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TRIUMPHANT BRITAIN, POPULAR MISREPRESENTATIONS IN AMERICA.

AN IMPARTIAL JUDGMENT.

LOCAL SPORT.

YACHTING.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 23RD, 1928

"NORSEMAN" WINS CRUISER CHAMPIONSHIP.

Sunday's cruiser raco

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In this article Mr. Frank Simons, a well known American writer maintains thatIsland apart from being for the Commo Britain has survived the worst of her dore's Cup, also decided the Craiser economie problems, and that the popular Championship. American view, recently supported by "gene Colonel Harvey, that she has under" is untenable.

PARIS FASHION NOTES. WHAT THE BIG DESIGNERS ARE

SHOWING FOR SPRING."

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, ISABEL AMSAT.]

POISON IN DUCK EGG.

RARE BACILLUS'S FIRST ENGLISH

APPEARANCE:

A GIRL'S DEATH,

HELEN WILLS.

HER "CHARM AND CALM.

Few cau ever have taken their elevation. to the rank of Riviera celebrity so calm-

Some remarkable evidence regarding aly na Miss Helen Will, wrote a Riviera PARIS, February 8th.

death germ. in a duck's egg, which was correspondent recently,

Amid all the excitement her challeng Although Paris still lies more or less described as the first case of its kind in buried in snow and Parisiennes are the United Kingdom was given ring. presence has created Helen has not In this Norsemar and Coquette were going about like Mussulman women, socently "at an inquest held at Stepney turned a hair; and, no matter what be tying with the same number of points. hidden is their face by fura, pulled well by Dr. R. L. Guthrie, the East London her fats on the courts, she is assured of the sympathy of the vast majority of Owing to lack of wind it could not be up and hats pulled well down, the big Coroner, on the body of a single woman

those present, in advance, if only for decided the previous Sunday, but this designers are showing their Spring col named Selina Yogt (24), of Milo End. week-end, the coarse was completed and Yarsemit, which finished third in the Derece for the Commodore's Cup, secured the Championship, Coquette being the

(BY PRANK H. SIMONS. ] The longer one stays in England the clearer one essential fact becomes,

spite all superficial efidences of difficul- ties; there is not the smallest sound reason. to accept current American pessimistic views, or tu doubt that Great Britain is already over the worst of its economic problems and not only certain to "come back." but, in the inner circles, as contrasted with the man in the street. has already recovered. confidence.

is

runner-up, with " and third:

The Commodore's Cup was won by Mist; while and I won the Vice- Commodore's Cup

BOXING.

FRENCH BOXERS COMING EAST.

[DY CADOFYDD. I

Sta. Naegelin, the French flyweight, who defeated Kid, Alfred at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, informs me that his time of service in the French

lections to the overseas buyers. Moly neus, Jenny, Drecoll and Yteb were among the first to reveal these secrets which, it goes without saying, they have been trying their best to hide during the last couple of months Judging by the long list of showings still to come, both buyers and designers will have a busy time for the next few weeks pr so, by which time, the general public will be allowed to have a peep, and Spring will

be really here.

ABSENCE.OF GODETS.

One of the new notes in the Spring

Dr. Guthrie stated that when he opened

Helen of the fierce high-handed service

his enquiry he had received a letter from bar charm and modesty. some person who alleged that the young woman bad died from poison. This allegation a post-mortem examination and the immutable, inscrutable com- proved to be untrue, but as the doctor posure, is an art student at Berkeley had found death, to have been the result. of acute gastro-enteritis and toxemia, University, California, and never intends which could have been brought about by consecrating herself exclusively to tennis food or metallic poisoning, the Corner had no option but to have the stomach a Suzanne has done. At Cannes she is analysed.

prosecuting her art studies, and when- Mr. John Webster, Home Office analyst, now stated there was no trace of metallic ever she can steal a moment you may see poisoning of any sort, but there had been her in some corner shyly making sketches found a bacillus aertrycke in enormous of local tennis "stars.*?

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quantities in the organs, and he was 'of

The best players," she stated one opinion that this could safely be pre- sumed to have been the cause of the evening, 'do not go out dancing at night trouble which led to death.

The mother of the young woman stated down here "-only to be told next mor-

It is true that there are a number of fundamental reorganisations in British in dustry which have still to be made, and it is probable that coal and iron will never Navy expires in two months, when he will models which struck me most was the that on December 3rd her daughter and sing that Suzanne had been seen dancing

return to France and take seriously to absence. of godets. This was bound to four other members of the family had her head of the night before. boxing. He should go far.

I am also informed that Criqui and Ritsu, two French boxers, who have done thru would be well worth seeing 15th. Criquí in Hongkong. A few years ago, he was unbeaten at his weight in Europe.

come, for any home dressmaker could take a few scraps of cloth and add any given number of godets to a skirt and 80 render it fashionable; and, as a line or colour can only be counted desirable as long as it does not become the pro- perty of the crowd, godels have been killed by their very simplicity, But the full, faring line still remains, in evening

a meal consisting of ducks" eggs. Her daughter had had nothing to eat for

before becoming ilk many hours previously, nor after that,

Dr. D. L. Thomas, Medical Officer of Health for Stepney, stated that the appearance of the abdominal organs was- quite consistent with those of food poisoning. He sent some of these organs to the bacteriologist of the Ministry of Health, and he reported that the bacillus nertrycke was isolated in abu

to have been Jue to that

quite revaver the same dominating post tion they once occupied. But beneath the surface this fact, bus been appreciated and discounted, and the British are already looking to the necessary substitutions which will enable them to regain the pusi.

The H.K.B.A. have held their lust tion they held before the war.

tournament but might they not endeavour over to have Criqui pay us a call I believe The

ujar rubber is really only one significant sign. that it would be possible to and a local The British are looking forward to uh-boxer to fight him. taining and exercising direct or indirect control not only over tropical products, and Naegelin. The last two have greatly of which rubber is one, but over the raw pleased Hongkong boxing audiences, but materials of the world in a far render neither of them is as famed as Criqui. 'sense. As to tropical products, their Might we not see one of Europe's ex- position is strong because of their own champions, especially "when such an op. any great extent. In, day clothes, the was one of the Baertner group usually

tremendous zeccist

NO" SIDE." Helen, at twenty, is tall and sturdy, and has a fine head of the Grecian type, with wide bine eyes, well-cut features, and a perfect complexion: There is not the slightest "side" about her.

"I may beat Suzanne some day after I have learnt much more," she tells you.

Criqui is of the same school as Dupr. clothes particularly, the place of the dance, and death might safely be pre I'm just over here for a short while,

Colonial Empire, but their immense fami.ortunity is at hand? liarity with world conditions will doubt. less enable them to reorganise production outside of their own frontiers.

BRITAIN'S RESOURCES.

CRICKET.

(Bus

The following will represent the Volun- It is a convenient, and perhaps a flatters against Mr. A. A. Rumjahn's XI. tering, view which is taken widely in the at the University ground, on Sunday United States that Great Britain is next. March 29th. at 11 am. "done"

in the larger sense, and that, leaves HK.C.C. pavilion at 10.15 a.m.): without effort, and by the mere law of E J. R. Mitcheli (captain), H. Owen weight. we shall succeed to the British Hughes, F. N. Young, G. R. Sayer, A. W. Rainsay, J. C. Lyni, E. C. Fincher. 3. primacy in the world of trade and com

H. L. Burgess.

godet being taken by the circular cut skirt. This gives the desired width and cut that it is not likely to be copied to fiare, yet it is so much more dificult to

godet is replaced above all by pleats. I noticed that, the box plent is much in favour with all the big designers. This is not exactly a novelty box pleats have been in fashion for the last year or two: but last season they were neglected rather for the godet. so that their P pearance in such abundance this season is much in the nature of a rehabilitation.

NEW MATERIALS,

sumed infection."

NO PREVIOUS CASES IN ENGLAND.

and then I go back to Berkeley to re- sume my studies. I have two more years at college."

She took a scholarship in her second

Bacillus aertrycke, said the witness, associated with food poisoning from eat- is meat, the symptoms usually appear-year, and her study of Lengien would ing within twenty-four hours of the food do justice to any West End art gallery. Being partaken of, although symptoms might appear almost at once. It was She is very reserved, with her main relatively heart-resisting, so that boiling interest at Cannes, outside of tennis for a time did not destroy the toxicity and work, goldfish. Helen knows every- The ordinary boiling or frying which thing about goldish, and has already the eggs underwent in cooking was not assembled a representative local gather

ing about her.

sufficient.

MINERAL WATER !

merce, and even of finance. It is also an Jex, H. V. Parker, G, P. Lammett and should say, will be worn a great deal any casea, of food poisoning from egg hard until breakfast-time, when some

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HOCKEY.

So far. I have not seen anything very new in the way of materiala. Kasha I this season. There will also be more crêpe de Chine than before, and less, Printed therefore, crêpe Georgette. chiffons will figure in light citernoon Frocks. There will be fewer evening frocks of velvet, but lamé and lame brocade wil: be just ever. Bended. Frocks, there will be in any quantity, but far more ornate than before, ordinary beads being supplement coloured sequins and spangles. COLOURS.

much worn

example of our rather small appreciation of the situation that we should, as in the ense of Colonel Harvey, indulge in a cer tain amount of sympathetic expression over the decline in the estate of John Bull.

The following will represent the Clab But the British neither need our sym- pathy nor quite appreciate it. although on Wednesday, 21th March, at U.S.R.C., for patent reasons it may be just as well at 6.15 p.m., weather permitting, against That we should believe during the critical the H.K.S.R.A.E. W. Hamilton, C. H. period in which their work has to be done R. Oxlade, W. Woodward, A. S. Ilett, more or less quietly, that they are down E. J. R. Mitchell (captain), Rev. E. W. Led by seed pearls, cut crystal beada, and out." Certainly there is no larger Martin, R. K." Valentine, B. R. Forster, hasis for Ameriena doubts as to British E. D. Lawrence. Lt. E. H. Jacobs, Lark-

com, R.E., and B. D. Evans. conditions than the steady stream of ex "pressions of British prashoism which have come to our shores from British sources. during the past two years.

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FANLING HUNT STEEPLECHASES.

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Then comes tea, work, dinner, and bed. The US girl champion never goes out- after dinner, and neither smokes nor takes any form of stimulant-all quite unlike Suzanne.

When the officers of a crack cavalry regiment wished to toast her in cham Page at a fashionable Cannes club, Helen begged for mineral water....

She dances sometimes in the afternoon,

but only when she can spare time from her Freach studies. A very serious and simple maiden, in fact, is Helen.

As far as he could make ou there had been no record in the United Kingdom of

Up at 7am. Miss Wills is practising but in French literature there were some cases of food poisoning in which ducks' tournament or another claims her till well eggs were implicated. An American bag into the afternoon. She is quite prepar teriological investigator-Rosenbergered to play in any category with partners found coli bacilli in eggs, and he was she does not know, and to take a defeat. the only ore that witness had found who bad recorded any investigations on the matter. There was no doubt that bacteria could penetrate the shell into the egg. 20 the and if celi bacilli would do

The clinical symptoms and post-mortem aertrycke bacillus could do so also. appearance of the internal organs were typical of food poisoning. This diagnosis As to colours, I should think that was confirmed by the isolation of the green, in its many shades, will be the bacillus aertrycke. Thia bacillus was most popular. The dyers of Lyons have only found in meaty food. The only food been busy during the last few months of that nature that the girl had partaken & host of subtle of during the thirty hours before she was nuances that did not figure in last taken ill was a duck's egg, which had been season's colour lists. Light sage, almond fried. It was true that other members

Like Lenglen, Miss Willa learnt her and tilleul are the favourite among the of the family partook of duck's egga, but lighter shades, with battle, emerald and each egg was a complete meal that was tennis from her father, starting at to say, the egg was separate and distinct thirteen, but to-day she is far from the spinach (the latter so-called because it is the deep tint of spinach when it is from the other eggs add no one partook perfected human instrument Suzanne cooked) among the darker shades. of a share of her egg. She did not eat was in 1019. She has the fastest service Chartreuse continues to figure among any food during the forty-eight hours and the, best forearm drive and back- some of the evening frocks, but, as it is previous to her illness of which other band return of her sex; also she is a miracle of stamina, three it persons did not eat. such a difficult shade to

No other persons positive has not a tremendous success, Lucien had suffered from food poisoning either gruelling sete scarcely altering her Lelong is showing the most delightful in her family or among the employees of breathing, while she is entirely

rufleable." of models in a new shade of steel grey, the firm where she worked. No virus trimming this with silver leather coins had been used in the vicinity for destroy- and perhapé an odd buckle of old beatening rats. In all three circumstances he silver. Grey, by the way, is likely to had no doubt that Miss Vogt died from take the place of beige this season, a food poisoning and that it was conveyed change many who were tired of the in: by the duck's egg. sipid character of beige, will welcome. There will be a fair amount of blue worn and the many shades of bois de rose will give place to a delicate pastel rose that will be sure to be hailed with joy by the younger set.

But so far from being down and out,"

so that we shall see Fanling Hunt Streplechases are to from believing that Britain is done.be held on Easter Monday, April 5th, at British energy and British ability are the Kwanti Race Course, the first race disclosing new resources and new power starting at 12.30. Owners are reminded The first acute necessity was to get Europe that Entry Forma must be sent in before reorganised, in a word, to deal with the noun, Friday. March 26th, to Dr. F. political problems which blocked the way Pierce-Grove, Alexandra Buildings. 10 European-rehabilitation and restricted the European markets for British produs- tion. And in three short years British statesmanship has won for Britain a poli- tical position not occupied for more than half a century.

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said:-

WEATHER REPORT.

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Last night's weather report, forecast and remarks by the Royal Observatory

oyer China The anti-cyclone weakened further. Moderate may be expected along the S. E. coast and over the China Sca

Local forecast: N.E. winds, moderate, overcast and rainy at first, improving.

SUPREMACY IN EUROPE. The political job has been done. It has lieen done with great efficiency, and in a period of time which, if it has seemed long in passing, will from the Listorical point of view seem marvellously short. To-day British political influence supreme in Europé, and not only is Europe later.. settling down under conditions which satisfy British requirements, but there is not a considerable capital in Europe in which attention is not concentrated upon British policy, and where British purposes are not all-important.

real appreciation of the extent of British latent resources or still unperceived deter mination...

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THE DEET PROBLEM.

THE TWO-PIECE COSTUML

wear,

VERY KARE.

Dr. Guthrie: Isn't this bacilli named after a place -It is probably the name of a person or place.

The Coroner It is quite a uniqué

case.

Dr. Guthrie, mentioned that last sum; mer he was on a liner when 150 persona became ill after eating lobster, but the bacilli which led to the death of the deceased in this case was fortunately very rare. There could be no doubt that A, verdict was then recorded that death death was due to eating the duck's egg. was due to misadventure.

THE LUFFLE.

In all the collections I have so far seen, I have not caught sight of one tailor In the second place, while British trade

Finally, we have permitted the debt made suit. Its place still continues to has not been restored to a degree which

be taken by the two-piece costume. A was hoped and is necessary, British in question to arrive at a posture where the terns! conditions have been ordered amaz

feet of the payments to us supplies the new idea is to make the jumper end in ingly when one contrasts the English with British with a permanent lever to con- & belt so that it is difficult to tell the the Continental situation. The Budget soldate Europe against-as, while at the difference between a two piece and a one bas been balanced, the pound sterling has same time the British handling of the piece frock. For these, and for all a light been restored to par, and, above all, the same question has enabled them in the travelling clothes, kasha or great danger of a domestic industrial future to use the debts to themselves as quality tweed are what will be worn. atrife bas so far been evaded and may the basis for enlisting European, co-opera. As kasha is rather uninteresting unless casily be permanently escaped, if the con- tion by the more forgiving of annual pay. it is relieved with some other material

Another feature of the new fashions test aver coal is prevented in the next ments. I do not forecast an immediate or something original in the way of trim-

dresses, few months..

or eventual European economic combina ming, many designers are adding bands is the ruffle. Many of the big designers When the war ended Great Britain was, tion against America uzder British leader and motifs of painted leather on their are using them as a trimming

Others are adding capes and coats, not in wholesale pro- if I may use a Sgure of speech, not a little ship that may or may not come about na kasha costunee like a great sailing vessel which had been conditions develop in the future but the bands of embroidery worked in different fusion, as our mothers were wont to wear gay coloured silks Others, again, are them in their young days, but discreetly dismasted and gravely injured by a possibility is henceforth always there.

Mr. Hoover's rubber action, too, has combining kasha with bands of chiffon and with a fine regard for artistic effect. tremendous, storm it was necessary to clear away the wreckage, restore the had a double effect. It has enormously I referred in a recent letter to the Jenny, for example, is showing a charm- maats, mend and fix the rails, to get ready embittered British opinion, while the aug. Practice of combining kasha with crêpeing crêpe de Chine frock, trimmed. just for a resumption of navigation when the gestion of possible reprisal in the direc de Chine, particularly for sports wear with tiny rules that look like pockets, wind came. What is lacking now is the tion of the limitation of cotton produc-Well, this seems to be a development of one being placed over the heart, the other wind. The chip is ready for sen again, tion, for example, has beeu taken quite the same idea, for many of the smartest over the hip. The kaha coat which.com models in kanha now show bands of pletes this ensemble, is lined with crêpe the sails are spread for the first wind, teriously as presaging a real conflict

The circumstance which makes American chiffon inlet into the sleeves, or a waist de Chine similar to that of the frock, the and however it may still be delayed it is

understanding of European conditions at line that has been lengthened by means Bame idea of ruffed pockets being added sure to come.

It is a profound error, in my judgment, the moment excessively difficult is that we of a deep band of chillon, most charm

Dinner frocks are being shown in for the American business or financial are so comfortable and prosperous that we ing effects being obtained by contrasting

cannot realise the state of mind of people light and heavy materials in this way. crêpe Georgette,, chiffon and printed materials. They are full and billowing, world to think of Great Britain as "done," or as anything but a potential rival and who feel that their backs are against the RETURN OF THE CAPE.

and very often held in at a low waist Another now note I noticed was return line with a deep band of jewelled fabric competitor, whose very great problems wall, and that they are carrying on a life ensure that it must concentrate all its and death struggle for existence. Nor do atill vast resources upon the struggle. we understand to what an extent our of the cape. There are being shown in or of lame, for, although the waist line We are quite unconsciously, as in the course seems to these people to be deliber-lighter materials, more for throwing still remains low, it will be well dehed over the shoulders as the day draws in this season by means of deep belts of all Weber eat drifting into an economic ately and calculatingly unfair and rather than as a definite covering: but descriptions. Many designers are, adding cable with nation which is fighting for generous. We still talk frequently. of they are bound to become more popular belts of flowers made of the same material

co-operating with Europe," and even of its life, while we are struggling rather

as the sensor advances, and," "already as the dress, and adding, as well, a row slightly to acquire and retain markets for helping Europe," but to Europe our

many of the Spring coats are featuring at these round the hem of the akirt," a A surplus production. And we are drift-actions seem hostile, and it is dificult to

charming idea when it is well carried t ing into the struggle without the smallest discover off hand what Europe resents cape backs

out. most-our actions or our words,

('uunpoo para 10 400 (Continued on next column.)

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at exactly the same places on the cont

"UNEUFFLEABLE.

HA-

Those are her points. Her weaknesses are no less glaring: her overhead smashes are painful, she is slow about the courts; apt to be erratic, and does not dem markedly quick "in the uptake."

A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST.

Being a Christian Scientist, Helen is not superstitious, but fatalistic; nor bas she any thoughts on whether a lawn tennis star should be married or single. She is rarely heard to open her lips in public, beyond a charmingly smiled

Thanks so much' after she has lost or wou a match; and as for tenni. politics, she asks you, open-eyed, what you mean.

A refreshingly calm young miss, and her mask of pate-rose immobility once one who has only been observed to drop since she arrived in the South-whe first her eyes fell on the gorgeous half dözen frocks and gowns a master Parj. sian hand had fashioned for her: The

Helen was just an excited, handelapping girl, wreathed in smile.

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