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Schiaparelli Puts On

Bizarre Show

WORLD-FAMOUS FASHION DESIGNER, MADAME SCHIAPARELLI, RETURN- ING TO FRANCE AFTER FOUR YEARS IN THE UNIT- ED STATES, HAS BEEN MAKING PARISIANS' EYES POP OUT OF THEIR HEADS.

But at a price, French fush- ion experts, looking at the creations of Schiaparelli and other designers, have been set- fing more and more depressed at the prices asked it is noth ing to see a dress or cut that costs £200,

THE CHINA MAIL, HÓNG KONG, WEDNESDAY, DECE MBER 12, 1945.

SOVIET'S BALTIC INFLUENCE

Sweden Showing Signs Of Acute Anxiety

Good Relations

Prime Essential

STOCKHOLM, DEC. 1

SWEDEN HAS TWO MAIN WORRIES AT THIS MOMENT -THE VAST INCREASE IN SOVIET INFLUENCE IN HER OWN INTERNAL THE BALTIC AREA AND ECONOMIC SITUATION. BETWEEN 1939 AND 1945 THE SOVIET UNION ESTA- BLISHED A POWERFUL ASCENDANCY IN THE BAL- TIC AREA. FOR 50 YEARS THE RUSSIANS HELD A LEASE ON PORKKALA IN SOUTHERN FINLAND. WHERE THEY ARE BUILDING A NAVAL BASE. had their The expert

first

Estonin and Iathunnie Are DOW a fortnight of looking laugh in

creations when all part of the Soviet Union de at exponatre

facto, regardless of foreign re Schiaparelli's Exotir Madame

rognition. Koenigsberg is a Soviet fancies came into view.

One mannequin wore a tivi.port. Poland - nowerfully linked ed skirt which awung open to reven a knee length p covering one log only.

Moscow.

been resitmed and finished goods, such as British automobiles, are beginning to arrive, while trade with the United States is increas ing.

Despite a trade agreement with Beyond all that, there is in Poland, promising large amounts dienten if or when the Russings of coal, it has not ye; started cum- Another budd a high pustillonnend to evacuate the Danish ising in any quantity, and "govern. hat beneath which a plaid Beartland of Bornheim, which is only 35 Iment is getting embarrassed.

3 IM Reuter of the miles from south Sweden. the lower haf Lovrzed face, leaving only the bese and copotan senssip that they will clear

but when the British quit Den mark But there are no formal commitments to this at the Swe

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The recent furry ponerining the Dovarg demand for the extrudition d fewer than 200 Baltic nationals

the

rental represents

derp anxiety, even though the persons. involved were all in the German army.

Wine

There are some 35,000 Balte re

Swedes fugees here L WITTY about the precedents in volved

Brides In Black Market

Brides are now among "black market commodities" in the Indian province of

Sind-and all because the Provincial Government tried to set a cell- ing on their value.

A law controlling the dowry paid to the bridegroom at the time of the marriage was pass- ed by the Government, making it illegal to pay a dowry of more than 2,000 rupees (£150).

But

calling no young man

in pre- "respectable" himself pared to marry for such a small Rum as that, says the British United Preas. So the parents of girls are having to marry off "under. their daughters in an

the counter" fashion, paying dowries of up to 25,000 rupees.

Are English Women Too Independent?

HAVE WOMEN BECOME MORE INDEPENDENT DURING

THE WAR YEARS?

MRS. GILMOUR, A CIVIL LIAT- SON OFFICER AT A RESETTLEMENT UNIT FOR RETURNED POWS, THINKS THEY HAVE.

IF ONLY WIVES COULD BE MORE UNDERSTANDING

THERE WOULD BE FEWER DOMESTIC UPSETS, SHE SAID.

"Mer coming back after long spells overseas," she said, "want to be head of the house

"They cannot understand this independence which women gained in Britain."

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MOTHERED MANY Mes, Gilmouc, who is the mother of wo children. has mothered hundreds of raturules Sho

Box un listens to their troubles

The unit Travels domestic tangles,

at which she works is at Hatfield the an Hove, Hathold, Herts. cestral hons of the Marquess of Salisbury.

Politially, Communism has met de inte headway here. The unrty is the smallest in the Swe

lah Parlament, having only members in the two chambers com bined.

Pow

Thousands of dance mad rol

Ecomunicadly, Sweden is in County Donegal, which

"It still rems honey to me," than during the war, Work for long has been known as the

able and a Buffs private frien Ealing, "Harles" of Ireland. are getting when the Swedes were

four vene's a prisoner of war in trade with both side "rady to hail the end of inksine warline restrictions.

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With upwards of 200 Beesised dance halls more than any other Ulster Kin Donegal County in was for long a dancer's paradise.

cruss ronda, in They danced at the fields and in farmhouse homes, until the clergy frowned on all night dances and employers eam- plained that young folk were 1o tired to do a day's work.

STOCKHOLM LUCKY

Of course Stockholm is perhaps the best at capitul in the post-war effort. It amazingly full of a variety of beautiful things and, although the cost of living has rison #imest 50 per cent #inee 1989, this is not so bad na it Hounds, compared with the rest of the Continent

War brought new regulations Juniting the number of dances which etld be held in any locality. Ranson's government has quiet- Now, with the return of peace realy frozen price levels and la placid- tretions are being relaxed, though y continuing a gradual antionali- Sunday night dancing is still ban- ned.

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Skap parades wher you feel like it.... Grub served up to by the AT.S. und in A mex hall with wants of armour round the talls It doesn't seem right.”

There are 10 of these resettle. nent units in Great Britain. Soon there will be 20.

VOLUNTARY PLAN

them corridors between prison camn life and civilian life Colonel J. Macartney, of No 1 unit "repatriata" explained. command, himself a

" a voluntary scheme for re- are due patriated prisoners who

for discharge and aims to ease them gently into civil life again. Everything is volantury."

The length of stay is voluntary. Most men are here for four or five weeks. Son may the maximum three months.

Mustered into syndicates under the leadership of a hand-picked captain and Ñ.00, they play or debate as a team.

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Tories Lose Face In Censure Debate

(By Michael Foot.)

LONDON, DEC. 11. SOMEONE, PROBABLY DR. JOHNSON, ONCE SAID THAT A SURGICAL OPERATION WAS NEEDED TO FIX A JOKE PROPERLY FOR A SCOT TO UNDERSTAND. DOUBTLESS, THIS GIBE IS UNFAIR BUT CERTAIN. LY A FORMIDABLE OPERATION WAS REQUIRED TO GET THE TORIES TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LA- BOUR PARTY INTENDS TO CARRY OUT ITS PRO- GRAMME.

NO IMPARTIAL OBSERVER WOULD DENY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS ESTABLISHED ITS COMPLETE MASTERY OVER THE OPPOSITION. FOR MANY WEEKS PAST. THE TORY PRESS AND TORY SPOKESMAN, WITH MR, WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THEIR HEAD, HAVE SELECTED SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AS THE MAIN BUTT OF THEIR INVECTIVE. IT WAS GOOD sport WHILE IT LASTED.

For Sir Stafford is a easy man to

ten minutes the House attack-In his absence. Face to rocked with laughter 11-1 with Ence he is a different properl-matchless mirliamentary

mecked the Tories in their un tion.

happy plight.

On Wednesday lust, with it raising his voice above the sante cool and steady tone, he reduced Mr. Churchill to stuttering n-up potence.

It is too much to expect that

will mitis Tory newspapers the Kate Lluit venom against the President of the Board of Trade for even that they will begin to report with a semblance of arcu racy and adequacy the statement of Government spokesnent. bat any Tory in the House of Com

skin will mans who values his

skill he

Then Imperceptably the mem er fell silent as the beauty of bia voice and gestures conjured

of the memory

the long struggle which had made Labour's victory possible.

To the Turies, his rebuke was so devastating that their silence

was Almost complete. Perhaps more surely than ever before they realised that their expulsion from office was a historical event of momentous significance.

The Labour Party of to-day is a very different Institution from that which went down to defent think twice before risking such a

In 1931. It la bix and powerful caning.

Next day we awaited a Chur- | enough to adopt a more tolerant chillian counter-attack which altitude towards the heretion with didn't came,

In the movement than has hither

CHASTENED RIFETORIC to prevailed. The leader of the campaign of If the Tories romain in their

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Prof. Laski Explains

Professor Harold Laski has ex- plained to the Prosu Association that his widely quoted reférence tu

Britain as a "second-class, Power" Was misleading when taken out of

ita context.

commented) prove that be could roar na gently However, his chasten- AL14 dove.

rhetoric won him no reprieve ed from the pulverising of the Prime Minister.

vation Mr. Attie's formality: it was the recognition of a brilliant parliamentary per formance. As a result, Mr. Her bert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, found himself with like a good Do function excent house-keeper.

up the remnants

He left the whole place neat real and Lidy after the Grut battle of the session, wherein his reduced the strategy and aid Thry

wish. can work if they

giants of yesterday to pigmies. There are woodworkaanetal work However, this Parliament has and electrical engineering shops duties more important than the controlled by skilled Instructors in discomforture of the bedraggled the stable buildings.

opposition. A taste of more deep-be regarded "We arrange visits to local fac-rooted arguments

given at tories If a man sees a job which question time after announcement he fancies, we x up for him to of the American Loan.

MOCKS TORIES try it for a couple of days," anid Captain Dixon, a nyndicate leader. There was alac Police are on the track of a

The unit's staff include a psy the predigious responsibilities gang touring London and steal-chiatrist, a Ministry of Labour which this government has shoul- ing hospital collection boxes in appointments adviser, and a phy-dered in the speech of Mr. James public-houses.

Bio-therapy specialist.

WORST CRIME OF ALL

One box, in the White Swan, Salisbury-court, E.C., contained several £1 nolem, proceeds of dar's matches.

Mrs.

Unexpected.-Councillor Morrison told Tottenham Food Committee that there was almost a riot in South Tottenham when unexpected cuts in milk supplies

were made.

WORK OPTIONAL

Maxton.

WIS

a reminder of

"Discussing the new world or ganisation," he said: "I emphasis ed that I did not think it could succeed merely as a junta of great powers with the smaller Powers - like Sweden bermitted to look through the door? I then said that perhaps Great Britain might now by the Swedes un a second-class Power.

"That this was no more then perhaps a poor attempt at humour is I think shown by the fact that the main burden of my speech was an attempt to show why Great Bri- lain was with the Commonwealth In a unique position to assume the moral leadership of the world."

LESS THAN FIFTY OF "THE FEW"

SURVIVE WAR

Less than 50 of "the few" Battle fame in the defence of Malta, tention as Badar and Melan, spent

of Britain fighter pilots who saved this island from Germen invasion in the gloomy fall of 1940 are alive

to-day.

where he shot down 10 German two years as a prisoner of war but

now is back with old group 11. planes. He now is a group captain at R.A.F. staff college.

How the few hundred pilots con- F. R. Carey, another one of the trived to give the. Luftwaffen the desk job in thrashing they did in the Battle All the rest of the 375 top flight original. few, has fighters of the battle were killed the name office with Bader, Wing of Britain is one of the miracles 169. Prefabs. Inclusive retin action. The

last one

went Commander P. M. Brothers, veter-of the war. the war an Hurricane aco la one of the The superior morale of the pi- of Slough's prefabricated bun-down sixweeks before

onded.

top men at the R.A.F, cadet col- lots, their skill, the fact that they galows is 16s.

Virtually all of those whose luck lege.

were fighting over and for their kept them alive through five years Among other old timers holding very homes, the excellence of the war still are serving in the staff jobs are Group Capt. P. S. Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, Not So Bitter. According

Commander W R.A.F. according to air ministry Turner, Wing

in the control good organization to a Worcester expert, use of records. Many of them, too Crowley-Willing, Keith Lofts, Bill rooms and the invaluable secret of hopa per barrel of beer

has young to have had civilian profes- Drake, Joe Ellis and Tom-Vigoro, radar all were factors contri- dropped from 4lbs. to 1b. sions when they joined up, plan All those names once were virtualbuting to victory.

to make the air force their career. ly household words around London.

DONALDSON IN CALCUTTA The best known among the sur- Al Donaldson, who knocked fighter command had only 640 air- viving heroes is Douglas Bader,

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Nice Profit-Sold for £8,000,

in 1940 for £800,

a house in Woking was bought

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Appeal to M.P.s-Kent bakers have asked M.P.A to support their demand for abolition of night baking.

School Special-A train has been put on to take Droitwich children to school at Kidder. minster, 10 miles away.

Better Late Barnet Oddfel- lows hold their centenary dinner -postponed from 1914.

of

the

It has been admitted offcially that in July, 1940, the R.A.F.

15, a group captain who fought down three Germans in one after craft available daily for the bate the Battle of Britain from the noon, now is stationed with

tle. These were being supple cockpit of a Spitfire using set B.A.F. in Calcutta, Stanford Tuck, monted at the rate of 180 new

as much at planes a week. of artificial tin legen. He provi- who gained almost ously had made flying history with

a comeback after a lying accident in 1981 cost him both legs.

Bader was shot down over France after the crucial Battle- and spent four years in German prison camps before the U.S. 1st

Canadian

Army sat him froe last summer. Officer Killed:

He

Scotland Yard men In Soho,

This was little more than enough to make up for heavy losses. But it was the high toll among the beat pilots, more than the loss of aircraft, that almost coat them the doctaion. In the four months from July to Octobor, 1940, thu fighter command lost 481. pilota attempted to escape four

killed, captured or. misalig plus times, so the Nazle took away his

422 injured. legs. A new set was parachuted

The turning point in the, Battle to him by the R.A.F.

London, are investigating the of Britain came on that historic Bador's permanent rank is equl death of an Army Captain be- Bunday of September 14, 1040, valent to that of a full colonel in lieved to be a Canadian who when a gallant little of dog-tired tha. U.S. Army Air Force. He was found dying in Bouchior-pilots, outnumbered ton to one, is currently second in command of street,

went up for a desperate last ditch tha R.A.F.'n famous 11. fighter

stand and shot down 185 Gorman The polleo hayo ylotained a THOMAS COWAN & CO.group, the same outfit with which soldior, and are searching for planes in a nightmare battle

fought in 1940.

which lasted all day over. London MANY. IN KEY JOBS a second man, also believed to and south-cast England. The piz The commander of No. 11 group be a soldier."

lata fought in relays that day, The officer died before ho cach coming down only long during some of the hottest days was Bir Keith Park, now Allied could be got to hospital, and it enough for a cup of tea and for air commander of the South-eartis belloved that, his injuries refuelling his plano, Asin command. He is an air chief were caused with `n brick... It was moon afterwards that marshal, equivalent to a two star His packets had been ran-Winston Churchill made his fe- general,

mous remark that "nover in the Little Art Malan, one of the sacked and identification is made fold of human conflict was so most publicized pilots in the. Bat difficult by the absence of much owed by so matiy to to few." tle of Britain, gained additional" pers.

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