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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

WOMEN'S PAGE

GENERAL

Spies Invade QUEEN WILL HAVE LINCOLN'S ROOM

Britain's

Drawing Rooms

Sples are again at work in Bri tain, adopting subtle "drawing room" method. Instead of the colourful 1914-18 system, sald the former German Secret Service agent. Captain F. vön Rintelen, speaking in London, recently.

Captain von Rintelen said that people should not be misled by the farci-tragical methods which were coming out in the course of the spy trial in America.

They reminded him .of the naivety of telegraphic instruc- tions emanating from Berlin dur- ing the Great War and inter- cepted and deciphered by White- hall.

"Compare this with the sublie present-day methods,

for instance, of the Italian Intelligence Service, warking vis or through drawing rooms, and having thus been able to state a fortnight before the event that Mr. Anthony Eden would resign.

"Excellent secret service, or call it intelligence, work, to the day they knew in Rome what was about to happen in London,

"How It was done

difficult intul to say but my instinct, or tion if vou prefer the word, tells ways me exactly what were the and means, but do not

me much more about that now."

ask

WED

HUSBAND

UNDER SPELL" Charge that he was "coped" inte marriage by a love potion adralzils tered by the girl's match-making mother has been made by a twenty-three-year-old husband in n New York annulment sult.

The husband, Joseph Cavalen, who is twenty-three. 53ys that when he was seventeen the mother of the girl who is now his wife dosed him with a love potion, then cast a spell on him

"I allowed myself to be steer- ed to the altar," he said, "but immediately after the core- mony I was able to cast off the' spell.

QUEEN ELIZABETH

Mrs. Roosevelt announced re- cently that the King and Queen will probably occupy the entire east end of the second floor of the.. White House during their visit to Washington, the Queen having as a bedroom the study, in which Abraham Lincoln signed the pro- clamation of emancipation of the slaves.

The King's sult includes the Pink Room: a smaller bedroom, and a bathroom. He will share as a sit- ting-room with the Queen a room which, from the days of President Monroe to the time of Theodore Roosevelt was used for Cabinet meetings...

The King and Queen will spend one day at the New York World Fair.

MRS. ROOSEVELT

WOMAN MEDICAL WOMEN CAN'T DRIVE

PIONEER

Dr. Jane Walker Dies At Home

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SAYS THIS PROVOCATIVE ARTICLE, WRITTEN BY YOUNG MAN WHÒ PREFERS TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS

eightieth year-can! I AM PREPARED for trouble about this not so gentle homily.

Few persons ut her age-she was in her leave so big a blank in the lives! of her friends as Dr.. Jane Walker docs. And her friends were of all i ages. for she had the rare gift of attracting and keeping the love of the young.

not

then get

But I can take it even though the cards, on the face of it, are stacked against me. Produce all the statistles you like. I still

WOMEN CAN'T DRIVE MOTOR CARS.

Say

I have been driving for 15 years; the co-ordination necessary I have been involved in two ac- export driving.

ridents. On the fire occasion a woman backed into me while my She took her first doctor's de car was stationary in a line of gree in Brussels because

women traffic. could

che An

On the second a woman drive" England. The sanatorium she signalled me to overtake as I had opened about 1897 at Downham every reason to suppose, since she Market, in Norfolk, was the first gave the correct signal), and while of the kind in England. She troduced and developed plans occupations for patients:

-I was doing so she swung sharp of right, and the pair of us plunged on to the sidewalk and into the

"Do you take any interest in hedge. politics?" someone asked her. "We'll skip that the insurance her reply company paid the cost of repairing "Do I breathe?" was

car My nerves footed the She never stood for Parliament, my but she was a warm speaker and REAL bill. strong woman suffragist.

close She was 3

friend Ramsay MacDonald and his wife and brought most of the Mac- world. Donald children into the

of Another

her friends

was Dame Millicent Fawcett.

of

She was at work recently, when he heart was troubling her, she went to the Royal Northern Hoi-

These are the reasons why women can't drive.

They are not mechanically. minded, and because of this they fall to appreciate the potential power to trouble which they unleash when their slippered size three feet press on the accelerator.

They have an "All or nothing"

"I rushed away without a kisspital every day but insisted on go-attitude towards speed. It's either

from my bride and she continued ing home every night. She, Bving with her mother."

at home.

died

11 spanking well-over-the-limit "Well, the road was quite clear. my dear!" speed, or a crawl that Infuriates the poor wretch behind.

in

Marcover, the proportion of good women drivers as against the proportion of good men drivers shows a disparity which makes such an article as this almost unnecessary. I said ALMOST.

CINEMA SHOWS FOR CHARITY

to

THURSDAY'S MENU

BREAKFAST.-

Sliced Bananas and Cream

Cereal

Bacon Waffles with Syrup Calf BrainB

Coffee

LUNCHEON

Oxtail Scup

Grilled Sardines on Toast

Beet Salad.

Lamb Cutlets

Potatoes au Gratin Creamed Spinach

Bolled Onions with Butter Sauce Lemon Jello and Doughnuts

Ten

DINNER

Fish Chowder

Pineapple and Cream Cheese Salad

Chicken Pot Pie

Sage Dumplings Baked Sweet Potatoes with

Walnuts

Mashed Carrots and Turnips Strawberry Cake

Coffee and Mint Candy

MARRIAGES AT THE REGISTRY

Two Chinese marriages were solemnised at the Registry. Su- preme Court, yesterday. Mr. Lam

Choc-quin, merchant, was married to Miss Au Kam-wah, the witnesses being Messrs. Cheung Ching and Tsui Hong, and Miss Ho Shui-kwal became the bride of Mr. Chan Kwok-ying. of the Statistical Office, Import and Export Depart- ment

FORTHCOMING EVENTS"

The following forthcoming events are announced:-

The Hongkong Rotary Club yes.

Mr. Loule Chun-siu, merchant, terday added its contribution to- ward ritet of the Chinese refugees of No. 66 Wing Lor Street, and Miss the form of special charity Leung Pul-yuk, of No. 166 Queen's

Road West, first floor; shows held at the King's Theatre.

The proceeds from the four film Mr. Tso Pun-to, assistunt ac- Cash becountant of the National performances: yesterday will donated to the cause. The atten-Register Company, and Miss Mak dance on each occasion was satis Lai-chung, of No. 14 Gage Street, factory..

first floor.

NEWSETTES.

Chief:

Sir Atholl MacGregor.

Mr. T. A Mahtani is leaving the by Justice, accompanied HANG ON TO TOP

Lady Colony for India on a short hol- MacGregor. are due to return day by the P. & O. Liner Canton, on They regard gear-changing as an)

He will be. äbsent abomination instead of an aid to from home lehve on December 22. Saturday. good driving and one of the They will thus be able to attend from the Colony for about

HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY pleasantest aspects of motoring the Caledonian Ball on December monthe

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eight

Sir Atholl was Chieftain of They hang on to top gear, their 23.

The annual general meeting of engine knocking its willing heart St. Andrew's Society last year.

the Royal Hongkong Golf Club out, while they, unernarinus of Its agony. confusedly wonder what Mr. C. G. Sollis, Director of will take place in Messrs. Jardinc. "that funny noise is all about." Education. gave a talk on educa- Matheson and Company's Board Knowing nothing of how their tion in Malaya at King's College Room on Friday, December 16. at

5.30 p.m. car works, or why. they neglect to yesterday.

feed it, and, unless they have a

pretty face and д susceptible Miss Alleen. Hynes, younger Rt. Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, former garage man, let the thing get into daughter of Mr. Thomas Hynes, Headmaster of the Diocesan Boys' an outrageous state of disrepair. former Superintendent of Mails in School, left for Foochow on Tues- This leads to complications and Hongkong. and Mrs. Hynes. was day in the s.s. Beistan to take up lonely, tearful waits beside a mori: married at Nottingham England. on his appointment as Assistant Bis- bund engine on a lonely road.

November 19 to Mr. Richard Hugh hop of Fukien.". Mansell-Dyer..

LEARN YOUNG

I freely admit that there are some women who CAN drive-and

Unemoloyed Fukienese in Binga- Four cases of measles, two cases pore now number about 10,000. and some 800 of them have returned drive magnificently. But I'll lay a each of cholera, diphtheria shade of odds that they learned to dysentery and one case each of and many others are returning. drive before they were aged 25. 7 small-pox, enteric fever and cere- The district governments at Tsin- say that because I firmly believe oro-spinal meningitis were notified klang and Hul-an on the Fukien that after that age women's minds to the health authorities on Tues- coast are making preparations to and muscles get "set"; they lack day.

Army Aids Mother

receive them.

The Indo-China Steam Naviga- tion Co., Ltd. and the China Navi- gation Co., Ltd., announce special Christmas excursion fares to Shanghai Return tickets, avail-

Lying critically ill in hospital. Mrs. Walker, of Chatham-avenue,able for any of the companies' Shoreditch. E., kept on calling "John! I must see John!"

steamers between December 15 to Relatives and friends looked anxiously at one another. Doctors January, 15, 1939, are $120 for “A” who had put Mrs. Walker's name on the danger list asked who saloon and $100 for "B" saloon." John was.

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They were told that he was 9,000 miles away-Corporal · John' In connection with the report, Walker, of the R.A.M.C., serving in China and stationed at Hongkong. which appeared in our issue of His service in China was nearly once to hurry to his mother's bed- Monday, on the Roberts bankrupt- cy proceedings, the name of Mr. finished, but......

side. His mother kept on calling for The War Office flashed a cable to J. M. Hall was mentioned as the man who had been guaranteed Ilonggong, authorising the Im-

by Mr. Roberts. This should have No longer could she appreciate mediate release of Corporal Walk read the late Mr. A. E. Hall, and the significance of the 9,000 miles er. between them.

The soldier is now on the high we apologise for any inconvenierice Urged on by her voice, her seas, his thoughts on a sick bed in friends decided to appeal to Mr. St. Leonard's Hospital, Shoreditch,

Temporary maternity wards are Ernest Thurtle, Shoreditch's So-where his mother still calls for being established at Sun Tien and Ha Chuen in the New Territories He a counting the hours and for women refugees by the Chinese To the War Office Mr. Thurtle he still has many to count. His Youth Relief Corps In collabora told the story of the sick mother-boat is due at Southampton an tion with the Hongkong Branch of widow of a soldier killed in the December 15.

the National Women's Relief Asso- war--who was grieving for her His mother smiled for the first ciation. There are now about 1,600 soldier son in China. He asked If time in weeks. I am happy now." refugees in Bun Tien and 3,000, ré- the soldier could not be released at she said.

fugees In Ha Chuen.

clalist M.P.

SON IN CHINA

him.

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