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TROOPING THE COLOUR

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Pageantry At The Horse Guards

ing cuirasses, and waving swords. they passed before their Sovereign in the stately slow march that seems to call back from the save the, formal armies of Blenheim

(Special Air Mall Service) London, June" 9. The sun, having celebrated the feast of the King's Birthday with royal splendour on the calendar date was regrettably absent op Monday. The skies were grey and dismal, and temperature seemed to fall as the ceremony went on so that at the end it was bitterly cold..

The line of bayonets above the bearskins showed fat white in stead of the shimmering blue that is so beautiful in more favoured years; and the Colour to be troop ed-which was the King's Colour of the First Battalion of the Scots Guards difficult to distinguish. in the dull light against the gravel of the Horse Guards Parade. Had the white ensigns and other flags hanging from the windows of the Admiralty been fairly clean they would have done much to brigh ten the outlook.

So much for the unhappy natur-

conditions with which

the

al Brigade of Guard's had to contend. On the other side of the balance there is to be set the great advan-

and Fontenoy.

Scarcely had the last of the dis mounted parties gone by when the horsemen had completed the e- cult and were back at their start ing point; the bands, now posted in the centre of the parade, broke into the gay trains of "The Keel Row," and the whole array camé swinging past once more in quick time, to the music of the famousre gimental marches of the Brigade. Then the Household Cavalry, with the 'drum horse leading, rode of the parade ground; there moment of stillness and the King rode forward alone." He took his past at the head of the King's Guard, and led the entire body of troops back towards Buckingham Palace. As the last of them pass ed out of sight the clak struck 12. and a little rain fell

GIFT TO ROYAL OBSERVATORY

"MILITARY DRESS

SCOT RETURNS

New Telescope At Greenwich

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(Special Air Mall Service)

London, June 9.

Some Distinguishing From Foreign Legion

Marks

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, June 22. All military men in uniform

must show their breast badges

On Saturday. According to cus~

and should not grow long häir, ac-"

tom, it being the first Saturday

cording to an order of the high in June, the appointed Visitors military authorities. This is to of the Royal Observatory. Green-Prevent fraud on the public, be- wich, met to realeve the report of

cause military men are given the

the Astronomer Royal and, this being a special occasion, to take part in the formal Inauguration by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell) of the telescope presented to the obser- vatory by Mr. W. Johnston Yapp

The company included. as mem- bers of

the official board, Sir Frederick Hopkins, president of theyal Society: Professor F, J. A. Stratton. President of the Royal Astronomical Society: Sir William Bragg, Professor Alfred Fowler, Sir James Jeans, Sir Joseph Peta- vel. Sir Nupler Shaw. Professor Sydney Chapman, Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, Professor H. F.. Newall. Professor H. H. Plaskett (Oxford University Observatory), Sir Arthur Eddington, and others well known in astronomical and official circles. They assembled outside the building that houses

tage that they missed last year, R.A.F. CHANGES the new telescope. which is not

the presence of their Colonel-in- į Chtet. That the King, at the opening of his seventieth year,

was hale and vigorous enough to 2-Seater Fighters To

receive the solemn tributes of his troops in his own person, and not 1 by any deputy, however august, was more cheering to the packed masses of spectators than any amount of sunshine.

The great square of the parade- ground gradually filled up during the hour preceding 1 o'clock, First came detachments of the Scots Guards to line the margins of the area, then bands of the various units, and the Guards tak

ing part in the ceremony. When

the

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Replace Bombers

(Special Air Mall Service)

London June 8,

within the boundary of the obser- vatory proper, but in an enclosure

privilege of half fare in bus rides

and half fare for admission theatres.

to

many people not connected with The grey uniform is worn by the army, and they often pay half fares to bus conductors and box offices.

Recently several bogus colonels were arrested in hotels.

not

The Chinese officer docs show his rank on the sleeves or form has no shoulder straps, and shoulder straps. In fact their uni-

their Sam Brown belts are always Hable to slip down. Formerly the coat collar. Then the breast badge Insignia appeared on the closed

was invented and

found to practicable.

tough piece

be

(Special Ats Mall Servisn)

London, June 6. After serving nve years with the- Foreign Legion in Morocco and the Atlas Mountains, John Buchanan

(33), a native of Glasgow, arrived. In England on Friday, and went to friends at Ilford...

In an interview, with a reporter

recently he said that the five years in the Legion seemed like a life- time to him, and that on no se- count would he serve it again.

as he left school and signed on for five years, and added:

He said that he enlisted as soon'

"For two years my pay 'was' a halfpenny a day, and then it went up to 6s. 8d. a fortnight."

He said there were now very few,

stories written about its being al- Englishmen in the Legion. The

most always in action he describ ed as exaggerated.

Arabs Do the Fighting

"The Arabs do the fighting w

themselves amongst

And the Legion consolidates the position and lays 'roads. It is really a Qur food was very bad.

"There were long marches day after day and in between road- one side is the number of stars making and building. Those who

сле ranging from

to three. A dropped out on the marches were

It is a rectangular cloth or inches long and six inches wide. cheap Labour, Corps.

of paper of three Placed above the left breast poc- ket, the cloth K black, yellow, or

lined with a gold rim. On

of the Park, about 350 yards from black rim means he is a captain left behind and had to take care towards the top of More filt down, a yellow rim means the of themselves. Some of them were

that was added to the domain of the Astronomer Royal in 1898 for the purposes of magnetle work.

Owing to the extended use of electricity near Greenwich, it was found advisable some years ago to

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runk from colonel-down. and red rim signifies the rank from full general down.

picked up by Arabs and afterwards lived with them. Others died.“

With an Englishman, Buchanan One star enclosed by a black deserted three years ago, but was rim means that the wearer, is a captured on the Spanish. börder second leutenant, two stars. Beu- and taken back after covering. 300 A change of far-reaching - establish a magnetic observatory tenant; and three stars. captain.miles in eight days with only portance in the air forces of this at Abinger. Surrey, as an adjunet Similarly a yellow rim with one bread and chocolate as food. He got 60 days' imprisonment for country is to be made shortly into the Royal Observatory, leaving star means major: two stars lieu-

ténant colonel etc. The name of that. the London squadrons of the the space in Greenwich Park Auxiliary Royal Air Force. These available for Mr: Yapp's princely the officer and his position squadrons, at present equipped gift. There is enough room I30 with day bombing 'planes are to in the enclosure, for a reversible

be provided instead with we

metropolitan

appear on the badge.

also

Buchanan, who was, demobilised in France, travelled from Ilford on Saturday night to stay with friends.. in Corrie Grove, Cathcart,

transit circle that is being made MORATORIUM IN Glasgo

by Messrs. Cooke, Troughton, and Simms for the observatory, the housing for which, semicylindrical In shape, constructed". by the Cleveland Bridge Company, is al- ready erected, and was on view on Saturday.

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The Astronomer Royal (Dr H Spencer Jones) said that they

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all was ready, there were two seater fightera troops of The Blues in the corner, Of the three by the Treasury, and the massed squadrons of the Auxiliary, two bands of the Foot Guards occupied (Nos. 600 and 501) have Hart the rest of the southern side, day bombers and the other (No. With their backs to the road and 605, County of Middlesex) has their faces to the Horse Guards"Wapitis" These will be super- Arch, five-of the eight dismounted seded by Detion two-seater Guards filled the western side of fighters. the square, and the remaining In all probability, after the were celebrating 259 years of the (From Our Special. Correspondent) three were ranged in front of the RAF. display the Auxiliaries will Royal Observatory. It was some

Canton, June. 22. Admiralty. Near the centre was exercise their Harts" as two 10 years since the Observatory

The ten-day moratorium, dur- the Colour, and the fourth side of seater ighters, and when their last had a gift of a large teles-ing which all payments for ad-

square was left vacant. with new "Demons" are ready will cope, but never before had it had ministrative and military expen the arch in the "middle, to await hand over the old machines to the the gift of a telescope and a build-ses were stopped, expired to-day, bis Majesty.

new air defence squadrons providing adequate for it such as had It is learned that this suspension ed for in the Air Estimates and been presented through the gen- will be "extended for another five 'A minute before 11 the gleam of now being formed.

erosity of Mr. Yapp. The first days and that the announcement plumed and gilded head-dresses This important move undoubted- Astronomer Royal, Flamsteed," was

to this effect will be made public became visible through the treesly signifles that these new air de-appointed at a salary of £100 a towards the Mall, and almost fence squadrons, and the two year, out of which he had to pro- During the last ten days, the simultaneously the cheers of the skeleton squadrons to be brought vide his own instruments. The Frovincial Treasury has accumulum, crowds lining that part of the up to strength this year, will be new instrument had a larger aperated $3,000,000. This moratorium Leather Co., Ltd.. China Transport route could be heard on the parade bomber squadrons.

ture and a greater light-collect is to assist in the stabilization of Chinese Manuf. & Dist. Co-op. Co-, ground Punctually as the clock ! Far-reaching as this change un ing power than any other instru- the provincial banknotes of one- of the Horse Guards struck the coubtedly is. It does not mean that ment the observatory possessed. dollar and Ave-dollar denomina- The Chinese Eng & Mining Co.. hour the King rode to the saluting a new system of defence is to be It was about as large as could be tions which have now reached par base in front of the arch, followed adopted. But while counter-bomb-used with advantage in the Eng-value. In the past ten days, even by the glittering array of his sons,

ing offensive must still play a lish climate. his princes, and his generals, in large part in the system, it will the uniforms of their respective shortly. be confined almost exclu- ranks or regiments, by his turban-sively to the regular and special ed orderly officers from India, and reserve squadrons..

His Majesty's Arrival

by his guests the military attaches

from the foreign Embassies.

By that time the brave display |

of searler all round the square,

the cloth of gold of the bandsmen}". the Housebold Cavalry, the

of

saffron kilts of the Irish. pipers, and the tartan of the Scots, had produced their customary warming effect through the eye upon the mind, and the chill of the air

could be forgotten.

This was the first thrilling mo-

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OBITUARY

The Rev. W, W. Clayson

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 9.

Testing Relativity theory The telescope had been present ed in commemoration of the work

this afternoon.

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payment of salaries was suspend- ed, although most of them is due at the end of the month..

Notes of the Canton Municipal

Baron Baeyens, Miss L. Banham, Dr. P. Berger, Mr. and Mrs. B.

Buch, F. L. Bishop, E. A. Brodie."

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Major General Sir John Fowler. Hon, R. W. L. Grant, D. E. Gow!-

Hall & Holtz, Miss C. Handei, F.

of Sir Frank Dyson as Astronomer Bank have also increased from land. Royal in directing the Work of cents to 85 cents per paper

the observatory for nearly 25 dollar. Mr. Liu Ping Kong, head Harman, Harvey," Main & Co., Miss of the municipal treasury and F. Haywood, Ho Bros. & Co., FLE. years. During the War came the

brother of Mayor Liu Chi Wen, is Parcel Exp. & Storage Co., HK. development of the generalized theory of relativity. That could making another effort to bring Small Investors.

notes to full the depreciated

Imp. & Exp. Far East Corpn. cnly be tested by astronomical ob-

value...

India-American Tdg. Co. servations, and, in particular, one of the most important tests could dollar denominations will be prob- Jones

The provincial notes of ten R. E. James, K Jenner, H. H. only be made at the time of the ably redeemed in the middle part total eclipse of the sun.

of Juy. This note is about 65 per Sir Frank Dyson knew that this cent. of its face value,

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was to happen in May, 1919, and that it would possibly be the most ment of the day, with the troops The Rev. William Ward Clayson, favourable opportunity for mak- all round presenting

• Professor of New Testament ating that particular, test. It was the arms. massed bands playing the National the Union Theological College, then about the darkest time in the Anthem, the King erect and Canton, for the past 20 years, who whole of the War.. But not daunt- motionless in the saddle to receive recently came home under doc-ed by that, he set to work im- the Royal Salute, and the Queen tor's orders after 34 years in South mediately to prepare plans and and the ladies of the Royal Fami-China, died on Tuesday at Horn-organize expeditions, so that if In 1916 Mr. J. Ogden Armour ly, including the Princesses Eliza-tey, where he was staying with a the War ended in time those ex was reputed the second richest beth and Margaret, together with brother. He was born in 1873 at peditions could be sent out. As a man in America with a fortune the King of Slam, watching the Elham, Kent, where be had hoped result they did go, one from that of £50,000,000. Various ventures Sam Cheong, Sakura Shoko, J. S. pageantry from the window above to spend his retirement. Alter observatory and one from Cam-in which he was interested sub-aliva, L. Spencer, Miss G. sum- him. Theri Majesty, followed by training for the ministry at Ches-bridge, and brought back results sequently proved disastrous, and the procession of dignitaries, rode hunt College, he was ordained in which settled conclusively that he

was said to have lost a right round the square to inspect 1999, Joined the London Missionary the predictions of the generalized million dollars a day for 130 days. the troops,

Boclety, and was appointed to relativity. theory were practicalHe died in London in 1927 prac- There followed intricate march-Canton. For the first 14 years of Sir Frank Dyson said that as hetically insolvent. ing, and counter-marching by the his service he was occupied in was leaving a meeting of the Bil- Mrs. Armour, who sacrificed massed bands, the interlacing filles

Miss M, Welton, Wha Hone & general missionary work, buttish Astronomical Association a her personal fortune in paying moving in and out of one another since. 1914 he had been the re- friend asked him if he would like his creditors, had the satisfac, Williston, Sherman & Cooney, Wing. Tung Electric Factory, L. with geometrical beauty and pre-presentative of the London Maa new instrument at Greenwich. tion four years later" of selling

Wong. All this led up to the censionary Society on the staff of the There could be only one answer to some of her husband's securities took over its duties as Escort to the finest educational institutions had a friend who would like to than useless" for £1,850,000. the Colour, which its Ensign in China, in "which seven other give one. Mr. Yapp afterwards Second Lieutenant H. N. Clowes, missionary societies co-operate. Visited the Observatory, and a few since then the Observatory had Beots Guards, along the ranks of Mr. Clayson also played an im- days later a letter "was received been under the turisdiction of the all the Guards on parade to re- portant part in the growth of the saying that he would present Admiralty, and they had been ceive their salute.

Union Church Movement in South | £15,000 for a new telescope and very proud of their charge. They Finally, came the march past, China. He married at Hong-kong building at Greenwich,

awed a debt of gratitude to Mr. First The Blues, then, in succes-In 1901, Mlas Ellen Lee Grocott, Bir Bolton Eyres-Monse salt Yapp for his munificence in pro- son, the Scots Guards, the Grana of Leeds. Mrs. Clayson was for that the Observatory was started viding the Observatory with the diers, the Irish, and the Cold-many years in charge of all the in 1877 to find the so much de- telescope. On behalf of the Board stream Guards," " with "Jingling women's work of the London Mis- stred longitude at sea for perfect-ot Admiralty he accepted it with: harness, fleshing bayonets, gleam-|sionary Society in Cantón.“ ing the art of navigation Ever | grateful thanks..

cision.

Yan Sang, Mrs. Young, Pearce

tral rite of all, when" No. 1 Guard | Union Theological College, one of that, and the friend said that he rejected at his death as "worse Island Alert Bay. Miss Hsin Chiung

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