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Lincoln Ellsworth, left, famed American explorer, chats with American Minister Leo J. Keena, just before leaving Capetown, South Africa, for further explorations in the Antarelle regions.
Crinoline Too
A Fashion To
Dear Last
ENGLISH women are wearing crinolines again-but only for It is too luxurious a style this season, say the fashion firms.
to last.
EMPIRE NEWS
Air Progress In New Zealand
Auckland.
The fir: air dirs etion-indling with equipment in New Zealand has been installed at Rongotai aerodrome, Wellington. Over 30,000 persons
the airpor annually.
British Trade Commisioner-ir. R. Boulter, the British Trade Comm- mrsioner in New Zealand, is to leave in Jamury on an offeind visit holiday have trip to England.
INDIA
FALSE CONGRESS PROPAGANDA
Bombay,
!
that
agine an evening dress #ke sixty yards of net, ten yards taleta, and six and a half Fards ribbon to make this was แ erinuling frock made in London thin
[23.
The simplest crinolines Lake twelve La Bautzen yards of material. Com- pare this with the usual five or six yards for an evening dress, and you will see why a erinoline own costs anything up to 50 per cent. more th a straight-skiritd one.
English women prefer the get- anat stiffened with herschale net tead of whalebone, as in America. The Duchess of Kent wore one of these modified crindines when she i dazed at a ball in Bath last month.
London shops are selling a good many crinoline frocks. One, in white Grocide, is being made as a wedding ciress. Others are wild for dances and dinner.
Miss Chishom, buyers for a blig store, said. "People tell us they find and them easy to wear! The only trouble is getting theu in and out of cars- and of cour theatre sent."
it's no good expecthugg gram into
This 1304sible methods of Con- tre Press propaganda are shown by the report of the Committee of In- quity on the Mysore rinting on Jan. 11. puble bed recently,
The report incntions the acounts i an new papers to the eflect that the pole frd from inside a building upa crowds rushing through narrow Lazar. killing 32.
the
It had
wen proved to the Committee that all the windows of the building
wire were covered with through which it would be porsible to pass a rifle.
netting im-
The Congress leader had since ad- Imperability mitted the
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With the crinolines go all the other' Victorian fashions--the-shoulder eklines, camen lockets, neckbands, and her conuments. A lovely fashimi
while it lasts.
Chinese
Refugees: Gratitude
ADY Layton, chairman of the
of fring Clothing and Comforts Com-
from there windows, explaining the newsuper reports as "heursuy."
Ele mittee of the British Fund (late)
admitted that he had told a news-Lord Mayor's) for the Relief of paperman that he reports to the Distress in China, writes: Pre don't matter."
The Mycore Guvernment's official ensually list of 10 dead had been proved correct,
I am sure your readers will be Jeller interested to hear that in u written by the secretary of the Britie Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai en October 23 he states:
The Committee found that a Con-
... at present in the settlement and Press campaign
of "unparalleled concession there must be about 80,000 virulence, conducted without report refugees....Most of the clothing re- for truth," was responsible for the celved from time to time froin crowd's attack on the police who England has gone to the Chinese, but were forced to fire in self-defence, naturally there are many items, like After this. "False information Yas broadleast to the world."
COMMUNAL RIOTING
Calcutta,
plus fours, that are of no use to them. These are handed to the B.W.A. or King's Daughters' Society to give to foreigners, of whom they have many on their books-also refugees, "HERCULEAN TASK"
A Mosiem and a Hindu were kill- bed in rioting between workers and "But everything has been used.
"What 'Shanghai would have done: :trikers at a jute mili near Calcutta. The rioting then asmined 'n come without the Lord Mayor's Fund I mal character.. Two European cannot imagine. It was really a' police officers and 42 other personsherculean task caring for all the were injured and 150 arrests were
made
SOUTH AFRICA
TOWN PLANNING IN TABLE BAY
Cape Town,
In lated that an overseas com pany offered £8,000,000 for the land which is now being reclaimed from Table Bay through the construction of the new £6,000,000 harbour.
rofugees that poured in from up-river and down-stream and all over the entry. This effort on the part of the British has been very much appreciated."
The Depot hus already dispatched 1405 bales of medical supplies' and clothing, but the need is desperate, May appeal to your renders to do all they can see that this supply re- mains constant or increasing?
the ceremony. Mr. Nestadt declined to do this,
LABOUR LEADER'S
The offer was refused. The Cape JAMAICA Town Municipal Council will dispose of the land for an ambitious, town- blogning scheme which will com- pletely alter the face of Cape Town. The reclaimed area will be about half the size of the present metro- politan area of the city.
DEMANDS
Kingston. Alexander Bustamente, the Labour leader, in a statement before the Voortrekker Ceremony. Because Royal Commission characterised the the Mayor is a Jew, Benoni Town Inst
and
present Governors of Counell will not be asked to partl-Jamaica, the late Sir Edward Den- cipate in the Voortrekker centenary hem and 9r Arthur Richards,' na celebrations there. The committee "Fascists." He wants # minimum responsible for celebrations asked the wage of a dollar a day for workers Mayor, Mr. M. Nestadt, to allow and old age pensions Christian to represent the Council at workers at 50,
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