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PICTURE EXHIBITION
WATERCOLOURS BY FOREMOST ARTISTS OF JAPAN
10 DAYS
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STAR ING NOVEMBER 1st from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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York Building.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1935.
SALOON CAR FOR THE SHOOTING OF BRITISH FLYING
BOAT BASES
£100%
WANG CHING WEI
Ford Show Surprise Eye-witness Describes European & Empire
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Oct. 20.
The Ford Company, as usual.
Is holding its annual
exhibition
Απ
Scene
Shanghai, Nov. 2, eye-witness who
returned
collect, he stated, especially as all those who were present at the time-with the exception of a few Influential persons-were kept in the enclosure until 12.30 p.m.
From what could be seen and heard from the position occupied by this journal's informant. it seemed that the shooting actually
Routes
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London, Oct 17. Southampton, as foretold in The Daily Telegraph" of Aug. 15, of the flying-boat will be one ports-in ail probability the prin cipal one-for Europan, Empire and Atlantic services of the near future.
In addition to Imperial Airways developments, for which 15 big flying-boats are on order. there are wwo other projects, supported by important interests.
at the Albert Hall simultaneously { from Nanking last night stated to with the motor show at Olympia, a "North-China Daily News" re- and has made history this year by porter that the belief in the capi- showing the first British £100 tal was that Mr. Wang Ching-we! saloon car. It is new only in price, had not been wounded at all. for it has been on sale at higher, Information was very difficult to prices for the last three years This car is of eight horse-power. and at the other end of the scale there are cars up to 30. horse- power.
The most interesting thing to most people In this exhibition will
The overnment has declared probably be the "Flying Flea,"
Its intention to send all Empire which is manufactured by Carden
mails by air, without surcharge, Aero Engines at Heston, but 19, took place some way from the from 1937. The present services driven by a 10-h.p. Ford engine. spot at which Mr. Wang Ching- are to be multiplied and accelerai- This is not the original "Pou du wel was standing. Mr. Chang Chi, ed. Ciel," but a British aeroplane de-it.was stated, was not wounded in signed by Mr. S. V. Appleby. It is the first shooting, but tried to a tiny affair, only twelve feet long grapple with the
While and five feet high from the land doing so, he was wounded, ing wheels to the upppr plane (it Gen. Chang Hsueh-lang also has two planes, one set below and sitempted to grapple with the behind the other), and it is hung | mari, 'and helped to throw him from the roof of the Albert Hall. to the ground. While he was on where it seems almost lost in space the ground, the police shot him. unt one ascends to the gallery beside it.
Other exhibits are Ford buses, together with Ford "engines for lowance of £10,000 in this year's lorries, tractors, and cultivators motor-launches,
man.
THE ELECTION ISSUE
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Jingoism
(Special Air Mail Service) London. Oct 20.
duce other Powers to pursue the Before a fortnight has passed same pain. We have proved to the nation will have gone to the every-dispassionate mind that polls, Its true interests are ser- o.e-s.ded pacifimiy as utterly ved by advancing the date
O fruitless as a one sided Cobden the Election. The quickest pos- ism. Peculiarly dependent, as we sible escape is to be desired. from are, first on uir defence, and the slough cf senilment in which condly on the naval security of
scussion "is floundering. The our sca routs, we have allow. primary need is a National Goved both Eterests to sink into A erament that shall have firm Jeopardy worse than wayfald ground under its fect and the them before the Great War fresh authority of the country When Lord Jellicoe tells us that behind it. We look to the gap. the Empire does not possess th: judgment of ordinary men and sea power that s vital to Its women to cut its way through existence. those will jeer at him a superficial confusion of Issues doubtless who jeered at the ga:
to the plain question of common lant protests of Lord Roberts. I security. The appeal 's to prac- the British people, frankly present- tical sagacity and sense of chared with the issue of national safety. acter.
were to make themselves a econu time the victims of delusion
Even more is at stake can at surprise, it would be the signal of the last Dssalution. The Labour farewell to all the'r greatness, Ministry that gave up office 1931 dpped us over the edge o! The ford imagination that de Enancial disaster, II the sam: mestic safety or World trade party were to regain power now, material prosperity of moral power, it is ready by its own confession can be enjoyed by a nation un to indulge the same recklessness ready to guard its head with it: in the far more perilous sphere hands, is the kind of "dealsm of foreign relations. I poley 17 that can drug only the dege:e an unarmed jingoism-a running rate. amok in the name of "collective security"an acceptance of the hazards of warfare and a with- hölding of its
weapons. There no shutting out of this responsibility. The Trades Union Congress and the Labour Con- ference decided upon sanctions with the warning in their euza
con be
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BANDIT'S LIFE
Taxes Levied On Peasants
London, Oct. 17.
An experimental alr service by Imperial Airways, in co-operation- with Pan-American Airways, is to be run between Bermuda and New York. It is expected to start some time next year..
A grant of £28,000 has been an nounced from British Colonial funds to assist in the construction of an air base in Bermuda. This grant is independent of the al-
Air Estimates.
- NEW AFRICAN SERVICE The principal operating concern. apart from Imperial Airways, will begin with services to Cherbourg and Copenhagen, linking up with Scandinavia and the Baltic. It will run a service by way of the West Coast of Africa to Cape Town, thus providing a much- needed air route,
The site of the Southampton. flying-boat port will be near Mil-
berths brook, close to
used by: Atlantic liners, and to the all- way, which will convey passengers and mails to and from London
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OVER IN GAY PAREE
The Vogue In Colour
Blacz, brown, vilet, and sage green are still the fashionable colours. Here and there is startling unity of red. violet, and green for a dress, hat, and coat, but more often, colour is quiet, though bright at the reck, or in sleeve lining, or at the waist.
Southsea. Here there is a pro- hibited flying area to avoid. but many experts favour it although Southampton ap- peats to be preferable. Harwich: This is considered ser- iously, but there are objections
grounds strategy. Flying-boats are to be used 'In- stead of land aeroplanes, because they do not need such big and ex- pensive aerodromes, because most of the routes can be all-British, and because land aeroplanes cannot taxi from dock and railway under their own power to their take-off grounds, as will be done by the flying-boats at Southampton.
The building of the flying-boats is at the present moment hamper- ed by the fact that British firms are working
full cape- to...their city on Air Ministry orders, and only one is engaged on an Empire flying-boat' service' scheme.
Ottoman of defence and
In this circumstance it has been decided, (not by Imperial Airways) to build at any rate one American ype in England by British labour. The type is the Sikorsky, and the Tight to manufacture, has been acquired by a British aeroplane firm.
It is to be bullt at Bouthampton,
be atted.
The little dinner dress is fre- quently br.gat in colour and rich In material, as when a long skirt and jacket'or coloured lame em- bruttered-in fine beads is worn with a velvet blouse of another colour or shade. A little hat of feathers or of velvet with wings
Again may be added,
3 black, brown, navy blue, cr mulberry- red silk dress may have a bright lame jacket; or a black velvet skirt has a scarlet and black top. Bilk is Schiaparelli's material for these informal din- ner dresses. Black velvet is ubi- quitous. A long skirt with a fit- ted jacket of black velvet and a bright crepe blouse without slee- ves is usua.; the skirt is clinging, but traines and may be cut straight as 4 Lube or be Atted with godets for width at the hem. The wearing of bead and braid Furs are embroidery increases. recognized as evening.
correct for the
THE VIONNET WAISTLINE
"In formal evening dress there is also much colour. Black is rare except when there are se- quins or jet beading. Harem skirts and Greek draperies are frequent.
Full taffetas skirts with fitting hips, as Molyneux * makes them, short puffed sleeves" and a wide neck line, look grace. ful. Quilted satin is another ma- terial for tailored evening dresses: it suits am figures; and
where velvet and cord belts dresses would have jewelled belts. The waistline, raised by Vion- net in a satin dress, is marked in many ways. Brits, sashes, cords, little frills, chains, fur bands, go round the waist at dif- ferent levels and widths. Lucile Paray has also raised the waist- line, especially in front. The machine-pleated crepe dress with simply draped shoulders and cross-over bodice back and front which Molyneux showed a week ago, has aiready become a fay ourit, whether in pale or dark colours. Flowers may be worn on the bodice, or a string of beads or pearls.
was one of the contingencies in- volved. Their.. Press is hounding on the British representatives at Geneva to an ever closer "tighten- ing the screw." And it is aü
A notorious bandit, ko Lepel and a British engine will probably there may be fringe trimminga,
the district election recently terrorised avowed plank of their
that this risk
around the small town of Volovo. programme
of a first-class war should be con- Gendarmes have at last succeeded fronted with second-class arma- finding his hiding-place, and
Lepej was killed while trying to imprisonment at the Leopoldov escape.
gaolin
he succeeded. In The story of his life is a roman- A year ago The Opposition may be thanked
tic
came from orię. Lepej
escaping from prison, and he at for making the main issue of the election such a simple chal-wealthy family; his father was at once returned to the mountains to His continue his bandit life. In Janu- one time mayor of Volovo. lenge, to sanity. We know now that, if a Labour Government brother emigrated to the United ary of this year another bandit, States, became an officer during George Klevec, Joined him." Kleved should be returned, it would be ready to make Britain the police- the war, and was killed in France. was a rich peasant, and had been man of the League without either This brother left a considerable accused of having murdered two & policeman's helmet or
fortune, but niko Lepej was exclud-peasants and a peasant woman. cheon. O all prescriptions for ed from the heritage, and is said When he heard that his arrest was ensuring war in the first place to have become embittered in con
impending, he fled to the moun- and ruin close uptn Its heels. sequence. Hence his decision to fains and Jointed Lepel.
The two bandits robbed tourists.. none could be surer, or more become a highwaymati obvious.
LEVIED TAXES
peasants, and merchanta At the He became very powerful He beginning of September the police What the Election has levied taxes on the peasanta," or- received, confidential information achieve more than anything is a dering them to bring their tribute that Lepet and Fievec were plan- clear demonstration to the world certain hiding-places. These ning to raid a village to obtain that the
British people reject taxes seem to have been promptly food. An ambush was prepared, such infatuations and recognise paid and
and when Lepe) showed fight the the call of their own responsiblli- PROTECTOR OF FOOL gendarmes fired and Lepef collaps- ties. There can be no conâdence The peasants say that Lepe was ed, hit by eight bullets. Klevec, anywhere in a Power that nega protector of the poor and a however, succeeded in escaping to lects to make its defences ade scourge of the rich, but there is no Poland.
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quate to its possessiots least of evidence that this is true. Of In the deserted camp of the all in the Empire that hangs upon one thing there is no doubt: Lepej bandits the gendarmes found Its protection. We have gone to committed many murders. In 1928 Lepel's diary, in which he had the furthest quixotic limits of he murdered two Jewish merchants described his whole life, his escape disarmament in order to prove in the mountains, for which he from the Leopoldov gaol, and his our own good faith and to in-was sentenced to a long term of latest adventures
As a change from the fur cape or long velvet cloak, there are some straight-cut velvet coats of little more than half length; they button close to the neck. have no collars, and may be worn. with or without a fur cape. Back, brown, grey, or of a bright colour, they are for theatres and restaurants. A bright chiffon handkerchief in the evening may give the one touch of colour to a colourless dress-green with grey, yellow with white, scarlet or geranium with almost any pale or dark dreadris
COLOURS THAT WILL BE WORN
-11
Dresses suitable for wedding receptions will be of the normai smart reception- type, skirts touching the ground and velvet As a leading fabric.
In some ways they will be a Httle quieter in style than at the Royal Wedding of .ast November, but the whole effect should be very colourful.
A military wedding, wil neces- sarily affects choice of colours
worn
Beech leaf, soft green; parma violet, and grey tones are favoured shades,
all
Some women are p'anning to carry muffs this is a good idea. in conjunction with the capes" that seem likely to be popular.
Hats will be decorative in style but mall. Feathers will be a favourite trimming, but in the form of small made-up mounts and not sweeping phames.