The Archive · 1939

From Day to Day

THERE will be a celebration of the Holy Communion in the Bubbling Well Chapel this morning at 10.30 o'clock.

Tue 4th Company Girl Guides performance of "Make Believe" will be at 530 pin, tomorrow and 330 pin. on Saturday, and not as previously advertised. chôol for Girls, Vu Yuen Road, Ayt former pupils of the Public ate cordially invited to an extraordinary general meeting of the Former Pupil' Association, to be held in the schoo? dining-room today, at 5.30 p.m.

Tue two Japanese planes, which were shot down by Chinese antiaircraft batteries on June li, have now been discovered, says a Chinese report to the "Chinese American Daily News." One was found at Changshouhsien, and the other just on the outskirts of Chungking, the report states, Miss Dorothy Glover, of Bristol, daughter of the late Dr. Richard Glover, was elected chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society at the annual meeting in Birmingham recently. Only once before in the society's history of nearly 160 years has a woman been its chairman.

Tue appointment of Mr. "Chang Wei-han as Vice-Minister of the Interior was approved by the Executive Yuan at its 418th meeting held in Chungking on Tuesday, says a report to the "Morning Leader." Mr, Chang succeeds Mr. Ling Chwang, who has been relieved of his post.

Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo, elder son of General Chiang Kai-shek, has been appointed Superintendent of the 4th Administrative Area of Kiangsi province, says a Kian Chinese message to the "Morning Leader." Mr, Chiang formally assumed his office on Monday, the report states.

Some of Mayfair's noblest names will never achieve the honour accorded to Plymouth's mayor by the Duchess of Kent recently. He is Alderman G. Scoble and he partnered ihe Duchess at a charity ball at Plymouth Guildhall. He is a charge band and boiled maker in Devonport dockyard, Dr. John Rees, medical director of 4 the Tavistock Clinic, speaking at the annual conference of the National Association of Probation Officers in London said that among the reasons for marriage failures were the decline of religion, selfishness, too high a standard of living, ard an equally too low standard of living. He did not agree that Hollywood, sex interest and sex knowledge were ° the chief causes as many people thought.

Tue King has consented to become Colonel in Chief of the Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons). His Majesty is now Colonel in Chief of the Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards (Household Cavalry) and the two Cavalry Regiments of the Line to remain horsed—the Royals and the Greys, The only mechanized cavalry regiment to have the King as Colonel in Chief is the 11th Hussars. This was the first regiment to lose its horses for armoured cars.

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