1941-02-05 — Page 12

Genuine Scotch that never varies

"White

White Label

EST SCOTCH WALS SF CHEAT AGE.

in Dewar & Son

DISTILLERS

PERT

Label

The Right Label

DEWAR'S FAMOUS SCOTCH

Sole Agents:A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Wine Dept.

Chater Road.

“HAZELINE

(Trade Mark)

SNOW"

The finishing touch to a beautiful skin

Tel. 20016

Just a touch of "'HAZELINE' SNOW" and a beautiful skin acquires added charm. Daily applications help to keep the skin smooth and fair and give it that fashionable matt surface so much admired.

Look for the familiar label and BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

225

Glass jars from all Chemists and Stores BURROUGHS WELLCOME

& I'MOPRIETOnaj The WELLORME Foundation Li, Landen.

LONDON AND SHANGHAI

Co.

COPTRION T

UNITED BATTERY MFG. CO., LTD. LOS ANGELES, CAL., U.S.A.

NITED

BATTERY

QUALITY

UNITED BATTERY

CAPACIT

MEG.COLD

CUSTOM MADE BATTERIES 12-Volt &-6-Volt

13, 15 & 17 Plate in Stock

ALL BATTERIES FULLY GUARANTEED. ALL FRESH STOCK. SHIPMENTS ARRIVING EVERY MONTH.

SOLE AGENTS:

CHINA MOTOR AGENCIES & SALES CO.

Tel. 22157

157-8-9 Cloucester Road

VANCHAI,

P.O. Box 673

HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY

THE CAMERA

2ND EDITION

A selection of over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Very suitable for sending abroad.

Pictures comprise views of the latest buildings and hospitals, schools, churches, the harbour, The Poak district, Kowloon, Jubilee Reservoir, New Territories, Cheung Chau, Aberdeen, Repulse Bay, Deepwater Bay, besides street and wharf scenes, etc., etc.

PRICE $1.50 Obtainable from:-KELLY G'WALSH, LTD. HONGKONG TRAVEL BUREAU or the Publishers SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Wyndham Street.

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GOOD USED CARS

Baké of Car`

Reg. No. Price

$1.000

Chevrolet Sedon

1936

4310

De Solo Sedan

1908

1377

$2,000

Pontiac Saloon

1938

4005 $1,800

Buick Saloon

1935...

0285 $2,200

Studebaker Commander Saloon

1030.................. 6287 $3,000

Standard 12 Saloon

1038

Singer Balcon

4512

$2,000

1933

****... 3015 Humber 12 Saloon

$1,400

1934

54

$ 000

Morris 10 Saloon

1934

6070

$850

Vauxhall 14 Saloon

1934

3202

$1,200

Vauxhall 14 Saloon

*1930

$743 $2,700

All cars, serviced the same as for how care

ADDITIONALLY

All units of $1,500 and over in valuc carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage guarantee for three months.

Inspection and trial invited

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Phone 27778/9.

Stubbs Rd.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, February 5, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015-

THE preax special to the Telograph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicato news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommu cations Ordinance, 1316, Buch nows AN bears the indication "Un la received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re aurve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement

THE POOR RELATION

February 5, 1941.

Life Is Strange in

LISBON, the New Edge

Fyou want to know how

it feels to be on the edge

of the world-arid in danger of

dropping into space-come to Lisbon.

Westernmost capital of the

of the World

Tagus estuary. The Portugueso deet. will be moored there, and there is

Continent, it is the resting place them, They acem to be phan- vasion with a mere £10,000 a Ships of every size and rig fill the of the caravans of the East. tom ships, like the Flying Dutch- year.

As Hitler goose-stepped across man, seen on the horizon but

Then there was the sad-eyed, sure to be a United States cruiser or

sloop. Europe, packing a kick in his never making port,

emaciated Croesus who married outsize army boots, everybody So here we remain, a motley a

As you come closer bright splashes beauty queen. They sun-

of geranium and cyclamen in the who thinks the same as I do crew, reputed millionaires mix- bathed on the beach at Estoril, public gardens add to the colour of about Germana made for Lisbon ing with their valets, diplomats and made plans for a new life the water front.

if he had the fare. They were giving away secrets from sheer in the States. Then he disap of all nationalities, including boredom, journalists hoping for peared, and was next heard of elde and it looks like a picture on non-Aryan Germans ready to

a bust-up to give them susten in prison in his native France. the cover of a fairytale. take anybody's nationality. ance, and miscellaneous nobodies

Happen on the city from the land

There are always fings flying, and Before the collapse of France the Castello de Sao Jorge, the great HERE, then, is the edge of trying to be somebody.

he was making heroplane en- Moorish citadel high up above the the world. The next Every week the Clipper leaves thing is to drop off-unless you for America with those who gines, and the French Govern- town, is the Palace of the Fairy

ment had some questions to ask. Prince. have the fare to America and have been able to save some- So the long arm of the law People who knew Lisbon 15 years can get a visa to that Land of thing from the wreck of their reached out for him.

Jordan.

fortunes.

But most of this Legion of VE have had some singu- the Lost. have no such weight WE

lar instances of the of financial responsibility; they

just have money trouble,

So precarious is your grip on safe territory that even if you are British and have a birth- right of shelter in the homeland, war's cruelty to the wealthy. you will find it difficult to get there.

Seaplanes have been seen leav

By HUGH MUIR

ago would no longer recognise it.

Oliviera Salazar, the all-powerful Premier, hus banished its squalor and made it spotless

The Avenida da Liberdade is one of the finest thoroughfares in the world, and a magnificent sea, rond now takes you to the countless Al- Jantle beaches nearby.

To explore the city you get inte one of the litle Austin taxicaba thint are always nearly running people Actresses and dancers that and down the dangerously steep over and you go switch-backing up

At night the romantic go up to the

ing for England, but mailbags A Rotchschild deprived of his pay the highest freight, so un- European fortunes had to scrub once had their names in neon streets that climb over the volcanic IN his more eloquent days, can claim priority in some other of an obscure hotel while wait- anxious world of merchants, helghts of Graca and whisper their

less you can post yourself or his own socks in the washbasin lights are merged with the hills on which Lisbon stands. Mussolini used often to proclaim; way you are just a name on a ing to get to America to obtain shopkeepers, diamond brokers, love in the warm stillness, with the the fow millions remaining to out-of-work Cabinet Ministers, lights of the city twinkling far be- dog-cured waiting list.

dispossessed Polish landowners, low. helpless aristocrats and polyglot

the joy of living dangerously. A twin theme was the "degenerate- ness" of the democracies; only "young" nations such as Italy

were fit to live and have a future. Actually, Fascism sits in the place rather unworthily-of one of the oldest European civilisations, but that seems not to be considered by the Duce to be a contradiction in terms.

In considering the colossal humbug that is the Fascist State, it must be noted that this valiant-system, which was sup- "posed to glory-in"war, hus ̈nüt” only failed to distinguish itself therein, but also obviously wanted to get its share of the spoils without even fighting for them.

Mussolini's great

Boats are said to leave the Tagus for English ports when

him.

A French perfunie magnate sirens with undulating figures THE Portuguese are mostly the Ministry of Shipping re- found himself here among the and Paris clothes. members us, but we soldom see backwash of the German in-

PATCHES THE

ARE

FASHION

ether he has noticed that THE

tiny and unfailingly felendly: a bijou people with big hearts. They would be plain were it not for their

HOTEL lounges and bars eyes, which are long-lushed and like

are redolent of sauer- black velvet.

kraut and spaghetti, for Nazi Their thoughts are mostly of love, and Fascist agents pollute the and the cafe terraces are crowded

ແງ ່ sun-cleansed air of Portugal and all day long with pocket Don Juans whose heads go from side to side. abuse her liberal hospitality. for no pasaing woman is unworthy They foregather in corners, of their notice, reading their controlled news-world's greatest navigators, but now Once, the Portuguese were the

papers.

they are homely and their wants are The British, heavily out-numbered, few. but stoutly supported by the Ameri Men of the humbler classes are your cans and others on the winning side, hoppy if they have a new trilby THE other day somebody in

thoughts Into coat is held together by a trouser-mutter their

their that is always too small for them, an official_position, when button and three other buttons of whisky or pink gin.

highly polished sboen and.......a' spit.... urging us to save all we can, different patterns, you cannot achieve The bars are the midday clearing toon. mentioned money usually spent adence that will impress him with

that ease of manner and self-con-houses of the latest gossip.

All these foreigners sprawling If you want to know what Hitler's over their country have increased on clothes in particular and told the wisdom of making use of your next move will be you go into the the cost of living for the Portuguese, Avenida Palace, order a drink, cat but they never complain and smile us that from now on we should services.

take a pride in wearing old Now, however, all this will be poon ng throw the shells un Use on us readily. clothes. If we have to patch changed. The well-dressed man who floor, and keep your ears open

presents himself at an ofice in

Then if you are not convinced you moment them, he said, patches should be search of work will be automatically to the Aviz, the Tivoll or one of

of

tax.

THE security police are the only people who do not

came when France was down | regarded as a badge of honour. refused admission by the commis- the English bars down by the port think much of us. We give them slonaire. Men dressed as I once was where sea captains meet, and by a lot of work, for they have to keep And, after all, there is no reason in an old torn coat with an astrakhan then you know less than when you track of us and makeus pay sojourn

than started. why, in the course fashion's collar will be welcomed with open

Then there are some bad cigs THE sea approach to Lisbon among us that have to be watched. changes, patched coats should not for arms and will be asked whether as #great favour, they would be will-

provides a wonderful sight. a season become the correct wear, Ing to take a seat on the board of

So the police would be glad to see The sun is sure to be shining on its the backs of all of us, so that they Aristocratic women used to de-¡ directors.

white, pink and blue buildings rising could get back to the good old Por liberately wear little block patches

up and up on terraces, with palms, tuguese custom of taking things easy tamarisks and eucalyptus trees offer and letting their thoughts run to

love,

and out. In a manner that earned for him the contempt of all the world he sought to stab her in the back when she could not retaliate. If he hoped that a share of France's colonics would promptly be handed over to him, he has been sadly dis- illusioned. His soul-mate in Berlin has other ideas about that.

Mussolini also calculated that, with France out of the war, the surrender of Britain would come as a matter of course and in very short time. There would thus be two Empires for carving up, with, if not the lion's at least the jackal's share for Italy. That was another bitter disillusion- ment to the lesser dictator.

And this new age of patches will ON their faces. They probably not lack picturesqueness. I am in- originated in an attempt to conceal glined to think that a potched suiting shade. deformities, but when they became will make an even greater appeal to fashionable they were considered the artistic eye than the best-cut suit:

from a West-End tailor.

beautiful.

•

I have myself no objection to wearing old clothes. In fact, I rather like them. There are two great At the moment I happen to bo pleasures that men experience in the wearing a very old sult which, un- matter of dress. One is wearing a fortunately, is not at all picturesque. new and exquisitely-cut sult for the was wearing it, however, at the first time another is wearing an old heginning of the war, and I said to suit of the kind that wives and chil-myself in one of those unreasonable ren try to steal and give away in moods that men have: "I will wear charity,

this sult 11 the war is over."

desire of self-advertisement,

At that time, I confess, I was suf fering from wishful thinking, and had no doubt that the war would bo Half the craze for wearing new over fairly soon. Even so, I do not clothes comes, I suspect, from the regret my decision. Every time I put, the suit on I feel optimistic, since To compensato for these set-

When 1 first came to London, 1 regard it as essentially actory backs, he reckoned that Greece sometimes wished I

were better Rull, was to be had for the asking, winter and my overcoat was an old much care for the pattern of the dressed. It was in the depths of When I wore it first I did not and that thoroby the "Maro cont with an astrakhan collar, which cloth, but through long association 1 nostrum” iden would be brought had once belonged to another man have gown quite fond of it. It has

There were triangular rips in it here not yet had a patch-othe a little nearer to reality. Again and there, and the buttons did not than a few the Duce's calculations were match, one of them being a trouser | @Jhon."

button, another black, and annih awry, and the Mediterrancan, bone-coloured, far from being his sca, is more beset "with pitfall and with gin” for the Italians than it ever m He has in fact well nie ira8. qwn Empire.

-n lost his

It ne..

"

an scarcely bo wondered at if Mussolini, looking at the map of Europe to-day, feels that his ploco in tho Axis is merely that of the poor and tolerated rola tlon,

མ

I d

wing more scenes at one of the --s--but a patch or two, when erhey become necessary will, I think,

improve it.

not mind that; but unfor- anately I had to look for work and

After all the real objection to patched clothes has always bech, not

but that they are not respectable.

ENGLISH CHANNEL

sec editors in pursuit of it; and that they are ugly or uncomfortable,

dared not appear in that coat, in a Fleet Street office by daylight. As a result, I had. always to wait for the

Now that they have become 'ro- fall of darkness before venturing to spectable, there is not a single fault call on an editor for an interview. 1 to be found with them. felt that the rips on the shouldern Call your old sult Old Faithful, would be all but invisible by artin- and you will begin to feel quite cial light.

sentimental about it:

This is not good for the morale, It, while you are interviewing an Ims portant person, you keep wondering

ROBERT LYND

"There is a Tida in the Affairs of Men' AS THEY SEE IT ABROAD (Victoria "Dally Times").

•