GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2525, 4 January 1923, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

An aviation romance lias bad ils seqyxel in the wedding at Harlington Middlesex, of Miss Peggy Heyward to Mr Charles Owen Stone, of Malvern, Australia. During the war Mr Stone wits training in aiviation at Hounslow, and while flying over Harlington one day lie experienced engine trouble and was forced to land on the farm belonging to Miss Heyward’s father. They met beside Hie machine. Subsequently he did good work in the war, bringing down several enemy aeroplanes and being mentioned in despatches. The bride was a bell-ringer at Harlington parish chui-eli during the war. Speaking at Windsor, the Dean of Windsor, who has made an extended tour in Genu any, said the Germans were infinitely happier than before the war, in of their conditions, They were happier because they had been released from the tremendous mental tyranny, which had hound them for forty years, and front an unnatural education which had converted them into the kind of German who made war. They had gone back to the cheerful friendly disposition one remembered forty years ago. They had gone mad on football —not watching it, but playing it.