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THE HONGKONG 'TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, 'DECEMBER
Mollison Phones
Fiancee
(A Hongkong Girl) to Say:
I CAN'T GET MARRIED TO-DAY"
Five minutes before Jim Mollison, airman ex-husband of Amy Johnson, was due to marry wealthy Mrs. Phyllis Hussey on November 10, he telephoned Caxton Hall register office, Westminster, postponing the wedding.
Mrs. Phyllis Hussey who was
to have married Jim Mollison on
the future." He would not give a date. "We cannot understand why the November 10, was formerly the vancellation of our wedding should wife of Commander Thomas A. cause such a fuss," he added. Hussey, well-remembered In The reason is purely private. Hongkong as Maintenance Com-one, and there is no cause for any mander attached to H.M.S. rumour or speculation in connection
with the postponement." Tamar.
Mrs. Hussey, whom Mollison CROWD WAIT IN VAIN met at Cannes in July, is a mem- Mr. Mollison's telephone message ber of the Fyffe family, the cancelling the wedding arrangements West India banana growers, and was received about two hours after
is reputed to have an income of he had made a definite appointment £20,000 a year.
Mrs. Hussey Wax la Hongkong until 1930.
Friends of the couple who had gone to Caxton Hall were mystifled by the sudden cancellation.
Mollison spent the afternoon in his dat in Berkeley-street, Mayfair, with the woman who should have been
his bride.
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to be married at four o'clock, It was impossible, fiv said, along, and the cere
ceremony must be
put off for a few days only,
to get
A lurge crowd hind gathered out-
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JIM MOLLISON.
This Thief Was Light-Fingered
1938.
side the register office. Some hud Someone has been reading about been waiting since the office had the famous Supreme Court clock, opened at right o'clock.
The thiet registrar. Mr. Bond, said: "We do not know when the wedding will take place, but it has definitely been cancelled for to-day.
"Notice of the marriage was first Later Mollison goid: "There is given three weeks ago, when it was! rothing unusual about the cancella-tended to take place by licence."
WHIRLWIND COURTSHIP tion of my wedding plans.
"Phyills and I found that for domestic reasons I was not con- venient for us to marry to-day,"
Asked when he was going to marry MIR.
Mollison Hussey, amlled and said: "Some time in
LATE NEWS
Condor Flight Mystifies
No Progress Reports: Due To Land At 2.30
Complete mystery has surrounded the flight of the German Condor since it left Tokyo al 5.37 a.m. Tokyo) time (4.37 am, ILK.T.) this morning, No progress reports have been re- ceived from the machine on ite 1,000 mile Bight to Manila.
The plane was scheduled to arrive
at Manila at 2.30 p.m.
Kai Tak Airport radio station has maintained a constant wireless ser- vice in an effort to pick up signals from
the plane, but up to 4 o'clock nothing had been heard from its short-wave
radio
transmitter.
No progress reports have been made by the Domel News Agency, which hitherto has reported fully on every movement of the plane. The machine was expected over Formosa this morning.
The weather along the route is reported to be fine.
No fears are felt for the safely of the plane.
ten appeared one memorable day some, years ago while the Court, was in session.
Last Friday, as the Criminal Sessions were concluding, a call was issued for lights..
A clerk pressed a switch. Nothing. happened,
Another clerk pressed another switch. Still nothing happened. Mollison proposed to Mrs. Hussey Someone had stolen into the base- after a whirlwind two-week court-ment and neatly cut off three lengths skip. Ils marriage in 1932 to Miss of the mains. Amy Johnson was dissolved last The police are still searching for August.
the miscreant.
PATHETIC JOEY miffs through a crack in his crate home at this strange new world to watch he has been brought. Joey is one of the Australian kangaroos brought to Hongkong for sale to tourists. Fow kangaroos live unless they are allowed to roam freely and are fed on succulent fresh groas. Cilinatie conditions in Hongkong also lessen Joey's, chances of survival.-Stuf Photographer.
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"British Interference"
LONDON, Dec. 5.
IN THE HOUSE of Commons to-day, Mr. A. C. Moreing asked whether, after the Chinese had retreated from Hankow, British bluejackets were sent to cut wires and remove explosives laid by the Chinese in Japanese buildings: by whose orders this was done, and what was the reason for interfering with legitimate Chinese military operations?
concession.
that
former British
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-loss of life in the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, As regards the latter part of the replied in the affirmativo, and question, the British Government was said that after the Chinese
In the interests of withdrawal, British naval patrols humanity the
action wh fully Justified. were landed to maintain order
Mr. Moreing asked if Mr. Huller in the former British concession was satisfied that these buildings in
re-which explosives were laid, were
all cases adjacent to British property, and whether, in fact, in many
which was crowded fugees.
with
►
in
On taking over the temporary|Instances they were in separate parts charge, they removed dynamite and of the town, and whether, in that other charges from buildings which case, it would consutute interference had previously been prepared for with Chinese military operation. demolition.
Mr. Butler replied that if Mr. This was done to prevent damage Morcing had any Information to give to adjoining British property, and him he would certainly consider it, Printed and Published for the Propřístors by Frapuzice PrseY PRANKÁR ut 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
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