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CARPETS

DRUGGETS: LINOLEUM TAPESTRIES CUSHIONS

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03, Austin Rd., Kowloon.

GREAT SALE

RUGS

All kinds and various stres of Tientsin chemical washed and Peking art rugs, Wholesalo and retail at lowest price.

CLEANING & MENDING GOOD YEAR RUG CO.

Room 208, 1st Floor, G, Hankow Road, Kowloon, Tel. 58002.

SALE

Tientsin Mercerized & Peking Art

RUGS

THE GOOD FRIEND CO. 14A Cameron Road, (Opposite Telephone Bldg.) Kowloon.

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con-

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RODO HOUSE

140, Tat 's Road, Kawiwan, You are cordialty lavite

2000

Woll furnishad & Fully equipped with

Allmanrankenese.

Pleasant'Atmosphere

"Ideal Rooma" (atasting from 114 per-days-

Boy Sarak

Genuine Food (90/- par des Inclusire for

#mala

Hole! Car available for man by events

Y. B.. Chan,

Manager.

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UNION HOUSE

221-223, Nathan Road, Kowloon Telephone: 56525 Cable Add:". "UNIHOUBE”. Situated at convenient and residential centre. Modern Equipment and

-Excellent Service. Comfortable and pleasant surroundings. Call or phone for reservations.

CHINA UNION ART GALLERY

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of

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: ANTIQUED, "

Business hours: from 10 am, to 7.30 p.m. (Excluding Bundays) Victory. House (Corner of Wyndham and Wellington Bt.)

Kong..

Hong

LOW PRICE!

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Auctiones

rveyors

RUGS

TIENTSIN CHEMICAL WASHED RUGS

FIRST QUALITY AT FACTORY PRICES

VISIT

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• HANKÓW rb, (unoUND FLOOR)

KOWLOON TEL 1930 Agente Henghing & Shanghai Jaics Co. (Loom Kee)

SALE

Largo Assortment of Chemical Washed & Peking Art

RUGS

AT LOWEST PRICES NORTE CHINA DEVELOPMENT CO 26, Tarken BL, G.F. {Between Hourring 8. & Austin Rd.) Mending & Cleaning by Expert call 54182

BUTTER SHORTAGE Butter Concentrato (Kam Tal Brand) is now available at all ¡tores at controlled prices. This Butter Concentrate is in iins, and should be mixed withi water or milk to produce out pound weight. Firmed in a refrigerator or icebox, it is ex- actly the same as fresh butter because no preservatives what- In tins it 10over are used. will keep for years without refrigeration and should be purchased now against future shortages.

SERVICE TO OFFER

THE "CHINA' MAIL; WEDNESDAY," "AUGUST",23, 1980.

THE BOWLER IS Red Cross

100 YEARS OLD

London, August 22. British Tammios fighting in the desert dreamed.

about them. One of them marked a famous American politician. A well-known Hollywood And they restaurant is named after one.

are still the proper thing for informal wear in the presence of the King of England. Solved the riddle yet? The answer is the bowler hat

war

+.

and it is 100 years old.

At Brat they were called Bly Britain, where the bowler was born, is celebrating the Cokes, after their originator, That anniversary.

But the Newspapers are soon became billycock.

stuck already retelling the story of after the nlx Bowler brothers who

name that

bowler, ils birth. Hatmakers have worked in Locke's shop. One of aside October 2 as the begin them made it but nobody knows

"Bowler Hat Week now just which one. ning of and ure planning ន special party for 84-year-old H. Bowler.

Howler knows the first bowler was put together, by his hat- making ancestors, but he is not sure now whether his father ori an uncle actually made the first ony.

In the beginning, the bowler was simply a dignified crash hel- met, conceived by Willam Çoke dashing, steepte chasing kin of the Earl of Leicester.

Coke got fed up with having silk hats topple off at the first Jump and getting his bare head bruised with every tumble from his horse. So he took his brain- storm. new hat, "a hard, round felt with a flat brim and o low

melon-shaped crown" to his local hatmaker in Norfolk.

The local firm

firm sent the

the queer order to James Lock and Co., who did business with the swells at a shop only a couple of stone! throws from St. Jame's Palace in London,

The Arst bowler was turned out and Coke had the field to him- self with his new fashion for nearly a year. Then another cus- tomer walked Into Lock's and

other one

yet

DENNIS & CO., LTD. bought the only

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You will look

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THE HOLLYWOOD

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SHANGHAI

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made,

Billy Cokes"

It got to be called a derby in the United States because Lord Derby was famed for wearing one when the style spread across the Atlantle.

mark It is still the

of bank elerken, employees of Bancial houses and the well-dressed man about town here, although the sof! felt has been edging it out of popularity during the last years.

18 |

During the war, weary troops longed for the day when they would be "bowler-hatter" again.

-Associated Press.

U.S. expanding

air strength in Britain

London, August 21. British newspapers said to- day that the United States is speeding up plans to base huge air fighter and bomber fice in Britain.

The Labourite "Daily. Herald" said "about 1,000 American lr- craft might be based here as part of new plans for Western union air defence, "Although

been plans have

By the time the big London! exhibition of 1861 rolled around drawn up to increase considerably A few months later atmost the number of United States Air every fashionable drasstr.

In Force bombers based in Britain.

bert, was wearing one.

SELLOTAPE

-for every Office

- for every Home

London, including Prince A no details as to the number are

available for security reasons, the paper continued.

*bt it is known that lin- structions have been given for a largo number of wartinia bomber airflelde be re-opened and extended for use by. the largest bomber 'now in' tervloo.. the Superfortress." The Liberal "News Chronicle" sold plans for the expansion are being discussed by United States

of Air Finletter Secretary

and General Lemi Johnson, command- ing the United States Third “Alt Division In Britain.

allotope

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CHARLES MORGAN & CO., LTD.

Americans already so thred

Britain airfields

to

bass

bombers.

The Air Force spokesman was not available. fer comment.—As. Focluted Press.

RUSSIA WANTS.

QUICKSILVER

Chicago, August 21. Bussla hos been trying-un- successfully-to buy Spanish quicksilver in exchange for petroleum products, the Spanish Trade Councillor, Jose Barcelio, said here.

Mr. Barcello said the overtures by have been made unofficişlly Arab State Intermediaries.-As-

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delegate

in Tientsin

Geneva,” August 21. The International Com mittes of the Red Crom has basa nitifled that ita delo. nato altempting to unter North Korea to observe the treatment of prisoners of war, has reached Tientsin an British cargo ship.

The delegate, Sean Cour voisier, has ontacted the Chinese Communlet authori- iles there, but the Committee does not know whather ha authorised to pro. has been ceed to Pyongyang.

The

Committee racantly received . list of 50 Ameri- can- prisonera from the North Korean Government. It had cartier rosolved similar at bf 34 North Korean prisoners held by the United Nations forces—Unit- -ed Press.

JAPAN, BUILDs up MERCHANT MARINE

Strasbourg discusses European army plan

GRAND JURIES

n ALWAYS READY

Strasbourg, August 21. Mr. Winston Churchill's proposal, on a European Army and the idea of appointing a European Minister of Defence were discussed again in secrat today by mombors of the European. Pärliament—and failed to make any progress. All that members of the Assembly's Political Com- mittee and its branch, the Security Sub-Com- mittee, would say after the meeting for several hours was that general discussion took place. The Political Committee's tened to boycot the Committees if Chairman, M. Georges Bld-they discussed.aspects of defench ault, cancelled a Press con-in any detail whatsoever, ference be

Labour preparing had arranged to give after today's meetinge

The meetings were more peace- ful than at any other time during the the past fortnight, because main opponent of any discussion of defence, the British Labour re- presentative, Mr. Callaghan, had

substitule left Strasburg. No subst sat for him.

F

1

declaration

later this week.

Washington, August 20. The United States Attorney- General, Mr. J. Howard Mc. Grath, has ordered that one or moré Federal Grand Juries to be kept ready here at ull times to deal with coses of subversive, activity.

The McGrath atinounced tha the Justice Department was giv-

to ing priority treatment all criminal matters in the Internal. accurity und defence fields.

It was fearned tonight that several times M. Bidault Inter- „rupted,“ sponkora on various

In line with that polley, he 'points of order and the meetings]

onded without any decision asked the United States District boing reached on what recom Attorney; Mr. George Morris Fay, mandationa the Committee to begin assembling *spare" prompt will submit to the full Assembly Grand Juries, so that Mr. Duncan Sandys, the red-

nellon might be obtained on any haired son-in-law of Mr. Chur-

British Labour representatives cases involving spring, subolage chill, spoke at length at both the are tonight meeting of

t reported to be pre-ur other subversive activity. the full

Under his plan, there will.bd General paring a "Declaration of Stros-

No tour Federal Grand Juries on for submission to the A, duty here after October 1 and ship-remodelling programme

Japan has begun a sipbuilding Affairs Committee and the St-

curity Sub-Committee.

sembly which will lay down in place of the usual twa-Router. to raise her occan-going tonnage | An original 19-point plan sub-more general terms than Mr. to 1,043,890 tons.

mlited by him for implementing Churchill's resolution the attitude

army of the Council of Europe to the out. He had arranged earlier to By March 31 next she expects Mr. Churchill's European

whittled to have 108 freighters

12 plan had earlier been and

war in Korea and aggression leave. Strasbourg today, it tankers of international standard. town in the face of opposition by against the West.

stated. Labour circles denied that Mr.] Nevertheless, it

learned compared with 10 freignters and Mr. Callaghan and Scandinavian four tankers on July 31 last delegates.

Callaghan's Absence (WDS that no substitute delegate took Heuter.

Mr. Callaghan had even threu-oxecution of his threat to stay Mr. Callaghon's place. Reuter.

Tokyo, August 21.

POP

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MANDRAKE SIGNED,

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YOU KNOW AUNT JANET, SHE

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DOWN PAYMENT...

JOHNNY HAZARD

C'MON.. C'MON

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JANE

EXOUSE ME, MR OTHELLO, ANY· PROPOSAL, YOU HAVE A IN MIND MUST WAIT UNTIL

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AFTER GASTER A

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