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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

Thursday, December 8. Anniversaries and Holidays.-St.

Nicolas.

Property, Sales Room, 3 p.m.; Tien- Auctions.---Lammert's, Leasehold sin Carpets and Rugs, Sales Room.

An Army order wiring the 1934- London, Nov. 15.

33 programme of reliefs between Mr. Charles Anderson, an on-stations reveals that the Royal cial of the Post Office Department, Scots Greys are the to leave Red-3.30 p.2

ford Barracks, Edinburgh. out on * 16,000-mile

The journey to act as Postmaster at modification, indicates that the programme, which is subject to Admiral Byrd's camp at Little America, in the far Sub-Arctic.

" Greys = "will go to Aldershot, while they be reileved in Edinburgh by the 4th,7th Dragoon Guards from Tidworth, Na

So much mall, largely bf - s' phliatelle nature, has to be cleared through the camp's post-atrice that the Government decided to serid"

an experienced ometal to assist the members of the expedi-

M

The Dragoons had a distinguish- ed record in portant actions Colonel of the regiment is Major- during the Great War,

The

Connaught Road, 4 p.m.

Bazaar-In Ald of H. K. German Women's Guild, German Club, 2

Cinemas

King's: "The Crime Doctor." Queen's: "She Made Her Bed.".

Central:-"Chinese Picture” Oriental:-"Private Jones" World:--"Whistling In The Dark.” Alhambra:-"Gambling Lady."

tion who have been endeavouring cieneral A Soll Flood, Colonel | Majestic:-To The Last Man."

to cope with the great mass of correspondence.

ley.

Star: Pilgrimage."

Entertainments—"Fresh Fields":

Mr. Anderson will go by way of Auckland, New Zealand, where the expedition's ship Bear, of Oakland, will transport him to Little Ame-

The "Grays." who will be com- rica. He will carry with him 50,000 pleting two years tenure of station letters to be post-marked from the in Edinburgh, took part early this camp, as well as a complete equippaign to Inverness, and the High-10 am to 7 pm.

year in a notable recruiting, cam- ment of cancelling machines, gum, ink, and marking stamps. -

of the Prince of Wales's Volan- tears, and the Commanding Omeer Lieutenant-Colonef D. G. F. Dar-China Fleet Club Theatre, 8.15 p.m.; Concert at Helena · May; "Hiawatha" Rehearsal, Cathedral Hall, 8.45 p.m..

Exhibitions.Hong Kong - Art Club. Annual, Gloucester. Building,

The latest news from - Little America tells an amusing story of how members held an "election"

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lands. They also played a promin-

Lectures. Rev. Dr. E. Allen. ent part in a military pageant Hop Yat Church, Bonham Road, 8 given at Inverleith, and recently were engaged by a nim company Society, Mesars. Jardine's Board Meetings.-H. E Horticultural in reproducing there regiment's

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for mayor. Admiral Byrd, the De-historie charge at the Battle of Room 5.15 p.m.; Theosophical So Waterloo for the picture The Ironclety, & pm; HK. Teachers' Asso Duke."

ciation, King's College, (history, geography and maths, section), 5t PmWomen's Fellowship, B Andrew's Exï, 3 p.m., St. Andrew's Pete Committee fin) $ pm.

mocratic candidate, romped home by 65 to 1. The only vote against blm was Admiral Byrd's" own, which he gave to the camp cook

Adml. Byrd's expedition left Bos, ton In September, 1933, and reach- ed Little America in January. The objects of the Expedition are to map land areas about the South Pole and determine what natural

·resources are there, of use to man, In August Adml. Byrd was rescued from the observation hut in which he passed the winter alone, 123 miles from his main base,

METTERNICH'S " TABLE

SERVANTS"

The great Austrian staterman Metternich employed servants to spy on the foreign statesmen at the Congress of Vienna. He made sure, however, that his informants were more reliable than the un-

educated table servants to whom reference was made as supplying the Press with news in Lord Broug- ham's day.

Before the Congress opened some of his most reliable Civil Servants were trained for "service" in the hotels.

The only Scottian cavalry regi- ment, the Greys with their pic- turesque cerezsiciRNA, KÉLICE, WIX DA ready miten the peose of the Capital and surrounding districts. MOVEMENTS OF SCOTTISH, REGIMENTS

An Army Order issued this week contains particulars of the propos led future movements of two 6cot- tish regiments the Royal Scots Fusiliers and the Cameron High- landers. During the year' · 1935–36. It is intended that the 1st Bat tallion Royal Scots Fusiliers, who ste now in Egypt. will proceed to India, while the 2nd Battalion will be transferred from their present station. Catterick Camp, to Alder- shot. The 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders, who have been in In dila for a number of years, and are now about to leave Fyzabad for the Sudan, will come home some time during the season 1935-Se, and will be quartered at Catterick. The 2nd Camerons, who have been at Aldershot since they left Edin- burgh, are due to go on foreign service when the 1st Battalion re- turns. Their first station abroad will be Palestine,

If a foreign statesman tore up a draft of a memorandum there was always + soft-footed valet-de- chambre to remove the waste- World:-"Whistling In The Dark?” paper basket and serid its contente Alhambra: "Gambling Lady." to Metternich.

Majestic: -"Romance In

Rain."

An X-Ray Device Metternich is also said to have perfected a kind of X-ray device, which enabled letters to be read without breaking their seals,

It is certain, in any case, that the only foreign Power which was able to conceal its dotrigs from his eyes was Great Britain.

Castlereagh had his own service of Incorruptible couriers between Vienna and London,

►CHEN

The

Star: "Here Comes The Groom

Dances St. Andrew's Hall, 9 p.m.; Garrison Lecture Hall, 8.30 Dia; Miss Violet Capell's Dancing Display, Queen's Theatre, 5 pm.

Entertainments-Fresh Fields" Chins Fleet Club: Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous, Peak School Prise-giving at Teak Club, 5.15 .p.m.; Whist Drive, Civil Service

Cricket Club, 8.45 pm

Moon---X Moon, 30th. Day,

Evangelical Fraternity. Emmanuel Religious-Special Meeting, HK, Church, & p.m., (for Prayer and in- tercession).

Peninsula Hotel. 7 p.m.-

Social FunctionsToe H. Dinner,

Sporis

Local Race Poules (Hong Kong Joc- Auctions Bale' of well-known key Club), 5.15 p.m.

Club de Recreio "A" v. Club de Badminton. — Ladies Doubles, Recrelo "B", Kowloon C.C. v. St. Division, Sailors and Soldiers' Andrew's: Men's Doubles "B" Home Victoria Recreation Club. 8 p.m.

"Golf.-United ((Fanting), 8.44 822

Services Meeting

Av. Radio Indians (Martas Hockey-Fifth Battery, H. K 8.

Ground), 5.10 p.m.; St Andrew's “A” V, Y.M.CA, Seconds, 5.15 p.m.

Racing Entries close for Thir teenth Extra Race Meeting, noon." My Friday, December: 7

Anniversaries and Holidays-Bt. Ambrose, Doctor of the Church.

Auctions-Household Furniture, Lammert's Kowloon Sales Room, 2.30 p.m.; Crown Land Sale, Dis trict Orice, Bouth, 11 am.”

Bazaar HK. German Women's

China Ve Guild, 2-Connaught Road

King's: The Crime Doctor."- Queen's She Made Her Bed." Central:-"Once To A Lady.".

Exhibitions. Annual Display, Hong Kong Art Club, Gloucester Oriental Massaére.". Buliding, 10 am to 7 pm.

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