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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21,

1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

SOMEBODY KNOWS

Not long ago wo made enquiries BA to what might be the future of Hongkong as an airport. We got no very satisfactory answer. From official sources we could get no in- formation whatever, and the only response from private quarters was that it was hoped that various enterprises would include Hong- kong in their air itineraries. Whether permission to any but British owned and operated machines to trade in and through F you're a big car motorist- the Colony would be forthcoming. if you enjoy the feel of-a-no-no know for certain. Mean- powerful engine purring under while, all about the Colony, in the Philippines, in China, and farther the bonnet-If you like the field, preparations were going luxury of a big, roomy saloon-forward to meet the demands of this is your car. At £325 this the future, to prepare for the now 27 h.p. Vauxhall Big Six is advent of commercial air services, remarkable value-for-money. It but no-one apparently knew what is an all-feature car, with entirely | Hongkong proposed to do in this Now, according to automatic chassis lubrication, direction. vacuum controlled ignition, Chinese news sources, Sir Alexan Synchro-Mesh easy gear change, er Cadogan, the British Minister has announced that when the Pedomatic starting, self-return

Canton-Hankow Railway la com- Ing

direction indicators and

pleted it is probable that Imperlal Vauxhall No-Draught Ventila- Airways will connect with long- tion. And it is a product of a

kong. We have no assurance that famous 'factory that has been this announcement is offelal, and building outstanding motor cars just why Imperial Airways should for the past thirty years.

wait upon the completion of the Canton-Hankow railway in not HONGKONG HOTEL

exactly clear. For whether or not GARAGE

this railway operates, Hongkong must eventually be joined in the SHOWROOM

world's air system, and the sooner plans are made for this develop ment the better for this Colony.

Phone 27778-9.

The

Stubbs Road.

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, DEC. 21, 1934,

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MAKING HISTORY

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HUNDERED YEARS OF

ROYAL WEDDINGS

By MRS. FRANCIS LASCELLES

The Very Idea!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

By Eddie "Snata” Kolly

Christmas is stalking the land.

ROYAL marriages have always liant wedding day was a precious THE grim form of Father

fascinated the people of memory to them both. these islande, who sed in royal Jove matches the culmination of many ideala.

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The wedding of the present King! and Queen on July 16, 1893, was solemnized in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, and was a ceremony which made a particularly strong appeal to the nation.

The famous Dr. Benson

Table-knives are being in- gerbed surreptitiously into Undoubtedly the most moment

innocent children's money- ous British royal wedding for centuries was that of Queen Vic-

boxes by furtive fathers. torta to Prince Albert, which look

are pondering Mothers WAS place on February 10, 1840. The fact that the bride was the reign Archbishop of Canterbury at the whether to give the old man Ing Sovereign of the most power-time, and it was this distinguished ful Empire in the world lent prelate, assisted by the Bishop of a packet of cigarettes for a box of tremendous importance to the London (Dr. Temple, later Arch Christmas or event, and guesta from all over bishop of Canterbury) and the matches. the world poured into London. Bishop of Rochester (afterwards

Thieves are abroad. Do Queen Victoria was barely 21 Archbishop Davidson), who per- when she was married, and at the formed the marriage ceremony.

Among the guests at the bril- something. Chase 'em! Stop time she was a very attractive girl, inclined to plumpness, with int occasion in the Chapel Royal 'em! What's the S.P.C.A. doing fair skin; rosy checks, and blue was the ill-fated Czar of Russia. about it?

A wire-whiskered old goat In the preparations for her Queen Mary with her bright hair eyes, wedding Queen Victoria, took the rose and cream complexion

was a typical English bride, and gallivanting around the Colony most minute Interest.

her dignity and beauty completely

The cereraony took place at theenatured the multitudes of prople fin a red-flannel nightgown is

Chapel Royal, St. James's, and. who crammed the route to and causing all this bother.

Why can't the police get their small though the building was, the from St. James's. The wedding wedding lacked nothing in splend-breakfast was held in Buckingham Claus on him?

and dignity. The young Palace, and the honeymoon was four

Queen, with the blue ribbon of spent at Sandringham

If he's not arrested before

All the Christmas presents

The bridal procession, with its enough to have seen the couple/we've got to buy, and our last

eight bridesmaids, was a glittering

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the Garter across her white dress, The infectious smile of the Tuesday, we're wrecked. made a regal bride. Her, tall Duchess and the pride on the face husband looked handsome and dis-of her young husband will never tinguished.

be forgotten by anyone fortunate

ten cents filched from us drive away from the, Abbey.

and flung into the alght, and one of the attendants, Another British royal wedding Monday it is interesting to recall, was the which aroused great interest was Christmas pudding. mother of the present Queen Mary. that of Princess Maud, the King's The future Duchess of Teck was niece, and Lord Carnegie, who only seven years of age at the were married in November 1923. is. We marked the place on the

at time, but she had a vivid remem-This was the last wedding brance of the great day to the end which Queen Alexandra was pre- of her life.

sent, and she delightedly threw confetti at the happy couple.

three days.

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Fortunately we know where it

outside with an almond.

There's been only one bright spot in the preliminary proceed inge. The missus said to UB, "What about drinks? I suppose How you'd better see to that. much will it cost?"

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We said, "Well, there'll be Whaleateeth and his headache, and gran-daddy and the boys in the office, that'll be about a hundred. bucks. Then there's me. about six or seven hundred."

So she said, "All right. Go and take seven hundred dollars out of my purse but no more." (You ile, you dog. You know you lie.)

Anyway, we managed to borrow afty bucks by biting all our pals, and after we have finished thin wander out to do our

An M. P. suggests that we are not making sufficient use of the possibilities of the cinema and wireless as means of preserving B permanent record, in sound and in

The bridal pair were vociferous- #cene, of events of historic im- portance. He Instances the

ty cheered by thousands of people

The marriage of Lady May gent ceremony in the House of all along the route, and the Queen Cambridge, the Queen's niece, to Lords, when the Duke of Kent and her bridegroom were all amiles Captain. Abel Smith in October | NO NEED FOR DESPAIR his seat, and the Royal open-as they drove back as man and 1951 at the parish church in Bal- Whilst regret is naturally felting of Parliament and the wedding wife. The honeymoon was spent combe, Sussex, will ever be mom that the London naval conversa.

of His Royal Highness and Prin- at Windsor Castle and lasted only orable as the first wedding at

Marina as

which

which Princess Elizabeth acted as tions have produced no tangible should be fully recorded, not only The next royal wedding which bridesmaid.

for the beneft of posterity, but captured the Imagination of the

The list of royal weddings this results, it is satisfactory to note for the edification of those country and, indeed, of all Eu- century is thus already a long one. the strong hopes which are still British people, at home and beyond rope was the marriage of the British royalties are now follow- entertained of an eventual under- the seas, who are thrilled by cere- Princo of Wales, afterwards King ing the dictates of their hearts, standing being reached between monial that embodies so much of Edward VII, to Princess Alexan- and no marriages in Europe have

the traditions of our race. The dra of Denmark.

been so uniformly successful na the Powers concerned.

No more beautiful bride than those contracted by the members As the B.R.C. and the newa-film companies

the radiant "gen king's daughter" of our reigning House. official communique on the certainly do. sometiring In this

ever stepped before on British

There were few British royal adjournment states, the object direction, but the arga.nent of the of the conversations was not the M.P. is that there is room for the soll, and on landing at Gravesend marringes in the early part of the job will

systematic recording of uplandles she became at once the idol of twentieth century.. Another did Christmas shopping. When the not inke place in England until local firms heard that we were go reaching of hard and fast con- of patriotic or historic significance. the nation.

The marriage took place at St. 1919, when Prince Arthur of Con- ing to pay cash for our purchases clusions: they were designed for The theory that it is vulgar" to

onnaught, the only son of the. Duke they mobbed us. yield to publicity is perishing fast, George's Chapel, Windsor,

Biting our pals was easy. You the purpose of preparing the Even our most revered institutions March 10, 1863, and the scene in of Connaught, married the Duchess ground for future negotiations are letting in the limelight and the historic and beautiful chapel of Fife, the daughter of the late know:

was a never-to-be-forgotten one. Princesa Royal. This was a royal "Say, George, old and agreement. Japan's decision finding themselves none the worse

worn by Queen Alexandra was interest, and the young couple rema over Christmas." Family, too, are always ready to respond to the natural desire of considered at the time to be the ceived a great ovation before and

most artistic creation of its kind after the ceremony. their subjects to see and hear

ever seen in Europe, and the eight their various activities in the service of the nation. The value bridesmaids were a collection of

The Great War effectively put a of the permanent records in the beauties unmatched at any royal

The stop to royal marriages-and even years to come is obvious. With wedding before or since.

In 1910 of the beloved what avidity would the present celebrated Jenny Lind sang the rumours of them-but the marri generation Üsten to a sound-film, chorale at the ceremony.

London, Windsor, and the coun-Princess. "Pat." daughter of the were such available, of landmark happenings of the Elizabethan, try generally celebrated the wed- Duke of Connaught, revived in ding of the popular heir to the full measure the love of the Brit Cromwelllan, or even the Victorian era! A few hundred years hence Throne with unbounded enthusi-ish public for such ceremonies. twentieth century sound-films of asm. All the London theatres Princess "Pat's" cholee was Rear- were thrown open free to the Admiral Sir A. M. Hamany. This memorable occasions would not be

Tur publle, bonfires were lit on nearly union compelled the Princess to less enthralling. However

every hill in the country, official reliquish her royal rank. lously man dashes along the high- way of progress, he is never al- banquets and feasts to the poor together oblivious to the magical were notable features of the cele appeal of the past.

if

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Treaty automatically carries with it the abandonment of the proposed Naval Conference next year, unless, which is hardly to be expected, fresh developments occur in the meantime leading to hopes of a solution acceptable to all parties. None the less, there is ample time left in which to seek an adjustment of viewpoint, inasmuch as the Washington Treaty will still remain in force for another two years. A great deal can happen in that time, and it is reassuring to feel that both Britain and United States are anxious that some plan AIRSHIPS PERSIST should be evolved which would command general approval. In

It is interesting to notice that this connection, it must not be while many Americans have taken overlooked that although Japan it for granted that the large dirigi- ble will never have any practical is still insistent on equality, shese, the Germans are going calmly has all through the conversations ahead with plans to put these big luid stress on the point that she ships to work. Next March the does not desire unrestricted Zeppelin workers at Friedrich- shafen will complete a new dirigible armaments competition, but even larger than the Graf of trans-

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the dirigible. On the contrary, to the good. In short, there is they are planning for a day when evidence of a unity of purpose airship lines will be as common us on the part of all three Powers, neroplane lines. Is there not, per- haps, in that fact, an indication even though opinions be divided that we are a trifle hasty, in assum- on the methods of attaining the ing that the dirigible is and always desired end. The task which must be impractical? remains to be. fuifilled is to bring the parties into closer alignment with a view to evolving a sub- expenditure and still not have stitute for the Washington attained her desire. A point Treaty which shall serve the which needs stressing is that main purposes for which that | Anglo-American policy is prim- document was devised. The al- arily based on a recognition of ternative to this is a futile naval the varying needs of the three armaments race which would Powers, and that neither the one" not only prove extremely costly country nor the other seeks to to all engaged in it, but would follow a course which would in not be any gain for Japan, since any wise endanger Japanese neither Britain nor the United security. When that aspect of States are prepared to concede the situation is fully appreciated,

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Lane, Crawford, Ltd. notal equality. The net result it should be possible to work out

wakkery us would be that Japan would a plan to the mutual benefit of

have merely added to her naval all the Powers concerned.

brations.

The future King Edward and his lovely bride spent their honeymoon in the Isle of Wight, and to the end of their long lives their bril-

age

.

Rotten pun, but that's what the festive season does to a man.

"We haven't decided yet what to and the girl the missug buy friends, but the kids were easy.

They made a list to be posted to Father Christmas.. Young Alfe wanted an aeroplane (Comet), an electric toy train complete with signals, waiting room and ticket office, costing approximately $250, rifle and three million rounds of ammunition, and the model of the Empress of Britain in the Canad ian Paelfie'window. So we bought That this was the first royal him a whistle. Not very useful or wedding to take place in West-instructive, we know, but it'll be minster Abbey for over 600 years handy to annoy the police. made this marriage outstanding. The most important social event of 1922 was the marriage of the (Continued on Page 4)

"Well, that's a lot to pay for a bottle of wine, but I'm pretty certain Adams can throw a few orders my nay.

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lot of

re-

We

are expecting a presents ourself before Tucaday. We have hired a godown to store them all. We have already celved four calendars, 231 circular latters, 3 Christmas cards and an Invitation to Santa Claus Land.

Still, seeing that. Christmas, is the time for goodwill and all that, we're going to wash out all the about dirty cracks we've made people during the past twolve months. Besides, they may for get, and send us along a couple of hogsheads, or a sedan car, or Bomething.

As a matter of fact, It might pay us to cultivate this spirit of followship of man and peace on earth a bit in the future.

No more satire about taipans. We'll start on Christmas mora ing with the wife. Something like thie: "Well, old dear, despite your floppy ears and grey hair, and apart from the fact that you've made life a living hell for me-with all your bad points, you're pretty julcy."

And she'll say, "Oh, Boy! A merry Christmas at you!"

And you too.

Don't gorge yourself.

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CHRISTMAS ODE

Joan made a hit at the party,

And I soared to the planets in

mirth- But the hit she made after the

party

Suddenly brought me to earth.

MINT SAUCE

And then there was the Ignor- ant person who thought that the Royal Mint was what the King and Queen used with their Christains

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