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5.9.
CHITRAL **BEHAR
From
Toni Hong Kong)
About
1934.
8th Oct. 6,000 13th Oct.
RAWALPINDI
**BANGALORE
17,000
*KIDDERPORE COMORIN RAJPUTANA **BHUTAN
5,300 15th Oct. 15,000 20th Oct. 17,000 3rd Nov. 6,000 10th Nov.
15,000 - 17th Nov. ,0,100 24th Nov.
CARTHAGE +9OUDAN
16,000 7,000
1st Dec. 8th Doc.
RANPURA CORFU *BURDWAN
17,000 15th Dec. 15,000 29th Dec.
RANCHI NALDERA
6,000 5th Jan.
17,000 12th Jan. 16,000 26th Jan.
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. S'pore, Penang, C'bo, B'bay, Karachi. Bombay, Marieilles à London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall. Marseilles & London.
THE CHINA "MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1934.
The presentation to the nation of the homestead at Plymouth, Vt., where the late President Cal- vin Coolidge was reared and took the oath of offee, is planned by Mrs. Grahe Coolidge. The latest photograph of the President'a widow and a view of the homestead are shown.
FRENCH RACING SCANDAL
Driver And Horse Substituted.
ALLEGED CONFESSION
MORE ACTIVE
SEASON FOR
CHURCHILL
New Northern Port In Canada
París.
FOR WHEAT SHIPMENTS
There were remarkable deve-
Winnipeg.
Bombay, Marsellles, Havre, London,lopments recently in what has Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & become known as the "Hallen- Hull.
court Turf Scandal:"
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
DO
B'bay, Mar., Havre, London H'burg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ball, Bombay, Marseilles & London,
DO
+ Calle Cablanca.
'Cargo only. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- tantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the
Khedivial Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
France.
BC-
REORGANISATION OF INFANTRY
Experiment By The
War Office
SIMPLER TACTICAL CONTROL
arms;
(ii) Simplifying tactical control of infantry supporting weapons;
peace
(un) Simplifying training and the supply of reinforcements in war.
Under this experiment an in-
The War Office recently an- nounced that it has been decided to carry out an experiment in The fourth season at Churchill, infantry reorganisation during Canada's most northerly port, is 1934-35, with the object of
(i) Adjusting the propor The route, This involved the alleged sub-now in full swing.
tion of infantry to supporting] sometimes likened to the White stitution of a well-known race-Sea in Northern Russia on horse for an unknown outsider count of the strictly limited at the Enghien trotting meeting grain season, was opened for and the capture of the Palnis trial shipments of grain in 1931. Bourbon prize and some £3,200 About 500,000 bushels of grain in wagers for those responsible, were shipped abroad in that year. The police declare that as a In 1982 ten vessels called at the result of an alleged confession port, and in the following year fantry brigade will consist of they have learned that not only the same number. It is expect headquarters, one support batta- the horse, but the driver were ed that this year the number of Kon and three rifle battalions, entered under false names, and boats using the port will be be instead of the present organisa
clues to numerous similar frauds. that this knowledge will provide tween 15 and 20.
tion of headquarters and four The port has been of slow battalions of infantry of the line. especially in the South of growth, this being mainly due to each comprising a support com-
the shortness of the open season pany and three riffe companies. The alleged confession was and the high rates of insurance
Blackdown Brigade made to the police by M. Andre which still apply to ships and
The 6th Infantry Brigade at Mary, who is the owner of the cargoes using this northern horse Hallencourt, the supposed route. Rates of insurance which Blackdown (Aldershot Command) winner of the prize, and whose still apply to ships and cargoes has been selected for the experi
ment and will be composed and name appeared on the program-using this northern route.
They have been me as the driver in the trotting
equipped as follows: slightly race. M: Mary and a stable boy lowered for this season, but they lion, The Durham Light Infan Support Battalion-1st Batta- were placed under arrest.
are still high.
Of the 22 vessels calling at try: Headquarter Hallencourt. it appears. from
Company, the police allegation, has never Churchill during the first three three machine-gun companies, left the Riviera, but on July 28 years of its operation, one met one anti-tank company. for two other horses, which had with a mishap. There was the machine-gun company will have
three machine-gun ́ platoons ofļ been despatched from Antibes. Bright Fan which struck what is arrived at Maisons-Laffite, the called a "growler" a low lying two sections of two Vickers ma EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, well-known training centre near sheet of ice in Hudson Straits, chine-guns. The anti-tank com
Paris.
and sank, fortunately without any will have four anti-tank ploss of life.
platoons, each of our anti-tank In spite of this mishap, the guns.
Rifle Battalions-2nd Batta- One of them was a worthless Hudson Bay route, is now can lion. The Roval Warwickshire half-bred named Hanoi, and. the sidered by sea captains to be Regt, 2nd Batt. The Duke of
In a report on the other a racer of good class which quite safe. has not yet been positively iden-route the Imperial Shipping Com- Cornwall's Light Infantry; 1st tified, and which may be des mittee of Great Britain said Batt. The South Staffordshire cribed as "Unknown." Hanoi was "during the open season of navi (including a portar platoon with
Regt. Headquarter entered in a race at Enghien un-gation, for a well-found vessel your sin mortars and a light ma der the name of Hallencourt, and the risk of casualty little, if cut a very poor, figure. It was any greater on the Hudson Bay chine gun platoon of four guns, then sold for about £11, to route than on a voyage to Mon-equipped with tripod mountings butcher at Maisons-Laffite for The vessels entering Churchill Each rifle company will have four duties). Four" rifle companies: slaughter..
"Unknown" was then entered this year have brought shipments platoons, each of three sections, name of "Hallen-of glass, wire, confectionery, and there will be a light machine- under the court," with M. Mary as
1934.
"TAKADA †TILAWA SANTHIA
8,000 27th Sept. | S'poro., Fenang & Calcutta. 10,000 12th Oct,
- DO - 8,000 27th Oct.
--DO
• Calls Rangoon
† Call Port Swattenham.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation 1st and 2nd class passengers.
1934.
NANEIN NELLORE TANDA
7,000 29th Sept. 7,000
7,000
1st Dec.
End Nov. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney
Melbourne, and Hobart,
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan
and Hong Kong to Australim.
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For Bit-hireraft or ground M.V. "TAI PING YANG"
OCTOBER 18th
The Union 8.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New and driver, for the Palais Bour. They left with cargoes of grain, gun in each section.
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The New Zealand Shipping Company's stammers for Bouthampton and London via Panama Canal'
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
"BHUTAN
NELLORE
RAJPUTANA
SANTHIA
*BEHAR CHITRAL
TALMA *SOUDAN CARTHAGE SIRDHANA TANDA TAKADA RANPURA *BURDWAN
6,000
1934.
ard Oct.
7,000 4th Det. 17,000 4th: Oct 8,000 4th Oct. 0,100 14th Oct 15,000 19th Oct. 10,000 18th Out. 7,000 31st Oct. 18,000 2nd Nay
8,000 1st Nov. 7,000 4th Nov, *8,000 15th Nov 17,000 165 Hot 8,000 26 NO7
Cargo unly,
S'hai, Moll, Hohe & Yokohama, S'an, Moft, Kobe, Osaka & Thama, Shanghal Kobe & Yokohama.
Amoy. S'hak. Moji, Kabe & Omka., Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama.
| Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka..
Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghal Robe and Yokohama Amey, S'hai, Mol, Kobe and Osaka S'hal, Moll, Kobe, Osaka and Thama Amoy Shal, Moji, Kobě, Osaka. S'hal Kobe and Yokohama.” Shal, Kobe, Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabins are Atted with Elecrid Fans, or Punks, Louvre. Bystem. Steamers on Lendon and Australian Lines are fitted with: Laundrie Parcels, measuring, not more than 6 en, ft. will be received at the Com pany's Omlow up to Noon on the day previous boysailingszwe
further information. Pansara,reight.” Handbooks, ete apply to 1-
MACHINNON MACKENZIE & CO.
"Connaught Rd. C. Hong Kong,
Battalion, The Duke of Corn-
The first line transport of the bon Prize at Enghien, and, start-cattle and timber. ing at 33-1, won easily.
The open season for Churchill brigade headqquarters of the bat
talions will be mechanised... The deception, however, did is only from two to three months,
The 1st Battalion, The Durham not end there. The driver, the but during the open period Light Infantry, now at Catterick, police now allege, was a substi- navigation is aided by direction will join the 6th Infantry Bri tution as well as the horse. It fluding stations along the route gade in November, and the 2nd was feared that under inexper and by other aids to modern traf ienced hands "Gnknown" fic-Reuter, might not after all win the event, so that, according to M. Mary's alleged version, his place was taken at the last mo- ment by a M. Ramella..
Proudly wearing his colours
NEGROES ATTEND FROMENADE
M. Mary went to fetch his Cincinnati University
number for the race. but it
was M. Ramella, who had been
· hiding in the stable, that drove
the sulky out into the course and won the race
Precedent
Cincinnati. Negro students, for the first During the race M. Mary re-time in the history of the Un!- mained in the stable working versity of Cincinnati, attended Himself into a heat by gymnastic the school's junior prom. › exercises so na to be able to pre- Miss Josephine. Simrall, Dean sent himself as the winner in a of Women and Faculty Adviser plausible state of perspiration. ^ to the Negro student group, adi At the close of the race M.Justed the viewpoints of both Rimella nickly changed into his sides. portion of other Itt
ary, clothes, and
ited dents
reluct off the course
Aabout
in waiting
and jaffair way to And de
Enghien cate
attending.
wall's Light Infantry, at Gibral- tar, will join the Brigade in. January next, in accordance with the programme of annual reliefs, 1934-35 P
Meanwhile, the three hatta- lions at home will be organised on the experimental establish
ment by October 1, 1984, and the 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Corn-
wall's Light Infantry, may either
be reorganised at Gibraltar or on Its return to this country.
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BARS OF CHAIR
69 YEARS
Validity Upheld Under French Law
Paris
A will has been found writte on the bars of a chair, in a littl village of Poitou...
This is perfectly in order ac
One hundred boxes of opium,
100.000 ounces cording to French law
by The law, merely states that Opium will cannot be valid "unle the comfentirely written, dated those oplum smokera ed by the hand of the it is subject to no oth
Man Reluctantly Quits When 78
provi
him
Shelburne