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BRITISH M.T.B.S IN ACTION OFF EAST COAST
1950 MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH WIVES Story Of
WOMEN outnumber men in England and Wales
by 1,631,000, it is shown by figures published recently. More than half a milllon of what were once called "surplus women” live in Greater London alone.
He Seals His
Letters In Chinese
"Joy Guest" Is Englishman's Name
wood.
All these women are twenty- years old, or more. Below
age there are more boys than girls.
Nazi
Warship's
This suggests that a time may A.
come when there will be a shortage
of women. Here is the position in
the youngest age groups: --- ·
WHEN the submarine
Up to Bfteen yearn: More boys Spearfish attacked the Ad- than giris.
miral Scheer, Germany's
Fifteen to twenty: About equal crack pocket battleship list-
numbers.
In ten years, when to-day's boya of fifteen are at marrying age, will there be enough brides near their
own age?
The
ed immediately.
Our underwater men had made a direct hit.
THERE is one Englishman in London who seals his letters It was foreenst by Proteasar That was the news they told with his name in Chinese. Bowley in 1923 that by 1951 there when they came home to
He is Mr. Robert Hart Maze, would be thousands more males than British port, formerly an officer in the Chinese women between Afteen and forty- Lieut.Commander John Hay Customs Inspectorate, and a nephew five. of Sir Robert Hart, the celebrated
figures issued recently the Forbes spotted the big ship and head of the Chinese Customs Service, latest completed by the Registrar-ordered the attack, told his men they He is now retired, and lives in Nor-General-show that in the middle of had scored a bit as three destroyers there were 19,792,000 males and escorting the battleship bore down
on them, writes a correspondent. Mr. Harl. Maze's Chinese name, 21,423,000 females of all ages in
"We cheered like med,"
they bestowed on him by his uncle, is England and Wales.
Ever since the beginning of however, transliterated Mel, Le Pin. Mei is} -
war they had been walling to see the surname, chosen because it
the German Navy, and suddenly Approximates to Maze. Le mests
they found
were in the middle of
It. They cracked open the Scheer. But at the
the time they did not know what they had been firing at.
1038
already
more men than women-
bad
sald
5 1,230,100.
"Joy" and Pin "a guest." The More than half the extra women name is regarded as particularly in England live in the south-east lucky by the Chinese people, for and in the towns, The excess In everyone is delighted to have, joy country areas is small. ne z guest,
Vera, 17, Is
New Table
Tennis Star
Now Low Level
"We knew five minutes later," they said, "and we knew we would be in for trouble."
The Fun Bogan
The destroyers came after them,
forrard, one
aft. Then the
The Registrar-General's Statistical Review. also shows that in 1938:
Maternal' moralliy reached a new low level of 2.00 per 1,000 bi
births. Infant mortality (under one year) two was 53 per 1,000 births-four per "fun" began.
Depth 1,000 below the previous record.
charges Were dropped. Births totalled 021,204, and the Commander Forbes ticked them off birth rate was 15.1 per 1,000 of the on a a sheet. population-2 higher than in 1937, None of them hit. So to-day the -back-to SEVEN THOUSAND table than in 1933.
3 higher than in 1936, and 7 higher crew of the Spearfish came
land with oil on their faces and soft tennis fans-all that the law Staffordshire (17.7) had the high-beards growing on their ching,
There is no time to shave, or even will allow-stood on their scats est rate: Cardiganshire (11.9) and
cat in
battle like this. They and cheered a young English Cambridgeshira (12.2) were lowest. girl, Vera Dace, when she won Open the English Women's Table Tennis Championship at £40,000,000 Man the Empire Pool, Wembley, re- cently.
Sho beat Dora. Beregi, a red- headed Hungarian, by four sets to one in the final.
table tennis,
looked as if they had been on a
island. Anyway, desert
one sces us but the fah, they chuckled.
a lovely "Oh, the Scheer was sight, a lovely plcture," they sale. Sued For Divorce ut she wasn't so lovely when she listed. When we got her we felt we had
got a
a bit of our own back."
MRS. Mary Elizabeth Altemus Commander Forbes went to SCE Whitney, after registering at a his wife and two children in their It was her first major success in fashionable holet at Reno, Nevada, house at the edge of the sea nearby.
said that she had established residence Mrs. Forbos had not worried. Miss Dace is seventeen and is em- there to divorce John Hay (Jock) "That doesn't seem to help," she ployed at
at the Board of Trade. Previously Miss Beregl had beaten Jean Nicoll, the holder of the title,
The men's title was won by the young world champion from Paland, Richard Bergmann.
Whitney, the New York sportsman.
She had motored from Hollywood, Her suit would be fled "In due course," she enld.
Last month, Mr. Whitney, was ported to have offered to settle £750,000 on his wife after she had
STOCK MARKET admitted she was separated from
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(Tried to Win National
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left him the heir to his £40,000,000 fortune, was married In 1930 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Alternus.
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said. "The only thing to do is to wait for him to come in at the gate." "Torpedoed Her All Right" I asked Charles, Commander Forbes's nine-year-old son, if he was led to see his father back.
"Yes,
I are," he said.
"You mean I am," said an elder girl.
"Well, I'm glad," said Charles.
Commander Forbes could hardly keep his eyes open.. "We tor- pedoed the Scheer all right," he said. "I thought she had gone.. She was going over when we were forced down."
Her wedding present from "Play- boy Jock" was £250,000.
He had come off the Spearfish | Sportsmen in England know Jock shaven, brushed and immaculate.
"My men were grand,' he said. Whitney. largely for his racing stable.
He spent a fortune, on his greatest They enjoyed it. It was work that * ambition to win, the Aintree Grand the Navy's been looking for for a National-ind nearly 'won it three long time. They've been unger for times with Sir Lindsay, Easter Hors action." and Thomond II...
LATE NEWS
This was his first trip as comman- der of the Spearfish,
To-day his interests are those of "And I could not have hoped for A film magnaje, He is president of a batter one," he said. Selznick International Pictures and has devoted much time to making lechnicolour- famous,
SATURDAY'S BRIDE
Mr. Joseph P. Lee Weds Miss M. A. Ng
FAMOUS AIR PILOT KILLED
Among 65 names of R.A.F. officers and men in an Alr: Ministry.casualty. list issued recently are thoas of two. pllots who became famous in peace
The wedding took place at Margaret's Church, Happy Valley, on-Flying Saturday, between Mr. Joseph P. Lee killed in action, was with British and Miss Margret Anne Ng. The Airways for some years, and had Rev. Fr. U Galbiati oficiated. down more than 1,000,000 miles. In Dec., 1938, while returning from The bride is the daughter of Mr. aking naval officers to their ships and Mrs. Jackson Ng of Cheklang. et Casablanca, he was fired on by She was Elven away by her father. Spanish Government anti-aircraft The bridegroom is the nephew of guns at Minorca He escaped by! a zig-zag course, but the Mr. Les Teung-gua) director of Mears, Joseph B. Lee & Co., and also
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