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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1938.

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

for a year.

She was May Morris, 76-daughter for a week on my income year-old daughter of Wil- I was on a Sunday evening that liam Morris, the poet, artist, the "mysle betrothal 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 gone to anyone's funeral it would have been that of Miss Morris," he said. 3. had the very highest regard for her." He went on to recall the

precious memories of their youth together und of his long friendship with Missh Morris. He talked of the "mystic betrothal," which he first mentioned publicly in a preface for a book which Miss Morris wrote about her father.

HE WAS POOR

"I looked at her rejoleing in her lovely dress and lovely self; and she looked at me very care- fully. Ani

deliberately quito made a gesture of assent with her eyes.

"I was inediately conscious that a mystic betrothal was registered in Heaven to be fulfilled when all ma- terini obstacles should melt away."

SECRET LOVE

But Mr. Shaw never told his love, **t made no sign at all; 1 hund no doubt that the thing was written in; the sides for both of us.

Maginot Line troops headed for home, after recall from duty on the French-Gerinun barder, when the dangerous days of the Czecho-Slovakian eriel: wire over. They are passing the German gate at Metz, France. They were part of the French army of infanry, artillery and tank corpa detach-

ments and were reviewed by Genreal Gomelín.

Shaw and Miss Morris met again. "Suddenly, to my alter stupe- When motoring through Glouces- faction, and I suspect to that of tershire one day he decided to call. Morris also the beautiful daughter at Kelmscott Manor. the beautiful married one of my comrades," oil house at Lechinde where William Yet. Mr. Share admits It was en-Morris spent the last 25 years of his tirely his own fault for taking the life. amystic

betrothal for granted. " regarded it, and still regard it,” hej

HER GREETING

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When a young man, G.BS, was a frequent visitor at the Morris home in inmersmith.

"Now it happened that among the many beautiful things in Morris's says, "in spite of ali reason, as the He knocked at the door and Miss house was a very beautiful daughter, most monstrous

of faith in Morris greeted him as if he had bren away for only ten minutes or 120,

in the flower of her youth," the bistory of prote

then wrote Shaw.

"I was a bachelor then, and likely to remain so. I was so poor that could hardly love supported Morris's,

Miss Morris's marriage, which was (not happy, was dissolved and she

resanned her maiden name.

Forty years passed before

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"The beautiful daughter and 3. now harmless old folk, met again as if nothing had happened," comments Shaw.

Since that day, Mr. Show said, they had maintained a regular cor- respondence.

"In many of her tellers." he saki, "Miss Morris expressed re- gret that she had not devoted more of her time to literature, rather

than to her embroidery, jewellery

ant Lapestry work, exquisite though they were.

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Crashing Plane On One Wheel

After a three-hour "blackout" observation flight over South Yorkshire recently the R.A.F. homber 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 Finningley, travelling at about 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. self.

"Her masterly book about her father is an indication of what she could have achieved in literature.”

Note: William Morris (1834-96) was a lender in the literary, artistic and social life of his time. With a. craftsman's skill, he applied art to practical uses--the design of house- wallpapers, rugs, curtains. In his later years he be- come an active Socialist.

hold

furniture.

3 Dead In Car, Notes On Window

EMPIRE

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AUSTRALIA'S BIG DEFENCE PLANS

Sydney.

"We held our breath and salı not a word as we realised that the plot 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 gations would ignite and we should be burned to death. "The pilat,

Pilot-OMeer Massey. did everything possible to prevent the machine overturning.

SHOCKED, BUT SAFE

"As

we neared the ground our propellers struck the field and were Undly twisted by the impact. The undercarriage, badly bent ou 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 planning of works for Industrial ex-skill would probably have over- pansion in the interests of defence on turned it.

It is recognised that Australia's! direct defence

programme will cost

a scale not previously contemplated. "The machine, leaning to the Mr. Lyons, Federal Prime Minis- left, ran along the ground at what For several hours after the to all State Premiera. The serious-

ter, has sent a sectct memorandum appeared to me to be a speed

which could only end in our discovery of a triple tragedy theness of the occasion is emphasised by turning over ROSO first, The police were trying to identify the decision to invite Mr. Curtin, pilot awung the machine round in a wide are and we rumbled young couple and a baby boy Leader of the Opposition, to attend. found dead in a car at Beacons-

to a halt shocked, but safe. field, Bucks., recently.

"The Impart as our plane hit the considerably more than the sum pre-roofs had been heard all over the

provided A driving licence on

for, namely nerodrome, and we saw, in the glare the man's 12,000,000, pread over three years of the landing lights, the aerodrome body bore the name of Davies with

Greenford, Middlesex, address.

Combined Federal and State defence staff followed by the fire-engine and The man is believed to have been measures of all kinds are likely to ambulance rushing towards dis a traveller working for

"None of the seven occupants of steel swell the total to £80,000,000. 3 manufacturing Brm at Addleston, to whom the car is thought to belong.

The car, which was seen in a field by two refuse collectors, was full of

fumes.

Stuck on the windows were two notes, of which the police took possession.

were both

Expenditure on railways and roads, the bungalows was injured, although especially the provision of alterna- the plaster had showered from the lives to the present exposed coastal railings and walls of rooms. Sintes, routes, will probably be very heavy chimney-pots, and masonry had in New South Wales, owing to the been ung into the garden, danger to industries at the ports.

"The black-out generaly was, as

It is believed that there will be a far as we could ascertain, success- reconstruction the Federal Cabinci ful." and the establishment of an inner

rect

ony

A tube led from the exhaust to Cabinet of five key Ministers to would be a great mistake to suppose the insido of the ear, which bore Derbyshire index letters. The man and woman aged about 35, and the boy about 18 months. All were well dressed.

They had been dead for some

hours.

international relatiodefence, finance, that such a gesture would improve

and trade. the international Bituation in of the opinion that the recent in New Zealand

Is way whatever." The Sydacy Morning Herald creasing challenges to the peoples of the Northern Hemisphere are now extending to Australia. The basis of a white Australia is being questioned. It appeals to the people courageoualy to face national organisation so as to

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The national licensing poll held at be able to resist aggression.

the same time as the general election Engines Probable Invest- Coast Manoeuvres. During large- has resulted as follows:

reale manoeuvres in the neighbour-For continuance of present ment of British Capital hood of Newcastle, New South Wales, system

1.000 troops of the 1st Infantry For Prohibition Canberra, Brigade repulsed a dawn attack from For State control Plans are well under way for the the sea. The invaders were reckon- Polls on the question of continuing establishment of

four divisions. The troops the present licensing system have the motor-cared at engine manufacturing Industry in were summoned by radia and were been held at the four previous gen- Australia. As a result of the negotia-conveyed to the beach in motor cral elections. Since 1922 the votes

lons of the Australian trade dele-buses and light lorries,

for Prohibition have shown a decline galion in England, recently, sub- South Africa

and the volcs for continuance of the stantiel British capital is expected to

present system an incregse. be invested in the new industry.

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Calculta, pany has decided to build an aircraft- The Premier of Orissa has inau- factory In South Africa to produco gurated a plan for prohibiting oplum д 10-h.p., two-seater, low-wing in the Balasore district. Addicts | monoplane,-selling at about £700.- will be fest registered and later pre- Colonial Agitation-Tho 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 ma colonial agitation L artificial. Half of Orissa's established what its owners claim is The Germans as a people are not derived from oplum.

excise revenue is a record.

seriously interested in the question.

Indian In the last three years it has had it all the colonies were returned Indlan veteran of the Mutiny of 1057, Mutiny Veteran-An 101 piglets in six litters-Austral to-morrow a small Influential group Bhagwandin Shukla, aged 103, has News.

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