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"THE CHINA-MATU FRIDAY, MARCH-27, 1936-

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20022. London. Office:

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C2

REO.CA. MEETING Here

Proposed Formation

Of Club

DATE OF ANNUAL DINNER. ARRANGED

The Quarterly General Meeting

There

and T

Everywhere.

Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for of the Royal Engineers Old AN ENGLISH CLOWN -- publication should be addressed to Comrades Association was held on the Editor, and be accompanied by Tuesday evening last at the Hotel the Writer's Name and Address Cecil Lieut. Colonel B. M. Ford- not necessarily for insertion, but ham, M.C., RE presided and was as a guarantee of good faith.

One Year

Subscription Rates

HE $36.00 H.E.318.00 HKS 900

6 Months

2 Months

Postage Abroad Extra

DEATH

BAIN-At London on 26th. March, 1936, Frederick Douglas Bain, age 55 years. (By cable),

FINANCIAL CRISIS IN VIENNA

AUSTRIAN INSURANCE CO. IN TROUBLE

Oram, who has died in tragic RUMOURED FAILURE OF PHOENIX

INSURANCE COMPANY-

(CHINA) MÁIL – SPECIA

Vienna, To-day.

circumstances in Brussels, WWS that rare combination; a clever supported by Major B. E. C. clown who was also an English- Dixon. M.C. `RE (Chairman,a. At a Innch given by Grock General Committee). Lieut. C. Ato some fellow-clowns, although Luckin, RE and QMS. H..he was not particularly amusing

clowns do not clown at meal- Reports of the financial difficulties of the Staples, R.E. (Hon. Secretary).

times), his account of his experi- Phoenix Insurance Co., the largest Austrian-in- In view of the arrangements made by the Entertainments Com- Įmittee, the attendance Ras not

Hong Kong. Friday, March 27, 1936. recorded, to the

Committee for their work. A sub-committee was formed

ences was interesting.

There have been famous English Surance company, are creating a sensation and good, especially of old comrades, clowns Whimsical Walker. Harry considerable anxiety here. The fact that the Cab-

Paulo, Will Simpson, Harry Ash-j; and it is hoped that a much larger but the best circus clinet met on Wednesday for an extraordinary ses-- attendance will be made at the have been foreigners, and usual sion, without even waiting for Chancellor next Meeting."

Italians. (Oram was a circus Schuschnigg to return from Rome, vividly recalls The accounts for the half year bufo or "August.") The Fratilini were passed and a vote of thanks Brothers, who have been admitted the collapse of the Austrian Creditbank, which, Entertainments as officers of the Academie Fran- five years ago, shook the Austrian State and the tocaise, are the most eminent of the financial structure of the whole of Europe to its examine the proposal for the for England has the Lupino family, foundations. The counterfeiter and coinerja proposal to amend the name of clowns and comedains for many are still with us and always will the Association to "The Royal E-generations, but they are of Ita-states that the "inadequacy of the financial policy of the Phoenix

¡lian origin. be so long as the profits of their gineers Association" was defeat-

seem toled. nefarious activities them to be worth the risk they run of detection and punish- ment.

Counterfeiting

There

mation of an R.EO.C.A. Club, and

European clowns,

*

** Annual Dinner It was anaminously agreed that the Branch Annual Dinner be held

STARHEMBERG'S AMBITION

The Vienna Nazis, who

use

& MAN 23

have

The Prince asked him the same

The official communique issued after the Cabinet meeting-

company will necessitate a general reform of the entire insur ance system; although the other insurance companies are perfect- y sound. The agreement between the. Phoenix and its Directori will be declared null and void.

one of the largest in Europe, and: operates in 23 countries.

Ita.

EXPLANATION OF General Manager, Herr Berliner,

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276

died last month, and there 'Tumours' that be committed. suicide.

Commenting on the com-jsurance will, under the existing is a never-ending on Saturday, October 3, which is little for Archdukes andi

munique, experts declare, that conditions, have to be consider- struggle going on between the the day fixed for the Annual Din-Princes, tell this story of Prince as the assets of the Phoenix are ably reduced police and the criminals and ner in London, and that R.E. Sun-Starbenberg.

estimated to aggregate several A second communique issued science works, in seemingly day be observed on October 11, The Prince went to a priest to hundred million Schillings and yesterday states that the State is

both 1936.

Will members please note ask how he could become as great the claims to between three and financially not affected. impartial fashion, for sides; and, on the whole, it the dates.

Hitler. The priest's four hundred thousand, the in The Phoenix Insurance Co, im would seem that the criminal

The President read the official answer was: "I'll pray for you:" service. gets the best

No letter from REO.CA. Head- Then the Prince went to a Vien-j longer need the forger of bank-quarters announcing the melan-nese pumerologist who has won notes rely on brilliantly-clever choir death of H.M. King George fame through his knowledge of the penmanship to produce v, after which the members stood occult. forgeries that could only defervelin silence for a brief period. the ignorant and illiterate; to-- Following the meeting light, re-question, and the numerologist re- day he has at his disposal allfreshments were served and aplied: "It is easy for me to make the latest discoveries of photoconcert was given, during which a number 3 into a number 8 or a graphy, which, provided he can many enjoyable items

were number 6 into & number 3. But it The successfully imitate the paper rendered, including these by Cap is past my powers to make and the water-marking of the note he wishes to forge, will an AW Lorena, RE (at the nought into a Number One."

piano) Lieut. C. A. Lutkin, RE enable him to produce an imita (Baconteur), S/Sgt. L.A. Jordan, tion that will deceive all but E. (Songs), CER. A. Trounce the expert and, in some cases even the expert-for a while a least.

True it is that science, by the eruployment of ultra-violet ande infra-red rays and other won- ders of a like nature, is able to members singing Hurrah for the sprout from trees or telegraph poles, which the child Jesus is said to

C.R.E." and the National Anthem.

detect many of these forgeries! when submitted to test; but the general public, not having such means of testing at their disposal, may and do often fall easy victims to the frand, re- ceiving and passing the notes without question Only a little while ago a whole issue of $50

T

GERMANS. PROTECTED Berlin: In connection with the rumours of difficulties in the Aus-

Sycamore Of The trian Phoenix Insurance Co., the Holy Family German State Supervisory Board

for private insurance companies.

HE Tree, under the shade of declares that the German policy-- which the Holy Family rested holders are protected by funds de- Your Daily Smile! (piano) and Sgt. Inst. Russell,

during their flight to Egypt, still posited in German State banks, AEC who created roars

stands in the village of Mataryeh, according to the German insar- legislation. Trans-Ocean. New York Chamber of Commerce about six miles northeast from ance laughter as the "B.B.C. Announcexecutive says "Machines don't grow Cairo, Egypt. It is a very old sy-Service.

jon trees.” On a busy highway, hue-

of

The meeting was concluded byjever, they sometimes e Appear

OBITUARY

Mr. F. D. Bain Passes In London

News has just been received notes of one of our great banks from England of the passing of had to be withdrawn from cir- Mr. Frederick Douglas Bain, who culation, it will be remembered, died in London: yesterday at the so impossible was it for the age of 55 The deceased was' a ordinary member of the public son of the late Mr. George Murray to detect the difference between Bain, who for many

years was the genuine zotes and the proprietar and editor of the China spurious ones that had been put Mail. into circulation.

Mr. Bain is survived by his The case of the counterfeit wife, who is a sister of Mr. J. H. coiner is somewhat different-Seth and Mr. Harold Seth of Hong He has two means of producing Kong.

spurious coins; the mould and

the die. The die, which stamps STREET SLEEPERS' SHELTER

the coins out of a strip of

metal, calls for the highest art

of the die-sinker and, involves

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the employment of expensive! The following is a report of the machinery, so that the ordinary number of sleepers who occupied maker of spurious coins of the shelters during the small value finds this method nights (March 20 to March 25 impossibly expensive. He there inclusive):-

St. Peter's (West Point). (fore falls back on the mould,

which produces a corp lacking Capacity 129, Total Sleepers 903, the sharpness of the original and Turned away 5.

Po Yan Street (Central). jand consequently more easily

Unrivalled for Ginslings, detectable by anyone who will Capacity 158, Total Sleepers 1126,

Cocktails and Gimlets.

Superlative Quality.

Sole Agents

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

take the trouble to examine any and Turned away 10.

Nathan Road (Kowloon). change he may receive.

A thing which causes sur-Capacity 156, Total Sleepers 935, prise in connection with coun-and Turned away 0. terfeiting in this part of the:

world is the small denomina to make the punishment so tions of the coins chosen. The severe, for both the counter- Chinese criminal, like his rival feiter himself and those who money-maker, the honest: mer-put the coins into circulation, chant, seems to be content with that the game will be consider- worth the candie. small profits so long as be does ed not business. The recent with-Scarcely a week passes without! drawal of subsidiary: 'gilver a case of counterfeiting, or coins from circulation and the passing or being in possession substitution of token coins of of counterfeit coins, coming into infinitesimal intrinsic value our courts, but the punish- have given the counterfeiter a ments inflicted seem out of all chance of making a spurious proportion, in mildness, to the coin, that is very easily congravity of the offence. Would founded, when new, with its it not be well if our magistrates legitimate brother. As a increased the penalties they are natural ; consequence the empowered to inflict, rising Colony has lately been fooded rapidly to the maximum allow- with spurious ten-cent and five-ed by the law?

And might cent pieces, some made in the not the Police be empowered to Colony, others imported, publish, on their notice boards, Obviously the business pays,in Chinese, details of the mazi- There is only one way of mum penalties that await the dealing effectively with this counterfeiter and his crime against the community federate?

.con.

camore and nearby is the well to

have caused to spring forth from A lad whose insides are jumbled is the stone. described as a phenomenon. A greater one might be that of a trafic police- man with his heart in the right place.

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* * Tale of the Day

FORTHCOMING WEDDING

All graduates and past students of the University are invited by the Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell, to tea lo-day at 5.15 pa.. at the Gloucester Restaurant on The forthcoming wedding is the occasion of the first general announced of Mr. Tsol Mang-meeting of the Hong Kong Uni- suen, merchant of No. 9. Norfolk versity Alumni Association of the world. Road, Kowloon Tong, and Miss new premises of which at Glou- While some of us cannot get husbands

any price, others have husbands to Nellie Lee of No 21. Fung Failcester Hotel will be officially,"

Terrace, Happy Valley."

"I see that a woman has just cre-

mated ber fourth hasband."

That's the way

burn."

opened by Sir William after téa.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

STRENGTH IDEALITY

"THE ABOVE 2 WORDS CONTAIN THE SAME : » NUMBER OF LETTERS - BUT ONE HAS

5 SYLLABLES AND THE OTHER ONLY HAS 1

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