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MEDICAL Social Items Elderly Fiance
RELIEF
Generous Donation By Hospital Staff
The wedding took place on Wednes day at the Registry before Mr. T. 8. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Marriages,
of Captain Francia Cyril Flynn, R.N.,
Chooses Ring QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
Thirty-two-year-old. MUS Con.
of MS. Tarantula, to Holly Ziemer stance Edith Currie, engured recently (nee Velten). The wiinceses were to Bir Maurice Jenks, aged sixty. Mr. W. Jusser and Mrs. It. Janssen.lx, Lord Mayor of London in 1931-3. did not choose ber three-diamond she: "Sir engagement ring. Bald The wedding took place yesterday Maurice chose it. I don't know A brief report of the activities of
very much about jewellery. Only the Hongkong Sanatorium and Hos-at the Registry before Mr. T. J. pital Medical Itellet Group, covering Gould, Deputy Registrar of Marriages, mother lus seen it so far." Aliss the period from August 1937. to of Mr. Li Chen-he, teacher, and Miss Currie was nurse for three years to Wong Mung, teacher, residing Sir Maurico's first wife who diest last December 1938 has been received,
at 461 Reclamation Street. The Juno; she is the same RKO as his The Group was organised at the witnesses were Mrs. Tang Yun-song eldest son, sult calls her fiance "Sir outbreak of hostilities, the nurses and and Mr. Lnu Shlu-shin.
Maurice." He said at the Carllon Club where they had tea together! the staff of the hospital feeling the
and urgent need for an organisation to
"Mix Currlo's devoted The following forthcoming wed-| help in
modest way the enormous dings are announced: Mr. Ernest attention to my wife created a bond us. Other task of giving medical relief to the Bruce, Master Mariner. Mesars. of sympathy between
the Front.
and went but Con- Butterfield and Swire, Hongkong, nurses came
alance stayed." With this object in view, the Group and Miss Margaret Arthur Ross, Bald Miss Curcio's mother-Mmm, TV. school teacher, of "Kinnaird," offered its services to other organing Torphins, Scotland; Mr. Klang Pad R. Currie, of Monk's Orchard road tions who are buying and shipping llen, marine oméer, Chinese Maritime Beckenham (Kent): "My daughter & supplies to the front, by giving them Customs, and Miss Sha Zak-kong, not the modern type of girl. Boy facilities
friends do not interest her And I dressings, curing and preserving cat-udent; Mr. Tung Chil-wun, teacher, think this in the first time she has gut, etc. Further, the Group issued Miss Chan Lal-hang, teacher, of been in love." monthly subscription books, and, 19 Connaught Road West, Hongkong.
wounded
for
"The
sterilisation of
thanks to the untiring earls of the
nurses and staff and the generosity
of friends and sympathisers, the re
caro
turns are encouraging. The contri- CANADA'S DEFENCE SERVICES CONCERT
bullon also consist of 0 per cent. of
the
staff and
The collections so far are as follow: Estimate Nearly Twice
Charity Concert (September 1937), $2,100.29; Monthly contributions from 1038, October 1937 to September $7,060.45; Monthly contribution for October 1935, $602.07; Monthly con-
The
Last Year's Figure
In Aid of Dependants Of
Lance-Sergt. Thompson
Under the distinguished patronage Ollawa, Jun. 20.. Parliament will be asked to vole of His Excellency the Governor, and of the dependants of the lote in ald expenditure for the tribution for November 1938, $040.05; $467,000,000 Monthly contribution for December.scal year beginning April, compar-Lance-Sergt. Thompson, of the Royal 1938, $779.10; Total: $11,281.50. ed with $418,000,000 last year, ac- Artillery, who left for England on
donations following
were cording to the moln estimates tabled, Monday by the troopship Dilwara, a made: National Red Cross Society of by the Finance Ministes, Mr. Charles and Services Concert will be held at the Peninsula Hotel (Rose Room) China (per Dr. C. Y. Wu) on 27.1.38, Dunning, to-day.
this evening at 0 p.m. $1,137.54; on 4.5.38, $1,008.40; an Including $29,000,000, which 清除
The artists taking part will be Miss 4.7.39, $700.08; and on 20.1.39, for charged to capital account and will Audrey Oakenfull, ballet and one ambulance
$3,445; Hongkong be amortised in 10 years, the de- acrobatic dancer from the Arcadia Emergency Refugee Council, 4.7.38 fence, estimates total $03.000.000. Salon and Rochester Casino; Gaston $100; Bellish Fund for the Relief of compared with $38,000,000 last year. D'Aquino (Tenor), Doreen Ma Distress in China on 9.12.38, $1,000) The air estimates are inore than (Pianist), Helen Lockhart (Soprano), Total, 7,107.02.
cubled at $30,000,000. Eighty-three Mrs. Waldon (Soprano), Eva Turner Drugs were given to the Hongkong heroplanes will be added to the air (Soprano), Mr. A. R. Colquhoun Branch of the National Chinese Wo-force and five buses will be con- (Plane Accordion), The Harmony men's Bellef Association, valued at structed or improved on the Pacifree
Three. Peanut Honch (Balancing $089.28; and caigut to the National Const.
Pietro Machren! Act),
(One Man Red Cross Society of China (per Dr. The Naval estimates Include a Band), P. Guntrip (Baritone), Bud C. Y. Wu) valued at $2,104.75; Total new warship and $5,000,000 for im-Wheeler (Comedian), Mainy (Come- provements in naval base at Esqui- dian), Dodger Green & Co. (Come- dunations were therefore $10,201.05.
At an informal gathering at the malt.-Reuter Special.
dians), B.Q.M.S. Dicks
(Comedian), Hospital yesterday morning the
C.P.O. Kettle (Caricatures), QM.S. Group donated an ambulance to the
Mrs. Flinter (Comedians), Wig- Red Cross Society of China, per Dr.
gins (Male Volec Quartello), W.0.1. C. Y, Wu.
A. Austin, A.E.C. (Accompanist), David Kosslek (Character Actor).
WANG INJURED
Fall at Residence Iri Hanoi
Chinese
Mr. Way.
Shanghai, Jun. 20.
Magistrate Rebukes European
anet
The band of H.M.S. Engle, under the direction of W. H. A. Every, R.M., and by kind permission of
A European caused a stir in the Captain Clement Moody, n.8., will be First Magistrale's court, Ipoh, re- present. cently when he walked into the court: Prices of admission are $3 and $2. in his shirt sleeves and with, a walking-stick under his arm: He
on his
The magistrate, Mr. P. F. Y. Rad-
Anniversary Day
the Bar table and KENT SENDS MESSAGE Mr. Wang Ching-wet, Chinese poll-walked up to tician, who abandoned the cause of started to open conversation with the Broadcast to Australia On Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, is accord-prosecuting officer, who was ing to latest reports, still staying in feet at the time. Hanol and said to be living at the
London, Jan. 26. home of the late Gen. Chu Pel-tchcliffe, asked him what he meant by,
Broadcasting us Governor-General- former chief of general staff of the coming into court in his shirt-sleeves
and carrying a stick. It was highly Designate a message of greeting to the on the proper, he said, for a person to Australian Commonwealth come into court in that männer, occasion of Australia Day, to-day, The offender who appeared to be the Duke of Kent said that he und out of countenance, the Duchess were proud to be follow- considerably retired from the court after apologis-ing the footsteps of other members major posts formerly helding to the Bench.
of his family who had been in the Commonweath and never forgotten the warmth of the welcome they re- ceived.
Is sald
have injured his back a few days ago in a fall. downstairs, but it is believed the in- jury is not serious,
three
by
Mr.
two are still vacant the third, that of President of the People's Political Assembly, being over by Marshal Chiang Kai-
shel
The other two posts are Chairman
of the Central Political Counell and
,
A
King Taught Her To Eat
"In my public life in Britain I have tried to gain, a real appreciation of this country's problems by per- sonal contact," said the Duke. "I hope to follow that course in Aus-
Deputy Executive of the Kuomin- trg Party. For the latter post Dr. PRINCESS Marie Louise of Bul-tralia also and, when the opportunity SF, President of the Legislative garia, aged five, recently lost her offers, to meet the worker at his Yuan, as well as Gen. Chang Chun, appetite, refused to eat, and become work and the farmer at his farm.” Vice-President of the
Reuter Special. executive pale and this.
have been mentioned, but so far no Her worried father, King Boris, { appointment has been confirmed--tried on experiment. Every day for
Seven Die In Ice Wave In U.S.A.
New York, Jan. 20.
A récord-breaking; cold wave has gripped north-eastern United Stales, extending from the Great Lakes, through New England and Ontario.
Seven are dead as a result of ex- posure or fire and trafle accidents.
In the northern part of New York Slate, the temperature is six degrees below zero, while in New Hampshire the mercury has dropped to 12 de- grees below zero, Accompanied by
gales.--United Press,
Ja week he Invited eight poor children
to lunch with the Princess.
The table was abundantly spread, jand everybody ate with good appetite
except the hostess.
For two days she merely looked on In amusement. The third day the began to be interested in her food.
After that she ate heartly. now her appetite la normal."
and
California To
At
China Calls On Inventor
Pasadena, Cal. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. C. Y. the personal solicitation of
Meng, young Chinese graduate student of the California Institute of Teelinology and who there invented the smallest radio tube in the world. has been engaged to construct short- Trans-Ocean.
War On Rats Long Fear Justified
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FREDA UTLEY ON CHINA Mobilisation of People An Issue
LONDON, Jan. 26. MOBILISATION OF the people has been long demanded
by the Communists, and is a burning issue for China, said Freda Utley when lecturing to-day at the Royal Central Asian Society.
She anid thnt the willing co- would now be firmly for mobilisation operation of the peasants was indis- of the people. pensable for the success of mobile] warfare and guerilla tacties which had formed the offensive phase of the war upon which Chiang Kai-shek was now entering.
CREDITS IN TIME
JAPAN'S HOPELESS TASK She drew attention to the world for social and administrative reform which was to run concurrently with the guerilla operations throughout the vast areas behind the Japaneks lines, which were still completely Government.
Miss Ulley said that Chiang Kai-under the control of the Chinese shek had so far been held back by
In reply to a question whether. the influence of old traditions and Japan could the conquest pay, Miss the sentiments of some of the cle- Utley replied that there were certain ments in the Chinese Government. economic laws which could not be
British and American credits to broken. China came in the nick of time to
Japan's financlai strength was not Federal decide the expulsion of Wang Ching- great enough to make the wei,
which was a declaration to Reserve Bank notes convertible and Japan that there would bo no acceptable. When people get nothing surrender, and that the united front for their produce, they cease to pro- duco the Russian · bolsheviks was unbroken.
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