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NEW YEAR HAMPERS

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY

We beg to notify customers that Assorted Hampers waitabia" for the Festive Season may oe obtained from us at the following Beduced Ratos :-

No. 1 HAMPER-$38.

1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial 1 Q. Superb Tawny Port

1 Pt. Blackberry Brandy, 1 Pt. D.O.M.

Champagne.] 2 Qa St. Julien Olaret.

1 C. Martell's XXX Brandy.

Qt. King George IX Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky.|

10. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal.. 1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 1 Q Bargundy, Burgoyne's, 1 Phial Pomeranzen Bilters.

No. 2 HAMPER-$34.

1. Guillemart Champagne, 1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Burgoyna's Burgundy,

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.

9 Qt. King George IV Gold Label

of Parlection Whisky.

2. Tawny Dry Port.. 2 Qu. St. Julien Claret.

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 1 Q Vino de Pasto-Sherry, 1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitton.

No. 3

HAMPER-$30.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 Pt. Peppermint G.F.

1. Pt. D.O.M.

Qt. Superior Rich Old Purt.

2 Qua. King George 17 Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky!

1.Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy.......

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2 Qt. Medoc Claret,

1 Phil. Pumeranzen Bitters.

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GENERAL (MANAGERS,

HONGKONG,

RIGAUD, 16 RUE DE LA PAIX, PARIS. NEW STOCK OF FRENCH PERFUMES,

*UN Ám ExBÄUME”

JUST

ARRIVED.

GERMANY TIRED OF MILITARISM?

AN AMERICAN VISITOR'S IMPRESSION OF DRESDEN.

WAR FACTORY NOW TURNED TO PRODUCTS OF PEACE.

DEESDEN.

Quite unexpectedly and impre meditatedly I stumbled into the Industria gelaende here in Dresden the great war munitions plant that now houses nearly a hundred small factories busy with the production of peace products. Perhaps the most encouraging and comforting spectacle to the wandering Outlander, and especial ly to the optimistic American who clings (almost fanatically) to his dream of a world at peace, is this,

DECEMBER 30th, 1927.

city into an adjective for expres sings certain exquisite fragility, daintziness and archness. "And be sides, it makes glassware, metal, leather, stone wares that belong in the arts, artificial flowers and fruit, toys, jewellery, and excels in musical and scientific instrn- ments.

The former war manitions plant, landing itself to the heavier, har sher forms of manufacture, has be- come an auxiliary branch of Dres characteristic industries, den's,

among other things. making. machinery for use in Dresden fac- in Germany offering a modern vaxtaries, as well as many other Ar ticles for the common local use that alon of turning the award into a plowshare.

Welcome as it is, it is not a spectacle easy coins by, for it isn't featured. Yet it isn't hidden, Merely it is there-if you can find

it.

Operations Open To All, Even you may be conducted to it, it will be opened to you. For example, it is not listed in the sights-worth-seeing free literature that makes things easy for the tourist, along with the museums, castles, palaces, monuments, ruins, etc., of the tourist menu; but, at the same time, the Germans are not furtive about it. They are prae- tical, and their sentiments toward disarmament are determined by their social and political points of view by their self-interest, whe ther it is in enjoying the pay and picstige of an officer or in the re- lief of the labourer at getting the

Boldier off his back..

If, instead of coming haphazard upon this former great munitions platit, with its many big buildings, with plumes of smoke wreathing "out of ita tali chimneys," and streams of men and women workers hurrying through its gates, I had sought the usual formal admitance under official guidance, I could have seen it just as easily, but per haps less convincingly, for, accord- ing to the more or less sceptical newspaper point of view, one as- sumes that one is shown officially whatever the officials deem desir. able to be seen and admired.

↑ HONG KONG VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS.

[ÖRDERA BY LE. COL. I. G. BIED, D.8.0., COMMANDANT.}.

No. 310.

1-Musketry.

Sunday, January 8th, 1928. Re rve Company and Casuals will. fra Part II. Table T. at Stones cutters Range.

Range Officer: Lieut. A. Thornhill

AMERICA'S GIANT CINEMAS.

ROXY'S IN NEW YORK,

BY IRIS BARRY, the Film Critic, of The Daily Mail:**

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA For gorgeousness, comfort, and. Maize the picture theatres in the United States bear away all palms.

Launch will leave Murray Pier at 9 am, and call at Kowlson Pict at 0.10 .m

Dress: Uniform or mufti optional, but rifle, bayonet, pouches, braces and beit must be worn,

Arms will be drawn from Corps Headquarters on Friday, January 6th, 1898, between 9 a.m. and 12 noon, or 2 and 4 pm, or 5 and 6 p.m.; and on Saturday, January heretofore had been found in out-7th, 1928, between 9 a.m. and 1. p.m. side markets. But its more than 2,000 workers in thuburb of the "Little Industries. on the war site are busy making a good many of the homely necessities enamel

saucepans,

1.- Corals.

A large number of all ranks have not yet fred Part II. Lista of names are posted on Corps Notice Boarda, faacets for running All auch will make arrangements water, that "modern improve to fire by Sunday, January 29th, ment" the German hotel advertiac-1928, the last day on which Part II. ments stress; ecok stoves, electric will be fired. fixtures, kitchen conveniences, gar- den tools and what not, to fill the packing cases that follow the Ger

the salesman Over

earth wherever he finds his market.

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3.~~Peak Range. Applications for use of Peak Range for the first six months of 1928 should be submitted to the Adjutant immediately.

The Dresden war munitions plans was transformed into a centre for the manufacture of things to weet the prosaic needs of people living in the soothing obscurity of peat in 1920. It has become so much a ↑ part of the lie of Drenden now that even the workers, who hurry out there on the early trams, tak ing no five-minute risks of losing job while jobs are scarce, remenu- ber only in a dim and fuzzy wanity which can be given. or remember not at all, what it was like when it was a buzzing of the stupendous item

4-Corps Signals. Parade at Corps, Headquarters on Thursday, January 5th, at 5.30 p.m. for Signal Instruction. Dress: Mufti.

machinery.

war

Most of them knew it only as a place where the gates were guard ed and no one could go in without a permit. Even those who worked there at the war job do not kindle with recollection. So much cer- tainty of victory (when they went a); such a to-do, with so much breathless rushing, and now what? It is a puzzled attitude, apathetic. and the lively interest is in hold. ing the job

Given, Employment,

Every now and then in Germany Anyhow, there it is, abundantly this puzzled attitude takes an an visible the modern German explanatory angle revealing the equivalent of the sword turned unbelief that such a thing as de into the modern industrial equiva- fear could happen. Why," said

In its a young man to me in Bayreuth lent of the plowshare. physical and geographical aspect a young man who had fought

is a suburb of factories stitched through the war and was discuss to the ragged edge of the city ating it entirely from the point of “UN AIR EMBAUME" the end of a tram line. It gives view that logically it should cot work to 5,000 or more men and have turned out as it did, and who women, including the war wound. had no rancour at Americane, at cd, whose disabilities still leave | least as individuals-" why,” Baid them able to serve as porters at he, "Germany would have won the the gates, to run errands, to sit war it the United States hadn't at the switchboards of telephones, come in." or to hold down any of the less exacting jobs where the absence of an arm or a leg or an eye doesn't interfere too much with efficiency adequate to the pay.

Grand Model

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Everyone has heard of "Roxy's" in New York, that vast block of mageDry, not without beauty, which houses a small town within itself besides an auditorium seat- ing 0,000 and sweeping out like a great fan from a stage which is huge but looks 'small.'

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There are cafterias, lounges, a broadcasting station, sumptuous fat, practice rooms, floor above floor; the orchestra, a really good. one, dueludes 118 performers. The attendants, groomed to the last fraction in courtesy, number scores. No one can escapo a visit to this huge cinema without being shown and with what pride the carpet in the foyer, woven in a single piece and said to be the largest

carpet so made.

Not far away is the Paramount budding, the foyer of which towers up in severe marble arches and tha "pper atmosphere of which blazes with illumination from a forest of chandeliers that strike gleams "on the polished surface of the bigh ball. Exuberant Style Of Their Own.

the existence of these mammoth It seems the custom to deprecate

cinemas: just as in Hollywood the All racks are reminded that Sun-inbabitants almost apologise for day, January 15th, 1928, is allotted the quite astonishing Chinese " Part II. at Stonecutters Range. in actual fact these gargantuan to Corps Signals to fire Musketry | theatre recently opened 'there. But

This is the last and only opportu- | and wildly decorated cinemas have

5.-Artillery Company. Thursday, January 5th, 1928. Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.95 p.m. for Battery Drill, Dress: Mufti.

6.-Mounted Infantry Company, Parade at Stables at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 10th, 1998. Dress: Multi,

.

7-Armoured Car Company, Monday, January 9th, 1929, at 5.30 p.m. --

Mobile Colaum. Drivers will parade at Corps Headquarters for instruction under Lient. A C. Groves,

Motor Cyclists and Armoured Car Gun Team under 2/Litut. Hancock for Machine Gun Instruction. Dress: Mult

All

8.-Scottish Company. Thursday, January 6th, 1928. Pistoons will parade at Corps Head quarters at 8.30 p.m. for Vickers Gun. Instruction. Dress: Mufti.

9. Portuguese Company Parade at Corps Headquarters on Friday, January 6th, 1998. Dress: Mufti. All ranks are requested to make a special effort to turn up.

10.-Promotion,

The following extract from the Hong Kong Government Gazette dated December 23rd, 1927, is published for infomation:

HE. the Governor has been pleased to approve the appoint ment and promotion of Lieutenant Fraser Syme Thomson to the rank of Captain in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from December 16th, 1927." 1.-Command.

War As Means To An End. This is a less grudging recogni- tion of our part in the war than some of the allies can bring them- This fitting in of the war wound-selves to make, but its point here is that it divulges how dazed much ca is one of the common and har rowing features, not only of Ger- of Germany still is at the extra- many, but of all the countries that ordinary unexpectedness of the were caught in the grip of the war

outcome. And having had all mutely presenting a sort of ex- their assured confidence and their bit A argument or protest tremendous, methodical-not to say against the insanity of war between mathematical-and expensive pre presumably civilized neighbours, paredness fail to work out to the who are not supposed to be conceal final decimal, the mass suspects the ing an intent to murder under infallibility of warlare a means to achieve an end. That may be diplomatic recital of the r

the reason why it neither laments The ingenuity with grievances. which these maimed remnants are

nor jubilantly rejoices over the Capt F. Syme Thomson takes over the command of the Lights wiping out of war plants and war

Section and Lights Section Cadre, equipment.

as from December 16th, 1927. 12.-Promotions and Appointments. The following promotions and ap

ber 29th, 1997:-* pointments take effect from Decem

Perhaps after the first poignant pang at the destruction of the fleet, and the wiping out of the aerodromes and flying machines-- a sort of wanton murder of the galant things man creates that pierces the sensibilities it didn't

matter so much about the rest of

fitted into the economic scheme to ear their keep-chinked into odd earners where there would be a waste of the able-bodied-28 8 triumph of the efficiency expert, who naturally is not as much coù- cerned about the cause as are the sentimentalist and pacifist.

The packing cases that now come oat through the gates on the big trucks are not headed for the front, with contents immediately destinel to destroy and to be themselves destroyed Dresden, besides bei 1g a capital, an art centre, a city of

west, under the surveillance of Eight and graceful social gesturg with a holiday, sparkling beauty Peace 1-commissions. The bar. the Allied war-or were they call all its own a perfect gem of a city is a busy, industrious city racks are being used by the police manufacturing for its own use and now some turned into civilian re- idences, and others reserved for for export, by preference, and by the standing army of 100,000 agreed its special skill and taste, articles on by the peace tarms. More bar of beauty luxury, delicacy and racks than formerly were fineness.

Large Variety Of Warez..

the war junk that seemed to be. appropriately heading their buildings and scrapheap, anyhow. munition plants and gun factories

for the Arsenals, contents;

3p-

portioned to that number of soldiers now are used, giving them

It counts among ita characteris more roomy accommodations than handiwork the porcelain that in the old days of a nation top- bas turned the very name of the heavy with soldiers.

£69,230 HOUSE.

FOR THE GOVERNOR- GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA.

*MELBOURNE.

An attack on Lord Stonehaven, the Governor-General, was made in the House of Representatives by Air. Roland Green, a New South Walch member.

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No. 9 Platoon. No. 938 Corpl. V. M. Xavier to be Sergeant.

No. 958 L-Cpl. A. A Romedios to be Corporal

No, 974 Pte. L Z. Marques to be Lance Corporal

No. 112 Pte. A. Garcia to bé Lance-Corporal,

No. 1177 Pte. F. P. Sequeira to be Lance Corporal.

No. 10 Platoon.

No. 1122 Ptc. C. F. V. Ribeiro to be Lance-Corporal

No. 1135 Pte. N. E. Maher to be Lanco-Corporal.

No. 1168 Pte. F. A. M. Rosario to be Lance-Corporal.

No, 1178 Pte. H. J. Silve to be Lance-Corporal, podob

No. 1188 Pte. M. F. Baptista to be Lance-Corporal.

12. Transfers.

No. 938 Sergt. V. M. Xavier is transferred from No. 9 Platoon to No. 10 Platoon, as from December

Federal capital, had remarked that "Canberra's chief virtue is that it is only six hours journey from Melbourne Mr. Gram asserted th that this amounted to a slur on the No. 1188 L-Cpl. M. F. Baptista: Australian people, who had apis transferred from No. 10 Platoon proved the choice of the site, and to No. 9 Platoon. Added that it was Lord Stone haven's duty, to reside at Canberra in future:

The Chairman of Committees, who refused to hour Mr. Green further, with difficulty induced hian to sit down. *

It was Inter reported officially · that already fes,230 and been spent Mr. Green declared that the Fon remodelling an old squatter's Governor-General, referring in a residence at Caulerra for Lord recent speech to Canberra, the new Standbaren's use.

14.-Eaversion.

No, 935 Sergt. E. A. Remedios, No. 10 Platoon, reverts to the rank of Private at his own request, as from December 29th, 1927,

-15-Bergefnis Mess Meeting. There will be a meeting of the Sergeants Mess Committee at Volunteer Headquarters at 8. p.m. on Thursday, January 8th, 1928, (Osntinued on next Column.)

a certain exuberant style of their own: and the Paramount in New York would probably not strike a visitor from the planets, as, more startling than Versailles must have been in its inception, or the

Chinese in Hollywood as more fantaste than the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. Beides, as cinemas, they are very comfortable and show films magnificently.

Of course, films unadulterated are hardly ever to be found in the United States. A · great ¿many cinemas - show vaudevil pro- gramme with a film tacked on to the end of it. The rest do less magnificently what Mr. Rothapfel, of Roxy's," does and stage an immense prologue to the picture, along with musical interludes.

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This is rather annoying to any one who wants to see films as it may be necessary (as it was for the writér when visiting the "Oriental" at Chicago) to wait hours before any motion picture makes its appearance: and the tableaur virants, ballets, orchestral interludes, jazz - bands and: what ‚ not that are provided are, not all first rate. It is rather annoying. too, aot to be allowed to smoke.

Films for mare critical audiences are also shown at smaller picture theatres specialising in Continental pictures, revivals of worthwhile films of all kinds, experimental or travel films, and oddities.

Bot at least these new cinemas Douglases. do deserve their nickname of "cathedrala of motion pictures, even though it may ha true, as one of the weekly magazines gibes, that they exist only to provide half. wite with hot and cold running entertainment,”

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17.-Struck Of The Strength: Having left the Colony, as from November 14th, 1927: No. 185 Cpl G., B. Layton, Reserve Co.

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