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GERMAN CONSTITUTION DAY.

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N the occasion of the anniver- sary of the German Constitu- tion Day the German Consul will hold an official reception on Thurs- day, the 11th August, 1932, at the German Club, No. 2, Connaught Road Central. 4th floor, in the hour from 12 to 13.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Gold In

Hundreds Of JOKE FLYING A BIT

Millions

How Bank Of France Protects Hoard

BARS LIE IN

VAULTS

TOO REAL

Plane Tips Up During A Fake Landing.

LAUGHS, THEN A BUMP.

Spectators Think It Part Of

The Show.

Fifty-thousand children who had been laughing at a pilot who was imitating a novice flyer at the R.A.F. pageant rehearsal-at-Hendon,

According to the latest available figures, the gold reserve of N.W., gasped when they saw his air-}

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,

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Full Size Pathe Cinemato the Bank of France amounts to against a note issue plane hit the "ground heavily and

statement can picture in tip up with its nose in the ground. MARBLE HALL

graph Projector and Stand of £645,339,640. Who, reading (non-talkie) complete with spare gold the mounting treasure hoard of France? writes, the Hon. Some of them thought it was carbons, etc., all in good working]

condition. Exceptionally auitable Fenella Trefusfa in the "Daily Telegraph.” for cinematograph theatre or In- structional purposes.

Does it convey anything to the This one was of Rand gold-the May be viewed at Officers' Mess, average mind to speak of a hun reddest gold there is Like all the Murray Barracks, Hong Kong, at dred million pounds worth of gold others, it was marked any time between 9 s.m. and 6 p.m.-real gold-fifty millions, nay,

we will say, even one million?

Are we not, in this age of paper, of credit, entitled to be just GENERAL NOTICES little credulous when confronted

by these gigantic figures?

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY..

with the

part of the show; others feared that the pilot was badly injured.

When two ambulances, and the are engine crossed the ground everyone was startled., name of the gold refiners (in Eng-

But it was all right." land, Rothschild's) and the assay-

E. S. ex's name and the exact weight. The pilot Flying Officer Every brick had a chip cut from Greenwood, stepped out of his mas curner. to test the quality, and every compartment full of bricks chine unhurt, while a laconic voice # suppose that I, too, had had its own mature brick made which was explaining the pageant thought of this gold as fabulous, from the cut-off corners.

on loud-speakers round the ground, These bricks, or rather ingots, said "Oh well, It's all in the day's Tontil was given the opportunity

to inspect the Bank of France have ately been arriving at the XAMINATION for New Suite recently

rate of 2,000 a day"" the director work."

Apparently the pilot was about to denta on September 3 at 9

Now, I have actually seen the told us, "and only by using al 8.317 School begins September old, an experience for which inhat part of the vault intended ori-touch" the ground with his wheels For Prospectus for Boarders and my heart 1 had lunged.

ginally for documents have we and then bounce into the air when Day-boys. Apply to Mr. LI HOI

This "gold is no fiction. Deep been able to house them. The ut TUNG, Banker & Co., 20, Des down beneath Paris, beneath almost that can be accommodated ia suddenly his engine cut out.

vast subterranean lake, in a 60,000," steel cavern that would defy the aerial bombs and "Big Berthas" of a modern siege army, it les in ordered rowB

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He was heading straight for

away and must Ile seemed depressed. I noticed fence à few feet that space was getting short, have plunged through it and serious. This stream of gold is ruinous."iy, hurt some Air Force officers if Instantly, how- said he. "but what can one do?" he had continued.

› The Beauty of Gold. fever, he swung round, and would

I had never realised before the have landed quite well but for the

a loud

One's eye met vista The officer was shaken but not for gold.

badly hurt. The propeller was Could there, one wondered, be a broken and the engine damaged and

beautiful decoration? In both wheels buckled. more

It glitters, it is gold; solid, hun-sheer beauty of gold. There was fact that his machine hit dreds of miluons of pounds of it.boundless opportunity hare to ap-speaker. Except för that breath-taking preciate it. gleam, it might be bales of mer chandise in a dock warehouse.

But the most incredible thing of all is the great underground for bulk it has a charm, a loveliness, The machine hit "the cinder-path tress in which the gold hoard is that no other substance possesses, in front of the members of Parlia guarded. For three years work-a warmth of colouring that gives ment enclosure, near the Royal en- men blasted and mined the solid an illusion that it is actually exud-closure on the aerodrome, rock until a space of 24 acres ing light. was made clear to house this great steel city.

Were we suddenly plunged in darkness, we imagined that a soft glow from all round would have Illuminated us. It was a wrench to leave.

But the tour was not yet over.

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Nearly a Collision. Flying-officer Greenwood; an perienced pilot, was emulating a follow the beginner's effort to

Above it is a layer of 36 feet of water and rock. Its roof is supported by 750 concreté pillars; its walls are 20 feet, thick. An We were presently taken upstairs, manoeuvres of the flying instructor, army of 2,000 employees could live where the Governor of the Bank Flying-officer P. R. May. He clever- in this fastnesa without discom-of France very kindly showed us ly illustrated the hazard of a fort for a period of three months over his private apartments. Here learner doing shaky Joops and The garrison would be fed from was beauty of a vastly different other stunts in imitation of the its own electric kitchen; it would order. For the Bank buildings in-performances of his flying instruc- breathe air electrically pumped corporate part of the old Hotel de tor.

the It was part of the humour of the and heated, and as pure as that Toulouse, which had been

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in the very kernel of Paris-it is de Toulouse and at one time the attempted to land his "pupil," on not very far from the Palais Royal home of the Princess de Lamballe. red machine, always got in his way. Eventually, after some clever flying would be as impervious to siege. In these apartments, among won- artillery, air raids, civil riots, or derful boiseries, is the large Fra of this kind, the instructor. flew criminal attack Ra Mont Blane it. gonard: in the world. It was too round the aerodrome in chase of his It was while this was "pupil.# large and too delicately painted to Helf.

The privilege visitor, under escort, drops in an elevator three floors, then enters an armoured electric car, which, by the inter vention of secret machinery, la permitted to pierce the massive steel walls of the fortress.

Fortress of Steel.

be sent to London for the French happening that the "pupil," in land- Exhibition. There are also to be ing, upturned the tail of his ma- seen two Bouchers, a Nattier, and chine and the nose struck the

ground. some fine tapestries.

The children were given a fore- On the same floor is De Cotte's famous "Galerie Dorce." Its price taste of the thrills that await less gilded wood-carvings and elas spectators who inside and outside sical pictures owe their miracul- the aerodrome are expected to num- ous escape during the Revolution ber half a million. to some loyal workman, who drap-

A Prehistoric Monster.

They were amused when an inflat-

The following unclaimed tele-j WESTOVER-STEVENAGE," Within gram is lying at the Eastern Ex

It displaces, in doing so, a plug of steel, weighing some forty tons.ed thick paper over the walls and an hour from London. In healthy tension. Telegraph Co.'s office:- neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS

ed "prehistoric" monster of giant Hector Fuentes, Repulse Bay A tramp down long corridors, after ved it, from the wanton destruc-

tion of the mob." and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal Hotel, from Cordobaargentina via passing through the great steel

But even the Galerie Doree seem-dimensions and grotesque design ed faded that day to eyes that had was shot down. It had sufficient Individual care and attention. For Radiar. Particulars apply to:

feasted themselves on real gold. buoyancy to enable it on" reaching

MISS RUTH CULLEY,

(Camb. Higher Local,, Camb, Teachers Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,

(National Frodel Higher

(Certificate). "

MISCELLANEOUS.

.C.. G. CLARKE,

Manager Hong Kong, August 4, 1932

doors, took us to the main room, with its hundreds of pillars Here the clerks will eat and sleep in time of crisis. The kitchens and the plant were there for our inspection.

OVER WEALTH.

"The following' uncialised tele. 1 had feared all through that the STOWAWAY WALKED grams are" lying at the offes sight of the gold would somehow aft the Great Northern Telegraph or other be denied us. It nearly Company

of Den was. (Limited)

For the director who con- mark

ducted use over intimated, with YOUR VISITING CARDS. nentis and

Mr. Charles. Thom, 201/207, apologies, that as there was no in- promptly printed."China Mall" Shomshuipo, from Kobe.

coming gold on that particular day, Offico, No. 8A, Wyndham St. Tela- Miss Sonia Franch, Thos Cook, the key of the gold vault was not phone 20022.

from Shanghai.

immediately available, „Did we Sydney Smith. c/o Seamen' In-think it, after all, worth while 1 stitute, from Antung, Jap.

JUST RECEIVED. SCHAUBEK STAMP ALBUMS. THE MEDIUM NORMAL ALBUM

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the ground to waddle laboriously across the aerodrome in the most Formos ungainly way mo - Laughter broke out afreah when the monster, meeting a

fence, hopped lightly over it and sat, as if exhausted, on the other side. ka

Machines on view ranged from huge bombers, capable of transport- ing soldiers over big distances in the quickest possible time, to Aghters that can go into actionat well over 200 miles an hour.

Spectators will probably give no thought, as they watch the Pageant to the intricate preparation work which has been necessary,

Every Detail Watched.

We gathered that the key was inj the possession" of a certain official

London, August 1 who was at lunch. Naturally we Though H. V. Hone spent every elected to await his return, and, to ponny he had to dig gold in Aus our great relief, it was not loss traila, the nearest he came to a delayed.

fortune was to have trod on a nug The preparation of fuel is a very At last we were in the gold get worth £5,760. It was buried, a important factor of high speed at vault. To me it suggested at foot beneath the surface and was tempts in the air, as it is for rac- first a rather old-fashioned found by another man. library,

ing Cars,

The nugget, known as the Golden Fuels have to be specially blended Eagle, is the second largest in the to the particular

Bight of the Gold.

Worlds After Mr. Hene rave corri searching for rold, anoth

worked

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