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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1936
The China Mail
Ninety-first Year of Publication.
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WEDDING BELLS Hopkins Weightman
CATHEDRAL CEREMONY
YESTERDAY
Garrick Street, London WC2 The wedding was solemnised
yesterday afternoon at St. John's Cathedral of Mr. Hubert Carew
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Taking Stock In. Egypt
top of a high bill in Central The Rev. H. W. Baines officiat-France. has suddenly come
once
jagain into prominence through M. The bride is the eldest daugh- Flandin's speech broadcast last ter of the late Mr. Weightman mouth, in French, English, Ger and Mrs. Astle of Portsmouth, man, Italian, and Spanish.
Xמדדי
The Attendants Miss E. M. Moore.
wore 2
PARLIAMENT'S "BIBLE”
aware
GERMAN RE-ARMING OF RHINE
THE SAAR AS KEY
.A
WHOLE PLAN
HOW EVENTS INFLUENCED
HITLER'S DECISION-
TO
(By A Special Correspondent)
TÄRESH from a tour of the German military circles had whilst the bridegroom is the Few but historians are F second son of Mr. F. J. and the that Vezelay was once almost as-Rhineland and the Saar, I always regarded the undefend- late Mrs. Hopkins of Dawlish. well known in Europe as London can throw new light, I believe, ed position of the Saar as a po- Entering the Cathedral on the or Paris To-day it has only 085 on Hitler's sudden decision to tential source of danger to Ger-
remilitarise which precipitated many. Hong Kong, Thursday, April 30, 1935 arm of Mr. A. Brearley, who gave inhabitants.
The whole Saar basin lies in her away in marriage. the bride! In the Middle Ages, however, it Europe into serious difficulties
од March 7. There is little the demilitarised area, and looked charming in a Lelong had a permanent population * doubt that the key to the situa-within easy range of French modelled white crepe gown set of about 10,000, and hundreds of tion in which the leader found guns. Soon after the Saar's with a large picture hat in cire thousands of pilgrims came every it possible to make his stroke return to Germany the German
satin. She carried white year to its wonderful Romanesque lay in the Saar.
Staff had drawn up its new Benedictine monastery.
In an article published in a scheme for manning this teiri- While not suggesting that carnations.
Towards the middle of the 12th London paper only a week car-tory with a network of forti- the untimely death of King
brides-century it was from Vezelay that lies remilitarisation had been fications 24 Fuad of Egypt is not to bej
Lanvin modelled St. Bernard preached the, Second foreshadowed. That might have As long as Germany adhered deplored in itself, one may permaid.
seemed a coincidence, but the to the Locarno Pact the plans haps be permitted to remark dress in Paguerette and blue or Crusade.
It was to Vezelay, too, that St. writer was dealing with condi- had to be left in abeyance.. that it has indeed come at the ganza. set off with a large Ber-
Thomas a Becket turned for re-tions in the Saar, where pre-When France signed the pact most inopportune moment pos-gere hat.
The Matron of Honour, Mrs. B. fuge during his quarrel withparations were being pushed on with Soviet Russia the Nazi sible. He had not altogether
for reoccupation by the German Government saw a new reason been a success as Egypt's first E. Elliott, chose a navy blue ea-Henry II.
Army, and it was well under-for hastening the constraction constitutional monarch. princi-semble with white leaf pattern, a never Lanvin creation. She carried a
stood that the return of the of fortifications along its from- ipally because he could
of tiers. forego the urge to rule despo-bouquet of pink carnations.
During the complicated discus-troeps was only a matter possible.
time. tically whenever
The duties of best man were sions on Parliamentary procedure
In Train To Karlsruhe Over and over again in the undertaken by Mfr. Oscar Fager, which followed the defeat of the Saar Plebiscite, when over 90 tions widely held in the Nazi There is no doubt that the The view of treaty obliga- course of his somewhat turbu-Appropriate music was rendered Government last month the name lent reign he showed little on the organ by Mr. Lindsay "Erskine May" was freely used.
per cent. of the population vot-party may be illustrated by led in favour of return to Ger- patience with the politicians of Lafford.
Few people know much about the country; whenever there)
Following the Cathedral cere this lawyer who devoted his life to many, was one of the decisive quoting the discussion I heard on the train while travelling mony, a reception was held at a study of Parliament. He began nunciation of the Locarno Pact day of Herr Hitler's meeting in was an opportunity for the
factors which preceded the de-through the Saar. It was the Palace to pay off two opposing Charter House. 17 Peak Road, the the study in 1831 when, at the age Since the plebiscite the question Karlsruhe. The train was pack- factions against each other the residence of Mr. A. Brearley, of 16, he became an assistant li- of bringing the Saar within & King took every advantage of
On leaving for the honeymoon brarian to the House of Commons network of new German forti velling from Saarbruecken to ed with Hitler's followers tra- lit to do so. In the course of
which is to be spent in Japan. Later he became Clerk of the cations had always been one of these machinations every faci-
Shortly before his death the most vital concerns of Ger. There were about 300 men on Karlsruhe, to take part in it. lity was afforded for the voci Mrs. Hopkins wore an apple green House
dress with cape. Herous anti-British group
Court politics to make their in- fluence felt. Here again not much encouragement was neces- the Wald sary. Politically Party, which enjoys overwhelm- the ing support throughout country, seeks every opportunity to make the British tenure of
embar-1 influence in Egypt as rassing as possible.
in
The main point about the un-
timeliness of King Fuad's death
is that it should have occurred
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Homing Geese
in 1886 Sir Thomas Erskine May was raised to peerage as Lord Farnborough.
His famous work was published
on May 21844, under the title "A Practical Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament." It at once placed the earlier "Hatsel” standard authority.
re-
35 2
its
man defence.
Waiting To Break Fact
board, 5lling all the coaches, first, second, and third dass It will be remembered that It was a day's outing, and they Hitler repudiated the Treaty of were travelling with free vou- Versailles soon after the status chers.
On The leader of the party, a of the Saar was settled. March 1, 1935; the region was burly man with a shaven head formally handed back to Ger-round as a billiard ball, wore many. It was only a fortnight the well-tailored brown-shirt. later that the new Reichswehr uniform of the Nazi political
were promulgated, and organisation, with the two sil
"Erskine May" is now in 14th edition. Sir T. Lonsdale laws the little Hessian village of Webster, a recent Clerk, extended compulsory military service was ver oak leaves, the Nazi insignia
reintroduced in Germany. “Erskine ajand revised the work.
Nieder-Morlen. Germany,
Your Daily Smile!
[of rank, on his collar. The others ********* were in mufti. Political discus-
IN THE ROUGH "Why do you keep looking at yoursion began when it was noticed watch?" asked the goker. "It's not that I was reading an English a watch, sir,” replied the caddy; newspaper. it's a compass."
"The British," one of the party shouted, "are playing the French game. « But they have
Civilisation-1935
All hands to the Bumps: A pre-1 Encouraging increase in population played cat and mouse with us assist in levelling sion to find room for surplus pope-long enough. We have guns
(Continued On Page 11)
club has requested to be slaughtered in a war of expan-
much vincial cricket
and every member to
at a time when Anglo-Egyptian strange scene may be witnessed May" can now be bought in Ger- French, Italian, Spanish, relations need very careful nur-every evening between five and six man, ture. Both Britain and Egypt o'clock. The thousands of geese Hungarian and Japanese. have a lot to lose if they are owned by the inhabitants spend allowed to end in discord. The the day on the river bank below Nationalists are loud in their the village, and at the given sigħal denunciation of the "rassalage" from their leaders, make their way of Egypt. Actually, of course, homeward en masse with Britain in the last few years at pomp and circumstance least has more or less washed raucous noise. The strangest part the pitch. her hands of the interior poli- of the proceeding is seen when tics of the country, supporting they reach the street and, without impartially whatever Govern-guidance or driving, waddle each ment happens to be in power. into his own yard for the night. Nevertheless, it should be clear- Like so many squads, they break and go ly understood that Britain can off from the main body not possibly afford to relinquish into their owners' doors, just as the guardianship of the country, though they were conscious of even if only her own most sel-their own cleverness.
fish material ends are taken
into consideration. It is vital for Britain that the buffer State:
il
10-Barrel Gun
which Egypt represents should N interesting specimen in the not be hostile to Britain's in- A gun collection of the Smith- terests in the Sudan and the sonian Institution in Washington Suez Canal zone, both centres is the 10-barrel shot gun, one of where they are supreme.
many such multi-barrelled guns The message received yester seized by the Bureau of Biological day hinting at Italian intrigues Survey and turned over to the is interesting. It is well Museum. The 10-barrel gun, and known, of course, that King the others, were at one time used Fuad, trained as he was in an by duck hunters in the Potomac. Italian military school, was not being mounted on the bows of above attempting to play the boats. They were operated by a two Powers off against each single trigger for all barrels, and other when it suited his book enabled the hunters to bring down It remains to be seen whether dozens and sometimes hundreds of this potentially dangerous birds at one shot.
game can be continued by the
new King or the Council of Re-
gency which will act on his be
half for the next five years or SEVEN FAMILIES HOMELESS so. Any attempt to do
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would, of course, be even more Fire swept through a row of dangerous at the present time, miners houses at Gartness, Laz- when the tension of the Italo-arkshire, last month and extensive- Abyssinian dispute is an already ly damaged nine out of 11 houses. suficiently disturbing factor in Seven families, numbering 30 the relations between the two people, were rendered homeless. countries. For our part we and all their belongings were des- refuse to believe that the leaders troyed. of the country, in Court .. political circles, would be so fair as that of Britain. There blind as to attempt anything is a process known as jumping so, hazardous. The total inde-lout of the frying-pan into the pendence of Egypt is a phap-fire which besets small nations, tasmagorial mirage at the pre- unable out of their own. re sent time. The most the coun- sources to guarantee their in-
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