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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936
The China Mail
-Ninety-fret Year of Publication.-
WEDDING BELLS
Here There
- WYLLIE HATCH
SA Wyndham Street, Hans Song. YESTERDAY'S CEREMONY AT and
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
A very pretty wedding was solemnised at: St. John's Cathe
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The interchange of courtesies
Notice To Contributors. dral, yesterday afternoon, when CHIVALROUS LADY GOLFERS All communications intended for Miss Ethel Hatch became the publication should be addressed to bride of Mr. Roy Leslie Wyllie. the Editor, and be accompanied by The Rev. H. W. Baines afficiated. the Writer's Name and Address not necessarily for insertion, but as a guarantee of good faith.
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ANOTHER ENGLISH
JOURNEY
NEW IMPRESSIONS OF A
NATIVE LAND
VITAL HERITAGE OF COUNTRY THAT
IS LOVED BY ALL
capelets of orange-blossoms on halved the American body sug- H
(By J. B. Priestley)
between the Ladies' Golf -Union The bride, who is the daughter and the United States Golf Asso- of Mr. Herbert Hatch, wore an ciation is an example of the spirit ivory Chantilly lace gown in rose in which all international sport- design fashioned on Grecian lines, ing contests should be conducted. with slightly draped neck line. When the Curtis Cup match was
TERE are more new impres- I have denounced the ugliness full igested to the LG.U. that the
sions after eight months of England and I have filled pages jeach shoulder and long
sleeves tightened at the wrist with trophy should be held here for one absence. I have just been from and pages praising its beauty. But one year in the London to Wales and back by car. I do not ever remember feeling rings also of orange-blossoms. year and for
with some side-journeys and lin-that beauty so intensely before. The skirt of the gown fell in soft United States.
The L.G.U. however, said in gerings near the border. The except perhaps in the spring of folds forming a train... An
were Radnor. 1919. (I had just been demobilis- was reply that as the American team favoured counties ¡broidered Brussels net veil
Worcester-ed, after four and a half years. held in place by a halo of orange had never been beaten in a match, Brecon, Shropshire,
was setting out on a walking tour One of the latest items of blossoms set far back on the hair the cup must return to the U.S.Ashire and Gloucestershire.
It has now been played for I saw the spring loveliness of of the Yorkshire Dales, and had
times. America news coming from Shanghai She carried a bouquet of jasmine
won the this country all over again, and been commissioned to write about Mr. Hatch gave three concerning the present friction and gardenias.
first two matches. the South-west and his daughter away in marriage. between
Two Bridesmaids the Central Government is per-
Hong Kong, Friday, June 26, 1936.
A Game Of Bluff
They
CHA
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it took my breath away. First, the lit. at the rate of one guinea per enchanting haze over everything, article. And what a fellow I as if delicate veils were already thought myself then!)
This English landscape is very falling between you and reality.
and
haps the most Gilbertian yet in Attending the bride were the SPORTS ADMIRABLE CRICHTON a situation that would be all Misses Irene Deacon and Nanes
The sale at Christie's recently It is this haze that makes the much like English literature." It Gilbertian were it not for the Duckworth, who were gowned in of a collection of old English English landscape unpaintable. is half domestic, half magical. It possibilities one might now lilac and waterlily organdies with furniture belonging to Sir Charles except by a water-colourist ofis the perfect setting for the re- almost say the probabilities full sleeves and skirts trimmed Lawes-Wittewronge recalls progenius. And it is this haze, gent-vels of Titania and Bottom the of tragedy involved.
It is rewith horse-shoes of pastel shad-bably the greatest athlete ever
all Weaver. You have one foot in the ly subduing and mellowing ported that, unable to obtained Parma violets.
wore produced by Eton and Cambridge things, making meadow and road bar parlour of the "Dor delivery of a shipment of arms Watteau, hats and carried heart! At Eton, in the early sixties and wood and hill all melt into Duck where they are earnestly which arrived in Hong Kong on shaped vanity bags of lowers and he won the hundred yards. quar-lone misty greenness, that helps discussing the worries of pis- Sunday last no permit having ferns-
ter, mile, steeplechase, sculls and
to give that landscape its macic keeping, and the other foot in been obtained by the Kwang-
OTS. In the University
fairyland. The bride's and bridesmaids pair
quality. tung authorities, General Chan
sports be carried off the half-mile,
Miles Of Blossom
The people have this same mix- Chai-tong has instructed his dresses were by Eunice.
The Matron of Honour, Mrs. S. mile and two miles. In 1965 hej personal representative, Mr.
and miles. Everything seemed to the most prosaic folk in the world, Yang Teh-chao. to request the Deacon, wore a blue and white was the mole amateur champion There was blossom for miles ed quality. They seem at first
foral chiffon gown over hell of England.
out somewhere-apple, pear, yet actually they are poetical at Central Government to issue a
He won the Diamond and Wing-be
The sober little country town permit for the landing of the pink with long sash in toning
a picture hat. Her field Sculls at Henley and stroked cherry: plum. Even the black-heart.
disappeared yet! arms, which might ere long be shades and
of pink shaded the losing Lambridge crew in the thorn had not
from the hedges. In some of the contains the most fantastic charac 1863 boat race. used against the Central Gov-bouquet was
gladioli. ernment or which, in any case,
Still irrepressible at 55, in 1898 valleys in these border counties. (ters. (Santayana, the philosopher. Mr. Alexander P. Downie was would greatly strengthen the
he took up speed cycling. In the it was showing apple blossom. and a foreigner. has written the South-west vis-a-vis Nanking. best man.
at the Crystal others, where there was more shel-best description of us from this following rear.
the very point of view. See his "Soliloquies Later, a reception was held at
Palace, he set up the 25-milejter from the wind. It is difficult to say whether
of 51min. countryside #25 pink-and-white, in England," a magnificent book.) General Chan Chai-tong is the Gloucester Eotel On leaving
as if even the gates and barn doors The whole place is slightly fantas- absolutely lacking in a sense of for the honeymoon. to be spent amateur record time
and walls had suddenly burst into tic, as well as being incredibly
beautiful. humour or possesses a peculiar in Japan and North China, Mrs. 15 4-5 sec.
Wyllie wore a delphinium blue
flower. ly subtle sense of it.
Meanwhile the situation re- Albene ensemble by Eunice with mains as obscure as, formerly, hat, shoes and bag to match. It would appear
that the
Kwangsi forces. which
to now
were have previously reported withdrawn, are
again advancing into Human and that there has been actual fring, though without damage. be tween outposts of the Central and the South-western armies. Meanwhile war
LOCAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
One Person Killed Last Week
Your Daily Smile!
“You say your linguist ?"
wife is a
Kreat
"She is."
"How many languages does speak
"Oh, it's all one language.”
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The Real England
The green of the woods was un- believable. Some of the trees.
2 Now all this is to my mind the especially the sycamore, had vivid thickness that was stereo-real England. the magic green is- she scopic. Everything was thick, lush land of Shakespeare and the lyric juicy. I have never seen so much poets, the England that I have The beard praised all over the world. corse daming on the hills.
There the home that we can never for- meadows Bashed gold at us. A crowd had assembled at the scene were cascades of flac along the set.
This is the England that will of a fire, and a policeman was mov-roads. fing them
One man, however,
Villages with entrancing names survive in man's memory as the refused to go
They had Athens of Pericles has survived. he said, peeped shyly at us. "Why should be stop."
yrey humpbacked bridges the England that may still light are being resumed in Canton, In the Colony of Hong Kong in-pointing to a man who was watching little
and the conflagration with considerable over trout streams and the right up the imagination of men in the General Chan: Chai-tong has cluding the Island, Kowloon
sort of pubs. The boys had rosy far distant future, when the very assumed the post of Comman- the New Territories, during the interest, "and I move on?**
cheeks and the girls wide blue face of the world, its oceans and der-in-Chief of the First Group week ending at 8 am. on Saturday
eyes. There were shepherds from continents, has been completely Army, which is now to be term-last, there were altogether. 65.
It is rather dismaying to think how the hills. Just round the corner, changed. ed the Anti-Japanese National trafic accidents, as the result of often ten big song hita, hundreds of
We must remember this. Day Salvation Army, and a number which one person was killed and lavish
and thousands of you felt, was Arden. where Her beautiful girls, all add up to one bad feet the time carelessly, as they in and day out, we must remem-
(Continued on Page 13.) of orders, easy to give, but 35 persons were injured.
did in the golden world." fore difficult to carry out, have The person killed was a Chinese motion picture. been issued.
girl, who died as the result of
preparations!
WAS
That the mass of the people injuries received when she in the South-west are in favour knocked down by a private-motor- of the movement it would be car while running across the road. foolish to declare; it is the in- Of the persons injured, 26 were fortunate farmer and petty pedestrians who were either walk- tradesman, already taxed
ing or running across the road and
A
almost beyond bearing, that were struck by vehicles. Two! will have to pay the piper in tramcar passengers were injured the end. It would seem that it while alighting from moving is only certain high officials, tramcars. One lorry passenger playing for their own hand, was injured through falling from with a following of student hot- a moving motor lorry. heads, that are shouting for A public motor-car driver was war against Japan. Mr. Chou injured when his vehicle collided Lou, Chancellor of the Sun Yat-with 2 tramway standard. sen University, who was at bicycle rider was injured through least honest in his opposition to alling, from the vehicle whilst in Chiang Kai-shek, changed his motion. Four
bicycle drivers opinion of the Generalissimo's were injured as the result of col- policy after a personal inter-isions between vehicles, view with him in Nanking and
of the 65 accidents, 27 withdrew his support of the were collisions between vehicles: agization and anti-Japanese 23 were collisions between vehicles propaganda which he had pre- and pedestrians; and 9 accidents viously countenanced. There is no doubt, too, that he com- municated the results of his interview to the members of the . Canton Government.! Theirs is the responsibility for the continuance of the agita- tion and whatever consequences! it may entail.
were due to other causes.
S
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Froze To Death On The Run
One suggestion-and a very plausible one of their extra- ordinary action is that they are putting up a gigantic bluff; that by preaching this anti-
NTANDING‹ like a little statie Japanese crusade they may!
of ice, a rabbit was found in gradually attract so much sup- port that they will feel them-the Regina, Saskatchewan, ceme selves strong enough to declare tery a short time ago, frozen solid, their complete independence yet perched on its hind legs as from Nanking. But it should though ready to jump. The little be obvious to the meanest intel-bunny, though one of the fastest ligence that this is a bluff that animals on. feet, couldn't beat the is extremely easy
to call. cold wave that gripped and killed General Chiang Kai-shek has him of the ran. forces at his disposal which the South-westerners could never
hope successfully to face. And
.
PATRON OF EAC.
Japan herself, might possibly The King has become Patron of say: "You shout for war. You the Royal Automobile Clab, thus shall have it” What of thelbeing the third reigning monarch
South-west then?
to hold the position.
"Well, sir, it's his fire.
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