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EDITORIAL
ANOTHER FIND OF ANCIENT
EGYPT
Priest Buried With Sacred Animals
A hermetically sealed limestone sarcophagues containing the mummy of a Prince and Chiet Priest of Hermopolls (Khement
Ashmunein), ancient Egypt, has been found by the Faud Awal University excavators at Tuña E Gabal (Hermopolis West).
Or
The Sarcophagues, bearing five
anes of Bierosylphic text, was
a subterranean
discovered in burial chamber forming one of a series of underground rooms” and passages known as the "Great Balustrade" I contained a mummy form coffin of wood in which re- posed the mummy. Both comin and mummy had suffered badly from damp.
Contrary to expectations, it oberna that some priests of thoth chose their sepulchre among the mu mes of animals-Ibises and Ba-
· Lady :) Ashby," the: Britisk, woman writer and politŽDÍKA, who is President of the Inter- national Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citisenship.
Indian Wins Peerage Claim
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1939.
HATRY SAYS FILL OUR
EMPTY EMPIRE
LONDON, July 25 (By Air Mail)-Clarence Hatry, City - finan¬ cler, recently released from Maidstone Fail" after sorriug nine-and-a-half years of a fourteen-year sentence, read while in prison more than a thousand books on history, economics, foreign, and Empire affairs.
He has written a book, published
to-day, called “Light out of Dark-
Afty-year plan for solving the
ness in which he puts forward a 700 ON MURDER economic and political SEARCH PARADE
world's
troubles.
Basis of the plan is the con- trolled
transfer of populations. Woman's Death Near
and he devotes many pages to the problems of Great Britain and the Empire...
༄༽་ "
Devil's Punchbowl
For nearly two hours N.C.O.S In one passage Hatry writes:--
and men of the 2nd Bn. North "It is hard to say which is the Staffordshire Regiment were lined. greater source of weakness to the up in an identification parade in Empire: the Dominions with their camp at Thursley, Surrey, at the great expanses of sparsely-popu- request of police investigating the lated territory, teeming with un-
murder of a woman at Hindhead, developed wealth, or the densely near the Devil's Punchbowl. populated Mother Country, with
Covered by sacking. her one-and-a-half millions,
Un Maybell Bunday was found dead employed, her underted and unnt by, a side entrance to the twenty million 'souls, and her Moorland Hotel Hindhead, where three thousand millions of accu-she had been a maid, mulated. Idle money."
Beside her WELS Я crumpled Hatry suggests, as a first experi- bunch of carnations which she
Miss
IF WAR COMES JF WAR COMES (to use the words of Mr. Chamberlain in the House of Commons for elgn affairs debate) to-mor- row, what kind of a showing would the British Empire be able to make? This question has of late been on the lips of many people so a factual sur- vey will not be out of place. DURING the Great War, no fewer than 8,000,000 men
The Committee of Privileges of boons-sacred to this God.
the House of Lords on July 25 passed through the ranks of the Empire's armies, about a
The chamber was "Alled with, gave judgment in the case of Lord third coming from the Domi-. nions, India and the Colonies.. "Four fine Canopic vases of Sinha, son of "he first Indian to
Alabaster, covered with inscripy be raised to the peerage cf the ment, the transfer of from 100,000 was carrying when last seen alive.” Compared with the outbreak tions, were placed in pairs on United Kingdom, who claims the to 500,000 British citizens to & Miss Banday, who was 41, had of the World War, when either side of the Sarcophagues. right to a seat in the House of selected area in one of the Domi-been battered about the head. It Canada had 3,000 permanent The covers of these vases are
nions or Colonies, on a voluntary) is believed that she had been. sculptured with the The case was without precedent
outraged. soldiers and 60,000 non-per-carefully
“HAZARDOUS”
Supt. 8. D., Cox, of the Farnham manent militia, Canada to-heads of the four "Sons of Horus.", in peerage law.
Division of the Surrey Police, is in day has & permanent Abut 400 Statuettes (Shawabtis)} Announcing the decision of the
He tells how, during the last charge of the investigations "with strength of 7,000 men and a of Blue Fafence, inscribed with the Committee, the Lord Chancellor sixty years, the people of Great Det.-Insp. Roberts from Guildford. Central, 2nd. Floor-Room 205, 5/NS.304 dated Hong Kong, 7th non-permanent force of 100, name of the high priest "Ankh- Lord Maugham, said the petitioner Britain have parted with more The troops in camp here num-
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Owing to circumstances beyond
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificates Nos. NS.928 and NS.929 dated Hong Kong, 9th October 1894, for 50 shares numbered 3270/3279, 56150/56199, 20300/20304, 20305- /20309. 66258/66265, 69642/ 69643, and 52016/52025, Certi: our control we have been forcedficates Nos. NS.2249, NS.2250 to temporarily close our Furniture and NS.2251 dated Hong Kong, Sales Room on the Hong Kong 10th November 1897, for 75 side.
shares numbered 51251/51262, as usual will be 51851/51863, 24471/24473, 16997. Business carried on in Kowloon at No. 35, 16101, 36087/36101, 15974/ Bankow Road and our office and 15975, 39071/39075, 33649/33653, 34096/34099, and Sundry Sales room remain as 2016/2021, usual at No. 2, Connuaght Road | 537:16/53750, Certificate "No.
where all communication should July, 1908, for 62 shares nun
bered 89265/89326, Certificate No. 5/NS.2374 dated Hong Kong, 13th November 1912, for 20 shares
numbered 91879/91898, Certificate No. 5/NS. 2377 dated Hong Kong, 16th November, 1912, for 9 shares numbered 13556/13560, 65164/65165, 76695
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THE
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and 62879, and Certificat: Pro visional No. 57/657 dated Hong Kong, 20th February, 1922, for NOTICE to SHAREHOLDERS | 72 shares numbered 128802/
128873, all registered in the name NOTICE is hereby given that of Rafael Perez, have been LOST an Interim Dividend of $2.00 or STOLEN, and should these per Share has been declared, for certificates not be produced to the the half year ended 30th June, Bank before the 26th August 1939, payable on THURSDAY, 1939, new certificates for the 288 170 AUGUST, 1939, on which shares and the aforesaid, Certi
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By Order of the Board of Directors.
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C. M. MANNERS, Secretary & Manager. Hong Kong, 27th July, 1939.
CHINESE ESTATES.
LIMITED.
SECOND INTERIM
DIVIDEND.
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"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SECOND IN. TERIM DIVIDEND for the year ending the 29th February, 1940, of two per cent, that is $2.00 per share, will be paid on all shares la" this Company on Saturday the 12th Angust, 1939, at the Company's Office at China Building, 5th floor.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the 9th to the 12th August;.
39, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
FUNG, PING FAN,
Director & Secretary. Hong Kong, 4th August, 1939.
·WIN
$50
See page 3
597
By Order of the Court, of Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chlet Manager. Hong Kong, 26th July, 1939.
vases bearing traces of embain-}
ment, were found there.
Lords.
basis.
Hor, together, with Blue Falence had established that he was the 000, plus a large air force cap- able of immediate expansion.es containing traces of fruits, "her male of the body of the late han £3,000,000,000 in exchange ber about 700, 500 of whom are for loan or share certificates | regular soldiers, and the remain- And this year she has devoted gilded leaves and the four Alabaster Lord Sinha, awfully begotten."
Issued by foreign Governments der reservists called
up for £4,000,000 to the Army and
and by foreign commercial enter-refresher course." They have about £13,000,000 to her Air
The mummy wore a mask of
prises of one kind or another, been here about a fortnight. Force, in addition to which silver git and on the chest' was
Then he adds: "A large part of she has granted Britain facil-a band of gilt leather, and on ities to obtain reserve aircraft both sides of the body were two craft.
sheets of gilt bronze bearing in relief figures of the four. "Sona of Horus."
IN 1914-18 Australia sent one-twelfth of her nearly
population to fight overseas. Since then, the Common- wealth population has in creased by over one-third and it has been estimated that a volunteer army of half & million could quickly be placed in the field. The Aus- tralian permanent defence or-
ganization provides for a field army of seven divisions and there is a well-trained militia force of 70,000 men. The Commonwealth is spending over £21,000,000 a year on de- fence and very soon will be second only to Britain in the
Hindu Jaw, said Lord Maugham, did not forbid A. plurality of wires, and if there were several wives the son of
Mother Aged 86 · a second or third wife” might` this total has been irretrievably While the battalion was be a claimant to a dignity to lost, by Government repudiation, manoeuvres a message was sent the exclusion of a later born or the default of the undertakings to the Commanding Officer by son of the first wife.
concerned
Supt. Cox, asking that immedi- Our law as to heirship had pro- "Yet there seems little reluctance ately on the return of the unit the vided no means for settling such to continue this hazardous bust-men should attend an identifica- Iquestions as these.
ness of foreign investments, while tion parsee. The Emperor and Empress of These difficulties, however, did there has been definite unwilling- Still full battle kit, the men. Japan have telegraphically con- not arise in the present case. The ness to finance schemes of sound were formed in two lines on their veyed to the Royal Netherlands petitioner was beyond doubt the development in our own Dominions return. Court their Majesties' congratula- eldest son of the late Lord Sinha and Colonies, which should be our Down these lines Supt: Cox. tons on the birth of a daughter by his only wife. to Princess Juliana Bernhard,—(T.O.)
and Prince. The decision of the Committee
will be reported to the House.
These Boys Are Paid For Their Schooldays
I went down to Chatham to see)
W
prior concern.",
Det: Insp. Roberts, the Command- Australia, Hatry contends, coulding Officer, and the Adjutant pass- ed six times with three witnesses, easily absorb a further 35,000,000
two men and an elderly woman, people, New Zealand- 2,500.000, "and
After the Inspection alx soldiers Canada 15,000,000.
accompanied the police to Farn ham for questioning in the hope that they could be of use in solving the identity of the murderer,
"Only a century and a half ago the United States was a vast empty land," he points out." "To day it is the richest country in While the identification parade the world. How has this amazing was. in progress a check was be- | transformation been achieved? ing made in the camp to ascer- "Bolely through the combinationtain how many, if any, troops
| possession of facilities for the Britain's only paid schoolboys HAIMEN BOMBED resources, and the labour and en-in particularly late.
of capital, "soil and other natural were absentees from camp or came
terprise of men,
manufacture of war mater-writes a Home correspondent. lals, which she places un- There are 600 of them. · They
Misg Bunday came from Ports- FOUR TIMES reservedly at Britain's dis- are pupils at the Army Technical |
mouth, the home or her widowed **A similar transformation, posal. Indeed, she may be- School Fort Darland, where, for
KINHWA August 7 (Central)- though not perhaps on so com- mother, aged 88, who has not yet
been told of the tragedy, coastal town at the prehensive a scale, can be brought | come a main source of muni- learning a trade that will at them Haimen.
Talking To Soldiers tions supply for New Zealand, for the Royal Engineers, the War mouth of the Ling River in eastern about in other parts of the world Her sister, Ma, Ethel Food, South Africa and the forces Office is paying them 11d. a day. Cheklang, was bombed by Japan-If we abandon our insular cutlook .579 in the Far East...
By the end of October there will ese planes four times yesterday. and turn qur thoughts to the be 1,000 boys at the school.
Altogether 17 machines took part wider opportunities of our Imperial They "Join the Army" at the age in the raid, dumping a total of 34 heritage." of 14. While they are learning a bombs. More than 20 houses were trade they carry on with ordinary
reduced to ruins. No casualties school lessons and undergo physi-
were reported.
Japan Wants More Men
ני
RUSSIAN WHITE
GUARDS BEING PRESSED TO JOIN
Revelle sounds at 7.15.
There
or
described Miss Bunday, as a very attractive woman, who locked much younger than her age.
Mas Bunday had the afternoon and evening off duty
"She was in the Royal Hut A French bomber, with screw Hotel, Hindhead, between 8 and 9.
Sullal Raided
of five, which, with the permission o'clock," a friend said, "I noticed of the Danish Government was hy that she was talking to some an hour and a half for break-
KWANGCHOWWAN, August 7ing over Denmark, on the way from soldiers in the bar, but when she fast-two rashers with egg. baked beans, tomatoes, or and
(Central)--Four Japanese bombers Paris, via Amsterdam, to Warsaw left I am sure she went out alone.
variant the cook..can think of.
Recently Hindhead police have raided Buikai, in Lulchow Penin- had to make an emergency land- Lunch was roast beef, potatoes, sula, yesterday morning dropping ing near Horsens, Putland, on Bun received several complaints that
missilea. cabbage, and baked pudding with about 10
They
also day evening. The French plane had a man has tried to molest, wonen white sauce.
directed machine-gun fire at the encountered a storm and lost its in the district.
There were fish cakes, jam and town bread and butter for tea, and cold meat and tea or "cocoa for supper.
SOUTH AFRICA sent 136,- 070 white and 92,837 coloured troops to the Great War, but only recently the Defence Minister said that now 137,-cal training, 000 troops.could be mobilized at
a moment's notice, to gether with 1,000 pilots, while conscription would bring a further 150,000 men under arms and thousands of na- KWEILIN, Aug. ↑ (Int'l)—About | tives would be available for 200,000 ex-servicemen in Jagaa are labour service. Moreover, being called up to the colours for Cape Town is being" fortified service in China, according to an
as a "Heligoland of the algence report received here South," and an additional undertaken by the President of defence this year.
is £8,000,000 is to be spent on the Ex-Servicemen Association,
EVEN THE SMALLEST and Admiral Saokichi Takahashi, form- er commander-in-chief of the Jap-remotest Dominion, New Zea- land, has decided to give her General Bemninof, the Russian air force. £1,000,000 during white Guardist, is pressed by the 1938-39 and the country is begins. Japanese to recruit men for the "verging on developments in
The boys' training lasts three Japanese army. They are to be civil and military aviation entered the school when it was years. Recently 180 recruits who enlisted in Harbin and Dalren and beyond anything yet
ex opened in April took their second- will be sent to Shanghai, Tientsin perlenced." This young coun-class examinations: 140 of them Hankow and Taiyuan for service, try sent 129,000 men to fight passed.
The allotment of White Chand ists are as follows: Shanghai, 1,500; North China, 2400; and Manchuria, 3,000,
to-day.
The re-enlistment
anese combined fleet,
THERE WILL BE NO WAR
The "Dally Express" announces that in reply to a query whether peace will be maintained, address
FINT OF MILK A DAY 'In addition, each boy has a pint of milk a day.
And it keeps the boys very ft.; There was only one invalid at the school. And he hopes to be well when the five weeks leave
direction.-(TO).
AIR CAR
BRITAIN'S
FOR BOYS
Boys leaving school will have the chance of a fine career in the British merchant air service as a result of the planned merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways.
It is intended to establish training centres for pilots on exactly the same lines as those for the Merchant Marine.
Boys will be accepted at 18 for extensive training, at the. end of which they will qualify to fly the largest air liners.
“Arrangements are being made to take boys straight from school” Captain Herbert John Horsey, Imperial Airways #ace" pilot, who has been appointed one of four instructors at Croy- don Airport," stated.
‚“The entrance examination will
for the Mother Country dur- The school, which is not yet ing the Great War and had a completed, will cost £250,000 further 102,000 ready before the end. The temper of mo- For alleviation of the Egyptian dern young New Zealand may cotton crisis, the Egyptian Minisnot be hard, and the medical be judged from the fact that, ter of Finance will endeavour to examination will certainly not be when applications were in- open new export markets (T.O.), as severe as for the RAF. vited recently for twelve short-term commissions in
the R.A.F, over 2,000 were re-colonies scattered throughout ed by the Editor of the paper to ceived within a fortnight. twelve foreign correspondents of
"We shall have our own physi- cal training centre here.
A SCIENCE
"
ROYAL DUTCH BABY NAMED
BOESTDLIK, Aug 7 (Reuter) The second daughter of Princess
been
CLERK INVENTS ESCAPE TANK
Since the Thetla disaster the Admiralty has received many sug gestions from inventors, qualified and otherwise. for new submarine safety devices. Every proposal fis carefully considered, and the few apparently practical go to the ex- pert submarine staff for further study,
w
Among the plans in which offi- cial interest is taken is that for an escape, tank designed by Mr. Frank Taylor a clerk at works in Fife. He claims that 70 men could escape from a sunken submarine In it and be raised safely to the
surface
Whether it could be atted to a submarine without seriously afect ing the fighting efficiency of the
ressel remains to be seen
The lows of Thetis will almost certainly lead to important mod neations in submarine design. The official view to some extent has been that modern vess safe that attention centrated on making formidable as fighting
Now, however, the
the world, who together sent: The flying of big air-liners is a Juliana, which was born early on the Dally Express, no that SI
SIMILARLY, the India that 134,837 men to the Great science. No matter how much Saturday morning,....... has ten correspondents declared that contributed 242,607 British War. They would help again. experience a plot may have had, named Irene. Emma Elizabeth. they were certain that there will and 1,096,013 Indian troops : BUT THE STRENGTH of he must start all over again to SIGNIFICANT NAME be no war. Only two correspon- from 1914 to 1918 could be this modern British Empire learn to fly these machines. dents declared that they were not trusted to send half as many may not, perhaps, be assessed
“We intend to take these boys Irene signifying peace in Greek certain whether peace will be main again in a modern emergency, in units of man-power alone in every branch of Byng cess Juliana's baby la regarded as are recom
young so that we can train them the first name, chosen for Prin- tained. Among ten correspondents apart from which India's de Quality also counts, and shall when they are turned out having special significance at the There may be ab who expressed conviction there will fences are to be modernized the nighting qualities of those from our schools at Beston and present time. The other names de diving P respondents of the paper in Ber- and re-equipped at a cost of Anzac Canadian, South Croydon they will be the best pl are Emma (the name of Queen an oxygen container lin, Rome and Paris and their 25,000,000. And nothing has African and Colonial troops lots in the country qualided to Wilhelmina) and Elizabeth (after purposes seve
been said of the many British ever be forgotten?
why any machine.
the aunt of the young Princess). pattern have.
be me war were three principal cor-
assistants
with
this