From the Files
25
years -AGO.
May, 1935
UBILEE Arrangements was the title of a letter to the editor which began: "I think I am expressing the sentiments of a large num-. ber of residents in the Colony When I venture to criticise the arrangements for the Jubilee and I will tabulate my grouses:
Jubilee medula 1. Only 500 (the $1.25 quality) were avall- able for the public.
2. None of the better quality are available in plie of advice in the press that these could be obtained on request.
3. Why is the public meeting open to "Blg Noises" only.
about the What
the man in Including stree!
the many hundreds of ex-service men re sident in the Colony. There is Hongkong umple space in the Cricket Clubs ground with His Excellency taking up his stand un the steps of the verandah.
4. Why is the Review being held the day after the Jubilee, which is not a public holiday? Is this the custom in other colonies or are we endeavouring to create a precedent for future Jubilees.
5. Chinese procession, om. to D pm.
and luntern
procession 7 p.in. Can't
we have a lime table (if only
approximate) so as to obviate
THE CHINA MAIT
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1980.
page for Wigmaker luft President and Death penalty
A whole Margaret's wedding
London, May 8.
Princess Margaret's wedding entry is Number 246 in the marriage regis-
ter at Westminster Abbey and h as a whole page to itself,
Full pages are specially in serted in the register for Royal Weddings. Others are entered two to page,
Seventeen witnesses as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury signed the register rome in the Abbey and others at Bucking ham Paluce where the Registrar carried the book for their signatures.
Those
the
who signed in Abbey were the Queen, the Queen Mother Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Ronald Armstrong-Jones, the Countess Archbishop of
the Dean
of Rose, the
Canterbury and Westminster.
of
time of marriage as Bucking-} ham Palace.
His father's rank of profes- sion was entered as "Member of the Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel."
The bride's entry, was "R.H The Princess Margaret Rose (29) spinster, Princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Northern Ireland."
Residence nt the time of martingo was listedt ng "Clarence House, St James's Palace."
Under the heading "Father's name and surname" was writ- Majesty King on "his Late George the Sixth."
The bridegroom who signed the register first, described him. described
as "Antony Armstrong- The register
Mr sol Armstrong-Jones ዶና Bachelor Jones" and the Princess wrote with the rank of profession of the single name "Margaret," esquire and his residence at the China Mail Special,
The
saints and
Sir Malcolm
Sydney, May 8.
THOUSANDS JAM MALL FOR LAST LOOK
to "n
London, May 8. London traffic came
complete standstill" to- night as thousands of motorists verged on the Mall for one last look at the floral decorations erected for Princess Mar- garet's wedding on Fri- day.
A Royal Automoblie Club this. announcing spokesman,
was "an Buld there
unpreco- dented crush reaching stupend ous proportions" alt along the between wedding
route Buckinghaun Palace and West- minster Abbey.
Roads leading out of town were also jammed as thousands of visitors in London to see the wedding procession and lo Cup Finnl. the sporting event of the year, began the great exodus home.--Kouter.
the necessity of eller being at The lights dimmed in Sydney's Town Hall, the Two paragraphs
Belchers Street for the Com-
mencement, or waiting anything | from three to four hours for its
arrival.
0. Night Bying displays
9.30 or later (it isn'
quite clear what is meant). Why, ph
why
must we have
and routine flights
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, was ready to
play, and the audience waited for the visiting of Royal wedding
British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent to take the rostrum.
But the impeccably dressed
these displays by night. It has conductor who walked on to the been bad enough having the stage was not Sir Malcolm. It rehearsals
was fourth year student Bruce towards dusk these last Tew Abrahams of Sydney University, weeks, What about the sleep-whose students were celebrating ing babies and the sick in commemoration week. hospitals.
Glve them a chance.
7. Last but
Mounting not least what
the rostrum, he about poor neglected Kowloon raised his balon, and five young or is it a case of "where is Kow men in the front row of the loon" as one of our famous organ gallery behind the or- judges would bave sold. Ex-chestra stuud up and began Service.
play. "When the Saints como Inarching in."
Money burned
to
Then Sir Malcolm reached the slage.
paused, amazed-
Не
and retraced his steps.
Teenagers have a smashing good time
Pudsey, May 8,
When the jazz combination of Two teenage Haarlem, Holland, May gultar, clarinet, bongo drums Banknotes urch securites and two banjoes had swung
verses of worth 32,000 guilders (about through four
£3.000) hidden in a gas cooker Suints Sir Malcolm walked on
#married by
couple, were to the stage and the student burned when their daughter lit conductor left to the applause of the gas, ccording
Mall to police audience, China here.
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The boys, aged 14 and 15, smashed "anything they could" in a spree that lasted part of
Johannesburg, May 7, Die Transvaler, oficial organ of the governing Nationalist Party in the Transvaal, today condensed the news of Princess Margaret's wedding into two paragrapha ut the bottom of its front page.
was
In 1947, when the present South African Prime Minister, Dr
Hendrik Verwoerd, editor, the newspaper published nothing on the visit of the Royal Family South Africa-Chinn Mail Special,
one morning and all the after-An noon. But they did not break two mirrora - because one of the youths was superstitious, court was told
A railway inspectar told the court that seats were ripped open and toilets, windows, fights and other fittings smashed. It would cost considerably more than the damage estimate
Mosley calls for third
force
London, May 8. estimated 10,000 to 15,-| 000 people packed Trafal gar Square today to hear
|surprising sum
An
Chicago. May J
apparently poverished wigmaker who planges down' a lift shaft to his death here Kant tranih has "tert stooks and honda valued at $265,000
Chicago £180,000) the Public Administrator to- vealed,
The fortune was left in a safe deposit box by MAK Roeder, 78, who died on March D.
Mr Thomas Downa, the Public Administrator, sajd that all the stocks and bonds were found in the safe deposit It was bo- Heyed that the dead man Jeft only $120 (about £49}
and the clothes ho wearing. He had lived in a four-dollar (about 18s. 7d) a work room--China Mail Special.
Francis
could do
no wrong'
Milledgeville, May 8. Mrs Barbara Gay Powers, 24-year-old wife of Fran- cis Powers, the American pilot now held in Moscow by the Soviet authorities, returned to her mother's home here tonight from Adana In Turkey.
Mrs Garcia
amaze Taipei
Taipei, May 8.
A shocked Nationalist Chinese protocol officer gasped: “The President's wife can not dance in public."
Garcia kopt one function wall-
But Leonlla Curela did. Last week in Taipei, Phillping 30 minutes while he took a pines President, and Mrs Carlos shower... P. Garcia ripped the silken eur- tain which in Formosa hides rulers from the people,
Mrs Garcia
announced one Bight that she wanted to dance to the music of a Filipino
for notonous
'Panga Man'
„Pratoris, May 8. Phineas Tahitaundal, o 40- your-old African alleged to bo Pretoria's notorious "Panga Man" who tor- rorised
couples
lovers", lane in the shadow of the capital's govern- ment buildings, was, son- tenced to douth here yes- torday.
He was tried on 14 charges, including two of rape and three of robbery with aggravating cir- cumstances.
of the
To the strictly formal mambo band, In the Grand Evidence given in the five-day Nationalists, Garcin's six-day Hotel Club. "We will alone out Supreme Court trial by men state visit tottered on the briak | the guesta" suld a Chinez pro- find women victims
tocol official whose experiences "Panga of pandemonium.
Man" many of them with frst ladies was limited to married, but not to each other ribbon cutting ceremonies,
His cabinet ministers opened, their doors to stranges in the US$3,000-n-week Golden Dragon Pavilion.
none Armed guards allowed bul the highest to approach when: Premier Adran Murders
of Ithn, of Turkey, the Shah King Husseln of Jordan und President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam slept there,
REVELATION
Philippine officials overruled the suggestion, and Mrs Garcin became Formona's first state quest to dance in public.
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President Garcia's new con- ference hit such on usual note for the Chinese that part nt it was not published Talpel newspapĒTA. The simple act of President
Asked Garcia chatting with newsmen
his Impression was such a revelation that the President and Madame Chieng official Kai-shek, Garcia, whose hobby Chinese guvernment's Central News Agency wrote an as poetry, devoted his reply to
the Maderne. article about it.
"He was so at ease with the reporters that he talked with them just like old friends," the Agency said.
She arrived with her leg in a plaster cost as a result of break- ing a bone while skiing. and soon after
her getting to mother's house WIS given sedatives,
Mra
brief Powers issued statement through her mother, Mrs Monteen Brown, saying she felt her husband "could not and would not do anything wrong."
She added she had received no word from her husband since his capture by Soviet authorities last Sunday-Reuter.
Rail fares
increase
in Britain
London, May 8. Railway season and early morning fares went up throughout Britain today and some bus and under-
fares ground
гове In London.
More increases were schedul-
Sir Oswald Mosley, pre-ed for next month with an lo- war British Fascist leader, crease of one farthing per mile call for the emergence of on all second-class rak tares, a third force to hold the second la the lowest
Bratash railways. bulance of the world."
of £1,050 to repair, he added, The boys, who played truant from school on the day they did Mosley
class on
White detainees
may go on hunger strike
Johannesburg, May 8. White detaineos jailed in three South African pro- vincos μέση O hunger strike if not released or charged, this week, it was learned today. White women tormerly in Juli-now Johannesburg For!
held Pretorin Central Jail- have asked Justice Minister Francoise Erasmus to charge or release them,
svomen
Male detainees at Pretoria Jail also are believed to have presented a similar petition.
Originally, the planned to start their hunger strike, on Thursday if they were still detained. The men were to start their strike on Saturday, But it is now belleved the strikes will start earlier because police. sturtuxi moving the detainees to different centres. UPI.
Jet blamed
the
Linkooping, Sweden, May 8. An
the sircraft crashing Sound barrier caused the loss of about a thousand Veduable Ejaeroep young minds, the
ink farm, near here alleges, The violent bang of supersonic aircraft caused panic zmong the animals and many of
mothers The
hers of newly-born British mink puppies bit their young decided****
to deals, while other bitches Day for whelped prematurely and wore
expected to die,
the .form said China
The season ticket increases The meeting was interrupied at one point when a group of ranged from four to 14 per cent students chanting "Down with and early morning fares went Mosley" began scuffling with up by 10 to 14 per cent.
supportera curying Sevent bus and underground approved school, China Mall South Africa," "Britain for the Special.
British," and "Britain Join a united Europe."
The police intervened and or- der was restored. Those pre- sent listened to the remainder of Sir Oswald's speech in almost complete silence-Reuter.
The damage were sent to an placards reading "Stand by fares in Lontion were increased
Pigeon-shooting
Monaco, May 8. Prince Rainier has banned the use of live pigeons in pigeon- shooting competitions in the principal of Monaco, the Palace announced.
16 swidi the Monte Carlo Pigeon-Shooting Society, which organises the competitions, will in future hove to ure clay pigeons. Instead of the proximately 5,000 live pigeons importa annually from Spain, China Mall Special.
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"I am afraid the president himself cannot beat her in poll- teal science", Garciu said. "If I were in my twenties or thirties perhaps I could write on in- spired poem about ber."
-xticated that his reign of lerror Insted five years.
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The Panga Man". was
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