1918-11-30 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 80TH. 1915.

ST. ANDREW'S FAIR.

November 30th.

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The Fair will be formally opened at ✪ P.M. Several of the Side-shows will, however, commence at 2 P.,

BRING THE CHILDREN.

AUCE WORL

Economy.

With LEA & PERRINS' Sauce, a few drops only: are necessary to give a delicious and appetizing flavour to the plainest dish.

A far larger quantity of a cheaper sauce fails to give the same satisfaction.

Oberts

the signature

Lea Herrins

in whils cross the red label en every boliis.

The original and genuine Worcestershire.

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$102.2

20,000 DOCTORS

are recommending

PLASMON

Because

"Plasmon" is of FNESTIMABLE VALUE as a food for all classes of workers.”—Dr. Virchow, Berlin,

BACK TO VENICE BATHING BESIDE BARBED WIRE

*AND BAYONETS.

Writing from Venice at the end of August, Mr. G. Ward Price said:-

The population that had departed is now, since the victory of the Piaye, gradu ally drifting back to Venice, in spite of a slight renewal of activity by Austrian airmen after a lapse of seven ilonths.

- Over 10,000 of the people who went away have already returned, and the bathing season has started again at the Lido, which is the island seashore of Venice. It must be the oddest seaside place in Europe, for the big bathing establishment which used in peace time to be a parade- ground for the most daring thing costumes which the taste of feminine visitors from Austria and Hungary could davise now lies in the midst of the Lido defences against an enemy landing

The sand is dug and rivetted into tretches, and a thick barbed-wire lentan-

glement runs right across the part of the beach where bathers bask in the sun alter their swim, The Venetians seem not to notice though, nor yet to hear thei guns growling away at the mouth of the Piave a few miles along the

coast.

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It is odd to see this throng of people in bright bathing costumes, sitting under gay sun umbrellas, with that belt of sinister barbed wire passing among them, and sentries with fixed bayonets watching. their water-frolics from each corner of the enclosure and from boats around. Sometimes even the Venetians Are oliged to take these pleasures seriously, for there are notices in each dressing cabin that the sentries bove orders to fire on any hather, going beyond the limits of water fixed for the establishment, and since the season opened they have already recalled three or four heedless swimmers by send-. ing a a bullet to splash up the water beside

them.

As one leaves the bathing place too, there is a scrutiny by military police to. be undergone. perhaps to defeat any attempt by the Austrians to land troops disguised as bathers.

Few places in a war-zone can be more agreeable than is Venice now. On these warm evenings when the Grand Canal is flooded with the silver twilight of a bril liant moon, the Plazette is fuller at mid- night than at noon. Last night there were hundreds of people standing between the Doge's Palace and the gleaming Lagoon

to look at the red dashes of anti- aircraft shells along the Piave front where Italian machines were bombing the enemy. trenches."

A dreamy, spell seeds to rest on the whole city, deepened rather than broken by the droning call of the aircraft look- outs from their platforms on the roofs of the highest palacca, sa at regular intervals they confirmed their watch by chanting through megaphones like some super- natural muezzin the "Nalliaria buona gardia,"

wailing ory. In the air. good watch."

YOUR LAST CHANCE TO-NIGHT!

NOO FOR

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HONGKONG HEATHER DAY

**FUND.

HIT THE FUND

UP

1918

1917

$47.000

1918

58.800

1916 $2.900

YOUR LAST CHANCE TO-NIGHT!

ST. ANDREW'S FAIR

MURRAY PARADE GROUND TO-NIGHT

FORMAL OPENING 6 P.M.

CON

Helter-skelter, Joy Wheel, Swing Boats, Aunt Sally, Submarines and Aeroplanes, Chute. Picture Palace, Pill-box, Shooting Gallery, Merry-go-round, Zoo, Scottish Women's Stall, Thistle Tea Rooms, Supper Room, Dance Hall and Cabaret, Duck Pond, Fortune Tellers, Gypsies, Try-your-strength, Miniature Golf Course, etc., etc.

SEE THE ESCALATOR

(First appearance In Hongkong). Every cent is needed for the great work of healing.

A REGULAR ROUND OF

MERRIMENT.