POLO-BALL TOWN INDUSTRY THAT WAS STARTED
60 YEARS AGO
Best Essex Willow
Only Used
SUGGESTED BY SERVANT OF
INDIAN ARMY OFFICER
Sixty years ago the servant of an Indian Army officer was, instrumental in founding
an
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, abere, wife of the Generalissimo, who has just accepted the Pre- sidency of the Blind Prevention movement in China.
BLIND PREVENTION
IN CHINA
industry in the small country Madame Chiang Heads
town of Halstead. Essex, which has become of great import- ance to the aristocratic game of polo.
saw and station.
Movement
Nanking-Madame Chiang Kai-
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1936
ROMANCE BLACKMAIL CHARGE
AT SEA
MARRIAGE ON
BOARD LINER
WOMAN'S LETTERS TO COLLIERY CLERK
....
MORETON BAY MONEY DEMANDED WITH MENACES
Naval Officer Weds Sydney Girl
CEREMONY PERFORMED BY ENGLISH CANON
A naval officer was married laboard the Aberdeen and Com-i monwealth liner Moreton Bay, as she steamed on the last stage of ber voyage from Australia to England.
Unexpected
Remarkable letters, stated to have been written by a married woman--referred to as "Mrs. A"-to a colliery employee, were read at Rushall. Staffs, last month. The writer was said to be. a woman of social standing in a certain county.”
55 M.P.H. TORPEDO feld-road, Little Bloxwich.
BOAT
Built In Britain FASTEST VESSEL OF KIND
IN THE WORLD
of a
William Hugo Jones, aged 35, colliery weigh clerk, of Lich-
committed for trial on the charge of uttering a letter demanding money with menaces from "Mrs.
The woman gave evidence that Jones after corresponding with she arranged to meet him: When she saw him she “simply fed."
Mr. Ernest E. Brown, prosecnt-
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The wedding, an expected! shek recently assumed the presi-thrill for the 600 passengers, was romance
The fact that the Admiralty has ing, said that “Mrs. A." was de Once when home on leave he dency of the Chinese Association the culmination of a met Heary Cocksedge, who had a for Prevention of Blindness, which which began in Sydney, when recently placed orders for a num-fendant early this year, in
turnery mill near the lig afiliated to the "American HMS. Sussex arrived there with ber of motor torpedo bosts leads action which was given wide pub- He persuaded him that Lighthouse Movement," of which Prince Henry aboard.
special interest to the amazing licity. Roosevelt is! Among the officers of Sussex perforfiance vessel of the it would be to his benefit if he President Franklin
"Obsession Of The Mind" type which Messrs. J. L Thorny made use of the willows so com the chief patron. Chief Justice was Engineer-Lieut. J. Shaxby, of
During 2
"Jones," continued Mr. Brown, ship's mon in this part of Essex for Evans Hughes and Miss Helen Blackheath.
"is married, "with a son aged 10. torning polo balls.
Keller are vice-presidents and Eli-dance he met and fell in love with Croft and Co. have just built for
a foreign Government.
On Feb. 6 he wrote a letter to Antony Stansfield-Hill, a
The boat is armed with two tor-Mrs. A. opening the door to In India then-as now-polo-hu Root, former Secretary of Miss
Sydney girl
indicates * correspondence which pedoes, depth charges and balls for the most part were made State, honorary president
Captain Assists of bamboo root, and the officer's Madame Chiang's interest
Sussex was to have remained in chine-guns. On her recent speed what the prosecution say is either servant had discovered that a ball inspired by the visit to Nanking
of willow had more resi-of Winifred Holt Mather of New Australian waters for a year, but trial she carried a full load of an obsession of the accused man's made
It could be turned a bet-York City and Washington, who following the Abyssinian trouble fuel. The official results of var-mind or that he is seeking for a liezce.
founded the first lighthouse in she was recalled, and the loveroious runs over an Admiralty mea- larger field upon such matters." ter shape.
New York in 1906.
A Romantic History Henry Cocksedge was impressed) by the argument. turning croquet balls, even giving way to the more strenuous! game of tennis, he began to make
thea
was
Instead of ALIENS SAILING
AS OFFICERS IN
BRITISH SHIPS Japanese Under The
CORONATION YEAR TO HAVE HORSE SHOW
Plans Now Being Made In View Of Certainty
The International Horse held ot Show, which was Olympia last month, proved to be
pronounced success. More than 100,000 people paid it a visi-o much better total than last year.
a
Had it been a failure, there would probably have been no show in Coronation year. AU doubts have, however, been set at rest, and plans are adready being made" for next year's event.
polo balls. Now the firm of Hen-
Red Ensign
USING PROTECTION OF BRITISH REGISTRY
were parted.
that Miss arranged It was Stansfield-Hill should travel to
England to be married in Londca but the bridegroom-to-be could
sured mile were as follows:--
knots Best run ........ 48 Best pair of ruas.. 46.64 -knots Troe and mean speed·
46.094 Knots
of 6 rens rot obtain sufficiently long leave.
Thus, at maximum speed, thei "Lieut. Shaxby had only six boat was travelling at 55 mph. weeks' leave, which included tra- She is, therefore, claimed to be velling time," said Capt. Williams, the fastest torpedo-carrying ves-] of the foreton Bay,
sel in the world
"That meant that he could have only a few days in London, and publication of the banns would have been impossible.
"That was why I agreed to the Several large ships of British ceremony being performed aboard registry now engaged in the Paci- my ship.
fic trade are officered and manned almost entirely by Japanese na tionals.
Two-Tier Cake "Canon James, a Sussex clergy- man, happened to be on board, and the ceremony. My This was disclosed when a ves-performed sel.of 6,000 tons gross recently officers lent their mess for the re- arrived at Hong Kong from Aus-iception. I gave the bride away.
"The ship's chef made them a tralian ports, with only three Bri- tish subjects on board the mas two-tier cake, and some of ter, chief engineer and wireless passengers formed an arch
second ship's menu cards, under which operator. The first and
the
with
rastes, the second and third en-bride and bridegroom passed as gineers, and all the deckhands they left the writing-room.” were Japanese. Yet the ship is! registered at London and fies the the Red Ensign.
A second
vessel of the same
ry Cocksedge and Son supplies line is manned on the same sys- most of the polo balls, and many tem, and it is
understood that
of the polo heads, used in Britain, these are by no means in addition to others which go out cases. to India.
isolated
Although these vessels are pro- bably listed by the British au Mr. Frederick Cocksecye, the thorities as available for trans- present head of the firm, recently port or other national service in told the romantic story of the way an emergency, the fact that they that the business began.
jare almost entirely under alien doubt- тегу control renders it
whether they would be
Carries Years Lightly
Of spare build, he carries his ful 75 years lightly. "Twenty years so available..
ago was told by my doctor that; The ships are understood to bel
I had one night to live," he confid-Japanese-owned, and British re
ed with a smile, "but, you see, Igistry has apparently been resort- jed to as a means of evading a new em still able to carry on."
Japanese law relating to subsi-
The balls are cut and turned from willow pieces, 4ft long and dies.
"We use for this 34in square.
purpose," he explained, "what is JOHANNESBURG EXHIBITION
left of the tree after the cricket bat makers have taken what they
want
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Mr. Brown read a letter alleged to have been written by Jones. I suggested that the writer was a
other "kindred spirit,” and
tracts read:
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hammer. ItKNOWN, SO secretary-manager of reptile with One million special stampa are formerly
Club, thought that it might have come RELIABLE "All the willow comes from Es-being printed by arrangement of Southend United Football sex or Suffolk. because it is the the Empire Exhibition, Johannes- and a former player-manager of from a package in the guard's AND SO VERY
Newcastle City, left £6,458. best that is grown in this country, jburg. -
Mr. Walter William Brandish, although it is suffering from blight these days, and many trees heads, envelopes and all kinds of chairman of Coventry City Foot-
ball Club, left £18,536. have had to a destroyed.
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want," he went on. "To one firm
alone we send 50 gross a month,
They will be used on letter!
exhibition literature.
and they supply all the well German Company Takes
known polo clubs."
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First Cunard Packet
Colour Films In Ceylon
A German film party is in Cey-jstaged for their beneft,
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UNDERFED YOUTHS FROM WALES
Made IIll At First By
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By Good Food Unemployed youths who were OF ALL THE lou, taking colour photographs, Equipped as they are, the mem-transferred from Wales to a Lon
More than 10,000 feet of film bers of the expedition hope to se-don suburb were so underfed that MAKES WHICH will be shot, showing cottage in-cure some very good close-ups of they were immediately sick when THE HOUSEWIFE
given ordinary good food, zaid dustries and elephant and buf- Ceylon's fauna
Their equipment includes Mrs. Rayner, of Teddington, at a WOULD LIKE thick large canvas cover, cleverly meeting of the National Women
falo hunts in the Hambantota dis-
In 1840 the Britannia, the first trict.
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days to cross the Atlantic. To-day rived from India, is the Hartimaier (over their car, and the camera-recently, de ben
"These lads," she declared, "had the Queen Mary covers the same Indian Expedition, and is led by men, standing on the seats, oper- distance in just over four days. Herr Paul Hartlmaier, of Munich,jate the camera through an open-to be put on a special diet for a Emonth before they could eat a That old paddle-steamer could an expert photographer and noted ing in it.........
This method has proved very square.meal?" "sa? travel at only nine knots, as com explorer and film producer. pared with her gigantic descen- With him are Count Millin, Herr successful in India, where the On the subject of unemployment dent's" 30 knots. She carried 115 Hermann Sepp, Herr Adolf G-party shot many feet of film de- Mra Rayner said: "In Germany cabin passengers, a figure in odd genthaler and Herr Eberhard picting wild life in natural sur-all young people are given occu-
{zoundings..
pation and are not allowed to last contrast with the 145, people who Schuemichen. could be accommodated in each of The expedition will go to the The "film, about Ceylan will be about. Surely we do not need a the Queen Mary's 24 motor-driven Hambantota district where ele-used for educational purposes in Hitler or a Mussolini to teach us
how to tackle this question.” lifebosta.
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