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CHINESE Y.W.C.A. Lady Caldecott Pays Informal Visit
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IMPRESSIONS
(By Louis Golding)
re-
| Lord Mayor's procession from the On arrival Lady Caldecott was Mansion House to Guildhall received by members of the nurs- His new mount is a flea-bitter ing division of the St. John's grey about 161⁄2 hands. Her name Subscription Rates, Ambulance at the entrance and by is Daphne, and she has been retir- One Year .......... HK.$36,00 Mrs. Pant S. F. To the President, ed from the City Police, in which 6 Months ...Mus Sin Tak-hing the General she carried a superintendent.
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Daphne succeeds the Secretary, and three other mem-
TY Hollywood was more)ing into eyes as blue as corn- Postage Abroad Extra
bers of the Board, Mrs. Ma Ying Golden Sun, who behaved very
Oxford than any flowers, under a head of hair That like a glade of daffodils. I pul Mas Ma Wing-chan and Dr. oddly recently. He bolted up the place I've ever been to.
steps of St. Paul's, and it needed is not the ghost of a bright can't tell you how embarrass- Katie Woo.
remark. Cmdr. undergraduate
ring it is to go into a drug- Mrs. Tso in welcoming their good horsemanship
store to order a hamburger, and guest said: We have the great Poland's part to get him down mean it seriously enough.
In the first place, there was be served by a girl as exquisite. Under Which King? honour to have Lady Caldecott again.
After that incident Cmdr. Poland the perpetual sense of beauty in las Lady Hamilton or Helen of
In Oxford it Troy. To watchers in Hong Kong of
know Lady Caldecott has not been received a warning as to a falling the background. here very long, and has only re on the part of Golden Sun. It was was the buildings, the incom But Hollywood kept on the curious internal situation in cently recovered from illness, and this, one gathers, that finally de-parably lovely buildings. Inminding me of Oxford. There Hollywood it was the landscape, was the talk. It is only in China the present lull seems Fet she can fix such an early date cided him to make the change.
and the glorious sea and sky, the Oxford Hollywood that grand hills, the tawny desert such cataracts of talk go roar- under the hills, the poinsettias ing on from dawn to midnight, Lord Salisbury, who has had a
that curtseyed in at your win-from midnight to dawn The special delegates of the Caldecott has great interest in the
First of all there are the South-west who visited Hong work of our Association and we promise from Mr. Baldwin to re-dow, the oranges and lemons
ceive a deputation of peers and that glowed like lamps in the conferences” in which the Kong last week, avowedly with can therefore, while she is here Ps on House of Lord Reform, gardens.
directors and the script-writers with us, look forward to her the sole purpose of placing the assistance, her guidance and her
is an experienced campaigner on
In both places you get splen-get together. Then there are did youth in the foreground, the actors who invite the subject full case for the South-west inspiration. For while our Associa It is just two years since his with the feeling "that cunning other to parties and talk. They before the representatives of tion is the only Chinese Women's
age is in the background, pull-talk and talk. How they talk. Organisation in the Colony and
Asing the strings.
Then suddenly the message the British press in the Colony while our Association's aim is to Second reading, by 171 to 82. assured us that all Kwangsi help all Chinese women here, not
Male youth at Oxford is as comes through that they are the Government maintained
fine as it's made. (Female wanted on a new picture or on and Kwangtung troops
neutral attitude be decided to: had only physically, intellectually, so-
youth, of course, doesn't show the retakes for
an old one. been withdrawn
within their cially but also spiritually, we there drop the bill.
at its best in cap and gown Then the talk snaps in mid-air. own borders in order to avoid a fore need help from all quarters whose own
As might be expected from one and horn-rimmed spectacles.) clash with Nanking forces. and from all persons. And who
barony dates from
The emphasis is shifted
Like Undergraduates
not created till 1789, Lord Salis-
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+
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full of foreboding and may well to pay us a visit For that we LORD SALISBURY PLUGS AWAY
be the lull before the storm. jare
this very grateful. From fact alone we can see that Lady
Lords Reforma Bill was given
a
in
each
This appears to be true, despite can give us a greater help than 1603, though the marquessate was Hollywood. The male youth Undergraduates are exactly
Late reports emanating from Lady Caldecott? Japanese sources-that there has been another clash with the the Board of the Association and forces of the Central Govern-myself I extend you, Lady Calde ment in Hunan and
that cott, our hearty welcome and I Southern troops had captured have also the pleasure of present- Kiyang and occupied Taying.ing yen a sandalwood fan as a further to the north-west-souvenir of your visit. That in reality all is quiet in
ditary principle.
COD-
His ideal House of Lords Įsisted of:
150 hereditary peers selected by hereditary peers.
150 persons chosen in pursu- ance of a resolution of both Houses.
of
So on behalf of the members of bury is in favour of the here-tends to be rather tough than like that when they suddenly handsome. Female youth is so realise that they're sitting for [beautiful that, as you move an examination in two days, from studio to studio, from and they've got a term's work well joint to common drug-to be done by then. They too store your breath keeps on stop talking and get down to stopping short in your wind-the job. They wear. cold pipe.
towels, of course, instead of green make-up. Hunan seems to be proved by In answer to Mrs. Tso's wel-
Magnet For Lovely Girls There is the same sense in address Lady Caldecott the fact that the trains on the come
The Archbishops of Canter- Hollywood is the magnet for both places of fabulous money southern section of the Canton-thanked the Y.W.C.A. for giving bury and Fork and three Bishops, all the lovely girls in America being spent. I needn't say that Hankow railway are running as this welcome party and for the
Judicial peers.
-and not America alone. The the actual money spent by the kind words expressed by Mrs. The position of peers usual
the girl who had the room next to film-colony in Hollywood is in- Tso. She said she had always Blood Boyal was to be unaffected. mine in Beverly Hills was a conceivably more than the But other disquieting reports, taken a great interest in the
Mayfair mannequin. which have so far received no YWCA in Singapore and Euala (Continued from previous Column)
The girl mozer spent by the Oxford on the floor just below had undergraduates. denial and which are more Lumpur and', wasted to take the
been a midinette in Montpar- But you do know that in both worthy of credence, come from same interest in the Hong Kong
"What about coal?" interposed `anasse.
places folk are spending far Canton itself. General Chan Y.W.CA. She hoped to get to weary voice.
But many voyage thither, more money than they should, Chai-tong is creating two new know the work and the members The professor gazed over his and few are chosen, even as you know that tradesmen are armies, thus bringing the total and to come often.
glasses at the interrupter.
extras. The consequence is very dangerously obliging, you Kwangtung forces to 200,000,
Well, he snapped, what about that when you ask a public know that folk are mortgaging tit?". and arsenals are working day
stenographer to send round a their futures for years and "When coal's bought, doesn't it go and night to fit then out with
to the cellar?" asked the youthful girl to take down your letter, years to come. the necessary artns and am-
student,
you suddenly find yourself star- (Continued on Page 13.) - munition. Other reports, which must be received with all caution, state that a number of Blue Shirts (alleged to be Chiang Kai-shek's secret agents) have been arrested and some of themone report xtates 20-executed and -that some 200 political suspects are
The wedding took place at the in custody. In addition there Registry Office, Supreme Court, seems to be a strict military yesterday afternoon, of Mr. John T. K. Gilchrist, of the P. W. D., censorship of news. This hardly indicates, by the way, to Miss Thelma M. Scott. the complete unanimity of poli The bride is the eldest daughter, |tical sentiment said to exist in of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Scott, of Canton; nor does the arrest Los Angeles and Hong Kong, and and execution of Chiang Kai- the bridegroom is the fifth son of shek's agents and supporters the late Mr. James Gilchrist, of. seera calculated to produce a Berwick-on-Tweed
REGISTRY OFFICE
WEDDING
Gilchrist
Scott
BRIDE FROM LOS ANGELES
more pliant state of mind on The bride wore charming the part of the. Generalíssimo. French flowered chiffon dress" in. One of the points in the poli-ahades of deep saxe and delphin- tical will of the late Mr. Hujium blue on a white background, Han-min which the political with white accessories. She car- teaders of the South-west ried a bouquet of Canton lilies solemnly swore, a few days ago, and gladioli.
to observe and carry out was Miss B. L. Scott and Mrs. S. M the extermination of the Com-Gidley witnessed the marriage. munists. Now there comes Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith officiat news from Canton that, owing ed
to the withdrawal of Canton Mr. and Mrs. Gilchrist are to troops from the Fukien border, spend their honeymoon in Japan. the bandits who have been
giving trouble in the western
portion of the province have
crossed the border and raided Your Daily Smile!
the area between Yaoping and Chaoan.
H. G. Wells is said to be the most Truly Chiang Kai-shek has a this time we thought it was Anony
prolific writer of the age. And all hard row to hoe at the present mous, Pro Bono Publico, Old Sub- time. To
another trite scriber, or Steady Reader. metaphor, he is between the
DÍNG
Scylla of Japan and... the
The
Overlooked
In a corner they came
"It's
SPRZTOWS must have
missed
Charybdis of the South-west his garden
Jones was showing a friend round and it would appear at the across a flower just opening. moment almost impossible to "Ah," enthused the friend steer a safe course between wonderful how a tiny seed becomes them. But nothing is impos-such a beautiful flower.* able in China and it may well "It is," replied Jones, reflectively. Happen that the acuteness of that one." the crisis may subside as sud- denly as it arose. The South- west. may come to see that The professoret i had been there is no one man who could talking steadily for more, then en be put in the place of Chiarigo, and his class was becoming a
trifle restles Kai-shek with any benefit to China or any policy that could be droned on.
"Take any article, for instance,
"When it fi bought it be at present substituted for goes to the buyerge his with any hope of success. (Continued in Next CoL)
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