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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 1, 1937.
The STORY of
by FRANK C›«PAPE
THE CROWN JEWELS
THE SPURS OST. GEORGE
STRAPS
AND THE
THE ANCIENT SPURS - EMBLEMS OF CHIVALRY, PRESERVED FOR CENTURIES WERE SOLD BYTKŁ COMMONWEALTH FOR £ 1.13.4 AND WERE LOST!
THE SPURS NOW USED AT CORONATIONS WERE MADE IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES IT. THEY ARE OF SOLD GOLD, WITH STRAPS OF CRIMSON VELVET. AFTER BEING HANDED TO THE KING, AT THE CORON ATION, THE SPURS ARE REPLACED UPON THE ALTAR.
THE PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS BY THE ROMAN EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN CAUSED ST.GEORGE TO CONFESS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, AND HE WAS TORTURED AND PUT TO DEATH IN THE YEAR 303“. ALTHOUGH HIS NAME WAS HELD SACRED FROM THE TIME OF HIS MARTYRDOM IT WAS NOT UNDE1380 THAT ST. GEORGE WAS MADE PATRON SAINT OF ENGLAND.
THE DRAGON SYMBOLIZES THE BRUTALITY DEFERANT
BRACELETS.
DESIGN IN BABGE
OF THE ORDER. ..... OF THE GARTER
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BRACELETS HAVE BEEN THE " MARK OF KINGSHIP.
WHEN SAUL: KING OF ISRAEL WAS SLAIN IN BATTLE HIS CROWN: AND BRACELET WERE BROUGHT. TO KING DAVID.
IN PERSIA, AT THE PRESENT DAY, THE SHAH AND HIS SONS ARE THE ONLY MEN PERMITTED TO WEAR BRACELETS.
BISHOP AND DIVORCE
Favours Extension Of
Grounds
ANOTHER OPPOSED
HONG KONG AND NEW ERA IN TRANSPORT OF FREIGHT
Hong Kong recently formed link in a remarkable example of the long-distance transport of ur- gent freight by a combination of air and surface routes.
of
Extension of the grounds for divorce is in the interest of public morality, declares the Bishop of The consignment consisted Chichester (Dr. G. K. A, Bell). some machinery parts. This con- Commenting in the "Chichester signment began its journey in Nor- Diocesan Gazette" on Mr. A. P.way and finished it at a sea-port in Herbert's Marriage Bill, he Japan. The first stage was from writes:
Norway to Newcastle by sea. Then "We regret the deletion of the the load came from Newcastle to conciliation procedure, and we | London by rail and, was handed deeply regret the retention of the over to Imperial Airways.
cruelty clause, for in the entire absence of any definition of cruelty in the Bill in its present form, it seems to open too wide a door.
"The Church's rule binds the members of the Church most firm ly, and no civil legislation can be allowed to determine the law or the practice of the Church."
By flying-boat and land-planes it was air-borne over the India route to Penang, and from here it was flown over the Penang-Hong Kong air-line. On arriving at Hong Kong it was transferred from air to finishing its long journey in a steamer from Hong Kong to Japan.
sea,
Another example, the other day, On the other hand, the Bishop of was that of some spare-parts re- Gloucester expresses the opinion in quired urgently by a steamer lying his diocesan magazine that "the at a port on the Persian Gulf. This extension of opportunity for consignment came down from Scot- divorce is a mistake.”
land by train and then went aboard "There will always be some un-an air-liner of Imperial Airways, happy marriages and some difficult being flown over the India route to ones," he says, "The reformers its destination in the Persian Gulf. think that by making the laws of divorce lax they will do away with these. I believe that the contrary. is the truth.”
“STARVATION WAGES" £3,000
BEAUTY QUEEN
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|| Good-looking, thirty-six-year-old. will Sofia Kulesar, of Budapest, has just Irish Free State Ministers vote themselves handsome increases scored her tenth election as a beauty in salary to take effect after the queen-and her fiftieth conviction. next election-probably - June.
- in The new President will get $2,500 a year, £1,000 more than now.
There is a plan to increase pay to Judges by 10 per cent. Chief Justice is paid £4,000 a year, five Supreme Court Judges £3,000 each.
When she appeared to receive an ovation as Queen of Beauty ata ball, detectives also stepped on to the platform and arrested her on a The charge of picking pockets.
These "starvation" wages make it difficult for Judges to live up to a reasonable standard, it is argued.
"SINS OF MAN" JEAN HERSHOLT leave for Amoy, Shanghai, Moji,
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The B. I. Steam Ship Shirala will
Kobe and Osaka to-day at 5 pm.
After forty-nine previous convic- tions for similar offences had been proved, the Court sentenced her to one year's imprisonment.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Clarke ar rived in the Colony yesterday aboard the Empress of Russia from Manila.