HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN:
"CHURCHILL FLAG" MAY
BRING BIG SUM
ONE OF THE MOST TREASURED OF MANY TREASURED RE- LICS IN THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MUSEUM AT CANBERRA IS A SMALL SILE FLAG WINCH A FORMER AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE MINISTER. SENATOR PEARCÉ, ONCE VALUED TENTATIVELY AT £100,000 AS A COFLECTORS' PIECE.
Twenty years ago the near little ensign mađe tall headlines all over the world--not because it was a battle-torn memento of some famous engagement but because, written finely in indelible pencil on its red silk were the autographs of the men who were then England ---Kitchener, Rafg. Jelicoe, Lloyd George, Kipling. Asquith, Edward Prince of Wales and a score of others.
On the two or three square feet The Churchili Flag," which wil of fine stik in that fing were col in its day be as valuable a collec. lected the personal signatures of lors' plece as its predecessor and virtually every great political mill which is expected to do as big a tary and economie leader of the job for patriotic funds. Great War generation
HISTORIC VALUE
In the end even King George V and Queer Mary added their signak- tures to the collection rounding off the historie value what must Lord surely be one of the most notable personal mementos of a great ag
Christened 'THE KITCHENER FLAG. 1 toured the world raising funds for the Austrailan War Chest and was finally raffled in Mel bouri <raising 20,000 for in capacitated solhers). won by a old sallar hought by ૩ wealthy sportsman for 2000 wuineas and
presented to the nation
GRETA GARBO
What a new Hair-de can do.
NEWSETTES
GENERAL
Army Officer Married
QUIET CEREMONY AT ST. ANDREW'S
A quiet wedding took place at St. Andrew's Church yesterday Afternoon when MISS JEAN MAC- LEOD MATHER became the bride of CAPITAL DAVID ALAN FIN LAYSON MATHERS of 2:19 Punjab Regiment Kowloon.
Rev. H. A. Wittenbach offlctated at the ceremony and Mr. David Loe was at the organ.
The bridgegroom was attended by Captain R. Blair as bestman
The bride looked charming in a white embossed taffeta gown cut with a tight bodice and a full flare skirt
Her tulle vell was held in place with a spray of orange bios- soms and she carried a spray al white tuber roses.
The Churchilt Flag arrived back Milbourne recently a silk Aus tralian ensign with its white stars and stripes bearing the signature" of Britain's leaders today--Chie jeta. Eder Halifax Alexander.
Bruverbrook, Dudley Pound, General Sir John the Shangha!
Admiral Bi}
Mr Wang Chi-yuan Dean DI
Colleges 01
Ft General St Arts Dil, and many others
and also a noted Chines Archibald Wavell has sent on his
Bainter was among The autograph on silk for corpore- gers on
the President Harrison Punjab Mess and was largely at which left the Colony yesterday
tended.
Won
OFFERED TO RED CROSS This time Mr. Tewkesbury could not collect the autographs person
passen
Mr Kau Ling-pui. Clines Con- sul General in Singapore. yester ally. but obtained them with the day cabled General Liu Chien-su co-operation of Australia's High!cungratulating him upo bla ap wCommissioner (Mi
Bruce and his pointment as new Chayman
Stewart the Fiklen Provincial Govern ment General du succeeds Gen The tag has been offered to the jeral Chér YI, who has been trans Australian Red Cross, and the ferred to another post. United Bank Officers Association
It was in the brain of Mr P Tewkesbury, of Melbourne, that the idea of "The Kitchener Flag" originated Not only did he co- ceive the idea but he also collected the signatures personally on our of the world
"CHURCHILL FLAG"
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is planning a high pressure Aus- Mr. Chang Shu-ch, professor of trala wide campaign lu turn its Chinese art of the National Con Historical and sentimental value tral University, who presented Now he has engineered a tag inte hard cash for the relief of the painting of 100 doves to Presiden memorial of the Sevand Great Wawar's victims
"MISS CHINA” 1941
Miss
Me) mef Wong. comels young Chinese girl, was chosen as
Praise For The B.B.C.
Roosevelt upon his re-elect'on for a third term left for the United States aboard the 9.8 President Harrison yesterday.
MT G. E. Mitchell, Director of China Assurance Corporation. Ltd.. has left for San Francisco.
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Mrs F W N Bassett attended the bride as matron-of-honour in au Alice Blue French georgette Rown with accessories to match and wore a corsage of pink roses.
The reception was held at the
FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS
The following forthcoming mur rages have been announced at the Registry. Supreme Court:
Mr. Antonio Marie Conde Bar- retto, clerk. residing at No. 2 Granville Road, and Miss Thelma Marie Serapia Rozarlo. of No 35 Granville Road;
MI Leung Fook-ming. money changer of No. 326 Hennessy Road, and Miss Au Yeung Tim No. 28 Johnston Road,
Yau of
LADIES OF THE ARMY
One nears much these Miss China of 1941 by the Judges awards for bravery of the International Beauty Con-to duty-acts of test held at the Argentina Night by ult branches of the service and Miami area is the "Leat of Lite. agent: Mrs. William Peftus Hobby, Club. Shanghai,
jubs that on dept. 2 In often Just
had to be Absorbing its nourishment from wife of the publisher of the Hous- addition to the title, Miss Wong done, however difficult, by every-the air It needs no water or earthton (Tex.) Post, Her job is n received $1.500 and will be given day people. But there is one seron
to thrive. Each leaf | head a new Worgen's Division of
days of and devotion
One of the queerest
the The U.S. War Department res great
oddities gallantry tropical
found in the cently picked & Temate press
which
a screen test by Universal Pictures vice which has never been so de-sprouts smaller ones within the Army's Bureau of Publie
Corporation.
To petite Miss Alice Lee. aiso Chinese, went second honours and a prize of $750,
Miss Genevieve Grassman top- ped all foreign contestants to win third prize and $500.
NEW RECORD CHANGER
corated, nor given undue praise-week. perhaps because people accept
Relationa
No son sister is slight. 33-year 50 unquestioningly. It 13 the As a mark of public recognition Fold, soft-spoken Ovela Culp Hob- BRITISH BROADCASTING COR- of the meritorious services render-by. She is used to getting things PORATION and those men anded by the late Mr. Chang Chi- done. Executive vice-president au women who carry on under - luan. Chlef Editor of the Takung-assistant editor of the Houston pao, who died on September 6. Post, she was a director of the
credible difficulties
2
A capacity crowd was in atten- Day after day. with the twist of Messra Chen Ming Leh Chow Churne National Bank. dance. The judges were Dr. A. & dial. we can sit by our fireside Chin ruch and Lo Cheng-lleh, Taking over in Room 2840, ol Renner, Messrs. Victor Keen, Bert and hear a friendly voice saying. Directors of the Chinese Institute the War Department Building, on Palmeriz. W. Y. Poong and Jack "THIS IS LONDON CALLING- or Journalis are proposing to the day she was appointed. Mrs. Howard.
CLOCKWORK PRECISION the Institute and the Chungking Hobby announced that she Was Big Ben may be blasted, West Press Association that the Govern-going to assemble a staff of female minster Abbey stand open to the ment be petitioned to accord a reporters u write Army news for sky and many beloved buldings public funeral to Mr. Chanz. the women's pages, to tell women reduced to rubble. but nothing
(estimated at four for every one disturbs the daily news services Dr. Chien Tal, Chinese Ambas- of the 1.500.000 men in the Army) Broadcasting House was hit. even sador to Belgium, arrived in about their sons' and husbands RCA Victor recently made the as the overseas news was being Chungking by plane from Hong-discipline, food, clothing, enter- biggest phonographic news of the relayed, There was
damage, man of Sub-Committee, reported tainment. Says she: "This is the year by putting out a machine death, but the unfaltering voice kong on Sept. 2, to assume his Dublic's Army, the nation's Army. that could play both sides of a re- i went on and no one knew till new post as Administrative Vice and the women have as much in- cord without flipping it over
Up later.
So each day with clockwick Minister of Foreign Affairs. The terest in it as the men." to now, record changers
have precision.
same evening a dinner reception Her husband. William Hobby been of two types: 1. The "drop" Is it any wonder then that the was given in his honour by Dr. (Governor of Texas in 1917-21), type, which plays a stack of re- very words ring out acros5
Tal-chi, Chinese Foreign 18 years her senior, remains in cords butter side up only; 2. The ether a challenge to Nazi cvll: Minister, when the guests includ-Texas to run the Posi. Capehart, which flips records like "This is LONDON calling"--Lon- ed Mr. Fu Ping- chang. Pelitical flapjacks on a griddle. Drawback don, who can take it. Hats off to Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, of the drop type: it cannot play all who help to make the British as well as the various secretaries. alternate sides in sequence, Draw-Broadcasting Corporation the great counsellors and directors of the back of the Capehart: it is ex service it now is. Or, better put, Chinese Foreign Office.
pensive.
the Quo
perhaps, in that inimitable phrase: The new record changer hue a "T dips me lid."
double tope arm, shaped like a big tuning fork, whose prongs, each equipped with a needle and pickup, swing out over both sides of the record at cnce. Records are dropped from the stark on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of botti sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automa- tically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place.
A special feature of the new phonograph 18 the pickup mechan-` ism of the two prongs, so light that it exerts less pressure (1 oz.) than the weight of the record. Like the Capehart, RCA Victor's new phonograph K expensive ($450). But with both on the market, competition may do' a lit tle price régulating.
ENGLISH FORUM
A talk on the recent Japanese- United States discussions WAS given by Dr. Won Yunti-ning,- editor of the Tien Hisla Magazine and chief of the China Informil tion Committee,' before a gnther- 'ing of the Hongkong Engilsh
Forum at the Chinese Y.W.CA), Bonham Road, last night.
CAPTIVATING, Climat to any con- thmal thila bar and matchlag kaar telected by Vicki Lester; beautcom film actro who supports Ginger Nogers in RKO Rallo's "Tom, Dick and Harry Chartreuse, lavender drid green are the colors Triping the
A HUSBAND
BUYS HATS!
Clare Bothe, noted play-wright.
Manila arrived in
on Monday
I heard a rather delightfur story aboard the Anzac Clipper to make this week about a young man who a three-week tour of the Philip had had a bit of luck with his pines for Life Magazine. She is investments and wanted to give & expected to spend much of her present to his wife, writes Joanna time in Bagulo and the Mountain Chase in the Overseas Daily Mail. Province. She was in Baguio in It couldn't be chocolates, as ho June with her husband, Henry R. couldn't get them, and it couldn't Luce.
be clothes because of the coupons and the fact that he wanted
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CHINESE CONSUL IN BATAVIA
CHUNGKING Sept. 11 (Central) The National Government in
A mission composed of overseas give her a surprise. So he decid-mandate issued yesterday confirmed Chinese leaders from Indo-China ed to buy her a couple of now the appointment of Mr. Ke Tau- arrived in Kwellin on Tuesday to hats. He went to a Knightsbridge kwong as Chinese Consul-General Inspect conditions in China and milliner ali: by himself, described at Batavia, was received by General Li Chhis wife, and said he would like sen, Director of the Generalissimo's to see some hata Kwellin Oce.
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He remembered the colour her dresses, and looked at a range The death occurred on Septem- of model miliners, all of which ber 4, at his residence, 189 Colum- rather corifused him, until he hit bfa Circle, Shanghat, of Stanley on the idea of seeing them worn. Maurice Mayes, aged 64 years.
Simultaneously, Mr. Hu Mai was appointed a member of the Na- tional Relief Commission and Mr. chu Ching-bauan, Pecretary of the Ministry of Social Welfare.
A model was brought forward, MRS. COLLETTE-VARE
Funeral services (cremation) were and put several hats on so that held at the Bubbling Well Chapel, he could see what they looked on September 6.
ELIMINATED
BROOKLINE,
(Massachusetts)
like on the head. He bought two Sept. 11 (Reuter)-Mrs. Cetina took thom home, with him, and The death occurred on Septem- announced to his staggered wife Collett-Vare, st-time holden of ber 3, at the Russian Orthodox that he had bought her a couple the title was eliminated from the Hospital, Shanghal. of Alexander of hats. She held her, broath and wonship here yesterday by Miss
American Women's Golf Cham Arkadiovitch Gourvich, aged 48 wondered what on earth she could [ years,” manager of the Columbia say to him if they were frightful, and Great Western Riding" Ack- bogatise she realised it was very demy. Furieral services were held brave of him to have gone oft on Sept. 4, at the Chapel or the alone to buy hats for her. 20 Klothow Road, and was fol her, and furthermore she says International Funeral Directors, put them on they both sulted.
She
Cinta Callender, of Paraden California.
Ma Callender, who won by five jand tour, enters the quarter finals.
silk inffejs, of the port het hand lowed by burial at the Hungleo they are two of the most, becoming aton, an
Large pouch bag.
Roga Cemetery,
hats she bas had for years.4.
Fishing in the Thames at King
angler" oaught a perch with its tail fast in a roller skate,
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THE OPENING EVENT OF THE SEASON
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Friday, October 3
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