BRIDE FROM CHINA
GLAD TO BE IN ENGLAND Chinese girl of 18 looked over the side of the 27,000-ton liner Britannic into the gloom of a December day in Liverpool and commented : “So this is England.” But she was far from being depressed. She was glad to be here. She was Mrs Katherine Lee Mulhern, daughter of a wealthy Chinese family—one of the first Chinese brides to reach England.
L.A.C. Kenneth Mulhern, of Ald-erman-place, Glasgow, her husband, stood beside her.
“I met Katherine at a dance a year ago and we feel in love at once,” he said.
And said Mrs Mulhern: “I know life is going to be difficult in England—l have been told all about coupons and points and the housing shortage. But I’m going to be happy.”
In another part of the ship shivered five year old Robert Ward, who had travelled alone from Singapore.
But he was alone no longer. By his side was his grandmother, Mrs Rosalie Ward. She told this story: “Robert will take the place of my lost son.
“His father—-he was a gunner—died when a Japanese prison ship in which he was being taken to New Guinea was sunk.
“I then lost .trace of young Robert, whose mother, a Singapore girl, has since remarried.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 97, 21 February 1947, Page 6
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