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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1818, 1926.

DIP IN THE OCEANI

NEW FORM OF COURSING.

GREYHOUND RACING WITH AN ·

ELECTRIC, HARE,

SILK-COVERED CARS, -

FABRIC BODIES AT PARIS SHOW.

Motor-cars clothed · outside in ́silk, Haou and tapery, and even linoleumi caused old motorists to rub their eyes in astonishment at the "Paris Motor Ex- hibition in the Grand Palais in the Champs-Elysées.

MANCHESTER. Greyhound racing without the use of live hares to be run to death is a form of coursing that has recently invaded Manchester with such success in a few. It was all certainly a little bewilder weeks that, during the present civic week, ing, writes the Paris representative of assembles of as many as 17,000 persons the Daily Mail. We have known the ench evening have been found at the fabric-body and its value for some time, grounds at Longsight, near Belle Vue, but few could have imagined rach a and already extensions to London, Glas complete upheaval.

gow, Leeds, and other centres are boing. The motor-car industry of Truncs projected.

might. judging by its display, bas The undertaking is that of the Grey-suddenly passed from the manufacturer hound Racing Association, Ltd., with into the hands of the modiste. which General Critchley is prominently It is not a case of a low freakish associated. It is stated that the origin models with a rather dash make-up. All of this means of racing greyhounds, in kinds of cars, from the baby sevens which an electrically propelled imitation to the aristocrats at the show, have their hare running round an oval course of bodies clad in dazzling new clothes. 400 to 300 yards takes the pince of Old coachwork is made to leak positively. live quarry as at Aintree, is English, but old-fashioned. that the faventor had to go to the United States to get it financed and leve. laped. To test whether it would meet: with similar popularity on this side Man-framework, over chester, as a recognized sporting centre. was the first place chosen, and rapid success beyond all expectations has followed the experiment.

The ground is not quite as large as an ordinary football ground and round the ovel racing track there are open and overed stands for spectators. The eles wie hare which runa round the track controlled from a lighthouse, as it is called, an erection commanding a view of the whole grassed and slightly banked oval. The bare" is released in the sight of the competing hounds from a trap doer on to the track, and it speeds along suspended from a steel bar over. banging the track, but not itself seen. The controller can regulate the speed of the simulacrum up to between 50 and 60 miles an hour, The hounds are simul taneously released each from its sepa rate pen at the side of the track. They dart after the quarry, and immediately they are, away the peas, which have been brought well out on to the track, are rolled back out of the way and the chase resolves itself into a race of the hounds against cach other.

Women's Joy, The basis of the iden is a very light which is stretched Various kinds of materiala.

The original fabrio body rather lacked dignity, but the ingenuity and artistry of the French maker has overcome this. He has almost universally adopted the fabric-body, and, what is more, he has made it a thing of beauty,

French women were in ecstasies when the exhibition opened. They ran their figures over the new materials; they placed their frocks against them to see if the colours matched; they, even asked for books of patterns of the new mate-

rials.

There was one little car clothed, in-. eluding its bonnet, in a lines dress of mauve decorated all over with ivy leaves. Its hood was covered in the same colour to match. The rim of the steering wheel was lined with linen, but without ivy leaves.

Very chic," said the salesman, and a chorus of smařtly dressed women in the stand cried that it was indeed chic.

"What happens when it gets into the sun?" asked a delighted but practical woman. "There is no trouble,'

said

the salesmann; all the colours are quite fast, and will stand not only strong sun- shine but the material will also wash quite well."

Some of the salesmen, in fact, might e bren discussing shirts or linen with their prospective customers rather than

car-bodies.

Some cars looked as though the maker had borrowed his ideas from the kitchen or the bath-room. These are covered in a kind of linoleum in all kinds of pat- torns-chess-board type, circles, cubes, and triangles, all picked out in different

The electric bare is little seen or re- garded by the spectators and plays only the part of exciting the hounds. As the hare passes the winning post at the end of the lap, 50 yards ahead of the hounds; it is whisked into its trap-door and the racing of the hounds is judged by the order in which they pass the winning- post. The distance the hounds run can be varied from 440 to 500 yards, and 'an- other variation of three hurdles at suit- able distances round the track. The one weak point which seems to have been revealed by this form of coursing is the dificulty of suitably handicapping the tions hand-painted on the outside panels A very extravagant body has carna- hounds. Speeds of 17. yards a second of the doors Another is furnished in a about 86 miles an hour-have been re-blue silk composition, with a wonderful.

The gistered as run by the hounds. quarter-mile has been done in from 26 to 27 seconds.

Any person can enter a bound, and to induce & coastant supply of competing hoands for each evening's racing the Ax sociation offers prizes amounting to about £50 a night.

colours:

sheen on the panels. The whole interior panelling is done in mother-of-pearl.

Still another car is covered in craco. dile leather and is cleaned with a brush and a polish like a pair of shoes,

GERMAN STAMPS, DECORATED WITH HEADS OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS.

BERLIN.

The German Post Office announces that a new series of postage stamps decorated with the heads of celebrated Germans is about to be issued. The 3 pfennig and 25 pfennig stamps bear the portrait of Goethe, the & plennig that of Schiller, and the 30 pfennig, which is used most of all, as Germany has penny postage, bears that of Frederick the Great

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£1,000 NOTE IN OFFERTORY BAG. ANONYMOUS GIFT IN SALISBURY CATHEDRAL.

A Bank of England note for £1,050 was placed in the offertary bag at Salis bary Cathedral during the early morning Holy Communion service celebrated by the Bishop, Dr. St. C. G. A. Donaldson, on Sunday, October 18th

There were about 120 men and women present. The gift is one of the biggest individual contributions ever received in cash during a church service:

Dr. Donaldson, chairman of the Mis- sionary Council of the Church Assembly, said to a Daily Mail reporter'::

Under such conditions there is no lack of entries The Duchess of Sutherland and other noted breeders of greyhounds who race their hounds have entered. The racing has been carried on during the summer chiefly in the early evening when there was still ample daylight, but since the change" frota summer time to Greenwich time artificial lighting of the course has been successfully used. Every spectator has an uninterrupted and clear. view of the racing under the powerful Bood lighting. The prices charged for admission range from 1s, to 3s. for the best side of the course. As many as

The 15 pfennig shows the head of Kant. The Offertory was in aid of the World motor-cars have been parked at the

the 20 pfennig that of Beethoven, the 30 Call, launched last January, and will go ground in an evening, and the average that of Lessing, the 40 that of Liebnitz into the funds of the Society for the attendance of bookmakers is about 250. The 50 pfennig stamp bears the head of Propagation of the Gospel: To my mind Women flock to the sport as well as men, Bach and the 80 pfennig that of Dürer: it is only one more fadication of the for the racing is a harmless spectacle in- The Republican newspapers suggest that reviving zeal in England for the Church

It is believed in Salisbury that the volving no cruelty; and experience proves Frederick the Great would not have been that the bounds as a rule are effectively complimented by the use of his head on offering was given by a prominent re- excited to chase the electric hare. Some postage stamp, and they wonder that sident who sought this method of obtain- that have been frequently entered have the Post Office has not thought of decorating anonymity. Some years ago a £630 found out the trick and have doubled back to their pea without rounding the in one of the stamps with the bead of bank-note was received at a collection in

track; but such occurrences are rare, and the great number of different hounds. entered seemed to ensure an indefinite continuance of genuine racing,

Once or twice there have been inter- ruptions of the electric current and the race.bas ended in a scuffle of the hounds round the artificial hare. The Associa tion has provided 200 kennels on the ground and offers fanciers the opportu mity of having their hounds trained and boarded from £1 a week per head

VOICE FROM THE SKY. APPARATUS TO PROVIDE "AERIAL CONCERTS."

An apparatus has been produced in the United States, and is shortly to be de monstrated in England, which magnifies the human voice to such an extent that words spoken in an aeroplane flying at

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In a recent experiment in America the aircraft flew abore low clouds and while those on A flying ground below, could not see anything of the machine, they could hear speeches and music.

It is proposed by the Plane-Speaker Corporation, which is developing the invention, to employ it in aeroplanes of various types, Aerial concerts will be given above cities and public nanounce-" ments made by this voice from the sky

German unemployment in the second half of September decreased by 68,000 to 295,000; on October 4th there were. 1,572,700 unemployed in Great Britain- 44,919 more than a week before...

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LONDON AIR QUIETS A GHOST.

After being under close observation for nearly a fortnight Eleonore Zugun, the 13-years-old Rumanian peasant girl, who is alleged to be the medium of an unruly ghost, failed to reveal anything very un- usual.

Dr. R. Fielding-Ould, who has been examining her, tåld a Daily Mail re porter that nothing had happened up to late which in his opinion was not cap. able of a natural explanation..." She may have produced phenomena in Vienna, but she does not appear to be doing so here," he said. -

The examination of the girl took place at the National Laboratory of Paychical Research in Queensberry-place, South Kensington.

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