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DO WE WANT TO ORDERS FROM
THE
LIVE TO 150?
SOVIET.
VALUED AT £4,000,000.
BRITISH MACHINERY.
PROF. VORONOFF'S EXPERIMENTS.
FAMOUS WRITERS' VIEWS.
The lecture delivered by Prof. Serge Vorono, the eminent Paris surgeon and monkey gland expert, to the Cambridge, Medical Society has aroused widespread attention in England:
HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
1928.
(ORDERS BY TER BON. MR. L. D. C WOLFE, C.M.G., CAPTAIN-KUPKK- ISTENDENT OF POLICE.]
Chinese Company.
Those members of the Chinese
'EXPERTS GOING TO RUSSIA. Company who were absent from
British firms have secured large orders from the Soviet Government of Russia representing a total of
the parade for inspection of arins on Thursday, June 14th, will attend. at the Central Police Station com. pound on Thursday, June Bist, at than £4,000,000, says the | 3.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: White Daily Express.
uniform, cap with cover, belt, ride. and sidearms.
more
A sum of £2,200,000 will be paid by the Russians to British firms in respect of two sets of contracts, and the orders are divided as under:
shire.
“Life is very precious," said Dr. Voronof, and to women good looks and the perpetuation of a youthful appearance, are an envied dowry. I have never met any one
£1,200,000 for textile machinery to disease-free who really wanted to three separate textile machinery die. I have rejuvenated a thou-factories in Lancashire and York- sand "people, and they are all happy and contented with their new lives, and when the end does come, it is sudden and painless.
"There is no dragging out dreary days darkened by lack of vigour and lack of ambition. Just a "painless passing to the beyond after a happy and healthy life of a century and a half. This I ne count to be my greatest achieve.
£1,000,000 between, two electrical companies, one in the Midlands and the second in Scotland, for electrical power station plant and equipment, including steam turbines, high- pressure boilers, generators and switch gear.
The two orders, amounting to £2,200,000, are the Arst orders of
Recruits will parade at the Cen- tral Police Station on Thursday, June 21st, at 8.30 p.m. sharp for Squad Drill, under Sergt. Condon. Dress: Mufti
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REVOLVER SHOOTING
Members of the Chinese Company who have passed the preliminary course in Revolver Shooting will attend at the Kennedy Road Re- volver Range on Sunday, June 21th. for the Advanced course under Inspector Booker. Firing will com- monce at .m. sharp. Dress: Mufti.
The following members of the Chinese Company have passed their examination in Part II. of Training Course (knowledge of
ment. Certainly auch an end has such magnitude given by the Soviet Police Duties and Regulations):
enlled forth, and will continue to call forth, every scientific effort of which I am capable."
Government to Great Britain since the official break in relations be- tween Britain and Russia after the raid on Areos in May of last year.
An interesting arrangement has
The Daily Express took up this "question and found that the "pros-
pect of living to the age of 150been made for payment of the does not meet with unmixed ap- £2,200,000 into England. Extended proval. Here are the views of four credits have been sanctioned, on famous people-three writers and a bankers' guarantees, under which noted "specialist-which were nb
tained.
Miss Rebecna West,
"I have no objection to living to 150 years if I could have good health and a good income, and if all my enemies should die fairly young and all my friends should live as long as I did. In those circumstances I think it would be“ quite good fun to live to 150.
I think it would be really amusing to live on so long that one would see the changing situation chat would occur if we had run out of petrol, and had, more or less, to go back to the pre-motor, car time, which, of course, we shall eventually have to do unless fresh supplies of petrol are found."
Mr. Y. E, Bally.
"I should hate to live to be a hundred and fifty, or even to be a hundred. Indeed, I doubt if I were a Cabinet Minister, the ad- jective young would be applied to me. I cannot understand this Vanity of survival which obsesses people.
II.a man haaa't done his best
never it. After that he
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Passed with credit:-Constable
R23 Ho Shit Tu.
- Passed:-Constables Rio Ng Chil
Lau and R50 Young Kwan Sui.
Indian Company. Constable R939 Y. J. Khan has been taken on the strength of the Indan Company as from May 31st.
Trying Squad.
All recruits of the Indian Com- pany will parade at Central Police the money from Russia will be paid | Station on Thursday, June 21st, at to the English manufacturéra dur. 5.30 p.m. sharp for Squad Drill ing the period required to make under Sergt. Condon, Dreas: Mufti. and deliver the machinery which is needed by the Soviet. The longest credit extends for a period of five years, and the average credit runs to between two and three years.
Other £1,000,000 Orders, Apart from these two million
Strength: Constables R303 Chan. Ming Chi and R30 Lam Chung Mow have been taken on the strength of the Flying Squad as from June 11th. Constable R342 Chung Yu Fan has been permitted to resign as from May 9th.
The weekly instructional patrol of the Hong Kong Section will take
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pound contracts, a number of other place on Thursday, June 21st. Fall DODWELL & CO., LTD.
important orders have come from in at Central Police Station at 5.15
Russia to England recently. They p.m. sharp. Dress: Khaki. include a variety of commissions Those members of the Flying from the Soviet Government to Squad who have not yet been pass- ed out as efficient in Part I will British merchants and inanufactur-attend at the Central Police Sta ers for the supply of:-
tion on Wednesday, June 20th, at 3.30 a.m. sharp for Squad Drill under Sergt. Condon.
Motor-cycles and bicycles for use in the Russian postal services, machine tools, railway equip- ment, and such commodities as rubber and white metals.
These separate orders amount in the total to another million pounds.
The Russian co-operative move- rent, in addition, has spent, heavily in England during the past few months. Through their English agency, the co-operators of Russia commodities-with tea as the chief have spent £1,000,000, principally on
work by the time he is fifty he williten-and also on bakery and tea- towards repetition. After fifty the packing machinery. mere effort to live-the careful diet, the treatment of gouty symptoms, and so on becomes rather a bore, in all but exceptional cases.
"After fifty there is no romance. What woman would fall in love with a man
over fifty I write, naturally, as an individualist. It i doesn't mean very much to me to enjoy vicariously the triumphs of the next generation.
At the present time, also, in- quiries are being circulated by the Russian Government in Britain for
quotations to cover the equipment of a huge motor factory near Mos- cow, capable of turning out 12,000 motor chassis in a year.
Sharpshooter's Company.
The following have enrolled in the Sharpshooter's Company:-
Lee.-Sergt. (supernumary) R425
. P. O. Peuster. Constables-R409 C. A. Grimes, R403 S. C. Ho R404 B. A. Young, R405 A. W. Grimmitt, BAUT W. V. Field, B410 J. C. M. Grenham, R419 0. B. Raven, R414 H. Cooper, R415 W. Ward, R419 A. J. Raptis, R421 J. Van der Lely, B422 A. Sparry, B423 W. C. Gee, R424
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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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JUNE 19TH, 1929. B.K. Bak...$1,190 buy. & m.
London...2188j mom. Chartered Bank........... buy. Mercantals Bank, A. # 20.
Done
... nom.' P. & O. Bank. num. East Asia Bank ...........75 10. Canton Insarance ..............3015 nom. Union Insurance mandlidh buy, North Uhins Ins....Tim. 142 buy." -
1107.
Underwriters...$2.20 Eur, 36l, L. R. Billinghurst, R428 E. Che... 50 Tuck, 497 F. Brett, R428 A. Okins Fire insurance ...$235 buy. J. Manton, R429 J. M. Purvis, Hong Kong Fire Ins....$720 bay, 730 sel R430 J. C. L. Wong, R431 G. Frost, R432 W. E. Dorabjec, R433 G. P. Murphy, R434 C. F. Pragnell.
REVOLVER PRACTICE
"We welcome these new business dealings with England," said a
The regular fortnightly practice director of Arcos to a representa will be held at Kennedy Road tive of the Daily Express in refer Range on Wednesday, June 27th, ence to the textile and electrical at 5 p.m. sharp Uniform optional. contracts, for it shows that lead-Members to bring their revolvers, ing British manufacturers have a holsters, and belts. true appreciation of the future of Russian industry and endeavour.
"No doubt elderly readers will contradict and say that Earl
me, Haig commanded in France when over fifty, and that Gladstone was Prime Minister at eighty; they will also quote judges who live to "The firms who are supplying be incredibly old. I shall remain us with the machinery have also unconvinced, because the greatest agreed to send their own technical joys are physical, and when they axperts and engineers to Russia to depart little is left. What is the assist in the planning and establish- use of coming to enjoy a glass of ment of new plants and factories milk and a book?"
for Russian industrial develop- Miss Joan Sutherland.„ ment."
New Factories. "So much is happening in the world of science that another_con- Among the different power plants tury and
more of life sounds a and factories which are to bei thrilling proposition. To see established in Russia with British television perfected, to hear the machinery are:-
The French Store great voices of the past, perhaps
Beaconsfield Arcade.
Yau Chiu Man, D.C.L. Counsellor & Attorney-at-Law,
Undertakes all Chinese and Foreign Legal Business. Property registration
speciality.
Supervises buying and asl.
ling of real estate.
· HEAD OFFICE:
31, CHUNG HING BU STANST (Zar-FLOOR), CANTON.
even, with the aid of scientific in- struments, to see as well as to hear Socrates or the scene and words of the Sermon on the Mount. Such an achievement seems almost worth the waiting, but against it there is something subtly powerful. One would be so terribly alone.
"Friends, relatives, children, all would be gone and health would be feeble; the grasshopper would be a burden, and I believe one would long for. the silver cord to he loosed and the golden bowl to
be broken.
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Life is full of enchantment in the fullness of strength, but 1 think for myself that long before the century would be ended I should be tired of waiting," and should be longing to pass onward into the glorious liberty of the free.
#
Dr. Bernard Hollander. "With so many scientific in terests I should like to reach the age of 150 years in order to con- tinue my work and see what others will accomplish."
Extension of the "Electrotok ? generating station which provides light and power for Leningrad.
A great steam power factory for the making of soap in Moscow. The boiler plant in this factory, made by British engineers, will be the first of its kind in Russia,
and is designed to have a work-
Police Training School.
*****37 el K. Steamboat329 10m. H.K Lado-Chinas (Prof.).......$301 bay.
Do.
..$2k nom.
(Lat.), $TV nom.
.........d/9 post. Shell Transports
buy. Waterboste..... Bags
.. nom. Kauan Minang Ad. 83/9 nume Langkate (combined)......The. 12.20 20m.
Do. (angle)....Tla. 5.30 xom, ghal Explorations. 11. 2.50 num.
LORDUR
...Th. nom. Shanghai
$.lv buy. Tranch Mines ................................17/0 nom.
bay.
Th, 156 mom.
11. 5 now.
The weekly classes at the Police HK. & K. Whar Training School, Kowloon, will be HK. & W. Docks.......övt buy., 40 s. held on Wednesday, June 20th, at China Providents.35.10 buy. BP.n. sharp. All members of the Hongkows Chinese, Indian, and Flying Squad New Engineerings..... part II, of Training Course must Ewo Cotions. Tis. 8.00 bay. Companies who have not yet passed | Shanghai. Docks kik, kin, 107) not. -
Orientals Cottons... Tis, 20 nom. attend.
(Sgd.) W. KEST, A.S.P.; | 8'hal. Cottons (old)`...... Tls. 514 nom.
Do. Adjutant,
(now)....... 271 nom. H.K. & S. deteb.......................49; pa3. Og sei, Hong Kong, June 18th, 1998.
H.K. Lands1051.00.
REDS TO BE EXPELLED.
END TO ESPERANTO” CONGRESS IN BERLIN.
BERLIN, May. 25th."--
The 28 Polish Communists who
...
.. so
$21 bay. 241 Į pol., 24/24‡ 15
MACHINERY DEPT.
ENGLISH SUNDAY PAPERS AGAIN BURNED.
1:
TRAIN HELD UP IN IRELAND."
Six thousand copies of English Sunday newspapers were sized and burned at Killiney, County Dublin, on May 20th by a party of young
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who entered the railway station, ordered the stationmaster and porter away, and held up a train bringing the newspapers from Kingstown. They told the driver to back the train to a point which they indicated, and, opening the luggage van, threw out bundles of news.
were directed papers which various places along the line to Wexford. The papers were then set on fire and destroyed..
to
The men, it is stated, were not masked and were unarmed. Their action is believed to be a protest against the publication of a life. of Christ in a London newspaper which was criticised by the Bishop of Galway.
The English Sunday newspapers have been frequently burned or otherwise destroyed in Ireland dur- ing recent monthe.
INSURE
YOUR
BAGGAGE
WITH
GILMAN'S
Shanghw Laude...T. 124 uny.137 wel. Humphreys Estates......$19; nom. HK. Healios H.K, Arawaya
Peak Trams (old).........$122 hay.
Do. (new)........... nom. Star Ferrion .......... buy, 65 1. China Laghts (ok).......................$1£85 nom, Da. (now).......$11.70 nom. Do. (1923 Janus) ...$11.60 num. H.K. Electrics
4261 buy, ing pressure of sixty atmospheres. were arrested here on Tuesday Macao Electrion
*51 buy, 63 sel. Textile industries power plant night at a so-called Esperanto Con- Telephones.........
buy. and factory at Ivanovo-Vozne- gresa are to be expelled from Ger- Uhins Buses sensk,
many, and the money (£5,000 in Singapore Tractions......117. bay.
Do. (Pri)...17/0 New generating station at dollars) found on their leader is to
...buy. Tchelabinak, on the borders of be returned after the deduction of China Seg Siberia. The British plant here fines for illegally entering Ger Malabon Bagarinom
Oauton loas.......bayo "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE is to have an output of 22,000 kilo. many. watte.
It is pointed out that the Bolshe-Cements (combined).9.50 buy.
Do. fold) $0.40) mel, Another power station
I' at vist propaganda and espionage de
(new)......$1.70 sel Briansk, the centre of the Russian partment, which is attached to the H.K. Hopes (old)....
7 sel. buy metallurgical industrion.
Do. Soviet Embassy here, makes all pay-
This |- United Asbestas simimo.$10 nom. Lancashire.
The textile machinery which mente to its agents in dollars.
and Yorkshire will fact, together with the fact that the Dairy Farm...........kal) nom build will be installed in new cotton Polish Government prohibite travel Watsons
$0.50 nom; and woollen goods factories in the lers from taking large sums of cash Der A Wings w Moscow district. Other electricnt out of the country, creates strong Lane Unwords.#ROL. plant and railway equipment is de suspicion that the Poles received Mackinttalon.$20 nom. signed for the conversion of the the money found in their possession Bindere...............
18 buy Wm. Powsill local steam railways of Mosocw to from official Bolshevist sources in!
(Continued at foot of next column.) Berlin. modern electric traction.
POLICY.
₤106
H.E. Amusements#20) bay, 81 l. H.E. Construatione. 414 sol, Bque Indus G.Bond,84% buy. HR. GOTL Loans prem. nom. Bubber................... $91 buy. 93 xol buy-buyers; solméellers; nazalco ; DOMEJTLinal
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