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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1927.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

In Lots of not

to

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Delivered

Kowloon, $20.00

per ton.

to

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THE LIDO.

[STRANGE' SCENES ON"

:: BATHING beach.

ORGY OF NAKED FLESH.

Mr. Hannen Swaffer writes in the "Daily Express":-

THE CHINA MAIL.

MARRIAGE VOID.

ORTHAN IS FREED FROM OBLIGATIONS.

BROUGHT FROM CHINA,

There are no Lido Indles. I had not been on the Lido hair an hour the other day, before see- ing Jack Hulbert, who produced "Lido Lady in London, I pointed ringe. to his bathing drawers, and said:

"You're overdressed."

The Lido is an orgy of naked flesh. Adam had nothing on this

STILL ALIVE?

STORY OF A MYSTERY MAN IN POLAND,

REMARKABLE LIKENESS.

Judge Diaz in Manila declared Is the Czarevitch Alexis alive void the marriago of Juana Maria and hiding in Poland, biding the Concepcion Cue, a minor. to Ale-time? The Polish newspaper, Jandro Fernandez Chus, on the "Express Poranny," publishes a ground that threats were employed sensational story dealing with the to secure her ronsent to the mar mystery of a man of twenty-two was brought from China to the be were he alive who is at pre- Early in 1926, Maria, an orphan,the age the Czarevitch would Philippines by Maria del Pilar, the sent living in the Polish town of mother of Alejandro. On May 6, Bydgoszcz.

ed with being takou back to China

The Garden of Edon at least grew marriage certificate. When she Nikolaevitch Ivanoff, and speaks 1926, Mario úsked the girl to sign The youth calls himself Eugen flg. leaves.

A few days before, in Paris, when refused to sign it, she was threaten fluent French, English, German I saw the. Dolly Sisters' revue, I where she was told that young girliand Russian, agreed with the poets that the were being abducted by the Chi- He lives by embroidery work, human form was divine. Perhaps nese.

at which he is an expert, as Was It looks better behind the footlights. Besides, there it is powdered until It is as white as marble.

Give it a few hours of the Lido sun, and it becomes as red 48 Christmas beof.

The fear of being taken back to the boy who is supposed to have China and of being a victim of the perished in the massacre of the Chinese abductors, finally induced Russian Royal Family. her to marry Alejandro, the records] of the case show.

THE R.H.K.Y.C.

(Continued from Paga 9.)

Ivanoff saya he fled to Poland' from his native country, Russia, Inine years ago in the company of King Fusd.

a Cossack. Ivanoff suffers from What King Fund of Egypt | thought of the Lido no one knows,

the same mysterious malady as Although he had a special bathing

did the boy Czarevitch-haemo pavilion all to himself—No. 1 in

philia. two long rows of two hundred tent- Foura. The following crews took Attitude of the Clergy. ed shadinesses-he stayed nearly part:-

Russian Monarchists who have always in the hotel. In a week he Navy Lieut. G. Tanner. Lieut. seen him in Poland declare that entered his pavilion only once. For R. W. Moir, Liout. G. W. D. Duncan, the likeness between Ivanoff and most of the time-except when he Lieut. E. R. Gibson, Lieut. Commdr. the "dead" Alexis is remarkable. watched the glorious parade of de-T. J. S. Bell.

corated gondolas, the finest sight; Club: K. S. Robertson, L. FIvanoff, however, denies that he seen in Venice for fifty years, and Nicholson, C. W. E. Bishop, R. M. is the Russian heir, but on Sun- days he wears the old Russian on another night when they gave Jack, H. J. Pearce.

harema.

"What is the Lido like? Millions must have asked, in the last few years, during which it burst into Budden fame, It is a four-mile stretch of sand, only a quarter of an hour's journey from Venice in a moter-boat.

:

A convert

...

CEYLON GOVERNMENT.

to

him a special dinner in a sort of Unfortunately, the Club stroke uniform. glorified cabaret he kept within broke his stretcher strap on the first The Polish Catholic clergy have the seclusion of his rooms. Per-recovery, which gave the Navy a declared themselves supporters of haps he was shocked.

Ivanoff. In Egypt, walk over, they only behave like that fu 6 Oared Gigs. In this race the When the youth arrived in Po Club was represented by:-B. Nass, land he was immediately receiv A. Juell. J. R. L. Stanton, Red by a Polish priest in Chelm,

H, Dreyer, W. R Moncrieff,

who began to educate him, and Andrewa, H. S. Rouse.

In strange surroundings the mere Ivanoff became landlubber did not show at his best, Roman Catholicism. but the spirit was there. Thanks are due to Commodore J. L. Pearson, The moment you land on the is-R.N. for the loan of his gig for

training purposes.. land you walk through a Väst lounge, in which you see people sit ting around and having tea in pyjamas. In the American bar, too, they wear pyjamas. In the large

The Colombo correspondent of restaurant underneath they lunch H.M.S. "Titania":-Lt. G. Tanner, the "Pinang Gazette": cables that and dine in pyjamas.

Lt. R. W. Moir, Lt. G. W. D. Dun- the Ceylon National Congress has Some of them WEAT dressing-can, Lt. E. R. Gibson, Lt. G. G. addressed a memorandum to the gowns of the most brilliant hues. Slade.

Reform Commission demanding Most of them look very funny. For Volunteers: J. C. A. Smith, C. H. responsibility for executive gov- the rest of the day they lie about Easterbrook, J. L. Stanton, K. Sernment in the legislature, the on the sands. Comparatively few Robertson, F. P. Lenfeatey. condescend to bathe. They merely bask in the sun and grow hot and red. They discuss their various shades of red and brown.

Opposite Poles,

Only a quarter of an hour away, immediate after I had watched for

hours this orgy fleshiness, I

Closing Cruise.

As usual the Levison Cup was rowed off on this occasion. The following crews competed:----

DEMAND FOR RESPONSIBLE REPRESENTATION.

Bank: J.-H. Sutcliff, R. Mac- Premier to form a Cabinet of Intyre, V. R. Jones, A. C. Groves, seven ministers namely; Justice M. Mills.

Finance, Public Works, Education, B. & S.-J. W. Robertson, J. D. Local Government, Agriculture Crawford, O. Moor, P. W. Blackwell, and Industries; and the enlarge- J. Mackay.

ment of the Council to 60 mem- A fairly good start was made, bers, the Governor to select the soon after which "Titania" took Premier and to have a veto power,

the lead and crossed the line first,

saw a man with a sword and a followed by Volunteers, B. & S. and the Premier to have the right of| Bank. By this win the 3rd in appeal to the Secretary of State. succession "Titania" won the An Upper House was dis- Levison Cup outright.

approved thereby avoiding dyar- chy, the members of the executive to be members of the Legislative

three-cornered hat stopping women from going into the wonders of St. Mark'a because their arms were bare. To think that, within two miles, you could have two opposite poles-bare arms were "immodest," according to the notice In St. Mark's; barc lega were almost overdressed on the bathing sands just across the silver waters of the broad Lagoon,

There are few English at the Lido this year. The Americans are the most carnest in their desire to get red; the Germans are the most

Percy Smith Challenge Cup. This event was revived this year, the following crews competing Council.

V. R. Jones, A. C. Groves, - 21. Mills."

Special representation, the

C. B. Easterbrook. K. S. Robert.cable adds, should not be allowed son, F. P. Lenfester.

to retard the establishment of re-

G. G. Thomson, G. T. Padgett,sponsible

MacKay.

Easterbrook, Jones, Thomson.

Bowling Sub-Committee.

oficient oven at this new-found This Sub-Committee reports:

self-government in

Ceylon.

"SAY IT WITH WOMEN.”.

game-then, in some bathing placesThe renovation of the greens as "Say it with pretty women," on the Baltic, the Germans strip foreshadowed in last year's report was one of the slogans brought absolutely nude. So they call the has been undertaken. It was de- Lido's idea of bareness almost ex-rided that a patchwork job would out at the Olympia Advertising

Exhibition. cessive modesty. I, as a dramatic prove unsatisfactory so the entire critic used to bare-leg revues, must relaying and returfing of the greens confess that I was shocked.

Wonderful City.

"Put a pretty woman beside was carried out by sanction of the your name in the newspapers General Committee. The finished whether you make nuts and bolts, If you stay in Venice you can geted on by players and visitors alike you have everybody noticing you, work has been favourably comment-penwipers or motor cars-and a good bedroom at a first-class and there is every hope that the which is the first step toward hotel for sixteen shillings a night considerable expense involved will buying," advertisers say.

and in the most wonderful city be amply repaid to the Club

private motor-boat for little more,

attracting

increasing

in the world. You can go over to by

To carry out the idea, each of the Lido in fifteen minutes in a number of members, and play the sixteen rational and Interna- ers. We desire to record the tional advertisers who placed ex- than the equivalent of a shilling, co-operation with us of Mr. H. Libits at the show were repre and, if you have a friend who has Green, the Superintendent of the sented by a pretty girl,

a pavilion, you need pay nothing Botanical and Forestry Depart- "Tell the women, the experts more to be as nude as you like.

Every now and then they take for advice and guidance in the re-woria's spenders and the ones to met, to whom we are much indebted explained, "as they are the moving pictures of the pyjama laying of the greens and the selec-whom advertising must be direct parade. Women wearing elaborate tion of proper turf... silk pyjamas, merely bought for

For the fourth season we enteroded. Women spend 80 per cent. show, are the proudest of peacocks for the 2nd Division of the Lawn of the world's money, directly or when the filming begins. They Bowls League and have been able indirectly. Men make the money wear silk bows to their pyjamas. to muster full teams of 12 players but women spend it, therefore They wear ribbons on their pyjamas for all the 14 matches. This is talk to the women."

and nightcaps. They walk about worthy of mention as we have so the hotel like this, or in front of few active bowling members to call it, for hours almost at a time. upon whilst a number of our keen

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TAX ON BACHELORS.

What would look indecent in a Len- bowlers were away from the Colony Germany does not take kindly don hotel becomes overdressinese for a great part of the season. We to Mussolini's idea of taxing here.

have regretfully to record only one There is some sort of gala fete win in the League matches but have bachelors, if the temper of the every night and jazz-but they been severely handicapped in our Bavarian legislature may be ac- wear evening dress for that; other-practices due to renovation of the cepted as an indication of the wise, all day they bask in the sul greens which were not available; feelings of all Germany For the first few, minutes you are until July. We have entered a team. When the Bavarian budget was shocked. Then, even if some of the for the 'Spey Royal Cup kindly pro brought into the diet recently, baskors become amorous in their sented by Messrs. A. 8. Watson & some member, in the hope of in- embraces as they lle on the sands Co., Ltd. for annua, competition, creasing the state's income, pro- a few yards from you, you' get 3^ and the games are now in progress.posed a tax on bachelors similar. used to it that you only yawn. Messrs. G. R. Edwarda, J.

I saw several modest women, A. Bullock, LJ Davies to that decreed by Mussolini whom I have seen most proper on and Dr. J. Anderson are serving as The minister of finance, oppos the stage, or who have been very the Bowling Sub-Committee and ing the suggestion, declared, that polite to me at tea, suddenly rush they tender their hearty thanks to the cost of determining the size into their bathing pavilion and all those members who have turn of the tax, in each case and the come out wearing pyjamas, although ed out so, regularly and punctually additional personnel required for if they were seen in them in the to the long series of matches ensuring Its collection were out corridor of a London hotel they Library Report, of all proportion to the results would shriek with horror Those A grant of $150 from the Gen-expected, dyse are the very proper ones, too,,eral Funds was made towards, the The diet sided with

Others when they lie on the library- All books Tand magazines ter and voted down the bill. sands, after a bath, unfasten the are purchased through The Times

straps of their bathing-dress and Book Club,

tie them low round their bodies: no The library now, consists

as to show the sun as much as they volumes, 110 of which possibly can.

Bailly and sex-far

whilst R

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