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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.
ROYAL EMPIRE
SOCIETY
Membership Benefits
From the Secretary of the Royal Empire Society we have just re- ceived a further short account of various matters which will in- terest those who have already joined, as well as those who think of joining"
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The aim of this Society to ea tablish real
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between Hason those in the Mother Country, and those whose homes are overseas must, of necessity, make a wide appeal.
Those who become members at once gain the advantage of being able to make personal" contact with each other, and this, between people of widely differing lives und interests is naturally of in-
In estimable advantage
many
Ways,
Fellows of the Society always receive a copy of the monthly "magazine "United Empire" which Is a connecting link with all parts of our great Empire.
are
The Headquarters of the Society ir Northumberland Avenue very convenient for those who spend any part of their "Leave" in London
There are 55 bedrooms (each with telephone), "a dining room which seats over three hundred. an assembly hall with a stage for lectures. etc.. and a dancing floor, and of course there are lounges, card reading and
rooms, rest- room for ladies, changing rooma, silence-room and a drawing room, and a billard and smoke
a
room for men.
The Society has as yet no head- quarters in Hong Kong.. but as the membership increases some- thing in the way of a clubhouse will certainly be needed. How- ever, with such progressive peo- ple as Mrs. Abbott, Sir Henry Pol- lock. and Mr. C. B. Clifford 'Hull as Hor. Secretaries, there is no doubt that this Society is ab- solutely bound to go ahead.
CORONATION FILMS
(Continued from Page 1)
Ltd-one
British Movietonews of the companies concerned- have made exclusive arrangements for producing a separate film by This the Technicolour process will be a unique and historic plc- ture. and will be distributed
Major "Chips" "Davies, R.W.F., Col. Irwin, D.S.O., G.S.O.I Col. Harrison and Major MacDonald at the Hong Kong Rifle Association "Bisley" Meeting.
New Crown For The Queen
It was announced that a new Crown is being made for the coronation of the Queen states the "Daily Telegraph.". It will be the first to have all the jewels mount- ed in platinum.
ased,
Only diamonds will be principal among them being the Koh-i-Noor. This famous jewel was set in Queen Mary's crown when it was being made in 1911.
In the new crown it is being set in one of the Your crosses patee which spring from the regal cir- clet.
his Majesty confers the Arms on his "dearly beloved consort."
On the shield the Royal Arms are "impaled"-placed side by side with -the arms of Bowes-Lyon, the Queen's own family..
Of the two supporters one is the crowned llon of England, as in the Royal Arms. The other, the on- Crowned lion--the upper half of which is gold and the lower half red--k from the Bowes-Lyon 'faml- ly arms. Round the shield is the Garter, to which order her Majesty was recently appointed.
The circlet, first made for Queen Victoria and worn on many occa sions by Queen Alexandra and NEWEST COLONY Queen Mary, is the foundation of the
It has been entirely crown. reset. The new design is formed of clusters, with large diamond centres, alternating with quatrefoll ornaments.
The crown is being made by. Garrard and Co., Ltd., goldsmiths to the Crown, The Queen has had many discussions with. these ex- perts about the style to be followed.
A new Coat of Arms for
the Queen has now been registered at the College of Heralds. It is con- tained in a Royal Warrant signed
by the King and by the Duke of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal, in which
CHUNG SHAN MODEL DISTRICT
Canton, Apr. 13.
The Chung Shan district (for throughout the whole world by merly Heung Shan District) being the birth place of the late Dr. 20th Century Fox Corporation.
Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Kuo- . Every facility available at the new Technicolour plant at Hartnintang Party, and now a model mondsworth will be placed at the disposal of the producera. in ad- dition to which Technicolour will co-operate to the extent of sand- Ing over their own camera-units and experts from America.
TO COST £100,000
The actual filming will be done under Movietone's direction and a
Technicolour expert will supervise the colour-direction. 150 experts, assistants comprising cameramen, and sound engineers, will be em-
A Reminiscence Of
Aden
of
For the first three weeks January, we had ploughed our way across an Indian Ocean that was always placid, often glassy. Our last port of call had been on the Queensland coast 10 days sugar- loading from lighters), and our only land for two weeks had been the insignificant green dot of Minikol.
Undoubtedly we were primed to appreciate Aden; but none of us expected the display of calm ati- thority that we mw staged against the brick-red backdrop of the bar- ren rocks.
A submarine and two destroyers came out as we rounded the rockS that hide the harbour from the
east. They passed, spray crashing against the submarine's conning- tower, and disappeared briskly in the direction of the Red Sea. As Norwegian wireless bulletins kad been cur only news for three weeks and the Abyssinian situation was district of Kwangtung Province, still in mid-air this might have the present magistrate Mr. Yeung meant anything; and the show of Tai-nga is meeting with much force inside the harbour was all opposition in carrying out
histhe pleasanter. All the shipping, except for one Italian boat, seemed plans for reconstruction, and has been obliged to tender his re-
'to be cruiser, grey, and there were signation.
four additional cruisers, four sloops and a destroyer flotilla. But to eyes which had only seen the In-
It is reported that Dr. Sun Fo, in view of the Chung Shan dis trict being the birth place of his father, and having been in hands of the District Reconstruc- tion Committe for a number of
the
dian Ocean for weeks there was & grand feet, a sky shadowed with seaplanes, and a town overflowing with soldiers. At night, as we left
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epitome of British colonisl luck' be taken of the ceremony inside i
and foresight dating from 1839 Chinese Evening Press. the Abbey.
when Captain Haines arrived there in a sloop of war.
Brigadier Bissett, D.§.0." M.C., at the Kowloon City Army Bange during the annual “Biley" Meeting of the HAHA.
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