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Ons pound of Sugar
One quart of Formosa Oolong Tea
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HONG KONG.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, APRIL 13th, 1928.
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
[ORDERS BY LT,COL L O. BIRD, D.B.
COMMANDANT.]
No. 325.
1-Presentation "Of Colcurs. -The grant of Colours to the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, having received the sanction of the
"FAMOUS MEN OF LARGE FAMILIES.
GREATNESS THE WORLD MIGHT HAVE LOST.
HEREDITY RULE,
Some of the most brilliant men
A NEW INDIAN RACE.
SHARE SHARKS ARRESTED.
BROTHERS WHO FLED FROM CANADA.
DISCOVERY IN BOLIVIA,
SOUTH SEA ISLAND FEATURES.
NEW YORK, March 5th In a wild, inaccessible district near the Bolivian-Brazilian border,
£100,000 CHARGE.
NEW YORK, March 19th. Share sharks have been operating in Canada by means of fraudulent
Army Council, has been approved and women who, havo ever lived Hyatt Verill, the explorer for the stock named Dominion Lead Last
by His Majesty the King.
On Sunday, May 8th, H.E. the Governor will present the Colours to the Corps, oa Murray Parade. ground, at 1.30....
would never have been born had their parents practised birth control
and limited their families to two or three children.
The Corps will parade as strong as possible in four Companies at Volunteer Headquarters at 9am. Ludovici demonstrates in his new This is what" Mr. Anthony M. on Sunday, May 6th, 1929,
Attention of all is drawn to In-book, "The Night Hoors, or the fantry Training Vol. I. Chap. 14, Case Against Birth-Control and an Sec. 204,"
Practice Parades will be held at Alternative" (Herbert Jenkins, 74. Corps Headquarters on the follow-d. nct). ing dates:~,;
Thursday, April 26th, at 5.30 p.m.:
Mufti.
Thursday, May 3rd, at 5.30 p.
Uniform.
Details have been circulated separately to all ranks of the Corps on April 10th, 1928
1.-Musketry,
Sunday, April 15th, 1993. The Battery will fire Part I. Table at Stonecutters Range on Sunday, April 15th, 1928.
Range Officer: 2/Lieut. N. L. H. Launch will leave Murray Pier at 9 a.m. and call at Kowloon Pier nt 9.10 ..
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Dress: Uniform or mufti optional, but rife, baronet, pouches, braces And belt must be worn.
Arms will be drawn from Corps Headquarters to-day, between 8 a.m. and 18 noon, or 2 and 4 p.m., or 5 and 6 p.m.; and on Saturday, April 14th, between D aim. and 1 p.m.
3-Arma
Rifles and bayonets are to be kept at either Corps or Platoon Head quarters, all those who have not re- turned their rifles will do so at
once.
4.-The Battery.
The Battery will parade at Corps Headquarters on Thursday, April 19th, at 5.25 p.m. It is hoped that every member will make a special effort to attend.
"Although, generally speaking," states Mr. Ludovici in his plea for heredity guarantees that there the existence of the large, family,
will be ro violent aberration from parental and stock qualities in the children of a given couple, it does not by any means guarantee that the permutations and combinations of those qualities will necessarily lead to the best results in every child, or in the early children of the marriage.
eye Foundation Museum of the Aerican Indian has found the reimaant of a strange tribe dia tinetly different from other Ameri- can Indians.
wery
and oustoms, indications
In language, features, stature, found that this is probably the re- mains of some tribe which succeeded crossing the Pacific from the South Sea Islands
The people are extremely war- like, resisting the attempts of neighbouring, tribes to enter their
clothing was completely unknown, through river rapids district, which is only reached To them and they marvelled at Veriff's nc- tire, and were tremendously awed
by his firearma
year £100,000 was obtained in the Dominion through the sale of these useless shares, and a hot pursuit of the sharks was undertaken by the police.
Yesterday in Atlantic City-two Janis and Ira Janis were arrested men who gave the names of Milton. by detectives who have been trail- ing them for months.
The arresta were made at the re quest of the British Consul-General in New York, representing the Canadian Government.
The police said that when the men The men were charged with ob taining £100,000 from Toronto in- vestors by fraudulent transactions.
offered 59,000 to be permitted to were being taken to the station they
escape.
Money And Good Clothes, earried plenty of funds and several Both men were well dressed" and
passports,
Conversation with the tribe was only possible through signs, for pose of the jargon of the other region is known to them. In the Indian tribes in the surrounding few months he spent with the tribe Verill made notations of the laning evidence, said he believed that George Archer, & detective, six- guage, hoping that its roots would confirm a Malaya or Polynesia Dying off.
"This tribe is
By Special Appointment
H.M. King George V.
to
Jšediva Guvės СИДИРАСНИ
BRUT
the brothers operated in New Jersey PERRIER JOUET less stocks for valuable onea de- at one time by substituting worth-
posited with them.
In Canada their frauds are al- leged to have extended over five years, and when complaints were the country. made to the police the two men fled
The First Choice of
"It may so lead to the best re-origin Aults in the early children, or it may not. And that is why it is of the
Verill states: utmost importance from the stand-hostile to everybody. "The people point of the welfare of any race or used by Indians anywhere in speak a dialect wholly unlike that nation that heredity should be given South America. They don't want as many chances as are reasonably trade with the outside world. And Ira Janis had been arrested, Mr. When informed that Milton and possible to achieve the best and they are dying off 1 convinced A Rogers, legal secretary to the happiest combination.
them that I could be of some use Canadian Attorney-General, said: to them and that my intentions" It is the best news we have heard have reached there. were good, or else I would never for a long while." He added that
men to Canada. extradition proceedings would be begun immediately to bring the QUANTS.
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"Few Chances."
"In a small family the chances are few, and the likelihood of the best possible child of which the parental and stock qualities are cap. able being produced is therefore necessarily more remote than in a large family. And the consequence is that small families, by staking everything on the carliest three or four chillren--not to mention those of only one or two children-must be the cause every year of a very heavy loss in the best possible pro duct of which cach couple is cap
Musketry Part I.This will be fired on Sunday, April 18th, at Stonecutters. Every member is ex- pected to shoot on this date. Parti-able. culars sçe order No. 2
5.-Infantry Company.
The Company will fre Part 1. Table T at Stonecutters Range on Sunday, April 29th:
Range Officer: 2/Lieut. H. Owen Hughes.
6-Scottish Company...
Nos. 4, 6 and 7 Platoons will parado at Platoon Headquarters on Thursday, April 10th, 1928, at 5.30 p.m., for Machine Gun Instruction.
Quarry Bay Cup Competition is postponed indefinitely.
7-Portuguese Company,
Friday, April 13th: The Company will parade at Corps Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. for Arms and Squad Drill,
Sunday, April 18th: The Kennedy Road Range has been allotted to the Portuguese Company.
་ :
Tuesday, April 17th: Recruits: Parade at Kennedy Road Range for Musketry,
Nos. 1 and 2. Lowis Gun: Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for Lewis Gun Instruction.
N.C.O.'s other than Lewis Gun Nos. 1 and 2 will parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for
N.C.O.'s Claas.
Friday, April 20th: The Company will parade at Corps Headquarters at 6.30 pm. for Arms and Squad Drill.
Sunday, April 22nd: Musketry Part 1. Table "T" will be, fired at Stonecutters..
Range Officer: Lt. B. R. Davies, M.C., M.M...
8.-Appointment And Promotion, "The following appointment, and promotion take effect from April. 9th, 1928-
THE BATTERY.
No. 1080 L/Bdr. L. F. Nicholson,
to be Bombardier,
No. 1274 Gnr. E. P. Streatfield,
to be L/Bombardier.
R. A. WOLFE MONDAY, Majot, Adjutant, H.K.V.D.O. Hong Kong, April 13th, 1928,
NOTICES.
1-South China Command Sports.
Police and Volunteers.
"“OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE Events open to Royal Navy,
POLICY.
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will take place at Bookunpo Rc creation ground on Wednesday, April 25th, 1928, names of Competi tors to Captain Veasey, Queen's R. Regt., Sharaabuipo Camp by Friday, April 20th, 1928.
The undermentioned amounts have been collected for Dr. Barnardo's Homes:--
Sergeants Mess
$46.04 Canteen
13.10: Draft for this amount has been forwarded to the Secretary, Dr. Barnardo'a Homes.
3. Portuguese Company Dinner.
Dinner will take place at Valun- teer Headquarters on Saturday, April 14th, 1928, at 7.45 p.m.
Among first children who may be assumed to have been most successful combinations of their we may mention→→ parents' and their stock qualities
wives, taking girls of from twelve "The men of their tribe buy their
figion is a mixed worship of ser to fourteen years old. Their re and nature There is spirit in every stone, tree, brock. Other Indians worship the aun, but these keep no calendar and no track of the days They don't know how old anybody i
"The main village is reached through rapids, which mean death to invaders; in fact this river takes fearful tall of the members the tribe. This fact, and the fact that they live among wild animals and deadly insects, and are in almost constant warfare with marauding borders, have cut into the ranks of bands attempting to cross their the tribe until it stands very little chance of surviving much longer.
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Douglasss Columbus, Dryden, Gibbon, But, when it is remembered that H.K
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Lado-China (Prof.). kin, George Gissing, George Mere prove, leads very much more often shell Transporta
Da (Def.) dith, Herbert Spencer, Abélard, to families of one, two or three Waterboni Clive, Harvey, Hegel, Leonardo children than it does even to four, Benguets da Vinci, Robespierre, Linnaeus, we feel sure that it would interest Chapin, Locke, Marat, Napier our readers to realise how much is (inventor al logarithms), Newton, possibly being lost to the nation and Hogarth, Paley (of Paley's Evi- the world by the limitation of dences), Sir Robert Walpole, Du families to one, two, or three child Maurier, Lord Acton, Watts (the ren artist), and Rossini,
Late In the Family," "But on the other hand, the fol lowing people who came late in their families, were not only more distinguished than any of the sa family who preceded them, but would also never have seen the light if the birth-controller's rule of four children to each couple had been adopted by their parents
Edward Lear, the youngest of twenty-one children.
Charles Wesley (eighteenth).
* Bir Thomas Lawrence (six teenth).
John Wesley (fifteenth). Albert Moore, the painter (four- teenth).
Sir Richard Arkwright (inven tor of cotton-spinning machine), Josiah Wedgwood, and Pierro Prud'hon, famous French artist (thirteenth). ONE
Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer (twelfth).
Thomas Campbell (poet), Char. les Reade (novelist, Igantins Loyola, and Richard 111 were eleventh children.
Benjamin Franklin (U.8, author and statesman), John Hunter (physiologist and surgeon), and Coleridge were tenth children.
Sir Walter Scott, Archbishop Richard Whatley, Gainsborough, and Archbishop A. C. Taity the author discovered, were all ninth children, while Lord Cromer, Henry Moore (painter), and Gran ville Sharpe were ninth sons
Johann Sebastian Bach was an eighth child, and seventh children included Herrick, Mango Park, Van Dyck, Huxley, Jane Austen, Grace Darling, and Bir Joshus Reynolds,
Botticelli was possibly an eighth child, but certainly a sixth, and Emily Bronte, Darwin, De Quin cey, Felicia Dorothea - Hemans, Pepya, Voltaire, Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Beeant, and Rembrandt were fifth children. The list of famous "fifth: sons incladedCecil.] Rhodes and Horace Walpole, (Continued on next Column),
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