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Promenade Concert's Committee meeting will be held at Volunteer Headquarters at 8 p.m. on Monday, July 16th.

Sports Committee meeting will be held at Volunteer Headquarters at 3.13 p.m.. on Monday, July-gard,

1999.

All rifles and bayonets will be handed into Volunteer store immed»' iately for the annual inspection.

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BERLIN, June 14th. Mussolini himself is said to be personally interested in the details Six hundred people drove their of a new "fim agreement drawn up motor-cars to the edge of a prairie between the German studios, Ufa, field near Chicago and watched 100 and the Institue Nazionale Luce in policemen fight Charies Cleaver and Italy. Under the terms of this, Joseph Farina, the two most notoril Germany and Italy are to work cus gunmen of the United States.

hand-in-hand in the manufacture of certain new films which are des- When the gladiatorial show was over the two gunmen were serious. tined to bring the Italian film back H.K. The Band will paraile at 5.30 p.m. ly wounded and one polite oficer to the leading position in Europe on Tuesday, 17th, and Thursday, had been hit three times

it once enjoyed The Uls, in Ber-Shell Transports .................100/- ss. 10th July, at Volunteer Hearquar-

Chief Detective O'Grady was lia, will train young Italian tech tera at full strength. Dress: Mufti,

He said: "The battle picians and actors to take over the pleased, for Band Practice. On Friday, July 9th, the band will parade in, was the most spectacular I have Italian films for distribution within uniform at Corps Headquarters at ever seen in my experience. Every its own organisation in those coun-

15 pm. to play at the Officers'

man acquitted himself creditably tries where German branches are Mess guest night. Dreas: Cap,

German pic tunic, belt slacks and black boots. and will be recommended for extra already established.

ture-making, is return, will be 5.-Mounted Infantry Company,

pay." Friday, July 13th: Parade at

Cleaver, because of his limp afforded every facility in Italy. Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. known 烈 - Limpy Cleaver," The important fact about this for Bergt. Watson's Section only. for firing M.G. at Kennedy Road escaped from Dupage county gaol new fusion is the consolidation of Range. ".

with four other men, including the already recognised position of Tuesday, July 17th: Parade at Farina. Their last words were that the film as a means of propaganda. Stables at 0.30 p.m. for all for prac- they would fight to the death if Soviet Russia is already doing with tice with pack animals, "

threatened with capture.

A VASL amount of success what Fascist Italy can now proceed to do on a larger scale than was hitherto possible, permitting no other pictures to be made and dis- tributed than those which are ac were ceptable to the present form of

Friday, July 20th: Parade at Corps Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. for Sergt. Pott's Section only for in- strution on, M. G.

Dress at all above parades.

Plain-clothes.

6.-Armoured Car Company. Monday, July 18th: Instructions on Machine Gun at Volunteer Head quarters at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Plain clothes..

Thursday, July 19th. The first of a Course of lectures on enn mechanism will be given by Mr. Baker at the Public Works Depart ment workshop, Every member of the Section is asked to make a special efort to attend. Parade at Volunteer Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. Dress: Plain clothes.

MOTOR CYCLE SECTION.

Sunday, July 15th,

In A Dug-out. Hunted like wild animal for some time, Cleaver and Farina were traced to a scrub-sheltered dug-out in the middle of waste Prairie land. The two men armed with a machine-gun and government. shot-guns taken from the sheriff's room as they escaped from prison.

The police at first attempted to drive the two criminals into the open with tear-gas bombs, but the wind caused the bombs to do more damage among the attackers than to the defenders.

Once a truce was called and Farina was seen emerging with his hands up. Cleaver, however, fired a shot and the battle was renewed The police were at the disadvar tage of having to fire from the "Pen at a distance of 60 yards.

Aa is well known, the policy of the Us Company in Germany is largely directed by the Nationalist magnate Alfred Hugenberg, whose influence in the topical news sec- tion is paramount. It is this news section which is regarded as more important in its general tendency than the big Bims whose story is so largely dependent upon "pro- duction values." These would sel dom include as main theme the

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mination to boycott all topical films Cleaver was suffering from 11ist family. But a resolute deter. Wateons

recover.

A tactical ride will be held in the New Territories and all ranks are requested to keep this date free.

Parade at Kowloon Railway Sta.

When the men surrendered tion at 10 a.m. sharp. " ་ ་

Dress: Uniform with web belt. wounds, and Farina from a ballet Shorts will be worn.

wound over the heart from which 7.-Machine Gun Company. he is not expected to Parades will be held at Volunteer Cleaver was full of spirit to the Headquarters on Fridays, July 13th last. If I had had more ammuni- and 20th, at 5.30 p.m. in mufti, for tion for my machine-gun," he re Machine Gun Instruction. There marked to the police, I would will also be the usual Instructors have cleaned you up.” Class at the same time and place.

Cleaver fast February robbed a railway train in Chicago suburb of £28,000.

8.-Scottish Company, Vickers Gun Class of instruction will be held at Corps Headquarters at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 16th.

9.-Portuguese Company.

Peak Range has been allotted to

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the cinemas "controlled by those who believe Labour should be kept dist weapon. in its place is a powerful propagan

Instructional films will play 且 great part in the exchange between the two countries. This is looked AN ANCESTRESS'S HONOUR. fc and nature films can have little upon as a welcome sign, as scienti-

or. no political bias.

According to reports of the new

the Company Rifle Club on Sunday, ACTION BY GEORGE SAND'S films America is making, advance

July 15th.

Miniature Range. All recruits will parade for Miniature Range prac- tice on Friday, July 13th.

Kennedy Road Range has been allotted to No. 10 Platoon on Friday, July 13th.

All recruits will parade at Corps Headquarters on Friday, 20th, for arms and squad drill

Bayonets. All those who have not as ret returned their bayonets to Corps Stores, must do so before Tuesday, July 17th, 1998.

10.—Strength,

The following recruits is taken on the strength, and posted sa under

No. 1349 Gur. G. W. Gunn, The Battery," as from July 6th, 1928. 11.-Appointments and Promotions, as from July 1st, 1928:-

MOTOR CYCLE SECTION.

No. 1160 L-Cpl. H. G. Williams to be Lance-Sergeant.

No. 1134 L-Cpl. G. H. Hond to be Corporal.

No. 1285 Pte: P. L. P. Thomas to be Lance-Corporal.

No. 705 Pte. B. 8. Rogers to be Lance-Corporai.

NO. 2 PLATOON. No. 1198 Pte. J. W. Beattie to be Lance-Corporal, at from July 10th,

12.--Transfers.

1999,

9th, 1929.

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No. 1912 Sergt. R. A. Pereira, Corps Band, from July 10th, 1998; to August 9th, 1928.

GRANDAUGHTER.

PARIS.

A difficult question, involving the right of historians to tell the truth about the private life of celebrated authors, has to be decided by the Paris courts.

Madame Lauth Sand, herself

author of note and

the an

the Baroness granddaughter of Dudevant, who died in 1876, better known as George Sand, the novelist, sued M. Jacques Boulenger, a critic and writer of literary history, for having in a recent work published details of the love affairs of her grandmother.

George Sand, M. Jacques Boulen- ger alleges-and in this he follows! the example of a score of other literary historians-had love affairs with many of the famous people of her generation.

pictures of which are occasionally shown in Berlin, as war pictures decline in favour, so the Russian Revolution, seen from the anti-Red angle, is growing in popularity. Beginning shyly with the great Ger- man actor Janings as an ex-aristo- crat and general, the new ilm, The Red Tempest," is definitely in favour of things as they were.

Berlin, where many new Soviet Russian films are being shown, and everything is welcomed and nothing forbidden owing to the extreme wariness with which sensors have to tread, will therefore be the battle-ground of the political pic

tures war.

LOST IN ROMAN CATA- COMBS.

Alfred de Musset, the poet and playwright, himself wrote two of PILGRIMS WHO EMERGED IN

A. CEMETERY. is most famous books an his leve adventures with George Sand, and she is recorded as having at differ- ent times been in love with such noted persons as Chopin, the great composer; Jules Bandeau, the play wright; Gustave Planché, the critic; Mérimée; and Michel de Bourges, the most celebrated bar rister of his day..!!

NOTICE.

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GENEVA.

It is two o'clock in the dark

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Mme Lauth Sand, while not No. 1300 Pte. B. J. D. C. Grieve, denying the truth of these aseer- from No. 7 Platoon to the Mounted tions, declares that the love affairs party and completely lost their hours of the morning on the Hoogh- Infantry Company, as from July of hor illustrious ancestor forms way in the labyrinth of narrow un For hours Customs agenta o

derground passages. private and intimate history, and No. 1240 Pte. J. W. E. Stirling, cannot be disclosed so long as they vain hope of finding the exit until, last they are rewarded by the sight They went on walking in the tently watch the steamer Kut Chang through the darkness. At from No. 8 Platoon to Motor Cycle can offend living members of her as their tapers, began to give out, Section, as, from June 28th, 1928. family.

13.-Lesve."

The court reserved the judgment, despair seized on them and they of a boat stealing away from the stopped and knelt down in prayer, ship's sidd. After an exciting Buddenly they perceived a dim chase the boat is seized, and there glimmer of light overhead with, discgvered aboard 1,275 ounces beneath it, a primitive kind of of cocaine of unknown origin. stairway made of iron bars clamp- Such is the graphic story of a ed, to the wall. Two of the most seizure of drugs given by the In- robust pilgrims clambered up it, dian, delegate at the League of and after many efforts succeeded Nations Opium Advisory Commit- in dislodging a large stone that tee at Geneva. This one consign- ment far exceeded the entire legi- blocked the opening.

The pilgrims, on emerging, found timate requiremnts of India for a to their astonishment that they single year. The delegate esti were in the municipal cemetery of mated that the illicit import of the Campo Vrano, miles away from drug into that country is more where they had started. Their than forty times the annual legi- astonishment, however, was nothing timate import. to that of a poor woman kneeling at a tomb close by, for, accing the earth open and men coming out of it, she thought the Day of Judg ment was at hand and fled 'scream- ing.

14-Strack Off The Strength, Having left the Colony No. 574 CS.M. J. A. G. Legak, Reserve Company, as from June 22nd, 1928. No. 1279 Bandsman C. M. Hough- ton, Band, as from July 8th,

1928.

Having failed to complete the re- quirements of Efficiency for 1927-98 Training Season, as from April 16th,

1929:

No 918 Pte. H. J. Howard, Corps Bignals.

RA. WOL MERAY, Major,

Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C Hong Kong, July 13th, 1928. (Continued al foot of next columa.)

Promenade Concert. There will be a Band Concert at Volunteer Parade Ground at 9.15 p.m. on Friday, July 20th, 1928, by the Band of the 2nd Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderera, by kind permission of Lient-Colonel Comyn, C.M.G., P.8.0., and the Officers.

Tickets, $1 each, are obtainable at Volunteer Headquarters and Anderson Music Co.

It is hoped all ranks of the Corps will assist in making this a financial and social success, by taking tickets for themselves and their friends.

It was also disclosed that heroin is shipped to Shanghai vid Ham burg packed in tombstones.

The position with regard to illicit drug traffic is said to be worse than it has ever been

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