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SATURDAY MAY 6, 1933.

HONG KONG VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE

CORPS

ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK,

Orders issued by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.0, 0.B.E., Com-

manding H.K.V.D.C.:---

Hong Kong, Friday, May 5,

PARADE.

Corps Band.

Annual Prize Giving-Friday,

THE CHINA MAIL.

GOVERNMENT LOSES The Magician Of The

ROTHERHAM.

Big Labour Majority Causes Surprise.

UNEMPLOYMENT AGITATION.

London.

Rotherham has given the Gov erament the most unpleasant jolt|| it has received at any by-election since the general election more] Attention of all backs is drawn alists were reconciled to the loss than two years ago, Ministeri- to this function and it is hoped of the seat, which was unexpect

May 12, 1933.

་

The Band practice will take that the Company will be strongly edly captured by the Conserva

place on Friday, May 12, 1933.

The Battery..

There will be a parade for Lewis Gun Instruction on Thursday, May 11 at 6.30 p.m. at Headquarters.

Engineer Company,

Practice at Miniature Range on Monday, May 8.

in the Canteen.

each month.

Money Market

How the Foreign Exchange Broker Works

(By A Special Correspondent.),

Ceaselessly his rapid flow of far-

represented. Tickets are obtained tives in the big landslide of 1931, bank crisis in their country is a The broker would then immediately London by the broker, the bank's dealer to millions of Americans the would have A.A.LA. Company.

by the small majority of 762.

replied: "Nothing." As from May 1, 1933, parades

Nevertheless the size of the catastrophe from which only Frank- try another bank. I saw and heard will be held only on 1st Monday of Labour majority on the present in Roosevelt can save them. a quotation turned down by three occasion, namely 15,874, caused To minions of Europeans the banks in six seconds. A broker may Anzac Company.

general surprise. At the gen-crisis in an enigma.

have to plug through two dozen holes The Company will parade in fullļeral election the figures were But to The O.C. Company's Shield for strength in mufti at Headquarters Conservative23,596 votes and brokers working in the City of Lon-twenty-four banks before he gets

the foreign

of his switchboard-that is call exchange General Efficiency and Progress. As this will be the first parade for Labour poll has now risen to forty-eight United States is an acute

on Monday, May 16 at 5.30 p.m. Labour 22,834, whereas the don the financial paralysis of the what he is seeking. during season 1932-1933, has been awarded to Sapper H. W. the new training season all ranks 28,767, while the Conservative irritation. The suspension of deal son goes on. Brown and will be presented at there asked to make a special polat has fallen to 12,893.

ing in dollars has robbed them of of attending. Annual Prize Distribution on May.

The loss of the seat may prob-their chief market-It has heavily There will be a N.C.O's, parade ably be attributed to the fact reduced their turnover; and they will be expected to attend. on Friday, May 19 and all N.C.O's. that the constituency had been live by commission." ·

consistently Machine

represented Gun

by I have been watching a foreign Instructional Labour since 1923, the Labour exchange broker at work-in his City Classes will be held each Friday majority in 1929 being over office, quoting rates for the buying through the Summer months in 16,000. Moreover the order that the Anzac Company's employment situation and the currencies. His job, in his N.C.O's. may be in a position to agitation against the means test words, is the most highly specialised un-and selling of half of the world's train the remainder of the Com-were effectively exploited against form of barter in existence. pany in Machine Gun work.

When business is hectic the job the Government and every Without the foreign exchange ed. Then the broker calls in his as- is too much for anyone single-hand-

12.

The O.C. Company" congratulates Sapper Brown on bis success and his general keeness.

Corps Signal

Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, 1933.

Machine Gun Troop.

Parade at Causeway Bay Stables at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, 1933.

Machine Gun Company. The Company Rifle Club will fire at Peak Range on Sunday, May 7, 1933 at 5.30 p.m.

Range Officer-Lieut. V. C. Eran- 800, M.C.

Armoured Car Section.

Motor Machine Gun Section. Portuguese Company.

Promotion. Scottish Company.

L/Sergt. Baleros, Portuguese Parade on Thursday, May 11, Comparty, No. 10 Platoon, promot Jed to Sergeant with effect from

March 1, 1903.

Transfer.

Own

" "I sell a quarter.”—“You scant two hundred."—"No, no longer a "buyer."—"Mine."-"You take,"”— "Figure I sell."-"Figure I sell a quarter."-"I know it will go. It's gone." "Either way at the figure small buyer."-"You want a hundred...I'll try."-"Figure j pay."--"Business at the price left a esiler."-

The Officers Commanding the Government stands to be shot at broker International trade and movesistants, and by means of triplicate undermentioned Units will issue over unemployment. their Orders separately to their

ment could not last a day. A holl-lines and dividing the awitch-board Commands:-

Mr. Dobbie, the successful day-maker going abroad, the sending they can move very nearly as fast as Labour candidate, is an old trades of a cable, a ship putting into unionist and is now President of foreign part, the export or import

a time itself. the National Union of Railway.of goods, the carrying out of a certain currency in a different coun- Often it may pay to buy or sell a men. Incidentally he was the foreign contract by a British firm, a try against a third currency. For first Labour Lord Mayor of York, telephone call across the Atlantic-example, a banker wants to buy Government has lost in 18 by-sand others entail the purchase and ket against him. Through his te This is the third seat that the every one of these items and a thou-franca in Londen but finds the mar 1933:---

No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon ander

elections. While the Ministerial sale of foreign currencies. The brok-lephone system he discovers that his Lieut. T. P. Saunderson for Re-

majorities in many of the by-er is the agent through whom these broker can buy them in Switzerland voiver Training.

Pte. 1880 D. A. Hynes, Anzac elections have shown a reduction, transactions in the moneys of the against Swiss francs more cheaply, No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters Company, transferred to The Bat-as is usual after a big swing of world are carried out. under Lieut. A. W. Brown for tery with effect from April 16, the pendulum in

When dealings are overwhelming, the Machine Gun Training.

Govern- No Longer Leisurely ment's favour, the Government's

the broker may have to carry_half] A hundred years ago this work, a dozen transactions in his head till) by-election record so far has been like many other sides of City busi- he can record them on paper during Second Lieutenant F. W. T. Ross, quite a satisfactory one.-Reuter. nese, was conducted in a pleasant a full. But there are few lulls, Engineer Company, granted tenj

leisurely fashion in coffee-houses, Even when dealings are quiet he is months' leave from 11.5.33

with deals in francs or pesetas or always prowling around on the telo 28.2.34.

eums. To-day the work is done, word. A call here, a call there"Do marks arranged by nods aver the phone.. Prowling is the correct sometimes in split seconds, by means you know anything ?"--"Hayd; you of an, astonishing, telephone system, heard Paris yet?"

The broker, who is a go-between

CHURCHES

A CHARGE OF ONE

DOLLAR

IN MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING

WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, WANCHAL

Opposite Royal Naval Hospital. Queen's Road E

Sunday, May 7.

10.15 a.m. Preacher: Rev. Frank Short, M. A.

6

p.m. Preneher: Rev.

Short, M.A.

Friday, May 12.

ing.

G3L,

Leave

to

Pie, 1121 G. E. L. Johnson, En- OXFORD LOOKS AT gineer Company, granted eight

THE FAR EAST.

¡ months' 19.1.34.

leave from 20.6.33 to

granted ten leave from 19.5.33

Pte. 1440 D. F. Davies, Armour- No Support For League's

Sino-Japanese Policy. "NO CONFIDENCE" VOTE

ed Car Section, months' 18.3.34.

to

Strength. No. 2053 Pie. R. J. Tyler, P.W.D., Engineer Company, 1.5.33.

No. 2064 Pte. R. J. V. Everest, Government Electric Warks, Tel. 521, Engineer Company, 1.5.33.

4.5.33.

CARRIED

London.

When a deal le completed the brok

ABC sold to XYZ,

for the buyer and soller banks, has er fills in a small slip of paper in this his own telephone exchange and his fashion: own private lines. The lines are connected to the foreign exchange department of every important finan- cial house in London-joint stock, merchant and foreign banks. It is the broker himself who wears the

5 million Paris at 87.7-16. Value 11/3/33. Brokerage £5]

etch.

Date 9/3/33. No. 1005, Translated, this means that he has

A meeting of undergraduates headphones and does the plugging in, sold five million francs at 87 7-16.on

of all shades of political opinion for there is no time to lose when behalf of one bank to another on No. 2055 Pte. L. A. Hurlow, 24, at Rhodes House, Oxford, re you have to find a profitable market March 9, for delivery in Paris, and Frank Fook Wah Street, Shamshulpo, jjected by a large majority a re-for, say, half a million francs with the sterling equivalent, in London

M.M.G. Section, 1.5.33.

solution supporting the League the seller hanging on another llae. on March 11, and that he receives No. 2050 Pie. H. A. Browning, of Nations, policy towards the Sometimes the foreign exchange a brokerage fee of £5 from each- 7.30 p.m. Weekly Prayer Meet-Hong Kong Bank, Tel. 30221, M.G. Sino-Japanese dispute.

dealers in a London bank may have buyer and seller. Troop, 2.5.33.

The motion expressed satis-half a dozen Continental Inquirera. SAILOR'S & SOLDIEN'S HOME.

No. 2057 Pte. A. H. Stedman, faction that the League had made on their lines simultaneously while ed to each bank within twenty min- Copies of this contract are deliver- Sunday, May 7, 8.30 p.m., Chris-Williamson & Co., The Battery, a pronouncement on the Far the brokers are searching the marutes, so that any mistake can be rec tlan Social Hour.

East dispute, and demanded the ket by telephone. W. H. G. GOATER, application

tifled. The broker sends in his bill of financial and At the banker's end, as at the once a month. His fee varies accord- Captain, Adjutant, economic pressure against Japan broker's, everything is done for ing to the currency dealt in. In H.K.V.D. Corpa. Discussion stopped after the speed. There, too, the dealer sita francs it works out at about a shill- vate, as the Proctors Jhad with headphones to his ears, always fng in the £100. debate on the original motion are you? What is that? A falling and carries on till six. When busi only authorised the students to listening. There is no "Hullo! Who

He starts work each day before ten The majority of the students disc or a lamp that lights up tellsness is booming he has to snatch a present, however, adjourned to the dealer that it is Mr. X, the brok-snack lunch standing by his switch- a hotel where they carried er, who is speaking.

A motion of "No Confidence" in the ability of the League of Nations

Monday, May 8. Badminton Club Meets.

Tuesday, May 9, 8.30 p.m., Fel- lowship Meeting.

Wednesday, May 10, 10 a.m., Ladies' Church Aid Meeting.

Thursday, May 11, Badminton

Club Meets..

The Bridge & Whist Drive pre- viously arranged for May 8 has been cancelled,

Tusaday, May 9, -6.30 p.m. Ex- traordinary Meeting of General Committee,

UNION CHURCH.

KENNEDY ROAD, HONG KONG,

Sunday, May 7.

Sunday School 9,30 am. Morning Service 10,30a.m.. Evening Service 6 p.m. Preacher at both services: The

Rev. E. G. Powell,

Social Hour in the Church Hall after the evening service.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.

(Branch of The Mother Church,

EXECUTION STAYED FOR BANK-HOLIDAY.

"No Time To Hang A Man."

San Francisco, The bank holiday has meant more to Peter Farrington and George Smith than to any other two men in California. It has lengthened their lives. Both men are under sentence of death murder.

for

Broker and Banker: Talk Let us listen in, as I have been do

to deal with the situation. Reu-ing on duplicate, receivers at the ter.

broker's office, to the putting through of a deal.

A NEW ZEALAND WAR-TIME DEBT.

board. I saw the broker I visit- and selling francs between mouth ed quote rates for buying guilders| fuls of a meat ple

Nearly 500 men in London, about 150 on the brokers side'and the rest A bank, which we will call the in the bank foreign exchange depart- Lombard Bank, gets through to the ments, are engaged in these dealings broker.

"France?" says the voice from the are only, about 30 front-rank foreign every day. In the whole City there bank. That means "What price exchange broking firms, and in their are francs?" The Lombard Bank busiest times they quote market wants to buy franca

Broker: "Forty to Ape. Might lions' worth of currency every day. rates to the banks for tens of mil Roll better.

This means 87.40 to 87.45 or might Wanganui, N.Zsell at 87.48. The main franc was that the foreign exchange brok What I found difficulty in belleving

But the Governor concluded that $13,000 Due To British

Admiralty.

a bank holiday was no tinde to hang a man. So in each case he set the execution back, and before the fatal date the State Legislature may have passed an anti-capital-tish Admiralty, contracted by Lombard Bank: "I'd pog. 43.2

A debt of £13,000 to the Bri figure is omitted for speed, punishment bill-Reuter.

WOMEN IN MEN'S JOBS.

er, when I visited him, was having aslack day.

the Wanganui Harbour Board

Broker: How much? Half of of the dredge Kalone from Eng- during the war for the delivery million? Ons second" of his, telephone calls may be dou

In the next few days the volume land is still unpaid..

Instantly he has inserted a plug bled, his jargon may become even ints a hole on his switchboard. more staccato, the stream of busi. Several members at a meeting While the Lombard Bank hangs, on ness may swell to an engulfing flood.

The First Church of Christ, Belea TT.S. Burcau Shows Odof the Harbour Board stated that he has got through to (say) the It all depends on Mr. Roosevelt

tist, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A.1

Macdonnell, Road, Below: Bowen

Road Tram Station.

Sunday Service 11.15, a.m.,

Occupations,

it was high time the debt was Cornhill Bank, a likely seller of met, TENNESS

[france, 15%

Cologne

man at Jallch in the Rhine alf. Done To Lom-land, told the Police that he had.

been robbed of four live ducks.

Mr. Donald Boas said the rate To the Cornhill Banks dealer the FINED BECAUSED HE WAS The Sunday School is held on

Washington, D.C.payers had been misled, for they broker: says: "Pay 43 & holi Sunday Morning at 10 o'clock, belved some odd reports from its would be paid from money raisa million francs at 87.48

The U.S. Census Bureau has re- had been told that the Admiralty This means he wants to buy half

ROBBED! Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6 p.m. Reading Room at above ad- occupations.

Investigators on women in unusual ed by two previous loans, The Cornhill Bank Your dress open Tuesday and Friday, 10 Listed as "examples of such se for other purposes, they bord Bank money, however, had been used Broker: a.m. to 12 noon, Monday and cupations were brick and atona The Chairman, Mr. J Thursday, 650 to 7 pm The masons; coppersmiths; cranemen, Hogan, said that with the ad-bard B T. Then Public is cordially invited to at derrick men, holstmen; forgeman verse exchange rate it would be Brok tend the service and visit the and hammermen; iron moldera; unwise to pay at present, Mean-Wil Reading Room, Branch of The machinists; millwrights; millers; while, the most important mat- Mother Church, The First Church mining engineers; plasterers; ter before the board was the of Christ Scientist, in Boston, plumbers; atone cutters; telegraph raising of moles at the harbour Maas, USA.

and telephone linemen Reuter, entrance Reu

Ika ngalaith the Lom All that polied enquiries re- vealed was that the ducks were Corn-not included in an official census of domestic animals and poultry taken a few weeks earlier

The man has now been fined B. been 6d, for not entering the dy

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