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HONG KONG VOLUNTEER MOVING GOLD IN

DEFENCE CORPS.

[ORDERS BY LT.-COL, L. G. BIRD, D.B.O...

COMMANDANT.]

No. 330.

1-Corps Reconnaissance Competition.

The results of the above ia as follows:-1st, Corps Signals; end, The Battery.

The Commandant congratulates Corps Signals on winning the Cup, And both units on the thoroughness with which the schemes were com piled.

2-Sports Committee, Mesting. A meeting of the Sports Com mitteo under the President, Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin. will be held at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.45 p.m. on Monday, July 9th. A full attendance of those members pre- sent in the Colony is requested.

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1.-Holiday,

MILLIONS.

SIX TRUCKLOADS A DAY.

ARMED GUARD FOR WORKERS.

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

A.K. Bani.

Jun 27, 1929, $1,292) bay.

Do.. Loader...Klijnom, Charter Banks if our. Mercantile Baula, A. 48...236 som.

Do..

U.......£itį nom.

EVI nom.

LONDON, May 1st. The most gigantic removal of gold in history has begun at the Bank of England Threadneedle-Onion Lurnaces street, 'E.C., where there is a daily procession of six hydraulie trucks loaded with gold bars and great stacks of sovereigns.

The truckloads are the gold re- serve of the Bank of England which is being mored from the old to the new vaults, now completed under the rebuilding scheme.

The transfer will take many days, for, according to the last weekly return of the Bank of England, Monday, July 2nd, 1928, will be there was coin and bullien amount. observed as a holiday, no paradering to £161,046,530. A million will be held on that day.

pounds of bar gold is made up of about 600 bars, weighing together

4.---Armis,

about 17 cubic feet.

P. a Q. Banis East Axis Bank.........$75 nom. Canton Insurances ......017, bay...

1985 buy. North Uhins T. 143 day. Yangtate Insurances. ML $30 nom.

a) bay. Chin Underwaters....... China Fire Insurances....so buy, Hong Kong Fire Las.......... $7804 pom.

57 mul

9 nom. 39 nom.

H.b. Suambo

E. Tage.....

(Del.) Indo-China (Pret.) 464 buy.

Do

beli Transporta Waterbost........ bangusta

.......$7u bay..

195/- 10m, .seu nom.

gbay. 145/71

Kailan Mining Aanin.......... Bój Langkate (combined)......Tim. 12.20 nom.

Lio. (angle).........I'. 6. xom. aha Explorations .............. Ita, 1.15 bay,

Babe.......4 bay. Tronoh Mines 17/6 nom

K Wharix $138 buy., 137) sal.

MK. &

All rifles, and bayonets will be about 7 tons 8cwt., and occupies | shanghai Loans wa...........Tim. 34 kom. handed into Volunteer store immed iately for the annual inspection.

5.-Corps Band. The Band will parade at full strength on Friday, June 9th, and Tuesday, July 3rd, at 5.30 p.m. at Volunteer Headquarters. Proba tioners will parade on Thursday. July 5th, and all Mondays and Thursdays thereafter.

6.-Mounted Infantry Company. Friday, June 29th: Instruction on M.. at Volunteer Headquarters at 3.20 p.m. Dress: Plain clothes,

Parade at Tuesday, July 3rd: Stables at 5:45 pm, for mounted drill with pack animals. Dress: Plain clothes

Friday, July 8th: Instruction on M.G. at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Plain clothes.

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7.--Motor Cycle Section. Tuesday, July 3rd, and Thursday, July 5th.

Parade, at Volunteer Headquar ters at 5.30 p.m. with cycles. Dress: Mufti.

Sunday, July 18th: A tactical ride will be held in the New Ter- ritories and all ranks are requested to keep this date free.

Parade, at Kowloon Station at 10 a.m. sharp.

Each truck can carry two tous, so that fully loaded the six trucks will have to make nearly 100 Doska sumanHU Day.

China Provina.....$5:10 com. journeys.

Mongkuwa '................... 150 nom.

'lab now........ New hnginowong #en

1 Shanghai Doo

Tix. 2.30 nom.

51 BO

Armed Sentries.

The bars are stacked to a height of 3ft din. on platforms enclosed in steel cages The trucks run un der the platforms and take them away, so that it is not necessary do rearrange the stacks. The trucks are taken in Hits to the ground Boor and thence by lift again to the

new vaults.

At no time does the gold pass outside the premises, but neverthe less most elaborate precautions are taken. Two directors, the sub- chief cashier, eierks and porters ac company the trucks.

Armed sentries pace the patrol surrounds the corridor "which

vaulta At night picked detectives supplement the military guard.

LABELLED TOWN.

AMERSHAM PEOPLE BUY .THEIR HOMES.

Dress Uniform, with webbing LANDLORD FORCED TO SELI. belt. Shorts will be worn.

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8.-Machine Gun Company.

Parades will be held at 5.30 p.m.

Volunteer Headquarters

dates as hereunder:-

On

N.C.O.'s Class on Vickers Machine Gun: Fridays. June 29th and July ath. Dress: Mufti.

Recruits: Arms and Squad Drill: Fridays, June 9th and July 6th Dress: Mufti, belt and sidearms.

9.-Scottish Company, -. Vickers Gun Class of Instruction will be held at Corps Headquarters nt & p.m. on Tuesday, July 3rd, and it is hoped the class will be well supported.

UP.

AMERSHAM, Buckinghamshire,

May 27th. The ancient town has made boli- day-making motorists-stop suddenly and stare hard to-day, for to every house and every shop in it has been affixed a label bearing in red Jetters a yeterious number.

The numbers mark the lots into which old "Amersham has been divided in readiness for the sale of almost the whole of the town.

Many of the houses are 300 years old and more, and most of them have been occupied by the same 10.-Portuguese Company. families for generations. The build- Friday, June 29th: Recruits willings for sale include the town hall, parade at Corps Headquarters at or Market Hall as it called, 5.30 p.m. Dress: Mufti, bolt, bayonet which was built by Sir Willis frog, rifle and bayonet.

Drake, who died in 1682. Monday, July 2nd: There will be no Lewis Gun Clasa.

There will be two more Lewis Gun Classes of instruction on Friday, July 6th, and Monday, July

9th.

"All "N.C.O.'s and Nos. 1 and 2 are specially urged to turn up to these two classes to complete their training so that a good start may be made when the training season commences,

11.-Strength,

The following recruits are taken on the strength as under: -

No. 1344 Pte. J. B. Carr, Motor from June Cycle Section,

22nd, 1929,

No. 1345 Pte. W. J. Lockhart- Smith, No. 1 Platoon, from June 28th, 1928,

No. 1346 Pte. O. E. C. Marton, No. 1 Platoon, from June 27th, 1928,

12.-Reversion.

No. 994 Corp. H. V. Parker, A.C. Company, reverts to the ranks at his own request, as from June 15th,

1929.

13.-Transfers.

No. 604 Pte. G. R. Vallack and No. 094 Pte. H. Parker, from Armoured Car Company to No. 1 Platoon, as from June 16th, 1928;

14.—Leave.

No. 1090 Pte, A. E. McCartney; M.I. Co., having returned to the Colony and rejoined for duty, the unexpired portion of his leavo is cancelled.

Lieut. A. H, Gillingham, Army Service Corps Cadre, is granted three weeks' leave of absence from the Corps, from June 22nd, 1928.,-

18-Struck 04 The Strength, - Having left the Colony, as from July 21st, 1928-No. 1260 Gar. J. C. Reed, The Battery.

the

Mr. EL. Tyrwhitt-Drake, equire and owner of nearly all the property in Amersham, has stated that the sale of the town has been made necessary by the strain of heavy taxation on his estate." Mrs. Tyrwhitt Drake said that the family very keenly regretted baving to part with the property, which they have owned for many generations. She said:

But we are glad to know that "most of our old tenants will still be in possession of their homes, for 75 per cent. have seized the chance that we offered to them and have purchased their houres. The essential old-world character and charm of Amersham will therefore be preserved.

The area of Amersham is 6,033 acres and the rateable value £34,529.

population The

Tumbers about ,000.

ENGLAND'S OLDEST MAN.

8.70

A01.

Hwo Cortand Urientals Cottons.....

'ba. Uottons (chat) ..............

Do. (W)....... 27; nom. HKS Houls.. 19.30 bay. HK. Lands

$654 bay. ..11. 134 buy.. Shangtat Lands.... Humphreys Estate.......$isį nom.

bo

BL.A. Kemities .................OR DEL HA. Tramways $14.90 buy, 25 sm. Peak 1mm (old).......$12 nom 164 nom. Star Ferriss .......... China Lagai Įvidƒ....................... ki,où tiny.

Do (20) $11.45 buy.. 11.65 40L Do. (1928 Lasus)...11.16 buy. HK. Electrica

...$71) nom, Jibg baj. Macao Electrica Telephones..................

$5.50 bay. Una Buzer.............Tit. 94 bay. Singapore Trictions.....11/3. nom. Do. (Pre)...178 nom. China Sugar 270 now. Malabon Dugal nam Canton icm................................20 buy. Comenta sombo....$9.00 buy,

Do. (old)...... KOM. 130. (new) 1.5 buy. HK. Koper (wid) ....................$0.30 sei.

Do

„šlu nom. .$21.80 bay.

United Asbestos ..... Dairy Farm.... Watwoma

$14 Pol. 34.50 nom.

Dor A Winge Lane Crawfords... Mackintosh.....

SZÜ DOMÍ Banderes ...................... .199 num, Wa Powell

.. bay. H.A. Amusemented sei., 30) ca. H.K. Constructions mə! sol B'que. Indas. G.JBonds...66% buy. H.K. G.vt Loana.........5% prem, num bay.-buyers; sol-milere ;.. da. — sal-s

nom.-nominal.

EXCHANGE RATES.

(BRITISH WIRELESS ́SERVICE]

RUGBY, June 27th.

193.95

34.91

Paris...

Brusacks

Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon

Bucharest

12.101

20.40 18.20

31.6-45

1931 9.7/32

7971

Buenos Aires New York

173

4.87.99/32

93.99

Следета Milan

09*%8

16.18

Stockholm Osio

18.99

Prague

Madrid

1813 29.593

Athens

373

Rio

5.29/32

1/53.

1/103

2/81

2/02

27.9/16

Silver (forward)

271

Bombay Yokohama Shanghai Hong Kong Silver (spot)

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SERIOUS ILLNESS AT 100, AND CAPTURE IN SOUTHAMPTON

LAMENT FOR BEER.

Mr. William Waikar, believed to be England's oldest man, is seri- ously ill at Nottingham, after a collapse.

Ele celebrated his 106th birthday in January, and ate five meals, in- cluding pork, but the following day he complained that his appetite had nearly gone, and that he had to give up his wonted half-pint of beer a day.

"I am afraid shall not see the Royal Show at Nottingham this July, which I have been looking forward to," he said.

Mr. Walker went on strike at the age of eighty-four for more money, and when it was refused he ceased Having failed to complete the re-work for the rest of his life. quirements of efficiency for 1927-28 Training Season, as from May 7th, 1928--No, 979 Pte, F. P. Ozorio, No. 10 Platoon,

On Medical Grounds, as from June 19th, 1928: No. 1120 Pte, H. Hamp. ton, No. 2. Platoon..

1, A. WOLFE MURRAY, Major, Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C... Hong Kong, June 29th, 1008, (Continued at foot of next column )

NOTICE.

No, 2 Platoon Ride Club.

OFFICE.

A lion excaped from its cage at Southampton after it had been. German East landed from the

which African liner Uitukuma, had arrived from the Cape.

The animal defed capture for nearly a quarter of an hour. It broke loose while passengers and baggage - were paesing officials through the Customs shed.

The cage containing the lion was being lifted on to s weighing machine when the bottom fall out and the lion escaped

The animal dashed wildly round the shed, scattering people in all directions and proving too crafty and elusive for the quayside work- men and the two native keepers who tried to capture it,

Immediately the lion broke loose the doors at one side of the thed were closed and the passengers rushed to the train, from the win dows of which they watched the

The next meeting will be held at chase. the Peak Rangs on Sanday, July

After the hunt had lasted for 12

Bth, at 9,30 am. It is hoped that minutes the lion cornered itself all recruits will attend for instrucnear a telegraph box and the two tion.

native attendants accured it.

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