1934-06-16 — Page 7

INDIAN "GURU” CLAIMED 300

YEARS-OF-AGE

Startling Statement By Yogi.

21

STRANGE POWERS DEMONSTRATED

Lahore

"My guru (teacher) is at least! 300 years old and does not show signs of ageing. I do not know whether there is death to any such as he. He wanders the face of India and has no fixed ash. ram, This astounding state. ment

made to Reuter correspondent by an In- diant yogi (Ascetic) who is now in Lahore, He added that he parted from his Guru 13 months ago on the banks of the Kodaveri River and did not know whether he would again meet him.

Was

a

The Yogi. who looked about 30. did not know his own age, for. as he naively explained. there

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1934.

Where Uncle Sam Plans $100,000,000 Airport Project

* gigantic. An aerial view of Governor's Island and lower Manhattan, where the Federal Government is planning to build airport, the cost of which is estimated at $100,000,000. Dotted lines show the water gap between Governor's Island and Man- haltan which would be filled in.

were no such things as calendars VOLUNTEER PRIZE

in forests, and though daily the

sun rises and sets, the lapse of

time is unmeasured.

Besides

DISTRIBUTION

what is time to those who exist Importance Of Infantry

beyond-time?

Before a select gathering of{ Stressed By G.O.C.

some distinguished personalities

of Lahore which, curiously en- LARGE GATHERING AT DINNER ough, included the head of the Punjab Criminal Investigation! Department, the yogi was buried'

on

a

H.K. VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS

Orders For The Coming Week.

Orders by Lieut.-Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O. B. E. Com- mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps:—

Hong Kong. Friday, 15th June, 1934.

· PARADE Corps 1st Battery. There will be no parade

Fort

GAS EXPLOSION INQUIRY

MAN WHO LIVED

TUNNELS

CODE OF MORALS FOR TEACHERS Puritanical Traditions

Denounced.

SHOULD SMOKE AND DRINK

New York.

Denouncing what he termed

EXCITING JOB IN

EAST AFRICA

Animals Often Invade

Power Station

PROBLEMS FOR ENGINEER

Nairobi.

and Tana

Mr. J. Holmes, resident engineer the outmoded.. puritanical tradi-jat the East African Power tions that require school tea-Lighting Company's new chers to be 'goody goodies,' Dr. River station, 60 miles from Nai- John Carr Duff of New York robi, has one of the most exciting University has urged that they jobs in East Africa,

be

Although

isolated allowed to smoke, drink.

completely swear or even chew tobacco if from civilisation, he is never lonely they like it.

he is too busy keeping wild ani I don't mean that they should mais at bay. be allowed to do these things in Two lionesses and their cubs he broke into the station and frighten- the classrooms. of course."

Mr. said, 'but I do think the restric-led switchboard attendants.

tions imposed on their private] Holme drove them out before they lives are entirely too stringent.' 'could do any damage.

Dr. Duff asserted that to live Hippopotami frequently come up up to present required. standards from the river and romp in

the

of conduct, school teachers must garden outside the station.

Ba-

be either 'sissies' or 'hypocrites. boons swarm all over the building And in the villages and rural and a constant watch has to bo districts,' he added, they have kept to stop them playing havoc

IN to live up to a moral standard with the machinery.

that would put a strain on a Hundreds of storks get entangled in the overhead wires and are kill- thirty-second degree saint.'

He cited pledge which is re-ed, often causing short circuits. quired of all teachers in a North A crocodile recently caused a Government Expert On Human Mole', Sentenced Carolina Town and called it Ty-hitch in the work of the station by

'pical.' It included. he said:

swimming into the canal which I promise not to fall in love, feeds the turbines. to become engaged or secretly {married.'

Gasometer Condition.

WASTED BY CORROSION

That the plates of the gasameter.į were in a very bad condition and

In Los Angeles

SHOP ROBBERIES REVEALED

Los Angeles. Herbert C. Wright, who

Was

When the canal was emptied the crocodile attacked and injured one I promise to abstain from all of the station staff.---Reuter. dancing immodest dressing, and any other conduct unbecoming a teacher and a lady.'

'I promise not to go out with

any young man except in so far

it may be necessary to stimul

ate Sunday School work.'.

in some cases so corroded that day-sentenced from two to 20 years in light could be seen through them, St. Quentin prison for robbing was the expert evidence of Mr. W. shops, testified that he spent most A. Butterfield, tendered on behalf of of his, time in tunnels which he dug on the Government at the continued in- under the shops.

quiry before Mr. E. W. Hamilton "I hated people," said the prl. Dr. Duff is chairman of the

"I didn't trust them. on at Central Magistracy yesterday soner.

Advisory Board of the tenth an- into the West Point gasworks ex-liked the company of termites and nual junior highschool confer- rats and cats better than the com-ence which is seeking to evolve

I'm a human a new code of morals.

is not "Although the Corpa alive for half an hour, while strong enough to man all the guns the gathering prosaically fook we want them to, it would be tea. He was then dug up and fatal mistake to allow the Infantry returning to consciousness, to disappear. Guns, Machine Guns It and Infantry are all of vital and was found hale and hearty. was explained that the yogi could equal importance and our ergan Thursday, 21st June.

the various Parade at Belcher's remain thus buried indefinitely.isation must contain The time Mmit of half an hour arms in correct proportion," stress-Thursday, 28.6.34..

Trumpeters will parade on Tues-plosion. a concession to the time led H. E. the General Officer Com-!

0. C. manding. Major-General

day. 19th June and Friday, 22nd Imitations of his audience.

Borrett, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O June, 1934 at Headquarters. Lay On Bed Of Nails. Similar feats such as laying when speaking at the Annual Dip- him on a plank studded with six ner and distribution of prizes inch nails that had been special-the Hong Kong

was

Corps Engineers of Parade at Miniature Range at De-1.30 p.m. Volunteer

on Monday, 18th June,

Corps Signals Parade at Headquarters at 5.30

ly sharpened and breaking stopes fence Corps, held at on his chest in this posture with Headquarters last night

Volunteer 1934.

sledge hammer were perform There was large gathering)

ed with complete nonchalance present and the prizes were disp.m. on Tuesday, 19th June 1934. His arm was pierced with a long tributed by the General. needle but no blood was drawn.

Colonel H. B. J. Dowbiggin.)

Corps Machine Gun Battalion

ed.

POLICEMAN TURNS TOREADOR.

Thrills For Crowd In Madrid Street.

Madrid.

A policeman became a toren- Reuter. dor when a bull ran amok in the

heart of Madrid.

The bull escaped from its keepers and broke into a house

Mr. Butterfield stated that the pany of man, for plates he examined were so badly mole."

In sentencing him to prison the wasted by corrosion that, in some

thickness. places, the plates were only of paper judge remarked: "May be you can

find a nice dark place up there to times." Wright said. "Sometimes In the Gran Via. Madrid's "Ke- live in."

it was for a candy bar, a piece of gent Street." The Jury sitting on the inquiry,

to make my- Wright told of making a hole in pie, chewing gum

It climbed the stairs to the are Mesars. P. Tester (foreman). L. the basement of a chemist's shop, self an ice cream sedy."

first floor, where its horns were Dunbar and D. Drummond.

which he could enter and leave at He finally robbed the safe of roped and a policeman-cheered Mr. W. A. Mackinlay is appearing will. He did the same thing to about £120. But he buried some by a huge crowd-killed it with Machine Gun Battalion Parades for the Gas Company, and Mr. W.

of the money and was never able a single stab in the neck.-Reu other atores nearby.

Iter. behalf of certain

"I entered the shop probably 200 to find it-Reuter. A weight of 30 pounds was at 0.B.E., Commandant of the Volun- will be resumed on Thursday, 21st M. Brown on tached to the needle when still

the official June, 1934 and continued on future ewners whose property was damag- embedded in the arm and the teers presided, und

Troop

Mr. H. E. Stone, managing direc whole thing lifted up in the air. guests present were H. E. Major Thursdaye.

That his conscious mind was General Barrett, Major E. J. R.

Parade on Tuesday, 19th June at tor of the Gas Company, underwent 1w0 able so to command the subcon-Mitchell, the Hon. Sir scious as to control the involun- Southern, K.B.E, (Colonial Secre- 5.30 p.m. at Troop Stable. Cause cross-examination for nearly

F. P. Nosworthy, way Bay, for Pack Saddle Drill hours yesterday.

and Riding School. tary nerves and enable him to tary), Colonel achieve all these and other feats Colonel M. Carryington-Sykes, Co- was the explanation of the yogilonel H. M. Fordham, Lord Mal- colm Douglas Hamilton, Lieut- for his possession of these pow Commander F. H. E. Skyrme, R. N.,

How had he developed these powers? Through prac-Major P. Gottwaltz, Major G. D. tice of yoga. through develop. R. Black, Capt. H. Marshall, Capt. ment of the will, through purity P. S. M. Wilkinson, Capt. J. C. in word, thought and deed. Such MacGown powers were essential to the for-

ers.

Thomas

An excellent musical program- est dweller and they were but mme was rendered by the following:

Armoured Car Company Parade on Monday, 18th June at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m.

Dress-Mufti.

TRANSFER

Papa Thickness.

Mr. William Arthur Butterfield, superintendent engineer of the Asia- he tic Petroleum Company, said examined the gasometer at the re- He had The following are transferred to quest of the Government. the Reserve Company, A Section. not much experience of gasometers directed by the Efficiency but had a great knowledge of tanks. His report, he stated, was confined Board, 1934.

from the to the material blown No. 2016, Pie. F. K. Nicholson,,

gasometer and did not touch on the| No. 1883, Pie J. Wolfe, No. 14 origin of the fire.

Witness said:

cidentals. in the development of Dance Band, 24th Regiment. Alo1No. 3 Platoon.

the personality.

Prize List.

Platoon.

"1 examined seventeen plates in HEADQUARTERS STAFF During the months of July and all and from the average measure- August, the Headquarter Offees (ments of ten plates given above, it! will only be open on Mondays and will be seen that many of the plates: Thursdays so far as eveninge are were badly wasted away by corro- concerned. The Commandant cansion, particularly at their plate be interviewed only on these days. landings (the part adjacent to the

(points), RIFLES AND BAYONETS

ha Serenaders. Gus d'Aquino, | Lieut., C. de S. Robertson, Sergi- Tames Wild Animals. Yogi Hiranand also explained Major E. R. Jenkins, A. W. Simp that wild animals went tame be-son, C. Q. M. S. Grithe, Sergts. and Hughes fore him. He could pet the llon Harnden. Bradley and tiger in their wild atate, (South Wales Borderers). open their mouths and put his arm in. That power came to him suddenly one day in the Madras Zoological gardens. He saw Д keeper ill-treating a lion and

All members of the Corps are re- "In these positions the plates are overcome by sympathy for the animal went to the bars of the Engineer Company. Blake Shield: minded that their Rifles and Bay-in many places only of paper thick- theness and, in some cases, through cage and called it. It came like Engineer Company: C. Q. M. S.Jonets must be returned to

Corps Armourey Shop al once cracks obtain. Three of the plates a lamb, and he fondled it while Salter. Cpl. Lockhart. L/Cpl.

Francis Cup: Engineer Company for the Armourer's Annual Inspec-examined showed a number of small the beast put up its face to him. Since that day he had exercised (C. Q. M. S. Saller, Cpl. Lockhart, tion. (Repeated), that power.

Would it go away L/Cpl. Salter, Spr. Smith.

The prize winners were as follows: Nathan Cup for Efficiency: Ma- chine-Gun Troop.

Commandant's Cup for Musketry:

perforations caused by corrosion,

Sd. P. S. M. WILKINSON, Captain. through which daylight could be

Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps. seen. The cracks and perforations | from him? He did not know. Attack Competition: No. 10 Pla-

EFFICIENCY CUP

may have existed before the, explo- What ather powers had he? He toon: Lt. Silva. Sgt. Baleros, CpL

The system for deciding the win-aion, and were probably sealed byj knew some of his powers but Nunes. Pte. G. Pinna. Pte. G. Pin-

ning Company of the, Efficiency corrosion." did not know whether he did not na. Pte. C. Silva (leader).

L/Sgt. Cup is as follows:-

In answer to the Coroner, Mr. have m

But he knew some Corps Championship:

Only parades of members who Butterfield said that the cracks and yogis who could draw water from Cruz (No. 9 Platoon); Pipe-Major stone or throw down a mighty Mackie (Scottish Company); I have served during the full train-perforations would not have been

Ing year are considered. banvan tree by the mere touch. Silva (No. 10 Platoon).

Parades are totalled and average number of parades member is obtained.

Yogi Hiranand hopes to demon- Officers' Prize: Lt. Silva. strate to the world the existence Tyro Competition: L/Cpl. Nunes of these powers and spread know-(No. 10 Platoon).

ledge of them for every day! Reserve Company Cup: Et. Strel- purposes such as resisting dis-lett.

visible to the naked eye. The dome the would have appeared to be in good per order to the casual observer, unless he knew what he was looking for. For every inefficient member in The container was well painted..

examine the Company, an extra unit la "If you had tapped to ease and building up shetter Musketry Competition: Pet. Ro-added to the dividing number when those plates, knowing their condi

tion and age, and that the holder He laid stress on the Rocha (No, 10 Platoon); CDL Lock-computing the average,

had previously had perforations, development of the will. Train-bart (Engineer Company); Lt.

"X" Company-40 full training what would you have done?" asked ing was no doubt necessary but Silva (No; 10 Platoon).

Total parades-840

bodies.

EXAMPLE

to the man whose will was in-! Revolver Competition: Cpl. Lock-year members. domitable, who was pure, and hart (Engineer Company); Pipe- who was not attached to the ob- Major Mackie (Scottish Company). jects of the senses. everything was possible. Reutér

HE STRANGLED A WOLF.

Belgrade.

2 Inefficiend

840

43

20

· 840 (No. 1 Company Wilson Cup: Commander's prize): Cpl.. Tetley.

40-+-2.. Won by Hong Competition: Mezara. Dodwell (Lieut. Silva, C. Q. M. S. Bilfer, L/Cpl. Salter, L/ Cpl. Smith),

Engineer Company. Efficiency

A mad wolf attacked Alexander Shield:: Sapper Wason, Isohovan in a village near Prish-

Presentation Made.

FLOOD DANGER" IN CHIHI

It is reported that heavy rains In the north are bringing the rivers

tina. Alexander seized the wolf by At the conclusion of the prize-In Chihli to a very high level- the throat, and gripped with all his giving, General Borrett on behalf

strength, hanging on for life The of the Atrae Company, made the Jenkins served for 2111⁄2 years wolf become senseless, and Alexan-presentation of a silver cigarette the South-Wales Borderers, and der then killed it with an axa-case to Bergt Major E. R. Jenkins, was connected with the Volunteer **Reuter,

who is leaving the Colony. 8, M Corps for three years,

the Coroner.

"I should have put the tank put of action as quickly as possible," re- plied the witness.

"You referred to the failure of the plates?"

"Yes.

The plates fell out and falled to do the job for which they were intended, due to the wasted section at the plate landings, and also to the rivets nulling through.

"What do you consider, was the condition of the plates?".

"I consider that they were in a very bad condition", replied wit

nesa

The bearing was adjourned-until 1 Monday afternoon.

Imitation

KONG BREMERS

is the sincerest form of flattery!

DISTILLER

TRADE

BRITISH

BREWED

H∙B

BRAND

PILSENER

BEER

HONG

Order

LIMITED

1-The attention of the

public is drawn to the fact that a certain

beer has recently

appeared on the local

market bearing

name closely resem-

bling that of our

H⚫B BEER

"H⚫B BEER" or "HONGKONG

BEER"

and see that it bears the above plain label

II-OUR DARK BEER has been so well received by the Hong Kong public that now several brands of imported dark beer have made their appearance here.

Ask for

"H B

DARK BEER"

and see that you get it!