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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY
THOUSANDS ENJOY WINTER SPORT ANYONE CAN LEARN ON NURSERY SLOPES
By WILFRID TREMELLEN.
Thousands of British people are arm, “is always to pretend to your- : travelling to Switzerland for the self that what you really want is
Winter Sports. Snow has at last to go much faster than you are. fallen heavily in Switzerland, and actually going. It's kidding your- the Sports are in full swing. Twice (solf, of course, but the psychological as many trains have baan run from difoct is immense," England as compared with last year.....
"BUT
66 DUT,” you object, "Ive never seen a aki, except on my way through to the millinery department and then I didn't #top."
Later on you will go on ski-ing excursions...to the mountains, and... the lunch you bring with you in your rucksack and eat in the silence of the freind slopes will be the most enjoyable of your life-capecially if your guide lights a Are of fir- oones and makes gluhwoin. This is You may not have seen a luge, a delicious hot drink made with elther, but it hardly matters. Bo-white wine, cinnamon and sugar cause the winter sporta folk are a boiled with snow.
LUGEING PARTIES
cheery crowd, and it is difficult to fool a stranger among them. The In the afternoons there are some- Jolly old man in the corner seat at times lugeing parties, Than you, Victoria constitutes himself your like overybody else in the hotel, "unclo" as soon as you have given drag your luge by ita reins up to the him permission to smoke, and al-top of the toboggan-run and, join- though his labels show he is going 1ng the queue, sit chatting on your
to a different centre, what he does mount until the man in front is not know about the place you are bound for is negligible.
white tunnel, because you simply It feels like hurtling down a long are not raise your eyes at first, and see only the blur of the snow
King Winter swigns in Switzerland again, and thousands of his loyal subjects are enjoying the multitude of
Buras at his court.
FURNITURE BY HIRE-PURCHASE
Another tender has been accept- cd, the Woolly Construction Com- papy. Limited, of Leeds, having secured the contract for the crec-
HOUSING SCHEME type of furniture under the hire-and wash-houses, accommodation purchase agrement would be simi- for perambulators, a central station lar to that displayed in the exhibi- for the disposal of refuse, 20 shops, tion houses. Everything which is and a children's bathing pool. considéred essential in the way of furniture and furnishings is shown in a price-list which has been issued for complete furnishings on the Leads. Further plans have been made in
hire-purchase system. A reduction
housing scheme of the Leeds Corposition to pay cash.
The chairman states that the It has also born, decided to build lists of application for corporation hire-purchase furnishing plan which in the Quarry Hill district, which No houses will be available apart Additional particulars of the flats to accommodate 800 familica houses have now had to be closed. has caused so much comment have was until recently one of the slums from those needed for slum-clear- been given by the chairman of the of the city. The scheme is an am-ance purposes and the 1,000 which Housing Committee, the Rev. C. bitious one and includes a com- are to be erected under the non- Jenkinson, who indicated that the munity centre, swimming baths subsidy plan.
for a fortnight. Your travelling banked up on either side. Swift connexion with the £12,000.000 is made where the tenant is in ntion of 208 dwellings at £76,692.
as the wind! Now comes a corner.
sent oft. One minute Inter the startor node to you. At once you PLACE FOR BEGINNERS
shove off over the lip of the descent and go whizzing down the steep On your first morning in Swit- zerland you go down to the village-covered track. to select ski and sticks at the "Sport Shop," For two or three franes you can hire all you want
companions
of yesterday, all taik- ing at once, explain how you find You tug at the reins, and your feet your right size, and soon you are acrabble frantically on the Ice. Poration all plank-planking down the frozen You brake just sufficiently to avoid road towards the Nursery Slopes. shooting up the bank, and then you It reminds you of the time when you were a child and tied date-boxes are round the corner and whizzing down the straight. There is an- to your feet.
other corner, and then another, but above yourself off with your sticks
You climb a modest slope and you have got the hang of it now Now you are whizzing down in fine style, breathless with the exhilara tion of it until, after attaining
DON'T MISS THIS what accms a fearful speed, you wobble, recover, wobble again and tea-there will be music in the You stay in your sporta kit for fall, losing your sticks and tumbl-lounge-und later, after putting ing over and over. Astonishing! You sit up, wipe the show froin our damp gloves and socks on your bedroom radiator to dry, you bath
and soon feel confident enough to raise your eyes and enjoy the glori- ous mountains.
your eyes, and find that, though and change for dinner. the mountains all seem to have changed places, you have not hurt.cliampagne, paper hats, Faul yourself in the leant.
EASY TO LEARN After few more descents you find that if you keep your knees "looso" they act as springs and you can keep your balance over the irregularities of the alope.
While you are struggling to your feet an old hand comes up with a word of advice. "The way to avoid falling," he says, giving you an
MONKS' ACTION FAILS
"TRAPPIST BEER" TRADE NAME
There will be revelry afterwards
Jones and what-have-you. But do not omit to do this, on one riotous evening at least: steal away at some moment when the fun is greatest and the noise loudest and take a look at the moonlight on the eternal snow-clad mountains. It is freozing hard outside, but the stars are brilliant in the Indigo sky and the pines stand like aentinels in the allance.
Trappist monasteries; that the Trappists were not traders, and therefore could not complain of competition on the part of a real trader.
The Court, in a closely reasoned judgment, agreed entirely with the brewer's submissions. It held that the Trappists were an association not for purposes of profit, and that their ideal was to live according to the precepts of St. Benedict, to do charitable work, and to propagate Brumela, Jan, 2. The Antwerp Commercial Court could be admitted that a
tho Catholic Faith. Though it has non-suited the Trappist Fathers community might carry on a trade religious In a claim for 250,000f, damages for to supply its charitable funds, It unlawful competition made by them was inadmissible that such a com- against a brewer of, Brasschaat,munity should place itself on the noar Antwerp, who sold beer under same footing as real traders, whose the name of Trappist Beer,
for profit. business was carried on exclusively
For the brewer it was contended that the name "Trapplat" was not a special mark, but applied to several beers made in different
The Trappista were ordered to pay the costs of the action.
British Tommies (Top) receiving « fovial Nazi salute from Snar-landers as they prepared to taka `up their billets in Saarbrücken upon arrival to patrol the Saar valley during the Langus of Nations plu. blacite period.. They immediately began to make friends among the townsfolk who accorded them a cordial recaption. Two of them are pictured belowin difficulty over the language while plaking out the
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of Ontario, as holiday celebrants returned to their homes Christmas night. A fast express trainą swarging lato a siding Instead of passing on the main line, tore into the rear conches of holiday special, standing on the siding to allow the express right of way, reducing them to mass of splinte ad wreckage, killing 15 and Injuring 35.--Freatio work in the early wrećking cyawa, volunteers, doctors and nurses succeeded in saving many more livoL.
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