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H.K. VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS

Orders For The Coming Week.

Orders by Tleut.--Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, 0. B. E. Com- mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps

Hong Kong.

Friday, 17th August, 1934.

PARADE

Corps 1st Battery

All N.C.09 will parado at Hendquarters for instruction ua- der Sergt. Evana on Thursday, 23rd August at 530 p.m.

The Battery Training Season will commence on Thursday, 6th September, 1934. It is expected that every member will do his best to attend on that date.

Any deficiencies in Uniform and Equipment should be reported to B.Q.M.S. ILT. Byxtum now so that there may be no trouble regarding dreas when the Training Season conmences.

Corps Engineers

Monday, 20th August, 1934- Squad Drill for N.C.Os-Dress- Mufti.

Remainder-Miniature Range. Corps Machine Gun Battalion Troop

Parade at Troop Stable at 5.30) p.ni, on Thursday, 23rd August, 1934.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934.

The disappearance of Bobby Connor, (left), 21-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Connor (right), caused a party of 500

to search the woods near the Connor home at Hartsdale Manor, N.Y. The police round a rag doll (as shown centre) where it had been dropped by the missing tot. An eccentric peddler who visited the Connor home is suspected of having kidnapped the baby.

LIGHT ON ORIGIN OF Mr. H. W. Wells And

RED INDIANS

Buddhism Form In

Funeral Rites.

ASIATIC CONNECTION -

Quebec. Some light on the origins of Armoured Car & Motor Cycle the North American Indian was

Sections

shed by Dr. Marius Barbeau, of the Canadian National Museuri,

Autobiography

How He Wrote What Is Due In Autumn

Car Section:-

Parade at Headquarters on cent Discoveries" which he read Monday, 20th inst. at 5.30 p.m. fer to the Royal Society here.

in a paper “Indian Origins-Re- When

Machine Gun Instruction,

Motor Cycle Section:-

Machine Gun Instruction.

sions was the statement that an

England Could Not Read

BEES SWARM ON

DEPOSITORS

But Fail To Disperse The Crowd.

FARMER'S COOL ACTION

Hempstead, Long Island. A swarm of 30,000 bees failed to diaperse a crowd of depositors of the First National Bank here, who, for the first time since the Ameri- can banking holiday in 1993, were receiving zums up to 50 per cent. Among Dr. Barbeau's conclu-MR. Wella, in his London flat, from teaching; how I began to of their holdings.

looking incredibly less than write; and of Shaw, and the Henry Although the bees, invading the Parade ut Headquarters on early form of Buddhism had long his sixty-seven years. His two- Webbs, and Graham Wallass, Giss-bank suddenly in a body, caused Monday 20th inst, at 6:30 pm. for prevailed in the funeral rites of lume "Experiment in Autobio-ing, and Henry James.

symptoms of panle among the de- the Canadian northwest const. graphy" is to be published by Victor "When I was in my thirties I was positors, not a single person left Parndr at Miniature Range, Dr. Barbeau said that the In-Gollancz and the Cresset Press in much in contact with Henry James the paying windows, Headquarters, on Wednesday, 22nd dians near the Alaskan border the early autumn.

and Conrad and Bennett, and ex-| Chiefly responsible for calming instant for Musketry Instruction. Ito-day were like Asiatics,-Mon- Mr. Wells, one of the best and changed views and comments with the crowd was Mr. Vito Rouasseo, No: 3 (ANZAC) Company [golian. Their faces resembled must copious talkers living, is dis-them; and this involves, in Its a farmer who saw the awarm dis- Rifle practice will be held at the images of Buddha. "a blend of solved in malice against the inter- turn, comment on all these people appear into the bank as

he was Miniature Range on Thursday, self-indulgence and mysticism." viewer for wanting him to talk in the autobiography.

driving down the street, Bringing 23rd August, at 5.30 p.m.

While studying the Indians of jabout it in advance, writes an "I have lived through," said Mr.his car to a halt, "he dashed after VOLUNTEER AIR ARM the northwest country for the "Observer" correspondent. "Yes, Wells, "extraordinary changes in them, and assured the crowd that Members of Flights should tele- National Museum some years I hate it. It's neute discomfort. the life of England. In 1866, when bees were much less likely to sting phone to the Time Keeper, Kai ago, Dr. Barbeau engaged nitive There's the autobiography. I've I was born, most people could not when swarming, since then they Tak Aerodrome (Tel: No. 58612). singers, and recorded hundreds written it--and there it is! What read or did not read. The influ- were gorged with honey. and book starting time for Flying of their songs on gramophone else is there to say about it? ..."lence of the railways and telegraph Mr. Rouasseo promptly obtained Instruction on Saturday afternoon records.

There is a pause for collection of and so on had not yet come to its a thin stick, dipped it in sugar and Sunday morning.

Travelling further north he ideas, unwillingly. undertaken. full effect, One thought of syrup and, much to the admiration RESERVE COMPANY studied the natives of the Nass "I've been thinking of some sort of Japan, for instance as being in of the Crowd, groped among the The Reserve Company will oafry river, outside the Japanese Quar-autobiography for two or three another world, so remote as to be strickest clusters of bees with his out a reconnaissance on Sunday,ters; at the Arrendale Salmon years... I didn't originally in-outaide our world. One thought bare hand. He said that he was 2nd September, 1934.

Canery he heard a gramophone tend to publish it. It was written of it almost entirely in terms of looking for the queen bes and that Rendezvous-Queen's Pier-2.30 reproduce a Japanese tune simt at first chiefly as a sort of memoran- Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, there was no danger.

lar to the Indian's mountain dum for my sons and a few inti-There has been the Impact of the Finally he found her, placed her The songs he had collected I could remember... the story of unanticipated economic stresses. and Iafd the stick in a wooden box.

mates. I began to jot down what war, England has passed through on the sweetened end of the stick! were heard by Professor Kiang, my brain, or how I of McGill University, and one of

became I have lived through a complete Immediately the queen's convoy of change in the scale of human about 20 workers surrounded her, the dirges of the Alaskan fron-jacquainted with the world.

Job Made Easy.

affairs, and the consequences of followed by other bees. tier seemed similar to a Budd:

the change of that scale."

p.m.

Dress Optional. Probable hour of return-7.00

LEAVE

p-m.

2nd Lieut. J. K. Bousfield, M.C., A.S.C. Cadre, granted three weeks leave as from 14th August to 23rd

September, 1934.

STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH Having Completed Three Years Service

No. 1545. Pte. G. Jackson, No. 7 Platoon No. 2 Company, as from 1st January, 1934.

STRENGTH

No. 2140 Pte. J. F. Stein Mustard

& Co. Anzac Co. 13.8.84.

song.

HIT VULTURE IN MID-AIR.

"Have you enjoyed it?".

Interview Not Rellshed.

It took the farmer an hour and a half to get all the bees into the box. Then, smilingly acknowledg

“BURGLAR” CLEANS THE HOUSEWORK.

Gratitude For Stolen Meal

hist chant for funeral services "By a conspiracy of accidente, among the riomads of Mongolia. the job has been made casy. I Other chants reminded pro- have been able to get a mass of fessor Kiang of a Chinese cere material for it, almost too great a "On the whole," said Mr. Wells, jing the plauding of the crowd, he monial song he had heard coffin-mass-I wrote a lot of letters when "excepting to-day-when you are stowed them away in his automo carriers sing in the streets of was young, and my friends of interviewing me it has been a bile and drove home.-Reuter. Peking-Reuter.

those days, schoolfellows and fel- very agreeable adventuro. And I low students, seem to have kept suppose that that will appear in the letters. And I used to draw, the book, which is not all personal Possibly it was those little sketches and social psychology. I escaped, that acted as a preservative. In by the skin of my teeth from ex- going back over these I have been treme poverty and hopelessness. fable to check up the authenticity Much of it is recorded in letters— of what I experienced. I found and by drawing pictures. Many Johannesburg Pilot's that in many ways my recollection of these will appear in the book.

Thrill In Plane.

of it was not really correct. "All the time since 1894 up to Events had so to speak, got the week she died there were these lives alone in a little flat in Rome, Johannesburg. treated by my mind. Going back pictures. Drawing them used to went out to do her shopping with- A vulture and an aeroplane was over those documents was like con-be a regular part of the day out having made the bed or wash- "MOUNT ROOSEVELT" slightly damaged. The pilot. Mr. ducting a research into my young most days-recording visits, and up the breakfast dishes.

travel ideas, and people and G. D. B. Williams, of the. Johan-boyhood and adolescence.

On her return the bed had been nesburg Light Plane Club, after "The blography comes down to abroad. I find that more than made and the dishes washed. watching the bird fall, returned to the present time. The most inter anything else, looking at these In the kitchen she found this Tennessee Democrat's Baragwanath and lauded. esting half of a life should, pay-brings me back to the "mood of note:

New Bill,

No. 2141 Pte. J. F. Hickman Mackintosh's Ltd. M. M. G. Sec. 13.8.34.

Sd. P. S. M. WILKINSON, Captain.

Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps.

MOOTED

LEADERSHIP REWARD

21. lb.

me.

Rome.

Signora Teresa Meucci, who

LETTER FROM THE DEAD.

Members of the club left in chologically, be the first half. the times. They are not classical "Dear Madam, I was hungry, a motor-car to fetch the vulture, Everything that is acquired is acly drawn-I never worked in an so I have eaten some of your food. which was found to have a wing quired in that time. The rest is art school-and they might be call I have not taken anything else. I apan of 8 ft. 6 in, and to weigh only the working out the full-ed figurative and symbolie. I in- have cleaned the fat up a bit to *ment. Barrie (Sir James) says vented a way of drawing of my show my gratitude. Many thanks,” Washington, D. C. Instances of children's kites and that nothing ever happens to any own, that gets there sometimes-Reuter. A Bill introduced in the House of birds in the air fouling the one after he is nine years old. I at any rate, gots' there as far as by Mr. Mitchell, Democratic Repre- propeliers of aeroplanes have re-should give it a little longer than I am concerned. sentative from Tennessee, would cently been repórted from over-that-say till thirty. Nothing "And now is the worst over?": haven mountain more than 2,000 seas. but this is the first occasion, much has ever happened to asked the author of "Kipps" and feet high in his state named as far as la known, on which such The whole thing may turn out to "Teno Bungay," who has already "Mount Roosevelt.""

an incident has occured in this be the tamest aflair really. " put something of autoblography Belgrade Press Mourns "Honourable Franklin D. Roose-country.

into these two books. Why do I velt, President of the United The vulture missed the proWould a good title for it be dislike interviews so much? Be- States, has instituted a miglity na-peller but struck the top part of Balzac's title, "The Lost Tilu tional recovery

programme, in the plane-Reuter. cluded in which are many needed and useful projects in Tennessee.

"He vistoned the tremendous possibilities of the muscle shoals,

Personal Contacts.

cause if the reporter doesn't re- sions?" I asked.

port what you say, It is bad-and "“O God, no!" said Mr. Wells, "In if he does report what you say it the first place. I don't quite know is probably worse. that I started out with any particu lar illusions to lose. Will there be joken in it? I don't know. It la Shanghal-Nanking and not a comic work-and it is not a Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo" Rail- collection of anecdotes. There are

RAILWAY GODOWNS TO BE BUILT

the Tennessee Valley, and institut ́ed or set up the Tennessee Valley The

Authority.

CHUKOTSK SEA TO ABE STUDIED

Living Man.

Belgrade

The entire Belgrade press has been mourning a living man,

Reports were received from Italy announcing the death of Evgenijo | Marjasheiz, a former producer of {ópera In Belgrade.

The next day all Belgrade news: papers published full obituary scientific expedition is calling notices and the artists of the

my schoolmasters and study of t

thoroug!

ter has been

sterling leadership this nation has ways Administration la planning to personal contacts and experiences

"Through his able guidance and construct godowns along the two in it, and sketches of all the peo from Vladivostok on the steamer National Theatre went into mourn been relieved of a most tense fine lines. The contemplated godowns ple who have influenced my deve Smolensk to ancial situation, changing the will be located at Hsiakwan inlopment course of this government from Nanking, Chinkiang, Changchow, teachers one of distress and destruction to Wusih, Boochow, Shanghal North Selence one of peace and prosperity Station, Woosung, Chakou, and ing when Reyter

Tanoao River Station

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