1935-02-06 — Page 14

EXHIBITION

PASTEL

PICTURES

BY N. A. WEIDEMANN

*Chinese Scones & Subjects.”

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WEEK

Starting FRIDAY, Feb. Ist.

KOMOR & KOMOR

18.

24

Open' Up to 6 p.m.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 The direction that senor might

givo yet.

9 Far from encouragement.

10 "Roadtoil" (anag.).

11 Feathers that may adorn a fy.

12 A bit of a handicap for a golfer.

14 A fish in showing displeasÜTE,

15 Oriental language.

18 Way.

18 A costly weapon.

21 Carringe.

24 Shell fish.

28 A cousin of the monkey,"

30 Flower; see 22 down.

al A great river; or was it a rank

among the military suffragettes ? 12 Sea or exchange.

33 Supplied perhaps to introduce a

condition.

14 Connected with death.

36. "Notch cues" (aneg.),

2 Strangeness,

Down

The came of Toc H.

4 Respect.

BA conscientious objection of nu

grent weight.

6 A flying creature in a river

Cause discussion.

7 Missiles or perhaps the result of

their discharge.

8 Transgression of the man who

took all the tips of the aspara... · gust

11 Exclamation from the doubtful

and dissatisfied.

13 Feminine nanie.

¿17 A cousin of cricket.

10 Determined.

20 A shorter cousin of the кате

"Uncage" as 23 down.

22 A spirit that is a variety of 30

acrok.

23 A great liner.

O.T. prophet.

| 27 A-mouth is the making of this

man.

28 Vegetable,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

LONDON NEWS

CRYSTAL CLIPS

میده

PLENTY OF MONEY

JUBILEE

PLANS

(From Our Correspondent).

early

London.

Judging from the newspapers at- tempts are being made at a very date to stir up public Interent in the Jublico Celebrations In. May next. According to reports the hotels aro Png for an influx. only I I hope

are not going to charge exaggerated ratea becauso otherwise they will at once scaro off visitors. I did hear the sugges tion that £100 a day might be asked for a Royal multe at a leading hotel. Charges of this kind of course will be absurd.

Fastened On Hair For Evening Wear

LATEST FASHION

Aact of crystal clipe ac- centuating the parting of tho hair, and fastened round the eare, is one of the latest fashion whime for evening wear.

You might think that there was no one who will pay these charges but then there is certainly plenty of money about. Harrods, for In- stance, had its annual sale last week. It admitted officially that it had taken £190,000 on the first day and on this basis a million for the week would be quite a reasonable estimate. In fact I am told by WHEN YOU LET THE HOUSE those who went there on the last day that the whole store looked as

FURNISHED

If it had been gutted because thero was practically nothing left to sell IT is very much easier for new in most of the departments. If tenants entering a furnished therefore there is all this money house if everything has

raised.

been

DROUGHT WORRIES

WON'T RECUR FOR YEARS

Washington, Jan. 80. Last summer's drought is nothing to worry about, climatically spank- ing, the Wanther Bureau has re- ported. There probably won't be another dry spell Nke it for 30 or 40 years, the bureau indlented.

The climate really has not changed for years, Mr. W. R. Gregg,

wrote chlef of the bureau, Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, in his annual report.

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He said that while rainfall fo shown a "marked tendency" to bo lighter in the north, this condition has been counter-balanced by hen- vier rains in the south.-United Press,

minimisation of accidents included advocacy of a general return to the speed limit and the formation of corps of volunteer observara who would report all bad driving ог riding, whethor by motorlats cyclists.

CLOSING STATION

or

are

Covent Garden Underground Sta- tion will shortly be closed. It is feit that when the present exten- about then clearly some people may systematically labelled, from top to give alterations and improvements phy exaggerated prices but It is bottom of the house by the owners, at Leicester Square Station time that a warning volce was A strip of adhesive label should be comploted in the spring a further fixed on the top rim of each drawer

slation at Covent Garden, barely front. It should state plainly what three minutes' walk will be redund. is in each drawer, the nature of the contents and the number of the ant. Although no official confirma- articles-such as, four table cloths, tion of the fact was available nt Aix afternoon tea clotha; er-kit- the omces of the London Passenger chen cutlery: or cleaning materials Transport Board, an official stated and cloths. A label can be fastened

Meantime the programme for May is not yet fixed except one or two specific functions. On the 6th there will be a bank holiday as this the, actual occasion of the 26th anniversary of the acccasion of the King, but there is really the only

Board to close all. definite date yet. No doubt there inside the door of each cupboard. Yesterday that it was part of the will be reviews of the Army and Kiving a list of the contents of each polley of the

shelf.

All keys should be labelled stations that were no longer found Navy and it has been stated that and bunched together. A hanging to be necessary. Stations already a mass-formation fight over Lon-bel fastened to a bathroom geyser closed by the London Passenger don by milltary aircraft is being and vacuum cleaner, giving direc- considered by the Air Ministry nations as to how they should

Transport Baurd since July 1, 1933 a climax to the Air Force review. operated, may possibly prevent an

include Down Street and Dover Those who are coming over to London therefore had better make accident. Before the tenants leave Street (combined as Green Park), ake the labels will help them to replace British Museum, Kentish Town, their plans well in advance and everything, and to make good any Brompton Road and York Road. secondly not be enticed into paying breakages. It is also good plan excessive charges. London is full to leave in the house a list of

be

Bumpus the world-famous book of hotels of every sort and it is names, addresses and telephone shop In Oxford Street began re- only the outstanding caravanserais

numbers of people who may be

ly.

LONG WRANGLE

In the West End which will be wanted in a hurry, Buch as doctors, moving to its new home on Monday. likely to raise their prices excessive-chemists, police, firo-station and so it is going only a few doors down on, and be sure to leave your own the Street, from 360 to 477 across address so that the tenants may the road, but the task of removal After a

protracted controversy communicate with you if necessary will take more than two weeks. lasting more than two years, the

Hundreds of book-cases have to be Acheme for building a block of

dismantled and re-erected, and a offices at the corner of Great George built-up areas-places where there stock of 250,000 books, weighing Street, Westminster, facing Parlia ment Square, has finally been apare street lamps not more than 200 several tons, removed. The staff proved. A steel-frame building, yards apart--shall come intu. force will work day and night in relays, on March 18. Also he has started with Portland stone facings, la to be erected it mediately the task of his campaign for spreading the taking the books from their old demolishing the existing property beacon-marked pedestrian crossing home to the new.

Bumpus have occupied their has been completed. 1; is expected system throughout the whole coun- Those authorities who have SPOUT PROSTRATE|| to be ready for occupation in 18

one of vers not submitted schemes are to re-shop since 1880. It was DMUNIĀNA months' time. The site covers ceive a circular informing them of London's historic buildings, for It FUTREFT ROOFING some 10,000 superficial feet, and at his desire to see crossings provided includes the old Marylebone Watch

the corner of Great George Street ESMAL MB the building will rise to a height of where necessary throughout the House and the court house where FAIN PERCHHAIR 106 ft. while the part extending country at the carliest possible date Dick Turpin and other criminals of V_DP_N_ITH from Great George Street towards and asking them to make their pro-

ENACT REVIEWS the Middlesex Gulidhall will reach

a height of 85 ft. CIT

Many good blade came bence of old.

Yesterday'a Solution.

A mass attack is being planned EMBRACE MACAWE

NDIA IE on the 153 massive keystones of the doomed Waterloo Bridge. It will FEER GNABHANUN

begin within three months, with a I§_ _GI SDG simultaneous nasault in ench of the ORCHIDS INHABIT nine arches. Tough resistance is NUMER NA ANH expected. Each keystone weighs over onto and a half tons, and is GRAPPLING PAGES

made from the finest Cornish granite. There are 17 keystones to each arch, and all have been wedged under tremendous pressure for more than a century. No attempt will be made to knock them out solidly. Gangs of men will attack the proud stones that have with stood the weight of generations will he removed chip by chip. SPEED LIMITS

“ROYAL” PREROGATIVE | iSkued to-night doaling with the

prerogative of mercy.

will also have power littler

HITLER HAS POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH

they posals by the middle of March.his day were taken before Greater London, with its extensive were sent to Nowgate. All these system of lighting, will automatical- jare to disappear. Marylebone Lane [ly come under the 30 m.ph. speed is to be widened, and the whole limit. In the case of roads such as building will be pulled down. On the Croydon, Kingston and Sutton

what remains after the street has by-passes the local authority can recommend that the limit should be been widened a super shoe store is raised, but the decision will rest to be built. "We are with Mr. Here-Belisha.

Vigorous protests against special Paths for cyclists, condemnation of coroners courts as a method of in- general "roasting" of Mr. Hore vestigating road accidents, and a Belfahn were features of a meeting of the Cyclists' Touring Club in

naturally

for

sorry to leave the old associates of thin place," Mr. John G. Wilson, the managing director said. "Many of our customers, now famous mez, bought for them by their nurses." came here to have a picture book

The shop has been a haunt

of literary men. generations London this week. It was suggest "Robert Browning used to come to pardon members of the army, ahem with pneumatic delils. Anded that the proposal to extend cycle; here, and a very well dressed poet

paths was merely a wily move on

he was. At one time we publish the part of the Minister. Having ed the works of Dickens, Southey. extended the system of paths he Coleridge and many others, who might next seek power to exclude always dropped in when passing. cyclists from the roads-he might Most of the leading authors still close the roade to cyclists wherever visit us regularly. Bernard Shaw! he could. Suggestions for the was in the other day."

and navy whose sentences exceed three months Imprisonment,

Several other decrees leaned Berlin, Feb. 5. mark a further step towards the The power to commute death reorganisation of the Reich and sentences will henceforth be veat the gradual abolition of the form. ed in Herr Hitler under a decree er federal states.-Reuter Special.

Mr. Hore-Belisha has decided that the 30 in.p.h. speed limit in

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MOTOR ACCIDENT

jopposito directions. He was be--

tween the cycle and the bus when he was knocked down by the cycle, and but for the quick action of BEGGAR BOY'S REMARKABLE the bus driver in pulling up the

ESCAPE

vehicle would have been run aver as he rolled into the way of the A motor mishap, which might

(bus, have had moro

serious cons- quences, occurred shortly after two o'clock on Monday afternoon.

As it was, the boy fractured a knee, and both cyclist and pillion rider suffered bruises as they fell off their machine,

Near the Central Theatra beggar boy darted across the street, ignoring a motor-cycle with

The boy was taken to the pillion rider, and a bus, going in Government Civil Hospital.

CORN-PAIN is gone!

It's marvelous how pain disappoors when you use a drop of

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HEY, DUZZ, THIS

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BUY A SILK

TOPPER! ALL

SURE THING!

WHY NOT?

WELL, YA JEST TOLD ME NOT TA.

HIGH-HAT CUSTOMERS

Small

10¢

R

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YESTERDAY I NOTICED YÄ WAITINI ON CUSTOMERS IN À VERY SNOOTY MANNER, SAMÍ VA ACTED JGS'AS (F YA WERE ABOVE 'EM, AN' DOIN 'EM A BIG FAYOR-LIKE, THEY WERE SO MUCH, DIRT ! I WANTCHA TO BE NICE AN' AFFABLE TO CUSTOMERS, AND "COME" DOWN OFFA VER

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THERE'S A CUSTOMER NOW) ¡AN' DON'T FERGET WHAT

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