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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NANCY

WHY, LOOIE--- YOU LOOK

UNHAPPY--- WHAT'S

WRONG

AW---I'M TIRED OF ALWAYS

WEARIN' THESE

HAND-ME-DOWN

CLOTHES!

IT'S AWFUL WEARIN' STUFF

A. MILE TOO BIG FOR

YA!

DON'T BE SILLY--- YOU LOOK ELEGANT IN THEM --- YOU SHOULDN'T

LET IT BOTHER

YOU!

By Ernie

April 4, 1940. Bushmiller

LOOK!--- HE DOESN'T SEEM

TO MIND IT

A BIT!

HERN

Jel. 28151.

Freak 'Platinum Blonde' Fox Starts Craze

Daily Express Staff Reporter

Tantro, OBAN righio zonavad

FOR a single fox fur, to be slipped over a woman's shoulder, the price of £2,750 has just been paid-the highest in memory for a single skin. The fur is a new, rare platinum blonde strain, called the platina fox.

This new costly delight for women springs from Plato and Pluto, a pair of freak fox cubs born in Norway a few years ago.

The strain was developed with the market. Three hundred of these will greatest care, and a rigid standard be offered in London to-day, and fur was act. Norway would not let a king of the world will send repre- single living platina fox leave the sentatives to the sale. country, so that the industry could be thoroughly controlled.

Not until last year were the first skins sold, Then eleven were auc- tioned in Oslo, for an average, of

£200 each.

There, experts consider, had not the perfection of the £2,750 specf- men; but two of them are now being worn by roynity,

Captain Told "Sparks" Not To Be A Fool-

STAYED

TILL

HIS

SOS WAS THROUGH

"RICHEST GIRL"

It will be held in the Hudson's MAY RE-MARRY

Bay Company's hall Great Trinliy- lane, off Queen Victoria-street, E.C.

Dealers in countries all over the world have competed for the com- poratively few skins that have to

far become available.

An expert sald yesterday: "I have lovely as never seen anything no these platina foxes.

The record-priced fur was in a "They have all the beautiful silky batch sent to New York, and ate look of the finest silver foxes, but tioned this week. It was bought by they stand out because of their glori- Mr. I. J. Fox, a leading U.S. furious tone and shnde," retailer.

Chinchilla is usually regarded as One almost exactly like it will be the most costly fur. These animals, put up for sale in London to-day. ten inches long, which originally

It has a while neck and a white came from the

In South £300 pár nose, and a white streak runs be-jAmerica, are worth tween the eyes,

alive.

Andrs

A chinchilla cont may cost

So far only a few more than 700 £10,000 or more; there are only a come into the few in the world.

platina furs have

An early wedding in the United States for Countess Reventlow (Barbara Hutton) and Mr. Robert Sweeny, the golfer, is predicted by reports from Palm Beach published in several New York newspapers.

IF YOU MEET any of the 72 survivors of the Blue

star ship Sultan Star, torpedoed in the Atlantic by a U-boat, they will tell you nothing of their experiences.

But they will say a lot about! the courage of one man-their

wireless operator, P. G. Winsor, BELIEVES.

of Greenford, Middlesex.

Winsor, spent the 20 minutes from the time the ship was struck until she disappeared beneath the sea tapping out SO messages, waiting for the answer, that came only at the last moment,

[Countess Haugwitz Reventlow,

When Winsor left the ship all the formerly Princess Mdivani, was

nthers were in the boats, Round the originally Barbara Hution, shto tieu rowed gently, shouting to heiress to the Woolworth mill-him, "Don't be a fool; come off."

She married Prince Alexis Mdivani in 1933.j

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He would not quit. The men in the boats refused to leave him, and stay ed as near as possible so that they

ould pick him up.

All the time they were in danger of being sucked down with the ship.

Told To Co

Captain W. H. Bevan, of Cardiff, was on the bridge when the ship was

halt,

"There was a terrific bump," he said, "I had read about torpedoes, and imagined that these days they must be much more deadly than those used in the last war.

"At first I did not think we had been torpedoed. I thought we had hit something.

" ordered Sparks to send out an sos. The ship was on an even keel then, and going down by the

stern.

DEADLY

WAR NEAR

Says German Planos Can Destroy British Fleet !

PHILADELPHIA, (UP). London, Paris, Berlin and the other great cities of warring European nations are doomed to destruction "as soon as the

nations finally are aligned diplo- matically," believes Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, America's fore- most ace in the World War.

Rickenbacker predicted the annl- hilation of the British fleet by the Nazi air force if the Germans decide to pursue such a course.

"Three or four planes attacking a battleship may be shot down," the Rickenbacker said, "but whon planes start coming over in waves, it's just a matter of percentages."

Fliers To Be Wiped Out "Eventually, we will see London, Parls and Berlin destroyed by gas and fire caused by planes, but 00 days "When she started to stand up, with after nertal warfare really starts the her bows

almost prependicular, trained pilots of both sides will be thought it time to get into the boats, dead because of improved anti- 60 1 told Sparks not to wait for the aircraft fire. Then both sides will go back to trench and dugout, with only All-clear the indication that other

occasional aerial bombing," ships had picked up his SOS.

The World War acc, who brought timated the average expectancy of war pilots at 30 days, ence, nerlal warfare starts in earnest.

"He reported that he would not go until he knew that help was coming.down 20 German planes in 1918, es-

told him not to be a fool and risk this life. He still said 'No.'

"When we were in the boats"we saw that the water had reached her funnel. It was the most amazing sight to see it pouring in.

Pilot's Life 30 Days "But It will be worth it," he said,

"Sparks was still on the bridge. "not to the pilot but to his milltary "Sho slipped down like a lady and forces, because in those 30 days his almost kissed us goodbye, but we power of

were afrald she would take the boats

with her.

ride.

enormous."

destruction will

be

al-

"Sparks at last came to the port Rickenbacker anticipated an side and sild down a rope. We had liance of Germany, Italy, England Russłu been waiting for him on the starboard and France to fight Soviet

eventually, and urged that the United "When the ship had gone I saw States stay out of the combat at all him hanging to a batch cover with a costs.

ifebelt round his neck, yelling to show us where he was. When we sicked him up he was about all-in." sald, "we will have to maintain

for the One man lost his life in the Sultan standing army over there Star-George Taylor, of, Liverpool, next 100 years after this war ends to

sce that another doesn't start."

an engine room slorekeeper.

"If the United States goes in," he

Can't Stop

韭

Censors Them from Laughing

If laughter is a shield against adversity, Britain, France and -probably-Germany all are polishing their shields these days.

For the legions of Europe still been transferred and to ace the laugh come what may to-morrow. In pattern of the open road-now that the factories, at the front, or on the it is really open, To Londoners it farm, civilians and soldiers continue has given an opporunity of seeing the exchanging anecdotes of the day, stars in their sky which used to be probably with that well-worn preface, reddened by Neon advertisements of "Stop me if you've heard this one, stars on earth."

but

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