THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938.-
YUAN YAO PUTS AWAY HER FURS
Off To War -In Pair of Flannels
Miss Nien Yuan Yao, u graduate in sociology at London University, is com- ing back to China, but not to her own home.
Her home in Peking is destroyed, her mother, father, brothers and sisters are scattered, and she does not know where they are, or if they are alive.
She said: "I am not going back to took for them. There is no family or personal life left in China. We just trust each
each other."
That attitude has cost a girl of twenty-three a great deal in per
happiness and ambition.
She went to London three years ago and worked in child welfare elinles in Bethnal Green beenuse she thought: the most important work she could do for the new, Ideal China would be
done through cliftd education.
FIGHT FOR FUTURE
And in the mouth "she passed her fest examination war broke out.
She
She had news of friemis, in China's air force, being killed or lost. read of her old'schoul being destroyed to the foundations
Gradually sh
bears.
was drained of the
ars. Then he read of the fall of Canton dry-eyed and reasonable.
"We meant to lose Canton. Re- sistance cost us too much in Shang- Jal. It would have cost 13 million lives to defend it, and
interest
bur
was purely rentimental-the ancient elty and buildings. We are not de fending ancient stones, but the future
of every life we can save."
All her Western clothes her black hat with veil, fox furs and high-i
heeled shoes-are to be stored.
She tp taking a pair of fannst trousers, a sweater, and a jacket.
Miss Hasler, left. Mrs. A. B. Penn and Miss Wood intently watch the puting up of the nones of starters of last Saturday's
TeePictorial News.
For
£5,000 Estate
Secret Daughter
NEEDLE WORK BOX IMPERIAL PROOF BY WOMAN AIRWAYS BELIEVED DEAD
With an old needlework box, a photograph and a birth certificate a woman proved recently, in a Chancery Division action which had a distinct Dickensian atmosphere, that she was the long-lost daughter of a dead Brighton grocer and was entitled to his £5,000 estate.
Mr. Justice Bennett was asked to decide the next-of- kin of Mr. Julian White, who died intestate on January, 20, 1936.
Mrs. Ellen Smith claimed the estate, alleging that she was the only child of Mr. Julian White and Mrs. Ellen White, who died in November, 1935. Cousins and other relatives of Mr. White
contested the claim.
PROFIT
"Because of the continted and de- plurable delay in delivery of the new landplane fleet, due to circum-
KING OF NOWHERE'
CO. STRANDED
When the curtain came down at the Garrick Theatre, Southport, recently the company playing "The King of Nowhere" found there was no money to take them any- where.
Miss Cathleen Nesbitt and Mr. Robert Speaight head the cast. The information was that there was only enough left to pay about 10s, each.
Mr. Speaight telephoned to Mr. Godfrey Tearle, president of Equity (the actors' trade union), who personally guaranteed the rauway fares to London.
Mr. Max Kirby said "When we opened at the Opera House, Manchester, in October we had been guaranteed a ten-week tour, to be followed by ten weeks in America.
"At the end at the first week Wa
had a letter to say that the financial backing had been withdrawn.
"As the management of the Winter Gardens, New Brighton, where we were due, were faced with the pros- pect of closing the theatre unless we appeared they guaranteed the salaries of all but the four principals, und we went there for the week.
Bournemouth,
LORD ELIBANK ON TRADE IN CHINA
London.
Lord Elibank, speaking in Scol- land recently emphasised the serious effect on British trade of Japanese The occasion agression In China.
Scottish Unionist Association held was the annual conference of the
at Glasgow, and Lord Elbank "The same arrangement saw us Government the necessity for taking
moved
a resolution urging on the through a week at the Theatre Royal, all possible steps to alleviate losses nccording to Brilish trade and in- "The Southport management ad-terests. He suggested as a retallatory measure the denunclotion of the vanced £75, but after Saturday Anglo-Japanese
trade night's show, when abilities were
with t
#view to excluding met and this £75 had been repald, exports from our Colonics. Uniess the takings would give us about ten
we stood up to Japan, he said, we shillings ench,
were going to lose our trade in that part of the world. The resolution Ond was passed unanimously.
"It was too late for us to money then.
"Mr. Tearle came to the rescue and the landjadles have shown us every kladness. He we are
We are sup posed to be opening at Brighton shortly."
It's
ament
Six-Word Will Probated
Lancaster, Pa. left Mary D. Keefe
of the shortest wills ever probated here She wrote: "I leave everything to my sister."
Part of
YOUR
There's nearly 14,000,000 square miles of territory in the British En- pire and some queer fact for every mille of it!
Here are A few of them. Did YOU know, of MALAYA, that ...
They produce two-fifths of the world's rubber and one-third of its Itin?
Nine out of every ten tins of pine- apple you buy are canned there?
They grow enough coconuts to give one to every grown man on the face of the earth as a Christmas present?
There is only one European to
There are 250,000 different sorts
stances over which the company had no control, the number af passengers every 250 natives? tried on European services during the year was only maintained." | of insects? states the annual report of Imperial Airways.
Passengers carried on all routes
Increased from 60,387 to 82.105.
of
Profit amounted to £87,207, com- pared with the record pront
£164,735 in 1937. The directors re- commend a dividend of 7 per cent.
on the Ordinary shares, which will
absorb £02,738.
This was the story to which Mr. the lesitimate child of the intestatemail scheme over the Empire routes, Justice Bennett Estened:
and entitled to the estate.
MORE MAIL Truffle ton miles operated showed an increase of 80 per cent, due to the introduction of the non-surcharge į
Traffic ton miles, including · mail, freight baggage and passengers, on On December 10. 1883. Mr. and
Mr. Julian White, it was revealed both Empire and European services Mrs. White were married at Brighton had long believed that his daughter
from 5,171,504 in 1937 to register office.
8,353,018, was dead.
Milles flown totalled 0,223,000, Eighteen days later a child wasi Is wife, an eccentric woman, had. į born in St. Giles' Institution, London. for some reason, kept secret from against 5,231,055.
The company paid £2,043.117 on
That child (Mrs. Ellen Smith now) in that fact that the daughter was account of new aircraft during the was placed in the custody of alive.
At his death Mr. White appeared year, an increase of £1,028,800.
family named Round, who lived near .Drury Lane.
Unill she was 11 the child was re-
gularly visited by a woman
to have little money, but a starch off
wealth.
the house revealed the extent of his |
whom Relatives were alvertised for, and
she believed to be her mother. Then among those who replied was
the visits censed,
wordan
had
In the meantime this given her a needlework bas, Eng her that it was more than 100 years old and had belonged to her grand-| mother.
It was engraved with the namej **Mary Ann Steer," That was thei maiden name of Mr. Julian White's mother.
laughter.
the
Why Scots Keep Their Return
Tickets
INTEREST IN CHINA
one
Empire
Ship May Order "Bearded Men Only"
Dartmouth.
The negritos believe that the dead go to a western paradise of fruit Sailors who serve in the trees?
There is the oldcat church in the East-St. Paul's Hill. Research, now being built Christian non-magnetic research ship where St. Francis Xavier died?
Singapore is the greatest fortress for the Admiralty, may be earth and regarded by Australia compelled to grow beards.
Mr. J. J. Sautter, managing And did you realise of the WEST director of Messrs. Philip and INDIES that
and New Zealand as the first de. fence line in the Pacific?
was
marooned
Nelson established his reputation Son, the builders, said that there, besides falling in love?
substitutes have been found for Columbus Jamaica in 15037
nearly every steel article re- Jamalea takes £2,000,000 of
our quired. goods a year? And sends us £1,000- 000 of bananas each year?
St.
But experts are baffled by the steel razor.
so far they have been unable to find a non-metallic substitute.
Bligh of the Bounty lunded Vincent's frst breadfruit?
Tobago was Crusoe's Island? We battled with the French, Spanish and Dutch for 200 years?
the West Every known pirate of salled there?
Barbados sella rum for 25. a bottle? Slingshots Fell Grouse And of BRITISH GUIANA that. It is our only South American pos-
Yakima, Wosh. ression? London. Sir John Wardlaw-Milne is one of It takes and send us £1,000,000 Four hunters who went into moun- those Members of Parliament who at gooda a year?
tains near Leavenworth in a fruitless show a very lively interest in affairs It was Raleigh's El Dorado? quest for deer spont their idle time in China, since these are of great im
They recently discovered the portance to Britain. He asked an- world's highest waterfall-half a mileng grouse with slingshots. They were A. C. Rich, A. P. Russell, Ho- other question, which is appended: high-from an aeroplane, and also
Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne asked the have the Kaltieur Falls, Ove Imes ward Springer and H. D. Middle-
arc
Prime Minister whether the Governos high as Nagora? ment
aware of the rapidly deteriorating conditions in various parts of China owing to Japanese "Every Scot who comes to England measures; and what action it is in- that of the woman who used to visit keeps the return half of his ticket." tended to take to improve these con-
That is the slogan of Mrs. Norrie ditions?
A photograph also came into heri possession, which she identified as
her,
White.
kauff.
I
Grandmother Greeted Drummer Boy Deserter
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KING'S
Cathedral Jubilee
Solemn Consecration Marks Occasion
The Catholic community of Hong- kong yesterday celebrated the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the Golden Jubilee of the Caine Road Cathedral which was inaugurated on December 8, 1888.
SEZZELÜNSTERAN?
Martyrs inside the altar. Following prayers, the Bishop performed three lustrations of the inner walls and floor of the altar and finally poured out, on the floor, the holy water in the form of a cross, At the com- pletion of this lustration, n solemn prayer of thanksgiving was paid, and this concluded what may be called the "baptism" of the Cathedral.
the Accompanied by the Clergy, Bishop then went to a chapel close to the Cathedral where the relies that were to be entombed in the altor were solemnly exposed. The relics were carried back to the Cathedral in procession followed by the Faith- ful, who were now allowed to enter the Cathedral. The Holy Rolles As on act of thanksgiving, the were then momentarily placed on a Cathedral was solemnly consecrated | decorated table, and after the Bishop by H. E
cavity in iba Mgr. Valtortu, Vicar had anointed a little Apostolle of Hongkong, assisted by middle of the altar stone, the relics the . E. Mgr. Da Costa Nunes, were placed there and scaled in with
Mgr. ermont. Bishop of Magno, and H. E. Deswazieres, Titular
of Bishop Maximiana, The ceremonics
Going on to the next part of the nected with the consecration com- ceremony, the Bishop poured hely menced at 0.15 am. and in spite of oils all over the altar stone in the the early hour a congregation from form of a cross, and then placed in- When this was all districts of the Colony attended. cense at the altar.
At the end
over, a priest look his place at the Pontificat High Moss was celebrated, altar, and swinging the thurible went Commencing Wrc Consecration unceasingly round the altar through- Towards the end of the rituals, the services, Bishop Valtorta, escorted by out the remainder of the ceremony. the Clergy and the Faithful, walked three times round the external walls Bishop walked down the nave of the the Cathedral, praying, and Cathedral and anointed 12 crosses sprinkling them with holy water. The which were placed in the walls and was a lighted Bishop, then approached the
door before each of which of the Cathedral, which was locked, candle. The 12 crosses symbolized and knocked on it, at the same time the 12 Apostles upon, whom, as
the Apostolle Church saying the words of a Psalm. The foundation, door was opened and the Bishop, es- was built. The consecration con- corted by a few of the Clergy, en- cluded with a second oblation of in-
of
of the
con-
Consecration,
tered.
The interior of the Cathedral was Ughted by 12 candles placed along Blessed Sacrament
¿enso.
In the evening there was a Solemn with Benediction of the Triduum
the preacher ita deserted nave and alsics, and as being the Rev. Fr. R. W. Gallagher,
Fraser, 32-year-old secretary of thef Mr. Butler: Yes, Sir, and as the On the child's birth certificate, the London Sents Self-Government Com-House is aware His Majesty's Gov- mother พด described as "Ellen mitter.
ernment have made representations White, charwoman of Dudity Street, Mrs, Fraser is organising a vigorous to the Japanese Government in all Londan." otherwise Mrs. Fanny campaign in London for Scottish in-cases where British interests have.
Recently seventeen-year-old drummer boy Harry Bas- the choir sung the antiphon "Peace S.J.
be with this House," the Bishop and dependence. It will begin directly. (been adversely affected.
sam was free to return and work for the grand-mother for visualise
Clergy proceeded to the altar, where Another Member who quite tee- дл independent
whose sake he ran away from the Army.
they prostrated themselves and re- Mr. Justice Bennett said that Mrs. Parliament for Scotland, to have quently shows an interest in these
elted would do it again for my grand-locking of the door of the Cathedral the Litanies. Following the re- when his grand- Harry deserted Smith had beyond all reasonable complote control of internal Scottish matters is Commander Marsden, and
the Bishop traced out the Greek and doubt Identified the photograph of the affairs, with some sort of Common-he also asked a question with regard woman who had visited her and told wealth Parliament with England for to the British Garrison at Shanghal: mother was forced to sell her home Commander Marsden asked the and live in rooms, for it was she who
'ALWAYS LOVED ME'
Latin Alphabets in ashes, which had had brought him up since his folher snld,
Seventy-eight-year-old Mrs. Bas-been previously strewn in the form the it is proposed to reinforce the
of a cross over the floor of the One of the grievances
Is tallon of Seaforth Highlanders at
Cathedral. Self-Government Committee
The court-martial who heard his som said: "Harry always loved me. He left his job to join the Army ba- ihat Scotland, because of economia Shanghal in their task of protecting story at Bordon Camp, Hants, on
cause all his friends did so, and he pressure, is being drained of its the British sector of the perimeter October 11, sentenced him to twenty-
was lonely. best talent through emigration. of the International Settlement; and, eight days' detention, but the sen
"When his mother died last At the conclusion of this part of "As far as London Seals are con-if so, when, and how many British tence was suspended. Later it was August, and the money she earned the ceremony, the Bishop blessed cerned," said Mrs. Fraser, "a great troops will be dispatched for the quashed.
stopped coming in, he never went soine holy water and sprinkled it on Harry, the majority would welcome the oppor-purpose?
who was in the and.back from his leave. He was wor- the altar, walking round the altar Battn., the Buffe, told the court ried about: me, and searched for n seven times reciting appropriate that ho spent weeks searching job to keep me.. I know be did not prayers. Then commenced the pre- London for a job. He added: "I fun away for any other reason but paration of the cement which were am not sorry for, what I did. I to come back and help.”.
to be used to close the Relies of the
Mrs. White.
She had also produced a work- box, about the genuineness of which there was no doubt. Mrs. M. A. Steer was admittedly the mother of Mr. Julian White.
This being so, it followed that Mr. Julian White must have been father of Mrs, Smith,
Bubject to proof that Mr. Julian White was the only son of his mother, he held that Mrs. Smith was
of
tunity to return to Scotland if Jobs) Bir. Hore-Bellsha: The 2nd Bat- talion, The East Surrey Regiment, is were available for them there.
on its way to reinforce the British Garrison at Shanghai.
"They have kept the return half
of their tickets to this end,"
Reiles of Martyrs
CONTINENTAL
STURDY and
STRONG
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