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Colonel Josiah Wedgwood has himself written 550 letters to M.P.s in his effort to raise a minimum of £15,000 of a maximum of £80,000. The money la required as 'a 'condi- tion to the Government undertaking the publication of the History of Parliament.

Colonel Wedgwood left out bla own party, the Socialist Party, Hạ will reach them by other means.

PAGEANTRY OF ROYAL

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UNEXCELLED FOR BEAUTY,

When you

(By Margaret Lane)

:: London. from his honeymoon was to pro-

or I decide to get, vide for their dependents.

When the present. King

Each of the 550 letters was writ-married it is not such a diffeult When King George Wed

ten (not typewritten). No two were the same in phraseology.

matter.

Was

Three weeks to wait, seven-and-married nine Princesses in volu Three hundred replies have been sixpence, a licence. A quarter of minous silk gowns swept rustling received. The envelopes contained an hour in an empty church, ten behind Princess Mary to the altar, - £4,000. Only two members, so far, minutes in a dusty rogister, office, and when the new. Duchess of have refused.

York left for her honeymoon át. and the job is done.

That is all the State or Church Sandringham the prosaic Interior demands of us, that we shall sign of Liverpool-street Station blor- Relics of royal weddings are pre- served for generations with, senti-

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POWERS OF PERSUASION

The Earl of Onelow is writing our names, and make our promises somed fantastically with flowers.

as privately as we please.

180 letters to

peers. Viscount"

Ullswater is appealing to other How different from the tre mental care. Cottages up and

peers who were formerly members mendons stir and pageant of a

down England still cherish on Months of of the House of Commons, £5,000 royal wedding!

pre- their mantel-pieces uncouth muga 18 wanted from Lords and Commons paration, months of work, thou-and plates, commemorating the before the appeal is extended to the sands of journeys taken, trade bride Victoria and her German public.

barometers leaping like chamois,

bridegroom: Princess Alexandra The power of the personal appeal and a public show that for beauty and her "dearest Bertie" still gaze is proving irresistible. One M.P. and excitement is not excelled by perenially young, from the thick replied. "Here is blood from anything in the world.

'glass of countless paper-weights,

:

stone." Another wrote, "Only a! Yet the simple essentials are the Four royal wedding dresses are boor or a bankrupt could refuse." "same: two young people wanting preserved with love in the London There was only one mild threat to get married and going to church Museum, the Cockney's treasure- in Col. Wedgwood's appeal. He told for their wedding. The difference house of sentiment. People go in every member that all replies which is in the great splendour of page and look at them every day. began "owing to the, many calls on antry which tradition and the peo There is the narrow little Em- ¡ple build round a royal marriage. pire dress of silver short-sleeved.

my purse," would be framed.

Your Daily Smile!

It becomes, by the national low-bosomed. of Princess Char weight of the occasion and the lotte, who died when she was fact that millions take as great an twenty-one. There is the spread- When a girl dreaine, she dreams she interest as if it were in their own ing white satin crinoline, the fad- The China Mail Truk, in the Carolines, to Rabaul is being married in a charch which is families, so tremendous a festival ed orange-blossom wreath, the is only a matter of 800 miles, crowded with former suitors who are that few, royal lovers ean, face lacy going-away bonnet of Queen whilst Rabaul is 1786 miles from crying so loud that the strains of the their part in it without trembling, Victoria. Darwin. Interest also. attaches wedding march can't be heard.

All For One Day to the mandated islands on

Queen Victoria's Wedding

Queen Alexandra's lesser bridal account of the fact that next year The golfing novice prepared for his Queen Victoria, slight and girl-crinoline, festooned with tylle and Japan's withdrawal from the shot with the usual olaboration. He ish for all her billowing white lace. Is there as well, and Queen

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1934.|

Japanese Mandated

Islands

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BREVITIES

Prince Al

The pageant ef a royal wedding

passing in under the gaze of a million albums, and a generation thousand eyes and the blaze of of people who in 50 years will trot jeatin and diamonds.

out eye-witness stories for their She stepped steadily enough to grandchildren..... the altar, with her eight white-" was only a young girl about crinolined bridesmaids floating your age, my dear, when I saw the like swang behind her, but those Duchess of Kent driving down Con- nearest her velvet hassock saw she stitution Hill, passing just as near was flushed and nervous; even to me as that chair....? they could not hear her whispered |responses. -

League, of which she has already addressed the ball, swung with his crinoline and the heavy velvet and Mary's modish nineties wedding given notice, will become effec-club, brought it down smack on the jermine dragging the carpet behind dress with a little boned waist and tive. The future status of the the turf travelled 10. In no way dis- her, trembled so much when she lace-smothered bodice.

The ball three yards; islands will then be a difficult mayed, he strode forward and picked saw the massed splendour of the The Naval Conversations in problem, since the basic docu- up the piece of turf he had displaced. Chapel Royal, St James's, and Marina's silver gown, her gloves, One day, perhaps, Princess London and the expression of ments in regard to mandatories This was as it should be. But every heard the organ thundering, that her wreath and one of her famous Japanese opinion in regard to have a large "area of equivoca- one gasped when he put it in his poc

ket.

88 an eye-witness recorded-little hats will join them in the naval requirements have focuss-tion." South Africa has already "You mustn't do that, sir!" cried the the orange blossoms in her head-glass case. ed attention upon the problems brought up the question of caddle. "You must replace the turf!" dress shook violently." of the Pacific. The naval ques-"sovereignty" in relation to the tion is not confined to the matter territories held under mandate to a friend who wants to know uniform and Orders fumbled nervare laid, the money spent, the work There's plenty left. I'm going to send bert handsomely impressive in lasts for only a day. All the plans of ships, tonnages, and ratios. The mandates system is a new what the course is like.".

ously with his Prayer-book, and undertaken, the crowded London It also embraces such important thing in, international law, intro-

gloves.

excursions run, the red carpet and issues as naval bases and forti-duces a novel relationship be-

Ho-Hum! fications. By the Washington|tween countries, and raises knot- Seeing a dog, stretching himself.

Queen Alexandra at Windsor 23 palice fetched out, the streets gar- Treaty Japan undertook not tojty constitutional problems. It boy, aged 5, tried: "Aunty! Do look years later (Princess Alexandra of landed and London crowded, for fortify the Kurile and Bonin has been held by different dis-at Billy yawning with his back legs!" Denmark she was then), hesitated the sake of a few excited hours, Islands, Liu-Kin. Formosa, and tinguished internationa). jurists

when they drew back the purple After that-a tremendous clear** the Pescadores. The treaty also that the sovereignty of the man-

velvet curtain for her to pass into ing up. a tremendous stream of The teacher was examining a paper the aisle of St. George's Chapel, folk going back to their homes, a prohibited extensions to exist-dated territories reposes respec- presented by a primary student ing fortifications. Furthermore, tively in the Alled and Associat. "And where is the dot over the land drew a deep breath before million photographs to stick in a under the terms of the mandate, ed Powers. in the Council of the Mary she inquired.

""That's funny," replied the child, “f no provision can be made for de- League of Nations, in the man-guess it must be in the pencil, yet." fence locally in the case of the datory Powers, and even in the former German South Sea mandated territory itself. Where Islands north of the equator held 'doctors disagree, the layinan by Japan as mandated territory, finds it prudent to refrain from subject to the supervision of the passing a dogmatic judgment, Mandates Commission of the especially when arguments can The Soudan left Shanghai League of Nations. The Com-be brought forward to Lupport yesterday and is due here at 6 am, mission has just called upon each view.

jon Friday, Japan to explain the large expen- Japan, for instance, argues diture on harbours and aero-that the mandatory Power can The B.M.S. Empress of Russia. dromes in these islands. The exercise the powers of command left. Vancouver on Saturday and is Japanese delegate gave the ex-or "imperium" in the territory due to arrive in the Colony on planation that the construction mandated, since the latter, under December 20. of the harbour in one of the the terms of Article 22 of the groups was an improvement Covenant of the League, "can be Three cases of diphtheria, one monial robing of the bride, the fixed the two 19-year-old American necessary for the sake of com-beat administered under the Inwa case of scarlet fever, one case of fine magnificence of palace and stowaways, who were remanded mercial shipping. The disclo of the mandatory

from yesterday, stand remander as integral enteric fever, and two cases of Abbey-all the brightly coloured sure before the Commission that portions of its territory," meningitis were reported in the splendours of tradition; and there tody, Mr. E. W. Hamilton stated for another three days in police cus Japan had refused the American Furthermore, Japan contends Colony for the 24 hours ended is, the pageant which, the people Government permission to send that she holds the Pacific islands Monday.

themselves. make, the crowds, the of the company was leaving the that if the boat or any other boat a warship to the Ladrone Islands not from the League, but from

rejoicing, the excitement, the for scientific purposes, but had the Allied and offered a Japanese vessel instead, Powers, who allotted them to her pany, of No. 878 Queen's Road all the royal bridesmaids and released and sent back to America.

Associated Messrs. Chang Mow and Com shouting throats-without which colony for America before, the three days was up the defendants may be was discussed cautiously by the before the League came into Central, were this morning fined striped bunting in the world would American Acting Secretary of existence. She points out that $25 by Mr. W. Schofield at the only be so many pretty young girls State. Only recently Mr. Lat-membership of the League is not Central. Magistracy for failing to and so many miles of hired awn- ham, on his return, from the necessary for B mandatory furnish the Exports and. Imports ing. Australian Eastern Mission, Power, since a mandate was Department with full particulars pointed out that he had made the offered to the United States. On of their exports on October 24. reports of fortification of the the other hand, opposing jurists**:- mandated islands a matter of maintain that the allotment of Charged with the larcency of one royal procession exists because it at the Central Magistracy. this the royal procession-and the fined $10 by Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones inquiry whilst in Japan. In a the islands did not come into pair of leather shoes valued at $4, pleases the people. Neither page: conversation with Mr. Hirota, force until the ratification of the from a boot-maker, Chan Man, an ant would exist without the other. Japanese Foreign Minister, the Versailles Treaty, Article CXIX unemployed, was sentenced to one

morning

accepted the League as the man-

Two Kinds Of Pageant

AMERICAN STOWAWAYS AWAIT THEIR BOAT

A royal wedding is two kinds of pageant happening together the s.s. Ahoma has not yet been As the date of the departure of There is the procession, the cère-

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The people flock to the wedding abroad without a muzzle, Hrs. J. H.

in their millions for the sake of Little of No. 188, The Peak was.

94 years ago, London blazed with

the new marvel of gas-lighting,

latter gave unqualified asaur-of which contained the stipula month's hard labour by Mr. E... Kent and Princess Marina was the The wedding of the Duke of ances as to the falsity of the tiens about Germany transfer Wynne-Jones at the Central Police sixth royal marriage in this coun- reports. A statement to that ring her colonies to the Allies. Court this morning. Defendant try in the last hundred years. On effect was subsequently made on By Article 22 of the Covenant was arrested while attempting to Queen Victoria's wedding night. the authority of the Japanese the signatories, including Japan, pawn the shoes. Foreign Office.

It is natural that both the dant, with power of supervision Three cases of diphtheria (one and gigantic gas-light initials of United States and Australia are over the administration of the imported) with two deaths, four "y" and "A" roses, thistles and interested in the mandated mandated territory by the coun- islands, which consist of the try holding the mandate. The Imported) with three deaths, and bride's favours, filckered In the cases of enteric fever (one shamrocks lovers knots and three groups of the Marianne, latter has to furnish an annual one case of meningitis, with one cold February wind as the crowd Marahall, and Carolines, on report to the League and be death, were reported in the Colony jostled under them with upturned account of their strategic posi-responsible to it for the proper for the week ended Saturday, faces. tion. They are close to the treatment of the native peoples During the same period 49 deaths On Queen Alexandra's wedding American Guam, "the key of the concerned It was also the Pacific, as it has been called, League which determined the

om tuberculosis were also report day rejoicing was so boisterous and lie between Hawail and the terms of the mandates, althoug Philippines. At the same

not

they possess proxin Australian mandate

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be det npler and