1925-06-20 — Page 19

CHINA SIAM LINE

Regular freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, via Ewatow, leaving Hongkong Mondays.

Balling for Bangkok via Swatow at 5 p.m.

J.B. "HELIKON" 5.6. "HERMELIN **

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6.5.

HELIOS"

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15

$1

15th Juno 29th June 6th July

For further particulars apply, to

THORESEN & CO., LTD. Agents.

Telephone No's. 450 & 2903.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MR. BALDWIN'S “BRADBURYS.”

Help for a Girls' Home.

Mr. Baldwin's eagerness to do good by stealth and his passion for anonymity are illustrated in aatory told of him by Mr. Wickham Stood..

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS,tained by two old ladies.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM- BOAT CO., LTD. AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD. HONGKONG - CANTON LINE

Sailing-To Canton daily at 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Bundays 10 p.m. only) From Canton daily at 8 a.m. and 5p.m. (Sundays 5p.m. only)

SERVICE OF THEHONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. HONGKONG -MACAO LINE:

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Sailings to Macho-Daily at 2 p.m. f. No SUNDAY 1. Sailings from Macao-Daily at 8 a.m. 1 sailing 21/6/25

Further Information may be obtained at the Company's Office, 44. Des Voeux Road Central, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Bon Ltd, or the American Express Company Hongkong.

Van Heusen Collars

(Semi-Soft)

Alway retain their

The collar that

Shape

represents Durability and Style.

75 cents each at

SINCERE'S

CASCADE.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1925.

WAR OF FUTURE.

Food and Drink from

Aeroplanes.

MAN WHO SAW

NAPOLEON.

Arab Patriarch Who

Recently Married.

There is one man living who olaims to have seon Napoleon

In future warfare it will be Bonaparte in person.

Members of the Royal Googra-, impossible for an army to lay Hidden away in an old-world effective siege to a city or aphical Society wore told of him village in Gloucestershire, says column of troops, Directly food recently by Mr. H. St. John B Mr. Steod in the Review of and drink run short in the belos-Philby, a former political officer. Reviwes, the Premier once came guered garrison, formations of in Arabia, who described a journey

from the Dead Sea to Aqaba. upon a local asylum for feeble aeroplanos sweep overhead, and a

The man who claims to have minded girls, which was main rain of provisions and ammunition

in contained in special. canisters seon Napoleon is Hajj Tahir, one attoobed to parachutes will fall of the many visitors to King atraitonod circumstancos.

Husain during his stay in Trans Hoaring that the "home Was A now provision-dropping para- Jordania. He claimed to be 140 In difficulties, he walked into chute and container has recently years old, having been bora at Stroud, a good many miles away, been ordered in quantity by the Mecca. Then, in the your 1799, collected with much trouble Air Ministry. The containers when about 12 or 13, Hajj Tahir 200 of the dirtiest "Bradburys" are cylindrical, and are made of migrated to Palestine when that could be found, and wrapped metal with a demo or "parouseion Napoleon was operating on the thom ur in a piece of newspaper, cap," at one end: Parachutes Syrian coast.

I do not vouch for the sound- together with a letter written and are designed to fall at two 'alter- worded with (complete illiteracy. native rates of descent; oneness of his claim," said Mr. St. It was to the affect that a pass-22ft, per second, and one 14ft, per John Philby, "but it is locally ing vagabond wished to do what second, and the percussion caps accepted on the evidence of the he could to keep up an establish-absorb the shock of landing. oldest inhabitants, who declare ment the like of which might

that they have never known him) The combined' ammunition and as anything but an old man. perhaps some day afford a refuge to himself.

provision container is 36in. long

"He is sound in wind and A yokel was then induced to and 104in. in diameter. It is limb. and has an enormous bribe an urchin, who went back attached to an ordinary aero appetito, and, strangest of all, an to the village and delivered the plano bomb rack, and the indisputable power of mast c dirty-looking parcel without be- pilot drops it by operating ation with the aid of what pur ing able to explain how he had the usual bomb-release lever ports to be a newly-sprouting come by it, The vagabond' Sir J. Salmond, in a recent but still invisible, third set of

Mr. Steed also recalls the al-lecture on the Air Force in Iraq, tooth. ready published story of how pointed out how aeroplanes have during the war, hiding himself been used for roviotualling isolat-mitted matrimony for the first frem a public under the initials ed columns: At that time, how-time at the age of 70 or there "F. S. T." Mr. Baldwin wrote ever, the roughly improvisad con-about-and he was recently mar- to the Times stating that, in order tainors frequently burst on land-ried again. to help the country in ita graveing, and the provisions were lost. · financial situation, he had, with The new design" makes it case one-fifth of his fortune-£120,000 for aeroplanes to provide by the mineral deposits of the Dead -purchased £150,000 of newsieged troops with food and am-Sea, which, he said, is estimated War Loan, returning it at once munition for very long periods.

escaped dotection.

to the Government for cancella- tion.

Few people followed his ex- ample, for the Treasury only re- ceived £500,000 War Loan for cancellation in all. But, as Mr. Baldwin has since said, "I would! rather sink with faith than swim without it."

SCOTS FOR A' THAT. Descendant of Robert Bruce from Kent,

Pedigree-hunting tends to be come a habit with M.P.'s. And there are stronger things than a British lion with a Semitic ancestry.

Mr. Buchanan, from Glasgow, a point of or-reder in standing committee on a Scottish

raised

ARROW

still last month to protest against COLLARS

the Committee being présided over by an English member.,

He said it was a departure from the old practice of putting in the chair of the Scottish Stand- ing Committee a member who understood Scottish problems.

This led to disclosures. The chairman; Major Barnett-who! site for S. W. St. Panoras-Baid the question of the nationality of the chairman was not an issue for the Committee.

Ho happened, however, to be an Ulsterman, born in Kent, who claimed descent from King Rc-i bert the Bruce of Scotland

Mr. Westwood suggested that' if the chairman went five stages further back he might discover that he Camo from Norway, (Laughter).

AFTER all there

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He declares that he com-

DEAD SEA TREASURE.

Mr. St. John Philby spoke of

to contain 2,000 million motric tons of potassium chloride in addi- tion to common, salt and other commodities.

1;

"It only remains," he said "to romove it bodily from its present site and place it on the markets of the world for 'someone to make an enormous fortune. That, of course, is the problem."...

About 1,000,000 tons of mixed salts (sodium and magnesia) flad their way annually into the Dead Sea from the Jordon: In tho 24 billion gallons, of Dead Sea water it is ostinated there are 38,500 million tons (in)

ck

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