1939-03-10 — Page 14

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 10, 1939.

Spring Fashions Snap From Paris

SKIRTS SHORTER-17 INCHES

OFF THE GROUND

New Veils To Give You Glamour

PARIS.

SKIRTS ARE OFFICIALLY

SEVENTEEN INCHES FROM THE GROUND, SHOULDERS ARE WIDE, WAISTS NORMAL. This fashion dash from the Parta saloits gives you flying start with the new Spring styles,

The very smartest thing is a new coat style coat glove-fitting at the Bwashbuckling top, but with

Regency flore to the back.

This cont is going to be a big suc- ers. It is immensely flattering to almost any figure.

The news about tailarest suite is that Jackets and skirts are divorced, The jackels are gay with checks or stripes, while the skirts are plain!'

or vice versa.

Skirts have a now swagger to them. In place at pencil silm- news is the shirt cut on the blas with full hem-line,

An impressed box pleat gives it' even further Jaunliness.

YELLOW FAVOURITE

Whichever way you look at the new frocits you see gathers, There are gathers on the bosum, gathers at the waist, gathers on the hip-line.

Sometimes a sleeve is gauged ati the neum to give a droped ap pearance. Yellow

Is top-of-the-poll colour. There are big splashes of it for Jackets, coats, or frocks, and the shades range from coolest lemon.

Pink and fuchsin are still popular, as are the blues, from sky to navy.

Ints are more varied than ever. They can be small or large, tip-tilted or worn right at the back of the head, with curls showing in froni.

to

But one feature is common nearly, all the huts-gay veils of finely-woven, coloured mesh.

Sometimes they float behind, sometimes they stick up in perky bows, or again they are used mistily to veil the eyes.

These veils should

glamour this Spring

lend

נונע

Lady Mary Lygon

AUYS

Huge shale slab fell from the ceiling in the Black Diamond coal mine near Renton, Wash., and disclosed an event held secret for thousands of years. It showed that a prehistoric animal of some sort had passed that way and had left its birdilke footprint, 42 inches long by 38 inches wide. Super- intendent W. J. Evans points to it.

Doctors

"Broke"

Her Neck

Mother Sacrifices Her Ear

For Baby Son

LEEDS.

RY sacrißeing her car, 27-years-old.

EMPIRE NEWS

Rongoos.

The police recently used tear gas against a riotous mok, which hud attacked the car of the Police Com- missioner, Mr. Reynolds.

The Commissioner, accompanied by Mr. Prescolt, another officer, was going to the scene of a disturbance, Police were trying to disperse, crowd, Including Buddhist priests and women, which was interfering with sirike-breaking motor-"buses,

The situation became so threaten- the ing that the police Bred over heads of the crowd. Nobody was in- jured, but nine suffered from the effects of the tear gas, and three were hurt in a balon charge.

The strikers now make no pretence of economie demands. They are parading the streets with the ham- mer and sickle, shouting revolution- ary slogans.

NEW ZEALAND

DEFENCE MEASURES

URGED

Auckland. Major-Gen. Sir Andrew Russel, who commanded the New Zealand Division in France, said the Domin- ion was not prepared for defence or attack. He appealed for compulsary training for a continuous three to force six monils so as to create capable of defence or for oversens,

He advocated the requirement of submarines and contributions to one or two empltat ships.

Fall in Imports-During the first month under the system of licensed Imports the Customs receipts in the four chief centres fell from £815,- 497 to £78,536,

INDIA

COTTON INDUSTRY

ACTIVITY

Calcutta. "India is the world's second largest producer of cotton,

the role and which this crop plays in the agricul- tural and nutional economy of the country cannot be over-estimated," says the annual report of the Indian Central Cotton Committee.

The year witnessed a great activity in the Indinn mit industry, the sea- son's total consumption of Indian cotton in mills reaching the peak figure of 2,903,839 bales of 40016 each, against 2.631,296 bales in 1936- 37-including Burma up to March

One of the most delicate operations Mrs. Herbert Pannett, of Ripley-Seal Coat Illness" 1, 1937.

To Marry Prince of modern surgery has been Lady Mary Lygon, third daughter, formed by surgeons at the Royal

of the late Earl Beauchamp, and Waterloo Hospital. S.El. on a 45- a sister of the present Earl, is to marry Prince Vseveled, a Bussion. Years-old Birmingham woman suffer-

tumour On Prince Vseveled in 25 and his ing from a fiancee is 20. They met ut a private cord. party 18 months ago,

Claim Fails

per-street, Leeds, has been able to ensure

The fall in prices of cotton, coupled that, by a miracle of surgery, her

with Japan's preoccupation with the two-years-old son. Barry, will he

war in China, probably contributed able to go through life undisfigured.

Jer left car has been grafted to A WOMAN who complained that to the increase, of which 62 per cent.

of her son the spinal the head

arter Barry he contructed dermatitis after wear-was in the Bombay Presidency and est his in a road accident,

ing u dyed realskin coat, und "swelled 26 per cent, in Indian States. jup the

balloon." brought an action SOUTH AFRICA Recently Mrs. Pannett learned that in the Klug's Bench Division recently It is the second time that such an The engagement was made known

Lady Mary Lygon operation has been carried out at after two further operations her son against the firm which supplied the recently when

will have an almost perfect car. skins for the cont suid that the marriage would pro-the hospital. The patient in the pre- She said that her fair, bobbed hair bably take place in June.

ylous case, a girl of 19, is now cured. will prevent anyone from hoticing

dered by the Bo

Bolshevists in 1010. An official of the hospital said that

DECIDED AT ONCE The prince was only four years old to reach the tumour surgeons had to

"The surgeons at Leeds Infirmary and was brought to England by his cut away part of the vertebrae near

asked if I would be willing to mother,-u-sister-of-the-lato-King-the-nupe-of-the-nock.— Alexander of Jugo-Slavin.

Prince Vsevolod's father was mur

her loss.

give an ear for the operation, said

"I replied immediate He was educated at Elon and An iron lung and other respiratory Mrs. Pannett. Christ Church, Oxford, and has for aids are kept ready, as the tumour ly that I would-but they told me to some time been associated with n was close to the part of the braingo home and think if over.

which controls breathing. Bim of London wine merchants.

NEW REX RECORDS

$464-Colorado Sunset. (Film.) Waltz. Garden In Cranada. F.T.

9172--My Own. ("That Certain Age".) ___ET.

You're A Frelly As A Picture. FT.

9465Umbrella Man. ("These Foolish Thiman".)

Where The Shannon Flows Down To The Sea.

Waltz,

Waltz.

BILLY COTTON & HIS ORCH: 0463 Two Sleepy Prople. Thanks For The Memory") FT.

Sha-Sha. Q.5,

9474--Ain't She Sweet. FT.

Somebody Stole My Gal. F.T...BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH. 9430 Tu-Li-Tutip Time. Waltz,

Is That The Way To Tecat A Sweetheart. F.T.

ROY SMECK & HIS HAWAIIAN SERENADERS. 0476-cart and Soul. ("Song la_Born".) FT.

Blue Skies Are Round The Corner. F.T. 9471-I That The Way To Treat A Sweetheart. F.T.

Why Doesn't Somebody Tell Me These Things.

9473-Day Dreaming, ("Gay Impostors".) FT.

F.T.

I Wanna Go Back To Ball. ("Gay Impostora".) F.T. $474----Chestnut Tree,

"I know before 1 had really considered it again that I would be willing."

Doctors say that. Barry will be able to bear normally, and Mrs. Pannett's hearing also will not be affected.

It is expected that Barry will be same months under treatment.

Young Boy Shows Judge

Mr. Justice Atkinson ruled thot there was no case to to to the jury and gave judgment for the defen- dants, with costs.

ENCOURAGING GAME RESERVE VISITORS

Cape Town. Huts with kitchenettes, paraffin stoves and spring mattresses are to Mrs. Rebecen Berg, of Weston he built at Skukuza, in the Kruger Avenue, NW had claimed damages National Park, next season, usin against the Moscow Fur Trading Corn-experiment. Each will accommodate Street, EC., alleging negligence and gree of comfort nut hitherto available any (London) Limited, of Queen two people, and will provide a de breach of duty. The company denied to visitors to the game reserve. lability.

The National Parks Board reluctant to make the Park accom- modation tuo luxurious, but these experimental huts will go some way towards meeting the wishes large body of tourists who desire better accommodation than at pre- sent exists.

CAUGHT IN THE RAIN

Mr. Tristram Beresford, K.C.. for Mrs. Berg; said that in 1937 Mr. Berg, a West End furrier, bought some dyed sealskins from the defendants and had them made into a coat for his wife. Mrs. Berg was caught in the BRITISH GUIANA while wearing the cost and the collar got wet. Her neck and wrists began

to irritate. The irritation became

worse and later it was found that Mrs, Berg was suffering from cute fur- dermatitis.

Mrs. Berg said: "I could not see, and I looked like a balloon."

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CHURCHES CONDEMN

HOUSING

Georgetown.

The Ministers' "fraternal memo- randum" to the Royal Commission, which the heads of the Scots Congregational, Salva-

Mr. Jack Charles Hill, manager of Methodist, Thirteen-year-old Peter Ibbitson, the company, said that their agents tion Army and Moravian denomina-

of Cullender Road, Catford, S.E, de bought the dyed skins in the U.S.A.tions signed, was published recently. monstrated to Mr. Justice Tucker in They were sold to Mr. Berg's Arm it states: the King Bench Division recently without condition or warramy of any how to land and fire a toy pistol.

Peter was giving evidence in an

kind.

"Housing conditions pre n dis-

grace to a civilised country. The JAY WILBUR & HIS ORCH action in which, suing through big Mr. N. L. Maenskle, K.C., for the labourers' present plight is a stain The situation father, Mr. Arthur Victor Ibbitson, defendants, submitted, that Mrs. Lerg's on Britain's fair name. he was claiming damages for per-condition was due to the negligence of sonal injuries, caused, it is alleged, the nun who bought the skins from I Got Love. Q.S. ......................OSCAR RABIN & HIS ROMANY BAND,, when the pistol Jammed, and a blank the defendants, because he was warn

ed that he took them at risk. enrtridge exploded in his face. TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

The defendants, R. A. Harper and Co., of Central Parade, Catford, who

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sold the pistol, denied the allegations ment for defendants with costs, sald of negligence or breach of contract. there was no evidence that the pistol

Mr. Justice Tucker, entering Judg- was defective,

is not reconcilable with any doctrine of colonial trusteeship or profession of Christianity."

The Commission listened

senior exposition by Mr. Crane, stipendiary and former legislator, on and settlement in British Guione and the proposal for a tariff union for all West Indian colonies,

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