Wednesday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 5. 1939.
When Goering Goes Slimming
HOTEL TURNS OUT 27 JEWISH GUESTS
SAN REMO (Italy).
TWENTY-SEVEN Italian Jews staying at the Royal Hotel, San Remo, were asked to leave before the arrival on holiday of Field-Marshal Goering, his wife and a party of fifteen officers and secretaries.
Several of the Jews had been clients of the hotel for many years. They were told: "Please leave. It will avoid embarrass- ment to the visiting Minister and to yourselves,"
Fleld-Marshal Goerling is taking
u aliraming cure, so that, although he brought five limousines with him
from Germany, he spends most of his time walking either along the sch front or in the hills..
Frayed Cuffs Curbed
LEIPZIG.
The
Detectives aro never far away. They followed him as he walked A new chemically treated linen has along the promenade with his actress been developed to prevent the ravel- wile. He wore a dark grey, double-ing of shirt collars and cuffs. breasted sult, and already looks insertion is sewed between the Inyers thinner than recent photographs of the shirt material, and in a showed him to be.
demonstration at the Leipzig Fair it was shown to keep the cloth from
Twice he has visited the gambling fraying. casino, but even there по сле In ollowed near him.
One of the staff said: "He will see no one. Any one who disturbs him will get into trouble."
Though Goering is strictly' ол holiday," It is understood that Marshal Badoglio, Mussolini'a chief- of-staff, will be in San Remo to see hlm. Count Clano, Mussolini's son- in-law, is also expected,
The resort is a mass of colour in honour of the visit. Nazi and Fascist nags and emblems fly from every window.
Make-Up
Nine Persons Live
In English Village
London,
WHAT is belleved to be the smallest village in England-
Ja Elton, in Hampshire, which has a population of. nine and whose oldest
inhabitant
thirty-three. There are three houses. The nearest post box is four miles away. Only one wedding and one christening have ever taken place in the tiny church. Once a week a policeman cycles through the village to see that all is well, and once a day the postman rides up if there are any let- ters.
Music Wherever He Goes-In Stockings
PIPE-MAJOR LEWIS BEATON, President of the
Scottish Piping Society of London, wears a pair of stockings into the turnover of which has been knitted a complete pipe tune.
Valued At £50 Piping Competition of the Scottish Piping Society at the
THE value of make-up. to a woman has been assessed by
Judge of the Manx High Court. .at £50.
He was wearing his stockings at the seventh Annual London Scottish headquarters, Buckingham Gate, re- cently.
"They were knitted for me by Miss Kerr, of Lairg, Suther- Deemster R. D. Farrant, Senior | land," Pipe-Major Benton said at the competition.
"The, tune is 'MacCrimmon's Sweetheart,' and it is all there, the groundwork of the tune and MacCrimmons, and Mr. R. N. Brown, the first and second variations. another Balmoral piper, the open
competition for plobatrenchd.
Phyllis Winstanley, aged 24, told
the Deemster that she was employed
last summer by Messrs. G. N. Gore, |
Ltd., of Doughs, in the rolling of Isle
of Man rocks,
"I could play the tune from my stockings, if I had to," he said, "but I always play from
She alleged that the dour off the memory." table gave her dermatitis and she ennnot now use make-up.
Medteal witnesses said she would not be able to attend dances, is chalk used on the floor for polishing would affect her skin.
Messrs. Gore, without admitting Hability, offered £50, and 210 10s. costs, in settlement.
Piping enthusiasts came to London Jon Saturday from all over the coun- try to hear famous performers on the "piob-mhor"-the great pipe.
Secretary for Scotland, Colonel John Colville, a competent amateur piper, was an interested member of the audience.
THE KING'S PIPERS Mr. R. B. Nicol, the King's piper at
The Deemster, who had reserved bis decision, approved the settlernent Balmoral, won the Bratach Gorm, recently.
THEY
s Pipe-Major Robert Reid, of the Real champion of the competition Highland Light Infantry, who won the medal for the highest aggregate of polute. He also won the silver star for open march, sirathspey and reel.
Incongruous figures among the kilted competitors were the boy pipers of the Royal Air Force in trousers.
"We are getting our kilts at the end of the month," said an aircraft- man.
"We hear they are to be Air Force
the replica of the blue banner of the
blue."
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CAUGHT IN A SOUTHERLY. GALE, this submarine, the Sunfish, of the 3th Submarine Flotilla, ran aground in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, re- cently and heavy seas beat over her before she was inally re-fouled just before midnight.
Some Shop-Girls Worse
Off Than Zoo Animals
I am pretty healthy and used to the hot air in the House of Commons, but if I go into a bargain basement I can stay only a few minutes, because I feel I would faint. IN such Parliamentary language a woman M.P. pic. tured in the House recently the conditions in which some shop assistants have to work.
She was Mrs. Hardie, the Labour member for Spring- burn (Glasgow), and, having worked 12 hours a day for six days a week as a shop assistant, she should know.
Drapers' ahops are much too hot and grocers' too cold, accord- ing to Mrs. Hardie, who was speaking on the second reading of the Shop Hours Bill to limit hours to 48 a week and overtime to 60 hours a year.
EMPIRE NEWS
IMPORT
CONTROL IN
NEW ZEALAND.
Auckland,
The BI was rejected by 135 votes to 114.
Moving the scrond reading Mr. Leslie (Lab., Sedgefleld) old no other occupation consumed the young life of the nation to such an extent.
HAIRDRESSERS' TRIALS
An eminent doctor had said that women shop assistants suffered from varicose veins, flat feet, and all the disabling things which made life a misery. Some worked i and hours a week.
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Mr. W. Nash, Finance Minister, defended the Government's import control policy in * speech to a special conference of importers at were protested against by Dr. Edith Wellington.
Conditions in the hairdressing trade
Summerskill (Lab., Fulham, W.), Under the Government's control who said hairdressers were compelled policy Mr. Nosh said the maximum
to work sometimes for nearly 60 preference was given to Britain cles but were expected to discuss hours a week In ill-ventilated cubi- The Government was doing every- thing possible to reduce diflculties to
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BAD SHOPPER-AND
WHY arising from the control plan.
"I am known as a bad shopper." There would be curtailment of she added, "bernuse invariably I take R 20084. unessential imports, Dominion manu- the suffering shop assistant. Which R 20080.
what is given me rather than keep facturers having the maximum facilities for the Importation of com-
pay at the casli' desk and see the modities essential for
assistants cooped up I reflected that their pro if the Zoo had animals cooped up duction.
under such conditions for 00 hours The
Import selection would provide a week we would have an action facilities for primary production, brought by the RS.P.C.A." capital, equipment and raw materials
The Bill was opposed from the for manufacturing goods to replace Tory benches mulnly on the ground imports.
that nothing should be done to pre- judice the discussions going on be- tween employers and employed.
MALAYA
K.C.M.G. FOR SULTAN OF SELANGOR
The same line was taken by Mr. Lennox-Boyd (Parliamentary Ścerę- tary, Minister of Labour) who said the Government would give speedy and sympathetic consideration to a
Kuala Lumpur. The High Commissioner, Sisiriking report which had been re- Shenton Thomas, invested Sultan ceived from the joint conference deal- Alam Shah, of Selangor, with the in the retall distributive trades.
ing with wnges, hours and conditions Insignia of the K.C.M.G. after a State
banquet attended by representatives tiations and report and destroy the
of
every Malay Royal house in the
The Bill would cut across the nego-
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Selangor's Royal town of Klang
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of the State during the Coronation.
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