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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1938.

Liberry, Supraud Cocry

Just Because a Woman was Photographed—

THE POTATO MAKES HEADLINE

NEWS TO-DAY

No Two People Can Agree About It

The point to be decided, ladies and gentlemen, is-Should we, or should we not, peel our potatoes?

Freed-With Baby Dead,

Expenses

Thwo men convicted in Glas- row of hausebreaking maintain- od that the police had extorted confcmions from them by threats, followed by a blow.

They were sent to prison for thirty days.

Recently the appeal couré In Edinburgh quashed the convis- Hon and awarded each man seven guinean expenses,

Miny

Doris Felce, Hampstead I like them best the way It's very we cook them at camp. casy.

Abandon for a moment the grimmer worries which beset you and join light-heartedly in the pow-wow about Gulder: potato-peeling, which, it seems, is going on in thousands of (otherwise) happy homes of England.

Cause of it all is cheerful Miss Alison Gifford-Harvey, who recently started her new job of "pushing" the potato on behalf of the Potato Marketing Board. She obligingly act to work on a prime Lincolnshire specimen so that a photographer could show how thoroughly she knew what was expected of her.

The result was remarkable, and serve them up with lots of salt It became immediately obvious and gravy." that there are two schools of thought on the potato problem the Peelers and Anti-peelers.

PEELERS AND THE ANTIS' The cleavage was complete. But at least some interesting things were

made known.

CUT THEM IN HALF

Catering for a multitude every day (and therefore both a Peeler and an Anti-pecler), M. Rene Lebiegue (maltre-chef at Grosvenor House, W.) a recipe contributing helped by which ought to suit both schools:

potatoes

tor bake your

akins.

in

You just wait till the camp- tire is glowing and put them in the red-hot ashes with thele jackets on. This way they lose none of their nourishment,

NEW WAYS WITH THEM

Soccer Star

To Play On

Just before he heard he had been selected to play football for Wales againat England at Cardiff, Mr. George Green, Charlton Athletic F.C.' right half, found his 10-months-old son Brian drowned in a pond in the garden next to his home in Rochester Way Blackhead.

"I shall play on Saturday, despite this," Mr. Green said.

my

"I must try hard not to let it sffect

bo game; it will dieult." Mr. Green described the tragedy:

Scene taken at the Cenotaph in Hongkong after the recent Armistice Day celebrations,

EMPIRE NEWS

QUEENSLAND WATER SUPPLY SCHEME

Sydney.

while his wife stayed in the house Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield, who was chief engineer for the construc-

next door with her dead baby,

"Only a few minutes before it hap-tion of Sydney Harbour bridge pened," Mr. Green said, "Brian was and the Sydney Underground laughing and playing in the garden Railway, has submitted to the while I was helping Mr. William Queensland Government a vast Grant, my neighbour, to pull up scheme for watering the inland arcas of Queensland. It is estim-

£30,000,000. nted that the cost would be

fence at the bottoin of my garden.

Miss Olga Turk, who lives at home with her mother and father in Bays water: "I eat no end of them. ilke them best served in their jackets -you know, the way you get them from hot potato men in the street. "The moment we had made on jackets at home I hate them, I sup- through to explore, and found his But when they're done in their opening in the fence Brian went pose it is the novelty of buying them way into Mr. Grant's garden through in the alreet.

a gate in another fence.

"Later I milased him, and found him lying face downwards in the pond in 20in. of water. I tried to revive him,

"I think Drian must have stopped to look at the goldnah in the pond, and felt in, striking his head on the bow! containing water lilies."

Mrs. Mabel Partridge, of Eccleston- street, Victoria (who has so cook for a family of five): Potatoes are rather uninteresting vegetables, so I try 10 Cut them in half when think up ways to make them attrae. but it was no use. Miss Frances Day (0s light us Onished. Mash the insides and add live. I sometimes bake them in an feather despite thousands of poin- butter and milk. Then replace into electric oven, scrape the potato out toes) said that by instinct she was the The results are pommes of the jacket, mix it with butter, an Anti-peeler.

milk, tomatoes, and other vegetables, Miss Ellaline Terriss (equally well and slide it back into its jacket "I have potatoes in their jackets whenever I can," she said. "I even known as the wife of Sir Seymour again."

Said daughter Rowenn: I think Hieks) remembered the nourishment

"I like try to eat the peel ng well.

them in their jackets because its suel most people are Anti-peelers at in the skin of a potato. "What heart. But anyway, a lot of nonsense mistake to lose it" she exclaimed. a fag peeling them. They ought to is talked about potatoes, peeled or "Potatoes in their jackets are nicest bave zip-fasteners on.

anyway" not, making us fat. They don't."

and best," Forty-years-old red-checked Mrs.

Rose Joy, of Lewis Trust-buildings,

Fulham, widowed mother of three, is

Peeler.

赶

Just

I can't cook,

Australia Lends To Citizens

The plan contemplates irnpounding a huge volume of water from the watersheds of northern Queensland. It would be carried by tunnel and

wou aqueduct through the Great Dividing Range, and emptied into the intend rivers for irrigation and the flowing watering of stock in the Great Aus- trailan Basin extending to the New South Wales border.

Dr. Bradfield estimates that the scheme would make possible an in- crease of 20,000,000 sheep in Queen- flocks and would, expand the anunt income of Queensland by

£10,000,000,

t present losses of stock caused by Canberra. drought in Queensland aggregate The Federal government has de- £2,500,000 a year, Dr. Bradfield Twenty-years-old Miss Margaret

cided to open a bank for granting states. At 4 per cent. Interest, that Richards, saleswoman, of Southtelda, Wimbledon: The controversy means Cows Eat White Lead loans to citizens of good character sum would pay the interest on a

Potatoes are

who are in some pressing need. The capital expenditure of £60,000,000. nothing to me.

food, I love

Syracuse, N, Y. loans are to be repaid in 12 monthly Battleship not wanted.—The Minis- food-but very nice

the Eleven cows died from lead poison-instalments,

charge to theter for Defence, Mr. Thorby, states wash them baked a golden brown colour

on the that the Federal Government will Well, ing on a farm near Syracuse. The borewer being 12 per cent. them with roast beef. Fattening?

the (It certainly cows kicked over a tub of white lead amount outstanding from month to not consider

by suggestion made short, does it look like it? n

and ate the contents,

month.

iralla should exchange two of her cruisers Cristy for

"We cat 4lb. at a meal," she said.

peel

"I give our potatoes a good under running water, quickly and thickly with worn-down table-knife, boil

them did not.)

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Botanist's Kew Appointment--Mr. C. T. White, Queensland Government Botanist, is to be sent to the Royal Bolanie Gardens. Kew, as Australian raison officer for not less than a year.

Jamaica

UNION OFFICIALS ON SEDITION CHARGE

Kingston.

Two prominent officers of the trade unlons organised by Mr. Alexander Bustamente, the Labour leader, were recently found guilty of sedition.

The case, which was heard by a Jury and lasted two days, arose from an article published by the two nc- cused men in a

in a Labour weekly journal during the rioting two months ago. Sentence was deferred.

The strike of labourers

on the sugar estales of Tate and Lyle, in the Vere district, continues, and sugar is being moved from there to Kingston under police escort. The strike has lasted a week, but so far there has been no disorder.

India

SHIPPING BACK TO NORMAL

Calcutta.

A number of steamships, the de partures of which from Calcutta and Mudras were stopped during the international crisla, have resumed their normal sailings.

The vessels were chartered by the Government for the possible move- ment of troops and atores.

Sloven Persons Drownkel-Twa men, three women and two children have been drowned owing to the turning over of a bullock cart in a flooded stream near Anantapur, Madras.

Canada

NEW FARMERS' UNION IN ALBERTA

Lethbridge.

The organisation of a strictly non- political farmers' union combining all agrarian groups in one body has been launched in South-Western Al- berta. Its aim is to protect primary producers.

A manifesto Issued after the first meeting of the new body states that will demand a more stable price for the products of primary produ- cers. This, it is added, will mean a more stable standard of living.

Policeman His Own Steno

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The traffic law violators should be a little more careful what they say to Patrolman Fred Holland hereafter. Holland can write short-hand, and he does it to remember the things that some people say about "tho law.”!!

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