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"I CAN'T GET MARRIED TO-DAY"
Jim Mollison
And Bride
Five minutes before Jim Molli- :son, airman ex-husband of Amy Johnson, Was due to marry wealthy plantation owner - Mra. Phylls Hussey, on November 9, be telephoned Caxton Hall register office, Westminster, postponing the wedding...
Friends of the couple who had gone to Caxton Hall were mystified by the sudden can- cellation,
Mollison spent the afternoon in his flat in Berkeley-street, Mayfair, with the woman who should have been his bride.
"DOMESTIC KEASONS" " Mollison said: "There is nothing
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Photograph taken at the Races held at Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Leica).
unusual about the cancellation of NAL my wedding plans.
“Phyllis and I found that for domestic reasons it was not con- venient for us to marry "to-day."
Asked when he was going to marry Mrs. Hussey, Mollison smiled "and said: "Some time, in the
future." He would not give .date,
"We cannot understand why the cancellation of our wedding should cause such a fus," he added.
"The reason is a purely private" one, and there is no cause for any rumour or speculation in connec- tion with the postponement."
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Offer For
Estate
Back into the news have swam the Duke and Duchess of Windsor with a story par: porting to be "on good 30- thority," and an equally "all- thoritative" denial that they Intended bidding £75,000 for the Treagh Trust's estate at Ashford Castle, Cong. Con- nemars.
Recently vacated by the Hon. E. A Guinness following land and labour disputes, the estate costs a small fortune to maidtain." Deaf to appeals that he should remain. as he was "good for the district," departing landlord Guinness re- marked that his average weekly, wage bfl was £250. In vain the tenantry begged the Iveagh Trust to keep the Castle as a family residence,
SEAPLANE. BASE
A beautiful 7,000-acre property. the estate includes à private sea- plane "base, miniature forest and lakes well stocked with salmon.
In the provincial "Çork Ex-
the jaminer."
Windsor-purchase When an
Trish Independent" reporter in- quired at the London headquarters of the Ireagh Trust, he was töld: "It is very interesting. but there. to no truth in it."
story was a sensation.
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paper, killed the rumour, announ- cing positively that there had beet "no offer from the ex-King for the Galway" estate,"
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At the Registry before the De-OLD HEALING ART Duty Registrar of Marrages yester- day, Mr. Alexander John Gast, ac- countant, residing at 12, Humphreys Buildings, Kowicon, son of the late Mr. Willam James John Gast, was married to Miss Daphne May Berthet, daughter of Mr. Renee
Mr. E. Moller Sr., and Mr. B. { Members of the Muslim com- Moller returned 10 Shanghai.munity will celebrate their festival yesterday by the Conte Verde. of Id-ul-fitr to-morrow, thus
marking the close of Ramadan or Alexander ThenS. P. C. A, will be holding a the fasting month. Flag Day on Saturday
next.
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On Saturday evening. the R. E. O C. A will hold a dinner dance in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel.
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Berthet, accountant. Witnesses "of the ceremony were | Mr. W. A. Artlett and Mrs." Daisy
Berthet
A sound film is being shown by the Bayer Pharmaceutical Depart- Mr. Au Kwok-lung, clerk of the rent of Hongkong of the XXth C.3.0. residing at 25, Talpo Road, Olymlad at Berlin in 1936 at the second floor, was married to Miss King's Theatre at 11 ami, on Sun-Chau Woon-hing, also of 25 Taipo day next.
Okyn. 3 medical which originated in China fourteen centuries ago, and which is based on the idea that nothing will core rheuma- tic pains, nepritis, and Indiges- tion as successfully as a series of good burns, administering shocks to the nervous system; has recently experienced a re- vival in Japan...
It was extremely popular during the Japanese Middle Ages, but fell Road. A-st Door Witnesses were into disuse after the Introduction. Messrs. Leung' Sin-sang and Chan of Western medicine in the last
ANNOUNCEMENTS
4.
Mr. C. V. Starr. president of The Prison Branch (Stanley) of Shing. American Asiatic Underwriters." the M.CL. wil hold a Christmas Inc. will arrive in the Philippine Mahjong, Bridge and Whist Drive
The following forthcoming wed- Clipper to-morrow
at the Prison Officers' Assembly cinga are announced:-- Room on Wednesday, December 7. Mr. PL.Shen-yu, assistant of the The Wuhan Songsters sailed from 3.15 p.m. Entrance will be $1. South Western Transportation
Company Ltd., residing The many friends of Mr. H. J.Gloucester Road, Hongkong, to Miss Millington will be glad that he is Lee Ching-kwong, of the same progressing. favourably and that address.
Mr. Lee Gwok-ying, merchant re-
From Hongkong for the
South Asian Peninsula in the 5. Victoria last week-end.
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H.M.8. "Medway.and the 4th Sub. he will probably leave hospital in marine Flotilla will hold a Dance a few days. Mr. Millington con-ding at the Golden Star Man-
at the Peninsula Hotel on Wednes-tracted malaris while at Camp.
day, December 7. Dancing will be from 8.30 p.m. to 1 am.
The Med-
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Mr. E O'Neil Shaw will be
way and Flotilla, Dance Orchestra giving a gramaphone recital and will play. Tickets for couples will lecture on. Debussy at the Euro- be available at $2.50."
ART EXHIBITION ON SATURDAY
WESTERN AND CHINESE
pean Y."M.C. A at 9 p.m. to-day. The formation of a Gramaphone Club will be considered at the meeting.
Dr Joseph Rock, the noted
American naturalist, who has been in Hawall making a study on be- bulf of the Yonnan Provincial Government, is due back here to morrow by Clipper on route to Kunming. Dr. Rock is at present, writing a new book on China and
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Following the closing of the solo Chinese, art exhibition of Miss Ling Po-kuen at St. Jonn's Cathedral Tibet. Hall recently, the Hongkong Work- ing Artists' qulid will present a The Halphong branch office of combined exhibition of Chinese and the Chinese Consulate-General, in Western art at the Cathedral Hall Handl has established a reception commenting at noon on Friday, station in the Customs House at November 25. The exhibition" wili | Haiphong tor Chinese passing continue on Saturday from 10 am, through the city enroute to China's to 7 pm, and on Sunday from 1 southwest provinces, according to p.m. to 7 pm.
a report in the Hongkong **ing Amongst the exhibitors of Chin-Tao Jin Pao."
ese, art are Mr. Pau Shu-yau, principal of the Lai Ching Art { A Kweilin message appearing in College, and his pupils.
the Hongkong “Ta Kung Pao"
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In addition, Mr. Chen Tien-Shlao states that preparations are under an artist passing through the Co-way for the establishment of an lony and who intends to visit academy there for training Manila and Europe in the near fu-guerilla officers. Generalissimo ture, also participates in the show, Chiang Kai-shek will be principal Another special feature in the of the academy while two guerilla Chinese art section will be the strategists will be vice-principal work of two local artists, the late and dean respectively. Mr. Hong Chen and the late Mr. Wong Ol-hung, the latter being a
"Gary Cooper, famous film star pupil of Mr. Ko Kien-tu, one of the who recently appeared here in leading artists in China to-day.The Adventures of Marco Polo," Amongst the Western art section is expected to pass through the will be the work of Mrs. C. Champ Colony in January. With him will kin, Mrs. A. N. Macfadyen, Mr. M.be Andrea Leeds. They will be on Dunne, Yee Bon, Lee Byng, Yue their way to the Philippines, where Sul-hang, Louis Chan, Ng Ko most, of the background for Cooper's new fim, The Last Frontier will be contred.
hung, Miss Pong Ching Han and Mr. S. B. Wong.
stons, Austin Road Kowloon, to Miss Irene Thyra Jan Lee, of 21. Hakow Road, first floor.
century.
Now it is more widely practised, and some physicians who have
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been trained along Western itnes, such ns DI Chihiro Ikeda, a
graduate of the Kyushu Imperial University School of Medicine, have been applying skyn in cázes where they believe it will prove beneAcial
Dr. Ikeda, who recently explain- ed his methods of treatment, ex- pressed the hope that okyu would soon be taught scientifically' as part of the regular training of every medical student.
POPULAR TREATMENT
At the present tline, he said, this old healing art la discredited e-
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man in dinher clothes sat alone at a table in a restaurant. The table was set for dinner, the menu at his elbow. However, he paid little attention to food or selection, In- stead, full attention was, concen- trated on a letter he was reading. and evidently enjoying from the deep chuckles which he emitted) from time to time.
Putting down the letter, he sum- moned the dining room captain and ordered a gimlet. This order was filled, but he made no attempt to partake of the drink. Again hej summoned the boy and this time; ordered a scotch and soda which was placed before him, but he did not touch the drink." Quietly, he picked up the letter and com- menced to re-read the written words
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Closing the subject he emphati- cally announced, "Guess I know my 'own mind!"
MAYOR YANG'S NEW POST
The Canton municipality, which has been moved over to Kwong-
| caysë ignorant persons are per- mitted to practise it after a short course in massaging-a very popuning, will no longer retain its lar form of treatment, in Japan, name. Mayor Cheng Yang-fu has where the damp climate preau-been ordered by the Central, au- poses people to rheumatic all-thorities to set up a Preservation ments.
Committee, taking charge of the municipal treasury and public properties At the same time, in- stead of being Mayor of Canton. he has been appointed to the post of Commander of the resisting of the Eighth Region- (Wah Kiu Yat Po)
Dr. Ikeda's method, which w
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general, is to try to locate the source of the ailment and then to ignite leaves of moxa, a Japanese plant, on a number of spots on the | Unit | patient's body which are nearest
this source,
A full treatment consists of seven small burns on each of some twenty spots, so that the purpose
or stimulating the nervous system
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are most frequently distributed up and will not arrive until to-morrow and down the spinal cord.
"A "twenty-burn treatment" re quires about forty-five minutes, and it is proof of Japanese stoicism that many people apply for it
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