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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1947. -

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BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Ida Lupino for Lois Leeds,

Lois Leeda glves you direct answers and good advice. "DEAR LOIS LEEDS"

"Dear Lois Leeds My body skin is dry and itchy and after every bath is red and even drier. Helpi

-LOUISE.***

You should check this condition with your physician. Perhaps it is matter of diet regulation. For local rellef, try oatmeal baths or use la-

water. vender meal to soften the

Rinse well and ntonsage with creamy hand lction. Avold extremes in water temperatures-it must be neither freezlag cold nor very hot.

"Dear Lols Leeds-My wrists re very slender. How can I 'dress them up'?-MISSY."

Wide, cuff bracelets will do the trlek! And wear long gloves, crushed down at the wrists. Both gloves and bracelets are beautifying and very fashionable.

"Dear Lots Leeds-My pores ave Is there something that 10 coarse. will help to refine them?

---MRS. B. F." Yes, astringent for toning and au astringent creuni, often called "pure Apply lightly every night.

erram".

Dilinult lakenys

GABRIELLE

If your nail polish wenns of cas. lly, try removing a hairline of the lacquer before it dries. If your lips are not tooth, use a bit of cold cream before you apply your lip. stick. I wisps of hair, hang loose try a tiny touch of damp soap rubbed up on the hair.

SIDE GLANCES

If the skin should scale a little, use the pore cream only every other night.

is face

Leeds-How "Dear Leis powder applied so that it looks smooth?—NAN."

Apply face powder generously and then brugh it lightly, using a powder brush or a tided commetic tissue.

"Dear Lels Levis--1 have red hair and white skin, no freckles. Would a red dress be unbecoming?

-REDDIE

Red Is not your best zolnur but is fun in wear it. Use a Beige lace powder and a Red lipstick to match the colour of the dress. Match the dress

Accessories exactly. Brown for real smartness!

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Enemy Of

Yellow River Project

Concluding a new series of articles

By JOHN RODERICK

Associated Press Staff Correspondent

Shortsightedness, technical miscalculation and naturo's capriciousness have combined to block the Yellow River project, but the most prevalent and powerful antagonist is the Chinese civil war. -

The magnificent plan for returning this natural giant to its old northern course could not but run counter to the stratagems of war worked out on the drawing, boardn of militarists in Nanking and Yenan,

up.

Direct Retiof

This fact became ummis- cigarettes and paper and for weaving takably evident in mid-July promises are carried out--to spring and dyeing are #cheduled- the 1916, O. J. Todd, UNRRA's chief engineer in charge of the pro- ject Baw hundreds of feet of the dam he had nearly completed One third of the 15 billion which for stopping the southward the National Government has agreed escape of the waters wiped out to appropriate for the resettlement

will go into direct relief. by a premature flood weeks third will pay for equipment in' sot before. Unwilling to admit de- ting up the new industries. fcat, he hurriedly began pre- paring for a partial diversion of the river into its old bed by the end of July..

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Proof of the new note of co- operation is the erection at Shang- chiuchen, which is to be the base of the resettlement work, of a radio transmitter manned by Communists for constant communication The civil war intruded abruptly Shanghal headquarters of UNRRA. into his calculations.

With these preparations made and steps already begun an early closure of the gap, perhaps by early'spring,

foreseeable.

A lock at the map in the area will show the reason why.

China's The Lunghal rullroad, main cast to west artery, runs just soath of the Yellow River. The floods ind washed out the bridge in this region. In this general area, also, the north-south mail line con- neeling Pelping and Hankow Jobis the Lunghai by means of a strip between Kalleng and

Hsia 0-cili. To divert the river

might wash out the only railway bridge seross the then waterless old river bed.. National Armies based on Hsuchow and moving northward towards the Communki stronghold of Hantan then would be cut off from transportation.

The government ordered Todd to stop his preparations.

Then, on July 25, a second major agreement was signed by UNRRA, CNRRA and the Communist CLARA,

Throwback To which is CNRRA's Red counterpart.

Cloche Hats

There may, or may not, be any truth in the suggestion that after n social upheaval women's hats tend to sprend themselves in the wiklest exaggeration. But it seems

for a payment to the settlers on the old river bed who hnd to move out of the way of the impending flow of water.

Nanking Countermanded

London Gang War Feared

There is a restiem shifting of smallest time racketeers under way in London's bright Belts district-the West End-and Scotland Yard fa preparing for an outbreak of gang warfare on a far larger and grimmer scale than the prewar razor slashings and beatings that characterised the "protection ramp."

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CONSTANTLY

ALLIED HQ MOVING TO

LEGHORN

The oldest Allied Forces head- quarters, started by General Dwight Eisenhower in Africa and located at Caserta since car- ly 1944, will be transferred to Leghorn on April 6 às one of the last moves in the Anglo- American evacuation of Italy, it was announced to-night.

Lt-Gen John Lee, acting Supreme Allled Commander for the Mediter- ranean, told a press conference that Leghorn also would be used as a port. for redeploying 23.000 American troops and a slightly larger British force. Completion of redeployment, be sald, was scheduled 90 days after rulification of the Italian treaty, now expected about April 1.

There are approximately 28,000 American troops in Italy, 5,000 of whom are destined to form the American occupation unit in Trieste. The remainder will be redeployed, those with overseas duty yet to com- plete being sent to Germany and the rest back to the United States.

Asked whether the Italian treaty would become effective if Italy did not ratify it, Gen Lee said the effec- tive ratification date, as far as the Allies were concerned. would Ixc the day on which the Big Four de- posit their ratifications of the treaty in Paris.

No

The Yard is afraid that gang warfare this Mime muy

Gen Lee said that his personal be- Most racketeers mean guns.

the forees during treaty, but he added: "If she does lief was that Italy would ratify the in were the

war and acquired the not ralfy it, she will receive

weapons. Al- benefits from it, One of those benefits habit of using ready there have been threats presumably will be the moving out of shootings, but most of the of British and American troops.

Italy doesn't ratify, we might not By October, the government all damage so far has been done by move out."-United Press, tured them in pictures which make ad not made the promised payment. the inevitable razor or black-

like 11.

After the French Revolution and the Nupolronte wars, the bonnets worn were no fantastle that cartoon- ists of the period gleefully carica-

us smile even, to-day. It true that after the first World War hats were not enormous, but the cloche shapes which became fashionable were so profoundly ugly that the iniddle-aged woman in 1947 looks at the photographs of herself as a Airl with something of a shock.

Nanking untermanded the order to Todd, and the stage appeared set for a resumption of work. At this point the Communists started a drive on the Lunghal railway, burned one of Todd's supply trains and caused further delays.

and

UNRRA threatened to withdraw

Brass knuckle-dusters less action was taken. The Exe-jack. cutive Yuan approved CNRRA'S are also in action, agreement and plans were again made, this time close the gap by January 1. Yenan raised a storm of objection, pointing out that though the government had approved, the money still had not been delivered.

It was the joke in 1925 that woman could only see the traffle

By now, the river had begun to out of one eye and even that was alter back into its old route and a party obscured, co, far down over trickle of muddy water began wash- her face was pulled her modishing towards the sea on December 20. cloche hat, which resembled nothing. The Ommunists-advised-Todd that. so much as a round coal-scuttle if he did not halt his efforts, they Curiously enough the newest hats could not be responsible for the con- to-day lend to throw-back to the sequences. That they could easily bonnets worn by the women who have blown up the entire project is read with relief the news of the

Convinced, be acquieseed, agred Battle of Waterloo. They are push-but the Yellow River Conservancy ed far back on the head, are fussy Commission, a government organ, beplumed and are getting larger and made it known that it had a direct Jarger.

order from Chiang Kai-shek to push

Unfortunately, the rest of the wearer's clothes are not complemen tury. Short skirts, wedge hecia, and general air of briakness seem out of place with this headgear, whereas the slipper-length dresses of Napoleon's days, with their high- waists and gracious slim lines, set of an elaborate henddress as did the curled coiffures of the period.

COPR, 1947 ET HEA SERVICE, ING, E. M. HER, V. H. PAY, DEE,

By Galbraith

"My children have asked me to live with them, but I want to keep on being their friend!**

Another Washout

By the middle of January a con- siderable flow had passed "Kaifeng.. Meanwhite, another washout of the restraining dam delny.

caused another

The Communists next charged that the project was being made a weapon of war, since by its carly diversion It would cut off the Communists in Shantung against whom the govern- ment has recently opened a major drive-from their western bases,

On February 10 in Shanghai a

Todd compromise was announced. was directed to proceed immediately to supervise repair of the old dykes while a convoy of relief supplies was dispatched to the flooded areas in the south. There was provision Dr mention building now dykes but no

wan made of the deferred payments, ur the UNRRA project for building industries. The Communists, it was assumed, were satisfied by the pros- pect of further postponement, though nothing was said publicly on this point.

Reliof Sent

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When the battle is Joined--and skirmishes there have been a few in night clubs and restaurants al- ready-it will be for control of the black market, for, the profitable street barrow trade in fruit, but mostly for the rights to "protect" night clubs and bookmakers at the tracks.

-At-the-tracks; ~~~ racketeers -pass around what is known as "ihe Golden Bucket." From this the bookmaker lifts the sponge to swab his blackboard clean for the new prices.. In return for this service he must drop a sum of money into the bucket.

Night Club "Protection" As in the United States, night clubs which desty they need pro- lection have windows broken, güesto Intimidated or other violenta done. Two of the toughest gangs' under the names of "King's Cross" and "Aldgate"--both being Uic names of sections of London. But they are drawn to the West End by the better chance of look.

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Chinese Nurses

In Melbourne

Two Chinese nurses from Singapore have arrived in Mel- bourne for two years' specialised training in child and infant welfare.

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In late February, the way again appeared opened for resumption of progress when a major agreement was made, to the satisfaction Yenan, providing for the shipment ships. They began graduate studies of some 22,000 tons of goods to the Red-held areas of the old bed. These are to be distributed to the settlers why already are reported moving in a trickle way from the lands they moved on to eight years ago,

The nurses, Alice Chia and Ocl the Sol, are the first holders af

of A.L.F. Moleyon Nursing Scholor.

UNRRA dispatched a man to Kal- feng to begin parcelling out five billion Chinese dollars to aid fn. the removal.

The river, meanwhile, is flowing in a thin, muddy stream less than a foot deep in some sections.

at Melbourne's Children's Hospital à few days after their arrival,

The scholarships were awarded by the wartime Australian overseas army as a gesture of appreciation of the, ald given by Chinese people in Singapore to Australian troops. taken prisoner by the Japanese- Associated Press.

Women For Bangal

Medical Service The recent agreement made it ap parent that the government is now For the first time in its filátory, committed to the UNRILA-suggested the Government of Bengal has ap- programme of building aunterous pointed five women doctors to the small industries to employ the dia provincial medical service. Four placed persons. Factories for the are Hindus and the Arth is a Mus- manufacture of matches, cloth, lm, maya Associated· Prem, ..

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At length Mrs. Bear Gnishes her. long list of things to be bought in the village and Rupert look at it carefully My, what a lot," he says, "What'. I carry it all in?". He chooses the largest basket and runs off, but outside the cottage he stopa abruptly. "I say, can't I take the garden trolley?" he cries. could get everything into it in one journey!” “Very well, but rake care of it." tepiles Mrs. Bear. So. after emptying out lite leaves, be pets off with út gaily.

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