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ADVERSARIA.

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1931.

smoke. Which irrelevantly re- VOLUNTEER CORPS ROUND THE CINEMAS

minds me of the Alderman who explained that he always sat two inches away from the banqyet. ing table, so that when he touch- vd he knew that he had had enough!)

ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.

CORPS SIGNAL PARADE.

Volunteer Defence Corps Orders

Then there are the discoveries by Lieut.-Colona! L. G. Bird. of the well-known compradore, D.S.O., O.B.E., state:- who has found what he claims is

jade in the hills near Shutakok. Į

+

$

Magg

PARADES.

Corps Signals.

PUZZLING PROBLEM FOR

PARENTS.

"LOVE AMONG THE MILLIONAIRES."

How to bring up a nine-year-old girl child, so she is normal and healthy and obedient, is the pro- blem that's puzzling Mr. and Mrs. Green of Hollywood. Their little So that the possibilities of Kow-

girl happens to be the popular There will be a parade at Corps young motion pieture star, Mitzi loon are so enticing that I am Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. on Fri-Green, the pride and pet of Para- trying to induce a kind friend today. All signallers are requested mount's motion picture studio. give me a plot of land

sone-to attend this parade. Signalling Mitzi, to date, is just a happy. I think asses are to be held during the urspoiled youngster, the fortunate where in the vicinity.

Summer, I shall order

Good and regular al-possessor of a great talent, a Rolls Royce on

Alr. tendances are expected, as it and Mrs. Green want to keep her the strength of it.

proposed to carry out classifica- that way and they are solving tion tests in September.

their problem by keeping Mitzi busy. The child is one of the Parade on Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. hardest workers in all Hollywood. at Headquarters in mufti. In addition to her work before N.C.O.'s under C.S.M. Slattery and the cameras, she attends school Recruits under Sergt. Terry. The several hours each day; she studies following are detailed for signal- French and dancing, and she exer- cises, playing tennis, swimming riding. In the ten months since Mitzi won a long term con- tract with Paramount, she has be- come the favourite of every star. featured player and technical man G.nt the studio. But Mitzi has little time to heed the ado about her.

Many people have K.M.A. asked me what the

letters "K.M.A."" which followed the name of Mr. Harry Knapp in a recent article

Machine Gun Company.

in the China Mail, purported to ling class:- Many suggestions

Fle. W. D. Johnson

S. H. Gray, M.C. J. J. King.

R. S. Meadows,

indicate. were mude. поне of which way correct. They include: "Knight of Modern Adver- and two men from No. 4 Platoon

Las detailed by Lieut.

Stewart.

Scottish Company,

:

E.

ינס

of

tising," Kindly Make Ar- rangements," "Kind, Modest, and Acceptable," and "Kall Mine, Parades on Thursday for The child has appeared in Pars Jan Alsopp," which I consider Machine Gun Instruction.

mount's most successful hits No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters this Renson. She was seen in very weak.

The actual mean- at 5.30 p.m. under Captain H. R. "Honey," "Puraniount on Parade" ing of "K.M.A." is "Knight Forsyth.

and BOW in Clara Bow's new Marshal of Asia," and is a de-' No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon Dock romance, "Love Among the Mil- coration bestowed

lionaires." the current feature at upon Mr. under Lieut. G, Dunean, M.B.E.

Corps Supper-All ranks are re-the Central Theatre. Knapp by a Sultan of one of the minded of this function and those Malayan States for his services proposing to attend must notify to trade and industry in Bri- their respective Platoon Sergeants tish Malaya.

With the appearance of Joan Mr. Knapp also, by noon on Monday.

i The Officers commanding the Crawford at the Queen's Theatre - informs me that he is never, undermentioned Units will issue starting to-morrow in "Paid," bat- the disposition, catch them alive caught napping, doesn't like Nap, their orders separately to their e on Bayard Veiller's underworld and sell them to the Zoo for an and prefers damask for his ser- acceptable sum.. It is more dif-viettes (which is rather subtle). ficult than you might think though, catching tigers alive.

According to "Chang," you merely construct a simple trap,

News in Brief.

well hidden by leaves and boughs, ! A notice to mariners posted at the Harbour Office states:-A number and suspend just above it 3

of buoys have been observed in the tempting bait of

"minute-track of shipping bewteen Chucu Pi streak." This is a much safer Point and Sampan Chau. method than creeping up behind

commands:-

1-Corps Band: II.--Battery.

II-Engineer Company. IV-Machine Gun Trpop. V.-Armoured Car Company.

(1) Car Section.

"PAID."

drama, "Within the Law," it will be the third time tht the rele- brated play has renched the screen, although the first time in dialogue form. First produced on the stage in 1912 with Jane Cowl slarred, the play was made into a silont picture in 1917 starring Alice Joyce and was remade in

(i) Motor Cycle Section. VI-Partuguese Company. Allotment of Stonecutters Range. 1923 with Norma Talmadge in the Stonecutters Range will be al-featured role. Sam Wood direct- latted to Portuguese Company on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talk May 10, 17. 24 and 31 to Portu- ing film version of the stage hit guese Company. Launch leaves from the adaptation by Lucien Queen's Pier at 8 a.m. and Kow- Hubbard and Charles MacArthur.

The the beast and sprinkling its tail Милу of the older residents of non Police Pier at 8.10 am.

supporting cast includes with salt, even if the tiger pre-the Colony will learn with regret Qualification of Machine Gunners, The following have qualified as tended not to hear you coming of the death of Lieut.-Col. Arthur

Chapman, V.D., which took place First-Class Machine Gunners:- for animals have a sense of

on April 10,

No. at the Hampstead

1315 Tpr. L. humour, if Kipling is to be bo-General Hospital, in his 70th year,

Machine Gun Troop (121 points). lieved. But all these precautions Col. Chapman was Assessor of

No. 1539 Tpr. M. N. Cochrane.); Machine Gun Troop (121 points). are most unnerving, and by the Rates from 1889 until he retired an

No. 1488 Pte. S. MacNider, No. time you have got your tiger, alive

3 Platoon (180 points). for dead, you are in such a state of nervous prostration that you

even forget to relate it every night in the Club bar. With gold, I understand, you are mere-

pension in October, 1920. He was in command of the Volunteer Corps.

NOTE ISSUES

OFFICIAL MONTHLY

RETURNS..

OVER $156 MILLIONS.

Transfer.

Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass, Joha Mjan, Pur nell Pratt, Hale Hamilton and others. Welll,

"FAST AND LOOSE.”

Fast-slepping, up-to-the-minute, Fast and Longs the Paramount fea- ture, opens at the King's Theatre It is a new angle on to-morrow, present day youth, its laughing gayety, Its scorn of conventions, lis Struck Off The Strength,

freedom. "Fast and Loose" is Having completed 3 years' ser- taken from the play "The Best vice: No. 988 Pte. V. M. Xavier, People," a laugh and love drama of No. 9 Platton, as from May 8, middle-aged conservatism versus youthful light-footedness. Lond

No. 911 Sigm. J. M. Shroff, Corps Signals, is transferred to Reserve Company as from May 8, 1931.

1931.

Having left the Colony:-No. Island, is the setting. There the The returns of the average 462 Sigm, C. B. Easterbrook, Corps socially established family, repre- amount of banknotes in circula- Signals, as from April 1, 1981; No.sented by Frank Morgan, Henry tion and of specie, in reserve in 1047 Pte. D. Thompson, Reserve Wadsworth, Winifred Harris, Hong Kong, during the month Company (Scottish Section), as Miriam Hopkins and Charles Star- ended April 30, 1931. a3 eer-from May 8, 1931, tified by the Managers of the res pective Banks is as follows:

Chartered Bank

Average Specie Amunt In Reserva

$22,630,818 $ 8,300,000*

Permitted to resign:-No. 1550 Pte. R. G. U. Mead, No. 2 Platoon, as from April 1, 1931,

Strength.

The following has been taken on Corps Strength

Pte. S. A. Gray, No. 3 Platoon.

Leave.

[

rett, carry on the battle of caste. The two youngsters, Miss Miriam Hopkins and Wadsworth shock their elders immeasurably by becoming involved in affairs of the heart, the former with the fumally chauffeur, the latter with a pretty chorus girl. A family movement to disrupt the romance of Wadsworth and the

Banks

of India Australia and China. Hong Kong aud Shanghai Banking Cor-

No. 854 C.Q.M.S. H. J. Milling-pretty chorus girl, Carole Lombard, comes to grief when; old' Mr. Len- poration..130,213,351 112,000,000+ ton, Corps Signals; granted 11 Mercantile

months' leave from April 1, 1931. nox, himself, Frank Morgan, suc- Bank of In

to February 29, 1932.

cumba to the girl's chorms, and Miss No. 782 Pte. A. L. G. Eastman, Hopkins announces her un-dying Total...$155,705,502 $121,650,000 No. 2 Platoon, granted 8 montlis' and not-to-be-dented love for the * In addition Sterling Securities leave from May 1, 1931, to Decem-chauffeur, Charles Starrett. The

youngsters take sre deposited with the Crown ber 31, 1931.

advantage of Agents valued at £1,321,800.

dia, Ltd... 8,861,303 1,350,0003

+ In addition Securities deposit-

Hong Kong, Saturday, May 9, 1931, ly expected to plunge your hands feverishly into the yellow sub- stance and allow it to tricklej through your fingers, leering the while with the mad frenzy of the

"Without fear, favour or malice."

man who wins the first prize in the Calcutta sweep.

At least, The headlines this seems to be the approved Our Mineral of a "swiped" method In Hollywood, and I pre- Wealth, story concerning sume that if a man finds gold in a tin-plate mil-his garden he has a right to be. lionaire ran,, "He Doesn't Know excited. How Rich He Is," and when you read the article you found out in To be serious for a moment, it the first paragraph (good jour-is my firm belief (but not the be- nalism, that) that every time alief of my firm) that these hills housewife opened a tin of salmon which gird our Colony and, to his fortune was increased. Be-quote from a famous tourist fore long we may be able to apply agency, "frown grandly from that as a simile to Kowloon, in their brown eyes upon the thriv

ing city below," are full of all the sense that every time A

sorts of valuable minerals, Gold horticulturist delves his ferned grot to plant Bulbophyllum Wat: may be there, in which case the work of the Currency Commis- sonianum he will bring up A

sion should be greatly facilitated, handful of gold, silver ore, or per-

for, as Browning sald:- haps galena. For long I had sus-

of the frittering away of resources cival-Council' in Tientsin and Mr. The following statement of the in payments to Continental coun- J. S. Chwang, vice-chairman. pected that Kowloon was a minia-

pot."ecurities lodged with the Crown tries for processes and articles ture Rand, a potential Klondyke,

Agents by the Mercantile Bank of which India horself was capable"of and a prospective Guinea, and

India, Limited, against their notes supplying. Silver, I am rather inclined in circulation, is published for he declared, "that the concentrates "Surely. It is wrong" looked forward to the time when to think, there is, too, but general information under Section 6 of zinc sulphide should be shipped to we should all be rushing out into work that on a large scale at of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Belgium for smelting, and the zinc our night clothca to stake claims the present time might lead to Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 and sulphur imported back separate- in the vicinity of Castle Peak. another hotel bomb explosion, Gold, I should thing, is much although I am told on

good more fun than tigers, of which authority that our local brokers wo seem to be so plentifully sup- absolutely eschew assassination.in plied on the mainland, together fron ore in there, so I read some with sixty-feet-long snakes and where, "apparently in such quan other plausible creatures. You tities that the North Country will know what to do with gold, but have to watch itself. Just Resources Awaiting tigers are different. You can think of the New Territories be shoot them, send the pelt home ing turned into a Black Country!

"Gold on the spot "Is worth a pint in the

(traditional.)

ed with the Crown Agents and Straits Government valued at $2,832,518.

In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents values at $180,000...

of 1911):

Security 516 erasury.

Bonds pay able @ 100

་

(Sgd) W. H. G. GOATER, Captain, the situation and a double and thor- Adjutant, H.K.V.D.Goughly modern marriage takes place. "Fast and Loose" is a joyous festival of mixed' situations and laugh provoking gaiety.

deposit from the ground, and to establish as many sister industries

as possible." He quoted examples ed chairman of the British Muni- Mr. A. E. Tippor has been elect-

ly.

Amount Latest

market price

1033/35180,000 102-102%

INDIA'S MINERAL WEALTH. die A

Development.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mall" of May 9, 1921.J

:

To-day's dollar is worth 2/ 6%,

"s it right that the annual value of the Imports of glass-ware should exceed £1,180,000, and that more Details of an attempt to "rob ̄at, than half of it should come from European school teacher were relat-

Japan and Czechoslovakia when ed by Inspector Puln who charged a there are adequate supplies of sand Chinese before Magistrato Lindsell, suitable for. glass-making in India this morning with robbery with vio- itself? Is the transport questionlence at Queon's' Gardens last night. the critical factor in making it The Inspector'aald that at about”~ cheaper to import annually £58,000 6.30 p.m. Miss Margaret Sorby was worth of Italian and Grecian on her way to the Helena May Ins to your elderly eatatic aunts, who Chimneys belching forth black plete exploitation of much

Strong criticism of the incom- marhla, Infead of buying equally titute When defendant approached of beautiful material in Rajputana, or her from behind. Seizing her left will proudly display it to the smoke over the peaceful land-the-mineral wealth of India, is it the more systematic organisa-wrist, he enatched at her wrist yicar, the milkman, the gardener, scape, trucks pufling up and down which could enormously increase tich of the European quarries? watch. He also produced a brass: and the distinguished occupant | miniatura railways, roads,

hor "puechasing power in Imperial Why is a valuable manure like salt-rawlock which he pointed at Miss of the "Laurela as visible signs ting through majestic Tamo Pascoe in an address at the Imperial tions with fireworks? When will love that he held a revolver. She

markets, was made by Bir Edwin petre exported to amuse other na-Sorby in an attempt to make her be--

of the heroic character of "our Shan, and, in serious • competl Institute in connection with the agriculturists awake to the value of struggled with the man, who then dear Willie, keeping up the fami- tion with the, chimneys, full special exhibition of the mineral the exteralve phosphate deposits in turned and ran through Condalt and ly traditions in the wds of Kow stomached directors clouding vital points, Bo said, "are face of the present low demand, It where he was cornered by two pri

resources of the Empire.

Bihar and Tricliinopoli, which In Robidson Ronds' and' down Gleneály loon" or you can, if you possess the countryside with

cigar, to extract every possible ounce of hardly pays to work?"

vates of the Wiltshita Regiment.

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