THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
1,
1938.
Sarafy, čapfume Court
George Bernard Shaw Reveals 'Mystic Betrothal’ To Wealthy Girl Who Married Another
WHY HE DIDN'T
ATTEND
HER
FUNERAL
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW RECENTLY RE- CALLED A 'ROMANCE OF HIS YOUTH AND TALKED OF HIS LONG FRIENDSHIP WITH A GIRL WITH WHOM HE MADE A "MYSTIC -BETROTHAL." THE HEROINE OF THE ROM- ANCE DIED RECENTLY
She was May Morris, 76-duighter for a year-old daughter of Wil-for year?
week on my income
EL was on a Sunday evening that
liam Morris, the poet, artist, the "nigste astrothal" took place.
and social philosopher.
Mr. Shaw did not attend the funeral. He does not attend funerals. He dislikes the burial service.
"But if i had stone to anyone's funeral it would have been that of Miss Morris," he said. "I sad the very highest regard for her."
He went on to recall the precious memories of their youth together;
i "I looked at her rejoicing in her lovely dress and lovely self; and she looked at me very care- dellberately fully, and quite
a
nade a gesture of assent with her eyes.
"I was immediately conscious that mystic betrothal was registered in teaven to be filled when all ana- trial shitacles should melt away."
SECRET LOVE
But Mr. Shaw never told tris love. and of his long friendship with Missi "I made no sigat at all; I had no Morris. He talked of the "mystic'doubt that the thing was written in betrothel," which he first mentioned, the skies for both of us. publicly in a preface for a book! which Allas Morris wrote abatit her father.
HE WAS POOR
When a young man, G.IUS. was a frequent visitor at the Morris home in Hammersmith.
"Now it happened that among the many beautiful things in Morris's house was a very beautiful daughter, then in the flower of her youth, wrote Shaw.
"I was a bachelor then, and likely to remain so. I was so poor that could hardly have supported Morris's)
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ments and were reviewed by General Gamelin.
Shave and Miss Morris met again. When motoring through Glouces "Suddenly, to my utter stupe faction, and I suspect to that of tershire one day he decided to call Manor, the beautiful Morris also the beautiful daughter at Kelmscott
joki hause ut Lechimie where Willan married one of my contades." Yet. Mr. Shaw admits it was en-Mortis spent the last 25 years of his turely his own fault for taking the tie.
granted. " mystic betrothal for regarded it, and still regard it," he sage, "in spite of all reason, as the inust monstrous brench of faith in
the history of romance.'
HER GREETING He knocked at the door and Missi
hem ast if he had Morris mented
bucers away for only ten minutes or
Miss Morris's marriage, which was 50 not happy, was dissolved and she resumed her maiden name,
Forty years missed before
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i Shaw.
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Since that day. Mr. Shaw said, they had maintained a regular cor- respondence.
"In many of her letters," he said. "Miss Morris expressed re- gret that she had not devoted more of her ilme to literature, rather than to her embroidery, Jewellery asid tapestry work. though they were.
exquisite
R. A. F. Pilot
Pilot Lands Crashing Plane On One Wheel
After a three-hour "blackout" observation flight over South Yorkshire recently the R.A.F. bomber carrying the Allied Newspapers reporter (R. S. Fenton) crashed into the roofs of two bungalows as it was landing at Finningley R.A.F. station, Doncaster.
The reporter, describing the crash, says:
"As we neared the ground at Fianingley, travelling at about 60 m.p.h., the mist thickened and we could see but a few yards. Suddenly something loomed up in front of us,
"There was a crash. The
machine shuddered. The left wheel and part of the undercarriage had caught the roof of a "I think it was a great pity, my-bungalow near the landing ground.
well.
"Her masterly book about her father is an indication of what she could have achieved in literature."
Note: William Morris (1834-06) was a leader in the literary, artistic and social life of h time. With a craftsman's skill. he applied art to practical uses-the design of house! hold furniture, wallpapers, rugs, curtains. In his later years he be. wane an active Socialist.
3 Dead In Car, Notes On Window
EMPIRE NEWS
AUSTRALIA'S BIG DEFENCE PLANS
Sydney.
We
"We held our breath and said not a word as we realised that the pilot had to land the machine on one wheel. If we crashed again it was likely that the store of petrol in the wings over 100 gallons would Ignite and should be burned to death,
Mussey, The pilot, Pilot-Oficer did everything possible to prevent the machine overturning.
SHOCKED, BUT
SAFE "As we
we neared the ground our propellers struck the field and were badly twisted by the impact. The undercarriage, badly bent on
the
It is now admitted that the confer-left-hand side, took the weight of ence of Federal and State Ministers the machine as it struck the ground at Canberra must tackle the national and had it not been for the pilot's have over- planning of works for industrial ex-skill would probably pansion in the interests of defence on turned it.
a seale not previously ponte Minis-
Mr. Lyons, Federal Prime ter, has sent a secret mentorandum For several hours after the to all State Premiers. The serious- discovery of a triple tragedy theness of the occasion is emphasised by Curtin police were trying to identify the decision to invite Mr. young couple and a baby boy Leader of the Opposition, to attend. found dead in a car at Beacons-direct defence programme will cost It is recognised that Australia's field, Bucks., recently.
011 the man's
"The machine, leaning to the left, ran along the ground at what appeared to me to be speed
our which could only end in turlag over noso Arst. The pliol swung the machine round in a wide are and we rumbled to a a halt shocked, but safe, "The impact as our plane hit the roots had been heard all over the considerably more than the summey aerodrome, and we saw. In the glore viously provided for, namely: £43,000,000, spread over three years. of the landing lights, the aerodrome Combined Federal and State defence staff followed by the fire-engine and The man is believed to have beeswell the total to £80,000,000.
measures of all kinds are likely to ambulance rushing towards us.
"None of the seven occupants of 25 traveller working for a steel
Expenditure on railways and roads, the bungalows was injured, although manufacturing firm at Addleston, to especially the provision of ultema- the plaster had showered from the and masonry jand tives to the present exposed coastal ceilings and walls of rooms. routes, will probably be very heavy chimney-pots, in New South Wales, owing to the been flung into the garden,
"The black-out generally was, as danger to industries at the ports.
fur As we could ascertain, success-
A driving licence budy bore the name of Davies with la Greenford, Middlesex, address.
whom the ear is thought to belung.
The ear, which was seen in a field by two refuse collectors, was full of fumes.
Sluck on the windows were two noles, of which the pollee took possession.
Sintes.
It is believed that there will be a reconstruction of the Federal Cabinet, ful." and the establishment of an inner A tube led from the exhaust to Cabinet of five "key
Ministers
to would be a great mistake to suppose the inside of the car, which bore direct policy on detener, france, that such a gesture would improve
the international situation In Derbyshire Index letters.
international relations and trade.
The man and woman were both
Morning Herald is way whatever."
ged about 35, and the boy out of the challenges to the peoples of 18 months. All were well dressed. creasing
They had been dead for
some the Northern Hemisphere are now hours.
extending to Australia. The basis of a white Australia is being questioned. It appeals to the people courageously to face national organisation so as to
The Son that the recent in- New Zealand
Canberra.
VOTERS AGAINST
PROHIBITION
Wellington
any
501,420
244,189 04,205 Polls on the question of continứng:
The national Reensing poll held at Australia to Make Car
the same time as the general election be able to resist aggression. Engines Probable Invest- Coast Manoeuvres-During large- has resulted as follows:
scale manoeuvres in the neighbour- For continuance of present
system ment of British Capital hood of Newcastle, New South Wales,
4,000 troops of the 1st Infantry For Prohibition Brigade repulsed a dawn attack from For State control Plans are well under way for the the sea. The invaders were reckon-
of the motur-car ed at four divisions. The troops the present licensing system have establishment
in were summoned by radio and were been held at the four previous gen- In motorerni elections. Since 1022 the voles engine manufacturing Industry Australia. As a result of the negotin-conveyed to the beach
for Prohibition have shown a decline and the votes for continuance of the tions of the Australian trade dele-buses and light lorries.
Bub- gation in England. recently,
South Africa
present system an increase. stuntinl British capital is expected to
INDIA be invested in the new industry,
The Commonwealth government, nays Austral News, is expected to draw up a scheme to help manu- facturers, probably by means of a bounty on every locally made engine.
SOW WHAT!
Melbourne.
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AIRCRAFT FACTORY TO BE BUILT
Cape Town.
OPIUM PROHIBITION PLAN
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Calcutta,
The Premier of Orissa has innu-
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The De Havilland Aircraft Com- pany has decided to build an aircraft Factory in South Africa to produce gurated a plan for prohibiting oplum
twb-seater, low-wing In the Balasore district. 90-bp. monoplane, selling at about £700. will be frat registered and later pre- Colonial Agitation The Rand vented from obtaining the drug. Daily Mail says that the whole Ger- which many take as a medicine. A sow, at Tamworth, Victoria, has man colonial agitation is artificial, Half of Orissa's exciso revenue is established what its owners claim is The Germans as a people are not derived from oplum.
Indian seriously Interested in the question. ja record.
Muliny Veteran.-AR In the last three years it has had "If all the colonies were returned Indian veteran of the Mutiny of 1857, 101 piglets in six litters--Austral | to-morrow a small Influential group Bhagwandin Shukla, aged 103, has News.
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