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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 5, 1939

When Goering Goes

Goes Slimming

HOTEL TURNS OUT 27 JEWISH GUESTS

SAN REMO (Italy).

TWENTY-SEVEN Italian Jews staying at the Royal

Hotel, San Remo, were asked to leave before the arrival || Nine Persons Live on holiday of Field-Marshal Goering, his wife and a party

of Gifteen officers and secretaries.

Several of the Jews had been clients of the hotel for many years. They were told: "Please leave. It will avoid embarrass- ment to the visiting Minister and to yourselves."

Field-Marshal Goering In taking |

a alimming cure, so that, although

he brought Ave limousines with him

from Germany, he spends most of

his time walking either along the

Men front or in the 3ills.

Detectives are never far away.

Frayed Cuffs Curbed

LEIPZIG.

The

They followed. him as he walked A new chemically treated linen has along the promenade with his actress been developed to prevent the ravel- wife. He wore a dark grey, double-ing of shirt collars and cuffs. breasted suit, and already looks insertion in sewed between the layers thinner than recent photographs of the shirt material, and in a showed him to be.

demonstration at the Leipzig Fair it Twice he has visited the gambling was shown to keep the cloth from

fraying. sasino, but even there no one 10 allowed near him.

One of the staff said: "He will sce no one. Any one who disturbs him will get into trouble."

Though

оп

Goering is strictly holiday." It is understood that Marshal Badoglio, Mussolinfa chief- of-staff, will be in San Remo to ser him. Count Ciano, Mussolini'z son- in-law, is also expected.

The resort is a mass of colour in honour of the visit. Nazi and Fascist Angu and enblems fly from every window.

Make-Up

In English Village

London.

"WHAT is believed to be the smallest village in England

la Eldon, in Hampshire, which has a population of nine and whose oldest inhabitant thirty-three. There are three nearest post box

houses.

The

is four miles away. Only one wedding and one christening have ever taken place in the tiny church. Once a week a policeman cycles through the village to see that all is well, and once a day the postman riden up--if there are any let- ters.

Music Wherever He Goes-In Stockings

PIPE-MAJOR LEWIS BEATON, President of the

Scottish Piping Society of London, wears a pair of stockings into the turnover of which has been knitted a complete pipe tune.

Valued At £50 Piping Competition of the Scottish Piping Society at the

THE value of make-up to a woman has been assessed by Deemster R. D. Farrant, Senior Judze of the Manx High Court, at £50.

Phyllis Winstanley, aged 24, told

the Dermster that she was employed last summer by Messrs. G. N. Gore, Ltd., of Douglas, In the rolling of Isle

of Man rock.

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He was wearing his stockings at the seventh Annual London Scottish headquarters, Buckingham Gate, re- cently.

"They were knitted for me by Miss Kerr, of Lairg, Suther- land," Pipe-Major Beaton said at the competition.

"The tune is 'MacCrimmon's Sweetheart,' and it is all there, the groundwork of the tune and MacCrimmons, and Mr. R. N. Brown, the first and second variations, another Balmoral piper, the open

"I could play the tune from competition for plobaireachd. my stockings, if I had to," he said, "but I always play from

She alleged that the four of the memory." table gave her dermatitis And she cannot now use mak-up.

Medical witnesses sald shy would not be able to attend dances, as chalk used on the floor for polishing would affect her skin.

Noal champlon of the competition was Pipe-Major Robert Reid, of the Highland Light Infantry, who won the medal for the highest aggregate Piping enthusiasts came to London of points. He also won the silver on Saturday from all over the coun- star for open march, strathspey and try to hear famous performers on the reel..

the umong "piob-mhor"-the great pipe.

Incongruous figures

were tho boy Secretary for Scotland, Colonel klited competitors John Colville, a competent amateur pipers of the Royal Air Force In

the audience,

Messrs. Gore, without admiting piper, was an interested member of true are getting our klits at the

liability, offered £50, and £10 10. costs, in settlement.

The Decmster, who had reserved his decision, approved the scillement recently.

THE KING'S PIPERS Mr. R. B. Nicol, the King's piper at man. Balmoral, won the Bratach Gorm. the replica of the blue banner of the blue."

end

of the month," said on aircraft- "We hear they are to be Air Force

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CAUGHT IN A SOUTHERLY GALE, this submarine, the Sunfish, of the 5th Submarine Flotilla, ran aground in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, re- cently and heavy seas beat over her before she was finally re-floated just before midnight.

Some Shop-Girls Worse

Off Than Zoo Animals

I am pretty healthy and used to the hot air in the. House of Commons, but if I go into a bargain basement I can stay only a few minutes, because I feel I would faint. IN such Parliamentary language a woman M.P. pic- tured in the House recently the conditions in which some shop assistants have to work.

She was Mrs. Hardie, the Labour member for Spring- burn (Glasgow), and, having worked 12 hours a day for six days a week as a shop assistant, she should know.

Drapers' shops are much too hot and grocers' too cold, accord- ing to Mrs. Hardie, who was speaking on the second reading of the Shop Hours Bill to limit hours to 48 a week and overtime to 50 hours a year.

EMPIRE NEWS

IMPORT~~CONTROL

NEW ZEALAND

The Bill was rejected by 135 votes

to 111.

Moving the second reading Mr. Lesile (Lab., Sedgefield) said no other Occupation consumed the young life of the nation to such an extent. HAIRDRESSERS' TRIALS

An eminent doctor had said that women shop assistants suffered from varicose veins, flat feet, and all the INdiabling things-which-made-life-a

Some worked 04

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Auckland.

Mr. W. Nash, Finance Minister. defended the Government's import control policy in a speech to a special conference of Importers at Wellington.

misery. hours a week.

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ing, said the Bill would compel the Hong Kong Depot, Tel. 21279......... worst employers to do what the bact Peak Depot anes were doing by common consent or trade union agreements.

Conditions in the hairdressing trade were protested against by Dr. Edith Summerskill (Lab., Fulham, W.); who said, hairdressers were compelled to work sometimes for nearly 30

Under the Government's control polley Mr. Nash sald the max hours a week in ill-venulated cubi- preference Was given to Britain. The Government was doing every-

There

cles but were expected to discuss thing possible to reduce difficulties to pleasantly the events of the day. British manufacturers

otects and

A BAD SHOPPER—AND WHY "I am known as a bad shopper," om the control plan. arising from

R 20034, be curtailment of che added, "because Invariably I take would

what is given me rather than keep unessential imporis, Dominion manu- the suffering shop assistant. When I facturers having the maximum

R 20089. pay at the cash desk and see the facilities for the importation of com-

ússistants cooped up I reflected that modilles essential for their pro-If the Zoo had animals cooped up duction.

a week we would have an action brought by the R.S.P.C.A."

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RICHARD TAUBER

The World's Most Glorious Tenor on PARLOPHONE RECORDS

O Solo Mio. (Di Capun.) Richard Tauber with Grand Sym. Orok. with Piane.. Ay-Ay-Ay. (Freire.) Tales of Hoffmann. (Offenbach.) Act. 1. Legend of Kleinsach, Act. 2. Hoffmann's Aria,

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KC.M.G. FOR SULTAN OF SELANGOR

The Bill was opposed from the Tory benches mainly on the ground that nothing should be done to pre- Judice the discussions going on ben tween employers and employed.

The same line was taken by Mr. Lennox-Boyd (Parliamentary Secre- tary, Minister of Labour) who suid the Government would give speedy and sympathetle consideration to a striking report which had been re- The High Commissioner. Sirceived from the joint conference deal- Shenton Thomas, invested Sultan ing with wages, hours and conditions Alam Shah, of Selangor, with the in the retail distributive trades. insignia of the K.C.M.G. after a State The Bill would cut across the nego- banquet attended by representatives tiations and report and destroy the of every Maky Royal house in the harmony so carefully and successfully Peninsula, as

well as

as representatives but up

Kuala Lumpur.

of Sumatra and Borneo.

Selangor's Royal town of Klang

was filled with visitors from all parts

of the State during the Coronation,

The

on a

cercinony comprises lustration

HISTORIC GROUND

SOUTHPORT, Me.

The Southport Yacht Club plans to

a pavilion outside the palace, preserve as in historic shrine the according to Moslem rites, then the "Old Pine Tree" on the club grounds coronation both of the Sultan and which served as a landing place for Suitana with crown and flaws, Britishers in the War of 1812.

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Jan Kleprora Weine Nicht Bricht Eine Schone Frau Dir. Das Herz.

(Do Not Cry.) (Sung in German.).. R 20309. La Boheme. Act. 1. "Che gelida manina" (Your Tiny Hand).

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Martha, Act, 3. "Ach so fromm" (Like A Dream.)"

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