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ROYAL LOVE MATCH

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935.

SCOTLAND GIVES US

The Duke and his bride-to-be.

A PRINCESS

Lady Alice Scott's Wedding To Duke

Of Gloucester

TO-DAY'S CEREMONY

IN LONDON

London, Nov. 6. London, already surfeited with jubilee celebrations and the marriage of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece last November, is to have another royal wedding to-day.

was

on

The engagement of the Duke of Gloucester, and Lady Alice Montagu- Douglas-Scott

announced August 29, exactly a year and a day after the engagement of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina was an- nounced. It was very sudden, although the couple have known each other since they were schoolchildren.

A NEW NATION MAY BE

BORN IN N. CHINA

Bloodless Invasion Soon?

Tientsin, Oct. 30.

The birth of a nation may be witnessed in North China within a year, with Japan in the role of brusque but ex- perienced midwife, many seasoned foreign and Chinese. observers believed to-day.

Autonomy, self-government or independence-call it what you will-was never discussed prior to the Japanese "bloodless invasion" of North China last spring, but it is frequently brought into the open now as a topic for argu- ment and discussion. It would be the third new country born in the Far East during the past few years; Manchou- kuo, the Philippines Commonwealth and "Hoshanchakuo" -a name which has been suggested for the North China. state, comprising a character each from Hopei, Shansi and Chahar provinces.

The official attitude of the Japanese military authorities In North China is that the movement is a purely Chinese internal affair and Japan will remain on the side- lines with no attempt at interfer- ente.

Official Japanese quarters make no equivocation about the

fact and

PANGBORN'S PLANS FOR WORLD FLIGHT

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CAPTIVE ON GOLD CHAIN

MAN THE BLACK EMPEROR FEARS

MOST

ELECTRIC alarms, bar- bed wire, savage watch- dogs, and 300 picked armed guardsmen are being used by the Emperor of Abbys- sinia to keep prisoner the man whom he fears most in the world-Lij Jassou, de- posed King of Abyssinia and grandson of Menelik, who routed the Italians at Adown. Lij Jassou was de- posed and imprisoned by Menelik's daughter Zaiditu, who seized the throne with the help of the present Emperor, also a grandson of Menelik.

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Within a week the Duke hadictorin, Lady Alice Scott will bought and presented the engage have a sprig of myrtle in her Jassou has been a prisoner. ment ring--a solitaire sapphire bouquet. It will be cut from the Now he is under close guard in

et in platinum with a diamond on small tree in the royal garden at a villa-fortress on top of each side.

Windsor Castle.

precipitous Garamoulata moun- tain near Harar.

.

Olleial details for this week's wedding are in the hands of the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Cromer, Owing to the recent death of the bride's father, however, original plans for a Westminster Abbey Ceremony Itave been cancelled and the wedding will now be held the Private Chapel at Bucking- ham Palace.

Italian Plot ?

CHARLES the

The floral decorations at the Chapel have been supplied entirely from the royal gardens at Frogmore, where Mr. Cook. the King's head gardener, has As chief pretender to the carefully tended thousands of throne of Ras Tafari and a Carnations and orchids and figurehead of the Abyssinian' hundreds of chrysanthemums, Moslems, he would be a most so that they would be at their useful tool in the hands of the best on the wedding day.

Italians, who are believed to have plotted his escape.

Flowers from the same gardens will be used for the table decora-

Princess Elizabeth will take her now familiar role of child) bridesmaid, and her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, will

tions at the reception to-night at make her debut as another.

Buckingham Palace, when the The other bridesmaids will be: Lady Mury Cambridge, the 11-colour scheme will be red, white, years-old daughter of the Mar-jand blue.

Several thousand red and white quess and Marchioness of Cam-

Queen;

while bridge, and a grand-niece of the earnations will be used for the Calanthe chrysanthemums, and Lady Elizabeth Scott, the 13-orchids, years-old daughter of the Earl of begonias will complete the scheme, Dalkeith, a brother of the bride:

Two other nieces, Miss Ann Hawkins, who is five; und

Miss Clare Phipps, aged 14: Lady Angela Scott, a sister, and Miss Moyra Scolt, a cousin.

Her First Ceremony For Princess Margaret Rose Ito-day will be

momentous: day it will be the first time she has taken an official part in a wedding ceremony.

iables

alone,

Hence the extraordinary care taken to keep him a prisoner. His wrist is fastened by a solid gold chain to that of a guard, who has been warned that he will be shot if his charge

escapes.

Entertained

Scottish lavasion

Nevertheless, the Emperor has ordered that his royal prisoner There has been n real Scottish must be treated with the greatest invasion of London for the wed-consideration. ding day.

Although the Abbey Ceremony has been cancelled, there will be procession through London.

more than!.

Aba Hanna can draw generous- ly from the royal treasury to satisfy his wants, and the villa- prison is handsomely furnished.`

For the famous West Stand Champagne, liqueurs, fine-wines which, as at the last three royal and other delicacies, together with weddings, adjoins the entrance any books or magazines he may through which the King and desire, are provided for the de- The Princess, who is five, is re

Queen. the bride and bride.posed monarch, who is also enter- Wenatchee, Wash. Oct. 30.

groom, and all the guests will tained by a gramophone and piano, Clyde Pangborn, famed Wenat-markably well possessed, and it is

pass, seats have been booked,

He is allowed to have female chce avintor, resting at his home expected that she will carry out

to the value her bridesmaid's duties with all

company, and is permitted to £20,000. thepoise of her nine-years-old

stroll every day in the grassy siater, who was a bridesmaid for

The many Scottish applicants courtyard of his prison under at her Lady May Abel Smith

the included parties from as far afield guard. wedding in 1931, and for Duchess of Kent last year,

the Orkney and Shetland

Thurso, near Islands,

John Wenatchee after a 4,000 mile the Duke is a major in the Royal 'Grouts, and Stornoway. In the End," an trans-Pacifle hop from Japan. Hussars, The wedding of the Island of Lewis.

that many Japanese army officers triumph, and industrial lenders would like projected

Air

outlined plans for

round-world, non-stop

to see North China independent flight next year.

from Nanking, but Major General It was four years ago on Octo- I. Tada, commander of the Japan ber 3 that Pangborn landed at ese Forces in China, declares theso are personal views and should not be confused with ofli- ciul policy.

It will be a military wedding ag

the Duchess of Kent.

Hotel said.

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CKFORD and

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RAQUEL

TOBRES

RED WAGON

GRETA NISSEN

DIRECTED BY

PAUL LSTEIN

Lady Eleanor Swittis Epic of the Circus!

at

official of the Savoy TO-MORROW the ALHAMBRA

Chapol Service

'Palace

Parliament-nquare, The Mall

Arch

His new plane, in which he will Duke of York was an Air Force While the usual number of ap-| attempt to circle the globe without one, and the Duke of Kent's was plications came from London and Nevertheless even the Japanese landing, will be ready when he Naval. Some of the bride's guests the

The marriage service will begin country generally. · the military headquarters here seldom returns East, Pangborn said. He will wear kilts, it is expected.

at 11:30 am, and will finish at phenomenal demand from North 12.20 p.m. misses an opportunity to press the will test it thoroughly in the next In accordance with law the Duke's Britain indicates how proud is propaganda campaign against the few months.

annual income from the state will Scotland of providing yet another The royal route on the proces Nanking Government, pointing out Pangborn planned to start his be increased from £10,000 to £25,- Royal bride.

sion through London will be: the futility of North China send- ing large sums of its overburden-ight from Seattle, next August. 000 on his marriage.

refuel in the air at New York,

|Horse Guards It is expected that the King will On the greensward, one stand Buckingham ed taxpayer's money for the sup then at Rome, Allahabad, India, make Lady Alice a princess of

has been erected which accom- port of a government which gives Manila and Honolulu. He believed England. She will then share her

Whitehall modates between 2,000 and 3,900 | The Mall. It no protection whatever. This he could make the eircle in seven husband's rank and precedence as

Horse Guards Parliament-street

· people. Incessant campaign is particularly days. He

Approach Road Parliament-square will be constantly in | Duchess of Gloucester, Countess directed against General Chiang touch with radio stations during of Ulster and Baroness Culloden.

The British Legion have a num- Horse Guard

(East and Parade South sides) Kai-shek, and those whom they his time in the air.-United Press. She will take precedenes before ber of standard bearers in White- call "puppet ministers dancing to

[hall to Une the route of the pro-| The return route to the palace Chiang's tune" in Nanking.

No Chinese of any importance military officials have plainly in- that the marriage of the Duke Cenotaph.

There la every reason to believe cession ori elther side of the will be: or standing has yet publicly dis- dicated that Japan would at least and Lady Alice is a love match. cussed the issue, pro or con, and be sympathetic if the independenes There were rumours of an attach-

In view of the close associa-Parliament-street Marlborough Yard the movement is still far under-leaders were worthy, strong, and ment two years ago, and it is

tion of the royal bridegroom Whitehall

and Gato ground as far as the Chinese are sympathetic to Japan.

with the Legion in Gloucester- Horse Guards possible that the George-Marina

Arck Pall Mall concerned. One informant with

shire, standard bearers will be Chinese whose hearts are with wedding prevented earlier

Horse Guarda St. James's-street underworld connections told the Nanking give indication of an un-announcement.

present from that county.

Parade Piccadilly United Press that a select group willingness to face the fact that

Horse Guards Hyde Park Corner The Duke is 35 years old and Members will also attend from of plainclothes men has already such independence plans are afoot. Lady Alice, is 31, and their Scotland, in view of the associa

Approach Road Constitution-hill been recruited to lead a mass move-Nanking is doubtless aware of the engagement is the culmination of tion of the family of the bride with ment for Independence when the situation but if any steps have a youthful romance started when the Legion north of the Tweed.

Fifty-Ave thoroughfares near the time is ripe.

routò of the procession will be been taken to woo North China to they were school-children. The Needless to say there la. not, the closer unity, such measures have Duke was at Eton College with his

Hotel Plans

closed to ordinary trafic at 8.30 a.m. this morning, but will be slightest mass destro or popular not yet reached the average Chi-fiancee's brother, the Earl of demand for Independence in North neso cars, eyes or pocketbooks, Dalkeith, The Bari invited the

London'a hotels and restaurants available up to 9.30 a.m, for cara China, the people fearing that any and their publicity value has been young princeling to spend a school are giving the public every oppor- going to houses and stands on the Other streets will change might be for the worse. sadly neglected..

tunity for celebrating the wedding. } royal route. vacation at Branxholme Castle on There have been general applica-be closed at 9.46 a.m. Communism has taken deep root An Interesting phase of tho the Scottish border.

some sections but that on-

tions for extensions of hours to- Issue is that some Chinese "con-

Cars with ticket holders will be visages an entirely different form fideneo men" have made them the Buccleuchs that Prince Henry It was at that ancient home of

night.

allowed to go by special routes up of government than either the selves rich raising money from first met Lady Alice, She

In honour of the many Scots)

to 10.45. The latest time

for present or proposed Independent wealthy Chinese to finance inde her sisters and three-brothers were

who are in Town, festivities.

vehicles to get to houses and government.

pendence, claiming that their tom-boyish family which accept- Major General Kenji Doihara, a movement lias Japanese aupported the prince as one of themselves, powerful mystery

the and therefore cannot fail They

Ever since he has been treated Japanese military elique, popular-promise protection and Iberal re- as one of the family, is almost as

in

首鲸 тли

an

and

ly credited with engineering the wards after the autonomous gov- much at home at Branxholme ns Manchurian incident, states that ernment is Inaugurated and at Buckingham Palace.

Myrtlo Sprig Bouquet

no independence movement could threaten evil If no contribution is succeed in North China without forthcoming..

have been planned with a stands on the route will be 9.30 Scottish keynote. Dance handsj a.m., while pedestrians will have will play Scottish national'

to take up their positions by 10 metodles: heather and tartan 'clock. decoration schemes have been devised, and Scottish dishes will

-

Barriers have been erected figure on many galu dinner across Bridge-street near the Em- menus.

bankmont, Whitehall near Horse outside aid but he neither denied The Japanese authorities havol Following the custom observed "More men will wear Highland | Guards-avonue, and Plecadilly or affirmed that Japan would pro-Jasued public statements repudint at every royal wedding in England evening dress to-night than on any near St. James's-stroet, Dover vide the needed outside nid. Othering all those opportunists.

sinco

the marriage of Queen previous occasion in the West street and Albemarle-street,

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