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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 10, 1939.

Spring Fashions Snap From Paris

SKIRTS SHORTER-17 INCHES OFF THE GROUND

NKIRTS

New Veils To Give You Glamour

ARE

PARIS. OFFICIALLY SEVENTEEN INCHES FROM THE GROUND, 811OULDERS ARE WIDE, WAISTS NORMAL.. This fashion.lash from the Paris salons gives you a flying start with

the new Spring styles,

'new

The very smartest thing is cont style-a coat glove-litting at the

but

kwashbuckling! with tep, Regency flare to the back.

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This cont is going to be a big suc- cess. 1 is immensely altering to ulmost any figure.

The news about tailored suits is that Jackets and skirts are divorced.) The jackets are gay with checks, or! stripes, while the skits are plain) or vice versa.

Skirts have a new swagger to them. In place of penel slim- news in the skirt cut on the blas with full hem-line

An unpressed box pleat gives it even further Jauntiness.

YELLOW-FAVOURITE

Whichever way you look at the] new frocka you see gathers. There are gathers on the bosom, gathers at the waist, gathers of the hip-line.

Sometimes a sleeve la gauged at the seam to give it a droped ap pearance.

Yellow is top-of-the-poll colour. There are big splashes of it for Juckets, coats, ar frocks, and thei shades range from coolest lemon.

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

Hats 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 front.

But

one feature is common nearly all the hils-gay veils finely-woven, roloured inesh.

Hometimes they itoat behind, sometimes they stick up in perky bows, or again they are used mistly to veil the eyen,

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These veils should lend you glamour this Spring.

Lady Mary Lygon

To Marry Prince

AUFS

Huge shale slab fell from the celling in the Black Diamond coal mine near Renton, Wash., and disclosed an event held recrel for thousands of years. It showed that a prehistoric animal of some sort had passed that way and had left its birdlike footprint, 42 inches long by 30 Inches wide. Super- intendent W. J. Evans points to it.

Doctors "Broke"

Her Neck

Mother Sacrifices Her Ear

For Baby Son

LEEDS.

sacrificing her ear, 27-years-old

EMPIRE NEWS

Rangoon.

The police recently used tear gue had against a riotous mob, which attacked the car of the Police Com- missioner, Mr. Reynolds.

The Commissioner, recompanied by Mr. Prescott, another officer, was toing to the scene of a disturbance, Police were trying to disperse crowd, including Buddhist priests and women, which was Interfering with sirike-breaking motor-'busts.

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

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

NEW ZEALAND

DEFENCE MEASURES

URGED

Auckland.

Major-Gen. Sir. Andrew Russel, who cominanded the New Zealand Division in France, said the Domin- ion was not prepared for defence or attack. He appealed for compulsory training for a continuous three

to force x months so as to create a capable of defence or for oversens.

He advocated the acquirement of submarines, and contributions to one or two capital ships.

Fall in Imports-During the first manth under the system of lensed imports the Customs receipts in the four clief centres fell from £815,- 497 to £78,536.

INDIA

COTTON INDUSTRY

ACTIVITY

Calcutta.

"India is the world's second larges! producer of cotton. and the role which this crop plays in the agricul- tural and national 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 Indian mill industry. the sea- ron's, total consumption of Indian cotton in mills reaching the peak figure of 2,093,839 bales of 400lb seb. against 2,031,280 beles in 1936- 37-including Burma up to March

One of the most delleute operations BMrs. Herbert Pannett, of Ripley- "Seal Coat Illness",

of mutern surgery has been

Lady Mary Lygon, third daughter. formed by surgeons

per-street, Leeds, has been able to ensure

at the Royal that, by a miracle of surgery, her two-years-old son. Barry. will be

of the late Earl Beauchamp, and Waterloo Hospital, S.E.. on a 15-mile to go through life undisfigured, at sister of the present Earl, is to

years-old Birmingham woman suffer- marry Prince Vsevelod, a Russian.

Tumour on the spinal Prince Vsevolod is 25 and his ing from a dancer is 29. They met at a private cord. party 1 months ago.

The engagement was made known,

Is the second time that such an

recently when Lady Mary Lygon operation has been carried out at

ald that the marriage would bably take place in June.

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pro-the hospital. The patient in the pre- vious care, a girl of 19, is now cured. Prince Vicvelod's father was inur-

1018. An oftetut of the hospital said that tered by the Bolshevista The prince was only four years old to reach the tumour surgeons had to and was brought to England by his cut away part of the vertebrae near mother, a sister of the late King the impe of the neck, Alexander of lugu-Slavia.

An iron lung and other respiratory He was errated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and has foraids are kept ready, as the tumeur some time been associated with a was close to the part of the run

which controls breathing. firm of London wine merchants.

NEW REX RECORDS

9464 Colorado Sunset,

(Film.)

Garden In Cranada. F.T.

Wallz.

9472-My Own. ("That Certain Age".) F.T.

You're As Pretty An A Picture, F.T.

9405-Umbrella Man. ("These Foolish Things".) Waltz,

Where The Shannon Flow Down To The Sea, Waltz.

BILLY COTTON & HIS ORCHI.

F.T. 9103 Two Sleepy People. ("Thanks Fur The Memory".)

Bha-Sha. Q.S.

9470-Ain't She Sweet, F.T.

Somebody Stole My Gal. F.T...BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH.'

Waitz. 9430-Tu-LI-Tulip Time.

Is Thal The Way To Treal A Sweetheart. FT.

F.T.

Claim Fails

The fall in prices of cotton, coupled with Japan's preoccupation with the war in China, probably contributed

Her left ear has been grafted to:

after Barry the contracted dermatitis after wear-Was in the Bombay Presidency and the head of her son

ing a dived sealetin coat, and "swelled 20 per cent, in Indian States. 'st his in road accident.

up like a ballooni." brought an action SOUTH AFRICA Recently Mrs. Pennett learned that in the King's Bench Division recently two further operatimis her son against the firm whics supplied the

A WOMAN who compinised that to the increase, of which 62 per cent.

will have an almost perfect car.

She said that her fair, bobbed hair will prevent anyone from noticing her loss.

DECIDED AT ONCE "The surgeons at Leeds Infrmary i

if I would be willing to asked give an ear for the operation," said Mrs. Pannett.1 replied Immediate ly that I would-but they told me to

home and think it over.

"I knew before had really considered it again that I would he willing."

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

It is expected that Barry will same months under treatment.

be

Young Boy Shows Judge

skins for the cont.

that

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

CAUGHT IN THE RAIN

ENCOURAGING GAME RESERVE VISITORS

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Cape Town. Huts with kitchenettes, parafin stoves and spring mattresses are to Mrs. Rebecco Berg, of Weston be built at Skukuza, in the Kruger Avenue, N.W., had claimed damages National Park, next season, against the Moscow Fur Trading Com-experiment. Euch will accommodate Street, E.C., alleging negligence andgree of comfort not hitherto available" pany (London).-Limited, of Queen two people, and will provide a de breach of duty. The company denied to visitors to the game reserve,

Boord The National Parks lability.

reluctant to moke the Park accom- modation too luxurious, but these Mr. Tristram Beresford, K.C., for experimental huts will go some way who desire Mrs. Berg, said that in 1937 Mr. Berg. towards meeting the wishes of a West End furrier, bought some dyed large body of tourists sealskins froin the defendants and had better accommodation than at pre- then made into a coat for his wife, sent exists, Mrs. Berg was caught in the rain BRITISH GUIANA white wearing the coat and the collur got wet. Her neck and wrists began to irritate. The irritation became worse and later it was found that Mrs. Berg was sullering from cute fur- dermatitis.

and

CHURCHES CONDEMN

HOUSING

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Georgetown. The Ministers' "raternal memo- Mrs. Berg said: "I could not see,

randum" to the Royal Commission, looked like a balloon."

which

Scots the heads of the

Congregational, Salva- Mr. Jack Charles Hill, manager of Methodist, the company, said that their agents tion Army and Moravian denomina- beught the dyed skins in the U.S.A. tions signed, was published recently.

Tairteen-year-old Peter ibbitson, ROY SMECK & HIS HAWAIIAN SERENADERS. of Callender Rond, Catford, S.E., de

monstrated to Mr. Justice Tucker the King's Bench Division recently without condition or warranty of any "Housing conditions how to loud and fire a toy pistol. kind

Peter was giving evidence in an

9475-Heart and Soul. ("Song Is Bern".)

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

Why Doesn't Somebody Tell Me These Things. FT.

9473-Day Dreaming. ("Gay_Impostors".)_ _F.T.

They were sold to Mr. Berg's firin It states:

JAY WILBUR & HIS ORCHnction in which, suing through his Mr. N. L. Macaskie, K.C., for the father, Mr. Arthur Victor 1bbitson, defendants, submitted that Mrs. Berg's I Wanna Go Back To Ball. ("Gay Impostors".)' F.T.

for per condition was due to the negligence of he was claiming damages sonal injuries. caused. It is alleged, the man who bought the skins from 9474-Chestnut Tree.

.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. cartridge exploded in his face..

I Got Love. Q.S.......

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The defendants, R. A. Barper and Cu, of Central Parade, Catford, who sold the pistol, denied the allegationsment for defendants with costs, said there was no evidence that the pistol of negligence or breach of contract.

Mr. Justice Tucker, entering judg- was defective.

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clis- grave to a civilised country. The labourers, present plight is a stain on Britain's fair name. The situation not reconcilable with any doctrine of colonial trusteeship or profession

of Christianity."

to an The Commission listened

senior Mr. Crane, exposition by stipendiary and former legislator, on British Gulana land settlement in and the proposal for tariff union for all West Indian colonics,

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