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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936.

THE WORLD COPIES THE ENGLISHWOMAN

Britain Exports

•

Exports Clothes American Fashion Buyers

Invade Worth £1,070,000

New Vogue Sets the Britain

Looms Humming PARIS

BACK SEAT

London

TAKES GAS MASKS FOR THE MILLIONS Council for Civil Liberties

(By GRACE WILSON)

ALL the world is copying the clothes of

the Englishwoman. New standards. of dress have switched the world fashion centre from Paris to London-and British dress material manufacturers are recording a continued increase in their business.

Last year Britain exported £1,070,000 worth of women's skirts, coats, and dresses -a considerable advance on the year be- fore.

One West Riding manufacturer of worsted costumes cloths has seen his business increase by i 300 per cent. in the last year.

Women in all parts of the world are fall. ing in love with the more severe and sen. sible British styles, as opposed to toral frills, and Paris is belug forced to take a hack seat.

That was why £77,000 worth of British knitted wear was ordered oversens last year.

America Wants Our Styles

British imported clothes are a luxury in the United States, but this has not stopped the craze among American women to dress "just as the British do."

American retali stores are now sending their buyers to visit London before the Paris displays. They return to America with British models which are copied over and over again,

A representative selection of dresses made by leading; British designers has just been taken over to the United States on the Queen Mary by the British fashion group-linn and New York's most fashionable women have crowded the dress show ever since.

Empire markets Are al occupy |

Ing the attention

of the British

dressmakers, One lamous Brm is sending Its chtire collection to South Africa at the end of our stminer South African dress season. The season begins when ours ends.

Trades Benefit

Valtors to London have returned to praise the plain slick suits, casual couts, and close-fiting dresses which Britisk women have made particular- ly their own.

ever-

of

The textile and ready-made clothing trades have already felt the advantage of this increasing overscas murkel. Even in the Middle Wes! Amerlen women are adopting British styles. Comparative figures that there has been a £40,000 in- crease in the export of dresses anti.

£26,000 in kultted wear.

show

Plana ure may being made to hold periodical exhibitions in the Empire of typically and foreign countries

British styles.

MARY ASTOR'S

AT HOME

A girl wearing the type of respirator approved for general clvi. use in Great Britain. Forty million of these masks are to be

maile for distribution to the entire elvilian population.

RANCHER-EARL WANTS

Simon to be Sent

Baton Charge Evidence

ANOTHER attempt is to be made to get the Home Secretary to hold an inquiry into the allegations of brutality made against the police following a baton charge in |Thurloe Square, W., on March 22.

The National Council for Civil Liberties has, in Friends House, concluded its inves- tigation into the affair and will now consider its report..

Statements of the various witnesses, the-chalr- man (Prof. Bentwick) said, will be sent to Sir John Simon in the hope that he will belatedly hold an inquiry.

A further Invitation to the Commissioner of Police to send witnesses or an observer to the inquiry received only formal acknowledgment.

On the night of the charge a Fascist meeting was being held in the Albert Hall, half a mile away.

Witness recently described to the commis- sion what they suw in Thurloe Square. One said that when the police charged they hit out at everyone they could soc.

"MISINFORMED"

Another wines, who said that he was baloned on

police made extremely vituperative remarks, and that the head and knocked unconscious, declared that the he say one mounted policeman chasing a man and

shouting, "I'll get you, you———-~.”

Evidence was also given that a foot policeman seized an elderly woman and held her against some railings.

TO LIVE IN LONDON

Switzerlands

'First Seaport”

Basie. Aug. 5. Switzerland's first "seapori" was offelally Inaugurated here by the arrival from London of the 500-Lon freighter Bernina the first merchant vessel from overseas to enter Swiss waters.

The Bernina s also the first Swiss-owned merchant vessel te

all the seas.

ber With

sister ship the Alpina, she wili maintain a ser- vice between Basle and London and Gothenburg, via the thine and the North Sea.

Basle

the terminal for

SHOCK FOR HER river traffic on the Rhine, has

EX-HUSBAND

"He was Married When I Married

Him"

Los Angeles, Aug. 10. MISS MARY ASTOR, the film star, has applied to the court

berome

of the most Insor- tant inland harbours of world.

•

Hans are before the Swiss Government for the developatent of a similar part at Geneva.

Cothes To Fit Our

Characters

Such Fun

(AND SUCH BEER)

In The Old

Country

(By A Special Correspondent) Calgary (Alberta),

Aug. 15.

Heroic History for Aryans

Munich. Aug. 12. History teaching. In colleges and universities in South Ger- 11311y Is to bo revolutionised "in order to make the student useful to the State."

Bavaria's recently formed of Cullure orders that Ministry ,"instruction be confined to a 'Frand

historical outline, and all events made useful to the

Past

The twenty-two-year-old situation of our nailon.

Earl of Egmont chewed a

| matchstick as he talked to

me to-day.

A

two-day growth of beard stubbled his chin. He wore a wide-brimmed sombrero,

I had driven out to his ranch - tu ask bin if he introds returning to England-found him' loading a truck with timber.

·

"The formation of our 100.000. ១០០ · German-people both Inside and outside the Reich boundaries

must be made clear to the student.

"Emphasis must be laid on the Teutonic

the #Airli race, Fuehrer-idea and defence, in order to build up heroic philosophr."-Reuter,

A

The answer to my question-"Yes" Miss Sheila

was supplied by the countess. for- merly Miss Ann“ Geraldine Moodie, his cousin.

"I'm going to get

Preddleto

England next year." She said, “even if I've got to hogtie him”. She told me this as her husband disappeared kitchenwards in search of drinks.

MacDonald

Turns Tutor

Lady Egmont went on "Fredio MISS SHEILA MACDONALD,

twenty five - year old

here to set aside the divorve granted her husband, Mr. D. R. F. Thorpe, last year, and to de clare her marringe null and void. The grounds of her application are that Mr. Thorpe married her without figures but also to their charac-our English home. divorcing another women.

wanted to go to England immediately after we married, but I was afraid daughter of Mr. Ramsay Mac- of the ocean crossing.

Donald, has sailed for St. Vincent,

You will be interested to learn that English tailors cut cloth not "Now I am anxious to be there for West Indies, to become a tutor. only according to their patrons

Iters.

the Coronation, and for a visi to

we're

Referring to a statement by the Home Secretary in the Commons that stones und mud were thrown at the police, the chairman asked one wit ness if he had seen anything of thai sort.

"There was nothing there to throw," was the reply, and In further answer to the chairinan sald he thought the Home Secretary was misinformed.

A man who declared he was not a police witness said he did not stay for the meeting.

He told the Commission, that he spoke to a number of people who told him that they had gone there with the intention of entering the Albert Hall and breaking up the meeting.

"As far as I saw anything of the poilce, they were very courteous_and_ considerate," he said.

Members of the Commission, in addition to the chairman, were! Mr. Harrison Barrow, Professor F. M. Cornford, Miss Eleonor Rathbone, M.P., and Mr. J. B. Priestley.

PUREST IRON WORTH MORE THAN GOLD

British-Made After.

Iron.

5,000 Years

Although man has had the use of fron for 5,000 years, "pure" iron has Miss Ishbel MacDonald, licensee of only just been made by the Na- tional Physical Laboratory ut Ted- Bottom, dington. It is softer than copper. A BATTLE

the Plough Inn, Flowers

sald nt her and as valuable as gold. It is also "He wants to sell up in Canada near Speen, Bucks, Her affidavit, filed in support of The authority for the statement is before we go to England, but I do not father's Hampstead home: these charges, does not name the otherthe London correspondent of a Berlin want him to de that. So

"Shella goes as tutor to the two more highly magnetle than is normal woman, whose existence Miss Astor paper.

having a battle.

daughters, aged fourteen and six- nserts she only recently discovered. He is brave, this reporter of At this moment the countess's teen, of Mr. Arthur Alban Wright,

Miss Astor also asks for the sole

sister, Miss Moodie, entered with a Administrator of the Colony, and ..custody

of her

tray holding bottles of beer and Mrs. Wright." four-year-old daughter, Marilyn-Reuter.

tumblers. Miss Aster's charges against her husband follow closely on a claim. she has fied in court for the posses- sion of her daughter.

In this claim, she charges Mr. Thorpe with having coerced her!

fashions:

He dares to say that:

Green' hats, goloshes and straw hats are just not worn, that they are beyond the pale, and sportci only by cada and dandies, or in the case of poloshes-only by "relles of the last century."

The rancher-earl followed her with another tray. Lady Egmont confided to me: "Freddie loves beor since he visited England. He drinks it at every meat He also insists that there is a dis-even with breakfast".

into permitting him to get the tact falling-off in the wearing of divorce, with custody of the child, plus fours.

Lord Egmont interposed: "Yes, but it isn't like the beer in the old coun

by threatening that he would Despite all as, England, he says, try, There's no strength in It",

her career as an actress.

BRIGHTER STREETS

Ito proudly displayed the silver

he had carried in.

"She first met their parents in Fill Mr. Wright was Secretary for Native Affairs there." -

FIXING FRONTIERS OF ABYSSINIA WORK ON KENYA BORDER

Rome, Aug. 17. An Italian column under General

The Teddington iron is believed to be nearly 89.99 per cent, pure. No fewer than 32 different chemical ele ments, which might be present impurities, have been tested for, and between them they account for only 0113 per cent,

ря

The laboratory's reason for going

to all this trouble to make virtually

accurate pure iron is to enable un study to be made of the effects of adding very small amounts of other metals to it. The two last and most vital steps in the Teddington formula

"publicly scandalise her" and ruinst!!! leads the world in mea's fashions. tray brought this from the ancestral | Geloso is reported to have completed | for making it are as follows:

Miss Astor declared that Marilyn The editor of the "Tallor and has now reached a "formative age, Cutter had these comments to make home,"

and needs a mother's constant and continuous companionship, love and attention."

One Under the

Eight-& One

"Most men seem to own a green Iat and it certainly brightens the sirecta. Naturally, çare must be taken with what suits it is worn. "As for the straw hat-well; so much depends on the weather.

"And few people wear goloshes nowadays.

Overrunkles. It's the commonest colour

Paris, Aug. 10. Augustine Fernandez was charged with being, drunk and disorderly at Bailleull to-day. Ho sald he was celebrating his birthday.

"Which birthday?" inquired, the judge. "You have soven birth certificates, and seem to

•have been born át varlous times between 1902 and 1915-at Con- stantinople, Turin, Blida, Tripoll, Smyrna, Athens and Salonika."""

the

"I take no chances," replied culprii, "I celebrate them

The point about the green hat

for headgear in Gerinany, tywny.j

he said. "See, there's a cresta survey and occupation of the on it.

old"

First, iron, in powdered form, al- It must be a hundred years southern regions of Abyssinin along ready as pure as it can otherwise be

the Kenya frontier.

made, is heated fri an atmosphere) of Ludy Egmont said to me; "Erer

Pro- Entering the Galla Sidamo

hydrogen to drive the last traces of Binco Freddie came

A local back from vince, the column set up

of pure England he has been dissatisfied government at Dawa Parma, and oxygen from it: The heating is done with Canada".

in specially-made vessels then moved rastwards along the alumina, and an electric tumace is Her husband said: "Well, you northern edge of the Kenya border used. can have fun in the old country" lund. Moving inland, the Italians

The countess replied:

OK.

Finally, when all the oxygen has We'll go after Chrisimas, but occupied Mega, a town of strategical

Importance in the Boran, controlling been removed, the Iron is again hent- won't have you selling up in more routes between Kenya and ed in a vacuum to remove any hydro- Canada,

the lake district. South of that, at gen which it has dissolved during the "I want little Fraldic, our two-he frontier station of Moyale, con- previous process.

THE NEXT EARL

Triplet Girls After year-old son, to be educated in Eng tact was made with the British out-

land". She explained. "He will. post.

Triplet Boys

Berlin, Aug, 10. The wife of Dr. Fritz Witten, a medical man in Stroebeck, near Haibertad, who had already provent- ed her husband with triplets : (all boys), has now again had triplete.. This time all three are girk Exchange.

a

Under laboratory conditions, price of ba, a grim represents as near "Having exactly axed the ter have to carry on his father's Utla

In time and trouble, of making puro one day and I want him fitted for it, ritorial and traffic demarcation lines an estimate as possible of the cost, "Yes," she said. "We shall come between Ethiopia and the British iron. The present price of gold is

Geloso has

about 44. 19d, a gram. to England next year, but we shall possession," General

{turned' be very accretive about R."

north to enter the Lake already Earl of Egmont Ruceceded to Margarita territory and has tle in May 1932, His father had reached Javello, farmed in Alberta for twenty.

Another Italian column is operat eight years before 1929, when he ing in onstern Abyssinia and is en- succeeded The young cart was deavouring to clear up the ranges married In August 1902. Family which flank the Addis Ababa initial softness, it can be easily hard- seat Is Avon Castle, Inc-Hämpshire" | Jibuti ̈railway.

On the other hand, it is pointed out commercial demand for pure iron, it conter there were ever any serious could be made very much more cheaply. In spite of its extreme

ened by rolling.

Joyer DENNY

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You think me reckless

may

But I wouldn't be Tek-less Cheap toothbrushes don't do their job."

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