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For the new fall and Winter Frocks, here are silks more exquisite than any we have ever shown in this Store before. Graceful patterns in both gay and somber tones make up this selection.

Prices are unusually moderate this fall.

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ROYAL SILK STORE.

36A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

LOCAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

AND

GENERAL.

The Shanghai ADC bas On Tuesday (Dec. 15) the produced "The Young Person in committee of the Hongkong Pink. This is the Club's 208rd, General Chinese Chamber of Com production.

merce will hold their monthly meeting at 2:30 p.m.

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A motor-lorry, bound. for Edinburgh. mounted the pave- ment and crashed through a fence When in Willesden, Middlesex. the police arrived they found the

The Turkis headgear of you- terday Is being made into fect- warmers to-day. The Red Cres-1 centy, which corresponds to the American Red Cross,. is collecting thousands of discarded fezzes and The bobbed hair tax which

Patrons of the "Seventh Art" having them made into bed slip- is being levied in Tyrolese vil lages may lead to a change in as the French call the cinema-pers for the poor and sick.

contributed one-third of the hairdressing fashion, as was the caso in England when Pitt taxed entire amount spent in 1924 by the powder that decked the polls the theatre-going public of Paris of the dandies and flunkeys of to the movies. The box offices in the 18th century. The tax, then, the 100 and more cinema houses was & guineu a head, and the in the capital and suburbs last "guinen-pigs" soon dropped the year took in 100 500,000 francs, powder. The "curling-irons, the.. curling-comb, the pomatum, pot, the powder-puff, the powder- knife, and the powder-mask," collapse and the end of the war.

If anything happened to the koon disappeared, and many good This testimony was given in court citizens copied Bonaparte and at Murich by former Reichswehr Free State's foreign wheat. sup- wore their hair short cropped. Minister Noske, who squelched plies the people would be without The tax was imposed in 1795, and the communist revolt following bread for 10 days out of 16, it in 1796 it yield £210,136; in that collapse. He also advised was stated by the chairman of a 1812 only 46,684 paid the duty, those who made such a poor farmers' conference in Dublin. and when it was repealed as un- guess as to the effect of the The acreage under whest has de- productive the loss to the Americans in the war, to "keep clined from half a million to a their mouths shut now." Noske quarter of a million since 1851 Treasury was only £1,000.

was a witness in a libel case in The farmers said that wheat which the whole story of the growing did not pay. With his customary enter-German defeat was raked over prise and resource. Mr. Henry again He said the only thing "Chaplin and Russell, Glen- Ford is setting "quietly to work the German people had left to shewe mansions, 'Brixton," it to break, or at any rate to lessen, eat at the end of the war was reads on a set of bookmaker's the British rubber monopoly, turnips.

rules st in existence. Charle While other American capitalists

Chaplin and Jimmie Russell were are talking of acquiring Dutch

Weather prophets say Lon- both in "Mumming Birds." and interests, Mr. Ford is making a don is in for a cold, wet, dreary they made a half-crown book. strong bid for home produce, and winter, and this bas stimulated "If some one put three half- is endeavouring to grow rubber the modistes as well as their cus. crowns suddenly on a horse," anys within the confines of America tomers to urge brighter clothing Russell, who still lives in London, itself. Experiments are to be for rainy days to offset the ten- "Charlie used to have to rush off made on tand which the motor dency to depression. The idea to a street bookmaker to lay some wizard has silently been acquir is that women wearing more of it off."

driver dead at the wheel. The man, James Rawcliffe, aged 40,- Turnips were one of the fof Thornton, Lancs. had died chief Causes of the German from double pneumonia.

D

ing in Florida, and which is con- colour will give the dismal sub-

sidered to conform in all respects ways a suggestion of cheerfulness. If the American Department to the requirements of rubber Men too are encouraged to help of Agriculture has its way, kiss- growing, With his usual in the brighter London movement jing opportunities under the thoroughness he has called in the bywearing brighter ties The Christmas mistletoe will be help of experts of every kind, old-fashioned notion OT don- abolished. "The department and as the result of their consi-ning one's öldest clothes doesn't object to the kissing, but dered opinions. and after study on rainy days has

been to the mistletoe, which is regard- ing the scheme from every angle,"outlawed," and instead women ed as a dangerous forest pest. A has decided to start operations have taken up the rainbow hued drive has been started against on an extensive scale. H suc-mackintosh and the "chubby" mistletoe in the national forests cessful, a vast ' new field will beļambrellas of blue, crimson, bottle and within ten years the depart-

rubber in their own country.

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THE HONGKONG TUG & LIGHTER Co., LTD. Single packages and small consignments received and delivered by Motor Lighter. Lighterage of any description undertaken. Tugs and Lighters may be obtained at all hours.

Mr. F. C. Greatrex. British Major W. M. L. Bower has Mr. R. 3. Shaw, sub-manager vice-consul at Yokohama, won been appointed to act as harbour in the International Banking!

United master, Malacca and Mr. F. J. Corporation in Kobe, has been 00 the recent Yokohama Club billiard championship, by Morten to be a member of the transferred to the Manila branch defeating Mr. George Christ- board of examiners in. Malay. of that organisation. He and nacht.

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To get a thorough insight into l'ed for Manila on board the steam- Owing to an attack of bron- immigration conditions in the er "President Taft," from Kobe chitis. Judge Milton D. Pardy Antipodes, 'Lord' Apsley, did on December 2. Mr. Shaw has who was to have officiated at the chores to learn the views of felbeen in Japan for the last five Thanksgiving Day services held low workers, while Lady Apsley years, having been in Yokohama by the American Community in waited on table. After going prior to the 1923 earthquake. He the Holy Trinity Cathedral, from England to Australia in the is to be sub-manager in Manila. Shanghai, was unable to take steerage they took up a home- part in these services. ·

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A pleasing incident of the selves with the situation. Shanghai Caledonian Ball WAS. the singing of "The Road to the i

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Mr. Will Thorne, M.P, the Labour leader, whose wife died in 1925, has secretly re-married. The news was disclosed at 起 meeting of the council of the Trades Union Congress when a reading was received,

A rádio message from Mr: Isles by Mr. William Heughan. Gerrard from the Empress of The famous Scottish bass was in Russia."

the card congratulating splendid voice, and it was most French, English and Scotch Kindest regards from Mr. and appropriate that his final appear- teams in the International Walk Mrs. Thorne. Mr. Will Thorne, ance in Shanghai, for the pre-ing Race, Shanghai, and candol who is 68 years of age, married, sent, should have coincided with ing with the Irish, has been re-in 1898, Emily, daughter of the the festival of St. Andrew. ceived by Mr. E. Linde, Hon, late William Byford, treasurer Sec. and Treas. Mr. W. C. H. of the National Union of Gen- She was his who has Knight has been adjudged the feral Workers. been acting British Consul-Gen- oldest competitor to finish in the second wife. He has four sons eral in Hankow during the time limit and has been present and five daughters. absence on leave of Mr. H. Goffe, ed with the Veteran's cup pre-

Mr. Harold Porter,

was entertained to a farewell din sented by Mr., Wm. Brandt and Two doctors were called into __DL BE BALU AT ZOR BA EN UN ner on November 23, by Marshal Mr. W. McCann the youngest see M. Coue, the teacher of auto- Wu Pei-fu at his private reside competitor, received the cup pre-suggestion, when he was taken ill ence. The only other foreigner sented by Mr. E. J. Lloyd. prevent wan Mr. Archibald Grant.

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at Salisbury. M. Coue was un- able to give the two lectures Prince Chichibu of Japan has arranged, but after the meeting left Scotland with very real rehe addressed at the All Hall Dwight F. Davis, the new, gret.

he told a "Daily Chronicle" He loved the life at In- Secretary of War of the United vermoriston, and gives promise, representative that he was not States, was the donor of the of becoming an excellent shot-aid. "I was seized with a slight responsible for calling in medical famous lawn tennis international an unusual accomplishment for a hemorrhage shortly before I was challenge cup-really a silver rose Japanese Royal personage. bowl, which bears his name. He found the Highland tongue of friends became alarmed and sent due to lecture," he said. "My has other claims to lawn tennis great interest, and has even tried for doctors. Meanwhile, I prac- celebrity, for he shared with his to talk with a Scots accent. Theretised my own treatment, and said brother American, Holcombe is a possibility that Prince Chi-to myself constantly, Ce passe Ward, the distinction of having chibu may do some hunting with (It is going). "By the time the been the first foreigner to win an the Prince of Wales this, aenson.doctors arrived T had cured my- event at Wimbledon. This was Also, when Baron Hayashi re-self, but it was then too late to in 1901. When he and Ward won turns to London it will probably give the lectures. "I am 89, and. the "All Comers' Doubles. Mr. be as a sort of "friend, counsellor am-never i M. Coue added. Davis became a colonel in the and guide" to the young Prince. U.S.A. Army in 1918, and has very friendly feelings towards England.

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to his late father, his pamph lets, reviews, and notices of his publications to the Pre fessor of Botany a the Univers alty of Cambridge.

All-books written by his late Amongst

law women students who have passed their father, Charles Darwin, letters, Bar Final in the recent examina-and books written by members Of interest to their friends tiona is a very interesting per- of the Darwin family are left by in Shanghai is the announce-sonality, that clever little Welsh Sir Francis Darwin, the famous ment of the marriage of Miss woman, Miss Dorothy Evans, botanist, to his son Bernard. Lucy Elizabeth Morrison to Mr. one of the chiefs of the Associa-Other bequests from the estate, William Coltman, son of Dr. tion of Women Clerks and Secct- valued at 237,747, include:- Robert Coltman of Peking. The taries. Miss Evana has been an marriage ceremony took place at acknowledged leader of the black- the American Consulate, the costed for ten years, and is an uncle of the bride, Mr. Charles accomplished speaker and a R. Cox formerly of Hankow and shrewd and canny organiser. It now en route to Ichang where he is partly to her that the City is engaged in business acting as typist owes, amongst other adHis copyrights, alf witzeconthe-Kumante wha-en---samecom, the opening of the minated after several weeks Langbourne Club, which is the acquaintance beginning with aonly girls' club in London, save house-party at the Standard Oll the Awks in Belgravic, which house in Soochow where "Mr. draws upon the same source of Colthan is reprezentative of the membership, that is independent Standard Oil couple' ft of patronage and philanthropy for Anserica on the "President, however tactful.

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