THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936.
THE WORLD COPIES THE ENGLISHWOMAN New Vogue Sets the Britain Exports Clothes • American Fashion Buyers Worth £1,070,000
Humming
Looms PARIS TAKES GAS MASKS FOR THE MILLIONS
A
BACK
SEAT
(By-GRACE WILSON)
LL the world is copying the clothes of the Englishwoman. New standards of dress have switched the world fashion centre from Paris to London-and British dress material manufacturers are recording a continued increase in their business,
Last year Britain exported £1,070,000 worth of women's skirts, coats, and dresses --a considerable advance on the year be- fore.
One West Riding manufacturer of worsted costumes cloths has seen his business increase by 300 per cent, in the last year.
Women in all parts of the world are full- ing in love with the more severe and sen- sible British styles, as opposed to floral frills, and Paris is being forced to take a back sent.
That was why £77,000 worth of British knitted wear was ordered overseas last year.
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America Wants Our Styles
British imported clothes are a luxury in the United States, but this has not stopped the craze i among American women to dress "just as the| British do."
American retail stores are now sending their buyers to visit London before the Paris displays. They return to Amerien with British models which are copied over and over again,
A representative selection of dresses made by leading; British designers has just been taken over to the United States on the Queen Mary by the British fashion group... lian and New York's most fashionable women have crowded! the dress chow ever since,
Empire markets are also occupy-
ing the attention of
the British
dressmakers. One Jumous firm is sending its entire collection to South Africa at the end of aur summer season. The South African dress senson begins when mura ends.
Trades Benefit
Visitors to Londun love returned. to praise the plain slick suits, costral coats, and close-fitting dresses which Brilish women have made particular- ly their own.
ever.
The textile and ready-made clothing trades have already felt the advantage of this increasing overseas market.
of Wes! Even in the Midle America women are adopting British show .styles. Comparative figures
that there has been a £40,000 in- crense in the export of dresses and £20,000 In knitted wear.
Plana are now being made in hold periodical exhibitions in the Empire and foreign countries of typically British styles.
AT HOME
A girl wearing the type of respirator approved for general civ!. use in Grent Britain.. Forty million of these masks are to be
made for distribution to the entire civilian population.
RANCHER-EARL
WANTS
Invade
London
Council for Civil Liberties
Simon to be Sent
Baton Charge Evidence
NOTHER attempt is to be made to get the Home Secretary to hold an inquiry into the allegations of brutality`made against the police following a baton charge in Thurloe Square, W., on March 22.
The National Council for Civil Liberties has, in Friends House, concluded its inves- tigation into the affair and will now consider its report.
Statements of the various witnesses, the chair- man (Prof. Bentwick) sald, will be sent to Sir John Simon in the hope that he will belatedly hold Inn inquiry.
A further invitation to the Commissioner of Police to send witnesses or an observer to the inquiry received only formal acknowledgment.
On the night of the charge a Fascist meeting was being held in the Albert Hall, half a mile away.
Witness recently described to the commis- sion what they saw in Thurloc Square. One said that when the police charged they hit out at everyone they could see.
"MISINFORMED"
Another witness, who sold that he was baloned on police made extremely vituperative remarks, and that and the head and knocked unconscious, lectured that the he saw one mounted policeman chasing a man
shouting, "I'll get you, you...‚'
Evidence was also given that a foot policeman seized on elderly woman and held her against some railings.
TO LIVE IN LONDON
Switzerlands
"First Seaport"
Basle, Aug. 5. Switzerland's first "seaport" was, offelally Inaugurated here by the arrival from London of lin 500-ton freighter Bernlna- the first merchant vessel from overseas to enter Swiss waters.
The Bernina is also the first Swiss-owned merchant vessel ia
all the seas.
her sister ship the Alpina, she will maintain a ser- vice between. Basle. and London and Gothenburg. via the Bhinr and the North Sen,
Basle, at
MARY ASTOR'S SHOCK FOR HER river
EX-HUSBAND
"He was Married When I Married
Ilim"
Los Angeles, Aug. 10.
ISS MARY ASTOR, the film
MIS
terminat for Traffic on The Rhine, has become our of the must lmpor- tant inland harbours of the world.
Plans are before the Swiss Government for the development of a similar port st. fitneva.
Cothes To Fit Our
star, has applied to the court Characters
here to set aside the divorce granted her husband, Mr. D. R. F. Thorpe, last year, and to do clare her marriage null and void. The grounds of her appllection are that Mr. Thorpe married her without divorcing another women.
Her affidavit, fled in support of these charges, does not name the other woman, whose existence Miss Astor asserts she only recently discovered. Miss Astor also asks for the sole custody of her four-year-old daughter, Marilyn-Reuter.
Miss Astor's charges against her husband follow closely-un a claim she has filed in court for the posses sion of her daughter,
Such Fun
(AND SUCH BEER)
In The Old
Country
(By A Special Correspondeat) Calgary (Alberta),
Aug. 15.
Heroic History for Aryans
Munich. Aug. 12. History teaching in colleges and universities in South Ger- many is to be revolutionised "In order to make the student useful to the State."
Bavaria's recently - formed Ministry of Culture orders that "instruction confined to a
be grand historical outline, and all
The twenty-two-year-old past events made useful to the Earl of Egmont chewed a matchstick as he talked to me to-day,
st beטנת
present situation of our nation.
The formation of our 100,000. The -009-German-people both fukide and outside the Reick boundaries
made
the clear tu student.
"Emphasis must be Jald on the the Teutonle He wore a
spirit, Fuehrer-idea, and defence.
to
heroie ardler
bulldup. philosophy."-Router.
A two-day growth of beard stubbled his chin. wide-brimmed sombrero,
I had driven out to his ranch te ask him if he intends, returning to England--found him loading a truck with timber.
rare,
A
The sewer in my question "Miss Sheila
was supplied by the countess, for- merly Misa Ann Geraldine Moodie, his cousin.
"I'm going to, gel
England next year."
Fredlet MacDonald
to
She said,
"eren if I've got to hogtie him”. She told me this as her husband disappeared kitchenwards in search of drinks.
Turns Tutor
-
Lady Egmont went on: "Freddie MISS SHEILA MACDONALD, wanted to go to England immediately after we married, but I was afraid of the ocean crossing.
"Now I am anxious to be there for the Coronation, and for a visit to A BATTLE
Enid
at her
Referring to a statement, by the Home Secretary in the Commons that stones and mud were thrown at the police, the chairman asked one wit- ness if he had seen anything of that sort.
"There
was nothing there to throw." was the reply, and in further auswer to the chairman said he thought the Home Secretary was misinformed.
A man who declared he was not a police witness- said, he did not stay for the meeting.
He told the Commission that he spoke to a number of people who tok him that they had gone there with the intention of entering the Albert Hall and breaking up the meeting.
"As far as I saw anything of the puilce, they were very courteous and considerate," he said.
Members of the Commission, in aldition to the chairman, were: Mr. Harrison Barrow, Professor F. M. Cornford. Miss Eleanor Rathbone, M.P., and Mr. J. U. Priestley.
PUREST IRON WORTH MORE THAN GOLD
British-Made After
5,000 Years
twenty five year old
Although man has had the use of You will be interested to learn
daughter of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, has sailed for St. Vincent, that English tailors cut cloth not
tron for 5,000 years, "pure" iron has West Indies, to become a tutor.
only just been made by the Ni- Miss Ishibel MacDonald, licensee of tional Physical Laboratory at
Ted- only according to their patrons
the Plough Inn, Flowers Bottom, dington. It is softer than copper, figures but also to their charac-our English home.
and as valuable as gold. It is also ters.
"He wants to sell up in Canada near Speen, Buelto,
nore highly magnetic than is normal The authority for the statement is before we go to England, but I do not faller's Hampstead home:
"Shelin goes a tutor to the two
iron. the London correspondent of a Berlin want him to do that. So we're
daughters, uged fourteen and alx- having a battle.
At this moment the countess's teen, of Mr. Arthur Alhan Wright, sister, Milka Moodle, entered with a Administrator of the Colony, and tray holding bottles of beer and Mrs. Wright."
"She first met their parents in tumblers.
The rancher-carl followed her-Fi. Mr. Wright was Secretory for
Native Affairs there." with another tray.
paper.
He is brave, this reporter of fashions.
Ile dares to say that:
Green hats, poloshes and straw hata are just not worn, that they are beyond the pale, and sported only by cats and dandies, or--in the case of poloshes-only by "retics of the last century."
nic:
The Teddington iron is believed to be. nearly '99.99 per cent. pure. No fewer than 92 different chemical cle- ments, which might be present Impurities, have been tested for, and between them they account for only
0113 per cent.
as
Lady Egmont confided to "Freddie loves bear since he visited England. He drinks it at every meal FIXING FRONTIERS OF to this trouble to make virtually
with breakfast".
In this claim, she charges Mr.
He also insista that there is a dis-Lord Egmont interposed: "Yes, but Thorpe with having everced her Inta permitting him to get the tinct falling-off in the wearing of bon't like the beer in the old coun- divorce, with custody of the child, plus fours. by threatening that he would Despite all this, England, he says, bry. There's no strength in it
"publicly scandalise her" and ruinstill leads the world in men's fashions. her career as an actress.
Miss Astor declared that Marilyn has now reached a "formative age, and needs a mother's constant and continuous companionship, love and attention."
One Under the
Eight-& One Over
Paris, Aug. 10. Augustine Fernandez Was chorged with being drunk and
disorderis at Ballicull to-day
He said he was celebrating his birthday,
Which birthday?" Inquired the judge. "You have seven birth certificates, and seem to have been born at various times between 1902 and 1910-at Con- stantinople, Turin, Blida, Tripoll, Smyrna, Athens and Salonika."
"I take no chances," replied the culprit, celebrate them
The
BRIGHTER STREETS
hat and it certainly brightens the Lady Egmont said to me: "Ever streets. Naturally, care must be taken with what suits it is worn. "As for the straw hat-well, so much depends on the weather.
"And few people wear goloshes nowadays."
The point about the green hat
rankles. It's the commonest colour
The countess replied:
then
ABYSSINIA
moved
on
The laboratory's reason for going
pure iron is to enable accurate study to be made of the effects. DÍ adding very small amounts of other melals to it. The two last and most vital steps in the Teddington formula for making it are as follows:
1
pure
WORK ON KENYA BORDER
Rome, Aug. 17. le proudly displayed the silver
An Italian column under General tray he had carried in.
"brought this from the ancestral Geloso is reported to have completed editor of the "Tailor and home," he said. "See, there's a crest a survey and occupation of the First, iron, in powdered form, al- Cutter" had these comments to make: on it. It must be a hundred years southern regions of Abyssinin, along ready as pure as it can otherwise be
"lost men seem to own a green old"
the Kenya frontier.
made, is heated in an atmosphere of Entering the Galls Sidamo Pro-hydrogen to drive the last traces of since Freddie came back from vince, the column set up. local oxygen from it. The heating is done England he has been dissatisfied government at Dawa Parma, and
of In specially-made vessels with Canada".
eastwards along the Iler husband Ratu: "Well,
used. can have fun in the old country northern edge of the Kenya border alumina, and an electric furnace is
land. Moving inland, the Italians Kotcupled Mega, a town of strategical Finally, when all the oxygen has We'll go after Christmas, but I won't have you selling up in the traille routes between Kenya and ed in a vacuum to remove any hydro- Importance in the Boran, controlling been removed, the iron is again heat-
THE NEXT EARL
the lake district. South of that, atgon which it has dissolved during the "I want little Froddie, our two the frontier station of Moyale, con previous process.
Under laboratory conditions, land". She explained, "He will post have to carry on his father's title "Having exactly fixed the tor-price of Ds. a gram represents as near In time and trouble, of making pure one day and I want him atted for it. ritorial and traffic demarcation lines an estimate as possible of the cost, "Yes," she said. "We shall come between Ethiopia and the British iron. The present price of gold is
General Geloso hom to England next year, but we shall possession,"
enter the Lake about 43. 10d, a gram,.. turned north to bo very secretive about it,”
On the other hand, It is pointed out Earl of Egmont · succeeded to Margarita territory and has already
that if there were over any serious title in May 1932. Ifis father had reached Javello. farmed In Alberta for twenty- Another Italian column is operat-commercial demand for pure iron, it eight years before 1929, when he ing in eastern Abyssinia and is en- could be made very much Aucceeded. The young carl was deavouring to clear up the ranges cheaply. In spite of its extreme married in August 1982. Family which fank the Addis Ababa-Initial softness, it can be easily hard- xest Avon Cmatic, in Hampshire. Jibuti ruilway.
ened by rolling.
for headgear in Germany, anyway.
Canada.
Triplet Girls After year-old son, to be educated in Eng tact was made with the British out-
Triplet Boys
near
Berlin, Aug. 19. The wife of Dr. Fritz Witten, a medical man in Stroebeck, Halberstadt, who knd already prosent- ed her husband with tripleta (all boys), has now agald had triplets.
This time all three are girls
•Exchange.
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