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1214

Pretty blous: with frills at neck and sleeves is worn under a becoming prasant dress.

HONGKONG'S MOST FAMOUS PIRATE

(Continued from Page 6.)

Ma-chow Wong. There are some entries in Chinese af moneya received from or for Mr. Caldwell,”

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 29, 1938.

PRETTY FASHIONS

* FOR BIG SISTER *

She can make these

W

frocks herself

HEN I was fourteen I wanted to look like my mother. I could not under- stand why this, that and the other style were too old for mo,

Most mothers find that daughters of this age either do not care what they look like or want to imitate too closely an elder slater.

If you want her to look nice, encourage your daughter to tako an interest in her clothes, and sho will learn to choose wisely, and if she likes sewing it in going to save her money inter on if she can make her own frocks.

Sketched here are three pocket edition fashions for girls from fourteen to sixteen,

Practical and Pretty

Young girls' clothes should be simple and sensible, but at the same time attractive. These designs are planned on practient lines, and are so easy to make that Miss Fourteen con make them herself with a little help.

At the top left, No. 1214, is a little peasant dress that can be made in velvet or brightly coloured wool fabric with an attractive Ürulit hush to bodice and pockets, You could tri the silk blouse with a few gay posies of flowers In lazy daisy stilch.

My second choice for daughter is a little woulten dress, No. 1215, cut with a yoked top, long sleeves and a plain, well-cut skirt. I advise a cheerful colour for this dress, say, a light navy, copper beech, or cherry red.

Velvet for Parties

A pretty frock for small parties is shown in the third sketch, No. 1210. A little gathered badice to give case a the figure and the same Kathering repeated on the sleeve. Carried out in velvet this will give her a nice whem frock for the entire winter.

Finish dess with a narrow bell or three lifferent tones of narrow ribbon which should be Jefl long at side.

been sent away more than ten years before. Immediately on his arrival here, he was arrested, but upon presenting his dis- charge papers from Labuan he was released, and was permitted to tako up his residence hero again. However, he found things vastly changed. Piracy was no more. The administru- tion of Sir Hercules Robinson

ALTHOUGH every effort was had effectively cleared up the minde by interested parties augean-like corruption of the to prevent the case from being previous decade, and his erst- brought to Court, the evidence n'e protector and business that it would have associate, Mr. D. R. Caldwell was was such been highly injudicious to have now living in retirement at his made any further pretence of residence in Hollywood Road. concealment. Consequently, Ma- chow Wong was September Criminal Sessions of he was welcomed by the Imperial 1807 for "confederating with officials, who offered him a com- pirates," and was sentenced to mission and a mandarin's button fifteen years' penal servitude at of the fifth rank, if he would the prison settlement on the consent. to serve the Chinese Island of Labunn near British Government in North Borneo,

Wong thought of proceeding Ukrainian Peasants tried at the to Canton, and when he did so Get Stiff Sentences

capacity:

sentenced to prison

1215

1216

Gathering on bodies and sleeucs and a Avaray sash add charm to a velvet dress. The belted frock. with poke

Heal collar, looks well in check wool or twerd.

and

Belgian Royalty's Vacation in France

Warsaw, Dec. 28.

Paris, Dec. 28. Six Ukrainian peasants of the King Leopold of the Belgians and Polish village of Werbow were the Queen Mother arrived this morn.

terms ranginging By express at Cote Dazur. from six to 15 years by the district! They will stay for a fortnight at military court of Brezany to-day for being Beaulieu-Sur-Mer.-Trans-Ocean.

members of an Illegal "Nationalist, Ukrainian

organisation," and manslaughter.

for i Respite was given to some of the were accused of killing a peasant, who caused the arrest

The

Ubrarles

C.C.C. OFFICIALS ON SERIOUS CHARCES

Indianapolis, Dec. 20. Five omciols of the Continental

|000~~Reuter,

France Sells Out Munitions Shares

Prague, Dec. 28.

As an indication of the changed situation In Central Europe, the

French group closely connected with

the Schneider-Creuzat Works, which held the majority of the Skoda Works shares, have sold their hold- ings to a Czecho-Slovak group repre- senting the Czecho-Slovak Govern- ment.

the Skoda

The management of

mercial, as well as technical or-

Sadly, however, he refused Mr. Caldwell was naturally

this tempting offer, and return- grief-stricken at the course of ed once more to Hongkong. All convicted. events, but he still managed to he wanted now was to end his be able to exert his influence so days in peace and tranquillity of some Ukrainians, but witnesses Credit Corporation of Winchester in Werks had been formally in Czech

Polish that his protege did not have to submit to the indignity of hav- under the flag of the nation proved an alibi for the defendanes Indiona, and its associated firms, have hands, but until October the French treated him 30 The Polish authorities also pro-been convicted by a Federal Jury of had their representatives in the nd- ing his handsome queue docked, which had

now beibited the celebration of the 17th using the mails for fraudulent pur-ministration and the management, cs was then the custom with &enerously. He had

Director Rochelte was recalled four anniversary of the Ukrainian cultural poses, a thoroughly reformed organisation "Proswlla" come Chinese prisoners in the gaol. man, and thought only of atoning scheduled for December 20 and 27. nnts are alleged by the Government

which was Schemes organised by the defend- | weeks ago.

Close co-operation had existed Finally, on November 13, 1858, for his past misdeeds. The organisation supports many to have cost business houses and in-between the Schneider-Crcuzol and Ma-chow Wong, in company with Chinese Government never en- Eastern Galicia-Trana-Ocean.

and reading rooms Individuals in the Middle West £240,- Skoda works with regard to com- fifty-nine other convicted Chin-tirely forgot him, and during the ese felons, was sent away from war with France in 1884, it again the Colony, and after being in offered him a military com- Labuan for a couple of years, he mission if he would

serve the once more came into the limo-cause. light as a result of acting as the Once more, Wong refused, ringleader of an attempted up-stating that he was too old to rising in which it was planned think of honours. Although to release all the prisoners and poverty was now his lot, he was murder the European wardens far happier than he had over and Indian guards.

been. Besides, it would not be However, one of the convicts long before he would be called got "cold feet," and, appalled by to join the souls of his departed the callous slaughter of so many ancestors. people that the successful per-

The old ex-pirate survived petration of the murder-plot until the year 1892. His pass- would entail, went to the Prisoning was the last link which Superintendent on the eve of the bound the modern Colony to the every turbulent, tumultuous days of attempt, and confessed thing. As a result, five years that older Hongkong which now an unpleasant were added to Wong's sentence, exists only as and he was more closely watched memory.

than ever.

THE years passed by, and

gradually his spirit came to

be broken. At length in 1860, Sir John Pope Hennessy (who

Kill Kidney

Trouble Quick

Thousands of mutterers from Kidney

subsequently become Governor trouble and illadder weakness HAY of Hongkong) and Mr. J. R.stoppad etileg Up Nights, Leg Taina, Howard, the Superintendent of Nervousne, Beischions, theumatism, Die

Circles Undor Pyes, Kwollen. Ankles, Convicts at Labuan, pravalled Lambro, lurning, Itching, Smart-

Ing, Acidity and Laws of our by a 1300 upon the Home Government to for a new discovery, oiled" Crater (Blen- jex), (antir soothsa, tones, clowns, and award him a froo pardon. Upon YEWEKOTE

your blood «BTIERS this being granted he returned Szelex tante purityinen minute new health, youth and vitality in 40 knurr armon13

to the Colony, whence he had a Bet Brier at all chandels

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