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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 18, 1940.

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Bride

Doesn't

Poisonous Know If She BITES Is Mrs. Or Miss

&

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THIS WEEK

THREE out-of-the-ordinary weddings.

One bride who doesn't know whether to call herself Mrs, or Miss; one bridegroom who'd "rather go over the top than go through this again;" one couple who made a village "ovent.”

Headmen

The uncertain bride is Mise Nan Calder (or is she Mrs.; Insuli?), of Doncaster, York-four Indian tribes ahire.

indicate at Tuc-

that of

She and Charles Insull, of Guern. Bon, Ariz,

further use scy, were married, in the presence of

nges-old swastike the registrar, nt Doncaster Presbyteri- an Church,

મ banned on blankets

¿ pre-

But in the vestry afterwards the parson told them the ceremony was pottery, ns illegal as the bridegroom could not test against Na- Cupply a necessary certificate.

zis. Action was So they made a rush Journey 10 taken recently af Guernsey, arrived the following conclave of Nava- night, and, first thing next day, RAV Jos, Papagos, the Guernsey regletrar seven days' Apaches and notice of their second wedding.

Hopis, with lea-

THE nervous bridegroom is Private ders agreeing.

Charles Woolven, aged 27.

He was so nervous during his

wedding at Brentford,

Middlesex,

No More Swastikas For These Indians

Register Oflee to Mia Edna Hedges, Says Blinker Hats Should Be Illegal

of Churtis-road, Hounslow, that he

stumbled over the marriage vows!

and the registrar made him repeat them.

"I would rather go up the front

line than go through this again," he

said.

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THE village "event" was at the ith chapel at Hyde Heath, near Amersham, Bucks.

Woman

Replies: We

Live For New Hats

SPRING IS IN the air and women's fancy lightly

Woman

Kept

Who Perfect Secret

A CAPTAIN'S WIFE

WITH_messages of congratulation pouring into her home, Mrs. Townley, the woman who can keep the perfect secret, cabled |greetings, to her husband, Cap. tain J. C. Townley, commander of the 85,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth, now safe at Now Yorks.

Heir to million awaits 2/-a-day call

"I told him how glad I was, but that I know he would do it," she said. "I don't mind admitting that the past week was a time of anxiety for me, but I soon forgot all that when I heard that the Queen Elizabeth had... got across.

Not

Surprised

"I have been Booded to-day with messages of congratulation, and of course I am very proud. Not that that my I'm surprised in the least husband has succeeded in something he has undertaken. He always does.

Her home in on the Alton-road at Basingstoke, Hants.

RHYLL MR. BRIAN HERVEY TALBOT, twenty-four-year-ave been a farmer. lold heir to a million

pounds, expects to become a the family's only other 28.-a-day airman.

Her husband comes from Keswick, and had he not gone to sea he would

One of his uncles helped to lay the first cable to South America. That is connection. with the sea.

Undor Sail

Captain Townley first went to sen

He is one of the 250,000 men, twenty-three at the end of last in sail, and joined the Cunard Com year, who registered on Febru-pany in 1904, going to the Saxonia os

fourth officer. ary 17,

He has commanded the old Mauro- When he leaves his fat in Marine-tonia, the Auranin, Georgle and Lan- drive, facing Rhyl Promenade, his castrin, and has taken over the Queen young brunette wife, Katherine, ex-Mary and Aquitania relief duty. elnema attendant, will keep the home In 1933 he left a sick bed at 24 going.

hours notice to take the. veteran Mouretania across the Atlantic She intends to live alone in the through continuous gales and high flat--which has been their home seas, which delayed every other west-

Llandudno bound ship. -until the war is over.

The old Cunarder berthed an hour Jalend of scheduled time-a great fent ex-of seamanship.

It was only the third marriage to turns to thoughts of new hats. And that is why Alder-since their wedding in

take place there in 400 years,

As the bridegroom, Mr. Charles

Henry Hall, of Amersham, and his man G. H. Barber, a veteran Stoke-on-Trent motorist, is bride, Miss Elsie Mabel Stacey, worried. Hyde Heath, left the chapel hundreds of villagers pressed forward and showered them with confetti.

Surgeon's Discovery Will Save Thousands

He believes that new "blinker hats"-tilted at a gay angle and covering one eye-will cause many accidents on the road. In fact, he demands a law prohibiting the wearing of certain types of women's hats and regulating the angles at which they are worn.

Mr.

am

"I Talbot saith: pecting a letter any day telling me to report somewhere. When I was asked if I had any preference for any particular service I said 'The Air Force, of course,"

Mr. and Mrs. Talbot met four years ago at a dance in Bangor.

When he was sixteen Mr. Talbot was left the residue of the £638,000 estate of his great-uncle, Wavertree, to accumulate for him for twenty-one years.

Lord

By the time he is thirty-seven it

Alderman Barber, who will be 80 next month, said "We have beautiful girls in Stock-on-Trent, but I think they disparage themselves when they put their hats on expected the trust will amount to one ear and give themselves a blind eye."

“WENT OUT YEARS AGO"

NEW YORK.

The alderman complains that two of THOUSANDS mortally

women wearing these hats stepped wounded ani, critically ailing off the pavement in front of his car. men and women may have aThey could not see where they were new promise of life as the result going, and I nearly killed them," he of a development in the method added.

of preventing surgical shock,

But Mrs. Barratt, who like Ald. announced to-day by the Society Barber, is a member of Stoke-on- de- of Experimental Biology.

Trent City Watch Committee, The method. discovered by Dr. elares that "Life will not be worth the women it Alderman David Peria, of Monteflore Hospital, living for New York, after 15 years' research, Barber has his way. Is based on an adrenal cortical hor- mone, notar as Desoxycorileoster- one, obtained from cattle,

When used in connection with saline

injections this minimises oper ative shock and hastens recovery to an extraordinary degree.

Results charted over a period of several months at Montefiore Hos- pital show amazing successes in 21 series of major operations,

"All a woman lives for is a new hat," she says. "The hats he talks about went out years ago. I hope the day will never come when you will be able to say at what angle a woman must wear a hat."

He Was In Roberts'

Surgical shock is the inost serious March To Kandahar

complication of severe wounds, burns

and other injuries (writes the Medi-

Colonel Sir Charles Yaie,

Bart.,

cal Correspondent). Shock is often who had a distinguished career in the so serious it is impossible to continueArmy and also the Indian Political treatment even it urgently needed, Service, has died at his home, Made- say, to arrest haemorrhage. Even an ley Hall, Shropshire, aged ninety. anaesthetic might be fatal.

Sir Charles, who joined the Army The discovery of an antidote, there fore, will have an inestimable value as an ensign in 1867 and served in

with Lord Roberts to Kandahar. coveries of medicine.

and will rank with the greatest dis- the Afghan War of 1880-81, marched

Archbishop Flew To Meet Germans

IT was disclosed recently that the Archbishop of York, Dr. William Temple, recently flew to The Hague to attend a con- ference at which German Church leaders were present.

The tople discussed was the possi- bility of peace.

Wonders If Tea Is West Bermondsey, made the dis- Hot After 17 Years

Dr. Alfred Salter, Labour M.P. for

closure.

He belleves that the conference

decision to send Mr. Sumner

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1,000,000.

Mr. Talbot's father was the late Lieut.-Colonel Talbot. His wife's father was a regimental sergeant-

Xmajor in the lost war.

THEY were pretty good at swearing in the Sergeant's Mess at an Anti-Aircraft unit near London. Now they have a "Swear Fund." A little swear word costs a halfpenny, a full-blooded one cosis a penny.

So far one week's swearing has equallest 168, lid.

Part of the proceeds will go to buy a winler waistcoat for the unit's mascota mongrel terrier.

Right and Wrong

PARIS-Sir Ronald Hugh Camp- bell, British Ambassador to Paris, hos urged Americans to "bless our cause with your sympathy,"

Never Up To See Her Now!

"I once said I rather liked Mee

West. Now my wife objects to my in to the pielures in case Mac West should appear on the screen,"

Fragment of matrimonial dialogue

from the courts.

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By HECTOR BYWATER FOR the first time, it can be stated definitely that the German claim to have played havoc with a convoy in the North Sea recently by means of air attack was sheer bunkum.

In that week the only important vessel damaged by German Branches. air attack was the Italian liner Amelia Lauro,

It would be unwise to draw hard!' conclusions from the paralysis which appears to have smitten itler's sea forces.

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All one can say definitely Is that they are not following the Aghting traditions of the old German Navy.

Reports from entirely unofficial | sources point to feverish activity in!

Is the rationing system in London working fairly as be- German shipbuilding yards, where; work on U-boats appears to have tween families of varying incomes? Ono way of estimating this priority. This may foreshadow a big is to find out whether people are buying the full amounts allowed new under-sea offensive before the them under the present rationing system. end of the year.

Buy Full Rations

According to the results of a survey Proportions of those in the economic Big Asset Lost

taken by the British Institute of groups whe said they either could Public Opinion, people generally in There is reason to believe that the fritain are buying the full amount or not afford to buy the full amounts early discovery of the magnetic minca sugar, rather fewer are buying the of foods rationed or did not need to and its secrets, and the provision of full quots of butter, but when it comes buy the full amounts ure tabulated asure antidote were bitter disappoint-to bacon and ham, both foods which below: How long will tea keep hot in aments to the Nazi naval command.

price

Welles E.17, is wondering.

THIS WEEK

vacuum flask? Mr. Frank Barford, The truth is that many of Ger- have risen considerably in was a factor in President Roosevelt's of 28, Addison-road, Walthamstow, many's "secret weapons" in the last since the beginning of the war, only EARLY MAY on his European mission. FORTNIGHTLY

war were the fruits of Jewish Because on board the Incringenuity, and that filler's anu- Empress of Asla is a flask which Jewish frenzy has robbed Germany Mr. Barford filled with hot tea of one of her most formidable assets seventeen years ago.. It has been in war. out of reach ever since." Mr. Borford was working as a car-

62 per cent of the public buy their full ration.

Answers Analysed The British Institute, through its

Couldn't Did afford not need to buy

to buy Percent. Per cent.

Higher Income Medium income

2

25

8

21

25

17

"After a conference of the Scan- dinavian Churches at Oslo," Dr. Salter said, "the Bishop of Oslo flew

It is quite on the cards that before corps of interviewers, put this ques-Low Income ... to this country. THIS WEEK

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will be combed for Jewish scientists "As a result four British represen-Harbour in 1923 and put the flask in- to show German "Aryan" technicians tatives aliended the Hague conter- alde a cavity wall in the hold. Later, how to match the combined wits of THIS WEEK once.

when he went to get it he found the British and French-one might almost who wall had been covered with Insulai-Include American-scientists, NEXT WEEK

"They were the Archbishop of Ing material and his flask was behind have so for trumped every German York, the Rev. Henry Carter, secre- [15

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"They were there for two days. Representatives of the German Con fessional Church were also present at the discussions,”

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Of butter

"Is your family buying the full The British Institute of Public Opinion amount of rationed foods allowed?”

is an entirely independent fact- The answers analysed as follow:

finding organisation which samples the views of the public by personal Of bacon

carefully balanced Of Sugar

interviews with and hom Yes No Yes No Yes No

cross-section of the whole popula- 1 pc. 9p.6. &pc. 13p.c, cipe. 3pc. | tion_representative of all shades of

Of the total 20 per cent, said they public opinion, Jcould not afford to buy the full [amount of the rations, and 18 per cent. rak that they found they did not re-

The breakdowns are given in full below:

Dr. Ein Wo-chlang gavo an in- Sugar Butter Bacon &c. format talk on the laws of war at. Yes No Yes No 'Yes'No' the Chinese Y.M.C.A. last night. The ne. p.c. p.c. pc. p.c. p.e. talk was arranged by the English

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Forum and was attended by a large gathering.

METROPOLE uire the full amount rationed,

AHOTEL CENTRAL CLEAN "COMFORTABLE - FIREPROOF | Medium Income

Ifigher Income

P4

13 27

Lower income, 4 I

03 17

50 42

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