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LAWN TENNIS.

ANOTHER TITLE CHANGES HANDS.

STEVENSON BEATS GREEN.

•

La an extremely well contested match on the Stand Court yester. day Major W. B. Stevenson bent

HOME FOOTBALL.

HUDDERSFIELD BEATEN AT

HOME.

STILL ́A CHANGE OF THE

CHAMPIONSHIP.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 2nd, 1928.

NEW GIRLS OF GERMANY. THE PRINCE AT PING-PONG. A VITAL HOUR IN THE

BECOMING A GOOD SPORT.

SLIMMER AND SMARTER.

14

IN THE EAST END."

TALK WITH GIRL ON TYPING.

[BY AN ENGLISHMAN.]

LONDON, March 30th. The Prince of Wales paid visita Not so long ago the German girito several educational institutes in conveyed the impression of an in- the East End of London yesterday afternoon and evening, and attend. in Holborn, W.C.

ניין

WAR.

HOW FOCH TOOK OVER · COMMAND.

WHAT HAIG TOLD HIM.

P.LRIS.

try and believe that it is sufficient, we shall be beaten. You are, ia agreement with Haig and Pétain when you are with them, but, when you have left them, both work separately and the liaison is not kept up. It cannot endure 'as things stand now and it is Germany

MIDNIGHT RAID ON CONVENT.

LOVER SHOT DEAD WHILE ESCAPING.

STRASBOURG.

A midnight drama is reported from a content at Bregenz, in the Voralborg.

is profiting by this state of

At Compiègne on March 95th | Lord Milner, M. Poincaré (the Pre- Graphic details concerning the sident of the Republic), M. Clemen Louis Rupp, a railway employee,

was passionately in love with momentous conference at Deufleas pean, Marshal Pétain, Foch, and M. (20 miles north of Amiens) 10 years

Loucheur met.

young girl, who, however, refused That night General Wilson ar- his hand and took the veil. Rupp Earl Haig agreed to the nomina that Clemencezu should be made at dead of night, he climbed the tion of General Fach as supreme Supreme War Commander, with convent wall and broke into the 'lilustration by al. Louchy, whe Fech as his Chief of Staff. Foch convent waren. was then Minister for Munitions in disagreed with this plan.

8. E. Green in the Final of the the English League were consider. differently proportioned luggeted a Civil Service boxing coneat ago, when the late Field-Marshal | „ived in Paris with the proposal determined to kidnap the girl, and, Club Singles Championship by three, sets to one. A very high standard was maintained through. eut, fast play being the order of

the

Green,

with sails square set, and unduly overweighted aft.

To-day a more suitable analogy is that of a spick and span clipper with neat lines, the cut of her i

Take a stroll along the Linden, visit the best dance restaurants in any large

At the John Bear Hostel for working lada in Bower-street, he winged in sum of pagpong, with a 17-years-old youth named Frederick Faulkner. A fashlight photograph was taken and dazzled him a little, so that he could not play well for

moment.

in France are given

In seeking the cell of the girl he loved he entered the call of another nun. The nun awoke with scream, and the alarm was sounded by the convent bell.

Huddersfild's chances of being champions in the First Division of ably lessened by their defeat on Monday, again on the home ground, by Shefeld United. The latter wou by the only goal and avenged their day.

defeat by the same margin when

11. Clemenceau's Cabinet: despite bis age, played aggressively

these teams met in the F.A. Cup distinctly Parisian. and

semi-final after two drawn matches, pressed his opponent at every

A win for Everton (whose appan opportunity. He went over- his usual strong forehand and back-ents in the last match are hand drives with remarkable con.

Arsenal) will give Evericp the cham- Į sistency keeping the Major continu. pionship. Even if Everton ose this it will leave Huddersfield with the ously on the run und frequently scoring aces. He had the lead af necessity of winning both matches ways in the opening stages of the if they are to be champions. The first set and never relaxed till the position now is that Everton have maintain the old German cult and Some of the rooms were so crowded ing out that a supreme war com of himself. Explaining what had and M. Loucheur to a corner of the

a total of 32 points with a game in hand; Huddersfeld have 49 points with two matches in hand

natch was over. The Military ex- ponent withstood his opponent's attack with great steadiness and counter-attacked frequently. Of the two he did the greater amount of running, but gained the admiration of the crowd for the way he return ed most of Green's stinging abota He put up a fine uphill fight and in the face of strong opposition kept cool throughout. He varied his game, sometimes tricking Green with a drop shot just over the net and often working his way up to the net

THE PLAY.

*

Play throughout was very even and neither had a substantial load during any part of the match. Green had the lead in the opening atages with Stevenson close behind and eventually levelling. At 4 all, however,

broke through Stevenson

his opponent's service and winning on his own in the next game, he took the first met at B-4. The struggle continued in the second Be The pace was becoming faster and both players were eager to win the ge Green led by the odd game allife way until all was reached. Major Stevenson showed up splen didly during the whole time and kept levelling the scores, but after 8 all he was obliged to yield two games to Green who finished the second in spectacular style.

Green secured a good lead of 2 love in the third set, but the Mujer quickly equalised. The former took the next game only to lose the fol lowing one. Competition became very keen and after some very fins play the Major forged ahead and ∙led

the provincial town," and one behold, beat me," he said to Faulkner with! Army, and the conviction he gather, ber October 1914. The enemy has the convent. The man

German girls dressed in almost the latest Paris creations. There are still a few frumps left, but they hail mostly from patrician houses, where it is considered proper to

"I won't go on. You are sure to

a laugh, and gäre up.

At the Milner Hal: the Prince watched boys being taught to make their own clothes.

He then crossed the road to the

On the next day there was an- M. Loncheur describes his visit to

other conference at Doullens, Foch French general headquarters after said to M. Clemenceau: "The hour the German break-through in March has come not to lose another foot

Rupp tried to escape, but the vil 1918 on the front of the British 5th of round. We must hang on to

our ground and die there. Remem lagers rushed up and surrounded was shot ed that something drastic had to be done to prevent the Germans Trom struck at the juncture of the British dead by one of the inhabitants as he was running away in the dark- dividing the French and British and French forces. He has opened armies and reaching Amiens

both wings of the door. A freshness. On

again. the night of March 9th force would close them Loucheur saw Foch who told him Above all, no general line of retreat

I will follow it willingly,” that he had seen M. Clemenceau should be indicated to the troops."" and had handed him a letter point- Haig appeared tired but master M. Clemenceau took Lård Milner mand was necessary if a catastrophe pened since March 31st, he said: room. "Well," Milner,” he said. "What remains of the 5th Army were to be avoided.

You hare heard what Haig has The Freach Premier had replied south of the Somme I have placed said. What do you think?" The Prince, however, made him to General Fock that he himself was Pétain."

under the orders of General seif perfectly at home. As he a good terms with both Field- walked down the narrow lanes of Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (as the women he shook hands here and late earl then was) and General there and once pleasantly caught Pétain, and had frequently ensured the hand of a baby which was in the liaison between them. arms of its mother.

Senrab-street school, which was packed with 2,600 girls and women from local L.C.C. dight institutes, that the Prince could scarcely make The passion for slimness bas his way to the centre in order to reached Germany. The full-bosomewhat was going on..

to wear print frocks in the stalls.

one of which, against Portsmouthed, perfunctorily dressed Gretchen on Saturday, they ought to win.

with hair austerely combed is prac- Blackburn's sequence of victories tically extinct among the younger was broken by Leicester who scored generation. But though it in a six goals against the Cup winners comparatively simple affair to re duce one's figure, it is not always ay to reduce one's ankles in pro- which there is still room for im- portion. That is the one detail in

provement-that, and the lingering prejudice that more than just touch

without giving any away,

Millwall, champions in the Third Division (South), lost to Norwich by two goals.

The results of Monday's matches as cabled by Reuter were:-

Division I Huddersfield 0, Sheffield U... 1. Leicester 6, Blackbum 0.

Division II.

Wolves 1. Swansea 1."

Division III. (Southern). Charlton 3, Swindon 1. Norwich 2, MiRwall 0.

WOMAN'S BOOK ON FAMOUS CRIME.

MISS TENNYSON JEESE.

A MODEL VOLUME.

of powder is not quite respectable. But women are adap table creatures, and there is little doubt that nature and artice will Boon complete the transformation.

Surglag Crowd Of Girls.

and carrying whips danced before A troupe of girls in jockey caps him to the music of " John Feel "; another group, sang to him. He talked to women being taught to make their own clothes, examined laces and silks, shook hands with smiling Sisters of Mercy in their wide-winged white caps, say girls making leather slippers and hand- bags, went up a dark staircase by the light of a match, and finally had almost to fight his way out of the school playground again through a surging mob of excited girls.

"Cave Man" Husbanda

Criticised... Temperamentally, too, the Ger man girl has changed, and therein lies an element of tragedy.

Judged by British standards, many German husbands differ At the Stepney Commercial In- vastly from the conception of what stitute in Myrdle-street the Prince a husband thould be. They are in- watched a typewriting class, and to clined to be domineering; the one typist, Miss Lily Rosenfeld, be standard of fidelity is lower on the confessed that he could only type whole in Germany than in some with two fingers. other countries; and they drink a good deal.

Oc

"I have got a portable 'type" writer," he told her, "and some times" type my speeches when I am travelling in the train."

An audience of about 2,000 people gave the Prince a rousing welcome at the Holborn Stadium Club at ten

o'clock for the Civil Service boxing championships.

WOMEN'S £5,000 A YEAR

ON DRESS.

In pre-war days all this was taken for granted. A husband was frankly allowed his fing Misa F. Tennyson Jesse will add casionally-was he not s man to the great reputation which she and his wife was accustomed to has already acquired as a crimine piloting him home after a beur logist by her new work, The Trial party which had lasted well into of Samuel Henry Dougal," which the morning. She did not question she has edited for the Notable him as to his whereabouts if he Trials Series." It is very complete than usual, and she accepted in remained away from home longer at 33 Green made an effort with numerous illustrations, and to save the set and reduced the critical, and, indeed, it might well humble spirit his rebukes if all was arrears to 54, but Stevenson made serve as a pattern of what such

not quite in order in the household no mistake in the next game and book should be doing edit alike when he returned And though secured the third set at 6-4.

there are and always have been MEN THEY MEET SPEND ONLY to author and publisher.

-many honourable exceptions,

£460. most German husbands are follow the footsteps of their fathers

U.S.A. FASHION BUDGETS.

NEW YORK. Women spend clothes in the amount spent in dressing the fashionable circles four to five times well-groomed wAD, according estimates made by New York ex perts in such matters. There are many cases where the smart woman pays for her wardrobe ten times as much as the smart man about town, A woman of fashion in New York who spends less than £2,000 a year.

Dougal murdered in 1899 at the Most Farm in Suffolk an elderlying single woman, Camille Hailand, of and grandfathers. considerable means, who was so “Moze Jocktails Leis Bear.

foolish

ueace.

to fall under his in-

on

to

Greep opened strongly in the fourth set and on the run of play scoment likely to make the scores two Bets all. Ho again secured the lead at 2 love and although Major Stevenson drew level, he asserted

The German wife may now be himself and took the end at 4, but that proved his last effort. The one thing (says Miss Jesse) ar fashion common to German

found-charlestoning-in the pecu Stevenson gradually sore his op that stands out clearly from poor ballrooms-at the time of day when ponent down and although many Camille Holland is that she was she used to be having a knitting deucca were called is the four games a perfect example of that type of party or cutting up the Wurst for that followed, the Major eventually human being nearly always a won them all. The final score in woman whom one may call the supper. She is demanding to be

is favour were 6-4, 6-5, 6-4, 6-4.

taken to dine in restaurante en Major Stevenson wins the Club potential murderer is quick to re of-all-work is out, and she is giving born murderer, a type that the days when the cook or the maid Singles Championship for the first cognise, the type to which belong up beer for cocktails. time. S. E. Green was the winnered the victims of George Joseph withal developed a sense of humour, on her clothes is in danger of lapsing

She has for the last three year

Smith (the "brides-in-a-bath mur- derer) and of Landru... She rarely possessed in the old days, she went with him into an isolation and is becoming a "good bort" so complete that death had removed

in the truly British sense. ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF her from it for four years before than criticise her men folk, but the At present she does little more any inquiry was set on foot as today is approaching when she will

demand that husbands shall con form to the new ideals. When that day dawns we shall see German husbands allowing their wives to Pass through the restaurant deor first, giving up their seats in omnibuses and tramway-cars, and transferring to their wives some thing of the respect which has been man's prerogative in the past.

"CLUB.

BOGEY POOL

her fate.

A Little Shopping. One of the strangest facts in this case was that when Miss Holland Played at Fanling on April 28th found out what sort of man Dougal

was she did not leave him.

90th:-2

A, E Lissaman ......(9) 2 up wini. Other scores

T. D. E. Pendered...(3) F. M. Finlayson.......(0)

(All square)."

"D. Forbes (19)

A H. Alexander...(scr.)

(1 down). There were 27 entries.

KAISERIN AND QUEEN.

'DOORN DIGNITY.

But it must be remembered that she did not know that the man at whose side she lived had al- ready, planned her death.

There is nothing more difficutt than to believe in the possibility of murder in our own immediate surroundings; it in the sort of thing that happens to other people, not to us, and not even to people we know.

A woman servant watched Miss Holland drive off with Dougal, " to do a little shopping," and that was the last seen of the victim by any other eye than Dougal's, Dougal forged her name to cheques and deeds and got possession of part of her property.

BELLIN. The editor of the Dutch paper Het Leven bought from the liter

*** Jolly English Home." ary agents of the ex-Kaiser's wife

He must have had qualms after the memoirs which she dictated to no American journalist and pub the murder. Disliking to be alone, under the title he advertised for paying guests" "Memoirs of the Princess Her-to come and live in his Jolly Eng. lish home," as he described it; and He has now received a sharp he told one of them that he only letter from the marshal of the court slept two or three hours each of the ex-Kateer pointing out, that night." He was arrested for for the authoress is not Princess" gery, and the police began to dig

lished them

wing"

fout Kaiserin"--which he should have known as he already had letter from a person,sho subscrip ed himself "Private Secretary to her Majesty the Kaiserin Queon."

"

and

Be sure you say 'Majesty' and kiss her hand,' were the instruc tions given by the marshal to an acquaintance of mine who went to Doora

So I called her Majesty," he said to me," and kissed her cotton glove.

all round the Most Farm to find Miss Holland's body, which they did after five works work.

Dougal was convicted of murder and hanged. As he stood on the drop a

Twice the chaplain asked: "Are you guilty or not guilty 1" while Billington's hand stayed upon the fever. Dougal half turned his head in the direction of the chaplain's voice and said, Guilly at the moment that the lever was pulled.

fi

AERODROME IN HYDE PARK

#

SIR SEFTON BRANCKER THINKS LONDON WOULD LIKE IT.

بحال

BIRLIN. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker (Director of Civil Avia tion to the British Air Ministry), who has been attending the Inter- national Air Conference, said:

Itvis a great advantage to Ber in to have an aerodrome only 10 minutes' drive from Unter den Linden; and in poist of fact ose wants more time to catch the Lon- don train than the Landon aero- plane.

"I believe the public would like an aerodrome in Hyde Park," he said, and we could give them comfortable chairs to see the zero- plance come and go. It would be. much nicer for them than lying on' the grass."

or more,

into obscurity. She commonly com pela her husband to pay out £5,000

Club, which has been holding its The New York Custom Cutters'

annual style show for men at the Hotel Commodore, estimates aman. cap keep himself in the height of fashion in New York for not more than £400 a year.

Gowns Worn Only Onca. „ On behalf of the woman it is

pointed out that their clothes cannot be worn until they show signs of wear, as is the case with men. It is considered impossible for a woman moving in distinguished social circles to wear the same evening gown re- peatedly. Custom demands that she appear in ney clothes so frequently that when sc returns to a gown formerly worn her friends have for- gotten the first wearing. The in- terval cannot be so long na to permit the gown to pass out of style.

How a man dresses on £400 a year in New York is indicated by the following estimates :---

SUITE AND OVERCOATE. Formal evening dress 230 Dinner suit.......27 Formal day dress ........................ 23 23 Informal day dress....... Five business suits Two sports saita Dress overcoat Business overcoat Sport coat uñozon Ulster

HATE

100

£330

BOOTS AND BEGES. Evening, business and

sport

423

Bilk hat £3, opers hat £1, bowler In November 1996 anggerfion £2, two soft business hats £4, sport by Lord Apaloy (Co., Southamp hat and cap, £2; total £12, Acces ton) for the provision of a small sories amount to £86. aerodroms in Hyde Park for light: Some of these prices may seem planes was declined by the Air bigh in London, and they are, cape- Minister, Bir Samuel Hoars, on the cially when judged by London ground of the proximity of high valuce. It does not pay American buildings and trees and the densely men to import their clothes from Ipopulated surroundings.

London because of the high tarif

a

Foch's Determination. "That is not sufficient." replied Foch. "And you know that, if we

"Alas!" the latter interjected. "It hardly exists any more. in fragments"

It is

Haig's Consent.

It was then that Haig uttered the noble words: !! If General Foch will consent to give me his advice "(Continued on next.Columan).

"I think," Lord Milaer replied. "that is the right solution."

M. Clemenceau then called Gen-

eral Pétain over, and, telling him what had been done, said: I ask you accept this solution."

"It will accept any solution,) came the prompt reply, “which is necessary or useful to save my coun try. That is my sole desire."

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