S. F. Coventry, Miss Illingworth for the splendid the Children and the Gentlemen of cember, 1980, to represent the Miss V. Owen-Hughes. the Chapel Royal.
King and Queen at the celebra- 26th, November, 1934. The suffrages afterwards will be tions of the twenty-fifth anniver-
Mrs. A. R. Briggs, Miss E chanted by the Precentor of West-versary of King Haakon's acces- Flex, Mrs. E. B. Brasier-Creagh, minster Abbey, the Rev. Cyrillon to the throne, Prince George Mrs. C. de S. Robertson, Miss J. M.
ABBEY ROYAL WEDDINGS Armitage.
set on his greatest adventure, an L. Dowbiggin, Miss A. Owen- At the Altar, when the bride and 18,000 miles tour of South Ameri-Hughes, Miss E. D. Aris, Mias C.
(Continued from Page 3.) bridegroom have advanced there, where he was present at the open-G. K. Saunders, Miss S. M. Baskett, also was Prince Arthur of Con- We
ca with the
Prince of Wales, 3. Sanh, Miss I. L. Woolley, Misa Chapel of St. James Palace, the remaining prayers will be re-ing of the Buenos Aires Exhibi-Miss L M. S. Deacon, Miss M. Snaught. King Edward, the Duke cited by, the Archbishop of York.
From the Altar also the, Arch-
ition. bishop of Canterbury will address he left for South Africa on
At the beginning of this year E Holloway, Mrs. F. H. E. Skyrme, Princess
Bander, Mies A. A. Hirst, Miss E of Connaught, the Duke of Albany, gathered that they didn't want him the newly-married pair, and after-three months' tour, on the invita-
& Mrs. M. Ballė.
Christian Princess no more nor yet the blessed, old wards bestow the Church's
Louise, and the Duke of Con- Bish neither. It is a blow to any (Sgd:) M. M. MELLOR, cluding benediction.
contion of the Government of the
anught's daughter (the late Crown man's or horse's pride, Acting Commandant. Princess of Sweden), were mar- He went back to stables. Things Nursing Detachment, H.K.V.D.Cried in St. George's Chapel, Wind- people said about Antwerp were in sor, and two sisters of King his mind. He did not know where
SIGNING THE REGISTERS
Union. He made the voyage on the Carnarvon Castle, and at
L
"Too long to learn to drive a car." said the manager "We're chang asing to motor traction, you know, and
From a welter of words Batan
The service "over, the Duke and Cape Town, where he was receiv-COAST DEFENCE GUN PRACTICE George (the Princess Royal and it was, but it was no place for a
Duchess and their immediate rela-ed by the Governor-General, the
tives will pass into the Chapel of Earl of Clarendon, he had an en-
St. Edward the Confessor, behind
the High Altar. There, lald out on
thusiastic welcome.
He was away from home, three
NEXT WEEK
the Queen of Norway) were mar-{noble) horse. ried in the private chapel Gun Practice with live ammuni-Buckingham Palace. and a half months, returning on tion will be carried out from
of
FORGED $10 NOTE
an oaken table, the registers will awalt their signatures. The parties April 24. In that time he travell MOUNT DAVIS, in the direction and their witnesses will sign the two ed 21,000 miles, including 10,000 of the WEST LAMMA CHANNEL registers belonging to the Abbey, milles by road and rail. and also the special register of
Royal marriages, which contains the
signatures of practically every Royal 1935 US, COTTON CROP personage in Europe during the last 160 years.
on the December 4 and 6 from 2
pm to 6 pm. on each occasion. Chung Cheung, unemployed, who
"See how it' ip, you: (carmine) old fodder bag," said he get my old age from the Post Office besides five shillings a week from the firm, but you ain't got no (comfortable) old age. You got to be sold."
The Bishop offered no sugges
No other practice is due to be was charged with uttering & forged tions. He only pushed his nose into carried out during the weak end- $10 Chartored Bank note at the Satan's chest, nibbled the end of hir
New York, To-day-The Agriculng Saturday, December 8, Ming Chuen Tes Shop, No. 884 deckerchief and with friendly
Later in the day the Chapter tural Adjustment Administration Clerk of the Abbey will presumably plans a cotton crop for 1935 of secure the attestations of other wit around 12,000,000 bales, which con- nesses, whose signing in the Abbey forms with the expectations would unduly protract the time of traders-United Press, per S. waiting for the re-emergence of the Levy and Company.
bride and bridegroom.
All the members of the Royal One case of typhoid fever party will by West door, reported in the Colony di "going in procession the clergy 24 hours.ended Novem
Fines totalling $15 were imp
Mr WF, Dudmar
Kowlo
In Emba
Queen's Road, on Monday, was this badinage, when Satan left tried to
to two months take a bite out of the lack of W. Schofield at
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