THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1930.
SHOPPING GUIDE
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HATS AND GOWNS
At Advantageous Prices, 7, Ice House St.
Bolande Sarrault
MODES-COUTURE
BAS REMOVED TO
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Tel. C. 2173.
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Alexandra Bldg. Des Vaux Road.
Maison Marnac
(Dre
Designer)
Has the Latest Models
On View at
4, Pedder Street. (opposite Hongkong Hotel).
REMOVED TO
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DER A. WING & CO. (1923), LTD.
DAINTY SHOES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTIONĮ MADE TO ORDER AT MODERATE PRICES
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No. 1, D'AGUILAR STREET,
HOFO KONG. Telephone C. 3287.
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ILDING Tel. 0. 3659
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By
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53, Queen's Road 0. Tel. 0. 2232
J. Ullmann & Co
High Class Jewellers
Est. 1860':
Alsxandra Bldg. Chater Road.
FRIGIDAIRE :
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£50,000 CLAIM ON EX-DIRECTORS.
.K.C'S ALLEGATION OF ABUSE
OF TRUST..
A claim by Megara, Lever Bros., of Port Sunlight, for the repay ment of £50,000 was heard in the King's Bench Division by Mr. Justice Wright and a special'pury last month.
The defendants were Mr. Ernest Hyslop Bell, of Granby Hotel, Harrogate, and Mr. Walter Ed- ward Snelling, of St. Ronan's, Putney Heath, formerly chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Niger Company, practically all
FLAT DE LUXE FÖR MARQUIS.
SEQUIN HANGINGS AND GLASS WALLS.
A new 'wonder at bas just been completed in Portland-place, Lon-
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Instructione
don, for the Marquis and Marquise THE Undersigned have received de Casa Maury. Some of its special features are:-
Complete walls af looking glass: Curtains of black and silver se quine; Cocktail party room with miniature bar.
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
MONDAY, MAY 5,
COMMANDING AT 2.30 PM.
AT
AND DWELLING HOUSE,
MOUNT DAVIS GAP, FELIX VILLA BOLD.
Only a few years ago the mar. quis, an enormously rich and elever young man, who with his wife (formerly Miss Paula Gellibrand) DR. HEANLEY'S LABOBATOKY. form one of the most popular the shares of which are owned by
young couples in society, furnish- Lovers.
ed an ultra modern flat in Gros- For Levers, Mr. Stuart Bevan, venor-street. Now
the marquis K.C., said it was alleged that they he is dissatisfied with the defendants who for years bad act-operating" theatre" style of mo- ed upon their appointment by dern furniture. Mesare. Lever as chairman and vice-chairman of the Niger Com pany-had abused their trust by entering into buying and selling transactions with regard to cocon.
Charges Denied.
In-my-new-fat I intend to be comfortable, and have simplicity, but nothing reminiscent of the den- tist's parlour, he tells his friends. All the passages of this flat- high above London's roof tops-are painted pure white. '
Panels of plain mahogany make the doors, which have no handles, but bars of chromium plate, and. all the door fittings and curtain raile-even the letter box-are in this material.
Had their conduct been discover- ed in 1927 and 1928, said Mr. Be- van, they would have been dismiss ed. But Lover Brothers knew noth ing about it until last year, and after their decision to amalgamate
The dining-room is one of the the Niger Company with the Afri-most dazzling rooms in London. can and Eastern Trading Corpora. It has plain white walls, curtains of black and silver sequins and tion. As Mr Bell and Mr. Snelinde green velvet covered chairs. ling thus lost their occupations, The tables are made completely of though each had two years to glass, and decorated with green glass fruit, and silver glass grotes- serye, it was agreed to pay Mr.
que animals. Hell "£30,000 and Mr. Snelling £20,000,
in
Lover Brothers asked for the re- vission of these two agreements, re- payments of the £50,000, and damages for breach of duty.
The defence, continued Mr. Bo var, was a denial of everything, although there was an admission in qualified terms of speculative. dealings in differences. He wished, however, to make, it clear that he was not charging fraud except the fraudulent concen meat of what the defendants had done.
Mr.. d'Arcy Cooper, chairman of Lever Brothera, said Mr. Bell's salary was £8,000 a year and Mr. Snelling's £6,000.
The hearing was adjourned.
THE SLIMMING CRAZE.
DRASTIC EFFECT ON FRENCH FARMING.
The modern young lady of fashion is in the bad graces of the farmers, ai France, and all because mada. moiselle has chosen to keep slim and even slimmer. The slimming craze is no good for the farm industry
The bar and cupboard in the cocktail room can be disguised as a bookcase, and special chairs have been made in leather on silver chro- mium tubes.
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have been utilised for the bedroom Ordinary three-ply wood paneis walls of the marquis. This room has also tables of black looking- glass, beside a bed covered with sapphire blue velvet.
In the bedroom of the marquise is a complete wall of looking glass Here, too, arejade greca silk hangings, a coverlet of grey squirrel skins, and a Louis XVI dessing-table and setter worth well over £2,000.
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The only lighting in the very modern drawing-room, which also has a complete wall of looking glass, comes from China laips placed on the floor. This room is in three shades of blue, and for. each bius-covered chair there is a glass table equipped with cigarette. box and matches.
GERMANY OF THE FUTURE.
YOUTH.
and nothing "pains a farmer more EMPIRE WITH STRENGTH OF these days than to read the fashion gossip see pictures of bewitching maanikins in the fashion pages, mannikina who are slim and slinky are generally the last word in feminine charm as accepted for
1930.
What will Germany be doing in twenty, thirty or forty years' time i Will she be bound by the Versailles Treaty Will she still be paying The reason is that slimness means indemnitics? Will she still have abstention from all the good things no army and no navy Will she of dairy produce, and abstention have, no place among the Powers? means hard times for the agriculDoes anybody in turists. Wheat is the principal lieve it? commodity on which the dicting
the world be
A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE FURNITURE AND LABORATORY GLASSWARE,
Comprising
Took and Glass Cabinets, Glaas. Bookcases. Cottage Piano, Grama- phone, Racords, Chesterfield Couches, Armchairs, Carpets.
Teak and Iron Bedsteads,' Teak Double and Single Wardrobes with
Mirrors, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Toilet Crockery, Iron Safe. Teak Dining Extension Tables, Wind- sor Ice Chest, Kelvinator Ice Chests, Tesk Sideboards, Electric Table Fans, Vases, Table Glass Ware, etc., etc.
Typewriter, Sixteen Office Desks, Library Tables, Small Tables, Iron Filing Cabinets.
Bacteriological Microscopes, His- tological Microscopes, Laboratory Glass Ware, Sterilisers, Incubator, Lymph Boxes and Grinding Ma- chinery, etc, etc.
Or View From SATURDAY,
the 3rd May, 1930.
TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERT.
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Tale. 1080.
LIFE GIVEN IN VÄIN.
POIGNANT BLACKPOOL
TRAGEDY.
craze has shown renetion. Accord General von Seeckt evidently does ing to statietics, the consumption of not. He believes in Might, with bread in Paris alone bas diminisha capital M, The general's faith is ed by nearly five million loaves & the faith of a determined section year during the past five years, and of the German people. He was for
One of the most poignant trage- on all sides it is agreed that some years Chief of the Reichswehr feminine fears of fattening are res- after the War. His book "The dies of the year occurred recently at. Binckpool, when a young man ponsible for the drop. Since latest Future of the German Empire" is.
an unavailing edicts predict even more severe therefore, well worth reading. He gave his life in dieting in view of the long and says, in a preface to the English effort to save a clergyman from
drowning. flowing gowni now in fashion, the edition that his preface's purpose is farmers fear that still iess wheat to promote some understanding in will be consumed in the country. England of the conditions under
which Germany is living and strug Bling to-day,
A Gint of Wheat.
The cut in bread consumption is doubly unfortunate for the farmers
General Seeckt declares that since France has just experienced Germany will avoid the pit into the biggest wheat crop almost in which Russia has fallen. The her history and there has been “a German Empire, despite its thous glut on the market, with several and years of history, is," he says, millions of quintala surplus. If "in its present phase a young Em- France could find a suitable foreign pire with the weaknesses and de- market for her excess wheat, the fects of youth, but with youth's problem would be solved, but she strength and hopeful outlook on has great competition in Europe the future."; from the cheaper Polish and Ger- man wheats, while the British mar- ket is already pledged to Canadian and Argentine producern.
The youth was Francis Phythian," aged 26, of Biriningham; the clergyman's name is not yet known, as his body had not been recovered.
Phythian had been staying Blackpool for the past six weeks owing to ill health, and was walk- ing on the pier with this mother when he saw a clergyman fell into
the
water from the jetty. Instant- he tore off his outer clothes, reaped a lifebelt, and jumped into the water, thirty feet.
distance of about
He struck out in the direction in The German Empire has, he sayt, survived the war and the Ger- whith the clergyman was being car-
ried. man revolution. It is still the Ger- In the meantime a pier atten- man Empire, although republican.dant, John Heil, aged 24 of Milk and butter producers also General Becckt affirms that the
Picondilly, Blackpool, alio dived complain of the effect of dieting Versailles Treaty in built up on into the water with a lifeline. their business, and the wine indus false premises; the assumption try believes women are likewise that it is possible to keep a nation coldness of the water, however, He was so numbed by, the icy BRUNSWICK HOUSE eliminating much wine from their like the Germen in a state of that he was unable to get very far, meals. This means a real sacrifice serfdom for two generations with and was dragged from the ses in to French women, accustomed from impunity is wrong. The pence. infancy to drink a glass or two of treatics will, he believes, in time an almost exhausted condition, good Burgundy at lunch and be abrogated," and, he asserts. ganda a mile away.
Phythian was found dead on the dinner.
"this abrogation "is the arena of.
"
BRUNSWICK PANATROPES
RECORDS
11, ICE HOUSE STREET. TELL C. 4038
But although wine is eliminated German foreign policy, and for Phythian's death was the fourth
almost entirely by the woman who this struggle it stands in need of in the family within twelve months,
cars the encoming
Wight, the creation of which is its alon being hrat task. plunpaess, cockbails are drunk more and more,.. despite doctors dictums that gin and whisky are more fattening that even the richest products of the vines of Bordeaux or. Burgundy.
Witness at Greenwich: I ton secrated my gaze on the motor car.
On hearing the news his mother collapsed. "I begged him not to go,” she said," "He was "just re- covering from an illness and was not fit to enter the water.