WEDDING AT HOTEL CECIL
CHAK-LEUNG
FIRE BRIGADE MEMBERS ATTEND CEREMONY
A wedding of considerable in- terest was quietly solemnised Fes- terday afternoon at the Hotel Cecil, when Miss Leung Man-ying, the only daughter of Mr. and Mre Leung Ting-yung, was married to
Chak Tsin-taik, s sub-officer of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade, and the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Chak Woon-ying.
A large gathering of friends and relatives of the couple, including many members of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade, were present at the
ceremony.
•
The bride. who looked very charming in a dress of white satin, was given away by her father.
After the ceremony a
reception
THE CHINA MAIL, "MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1935
German borsemen won the cureted International prize at "Nice recently.
was held in the reception hall of AMERICAN
the Hotel, and the happy couple ther left on their honeymoon, which is being spent locally.
PREVENTING DUST Į
STORMS IN U.S.
Soil-Anchoring Plants
And Grasses
NATIONALITY
RELINQUISHED
Rich Woman Forced To Act
INCIDENCE OF DUAL TAXATION|
New York.
FAMILY NAMES IN GERMANY
Reich Minister Seeks Clarity
· CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
To-day's Short Story.
THE END OF
1HE GIRDLE
THE corridors of the Hotel des chambermaid
By Michael
Kent
on duty. On the Colonnes, at Nice, bisect the second floor. five nights in each building through its entire week. Herminie Sciaparelli sat length. They are flanked by there awaiting the summons of the walls pierced only by doors ex-bells and redeeming the time with cept where the grand staircase. needlework destined for the church) corkscrewing round the lift, in-or the presbytery of the Sacred vades the middle of the rear Heart.
wall, leaving a lighter space. All She was tall and angular with the rest of the corridor is mea-hair, still black parted in the cen grely lit, which gives, with its tre above a sallow oval face of that narrow path of, carpet bordered Italian type which inspired the with polished wood, an impres Madonna tradition. Time bas pass- sion of still greater length and fed since anyone could think her austerity.
beautiful yet there is about her a Opposite the lift gate is a table quality that impels notice and re- covered with a white cloth, a hard membrance. Her stillness chair, and, on the wall above a fire suggests force rather than inaction. extinguisher, a bell indicator and Her eyes are brown and sad. Her fase bar, precisely disposed, raguely month tells of repression, love lost, suggesting an altar.
ambition defeated, and revalt beld in leash.
That spot is the nerve centre of the floor. There, when she is not at work in the TOURS,
the
احد
sits
TEACHERS LIVE TOO LONG
Pensions Scheme Dilemma
everi
Among themselves the hotel staff call her the Sphinx.
So she sits, very uptight, at her table in the dranghty. l-lit corri- cor, wielding her crochet hook with the quick stabbing movement of al bird picking up grain, ready at every ring of å bell to attend the Berlin, To-day.
clients, a special coffee for Madame Hindenburg, Hitler, Mackensen,
206, a bath for Madame 220, an and similar great names are from
{extra pillow" for Mademoiselle 31. ... now onward to be discountenanced Mrs. Dorothy Payne Whitney as first names, while parents who
When the lift disembarks a guest Elmhirst, widely known in the want to show their loyalty to the NEARLY £10,000,000 DEFICIT demurely with downcast eyes. birat- she lays side her work, standing United States and England for fatherland and its past are to be The U. S. Department of Agri- her philanthropies connection
ing if anyone greets her a mechani- culture has commissioned some with social betterment and partied to give preference to good i
Londoneal "Bonsoir-madame" in a cadence able men to deal with dust eulary housing and education, has
old-fashioned names like "Hans Teachers live longer than was invariable as a cock that strikes storms From the deserts
and "Gretchen." immortalised in the anticipated when the Superannua(the quarters. of become a British subject. far-off Turkestan, Mr. C. R. En-! bow, and Mr. H. L. West-over. Willard. Straight Mr. Straight,
German people.
ling to the report of the Govern- "plantexplorers have brought who was a member of the banking arfairs points out that the chief operation of the measure over a The Reich Minister for Home ment Actuary in a survey of the seeds of grasses and vegetables house of J. P. Moryan and Co. in which grow
in the hottest and 1918, and in 1925 she married purpose of family names is per-period of seven years. driest climates. If the plants Leonard
framectly to record blood rélation- The scheme provides that in re- Kaight Elmhirst, can be made to grow under con- British
ships, while the main object of first turn for a contribution of 10 per subject who was ditions duplicating those of the formerly a professor at Cornell names is to distinguish the mem-cext of salary, half paid by the western, great plains where the University. Later they moved to bers of the same family one from teacher and half by the employer, dust menace originates, the De-England, where they undertook a another.
teachers should receive a pension. partment hopes to build up, a large educational experiment at names is mainly a misapplication of Provision was also made for bene is strange, that she does not follow
To use family names frst and a lump sum on retirement large supply of soil-anchoring Dartington Hall. Devonshire.
where they have since made their their purpose and is apt to produce fits on disablement or death.
confusion in the future.-Trans- Ocean Service.
seeds for distribution to farmers
"OUR CRICKETERS ARE
GOOD ENOUGH”
(Continued from Page La
Mrs. Elmhirst was formerly Megend, literature and drama of the tion Act, 1925, was passed, accord
home
Left Two Fortunes
а
Mrs. Elmhirst is a daughter of William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under Grover Cleveland, and a sister of the late Harry Payne Whitney, Payne Whitney and Farline Whitney Paget
Sbe That all the essentials for a inherited
esti. a large fortune. recovery are ready to hand does mated, at about $15,000,000, from: not admit of question—for the her father, and Mr. Straight left| material is there. It is for the her another large fortunehree selectors to utilise .it and children were born of her mAT- mobilise it
"Conscript Grandfathers”
The
nel will
But
Com-
4
HONG KONG WATER SUPPLY
Reservoir Storage Decrease
ISLAND AND MAINLAND ALIKE AFFECTED
र
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be. "The Spell," by Ralph Stock
In the staff half they say that she
the seasons 23 they do. Hitting
The valuation balance sheet, sub-north like the swallows when sum- mitted by the Government Actuary, mer comes. They say when the reveals a deficiency of £9,974,642 winter season ends that she goes to He is of opinion that the longevity a village in the hills, St. Justin of teachers was under-estimated in One can learn a little from the 1923 by the committee on whose labels on luggage, which is a book recommendations the statute was of many chapters to the hotel ser- framed.
vant. but from Herminie bezelf Flect Of Revised Salaries one never learned anything at all. For every 100 deaths of each Yet it is remembered that one mor sex expected, only 30 of men and ning Louis, the valet of the second 72 of women teachers actually oc-floor, saw a beautiful young woman, cured in the period under review.oh. but ravishing, that one, emerze: The revision of salaries in Lord from the lift, throw her arms
riage to Mr. Straight-Whitney A substantial decline in the water, Burnham's Award of 1925. Is men-round the chambermaid and address Willard, Beatrice and Michael. content of the Island reservoirs is ioned as a subsidiary cause of the her as "Mere Herminie.”
High Taxation
门
He was not,
been inconsiderate enough to live a beart attack in his favourite room on the first floor and so could not be moved to suit his pleasure.
The news spread" quickly. The sommelier of the second floor re-
Mrs. Elmhirst's renunciation of shown by the monthly return giving deficiency. This, while slightly in- The young woman was not stay- present Committee have American citizenship was filed in the position of the Colony's supply creasing the maximum salaries (oning in the hotel, she bat came to been appointed for two years in-April with Judge William Bondy-jat Jane 1.
which pensions are chiefly based) pay a visit to the Sphinx, and all stead of one, doubtless with an eye of the common court, by her law- The present supply is 634,840,000 reduced the annual increments of that day Herminie had bright eyes to the next Australian tour. Ilyers, who indicated that she wasgallons, as compared with 752,450,- 'the salaries their decisions and selections de influenced in taking this step by 000 on June 1 last year.
of women teachers and a touch of rose in her cheeks. not command respect, the person the United States tax laws. In a
during the early years of service. The staff smiled knowingly and receive some degree of statement in her behalf, they said the City and Hill district was amount of contributions brought was more human than they had During May the consumption in and accordingly diminished the opined that after all the Sphinx veneration in certain quarters of that citizens residing abroad were 335,940,000 (as compared with into the pension account. Another thought. -the score of age at least.
subjected by the United States tax) 259,660,000 last year)
factor is that the proportion of re- of which one may reasonably ques laws to the same tax liability as 75.570,000 was drawn from the tirements on grounds of health has tion whether the ripe judgment as residents, notwithstanding that mainland. An estimated populs-
been less than 'anticipated.
Monsieur Polycarp Duhamel ar sociated with- an average age of such citizens are liable to taxation tion of 424,400 consumed 25.5 gal- three score years is a satisfactory in the country where they reside." los per head as against 24.2 gal ment Actuary that to make good day in January.
It is estimated by the Govern-rived at the Hotel des Colonnes on substitute for the advantage of; recent and direct personal
loos per head of 389,000 population the deficiency an increase of the pleased to learn that a client had This is true with respect to in 1934
rate of contribution from 10 per tact with the game and its players
On the mainland a Federal, zift and estate taxes." the
similar de cent to 12 per cent is required. on the field of play.
The Romans called their statement continued. "The rate of crease is recorded in the reservoir Senators "Conscript Fathers.jestate taxes in this country is so holdings. The total water on hand present Committee could high that if a large estate should being only 183.920,000 gallons as scarcely cavil at being described be required to pay both the Ameri- against 300,160,000 at the corres as "Conscript Grandfathers.”**
tax and the English ponding period last year. death duties, the entire tax would During May 193,690,000 gallons! amount to more than 100 per cent. were consumed by an estimated of the estate
population of 341,350 at the rate of "Inasmuch as Mrs. Elmhirst is 12.3 gallons per head a much the Winter annual of a periodical * British subject by the operation lower rate than in 1934 when in the devoted exclusively to cricket, en
of the law, she cannot change her same month 200,500,000 gallons the subject of the Captaincy of the status in that respect. She feels were consumed by An estimated
that the burdens of a dual citizen-(population of 227,550, at the rate of! evitably caused some stir and com-¡ ment...
her family, she must give up the
The total rainfall recorded so far The reasonable inference from one which is in her power to give this year is 14.075 inches, a de this, in view of its source, would be up and she does this with keenest crease of 83 inches on the corres, that the foundation of a new Eng-Tegret”
The
Loyalties And Rewards! An editorial comment as foot
note to za article contributed to
can estate
English Team to visit Australia, hip are such that, in fäimess to/19.7 gallons per head.-
land team might best be laid by
Mrs. Elmhirst did not appear in lopping, off its exitsing head.
court. Her affidavit was filed by Since the war the relations be? Thomas 1. Regan, an attorney, who tween England captains and their said he was for many years in the Selection.- Committees have not employ of Mes. Elmhirst's father. been of the happiest Loyalty in The renunciation was attested at
the naturalisation bureau and Judge Bondy directed that it be In the short space of ten years no entered, it being thus accepted.
a virtue sometimes regarded as peculiarly English
fewer than four English captains
were deposed by J. W. ET. Douglas,
"A" We Carry J. C. White, and A. P. F. Chapman being the unfortunate pilots to be dropped: A fifth, Lord acquitting himself
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subsequently an invitation | bag. Gentlemen
and Kwan
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ponding period last year.
PERSIAN REVOLT
QUELLED
GERMAN PASTOR'S
TRIBUTE
England Is Germany's "Second Home”
London.
caved it as he waited for his rolls
and butter for the breakfasts, "Not a ten per cent, monsieur, this one: exigent, but he pays.”
The sommelier passed it to Louis! and Louis, making the beds with Hermînie, told her the glad tidings. “Monsieur 114 est de retour?”
· A client is Imown by the number
The big black beard who has so many friends, le
He used the One knew of
Baron Leopold von Hoesch, the German Ambassador, attended a of his zoom to the staff and Min- thanksgiving service last monthsieur Duhamel had stayed a mouth in commemoration of the Jubilee, every winter in number 114.
Herudnie turned the sheet over arranged by the combined. Ger man Protestant Churches of Lon the blankets with meticulous care.
*Monsieur #1150% don at St. Mary's Cleveland- street, Tottenham Court-road W. The service was conducted by the Rev. F. Wehrhan, rector, his sermon, said that King, in the best and the days, had never used otherwise than in the service his people England was mary's second home, the The army of King Ghazi, trium- added and he irged his hear plant over, rebel in the middle to be loyal to Germany, and in Euphrates dis ceremonially particular to the old Gospel... entered Rumat last month. At the conclusion prayELS. WEDE bringing in the rebellious tribes, said for The Besties for Herr it is go
Hitler and to
men
Bombers And Field- Guns Used
Baghdad
quickly and
into the
→Horrainie stared across seeing nothing.
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said Herwin
is good luck him," said Look
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