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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

CHINESE CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.

THE

THE OFFICES and STATIONS of the CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS for KOLON and Dwrice will be CLOSED to PUBLIC BUSINESS on the $23, 25TH, 17TH DECEMBER, 1926, and 1st and JANUARY, 1927.

F. HAYLEY BELL, Commissioner of Chinese Customs, Kowloon and District.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18TE, 1926.

INTIMATIONS.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that N

An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of PEAK TRAMWAYS COM- 2MPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the HONG KONG HOTEL, Pedder Sirent, Victoris in the Colosy of Hong Kong, oa MONDAY, THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1926, at 11 O'CLOCK in the Fosinoos, when the Bukjoined Beaolu tion will be proposed as sa Extraordinary Hevolution

Office of Chinese Maritime Custome For Kowloon and District, York Buildings, Hong Hong, 17th December, 1926, '[4321

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE.

LATE CARS.

COMMENCING on the 2018 DECEMBER. 1928, unlers & Notice to the Leatrary is exhibited during the Preceding Day, LATE CARS will be Available at 10 Minutas Notica Every Night at the following Ratón :--

With a Per Passenger Minimum Starting Betwee: any Distance, "Charge of

$3.00 50 cents 115 AM 1.00 AM. 1.00 M. & 2.00 A.M. 2.00 ."& 3.00 x.

50 cents.. $3 coats

$5.00 310,00

After 3:00. by Special Arrangement in Writing at Not Less Than 12 Hoare' Notice Charges for Private Cars same as above.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

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THE INTERNATIONAL RACE, AND RECREATION CLUB OF MACAO, LIMITED, MACAO.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

INAUGURAL RACE MEETING FOR CHINA PONIES of This Club will take place at MACAD on the Bru FEBRU ABY, 1927 NEXT, il Weather Permita. There will be Only One Event at Thin Mosting,

THE TRIAL STAKES."

The FIRST ANNUAL SPRING MEET- ING FOR CHINA PONIES is Scheduled to take place on the 16TH, 17ra, 1878 and 24TH APRIL. 1927. The CHAMPION BWEEPSTAKE will be an on the 18T APRIL, the Sko Day of the Meeting.

By Order,

S. W. CHENG,

Secretary

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IN THE 'SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

COMPANIES (WINDING ÚP) No. 5 or 1926.

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES

ORDINANCE, 1911,

AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE ORIENTAL

COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.

WINDING UP Order made the 151x,

DECEMBER 1926.

Date and Place of First Meeting

CREDITORS 23RD DAY OF DECEMBER, 1926, at 10 30 o'clock in the FORZNOOR at the OFFICIAL RECEIVER'S Oce. CONTRIBUTORJEB-2380 DAY DECEM-

That the Regulations contained in the printed document submitted to the Meeting and for the purpose of identi fication subscribed by the Chairman thereof be approved and adopted as the Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for and to

existing

Articles the exclusion of theref AND NOTIE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that Further EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will TENTH DAY or "JANUARY, 1927, at 11 'CLOCK in the FARKBOOK, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Proceedings if the slove mentioned bleeting and of confirming, if thought fit, as Special Resolution the above mentioned Resolution.

e held at the Same Place on MONDAY, 712

Dated this 13th day of December, 1926

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, ...

General Managers,

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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN &

MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING of CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN

MORTGAGE CO., LTD, will he held at the Registered Office of the Company. ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, Chater Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on MONDAY, ra 31D DAY OF JANUARY, 1987, at 2.50 O'CLOCK in the AFTERNOOK when the Subjoined Re- solution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, vir "That

the -regulations contained in the printed document submitted to the Meeting and for the purpose of iden "Lification subsoribed by the Chairman "thereal be approved and adopted w "the Articles of Association of the

Compsay in substitution for and to "the exclusion of all existing Artisles

INTIMATIONS.

EWO COTTON MILLS, LTD.

THE

HE undermentioned Share Certificate has been declared DESTROYED and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN against the Negotiation of These Shares.

Mouth bends and the Origins! Certificate Duplicate Certificate will be issued Que unless Recovered within that Period, will there after be held by the Company s NULL, and VOID.

Certificate No. 6409 for 100 Ordinary Shares Numbered 219550/649 in Name of MOK HK MING.

INTIMATIONS.

FOR

CHRISTMAS

JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD., WHAT-shall I give HER:

Goparal Managers, Ewo COTTON MILLS, LTD. Shanghai, 9th December, 1996,

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BY ORDER OF TRE MORTGAGEE,

07

PUBLIC AUCTION

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY

ibe Colony of Situs'e at Victoria ju

Hong Kong and registered at the Lana Offcas THE REMAINING PORTION OF SECTION GoF MARINE LOT. No. 90, Together with the Message or Tecement and other Emotions and Buildings thereon known as No. 201, The Froportion QUEIS'S ROAD WEST,

of Annual Crown Reat£2 10 d

BY ME. E. V. M.B. Da SOUSA, Auctioneer,

AT

THE CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, No. 4, DUDDELL STREET, HONG KONG,

OP WEDNESDAY, THE 22ND DAY OF DECEMBER, 1926, AT 8 O'GLOCK ^F.X.

For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to

Mass, GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON

& Co., Mortgages's Boliciters, St George's

Building, Chater Road MB. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,

Anctioneer. No. Daddell Street. Dated the 5th day of December, 1926

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CE TO

CO., LTD.

FOL

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"thereof. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that A Further EXTRAORDINARY THE AUSTRAL-CHINA, NAVIGATION GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Same Place on THURSDAY, TEX 20TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1917, at 2.30 O'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON for the purpass of receiving a Report of the Proceedings of the above mentioned Meeting and of confirming, it, as a Special Besciation the above ptioned Begolation.

A cop

of the proposed new Articles of Association of the Company with the said Alterations, Amendments and Differences be tween the existing and new Articles incor porated and indicated in Red Ink can be seen daring usual business hours

hours at the Registarad Office of the Company aforesaid.

Dated the 16th day of December, 1928.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers. Hong Kong, December 15th, 1926. (4313 HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE 1 HEREBY GIVEN that the

SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, & ADELAIDE VIA MANILA, ILOILO, SANDAKAN, BALIKPAPAN & BABAUL.

S 8. "CALULU”. SAILING ON 2320 DECEMBER, 1926.

For Freight and Particulars Apply to

DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Talephone No. Central 1050.

(4068

WANTED-For MACAO ELECTIC OC's Showroom A SALESWOMAN with | Knowledge of Portuguese, English and Chinese. Write asting Qualifications, etc., Fully and Salary Expected to P.O. Box No. 5, Macao.

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TO LET Near MAY BOAD STATION. Twɔ

FLATS in the New BUILDINGS with ail Modern Conveniences. Moderate Banta

BER, 1926, at 11.30 o'clock in the JANUARY, the aforesaid Gerti Apply &. V. APCAR & Co. Lrn, 1, Des

FOXENOON at the OFFICIAL RECEIVER's Oca.

Dated the 18th day of December, 1926,

EL AGASSIZ, Official Receiver and Provisional

Liquidator.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

Certificate No. /NE 4822 dated HONGKONG, 2ND OCTOBER, 1917. for One Share of this Hank Numbered 54097 in the Name of MR. LO KWONG BIN has bean LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificate

the Bank before the 9 not be produced

1987, 8

a New Certificate for the Share will Boats No. 5/5S 4822 will be thereafter treated by this Corporation as NULL and VOID.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

A. H. BARLOW,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th December, 1926,

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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION......

Voax Road Central,

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or, what shall I send Him.

Go to

doctrine, but by s section of the Govern ment combatting it. The stirring up of the workers, the excessive powers wield- ed by the guilds, the class consciousness aroused, the belief that the workers can' secure for themselves whatever conditions they might conjure up in their imagina- tions; their claim to be outside the law, and therefore a law unto themselves, can only end in complete disillusionment or in chaos and national disintegration »

The U.S.S. Helena arrived in port last evening. The usua! salutes were ex- changud.

Mr. L. G. Scott, superictandent of the Peak Tramways, Ltd., went on leavo yesterday by the 3. Changle bound for Manila and Australia.

The concluding competition for the Ralphs" Shield will be held by the St. John Ambulance Brigade to-morrow morning on Murray Parade Ground commencing at 9:30.

The Military Hospital, Bowen Road, held their first dance of the season there last night. Dancing was from 8.30. p.m. to I am." and "an enjoyable time was spent by all who attended.

The workers have the idea that wealth is to be obtained by merely demanding it The notion that China is wealthy is too absurd to be entertained by any occ who has a nodding acquaintance with the country. That she is potentially wealthy is only partially true, for even if there Manila and Australia ports by the an.

were untold mineral wealth in the bowels of the earth, this is a vastly different state of things from actual wealth og the

Among the passengers who left for

Chanyte were Mr. and Mrs. Jackman, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Gray and Mr. L. G. Scott.

top of it. To produce the wealth which WATSON'S

a

may be hidden under the surface requires combination of capital, enterprise, technical skill, and intelligence of a very where one has the choice of the high order, and the necessary conditions which precede the creation of these last finest selections" of

factors. It is safe to say that there is little surplus capital in China for the upbringing of numerous offspring must always encroach on the margins left over and it will be difficult to eradicate a

In

PERFUMERY de Luxe,

CONFECTIONERY, incomparable.

Two Chinese, charged in connection with uttering and being in possession of a forged 810 bank-note, were sentenced, respectively, to three and two months at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

A combined meeting of the China Coast Officers' Guild and the Marine Engineers' Guild of China (Hong Kong Branches) is being held to-morrow at 10.20 am.; for the purpose of discussing.

urgent business."

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On his way back to Shanghai, Dr. C. T. Wang, the well known politician and President of the Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation, arrived in Horg Kong yesterday on the President M Finley from Manila..

In our report of the annual meeting of religious belief that works such bavce the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club yester day it was stated that Mr. Edgar Davis with the plane of living. Foreign capital was elected Captain for the ensuing year. must therefore be sought, but the pre-This was a misprint. It should have been

Mr. Edgar Davidson. SPECIALITIES that will

sent anti-foreign activities will effectually tempt the most fastidious.divert for many years the flow of foreign

capital into the country. The failure off SMOKERS REQUISITES

the much vaunted Whampoa scheme to of the latest designs. materialise is only one indication of the inability of the Chinese themselves to fact Everything that will please the giver and delight the recipient.

Edward Zimmern, charged with as- saulting a ticket seller at Queen's Pier, was called before Major C. Willson yes- terday. Bail of 810, deposited with the Police Inspector, was estreated,

bring together money, enterprise, and failed to appear in Court when his casa labour in their due proportions. What ever schemes, on a large scale, have been realised so far China have been always under foreign guidance and with the aid of foreign capital.

The creation of an educated class engineers, doctors, teachers, who might become managers or supervisors of im-

A. S. WATSON portant public works is impossible in the

& CO., LTD.

THE HONG KONG DISPENSABY

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DEATH.

VAN CORTLANDT.-On December 18th, át Singapore on board the R.ALS. Macedonia, Captain NEWTON WENN VAN CORTLAND, of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd..-sud- denly in his 37th year. [4316

TO LET Furnished HOUSE on Box Hong Kong Ofice: 1, Chater Road,

No. 4307, c/o Hongkong Daily Prom. 1307

managed and rented for owners going home.

London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.

The Daily Press.

atmosphere prevailing. The educational system is permeated with extreme poli- tical thought; it is being exploited for the purpose of rousing passion. In such conditions it is impossible for the crea tive impulses to emerge. Intellectual life, for its proper growth, requires calm, unimpassioned surroundings. It cannot flourish where unreasoned hate becomes more important than zeal for academic work. How long it will take to eradicate this pestilence from the sphere of educa- tional activity, it is hard to asy, but it is obvious that fatellectual progress, of a kind that will benefit the country, is out of the question in present circumstances.

Even if peace and quietness could be re-established, it is more than doubtful whether the present educational pro- gramme would lead to the spiritual re generation of China. It seems to us that the country, in rejecting her well wishers and friends, in antagonising the foreign er," in driving away capital and in under- THE friends of China are finding it very mining confidence, in rousing hopes hard just now to maintain that faith and among the workers that are doomed to kindly interest in the country, which disappointment, is setting out upon' a hitherto they have firmly held. It is not course which will lead, not so much to a easy to assign the just proportions of the bright and glorious future as to the NO LET-From lat Aram to Drozes present unhappy state to the various negation of all those aspirations Part of" Oficial China has taken as her life 2927 Well Farmiabad HOUSE, Seven causes operating at the moment. There TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that the

partner, not the vigorous healthy repre- 1928, or on any Saberquent Day, between the NOT

Certified Transfer Dead For One Share Terms to Reliable Tenants.-Apply F.O. Boris little reason to doubt that China will sentative of Western culture, but one so Hours of 10 A.. sud P.M.

Upon Applying for Payment Creditors mart of this Bank Numbered 62658 in the Name of No. 451.

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advanced in political disease as to bear prodaon the Notice sent to them together with M. ANTHONY HRNEY CARROLL stated

in his countenance the signs of decadence any Bills of

held by them.

STAPLETON

O has been LOST STOLEN, JOHN FLEMING, da,

and death. and should this Certified Transfer Deed not be Liquidator

produced before the 9TH JANUARY, 1997, a

COMPANIES WINDING OF No. 1 or 1824.

[NVESTMENT Sharea Negotiated in small or large lote: Houses and Flats

secured properties yielding good interest Mortgages arranged

Apply the EONG- KONG SMALL INVESTORS' BRARE TALEFIONE U. & REAL ESTATE CO. 4330,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, the HONGKONG, 31st AUGUST, 1917, for Three Shares of this Bank Numbered 54094 54096 in the Name of Ma LO KWONG LUM has been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificate xet. be produced to the Bank before the 9TH JANUARY, 1927,

New Certificate for the Shares will and the aforesaid Certificats No. 5/NB 4760TO BE SOLD, OR TO BE LET Furnished (Ill be thereafter treated by this Corporation on Lease. "MARTINHOE," Nor 451,

BARKES ROAD, FRAX.

IN THE MATTEE OF THE COMPANIES

ORDINANCES, 1911-1925,

AND

IN TEX MATTER OF THE CHINESE ME

CHANTS BANK, LIMITED LIQUIDATION).

BEOOND DIVIDEND OF TÉN PER CENTUM

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that A

N SECOND DIVIDEND OF TEN PER

is NULL and VOID.

iarued.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

A. H. BARLOW,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th December, 1926.

£4282

CENTUM lisa been Declared in This Matter, HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING

and that the same may be received at my

-Office, CHARTERED BANK BOILEtxe, Victoris.

Hong Kong, on the 20TH DAY OF DECEMBER,

CORPORATION.

Books or Securities sporit Receipts. Paisto bave been compisted by MA E. M

18th December, 1926,

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

IN THE MATTER OF THE FATATE 07

Apply Boz No. 1998,

cjo Hongkong Daily Prem

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Rooms at 71, Bower Boan.- Modarste

TO LET.

KOWLOOK.

Apply to -- HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

CO. LTD. 40253 Alexandra Buildings,

Hora Koxa, Dxcar 18mm, 1926,

CHINA AND THE FUTURE.

soon rue the day, if she is not already doing so, that heralded the intrusion of Bolshevism within her peaceful border

New Certified Transfer Deed will be issued, A EUROPTAN SHOP in NATHAN ROAD, SUN YAT Say himself does not seem to and the aforesaid Misting Certified Transfer Deed will be thereafter treated by this Oor- poration as NULL and VOL.

of the Court of Directors," By Order

A E BARLOW,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 9th December, 1926.

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TO LET

CLARA E. BAINBRIDGE, LA UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF NO. 4L, BUDDELL STREET.

OF EMPRESS STORE, KOWLOON, IN THE COLONY OF HONG Kove, DECLASER..

CANTON, LTD,

TIBE Certificate No. 1558 for One-Silver

Share No. 1188 now converted into Five TOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that the Gold Shares in this Society standing in the Court has, by virtus of Faction 53 of Name of CHAS. E. BICHARDSON of Bong The Probates Ordinance 1897 (No. 2 of 1887), Kong has been declared LUST, and if at the made an Order limiting the Time for Bending expiration of One Month from the Date hereof. in Claims to or Against the abore Estate to the above Document be not forthcoming the the 147H DAY OF JANUARY, 1927.

*** said Certificate will be deemed Cancelled and to send the Claims to the Undersigned by the

Creditors and Claimants are hereby required of No Effect, and NEW Certificate for the

abora Date,

Dated this 17th day of December, 1928.

BUGH ADAIR NIBBET,

Apply to

THE HOW. SHORETAKY,"

CLUB LUSITANO

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PREPAID WANTED

ADVERTISEMENTS.

"1

have

had any clear notion how to get ou with the task of regenerating China after the destruction of the Manchu dynasty, It was at the last, when he was a nick man, when his mental state was not very clear, that he began coqueiting with these Russian ideas, hoping to find in them the stimulus for achieving what he had in mind, a country "administered in that clean, healthy manner in which he saw Western States governed. His aim was sound, but the means by which he chote to achieve it were the first cause of the present chaor

Five Gold Bhares will be inaned in its stead by BONHAM ROAD, Three Stories, Six What success the Cantonese have at

the Society,

PAUL LACDER

General Manager, Hong Kong, 22nd November, 1986.

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Official Administrator.

NO LET "STOWFORD No. 2, 48,

Rooma Five Bath Rooms, Kitchen, Servants", Quarters, Recently Repaired and Renovated * Apply DEACONE, PRixon Buimte. 2.

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tained in their present work has been attained not by adopting the Bolshevik

>

It seems agreed that China cannot, in the life time of the present generation, rise to such a position as to win the esteem of the world. What is most likely to occur in the near future is a military dictatorship under which the people, formerly chastised with whips, will be chastised by scorpiona

On Thursday there was a clean bill of health in the Colony.

The whist drive, which was announced to take place at the Helena May In- stitute, on Thursday evening, was can- celled.

the Central Magistrney yesterday in the case of the two men charged with the attempted theft of watches from Mesars Sennet Freret

A further adjournment was ordered at

At a meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, held at the Italian Mission on Thursday night, Chev. J. M. Alves stated that the gross receipts of the recent bazuar would exceed $29,000, He paid a tribute work done by the

Chinese ladies.

The Club Lusitano celebrated its 60th Anniversary last evening by bold- ing a reception for members and the Portuguese community generally. The reception was followed by an impromptu dance, at which the Lyric Orchestra pro- vided the music.

A

At the conclusion of the evening service at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,. to-morrow, there will be a social hour in the.Church Hall, adjoining, comment- Service men are 15 at 7.15 p.m. especially given a cordial invitation to attend this gathering.

Sub-Inspector Fallon, who sustained injuries inflicted by a madman running amok in Yaumati district on Thursday night, left the hospital yesterday. Sergt. pital. His injuries are somewhat serious, Lamptrill, another victim, is still in hos and it is expected that be will be detain- ed in hospital for a fortnight. Traffic Inspector Nicoll also received a slight cut

in the wrist.

Thomas Vaughan Jenkins, an- uṇem- played Englishman, was committed to the House of Detention at the Central Magistracy yesterday on a charge of vagrancy. It was stated that defendant Pras quite respectable when sober, but is drink he was troublesome, George. Demetriovoski, an American of Rassian origin, was similarly charged and a like committal was made,

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"MILITARY WEDDING.

MAJOR PETERSON AND MRS. COMPTON SMITE.

GENERAL GIVES BRIDE AWAY,

At St. John's Cathedral on Thursday, officiated, Major Guy Lansberry Peter- when the Bev. H. V. Copley Moyle

son, of the RA.B.C., was married to Mrs Compton Smith, widow of. Major Compton Smith, who was killed in

Ireland.

The wedding was a quiet, one, being attended by a few officers from military units stationed here, and a few friends. The Rev. H. V. Copley-Moyle officiated.

Major-General 6. C. Luard, C.B, O.M.G., gave the bride away and Major Bennett, M.C., was the "best man."

After the ceremony, the bride and bridegroom left the church under an archway of crossed swords. A reception was given at Headquarters, House after which Major and Mrs. Peterson left for Repulse Bay. They leave later for Fan- ling

Amongst those present at the ceremony and later at the reception were: Mrs. and Miss Luard, Col. and Mrs: 0. Russell Brown, Col. and Mrs. Boylan Broadley, Smith, Mrs. Macready, Commander

Commander Pitcairn-Jones," Lieut. Col. C. M. Stephen, Major Roberts, Capt. E. W. Morris, Capt. and Mrs. H. N. E. Walker, Major L J. Lightfoot, Major AR Stamford, Lieut. and Mrs. C. H. Atkins, Lieut. R. Q. F. Johnston

(A.D.C.) and Mrs. Johnston

Warrant officere, N.C.O.'s and men' of the B.A.S.C. and I.A.B.C. (permanent staff) also attended.