THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1937.
THE
JAVANESE SULTAN'S
WORLD ROMANCE
GOES BY
STONISHING,
the perennial appeal of the Cuckoo Derby, which has just broken out again in the Home papers.
It's about time the truth was told about this racket Every year shoals of letters are written to Eng- lish papers about these premature cuckoos, and we don't doubt the good faith of the writers.
Milan, To-day.
A royal romance, which began - during the winter sports at St. Moritz, has come to light with the ́an- nouncement of the impend- ing marriage of the Javanese Sultan of Djokjakarta and the daughter of a Greek ship-owner, Miss Nadya Vlassov.
was
Queen Wilhelmina of the Ne- therlands, it is reported, at first opposed to the marriage but the Sultan, who rules over But the alleged early birds are an area containing 15,000,000 in- really old and jaded cuckoos, under habitants in the Netherlands contract to unscrupulous. notepaperEast Indies, made a special jour- manufacturers to stay in England ney to The Hague, where he ob- over the winter and get correspon- tained the Queen's consent. dents humming on the Creamlaid It is rumoured here that he threa~ Superfine weeks before the authentic tened to abdicate unless the Queen cuckoo migration hits the country.
gave her consent to the marriage. It's artful, of course, but is it cricket?
*
In Uganda, we read, the boys are offering wireless sets in exchange
for wives.
The young couple will be marri- ed in Milan shortly and will spend
their honeymoon on Lake Maggiore, after which they will return to Java, where the Sultan's subjects are pre- paring a magnificent welcome.
In the pre-radio era you could Trans-Ocean. get a first-class wife for a couple of oxen, but daddies of marriage- able daughters have got too sophis- ticated for that, and now insist on a five-valve superhet or no: OF- ange blossom.
From the bridegroom's point of view it seems to us a pretty poor bargain. After all, you can, switch off a radio set.
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Ethiopia Massacre Stories
Berbera, To-day.
who have
There are mornings when we Abyssinian refugees wake up feeling clinically incap-crossed the frontier into British able of humour. It isnt that we've Somaliland in the last few days necessarily got a hangover-in fact, tell graphic stories of the sufferings
the feeling often follows an early of the natives. night.
躞
Some, they tell, walked 800 miles
to escape the "Italian massacre."
At such times our "Boy" Ah Fong Hundreds died on the way to the is invaluable, putting an extra shot frontier, whilst thousands
re
of liqueur in our grape fruit, put-homeless at Gala, where their pro- ting out, our other shirt (the one party has been confiscated. without the soup stains) and in a The food shortage is stated to be hundred little thoughtful ways acute. striving to coax us into a funning mood.
.
Yesterday the honest fellow was at his wits end, having failed dis- mally to roase us from our misan- thropic torpor. Then, just as he turned to go he caught kis foot in a piece of electric light flex, turned a double somersault, ánd ended up with his fade embedded in our un- touched porridge.
The spell was broken. We laugh ed the oldest laugh in the world.
"Wanchee any more, master?” panted Ah. Fong, transfigured
Reuter.
MR. WU TE-CHEN
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Canton, To-day. Mr. Wu Te-chen, new Governor of Kwangtung, arrived in Canton at 12.10 p.m. yesterday and met at the station by General Yu Han-mau, Pacification Commission- er for Kwangtung, Mr. Tseng Yang- The sending of large bodies of fu, the Mayor, Mr. Hsu Sung-ching, German troops to Spain has Commissioner of Education, and a caused uneasiness to the mothers large number of party, political and of Germany, says Lady Layton. (military officials.
The sending of large bodies After greetings, Mr. Wu proceed- of German troops to Spain has ed to his Tung Shan residence.
Later, His Excellency called on General Yu.“
also caused uneasiness to the mo thers of Spain, says Ulysses.
Mr. Wu will assume office at 10 The man was petrified, actually am. to-morrow. Our Own Corres- and literally petrified," says a Home pondence.
paper.
O.K., buddy.
We can take a hint.
The bloke was petrified.
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Butcher's advertisement in Kobe:--
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