EXHIBITION
PASTEL
PICTURES
BY N. A. WEIDEMANN
Chinese Scenes & Subjects."
1 WEEK
Starting FRIDAY, Feb. Ist. KOMOR & KOMOR
24
Open Up to 6
p.m.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
Across
1 The direction that senor might
give you...
9 Far from encouragement.
10 "Roadtoil" {anay.).
11 Feathers that may adorn a fly.
12 A bit of a handicap for a golfer.
14 A fish is showing displeasure.
16 Oriental language.
16 Way.
Is A costly weapon.
21 Carriage.
24 Shell fish.
20-A cousin-of-the-monkey..
30 Flower: seo 22 down.
31 A great river; or was it a rank
among the military suffragettes?
32 Sea or exchange.
13 Supplied perhaps to introduce a
condition.
34. Connected with death.
35 "Notch cues" (anag).
2. Strangeness,
Down
3 The name of Toc H.
4 Respect.
A conscientious objection of no great weight.
6 A flying creature in a river
causes discussion.
7 Missiles or perhaps the result of
their discharge.
8 Transgression of the man who
took all the tips of the aspara- gus?
11 Exclamation from the doubtful
and dissatisfied.
13 Feminine name,
17 A cousin of cricket.
19 Determined:
20 A shorter cousin of the same
"linengo" as 23 down
22 A spirit that is a variety of 30
across.
23 A great liner.
25 0.T. prophet.
27 A mouth is the making of this
талп
28 Vegetable.
29 Many a good blade came hence
-of-old.·
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Yesterday's Solution.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
LONDON NEWS
PLENTY OF
MONEY
JUBILEE
PLANS
(From Our Correspondent).
London.
Judging from the newspapers at- tempts are being made at a very early dato to stir up public interest In the Jubileo Celebrations In May next, According to reports the hotels are preparing for an influx, only I hope they are not going to charge exaggerated rates because otherwise they will at once scare off visitors. I did hear the suggen- tion that £100 a day might be naked for a Royal suite at a leading hotel. Charges of this kind course will be absurd.
of
CRYSTAL CLIPS
Fastened On Hair For Evening Wear
LATEST FASHION
A set of crystal clips ac- centuating the parting of the hair, and fastened round the cars, is one of the latest fashion whims for evening wear.
You might think that there was no one who will pay these charges but then thera is certainly plenty of money about. Harrods, for In- stance, had its annual salo last week. It admitted officially that it had taken £190,000 on the Arst day and on this ba million for the week would be a reasonable estimate. In fact am told by WHEN YOU LET THE HOUSE those who went there on the last day that the whole store looked as
if it had been gutted because there
FURNISHED
FEBRUARY 16
DROUGHT WORRIES
WON'T RECUR
FOR YEARS
Washington, Jan. 80.
DECCA PORTROLA
Last summer's drought is nothing THE
to worry about, ellmatically speak-
Ing, the Weather Bureau has re-
WORLD'S FIRST
ported. There probably won't be PORTABLE RADIO-GRAM
another, dry spell ilko it for 30 or
40 years, the bureau indicated,
The cilmate really has not changed for years, Mr. W. R. Gregg,
chief of the bureau, wrote the FULL RADIOGRAM
Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, in his annual report.
He and that while rainfall has shown a "marked tendency" to be lighter in the north, this condition has been counter-balanced by hea- vier rains in the south.-United Preas.
minimisation of accidents included advocacy of a general return to the speed limit and the formation of corps of volunteer observers who would report all bad driving or riding, whether by motorists cyclists.
or
CLOSING STATION Covent Garden Underground Sta tion will shortly be closed. It is felt that when the present exten- alve alterations and improvements
was practically nothing left to sell TT is very much easier for new In most of the departments. If tenants entering'a furnished therefore there is all this money house if everything has been about then clearly some people may aystematically labelled, from top to
ut Leicester Square Station ape pay exaggerated prices but It is bottom of the house by the owners. time that a warning voice was A strip of adhesive label should be completed in the spring a further ralaed.
Axed on the top rim of each drawer station at Covent Garden, barely
what front. It should state plainly
Meantime the programme for May is not yet fixed except one or two specific functions. On the 6th there will be a bank holiday as this is the actual occasion of the 26th anniversary of the accession of the King, but there is really the only definite date yet. No doubt there inaldo the door of each cupboard, yesterday that it was part of the
giving a list of the contents of each policy of the will be reviews of the Army and shelf. Ali keys should be labelled stations that were no longer found Navy and it has been stated that and bunched together. A hanging to be necessary. Stations already a mass-formation fight over Lon-label fastened to a bathroom geyser cloned by the London Passenger don by military aircraft is being and vacuum cleaner, giving direc- considered by the Air Ministry as
in each drawer, the nature of the three minutes' walk will be redund contents and the, number of the ant. Although no official confirma- articles such as,, four table cloths,tion of the fact was available at six afternoon tea cloths; or-kit the offices of the London Passenger chen cutlery; or cleaning materials Transport Board, an official stated and cloths. A label can be fastened
Board to close all
a climax to the Air Force review. tlons as to how they should be Transport Board since July 1, 1933 Those who are coming over to accident. Before the tenants leave Street (combined as Green Park), operated, may possibly prevent an include Down Street and Dover London therefore had better make the labels will help them to replace British. Museum, Kentish Town, their plans well in advance and everything, and to make good any secondly not be enticed into paying breakages. It is also a good plan Brompton Road and York Road. excessive charges. Londen is full
to leave in the house Ilst of Bumpus' the world-famous book of hotels of every sort and it is names, addresses and telephone shop in Oxford Street began re- only the outstanding caravanserals numbers of people who may be
ly.
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In the West End which will be wanted in a hurry, such as doctors, moving to its new home on Monday. likely to raise their prices excessive-chemiata, police, fire-station and so It is going only a few doors down on, and be sure to leave your own the Street, from 350 to 477 across address so that the tenants may the road, but the task of removal weeks. After a protracted controversy communicate with you if necessary. will take more than two Insting more than two years, the
Hundreds of book-casea have to be scheme for building a block of
dismantled and re-erected, and a offices at the corner of Great George
stock of 250,000 books, weighing
Street, Westminster, facing Parlia-built-up areas-places where there
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FURTHER SHIPMENTS OF THE DECGA PORTROLA ARE DUE TO ARRIVE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
ment Square, has finally been ap-are street lamps not more than 200 several tons, removed. The staff TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.
proved. A steel-frame building, yards apart-shall come into force with Portland stone facings, is to on March 18. Also he has started will work day and night in relays, be erected immediately the task of his campaign for spreading the taking the books from their old demolishing the existing property beacon-marked pedestrian crossing home to the new. has been completed. It is expected
system
not
throughout the whole coun- authorities who have
where
Those
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Bumpus' have occupled their S POUT PROSTRATE to be ready for occupation in 18 submitted schemes are to re-shop since 1880. It was
one of TUIANA monthe time. The site covers PUTREFT ROOFING some 10,660 superficial feet, and at celve a circular informing them of the corner of Great George Street his desire to see crossings provided E8BMALMthe building will rise to a height of
necessary throughout the KAIN PERCH HAIB 106 ft. while the part extending country at the earliest possible date from Great George Street towards and asking them to make their pro VDP NII T
the Middlesex Guildhall will reach Greater London, with its extensive posals by the middle of March. ENACT REVIEWS
1
system of lighting, will automatical by come under the 30 mph. speed limit. In the case of roads such as the Croydon, Kingston and Sutton by-passes the local authority can recommend that the limit should be raised, but the decision will rest with Mr. Hore-Belisha.
EMBRACE MACAWA
a height of 85 ft.
London's historic buildings, for it includes the old Marylebone Watch House and the court house where Dick Turpin and other criminals of his day were taken before they were sent to Newgate. All these are to disappear. Marylebone Lane is to be widened, and the whole building will be pulled down. On what remains after the street has been widened a super shoe store la to be built. "We are naturally sorry to leave the old associates of this place," Mr. John G.. Wilson, the managing director said. "Many, of our customers, now famous men, came here to have a picture book bought for them by their nurses." The shop has been a haunt for generations of literary men. Robert Browning used to come
A mass aftack is being planned on the 153 massive keystanes of the TRNR IN A 1 E doomed Waterloo Bridge. It will PEER GNASHANON begin within three months, with a RBG BG simultaneous assault in each of the ORCHIDS INHA BI Tnine arches. Tough resistance is Each keyatono weighs NIMINA Aoxrected. GRAPPLING PAGES over one and a half tons, and Is made from the finest Cornlah
Vigorous protests against special granite. There are 17 keystones to paths for cyclists, condemnation of each arch, and all have been wedged coroners' courts as a method of in- vestigating road accidents, and a der tremendous pressure for general roasting of Mr. Hore more than a century. No attempt Bellsha were features of a meeting will be made to knock them out of the Cyclists Touring Club in Por solidly. Gangs of men will attack London this week, it was suggest. to pardon members of the army them with pneumatic drills. And that the proposal to extend cycle here, and a very well dressed pott and navy whoso sentences exesed, the proud stones that have with paths was merely a wily move on he was. At one time we publish- | three months imprisonment.
Soveral other decrees issued stood the weight of generations will the part of the Minister, Having ed the works of Dickens, Southey, Berlin, Feb. 5.
mark a further step towards the be removed chip by chip.
extended the system of paths he Coleridge and many others, who The power to commute death reorganisation of the Reich and
might next seck power to exclude always dropped in when passing. sentences will henceforth be vest-the gradual abolition of the form-
cyclists from the roads he might Most of the loading authors still ed in Herr Hitler under a decree, er federal states.-Reuter Special
close the roads to cyclists wherever visit us regularly. Bernard Shaw he could. Suggestions for the was in the other day."
“ROYAL” PREROGATIVE issued to-night dealing with the
HITLER HAS POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH
prerogative of mercy,
Hitler will also have
SPEED LIMITS
Mr. Hore-Belisha has decided that the 30 m.ph. speed limit in
SALESMAN SAM
Or Words to That Effect
9 Ice House Street,
HONG KONG
MOTOR ACCIDENT
BEGGAR BOY'S REMARKABLE ESCAPE
A motor mishap, which might have had moro. serious · conso- quences, occurred shortly after two o'clock on Monday afternoon.
opposite directions. He was be tween the cycle and the bus when he was knocked down by the cycle, and but for the quick action of the bus driver in pulling up the vehicle would have been run ovar
bus..
he rolled into the way of the
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As it was, the boy fractured knee, and both cyclist and pillion rider suffered bruises as they fell off their machine.
Noar tho Central Theatre beggar boy darted across the street, ignoring a motor-cycle with The boy was taken to the pillion Elder, and.a bus, going'in | Government Civil Hospital.
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It's marvelous how
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(YESTERDAY I NOTICED YA WAITINI ON CUSTOMERS IN
A VERY SNOOTY: MANNER, SAM! YA ACTED J65′AS IF YA WERE ABOVE 'EM, AN' DOIN' ‘EM A BIG FAVOR~LIKE, THEY WERE SO MUCH DIRT! I WANTCHA TO BE NICE AN' AFFABLE TO CUSTOMERS, AND COME DOWN OFFA VER
PERCH!
THERES A CUSTOMER NOW AN' DON'T FERGET WHAT
I TOLD YA!!
OKAY!
HEY, DUZZ, THIS GENT WANTS TA BUY A SILK TOPPER! ALL. RIGHT IF SELL IT TO
HIM?
ORFICE
SURE THING!
WHY
NOT?
WELL, YA JEST TOLD ME NOT HIGH-HAT CUSTOMERS
Notice
POR WHAT