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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

HONGKONG WELCOMES ITS NEW GOVERNOR

Excellent panorminle view of the entrance to Queen's fler on Thursday morning, when His Excellency the Governor (Sir Geofry Northcote, K.C.M.G.,) made his oMcint tanding upon arrival to take up his olive here. His Excellency, necompanied by a retinue of Naval and Military high officials, can be seen inspecting the Seaforth Highlanders' Guard of Honour, while large crowds watched the impressive ond colourful ceremony, (Photo: King's Studio),

THREE-MONTHS-TO-LIVE GIRL HAS FOUND NEW FRIEND

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His Unspoken Sympathy, "Sweet and Precious

"I Cannot Explain Stockbroker In Bed

About Him"

By Marjorie Hudson)

SINCE that day when a London specialist told me I had only

three months to live I have had a week in Paris and now have come to the Riviera to find what happiness is still left for me before I die.

And I have found happiness. friendship.

There are hundreds of sympathising letters from unknown friends before me, They are from Sunday Chronicle readers,

Since I came to France I have scen Paris, I have come to a luxury hotel where I am work. ing in my own room, surrounded with flowers, but best of all have met Harry, a sales man ager.

if I can I don't know

explain about

that Harry, except to say. knowing him is making a tremen-: dous difference to these last happy hours.

UNSPOKEN SYMPATHY

He is not young and is much more serious and quiet than the modern young men I knew in London.

There is a kind of unspoken sympathy between us, sweet and precious.

I feel he understands just why I am greedy for all the gulety and sunshine and happiness I can achieve.

He Is on leave from his firm for a few weeks, and has come with me

from Paris to the Riviera,

Last night at the Casino I won all the time. By the end of the evening I was £40 richer than when It started.

Forty pounds! It was, wonderful to win it just at this time, for, my

little

been nest-egg has dwindling fast. I have been extravagant, I admit. in Paris 11 bought clothes and bats quite reck-; lessly.

The thrill of spending money on myself for the first time in my life is a little too much for me.

My friends in Parla overworked themselves to give me a gay play- time. We went to little cafes in Montmartre and Montparnasse. went to expensive restaurants, night clubs, cabarels.

We

Here it is cold and windy, and my cough is worse. I begin to get tired no casily that most of my time is spent in resting. My friends are insisting that I must have some sun-

Not only that, but beauty and

shine, so they are taking me 10 Algiers next week.

BEAUTIFUL LETTERS

T

III As

Hammer Tells Of Failure

London, Oct. 4.

THREE hammer blows "sounded” from the rostrum of the London Stock Exchange yesterday. All busi- ness ceased on the instant; in tense silence members stood. still in their tracks.

There followed the traditional

All this may sound as if I am devoting my time and thoughts to ceremony that every one of the trivial things. But that is not so. 15,000 members dreads. A uni- pray

and And every, night,

great formed waiter read out in re- comfort in it.

sounding tones the fate of an Some of the letters sent mc by

old-established firm of stock- readers are Sunday Chronicle

brokers:- beautiful that I have cried. I am awed that there is so much kindness in the world, prompting strangers to offer me behi and comfort.

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Since I have been here havei written some poems, to try and ex- press some of my emotion.

Here are two:

THANKS

Thanks for the hands that help

me when I call,

Gently caressing, yet surprising

Hands that are ever at my beck

and call, Guiding my steps from dawn to

evensony.

Thanks for the lips that kiss

away my tears, Banishing pain as clondiets in

the sku

Lips that have smiled and sung

along the years, Cheering the weary

hours

through which I lie Thanks for the love you plve me

night and day.

Well knowing that so soon we

two must part;

Unto the very end with me you'll

stay.

And I shall po held clase against

your heart.

MY FRIEND

Whilst wandering down Life's

dusty lane,

I looked for a friend, but found

me none,

Until, when, the day was on the

wane,

And the Sun's warm rays were

weil niph pone,

At last did sea, in the distance'

amble,

A cheery face with a cheery

dim,

So 1 quickened my pace to

welcome him, Hoping and trusting all the

while That I would not fail at my

fourney's end,

"Messrs. George Thomas Lockett and Maurice Clifford Scawin, trading As Thomas Roberts and Co., have informed the Commit- tec of the Stock Exchange that Urey

with cannot comply

their barcalns."

*In

these wards Thomas Roberts and Co. were named defaulters, ald two men who, between them, had tone business on the Stock Exchange for thirty-three years, found them- selves barred from carrying on their

werk.

There was a buzz of hushed talk, then business went on again, but in i subdued atmosphere. - -

It was settlement day yesterday, when ellents had to meet their dif ferences.

The

drop in securities caused by the recent panic on Wall-street and the situation In China and

Spain nd led to difficulties in some quar ters.

'CLIENTS GAMBLED'

There was a funereni silence in the

HUSBAND'S £30,000 CUT TO

£1 A WEEK

-If He Weds

MRS. MARY ELIZABETH

WETJEN, of Addiscombe, Surrey, whoso £30,000 will was published recently, left her fortune in trust, the income to be paid to her husband so long as ho does not marry again.

If he remarries he will receive a pound a week, and the property will pass to his children. The reason for 'this bequest was-devotion.

OCTOBER 30, 1937.

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12.30 Bing Crosby.

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12.00 Les Allen (Baritons). Mine Alone (fim I live for you'); Moon For Sale (Trevor, Henderson and Rosen)....Lea Allen and His Canadian Bachelors; Rehearsing A Lullaby (Sigler, Goodhart and Hoff- man)....Les Allen with Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends. 1.00 Time and Weather. 1.03 Variety,

Organ-Night Must Fall (0lm "The Tenth Man"); Free (from 'O-Kay.for Sound')

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Waiting For The Sunrise (Seltz): A ONE. MORNING YOU WILL BE SAYING

Musical Journey From New York To

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Ken Harvey: Orchestra Whistling. Rufus (Kennedy and Mills); Steamboat Bill (Shields and Leighton Bros. Accordion-Maye International Novelty Orchestra Hornpipe,Frank Murphy.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Presa; Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Raio da Costa at the Piano. Der

Fledermaus - Selection (Strauss, arr. Grunfeld); Juzz Gob- blins; Waltz Romantique (Raie Da Costi; 'King Of Jazz-Medley.

2.00 Musical Comedy Selections. "Viktoria And Her Hussar'----Vocni Gema (Abraham).....Light Opera

Company; Careless Rapture"--Selec- tion (Ivor Novello) ......Orchestre Raymonde.

2.16 Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 French Orchestral Music. La Valse (Ravel)....Orchestre De La Societe Des Concerts Du Conser- vatoire, Paris. Conducted by Phi- lippe Gaubert; Marche Heroique (Saint-Saens)..Orchestre Sympho- nique of Paris Conducted by F. Ruhlmann.

7.24 Songs by Luclenne Boyer. La Voyageuse (Aubret-Delettre); D'Amour En Amour (Lellevre-De- lettre).

7.30 Stock Quotations and long- kong Exchange Market.

7.35 Light Plano and Violin Con- cert.

Songs Without Words F Major: Hunting Song (Mendelssohn)............. Benno Molselvitch (Plano); Serenade (Drdla); Valse Trisie (Scott)... Mar- jorie Hayward (Violin); Die Fleder- maus-Du Und Du-Waltz; Schatz-- Waltz (J. Strauss, arr. Dohnanyi).......... Ernat. Von Dohnanyi (Piano); Lon- donderry Air (orr, Kreisler), Fritz Krelsler (Violin).

2,00. Time, Weather and Announce- ments.

8.03 John Goss (Baritone) and Cathedral Mate Volco Quartet

Nous Irons A Valparaiso (Pares and van Parys); Selucamunn! Sta Lampu (arr. Favara); Storm Along:- Roll The Wood-Pile Down (arr. S. Taylor Harris); Ten Thousand Miles Away (Willan); Agincourt (Willan); Here's A Health Ünto His Majesty (Harris).

8.16 Light Orchestral.

Ever Or Never-Waltz; Children of Spring-Waltz (Weldteufel)............... Orchestra Mascotte; Czardas (Gross- mann, arr. Kotelly); Voice Of Spring Waltz (J. Strauss)...Ferdy Kault- man and His Orchestra,

8.30 London Relay-Variety. Including George Buck (Compere), Knight and Day, Helen Raymond, Harrington and Felst, and Barry Mill and Teddy Ephgrave at Two Plones.

0.00 Local Sports Results, 9.13 Songs by Tanber (Tenor).

But Had You

Known (Denza- Bruggemann); Indian Love Lyrics (Hope-Woodforde-Finden); 1. TO 1 Wake: 2. Kashmiri Song,

9.22 "The Gypsy Princess'——Selec- tion.

Played by De Groot Victoria Orchestra.

and Tho New

9.30 London. Kelsy-The and Announcements.

Newi

9.50 Relay of the Danen Orches- tra from the Grill Room of the Hong; koug Hotel.:

1. Just because my Baby says it's so; 2. Night over Shanghai; 3. You (Continued on Page 4)

Mr. and Mrs. Wetjen lived at Red- routs Fitzjames-avenue, Addiscombe, RECOMMENDED a large house, with their son and two daughters, all grown up.

UNITED FAMILY

They were a happy, united family. Mr. Wetjen still lives with his chill-

emces of Thomas Roberts and Co., in London Wall. In the inner office the two men who since the war had carried on the firm eyed each other haggardly. Every night for the past- week the lights had burned in their room while they were trying to save the firm.

They cannot practise as stock-dren. brokers again until their debts are Is in paid. Mr. Lockell's home Leigh-on-Sea. Mr. Scawin lives in Barnes. Their failure was a small one, und esused no repercussions in the day's trade,

Ith my humble efforts to try in

grid be,

Worthy the love of my, new.

found friend,

For eternity.

་

Yesterday Mr. Seawin was ill in bed. His son, sald

clients "Some of my father's gambled in stocks and, were un- able to pay up. The firm found itself facing obligations beyond its resources"

..Onta

of his daughters sald retently: "Father and mother were so devoted that the idea of elther remarrying If one should die was out of the question. "Motlier

and father often talked

of what might happen if one of them were left and they always dismissed remarriage as being almost impossi- ble,

This is the second time this year "Mother made this provision in Stock Exchange firm has been her will to cover a possibility which hammered. On September 13 It was announced that Mr. William Edward she regarded as so remote that sho a member since 1920, had just provided a normiñal sum of a not complied with his bargains.

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