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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONG KONG

ANNUAL BALL, 1937.

Members are reminded that it is proposed to hold the above Indiction on Friday, 29th Jan, ary, 1937,

It will prove of considerable assistance to the Secretaries if lists of guests are sent as soon as possible to their offices, ist floor, Exchange Bailding.

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Secretaries and. Treasurers,

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG

KONG

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PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE GOODS of ROBERT MORTON DYER

Inte of Beck Head Withers. lack in the County of West

morland In the United Kingdom, deceased...

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credi tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to 30th day of January, 1937

All Creditors and others are ac.

cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.

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The Daily Press.

Hung Kono, JANUARY 15, 1937.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,

"GENTLEMEN, THE

KING"

Toast Some Regiments

Never Drink

While the order and form of the loyal toasts to be used in future at oficial and public dinners has been approved by the King, there

regiments many Majesty's army who never drink the toast of "The King."

are

in

علم

The early Hanoverian period in

Man And Progress England was a time of divided

of

That they believed in the inevitability and goodness Progress is one of the commonest sticks to beat the Victorians with, but recently Mr. Julian Huxley in a public address at Blackpool showed that laughter is not enough

loyalty with two Jacobite risings. It was after Bonnie Prince Char- lie's unsuccessful attempt in 1745 that all omcers in the army were Arst ordered to drink the King's health as a test of loyalty. Those with Jacobite sympathies used to pass their wine glasses over the finger bowls, and thus drink "to the King over the water."

In the Royal Welch Fusilers it is drunk only on St." David's Day, and in the Duke of Cornwall's

Light Infantry on the King's birth- day. The Durham Light Infantry and the Highland Light Infantry only drink, the loyal toast on very special occasions,

The reason for this in most cases is that in the eighteenth century the officers of these regiments felt that their loyalty was above ques- tion without drinking the King's health.

BOTAL EXEMPTIONS The Royal Fusiliers, however, are Bald to have been spcially excused by King William IV, who had been a member of the mess at Plymouth

- Miny cavalry and infantry re-in 1786. King George IV accorded giments whose loyalty was”, above

shire Light Infantry after officers the same privilege to the Shrop-

of that regiment had saved him from molestation by rioters in a theatre at Brighton.

השמיני

"Progress," he said, "is auspicion were exempted from this recently "The major fact of past evolution; but practice. it is limited to a few selected | King” is never drunk in the messes stocks. It may continue in the of the Queen's Bays, the 3rd Cara- future, but it is not inevitable; binlers, the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, the Royal man must work and plan if he is

Dragoons, the 3rd King's to achieve future progresY for Hussars, the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, the 11th Hussars, 13th- himself and so for life."

18th Royal Hussars, and 15th-19th the King's Royal Hussars.

The latest and greatest step in evolutionary progress has been towards conceptual thought.

This step. Professor Huxley considers, was only possible in man, and if man was destroyed there is

no reason to suppose that any other evolutionary line

would have the same result.

If man is not obliterated the next stage of biological progress will appear in the improvement Solicitors for the Executors,

of his brain. But if man has 1, Des Voeux Road Central, got to help himself along the Hong Kong. right path how is he going to

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THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1937.

Entries for the above will close at 3.00 p.m. on SATUR. DAY. 16th January, 1937, at the Secretary's Once, Exchange Building.

By Order of the Stewards,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 11th Jan., 1937.

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CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.

LOST.

Notice is hereby given that applications have been made to tisis Company to issue to the registered shareholders' Dained below, respectively, duplicate certificates for the shares covered by the following" original certi- ficates, upon statements that such original certificates have been lost m

ON GUEST NIGHTS

Own

In the Life Guards the loyal toast is drank only on guest nights, in the 4th-7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 17th Queen's Own Hussars on very special occasions only, in the 18th-5th Lancers only at the annual regimental dinner, and in the 17th-21st Lancers only when a member of the Royal Family is present.

In the foot guards only the Scots and Irish Guards drink," the

"health" every night. In a num- ber of infantry regiments for various reasons "The King" is Royal Fusers, the 2nd Battalion The Cameronlans, the Oxfordshire

never drink. These include the

Whether fortunately or un- fortunately, there seems to be no prospect of producing such s and Buckinghamshire Light Infan- perfectly selected and condition- try, the King's Shropshire Light ed mice as inhabited Mr. Aldous | Infantry, and the Rifle Brigade. Huxley's novel "Brave New World," and until men have

agreed whether they believe in THE collectivism or in individualism, in this life or in & possible after-life, progress, aq Mr. Julion Huxley says, can be but fiful and slow..

This picture of the uniqueness of man imposes a heavy respon sibility for good, and evil.

THE RISE OF

GERMANY AS

1939 "HIGHLAND”

To Be Held In Edinburgh

At the anniversary general meet

ing of the Highland and Agricul- tural Society of Scotland, held in Edinburgh, a resolution' was proposed "That provided a suitable site is available, and satisfactory financial" and other arrangements can be made, the Society's Show

The last two

NAVAL POWER of 1939 be held in the Edinburgh

OFFICIAL FLEET LIST

First Issued Since

1933

| The great speed with which Germany is building up her navy and the enormous expansion which

Bhow division." Highland Shows in Edinburgh, in

1927 and 1931, were held on Saugh- ton Golf Course and Saughton Park. The golf course is now, built over as part of the Saughton hous- ing scheme, and what is left would be totally inadequate for such an event.

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The custom of honouring the toast only on the King's birthday in the case of the Duke of Corn wall's Light Infantry is believed to date from the siege of Lucknow, when wine was not available for the toast every night:

The 1st Battalions of the East Surrey Regiment and the Royal Sussex Regiment drink the King's health seated, in memory of the days when they served with the fleet as marines. For a similar reason the Border Regiment used to observe the same procedure, but nowadays, although the "health" is drunk every night, officers rise on guest nights only. In the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, too, officers rise only on guest nights. many variations in the manner of Throughout the army there are

drinking The King." In some re- giments it is customary to drink

a "bumper toast"-that is, drain the glasses to the bottom,& cus- tom sald to date from the tim when the Prince Regent granted a special wine allowance to every

officers' mesa

JANUARY 15, 1937.

|

FLYING BOAT

HAS PROVED

HER METTLE

OPTIMISM FOR FUTURE

The Atlantic Service

The 1,700-mile non-stop flight of the Empire flying-boat Caledonia from Alexandria to Marseilles pro- which to base her probable per- vides some interesting data on

"formance on her Atlantic flights.

WHAT SCIENCE IS DOING

From Nebulae To Atoms

Towards the end of the year it is natural to ask what scienes has done in it, writes a London car

be more reasonable to inquire what is be ing done, for in science a year is a Very short time. Twelve months or a thousand ages is like an even- ing ge

respondent. It would

Stars And Atoms

This problem is ons of the points where stars and atome join. Sir Arthur Eddington has.com- puted mathematically the inner temperature of the sun, and by

the few thousand degrees of its analogy, of any star. Instead of

stands nearer Dr. Edwin Hubble, who has given surface its core form to the idea of them as the 15,000,000 degrees of tampera- The fight of 1,700 miles could raits of a greater primal universe ture, and that is the balance which the bottest, brightest

Ita only have been sccomplished pro- must wait another five years, till

between

and its outward vided the boat carried sufficient the 200-inch telescope of Mount star strikes fuel to meet a continuous 40 m.p.h. Palomat, of which the Astronomer ternal energy head wind, this being now a stan- Royal, Dr. Spencer Jones, discours radiation. In that barely imagin

able interior the atoms are strip-. dard requirement by Imperial Aired at the Royal Institution, 'cor-

ped of their electrons. 'From the ways for all journey stages, how-rects his deductions. We mayostling chaos of collisions between

ever short, which these boats are to make on the Empire routes.

This means that Caledonia car- red sufficient fuel for a flight of 2,300 miles in “still, air.”

This involved carrying about 1,680 gallons of petrol for her four 920 hp. Bristol Pegasus engines and 56 gallons of oil.

The weight of the fuel and oil would be about 13,000lb. The boat also found room for 1,200lb. of air mall and a crew of three who, with their baggage, would weigh 6001b

HER EXTRÀ ALLOWANCE This would give a total weight of 14,800lb. The empty or dry weight of the boat, with the long-range fuel tanks for the Atlantic, is given officially as 24.55018

tulen know whether, indeed, these

Astronomy

*-

island universes are dying away the two. light eventually leaks out in packets of from his at sperds which favour at the surface the idea that the whole universe is y expanding, or whether the ap-

Such calculations would be parent fight is to be explained in merely mathematical exercises. it some other way. One difficulty s they were not supported by what that every unit of the universe is thousands of investigators from moving in time as well as in space. China to Fern are finding out We see the confines "of the uni- about the atom in laboratories verse through the greatest teles- modelled on the Cavendish, labora- copes not as it is now, but as it tory at Cambridge, over which was 500.000,000 years ago. ...] Lord Rutherford presides,

Nevertheless, while it is more These determined studenta con- proftable to consider what 18 tinue to indulge in what Sir hoped for, than what has been

Arthur Eddington playfully calis done, some positive results come an orgy of 'ător splitting. The within the accomplishments of study of, the parts of the atom, its protons, positives, negative `and the year.

neutral electric particles, may tell Us whether the light of the stars, Astronomy, turning its deld and the dark mystery of the cos classes

on the Milky Way to mic raya, are a residue of the an- examine the other kind of nebulae. the atom. Together with the study nihilation or the transmutation of the cloudy Masses which all rebulae were once supposed to be, of the cosmic rays they may re- that they are fors solve the uncertainty whether the She will require this extra lighted up by neighbouring stars universe is running down or is allowance of weight before she can These immense tracts many bil- somewhere being built up. carry enough fuel for the Atlanticlions of miles long, and wide, and flight.

She accomplished the fight from Alexandria to Marseilles at about 150 m.p.h. with this great weight. She thus proved that she can take off satisfactorily under orai nary service conditions and operate against head winds over hundreds of miles of open ocean with this great load.

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These two weights total 39,450lb, Caledonia is being allowed by the Air Ministry to load up to 45.00012 instead of the figure of 40,500lb. of all the other Empire bosta. has found

Costle Rays

deep, are composed of molecules and cosmic dust so finely divided These are by-products of the that we can only imagine the most academic of such investiga Aneness by comparison. the tions. Lord Rutherford recently whole mass of one of the largest recalled one of them. In bo were only as dense as air, all the barding the atom more and more stars would be whirled round it by powerful electric voltages have gravity.

been employed. Professor, Law, Struve and his assistants of the rence in America found that 80% Yerkes Observatory have shown diam when subjected, to...very, in- The range she had of 2,800 miles beyond a doubt that while some tense bombardment acquired for a in "still air" is actually some 300 of these fogs are black enough to time some of the most useful

M'LEAN TURNS miles more than the distance from hide the stars, others reflect the radioactive properties of radiumd

"PRO"

LOSS TO AMATEUR -

› GOLF

Appointed

To Buchanan

Castle Club

It is stated that Jack MTean, the famous Scottish golfer, has relinquished his amateur status, and has accepted an appointment as resident professional to the Buchanan Castle Chub at Drymen, Stirlingshire, writes a Home cor- respondent,

He takes up h's duties early in

A

the new year,

The appointment represents of course, a serious loss to the play- ing strength of British, and parti- cularly Scottish, amateur golf.

Certificate No. 19816, dated 31st January, 1933, for 50 shares numbered 1323775/ 1323824, Inclusive, registered in the name of Leung Tat, care of Mrs. Chan Miu Kan, ed every year, did not appear in carmarked for the next Highland 38, Nathan Road, Kowloon, 1934, was interpreted at the time Show, in Edinburgh. The area is Hong Kong.

as proof that Germany had begun much larger than the old Saughton Certificate Ne. 22829, dated secretly to re-arm at sea. The site; it has been drained, and, al- 3rd February, 1934, for 200 that interpretation was correct.

new list shows the extent to which though it is about a mile farther from the centre of the city, the shares numbered 1523707/ Consisting of 211 pages, compar- Corporation tramways run as far. 1523906, inclusive, registered ed with the 98 of the 1933 publica- and there is also an adjoining rail- in the name of Miss Kwok Yin tion, the new list's most significant way siding on the LNER. system. Chol, care of The Wing On feature is the enormous increase in Bank, Ltd., Hong Kong. And notice is hereby given that, if within thirty days' from the date hereof no claims or res presentations in respect of such original certificates or either of them shall have been received by the Company, the Company wil proceed to deal with the applica- tions in such manner

AN IDEAL SITE Fortunately there is available a site which would be in every way is intended are revealed in the new admirable. Some time ago Edin- official "Rangliste"-Navy List-burgh Corporation purchased an just published in Berlin after a extensive bit of ground on Saugh- lapse of three years, writes a Lonton Mains Farm. What will ulti- don correspondent.

mately be done with it will be The fact that the "Rangliste," determined later, but it has, we which had previously been publish- understand. been -provisionally forgotten

and on

such terms as the Directors of the Company may decide.

By Order of the Board Directors,

NOEL BRAGA,

Se Secretary, Hong Kong, 11th Jan, 1937.

'the number of officers, particularly | *--- those of junior rank. These in- the following additions to the fleet creases since 1933 are:- me, were made:-

Flag. Officers.—From 12 to 25 on the active list, and captains, commanders, leutenant-com- manders, and lieutenants propor- tionately.

Midshipmen and cadets-From 187 to 1,100.

PRELIMINARY STAGE

Two 28,000-ton pattleships launched and one.. or two 35.000-ton battleships down;

laid

Two 10,000-ton cruisers launched

and one or two laid down;

18 large destroyers launched and alx super-destroyers and 12 torpedo boats laid down;

The latter figure suggests that

38 Bubmarines launched" and the expansion of the German fect is still in the preliminary stage, for more in hand: {}, the number of junior officers en- smaller craft brought into of tered is the most reliable Index to 10 Fleet gunboats and many

the future strength of any návy, commission. AGA,

The list of ships, corrected to The first official admission that November 1, 1935, reveals the the entire German coast and its magnitude of the naval rearma- adjacent lands have been re- ment drive which began secretly in 1 fortified is contained in the list of 1934. In the two following years fortress commands."

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M'Lean had done so much to

generally by his brilliant play as a restore the prestige of British golf

member of the British touring team in Australia and New Zea- land the winter of 1934-35, and still More

In the never-to-be-

the Empire air base at the mouth red or green rays of the stars

In an analogous way the search of the Shannon to the base at Bot-nearest to them and appear 33 for the real character of the coe- wood, Newfoundland.

ENGINE ONLY "HALF OUT" Actually, of course, this 2,000- mile journey will also have to be

tanks have. In fact been built in

gaseous nebulae,

mic raya, purqued by Professor Other kinds of cloud nearer stijl | Millikan and Dr. "Arthur Compton are those on the face of the sun. In regions as elevated naj the of ал average stratosphere and the atmosphere, These though diameter of 2,200 miles, are so has afforded Information as to the closely packed on the sun's surface | nature of the gases mingled there. that they have been named rice The chemical exploration of the grains. While sunspots (now ris-stratosphere taken by Professor

nown with the safeguard jof a reserve fuel supply to meet con- tinuous head winds up to 40 m.p.h It has been calculated by Short Bros., the designers, that she must take 2.320 gallons of petrol, and Calendonia in place of the normal passenger accommodation to take this enormous quantity of fuel:

With the necessary oll it will long and patient inquiry, has Bragg to the Royal Society, many weigh 18,7501b. It will provide the found their diameters and their of the young men are encouraged boat with a range in "still air of temperature, which is about 6,100 to devote the most ingenious years 3,300 miles and will enable it to deg. C., and hotter than the sun's of their life. This is the science fly the 200-mile ocean stage against continuous winds at 165

to their maximum develop Paneth as the subject of a Royal ment) are streams of gas gushing Institution discourse, is of value to from the sun's interior and daron age which dreams of sending kening as they cool, these cloud- closed aeroplanes and rockets lets are like bubbles of gas, of a through it. much milder circulation, rising up,

Lastly, we may touch on another as the sun simmers.

kind of scientine inquiry to which, Professor Plaskett, of Oxford, by in words employed by Bir William

m.p.h.

Even at this speed only 50 per cent, of the full engine power is used...

A crew of three is provided for and there will still be room for

crossings. 1,000th. of air mail on the Atlantic

1 period of

These figures, I added to the empty weight of the hull, engines, tanks and equipment give the

States Amateur Championship last

Anal of the United fully-laden weight of 45,000lb.

year, that there will be general regret that he has foregone all Championship-for further opportunities of crowning five years. although he may play a distinguished career with the proud title of Amateur Champion "CANNOT AFFORD TO GO ON".

M'Lean himself, speaking to a Press representative, said: "I am sorry to give up amateur golf, but I cannot go on playing-it."

"I think," he added frankly, that the time has come when I am-Justined in commercialising my ability, as a player"

In certain tournaments after two years' experience as a professional.

ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

......

M Lean's engagement to Miss Margaret Waddel, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs Alexander Wad- dell Pentlands, Station Road, Broxburn, was annour.ced only a week before.”

The course to which M'Lean is What amateur golf has lost, going was opened on May 18 of however, will be the gain of pro- last year, when the Duke of Mont- fessional golf, and certainly a new rose, on whose policies it is laid Interest will be imparted to the out, drove the first ball with a professional events of the next few driver presented to him by James seasons in seeing how one who Braid, the architect, of the course, "has carved for himself such a M'Lean and Brad, afterwards

notable place among the amateurs will fare in the perhaps keener competition of professional golf,

MLean pointed out, however, that under the rules of the Pro fessional Golfers Association he will not be able to appear in the major events of professional goif with the exception of the Open

took part in an exhibition match, when, partnered against Hector. Thomson, the Amateur Champion, and Mark Seymour, they won by 3 and 2 MLean and Thomson. played in a foursome match the following day, when Mean had an approximate score of 69. The omcat record of the course a 70.

calculation, though complete la with the human body, Thousands face, which we never see. This nearest to us, for it is concerned itself, is only the prelude to fur continue, to examine the germ dis- ther worlding out of the properties | eases, or the invisible causes of of the outer layer of the sun. other diseases. the viruses,

Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Potts, together with Capt. and MA, J. L Hardy, pose for the Daily Press" photographer on board the La. Kinshan (to Macao) Last Sunday, Mr. Hardy is a sister of Mr. Potta,