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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936.
THE KING AND | KING GEORGE V. THE SEARCH FOR
SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY
Patron Of Grand Lodge
Edinburgh, April 2.
It was omcially stated in Edin- burgh to-day that following the precedent of King Edward VII, the King has consented to become. Patron of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. It is also officially an- nounced that the Duke of York has agreed to accept the office of Grand Master Mason in this bicen- tenary year of Grand Lodge.
MEMORIAL
159 Suggestions To
»
Be Considered
London. April 11.
SUBSTITUTES
To-day's Craze
London. March 23,
"All countries' to-day are attempt- ing to reduce their dependence on
When the Lord Mayor's Com-other countries. They aim at the mittee of the King George V. Memorial Fund meat at the Man- development of a home agriculture son House to-day they will re- that will produce "sufficient "food ceive a précis of the 159 surges. to preserve the population, in nor- tions received from all
over the mal health and a home industry Empire.
that will provide sufficient housing. clothes, and other necessary goods, writes a correspondent.
At the meeting of the general committee at the Mansion House
on March 12 it was decided that the memoria' should take ther following form:
A statue of King George London in some noble setting.
The modern industrial State is extremely complicated, and cannot
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His Majesty, when Prince of
be conducted efficiently without a
Stocks Wales, consented to become Grand
vast variety of things, including | Adams Express ...... Mason this year, and it will give
raw materiala. No existing coun- Amer. Can great satisfaction to all Freema- A philanthropic scheme which
try or empire contains all the raw sons that the Duke of York is now would benefit the whole country materials at present necessary for | Am. to take his Majesty's place. His and ba associated with King the foundation of a first-class | Am. & For. P. $7 pi Royal Highness will be installed at George's name.
modern Industrial State. Hence Am Light & Trac. Since Edinburgh on November 30, St.
that meeting the Lord In countries where the pursuit of Amer. Locomotive... Andrew's Day, and it is understood | Mayor has received many ad-self-sufficiency is strong substi-
suggestions. that the ceremony will take place
They tutes for materials in which the tii the Usher Hall, which has ac-
countries are deficient are being commodation for 3,000 persons. Capita grants to hospitals, sought, and help in the search is and that there will be present re-especially for maternity and child expected from science. The more Lresentative Masons from all parts welfare.
sanguine isolationists hope that of the world.
Grant for rebuilding St. corxes scientists will find perfect substi- Hospital,
Lutes for all national material de Actencies.
ditiorional include the following:
Endowment of Milton Abbey lue mindtry of healing.
Amer: Radiator ...... Amer. Roling Mil.......... Amer. Smelting Am. Sugar Refining 186) Amer Tel. & Tel Amer: Tobacco 'B' ... Amer. Waterworks... Grand Lodge is arranging an
Anaconda Copper ... elaborate programme for the
Atchison, T. & 8. Fe. ricentenary, the various functions
Some great scienting, develop Atlas Corpn. continuing over a week, A fund of Nation-wide lund for research 96.000 his been raised for the pur-into physical and mental infirmiments of substitutes have occurred Auburn
under the spur of war. For in- Baltimore & Ohio...· 224 pose of entertainment. There will
for Bethlehem Steel .... process stance, the Leblanc be between 200 and 300 guests from
making soda first received proper Boeing Airplane Co. the Grand Lodges of England,
attention under the pressure of Borden Co. Ireland. and America, and from District Grand Lodges overseas. Old-pensions raised to El to French isolation during the re- Bklyn Manhattan
This process Trans Corpn. The installation ceremony of the
60, aud caled King was the
- Manhattan foundation of chemical Briyn Grand Master Mason, which will George's Penstols.
$8 cum. pí industry. Margarine was invented be carried out by Sir Ian Col-
Memorial homes
during the Franco-German War Case. J.I. quhoun, will be followed by a
1870, in response to the offer of Canadian Pac. Ry, banquet.
ties of the people.
Provision for men' renderext nervous wrecks by service in the war.
begin
at
for the aged and children's playing helds in all congested districts.
The King has granted his
King George's Lifeboat Tru patronage to the Foundling Hos- for the upkeep of !!feboat service, pital. Dr. Barnardo's: Bomes, the Founding of a King George V Royal United Kingdom Benefcent Bed in every children's hospital Association, the Royal Albert Or-and in the children's ward phanage (Bagshot), and the Royal every general hospital. African Society.
of
volutionary
wars.
a prize by the French Govern- Chase Nat. Bk........ Corpn. ment. But according to L. Mum- Chesapeake ford, no major invention was made Chesapeake & Ohig during the four years of the war Chrysler
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G. Nthern Rly. pl.
301
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37 Amer. Cyanamid 'B' For. Power
1217 361
G. Western 'Sugar
341
341
Humble Oil
70+
691
81 81
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491
481
39 362
Int. Tel. & Tel.
18
151
307
201
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411
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39 381
214
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63
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Incor
81 81
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354 341
491
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42
411
1023
1011
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221
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170
167
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123 121
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141
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341
331
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U. S. Steel
726
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of 1914-18. The average rate of Columbia Gas & E major inventions is about one to C, G, & E. 6% 'A' pí
Credit three a year, and the most prolific Commercial Provision of more radium.
period was about 1850.
Comi. Solvents ...... “KING GEORGE V.” SQUARZ
Though the Leblanc process was Comm, & Southern
(ord.) of The re-naming Tralalgar perfected during the French re-
“King. George V.volutionary wars, it The following is from a speech Square to
was invented Comm. & Southern (ord.) $ cum. p. Square," and removing of Nelson's in 1787. In response to the offer by Sir Boyle Roche:
to of a
£12,000 by the Consolid. Gas of N.Y. Column and Landseer's nons
prize of Tower Hill. In their place to be French Academy in 1775 for e Consolid. O erected a statue of King George. process of making soda out of Continental Oll surrounded by his four sons, and common salt. The prize was with- Corn. Products the Cenotaph to be placed in the held from Leblanc, but he was Curtiss Wright (C) centre of the square.
given a patent. This was revoked Curtiss Wright 'A'... Mausoleum in Hyde Park, flood in the turmoil of 1703. Owing to Delaware & Hudson lit by the electrical industry.
lack af capital
ill-health Disclilers Corpn.: Sea- the soda
"The progress of the times, Mr. Speaker, is such that little child- ren who can neither walk nor talk may be seen running about the streets cursing their Maker!"
and
The erection of a colossal flood-Leblanc could not run
I statue of King George V. on factory satisfactorily."
grants
He retired Douglas Aircraft
the cliffs of Engand, near Lee-on-to a workhouse, and in 1806 com- Du Pont de Nemours Solent. "similar to the Statue of mitted suicide. The French erect- Liberty at New York,..and visible ed a monument to him in 1888.
at sea for 20 miles."
Statues to be be erected London; Edinburgh and Belfast
Many suggestions for the statue
King George" to be at the Darallels with that of Leblanc's 'ec. Power & Light microphane.
01
"
Two statues, one reviewing troops at Cambrai, the other speaking the collier boy.
C'earance of Westminister House from Parliament Square for statue. Building of four s ngle-span erdites north; south. east and west
uf London, with Tellef of King'e Head in the centre of each and the years of his reign.
process. Haber had proved the feasibility of his process shortly before July, 1914. According to Haber's own statements, and con- trary to what I have formerly written in, the columns of the "Manchester Guardian," the Ger- man Government was not interest- ed in synthetic nitrates for am- munition until September, 1914. The Miltary High Command was
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number of laden Chile' nitrate
wanna a Western reigned during the Great War.
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DICTATORS' FORTUNES
With No Bank Account
They both have a country house." unpretentious but comfortable, and a car
Hitler's private household con- sists of Ave persons, Stalin'sTM is even analler, but they are, like all dictators, heavy on, private body.. guards, exceeding even those of gangsters and film stars.
to war she did not immediately Hercules Powder Co.
Int. Cement ................... forbid the export of Rathenau pleaded with the Gov-
tex. div ernment to order this prohibition
The Haber process has given London, Apr. 1.
Germany "self-sufficiency in ni Major-General F. S. G. Piggott,trates for ammunition and nitro- D.S.O., leaves, London to-morrow gen fertilisers. Its inventor died for Marseilles to join the P. & O. in 1934, a voluntary exile. The steamship Chitral for Japan. He development of the Bergfis process la the new litary Attache for for obtaining oil from coal · by. Tokyo in relief of Colonel E. A. H. hydrogenation is gradually giving James, who completes four years in Germany self-sufficiency in motor
fuels. the appointment on May 5,
According to H. dordon, The new attache has a long ae- plants for producing 750,000 tons a sociation with Japan, for he was year of petrol from coal are in Military Attache there from 1921 operation of construction in Ger
- Mussolini, has.'s bank account.) to 1829, was specially employed in many. The output of the British Tokyo during the Russo-Japanese plant at Billingham is at present
London, March 30. but it is not large. He receives a. Wer, and was attached to the 150,000 tons a year of petrol. The
Hitler's boast in his speech at salary for one of his Cabinet posts,
but not for the others. Embassy there in 1910-13. He was German Imports of petroleum, attached to the auite of the Crown motor spirit, and fuel off in 1934 Fase yesterday that he is the only Like Hitler he depends mainly Prince of Japon in 1921, and he were 1,723,622 tons and the British statesman who does not possess for his private purse on his journ has been decorated by the Emper- were 8,355,817 tons. The Germans even a bank account would be allam and foreign royalties. or. He served at the Washington have
Though he has never written a been experimenting with difficult to substantiate. Conference on the limitation of motor-cars driven by gas made Stain, for instance, has no bank | best-seller comparable to "Mein armaments and his last post was from brown coal in producers on account, Lake Hitler, he is given Kampf," which has established a that of Deputy Military Secretary the cars. It is said that all the all he needs for a somewhat aus world record, he writes articles at the War Omee. He will be the motor-cars in the German army tere mode of life but is technically which are syndicated abroad, and only general officer serving as at can be fitted with these, water-gas penniless. Neither ever visita a his play about Napoleon has been tache. His father formerly served producers and thus run on brown shop, but has clothes and other reproduced, though not with mukty
-coal in Tokyo.
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