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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 21, 1938.

Cearrty

While You Wait.. M

Rumours Caused Changsha Blaze

CHUNGKING, Nov. 20.

CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING to the five-day disastrous conflagration in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, which practically razed the city to the ground, are revealed in a statement issued jointly by the Central Publicity Council and the Political Board to-day.

According to the statement,{ the fire was caused by mis.. information of the approach of the Japanese invaders.

had

CHIANG METES OUT STERN PUNISHMENT

Changsha, Nov. 21. Meling out stern punishment for those responsible for the five-day lurge fire at Changsha, the Central authorities have ordered the execu-

OWEVER many find that a natural make-up, with

resolu- good

made from time bright lipstick, plays to time about, not game.

dressing in a hurry, allowing ten minutes to make up properly, half-an-hour a week to look after your nalis and so on, the day does come when you want to look your beat and the clock beats you.

Short Cuts

You seem to have

n

winning

the

Another iden which saves

new beauty pads. minutes is the

those cleansing pads You know which made their debut here last summer? Lots of girls curry them in their bags nowadays, clean and refresh the didly before putting on "face."

skin

ns

they splen-

R

fresh

Well, there are now similar little

yar-

seconds when you need Pads made for removing nail minutes, your fingers nish. Ench one looks like a bit of turn to thumbs. the pink flannel, about the size of a foundation cream that

usually behaves per- penny. It is ready molstened--no fectly goes on in blobs messing with bottles and cotton

well, you know the wool.

rest of the story.

These are the occn-

alons when you need to

know the short cuts to beauty,

There are ways of catching up with the clock and looking your prettiest at the same time. Minu- facturers of beauty preparations realise that the modern girl (and her mother) is not a lady of end- less leisure, to the newest methods are speedy as well as being off- cient.

Lovely Nails

You can take off the old polish

In a twinkling. One pad will deal with all ten nails and leave them clean and ready for revarnishing,

Another kind of molatened pad is deodorant-you just smooth it on the underarms, or any part of the body. These are likely to be a boon to the girl who finds personal daintiness one of her difficulties.

think it a good plan to keep a light setting lotion always to hand

MAKING UP

One important thing is to inve the right make-up » shades by you. The autumn and winter colours are no longer something we merely talk about and gaze at in shop windows we are already wearing them. It's much

easter

TO NEW COLOURS

By Thaphne Earl

and speedler to make yourself attractive if you have cosmetics which really go with your frock.

Maybe, your new outfit is in Air Force Blue. In this case a sightly bluish lipstick (one of the light raspberry ones) would be good.

with a rouge to match. Wear a warm, creamy powder-in fact.

play up to the lighter tones of your

skin.

London Ton in a popular shade

for autumn coats. You'll find, if

you are a brunette, that a make-up with an orange east 19 good with a fairly light powder. Autumn Tints

Fair girls look better with a natural make-up-lipstick in a Ecod "straight" red and a warm. pinkish powder.

The wanton destruction of lives and property at Pingklang, ton of three important garrison This year's browns have a cop Yoyang, Tungcheng and Tangshan ofeers of Hunan, and the dismissal pery, beach leaf hint and make

orange tendency Japanese

so of General Chang Chi-chung, Chair-up with a warm by

aircraft

of the man of the Ilunan Provincial Govern- will harmonise happily. embittered the feeling people's self-defence units that they mant. resorted to the destruction of the city themselves so that nothing of military value would be left to the enemy when they arrived.

The three officers chiefly respon- sible for the disastrous conflagration, CHANGSHA AFTER THE FIRE

Changsha, Nov, 21. Recovering with typieni rapidity, Changsha after the disastrous

The statement says that neither the military nor the civil authorities had given orders for the destruction day Are is steadily returning to

ave-

organizations.

of the elty. There was then no normalcy under the energetic direc mediate necessity of auch destructive tion and supervision 61

ht the local work 19, though Yoyang had been authoritles and publie taken by the Japanese, the Chinese troops were still holding a strong de- fence line to the north of Pingliang,

Millo and Changsha was yet tar behind the firing line.

Ditest

Wen

A sum of $200,000 appropriated by

ancing

Chen

As to the greens, they are almost springlike in their vividness, and I

SNIFFS OF SNUFF

(Continued from Page 6.)

in a scent spray. It is only a matter of seconds to spray a little on your hair comb and run through, but it works wonders in deepen- ing the wave and making unruly curls behave.

People with very dry hair may find a tonic or fine brillantine better than setting lotion-it stops frizziness and arves many minutes of patting and pushing!

Cosmetics Case

You may have discovered your- self that there's no time saved by putting a fresh make-up on to a half-cleansed skin.

Always clean your face com- pletely so that the skin will take powder evenly and will not need continual retouching with your bag puff.

And speaking of bags, one splen. did time and temper saver that have, discovered is a little case which holds all your cosmetics-

I'm one of those people who, when they change from one bag to another, always leave something behind! Maybe my pet lipstick or. worse still. the latch key.

Now I use a little coamelle bag which keeps all the oddments to- gather and you just silp it from one handbag to another.

One

aro

A FEW HINTS ON BEING AN EXPERT!

(Continued from Page 6.)

begin qualifying his remarks, and that is the worst thing anyone can do.

Shades do not count; people want arguments in black and white. The moment you begin pointing out the various "shades In an argument, A man who are disclosed as you knows nothing.

And so, without being naked to "Rubbish!" explain why you said:

you will be held as the man who showed up a bogus expert, and your reputation will go up by leaps and bounds.

1 know a man who has a reputa- tion for sound thinking, though I do not believe he has ever thought in his life. During an argument he shaltes or nods his head, and grunts just as the mood takes him. People look on this as an example of sound sagacity!

realises Of course, he that if he spoke he would ruin his pose; with the result, he has gained an additional reputation of who seldom speaks, but, when he does, his words are worth listening 10.

Elastic Language

min

cak

and would like to give your listeners value for their money, you can read

all

Up to the present I have not mentioned anything about knowing the subject you have become an been thrown upon the market, authority on. This was not an over- and bought up by travelling sight. Knowledge is not an essentind traders who resell it to the dis-part of an expert's make-up. If you tributors in Canton and Hong-like you can learn the various catch- words of the subject. But don't let kong. These latter are men of it worry you if you do not know exceptional shrewdness, and be-what they mean. Three experts can cause of the fact that they use the same ward and give it three themselves are addicts of the different interpretations-you

add a fourt

If you are a conscientious expert, the Central Government, and another aged for at feast a generation. habit, are enabled to act as con- $300,000 by the ilunan Provincial The habit, moreover, is so firm-noisseurs, and thus are in the Government, have helped the An-

of various rehabilitation mea-ly imbedded among these poor position of securing a veritable As soon as the Chinese High Com-sures. General Cheng and toilers that practically every monopoly of the market. More a few reviews of books dealing with solid reviews, and they will give you mand was informed of the fire, the General Chaug Chi-chung are now ricksha puller boasts of his tiny over, like the proprietors of your pet subject. Pick the more

wine-cellars in well-stocked following steps, the sattement reveals in full charge of all rollef measures, pci-vin-woo or snuff bottle,"

the information you will ever were immediately taken: (1)

Emergency relict is being attended and in order that they may be western countries, they are need. After all, did not Lord Snow- and punishment of those responsible; by the International Reliet Com- (2) #ppropriation of funds to relieve mission. One thousand bales of rice, enabled to purchase the older wont to classify their commodi- den confess that he had never read

Socialists? refugees caused by the fire; (3) con-500 bules of sail, and 100 tons of coal and more delicate blends of ties by age, and can differenti-Marx's "Capital" the bible of all centration of troops to strengthen the have been allotted by the com snuff, they will often, club to-late with the most minute dis- Nor do you need to let the thought defence of Changsha; and (4) remissariat for the needy.

An army of five thousand coolics, gether and purchase one of the inctness, the peculiarity of of meeting another nuthority worry organisation of the Changsha military

gathered by the local authorities, are antique glass phials of the pro- every blend of snuff in their you. Say your little piece first; and If he contradicts you, any: "Ah! But and police organs and rehabilitation of the city.

surely you have rend so-and-so's sweeping the streets of debris and duct, which they will carefully possession.

book?" IMPORTANT TRADE Appreciation of the help rendered shambles, while all the fire brigades keep to themselves. Unfortun

Mention the most recent addition by foreign residents In Chungs in in the adjoining districts of Changsha ately, however, in the endeavour

of the best known of refugee investigallon and relief are now centred in the city, to do to secure an equitable division

these Chinese dealers in old to the literature of your subject. He will retire in disorder. Experts General Feng Ti, Garrison Comman-fire-preventing work,

disputes A special rellet commission, at the of the commodity, der of Changsha; General Chung-fu, Chief of Changsha Police; same time, has been formed, repre- sometimes occur, which, con- nuff is the Canton firm of write books; they do not read them? and Colonel Hsu Kung, Commander sented by the Provincial Government, sidering the small value of snuff Ts'eung Chan, which during the of the Second Hunan Garrison Regi-the

in modern opinion, is scarcely past twenty years has bought ment, were executed before a ring municipal government, and the rollee understandable to the onlooker and sold nearly 15,000 con- tainers of old snuff. When it is squad yesterday morning, after having Force.

Two refugee camps have been

FAMILY HEIRLOOMS

realised that each container faced a Court Martial which con- demned them to the supreme penalty, established in the city, accommodating Most of the old snuff which is contains a minimum of four

General Chang Chi-chung, although 250 people. Free porridge is offered dismissed from his post, is allowed to more than 300 people by these sold in South China is obtained ounces. and that the gross from the descendants of the total will approximato nearly

Choking, gaping, wheezing Asthma and to retain his duties and to allend to

A temporary market, for, the sale families of officials under the two tons, the importance of this Bronchit posen your system, ruin your rehabilitation measures in Changsha.

daily of

necessities, haa been Manchu regime. It must be re-trade is at

apparent. health and weaken your heart. Mendaco,

the prescription of an American physician -Central News,

established outside the southern gate membered that, in former days, What must have been the ex-art killing Asthma Germs in 1 minu

gate. work la expressed in the statement, and another near the castern

a universal tent of the commerce when purifies the blood and builds now vitality Central News.

Large numbers of people are crowd-snuff taking was ing the places purchasing meat, habit, and every mandarin re-practically every one in the Mid-1 anything and enjoy life, hiandaou I wo vegetables, and other food.

gardless of rank possossed a few dle Kingdom was an addict of the Excellent co-operation between the ounces which had been pro-habit can be left to the imagina civilians and the soldiers is in ovidence everywhere. A number of sented to him in his official tion. Needless to say, the trade workers from the Generalissimo's capacity. As most of this snuff in enuff affords one of the most in tho Political Board, arriving in Changsha was of the ancient variety im-interesting episodes hard-working and popular after the big fire, are daily turning ported during the eighteenth lengthy chapter of the China Police official, Detective Sergeant oul "wall newspapera" nummerizing John Bentley, stationed at the No. 2 the chief events of the day at the century, it was peculiarly prized, trade, and which, singularly Police Station, will be calling on long front and on the rear. These papers and handed down in familice as enough, still survives as a testi- t leave by the flawalpindi on Saturday are being posted in meny of the an heirloom of particular merit. monial of the vanished days Owing to the advent of the when European traders and Sergeant Bentley has been connect- thoroughfares in the city,

Another refugee camp, which will Republic and the influx of Euro- their wares

were more highly ed with the No. 2 Station for the last 10 months, and will be away for accommodate refugees and wounded about nine months

much soldiers alike, will be established pean idens, much of this erat esteemed than they are at the needed vacation.

Ivery shortly-Central News. while treasured product has present day.

POLICE OFFICER GOES ON LEAVE

A

for Д

Garrison

two camps daily,

Headquarters. the

once

J. R. C.

Asthma Germs Killed in 3 Minutes

so that you can sleep soundly all night, eat successful that it le guaranteed to give

you fros, easy breathing in 24 hours and to completely on your Aathon in 3 days of det endaco from your chemist. The guar

maney back on return of emply

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BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

10

1 A rallway employee incites one of his own atatus to disloyalty (two words-7, 5).

8 Sea creature that ran back with

most of another one (7).

9 It might be paid as compensa- tion for a bad bang on the head! (two words-4, 3).

11 Part of a soldier's uniform (7). 12 Kind of inquisitive people around o district of London (4).

13 Part of Africa (5).

14 Two words that will soon empty

a train (3, 6).

16 Strict conformity to standard

(B).

10 A foreign word to put as

gulding principle (5).

21 Cleaned a different way (7).

#1

23 This flowering tree provides n

wedding essential (7).

24 The Intish afternoon? (7).

25 The fact that civillans were not always clvil brought about the passing of this (two words ~4, 3).

20 No, this pigment has no yellow

in it (two words-7, 5),

DOWN

1 Does this refer to a drink on

the cheap? (D).

2 One often quotes the end of this play on meeting a friend (7),

3 Distinctly uncomfortable (threb

words-3, 2, 4)......

The name for a typical farmer? (0).

20

5 For refreshing air try this walk

(7), A language (7).

7

A

hidden trend

(12).

10 His first two letters commonly mark this crudite person (three words-6, 2, 4).

15 This is the limit (two words-

4, 5).

17 One of the big mon of history who found the makings of oil in

town of his land (7).

18 A matter of speech (7).

19 Part of the medium are on

isotherms (7).

20 Marine capacity mainly on Д

horse (7).

22 One is very much inclined to.

put it off at a late hour (8).

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