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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAHH, SATURDAY, JANUARY

PRETTY WEDDING,

HONGKONG JOCKEY MARRIED IN SHANGHAI,

LATE SERVICE NEWS.

ITEMS OF INTEREST TO CHINA STATION.

A very pretty wedding was It has just been announced that solemnized at Holy Trinity Cathe-among the supply chief potty dral, Shanghai, on December 30, officers or petty officers who were Dean Trivets officiating, of Miss successful at the examination for Lucy Margaret ("Peggy") Wright, Warrant Supply Officer held in daughter of Mr. R. T. Wright, late July last were W. E. V. Woods, manager of the Hongkong & Shang-of. H.M.S. Bee, and G. B. Jess, of hai Banking Corporation, Yoko H.M.S. Castor. hama, and Mrs. Wright, of Barton End, Alton, Hants, to Mr. David Locke Newbigging, of the Hong kong office of Mesars, Jardine, Matheson & Co. The civil service was held in the morning in H. M. Consulate-General before Mr. A. P.

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Salvage Money.

News has just been received from Home that the award, of salvage money on account of the 58. Sui Tal, which was burnt out at her wharf in Hongkong on August 24, 1928, is now ready for distribution in the department of the Accountant-General of the Navy. The two Daval tuga Alliance and Cherub are entitled to this salvage money, and the amounts due to individuals in the well-various classes range from

£2 18. 11d, to 40..2d.

The bride, who was born in the Enst, is well-known in Shanghai and in Yokohama, which city sho left in 1925. She arrived from Home on Christmas Eve.

The groom is also very known in Shanghai, having been Associated with Ewo for many years. He has always taken a keen interest in paper hunting, sleeple. chasing and polo, being a member of the Interport team. He was also a keen volunteer, being a member

of the Light Horse.

China Station Cruisers.

The refit of the cruiser Cumber land. Captain L. F. Potter, al Chatham Dockyard is ordered to be completed on February 28. Before the ship can return to her station in China the second of the class, H.M.S. Berwick, Captain E. G. Robinson, V.C., O.B.E., will have left to return, home to rent und recommission. Similarly, before the ́Berwick, enn return II.N.S. Suffolk, Captain G... S. Arbuthnot, D.S.O., is ordered to leave Hongkong on June 16, 1930,

At the Cathedral, the bride who was given away by Mr. A. B. Low son, was dressed charmingly in while satin gown and a veil of tulle and she carried a bouquet of orange blossoms She was attended by the Misses Isabelle Lowson, Katherine Henchman, Joy de Courey, Corinne Lloyd, and Joan Stagg, and Mrs. A. B. Lowaon, who neted as matron of honour. The chief bridesmaid wore a powder blue georgette for home. Owing to the necessity costume and a blue Bangkok straw of bringing home these cruisers, hat. She carried a bouquet of pink the Fifth Cruiser Squadron in carnations. The other maids wore China will for the next 18 months lang blue ruffled dresses with or more consist of only three or bonnets to match. Mr. W. J, four ships instead of the usual five. Keswick acted as best mun and the The development of the base at ushers were Messrs. F. A. Pollock, Singapore would obvinte the G. H. Bowker, H. G. Robinson and necessity of bringing home the J. Caldwell,

ships for refit.

Following the service at the Cathedral, a reception was held in the home of Mr. A. B. Lowson, 252 Bubbling Well Road, where toasts were drunk to the happy couple Mrs. Lowson received her guests in a green Ince frock, cut. on long, trailing lines.

Stokers and Electricity..

It has been decided to give instruction to the stoker ratings of ships at sea in the electrical installations of their vessels. The training of stokers, 1st class, in High-power electricity is to begin at once in all battleships, battle | cruisers, large aircraft carriers, and cruisers if full commission.

TEN BELIEVED DEAD. The syllabus of a 10 days' course

FILM PARTY KILLED IN

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Three Bodies Recovered.

is issued in current fleet orders, Training classes are to consist of four stokera in heavy ships; and two or three. in cruisers, and us far as possible are to be" con- tinuous. The examination at the end of euch course in consideresl important, and ratings who show special aptitude are to be noted.

U. S. Aircraft Carriers.

Santa Monica (Cal} Jan.3. Two air liners, each believed to be carrying five persons, collided three miles from land and plunged into the sea. It is feared that all ten occupants were killed, includ In a recent broadcast address ing the film director, Mr. Kenneth | from, Pittsburgh, on the occasion Hawks. The machines. were on of the birthday of Commander gaged in the production of a film R. E. Byrd, U.S.N., Rear-Admiral entitled "Such Men are Danger-W, A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau af Naval Aeronautics in the United States. Navy Department. expressed the view that aircraft earriers were the most valuable vessel in the Navy to-day,

The Lexington and the Saratoga had been a commission for a year, and valuable experience had been gained with them in the use of large numbers of aircraft with the Fleet, especially in strategical and The planes were preparing to tactical manoeuvres. Last year swoop down after a parnebutist as 84 aircraft took off from the he leapt from a third plane to en- Saratoga at 3,40 in the morning able the cameramen to photograph | 140 nautical miles from the Canal, him as he struck the water. The and succeeded in attacking it.and third plane was not involved in returning to the ship without a the crash.

Santa Monica, later. Hitherto three bodies have been recovered. They are those of cameramen who were eatapulted from the plunes at the time of the collision.

After the collision, the "twe planes (in which it is confirmed there were ten people, including Hawks) plunged like flaming comets three thousand feet to the

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casually. The Department hoa asked for five carriers of 13,800- tors; one has been authorized, and Rear-Admiral Moffett hopes the ether will be granted soon.

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