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THE

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 1928.

SECRETS OF THE PATENT OFFICE.

HONG KONG VOLUNTEER TRAP FOR A SHANGHAI

DEFENCE CORPS.

(ORDERS BY LT.-COL L. 1. BIED,

COMMANDANT.]

No. 318,

1.-Annual Inspection. Thursday, March 18th, 1925. The General Officer Commanding, South China Command, will inspect the Hong-Kong Volunteer Defence Corps on Thursday, March 13th, 19, on Murray Parade ground at 6 p.m.

SIMPLETON.

SEQUEL TO THREATENING

JS LETTER

THE EDIBLE GRAMOPHONE

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RECORD.

A LOUD SPEAKER IN 1671.

A director of a large Uhinese Laak in Peking Road, Shanghai, having received a little while ago. a threatening letter ordering his Ofee were given up when Mr. d. Some of the secrets of the Patent to hand to a third party, a sum of A. Gomme, Librarian of the Patent $500,000, complained to the Inter-Offee, lectured before the Institute police. national an. well A

the French at Patemers at the Caxton Hal:

In the letter it was stated that bottle which was to be handed to the mum was to be placed in a person who would be present in Every member of the Corps (Re- front of the "Great World" o serve Company included) is requir-the day and time specified. ed to attend..

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Further details will be issued

Inter.

Members are reminded, that at tendance at the above inspection is one of the qualifications for efficiency.

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Conference at Corps Headquar ters on Monday, February 27th, at 3.30 p.m. en Kirkpatrick Scheme for 10:28, all available Officers to attend, all ranks interested in reconnais nace work are invited to attend.

3-Corps Rifle Meeting. Corps Rifle Meeting will take place at Stonecutters Range pa April 8th and 9th (Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. Further de- tails will be issued later.

1.

The Garrison Biffe Meeting will take place on April 17th, 18th and

to Volunteers, will those interested apply to the Adjutant for details.

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5.

The Corps Notice Board has been moved to the Drill Hall and is placed on the inside of the Western wall facing the Orderly Room.

4.

The attention of all ranks i drawn to the modified conditions af service applie-ble to men with three years' efficit it. service to their credit, a copy of the regulation is an the Corps Notice Board.

7.-Musketry..

Sunday, February 26th.

The Scottish Company will re Part L Table "T" at Stonecutters Sunday on Sunday, February 28th, 1049,

Range Officer: Captain K. 8. Morrison,

Launch will leave Murray Pier at a.m. and enll at Kowloon Pier at 0.10 a.m..

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

Arms will be drawn from Corps Headquarters today, between 9 a.in. and 12 noon, or 2 and 4 p.m.. or 5 and 6 p.m..; and on Saturday, February 25th, between 9 a.m.. and 1.p.m.

8.-The Battery.

Parade at Corps Headquarters on Thursday, March 1st, at 5.25 p.m.

Signal Section as per programime under Lieut. Walter. R.A. Full at tendance is essential,

9.-Engineer Company.

Field Section: Parade at Corps Headquarters on Wednesday, Feb. 29th, at 5.30 p.m., (or General In- struction. Dress: Multi.

10.--Signala

Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 pm on Thursday, March 1st, for Signal Instruction. Dress: Mufti.

11.-Armoured Car Company. Machine Gunners will parade at Corps. Headquarters nt 5.30 p.m. an Monday, February 27th, for Machine Gun Instruction. Dress: Mufti.

Motor Cycle Section: Parade at Corps Headquarters, at 5.30 p.in. on Monday, February 27th, ander Licuts Hancock.

Thursday, March 1st: Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. Lieut. Hancock for those previously details.

Welcome Specist Class for instruction under Visitor

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12.-Infantry Company.

No. 1 Platoon: Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tues. day, February 28th and Friday, March 2nd, for Machine Gun In- struction. Dress: Mufti

No. 2 Platoon: Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 pm, on Tues- day, February 28th, for Machine Gun Instruction, Dress: Mufti, belt, rille and bayonet.

13. Beottiah Company. Musketry Part I. see Order No. 7. "Thursday, March 1st, at 5:30 p.m. All-Platoons-will-parade at Pintour Headquarters for Squad and Arms Drill.

Reference Corps Order No. 317 Para. 11. Sunday, February 29th, 1928 The triangular shoot against 2nd Batth. Scots Guards and 2nd Battu. K.0.5.B. is postponed until Sunday, March 16th, 1928, 97

Sunday, March 4th. The Com pany will not shoot Part I. on this date.

Sunday, March 18th, 1928. Trian gular Shoot arranged by Mr. R. M. Dyer between 2nd Batta Scota Guards, 2nd Batta, K.O.S.B., and Scottish Company at Stonecutters. Sunday, April 1st, 1994. Inter Platoon Shoot for "Dyer" Cúp.

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on the waterial contained in the Library.

The preumatic tyre, he showed, was invented as early as 1543, but proved unwanted until the arrival of the fast-moving bicycle; the At about 4 o'clock on the day in but found little acceptance, and question detective attached to voller skates were invented in 1925, fountain pen was patented in 1509, the French police and a member but the bad state of the roads pre- of the Settlement police took their them was a Chinese, who carried After referring to these and poets near the Great World. With vented their being appreciated. the bottle filled with paper and similar inventions, Mr. beld a stick, ordered in the saith:

Comme letter:

ken alserver of pre- sunt-day tendencies in social and industrial affairs might obtain from these old records which, reintroduced ander more many ideas, suitable conditions and with all the improvements in construction and detail made possible by the greater resources we have at our disposal practice with leis trouble and at to-day, could be put into successful an earlier date than if they had to be thought out ab initio

Gold From Wheat.

The Chinese detective with the bottle in his hand walked around the Great World a few minutes, when all of a sudden an individual approached him and attempted to get hold of the bottle. He was in vediately arrested by the two de and handed over to the Settlement tectives, who watched the scene police.

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Reserve Company.. Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, Februaryheid, included manay curiosities, The records, of the Patent Office, 20th, for Machine Gun Class In- struction,

dozena of perpetual mobion 12.-Strength,

machines, n portable gun which The following recruits are taken ould be made to fire square bullets on the strength and posted as tians, a cure for consumption based at Turks but round ones at Chris under-

and a means of preparing tea and on a mixture of brandy and garlic. coffee from mangelwurzels and of Extracting gold from wheat. There was also comparatively recent No: 1303 Pte. R. Morrison, No. edible gramophone records from patent for the manufacture of 6 Pintoon, as from February 20th,chocolates and other sweet-stuffs.

No. 1301 Pte. S. J. Clarke, A. Co., as from February 16th, 1925. No. 1303 Pte. H. E. Grossett, No. 6 Platoon, as from February 20th, 1928

1028.

No. 1304 Pte. T. Coleman, No. The define what could be patent-

1928.

No. 1305 Pte. J. P. White, No. # Platoon, as from February 20th,

6 Platoon, as from February 20th,rd was difficult, but, briefly, any article night be patented' that was novel, useful, not illegal, and that was a cleable commodity. Thus, it was not possible to patent a system of bookkeeping or a procres for disguising cahbage as tobacco..

1929.

17.-Promotions and Appointments, The following promotions and ap pointments take effcet from Feb. 17th, 1928:-

ARMOURED CAR COMPANY.

No. 9 L/Corp. C. R. Wir to be Company Sergt.-Major,

No. 438 L/Sergt. R. W. Lee, to he Sergeant.

No, 799 L/Sergt. E. J. J. Sprad- bery to be Sergeant

No. 8 L/Corpi. E. D. Lab rousse, to be Lance-Sergeant.

No. 668 Corpl. C. L. Farmer, to be Lance-Sergeant.

No. 994 Pte. H. V. Parker. to be Corporal.

No. 1147 Pte. G. B. Labrum, to be Corporal.

No. 1258 Pte. F. Cowherd, to be Corporal.

No. 1160 Pte. H. G. Williams, to be 'Lance-Corporal,

No. 1134 Pte. G. H. Bond, to be Lance-Corporal,

No. 608 Pte. P. E. Barker, to be Lance-Sergeant, as from March 1st, 1929.

18.--Transfer.

No. 1148 Signaller R. J. Vernali is transferred from Signals to the Engineer Company, Field Section, as from January 27th, 1928.

19.Raversion.

No. 87 L/Corpl. F. N. Doodha, Armoured Car Company, reverta to the ranks at his own request, as) from February 20th, 1028.

+ 20.-Leave. of absence from the Corps:

The following are granted leave

Lieut. F S Harrison, A.S.C. Cadre, from March 3rd to Decent

ber 2nd, 1928.

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Popular Fallacies. Many valuable discoveries had Gomme gave 33 examples the wheel, been patented, and Mr.

printing, paper, gunpowder, and the screw, the mariner's compass,

Hterature in the Patent Office spectacles. A knowledge of the

reader to detect the fallacy of such library, he said, would enable the

Watt invented the steam engine, popular nations as that James

tive, or Fulton the steamboat, or George Stephenson the locomo

electro-magnet, or Marconi wire- Galileo the telescope, Faraday the less telegraphy.

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CLOSING QUOTATIONS

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FEBRUARY 23RD, 1918. B.K. Bank $1,960 buy-

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Loudan...£181 nom Chartered Bank............221 buy" Mercantile Bank, A. &B...£32) nom.

Do, 0.1.nom. P. & O. Bank Canton Insurance $527 bay. East Asia Bank

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Union Insurance **** 18 buy. North China In... T. 148 now.

$45 bay. .... such facts as that the roll-top desk Underwriter...20 buy. & sa. was described in 1779 and Safety Chins Fire Insurance $215 дот. razors in 1762, while the taximeter Hong Kong Fire Lat.......$385 buy, went back to the beginning of our

Douglaser

....343 bay. era. There was, he said, a lout H.K. Tuga

H.K: Steamboat ******807 bay. speaker in 1671 and a diving belf

$21 buy, 1.90 sal. in 1864 and a periscope in 1702.

Indo-Chinas (Prof.).......$381 buy.

(Del.)****** BUDL Skall Transports.87/- nom Waterboats.......$19

Careful research would rerealazce

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TAX ON WHISKY.

DISTILLERS ON THE "STUMP."

In anticipation of the Budget, the distillers have launched a big campaign against the tax On winsky.

Do

Bongueta

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Kailan Mining Ad......8). 67/6 sa. Langkata (combined)...... 10 201

Bhar (single) ..............

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181 sel.

***** Tim. 9.85 nel.

*****T. 6.10 mo!. ...14 nom.

Shanghai Loans Baabs Trozoh Mines bay. B.K & K. Wharis........$183 nom. K. & W. Docks.........$42) nom. China Providents..... Hangkews..................TIL 16% buy. New Engineerings. TA, 5 buy Shanghai Docks

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No. 808 Pte. P. E. Barker, A.Cpapers

Co., from March 1st, 1928, to The distillers claim that the quin-Shanghai Cottons (old)...The. 45 buy.

February 28th, 1999,

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No. 982 Pte. E. Silva, Signals, from February 13th to March 12th, 1998;

No, 438 Bergt. R. W. Lee, A.C. Co., from March 1st, 1028, to February Bath; 1929.'

No. 50% Pte. H. J. Armstrong, No. 1 Platoon, from March 1st ta" November 30th, 1998.

No. 8 Pte. J. L. McPherson, Reserve Scot. Co., from March 5th, 1928, to March 5th, 1999,

31. Resignations. The following are permitted to resign from the Corps on leaving the Colony:-

No. 565 Edr. M. H. Wallace, The Battery, as from March 1st,

1928,

Na. 1913 Pte. A. E. Pritchard, No. 1 Platoon, as from February 10th, 1998,"

Having purchased discharge, as from January 28th, 1928

No. 1008 Pte. E 3. Ho, Armoured Car Company.

R. A. WOLFE MURRAY, Major,

Adjutant, HKVDC. „ Hong Kong, February 24th, 1928.

NOTICES.

1 Engineer Company, All ranks are requested to attend at Corps Headquarters on Wednen- day, February 29th, for a special function

2-No. 4 Platoon Elfie Club. 11 Portuguese Company,

The second shoot for the Cup Parade at Corps Headquarters on given by Lieut. E. J. B. Mitchell Friday, February 24th, at 6.30 p.m.will take place on Sunday, March Dreas: Mufti, belt, sling, frog, rifle 4th, at 9.30 am at the Peak and bayonet Miniature Range for Range. Recruits Musketry Instruction and drill

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Conditions-15 rounds rapid at

300 yards; 10 rounds application at 500 yards. Uanal bandicapi

T buy. tupled tax per bottle of whisky im posed during the War has decrens B.K. &B. Hotels....$8.55 buy.

(now)......Th. #21 buy. whiskydrinking by nearly, two HK Inds..$64) buy thirds.

#el, 65 5. 187 buy. Shanghai Lands Forty-two distilleries have been Humphreys Ratates......3143 boy, obliged to close down, the farmers Hong Kong Realtics......$8.90 have suffered losses throughout the HK Territorials ... nom.

buy diminished demand for barley and HK.

„228} sel Bank Trans (olay, unemployment has increased.

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They urge the medicinal proga Vijana OS HOT perties of whisky, which, even in Scotland, is not so popular ne formerly.

Chine Lights (comb.)...316 buy.. 164 sel. Da, (old)......$18 nom. Do. (now)......80 nom

There is little indication in polí. tical circles that, even if there is HK Electrica 73 any relief from taxation, which is

Electrion Macso doubtful, whisky will benefit or, it

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