Gift WINES and LIQUORS
ASSORTED CASES FOR CHRISTMAS 1935.
Case No. 1. $35.00.
2. Bots. Golden Guinea (Sparkling),
Sauterne (White Wino).
Bot. Medoc Claret,
Gilbey's Invalid Sherry.
Sandeman's Five Diamonds Port.
Italian Vermouth.
Saccone & Speed's Three Star Brandy.
Gilbey's London-Dry Gin.
Saccone & Speed's Highland Milk Whisky. Orange Curacao M.B.R.
Caso No. 2.
$45.00.
1. Bot. Ayala Extra Dry Champagne.
1
"
Margaux Claret.
Chablis.
Saccone & Speed's Marina Sherry. Italian Vermouth.
Rauyer Cuillet Three Star Brandy.
Saccone & Speed's London Dry Gin. Watson's "E" Whisky.
Dewar's White Label Whisky,
Dolfi's Kirsch d' Alsac Liqueur.
2 Bots. Robertson's Fine Old Ruby Port.
Case NJ. 3.
$52.00.
2 Bots. Gustave Ferrand Grand Cordon_Imperial Champagne.
1 Bot.
Sandeman's Vory Old Tawny Port.
Robertson's Privateer Port.
Madeira.
Ruiz's Superior Solera Fina Sherry.
Italian Vermouth.
Renault's Five Star Brandy.
Saccone & Speed's Liqueur Cream Whisky.
Dewar's White Label Whisky.
Burnett's London Dry Gin.
Benedictine,
IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS !
THE
P. I.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935.
RICE
PLANTER
SUPER DEATH DEALING GAS IS STILL A MYTH
The culijvrsion of rice is one of the principal pro. ducts of the Philippina lalands. The photo shows a native woman planting young rice plants on the water filled paddy field.
CHANCES
Perfect Life Destroyer Not Yet Discovered
New York. Dec. 12.
Super-poison gas, canable of wining out entire cities and destroying huge chunks of enemy territory, has been debunked as "an unattainable ideal" and a creation of sensation mongers by Capt. Alden H. Waitt, U.S. Chemical warfare service.
"Mr. Average Citizen," Waitt said in the December Scientific American, "is convinced that there are dozens of new and secret formulas tucked away in the locked files of war offices of the world ready to be brought out at the first suspicion of war, so that friendish brews may be prepared and used for his destruction.
OF LIFE
IN OTHER WORLDS ARE
HEIGATENED
OUR SUN IS ONLY A DWARF
New York, Dec. 12.
"Mr. Citizen, however, is wrong. It isn't as simple a matter as he thinks to add to our list of chemi- cals useful as weapons. The diff-1 eally is in the many essential factors that enter into the prob- lem."
More than 3,000 compounds have been investigated as possible war gases since the first gas attack near Ypres in 1916, Walit sald. Less than 30 of these were found effec- tive and only 14 or 15 were satis- Cactory for use on a large scale.
"Despite innumerable reports .there is no about a super gas. real evidence that such a compound has been discovered." he
Baid.
CHANCES that forms of life similar to those on the carth exist elsewhere in the universe are held to have been considerably increased as a result of a new "star"Upon tracing down these reports
census,"
This census, reported to the National Academy of Science at Charlottesville, Virginia shows that there is a large number of stars resembling our sun than had been previously believed.
According to some observers the amazing increases
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. recently made in the estimated numbed of the starry host
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Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.
Caterers ele, to Imperial Airways,
Meals nie interchangeabit, no extra cint wherever you hare your breakfast. wachenn tem, or dinner.
Booms of both hotel hare pefvate bathro ́na, and modern kanitation. At the Rapayawle_each_ponen has its own pubile telephone.
The Runnymede Restaurant has undeniably pelde of place among hotels of the Fast with its ruleine, and juvily claima'by Ito waoelanion to offer the traveller auch no
•, and to be found olaruhren
heightens the probability that there are suns with planet families in the same state of evolution as our own.
Given equal conditions, similar results, such as the ap- pearance of life, could be expected.
The aturs are roughly divided into “dwarfe” and “giants." Most of those seen by the naked eye are giants, and our sun is a dwarf.
*
Latest studies of the heavens, however, reveal many mare dwarfs, and the census appears to Indiente thut, while the giants are concentrated in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, the dwarfs increase in regions of the universe which are
farther away, and reach 35 per cent. of the total.
Millions Lost In Fake Sweeps
Americans are spending ever a million pounds a year on fake lottery tickets sent from abroad.
This is one of the amazing re- velat ons just made following a big haul of over £20,000 worth of fake tickets in one bundle in one European mall.
The newest fake tickets dis-i | covere1 were in a large trunk and the tickets purported to be those a French lottery. All were proved to be spurious.
of
The appetite for "million-to-one chance" of a fortune is enormous among the classes of people in the United States-where lotteries are illegal.
AMERICA AND BRITISH COLONIES
Cleveland (Ohio), Dec. 16. Sir Samuel Hoare's statement at Geneva with regard to the granting to restricted countries of
to Colanini materials will be taken. up by the Institute of Pacific Relations, according to its President, Mr. Newton D. Baker.
ruw
Mr. Baker said the Institute would discuss the suggestion at its conference"next"year"
HE CURED BY
CHARM
Norwich. Dec. 10. Mr. Henry Key, of Freethorpe,
one finds that the alleged ideal gas ....Incks certain of the qualities absolutely necessary for successful Bs in war."
The Ideal super-war gus, Waitt said, must possess the following eight characteristics:
1. It must be effective in small concentrations; a few parts In a million parts of alr should either kill or disable.
2. It should be difficult to protect against. "Every modern nation now has developed first class protection against gas," Waltt explained. "The should attack all parts of the body...or break through the maak.'
new gas..
3. It should be easily manufac- tured in large quantities. ..."the sensationalists delight in describ ing how a few airplanes equipped with chemical bomba or spray could wing out eities. Of course it is h surd. A plane might carry enough
poison in one tank to kill every dividual in a cite if h malorula of the poison could ench Its target
but that's the rub."
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9 ICE HOUSE STREET HONG KONG
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS:
110
13
14.
110
ACROSS
a pig: no
1 Shows 'Samh with
profit-is-made-only-a-flower- DOne hears fish rose to the
general,
10 Campaign and seamen's help
neem necessary,
11 Ah! in Berlin, and so out of
reach.
4. The new x... must be cheap. "It is a cold-blooded fact...that creating cusurities a dollars-and-12 A point that might easily be a - cents proposition."
sharp point,
ten for it.
5. Materials for the gas must be 13 Courtyard. Give an Irishman ensily procurable in the homeland. "Those .that depend upon transport facilities and the ability of the navy to keep the_sen lunes ope barred."
6. The war gas should be easy to transport, Lc., liquifyable. "Carbon monoxide has many qualities which would make it an ideal wor gas, but it is practically impossible to liquefy and bring enough for ward."
14 You want a fine spread, but
there's something in not eating 16 Jacket.
18 He decan't give up
20 Not the only one on the beach, 22 A healing element. 24 Places where they don't sell the
part.
Inst
27 Feminino name.. 20 It
implied.
30 Get ready to fight. 31 Sparkle.
last of the Norfolk wart-charmers, should be enough munitions on it might be an oyster-gr a snad.
7. The gas must be stable. "There hand when a war starta to take up the sinck before manufacturing pro- duction can meet the demands of the armed services."
died yesterday, aged seventy-three. For years people ruffering from warts had come to him to be cured. Sometimes he would pass his hands over the affected spot: sometimes 8. The ideal gas should be difficult he would just stare at the wart and to detact, being colourless, odcurless sav. "That's all right-go home." and tasteless, here mustard gas Inndreds of neone in the district makes a plea for attainment of the vouch for the efficacy of his "traat-idenl. .It has the property when mant."
breathed for a minute or so of des- Mr. Key, who was a well-known troying temporarily, the sense ing was credited to Mrs. Siems farmer, said he obtained his sert smell. and the odour is 110 Ron and Ch. This should bave read frem his mother. He resolutely re. longer detected. Mustard gas will Siemens China Co., Ltd.
fused to pass it on.
icontinue to be used."
In the report on the "Old Nativity Play" in Saturday's issue, the light-
SALESMAN SAM
GEE GOOPS! I BEEN OUT 6 HOURS! ME FLUSD WILL CHINK I'VE QUIT ON HIM! I OUGHTA HEAD FER SHORE, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY IT IS!
A Nice Predicament
TH COMPASS <aye "E"! GUESS IT MEANS EAST. THIS INSTRUCTION BOOR DUGHTA TELL ME !
82 Mary goen with us to ace this:
33 Big pots with useful qualities.
DOWN
2 Evaders (anag),
Tell-tale infructation.
4 Verb which, as a noun, sounds
like a European country. "
The whale takes his as a plant.
6 Plama served in a way distasto-
ful to business men.
7 Quickly got by cunning outsido
a market.
of
8 Sensational.
LE'S SEE! COMPASS
COMPASS!AH, HERE IT US!"HOW TO READ DIALS, ON THE DASHBOARD? PAGE 173 Į
9 Study the conveyance and the
(MIGOSH! THATS NO
COMPASS! IT'S THE
GAS GAUGEN
letters annexad to it, and all will concern harmony. 14 Let's go, because it sounds so
~colt
16 Old rulern.
17 Pocket this, it costs nothing on a
bont,
19 The Bible connects publicans
with winners by this.
21 Animal combination found in the
Bank of England.
23 A simple take in.
25 Catch your breath the wrong
way.
20 Part of a sword,
28 Risen with the east.
29 Vacant in other words-two of
~them.
Saturday's Bolution
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