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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, APRIL

1937.

Lipstick May Be Taxed In Great Britain

DRASTIC REVISION OF STAMP DUTY Impost Recommended on

Chemists' Medicines

Lipstick and other make-up may have to pay duty in England in the future.

All

stamp

The repeal of all existing medicine stamp duties is recommended by a Select Committee, and they suggest- subject to certain exemptions-that there should be a duty, based on the retail selling price, on:

Medicines, drugs, herbs, fumigants, Inhalants, disinfectants, antisen- ties, soups, mouth-washes, tooth-pusten and powders, medlented wines, mineral waters, toliet preparations and cosmeties to be used or applied as medicines or medicaments which are recoinmended or advertised in any way for the prevention, cure or re-

Jef of any human ailment or defect

or for the protection or maintenance of health.

Respecting cosmetics" the Com- mittee state: "If it is dimeult to dis-

Germany's

tinguish between those which do and 63 New

do not claim to be remedial the Taxation of all cosmetics might re- ceive. consideration,"

The Committee express the view that the present tractuation of the medicine stamp duty is too steep. It

Warships

Fanges from 3d, where the value of BUILDING SPURT ALL

the article does not exceed is, to 23. where the value is between 4s, and 10s, 4. between 10s, and £1, and,

2

£2 where the value exceeds 60s.

THE PROPOSED NEW SCALE They recommend that the new scale should start at one-eighth of o penny, gradually rising to a farthing and a halfpenny; then Id. on articles value 3d. to ed.; and then 1d. for every 68. or part of Gl. over that price.

"

OVER WORLD

119 British Vessels Over Age

By A Naval Correspondent

by

A spurt in naval building-all-over- the world is shown by the Return of

published recently If it

it were decided to adopt an ad-Fleets,

give alorem percentage duty, the Com-the Stationery Once, which mittee recommend n rate. of 16.2/3 the numbers and types of ships built, building and projected for the sever per cent., Le., 2d. In the 1s.

per major naval Powers-The British excise llcence of $s, The

Empire, the United States, Japan, nnnum would be continued,

EXEMPTIONS

France, Italy, the Soviet Union and Exemptions would be granted to Germany all medicines, preparations, supplied

to

elc

It is stated that about 30,000 people in America lead a nomadic existence in trailers coupled to motor-cars. They are causing, the authorities some trouble. The man above has a motorcycle trailer.

First Edition "Alice In Wonderland” Found On Lending Library Shelf

SEALED and tucked away in a safe in the offices of Surbiton Urban District Council lies a first edition. copy of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," valued between £400 and £1,000,

For six months this book has lain there while three branches of a local family are disputing who is the rightful owner."

It is a strange story. There are 42 more warships build-

The book was presented to Surbi- doctors and dentists, and ing among these Powers than was the all preparations, etc., supplied to re-case when the last return was issued, ton pubtle library by Miss Spencer, ships woman of fifty-eight, now living at gistered pharmacists for use in dis-Morcover, a number of new

medicines prescribed by doc have been added to the fleets, al-Bridge-street, Pinner. It was part pensing

been numerically tors or dentists, and to all British though this has

offact by the scrapping of obsolete spa watera consumed at the place of

tonnage. origin.

consi-

The Committee also urge

In esimating the extent of the drive deration of the propriety of taxing for larger armaments all over the foods and certain appliances (such world it must be remembered that as deaf. nids), beverages (alcoholic ships to be authorised under the pro- for this year are in no case and offerwiser, and other prepara-grammar.f tions advertised as possessing pro-included. Nor are the ships building or projected by Soviet Russia includ- perties beneficial for health,"

of tho trada ined. The Should

control

are not available." medicines and appliances be deemed "Detalle return merely states that desirable, the Committee believe that The best method would be a system

of exam and registration of

medicines and ap

all

pliances.

quiremes earste

the

The great strides made by German Navy during the past 14 December, months is shown. In

Three capital ships. Two aircraft carriers. Three heavy cruisers mounting 8-inch guns (a type forbidden to

by trealy); Thirty-four destroyers, torpedo boats, &c.

19

Five small submarines.

Twelve minor warships. Four small craft.

of a collection of books which was it was of little value. When its true

Mies value was discovered the library

offered to return it.

by her grandmother. Spencer gave nearly all of them to the library.

The books were put on the ibrary shelves.

One day a man who came to borrow

book pleked up the copy of. "Alice in Wonderland," and after glancing at the title page rushed up to the librarlau and told him that he believed the book to be a rare first edition copy.

Expert opinion confirmed this, It was withdrawn from the library, and Miss Spencer was told,

The manager of a shop owned by the Spencer family at Pinner said:

OFFER TO RETURN

the

book "Miss Spencer gave among others to the library thinking

Callenfels Pulls Java Ape-Man To Pieces

LONG ESTABLISHED THEORY

EXPLODED

THE that, the skull, the thigh bone Bandocng started to study the fossil

of

"But two other branches of the family, one represented by Miss Spencer's seventy-year-old aunt. have disputed her claim ownership of the book.

tu the

"The matter was placed in the hands of salleltors who have not yet reached a conclusion.. This is partly because the family is so large and so mang settlements of property, have been made.

"An agreement is still not in sight."

It is understood that the family agreed that while the investigations are In progress the book shall remain in the possession of the Surbiton Council.

In 1928 a first edition copy was sold for £5,000, and another Was sold in February 1930 for.000 guineas.

RÁDIO BROADCAST

The Moana Beach Boys At Studio

wave-

DANCE MUSIC

Broadcast by Z.B.W. on lengths of 355 metres (845 k.cs.), 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c's.).

H.K.T.

12.30-2.15 pm. European Pro-. grammo.

12:30 Dance Music-

1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 A Recital by Lucienne Boyer (Soprano).

1.16 p.m. Plano Memories by Ronald Gourley

HATS

by

HENRY HEATH

1035, Germany had 70 ships com- pleted and 46 under construction or £3,300,000 YIELD

projected. To-day she has, 133 The committee stale that it was

THE theory held by Prof. du Bois seven years ago when a doctor in built and 63 building or warships suggested to them that the turnover!

Java remains which he found in the dif- trade

orcover of the proprietary medicine

these Agures are likely and back iceth he found in £28,080,000 a year. If

to be the low side, since the for- in 1890 belonged to one individual, ferent layers which were deposited amounts to

exploded by Prof P. V. van in Java during the pleistocene period, only £20,000,000, a duty of 10 2-3) eign sections of the Return of Fleets was about £3,300,- is filed in by the yield

foreign

the pleistocene naval Stela Callenfels, the eminent Dutch and he succeeded in establishing the per cent.

prehistorian, who is an authority on point that during 000 in the event of the abolition of authorities concerned.

GERMAN GUN ADVANTAGE South-East Asia, in an address at a perled in this part of the world there distinct types anany present-exemptions.

The addition, as proposed, of

According to the figures that are dinner meeting of the Rotary Club of were three absolutely d

when he explained the of, fauna.

When Pret, du Bols in 1890 dis- articles other than proprietary medi-given in the Return, Germany now Singapore, cines would add to the yield.

has under construction and projected. Importance of the new pleistocens

of fossil human skulls found in Java covered the skull, the thigh bone and that The existing Stamp Acts, passed 63 vessels, as follows:

for solving the problem the the back teeth, he published ago, are, it is stated,

faci, "Don't forget," Bald Prof. over 100.

to modern re-

evolution of mankind, quite

On a table the speaker exhibited Callenfels that that was a time when was looking for the several skulls of prehistoric life and everybody

Link" and Prof, du Bois 1.30 Reuter Press; Local: Weather Owing to out-of-date exemptionis

on either side of it he had black- "Missing

Forecast, Time and Announcements. and to a number of Court judgments,

data illustrating the thought he found the missing link. wholesale, avoidance of duty had

boards with three stages

of evolution,

1.40 Light Orchestral Concert. namely At that time, in 1890 they all thought

2.15 p.m. Close Down. been practised which had led during

tertiary pleistocene, middle pleisto- that the situll, the thigh bone and

the bad teeth belonged to ope Indi- 5-8 pm. European Programme, the last nine years to the yield de-

cene and late pleistocene,

5 p.m.

A Relay of Dance Music vidual. The place where Prof. du creasing from £1,205,130 to £747,-

DARWIN HYPOTHESIS

Prot. shid

Bols "D30,

found them Round about

was a small pond from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- 1885,

up by a volcanic Callenfels, everybody

still Was

eruption, ac kong Hotel. to the reports, Everybody wrapped up in the hypothesis of

Bohemian Girl"Vocal Darwin

and

anthropologist believed that until a short time ago. every Sixteen cruisers mounting 6-inch was looking for the "Missing Link." The possibility of those three mem- Gems (Balle)... Light Opera Com

bera belonging Вста

to three different pany:

"Maid of the Mountains" According to the old ideas about the species was thought unlikely. (Fraser-Simson)-Love will find a

of mankind, Fome

But that theory of Prot, du Bois way; "Merrie England" (German)- there was a missing link con-

was exploded by the discovery in Waltz Song........Helene Esserman necting man

and ape. 이곳 talking about 1885," said February last year of the skull of a (Soprano).

old. He 0.55 p.m. Violin Itecital by Germany's naval building at the Prof. Callenfels, "and Prof. du Bois child, at least two years

Love's Sorrow: Love'a and beakers being made by mem-present, time is thus considerably got an idea, a brainwave if you like, showed that skull to other eminent Fritz Kreisler. bers of the British Pottery more than 35 per cent. of the British that one had to go to south cast Asia anthropologists and said it was a

of the Marionetta (Winternitz), Manufacturers' Federation have naval building. Under the terms of because south east Asia was the most two-year old child and another three

then be-

it anthropold ape-ns they

to belonged a' child.

7.10 p.m. The Bournemouth been submitted to the King and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement probable place, where, out of the years but they were all agreed that (Kreisler); Jola (De Falla); Dance

the German Navy is limited to 35

it to be--mankind had deve- Prof. Callenfels pointed to several Queen, who have approved the per cent. of the British Navy.

points in the small skull from which Municipal Orchestra..

Idylle Bretonne (Gennin); Flutter- design.

ing Birds (Gennin); Carlsbad Doll (Pleier); Oriental Dance Twelve colours are incorporated. Germany is that she has very few

The skull which Prof. du Bois Danco

Intermezzo Pizzicato The central feature is an oval, con- ships over the age limits compared in Java and in 1880 he found a skull, belonged to a child. taining portraits of the King and with the number of obsolete ships in thigh bone and some bad teeth of

the British Navy

The. return what

was later called the pithe found in 1800 might or might not (White); Queen. On the opposite side is a

Stock 7.90 p.m. Closing local all those finds belonged to one indi- was human while the teeth proved in Riviere). Royal monogram. The design was shows that while there are only seven canthropus. The idea then was that have been human, but the thigh bone (Strings), (Birch); Crocus Time (de chosen from one hundred entries for over-age ships in the German Navy, vidual who had lived at the begin-nothing.

Quotations and Hongkong Exchange the there are 119 over-age ships in the competition organised by Federation

naval forces of the British Empire.

Market Report.

DESIGNS OF MUGS. APPROVED

5,000,000 TO BE MADE

n

Samples of Coronation mugs

About 5,000,000 mugs and beakers will be produced, and firms have re-

The British Empire has 94 vessels

building

or projected, as follows:

Two capital ships.

Three aircraft carriers.

guns

Fourteen submarines.

Thirty-three destroyers.

Nineteen minor warships.

Seven small craft.

am

Another advantage possessed ...

du Bols started his research he deduced that the skull must have

The fact that the two battleships building for the Royal

ceived orders from local councils and King George V. ya XM, Prinse Elephant Had No

public bodies in all parts of the coun- try and from overseas.

ON ADVENTUROUS

MAIL PLANE

QUEST

a main arm- of Wales, are to have ament of 14-inch guns 18

confirmed. The two inrgo French battleships under construction, the Richelieu and Jean Bart, are each to mount 15-inch guns.

Loss Of Memory

London, Mar. 20. Two years ago a German elephant arriving in Goole Dock

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7.

6.30 p.m. Light Opera, "The

*

Joy

7.35 p.m. A Selection of Drinking Songs by Jack Hylton and lis Orchestra.

7.40 p.m. From the Studio. The Monna Beach Boys.

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In the Royal Hawallon Hotel.. 1. 3. Pidgin English Hula. 3. Mexicall' Rose.

4. A Syncopated Hula Love Song. B. Kamaalph.

5..

8. To you, Sweetheart, Aloha.

8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wen- ther Report and Announcements.

8.03 A Relay from the Po Hing Theatre (Chinese).

THIGH BONE. There were enough data to say that the type of life existing in the late pleistocene period was found in the carlier stages and it was very likely that the thigh bone found by Prof. du Bois was that of the Sole man which was found in the late pleisto- cone period.

also stated that Prof. Callentels the skull referred to by Prof. du Bois So, apparently, are the Italian from. Hamburg stepped Into a was actually excavated by an army. battleships. Vittorio Veneto and

Dutch army, but their report was not Littorio. The gun calibre of the main waiting railway van and went sergeant and sergeant-major of the to be found. Even if it was found armament to be mounted in Ger-through the floor, many's new 35,000-ton battleship The other day the same elephant he doubted whether it would be of arrived with three companions. He any use from a scientific point of One of the planes which norm-not

11 pm. Close Down. It is interesting to note that British has been going in and out of rail-view.

8.05.11 p.m. European Program-.: ally carry those letters which we designers are retaining the 4.7-inch way vans all over Europe during, the In short, Prof. Callenfels seemed

What the theory me from Z.E.K., on a Frequency of send to our friends and relatives gun as the weapon for destroyers in past two years, but he would not risk to be confident

advanced by Prof. du Bols was 640 Kilocycles. In the Dominions has tem- spite of the fact that other nations walking into a van at Goole.

coaxed, wrong. They staff Trainers and dock

were still getling 8.05 pm Sonata in A Major porarily abandoned hamdrum are mounting larger guns in their

bailled, used fodder as bait inside the more Information and it was quite (Cesar Frank), played by Alfred destroyers.

possible that Prof. du Bois" finds flying to go off into Central

van all in vain. Australia in search of a lost gold It is thought that his skill may help After a five-hour battle of wits, actually belonged to a certain type Cortot (Planoforte) and Jacques

chained

ben him to one of his com- of life. There might be more, evi- Thiband (Violin). greek y

to Blochic the almost legendary they The pilot of the plane is Captain L. Lasseter Reef. Thousands of pounds panlans, used balt, and cheered as dence of that, but the skull, the thigh 1st Movement-Allegretto

bone and the bad teelf did not be- moderato; 2nd Movement Allegro; Brain.

3rd Movement Recitative Fantasia; flight superintendent ot have been spent in trying to locate he was dragged into the van.

Movement--Allegretto boca Quantas Empire Airways, who is this reef. The main clue is a chart ning of the ice age the terary long to ons individual,

A vate of thanks was proposed by 4th known to all air visitors to Australia left by Lasseler himself when he died pleistocene period.

The theory advanced by Prof. du Mr. W. A. L. Schaub who presided. p.m. Concert Waltzes. and who is an authority on the before he was able, to fit out the ex-

(Continued on Pega 4-)). Interior where he has often searched pedition which he hoped to lead back Bols was accepted by scientists and There was a large attendance, In-

the whole world until round about cluding women.athy for lost flyers and saved their lives. lo fame and fortune.

given.

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