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CRAVEN 'A'

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pleasure give

me Craven “4”

CRAVEN

VIRGINIA

GARETTES

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Remember

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1936.

HONG KONG, DAILY PRESS,

EAST COMES

WEST FOR

IN EASY-ACCESS' INNER

FOIL PACKETS, ALSO IN "TRU-VAC" "50" TINS When we seal the TRU-VAC simisht TIN the FACTORY. FRESHNESS of CRAVEN "AD là securely Imprisoned until the seal is broken by pulling the rubber cab-no cutter: insued edges.

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CRAVENA

ARE MADE SPECIALLY TO PREVENT SORE THROATS

MADE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, BY CARRERAS LTD

FAMOUS MACBRAYNE

SHIPS SOLD

Fate Of Iona And Columba: To Be Broken Up At Dalmuir

London, Feb. 24 1863. After running for one sea- Two of the oldest and most son on the Ardrichaig, route she popular, paddle steamers in the was earmarked for blockade run world-Messrs MacBrayne's Iona ning and, was consequently strip- and Columba-have been purchas- ped of her deck saloons and cabin ed by Messra Arnott, Young and fittings, and these were installed Co. (Shipbreakers), Dalmuir, for the present Iona. breaking up.

The Iona has also the distiziction of being the first passenger steam-

COURT-MARTIAL CAUSED BY A MOUSTACHE

Guardsman Would Not Shave It Off

Windsor, Feb. 25.

A Guardsman who had been sentenced by his commanding afficer to ten days' confinement to

CARPETS

HUGE FABRIC FOR INDIA :

Glasgow Firm's Commission

Landon, Feb. 14. The East in the person of any Indian potentate has come West and to the West of Scotland-for what is possibly the largest one- ptece machine-made carpet ever produced

Its measurements will be a re- velation to any ordinary honse- holder. Plain light gold, in colour with a blue and green border, the corpet, is 80ft. long, 271t. wide, and weighs 17 cwt.

FATE OF FAMOUS LINERS

Homeric And Belgenland

London Feb. 14.

It was learned in Southampton yesterday that the liner Homeric, now laid up off Ryde, Isle of Wight, is to be offered tor salë to be broken up. It will be visited

Wednesday by representatives'

of several shipbreaking firms

TO-DAY'S

RADIO PROGRAMME

From the Studio

Broadcast by 2.B.W. "The Z.B.W, Dance Orchestra.'

On 355 Metres

WEDNESDAY

11.m.-Close-Down,

12.30 2.15 p.m.-European Record-4.50

ed Programme.

1

p.m.-Local Time and Weather

Report.

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BERLIN PROGRAMMË.

p.m.-Call DJB, DJN (German, English).

Gerinan Folk Song.

Programme Forecast (German.

1.30 p.ni-Reuter Press Bulletins. pm-In Praise of the Gottdess of

Rugby Press News, etc.. 2.15 p.m.-Close Down.

p.m.-Childrens'

Concert.

Studio

The Homeric will be the seventh | 4-7 p..-Chinese Programme. vessel of the Cunard-White Star 6-6.30 fleet to be sold for breaking-up since the merger took place. The 7-11 p.m.--European Programme vix other liners are Adriatio, Al-7-7.17 p.m.-Petit Suite de Con- bertic, Calgarie, Mauretania cert" (No. 1) (Coleridge-Taylor) Olympic, and Doric.

These seven vessels total nearly

a quarter of a million tous,

The Homerio (34,350-tons) was laid up at the end of her cruising schedule last year.

MAJESTIC'S LAST TRIP? The Majestic (50,399 tous) sailed yesterday on what may be her last round voyage in the North Atlan tic trade. She is not included in ay sailing schedule after her pre- en voyage, but what her future will be is not known at present

Destined for the dining-hall of the Maharajan of Jodhpore, this particularly fine Axminster fabric has recently been completed at the Glasgow factory of Messrs James Templeton and Co. It is to be shipped to India in a specially

The Majestic, the largest liner constructed in-lined case, ber-

the world until the Normandie netically sealed as a precaution

was built, was laid down by the against damage by water or other Hamburg-Amerika line shortly be Taze the war and was originally, the agencies during transit,

In its composition each strand Bismarck. Although launched in

Jarn

is composed of mine 1014 she was not finished until separately spun threads, and each seme time aiter peace was declar square inch contains 96 tufts., and she never sailed under the making a total of almost 30,000,000 German flag, for she was takan over by the White Star Line after tufts or knots in the whole carpet

the war, Each tuft or knot is made up of

The Homeric, the largest cruis

is strands, so that there are aping reusel afloat, was transferred proximately 540,000,000 suparate ends of wool in the fabric.

The carpet was woven on the widest carpet weaving loom in the world, which can accommodate seamless carpets up to 33 feet in width. Another recent product of this loom was a fine quality carpet nieasuring 30 feet by 30 feet, made for the Duke of York

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FOR HARODA BOUDOIR Another large-size carpet which privileged spectators saw yesterday in Messrs. Templeton's tactory was duplicate of a super-quality Axminster made for the boudoir In the palace of the Gaekwar of Baroda in connection with the Diamond Jubilee celebrations beld some weeks ago. Other fine seam. less carpets were made for the BATTLE palace, representing the most luxurious qualities that can be produced.

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holiday cruising after several years on the North Atlantio ser- She was taken out of active vice. service on the conclusion of her last series of pleasure cruises, in which she had been engaged since she lost her place in the express service to New York.

It had been expected that she would have appeared in the cruis. ing programme of the Cunard- White Star Line for 1930, but a few months ago it was suggested unofficially that sho might, be broken up on completion of the Queen Mary,

The Homeric was completed t Danzig in 1922, and was acquired by the White Star Line.

THE BELGENLAND The Atlantic Transport liner Columbia, better known in her previous name of Belgenland, 4160. being offered for sale for breaking up. The Columbia (27,132 lons) was built at Belfast by Bar- Less luxurious, but of special and and Wolft in 1917, and sho grade, was a specimen of one of has been laid up at New York the carpets made by Messrs. Tem since August last. She is now un- pleton for the directors' rooms of der the Ainerican flag in the the reconstructed Bank of Eng-ownership of the Atlantic Trans- land. It incorporates an Old Eng-port Company of West Virginia. I'reviously as the Belgenland, she 1ish (Georgian) design.

Of especial interest in view of and the Penaland and Western- next year's Coronation ceremony land comprised the Red Star Line, I was a duplicate of the carpet made which was dispersed when the lat by the firm for the Coronation ofter two veascle were acquired t King George V. Together with the term the Bernstein Line. various national emblems the in- tials of his late Majesty and Queen Mary are worked into the design.

LUXURY ON THE QUEEN MARY

The wreck of the French liner Atlantique has been bought by Mesara Dougins and Ramsey, of Glasgow, and will be broken up by Messrs. Smith and Son, of Port Glasgow, after being towed fri Cherbourg. It will be the biggest contract of its kind north of the Tweed and it will provide emplo ment for hundreds of men for year:

altera-

7.17-7.10 p.m.-~~

Four Songs by Peter Dawson (Bass-Barltona)

1. Star O'Robble Burns (Booth).

2. The Auld Hoose (Nairne ›

3. The Winding Road (Andrew).

Music.

Folk Music from the By-ways of Germany. Kees Veening, barf- tone, with instrumental accom. *paniment.

5 30 p.m.-News in English. 5.45 pm-Woman's Hour:

Practical Hints: Health Gym- nasties for You and Your Child.

6 p.m.-"My Knapsack is Packed." the Humorvus Adventures...on

Road.

6.45 pm-News in German.

7 p.m.-Concert of Light Music.

pm-News in English. 4. The Man in the Street (Long-3.15 p.m.-Concert of Light Music

stake).

7.30-8 p.m.-

From the Studio

A Violin and Pianoforte Recital.

by Jose Radesky and Maclean.

1. Wanz

Lincke.

Programme.

Mona

Unrequited Love

2. Song-Over the Rim of thes

Moon-Head.

3. Vioun Solo-Meditation-Mas-

senet.

4. Old and New Melodies-Bar~

man Finck.

-(continued).

9p.m-Close DJB, DJN (German,

English)...

9.05 p.m.-Call DIA, DJB, DJN

(German, English),"

German Folk Song.

Programme Forecast (German,

English).

6.15 p.m.-News in German on DJA,

. DJB, DJN.

9.30 p.m.--In Praise of the Goddess

of Music.

Folk Music from the By-ways of Germany. Kees Veening, Bari. tone, with instrumental accom- paniment.

8 p.m.-Local Time and Weather 1. p.m.-News in English on DJA

Report.

8.03-8.30 p.m.-

Light Orchestra)-- Music, Nalla Waltz (Delibes).

Mors et Vita Judex-(Gounod). A Life on the Ocean (Binding) Blue Roses-Selection. (Elis), Folly to be Wise Selection. 8.30-8 p.m.--

Variety-Vocal Hems... My Gal Sal "Ida" Sweet us Apple Cider-The

Mills Brothers. Lovely to Look At.

and in Dutch en DJB, DJN. 10.15 p.m.-To-day in Germany.

Sound Pictures,

10.30 pm-The Poet speaks: Bruno

Brehm reads from his Works. 10.45 p.m. The Shoemaker's Shop from "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" by Richard Wagner. Conductor: W. Richter-Reich-

helm.

12 midnight.-Close DJA. DJN

(German, Engilsh).

When I grew too old to Dream--

Irene Dunne (Soprano). Musical Comedy Requests-Les

Allen and his Canadian Bache-.20

lors.

If I had a Million Dollars. Rock" and Roll Tile Boswell

Sisters.

Whenever I think of you-Leslie

Hutchinson.

9-9.15 p.m.--

Vocal Gems by the Light Opera Company.

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RADIO MANILA

6 p.m.-Sunset Dance Programme

by the Laric Orchestra.

p.m.-Spanish Informational

Informațional

Perlod.

6.35 p.m.-English

Period.

-6.55 p.r.-Black quotations, through the courtesy of Swan, Culbert- son and Fritz.

7 p.m.-La Insular Cigar and Ciga- rette Factory presents "Aires 'Filipinos" with Juan Silos, Jr.

and his String Ensemble. 720p.m.-Rincon Español, featur-

ing Ramop Estella.

pm-Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy) performed by Leo- pold Stokowski and the Phila- delphis Orchestra. 7.45 p.m.-Elizalde y Cla PTU-

1. New Moon (Romberg), 2. Peggy Ann (Rodgers)... 9.15-9.30 p.m.-A Relay of the

Daventry News Bulletin (Copy-1.7.35 Tight by Reuter), 9.30-9.50 p.m.

Concert Waltzes by Marek Weber and his Orchestra

Danube Waves (Ivanovici). Artist's Life-Waltz (Strauss), Tales of Autumn (Waldteufel). Dream Waltz (Millöcker):

Maidens of Baden (Komzak),' 3.50-10 p.m.-"Mr. Whittington"

gramme.

B p.m-Studio Music. 815 p.m.-"Apo on the Air,” spon- sored by the Cebu Portland Cement Company.

2.30 p.m. Basque Presentation. 8.45 p.m.--Stock quotations and

local market reports.

Selection by Jack Buchanan. and Elsie Randolph with Car- 9pm-KEPA. Programme. roll Gibbs, and his Boy Friends. 9:30 pI-Tiso Cruz and his Mani-. Lup.-Big Ben

in Hotel Oljestră. 10-11 pm.

bones

MAN WHO SAVED CHICKENS BONES

10.30 p.m.-Sign Off.

INDIA GOVERNORS

With the world-wide reputation barracks for refusing to shave of of Messrs Templeton-as indiest- his moustache was courtmarilalled ed in slight measure by the orders ALTERED PRAYER BOOKS at Windsor to-day.'"

aiready enumerated-it was not TO APPEAR ON MARCH 16 Guardsman Arthur Leslie Bur-surprising to find in the exhibition

London, Fen, 24. sell 1st Batt, Coldstream Guards, a display of the qualities and de-

signs being supplied for some of The publication day of the new After nine years service the stationed at Victoria Barracks, the principal public-rooms in the Prayer. Book containing

London, Feb. 25, The appointment of Governors.......... These old ships that have de Iona, was fitted with the first Windsor, was tried on a charge of Cunard White Star liner Queentions necessitated by the accession

London, Feb, 11

to the new provinces of Bind and Lighted Offde holidaymakers for Chadburn bridge telegraph for refusing to obey the command of Mary.

of King Edward, has been fixed

Blx violins made by Mr. Gedrge Orissa was announced by the In- decades will be berthed at Messrs communicating between the bridge his superior officer. Regimental First class passengers are assur-

for March 16,

Robey and 50,000 chickeria' wish-dia Office last night. They am: Arnott, Young and Co.'s ship- and the engine-room,

·Sergeant-Major Britton,

-ed of soft and luxurious, walking

The Royal Warrant copy of

of are among a collection breaking yard; Dalmuir, where !

on fabrics of deep pile manufac which appears in every Prayer unusual objects I saw at an ex-

Sir Lancelot Graham and Sergeant-Major Britton said that tured from the finest woollen and Book was issued on Thursday last dibition of Hobbles which opened ey will be scrapped.

Mr, John Austen. Hubback As these steamers have been so er to be equipped with steam after Bursell had received his worsted yarns.

and the Oxford and Cambridge at Self-ridge's in

Their appointment, which wil Oxford-street When completed the centre car: University Presses

come into force in Apell, was fore- and Messrs.

yesterday.

shadowed by Peterborough in "The pet of the main lounge is expected Eyre and Spottiswoode, the King's

The wishbones were part of an Daily Telegraph" on Feb. 11. to weigh over a ton. It has been printers, are preparing to begin designed, by the firm and is of

accumulation at 500,000 started Sir Lancelot Graham, the Gov- -printing. Bursell should have immediately giant modern leaf pattern in

ernor of Bind, is 53. He has been some years ago by the chef at a The Columba, which has seen taken one step back into line with tones of moonlight-grey with an

potted meat factory. One day he in the Indian Civil Service since. well over half a century of active his: eacoKT, but he remained still all-over damask effect enriched

was showing some visitors to the 1904, and recently resigned his The Ions and the Columba were service on the Ardrishatg run, ap- and went on talking. The order with flowers. The fabric is of

and to convince them that chick-tive Assembly Department of the built respectively in 1864 and 1878 beared in 1878 as the largest and was repeated and was then chans- inch-deep pile and heavy, woollen

factory the meat he had prepared post of secretary to the Legisla eus were really used in the pre- Government of India at Delhi, to by James and George Thomson fastest of the Clyde's fleet of paded to "Left turn," but Bursall still yarns. now John Brown and Co., Clyde. dle steamers. She measures over went on talking: He was

paration of "chicken and ham” he which he was appointed in 1924. bank and it is a coincidence that 300 feet in length, and even to-1 placed under close arrest !.

showed them on the refuse heap since then he has been responsible for framing most of the Govern- their careers are coming to an end

a number of wishbones. almost exactly on the day that the

This led him to keep all suckiient bills brought before the Le- supposedly lucky bones, until to- gislative Assembly. day he has a collection of nearly Mr. Hubback has been connected 500,000"

with the Government of Bihar sind

popular it is possible that they will be open for inspection to the public before they are scrapped, and some of the equipment and fittings, including magnificent panelling, may be disposed of as!

Souvenirs

Queen Mary, Clydebank's greatest triumph, will leave the yard that produced these famous old-timers

of the Clyde's pleasure ffect.

"THE SWEETEST MODEL”

steering gear, the installation be punishment for not removing his ing supplied by Messrs. Bow, Mac-moustacher he gave the order Fall lachlan and Co., of Paisley.

LUXURY ACCOMMODATION.

in."

then

Mrs Pinder Davis has been res ponsible for the design of the "car

and throughout two-thirds of her when the commanding, officer of soft, rust, amber ant rand

entire length. Her dccommoda=^}+;

ordered Him 10 days CB, h tion was of a luxurious standard, thought it a most unfair sentence being handsomely decorated and because he was the only man in this magnificent, panelling will be preserved

Prayer Books as well as Bibles are a continuous output, and the news merely means that the al terations will appear in copies

printed on and after March 16,

There is never a very big de- mand for new Prayer Books on the

accession of a new monarch, The necessary amendments are made in existing wooks by the clergy to save the expense of buying new 30p/es.

Many desk Prayer Books are still used in churches in various parts of the country that were toria, alterations having been made to at the new relgn.

to

An exhibit which took four hours | Orissa since 1912. He is 57 and

set up consists of some hundreds spent over 30 years in India,

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The Tons, which is really Iona panelled, and it is to be hoped that the battalion who was given suchTodern pattern executed, in shades bought in the days of Queen Vico toy,soldiers. They come hom with. & short break, in 1915, when

III, was in her day regarded as a luxury ship, and after he had been many years in service her

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day she is still capable of 20 knots. Bursell, in evidence salt he had pet for the Long Gallers in the Improvements introduced on the And his moustache for five years great liner, On, a strikingly large Columba included her deck saloons, end had never been told to remove scale it has shades of belge sup

ple as the ground- and, top shades built the full width of the vessel it before.

MADONNA BLUE: IN DRAWING- ROOM The drawing room carpet la of

the collection of Mr. F. ♬ Allen, of he was sent to the India Omice. Highbury, who has 30,000, nearly 1 Both Sir Lancelot Graham ano an order. He therefore protested of Madonna blod, with darker blue

all made by himself. Another cur- | Mr. Hubback are flowers" introduced, the patterni

to be created against the punishment and ask-

iosity was a gramophone record of›i K.C.8.1.-- forming a suggestion of an inde- designer spoke of Ber as "The supplied by Muir, and

ed. "Can be tried by court anite trellis and tinted with gold is by the staff of Mears. Temple Kathleen Mavourneen" sung by No Dgures are given for the : martial?" sweetest model that are passed who also installed the wary

Of melf-deep plié, It Has "beer" de- [ium,

Count John McCormack when he salary attaching to these gover- While sheaves fore and aft, then red- out of my hands."

he was speaking to the signed by the staff of the firm and Those who made the tour of joy, was a comparatively unknown Irish norships. The Governors of the She was sladly longer and or ca as an entirely new featum in clonel, the Bergeant Major order chloured to the approval or the plan yesterday were not sus fenor. It was the prikinat made foring, combigel province of B- prised to leam that the East. record played on a gramophone" har and Orissa drew About £7,500, greater beam than her short-lived Clyde passenger steamers med him to "Fall in," but he thought room, predecessor, Iona II, but in gen- These famous old ships are at he was entitled to stand at atten- For the library the carpet is of whose carpet products in the old made by the Edison Bell Company,.. tral design the two ships were present lying at Greenock, and it to until the commanding officer modernscale: leaf pattern in soft days hispired the designs of Bri- in 1900. practically identical.

The exhibition shows that there 13 expected that they will come up had answered his question

champagne belge colours with tiah" manufacturers, is now faith-

Ming Chinese war Iona I, also a' product of the to the 'Shipbreakers' Fare" SÖRİS Bürsell, Kas sinée Heër sentenced fowers of solbest: powder-blue in fully copying designs made to is an extraordinary variety in the beads and Clydebank firm, took the water in time this week,

te 28 days confinement.

troduced. Here again the design this country.

things which people collect. Bome gods, are valuable.

The Columba's steering, gear was

Coomber

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