CENSORED KISSES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1208, 19 November 1919, Page 3

CENSORED KISSES.

The police of Japan, it appears, do not approve of kissing in public, and accordingly cinematograph 'stars' are not permitted to kiss on the screen. In the six months ended March 1 the police censors removed no fewer than 2350 kisses from various films. The only kiss permitted to remain was that granted to Columbus by Queen Isabella, and was shown in Tokyo exclusively, the censors deleting it before permitting the film—which was entitled 'Colonibus'—to he exhibited in the province!.

PEACE VALUE OP CAMOUFLAGE. Camouflage experts of tho United .States Xavy aro employing their t-ii-ents in an effort to perfect a uniform system of camouflage for all vessels intended to reduce the dangers of collision between ships by a design that emphasises and accentuates tho true course of the ship. British naval experts also are interested in this endeavour, and eamoufleurs of both navies are agreed that just as it was possible to elude tho German U-boats by means of a design that gave a deceptive impression of thc true- course which a vessel was steering, so it is possible to minimise the danger of vessels coming together on days of poor visibility.

SMART RUSE BY DETECTIVE. Sergt. Henri de Lenz, alleged to be a Haffles in real life, using a limo.isinc to commit, thefts-in hotels, shops, and at the houses of his acquaintances, has been arrested in the Rue Berloiz. Paris. A detective, pretending to be intoxicated, stumbled in front of the vehicle, and as it swerved toward the pavement, another detective jumped in and seized de Lenz. Boxes filled with goods worth £3200 were found in his lodgings.

A LITTLE GIRL'S KICK. When an inquest was held at Hickney on a six-year-old boy named William. Harvey, it was stated that be was kicked on the right knee by a little girl, and three days after a swellingarose in the left groin,, which led to his death. The doctor said he did not think the disease of the left thigh bone was due to the kick on the right knee, and the Coroner recorded a verdict of death from natural caa3cs. Calling into the witness-box the little Sirl, he read her a homily on the wickedness of kicking.

(WANTED: HEROES TO WEAR PINK PANTS.

'Volunteers wanted. One thousand sportsmen of good social position to wear, upon a giyeu day, new fashions for men, to bring back colour and line into masculine attire..'■■■

| The above is the advertisement in a i London paper of Henry Parkes, a 'dress pioneer,.' whose creed is for men to. wear clothes » expressive of the new age of heroism and romance.' The tamest of the new departures is a black frock coat with ruffles, pink ; breeches and silk stockings.

WORLD'S DEEPEST WELL. i One of the seven experimental bore j holes being sunk for oil in Derbyshire j has now been drilled to a depth cf I nearly 4000 feet, according to latest I reports. ' This is 'some well,' but it by no i means establishes a record, ' says ' Lloyd News.' There is a well in South Africa that j is over SOOOft deep, and there are at j least a score in the United States whose j depths vary between 6000 ft and 7000 | feet. ■ ■ -

| .The world's deepest well, however. | according to the Paris'Matin,'is situated'in the neighbourhood of Gobelins. I Boring was started in 1892, and con-

j tinned intermittently up till the outj break of war. when the extraordinary 1 depth of 18,000 ft had been reached, at | a total cost ofnearlv £40.000.