1938-04-23 — Page 6

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TELEGRAPH,

IN THE

HONGKONG HOTEL

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"GRIPPS"

TO-NIGHT, 23rd APRIL

SPECIAL

DINNER

EXTENSION

TILL 2 A.M.

SSSENSEE

SATURDAY; APRIL

23,

1938.

SCENES OF ASSASSINATION

WATCHED HER FAT MELT AWAY

More Than Two Stone Vanished in Four Months

This woman is only 5 feet tall and she weighed 11 stone 4 lbs. Then she found a simple, safe method of reducing, and she stuck to it faith- fully for four months. She now turns the scale at under 9 stone Read how she brought about this change:--

"A little over four months ago, out of curiosity, I started to take Krus- chen Salts. I hadn't much faith in anything, us previously I had taken another treatment for 12 months and wene 4 lbs, heavier than when started. After the first bottle of Kruschen Salis I felt different, so I continued to take them and still felt better in every

way...

I watched

myself losing fat every week and now I am very pleased with the results. I am 6 feet tall and before taking Kruschen I weighed 11 stone 4 lbs. Now I weigh under 9 stone." |----(Mrs.) JW.

The six salts in Kruschen assist the internal organs to throw ox coch day the wastage and poisons that encumber the system. Then, little by Hitle, that ugly fat goes-slowly, yes, but surely.

DANCE

$5.00 per person

WITH

No Extra Cover Charge

SYLVIA and CHRISTIAN

NOVEL SENSATIONAL ACROBATIC DANCERS

THE SCENE at which Dr. Herman C. E. Liu, President of the University of Shanghaf, was murdered on Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, and the course of the ensuing gun battle between the assassins and At right is the Bus stop on Bubbling Weil Road, corner of foreign police officers are shown above. Majestic Road, the X marking the spot where Mr. Liu was fatally shot. At left is the entrance to the alley on Avenue Road, where the assassin look refuge when chased by Bergeant George II. Wade, The cross in a circle is where Sergeant Wade fell after being hit in both fees, while the cross at the right shows the spot where a pedestrian was killed, while partaking of a meal at a street restaurant,

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Give An American An Inch And He Will Take 00009 More A NOT SO

SO LONG

HONGKONG HOTEL ARTICLE ON THE

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JOHN I.

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ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS

MARINE MOTORS & MOTOR VEHICLES

SUBJECT OF LENGTH

GIVE a pernickety American a Good Old English Inch

and he will take .00009 more.

The good old British inch is 25.39996 millimetres when the stick of gold-studded brass called the Standard Imperial Yard is at an even temperature of 62 deg. F, at a barometric pressure of 30 inches; while the American inch, based on a platinum com- position stick measuring a metre,' is 25.40005 millimetres,

Dr. Lyman J. Brggs, Director of the Washington Bureau of Standards, says that this difference is "intolerable" and he has introduced a Bill to shorten the American inch by .00005 milli- metres to 25.4 millimetres.

Inquiries by the News Chronicle reveal that all this splitting of fifth decimals will not affect the lives of either Mr. John Smith, of Boston, Lincs, or Mr. Cyrus B. Smith, of Boston, Mass.

The fact is that for all legal and practical purposes in trade and industry in both England and America the Good Old British Inch and the Slightly Newer American Inch are recognised as 25.4 millimetres.

America, in other words, is merely legalising what is already universal practice in U.S.A.

The story of the two inches goes back to Anglo-Saxon times, when the G.O.B.I was known as the "ynce," derived from the Latin "uncia," meaning a twelfth part. In the time of Edward II, the inch was by statute prescribed as measuring "two barley corns round and dry."

It started its trip across the Atlantic on, the Mayflower in com- paratively healthy condition on a copy of the Standard Imperial Yard in the care of the Pilgrim Fathers, and theoretically the inches on both. sides of the Atlantic remained the same until 1593.

Then, Anding themselves in possession of a yard stick of doubtful value but a good metre stick, the Americans adopted the metre as their fundamental standard for deriving yard and consequently inch measurements.

GIRL STRIKERS FAINT

..

Warsaw.

TWENTY cases of fainting occurred to-day among 400 ballet girls, singers, artists, musicians, and other workers of the Warsaw Opera House now at the fifth day of their stay-in strike. The strikers claim £2,000 owing to them in salaries. A hunger strike is threatened if their demands are not met.

The decision of the licensees is not expected until Tuesday.— Reuter.

Janet Gaynor Cute, Says Roosevelt

Hollywood, Mar. 20. President Roosevelt called Actress Janet Gaynor "cute as a button" when she attended his Birthday Ball here.

President didn't Although the know it at the time, he was naming Miss Gaynor's next picture.

Producer David O. Selznick adopt- ed "Cute as a Button," for Janet's next picture, assigned two writers to figure out a scenario, and sent the President a $100 check for the In- fantile Paralysis Fund.

Bachelor Gives Hints on Love

Mr.

Cyrli

Liverpool's Clancy, bachelor love doctor" and secre- tary of the Liverpool and District Prisoners Aid Society, gave these hints

to courting couples at Women's meeting at Moreton Wirral: "Early marriage is the ideal, but it Is normally better for the husband to be some five or ten years older than his spouse. The girl of 20 has more common sense than the average man, of 25.

"If a couple find themselves men- tolly

unsuitable for each other, they are wiser to break off the friendship. "If you are a prey to jealousy and mistrust in your life partner, it bodes ill for your future happiness.

Tho unmarried can develop friendship into love by not making known the depth of their affection; Ailile uncertanty is a sure road to the heart,

"After

marriage love becomes more profound only if the band and wife remember that a child is more important than a motor-car.

"In-laws should keep their advice to themselves."

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