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By LOIS LEEDS.
Posed for Lola Leeds.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1948,
Nobody Knows Size DUMBBELLS
Of Chinese Army
By Harold Milksha (Associated Press Correspondent)
NANKING, Mar. 15. China's national army does not know its own strength. That in brief, is one reason, foreign military experts say, why it lost. 80 many battles.
LEFT BANK
GAIETY
IS DEAD
In the opinion of experts, Montparnasse, centre of prewar Paris Left Bank galety, is dead.
Worse than that, according to artists and writers, it has become "bourgeois." The once-Bohemian district on the edge of the Latin Quarter is considered stuffy today.
To lack of good leaders which General Marshall described to Congress as defects of Chiang Kai-shek's war machine, these experts add:
Complete lack of administrative system for informing the common- ders day to day on the strength of thele men, guns and shells. Almost complete absence such records makes China's army a gigantic mystery even to the men who run it,
Nobody, not even Chlong Kai- officers actually are in the ranks of shek, knows how
many soldiers and the nationalist army. The same le true for the number of la rifės, ma- chine-guns, cannon and munitions reserve, its battle and disease casual- ties,
Wrong By Half Million
The Dome, the Rotonde and other famous enfes have changed charne- tactical skil!, can hope to win bot- ter.
SNT NATURG WONDERFUL? JUST SEE HOW JUR EARS WERE PLACED SO THAT WE COULD
HOOK OUR SPECTACLES ON!
MCKENNEY.
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Ruffing With Top Trumps Keys Slam
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No general, regardless of his By. WILLIAM E. McKENNEY Stolid, middle-aged Parisianstles without knowing the strength FEW weeks ago I went to and family-groups from the country and fighting capabilities of the sylvania State tournament. Bert You can muke your hair beautiful!
now dine, where Ernest Hemingway men under him, foreign experts Wilkoff and his committee did n and bearded painters held court. sily, They add that it is unlikely fine job on that tournament, SICK HAIR
quently with warm water and The once crowded terrace of the that the Defence Minister himself is which they had 132 pairs in the open borax. Sun well,
Dome is often empty because of the able to estimate the actual-not pale event and 31 teams-of-four. An abnormal falling of hair oc-
Combs, should have fairly blunt soaring price of drinks."
paper- total of China's fighting curs when the Individual hairs are teeth. Steel or wire combs should
C. M. Whitehead of Pittsburgh played n very fine hand In the robbed of the life giving - nourish-
l'ost-World War It intellectuals troops within half a million men.
The usually accepted figure of Bed
against me. It was ment from the blood stream, very
Brushes must have firm have altered down the narrow. circulation never metal bristles Surpistics, curving streets from Montparnasse regular field troops is 2,500,000 to get to six heurts often traceable to poor
that number can he wrong by un this hand. I believe he and his a deeper, underlying layers of le brushes are excellent for "polish and established themselves in [several hundred thousand, Nobody the scalp. Another cause is nerve in the hair.
partner were the only pair in new quarter. The aren, nearer the knews
because
personnel records, room who arrived at the small stam tension, an whealthy condition of Brushing stlanulates circulation Seine then Montparnasse, Is dom
for officers, are largely un- the nerves which form a network and cleanses the hair, The harinated by the church of St. Germain
known in the lower cehetons of the contract.
Against six hearts. I opened around the hair roots and the harshould be brushed UPWARD and
Chinese Army. There are probably
heart, which Whitehead won in growing cells.
In additional OUTWALID from the scalp. Brush-
2,000,000 men To nitkin creatin
dummy with the queen. He cashed scalp and to stop falling hair, fol-ing cannot be overdone.
arms in peace preservation king of clubs and led a small
Divisional commanders draw the and y for full divisional strength-ar as much of it as higher authority permit. Seldom do such commanders know within 1,000 the exact number of men in their unit.
Travelling with the of
the staff Chinese division, I received four different figures differing more than 3,000 when I asked about the unit's total strength from various officers.
enlthier
Hair should be shampooed once a low this. home treatment. For a
, week. if certain conditions exist period of two weeks shampoo the more frequent washing is necessary. hole #
a week. Between sham- poos massage the calp every night with the special ointment
which have selected. At the engi you
uf two weeks shampoo the hair" re- gularly once every week. the
shampoo,
The night before massive a generous amount of that special ointment directly into the scalp. . Between shampoos apply a tiny amount of this ointment to the scalp.
Today we know that the structure of the scalp sakin is venerally like the skin of the body. We know that It is just as important to cleanse the scalp frequently with soap and water as it is to cleanse the body. Hair Care Rutes
Every woman must have her own -comb and brush. Cleanse both fre
Minuta Makayo 4 GABRIELLE
Use Blue eyeshadow to draw at tention to your eyes and away from dark circles, if you have them. To *"rub out" fine lines under your eye
blend a little of your foundatier 'crcom with your face powieg
Spread this, mixture under you. royes, then powder carefully,
SIDE
GLANCES
The best soap is tincture of green soap: almond and olive oil or pure casille, in either guld or cako form.
For shompoos-warm water, rich, soapy lather, with warm, lintless towels. cool water for rinsing.
des Pyes, with its medieval tower.
Tradition Lingers
Picasso's home and the studio of Raymond Duncan re if the neigh-rations
The American writers, bourhood. McCullers, live near by, Tennessee Williams
and Carson
The prewar tradition of long hair, to hot heards and corduroy jackets lingers Conservative Waren toon in the new area. Hand-dry
residents complain about the Influx of followers of two new philospohic and aesthetic movements-existen- talism and expressionism.
Styled in thread—
Drawn-thread, work is enjoy- ing a new popularity, Gwingfüg along is the girl in her scarlet rayon crepe frock with three- quarter sleeves — a Dalystyl uulity model. The cuffed yoke Wowing drawn-thread work is - an alizacile fashion note for the young girl, combined with dirndl fullness in the skirt.
Left is a rason weave pastel sult-lim xide-pleated skirt and a high-buttoned Jacket entirely worked with drawn threads Sketch by Virginia
The expresslonists also are talk- ing of setting up n night club and ore designing a costume supposed to interpret their doctrine of free- don and lack of inhibitions,
Residents Object
one
The Chinese Army is so loosely administered that not even the exact number of its commissioned
per- sonnel is known
Casualty Lists Unknown
The casualty lists-essential to the henda of any successful army- ΗΓΟ equally unknown in Chino. During a visit to one Shantung field
The residents of St. Germain are hospital where most of the wounded.
and say that not Impressed groups make too much noise.
the
Tourists are having a turd time keeping up with which particular new cafe is in vogue among the Bohemians. Before the war Les Depux Magots was popular writers and artists.
with
to
Then they flocked next door the Flore, and Les Deux Magots
Many intellec became "bourgcols." tuals are now moving to a tiny bar the Montana. a few doors away, Everybody knows everybody else and it is more like a club than public bar.
Tourists. flock to one enfe
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at other tourists, unaware that "the group" has since moved cisewhere.
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appeared to be "walking patients," the head surgeon explained to me that no that no attempt was made to
report wounded because the killed and
who walk "only those casualties reach here. The rest die in the field,"
I won this trick with the ace and American-trained General Sun Li- jen has incorporated the elementary returned a club, which he trumped administration-keeping of records in dummy with the ace hearts. Then of personnel, supply equipment and a small diamond was played to the casualties records--into the training ace and the five of clubs trumped uf his new Taiwan in dummy with, the king of hearts. programme
Now the seven of hearts was led infantry divisional training centre. This is one of the first results of and won by Whitehead with the He cashed the jack and ten the long repeated recommendations
nine. that China's) of hearis, picking up of foreign generals cannot fight a successful standing trumps, and of course war unless they know the strength ace-queen-nine of clubs and king of and condition of their own armies.
spades were good for the last four tricks.
It was quite unusual to find the ruffing all done with the top cards
advisors
the out- the
SID FIELD OFF so that declarer would have a trump
TO AMERICA
Sid Field is of on a five-week's
to discovery America voyage of
what where he hopes to discover makes Americans laugh.
"
entry into his own hand.
"I made GI's laugh over here," he
the1. said before leaving Englund in New rotas have been posted staff notice boards in thousands of Queen Mary, "but I believe that British hotels. Changes of hours man thinks and behaves differently and wages affecting 500,000 waiters, in his own house.
Check Your Knowledge
Name the largest city in Africa.
2. What causes the common cold?
3. Why do Cardinals wear red
hats?
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there," and plans to do this by
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Same hotels are increasing charger by 20 percent 10 meet the cost,
By Galbraith Others already charging 10 percent
“It seems such a short time ago he was a baby
She has a girl mlready!"
and here
for service are adding a further 10 percent.
The hours reshuffle to give a 40- hour week affects most chamber- malds and walters. One hotel s having its chambermaids work be- tween 7 a.m. and p.m. in relays.
Increase in wages brought the minimum rates for waiters to £5 or £3 13s. plus board and £4 100. for porters..
CHESS PROBLEM
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MEDAL AWARDED TO WOLFHOUND
Our Dumb Friends League has pre- sented its premier animal award, the Blue Cross Medal, to Mickey. nine-year-old Irish wolfhound owned by D. Burt of Fulham, for saving a child from fire.'
The child, he saved is 14-month- old Anne Roche. whose parents ilye in the same nouse.
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Mickey was sitting under o table when Anne fell face forwards intu the fire. Mickey leapt to the rescue. Thrusting his right foreleg between that not, less than 24 hours notice the child's face and the fire, he grip- prior to the day of publication should ned the back of her dress in his be given for all commercial display teeth and dragged her to the middle advertisements, change of copy etc. Classified Advertise. ments will be received up 111) 4.80 p.m. for the following day.
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The dog was severely burned on only the leg, but Anne received slight burns
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