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U.S. CHORUS GIRLS IN LONDON

Permits Will Not Be Renewed

HOTELS INFORMED

The Ministry of Labour has in- formed the Dorchester and Gros- venor House hotels that when the present permits end. American girl artists appearing in cabarets · will not have their permits re- newed

The decision does not apply to principals to whom permission will be given as before. The per mits have been renewed once or twice.

"We have recently reviewed the position.” said an official "and have decided that we cannot grant permits to foreign chorus girls to perform in London unless they show. are part of a full-size Henceforward, if theatrical pro- ducers wish to arrange small scale cabarets in London hotels,) they must employ English girls.” It was stated that 20 to 30 giris will not have their permits re- newed.

ACCUSED GIVEN A CHANCE

"First In 20 Years".

MAGISTRATE SHOWS HIS SYMPATHY

London.

»

Felix Warburg (above), a New York banker, is president of the Refugee Economic Corporation. -organised with $10,000,000 capital, to help to settle Jewish

Germany refugees from self-supporting basis.

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CLEANING WINTER HATS

Reader's Query Answered

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ABGEST 24, 1935

To-day's Short Story:

COTTON TEXTILES IN TIENTSIN

THE WELL

Depressed State Of Industry

JAPANESE COMPETITION

By W Wortley

TOEN Murchison, sat on the seemed to paint the way-1

front of the sleigh, a fork-Heaven. There were parts like his back that in plenty where the rains Cotton textiles, which at one ed willow trunk. time occupied a leading position against one of the two damp were regular.; but he had been a His fool, or he must have been born in Tientsin Chinese industries, are barrels fastened upon it.

in decline, chiefly due to the keen battered felt hat was tilted well under some unlucky star. Instead competition of Japan. lack of over his eyes to shade them of taking the small citrus farm as Government, co-operation in trans-from the bright sunlight which they had arranged, he had come portation facilities, and political had hurt them so much of late west, driven, by land hunger and ranching ac handicaps, reports the North-China He fidgeted with an open pen-big ideas of cattle

knife, digging it into the ground quired from his youthful reading. Star

The closing of Heng Yuan, and chopping at the log between It had all been green then, which was followed by Yu Yuan, his shins two of the largest cotton spinning

His meditations were not cheer-

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Victory In A Storm." by Annette JoelsioEL,

and wearing factories in town, not fal. He had come to the end of Jonly inflicted a severe blow to the his tether. The water in his! local textile trade, but has render-beautiful. inexhaustible eighty- ed more than half of the total of foot well had gone below the level; of the pipe, and he had stopped 18.000 cotton workers jobless.

the windmill There were still ten Only Two Mills With the closing of Fao Cheng feet of water below. If he could recently, only two mills at present only get the piping. Piet van ZyŁ! remain in operation, namely the his neighbour, would help him to Hua Hsin and Pei Yang, and even fix it. What was the good any-Way did Fiet always do the these two are not running under war? The few cattle that still tight thing and he the wrong? normal conditions. In addition, survived the drought might just When the rain didn't come, Piet! there is the Japanese owned mill as well die of thirst as starvation had sent his stock away to good

He could not go on cheerfully Srazing Piet could live

Yu Tah

on 30)

None of the factories now in writing to Grace. When they had little, too. He was hard. up, as existence posses weaving ma-sat in cold, moist England, reading everything, like the way he had sold the dry aloe leaves to pay for chines the only apparatus in together of sunny South Africa;

each the grazing be had hired, and he operation being the spinning ma-adding bright patches to chines. Approximately 30,000 are other's visions, the pamphlets had made something, which he sold to chemists, from the-green aloes. in use in each of the three con-

They were good neighbours, the At the request of a reader we

van Zyls. Johanna had always give the following helpful in-cerns, which employ a total of only

3,200 workers.

baked his bread when he had structions for cleaning winter, katx

four, and Piet had helped him to

A good way to clean your win- GAMBLING IN BARS

A man who has been going to ter hats is to beat up some house- prison for periods of from two hold salt and apply it to the hats! to nine months during the past with a piece of clean white flannel 20 years was given a chance at When removing the salt, go out- Clerkenwell Police Court recently. of-doors to shake it off and then Albert Mason, 38. of Fieldgate-brush the hats with a stiff brush. street. Whitechapel, pleaded Yes, you can iron the brim with a guilty to stealing 12 pocket-bat iron over a damp cloth very knives, valued at ls each, from a successfully. stores in Islington, and assault-

ing Elizabeth Rose Lanning a girl assistant who stopped him when he was leaving the shop.

Previous Record

Det. Sergt. Williams said pri-

LOCH NESS ISN'T IN THE PICTURE

Toishan's Serpent Bites 42 People To Death

soner was sentenced at Guildhall in 1915 to two months' hard labour, as a rogue and vagabond

Canton -his first conviction. He had

Forty-two inhabitants of Toi- several subsequent conviction for

in a! larceny, as a suspected person and shan district are reported

message received here from Chin-j

as a rogue and vagabond and on each occasion was sent to prison ese sources to have been attacked His last conviction was in 1932.

"I have never had a chance, Sir." said the prisoner.

The magistrate (Mr. Bertrand Watson): I was just about to say that I do think also that for the last two or three years, you have tried to go straight and lead an honest life.

and killed by a huge serpent The message, which was received from Toishan city, states that the ap- pearance of the serpent caused a terrible panic in villages through- out the district.

OF GOLD

Alleged Illegal Organisations

ORIENTAL MUSIC IN HOLLYWOOD

American Composer's "Insect Suite"

build his house, and in so many fother ways. Even the sleigh on which he sat had come from him. The well, too, had been put down; where Piet had said that he would! find water. Nobody else had Mr. Claude Lapham, the com- poser who returned to the United 287eed with Piet, but the water ¡was there in plenty. He should States recently after spending a The Federation of Five Stock year in Japan, was the host at a jrather have bought fewer cattle Exchanges has received a letter reception given at Hollywood last and put up a pumping engine. Then he might have irrigated a from the Stock Exchange Brokers month at which he exhibited a Federation. stating that certain collection of Japanese musical in- bit of land, though most of that

below the well was stony.. illegal commercial organisations struments. of a gambling nature has been

Shanghai

John wondered where Piet had Attired in Japanese costume,

been going when he passed on his formed in Shanghai to undertake with, hakama, tabi and zori, Mr.

tough old horse that morning; : the Holly- transactions in gold bars, cotton Lapham "made what and yarn The Federation was wood Citizen News called a "pic Why couldn't he do that kind of perhaps after another fencing job. requested to ask the proper auturesque host," and in the course thorities to suppress the illegal of the evening he explained something? Ch, everything was impos- organisation:

thing of the theory of Oriental sible. He'd be better out of Grace's way, especially if his eyes music as he had observed it, and

were going to be troublesome. He played his Insect Suite.

shouldn't have married ber- [rather kept out of the way and let her marry Eric He was a friend of her father's, and she saw him

DISGUISED AS FEMALE

Punishment By Ridicule

dis- A certain Mr. Lin, who After the reptile had bitten its guised himself as a young girl forty-second victim to death, the and tried to marry" a rich man, report adds, it was shot and killed has been given punishment he by a villager, who later, was given will never forget, says a Chinese For the larceny, Mason bound over, and he was fined 10s a reward of $100 by the district report from Foochow

magistrate. for the assault

WES

DOCTOR FOLLOWS

PATIENT Operated On For Appendicitis

Spokane (Washington).

SILK WORKERS'

STRIKE

Ordered To Resume Forthwith

.

LABOUR TROUBLE FORECAST

Bleak Outlook For Australia

Mr. H

San Francisco.. Bridges, Australian

sometimes still She had waited a year and a half to come out, and he had never told her how bad things

werex

He stopped fidgeting, and sat quietly thinking for a time, then stood up. He had better hurry. There musta't be any interference now or he might change his mind,

The local court found. Lin guil- labour leader, who was recently and he mustn't do that. It was ty of fraud, but in his povelty, defeated for the presidency of In-best for Grace Piet, might ap they were unable to fine him, so ternational Longshoremen's Asso-

they decided to give him a good ciation, forecast trouble when pear over the rise any time now.

John walked quickly up the Tesson. Lin was paraded through union contracts expire next mouth slope towards the road, where the the streets clad in his female at- Mr. Bridges alleged that em-windmill showed, silent and still. tire, bare-footed and his false ployers had not met all of their

against the sky. curls hanging down his back Jagreements.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

A tea dance will be held at the

The well was covered in with tree trunks, the cracks plugged with twigs and plastered with clay. In connection with the strike of

That had been cheaper than con- Chinese silk filature workers in

crete. The windmill did not stand In the middle of an operation Chapel, the Shanghai District

quare over the middle because which he was performing at Kuomintang and the Social Af

Jolm, in his, ignorance, had Spokane for appendicitis, Dr. fairs Burean have issued a joint]

Two cases of typhoid fever oc- thought it necessary to support Vernon Stevenson was himself order instructing the workers to Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow. Acurred in the Colony during the 24 the pipe against the side wall. He stricken with appendicitis.

resume their work forthwith.

half-hourly bus service will oper-hours ended Thursday.

hung his jacket over a strut of the He insisted on, finishing the After a meeting by the Social

ate during the afternoon.

[tower; removed the plank cover of operation. Then, as soon as the Affairs Bureau, the focal Tangpu,

There is a notification in the the manhole and looked down into patient was removed, he lay the Silk-Filature Owners Associa-

and the down on the operating-table and tion.

Silk Filature The RMS. Empress of Asia Government Gazette to the effect the darkness. The pit would be was operated on himself.

Workers Union, it was decided to left Vancouver on Thursday, last that the Juvenile. Remand Home at full of bad air and it would soon The doctor had motored his resume work. The Public Safety for Hong Kong, via Honolulu, Causeway Bay has been appointed be over. potient 50 miles from an outlying Bureau were to send constables Japan ports and Shanghai, and is a place of detention for the expected to arrive in the Colony Purposes of the Juvenile Offenders'

Ordinance, 1932 on September 14.

district in order to perform the to maintain order... the best condi-{ operation under tions himself.

CLYDESIDE “GOLD”

RUSH

Quick Disillusion For Prospectors

“DIVINE PRESSURE” ON PASTOR

Causes Resignation From Living

The monthly meeting of the Hong Kong Philatelic Society will be held next Thursday at 5.30 pm in the Board Boom of the South China Morning Post Building R. Ohl will speak on "French Fest Offices in China.”

Readers are

-The bloodshot eyes fell upon the coil of rope with which shah laboriously drawn water to ful tibe troughs, in case anymore cattle

reminded that Under The Pampas Moon," the were able to stagger to them, and The palled a loop of it near the Fox film with Warner Baxter and manhole. It would look as though Ketti Gallian in the leading roles, he had tripped over it. will receive its premiere Showing Hanging on his elbows, with the in Hong Kong at the Repulse Bay chill from the well already striking Lido to-night at 9.30 pm.

this dangling legs, John took a last look round. Then he let go with

The Government Gazette states

London, The Bev. H Tyderaan Chilvers, There was a village "gold" rush the pastor, in a farewell address at The Taksang. the new ship of that HE the Officer Administer-one elbow and tried to grip the his hand, to ease the other elbow at Bowling, on the banks of the Spurgeon's Tabernacle, Newington the Indo-China S. N. Co., which ing the Government has been rounded edge of the manhole with Clyde, recently, when hope of for Butts, SE., recently, said that he has been undergoing inspection pleased to appoint Captain Thomas through He found no bold and tune drew men, women and chat was not leaving because he was I at Kowloon Dock, leaves for Addis Martin, Hong Kong Voinn-

was lost as he dropped dren to the riverside to a spot He was not weary of working in Swatów, Shanghai and Tsingtao teer Defence Corps, to be one of any chance of changing his mi

Sunday afternoon, and will his honorary Aâdes-de-Camp, vice where slates had been stacked. A London:

thenceforth maintain her

2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Clifford feet, into ten feet of

foutrie, with effect from August chedule between those ports Hong Kong and Canton

girl who was playing near the "Divine pressure has; slate dump

found

what she brought upon my spirit, he said, thought were miggets of gold and "and the time has,

spread the news"

Her

nied

“claim”" and "was

* to relinquish my her Tabernacle, which I' suc-than 15 years ago. other. He had felt

water

Then he came

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RESULT OF FORECAST › COMPETITION, THURSDAY 22nd AUGUST, 1935, 6 P.M. SHOW.

The official number of stalls tickets sold, as supplied by irtesy of the King's Theatre management, was 227.

Winning ticket vouchers valued 52.00, valid for either or 9.30 pm. show on Monday 26th August, 1935, „been forwarded to the following successful

Miss M. SILVA-

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