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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY
June 23, 1939.
Ubrary Sagad
TROUNCING ENGLISH TROUSERS EMPIRE
Socks And Shirts, Too, Annoy U.S. Envoy
MR. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, American Ambas. sador, while giving advice to business men during a London lunch recently on ways and means of increasing Anglo- American trade, had a few words to say about British styles of clothing. Here are the words:
"I have a feeling, that American men would like some of these fine English socks if they could get some that didn't come up to their knees.
Your Favourite Dream
MR. OSBERT SITWELL often dreams of a raven with one leg, and Mr. G. B. Shaw frequently dreams he finds himself "madly about to walk on to the stage to perform a part of which I do not know a word, or to sing an operatic role without know. ing a word of it."
These are two of the recurring dreams quoted in "The Dream World." by R. L. Megroz (The Dodely Head, 10s. d.).
Sir John Squire once dreamt the following lines that seemed mar vellous until he woke up.
"There was a boy grew twenty Inch,
yes, Twenty inch a year,
"They could also use some shirts if they did not come down to the same place, not to mention trousers which have the waist-line where God made it on a man and not in the general vicinity of the shoulder Blades."
And here are replles from British manufacturers and salesmen:
A Savile Row firm of tailors: "The average American customer likes his trousers as a rule to wear with a belt,
BRACES PREFERRED
"The average English customer wears braces or, as the Americans call them, suspenders. We always ask our American customers If they wish their trousers cut American or English style,
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"The American style hangs from the hip, as do sports trousers, but if you cut an English customer trousers with straight tops he would get huffy with you.
"As for thirts, Amerleans like
shirts cut with coat fronts.. We cut all dress shirts with coat fronts, but English customers do not like cut like that.
It might have made his mother, ordinary day shirts
Alinch,
in
but
She was quite a dear:
Yes, she was excellent,
And she was well content
The coat front rucks away and is not
so comfortable.
EXAGGERATING
The Editor of "The Tailor and
To watch her offspring forge ahead Cutter": "The Ambassador is ex-
his
Peculiar sphere.
William Morris wanted for a long time to dream a poem. When at last he did he could only remember the first line. It ran: The moonlight slept on a trenele sen."
"
On the other hand, Mr. Jan Gordon, the artist and art critic, told the au- thor he had dreamed vivid colour schemes, while Mr. J. B. Priestley wrote that three of his essays were literal records of dreams: The essays are The Dream,"
." "The Berkshire Beasts" and "The Strange Outfitter,"
Rosemary Lane,
star of Warner Bros. Pictures, appearing In "Four Daughters"
PEPSODENT
aggerating. A good many Buglish trousers are cut higher at the back than the front. It is a matter of braces and keeping the wearing small of the back warm, thousands and thousands of sports the other hand, there are trousers American style.
"On
cut quite
us low as
the
"Many Americans come over to the West End to buy their clothes and West End tailors send travellers to America and a big business is done with Americans.
don't
THE KING'S LEAD "Plenty of English socks come near the knees. Some recent ones that are worn without suspen- ders do come rather high.
Meet Dolly, world's only living two-headed cow. She's shown with her owner, Mrs. Carl Thomson of National City, Col., at Nature's Mistakes exhibit at New York World's Fair.
She eats with one mouth.
Squire's Wife Falls 40ft. From Parapet
a
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. MR. LILIAN DE VERE CLIFTON, Slim fair-haired American wife of the wealthy squire of Lytham, was recently lying parapet at Lytham Hall, on which she was walking "for u rigid, cased in plaster of puris, following a 40ft. fall from
stunt." Specialists attended her in a St. Annes nursing home. Mr. Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton, her 31 years-old, 6ft. 4in. husband, was constantly by her bedside.
He raced downstairs when she fell, Helped by servants, he carried her into the hall.
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am terribly, upset, she is so seriously hurt," he said "But she is still cheerful. This happened be- cause she tried to do one of those "The reason is that they have a
stunts that don't always come off band and are self-supporting. The
"I have often seen her balancing King wears this type of sock.
and walking on the parapets at
Our "Perhaps Mr. Kennedy is necus-home, and told her that day
one tomed to wearing very short shirts,
would fall. She only laughed and, but Englishmen have to keep them said the danger didn't frighten her. selves warin and comfortable."
British Soldier 7 Feet, 1
Edinburgh.
she
"But now all that we feared has
happened. We had been out flying to- gether the day before. Apart from the servants there was no one else In the house.
"My wife had gone from her bed- room into her dressing-room. I was In my room. It was early in the morning, soon after day-break. You The tallest man in the British army sometimes do things then that you was discovered when 7 feet 1 inch tallį wouldn't do at noon. Capt. P. B. Huxham towered into the Edinburgh sheriff's court to give evidence in a motoring case. Capt:
GIN. WIDE PARAPET "She thought she could walk the
Huxham is in the Royal Army Ser-parapet of the balcony outside her
vice Corps, and has served 12 years.
room. It's only about in. wide. She
is good at such feats, but this time she slipped."
Chief Officer L. Laird sold that Mrs. Clifton Has always been in- terested in fire protection, and had had Installed spectat escapes, which lowered a person to the ground at 5ft. a second. Sile had tested them herself.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton were married two years ago in the United States. Mrs. Clifton was formerly Mrs. Lilian Griswold, a Boston society beauty.
When her husband Inherited his estate it covered nearly six miles of the Fylde coast of Lancashire, in- cluding 6,000 private houses, 500
ops, and 10 bunks
shot summer he was involved in.
dispute after losing £30,000 in ten minutes in a Hollywood poker match, Eventually his opponent renounced his clalm and Mr. Clifton afterwards said: "I have finished with gumbling. I have finished with roaming. I am too innocent."
£3 a Week For Dog's Keep
WOMEN QUIT JOBS A DOG worth 150 guides and
TO BE ROMANIES
TIRED of bridge parties and teas "with all the twaddle of women wha have nothing to do," Mrs. Helen Lucas Schwerdt and Miss Bonnie Metcalfe threw up their jobs as factory supervisor and chauffeuse, bought a caravan from a gipsy and set out to discover England.
TOOTH PASTE Mayfield, Sussex, and her companion
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Mrs. Schwerdt, an American by birth, who has two children, lived at
at Hayward's. Heath, where they bought their new home for £10.
"In defiance of all the pessimistic warnings of our friends we have been
on the road since Enster and liked it," said Mrs. Schwerdi at The White Hurt, old roaching hostelry at Ford, Wiltshire.
FASCINATING LIFE `
"I have been fascinated by the roving life ever since I met some Romanies at Oxford in 1924.
High-Speed Divorce Judge
LORD MERRIVALE, who recently dled at the age of 83 at his home in Gray's Inn, held the record for o speedy decision by a Divorce Court judge.
"Last summer we bought this, real This was a case in which he heard
and
four others worth over 60 guineas were sold by mistake for less than £2 each.
This was revealed at Littlehampton recently, when the Bench dismissed summonses against Henry Osmun Percival Davies, of Seafield Road, Rustington, tor keeping six dogs without ilcences.
It was stated that each dog's hoard and lodging cost £3 per week, Davies summoned the owner, Captain Rich,'
the County Court some time ago for their keep. The Court ordered that the dogs be impounded,
in
As payment was not forthcoming, the Court ordered that the dogs be sold by public auction. They were sold at a market, and through á mis- take realised less than £2 each. -
NEWS
AUSTRALIAN FUNDS
The
whil
IN LONDON
Canberra,
Commonwealth Government probably have to call more heavily than it did last year on re- serve funds in London.
Lotest indications are that the amount available In the overseas trade fund will be £3,000,000, which is £4,000,000 less than last year.
Recent heavy Importations of capi- tal for new industrial developments may, to some extent, offset the ad verse movement.
will
The
Federal Government shortly Introduce a
abil authorising
the
establishment of a permanent court of air inquiry, following recent accidents in which Avro-Anson bombers were involved.
The
permanent court will probably be open to the publle. Hitherto in- quiries into Air Force, crashes have been held in camera.
New Seaplane Bose-Col. Street, Defence Minister, announced recently that a seaplane station is being estab- lished of Lake Macquarie, near the New South Wales coastal city of Newcastle, the main Australian centre for heavy industries. Two squadrons, one of them a new squadron with big flying boots designed to protect industrial Newcastle, will be station- ed there.
KENYA
A.R.P. PLANS FOR ZANZIBAR
Nairobi.
In view of public apprehension, the Zanzibar Government has made a statement on the possibilities of air raids and particularly gas attacks. The Government considers attack by perial gas bombs au remote
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Encarcely to merit consideration.
gain by an air attack on Zanzibar, it is pointed out, is of no milliary or political advantage com- mensurate with the immense risk to which the raiding aircraft would be exposed by operations at so great a distance from their base.
Arrangements for the evacuation of elvilians in case of aerial attack or the somewhat likelier event of a brief bombardment from the sea are, however, being made.
EMPIRE DAY BOYCOTT
Mombasa.
A sequel to the Indian boycott of Empire Day is a split in the ranks brought about by the action of a prominent Indian doctor.
Supported by two members elected for the Coast and Mombasa, he roundly
the Indian leaders criticised the who are favouring a
a. boycott. Coastal Defence The Kenya India Arab Bili-introduced in the Legisla- tive Council authorities the forma- flon of companies by Indians and Arabs on the const for, defensive pur- poses. The age limit has been fixed at 18 to 35, and candidates must take the oath of allegiance.
INDIA
JUDICIAL CHANGES IN CALCUTTA...
Calcutta. Consequent on the appointment of Mr. T. J. Y. Roxburgh, Judicial Secretary and Legal Remembrancer, Bengal, as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, Mr. A. L. Blank, Legal Remembrancer, Assam, has been op- pointed to the vacancy.
Until Mr. Blank takes up his new post Mr. J. Younle will act.
Mr. R. A. Dutch, additional district and sessions judge, Tipperah and Chittagong, has been appointed Superintendent of Census Operations in Bengal for the 1041 census. NEW ZEALAND
DOCTORS MAY REJECT STATE CONTRACTS
Auckland.
Contracts offered by the Govern- ment to doctors for the provision of maternity benefits under the Social Security Scheme are expected to be rejected.
The doctors favour payment of cash benefits to the patients, leaving them free to make their own ar rangements for medical attention.
The attitude of the profession has go for prevented the Government from bringing into effect the general medical service of the scheme.
Eton Boys Make Gas for
School A.R.P. Drill
SENIOR boys on the science;
side at Eton College are making gas in the school labora tories so that the whole school can get experience of anti-gas
gipay four-wheeler, which is probably the evidence of two witnesses about. Do years old. It was owned granted a decree nisl to a woman peti- by a gipsy who lived in it with his tioner in exactly two minutes, family of eleven.
His average time for hearing of] "Now, excepting that it is splek undetended cases was six minutes. precautions. paint inside and out with new and it was estimated that he heard
"and"
Tonly
We
before
sion.
ve had never
handled a horse before being raised to the Peerage. Henry Edward Duke, as he was we set out on our first journey was a Devon man who began his and lanew nothing about harnessing career as a pupil teacher, turned to feeding or driving her.
"At first we were accompanied by fournalism and then to the law,
The 1,100 boys take it in turns to
On April 30 the total was 310,419, an increase of 133,360 on April 30; 1036.
Gas masks for horses were shown to the pubile for the first time at a National Service rally át West Ham Studium, E. recently.
Layton
Is just as they used it. The 11,000 cases, during his form of 14 modern amenity is gas, which is years (1810-1933) as President of the tors and rubber boots.
so into the gas chamber in respira- £2,600 For Turner carried in a container for cooking.
"Darling, our cart mare, cost us
Probate Divorce and Admiralty Divi Lords amendments in committee to £12 10s.
the Military Training Bill were issued recently.
One by Lord Addison, a Socialist DAMAGES of £2,600 were peer, proposes that an employeo chil-
awarded Turner Layton, ed up for training shall be entitled: to receive from his employer the singer and music-hall artist, in salary or wages payable immediate the King's Bench Division ly prior to his being called up, leas recently. during training by way of Army the amount actually received by him
pay and allowances...
my two children but they had 10 return to school.
"There is no comparison with the old fc. Time never hangs. We make our way by easy stages, pulling in for the night at farms or inns and menting the kindest of people."
And every day we learn something now,” said Miss Motcnife; "We have
nover felt better. We have no cares. We don't want to go home.”
M.P. FOR 14 YEARS
In
He became Queen's » Counsel 1800, was Conservative M.P. for the Plymouth division for alx years and for Exeter for eight years.
From 1910 to 1910 he was Chief Secretary for Ireland.
His hoir is Captain the Ifon: Edward Duke, who was secretary to his father from 1919 to 1033;:
Mr. Hore-Belishiq War Minister, stated in the House of Commons recently that the strength of the 368,084, including about $2,000 In Territorial Army *on May 13 was
process of, enlistment.
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His leg was broken in a taxi crash on Apriinst year, resulting, he said, in the loss of contracts worth- £2,320 and payment of more than £100 in hospital and medical fees.
Judgment was entered, with costs, Gardens, Clapham, against Mr. R. Grimson, of Altenburg owner of the taxl.
"Tell me,
doctor
About disinfectants-for personal use, I mean. Surely h is unwise to use strong, staining chemicals that have to be measured so carefully! What is good that Is really pleasant as well... ?"
Nothing better was ever discovered for women than *Dettol, the modern antiseptic. This highly efficient killer of germs will not stain linen, and is clean and clear, pleasant in smell and an excellent deodorant, 'Dettol' is non-poisonous, and is gentle and tender on human tissues. Ask your Doctor - Buy a bottle from your chemist and be ready.
'DETTOL
FREE:
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THE MODERN ANTISEPTIC
A post-card to Messrs. Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Hongkong, will bring you a copy of a little book of interest to every wonian, entitled "Modern Hygiene for Women."
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