Shanghai By ©. Int Grex London, Nov. 11. Invitations are out for' two. mar-nages of interest to Shanghai to take place' in London before' Christmas.
On November 18 Miss Nancy! Brooke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wynyard Brooke, is to be married to Capt. Henry Quinlan, at the interesting old church of Corpus Christi, in Maiden Lane with a reception afterwards at the Lancaster Court Hotel, Hyde Park. I" believe that the marriage has been put forward Because the bridegroom has been ordered abroad, but have not been able to verity this.
By the way was Miss Nafiey Brooke associated with the A.D.C? Maiden Lane is, or used to be, the stamping~ round of London's dramatic profession, On December 3 Miss Isabelle] Lowson, daughter of the-late Mr. and Mrs. Lowson (he will be remembered fag manager of the Hongkong 'Shanghai Bank in Shanghai "for several years) is to be married to Emde, Victor Cyril' Dorman Smith RUN, at the Brompton Parish Church, with a reception. afterwards in the Rembrandt Rooms.
"Comings and Goings"
The Thalched House Club continues} to be thronged, though the pouring rain to-day might well have Kept members away.
Among recent improvements, _a very nice barber's shop has been added, in the lower ground floor, with A barber in regular attendance round the Tancheon hour.
Friends will be sorry to hear that Mrs. EL. M, Barrett had to undergo serious operation yesterday. Captain Barrett, who had brought her up from their home in Leicestershire, Was at the club and told me that she was going on satisfactorily, but} {t'must be an anxious time for some aye it Meyrick Hewlett was lunching at the club for the first time sines his return to London about a week ago. He and Lady Hewlett have taken a house at Gerrard's Cros, a charming place and easy for town.
There is n rumour that Mr. P. H. Kent, of Tientsin, is writing @ bodk, to be published early next. year.
T met Mr. A, E. George a fow days ego Just back from Peiping. He was having a hail-and-farewell lunch with Mr. A. P. Blunt, who, with Mrs. Blunt, has now lett for the some of his, Inbours in the Philippines.
The Chinese Ambassador lis. become an enthusiastic amateur photographer. But he complains that his Infant son moves about so quickly
A larger stop and faster exposure was that it is hard to get 9 lear picture, recommended.
Three Books on Japan The acute interest in the doings of Japan is shown by the number books about that pour fromthe press. Since the spring (the summer course is a dead season for pubishing) T have handled over a dozen, and that is not the whole of the fist Three that make a very good combination have appeared in the last (en days, In "Militarism and Foreign hey in Japan" Mr. E. B, N, Causton gives a very clear and " surcinet, Secount of how the Japanese military party have attained their strangle hold' on their country's policy. Mr. Heseell Tiltman, in "The Far East Comes Nearer" shows the results of that control in modern events. And "Japan's Feet of Clay" by Miss Freda Utley rives a most impressive recount of Japan's financial, economic and social weakness, It Is an old complaint that British! people seldom read history and still more seldom make use of its lessons. As Mr, Causton shows, the mainland ambitions of Japan's chauvinists are hothing new: one may. trace them back to the (appropriately named) Empress Jingo's invasion of Korea in the 3rd century; imitated, with still larger aims, by the great Hideyosht inthe 16th, Marshal Yamayata's addition to the Constitution in 1995 of an ordinance that the Ministers of War and Navy must always be officers on the active list; and the creation of the Supreme War Council in 1898, all the military chiefs having direct access to the Emperor, and thus Blocking civilian advice, give us the basis of what is happening to-day.
Me, Hessell Tillman's mast inter~ esting chapters, perhaps, are those ins which he gathers up the facts of Japanese penetration in North China, the occupation and closing of Charhar, and the outrageous smuggling in East. Hopel during the past year. 1 have not seen all these facts thus collected before, though individually they are familiar enough, and really they make one's hair stand on end,
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