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HONG TONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 1935.
LOVE LETTERS YOUNG MEN AND THE NEWMARKET
SOLD
GAS WARFARE
Napoleon's Poetry To SER IAN HAMILTON'S VIEW
Josephine
Special Air Mall Service)
London, Dec, 26. The crowd of autograph "col- £18 lectors who had come to bid for the Emile Brouwer collection of letters by Napoleon 1 his two wives, his relations, friends, and marshals, were disappointede în Paris on November 14. to learn
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340
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17
$30
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$30
$33
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$36
434
$134
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$13
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89 ot
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Balateos
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that the State had revived
&
a
right dating from Francis I, and made use of by Napoleon himself, to re-claim any papers once be- longing to former ruler of France or high official.
Ninety documents mentioned in catalogue were, therefore, reserved until the National Archive had decided whether it wished to
purchase. None the less letters of the greatest in- terest some not yet published in full-were sold.
the
SALES
OF DR. LEVINSTEIN'S IDEA
The Investment In Bloodstock
London, Dec. 26.
Sir Ian Hamilton" who is well knowną overseas, commented this week on an address by Dr. Herbert
Lernstein on Gas Warfare at the Institute of Chemistry.
(Special Air Mail Service).
London, Dec, 28. Ample evidence of the sound condition of the bloodstock breed- Ing industry was provided at the new market December.Sales which ended last week,
During the week, no less a sum than 201.550gs, has been invested in bloodstock, and advance of realised at the corresponding sales nearly 30,000gs on the aggregate last year.
Purchases for export could not be compared with pre-war years, revival in the overseas trade. but there were signs of a welcome
Stallions for Australia. Australia is becoming a market of some consequence.
Dr. Levinstein claimed that the use of gas and chemicals was an economy of force, of material, and of lives, that the idea that science had made war less likely was a batants to bits by high explosives fallacy, and that to blow com- was not less bestial wicked, or cruel than to attack with gas. Dr. Levinstein made the startling sug would take control of the home gestion that in the next war youth front and the oldest classes would constitute the storm troops.
Dr. Herbert Levinstein, formerly managing director of Levinstein, Ltd, and Corporation, Ltd, served during the British Dyestuffs
A letter to Josephine
the war on the Chemical Warfare 18 at from Italy between the battles of Committee, and became known as
Lodi and "Castiglione on the 3rd one of the greatest polson gas ex Thermidor of the year 4 (July 21,perts on the Allied side. He is a 1796), which fetched 48,300 francs Chemical Industry, the Society of past-president of the Society of (617), is of especial interest.
"Are you not the soul of my life Dyers and Colourists, and of the
British Association of Chemists,mero, and the sentiment of my heart?" wrote young Bonaparte, and then In 1930 he said that in future war by abrupt transition: "I send you stuff to make a beautiful skirt of black Flarerce taffeta- that will be for Sundays and the beautiful. You
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19
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81.40
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$101
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$611
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89.40
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305
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Do.
days
you are
written
see how generous I am that cost me more than 30 livres (franics). But that is not all. I want to "send you a beautiful dress crepon. Write me a letter specify the quality, colour quantity..
of
to
and
"A Thousand Kisses" "Far from you the nights are long, dull, and sad. Near you I regret that it is not always night Farewell, beautiful and kind, in- comparable and divine! 1: A thousand kisses."
Manitoba, Lo Zingaro, and Me- ped to the Commonwealth, and it dieval Knight were recently ship.
is stated that Marinero and Be- restos, purchased at the sales in the last week. by the British Blood- stock Agency, also are for Sydney.
Blandford blood. He is a full bro- Harinero represents the coveted
ther to Trigo, Athford, and Pri-
ײ,
Another stallion sold for abroad
a smoke screen-blotting out the is Lex, who, has been standing at whole Thames Valley would be one the Moorland Stud, Newmarket. He of chemistry's contributions to has been purchased by Mr. Otto London in the event of an aerial Marcus on behalf of a cilent in
attack..
Man Against Man General Sir Ian Hamilton, com menting to a reporter on Dr. Levinstein's address, said:
"The more war resolves itself into man against man the less horrible, it is. It is when man 15 against machinery or poisons or mechanical devices that it be comes utterly horrible in memory In spite of the awful losses at Callipoli, there was less machinery and there was no poison gast was made & fight of man against In a letter to Barras about the man, and, therefore, I think that same time Josephine writes. I on the whole people look back to am hurrying to carry out the it with less horror than they do treatment recommended to me so to Passchendaele or something like as to rejoin as quickly as possible that. Whatever the actual mater Bonaparte, whom I love well in al results may be, there is some- spite of his little faults." This thing more awful in the destruc- fetched 51,000 francs.
tion of people by mechanical
Denmark.
Buyers Would Prefer Olympia
doubt by the deplorable weather, The suggestion, prompted no conditions, was made by some in- market in the final week that fluential foreign visitors.. to New- Messrs Tattersall should hold their December Sales in some great hali in or near London.
in the way of such a change, not There would be many difficulties the least being the considerable expense of renting a ball, such as Olympia, for instance, for the per- lod of the Sales.
Another big problem would be that of stabling. More than 1,000
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A letter written by Napoleon at means. But it is an interminable GERMANY'S NEW
the age of sixteen with the rare argument I can only talk by re- signature, Napoléone di Buona- trospect." part, fetched 21,000 francs. One
On the suggestion that in the from the Empress Marte Louise next war youth would take con- admitting that she was "extréme- trol of the home front, Sir Ian $84. ment frappée" by Napoleon's said-The young man would not 311-death, fetched 5,800 francs, and have it. If young men are un- another by Napoleon I signed willing to go to war there will be "Le Duc de Reichstädt né Rol de no war. If ever the state of af- Rome." fetched 5,100 francs. A fairs comes about that the young letter written by Napoleon's father men don't want to go to war-then fetobed 2,500 francs.
war is finished."
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Tractions
A collection of about 318 letters, constituting an interesting re- cord of Napoleon as lover and husband, is to be sold at Messrs. Sotheby's, on December 17.
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LATE NIGHT
CABLES
PEIPING-HANKOW
RAILWAY
(Special Afr Mall Service)
London, Dec. 28:
General Bir Aylmer Haldane said "My general view is that gas is much more. Inhumane than high explosive shells, but there are dif- ferent varieties of gas. With re- gard to
men over 40 as Storm Troops, I don't care about using man's job to aght. Youths are men with families-it is the young
much better storm troopers.", syr
CRUISER
Similar to British Leander Class
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Dec, 28. With the launch of the German cruiser Nurnberg at Kiel Germany will have six light cruisers of post- War types. The Versalles Treaty allows her alx in commission and two in reserv She may, there- fore, build two more in replace- ment of the present reserve ships. It is, six years since the Leipzig, the latest completed cruiser, was ald down. As their cruiser ma terial was held to be in the worst
bacteria and germs had been ill-condition the German authorities
ed by the waves. Research work ers then tried the treatment with abscesses and septolc wounds. The result was equally striking.
took in band its replacement fr and five ships, the Emden, Konigs- berg, Karlsruhe Kon, and Leipzig. were laid down during the years 1921-28, Destroyers came next, from
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Corn: May
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Winnipeg Wheat May
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361
21 214
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National Distillers
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Ola
New York Cotton
News
Closing
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190/91
“January 12 Opening. Closing
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We are now experimenting with the very short micro-war 1925 onwards, and twelve have been Mar. 1281 1249-1250 1245 12:45 bulit, the maximum allowed 1 May 12.57 12.55 13.35 12.52 12.53 commission under the Treaty. July 12.57 12.57 12.57 12.52 12.53
12.45 1244 13.43 1237 1237, Finally came the armoured ships. Oct from 1929 onwards, and the Deut-(1935) schland, Admiral Scheer, and Craf Dec. 12.52 12.50 12.50 12.43 12.43 Speer with a fourth vessel in the 1935) building list.
Spot 1270 The reversion to more cruiser, building indicative of an inten tion to strengthen the
Jan 13.39 13.308 13.30 13.29 13.29 still further,
an official of one stand told me, but what the results will be no one can tell. We are exploring The day is rapidly approaching unknown territory. Recently in when electricity will dominate Copenhagen a scientist using these modern medicine and surgery and micro-waves found that mice "short-wave apparatus will kill placed in their path, or fies mov- bacteria instantly and heal disease ing across it, dropped dead with without the aid of drugs.
out any trace of injury.
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That Is the lesson to be learnt at the Exhibition of X-Ray Appara- ins, which was opened at the Cen-
ECONOMY
These waves have a fatal effect
tral Hall, Westminster, to-day by on various bacteria and even small Bir Humphrey Rolleston
animals
One of the most interesting ex-volutionise medi hibits in the hall has nothing to The X-r do with X-rays. It is the latest been bro diathermic apparatus and experi-perfection, Heav Hankow, Jan 14 ments which led to its perfection perfectly counter Peiping-Hankow Rallway open out almost illimitable possibi- any direct last night by the American 1934 Its operations resulted in a The diathermi
very successful year in lities in the treatment of disease. finge Oriental Finance Corporation and surplus of $8,308,000 according to effect, a modified wireless ap
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We expect Cotton to be quiet and with Ettle change in prices.The
ent nervousness is 11K
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the Railway was handicapped with of relation a' debt of nearly $2,800,000. Router
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to see in what respects the Nurn berg sho over the zig an to Ports
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New
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New York Silk
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New York: Rubber
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