1935-11-27 — Page 2

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BETTER COCKTAIL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

27,

1935.

FIRST RED CROSS PLANE REACHES ABYSSINIA

HOWARD RADIO

OWA

KITCHENER'S DRY

AND

OLD TOM GIN

PERFECT SPIRITS

H. RUTTONJEE & SON

DUDDELL ST., HONGKONG.

READY-MADE

TELEGRAMS FOR ITALIAN SOLDIERS

Rome, Nov. 15.

SIXTEEN ready-worded form telegrams have been

devised by the Italian post office. One selection suit- able for sendng to the soldiers in East Africa, another to send home.

Any of the telegrams cost the sender one shilling and four- British missionary Miss Jean pence, address included. The pay of a private soldier in the Italian T. Cable, of Forfar, Scotland, colonics amounts, with bonus for overseas service, to five lire a reached Addis Ababa from Debra dny (about 18. 8d.).

SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ, Markos across the Blue Nile.

Investment bankers and brokers in securities and commoditica. Daily New York and London Stock Exchange Service. Commodity Futures on the principal American

Members of:

New York Colton Exchange. Chicago Board of Trade.

Commodity Exchange, Ine.

(Silver, Rubber, Silk, Copper, Hildes and Tin). New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange.

Canadian Commodity Exchange Inc.

Winnipeg Grain Exchange,

Manila Stock Exchange.

Correspondents for Hayden, Stone & Co.

markets

Telephone: 30244, 30245, 30246. Cable Address: Swanstock. Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Buildings, Suite 119/122.

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

PEAK HOTEL

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL:

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.

CRAG HOTEL,

Penang Hills

(2,400 feet above sealovel).

Refreshment Rooms. (near summit station)

Hill Railway..

"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE." RUNNYMEDE HOTEL

On Sea Front.· ́

Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.

Caterers ete, to Imperial Airways.

· Kaah are interchangeabla, no extra cost wherever you have your breakfast. tancheno, tex, or dinner,

Ita of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Bannymede each room has its own publia telephone.

The Runnymede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among hotela of the Bant with Its culains, end justly claims by tus macolation to oder the traveller such no,

not to be found elsewhere,

Trek took fortnight. Above is the first Red Cross airplane to arrive in Abyssinia capital.

Here is the choice of greeting. To the soldier:- 1. "Your silence causing anxiety send us news." 2. "Ilave received money order love and kisses."

Millionaire To Pay Girl Beauty £18,000

EILEEN WENZEL, of the "alabaster skin," toast of Broad-

way, was being driven away from a party at Central Park Casing here, in 1932. Car hit lamp-post, ended Eileen's beauty and her £100-a-week job in Earl Carroll's shows.

To-day Eileen showed a scarred face in court, asking £50,000 damages for "loss of beauty", against the driver of that car.

He was young millionaire Louis Ekret (social Register Page 248). He was told to pay her £18,000.

"

"Her hair was

Earl Carroll gave evidence. One stanen 108: tustrons, her forehead white as a snow peak. Her eyes .... Ah! her eyes made men &wDOTI."

Judge ordered this "eruggerated" description to be struck from court record.

Australian

Trees For Cradle Of Christianity

Australian Jewry hus

RUCCCSB-

fully organised a fund to provide 10,000 Australian trees, mostly euentus for planting in Pales- tine.

Jews throughout the Empire are combining to plant a forest there

to

commemorate.

the

King's Jubilee, and this is Australia's contribution.

Although the eucalyptus, or gum tree, which is a survival of pre- historic flora, survived only In Australia, It has been found to thrive in warm, and moderately warm climates elsewhere, when transplanted, says Austral: News, They now grow in California, and in Mediterranean countries, and have even been planted at Addis Ababa in Abyssinia. Some variet- les grow to a tremendous height, but all of them shed their bark and remain in full lenf all the year.

Footnota

Eucalyptus trees thrive in Hong- kong, and are planted extensively i around police stations in the Now Territories.

SALESMAN SAM.

MR. HOWDY, WILL YOU GIVE MY OSWALD AN EXERCISE SWIM?· HE'S SO SHUT IN ALL THE TIME.

ABYSSINIAN STAMPS ARE VALUABLE

Have you any Abyssinian postage stamps of recent issues? If so,, hold on to them.

That was the advice given to a representative recently by a famous London firm of stamp dealers.

"Already a heavy demand for re cent Abyssinian issues is reported the on the Paris stamp exchange,”

metal-added,

arc

"If stocks of certain issues begin to run short there is every chance that fancy prices will be paid for them. "Certain Abyssinian Issues actually being printed in Britain. Once they are 'withdrawn no further supplies will be available."

The First

Train For

18 Years

the

Moscow, Nov. 1. The first train to run between Russia and Roumania since the Bolshevik Revolution eighteen years ago has just crossed the Dniester River with great cere- mony.

Direct railway communication

been resumed un has thus Klev-Bucharest line.

Soviet and Roumaninu officials cut red ribbons stretched across a new bridge over the Dniester River at Tiraspol, after which a flag-decked train crossed. Crowds on both sides of the river cheered. This resumption of the railway service was made possible by the

SURELY, MRS. WHOOPDEDOO!

LIFE SAVING

3. "Money order not arrived."

4. "Send money immediately

urgently needed love."

6. "Baby boy arrived all well."

6. "Baby girl arrived all well." To the old folks at home:--

1. "Arrived-safely am well love and kisses."

2. "Plense acknowledge money order."

3. "I think of you always um well love and kisses."

4. "Money order received best thanks."

There is also a form available for the breaking of bad news: "Auntie (father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, wife) dead Outward or seriously i" bound only.

Homeward ignorce illness.

series politely

Arliss To Stay In England

!

HOLLYWOOD MONEY

BAIT DECLINED George Arliss is not going back to Hollywood, in spite of the many financial temptations which are being dangled in front of him..

He has decided to make his future pictures in Great Bri-12

tain.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

130

ACROSS

13

1 This class is not popular in

Russia.

8 The man who has finished, his University career may have this behind him. Material.

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A striking upheaval often.

13 A word of warning in clubland. 14 Something Parliament has done

perhaps.

"Balcon, I'm going to work for you," he remarked suddenly when 15 A stern fellow yet artful. on a casual visit to Mr. Michael 17 Form of serial:

chief of 18 The fervour of an Aden ery. production Balcon,

20 Certainly not plumb true, Gaumont-British, and he has now 24 Mere than bury yet only confine.

ચૈત extended his contract with that 26 The criminal who showed two company for another year.

In view of the time he considers necessary for preparation, Mr. Arliss will make only two filme in

animals, in.

28 Tree.

29 Not the man who invented the

mother-in-law jokun. 31 One thing at least the Romans

took lying down,

1930.

He is now at work on "The Mind 2 Not a dull tongue. of Mr. Reeder," from Edgar, 33 A means of making a Wallace's tales of an unusual sort xweep.

DOWN

of detective. Those supporting 34 "Roasting pot" (anng.). Mr. Arliss in this include Godfrey Tearle, Hildn Trevelyan, Kay Hammond, Diana Beaumont, Ethe Griffies and Percy Parsons.

diplomatic recent restoration of relations between the two coun tries. Roumania now recognises the Soviet Press.

2 A bane botánical feature. 3 Abrupt

clean

4 Get rid of from above it.

Let one of the family tell about the quartet.

6 The "urchitect" of 31 across. 7 Epithet for correct language.. 8 Distinctly nasty,

Government.-United 10 A domestic animal provided this

Pleased ta Meetcha

I JUST LOVE TA TEACH LITTLE) WHY, OSWALD

BOYS HOW TA SWIM!

ISN'T A LITTLE BOY!

Karment.

OH, HE'S YER LI'L

DOG, HUH?

20

122

11 Take care not to net in this

manner.

16 One may rest here by the-way- 19 Clashing.

21 This marks, an artist.

22 A body of troops should move

this part of the body.

23 This African animal is 110

beauty.

26 This catching thing is not all'

upset.

27 The time of the (young) alt 30 This foreigner is barely to be

noun in England.

31 Is this heavenly body the equsé

of universal strife"

Yesterday's Solution

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UN KEDE L ANIMUM GRILSE OM KNOTT X # ET EG RANGE: NE -

By Small

OH, MY NO! THIS IS OSWALD!)

JUST COME 'WITH ME TO THE HOTEL AND YOU'LL

SEE!

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