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PREMISES TO LET

PEAK MANSIONS:!

5-roomed Eats,

8 roomed fista.

PRINCE EDWARD ROAD

DISTRICT.

4 roomed fats,

4-8 roomed residences.

CAMBAY BUILDINGS :'

33-roomed fats.

CHEUNG SHA WAN:

1-3 roomed data.

KOWLOON CITY:

I-roomed fats.

FLATS TO LET

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HOUSES TO LET.

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LELIX VIL'LAS,-- Pokfulam.

Immediate occupation. Charming Modern Residence at Moderate Rental Fine Views Children's Playground, Bea Bathing,- Frequent Bus Service, Garage. Apply F. A. Joseph, Property Offre, Tel No. 20910.

5993

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London Transport Scheme

(Special Air Mall Service)

65.

R.A.F. ACCEPT

NEW PILOTS

More When Schools Are Ready

London July 22. In

minutes, the Lordan

With the opening at the end of Transport Electric Finance Cor- this year, or the beginning of next poration secured the £32,000,000 year, of the five new fight train- required for the financing of railing schools, the RAF will be able way electrification.

tu speed up the acceptance of The list of applications for the pilots. new loan opened at 9 am, and closed at 1.5 agu.

The offer was of 21 per cent guaranteed Debenture stock 1950- 55 at 97.

Although

the new loan has Treasury backing, it is in a sense an industrial issue and, as such, is one of the largest operations of its kind in history.

Only twice during the cheap. money period has a loan with Treasury backing been offered at such low rates of interest as the present one.

The earlier offers were for

Shorter periods.

The previous Governmental de- mand for new money was the S per cent Treasury Bond issue-

totalling £110,000,000 in 1932. This, however, was only a shart term "issue.

Applications for the new loan which have considerably exceeded requirements. have come from banks, large insurance, companies and public departments. who are regarding the loan as B term investment.

GOLF AS HIGHER LEARNING

So far, 4,000 applications" have been-received for pilots under the new expansion scheme" and 95 had actually been accepted on July 8,

In other ranks, however, there is an immediate demand for:

Skilled Otters and metal-work-

ers;

Mates-to be trained-from ught Atting trades, motor garages, and other sources where some experience of handling en- gines and machinery has been gained;

Armourers and wireless opera- tors, with secondary school edu- cation, between 17 and 32:

Motor-boat. crews: Cooks and butchers. Civilian instructors

Ini

many

trades are required, and the staffs of the Men's Training School at Manatom, for the Air Armament School at Eastchurch, and for the Wireless Telegraphy School

Cranwell need augmenting.

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WE ENGLISH

LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

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Legislators from all over the Empire lunched together to West-

By Mr. Baldwin

instructions from.·.

minister Hall. It was the nrst time THE Undersigned have received plates and cut.ery, have been seen there since before the War.

The lunch was arranged by the Empire Parliamentary Association Captain FuizRoy, the Speaker of the House of Commons, presided.

@ Mr. Baldwin proposed "Our Over“, seas Colleagues." He said:

"In the chancel of Tewkesbury Abbey I once came across a stone to one of the barons, or Magna | Carts in which was carved the words, Magna Carta is the law and let the king look out."

“LET THEN LOOK OUT”....... "$C it has always been with tyrants with our people. It has always been, the same and will be whether the tyrants be barons, the church, demogogues or dictators. Let them look out. (Applause).

"Let us never forget that the English Parliament had not one man' for its maker. No man made it; it grew.

outcome

"It was the natural through long centuries of the com- mon sense and good nature of the English people, who have always preferred committees to dictators, elections to street fighting, and talking shops to revolutionary tri bunals.

At the provincial centres, good progress is téported. Glasgow and

"It is said that the Parliamentary long-Birmingham give sure indications system has failed. Ours are the of providing fitters in the semi-only countries where Parliamentary skilled classes who will be taken on

government has grown. and trained.

Centres at Portsmouth and Ply- mouth will be opened next Mon- day.

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Gol has beck, admitted to the In spite of the many applications realm of higher learning by a to join. either as officers or as committee of New York Univer-skilled or semi-skilled tradesmen. sity. After a somewhat anxious the average physique shows no consideration of the problem it falling off from that of normal has given Henry O. Dresser, for times. merly a professional player of the

The staff at the Air Ministry is permission game,

to submit aj kept busy. Interview Boards are thesis on it for the degree of held on five days in every week. Ph.D.

PRAISE FOR MODERN YOUTH

(Special Air Mail Service)

London July 22.

Mr. G. Bell, High Master of St. Paul's School, West Kensington. Kensington, expressed a "high opinion of modern youth at the School Apposition recently.

He Intends to study, he says. the "body mechanics of "the golf aving to determine the elements of the most desirable results." His investigation, he admits, may shatter some cherished beliefs about the game, for he means to "put to a scientific test the fun- damentals that are accepted. as part of the golf swing."

After devoting one comparatively brief chapter of his thesis to the history, literature, and develop ment of the game, Mr, Dresser will

"I firmly believe," he said" that plunge into a profound considera-in no age of the past have there tion of such matters as the weight been boys of such qualities as in of the club, the speed of the club the present. I am the last person Head at the moment of impact to think that the British stock is, and the length of time it remains degenerating”. in contact with the ball.

In no year during the century Photographis of alx leading pro- had the school been as successful fessional players in action will as this year in the number of illustrate his discussion on what scholarships won. If Dean Colet, happens to the ball when it is hit, who founded the school in 1509, and why. His thesis will be en- could see it to-day he would un- |titled "The physles and body me-doubtedly approve of It.

chanics of golf."..

TSAR'S TORTURE CHAMBER

Grim Discovery By Drillers

The secret subterranean torture chamber of Ivan the Terrible, lost for nearly for centuries, has at last been found by tunnellers on Moscow's new underground,

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It is not far from the cellars of the Comintern's central offices.

It was there. In that so-called "Henchman's Court," in the great. es, "terror of past times, that the real founder of the Russian Empire. had his police examine political suspects, execute them in the most abominable ways, or make them fight with bears for their sport.

THE RIGH TO GRUMBLE "Whatever fallures may have come to it in countries, which have not our traditions, that is no proot that it has falled.

"When it has falled in our E- pire, then it will be time to acknow- ledge the failure of the system."

Mr. R. G. Menzies, K.C., M.P“ At- torney General and" Minister for Industry in Australia, replied. Ee said:

"The growth of Parliament is in truth a growth of the British peo- ple. With all its faults, the sys- tem retains one great virtue-that: It ensures the liberty of the sub- fect.

"We will, of course, exercise all our privileges; we will grumble. criticise, and go slow when we ought to go fast.

"But, when all is done, we will not lightly part with the privilege of being architects of

our own political and social virtues and the custodians of our liberties."

'OLD COINS ISSUED

Following Silver Rise

Singapore, July 90. People who during recent weeks have tendered currency notes at the Treasury in Singapore have complained that they have been given in exchange very old worn five cents pieces which they have had dimiculty in passing outside.

Owing to the sudden rise in the price of silver, the Treasury issued the old, discoloured coms with in- After H. G. Vevers and H. W.tention; but the measure was only Arnott had recited, amusing ver- temporary-it lasted six weeks- slons were played on the stage of ❘ and all is now normal:

L2-Comdr. A. Powlett Lane, chairman of the Governors, who distributed the prizes, said that discipline and good fellowship were the main springs of a successful ure.

part of Act I, Scene UI, of But while it. lasted it was not "William Tell," by Schillier, and of welcome even to the Treasury, a scene from the "Birds" of Arist- which took anything up to four or five thousand dollars worth" a ophanes. A physical training dis- play on the school ground follow-day. Fuked ed

THE FLIGHT OF THE HOUSE-FLY

For, if small coins flow back to Government, it means that trade is in a bad way.

THE

REGISTRAR, SUPREME

COURT.

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

WEDNESDAY,

11

AUGUST 7, 1995

AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON

Ar Tunt SALES ROOM, No. 4, DUDDELL STREET

THE GOODS & CHATTELS OF THE GRAND THEATRE

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FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1935

COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M.

AT QUE SALES ROOM, No 85, WANKOW ROAD, KOWLOON

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

- FURNITURE

Comprising --- Chesterfield Suits, Led Boom and Dining Room Furniture, Enamel Bath, Carpets and Bugs, Glass and Porcelain Ware, Ornaments, Clocks, Gramophone and Becords, Linen, Ice Chest, etc., etc.

also

A SELECTION OF BLACK WOOD FURNITURE

One Badio Set-

and

ON VIEW FROM THURSDAY, THE 8TH AUGUST, 1986.

TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERY.

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS

SCOTTISH COAST FILM

(Special Air Mail Servicei

London, July 22. A film of Scotland's coasts will be taken this summer by a London company. The producers plan to ase three cameras and some 18,000 feet of film, so that all the best In February silver commanded scenes can be captured for the fin- 2. an ounce; by the end of April ished article. As present it is ex it had risen to 38 There was pected that the photographic danger of coins being melted down journey will begin in the Solway In the investigation of fly-borne for their sliver value; so the Firth and follow along circular diseases it is important to find out Treasury started re-issuing the route to Eyemouth, taking in the the extent to which the house fly old coins of 1917 and 1918, mint way. Certain scenes of the pic travels. Some remarkable experi age those of only 400 fineness ture, which is intended for use la IDENTIFIED BY SAND

ments have recently been carried compared with 600 fineness of the schools, are to be photographed int When the Metro drillers came out involving nearly a quarter of latest traits ten cents Issues colour. upon the crumbling casings of a million dies. The Ales were cap and, naturally, they contain less what had once been a low but vast tuned in specially designed conical silver and are worn so thin that underground vault, no objects were traps, and while in the traps they the superscriptions found to identify it as Ivans were sprinkled with unely powder discernible

Thus, it is believed, Government "Chamber of Horrors." But Mos- | ed red chalk or paint pigment. The cow geologists have now proved its insects were then released. Traps has forestalled a recurrence (on a Identity by the white sand found had previously been placed over a minor scale) of what happened in there. W

wide area, at varying distances and 1919, when the price of silver went A contemporary chronicler men-in different directions from the UD to nearly 7s an ounce, and Lions that his "Henchman's Court" point of liberation.

people who realised that melting being damp, the Tsar had white Some of the marked files were point of some of the coins was sand brought from a great distance found as far away as a hundred lower than that say, 45-melted

miles from the starting-point. A them down in large quantities.

to cover the floor,

are

hardly

EDINBURGH LORD PROVOSTSHIP

(Special Air Mall Service)

Edinburgh, July 2 Bir William Thomsan completes his term of office as Lord Provost of Edinburgh in November, and the favourite as his successor is Coun clor LB Gumley, an ex-Treasurer of the city. But other names are Bikely to be put forward, and among those mentioned are Coun cillor R. G. Ritchie, Baille Raithby (who has acted auccessfully as senior magistrate), Councillor. W JMLaren, Councillor Peter Given, and Councillor Will Y Darling. Councillor Darling has the short the insects seemed to est term of service, but his pecupa. in the tion of the civic chair seems Hikely ing their release, enough in the near future.

The subterranean passage which considerable number managed to The result of course was that Ivan is known to have had tunnel- journey fifty miles, while thou the coins became rarer and rarer led in 1585 from his Kremlin fort- sands were trapped at points at and finally Government had to ress to his torture chamber has least twenty miles away. One | Issue Paper also been brought to light. curious point is that 75 per cent. The discovery of the "Hench- of the illes had nown west; for man's Court* emptied even of its some unexplainable reason fer Instruments of torture, seems to went south than

destroy once and for all the legend ection. Wit

of Ivan'a treasure of untold wealth,

in gold and gems that was sought

for in this spot for centuries.

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