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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 1929.

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA

A TOWER OF STRENGTH

1928

Insurance in Force (net)

New Insurance Paid For

Assets at December 31st, 1928

Surplus and Contingency Funds

(Canadian currency)

$1,896,000,000

441,000,000

488,000,000

Dividends to Policyholders increased for ninth successive year

66,000,000

In addition, a Special Dividend to participating Policyholders on Claims and Maturing policies ten years or more in force has been authorized for the year 1929.

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA

Chief Office for South China

Resident Secretary

King's Building, Connaught Road,

Hong Kong.

B. W. TAPE.

TAKING "COVER" AGAINST DEATH.

A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.

"During the last quarter of a cen- tury there has been a very great change in the attitude of people towards the question of life assur- Ance. There was a time when there was a great prejudice against the idea, taking out a policy to some people suggested the signing of a dently warrant, and they preferred" not to do it.

of saving money.

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George |

einted with him were Stephen, afterwards Lord Mount Stephen, Inter President of the Bank of Montreal and one of the Railway: A. W. Ogilvie, the great builders of the Canadian Pacific miller, Member of Parliament and latora Senator; James Ferrier, ond of the founders of the Bank of British North America, Mayor of Montreal, and also a Senator. The other signatories to the application of the charter were all prominent in the business life of that day, They were inteuse patriots, devoted Canadians and eminent alike in the public, commercial and financial life

of Canada,

CINEMA NEWS.

"THE WOMAN DISPUTED " AT QUEEN'S.

"The Woman Disputed," star- ring Norma Talmage, will be screen ed from to-day till Saturday at the The faith of Lieutenant Paul Hart Queen's. The story is as follows:-

man of the Austrian army, and his

GRUESOME RUSSIAN EXPERIMENT.

RESTORING LIFE TO A DOG'S HEAD.

PHYSIOLOGISTS' HEART,

MACHINE."

Borlin (U. P.):-That

CHINESE ENGINEERS AND RECONSTRUCTION:

TO ASSIST NANKING

GOVERNMENT.. »

JUDGE MURDERED. AT

DAIREN.

WHILE INSPECTING SCENE

OF A CRIME..

TREACHEROUS' ATTACK.

Arrangements for the largest gathering of modern engineers-in the history of China, to be held at Nanking next May, have just been completed by the Association of Chinese and American Engineers February 14th, says the fanchuria

was shocked veiled, in Peping. The convention is to

analyze and penetrate, has ance

which it is hoped will be made gain been successfully crossed, this possible. Erjuchenenko and Tachetschulin time by two Russian physiologists, A large number of the hundreds

All Dairen

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one of the bandita at a lonely Chinese farm-house at Piluho not far from Pitzuwo.

the large annuity reform of Mary Ann Wagner, & for generations have been trying to the vast reconstruction projects Court had been mortally shot by.

officer, on furlough, bring about the life from death and which scientists ing the Nanking Government in Judge Anju of the Dairen District friend, Nika Turgenov, a Russian mysterions boundary which divides consider ways and means of amist | Daily News, by the news that Chief social outcast.

Both men fall in love with her, though Mary Ann is unaware of the fact, War is de force of circumstances enemies. cared, Paul and Nika. become by

thought is of Mary Ann, whom he Nika that Mary Ann has promised finds in Paul's room. Pau! tells to become his wife. From then on events move swiftly to an exciting climax.

of Chinese educated in the United

invented beart machine," they they could assist in developing experiment, aided by their newly-gineering courses, in the belief that

capitated head of a dog, says the tinuous civil wars have interfered, have breathed life into the de- their backward country. But con Scientific and Technical Review." and many of the trained Chinese Brjüchenenko conducted the ex- engineers have been compelled to periment before a meeting of the take up other work.

First chloroforming two living dogs he caused a quantity of blood from these animals to flow into the reservoir of the heart machine," which was set, into action at the epidemic, emphasised in compelling motor.

The War, and still more the same time by means of an electric He thereupon connected terms the uncertainty of human this artificial heart with the cir life, for most of the victims were culatory system of the dead dog'sjects. in the prime of their strength and head, wherewith the blood began have already accepted positions at

hopeful that the balance of power among the warlords will continue long enough to enable the government to start some of the many projects it has in mind. These include the construction of 10,000 miles of railways, the dredg ing and building of canals, dyke construction, ar many other pro- Dozens of Chinese engineers

Nanking, and are working oat plans.

Pitzuwo district used to be the

There are now in the District !

cases of

Court, Dairen, several brigaadage involving several Chi Anju of the District Court, being nese prisoners and Chief Jadge advised to make an inspection of the scene of crime, had left Dairen On February 14th, accompanied by and Public Procurator Ikeuchi, Judges Nagashima and Kawahata

with a court clerk and an inter- preter.-

Growth of British Business, The growth of the Company's British business can readily be twenty-year period ending last De gauged from a brief review of the

paid for in that year amounted to cember. In 1907 the new assurances £192,774 in 1917 they were £438,346 When the books were closed last December, the British new assur- auces for 1997 were £5,032,188, and current underwritings are at the rate of £7,000,000 a year. sideration to

These figures do not give con- business conducted by the Company in Great Britain. In point of fact, no better proof can be adduced of The character and standing of which the Company enjoys thau that the confidence of the British public Those who did these "pioneers was a valuable aid offered by the great number of Receiving bis orders, Nika's first in a gruesome, really preternature] States and Europe have taken en- fair of ferocious Chinese bandits. summon up courage were usually to the Company in its initial bid annuities entrusted to its care.

for public faraur.The Sun Life content with the promise of a pay-of Canada was a child of the years into Great Britain, an aggressive Coincident with the official entry ment sufficient to pay funeral ex-in which Canada's national con- penses. All that has changed now,sciousness awakening:

Was

the policy of geographic expansion was and there are few men who have events of those days had a direct undertaken by Mr. Robertson not taken out policias for sub-influence in shaping its destinies. Macaulay in the early years of his stantial amounts, payable at death It was dedicated by its sponsors to office the Sun Life of Canada creat during each performance in a new gists

Presidency. During his term of

The Orioff Brothers will appear | 411-Russian Congress of Physiolo The group in Peping is now or in some form of endowmeat. It the service of the people in a fine is possible now-a-days to get assur-tradition, which has been scrupul ed record after record new to the selection of items on the balalaiku ance cover to meet any contingency ously maintained by their succes Dominion, and firmly established and steel guitar. almost to any amount, while the sors.

itself in a position of eminenes profit-sharing and bonus schemes

amongst the great life assurance Opening of Foreign Business, operated by the leading companies

institutions of the British Empire.

Waylaid by Bandita. make life-aasarance an ideal way population was less than four million office until death removed him in In the late 'seventies, Canada's He discharged the duties of his

On reaching Pitzuwo by train, the party were joined by a sergeant One of the largest companies in people, who occupied a widely scat. September, 1915, in the eighty-third tered area. Growth under such year of his age. He came to the

with four Japanese and severa the world is the Sun Life Assur-conditions was obviously restrained, Company when it was a struggling

Chinese of the police post who g ance Company of Canada, which is and in secking a way to escape infant, and lifted it to a command

ducted thein to the home of older than the Dominion itself these limitations, a decision of vital ing position. He found, in his full

Chinese named Jui Te Chang, óf Its charter was granted in 1866. importance was reached. The Com- ness of years, his reward for the

of the prisoners in Dairen. two years before. Confederation was pany sought a broader field than tireless energy and splendid per-

The place housed seven families accomplished Its first policy was that offered by the boundaries of sonal qualities which he had devot

in the middle. On entering the and the dwelling in question was written in 1871, four years after the Dominios. It was argued that ed to the Company. He lived to the Dominion's birthday. From if foreign competitors and found see the Institution not only eminent

second room from the entrance, five that time on, it has marched in the the Canadian field productive, there amongst its fellows, but held high vanguard of Canadian develop was no reason why a Canadian in universal estimation. He passed of the Company's affairs during arteries and veins, the fluid return-hurriedly withdrew his hand from They beat a hasty retreat into & from behind the curtain and pour- ment.

Within the borders of the Company should not be similarly away beloved and honoured by the

ed revolver bullets into the party, Dominion, policies of the Sun Life of Canada secure the homes of thou-successful in its quest for business members of his great.organisation.

It was in a powerful position and ing to the artificial heart dark blue the neighbourhood of the plate, the small temple outside abroad. These deliberations result-

the gate, sands of citizens. In Great Britain, ed in, the policy of territorial exi

able to benefit fully from this gitua in colour. Still the head lay ap head opened its mouth and flashed leaving the police to tackle. the where the Company has maintained pansion, which has established the The Company lent ita aid to the ganisation it was prepared for a

tion. Both in resources and or-parently lifeless on its plate."

its teeth as though it wanted to bandits. The Chief Judge 'haring an administrative office in London Company all over the world and Government and the Allies in their great business expansion, and the and to

But life actually was present, bark or bite. Later an electric been missed, the police posts at for thirty-five years, the security of given to it. the international char-determination

convince his witnesses light was placed near the plate and. Chengtzutung and Piliubo were prosecute the results have far outdistanced the of this, Brjuchenenko touched the the eyes closed themselves. its policies has been sought in ever-

acter for which it is known. The War to a successful termination, most sanguine anticipations.

When telephoned to. In the meantime, In reaching

Immediately there was 9 increasing mesure.

beginnings were small, almost ex-To this end the recurring issues of

ill-tasting food was placed in the the Japanese police had chased the out to other countries within the perimental. An office was opened War Bonds were strongly support pany may perhaps beat be appre-reaction, the eyelids moved, the eyes but when more tasteful morsels party came back to the scene of The progress made by the Com- barely discernible yet definite mouth the tongue tried to expel it, | bandite serom the river. As the British Empire, the Company anti-in Barbados in 1879, and the resulted, and altogether the sum cipated a later. Pole Briting Com-ana success so abundantly justified 10,500,000, wat so stroportion to the its history, its business and its of a half hour, during which the and bits of cheese, there was an

ociated by the fact that throughout began to blink. With the passing were substituted, such as sausage the fist shooting, they found the political conception

the venture that the Company, posing amount in proportion to the financial resources have doubled at pumping process was uninterrupt actual attempt to chew and swallow dead, with a bullet in the head and Chief Judge lying prostrate, stone monwealth of Nations. its expansion to foreign"fields the always with proper caution and con- | Company's funds at that time. This periods of five and a half years.edly, continued, there

acted servatismo, gradually entered, other example

a powerful Sometimes the process has taken evidence that the head was truly

another in the right hand lying in world over, peoples of many race

stimulus to other Companies and

For three and a half hours the a pool of blood. „, In 1893 an efice in Great Britain individuals. The War mortality in been accomplished within a less an unmistakable appearance of and when they turned off the motor 57th year. He graduated from the

a little longer sometimes it has alive-the eyes were open and had experimenters kept the head alive, and creeds have been brought into

The late, Chief Judge was in his a common brotherhood of interest

was opened. The desirability of volved the payment of claims time. To-day, assurances of over vitality; the head responded to the of the and interdependence.

making this step had appealed to amounting to £647,000. There im- £305,000,000, and fands of more than most gentle touches, the eye-brows took on the appearance and went and served as Public Procurator im heart machine" the head Tokyo Imperial University in 199 the management for some time,mediately followed the influenza £50,000,000, stand upon its books. twitching and the hair bristling through the familiar movements Tokyo, Seoul, etc. He was a good The Company was sponsored by The Company's appeal for business scourge hardly less deadly than With such vast figures, the process when one ear was stroked it moved

the War itself. Within the span of of doubling in the same period be in the typical manner of a dog ages became glassy, the pupils highest character.

and agonies of a dying animal; the lawyer and a humane man of the men whose names occupy a distia- had always received a cordial res

& few months, death claims conse- guished place among the makers of ponso from Britishers resident in

comes increasingly difficult; how being petted,

widened, and alter a few moments the Dominion. Mr. Mathew Hamil Eastern countries and other out- quent upon the epidemic totalled ever, nothing indicates at present Further tests were made and these rigor mortis set in. These ton Gault, its founder, was one of lying posts, and it was felt that £420,000. The Company emerged any slackening in the rate of pro- brought forth even more marked phenomena of death, Brjuchenenko Montreal's foremost basiness men: the establishment of a permanent from these trying ordeals with un

reactions. Once there was such ho had influence and wealth, and organisation in the heart of the impaired strength and greatly en-es, rather the contrary.

Mr. B. W. Tape, of King's Build-natural and frightening movement was for many years a member of Empire would stimulate the deve. hanced prestige.

ing, is the Hong Kong represent that an over-interested spectator Parliament. Amongst other solopment of business abroad.

tive of the Company.

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Through

Distinguished Sponsors.

fields.

Losses from War and Influenza.

to

4.8

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flowing through its veins.

vigour. People learned that life assurance, although it cannot re- place. a life, at least offsets some

Alive for Over Three Hours. of the losses consequent upon death.

An American engineer, Mr. 0. This realisation, had its corollary appeared to be that of a sleeping Association of Chinese and Ameri

Lying upon a plate, the bead J. Todd, was named head of the in an unprecedented demand for dog; its eyes were closed; there was protection, and it was now that the not even the suggestion of a move offered to assist the Nanking gor-bandits, lying hidden, appeared.

can engineers. This group has effects of the able, administration ment in its muscles. Bright red ernment in any way possible,

blood was pumped through the

those trying years became manifest,

eyta.

WAS

every the food.

asserted, were adequate proof that Solicitor, at Shoreditch: You there had actually been life in the were swearing! Man: I put it to head" inasmuch as that can only you, would you if a bit of roof fell die which once has lived."

on your head?