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COLONEL BRAMBLE A TRUE TYPE.

MAUROIS ON A VISIT TO ENGLAND.

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Paria, Mnr. 19. Andro Maurois, the creator of Colonel Bramble and author of the Lives of Disinell and Shelley, in an amusing speech before the A.C. Lunch Club at the Cirque Internllic, confessed that after a visit to post- war England he was convinced that in the chameter of the English Colonel was still to be found the kernel of the, English character.

With n boliday crowd he paul visit to Nelson's Angship, the Vir tory, accompanied by his two small hoya He was much impressed by the spontaneous fashion in which overy English tourist uncovered as The passed the spot where Nelson

fell.

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Tis sons antonatically followed suit, and a policeman standing near romarked. "Touching, isn't it, to 800 Iwn Freuch boys unraver honor of Nelson." Merous asked his sons afterward if they knew what they hal porn. "Of churar, said one of them, "the place where Kapalcom-died."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL

15, 1929,

ACQUITTED WHEN DEAD.

CASE AGAINST M.P BROTHER FAILS.

Nairobi, Mar. 11.

To-day the Supreme Court acquitted Mr. Robert Oakley, ; & British farmer and settler, who was found shot dead during his trial on charges of ill-treating a nativer

'Crown counsel asked for the with- drawal of the case, and stated it would be manifestly unfair to allow It to go to the jury in the circum- stances.

Mr. Oakley was the brother of Mr. T. Oakley, M. P. for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire,

* All Charges Drap.

It has been alleged that, owing to a misunderstanding, Mr. Robert Oakley had been charged under a section which at first deprived him of the benefit of bail on remand.

After spending two weeks in gaul, Mr. Robert Oakler had been allowed out on hail, and he stayed at the house of a friend.

During one night he left his friend's house by a window, and Maurois, was necompanied by his he was later found dead, with a French chauffeur, who was the desbullet wound in his head. A rife pair of the polico. On one occnzion lav neur.

when he wished to visit Stratford. It was stated that the defendant

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Fashion Notes.

THE NEW SPORTS CLOTHES.

The dark formal clothes suitable to Paris look absolutely out of place in the brilliant sunshine of the

player. summer

Bright, clear colours are lovely in the sun. Blue is always folly beside the sea. Grey and beige are good, because they don't fade. Pure whito frocks are de rigueur on the tennis courts, though you intro- duce your favourite colour in sweater or handkerchief to tie your hair out of your eyes.

Maurois asked him if he know the had been worried by the case, beavy blue tailored costumca, in way. "Yes," said this khauffem.cause while he was in rol his wife "straight ahend. I just naked a was by herself at their farm. in a policeman and hes unid Alr, yes, lonely part. Stratford en Avant.""

Judgment was to have been given to-tas

Mr. Robert Oakley was charged with 1-treating a native, and polleeman and Mr. Oakley's' native hedman were charged with aiding and abetting.

This sandal in a barefoot fashion for daytime,. now so popular, in pastel shades of kid with a polka dot pattern.

Feminine Modes.

Lampshades.

SEEN AT THE IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION.

A dozen different materials aru used for the display of lampshades! by one firm at the Daily Mail Ideal Homo Exhibition.

Two of the most unexpected and possibly the most effective pro grease-proof paper and oiled silk. The former is an inexpensive sub- stitute for parchment, one example being marked to imitate the skin. The oiled silk shades, shown in con- junetlen with bowl-shaped lamp. stands of unpolised moulded glass, are stamped during the proccas of manufacture with designs to match the glass. One attractive pattern was of fish and rippling water.

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OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

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A dome-shaped orange shade is 8 Pant violently of lambskin, which enn be dyed in 13 Worth.

12 Revolving part of a motor, charming goft colours. Metal 14 Afresh. mesh decorates a cylindrical shade of white lac composition, this little? Given life to. table-light being mounted on wooden atand covered with green leather.

18 Crippled.

10 Blood relations.

20 Reposed:

23 Perform.

28 Imbibe. 25 Doubted.

For morning there are some three-piece suita of crepella or fine jersey. They have slightly cir cular or somewhere pleated skirts, long sleeved sweater, short jacket or long kasha cont-it denend on what you're going to do with your morning. Or there are simple repps or poptikasha, with which satin outside blouse, or a very mi you can wear, if you like, an oyster

croscopic checked silk inside shirt. The next time he wished to find a

Tennis Frocka,

OLD FAVOURITES pinen (it was Sir William Terrell's

REAPPEAR. There are Home Kinart

new country home) Maurois did his own

tenuls frocks, which bid fair to be questioning. Everybody he ankerl,

very popular as the season ad- the direction of more feminine Fashion, turning her mind, in

Glass shades are treated in new Bowever, was a stranger to the place

vances. One of the best modes, has brought out of her and interesting ways. A dining 30 Killed. buow nothing about it. Findly

ever seen is made in white crepe-trenire box materials which our table is decoratively illuminated, 32 Pertaining to na area. hey found a man who lived in the

When the prosecation announced de chine. It has a little bias turn-grandmothers, and spot for eighty years and wald he to-day that it had been decided to ver collar, and a fan of fulness let grandmothers.

even great for example, by four little square 34 Shrink.

33 Ornament, knew knew the place very well. Unfor- withdraw the case, the two, re-into the skirt on the left sile gives friends!

lanterns of antiquo ironwork sot at 36 Spring flower. tuntely, he was so old that he had maining prisoners were discharged. the lega free play.

Faille-that old-fashioned silk, the corners, the sides and top, being 36 Equal, forgotten where it was.

Another tennis frock in crepella is used extensively for evening of orange-tinted glass. A soft light 38 Hauled. hha a low, square neck and no frocks, though it can hardly be is given by a shade of double glans,49 0 The King's Health...

alceves. The pleats of the skirt are considered rosecution's stitched into a filled hip yoke to material, and in every dress show the two "layers" instead of the 14 Precedes night. Maurois also had an aging story statenwnt, defending counsel asked prevent them flying about. Three there are evening dresses of glass being coloured throughout,

spring-time the colour being applied between 42 Nothing.

43 Went back. to tell of the rent visit paid by permission to make a short state-niece suits are being favoured for ribbed silk in which grandmother the St Cyrings to Surulburat On

meni, ju fairness to Mr. Robert tunis. The skirts are stitched into could comport herself with dignity made from plaited strips of black 61 British bird,

47 Run away. one occasion they were the guests of Oakley's minory.

Shapes vary from a "hexagonal 49 For what reason, the Durham Light infantry, who ne

tailored pleats, and the hip yoke la He denied that Mr. Oakley had simulated by stitching. There is privileged to drink the King's

With the return of ruching and white composition to a flat 54 Talk enthusiastically. jeravy blouse and a jacket to com-) plote the costume,

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health sitting (a favour, it is ante taken his life beenuse he was afraid usually an inside sleeveless Inca Prafféln, plain and flowered, makes three-quarter circle of white lac 55 Play unfairly.

conferred by Genrge. 11 who, on one occasion, found them up drunk that he feared an accident if they tried to stand.)

to, face the issue.

"Everybody who has followed this case," he mided, "will know that Mr. Onkey's mentality broke The problem of how the Predom had instigated and conducted under the harsh strain. Oficial- ilent's berlth was to be drunk up.

the ease, and carried it to what I peared insoluble. They could not stand for the Presulent's health itll a venomotes and relentless con- they sad for the King's,, while it wan discourteous to sit,

clusion."

The case has aroused the Kreatest Interest in Kenya, accom- After two days' deliberations, A

panied by a certain degree of pubife solution was found. The King'indignation. health was drunk in the usual way and the ment was declared ab ah ensh. Theù everybody stood on not as officers, but an mere private citizens, and drank the President's livalth.

BERLIN'S IMPROVED

MOTOR-BUS.

LONDON TYPE ONLY SUITED

* TO: A “THIN“ NATION.

An inquest on Mr. Oakley is to be held to-morrow

COURAGEOUS WOMAN'S

£481 DAMAGES.

CINEMA COMPANY LOSES IN COCKROACH CASE.

London, Mar. 20.

"Mrs. D'Arey must have been a woman of courage to have remain- Berlin is doing all it can to fed in the flat, for Dr. Scott, a emulate London and Paris in im- robust man, said he would not "proving its traffic,

have slept there," said Mr. Justice Five years ago a motor-bus in McCardle yesterday, when

sani. Berlin was almost a curiosity. Thoming up in what became known only street in which it could feel as the cockroach ense.

at all at home was Unter den Mrs. V. F. D'Arcy, tenant of a Linden, in which, from the ex-flat in Marble Arch, sued the Kaiser's days, ita rival, the tram, Regal Cinema, Lid. She said the has been banned.

defendants had taken over a cafe Five London 'buses then made to provide an exit for a new their appearance on the Berlin cinema: that because of their streets. Unfortunately, though, negligence in leaving refuse in when Fritz and Gretchen sat on the the enfe, cockroaches bred In same seat there was no room for great numbers, invaded her flat, tho 'bus conductor to pass along one biting her on the neck while the corridor. To their dismay, the in bed. corpulent Berliners discovered that

hour Englishmen, as a whole, were thin More roomy buses were bullt, but most of the passengers knock ed their heads getting in and out. Now, however, Berlin can prido itself on a paragon omnibus. It is double-decked, has an entrance and an exit with two staircases, and an automatic door. It is a re gular flat on six pneumatic wheels,

a nuisance.

After an absence of an and a quarter the jury found that refuse was left in the cafe and that it constituted They held defendants guilty of negligence and awarded Mrs. D'Arcy £431 damages.

Judgment was entered for Mrs. D'Arcy with costs, a stay of execu tion being granted.

THIS IS THE SEASON WHEN GERMS ARE MOST PREVALENT.

Use CARBOLINE DISINFEC- TANT to clean your house and office.

(as supplied to the leading banks)

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY. 13, QUEEN'S ROAD Central,

Tel, O. 1877.

One of the popular two-fabric models is carried out in lae- querred and black crepe de chine as to bodice, and in black satin as to skirt, shaped cein- ture and bindings. A fruck like this is essentially practical us well as right up to the..

minute!

a reappearance, and this summer will see old-world taffeta gowns for afternoon and evening wear, made with tight bodices and skírta showing little Stiff Bounces edged with stiff little relics of the same material, dresses in which grand- mother felt very bewitching--and luoked it. With these ton - are. long, flounced taffeta capes, each flounce edged with a wide ruching.

Most alluring wasa taffeta gown, in primrose yellow, with a pointed neck opening, tight bodice and skirt of “shepherdens" lines falling into wide pointed floating panels. Another taffeta gown favoured the high waist-line and tight-fitting bodice, while very demure was a black taffeta frock, i with tight-fitting bodice fastening down the back with small diamond paste buttons; a full skirt com- pleted the frogk, which alsó show- ed at the point of the V neck the ubiquitous large flat bow, in this Lease of black taffetu.

Brocades of a small pattern, and beautifully supple and soft are returning to favour, and more that one spring bride will seek the museums for inspiration na to the choice of her brocade bridal dress.

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A couple of decades ago no wardrobe was complete without its "dust coat" of shantung ́or tuasore in natural colour, with or without black satin collar, and most use- ful these garments were. Of late, however, shuntung and tusaore has been relegated to the region of children's tunic suits, and has figured ng beach wear. But these well-tried fubrick

to be popular this season, and sports sults and dresses and conts will be mude of them, an economy measure since they wear "clean" and stand reported visits to dry cleaners and wash-tub, Ratinci too, another fabrle less favoured of late, is returning, and coats of ratine and creionne will be worn for Informal and sports wear,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

SEE? THERE'S NOBODY AT HOME AT OSCAR'S HOUSE-I TOLD YOU RIGHT ALONG THAT HE WENT A ♪ "TOOK HIS MOM WINA HUM

TO ARABIA IN JUS AIRPLANE!!

THAT'S JUST WHAT HES DONE!! HERE WE THOUGHT ALL. ALONG TAT HE' WAS JUST FOOLING AND NOW ME JUST UP AND GOES OFF TO ARABIA!!

materini.

One of the most interesting interpretations of the two-pleco mode consists in a frock of banana and havana brown check stockinette, with inser- tions on bodice and fares in skirt of plain brown cloth. The long coat, in brown duvetyn of exactly the same bade as the flares, has the now deep cuffs reaching almost to the elbows.

Left Behind!

MTS STARTIN

TO RAIN,

FRECKLES

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WHY, THAT LITTLE DICKENS!! DO YOU... THINK HE REALLY

IS FLYING TO ARABIA, ALEK?

66 Opening into a house. 67 Harsh.

58 Theatrical exhibition.

50 Portabla honso, 60 Diligence,

61 Scorch,

I Verbal. King,

3 Paragraph. 4 Citadel.

6 Sickle.

7 Grain.

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'MORE "DEWARGRAMS."

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10 Ovorabundance..

11 Shut up.

10 Crest.

121 Illegal hunter.

122 Befooled.

23 Species of poplar.

24 Used for wiping.

126 Large,

27 More recent,

28 Savoury.

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31 Melal.

33 Vitality.

37 Desecrate.

139 Pliant.

41 Preserver.

46 Passage.

40 Gives over.

47 Formerly.

48 Baking place.

40 Excite.

160 Measure of length.

52 Worked with a loom.

63 Perennial plant.

Yesterday's Solution.

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If I had been in Adam's place in the garden at the time Eve collaborating with the serpent over THE NEW ELECTORATE AND changed the history of the world.

that sour apple, I would have

THE POWDER PUFF.

Fow, af our great landscape of a cow rises first painters could say to-day which end

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A musician paints in tones on a vas of silence, and an artist paints on a silent canvas, and talks and sometimes whistles,

Lord Dowar was the priwips!, speaker at the annual dinnor of the Royal Institute of Painter's Galleries, Piccadilly, when he enter tained the artists with a running fire of epigrams. Among them wore:

There is nothing that breaks so You can pick out the successful many friendships as a difference of portrait painters at a banquet; they opinion as to what constitutes art are the ones who aren't making

Differences of opinion nake skotolics on the table cloth." hoarno politicians

"I have not yet nummed up suf

A candidate nocking Parliamentary Sciont courage to send any of my bonoura was addressing & large work to the hanging committee at the audience of the new electorate. He Royal Academy, because I am afraid began by saying, "I am delighted to their judgment would be Hanging 800, so many bright and shining is too good for it, and for the man faces before me tonight" and be who painted it.'" for he had finished his Bext sen "If I were asked to contribute to tenca 85 pawdor puffs were at play. that inquisitorial questionnaire "In another few weeks, just before column in the Pross, headed, 'How the General Election, this will bo a much do you know I should en veritable land of promises, and the shrine my queries in simplicity. waste of energy that will be ex- Some might be: pended during plection time by the "Why would it have been bottor candidates in hand-shaking will be for some self-made men to have con- considerable.

sulted an architect?

"As an ex-member of the House: of Commons I have made a careful calculation and I consider the wasted energy will be sufficient to milk all the cows in this country twice."

There are unny people who have attended art schools who can't provo it

WHY SURE I DO=' HELL PROBABLY BE A GREAT HERO WHEN HE GETS

BACK!

"Who was the first to make the little paper trousers worn by lamb chops?"

"Why is it that no man is a bore to his own mother-in-law 1.

"Why is a-cho-way street like a Scotsman's pocket?.

"Why are some cheques without honour in their own banket

By Blosser

GEE-I, HOPE NOTHING HAPPENS TO MIM**** JUST IMAGINE! ME'S PROBABLY

" WAY, OUT OVER THE P OCEAN IN ALL, THIS

RAIN RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!

·SURE..

BEG. U. E. PAT, OFF

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