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BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Leeds,
Lend with your Hands Here's a programme for hand care,
BEAUTIFUL HANDS!
Ing time. Wear deep jewel tones. Certainly, the coloured enamels are. Give your hands round-the-clock pret y un the shortly shorter nails. çare; use a night nud clay combina-
There are many different theuries Bom. A lotion for daytime, a cream
about what makes Ingernaits brittle. at night. Two types of hand pre-Day vilmates, diet, dishwashing. paration do a better jobs than one! typing; all of these have their sup- For the night half of your treat-rs, And, of course, the longer inent use a hand smother and the nail the thore danger of break- freshener rich olis, This haute be left on the
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1947.
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Hainan Islanders Pay DUMBBELLS Taxes To Nanking
By Day, Reds By Night
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By HAROLD K. MILKS
Hoihow. Hainan Island, Nov. 29.-Unhappy farmers of this tropical island who pay taxes to the government by day and to the Communists by night find nothing new in that procedure. During the Sino-Japanese (munists. He, too, collected under war, they were sometimes threat of grave forced to pay three sets of taxes to prevent destruction of their homes and crops.
Ong former planter who aban doned his farm in the interior of Hainan reetly beguse he is tired of trying to serve two demanding masters, described from his home in Holbow how the triple taxation workert.
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to anyone
foolish or brave enough to resist."
In cach case, this old farmer re-
called, refusal to pay meant a burred farmhouse, trampled crops, looted property, or on many occasions a revere benting or a bullet. "Most of the time we paid,” he sold,
Extension of Communist Influence, articularly over interior regions of Hairan island, has revived the prac tee of double taxation. Not only are the Reds
"taxation"
Three Tax Collectors "Thi Japanese ruled formally, during the war years, here in some parts of the Island estab said. That is, they claimed to do ishing local
governmental unity.
Hainan.ralcis un faries, but they
Reds Active
so, and to enforce their claims they complete with the tax collector. levied and collected taxes from the producing people. But nt nightfali Chinese guerillas, who fled into the mountains when the Japanese forces first landed. enme cut of hiding and as representatives of the centra Chinese government they, too, levied taxes--u cox or goat from one farm. and grain or rice from another,"
Reports read Hollow (Haikow) regularly from the hilly areas of the Interior, telling of the presence there of Chinese speaking **n foreign. tongue" the usunt description fur "mainlanders" 15 contrasted to Hai- Once they were gone a third "lax nan natives,
ves, Seme of these reports enflegtor" would appear representing say these strangers" are Communist The indit gangs, now eniled Com-tenders arriving to co-ordinate act
FOUND COAL
vities of Red ferees on the land with those elsewhere in China.
travel Communists
freely between Hainan and north and central China, these reports say, despite the estab Hishment of a special government
IN HIS OWN oval unit encharged with "blockad
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highway Lays now regularly for a week, If you have
tions" with blocking of and thes, on the theory that polish been letting your hands, gå, slip un
Whenever he lifted his eyes, travel and with the fact that many the natis. Others delive As part cottors loves over
areas of the land are cut off from a Fleb layer of
that The polish netually
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mountainside eream. You'll see a tremendous dif-
This capital city. Most travellers preserve the nuits by geving added shadowing the village of Dinus, wishing to reach soubera ference by the end of a week!
Bainian
URING
the national champlon- Diet als affects the condi in of in the Rhondda Valley, miner from the north take one look at the At the very feast the cream should
and usually dangerous high-
ships tournament held in Au- be left on for 10 or 15 mmates, the nails. A properly balanced diet, John Williams felt certain the king and
castern Rust, a large delegation "of Take a minute or two to pat it on, high in catelum content, such as bleak slopes hid a wealth of ways then travel by sen,
Hainan's economy and its people and midwestern players made plans Bridge going over thes
coal hands with brick milk and other dairy foods, fends to
have suffered from the double load to attend the All-Western little slapping notions. Then press strengthen the nails,
of government
anil
Communist Championships at the Del Coronado taxation. Why raise
a crop of rice Holel, Coronado, California, I would or a herd of cattle or goats if they are to be taken. Teway by night of advice: The Pacific coast players differently raiders following In the footsteps of bid their hands a le
than we do in the east. They rely government tax collcolors?
Why, indeed,
conventional say many Hainan perhaps too much on farmers, and as a result this island, or system bidding, but they are ex- In the end John decided to make which was once more than self-sup- pert when it comes to the play of a hoins on the mountainside. With porting, leans heavily on assistance the cards. Last year I had the good sons from outside to keep its prople alive, fortune to win the open pair cham- his wife the la Gwilym 36, Morgan 34, and John-Associated Press.
pionship at Coronado with Clarence A. Strouse, Jr., of Altadena, Calif.. Junior 26-he built two bungalows
hand to defend and I hope to be on ther ring concrete and wood.
with him this year.
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You can bleach the hands by cut- ting a lemon in half and rubbing it over them. You can massage your hands with a bit of all.
Use an ename that lays on, # good ally remover and use a real- fust enamel which lessens the dry.
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& GABRIELLE
Use the cushioned parts of tho Angertips when patting your face or molding your muscles, Use two eyecups, one for each oye, when using an eye lotion. Use skin letion- of the mildest type on skin which shows broken velns. Use only fresh alissehent cotton for applying cos metics, if it is liquid, wet the cotton fret. This saves absorbtion of the precious stuff!
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Snug-looking, too, is this, green Jersey frock with its filled bodice, deep armlioles and full pleated from the hips,
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By Galbraith
But us no one ever took the trouble to find out for certain, the secret of Dinas Mountain slayed
locked inside it.
Until, in the years after 1939, when John Williams, then aged 65, retired from the mines, he had more lime to think over the problem.
70-and
In their back garden they sank a shaft and struck coal-a seam three feet wide, which may well go a mile and a half through the mountain.
Proved It
With pick-axe and shovel they spent months calling a road, 150 Yards long and 12 feet wide, to their shafts that trucks gan take away our coat,"
With no outside help, they install- wired their mine
ed drainage and
for electricity.
One day recently,
kons trams. each holding a ton of coal, the first result of the family's labour, stood on the rails outside the shaft en trance.
·Old-John-Willions-now-73, had. 'proved he was right.
"90 Tons A Week" "Within six months we should be producing 90 tuns a week," said John junior, segurtary of the Family Mine. Then we hope to get other work with us and develop mer to the seam."
John senior said: "The National Coal Board has helped us in ever way." Board experts are to inspeci the mine...
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A strange looking aeroplane seen flying in the has been Coventry district,
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like to give the delegation a word 66 SECRET AGENT NO. 199
nice
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and
Strouse gave today's hund a
the king play. East put up spades on the opening tead, most of the South players naturally Then won the trick with the ace, they took two rounds of trumps, led the the queen of clubs and took
back East won and rame
won. A with a spade, which West diamond was returned and the con- tract was set.
nosse.
Strouse
a
Je
That was not the way
the played it. He refused to win irst spade trick. He let East hold his king. East came back with spude and Strouse won; then took two rounds of trumps followed by the club Anisse. But now-there- was no play that East could make that would defeat the contract, be
to cause he could not get West read through the diamond sult. He would not be able to get rid of two returned a club, hoping the: South losing diamonds; but he might
the have well
cashed
ucc
Its live engines, four mounted in diamonds, pa that was lite only the wings in the ordinary way and other trick bal East and
West much smaller one in the nose, made. have boffied many acroplane bespotters."
And soon a fourth son will helping 11 the Williams' Family Mine-Isiwyn, now in the R.A.F.
The answer Is that the plone, modded Lancaster bomber, is "Aying test bed."
It has been bullt specially to test out one of Britain's infest &mall Jet
Engaged To Sailor engines, the Armstrong Sudeley
For 49 Years
Seventy-two year old Miss Rose Lee says she hopes to marry a sal-
"Mamba."
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TO-DAY
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their
Lives.
by whom
Check Your Knowledge
1. When, where
And
This, a gas turbine driving a pro- was the Salvation Army founded? peller, has been fixed in the nose of 2. Name the softest kind of water. the Lancaster.
י,
3. Why are trees important in soll conservation?
The "Mamba," which has CGM- hours of test flying. lor at Christmas after being engagca pleted several
is to be fitted to two new trainers address his people on the radio,
to him for 49 years.
She told the Kingston-on-Thames county court that the reason for her lengthy betrothal was "because my intended husband is in the Navy and has been abroad most of the time."
to
The 1890 engagement came light when Miss Lee asked the court to evict by Christmas a married couple living on the ground floor of a house she owns as she was plan- ning
get married.--Associated Press.
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DOPR. 1947 BY HEA SEATICE, IWC, T. AL REG. V. B. PAT, DIY,
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Whité, 7 pieces.
White to play and mata in two: Solution to Saturday's problem:
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4. Name the first monarch to
for the RAF-the Avro Athena and 5. How large is a new born bear? the Boulton and Paul Bolliol, as well 0. In what year did Hirohito be-
The Armstrong-Whitworth come Emperor of Japan?
(Answers on Page 4)
Appollo medium airliner.
Rupert and the Three Guides-36
Rupert is thrilled at what he hears. "Well, that's one of our mysteries solved anyway," he cries.
We couldn't think what you were all running about for. And did you make that wonderful roof across the tice? Can we see where you crowned the king?" The three Guides put in their questions from all sides and the squirrel drawa back. "I don't know if I'm gllowed. to show you our crowning place. 1. must find the king and iak him," he says.
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