1931-03-16 — Page 3

WATER IN BAY O GOES OUT RETURNS ELIN TIDAL WAVE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931.

CITY IN

FLAMES

CLIFF THAT. FELL INTO

SEA

NIGHT- and your dress

Our photo shows tho waterfront at Napier, where earthquake, fire and tidal wave com- bined to bring about one of the worst disastera in recent years. Photo was taken from Bluff Mill, which fell into the sea. The official casaulty list gives the death-roll in Napier as 150 and the injured at well over a thousand-

A snow carnival within 60 miles of Los Angeles hardly seems possible. This picturo was taken in the San Bornar- dino mountains, high above semi-tropical California, and shows Alaskan huskies before being put to work.

In evening attire-full dress or dinner suit-style must be interpreted in terms of the individual. This is exactly what we claim to do for our patrons.

We offer you craftsmanship, a skill which cannot be copied by the incompetent. Perfect fitting, and the latest little details which mark the 1931 styles, can safely he entrusted to us.

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This is the first picture showing actual damage in the New Zealand earthquako. shows the ruins of a house just outside the city where a man was killed and several

injurud.

Home hygiene for boys is the latest Chicago craze. Our

picturo shows a group being taught how to bath the baby.

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BOOTE'S TILES

An international inquiry has been launched into the capture of the Canadian schooner Josephine K, and the killing of its caplain by Coast Guard gunfire in lower New York bay. Tho captured ship is shown at the top as its $90,000 cargo of liquor was being unloaded at the barge office in Now York. Lower loft, indicated by a white seal, is tho spot where a one-pound shell tore through the pilot house and mortally wounded Captain William

Cluott. Mombors of the crow of the Josophino K. are pictured lower right,

Offfofal inquiry into the Coast Guard's shelling of the rum schooner Josephine K, and the killing of hor Canadiań skipper was taken to son. This ploturo shows the liquor boat, with a water ballast to replace the original whisky qargo, ploughing through the wators of lower Now York bay at nine and a half miles an hour. The test revealed that the coastguard boat, almost two miles an hour fastor, could overtake the rum runner.

The Shanghai U. S. Marino Ladies' Baskotball team has had a most successful season with a clear record, having won every game in which they played. Mr. Torziu is the Coach.

Princo Alexis Z. Mdivani' and Miss Louise` Antor Van Alon, of Newport, RI. whose ongagement is announced. They are to be married in May as the culmination of a romance which bogan in París over two years ago.

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Tel. 27781.

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