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WEDNESDAY MAY 16, 1928
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG RADIO SOCIETY.
A
MEETING of members of the above Society, and others interested, will be held at the VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS on THURSDAY, May 17th, at 5,30 p.m. for the purpose of discussing the future of radio communication in Hongkong:
The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, C.M.G., C.BE, acting Colonial Secretary, will attend and speak on Govern meat policy.
All interested in the subject are cordially invited to be present.
D. TOLLAN,
Hon. Secretary.
Hongkong, May 14, 1923.
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NOTICE.
E have been appointed Agents for the NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD, in Hongkong and South China as from the 12th May, 1923.
We have THIS DAY authorized Mr. CHARLES VERNON. MARK to sign our name per procuration as Manager of our Insurance Depart ment.
HOLYOAK, MASSEY & CO., LTD.
Hongkong, May 14, 1923,
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Entries close Saturday, 19th May, 1923.
Hongkong, May 12, 1923.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED,
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FIFTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at ita. Head Oftico, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, 25th May, 1933, at NOON for the pur- poto of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements Account to 31st December, 1922, and of declaring Dividends, ote
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GAS IN B.C. 189.
SMOKE FROM FEATHERS.
The medical aspects of gas and air warfare are dealt with in a volume of the Official Medical History of the War ("Diseases of the War, Vol. 11.) which has just been published by the Stationery Office,
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died. During the mustard gas period, from July 1917 to the armistice, the mortality was 2.6per cent of 160,970 cases.
This, of course, is largely due to the progressive development by the British chemical services of protective measures against gas attacks. It is claimed that these measures were more effective than. those adopted by the Germans against Allled gas attacks.
A hint of a possibility of gas warfare in the future is given in The editor of the history, Major the statement that
contamination General Sir W. G. Macpherson, of the ground by persistent gases says in his preface to this volume was always one of the most trouble. It is pointed that "probably no event of the war some problems." called for greater effort on the part out that the Germans always tried to restrict, for this of the medical services than did reason, the use of mustard gas the onset of gas warfare." The to areas which they had no inten- history of the German gas camtion of occupying. An instance paign and of the anti-gas measures of the antiquity of gas warfare is devised and adopted is carefully given in a reference to a battle and fully traced.
fought in B.C. 189, when one army filled jars with feathers, set them on fire, and blew the smoke with bellows into the faces of their enemies.
It is shown that mortality after the Gernians began using mustard gas was very much lower than before. When chlorine or cloud
gas was used, 24 per cent, out An important section of the of 4,207 cases died, When lethal volume deals with the uses of gases, such as phosgene, were oxygen by airmen ying at great used only 6 per cent. of 8,806 caser | heights.
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
The Indian Legislative Assem- bly has passed a Bill legalising the enrolment of women as legal prac titioners.
The French Cabinet decided that any theatres found to be giving improper entertainments shall be closed.
For exposing for sale in Barnsley market meat which showed signs of tuberculosis, Frank Rushforth, a butcher, was fined £20 and costs.
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Ex-Sergeant William Nunn, 89, a Crimean and Indjan Mutiny veter an, who died at Dunmow, Essex, had received a pension for 47 years.
The Rev. Francis Henry Hall, a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, who'steered the university eight in 1870, 1871, and 1877, died recently at the age of 73.
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Paris University students supple- ment meagre incomes by working as tramway and omnibus conduc- tors during the 5 p.m.-8 p.m. rush; says the Continental Daily Mail,
A bomb burst on the staircase of the Industrial Association building at Lisbon, where the ironfoundries proprietors were holding amecting to discuss the strike in the in- dustry, and caused great damage bat hurt no one.
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The mutilated body of Mr. Mor-, Kan Joseph, a colliery contractor of Melin Court, near Neath, Glamor- ganshire, was found on the Vale of Neath (Great Western) Railway linc about half a mile from his home.
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TAUI. LAUDER,
Hongkong, May 4, 1028.
BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Offics, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, 36th May, 1923, at 12.15 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Stato- mente of Account to 31st December 1922, and of declaring Divitlonde, etc.
NOTICE FIFTY-SEVENTH OR
The TRANSFER BOOKS of thà Compnay will be CLOSED from 11th May to 25th May, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER. Acting General Manager.
Hongkong, May 4, 1823.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTI
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FIFTY-FOURTHI OR. the DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be beld at its Head Ocó, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, 25th May, 1923, at 12.20 p.m. for the purpose of resolving the Report of the Directors and the State ments of Account to 31st December, 1932, and of declaring Dividoods, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 11th May to 25th May, both days inclusivo.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER, Acting General Manager.
Hougtong, May 4, 1923.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the ANNUAL ORDINARY GEN HAL WIKETING of BHABE HOLDERS of the above Company will ba hold at the HONGKONG HOTEL Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY the 23rd May, 1933 at 11.00 . for the par pose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 30th April 1935, at ma
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from. FRIDAY the 18th day of May to THURSDAY the 24th day of May 1923, both days, Inclusive,
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED. E
JOHN D. HUMPHREYA & BON, Gaters) Manigan, Hongkong, May 15, 1922
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For breaking his wife's arm by twisting it up her back, James Fox, of 17, Florence-street, Glasgow, sent to prison for three months, "with the hardest labour the prison authorities can give," by Sheriff Blair.
At the inquest at Southampto on-James Dobson, 38, manager of the corporation tramways, who was said to have had domestic worries and who hanged himself, the verdict was Suicide during Tem porary Insanky.-;
Alexander Dickson, 33, was sent to prison at Glasgow charged with having stolen from the Stirling Library, Glasgow, several books, including "Robbery under Arms," "Trial of Crippen," and the "Auto- biography of a Thief."
Mr. J. Orchard, inspector of audits of the Ministry of Health, states in a report on the Liverpool Corporation's Girston housing scheme that £354,894 was overpaid to contractors who were unable to complete the contract.
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