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April 20, 1939.

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AMONG all the brilliantly-gowned debutantes and

chaperones who attended the first Court of the season at Buckingham Palace recently, two middle- aged women were-after the Queen-the centre of attention.

They were:

Mme. Regis de Oliveira, DEMANDED MONEY

wife of the Brazilian Am- bassador, who presented no fewer than 20 debutantes, and

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Fined, But Not Expelled

For Passport · Breach

A fine of $10 was Imposed on Japanese, Kyutaro Makita, 49, clerk, by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday for entering the Colony on Tuesday from Canton without a valid passport.

Makita and he did not know

passport was necessary. Mr. Forrest enquired of Sub-Inspector Ritchie whether Makita could have obtained Cheng To, 20, coolle,

the Information from the British Con- was sesulate in Shameen and was told that tenced to three months' hard labour he could have received the informa- and recommended for banishment re-when he was found guilty by Mr.sa added that he was employed

and a passport. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on a charge of a Japanese firm and had come demanding money

to with menaces there were for starting a

Hongkong to see what prospects from Szeto Wat-kat, a salesman, on

a business. April 13, nt Battery Street.

Sub-Inspector Ritchie said he was At a previous hearing. evidence satisfied with the explanation offer- was given by Szeto that Cheng had ed by Makita, but asked that an ex- threatened to break some of his ribs pulsion order be made. "I cannot if he did not pay him the sum of offer any grounds for this request: all can say is that Makita is undesir- $1. This was reported to the Pollee, and Cheng was arrested after able," he said.

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"That does not appear to be sufficient reason. had

I am not prepared to make an expulsion order," Mr. Forrest replied,

Mme. de Barcza, wife of the Hungarian Minister, who ceived the Queen's permission | to wear her wedding gown, a family heirloom, 150 years old.

Nationalities of the girls whom Mme. de Oliveira present- ed were: American (4), Egyptian (1), French (4)

Turkish (1), Japanese (0), Lithuanian (1), Argentine (2), Nicaraguan (4).

But Mic. de Clivelea was not marked dollar was given to him. worried. As the wife of the doyen

After Delective Lum Man of foreign diplomats In Britain given evidence of arrest, Cheng gave she is accustomed to making pre-evidence in which he denied having sentations, although she has seldom threatened Szeto. He admitted hav had so large a number of debutantesing asked Szeto for $1, but cialmed

that it was half of the commission A Japanese' woman, to present.

Mrs. Masa THEY TURN TO HER

due to him for a business transaction. Noda, 44, was also charged with Whenever

On Cheng being convicted, or

De-entering the Colony without a valid Minister has difculty in finding a teetive Sub-Inspector C. Mottram, passport. sponsor for daughters of his country- who prosecuted, asked the Court to Sub-Inspector Ritchie said the wo men he turns to Mme. de Oliveira, take a serious view of the case, as man also arrived from Canton who [s

authority 011 Court he said it was hard for people 10 Tuesday. She was formerly a long- etiquette, and able to give confidence pursue an honest business with this kong resident and, in fact, owned a to even the most nervous debutante kind of thing going on. He added small restaurant business in Wanchai. that Cheng had a previous convic- She had left the Colony some time when she makes her curisy.

This year Mme. de Oliveira re-tion about a year ago for the unfaw-ago for Canton, ceived many last-minute requests. ful boarding of a ship. From the American Embassy came a message, "Mr

"Mrs. Kenne

Is abroad.

an Ambassador

Can you present four debutantes!

from the United States?" A Japan-

ese official appeal: "His Excellency's wife is away. Do mind present In six Japanese giris

Woman in Court

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Mrs. Noda sald she was not aware a passport was necessary. A Ane of $5 was imposed. SHELLING SAVES 88 56, merchant, was charged with fail- A Rungior, ia George Vylegjanin, After fachy death for five days, 88 ing to register himself within 48 officers and men who were marconed hours of his arrival in the Colony on in the Wildhorn fut, 8,000ft, un in

April 14. The French Ambassador, who Is EL

ine Bernea: Oberland, escaped re-junin arrived on board the Corfu. Oliveira

Sub-Inspector Ritchie sald Vyicg- bachelor, relies on Mme. de to present French debutantes. The wife of the Turkish Minister, too, Is

Artillers had pounded away with been to Hongkong, and he did not sold it was the first time he had away, so the task of presenting the Minister's daughter fell to Mme. de explosives at the snow-covered know he had to Oliveira.

slopes which the men had been un-He was fined $10.

register himself. able to cross for fear of setting the whole snowfleld in motion.

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cently from their snowbapat prison. Vylegjanin pleaded guilty, but

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The shots had such good effect that great areas of the surfact snow crashed into the valley,

Then, while the snow Was still

Madame de Barcza, the mother of two debutantes, displayed her wed-frozen hard, the imprisoned men ding dress-It was trst worn by her were told to "make a dash for it." great-grandmother-that day,

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should have liked my daughters to appear in national costume, but they are young and

modern clothes," she said.

Severd) yards of. Brussels lace cover the black taffeta skirt and tight black velvet bodice of the dress.

DASH DOWN SLOPES Ski-ing in single file, the column dashed across the perilous slopes where the avalanche of last Tuesday hed cost the lives of four of their comrades.

Special detachments ind the task af bringing down the bodies of three There are tears and holes in it of the victims. The fourth is which Mine, de Barcza dare not

#till burled in 3011. of snow. mend for fear of making more.

One of Instead of diamonds or other pre day the blizzard swirled round the the party said: "Day after cious stones, Mine. de Barcza wore hut, burying it deep in

in show. on her corsage a row of brass but-

STARVATION NEAR tons, studded with coloured beads.

"We took turns Her brooch was part of her great over the bodies of the victims.

mounting guard grandmother's wedding headdress, which Mme. de Bareza, following her "As the days passed, starvation fumily's tradition, must eventually came nearer, although the telephone divide in two equal pieces for herne which had been repaired.en the daughters to wear after her death. lower slopes told us that military No Court hairdresser was needed planes would drop provisions at the to lend hers curly coiffure. She first opportunity."

combed her hair back to act as i support for her yard-long, Bichu.

WORE A TIARA

Countess Erdoedy-Szechenye, attend- The only part of her wedding dressed any European Court after her: that she did not wear was the little marriage. I ain sure she must have black bonnet, decorated with thin worn it there, for it is customary for Kold cord. Instead, like most our women to wear their wedding mothers present, she wore a tinra.

costume at Court."

wear

"I'm sorry I cannot wear the Mme. de Barcza also wore Jewels bonnet," she said.. "It means much which belonged to her ancestor, the to me to be able to

my Duke Franz Rakoczy, Prince of national costume before your King Transylvania. These include a long unct Queen.

rope of pearls, which she wound "If my great-grandmother, the many times round her neck,

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