MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928.
DUCE SPEAKS OUT.
ITALIAN RELATIONS WITH
UNJUSTIFIED COMPLAINT.---
AUSTRIA,
WRIGHT'S PLANE.
AMERICA WANTS IT BACK.
-NOW. IN ENGLAND.
Washington, Yesterday.
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PRINCESS SICK.
THE JAPANESE EMPEROR'S
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER..
CRITICAL CONDITION.
Tokyo, Yesterday.
THE CHINA MAIL,
“THE CIRCUS.”
CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S LATEST PICTURE.
'AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.
-Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"
To-day-World Theatre; "Man-
trap."
To-day-Star Theatre; "The Whole Town's Talking."
Ta-day-Queen's Theatre; "The
Circus."
when
now comedy.
Charlie "The
..
March 6-7-World Theatre; "The Crown of Lies."
March 6-7 Star Theatre;
March 8-Musicale at Helena May Institute.
March 8-10-World Theatre;
The Queen's Theatre held cap- Rome. Saturday.
The Smithsonian Institution 'is It is officially announced that the acity crowds at all shows yester- In the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Mussolini was loudly ap-making strong efforts to win back condition of Princess Hiss, the day (and deserves to do so through-
Secre- Emperor of
the week) Japan's youngest out lauded for his vigorous speech Wright's aeroplane. The
label daughter, who is recovering from Chaplin's with regard to the position of the tary offers to change the German minorities in the Italian affixed to the Langley model which pneumonia, has suddenly become Circus" was shown. The film gives Altars of Desire."
describes it as the first machine critical-Reuter, Tyrol.
He said: "This is the last time capable of flight to "the original that I shall speak on this subject; Langley flying machine of 1903
Jecta restored" conditionally upon the BREEKS FOR WOMEN? next time I shall make
Orville Wright depositing his ori- speak." (Lond applause).
He declared that the Austrian ginal machine "where it has al- complaint was unjustified and ways been wanted and where provocative. The territory con will have a position of honour and cerned was treated like other label to state it was the first Italian provinces; and the reports heavier-than-air craft in the hia- of tyranny, torture and murder tory of the world to accomplish a by barbarous fascist dictatorship sustained free flight under its
bus. "We are not the pupils of
carry.ng a man,
Austrin which throughout the The Sunday Times" says ceztury peopled half of Europe Wright machine is at present with executioners, filled the pri- the South Kensington museum sons with martyrs and erected a dismantled state-Reuter. gallows incessantly."
the
in
HOW PARIS VIEWS THE LEG
BATTLE.
"MATTER OF TASTE.”
Paris, Jan. 5.
us the old Charlie we all know and love, and he does all his old stuff, that, funny business which has made him the best clown on the Drusilla With A Millions." screen, one with many imitators
March 8-10 Star Theatre; "The but without an equal. Charlie in Little Irish Girl." advertently fads himself cn-
Sporta tangled with a cirens outfit and March 6--R. H. K. Golf Club manages to secure a job with it. (Ladles Section) medal compett- The circus forms the backgroundtion,
for most of the run that follows. March. 10-Next Tournament of Skirts or what is left of them, InFough the story is a strong the H.K. Boxing Assen.; Lee Thea- hro shorter In London
in the Upper Adlige were ridicü-own now man they are ven of romance, Charlie falling intre, Percival Street, East Point.
London, Yesterday. in Paris, but the cult of the ugly love with the daughter of the cir March 11-Sixth extra raco meet-
knees and the general spread of cas proprietor. But he doesn't ing of Margo Race Club.
Another performer: March 14-Ninth bl-annual race in legomania are as prevalent here as marry her.
they are across the Channel. does that, and the picturisation of for ship's life Boats ("Trevessa”
ne at one time tell the Charlie in the throes of his un Trophy) starting at.4 p.m. nationality of a woman visitor by retom passion Tives the great March 17-Hong Kong Jockey her hat; now one Jooks at her little comedian opportunity to Club extra race meeting, Happy knees. If her, stockings are rolled give us some pathetic scenes. "The Valley. she is an American; if not ahe may Circus" is a picture ono
Italian Tolerance.
Sir. Mussolini dwelt on Italian -tolerance and the great public
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works undertaken by Italy in the CHASING SANDINO. be English. The French girls dur-help liking.
"Upper Adige at a cost of hundreds
of millions of re. He declared
that as Italy's great forbearance PRESENCE OF US. MARINES
had been misinterpreted all of the
15 German newspapers in the
NECESSARY.
Upper Adige had to be suppress-BRIGADIER LANE'S OPINION.
ed. If the anti-Italian campaign
wore continued and foreign em- ployees shortly transferred clse-t
ing the present cold snap wear thick woollen golf stockings over their silk stockings. The result gives a glimpse of what might be. bare flesh in the region of the la Paix resembles nothing so much knees and, lunch-time in the Rue de
as the march past of a Highland
Washington, Saturday. regiment.
Perla has not taken to the rolled
A
BURIED GOLD.
TOWER OF LONDON TRADITION.
PEPYS' REVELATION.
cannot
-
March 20-R. H. K. Golf Club (Ladies' Section) bogey competi tion, New Course, Fanling.
Lammerts Auctions.
March At Sales Hodm, Dud. dell St., postage stamps, 5.16 p.m.
March 9- Sales Room, Dud dell St, valuable office and. house- hold furniture, etc., etc., 2.30 p.m.
Meetings.
March 6-Meeting of lady help- ers of the "Cheer "O" canteen, Chater Rd., in Helena May Insti- tute, 10.30 a.m.
- where or dismissed because of In view of the fact that State
Austrian hostility towards Italy Department communiques in restocking, and even pretenda to con-
• due to "Germanism," that feeling gard to Nicaragua always refer to older "shocking" using the would be unable to win against Sanding as a bandit, while official English word to describe what it
A tradition has existed for 200
March 6-Sanitary Board Meet The cold systematic determination American despatches from Nicara- fecla about it..
years that the Tower of London [ing. of Fascist Italy.
gun represent him as an insigni-
"Cannot Last,"
contains buried gold.
March 10-Thirty-second yearly Wished To Be Friends. ficant rebel with the smallest. fol- M. Paul Poiret, the eminent "Investigations have not yet meeting of shareholders in the Italy wished to be friends with lowing, it is most interesting to dressmaker, whose tirade in Amer-been thorough'enough to dispose of Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., the Germanic world provided note the evidence of high officialsica against Americans' legs caused the theory of buried gold," a "Daily Ltd., 2, Lower Albert Road, noon. Italian security was never even of the navy and marine corps re-such commotion, gave his News" reporter was told by Mr.
March 16-Thirty-ninth general vaguely called in question. cently given before the Senate For opinion this afternoon. I would F. F. Carpenter, clerk of the meeting, of the H.K. Electric & Co., After referring to the German eign Relations Committee. This is blush in my beard," said M. Poiret, works, who has lived in the Tower Ltd., Company's offices, P. & 0. agitation for the re-union of now published and contains the "if I had not shaved it off, but befor 39 years,
Bldg., noon. north and south Tyrol, Sig Musso-opinion of Marine Corps Brigadier Ulove me this exhibition of legs The tradition has existed ever March 21-Thirty-ninth annual lini concluded: "We make it Lane that if American marines cannot last. On the other hand, since John Barkestead, Lieutenant meeting of Green Island Cement known to Austria and the world were withdrawn from Nicaragua, women will never again return to of the Tower under Cromwell, was Co., Ltd. at St. George's Bldg., that the whole of Italy with its Sandino would march to Managua long skirts.
hanged, drawn and quartered at Chater Rd., noon. quick and its dead stands at and take charge of the Government. The ultimate solution? Why, InTyburn in April, 1862. Samuel March 26-Fifty-ninth general. Brennen." (Loud cheers). of the country.-Reuter's American about ten years you will find Pepys believed that Barkestead had meeting of Shareholders of the H.K.
The League.
Service.
women wearing an adaptation of hidden a fortune, possibly as much Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., at Messrs. Turkish trousers cut so na to allow 18 £50,000, beneath the King's Jardine, Matheson's offices, noon. freedom of movement, but which House-the section of the Tower
Miscellaneous. nevertheless will not 'expose anin which he lived:
To-day-H.E. the Governor ugly leg.""
opens King's College,
To-day-Mr. R. C. Tredwell, U.S. Consul-General in H.K. lec tures on "Personal Experiences in Russian Turkestan" at Helena May. Institute, 5.30 p.m.
SAILORS CLING TO CABIN RAILS.
Pepys revealed in his famous formally
Signor Mussolini,, referring to the League of Nations, declared that "if the Assembly of the, League thrusts its way into the labyrinth of the so-called minor- AIRSHIP IN DANGER. M. Jean Patou, when asked what diary that on several occasions in Bonham Rd., 3 p.m. ities it would never come out
he thought of woman's ugly lege, the autumn of 1662 he and others alive."-Reuter
replied with a merry twinkle in his dug in vain for the treasure. eye, "None of my customers has officially ugly lege. There is, as a general rule, an ideal length for Lake Hurst (New Jersey),
every woman, and the clever dress- maker knows exactly what it is. The Raval dirigible "Los The normal length is about one and Angeles" has completed the trip to three-quarter inches below the knee, the Panama Canal zone. Landing but the majority of skirts to-day ““MAKE YOUR WILL." operations were interrupted by a are above the normal.
The League Assembly. Mussolini, referring to the League of Nations, declared, "If the Assembly of the League thrusts its way into the labyrinth of so-called minorities, it will never come out alive."-Reuter.
SANDINO'S ADVICE TO
AMERICAN. ·
New York, Yesterday.
Saturday.
The King's House was built by Henry VIII, on either side of the thirteenth-century Bell House.
An Empty Discovery.
To-day-Distribution of prizes at St. Paul's Institute, Causeway "In 1902," said Mr. Carpenter. Bay, by Lady Clementi, 5 p.m.
To-day-St. Peter's Y.M.C. de- "I helped in the excavations in search of the traditional treasure. Įbate, 8:30 p.m.
March 6-St. Peter's Y.M.C. de-
In the wine cellar in the north To-day Mrs. Diana Watts. lec- blinding snowstorm and the airship "Women, however, will continue wing of the King's House we went tures at St. Stephen's Girls' College was carried off with four sailors to display their legs, whether they down about eight feet and found a on "The Principles of Greek Bal- clinging to the cabin handrails are ugly or pretty, because they wooden flap. Wé uncovered it, ance," 4.30 p.m. Their fate 's unknown.--Beuter's want to be free in their movements.probed to the bottom, but found American Service. "
The world moves too fast nowadays, nothing. That was the only real bate in St. John's Cathedral Hall, The local paper "La Prensa,"
A Long Flight,
and women are not going to allow clue we had, and it proved fruit. 6 p.m.
March 6-Annual Inspection of printed in Spanish, publishes a let- The Los Angeles" is a former even ugly legs to drag them back." less.
said em- "ter from Sandino to Roy Johnson, Zeppelin and is America's biggest Captain Molyneux
Our difficulty was then, and is St. John Ambulance Brigade by H.E. "The American who recently nought|airship. It is commanded by phatically that if a
Murray Parade woman had
now, that the floor of the King's The Governor, to bring about a peace conference Lieut.-Commander Rogendahl.. It pretty legs she should show them,
House is 3ft. higher than in ground, 5.15 p.m. with regard to Nicaragua. The departed on February 26 and but ugly legs should be concealed.
Pepys' time.
March 8-Mrs. Ralphe distributes letter advises Johnson "to make reached France Field, in the Canal "Unfortunately,"
"We would have liked to have prizes at the Central British School, his last will if he comes to Nicara-zone, a distance of 2,265 miles, ugly ones outnumber the pretty got down to the lower tiled floor, Kowloon, 5.30 p.m.
I myself am trying to which still exists; but it meant up- gun with the intention of buying in 40 hours, which is the longest ones. our patriotism."
fight since the Atlantic was cross-lengthen skirts, because I am setting too much the household of Sandino adds "I wish nothing ed.
against the exposed knee, whether the Realdent Governor. Even then, for myself. I only wish to see It proceeded to Cuba and return-it is ugly or pretty, but it is a of course, we had no certainty of Nicaragua free and sovereign with-ed to Lake Hurst at 11.30 Inst difficult task....
finding anything. It seems to me
• Still Shorter. out any foreign intervention."-night. It was landed at four this “
that if anything were buried there Reuter's American Service.
morning after several unsuccess- “I am trying to lengthen skirts, It would have been discovered long ful attempts.
but the women themselves, and ago."
SAMOA TROUBLE.
VERY BRIGHT OUTLOOK AT, PRESENT.
finitely answering.
"The Administrator's talk has
ter's American Service.
Successful Descent...
he added, "the
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RELATIVE MERITS.
ELECTRICITY IN MODERN SHIPS.
-
It is to a great extent the ques"
The "Los Angeles" - .then re especially the grandmothers, Beem Mr. Carpenter explained that antion of flexibility which will deter- ascended to continue crusing until to be making them still shorter, other vault, similar to the wine the winds became moderate-Reu and I know in my heart that I am collar, is in the east wing, and it mine the fight between the relative like a modern. Don Quixote tilting is entered from outside the King's merits of steam-electricity and Steam-electric- Diesel-electricity. against the windmill. I fear that House. The original entrance was
Wellington, Yesterday,
Later. our aesthetic senses are going to be from the inside, but the door is ity defents many of the advantages which. Diesel-electricity gives to a The Administrator of Samoa has "With the sailors safe aboard, offended for a long time to come by now closed
up.
lus de dist
passenger liner, because It retaina addressed the Man prisoners, whose having been hauled in through the the sight of ugly legs.”
Lacion Lelong thinks that a An Unexplored, Yauall the old evils of that type of spokesman said the Mau felt that windows, the "Los Angeles" de their grievances had been met, but scended and Was successfully modern woman who shows ugly lega
"We have never explored this propulsion in the space-eating up- they required time to consider the shepherded to a hangar-Reuter's bas had taste. "It is," he said, other vault," Mr. Carpenter added. takes, hot casings, and unpleasant Administrator's words before de- American Service.
"delightful for a well-built woman Then, again, the gold, if it is flue gases. Neither does it permit to show her legs, but harmony and anywhere in the Tower, might be in of that large number of generator proportion are the prime considera- the Bell Tower. It would cost unite without which such fine gra- tions if one wishes to be well thousands of pounds to excavate dations of load. carmot be attained properly for the gold. Any new-on any type of ship. The ap "I would not dream of making search would have to be approved plication of electricity to the pro- all women wear skirts of the same of by the Resident Governor and pulsion of large passengers liners SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES IN length, even if their legs were per the Inspector of Ancient Monu would appear to be necessary or de- TRANS-CAUCASIA. fect. The dressmakar must study ments, in connection with H.M. Birable only when the auxiliary
the client's architecture, 80 to Office of Works."
load is such, that units for its gen- speak. There is a length that is The restoration of Byward elation approach in total power Moscow, Saturday. Just right for every woman during Tower, which dates from Edward and encroach in total space upon Railway traffic was interrupted any style epoch, and if she wishes is occupying: Mr. Carpenter now. the main propulsion power. and telegraphic communications to be amart she must not vary Old, half-timbered work is being
Electric motors appear to offer a between many towns cut as the from. It. I have never met a pair exposed; with moulded tracery of solution, too, to the Diesel power "The British steamer "Corinthic," result of violent snowstorms in of legs yet that I could not make the windows, and it la all being ing of passengerners of over when leaving the Grand Harbour, Trans-Caucasia. There have been look graceful.” rammed
restored to its original appearance about 40,000 S.H.P.
dbviously removed many misunder-
:standings and the outlook is FATAL SNOWSTORMS.
brighter than it has been during| the past twelve months.--Reuter.
WARSHIP DAMAGED.
RAMMED BY BRITISH STEAMER.
Malta, Yesterday.
the battleship "Queen serious avalanches in the moun- Another famous Parisian dress- "The repairs may take a long At the present time Diesel-
Port-alde saloon balcony.
Elizabeth" destroying the latter's tains. A house at Batum collaps maker said he had a number of time," said Mr. Carpenter, but powered passenger liners are in
ed under the weight of the snow piano legs among his clients, but wher this is finished it will be the existence with about 30,000 SH.P The "Corinthic's" bows were and five people were killed and be persuaded most of them to wear prettiest thing in the Tower and with direct-drive double-acting en- damaged and she had to be towed four seriously injured.-Reuter. long skirts, or skirts with an a real bit of old London." away by Admiralty tugs.--Reuter.
SIR H. POLAND, K.C.
OLDEST BRITISH BARRISTER?
The deaths announced of Sir Harry Poland, K.C., probably the goldest member of the legal profea-.
He was in his 90th year, and'
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gines One firm, well known in the two-cycle, Gold, will supply a single-acting layout of about the Mrs. Charles Williamson, Lady
same power, but doesn't it seem of Bedford, who led last May, has ried out at the Frankfort Library, sarfly, be mechanical monsters ATTENDING LEAGUE COUN:eft£10,000 to the parish church, and MSS. and books, dating back Especially when power totalling 25
CIL AT GENEVA::?
which has three chapela-of-ease to the fourteenth century have per cent of the total propulsive The bequest will enable building to been stolen. Some of the hooks power is needed for their auxi be beguiron at least one new dost were the only copies in exist lary services, Questions of re- London, Saturday, church. Mrs. Williamson lived for ence.The.thofts were discovered pairs, overhaul, running repat Bir Austen Chamberlain has left years in the central house of an after number of noteworthy comfort for the engine-room crew,
SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN. of the Manor at Kempstop, a suburb Extensive thefts have been car-that such machines must nece
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