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WOMEN'S PAGE

PAY MORE FOR UNDERWEAR

OR GO WITHOUT

Shanghal residents will have to pay more for underwear or go without.

A recent issue of the "North China Daily News", contains an ultimatum from the Shang- hai Underwear Shops' Joint Society warning of a 30 per cent. increase in prices. ..

The increase is stated to be necessary because of the high- er cost of raw materials and difficulty of supply as well as due tu aufavourable exchange-

conditions all brought about by the hostilities,

Shanghallanders,

according

to the latest reports, are press- ing vigorously for early media- tion between Japan and Chlas.

DEBT ORDER:

MRS. CHAMBERLAIN'S SISTER-IN-LAW

A receiving order in bankruptcy has been made, on a creditor's petition, against M.s. Denise Anne Marie Jose Winterbottom, sister-in- law of Mrs. Neville Chamberlain,

Airs. Winterbottom is the mother of Miss Valerle Cole, Mrs. Cham- berlain's niece, who is now living at No. 10, Downing-street, and will be presented at Court this year. Miss Cole is Mrs. Winterbottom's daugh- ter by her first marriage, when she was seventeen, to Mr. William Horace de Vere. Cole, brother of Mrs. Chamberlain. The marriage was dissolved in 1928. Miss Cole, whose father died in 1936, is a ward In Chancery of the Irish courts, and Mrs. Chamberlain is her guar dian.'

Mrs. Winterbottom,

grand- daughter of Colonel and Lady Ann Daly, married Mr. William Dixon Winterbottom in 1933. That mar- ruge was dissolved four years later.

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OFF TO OFFICE/

OFF TO

SCHOOL!

Alert in body and mind.

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EFORE your husband sets out for the day, before your children leave for school, before you yourself commence the daily round-drink a cup of delicious “Ovaltine.”

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SOCIAL

Miss Lindsell, daughter" of the Puisne Judge, Miss Hancock

and Miss Grant photographed at the Annual Race meeting at the Valley. (Photo by Leica),

JAPANESE WOULD GIVE £50,000 FOR THIS GIRL

-DEAD OR ALIVE

Miss Yang Hul-ming, China's Joan of Arc, a girl the Jap-. anese would give £50,000 for dead or alive, was in London recently and had a meal in a West End restaurant-her only protection the knowledge that she was in Britain and with- In shouting distance of the nearest policeman.

HE CAN SPIN EVENING GOWN

OF GOLD

Gold stockings, gold frocks, gold silks and fabrics, a silk sown turned into shimmering twenty-four-carat gold for 10s: 6d. a yard.

All this will follow a chance” discovery by Professor Charles S. Gibson, of Guy's Hospital London. A gold silk has been made and judged perfect by textile experts.

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FRIDAY'S MENU

BREAKFAST

Grapefruit

Cercal. Jam Omelet Coffed

LUNCHEON

Vegetable Soup

Fruit Salad

Baked Fish

Tartar Sauce

Boiled Buttered' Potatoes

Creamed Spinach

Com Bread Assorted. Cookies

Tes

DINNER

Clam Chowder

Beet Salad Roasted Chicken Sage Dressing Grilled Mushrooms Roasted Potatoes Creamed Turnips

...Currant Jelly

Ice Cream and Cake

.: Coffee

U.S.A.A. CHARITY

BALL TO-MORROW

The Charity Ball under the auspices of the University of Her name means "the wise one. Shanghai Alumni Association, the brave one." She was a Boy Hongkong, will be held, at the Kow- Scout organiser In Shanghai foon Tong Garden City Club to- when the war broke out. Dress-morrow from 8.30 p.m. to 1 am. En- ed as a boy, hair cropped, she trance tickets are $2 per person, has been a continuous worry to mid-night supper included. the Japanese.

An interesting programme. in-

As a spy her Information has cluding various exhibition dances saved the lives of thousands of and floor shows, will be provided

of entertainment

the Chinese

Time soldiers..

and for the again she has slipped into Jap- patrons. anese territory and with. news of trap movements.

A part of the Hongkong come back Hotel Orchestra will play for the'

dancer.

The proceeds of the evening will It was Miss Yang Hui-Ming be entirely for the benefit of the who established contact with 4 refugees and their children.

Chinese doomed battalion-men who in July 1937 made a fortress *of a warehouse near Shanghai. and though surrounded and" cut

I saw recently a piece of the gold off held up the Japanese advance has been engaged in research intoj for days, She saved the batta-i rheumatoid arthritis. About two lion nag. brought it out wrapped years ago. in his laboratory, he round her waist through the Jap- picked up a test tube, in which anese ranks.

Patrons are advised to make early table reservations at the Kowloon Tong City Garden Club, Telephone 59427.

Round About

A lady traveller walked into a the result of an experiment had Six months ago she went to local steamship office. been. "left overnight. To his America as a delegate to the In-i After inquiring the price of amazement the test tube

was ternational Youth Congress. She passage to Japan, she asked the covered with gold,

is in London on her way back clerk? "Is your ship likely to pass Further experiments based on to China.

through a typhoon?" this lucky discovery were carried cut with the help of his assistants Glasses mirrors and crystals were covered with gold.

NEW FOG RAY

I saw recently a piece of the gold

Miss Yang Hul-Ming's father, a) The man seemed surprised and rich Chinese merchant, her explained that due to weather mother, her six sisters, and two condition information via ship brothers have vanlabed in the wireless, navigation, etc., the ships war. She has no relatives left usually avoided passing through in the world. At twenty-three such storms.

"Well, I want to be la a typhoon,

she

silk that may revolutionise the she is living for, only one, thing-| The lady appeared crestfallen. textile trade (writes a "Sunday the defeat of the Japanese. Pletrolal" correspondent), As the

She says: "I shall see what therefore, I had better not go via professor held up the result of many months' work. the light work there is for me to do when your steamer; thank you."

1 return. I am not troubled about said. Salling out of the office and glistened on the silk's shining

the price on my head. The down the street she entered an- surface. reflecting lovely, tints of

poorest Chinese peasant would other travel organization. Some gold, green and blue.

Women! not betray me."

Professor Gibson said: "Ex- periments also being made in the U. S. A. with a gold-plated mirror I have made to produce a fog-penetrating ras.

Turning to a golden ball, 10 in.

in diameter, he added: "This 'took

about twenty minutes to make.

and I only used about 8a. 6d.

NEWSETTES

worth of "gold." Then he showed The Bt. Patrick's Day Ball will how he covered glass with gold. He be held in the Rose Room of the dripped some alcohol СП Bome Peninsula Hotel this evening. crystals in a retort and shook unti¦ the crysta's dissolved.

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Mr. G. H. Fowler, of the Colonial Then he gently rotated it in his Secretariat, will be 28 years old to- hands. Gradually the

solution day.

began to film on the surface of the retort, and after about ten minutes

the

gold.

·

Mr. E 6. Wilkinson, chartered

Saturday evening the Equine Club will be hosts at a dinner in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel. The occasion is in honour of third Third Anniversary."

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Quarantine restrictions have been imposed, by the Government or Colombo against arrivals from

bottorn Was covered with accountant of Shanghai, srived Hongkong on account of small-

£100 Dress Is

in Hongkong on the s.s. Wosang.

The weekly official dirmer was held at Government House last

Made For £30 night,

A dress displayed in the window Mr. Edgar Welsing, of Messis

; pax

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Passengers in the ss. Taiping

sailing to-day for Australian ports include Mr. R. Stock, of Messra. David Bassuon & Co., Ltd., pro-

of an exclusive Mayfair shop may Melchers & Co., Hongkong, receding on leave to England via cost. £30 to make, but the assistant turned to the Colong from Swatow Australia and New Zealand until will whisper into a customer's ear, on the s., Wosang on Mar, 15. "Only £100, madam.”

name.

At London Sessions recently. Mr. Anthony Dodd, of the firm Miss Clare Alexander, managing in Shanghal bearing his director of a fashion shop in South arrived in Hongkong on the Audley-street, Mayfair, London, Wosang on Mar. 15. Wat which a £400 burglary took"

October next.

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The forthcoming wedding is announced between Mr. Herbert residing at No. 20. Ventris Street. George Foreman, civil servant,

Happy Valley, and Miss Moris

place last December-was question- Major Martin Kellcher and Mrs. Robinson, of Portsmouth. Eng-

ed by counsel...

Kelleher arrived in Hongkong on land.

She told. Mr. Edward Clarke the as. Wosang from Shanghai

that she

was a "fashionable en route to the United States. dressmaker" and that the price

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Chen Liu Shih, Garrison Com mander of Chungking, has assumed

of clothes in her window was Mr. P. J. O'neill, of the Revenue duties. Gen Liu told press repre- comparatively high.

Department, Hongkong, returned sentatives in an interview that he Mr. Clarke: A dress in your to the Colony from Swatow on would carry out to the best of his window priced at ten guineas would Mar. 15 by the ss. Wosang." not produce that in Oxford-street?

abfity the heavy cutles devolving upon him, (Central).

---I do not think that the mer- The wedding took place at the chandise would be the same, Bupreme Court yesterday between

John Robert Llewellyn, 37, an Some dresses are sold for as Mr. Ll Hok-nin, a solicitor prac umrecognized British subject, was much as 100 aren't they? Yes, tising in Chinese Law, residing at round guilty in the First Special And yet they cost nothing like No 751, Nathan Road, ground District Court, Shanghal on a that perhaps only £5?—I do not floor, and Miss Ho Wing-mut of charge of having fraudulently think as low as that. A dress No. 17 Boy Street, Kowloon. Mr. Faltered a British passport, and was selling for £100 would cost about, T. J. Gould, Deputy Registrar of sentenced to two months imprison- £30.

Marriages omelated.

ment or a fine of $180.

FRIDAY, MARCH 17. 1939.

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We have received a well assorted stock of White, Khaki, Grey & Fawn White, and a large Golf Hose.

selection of Plain and Fancy Socks

in all colours.

SOCKS ...

GOLF HOSE..

...from $2,50

$4.50

-Less 10% Cash Discount...

Should they shrink in washing they will be replaced.

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Our new assortment also includes Socks and Golf Hose made

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Inspection Invited

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