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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 1, 1941.

LUXURY CUT

TRADE GIRL IS

MURDER BLOW TO

PLOTTER BLEACH-BLONDE

(By A Special Correspondent)

GENTLEMEN WHO prefer blondes are going to be disappointed. Thousands of women whose golden tresses depend for their glory on the skill of the chemist and the care of the hairdresser are being "black-out,”

The Government's restrictive quota on luxury articles is responsible for many of Britain's women deciding to allow their hair to return to its natural colour.

Worst affected are the small hairdressers

throughout the country. HEAVY R.A.F.

Many of them are having

to ration bleaching for RAID IN THE

their clients and some are unable to carry on at all.

Even the biggest Buzes who For the feesaght and caputal

et on a tone of the Theses atres

1 becoming

Trithe Wormand!

when:

..02 || what will ༈,༈༙་ - -」་

upplies are exhausted avare fared with a 25 per cent.

1 in goods.

Big Stores "Lucky"

ete finding the same trouble

DODECANESE

EAST

"IN

AN RAF MIDDLE COMMUNIQUE STATES: ABYSSINIA ON SUNDAY, IN SUPPORT OF ARMY OPERA. TIONS. R.A.F. BOMBER AIR. CRAFT BOMBED AND MA CHINE GUNNED LARGE CON

A princess with a Uni- versity degree is one of the ten members of the "Com- mittee of Death," ring- leaders of the terrorist movement in Rumania.

Antonescu, Rumanian dicta- tor, is trying to stamp out the movement, which has put exiled Carol's banker, ex-Premier Tatarescu, and several writers on its death list,

Its latest attempt to wipe out the whole of its list was foiled enly at the last moment. Antonescu rushed an infantry regiment to the spot.

The terrorists, whose chiefs meet every week, base their minor savageries on the work of the Gestiquo.

After arresting sixteen of them the police searched one of their hudents and found typed letters ready for signature by Jewish EPERONEES

Shaved Girls' Heads

The letters testified that the wiiters had been well-trvated, but hart hand to emmmit suicide becutise

been valved with they had Woman.

of

Gangsters raided a dance hall

Lipscani district

maltreated Jewesses and shaved half their heads,

in the Bucharest.

CENTRATIONS OF ENEMY MO. Determined to get weapons to In all the big cities hairdresser TOR TRANSPORT IN THE DES.complet their death plan in face SIE AND ALOMATA AREAS. of Antoneseu's drastic measures, the terrorists tried to raid an au- tomatic rille

factory at Tohani, near Brasov,

Miss Norah Blackman, a Man- chester hairdresser, told me ·“』 01 working on my last drop o! leach at the moment and I don't know when I shall get any more.

"I don't know what my clients will do when the supply gives out A number have decided to return to the natufal colour."

MANY VEHICLES WERE SET ON FIRE BY THE ATTACK.

Enemy aircraft attempted to rand the aerodrome. at Jijiga. Two CR42% were shot down

Albania

a successful

RAF bombers made

attack on

military

At a large London store objectives at Elbasan, Direct huis stated that they had taken *rewaution of getting in a store of were observed on buildings in the

town and fires #tarted. Enemy? Lighters attempted to intercept but

broke off the engagement

when damaged

the

quota

ummodates before Came into force.

**But when thesc have gone, we shall feel the pinch. How ever, compared with the small- er shops. we are lucky."

Back To Shingle?

A leading northern harda essent traded te

(u-room

Hardest hit will be the small

hairdresser who ha been taught only the mechames of the trade and is unable to provide satz bleaches or dyes to replace well-known proprietary

*rands."

Dodecanese Islands the har- ibour at Astropalia was also runled (by a formation of bombers and!

bombs dropped among shipping.

Tripolitania-during the night

Again they were folled only at the eleventh hour by An. tonescu and the army. Meanwhile, recent arrivals in Belgrade from that under the superficial calm the Rumania stress country is still in a state of mud-

dled misery and anger.

Typhus, brought from

Poland, 1. the latest tragic accident to be- tall Rumania, where food short- age has already caused minor riots

Bucharest market.

SIR PATRICK DUFF'S

NEW POST

of March 29/30 another heavy raid was made on the harbour at Tripoli. Bombs were

drop. ped on docks, the main quay and High Commissioner in Canada, petrol installations.

In contrection with the appoint- ment of Mr. Malcolm Macdonald

Malta during

the night

it has been decided to establish | ten porarity at Uttawa the new of post of Deputy High Commission-

is-The Ministry of Works and Build- noings, being selected.

Hairdressers are forecasting a 29/30 and again on Sunday enemyer Sir Patrick Duff, Secretary to revolution in styles because of aircraft attempted to raid the the shortage of hairpins.

Hand of Malta. They believe that women will return Casualties.

to the thingle and the plain bob and fringe.

Will affect

Another shortage anted nails. It is of amylace- tate, which is now being used on more important work in the 'plane industry.

ان

Anyhow, women on war work are dispensing with this sort Juxury.

There

From all the above operations all our aircraft returned safely."

-British Wireless.

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Director of Imperial Chem cat Industries has been selected to fill the new post of Financial Adviser to the High Commissioner.--British Wireless.

ITALIAN PRISONERS

SHOULD GO TO RECLAIM LAND?

COURTING AT HOME

COURTING FACILITIES SHOULD BE AVAILABLE IN EVERY HOME WHERE THERE ARE GROWN-UP SONS AND DAUGHTERS, DECLARES THE REV. W. J. ROBSON, METHO : DIST MINISTER OF UPPERBY,

A SUBURB OF CARLISLE,

"When I was courting there was always a sitting room available," he says.

He finds that young people nowadays can meet only out of doors..

as

For comfort they have to go into a public-house, and temperance advocate the minis- | ter deplores this.

He told a Good Templars meet-・ ing at Carlisle that on a recent visit to Darlington he went into a public-house with a friend.

(By A Special Correspondent)

ITALIAN PRISONERS of war may be brought

to Britain and set to work to reclaim thousands of acres of idle land in Britain for food production. The Government have sounded the Trades Union Congress on the matter and they have agreed.

"Recently the Government suggested to us that Italian prisoners of war might be used for land drainage work on a big scale," an official of the T.U.C. told a reporter. "The T.U.C. have raised no Objection.

"There has been no suggestion that prisoners should be used on farm work itself, but purely on work of land reclaration.

"There are large tracts of land

in the country which, because

of drainage difficulties, have not

5,000-Acre Scheme

A scheme to drain 5,000 acres

In Lincolnshire has been spon- sored by the Government. Giant excavators have already reclaimed for quitivation hun-

been availablo for cultivation. [ ...dreds of sores of land which had These could be prepared if ex- been sodden and idle. ⚫tensive schemes of drainage

were put into operation.”.

Production in one area · alone

"The place was delightfully fur- nished with armchairs and set- 'tees," he said, "and 75 per cent. The ultimate effect in increasing had been increased four-fold, of the folk there were under our food supplies would be enor- No big reclamâtion" schemes

•^iwenty-five years of age. They mous. It has long been acknow-have been carried out in Lincoln-

were all young courting couples ledged that many thousands of shire, since the last wor, When | apart from my friend and myself." acres of land in this country could German prisoners helped to clear Mr. Robson considers that par- be put to useful purpose growing thousands of acres. They also ents have a grave responsibility in food for the nation,

cleaned the course of the River Ancholme and made it navigable.

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