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SOCIAL
WOMEN'S PAGE
BESTMAN
BECOMES
Marriage Known As
BRIDEGROOM Casualty!
A bride went to the altar on:
RIGHT TO SAVE MOTHERS
ABORTION LAW MAY
BE AMENDED
After almost exactly two years' work the Ministry of Health's Inter-Departamental Committee on Marriages and Births-Notifica- Abortion, presided over by Mr. June 3 and married the man who tlons of either of the above should Norman Birkett, K. C., has com-
be given to company officer im-pleted its report. mediately after the casualty has occurred.
was to have been bestman at her wedding. He was her fiance's best friend.
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The bride, Miss Patricia Adama,
This appears in R.E. Territorial of Bourton-on-the-Water, Glouces-orders in a Surrey orderly room, |tershire, had a terrible shock last Questioned-about-the- word December when her finance. "casualty." д ofcer replied. young naval officer, died after fall-That is the word the War Office ing from an express train on the prefers." wedding eve.
Final plans for the wedding had been completed and there was to have been a big reception in May
of
falr.
A general view of the Garden Party held in the grounds Government House in honour of the King's Birthday. (Photo
by Lelea).
THEY ALL AGREE THAT
TUESDAY'S
MENU
that
GIRLS' SCHOOL
IS A SWELL MOVIE!
JEAN ARTHUR
"Nothing
suya:
has
im-
pressed me Bo much recently,"
IRENE DUNNE saya: "Charming, deligbiful and touching."
SUNIA HENIE says: "I was deeply impressed with its delightful charm."
JAMES STEWART saye: "Everyone should see it."
. LIONEL BARRYMORE says: "It's filled with the fears, hopes, romantic dreams of young girls.".
GIRLS' SCHOOL
with
ANNE SHIRLEY
NAN GREY
TODAY KING'S
at the
BREAKFAST. Orange Juice Cereal Liver & Bacon
Muding Coffee
LUNCHEON
Fruit Cocktail Avacado Salad
Meat Balls Tomato Sauce
Creamed Mushrooms
Corn on Cob Lima Beans Ginger Bread and Chocolate Sauce Iced Tea
DINNER
Barley Soup Smoked Salmen ·
Fillet Steak Fried Onions Hashed Potatoes «
Green Peas
Coin Souffle
Strawberries & Cream
'Coffee "
FREE CINEMA TICKETS
We are giving away twenty. free cinema tickets to see Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's production entitled "ICE FOLLIES OF. 1939", co-starring Joan Craw- ford and James Stewart, who, bas recently been pushed into" stardom at the M-G-M studios.
The skating sequences are in breath-taking technicolour and the performers none other than "The International Ice "Follies." The picture is to open Friday, June 29, at the Queen's Theatre, and the day
1939'S 'GREAT "ZIEGFELD' OF THE ICE!
THE
ICE
FOLLIES
OF 1939
STARRING
Joan
CRAWFORD
with
after at the Alhambra Theatre, JAMES STEWART
for a simultaneous run,
To qualify for one of these tickets, all you have to do is to send us an advertisement for insertion in the classified or ordinary columns of the "Hong
Carreat kong Daily Press."
"
advertisers can qualify for.
these tickets if renewals are
made on or before Friday, June
23.
There are only twenty tickets available for distribution,
80 get your advertisement
renewal in early to obtain
ticket. This offer
the
will only
remain in force until 12 noon
on June 28.
Dream Shattered
A War Office man stated that the word "casual" was used in this way in orderly rooms throughout the Army.
NOT ACCIDENT! "It has been in use in this way No one knows for a long time..
One important, adjustment to the law will, it is understood, be recommended.
The committee urges that the right to secure an abortion where the life or health of a woman, is imperilled should be established and legalised. such abortions would have to be registered:
On this issue a case was fought
ELI
in July, 1938. Mr. Aleck William Bourne, the eminent gynaecologist and obstetrician, of Wimpole-street, W was found not guilty of unlawfully using But Miss Adams's dream of hap-
instrument with intent to procure the piness was suddenly shattered at the eleventh hour. She had to when it originated in this sense. miscarriage of a girl aged 14 who take a long holiday to get over the It probably just crept in. It seems ❘ had been criminally assaulted. He shock. Now she is seeking hap- a fiting "word. and so has con- was discharged. piness with the pal of the man tinued to be used. around whom she had built her "It does not mean accident, of dreams...
course. It la just the usual word. She is now the bride of Lieu-Men have to notify marriages and tenant J. N. Garnett. aged thirty, births”
who was to have been "bestman Oxford Dictionary says casualty at her wedding to Lieut. Guy is "chance, accident, a mishap Slater, step-son of Air Vice-Mar- and, in a military sense, "used of the losses sustained by a body of shal Borton, of Cheveney, Kent...
For the wedding of Miss Adams men in the field or on service by and Lt. Slater 400 guests were in-death, desertion, etc." vited, and the reception was to
have been held at a Mayfair hotel:
Her wedding on June 3 took
place quietly in a village church in ton, and her husband were pre- Hampshire. There were only a sent. "It is the first I have heard about it," Air Vice-Marshal Borton. few guests.
Lieut. Slater's mother. Mrs. Bor- told the "Daily Mirror"
Scene at the King's Birthday garden party at which H.E. the
Governor was host. (Photo by Leica).
NEWSETTES
It is learned that the National
Large numbers of Chinese, Relief Commission has remitted formerly residents of Shanghal, another $50,000 to the Kwangtung are now coripelled to return to Provincial Government for the re- there following the depreciation Ref: of civilian refugees on Hainan in Chinese currency which has affected their costs of living in British colonies. Many of the Chinese families now living in
Island.
"The fourth annual Charity
.፡
Bazaar of St. Mary's Church, Tai Hongkong have been living on remittances .sent them from Hang, will be held on Saturday,
Shanghal. June 24, in the Church Hall. The Bazaar will be opened by Lady Pollock at 11 am.
+ ינו
H.
By simplifying judicial adminis. tration and by organising circuit courts, the Chinese authorities
To mark the completion of the have been able to extend to their extensive alterations on their people in Japanese-occupied areas premises, the Institute of E-the protection of the national Kineers and Shipbuilders will hold laws. As long as circumstances a reception on Friday from 5.30 permitt, Chinese courts are re- p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
quired to carry on their duties in occupied areas. In areas where Mr. Chow Chung-ye newly- district courts have evacuated, the
Lew AYRES Lewis STONE appointed Minister of the Interior district magistrates are authorized
and
"The International Ice Follies"
BESS EHRHARDT." • ROY SHIPSTAD EDDIE SHIPSTAD OSCAR JOHNSON Screen Play by Lacnard Pracking, Florence. Ryerson and Edger Allan Woolf Directed by SEINHOLD SCHUNZEL. Producść by KANIT HAFF Mano Collagen Mayer Tum
of the Chinese National Govern- to try cases pending the re- ment, formally assumed duties on establishment of the" courts." [June 16, and took the oath of office on June 19. Mr. Chow succeeds to the post until "pe- cently held by den. Ho Chien,
TWO WEDDINGS
AT REGISTRY
Mr. Bourne's Defence The point made by Mr. Bourne was that while the action he took was not necessary to preserve the girl's immediate life, he could not draw a line between danger to Hfe and danger to health. “ curing abortion for any reason is As the law stands a doctor pro-: able to criminal prosecution.
Reform has been urged by the medical profession for many years, and it is understood to be almost certain that the Government will accept the recommendation.
It is also understood that the committee has been unable to ex- tend this right to cases of rape. in view of the difficulties which
would arise.
Recommendations are also made by the committee on the sale of certain drugs. Members divided on the desirability of extending birth control facilites through the public health services.
The entire Japanese technical staff attached to the power plant at Honam, Canton, were killed. following a terrific explosion on June 7.
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1939.
Very Dark Blooze
Kindly rest on your oars, Timothy. That, contraption is getting you nowhere. And it squeaks. And the Eton Boating Song is not in the key of D
"What's up, Peter? Got a head?"
"Like a gasometer. Very pain- ful. And that noise you're making goes through it like a pneumatic drill."
"Wam't I on the warpath by your side? And look at me — no mors hangover than an innocent little child."
"Well, it's not natural. It just
proves that the Devil looks after. his own."
"I look after myself, old son. Last night I took a sizeable strig of Rose's Lime Juice before hitting the hay. That's how to kill off the aftermath of alcohol."
"You wouldn't lead me up the garden, Timothy ?"
"Pater, you worang ma. I've seen the light and I'm passing on the tip!?
"Then, if you will kindly step ashore, we will seek out a vendor of Rose's. It's time I fell into good habits."
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