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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 10, 1941.

Lifrare, Supreme Colleg

5:

Clothes Rationing Hits Women A Lot Harder

LONDON, July 8 (UP),—Over the protests of the last of Britain's Victorian dowagers, the news has leaked out that clothing stores are exercising an unofficial ration on “unmen- tionables."

Boll men and women are Anding; it more difficult to get those daintier things at the shops, even though when the newa

news spread in the form of a "civilian secret" as all such hush-hush rumours in this country are known-crowds of buyers lined! up t Hogerie counters and Jamuned men's stores only to be told in many cases that they could have two seis of duplicating garments.

Last Train

From Berlin

Supplies Clog Lines

Although the girls aren't exactly SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" down to four sacks, one dealer suld MANCHOULI, July 9 (Domel).

more ane! more women are The Domel" staff correspondent aking their own ingerle and that from Europe who was one of the few sales of satin and other material persons to cross the Soviet-German suitable for women's underwear are border on the last train from Berlin Increasing. A dealer in men's cloth- when the sudden hostilities slashed ing said that "the men don't have communications, has arrived here with a group of Japanese evacuees much to worry about. We

We have reasonable supply of men's under- from Moscow. wear and since men make their clothing last longer than women, behind schedule, was full of Russlin don't think the problem will become solliers whose leaves had been can-

celled and who wore returning Reule, at least for some time."

their regiments in the Far Eagl

Eggs For Shampoo

Meanwhile, the House of Commons

The train which WAS

Ave days

to

The majority of the troopers accompanied by their wives and

Western

Front. Trains were heavily rominent throughout the loaded with trucks and tractors as numbers of tanks. especially

artillery,

when

cars,

UFS

RED ARMY ENCOURAGES KIDS—Russian schoolboys play at war with duinmy weapons. Scones like this are common in Soviot, as Red Army encourages children to learn war. Army officers act as instructors in real mangeuvres.

Food Ministry Inquire Into Black Markets

machine-guns. LONDON, July, 8 (UP).—Ex-detectives—some of them west-old Scotland Yard men-have been enrolled by the Ministry

of Food to try to stop the ramp of the food black markets.

At the black markets it is possible

Rationing Shampoos and 'Perms'

is expected to do something about families were on their way to Moscow egge which get into British women's for a holiday visit to the capituł hair despite the national food ration when the war started. ing orders. Publicity given to West

The five-day delay in the train End, beauty shops which used a half-schedule is evidence of the rush of dozen eggs with which to shampoo supplies to the their customer's hair caused wide West-bound sprend

well as large country

noured people are able to get more three or four eats a week to eat: ammonition When

moverments asked in Parlament If the However, troop Ministry of Food was taking notion want were scarce.

LONDON, July 8 (UP).-Plans to on this practice, the Ministry repre- Congestion At Omsk

ration "perins" and aliampoos are be- sentative said further inquiries were Congestion in trafic service

of their being made.

Worse up to Omsk, 600 miles east of

for the call-up preparing The "Manchester Guardian," how the Ural Range where the railroad almost any quantity providing you MONEY LOAN CASES made by hairdressing saloons.

can pay the pilee. ever, decided to use the nation's is a single track.

The detectives-G=men of the Practice Condemned By In The dreary food difficulties ns part of some up-

stretch. pf

Clients are being encouraged to Puisne Judge adopt simpler styles. to-date newspaper promotion plan. Siberian steppes before Omsk, the Ministry of Food-want to know two An advertisement which ran in a train had to wait one to five hours things exlition announced 1 now many times at the isolated sidings form of reader contest. The notice while trains of 50 to 60 carriagesmarkels come from? said:

long loaded with supplica and equip. THE GOLDEN FRUIT OF SPAIN, ment rumbled past.

recent

was

the

to buy the rarest rationed food lu

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Where does the food at the black,

Where does the customer go to get {

that

staffs,

Dienlty in obtaining metal cur- lers and beaches in atrendy restrlet- ing glamour girl curls.

The supervisor of a staff of thirty said: "Twenty of my girls are in

"Our plans include rationing their teens or enrly twenties.

well and sets, shampoos "perins

as

Shingle Encouraged

០៨

INTEREST TOO HIGH

Condemnation of the practice of It was recently announced that From Outsk the line is double- They are faced with difficulties be-money-lenders in lending money at 800,000 boxes of sweet oranges were tracked and the train tried to make

cause people who could tell won't, what he termed "fabulous rates of At China Detectives belleve the lost time. for

intending interest," and making their borrow- coming from the peninsula. A First up

ers undertake to re-pay double the Prize of Two Culneas and Second where the Japanese group was greet witnesses have been bribed to keep amount of the loan was voiced by Prize of one Guinen ore offered for ed by Manchoukun consular officials, their mouths shut.

.F. the Puisne Judge, Mr Justice P. E. a "Note of Welcome Back" to this the passengers experienced the dest

Cressall, in the Summary Court yes- Entries should not exceed 75 black-out and left station in pitchi Frult

"We are encouraging clients with when he dismissed a claim words.

dark,

claim boyish-shaped heads to adopt a hton

11 promissory note by

such as Norwegian Stopped

neatly-cropped style, station, about. At a small

15

Mulla Singh, watchman, ngainst

shingle. Chung-yee, of

of No. Swatow Street, mintites run from the Manchoukuo

"Some are deciding to have Elon crops. Others go-to the other ex-; border, a Norwegian passenger, who

ground floor, and S. W. Faltedad.

treme and are growing their hair, was proceeding to Shanghat from

Both these styles cut out frequent Berlin, was taken off the train, by

visits to the hairdresser." authorities because his

Water-Polo

•Tournament

the Soviet

Four matches in the water-polo passport had expired. tournament were played yesterday,

"y" 9, S/Unlis 1 Y.M.C.A. bent Small Units 0-1. Scorers: Y.M.C.A., Wilson (3), C. Goldman. (2), May (2), R. Goldman, Benn., Small Units, Macdonnid.

Navy "C" 5, It/Scots 0 Navy C best Royal Scole D 0-0, Scorers: Navy, Huish (4), Gardiner,

Bil A. A. 5, 965th R. A. 1

5th AA. beat 965th R.A. 6-1, Scor- ers: A.A.. Giblia (2), Clarke, MeA1HS-

Free French Rejoice At Armistice

LONDON, July 9 (Router).

Some Strange Stories

Wholesalers and retailers all over Britain, but particularly in London,

of the are being watched. Some are suspected of sidetracking legitim- ate supplies on to the bootleg market where they can make more.

Already, the detectives have un- covered some strange stories,

Farmers have cumplained to then of "rustling" from their stocks of poultry at night,

not

af

Lan

Mulla Singh, through his attorney, Harnam Singh, claimed the sum of $008, being the balance of a sum of $1,000, from Defendunts. The sum was made up of $475 on the prin cipal, and $133 Interest at the rate of two per cent. per month.

mont

Its Lordship remarked that he was not going to

to allow such a stalc of aftales to go on, and that in any case in which it was

as shown to him that justice demanded it, he proposed to re-open the transaction and allow

money-lender a

actual

the

A big multiple-store firm signed contract to buy eggs from a dealer a few miles away at a standard price. They received the first consignment of the eggs and paid the bill.

Next day, another bill arrived from the dealer.

£80-and dld It claimed specify for what goods or services. There was no attempt to account for

The firm recognised the bill for said:

be paid-and curtly It was only under the necessity money should jot freeing the Near East of Nazi refused,

influence that the Allied

They got no more eggs. entered Syria. For the Free French

ter, Yabaley. R.A... Whittle Town The Political Directorate of Free France states, regarding

goal).

I/Soot "A" 7, 8th R. A. 1

Royal Scots A beat 8th R.A. 7-1. General Dentz's request for Scorers: Scots, Hunter (2), Mar Syrian armistice:

Bennett. R.A

(2), Byrne, Jordan, Chul Kwok-wing

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the Hongkong Police, and Miss rowed and nothing more.

Jeannie Smith, nursing sister of Acknowledgment Necessary

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Judgment, his Lordship

Miss Smith

LIBS So far us first Defendant is

the well-known marathon Smith, the

who reminder that tolloncerned the enviritar for Plantarunter,

represented Great withdrawn the

case against him

Britain in the Olymple games nt and that claim is

is therefore struck Berlin in 1936. She comes from out. I have now only to deal with Dundee. Scotland. The food inspectors believe these In order to make him liable, Pin

the case against second Defendant.

Mr Woodlicnd, who comes from forces who fully endorsed this action, eggs may now be going to the black would have to prove that some time Shefeld, - Englarnl, was formerly in It was extremely unpalatable because markets whose vendors will pay toil within the Just three

years th

there had the Coldstream Guards, and inoce they knew that they would find in money, charge--it-on-to-their--cus --

eshire Constabulary before joining the front of them French troops misled tomers-and still be able to sell be- been acknowledgment by him of this recently-wes-attached to the Hamp

unless he can do that, Hongkong Pollee about two years | by the bad shepherds of Vichy who cause eggs are so scurce.

barred, since this were expected to fight for Germany.

transaction arose in February, 1032. ago. "In consequence, the Free French

Before I I to on, I have a few make obout

forces

High Prices Charged

for

is stature

Pinintif

LONDON July 0 (Reuter)are particularly happy to hear of the Football clubs throughout England request for an Armistice. They hope to-day received their fixtures for that it will be possible to conclude every kind of food. But they charge money-lending cases that have come the first half of the next season. hostilities and overthrow the German only

Onc

In the southern section there are threat to the Middle East and bring guess the customer can pay, 34 teams and in the northern 38. Independence to Syria and Lebanon

to mince urt, and I do not want

The programme opens on August 30within the framework of the Treaty single ham was and games played then will be re-ot Alliance with France, whose his-sold. Hams are rare peated the following Saturday on retorical connections with the Levant Even rarer are onions and oranges, disclosed what I call scan

verse grounds.

will thus be preserved.

Two all-London clashes mark thei "It is with the greatest fraternal opening of the southern section, Brent-feelings that they welcome to their ford entertaining Fulham and Chelsen being at home to Crystal Palace. Ar ranks their brothers who had been

deceived senal's opening game is away against hood and who are now resolute in by the propaganda of false- Norwich.

In the north, Preston (cup holders) pursuing in common with them the start with a home game against Black-Struggle against Germany, the eternal pool.

enemy of the French people."

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10 The food racketeers are selling general remarks

price--the highest they before this

when I say that in At one London black market, a my experience on the Bench here in

offered for £2 and these

the coses, money-lending in London. evidence adduced before' me scandalous of. affairs, Inasmuch 113 Detectives have traced people who stale have recently bought both of them people are apparently allowed in dozens but they cannot get any lend

mancy at fabulous rates of interest and, in addition to details of the transactions, 4d, oranges 38.

Eggs are five pence each. lemons that, to actually make their borrow- ers undertake to re-pay double the amount of the loan. The scandalous part, to my mind, is the double rate, of interest charged.

And there are black cafes, too. These places sell henvy weight chups and steaks and will serve meals con- taining three or four rationed foods

at a price.

FUN Lost Legion Of 10,000 Children

Will Re-open Transaction

to

If people are toolish enough to go into these undertakings, they have only themselves to blame, but as far as I am concerned, I am not going to allow such a state of affairs to go on. wish to say quite clearly that in any case in which it is shown to me that Justice demands it, I propose to tion and allow re-open the transaction the money-lender a reasonable rate LONDON, July 8 (UP)-London of interest on the actual amount bor- now has a lost legion of 10,000 child-rowed and nothing more. ren. They are some of the 93,000 Coming back to this case, it is whose parents retuse to evacuate quite clear that Pinintiff has. utterly them.

failed to make out his claim. To do They are those who are not going so, he must satisfy me that second to school; whose education has been Defendant, en November 10, 1932, Interrupted because their schools went to him and undertook to re-pay closed down and, they have not been this amount in accordance with the re-registered at the 450 schools which conditions stated in paragraph two are still open.

of the claim. On that point, I have In the country, meanwhile, about no hesitation in saying that I accept

the evidence

of second Defendant 250.000 London children are able to and do not accept the evidence of study and grow healthy for their Plaintiff's witness. In my opinion. futures when the war is over.

deliberate lies, I and The London County Council is that no acknowledgment of the debt looking for the lost legion, some of was made by second Defendant since whom may have reached school- February, 17, 1032, and therefore, the leaving age and gone to work since debt being statute barred, he is en- they were Inst at school.

titted to judgment. There will be judgment for second Defendant with cosis,

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