PRINCESS ERRANT
KING'S SISTER
WEDS GREEK HOTEL PORTER
Abandons Her Faith For Love
NO MEANS OF ANNULLING THE MARRIAGE
A Princess of Baghdad, sister of King Ghazi of Irak, was mar-
ried in Athens last month to a
young Greek hotel porter.
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Their story is * romance Thodes, the island in the Mediter-/ ranean.
There the Princess Izzade Madi- ha, eldest daughter of the late! King Feisal, came some time ago! to stay at the Hotel, of
Roses,
where Anastassios Charalambis, a handsome young Greek, was the hotel porter.
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The best man at their, wedding in the Hotel Atlantic, Athens, ac- cording to the rites of the Greek Orthodox Church, was Dr. George Caracalos, as Greek physician.
He stated that the Princess ar rived early this year and fell in love with the porter.
Royal Prerogative Then came the day when she exercised her royal prerogative and asked the porter to be her: husband. He accepted and before the marriage she was baptised into the Christian faith by the Greek:
An extremely chic outfit of navy blue and white linen for J A sheer blouse
Summer Wear.
in the dark shade and a white hat with a navy blue veil lends colour and jauntiness to this `en- semble worn by Charlotte Wyn-
ters, screen actress.
Orthodox Church. She took the JUBILEE OF
WORLD-FAMED
new name of Anastassie.
PHONOGRAPH RECORD OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S VOICE
Not To Be Broadcast
The B.B.C. will not be able to broadcast the recently-discovered phanograph cylinder of the voice of Queen Victoria,
Several directors of the former · Edison Bell Company have stat- the when ed. However, that cylinder was made it was strictly- understood that it should not be Mr. Flyan feels used in public. himself still bound by that under- will not therefore taking and give the B.B.C. permission to broadcast it.
The cylinder bore a message of good will by the Queen to the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia in 1898.
The Princess's younger sisters, who had followed her to the Greek capital, began to make every effort
EVANGELIST
Gipsy Smith's Sixty
Years Of Work
MAN WHO HAS PREACHED
TO 45,000,000
One starry night 60 years ago a gipsy lad, standing beneath the trees near his tent on the out- skirts of Eambridge, held the spell bound attention of the other mem- hour bers of the camp for an while he talked to them about re-l Hligion.
These gipsies were the first peo- ple to hear the oratory which was to inspire millions, for the young lad was Gipsy Smith, who became the world-famous evangelist.
THE CHINA MAIL-MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936
SHOT BY FRIEND
FATAL GUN
ACCIDENT TO
SCHOOLBOY
IN COLLEGE ARMOURY
Live Cartridge Among
Dummies
A boy described to the Windsor coroner and jury recently how he accidentally shot his friend while examining a rifle in the armoury)
MURDER TRIAL AT DORSET ASSIZES
ARSENIC IN DEAD
MAN'S BODY ́
ANALYST AT WIDOW'S TRIAL: “HE MUST HAVE TAKEN MUCH MORE”
Dr. Roche Lynch, senior analyst to the Home Office, gave evidence last month in the Sherborne farm murder trial at Dorset Assizes, Dorchester, in which Mrs. Charlotte Bryant is charger with poisoning her husband.
Dr. Roche Lynch declared that he had no doubt whatever!
Arsenic was that the man died from acute arsenical poisoning.
of the Imperial Service College, present in every organ examined.
Windsor.
He estimated that the body must have contained 4.09 grains. The presumption was that the quantity taken was much greater The victim of the accident was than that found. In the finger nails there was evidence of nearly David Arthur Glassbrook Ri-300 times the amount normally found in the nails.
chards, 17. son of Major E. C. Richards, who is at present sta--- tioned in India with the Army Educational Corps.
Derek Charles Hudson said he was a student at the college, and and in company with Richards
went into the another boy, he armoury to return his rifle after shooting on the range
Gun Explodes
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a skeleton rifle from He took the armoury wall, and opened the ¡breech. This rifle was used for Idemonstration purposes.
Richards came over and put a Hudson cartridge in the breech. said he thought it was one of the dummy cartridges which were kept in the room. He closed the rifle.!.
and pressed the trigger to try the pressure, and the gun exploded.
INDIAN MARRIAGE TANGLE Second Wife Fails To Obtain
Annulment Order
Calcutta The action brought by Mrs Marion Mitter, a London woman, seeking the annulment of her marriage with a Hindu law- yer, was dismissed without costs by the court at Khulna, Bengal.
Mrs. Mitter alleged that her husband was already married ac- cording Hindu rites to an Indian girl when she contracted a form of civil marriage with him at the Marylebone registry office in London.
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The court found that her plaint did not disclose sufficient cause for action. No authority had been shown that the marriage of a Christian woman with a Hindu who had another wife was void.
Gipsy Smith is celebrating bis diamond jubilee as a preacher by
Regimental Sergeant-Major Ab- addressing a meeting at the Cen-bott said he was the sergeant-ma- to have the marriage annulled. tral Hall, Westminster. Amana jor to the officers' training corps
Law Can Do Nothing
With the assistance of the Greek police the sisters discovered where the newly-married couple were staying, and visited them with M. Katrabassas, the Chief of Police. The couple produced their mar riage certificate, and Y. Katra- bassas explained that the police) could take no action since the marriage formalities had complied with all requirements of Greek law.
The British Legation also rei fused to interfere
£9,000,000 INDIAN LOAN
Largely Oversubscribed In Five Minutes
Simla, May 27. The list for subscriptions to the Gov- ernment of India's 1948-1952 loan of $9,000,000 at 2% per cent. was opened this morning.
Within five minutes it w003 · closed, and although issued at. the lowest interest the Gov- ernment has ever offered, the
·loan was heavily oversubscrib
ed.
Shortly before King Feisal's death, his sister Princess Sara married in Constantinople Atta Beg Amin, first secretary of the Irak Legatiod in London. Royal objection was taken to the match others, Mr. Lloyd George and at the present King Ghazi's Canon -order Mr. Atta Amin divorced the pected. princess two and a half years 200. To-day be looks more like 50 than his actual 76 years. He is "KIDNAPPING" MISS still proud of his ancestry.
RENEE HOUSTON
Pleas Of Not Guilty
"Dick" Sheppard are
avid
ex
GERMAN ADMIRATION
Berlin The maiden voyage of the Queen Mary was given great prominence in the German news- papers. German correspondents were fall of praise for the "majestic beauty of the vessel."
The special correspondent of the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeiteng said: "The Queen Mary is a sy72- bol of British renaissance.”
QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHDAY
Reply To Greetings FAMILY LUNCHEON REUNION
AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE
1
13.
In reply to greetings from the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Percy on her 69th birthday, Queen Mary sent the following telegram:-
Vincent,
Mrs. Charlotte Bryant, aged 35, was charged-with murdering Fre-i derick John Bryant, aged 39, a cowman, of Coombe Farm, Sher- [borne.
He died in hospital on December 22
Mrs. Bryant is the mother of five children, who are im the Public Assistance Institution. at Sturminster Newton, Dorset. She [pleaded not guilty.
The case was being tried before Mr. Justice Mackinnon, with a ljury of men.
Counsel: For the Crown, the
Sir Solicitor-General,
Terence O'Connor, K.C., the Hon. Cyril As- (Continued on Page 11)
FILM STARS FOR ENGLAND
DENHAM STUDIO'S
PLANS
Front rank, American film stars "I thank you warmly, my Lord and directors are coming to Eng- Mayor and the citizens of London, land to work at the Denham, for the very kind message of good Bucks, studios. The stories will wishes which you have addressed be Bostland's "Cyrano de Ber
and Stanley Weyman's gerac" to me this day.
"I deeply appreciate the feel-Under the Red Robe" ings which have been shown to me Among the stars under consi- by the citizens, and I shall always deration for these two films are:
Carole Lombard, William Powell, endeavour to do everything in my
Margaret Sullavan, Dolores Costello power to promote their welfare
Barrymore. and happiness as long as my life!
is spared to me-Mary E
At a luncheon at Buckingham
George Cukor, Tay Garnet, Wil- liam K. Howard, John Cromwell The films will be made by New. Palace in her honour, these were World Pictures at Denham, present the King, the Duke and released by Twentieth Century Duchess of York, the Duke and Fox.
Duchess of Kent, and the Duchess of Gloucester.
Two of her Majesty's children
of the school Boys were allowed were unable to be present, the
THE INEVITABLE
to go into the armoury to return/Princess Royal, who is recoveries) Husband, at North London:
their rifles.
Access To Dummies Dummy cartridges were kept in
from measles, and the Duke of Gloucester, who was in Wales.
A salute of 21 guns in honour
a box in the armoury, and boys of her birthday was fired by F. had access
to them, but all the Battery of the Royal Horse Artil- live cartridges were kept by him-lery in Hyde Park at noon. self in a locked bax, to which he t lalone had the key.
The only way he could explain Richards's possession of a live cartridge was that he might have failed to fire one of five live car- tridges given to him when he wert to Eton College rifle range
to
WITHIN FEW YEARS
OF PENSION
Postman Convicted
shoot, and put it in his pocket. Two postmen convicted of fraud The jury returned a verdict of on a football pool were at West accidental death, and expressed London recently bound over, and the opinion that all reasonable each was ordered to pay £5 costs. precautions were taken by the They were John Robert Napier, college.
of Ennismore-avenue, Chiswick, | and Charles Skingle, of Archeil-| road, West Kensington.
office.
TENTH TRY AT CHANNEL It was stated that they filled in a coupon fram results given on "I was born in Epping Forest and lived in a tent and sold clothes Dr. G. Brewster, of Southwark the wireless and posted it in an pegs all my boyhood," he said. Bridge-road, S. E., is in training envelope which one of them had in the "I was converted at 16, after a to make another attempt this previously time-stamped visit to a Methodist chapel in year to swim the channel
Napier, who had 22 years' ser- Cambridge. It was that night that Dr. Brewster is 45, and has tried THREE EDINBURGH STUDENTS I addressed the others in the every years since 1926 to accom-vice, was within four years of
SENT FOR TRIAL
camp.
plish the feat, but without euc-drawing his pension. Skingle had
seven years service. -After a spell with the Salvation cess Three students of Edinburgh Army, Gipsy Smith joined the Me
and had remained 25- University pleaded not guilty at thodists Edinburgh Sheriff Court to asociated with them ever since.. charge in connection with the in- He has preached to 45,000,000 cident in which Miss Renee Hous-people, he has been twice round ton was taken from the Empire the world, he has made 32 visits! Theatre, Edinburgh, during char to America, and is planning his
33rd.
·ities' week.
They were John, Roderick Mac-1 kay Johnston and Kenneth Brau- er, medical students, and Walter Edward Scott, arts student.
Protest Of Arab Women
"They asked for the stoppagej The following statement on the,
Instead, the is-of immigration. disturbances in Palestine was sued by the Arab Women's Com-Government issued a Labour Sche and with various other persons mittée in Jerusalem recently: dule, allowing the entry of 4,500, unknown, on April 28, they as- "Continuation of the present with their dependants, thus chal- saulted Miss Houston, forcibly policy and the consequent situa lenging Arabs in Palestine and The trial was fixed for July 16,removed her in a motor-car, tion means repeated: loss of life elsewhere. bail being allowed.
struck her on the face with and property. The whole country "The present warlike state will creat hatred instead of friendship their fists, and forcibly detain-is adame.
The charge stated, "In par- suance of an illegal purpose of ed her and put her into a state. The allegation of foreign in-between the Moslem world, and securing custody of Miss Hons- of alarm
fluence is false. The Arabs seek the Arabs, and Great Britain..... ton and forcibly detaining her The charge further alleged that prosection for their existence in Arab women in Palestine re- until payment of £25 should be they assaulted a stage door keep their own country, and are deter-quest an immediate ending of the made as a contribution to the er by securing his arms with rope mined to sacrifice themselves un-present situation before, it is too Edinburgh charities" week, and prevented him from giving til their civil rights and position late Otherwise undesirable con-
jare suficiently protected. Isequences may ensue.” while acting in concert together, warning.
have married two women.
and
Court Missionary: He includes his mother-in-law.
Magistrate (Mr. Bernard Cam-¡ pion, K. C): Every married man has to put up with his wife's re- lations as best be can.
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