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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935
QUIET WEDDING AT
PEAK CHURCH
Assistant Crown Solicitor Married
LOCKHART SMITH-GREEN
The wedding took place yester day morning at the Peak Church of Mr. William James, Lockhart-Smith, Assistant Crown Soliciter, and Miss Mable Dundonald Green, the Rev. N. V. Halward officiating.
Lady Southorn, O.B.E., Dr. G; D.
R. Black, O.B.E., and Mrs. Black were among those present at the quiet ceremony
The bride, who was given away by His Honour the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor, looked charming in an ankle-length gown of brown marocain and gold lame, set off with small gold lame turban and veil. She carried a sheaf of bronze chrysanthemums..
The bridesmaid, Miss Lockhart- Smith, sister of the bridegroom. wore a green and white silk gown and carried a Victorian posy of violeta.
The duties of best
man were undertaken by Mr. L. F. Nicholson.
After the wedding ceremony, reception was held at Mr. Justice MacGregor's house, and later the couple left for Taipo,, where the honeymoon te being spent, at the residence of Mr. N. L. Smith's home.
BRITAIN TO
CO-OPERATE GOING HOME ON LEAVE?
(Continued From Page 7).
Midway is one of the farthest west group of the straggling chain of islands. It is little more than a sandy islet, but is inhabit- ed because there is a cable station there, and it provides a good bay which could be utilised by flying boats.
The third hop will be from Midway, to Guam, which is the largest and most populous of the Marianas group of islands, situated about 1,500 miles from Manila. It is an island of about the same area. Es Singapore, being about 80 miles from north|| to south and about seven miles in width.
It is a naval atation of the US. Navy, and has a very fine and safe harbour at Apra. It is in- teresting to note that the natives of Guam are of the same stock] (Indonesian) as the Malays, and the language which they speak is actually a dialect of Malay.
• World Nearly Girdled When these two services are established, there will be only one small gap in the air girdle round the world-that will be the distance between the Philip pines and Malaya,
There is the alternative route to Australia from the Philip pines, of course, but Manila being considerably closer to Sin-i
IDR. SHERWOOD. EDDI Borgia poisoned five children of a gapore than to Darwin it seems
SPEAKS ON CHINA
Darker Outlook Than
Ever Before
CHRISTIAN YOUTH LEADER'S LECTURE
The possibility that a modern Fairport, N. Y., family, is being investigated by the police. Flor ence Corkish,.7. (above), her brother Frankie, 3 (below), their, xiater and two brothers,' were found stricken when their parents returned from a shopping trip, Florence died. The others will
recover,
WEATHER REPORT the FOR DECEMBER
Dr. Sherwood Eddy, well-knowD Christian youth leader, was speaker at a large gathering of Chinese students at the Hop Yat Church yesterday.
Taking the general condition in ¡China as his subject, the noted lecturer said that at no other time was the outlook darker for Chinese and friends of Chinese than to- day, with the nation in the threes of internal disruption, and a foreign Power on the lookout for: opportunities from that disunity. He described China as being crush- ed between the millstones of mill- tariam, corruption and Communism | on the one side, and outside aggres
Warm Day Follow
·Cold Snap
obvious that the connecting up of the final link will be by this route.
The fact that in America re- search into the practicability of} establishing connections between America and Europe and Asia by: air has been going on for some time past démonstrates that the Americans have a much broader
conception of the inevitable
development of commercial avia-
tion than British designers have
had hitherto.
England have been urging the For a long time experts in
necessity for developing the fly- ing boat as a commercial utility aircraft, but it has been rather neglected for the land machine Now the marine aircraft is to come into its own in a measure A persistent anticyclone over which in England was thought North China and the Yangtze to be many years ahead still. Valley was responsible for norther-
Flying Boats
LOWEST TEMPERATURE ́SINCE JANUARY
ly winds, and cold clear weather Imperial Airways operate only. during the early part of the month. seven flying boats in their fleet A minimum temperature of 48.2 the Scipios and the Calcuttas. morning of December 6, this being operation of the service across degrees F. was reached in the early These are used mainly in the alon on the other.
Mr. Chan Kin-fan, of the Chinese
the lowest temperature recorded the Mediterranean from Brindisi Y.M.C.A. presided,
since the preceding January. The to Cairo on the South Africa and Among those present were Miss FC. Woo, hours on every day from December
duration of sunshine exceeded 10 Far East routes. :
Recently, in a lecture to the M.B.E., Rev. Cheung Chuk-ling, Rev. 4 to December 9 inclusive.
Royal Aeronautical Society in Tao Tse-Tong, Rev. Li Kau-yan, Rev. Cheung Man-chiu, Rev. Yung Ting easterly, and temperature rose, re-designer of the giant flying On December 9 the wind became London, Mr. Igor Sikorsky, the sang, Mrs. Cheung Wing-kul, and] maining somewhat above normal boats which bear his name, ex-
others,
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Dr. Sherwood Eddy will speak on
for the rest of the mouth. The pressed the opinion that in the year closed with a spell of cloudy, future such craft, weighing hup- "Crisis in China," at the Y's Men's drizzly weather, no sunshine being dreds of tons and capable of long Club tiffin to-day at 12.30 p.m. at recorded from December 29 to 31 ocean flights at cruising speeds the Univeralty Club,
Inclusive.
of 150 to 200 miles an hour will Dr. Sherwood Eddy will speak in the Cathedral Hali to-morrow, month was 48.4 degrees, which is
The mean temperature for the be brought into use.
He placed the speed at this January 4, at 5.15, on "Present Day 0.5 of a degree greater than the mit because the does not think Conditions in Russia." will be under the auspices of the 75 per cent. against a normal of any higher speeds, and that the The talk normal, and the mean humidity was the size of the earth necessitates 30th Jan. Hong Kong League of Nations So-69.5 per cent. The total sunshine cause of air transportation is
leiety.
recorded was 178,9 hours, approxi- better, served if designers con- mately equal to he
to the normal Acentrate on producing bigger and maximum wind velocity of 48 m.p.h. more comfortable machines and was recorded at 10 p.m. on Decem!
reducing transport costs. ber 8.
phia and Baltimore
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UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS
Four Local Merchants Summoned
Four local merchants, Messrs. T A. Mitchell, Yeung Koon-man, Yu Si-ming and C. C. Cheng, were sum moned before "Mr. W. Schoßfeld at
The total rainfall amounted to CHINESE AIR MAIL RATES HIGH 0.58 inches, which is less than half the normal. The total rainfall for the year was 97.67 inches against a normal of 86.12 Inches.
(Continued from 'Page 7.)
Rate To The minimum rate by air to
Makow Hankow and way stops, from
the Central Magistracy yesterday CONSTANT SPEED AIR-SCREW Shanghai, la 30 cents, 25 cents of
for executing receipts which were
not stamped.
Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson repres
(Continued from Page 7.)-
7th Jan, sented Mr. T. A, Mitchell; Mr. G. S. It is claimed that with this control 7th Feb Hugh-Jones appeared for Mr. Yeung
at once to 18,500 feet, cruising-at
which is for air postage. The air rate to Canton is 50 cents.
at a meeting, in Paris last month, The question of abolishing air mall fees altogether was discussed Koon-man and Mr. F. H. Loseby on the Boeing 20 minutes ara saved
fon a 600 miles journey.
of the Air Transport-Committee of 3rd Jan for Messra. Yu Si-ming and C. C.
the Infernational Chamber of Com 8th Jan Cheng.
Solici. the height, and then "coasting merce. With the abolition of down hill for the last 75 or 100 special fees letters would auto- matically be transported by air miles, the control enabling this to wherever possible. Thirteen coun- be done with almost mathematical tries are represented on the com mittee and among those who took part In the discussion were officials of the Imperial Airways, Pan- American Airways, Lufthansa, and Air France.
4th Jan 20th Jan
Mr. H. K. Holmes Crown Solici tor, appeared for the prosecution on behalf of the Collector of Stamp Revenue.
Mr. Holmen said that the Cham- ber of Commerce which was always ready to assist both the merchants 6th Jan and the Government,
hoorned! itself in the case,
bing
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and
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