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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933.
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MORE CITIZENS FOR ITALY! GREAT GRANDSON
MUSSOLINI'S CAMPAIGN GETS
RESULTSİN
CURIOUS PRESS CAMPAIGN
OF DICKENS
Romantic Oratory Wedding
BRIDE WHO EVADED PUBLICITY
Rome. The increase of popüla, ing fashion for the slim figure in tion has become a fad in Italy women. Thin women as such are with high and low. Births are the butt of the papers, comic and cause for popular demonstrations otherwise. These slim women are and multiple births for newspaper called "women of the crisis" (do... ballyhoo, Musolini's campaign i for more Italians has gathered a crisi) with the implied sugge" the quiet wedding of his great-
tions that they are half starved.
momentum.
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LONDON, June & At Brompton Oratory yesterday twenty members of the famous novelist, Charles Dickens attended
grandson, Mr. Robin Dickens The reason behind the campaign, Bourchier Hawksley, grandson of Signora Antonietta Coppole at Foggia, aged 30 just gave birth to which has run to extraordinary Sir Henry Dickens, formerly Com- five children, three boys and two proportions, is of course, the b-man Serjeant of London, and of girls-all doing well. Angelo Gallief that the woman who is slim the late Bourchier 'Hawksley, who letti nged $3, has just become the and thinks more of the lines o was solicitor, to Cecil Rhodes. the father of a little girl. "Con her figure than anything else is gratulations ran the banner bead. not likely to be a good mother for lines of some of the Italian news the race. She is not evidently the poprs the other day celebrating type which is likely to have twins, these recent examples of prolificity. triplets or even quintuplets like Signora Antoinetta Coppola of Foggia, whoan photograph has been broadcast all over Italy.
The demographic campaign for the increase in both number and quality of the Italian race is in! full progress, and press announce- i ments like the above are becoming quite common.
There has been created a special "natality" prize or birth-rate pre- mium for parents bringing twins, triplets or more children at a time into the world.
The Press Joing In.
No Birth Control,
Birth control, which is making progress in most countries, is at | standstill in Italy. The govern-
ment has deliberately set its face! against any propaganda in favor of it.
His bride. was Miss Dorothy North, an orphan, whom he had met at a dance in the Fulham Town Hall last January. She was then in domestic service, and refused to leave a mistress she had faith- fully served for six years until a long notice had been given, That notice expired only on Tuesday this week, and the wedding was arrang« ed for the day before the Whitsun- tide holidays began... »
The wedding took place at noon, two hours before the time publicly 'nanounced.
Family's Welcome.
The courage of the bride had fail- Not only are no advertisements ed her when she heard that great on the subject allowed in the pa- public interest was being taken in The press of the country harps per, but literary matter on birth her marriage, and yesterday morn- on the advantages of large families control is not allowed to be exhi-ing she had gone to the Oratory to for the individuals and the state,bited in the shops or stores. No ask that the wedding should take, Immediate prepara- while childless parents or parents lectures or writings on the subject place ealier. who have only one child are held "must appear, and in fact, thations were made for the ceremony, up as more or less unsatisfactory whole matter is strictly taboo. and when the Press photographers members of the society. Childless Fresh penalties of a severer nature parents are called in a phrase of have recently been introduced for Mussolini which had immediata. illegal operations or attempts at success with the press the "dead abortion, and banishment to the branches of the tree of human penal islands has been meted out life. ".
recently in several cases to women who have engaged in illicit prae- tices of this kind.
Every day the entire daily press of the country carries the birth, death and marriage statistics not only as a dry column of figures but as a news story.
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Special Privileges. Fathers of large families enjoy All cases of triplets are imme- special advantage over other par- ents. They are exempt from all cause for jubilation. The parents but a minimum of taxation after are congratulated and called "ex- they have had seven children. cellent citizens," while the high man with as many as ten children birth rate prize is given to them. pays practically no taxes at all. In addition, in some provinces Moreover, facilities of other kinda there are special prizes offered by are granted to parents of large the local authorities or by patrio families, including redues rates tic citizens. The photographs of for trally-car rides and, motor-bus mothers of triplets and often even fares. to twins are constantly reproduced in the press.
A big ideal is of course behind all this propaganda for increased Bachelors are taxed irrespective birth-rate. Mussolini has frequent of their social class, though the ly stated that a nation's future
and reporters arrived shortly bri fere two, they were told that the wedding was over.
On the bride's arrival at the
Oratory for the wedding the pre- sence of a young man who, as she said, looked like a photographer."
caused her to slip into the church by a side entrance. She left with her bridgroom by the same door.
Mr. Hawksley is AL Roman
Catholic, and his bride, who was land, has been received into the
a member of the Church of Eng-
Roman Catholic Church.
Lady Dickens and Mr. Hawksley attended the wedding. At the time ber son's engagement was announc cd Mrs. Hawksley had said: about my future daughter-in-law's position:""
"I have no old-fashioned ideas
"The fact that she is a girl of strong character and a hard work- er gives me every reason to wel come her in my family. Such a girl must make, a good wife,"
There was no reception, and al-
Brighton, bridegroom left for where the honeymoon will spent.
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standing. Thus a young man of wealthy family who spends his time in riotous living" but pre. fers single blessedness is mulcted by the state for what it considers As his selfishness. Spinsters are not laxed for being spinsters, it is presumed they would all marry if they were asked.
Slim Figures Ridiculed.
A regular press campaign, evi- dratly approved of if not inspir- ed by the authorities, has lately born launched against the prevail-
ly increasing birth-rate. On this belief the Fascist demographic policy has been built, and at pro sent it completely rules the coun try.
Statistics show, moreover, that the propaganda is producing good results, for the birth-rate evidences a steady increase, if not one to the extent desired by, the Fascist authorities.
The population of Rome has steadily increased in the last few years, and is now well over the million mark.
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Among the wedding gifts were a faw first editions of Dickens' works, o present from Mrs. Hawke ley, to her son's wife.
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Peiping, June 18.. Both Гаравсье and Chinese armies in North China are with drawing from the demilitarilised zone gradually, according to re- ports hers. The Japanese zero- planes are dying daily over the Chinese positions to see that the armistice. agreements are being carried out,
There was a unique spectacle at Weligama, Ceylon, when myriads of crows assembled on the beach. Throughout the afternoon the birds It is reported that the Japanese came in countless numbers, resting troops in the Tungchow and Shuni on telegraph posts and roof tops, districts have withdrawn to Yu- and fishing boats, their invasion tertien and Miyun, where they are rifying other birds who were evi- concentrating. When the Chinese dently as greatly puzzled by the complete their withdrawal, the phenomenon as humans were. | Japanese will further withdraw to
At sunset the crows took to the the Great Wall, it is said.
The Japanese along the Ningho at the time of signing of the river are still at the position held agreement,
The Peiping, Lioning railway is now operated between Shanhai- | kuan and Hanku as the track be paired Friday. Trains from Shan- tween Lutai and Hanku was ro haikuan will go as far as Tang-
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As previously announced, Nederland" Royal Mail Line (N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappy. Nederland ") is recommissioning the 8.8. Johan de Witt to replace the m.s. F. C. Hooft. To increase the speed of the Johan de Witt to a point more in keeping with that of the new motor-ships of this line, the tow of the ship will be reins and for half an hour few low madelled. At the saine time the the air with birds, that they struck in awooping circles. So thick was passenger guarters will be rede the faces of cyclists and pedestrians corated in a style more becoming and the windscreens of motor buses to present-day requirements.
The most important improvement and cars. At dusk the black mass besides the rebuilding of several of rose high into the air and few the cabins in the first and secondSuch a phenomenon has never been
away ibland. Pa boat classes, which will there be made witnessed in Weligama before and childrens' nursery and a special cause of it. Some ever that it was more spacious, is the addition of a people are greatly puzzled as to the children playground' for the second class passengers on the a mass meeting of crows to protest highest deck, and the fitting up of against the scarcity of food due to.
the depression. a sport deck. To this end, the sick- bay will be removed to another deck and the space thus act free used as
nursery. By moving the boats to saloon will be enlarged by includ a higher dock an unbroken: opening the space now occupied by the space in made available, of which cabins lying aft of them. The num- the fore end will be used as a child ber of ephins in this class will be rens deck and the after end as a increased by adding several of the sports deck. The childrens' deck is second class cabins on Deck E to connected directly with the pro- the third class accommodations, menade deck by two companion lad while some of the present first class: cottage which years ago was be- On the village green there is a dere,
cabina will be alloted to the second queathed by a misanthrope to the The existing second class child- | clas
oldest bachelor" to be occupied by rens' deck, lying abaft the smoking These improvements will be made him until his dealb. He is not de room, will be merged with the pro-after the arrival of the ship at barred from marriage. Conse menade deck, as a result of which Amsterdam on July 28 next, and.quently, the village maidens in turn the walking space around the smok- as a consequence the departure from lay siege to the occupant in the ing and music rooms will be materi-Southampton scheduled to take hope of securing a husband and a The southern span of Chelsay the sides of the Uridge to play on ally enlarged; and at the same time place on August and that from home at one and the same time, bridge was in Bames for nearly an the fittings of these two rooms will Singapore on September 15 will be And that, is the real reason for so hour on Sunday, June 4, ead bar- For some time concern was felt : be somewhat modified and improv cancelled. The ship will leave, many of the girls playing a walf- ricides were erected to stop traffic. for the safety of the two tiny drell- -
Fouthampton for the first time in ing game. Down to the present The bridge is under repair, and ing houses, built in the end pillars The third, clase smoking room and its renovated form on October 27 time there has always been one who the fire broke out among woodwork of the bridge, about 30 yards from
(Continued on next Column). and Batavia on December 8, I did not wait Tain.
beneath the roadway.
the fire.
Mystery Bolved.
There has been much to-do in British papers about Blewbury, the hamlet which houses so many spinsters" Here is the solution of the mystery.
ENGLAND
LONDON
JULY 17-22 1933
CHELSEA BRIDGE IN.
FLAMES
Fire engines and two fire Boats had difficulty in playing directly. on the seat of the flames, and fire- men were lowered with ropes over
the fire.