1938-04-21 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938.

GEISHA GIRL GAVE UP ALL FOR LOVE

She Defied Her Nation To Marry Millionaire American Banker

PASSES THROUGH HONGKONG ON RETURN TO EAST

RETURNING to Japan for the first time since her marriage 30 years ago to an American millionaire shocked all Japan the formerly famous geisha girl Yukiko Inouye, of a Kyoto cafe, passed through Hong- kong yesterday in the N.Y.K. liner Yasukuni Maru.

Fascinated when he saw the pretty 17-year- old geisha girl, an American millionaire, George Dennison Morgan, scion of the famous New York banking family, married Yukiko against a storm of opposition in Japan in 1904, during the Meiji era, when few Japanese girls married Europeans.

EMPIRE NEWS

INDIAN COLLIERY

EXPLOSION

BOMBAY

The general manager of the Sign- reni Collieries, Hyderabad, Mr. Andrews, and 16 other employees lost their lives yesterday in an explosion. Among the 48 were two Scotsmen named Howleson and Young. Mr. Andrews is said to have come from Glasgow. Forty persons wêre jured, many critically.

In-

The accident was due to a leakage of gas at the colliery, the mines be- ing idle at the time for the obser- festival of vance of the Moslem Moharram. Repairs were in progress An- under the supervision of Mr. drews.

The fire which followed the ex- that plosion was of such intensity rescue was obviously impossible, al- though attempts were made. After efforts Insting through the night and loto the morning the fire Was extinguished and the bodies re- covered.

The collieries, which are the pro- perty of the Hyderabad State, cover an area of about 50 square miles.

Cyclone Death Roll-It is now established that 100 persons lost their lives in the cyclone which swept over the hilly district of Dibrugarh, Assam, eight days ago, Most of the victims were tea garden coolies and

familles members of their

whose dwellings were uprooted by the storm. The districts of Silchar and Lak- himpur also suffered heavily.

NEW ZEALAND

PROGRESS OF STEEL BILL

Another geisha girl who married committed suicide at this time rather than face the opposition,

Together Yukiko and her husband went to America and lived there happily until he died in 1915.

LIVED IN PARIS

After her husband's death she went to Parts and lived a quet sccluded] life at St. Cloud near Paris.

Interviewed on arrival here, Mrs. Morgan sald that #he Jad nearly forgotten Japan- ese and spoke better French than her own language.

"At first I wanted to belleve that' I could live through life with only memories of my beloved husband, but becoming old without friends I began feeling lonely and tired in

Paris" she said.

SISTER DYING

"When I received news that my elder sister in Kyoto was dying. I decided to go back to Japan after tying 30 years in foreign coun tries,

"I will never return to Paris but will stay near my brother and sisters

til my death," she said.

DOG GETS

£6,000 A YEAR

ISS

MARGARET

M MCDONALD, of Chicago,

when she died left an annual income of £6,000 to her little white Eskimo dog, Spitz.

The courts have confirmed

the will.

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WELLINGTON. The bill providing for the establish- ment of an iron and steel industry as o State monopoly in New Zealand Z.B.W, on Frequencies of 845 k.c's.; has been passed by the Ilouse of 9.52 m.c's, per second, Representatives.

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12.30 Songs

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Let's Face The Music And Dance (Frum Follow the Fleet'); Alone (From 'A Night at the Opera'); Geo, Oh Gosh, I'm Grateful!

12.40 Ambrose & His Orchestra. Symphonies-A Selection

Silly

ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS CHEERED ENTRY OF GERMANY'S WAR MACHINE INTO AUSTRIA

PICTURE FROM AN AUSTRIAN TOWN during the march of the German troops into the country. Local police, assisted by S.S. and S.A, troops had great difcully in controlling the enthusiastic crowds who lined the streets.

Personalities of Old Hongkong

Sir Henry Blake Was One

One of

Colony's Great Governors

IRISHMAN WAS BELOVED BY

CHINESE PEOPLE

By T. Paul Gregory

more

perhaps no farewell Was poignant or impressive than that of the community who So deeply appreciated his efforts on their be- half.

CHINESE PROCESSION "Punctually

on the

stroke of twelve," says the Hongkong Tele- graph of November 14, 1903, "a characteristic Chinese procession marched through the entrance gate (at Government House), headed by two boys carrying lanterns on which

OF THE MANY ACHIEVEMENT IN THE COLONY, NOME ART greatest respect, we appr

F THE MANY IRISHMEN WHO HAVE PURSUED BRILLIANT were characters meaning, With the

appreciate your

BETTER KNOWN THAN THOSE WHO HAVE OCCUPIED THE Thence passing the main porch, it GUBERNATORIAL CHAIR. THEY ARE SIR ARTHUR KENNEDY, halted for the representatives of the SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, SIR HENRY MAY AND SIR HENRY kaifongs to alight from their sedan-

ARTHUR BLAKE,

The latter was one of Hongkong's most popular ad- ministrators and posterity has recorded its appreciation of his term of service by proudly bestowing his name upon two of the city's most widely known spots-Blake Pier and Blake Gardens.

Sir Henry Arthur Blake was born at Corhally, County Gal way, Ireland, on January, 18, 1840. He was the son of Peter Blake, and was a scion of an old family which had been settled in the country since Cromwel lian times.

He was educated, as were most of the lads of the period, in an old fashioned Classical Academy con- ducted by a Dr. St. John, a local An annual output of about 25,000

divine at Kilkenny. After completing tons of finished steel is expected, and

his preliminary studies, he later the Dominion would then. It is from Walt Disney's (arr. Munro): entered Santry College, where

he estimated, require 70,000 to 75,000 Saving Up My Time To Spend On

rounded off his education, by a tons from Great Britain annually-You-Fox-Trot: Crazy With Love further

course In the Greek and Fox-Trot (From This'll make you Latin languages, and the belles whistle'); Music In May-Waltz fettres. (From Careless Rapture'); There's That Look In Your Eyes Again-Fox- Trot (From Head over Heels'); Head Over Heels-Fox-Trot (Fram the (im).

1,0 Time and Weather. chestre Raymonde.

1.03 Tino Rossi (Tenor) And Or-

Reuter, SOUTH AFRICA

VALUE OF BRITISH NAVY

CAPETOWN. The value of the British Navy to the Union of South Africa was emphasised by Vice-Adml. Sir Francia Tottentium,

retiring

Com mander-in-Chief, Afrlen Station, in an address to the Rotary Club here.

The two British cruisers in Fulse Bay, Amphion, 7,040 tons, and snid, cach Neptune, 7,030 tons, ho cost £2,000,000; the Atrien Station cost Britain £500,000 a year, and the Royal Navy coche in South tection 0,000 ships African waters which year by year carried the Unton's seaborne trode..

Licensed Motor Mechanics.-Gen. of Justice, urges Smuts, Minister that every motor mechunle in South Afrien should be properly trained and certificated. He says that in the past those who falled in other walks of life became farmers--now they

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chairs,

After the members of the Com- mitice had been presented to the

Governor, the Chairman, Mr. Liu Yi, presented a beautiful embroidered canopy and delivered what is per- haps the most filling encomium of Sir Henry's career in the Colony. He stated in the course of his

his speech: "Your Excellency, the members of the Committee representing the and in 1884, he was appointed Kaifongs of Second and Third In this post Streets are met here to-day to crave Governar of Bahamas, he served until 1887, when he was your Excellency's pleasure to accept nominated to the governorship of a memento of the work which Newfoundland.

your Excellency, at great personal incon- venience, conducted in the interest His stay in his new office was and for the protection of the lives short; for in the succeeding year he and

Inhabitants

ants of No. 9

↑ District was chosen to serve as the adminis of the trutor

of Queensland, but he un in this Colony. At the commence- annual visitation of England. Subsequently, expectedly resigned and returned to ment

he was plague this year, your Excellency in- named by the Secretary of State for augurated the experiments in the the Colonies as Captain-Generat and treatment of Chinese patients. Tit

Those Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica, and in experiments resulted in immense this post he served from 1889-1897,

benefit to people in that locality. In the latter

and

gene

of the

The scholastic curriculum was ob- efforts for the promotion of their peelal und benign care, to an ex-

have

even

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Us

The sympathy for the suffering of year, the wa appointed Governor of Hongkong, the poorer citizens of this Colony, 50 generously manifested by your Ex- his sojourn of five years here cellency, deeply touched them, and was marked by his regard and ad moved us, as the representatives of miration for the Chinese portion of the district which come within your the inhabitants, and his ceaseless spect viously intended to be a prelude to

you. It welfare. Sir further study eventually leading humanitarian and being appalled at one of us that a souvenir should be

heir pression of our graillude Henry was a sincere was the unprompted desire of every to an academic career. Apparently, the death-rate during the outbreak subscribed for and presented to your however, the young man was dis- satisfied with the further thralldom of vuole Plague during the years Excellency now that you are of the classics; for in 1850, at previous to his arrival, determined shortly to leave Hongkong at the the age of nineteen he suddenly

to Institute experiments into the. Song of The Vagabonds (From The decided to enter the Royally catuation and sprend of that invidi conclusion of your period of adminis

tration here. This souvenir takes Vagabond King'); Only A Rose (From Constabulary as a Cadet. iis pro- such

visitation which had wrought the form of a canopy of small in- The Vagabond King').... Orchestre

havoc that even motion seems to

its popular trinsic value, but testifies none the been extra-

appellation of the "Black Death" can Raymonde: 11 Existe Une Blonde ordinarily rapid; for scarcely

less to the sincere appreciation and Slow-Fox Chante

nte....Tino Ross; month after his "joining up." he was that it arouses in the popular ima- sensibly your Excellency's solicita- scarcely convey the horror and dread thankfulness of those who feel so Polonaise Militaire (Chopin-arr., raised to the rank of Sub-inspector. Walter); Invitation To The

Waltz

ANGLOPHILE

gination.

tion for the assuagement of their (Weber-are., Walter)....Orchestre

Although he was Irish by birth, Governor in endeavouring to eradiceus ills such as befall us with each ****C'est

The efforts and enterprise of the troubles when beset by the calamit 'Amour (Montler & Tillymoon); Te viewpoint, and Raymondo; Les Fleurs

De Sir Henry was entirely English In Revoir (Dalleri, d'Angelys & Pores) seventies and elites with ings for of the poorer residents of the Colony the memento wis expression we

every vestige of the epidemic direful during the te

me direful visitation of the from the crowded hovels and slums scourge. We beg you, Sir, to accept the dreadful Parera) Dances; Hornpipe: Minect: Rustic Hume Rule, he wisely foresaw that Chinese community; for practically couple the prayer that both you and

Tino Rossi; Merric

countrymen were agitating for were especially appreciated by the thanks. With this Dance: Jig

Raymonde. the time was not yet ripe for any all of those who were afflicted with Lady Blake may have long years be- 1.30 Reuter & ther

Press, Wea-

legislation which would lend to the and

severance of the ties between Ireland pestilence were of this nation- fore you to enjoy the blessings of 1.40 Mozart Compositions.

and Britain.

health and prosperity and the re- It is recorded that at this period

SORROW AT DEPARTURE

ward of Ills

for the Majesty he was chiefly occupied with the So warmly regarded was Sir Henry qualified success of your adminis cause of conciliation, and in 1882 was Blake that when news came

tration in Hongkong. Like the (So-nominated one of the District Ma- September 1, 1003, that he had been

Chinese in this Colony, the natives prano); Air (From Suite No. 3 In D gistrates empowered "to concert and appointed to the governorship of in the new sphere of your sympathe- Major-Bach). Edwin Fischer & carry out

the pacifica-

the government will not take long to 1is Chamber Orchi

The powers conced-

edceived

considerable misgiving ed to him were large, and he had and disappointment by the Chinese elevation to a higher post in 5 CHILDREN BURNED

inestimable gain they attain in your 8.03-11.0 Chinese Programme. complete executive charge

of the Colony who

the had gone to the service of the King in HALIFAX, Nova Scotia.

Irish counties Kildare, greatest pains in their whole-hearted

Ceylon." Five young children were burned from the Roof Garden of the Hong- ¦ Queens, Meath, Carlow, Galway East endeavours to retain Sir Henry intorial chair of Coylon was in reality Ils nomination to the guberna- to death this morning at a farm at

and Galway West.

office for another five year period, Boularderie,

(a) My Little Bucheroo; (b) Tain't Cape Breton. The Good; (e) A thousand dreams of you;

successful was he in winning and had been more than sanguine the last of Sir Henry's succession of victims were three boys and two (d) You're my best bet.

over his compatriots that the Home that their petition to the Secretary Appointments; for in 1907-affer three girls, the children of Mr. Dunlap,

Rule agitation to They were between four and 12 Musle from Z.B.W.

5.18 Interval of recorded Daneo

great extent of State praying for their beloved years of service he went into retire- became reduced in intensity and did Governor's retention in office would ment

to bls realdenco "Myrtle years old.

6.20. (a) Gone with the winds; (b) proportions until quite recent years.

not again develop into any serious be accepted.

Grove, Youghal, County Cork, fro- land. Ils declining years · were children escaped by leaping Rima' at the Ritz; (e) Harbour

Sir Henry Blake, like Sir Andrew passed in comparative obscurity, and from the windows of the farmhouse Lights; (d) Waddlin' at the Waldorf.

METEORIC RISE

Caldecott, was such a popular figure he Into the snow-Exchange,

this time onwards, Sle that his departure was marked with roundings of his estate in the year died amidst the tranquil sur- (Continued on Page 5.) Henry' riso was almost meleoric, many expressions of regret, though 1918, at the ripe old age of 70,

became motor mechanics.—Neuter. CANADA

Six

Orches

Anno 19

Symphony In 1 B Flat Major, K. 310 Edwin Fischer & His Chamber Orch.; Martern Aller Arten Ach, Ich Liebte....Morgherita

2.15 Close Down.

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allly,

on

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