1935-11-06 — Page 3

ROYAL LOVE MATCH

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,* NOVEMBER 6, 1935.

SCOTLAND GIVES US

The Duke and his bride-to-be..

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A PRINCESS

Lady Alice Scott's Wedding To Duke

Of Gloucester

TO-DAY'S CEREMONY

IN LONDON

London,

London, Nov. 6.

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.

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

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August 29, exactly a year and a day after the engagement of the Duke of Kent and 'Princess Marina was 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.

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The official attitude 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-

ence.

PANGBORN'S' "PLANS FOR WORLD FLIGHT

Within a week the Duke had bought and presented the engage ment ring-a solitaire sapphire set in platinum with a diamond on cach side.

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

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MAN THE BLACK EMPEROR FEARS MOST

FLECTRIC 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 Adowa. 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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Victorin, Lady Alice Scott will have a sprig of myride in her Jassou has been a prisoner. bouquet. It will be cut from the Now he is under close guard in small tree in the royal gardens at a villa-fortress on top of the precipitous Garamoulata moun- tain near Harar.

Windsor Castle.

Italian Plot?

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The floral decorations at the Chapel have been supplied entirely from the royal garden's nt Frogmore, where fr. Cook, the King's head gardener, has As chief pretender to the carefully tended thousands of throne of Bas 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- tions al the reception to-night at Buckingham Palace, when the colour scheme will be red, white,

and blue.

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

Princess Elizabeth will take her now familiar role of child bridesmaid, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, will make her debut as another. The other bridesmaids will be Lady Mary Cambridge, the 11- years-old daughter of the Mar- quess and Marchioness of Cam- Several thousand red and whito bridge, and a grand-niece of the carnations will be used for the Queen;

tables alone, while Calanthe and chrysanthemums, begonias will complete the scheme.

Scottish Invasion

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

Aba Hanna can draw generous. Although the Abbey Ceremony ly from the royal treasury to has been cancelled, there will be satisfy his wants, and the

princession-through-London.----prison-ts-handsomely-furnished,

For the famous West Stand Champagne, liqueurs, fine winca which, as at the last three royal and other delicacies, together with weddings, adjoins the entranceaný books or magazines he may through, which the King and desire, are provided for, the de- Queen, the bride and bride- |'posed monarch, who is also enter groom, and all the guests will iained by a gramophone and plano, pass, seats have been booked

Lady Elizabeth Scott, the 13-orchids, years-old daughter of the Earl of Dalkeith, a brother of the bride: Two other nieces, Miss Ann Hawkins, who is five; and

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

Her First Ceremony For Princess Margaret Rose | to-day will be

momentous day-it will be the first time she has taken an official part in * wedding ceremony,

The Princess, who is five, is re- Wenatchee, Wash. Oct. 30. Clyde Pangborn, famed Wenat-markably well possessed, and it is Official Japanese-quarters make chee aviator, resting at his home expected that she will carry out fact and scene of his greatest air her bridesmaid's duties with all

no equivocation

about the

that many Japanese army officers triumph. and Industrial lenders would like projected

for outlined plans

the poise of her nine-years-old 11 sister, who was a bridesmaid for round-world, non-stop

Lady May Abel Smith at her wedding. in 1931, and for the

to see North China independent flight next year. from Nankins, but Major General

It was four years ago on Oclo: Duchess of Kent last year,

to the value of more than £20,000.

villa-

He is allowed to have femalo company, and is permitted to stroll every day in the grassy The many Scottish applicants courtyard of his prison under included parties from as far afield guard. 35 the Orkney and Shetland

Thurso, Islands,

near

John

CHARLES'

KFORD and

RAQUEL

TORD

RED WAGON

wild

GRETA NISSEN

DIRECTED BY

PAUL LSTEIN

Lady Eleanor Smith's Epic of the Cincus!

at

after a 4,000 mile the Duke is a major in the Royal O'Groats, and Stornoway, in the Find an official of the Savoy TO-MORROW the

the Duchess of Kent.

the

Hotel said.

Chapel Service

The marriage service will begin at 11.30 a.m, and will finish at 12.20 p.m.

The royal route on the proces- sion through London will be:

Palace

'Horse Guarda

Whitehall

Arch

Parliament-street

The Mall

H. Tada, commander of the Japan ber 3 that Pangborn landed at

It will be a military wedding na ese Forces in China, decinres | Wenatchee these are personal views and trans-Pacifig hop from Japan.

Hussars. The wedding of the laland of Lewis, should not be confused with offi-

His net plane, in which he will Duke of York-was an Air Force. While the usual number of up- cial policy.

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 country generally, military headquarters here seldom returns East, Pangborn anid. He will wear kilts, it is expected. phenomenal demand from North 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 Nanking Government, pointing out

Pangborn planned to start his be increased from £10,000 to £25,- Royal bride. the futility of North China send-night from Seattle, next August, 000 on his marriage. ing large sums of its overburden-refuel in the

On the greensward, one stand Buckingham air at New York, It is expected that the King will

has been erected which accom ed taxpayer's money for the sup- then at Rome, Allahabad, India, make Lady Alice a princess of port of a government which gives anila and Honolulu. Ho believed England, She will then share her

modates between 2,000 and 4,000 | The Mall

Horse Guards it no protection whatever. This he could make the circle in seven husband's rank and precedence us

people.

Approach Road Parliament-square { Incessant campaign is particularly

days. He will be constantly. In Duchess of Gloucester, Countess

(East and | directed against General Chiangtouch with radio stations during of Ulster and Baroness Culloden.

The British Legion have a num-Horse Guardu

Parade} South sides) Kai-shek, and those whom they

hall to line the route of the pro- call "puppet ministers dancing to his time in the air.-United Press. She will take precedence before her of standard bearers in White-

The return route to the palace Chinng's tune" in Nanking.

either side of the will be: There is every reason to believe cession on No Chinese of any importance military officials have plainly in-that the marriage of the Duke Cenotaph. 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 independence There were rumours of an attach- the movement is still far under-leaders were worthy, strong, and ment two years ago, and it is ground as far as the Chinese are sympathetic to Japan.

possible that the George-Marina concerned. One informant with

Chinese whose hearts are with wedding prevented 011 earlicz underworld connections told the Nanking give indication of an un-announcement. United Press that a select group willingness to face the fact that of plainclothes mon has already such independence plans are afoot. Lady Alice, is 34, and their Scotland, In view of the associa- been recruited to lead a mass movo 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. time is rips.

been taken to woo North China to they were school-children; The Needless to say there is not the closer unity, such measures have Duke was at Eton College with his slightest mags desire or popular not yet reached the average Chi- fiancee's brother, the Earl of demand for independence in North nose ears, eyes or pocketbooks, Dalkeith, The Far Invited the China, the people fearing that any and their publicity value has been young princeling to spend a school change might be for the worse, sadly neglected,

vacation at Branxholme Castle on Communism has takon deup, root

An Interesting phase of tho the Scottish border. In some sections but that en-

issue is that some Chinese "con- It was at that ancient home of visages an entirely different form fidence men" have made them the Bucclcuchs that Prince Henry of government than either the selves rich raising money from first met Lady Alice. She and present or proposed independent wealthy Chinese to finance fade her sisters and three brothers were government.

pendence, claiming that their n tom-baylah family which accept- Major General Kenji Doihara, a | movement has Japanese supported the prince as one of themselves. powerful mystery man in the and therefore cannot fall They Ever since he has been treated Japanese military clique, popular promise protection and liberal re-

as one of the family, is almost as ly credited with engineering the wards after the autonomous gov much at home at Branxholme as. Manchurian incident, states that crument រង Inaugurated and at Buckingham Palace, no independence movement could threaten evil if no contribution is succeed in North China without forthcoming.

Myrtle Sprig Bouquet outside nid but he neither denied

Following the custom observed

The Japanese authorities have or affirmed that Japan would pro-issued public statements repudiat- vide the needed outside.nld. Othering all these opportunists..

The Duke is 35 years old 'and {

| Parliament-square In view of the close associa- Parliament-street

| Marlborough Yord tion of the royal bridegroom Whitehall

and Gato with the Legion in Gloucester-Horse Guards

Archi Pall Mall shire, standard bearers will be

Horse Guarda" St. James's-street present from that county.

Parade Piccadilly Members will also attend from Horse Guards Hyde Park Corner

Approach Road Constitution-hill Fifty-five thoroughfares near the route of the procession will be Hotel Plans

closed to ordinary traffic at 8.30 a.m. this morning, but will be London's hotels and restaurants available up to 9.30 a.m. for cars are giving the public every oppor going to houses and stands on the tunity for celebrating the wedding. royal route. Other streets will There have been general appilca- be closed at 0.45 a.m. tions for extensions of hours to-

Cars with ticket holders will be night.

In honour of the many Scots allowed to go by special routes up for who are in Town, festivities to 10.45. The latest time

vehicles to get to houses and have been planned with 0

stands on the route will be 9.30 Scottish keynote, Dance bands .m.. while pedestrians will have will play Scottish national melodies: heather and tartan to take up their positions by 10

n'clock. decoration schemes have been

erected devised, and Scotthalt dishes will Barriers have been figure on many gala dinner across Bridge-street near the Em- menus,

bankment, Whitehall near Horse Piccadilly "More men will wear Highland | Guards-avenue, and at every royal wedding in England even ng dress to-night than on any near St. James's-street, Dover- since the marriage of→ Queen previous occasion in the Weat street and Albemarle-street.

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