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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 12, 1940.

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PARIS.

WOMEN will need a lot of leisure to dress and undress, with the new Paris fashions finally signed, sealed and delivered by the remaining Big Four of the Paris dress world.

Science Puts

A Head On

I thought a chemist was a pos Concerned with blowing me

*ky-high.

I thought Ive used Als well-

trained wits

To tear the universe to bits.

I got them wrong. these gifted

boys,

For two of 'em, in Ellinois,' Have handed out a Big Idea For putting sturdier frath

beer.

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Now, thanks th ultra-violet rays, The head on every half-pint stays An extra half-an-hour Intact-

A very interesting fact.

I don't suppose you'd wait blow it. But still, I thought you'd like to

know it.

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Buttons are not only ornamental but slowly unfasten from throat to knee. Long evening Jackets unbook slowly throughout their length.

A new penell silhouette launched by Paris houses at the last minute Us a challenge to the otherwise universal full-skirted effect.

Sheath-like evening kuils, with late Victorian drape where the bustle used to be, scarcely allow room to walk.

Severe tallor frocks, just below the knee, are straight and narrow, with a pleated apron to give a false effect of fullness.

Ice Cream Cones

Evening headdresses Include "ee ream" cones on the back of the head, some of them trimmed with a wrenili of flowers, some with sequins, others with halo brims or nets. Or they have cobweb vells sweeping behind for several feet.

Out of the week's fashion forecasts one thing is certain, Uut If you do not wear suits you will wear dresses with a blouse effect.

Bows make their bow and sashes are almost as popular as belts,

Optimistic Note

The keynote of fashion will be sim- You plicity, optimism, and charm. inny permit yourself a few out-of- the-way details, however.

Coarse wool embroidery in fruit and flower designs is used on railurs and cuffs.

Those who cannot afford lavish furs may use the rabbit for almost any occasion, without the difference being really noted.

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8.03 New Light Symphony Or- chestra.—Zampa-Overture, Spanish Dance, No. 1, "The Dubarry"-Sciec lon.

12.15 pm. Short Service of Inter-March, cession.

12.30 Compositions of Cesar Franck. 1.00 Local Time Sigual and Wen- ther Report.

1.03 Les Alten (Vocal) and Carroll Gibbons and Ills Boy. Friends.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

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DOGS

Now To Answer

Have Four Guns

Nazi Fighters

Secret of New R.A.F. Equipment Is Out

By AN AIR CORRESPONDENT

GERMANY'S airmen have discovered to their cost it can now be revealed-that since the outbreak of war practically the whole of Britain's bomber force has been re-equipped with more formidable armament.

The Wellington, for example, now generally recog- nised as the finest bomber in the world, is surprisingly better than it was before the war.

Recent photographs reveal that the Wellington now have twin guns in their turrets. Flying in close formations of three

PLENTY OF TANKERS

Allies' Position Is Rated Strong

A FRENCH HYDROPLA NE being tuned up in preparation for a reconnaissance flight number of the oil industry's journal, over the Mediterranean.-French Official Photo,

'I will not leave my Country' says Sibelius

FINLAND'S GREAT COMPOSER

WILL STAY WITH PEOPLE

HELSINGFORS.

they enn bring among them 12. machine-guns to bear on any | attacking fighter.

So far they are the only British aeroplanes which have stood a pitch- ed battle over the North Sca and then flown on with their bombs to the German harbour which was their objective.

But the harbour was devold of shipping, so they returned to their

LONDON, Mar. 11 (British Wire-bose without unloading their bombs. less)--According to the current Airports Photographed

Photographs taken over German "Petroleum Press Service," the post-j tion of the Allies in respect of oil aerodromes by British planes flying tankers is evidently highly satisfacat only 2,000 or 3,000ft, may be re-

leased for publication soon. tory.

One photograph actually shows in This journal says: "At the begin-one corner the wing of a German ning of the war, the British Empire ueroplane landing while British bom- and France possessed 7 combined bers are machine-gunning

Two German planes were-machine- tanker tonnage of 3,580,000 tons, ex-{ cluding vessels in Government hands gunned, for an they flew home they which may have accounted for a fur- were apparently unaware that the ther 500,000 tons.

henys bombe

bombers circling round thele landing ground were British.

Aerodrome after aerodrome,

Big Carrying Capacity

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| well as the whole Siegfried Line, has "The currying capacity of this feel now been photographed until it is of tankers was between 5,000,000 and almost possible to build up a com 0,000,000 tons of ull, and on the con-plete alt-map of secret Germany as servative assumption of six round far inland as Berlin.

Ordeal By Night

JEAN SIBELIUS, the man of seventy-four who has put the spirit of Finland trips yearly, these vessels would be into music, has received invitation after invitation to leave his war-locked-country-sufficient for transport of well over and has refused them all.

30,000,000 tons per year against the At night-time, too, our bombers are normal consumption for the two continuing reconnaissance flights countries of less than 20,000,000 tons which constitute some of the most Inciden- heroic efforts of the war. "The carrying capacity of the tally, pilota say that the German Allied tanker feet has, of course, binck-out has recently got much been reduced by some losses since blacker,

In fact, nothing irritates him more than people who suggest he is in danger. annually. He has infinite faith in the men who are defending his homeland.

"They're Finns, aren't they?" while bombs drop around him is |

was his comment to a friend of Vaino Aaltonen, celebrated Doubts About

the family I met.

sculptor.

He still works in his villa in i the suburbs, except when raiding planes come over.

Then he goes out on the roof with a thirty-two calibre gun and pops at them.

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She had just spent a day with Life, Sundown In Old Walkild.! George Elliott's Hawaiian Novelty the composer and his wife at Quartet with Vocal Chorus: Kohala their semi-rustic wooden suu

Honolulu March, Frank mer-house a few miles out of Ferera and Jalin K. Panluhi, Helsingfors, where he is work- (Hawailan Guitars); Hawaiian Hop-ing. pitiess-Medley, Len Fillis und His She said he was in fine form. Pistol Practico In Studio Orchestra with Vocal Chorus,

and very proud about the pro-; Not so monastic as Sibelius, Aaltonen received me in his 8.45 B.B.C. Recording-The Fol-gress of the war. De-Rols."-Written and produced by A few months before the war studio and proudly siung his gun

Sibel'us decided to break his rule jover his shoulder. Wolseley Charles.

miary.

9.15 London Relay-News Sum-

1.45 Primo-Seala's Accordeon Band 930 London Relay-"Cards on the and Florence Desmond (Comedienne). Table,"

2.15 Close Down,

9.15 Schumann-Trio In D Minor, Excerpts from Gilbert and Op. 13.-Corlot, Thibaud and Casals 6.00 'Sullivan's "Pallence."

10.17 Plano Sojos by Alfred Cortot. 0.20 Closing Local Stock Quota-Papillons, Op. 2, Etude En Forme

De Valse, Etude in F Minor,

tions..

6.30 An Hour of Dance Music. 7.30 London Relay-The News

8,00 Local Time Sigl, Weather Report and Announcements.

10.36 Haydn-Symphony No. 56 In D Major.-Lundon Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Bruno Walter,

11.00 Close Down.

FIVE ARMED MEN ROB FILM STAR

fat.

yards

Japan-Russia Pact In U.S.

the war began. But, on the others Night flight R.A.F. men have a hand, now tanker construction has hard task. They take off just after been greatly accelerated, and the dark and fly across the North Sen for Allied fleet has been augmented by more than 300 miles without seeing the churtering of neutrul ships. n thing. All too often the first in- dication of their arrival over Ger- many

Is a tremendous burst of "fire- worlts,"

Adequacy Of Supplies

be

"In this connection, It may

Every type of projectile is hurled pointed out that Norway and Holland at them and it all helps to confirm SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" possess a tanker tonnage of 2,117,000 for them that their navigation has WASHINGTON, Mar. 12 (UP) and 557,600 gross tons, only a small Intermed Government ofcials ex-part of which is required for their been good. press doubts regarding the possibi- own trade.

tv of a Russo-Japanese rapproche doubt about the adequacy of Allied Fazzerz

ell

the first Bix supplies during ment.

Vol: X No. 1 January, 1940 months of war,

"When It is also recalled that con-}

There can thus be no

Comcial sources Indicate that that their all supplies will fall short;

It has been

HONG KONG NATURALIST

1ae opinion is expressed here that the Japanese themselves have spread of always living a secluded life "Sometimes they fly low reports of a possible Non-Aggression siderable stocks of all were accumu in the country, and open a town Once they were only 100 pact with Russia in order to frighten lalet in Britain and France before THE

above my head, I'll get one yet," Britain or America into further con- the war began, it will be apparent that there is no reason to suppose censions in China. He went into the flat a few he said. weeks before war broke out, and | In his studio was a pock-

Cheang Kal-theic

is undoubtedly still of their future requirements." stayed there for the first fort marked blackboard. I asked receiving substantial ald from the

German propaganda has recently night of the fighting, in spite of what it was for.

Soviet and there are no indications attempted to imply that the position heavy bombardments.

"I do pistol practice every that the U.S.S.R. will abandon Its of the Allies with regard to tankers

assistance certainly the only condi- is becoming scrious. "It was the noise that drove morning. If a Russian comes tion upon which Japan would enter the British tanker feet has been principally for Hong Kong and alleged, for instance, that a tenth of A quarterly illustrated journal him out," his friend told me within range I'll shoot him." he into an agreement.

sunk. Even if this were true, the

S. China.. show facts cited above "He has little fear, but he says answered. the noise was just loo unmusi-

Birds and Butterflies cal."

of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Spiders.

Interesting Hong Kong Plants.

"Beside the blackboard was a

beautiful peasant Madonna and Child.

ANOTHER I.R. A. OUTRAGE

ond

that the

led position would be far from

serious.

Gross Exaggeration

Ob.

His Windows Dropped Out

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Aaltonen's work that is beat: But even in the country he known in England is the sculp-1

ARMAGH, Eire, Mar. 11. (UP)- The figure given by the Germans, sometimes hears the echo of ture on Helsingfors modernistic; An explosion, followed by fire and however, is authoritatively stated to other smaller explosions damaged the be a gross exaggeration which bears bombs dropping on a town close railway station. He is most parochial hall of St. Patrick's Cathe-no resemblance to the truth. by.

proud of that, especially of a dral here to-day.

servers In London regard this as yet The police nitribute the outrage to another example of the German pro- The windows of his own house figure of a young poet.

L.R.A. Acuvities,

paganda device of concealing homo, NEW YORK. poller-car siren, and mado off in have dropped out through vibra- The Russians have fre-

anxieties by falsely impuiing the FILM stars Constones Rennet) and (their own car.

tion, and one day the house

quently bombed the station. At o Meeting of the Directors of come anxieties of the Allies. Anita Louise were being driven along

China Provident Loan rocked. Miss Bennelt and at the police

Ho said: "If they destroy the Chicago's Loop-the city's main cen-

tling to But he says Finland is his

Mortgage Company, Limited it was my work there I'll be very decided, subject to audit, to recom tral road-early to-day, when five station: This is a the armed masked bandits forced their happen. First we go to a charity home and inspiration, and re-

angry."

mend to the Shareholder at the chauffeur to stop.

performance, and then we get obfuses to quit,

forthcoming Annual General Meat- bed," Misa Bennett and Miss Louise were

Sibelius is a typical Finn in

ng, the payment of a dividend of 10 going

home" after altending

Richard Ainley, who lost nothing looks a rugged, peasant figure,

Ho is carving a female statue per cent. in respect of the year ended They charity performance.

were said:

told me sit,

with head and square chin of Freedom to replace the figure December 31, 1030, sind carry forward sum of $121,- escorted by Richard Ainley, son of quiet, and I did."

Misa Bennett lost a diamond brace-shaped

like Winston of the Russian Czar Alexander to next account the actor Henry Ainley.

the let worth more than £6,000 and a Churchill's.

in Helsingfors University. Hol The bandits jumped on to running board of their car, rough-then Imitation ring.

He is now working on a new is also working on an enormous tor says: "The war has inspired handled them and stole jewellery Miss Louise lost a diamond bracelt,

composition that is nearing com-portal for a frontier bridge. me. I reallae now more than diamond ring and sapphire ring. 11 worth more than £8,000.

The bandits missed diamond ear-plation. It will be first played That, too, has an apt theme. ever that I must put the spirit of Bracelets and rings were torn from

The figures are of soldiers and this battle into stone." the actresses, and, the bandits were rings, some jewels hidden by Mirgin Finland, he says.

He has his chisel, and he also struggling to take off Miss Bennett's Bennett's gardenia corsage, and £60 Another world-famous Finn peasants fighting aggression. expensive mink coat when they be- which Richard Ainley had in hist

artist who goes on working } This forty-five-year-old sculp-haa his gun, came frightened by the sound of a wallet.

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"The robbers

very

The Spirit Of Battio

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More British Navy Casualties

LONDON, Mar. 11 (Reuler)—The Admiralty has issued a list of casual- Les arising "from various hazards of the service and not related to any particular ship or action."

They Include 12 officers killed, one dead of wounds, two died, three wounded; 30 ratings killed, five died. of wounds, coven mining, believed killed, and 14 wounded.

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