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No. 23309. ·號叁零叁仟萬弍第 DOAJATEX HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1933 陸拜體,日撝月蟀年参卅佰玖仟登英 Price

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OUR SCOTTISH AIR-MAIL

LETTER

The Royal Scots, Britain's Oldest Regimentland

and Oil production: A Cinema Exhi

Royal Academy Associates:. A Shipping Revival ?.

THE KING TO VISIT ROYAL

SCOTS

Glasgow, March 21.-The King and Queen will pay a special visit to Aldershot to inspect the lat Battalion of the Royal Scots, the oldost Foot Regiment of the Bri tish Army, on the 300th anniver sary of its foundation,

The traditions of this regiment go back, so far into the centuries, that many years ago they were nicknamed "Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard."

The explanation of the nick-namé is that when in the French service as Le Régiment de Douglas they had a dispute with the Picardy re- giment about the antiquity of their respective corps..

The Picardy officers déclared that they were on duty on the night of the Crucifixon, when the colonel of the "Royal Scots" re plied: "If we had been on guard, we should not have slept, at our poste

As a permanent part of the Bri tish Army, however, they com plete 300 years as a regiment on March 26

A battalion parade will be held at Aldershot, where the 1st Batta-

This force serve with King Gustavus Adolphus of 6 weddu...

During the Inal on yours they have fought in all parts of the world, Til the Gi War, they placed 38 battalions in the fold.

"A congratulatokille metsange, calling the regimente, fedish cam- paign has beened by the Colonel, Bir. E. ham, from the Swedish Military Attache in London.

EDINBURGH DEGREE FOR

DR. "ADRIAN BOULT Edioburgh Univity Senatus have resolved to confer the honor ary degree of Doctor of Music on Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult music director of the British Broadcast- ing Corporation. The graduation. coremony takes pison on June 30.

The Lord Hector of the Univer sity (General Sir I Hamilton) has appointed Lieutenant Colonel A. 9. Blair, V.S., Edinburgh, as his

the University

Court.

Assessor

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With the apprnsch of Summer, and its as sociated festivities, thoughts turn to dress clothes,

Abans builds clothes of distinction, in the latest style, and special attention is given to the all-important question of fil.

A

order issued by the Colonel-in- Chief, the Princess Royal, will be read."

Simultaneously there will be simitat ceremonies at Glencorse Barracks Edinburgh, which is the regimental dep, and in India, where the 2nd Battalion is on sar

vica

Other arrangements are:

The review by the King and Queen on April 19;

Officers dinner at Aldershot, on April 19 or 20.

Historical pageant during the Royal Tournament at Olympia in May;

The Princess Royal attends dinner at Edinburgh on June 23: Regimental ro-union June 24;

and

Begimental church parade and rally, June 25.

Continental Battles.

The regiment is descended from the long line of Scots contingents that fought in the various was on the Continent. It can be traced back to the Scots Guards at the French. Court of Charles III. in

882.

The life of Louis IX. was twice saved by his Scots bodyguards. He increased the number constant- ly about him to 100 in 1954,

It is dry and has a high oifyield. Its by-products are very valuab

These advantages at the compe tition for attracfim, Pistillation, Duke of Montrose in an address Companies were pointed, dutchy, the to Dunfermline Rotary Club, when be advocated a Government gua rantes of interest, on -£2,000,000 private, capital. to launch the new industry.

With that capital over 40 die- diberent collieries throughout the tilling plants could be. put up. at

ment to 6,000, men and save the country. This would give employ- nation £300,000 per year in "dele"

paymenta,&

The Duke Dockyard as the most suitable site suggested Rosyth for a distribution centre for the

coalfield OXFORD HONOURS SIR ROBERT RAIT.

Fife

We learn that Sir Robert Rait, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, has been elected by an Honorary Fel- low of Now College, Oxford, of which he was a Fellow from 1899. to 1913.

CINEMA EXHIBITION FOR GLASGOW

CHINESE HOLD

JAPANESE

FIGHTING GOING ON NEAR

CHÍN VÀNG TẠO

{THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.]

PEPING, April 7. CONSIDERABLE. fighting is going

on about two miles north-west of Chinwangtao, but neither side appears to have given ground in that area and it is reported the Chinese are still holding Haiyang.

FOREIGN CABLE

COMPANIES

TAKEN OVER BY CHINESE AT SHANGHAI

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGEMUK ]

NANKING, Apri

THE Ministry of Communications

lave instructed the Chinese Government's International Tele- stopb Bureau, Shanghai, to take fer the traffic offices of the Great Northern, Eastern Extension and Commercial Pacific companies by virtue of the agreement signed on Wednesday.

IN HONG KONG TO-DAY

PROBABLY SOME RAIN

CLOUDY

YESTERDAY'S "AVEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND BEMARKS, LESNED BY – THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5,16 P.M., STATED:

THE ANTICYCLONE 18 NOW CAN- TRED TO THE NORTHEAST, OF HOKKAIDO, DEPRESSIONS REMAIN OVER TONGKING, THE YELLOW BEA;" AND SOUTH MANCHURÍA.

LOCAL FORECAST:-E. AND S‚E, WINDS, MODEBATE: CLOUDY GEN- ERALLY WITH LOCAL POG`AND DC- CASIONAL BAIN.

SOLUTION OF SILVER PROBLEM

U.S. SENATE UNABLE TO ÁCT

(TUROUGH | REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NEW YORK, April 7.' EGISLATION for the solution of When Henry V. swept through Tentative arrangements have the silver problem will not be France to be acknowledged Heir to been made to hold this year's con- enacted by the present session of the throne, thousands of Scotamen förence of the Cinematograph Ez. | Congress, according to the Journal went to fight for the Dauphin. hibitors' Association in Hasgow of Commerce which, quoting Mr. The Royal Scots as a Foot Ro during the first week in June. Rainy, says the problem is, so com- giment of the British Army caine This annust assembly bias, of courplex as to require international into being by a Royal Warrant in se been held in Glasgow before-action which will possibly be taken 1633, given to Sir John Hepburn the last time was, in 1925-buty the World Economic Conference, to recruit 1,200. men in Scotland..

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