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LIFE

OR

DEATH?

BRUNO HAUPTMANN:

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1935.

Century-Old Dream Of Hongkong--London

death or vindication for the murder

of the Lindbergh baby,

Trains Come True

DIRECT SERVICE WILL COMMENCE NEXT YEAR

Twelve Days To JH. K. Through Reach Metropolis Traffic Scheduled

From Colony For "Double Tenth"

LL ABOARD FOR LONDON."

"Alt is several years since the majority of Hongkong

residents have heard that familiar railway cry,

Yet, within twelve months, it will become an actuali- ty for all of us.

NOT BRIDE NO. 4

£70,000 a year John Barrymore, seen above with his nineteen-year-old protegee, Elaine Barric, planned to make her his fourth bride. But this week's cables indicate that the romance is off. Elaine has Jilted John and

la returning to Hollywood,

Shirley Temple Is 1934 World Film Favourite

Work on the uncompleted portion of the Can- awaits the message from the Newton Hankow Railway is so far advanced, that Jersoy Court of appeal that may mean

Chinese railway authorities are now able to pre- dict the opening of the through service on the Double Tenth-October 10--next year, just over DEMURE FOX STAR EXHIBITORS' NO. 1 twelve months hence.

No Bids

For Blushing Brides

ROUMANIAN FAIR. PROVES A FLOP

A

BIG step forward in the completion of the Can- ton-Hankow section

Shirley Temple is the world's favourite film star this year--a position held last year by the veteran Marie Dressler, who died in July, 1934.

Completion of this line will bring Hongkong in direct railway communication with London, via the Siberian route.

continue on the train to the Friedrichstrasse Station, Berlin.

British Engines

The six-year-old star's triumph was revealed as a British engines, of a larger result of a poll of exhibitors all over the world undertaken type to those used on the Kow- by Mr. Winfield Sheehan, the former chief producer for loon-Canton Railway, will be used on the Canton-Hankow Fox, who married Miss Maria Jeritza, the opera singer, last`

month, and who arrived with his wife in England this section have already been placed week, after they were requested to leave Austria to avoid

was

section. Orders for rolling stuck for this

Bucharest, Sept. 10. There was not a single bid-made on Saturday when the der for the bevy of fair and Lockchang-Pingshek portion | buxsome maidens who look-was opened for traffic. The ed for husbands in the new section is the last with famous "Brides' Fair" on, In the Kwangtung frontier. in England by the Chinese Pur- bigamy charges. Hen's Mountain this year.

Six anxious girls, seller and merchandise in one person, sat in the customary clearing on the wood covered mountain waiting for a groom while hundreds of spectators from far and near watched the spectacle.

There remains now only the Chuanchow - Siangtan portion of the line uncom- pleted.

Hongkong. travellers can, in fact, now travel overland to London if they wish by travel- The girls were in their besting by car between Choanchow

and Siangtan.

Sunday dresses with their dowry, pierced gold coins strung on a golden thread, around their necks.

Their possessions, mostly eni broidered clothes and fine home made linen, were sprend about thom for inspection by suitors.

Although all of them were goud

looking and adequately fitted out, not a single bidder from the boys numerous young pensant came forward this year.

The girls bore their bad luck with admirable self possession and even with good humour,

Better Luck In 1936 When the sun set, they calmly packed their belongings back into the baskets in which they had brought them, partook with great gusto in the dances which closed the day and calmly mounted ther mules to return to their homes, hoping for better luck next year.

The "Brides' Fair" had been held for many centuries on Hun's Mountain in western Roumania. It originally responded to a deeply felt need.

The tiny villages and farms in this forlorn district are as a rule separated by many miles.

The pensants are a hard work ing and parsimonious lot. Matches were difficult to arrange as suit- able partners only could be found rarely in the, small villages.

chasing Commission on behalf of the Ministry for Railways.

Eight locomotives bave been ordered from the famous Vulcan Foundry. These loco- motives will be the well known Pacific 4-8-4 type, such as is used on the L.M.S. Railway at Home.

placed with the Birmingham Rail-

An order hus, in addition, been

This stretch is the most diffl-for 31 standard gauge couches, way Carriage and Wagon Company cult in the entire route. roadway is completed with the class day cars, five haggage and The four 3rd class sleepers, five 2nd exception of 30 difficult miles.' mini vans, five 1st class dining Actually, until Canton and cars, five 1st class sleeping enra Hongkong can come to some and five 2nd class sleeping ears. arrangement with regard to con- The Pacific type locomotive. necting the Canton-Hankow and with tender, weighs 164 tons, us Kowloon-Canton Railways there compared with the 118 ton locoms- will always be a break, at Can-service

tive-tender used for the Express

between Kowloon ton itself, of 34 miles in the Canton. route from Hongkong to London, disregarding the cross-Channel 667

break, over which travellers.can. “HE SAVED

ME FROM

now travel without leaving their railway carriages,

Some difficulty is being ex- perienced regarding the break

in Canton, and the Kwangtung THE CAT"

railway authorities may never agree to the construction of a loop line around the city to connect the two railways.

In that case it will be necessary for the traveller from Hongkong to disembark from the K.C.R. at Taishatau Station and travel by car to Wangsha station, n dis- tance of 31⁄2 miles,

and

CONVICT'S WREATH FOR SIR EVELYN RUGGLES-BRISE

SHIRLEY TEMPLE. ber 2 film star, she,

no bunt-

How To Be Happy

AMONG the wreaths at Though

funeral of Sir

When the Canton-flankow нee- Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, the Married tion of the missing link, is com- prison reformer, at Fin-

Hong the railway authorities in chingfield (Essex) Parish DR. LEWIS M. TERMAN

and Paul Buttenwieser,

Hongkong will quote through Church, on September 1, fares from Hongkong to, London.

American scientists, have was one inscribed:

To the memory of a humane been investigating the pro-. Many centuries ago the popula- from the heart of the Empire man, who saved me from the blem of how to be happy

when married. tion found a

The distance exceeds 8,000 miles. Cat. Convict 2148, proper solution to

this problem by creating the "Brides Fair" held annually on the second Sunday following St. Peter's and St. Paul's Day.

Proceedings on the lien's Moun-

Longest Rail Link This will be the longest link

Instead of the minimum of Behind it lies a story of seventeen days to travel at present starvation diet, mutiny, and They have decided that most from Hongkong to London via violence, some of the evils of the of the popular notions about con- Siberia, the transit time will be bad old days which Sir E. nubial bliss are wrong. reduced in approximately twelve Ruggles-Brise did so much to Lain were originally quite sundays. This will mean an appre abolish.

Most people think that hus: clable speeding up in Siberian mails.

Convict 2148, now sixty-five band and wife should be of near- From Hongkong the traveller years old, told a newspaper re- By the same

age. Terman and will journey via Canton to Shia-porter his story.

Buttenwieser find no justification chow, Hsinchow and Siangtau to

"It was

at Parkhurst," he for this belief. Hankow, arriving at the latter city said. "I had been sentenced to 24 hours after leaving Hongkong. five years.

In those days the The route from Injikow will be

"mary.

To make their choice, the pensant boys wandered among the rows of marriage-secking girls, who wore their best clothes and had their belongings spread about them on the lawn, while the would-be brides had a good oppor. tunity to measure up their preten- ders

A Brief Nod

A brief nod of the head from both sides, without a spoken word Indicated that a couple wished to marry.

The girl, A little but not too much flushed, would get up and follow the selected 'groom into the. allent wood where things were settled in the fashion en vogue ever sinco Adam found Eve.

A priest was also at hand to con secrate the union on the spot.

to Peiping and Tientsin via Cheng-prison diet was a starvation one. chow. Thence the traveller will Everything was weighed down journey over the famous Chinese to the last fine ounce. I was Eastorn Railway from Tientsin to one of the ringleaders in Mukden and Harbin, transferring mutiny against it. to the trans-Siberian at Manchouli. From Hankow to Manchouli will occupy 48 hours,

a

In one of their cases the happy husband was seven years younger than his wife; in three other cases he was fifteen and more years older.

The poll called for the 20 most popular flim stars. Only

'star British

appeared on the list. That was Charles Laughton, ranked sixteenth,

Qk

A comparison of this year's list with last year's throws in- teresting light on the rapidly changing preferences of cinema audiences,

Clark Gable, fourth last year, moves up to second place, dis- placing Janet Gaynor, who is now ninth.

Mac West has slipped from fifth place last year to fourteenth.

Greta Garbo is still not in the Orst five Ginger

Rogers and Fred Astaire, often together in tho films, are together on the list too. They are seventh and eighth-

Winfield Sheehan's list for 1936 is as follows:

Shirley Temple---

Clark Gable,

Will Rogers.

4 Jonn Crawford,

6 Claudette Colbert.

6 Norma Shoarer.

7. Ginger Rogers.

8 Fred Astaire.

9 Jnuet Gaynor.

10 Wallace Beery.

1! Greta Garbo.

12 William Powell,

18

13 Warner Baxter,

14 Bing Crosby.

16 Charles Lughton.

17 Myrna Loy

18 Fredric March.

19 Grace Moore.

20 Eddie Cantor.

MILLION PIGEONS

IN BIG RACE

SPEED CONTEST OF ARMY OF BIRDS

Over a million racing pigeons competed in London last month in a race for cash prizes totalling £500.

Some batches of birds raced to. wards the north, others flow southwards; the main object of them all was to reach the home loft in the quickest possible time. Every bird taking part in the race was bred this year.

Since they were eight weeks old, these young racers have been trained for this great race, and every pigeon competing flew over 100 miles. Only a few were lost Children mins ON may not brighten the home and make mar- When about eight weeks old End Of Skilly

riage happier, they say. Some-

they were given their first train- "We tore up the wedding, slushed times they will keep a couple outing toss at three or four miles, this was gradually increased until the beds, broke the windows, even of the Divorce Court, but main- set fire to some of the cells. One tuining a home for the children's 'The trans-Siberian journey, man got on the prison roof and sake does not mean that happiness which takes the traveller right stayed there, defying the warders has been achieved. Childless mar across Siberia and Soviet Russia for two days, pelting them with ringes may be as happy as others. to the Polish border, occupias ex-states.

Across Siberia

actly a week.

"I was sentenced to oighteen

A mutual interest in life out side the home is likely to make marriage happier than if man and wife go their own ways, Coddled Children

Is it hard for mollycoddled chil

Stolpce, on the Soviet-Pollshstrokes with the cat for my part in Modern law makere, however, border, is the western terminus of the affair. Sir Evelyn, who wis have rendered things more com- the trans-Siberian route and here chief prison, commissioner, eame plicated in recent decades, and passengers change to the waiting down to inquire into the affair. He modern developments, with mill- European train..

come my cell and later got my tary, sorvico for the young peasants This train has a Wagons-Lit sentence remitted. and factory work for many village Company operating sleeping car: "He made many changes. We dren to become happy husbands girls, somewhat impaired the uso- for Warsaw and Berlin, ala got ten Instead of skilly, five and wives? Not according to these fulness of the Institution.

through Wagons-Lit sleeping-car ounces of meat instead of weak investigators. It may be hard, But the age honoured Bridea' for Paris. Passengers for Vienna, jsoup. ̧ Fair is still annually held although Switzerland and Italy leave this swords in those days. He put an to leave the parental home, but Warders used to carry they say, for spoiled girls and boys nowadays lustend of 'a hundred or train at Warsaw, while passengers end to that; he thought that such there is no evidence that this more "stands" there are hardly ever for Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Ams- weapons incited the prisoners to makes their married life unhappy more than-a-dozen.---United-Press.- terdam, Spain, Portugal or London | rovoit.” -----

Happily married people are

40 or 50 miles had been reached.

At this stage they were entered in their first race, and have now competed in three or four races. With a favourable wind speeds

mile ♫ minute of over a possible,

are

usually more affectionate towards their parents than others.

Terman and Buttenwieser be- lievo that "members of the happy group are, by inherited or early acquired dispositions, a little more average, than members of the un- amiable and affectionate, on the

group.

study the marital family history of The moral is that you should your bride or groom-to-be.

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