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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 238D, 1924

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The collection at this year's festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys amounted to £52.296 and was the third highest in the history of the institution' since its centenary in Is08

The festival was held on June 11th at the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen WITH street, W.C. ander the presidency of the Earl of Malmesbury, Provincial Grand Master of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. There were over 1,000 diners.

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In proposing Success to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys," the Chair- man said 400 boys were being provided for at the schools at Bushey, Herts, and 700 nters were dependent upon them for out- education. Another site had been bought for a new school, where provision was to he made for a further 100 hoys, and he hoped that, as a result of the collection to be announced that night "those respon sible would now feel justified in proesed. ing with the buildings. There were on the strength of the institution 128 boys whose fathers had either been killed or incapacitated from warning their living HE WHO DOES through the war, and all had been ad- fitted without halle The reliable in- come was 7,000 a year, and the cast fore providing for the boys was £70,000,

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EASTERN BRANCHES: Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo

Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai.

The Corporation undertakes General Banking and Exchange Business of every description and in addition to its Branches has Agencies in all the principal Cities of the Work.

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result of the festival, stated that the principal lists from the Provinces were Quality Glasses. those of Youth Wales (West), 21.000: Nottinghamshire, £1,60 North Wales, £1,611 Hertfordshire: £2.04a: Kent, 9.214: Surrey, 184: North and East Yorkshire. £235; Hangshire and Isle of Wight. £4.000.

The grand total was as follows:

Stewards: Amount.

1,051 $31,019, 12 0 Provinces......... 1.903

39,295 S Foreign Stations.... 40 1.21 15 10

$94.236 16 3 Included among the "foreign stations** was the Preservance Lodge of Hongkong (2182145).

London

3.091

The previous day was prize day at the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys at Bushey, Herts, and many relatives and brethren in Masonry assembled in the

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Malmesbury, who was accompanied by the ΕΠΗ of Malmesbury. Provincial Grand Master of Hampshire, presented the awards to the successful scholars.

Mr. C. E.Keyser. P.G.D., Provincial who Grand Master of Hertfordshire, preside, said there were in the school 400 boys, while there were 1,100 on their books Within the course of the next two or three years they hoped to have completed the new junior school, which would

provide accominodation for another 400 boys, and this would prove of incal culable vahe, for it,

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to take the boys at thont for years of are insfenit of nearly 12 and so from the start of their school career guld, their characters on the best lines

Mr. P., Crofts, the headmaster. read a list of several distinctions won hy the pupils at Oxford and Cambridge, and stated that of thirty-nine boys entered for the Cambridge School Certificate thirty- eight were successful, and they obtained Sve distinctions.

WAR MEDICAL ERRORS. MESOPOTAMIA HALL-MARKED BY DULL INITIATIVE.

The official medical history of the war is now completed, and the last of the 11 volumes compiled under the general editorship of Major-General Sir William Anderson published."

The volume deals frankly with the errors of the medical service in arean. typical of Middle Eastern conditions. Although in some respects the faulty administration was a factor in the break- down of the medical services in the Dardanelles. Mesopotamia, and East Africa, the chief lesson to be learnt from

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the study of these campaigns. ways the WHY, PAPER POUNDS MUST STILL history, is the need of a close liaison be tween the medical administration and the General Staff from the outset.

There is no chance of adopting the In the Dardanelles the chief lesson suggestion of Professor Gustav Cassel points to the necessity for catablishing that the British Government and the large general hospitals near the scene of banks should begin to use sovereigns operations, and for providing sufficient and ball-soverigus again and withdraw steamers and nail craft for the evacua paper money, writes a Political corres- Lion of sick and wounded to the bospondent. pitals.

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Laud out as the best ever orgauised în Professor Cassel's appeal to England. the British Army but prevention is to do the bold thing, and to do it now, limited by our lack of knowledge and by reintroducing gold coinage, is based further research is required.

on nothing like that. He wants England

Mesopotamia the administration to set an example to other nations, and whalt marked by its training in peace emphasise the value of the gold standard. ti in India. Initiative: had been So great an authority as Sir, Felix and by many years of practising Schuster, and other inkers, are inclined cony and war equipment readily pro- that way also

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rial for the force in France was not But from a Treasury authority I learn- esim ayked for by the Indian Expedi-ed that there is not the slightest prospect Lionary Force. At the battle of Ctesi. of any jamediate return to gold eur phun no adequate arrangements could be rency, however desirable economically or inade for collecting the wounded; bus bygienically that may he

There nwithstanding the defects, all the

is a new price level sined the wounded were eventually evacuated, a war. Far more money is in circulation" "The sovereigns, half-sove- markable achievement during the Lazar I was told. dous retreat.

reigns and the bullion of the Bank and the Banks could not meet the require ments in a re-introduced gold currency, The battles of Shaikh Saad, Wadi, and taking into account the reserves, which finna still remain a nightmare to all must be held at the Bank of England.. wh took part in them. The wounded Ope cannot expect a return to gold yout and many died of exposure. currency at the earliest, I, should say. Those that. collected could not be before 1929, and it is doubtful even at

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