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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 7th, 1927.
"KILLING TABLETS
ARTIFICIAL SILK DAZZLE.
RIVALLING THE EAST.
EXHIBITION IN LONDON.
Such brilliance of colour and lustre as was never seen since tex-
modern woman.
GOLD COINAGE.
IRISH FREE STATE PROPOSALS.
CONSOLIDATED BANK NOTES.
DUBLIN.
AMERICAN JUSTICE.
WOMEN'S PERMIT то MURDER.
RED-HAIRED FLAPPER'S CHANCE OF ACQUITTAL.
New Yonk. "One hundred dollars to one she won't hang "are the odds reported the trial of froin Chicago on Florence Stokes, a pretty red-hair- ed " flapper widow. who 13
The text of the Irish Free State Currency Bill, which comes up for tilos were first woven is now avail-its-secotul reading in the Dail, has able for the adornment of the been issued. The Bill, which is charged with murdering her hus
based on the report of the Bankingt band; Striking proof of this was to be Commission, provides for the estab seen at the opening of the British Hishinent of a Currency Commis- Artificial Silk Exhibition at Holaion, which will iss land Park Hall, Holland Park- $10 avenue, W., arranged by Drapers' Organiser.
From a lofty towar shaped like a gigantic sentry-box and lined with black velvety at one side of the hall, mannequins issued in constant suc cession and paraded down a long platform above the heads of the thronging audience, wearing the most dazzling pyjamas, ball-dresses, and tea-gowns that any couturier has yet conceived.
money.
In the State of Illinois, it is pointed out, Ho pou
woman murderer has suffered the death penalty in the last 20 years. Yet wonien mur- derors are numbered by the score. -Gold coins against bullion.
A few of them have been sent to 2.An unlimited quality of gaol, but the overwhelming ma- legend Lender notes aguinat jority have been acquitted, bullion, gold coins, or British Soins have crowned their
quittal by going Оп music hall tours
Despatches from Chicago now describe the latest increase to 32 in number of the confessed women man-killers who have marched through the wide meshes of the inw to acquittal Last month in three adjoining cells aat Bertha Hellman, Alma Olson, and Florence Stokes, waiting to see if it were still truc that no local jury is willing to
notes,
3-Consolidated bank limited in the first instance to a value of £6,000,000,
The legal tender notes will range iu value from 10s. to £100, and the consolidated bank notes from to £100, while the legal tender will be backed pound for pound by sterling or by British securities, and will be converted into sterling on demand i London. The pur
Their display showed plainly that the girl of to-day, at infinitely less cost than ever before, can wenrpose of the bill is thus defined: clothes which, in beauty of shado and texture, rival the richest stuffs
ever wavert on Oriental looms.
All British.
hang a woman.
"To authorise the issue of gold coinage, to make, provision for the issue of currency notes having a legal tender quality, to terminate defence.
Two Go Free.
"First Entho a verdict for Bertha," who readily admitted choking her husband to death when she believed he might harm her. The jury in stantly acquilted her on the ground that she acted in legitimate self-
Alma was
next tried. She explained in detail exactly the issue of bank notes by in-how she shot and killed her Gus, dividual banks and to substitute an adding. He hypnotised me." issue of bank notes by a central The jury took seven minutes to decide that she was inażne when she bumped Gus off," but that as she is now sano again, therefore should go free.
As was emphasized by Sir Burton Chadwick, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, who opened the exhibition, this striking display | authority, and to establish a Cum- of modern materials was made up mission to manage and control the entirely of British manufactured issue and redemption of the said
Florence is now all alone await- i goods. It proved also that British currency notes and the issue of banking her verdict. Her story is that
dyes can equal anything the Ger- notes, and to exercise other func- tnutia have achieved and that Bri- tions in relation to currency. tish designers need fear no com- parison with the best creative artists of Paris ··
At the luncheon at the Hotel Cecil which followed-the-opening Sir Edwin Stockton, the Lancashire cotton authority, asserted empha- tically that the introduction of artificial silk in this country had done more than any other event of recent years to help the cotton in dustry towards regaining its pros- perity. The future of the textile industry, of this country, he said, lay in combining the artistic effects of artificial silk with the woaring qualities of the older textiles.
CHIC WORKING GIRLS.
SILKEN ELEGANCE WITHIN REACH OF ALL PURSES.
The cur
her husband handed her & gun, told her he was leaving her, and dared her to shoot him, and she "took the dare."
Here the betting odds on her acquittal.
SIR HUGH CLIFFORD.
"STORMY PETREL AS GOVER- NORS GO."
London newpapers contain several interesting references to Sir Hugh Clifford's translation from Ceylon to the Straits Settlements.
Every coin issued under the new measure must be either a pound or ten shillings, the standard fineness wing either 11-12the fine gold and 18th alloy or millesimal finencas (918.9). The standard (imperial) weight of the pound is to 123,27447 grains, and that of ten shillings will be 66.63723 grains. rency commiyaion is to consist of a chairman and six ordinary com- missioucre, with whom wit be sociated so many of the sharehold ing banks as may apply for ad. mission, The shareholding banks. The Daily Mail states:- are the Bank of Ireland, the Sir Hugh Clifford who is re- Hibernian Bank, the National signing the Governorship of Ceylon Bank the Northern Banking Comto take up the post of Governor of any, the Munster and Leinster the Straits Settlements applied for Bask, the Provincial Bank, the transfer to the latter position. Royal Bank of Ireland, and the "It is no secret that he is fed Ulster Bank. The commission may up with Ceylon and that the Inck- establish and maintain in London of progress of bis pot schemes
peasant propetorship, land and such ageney or office as it may con-
the anti-malaria campaign-die- sider necessary for the performance of its functions in London,
couraged him.
"His long experience as One important provision of the Colonial administrator made the hill empowers the commission to de- pin-pricking of the unofficial ma and from any tanker in the Irish jority in the Legislative Council Freo State such information as it thero distasteful. In his now post Figures and facts abould come may desire regarding his banking Sir Hugh Clifford will not have first, so let it be stated that there business, and any banker who to suffer that. are 120 stands, that mannequins within a specified time fails to fur-
the loveliest ever gathered to-nish the informaton sought, or de- has fought several Colonial Secre gether under one roof, say the ex-clines to afford the commission taries in the past, including Mr.
access to his books, will be liable Churchill." perts) wear 400 different garinents, and-most impressive of all-that to a fine not exceeding £50 for
The Financial Times." £100,000,000 capital is invested in every day during which such failure is continuel. Provision is this industry.
The writer of the Saturday made for the issue to the share- Causerie in The Financial Times But no less important and en- couraging than these points is the holding tanks of consolidated has the following:-
Bir Hugh Clifford is somewhat bank notes." The total amount of spirit of the exhibition which is consolidated notes it any time out of a stormy petrel as Governors go,
of the enterprise Drapers Organiser. The stands standing may not exceed the total and a stickler for the rights of the gre skilfully arranged, and the amount of the liquid sound ad- Administration, and his welcoine it vances by such bank to persons in Singapore will very possibly be stage and its background prepared the Free State, proped to the satis tempered with a lively expectation for the mannequin parades is F
But there is no faction of the commission to exist of excitement. triumph of bold, modern design.
at that time.-Daily Telegraph, question of his immense ability
and industry,
and territories While I was in Leipzig the other
thrive under his rulership, day, saya W. S. Crawford in the
"A notable incident in his career Daily Mail, I told some truths
occurred when he was head of the about the lack of enterprise of
The exhibition of artificial silk goods at Holland Park is not only The biggest ever held in the world, it is also the beat.
due to
the
"He is a determined man and
British home and over-cene sales capacity of our on best custom Government of Nigeria from 199 to 1925. He came into violent men But I can honestly assert ers. And no less urtent is the call that Holland Park proves British our fellow citizen over-seas to collision with the late Lord Lever- display experts and salesmen in buy from us, otherwise we cannot hulme over taxation policy, aud their help them along the road to Frescathingly indicted him in one of artificial silk superior to perity. But we camot afford to his official addresses. Lord Lever- German rivals.
stop there.
hulme replied no les vigorously, The omen is an especially happy
Artificial ilk is a new com- and for time the air was blue one, because artificial silk may be called a
It has modity. A gencratic ago women, with controversial sulphur. post-war baby."
when they were pook were forced "But sincere antagonista are the grown up with almost uncanny to bo dowdy. Today the working easiest reconciled, and during a swiftness since the war, during those years, that is to say, when girl rivals in clegate the women visit to Liverpool Sir Hugh and British industry has been accused of Mayfair. And w The res the controller of Lever interests
do
Bcopa For Inflative.
has never
of having lost confidence and enter-son is that invention like artificial fought their battles over again in
silk have put elegaze within the an entirely friendly atmosphere. prise,
Sir Hugh, howeth big com- reach of all pursen. Yot we have adapted ourselves to
hit it off very well this sudder new demand upon our industrial efficiency and we have Now it is a natur and, in my panica exploiting tropical posses- most splendidly. made good." opinion, a praisewothy ambition ions, and before this, when presid Had we failed to so, what on the part of wome to make the ing over the destinies of North would have been the position of our most of their appearnce it would Borneo sad. Labuan under the great textile trade? Imagination be a drab world. if they thought Chartered Company, he resigned shrinks from answering the ques otherwise and one the prin- because he disapproved of certain
cipal objeolives af moern salesmen of the company's methods." should be to cater 1 this desire. Because the industry 180 new, new But there is a grave lesson as well ideas and enterprise re essential,
tion.
Best Dustomers.
,
as a message of encouragement to and there is scope for the imaging
The Observer."! Under the heading, Mystifying Method, the Observer passes the fallowing comment :---
The Colonial Office sometimes
be found at Holland Park. Even tive creator of markes with all the magnificent ingenuity Our manufacturers have to show moves in a mysterious way. When that has been thrown into capturin salesmanship and a research the Sir Hugh Clifford entered the ing over-seas markets for our arti
same skill that the have long public service as a cadet forty-four ficial silk manufacturers, our
shown in manufacture. In que years ago, he distinguished himself rivals, America, Italy, and Ger- many are more than holding their phero, they have awkened. They by the thoroughness with which he no longer question turparallel mastered all the dialects of his The recognition ed power of the day Press for Malayan sphere. Indin, Canada, and Australia drawing attention to their goods of this industry took the form of are our three best customers for Advertising is ons sto, in succes removing him to Nigeria, where his artificial silk. The moral of this is ful marketing, and ipod all other load of expert knowledge would
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