THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937.
GRETNA "PRIEST" DEFIES HIS CRITICS:
"I BRING HAPPINESS
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Law Opens
Wide Door
To Fraud
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MARRIAGE over the envil
irt a blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green will no longer be possible if the report of the Committee on the Law of Scot- land, Listed recently and recommending the abolition of ail forms of irregular marri age, is put into law. flere are the highlights of the report
A
The law which permlis marriage to be contracted with-
out any Intimation or ceremony
”
Does Not Like The Word "Racket": May Have To Find A New Job
MR. RICHARD RENNISON, Gretna Green
WHAT'S IN A NAME
San Francisco, Feb. 15. The U. S. Marine recruiting offen has rejected George Green. 21. Sacramento, because he couldn't recognize green in a colour test and turned down Samuel Brown, 20. Yuma, because Brown thought that brown looked like something else to him, recruling examiners reported.
Mystery
"blacksmith," self-styled priest who has married 2,000 couples over the anvil in the past nine years, listened to a London newspaper. man reading two letters published in a Committed report recently and described as "instances of Loss
or procedure is indefensible. It evils and misery following Gretna marriages.”
opens a wide door to seduction, deceit, and fraud.... it in un- precedented in the countries of Europe."
a
farmer
over
T
In 1900 Gretna named Mackle took blacksmith's shop, turned it into Amtscued with relles of past romances (twelve of them at least were spurious), and issued a pamphlet saying the old days had returned and that the black- amith's shop was open for mar- riages.
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Later
English saddler named Rennison posed as "the blacksmith," prescribed the form of the ceremony, charged uswa)- ly a fee of £1.
Mackle is believed to have made £1.500 a year from fees The and museum entry fees.
attendant not £340. Highest total of marriages for any year was 331 in 1930; there were 2,295 fram 1028 to 1935, of which 1,876 were unregistered.
A Carlisle girl, betrayed upon pretences of a Gretna marriage, was deserted; when told that the marriage was invalid "this so preyed upon her mind that she became insane."
Then he said:—
"Reports-letters. I care nothing for reports. 1 I am carrying it out. I have made have my mission here.
Of Aeroplane
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355 meires
12.30 Military Band Selections, 1 pan. Time and Weather. 1.03 Planoforte Rectal by Ignaz Friedman.
1.20
Walter Glynne (Tenor).
1.39 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements,
1.40 Hawaiian Musle. 2 pan.
Orchestra.
Paul Whiteman and His
2.15 p.m. Close Down.
4-7 pm. Chinese Programme.
p.m. De Groot and His Or
with Raymond Newell
chestra (Baritone).
hundreds of friends and no enemies. My marriages over Glittering Object Only Here's to life (Talbot and Atkin-
the anvil have brought much happiness into the world.”
Mr. Rennison does not may mean converse. He addresses you as if making a speech to a vast crowd. He boomed on.
the end of Greina Green marriages," he was told.
"The charge of spuriousness and exploitation leaves me un- moved. It is not true. I do not hit below the belt. I have creed. adhere to it.
my
"That does not alarm me. I can go out into the world and earn a living among my fellow men. would not regard the closing of this residence of mine here Joyful
ly, but I would not be the end of Richard Rennison."*
"Where were you married? What are your personal views on marr)- ng-7
Water-Covered Rocks
son):
Orchestra-Autumn (Chaminado); Traumme (Wagner); Baritone Solo
Orchestra-La Violetera (Padilla); Baritone Solos-Mandalay Kipling and Willeby); Follow me 'amema Barrack-Room Ballad, Yass, N.S.W., Feb. 15.
(Kipling and Ward-Higgs); Orches The mystery of the disappear-tra-Other days (Selection of Popu aner of the Monoplane Southern Cloud, with two pilots and six passengers when flying from Sydney to Melbourne on March 21. 1931, is still unsolved.
lar Melodies), (arr. Finck).
7.30 Closing local Stock Quotn- tions and Hongkong Exchange Mur- ket Report.
7.35 From the Studio,
"The Lam Tsun Valley." A. talk by Dr. G. A. C. Herklots,
8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.
Hopes were aroused that a solu-
8.03 Three light songs by tlun was at hand, by the report of Mr. Edward Baker, Shire Councillor Richard Crankis (Tenor).
N.S.W. Mr. Bakter, 1. Nirvana (Weatherly-Adams); "I was married in the Church of of Gunning. "I admit I derive a nice living, England in a small Cumberland Vil- Whilst boating in the
Burrenjuck 2 A dream of Paradise (Lyttleton- though I have charged some Jage without ostentation or great Dam, saw a glittering object on the Gray); 3. O song divine (St. Ives-
of the Temple).
8.15 London-This is England." young people nothing at all. My cremoas. My own view is that if hillside near the junction
Rivers. to be married quickly Murrumbidgee and Yass people wish marriages are legal according to and easily. then let them here. With the aid of strong field-glasses, Talks by representative English peo- the ancient law of Scotland abouts Mr. Reinigen lost his plat- he saw what appeared to be the ple: (0) A doctor with a country form manner-"what's wrong with glistening, wing of a large acroplane practice in the West of England. In- Reports. pshaw!”
high up on the thickly timbered reduced by Anthony Weymouth,
(Electrical Recording).
NOT ALARMED "If the committee's recom- mendations are carried out it
The Tragic
I
Woman
Who Waits
WALTON-ON-THE-HILL (Surrey), Feb. 15.
Na £60,000 mansion here Mrs. Genevieve Lloyd is waiting for news of her husband, Mr. Frederick B. Lloyd, the oil magnate who disappeared in New York, three months ago and started a mystery which all America is still discussing.
The weeks pass into months but still no word comes to the distinguished dark-haired woman who is controlling the man- sion, estate, and model farm, hoping that one day her husband will turn up.
MAHARAJA OF GWALIOR ENGAGED
TO PRINCESS OF FAMOUS FAMILY
Bombay, Feb. 10.
She is worn out by worry, the strain of cross-questioning by New York palice, and by the scores of rumours that have brought her false hope. Her British home is the one place where she finds
quiet.
On October 22 Jast Frederick Lloyd was in New York with his wife, to
thunt?"
"You deny that Gretna Green marriages are a racket, then?"
"I do not like the word racket, give the lie to it sir."
Good-day to you,
*AM I MARRIED? The letters read to him included these passages:
ranges.
8.30 London The B.B.C, Dance large search party, comprising police and civilians, was organised Orchestra, directed by Henry Hall.
and London-News
An- and set out from Yass. After pro-
nouncements. 36 miles by cars, the party
9.15 London-The Fifth Cricket ed Burrenjuck Dam and then
Test Match. Australie v. England. transferred to launches for their 13A ball-by-ball commentary by Victor miles trip up the dum to the June-
Richardson on the tost ten minutes tion of the Murrumbidgee and Yass
of the first day, followed by a resume Rivers, Here the party, using field
of the day's plny by Alan Kippax. glasses. saw a silvery glitter partially
From Melbourne, (Electrical Re- obscured by the green foliage of the am English, my husband is trees, which appeared like the shim-
cording):
9.35 Grand March from “Alda" mering wing of an aeroplane, day
Amidst considerable excitement (Verdi), played by the B.B.C. Orchestra, at Gretna Green. Neither have had It registered,
the searchers landed, and on hands Wireless Symphony nor have we been married since. I am
and knees climbed up the precipi. tous mountain-side. twenty-one. and I have mode an awful mistake. People tell me 1 un
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Scotch. We came into Scotland on --and wore married the same.
still
only
for certain whether I am married
Finally reaching, д point from where the glittering object
was
Conducted by Percy Pitt.
9.10 p.m. From the Studio. The 4th of a second series of Gramophone Recitals by The Rev.
not married, and cannot be told clearly visible, they were disappoint-C. B. R. Sargent. or not...
ed to find that it was not the alumin- tum wing of the missing aeroplane.
"I went through the ceremony at but only the reflection of the sun's Greina at seventeen, but neither I rays from a sheet of water seeping nor the person concerned resided in from an outcrop of rock on
Scotland for the necessary twenty-mountain-side.
the
one days. It was a moment of mad-So ended mother of the many ex-
ness, and after four months we peditions which have set out in New South Wales and Victoria in the hope parted."
that reported wreckage and objects would prove to be the missing Southern Cloud.
Since 1854. by an Act to check runaway marriages by English people at Gretna, one of the parties to a Scots marriage must have twenty-one days' residence In that country. Mr. Rennison Introduced clause in his "form" asking for declaration to this effect.
"REWARD OF VIRTUE”
GERMAN VIEW OF THE CONCESSIONS
Berlin, Jan. 22.. General Goering will, it is anti-
LATEST WALTZ
HEARKENS BACK
TO BYGONE ERA
New York, Feb. 10. Smart New York is reverting to anotlier era for its 1937 dance steps.
Manhattan's newest dance, the Washington Waltz, which will bej officially Introduced at the New York birthday ball, Jan. 30, in honour of President Roosevelt and for benent
The Maharaja of Gwalior, whom he has been married for 32 cipated, return to Berlin from of the national infantile paralysis recently invested with ruling happy years.
powers by the Viceroy, became Search by G-Men engaged to Princess
Kamni
Prabha Devi during his Christ- He felt unwell and was told by his It is doctor to take things easy. Later nins visit to Calcutta.
he felt better, lunched with one of understood that he wishes the his company's directors and said he marriage to take place without had to rejoin his wife. unnecessary delay.
He entered a taxi, was heard to say "Go west to the driver and has never been seen since.
The Princess is the third sister of tho Maharaja of Tripura, a ruling
A great hunt for, the missing of family which ts authoritatively
magnate began. More than 20,000 recorded as belonging to Indo-Chinese circulars were distributed; "G" men stock. The ruling family claim co-operated with the New York descent from a famous family men police. tloned in a Hindu eple which is at
To-day a close friend of the family least 5,000 years old.
guid: It is possible that he Never having been subjected by the may have lost his memory. A. man Moghula, Tripura is not held by gift in his responsible position is prone or under any title derived from the to a nervous breakdown." British Government. It relations
differ from those with the. British
Government of the largest Indian friendship with the British connec States and those classed as tributary,tion and rendered meritorious ser- It has a long record of traditioanl vice to the Empire in the Great War.
Excused Soldiering-For
Table Tennis
HERE'S light relief from European war talk, A Hungarian military conscript has been excused his military service--to play table tennis! Bellak, one of Hungary's leading players, was due to report for mill- tary service in Budapest this month.
But Bellak is likely to be one of Hungary's chief challangers for the world championships, to be held in Budapest early in February, and for the English tities, to be contested in London a week later.
Bellak pointed this out to Húngary's Ministry of Sport. Within a few days he received word that he had been excused military service: '.
This also mables him to accept a str weeka" tour of the United States immediately following the championships,
his Italian tour to-morrow even-fund, was inspired by the rhythms of ing or Sunday morning. His the 10th century. It recalls the tantalizing three-quarter rhythms Byzantine progress has been which Vienna danced to the immortal
with unusual music of Johann Str
Strauss, recorded here
The German gratification.
Several of the routines in the new public have been informed by waltz, which debutantes and society. matrons alike are practising in an- the newspapers every day of the ticipation of the forthcoming Roose- marvellous
with velt enthusiasm
birthday celebration, also are which he was welcomed at every suggestive of the "hesitation" waltz.
was the latter dasploited the -dancing stopping place by the Italian teachers say, that first
that waltzing whirling- people.
could One great result of this visit is, so something beside
A dance dedicated to those crip- reports from Rome tell, an agree-pled as a result of infantile para- ment between the Governments of Italy and Germany whereby the latterlysis is not as paradoxical as it ding to Col. lienry L. sounds, according country is given share in the Doherly, for the fourth year na- economic development of Ethiopla.
tional chairman of the nation-wide A company has seemingly been birthday ball organization. formed whose purpose is to prospect "The celebrations are arranged," in the regions of Wollega and Western Col. Doherty says, "with the sole! and Eastern Harar for coal, Iron purpose that through funds thus copper, and lead.
The news of the formation of this company is said to have met with special satisfaction in Germany, and is claimed to be of particular im- portance politically, in that it is the reward of virtue.
Germany, it is pointed out in the Frankfurter Zeitung,, did not parti- elpate In Sanctions, and showed to Italy in her fight for a new Empire a full understanding. The news- papers have for several daya past been announcing in large letters that Ger-
is many
about" to receive materials from Abyssinia, and Ger- man visitors to that country in former years have declared their belief in the presence in the districts allotted to Germany for explultation of the metals and minerals which she so urgently needs.
Tow
It is nanounced here that German "earth-Investigators,", as prospectora are now named, have been selected to examine locally the mineral possi- bilities in the German reservations..
discovery
raised hundreds of children who are. not now able to walk may some day dance."-United Press.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Miss
10 p.m. London-Big Ben, 10.10 New Dance Tunes. 11 p.m. Close Down,
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Melch:
3.50 p.m. The Fifth Cricket Tent
Australia v. England. 4.10 p.m. John Londoner at Home, An evening with some of his many and various acquaintances.
4.40 pim. Chopin Pianofarta Sonata—1.
Reginald Paul (lanoforte)
6. p.m. Tales of the Bea-51 'Ocean Towing) A talk by Captain A. E. Jackson,
5.20.
Musical Interlude.
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Industries Fale.
8.40 p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 6.45 p.m. Transmission 2
(G.S.D., 6.6.6., 0.8.)!)
p.m. Big Ben. Cinema Organ Recital, 7.80 p.m. A Recital by Franklyn Kelsey
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Tul in England, Taika by representative Engllah people: (8) A doctor with a country practice In the West of England, 1.80 p.m.
The BBC Dance Orchestra 6.55 pm: The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Bignal at 9.16 p.m. 8.15 p.m. The Fifth Cricket Teat Match: Australfa Y. England.
1.45 p.nt. Dance Music.
BBC
Theatre
Transmission 3 (0.8.B., G.3.F, 5.8.E) 10 p.m. Dig Ben. The
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by John R. Allan, 11.40 p.m. The Fifth Cricket Teat Blatchi Austrolls T. England.
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OUTRAGE IN JAPAN KYOTO BROTHEL KEEPER ASSAULTS ENGLISHWOMEN
Tokyo, Feb. 25. The marriage arranged between Mr. Two Englishwomen, Miss Minnie
A. McKellar and
C. M. Karoldy and Miss Rose Saville, and' Ferguson will take place at the two Japanese girls were rendered
three Union Church, Hongkong, on unconscious, while
English Wednesday, 17th March, 1937, at women and eleven Japanese girls 4 o'clock. No invitations will be re
received lesser Injuries from Issued but friends will be wel- Japanese brothel keeper and three come at the Church and after- roughs who forced entry into the wards at the Noot Garden, English-Japanese Rescue mission et Hongkong Hotel.
Higashimazumura, Osaka Prefecture, yesterday evening.
The Intruders, who took this action because of the continued refusal of HOUGHTON-At the French Hos- the mission to surrender two
pital, on Thursday, February 25,
25, Japanese
nese prostitutes who had escaped Mario Houghton," aged 34, wife
brothel at from his of Marcellus Francis Houghton.
Kyoto, were ar- Funeral will pass the Monumented with sticks and baseball bats and to-day at 5.15 p.m. (Shanghai, smashed the windows and broke the
furniture... Singapore,-Penang, Manila and Macau papers please copy).
DEATH
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