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This week's orders for the Hong on FRIDAY, SATURDAY and Keng Volunteer Defence Corps, of the Sale by Public Auction MONDAY, the 29th 30th instant issued to-day by Lt.-Col. L. G. as under:
Bird, D.S.0., O.B.E., Commandant, read as follow:-
to be held on TUESDAY, 2nd day
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the at
and 1st prox. (Easter Holidays).
Hong Kong, 26th March, 1929.
8 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gor-
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FOR SALE-One Standard Engine,
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(Ford
Scottish Co. Thursday, March 28, 1929. There will be a meeting of N.C.Os. at Volunteer Headquarters at 6,15 p.m. All N.COs. should attend.
Thursday, April 4, 1929. Platoons will parade at 5.80. p.m.
No. 5 Platoon and Casuals of No. 7 Platoon at. Corps Headquar- ters for passing out in Vickers Gun All Officers Commanding Units Standard Tests under. Lieut. ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. With The Adjutant at an early date
will arrange to check their records Alistair Mackenzie.
No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon Duck at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of
for the Training Year 1928-29.
for passing out in Vickers Gun for
THE SECOND EXTRA RACE 3 term of 75 years, with the option of
Standard Tests-under Lieut. G Musketry MEETING will be held (wea- renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed ther permitting) at Happy Valley Armoured Car Companies will fire
Tho Mounted Infantry and Duncan, M.B.E.
No. 7 Platoon at Kennedy-road by the Surveyor of His Majesty the on SATURDAY, 30th March and Table at Stonecutters Range Range for M.G. Part I. under King, for one further term of 75 on MONDAY, 1st April, 1929, on Sunday, April 7, 1929. Range 2/Lieut. H. R. Forsyth.
commencing at 2 p.m. on both days. Oficer: 2/Lieut. R. K. Valentine. Truck will leave Corps Headquar PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. The first bell will be rung at 1.30: Launch will leave Queen's Pier atters for Kennedy-road Range at
p.m..
9 am and call at. Kowloon Pier 5.20 p.m.) The charge for admission to the ai 9.10 a.m. Public Enclosure will be $1 Dress: Musketry Order, ie, per day for all persons including rifle, belt, bayonet, braces, pouches Ladies:
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform optional.
or bandoliers, Uniform or mufti half price.
Members are advised that they Headquarters on Friday, April 5, Arma will be drawn from Corps must show their Badges to obtain: between 9 a.m. and 12 noon, or 2
Ride Meeting. The attention of admission to the Members' Enclo- and 4 p.m., or 5 and 6 p.m. and those competing in the Rifle Meet- on Saturday, April 6, 1929. being is called to para. 3 of this Each member has the right to tween 9 aan, and 1 p.m.
week's Corps Orders re times of introduce 2 non-members to the Members' Enclosure, tickets
launches and competitions.
whom
The Corps Rifle Meeting will
Reserve Co. can be obtained from Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5
take place at Stonecutters Range
Thursday, April 4. Parade: at 1929 Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. each per day up to Thursday, 28th on March 31 and April 1,
Machine (Easter Sunday and Easter Mon- for
Gun Instruction. Dress: Mufti. day).
Promotions and Appointments M. Gun Company No. 3 Section. No. 1092 L/Cpl. T. Seddon to be Corporal, as from March 25, 1929.
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A Large Quantity of SURPLUS STORES.
Comprising:-
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March, 1929,
for
The charge for admission for. Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2 per day.
Corps Rifle Meeting
Launch will leave Queen's Pier at 6.15 a.m., 9.30 a.m. and 1.30
minutes later.
.
Each member can obtain, upon P.m., calling at Kowloon Pier ten application tq the Secretary; Badges for admission of 2 Ladies:
The dates and order of events free of charge.
will be as follow: Bookmakers,. Tie Tac Men.!
Approximate Times of Firing etc., will operate within the precincts of the!
not be permitted to Sunday, March 31, 1929.
9.00 am. Blake Shield. Hong Kong Jockey Club during
9.00 am. Francis Cup. the Race Meeting.
200 p.m. Attack Competition, 3.30 p.m. Reserve Competition. 3.45 pm. Jar Competition. ¡Monday, April 1, 1929.
Hong Kong, 25th March, 1929.
HONG KONG BENEVŐLENT SOCIETY
(Founded 1889.). CONCERT of Light Music will be held in the Hall of (complete Fuel Oil Burning Out-the Helena May Institute at 5.80 A), Leather Belting, Watchman P.m. on TUESDAY, April 16, 1929. Tickets, $2 each, may be obtain- Clocks. Westinghouse Dynamos, Engines, Faucets, Hydrant, S. G., ed from Members of Committee, at Revitting Hammers, Wire Wound the Anderson Music Co., Ice House Hose, R. H. Lace, Motor, Pipe Street, and at the Helena May Threading Machine, Rotary Pumps, Institute.
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Portuguese Co. Friday, April 5. The Company will parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. under Platoon arrange- ments.
Miniature Range.
Recruits will parade at the
No. 1884 L/Cpl. S. E. Edgar 10 be Corporal, as from March 25, 1929.
No. 1053 Pte. H. A. Gregory to be Corporal, as from March 25, 1929.
No. 1809 Pte. N. A. E. Mackay to March 25,
be Corporal, as from 1929:
No. 1316 Pte.. H. be Corporal, as from
Burson
March 25,
to
9.00 a.m. Corps Championship. 9.00 am. Tyro Competition.'-. 11.00 a.m. Musketry Competition. ¦ 1929.
Revolver Competition, Corps and No. 1322 Pte. J. J. Hirst to all Comers, will be fired both days, be Corporal, as from March 25, 31, and 9 a.tu. to 2 p.m. on Mon- 9 am, to 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 1929.
day, April 1929.
make
Reversion
No. 1026 1/Corporal, S. Jex, Competitons will
their Machine Gun Company reverts to the rank of Private at his own re- own arrangements for tiffins..
The Canteen will be in atterid-quest, as from March 25, 1923.
Transfer Dress: Uniforin, Musketry order. No. 1026 Pte. S. Jex is transfer-
Officers for Range Duty
red from Machine Gun Company The detail of Offers on Firing to the Reserve Company, as from Point duty dari- Corpa Rife March 25, 1929,
ance.
Meeting is a
Sunday, Ma
p.m.
m. to I
Lieut. S. Jarvis, M.C. 2/Licut. H. R. Forsyth. 2/Lieut. A. Hutton-Potts. Sunday, March 31, 3 pm to 5
: p.m.
Lieut. A. H. Penn.
Lieut. H. Owen Hughes. Lieut. A. Mackenzie. 2/Lieut. R. K. Valentine.
Long Service Medal
H.E. The Governor has awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal to No. 64 Pte. F. Cullen of the Scottish Company, H.K.V.D.C. on March 25, 1929.
Leave
No. 806 Sergt. J. H. Bottomley, Corps Signals rejoined from leave on February 28, 1929.
No. 655 L/Cpl. D. L. McWhirter, No. 7 Platoon, from March 20, 1929
Monday, April 1, 9am. to 2 pm to December 19, 1929. Lieut. R. S. Logan. Lieut. J. E. Hancock. 2/Lieut. M. A. Johnson, MM, 2/Lieut. R. D. Read.
Corps Band
The Band will parade at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2 for Band Practice in the Lecture Room in mufti.
All ranks of the Band are parti- ..at $23.00 per ton. cularly requested to be present.
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ART DISPUTE
SIR JOSEPH DITVEEN' SUED FOR £100,000
DA VINCI OR COPY ?
New York. In the Supreme the Court before Justice Black,
hearing was begun of a libel suit for $100.000, brought by Mme.
No. 1424 Pte. H. M. Remedios, Audrea Hahn against Sir Joseph No. 9 Platoon, from March 25that her painting. "La Belle Fer- Tuveen, for expressing the opinion 1929, to April 5, 1929.
No. 1306 Pte. A. L. Mills, No. 11 Platoon sick leave from March 26, 1929 to June 25, 1929.
ronniere," was not the work of Leonardo da Vinci.
The jury of twelve solid citizens will receive from rival experts an Struck off the Strength
intensive course in the appreciation Having left the Colony: M.I. and A.C. Companies
No. 1077 Pte. J. Isaacs, Car See- and criticism of Florentine art. Muskelry. AH ranks
de June, 1920, the plaintiff, who minded that Table """ will be fir- tion, as from March 13, 1929. ed at Stonecutters Range on Sun- gignals, as from March 14, 1920. Kausas City, and whose maiden No. 734 L/Cpl. T. V. Harmon, is the wife of Mr. Harry Hahn, of The above prices include deli-day, April 7. Those who have not
Having claimed their discharge name was Andree Lardoux, brought very charges to destination.
fired on February 17, 1929, are re-on completion of three years, ser from Brittany to America s family quested to attend. Attention is vice or over:
heirloom-the painting, "La Belle drawn to Corps Order No. 2 above.
Da No. 345 C.Q.M.S. Mounted Infantry Co.
P. W. R. Ferronniere," attributed to
Vinci, and similar to a painting in Ramsay, Scottish. Company, Friday, March 29. Dowbiggin's from March 27, 1929.
the Louvre. In ал interview Trophy.
No. 637 Pte. N. K. Littlejohn, published here Sir Joseph Daveen Hunters Arma meeting the 10 1928.
There will be a bus from the No. 7 Platoon, as from October 28, declared the Hahn painting to be a copy, and the one in the Louvre to o'clock train from Kowloon, which
be authentic. This opinion put an will convey competitors to the course at the back of Potts bun-
The particulars of an open shoot end to plans to sell the painting to to be held
the galow and return to the Arms Meeting of The
Rifle to the Kansas City Art Museum.
The intervening years have been after the race.
1st Battalion Competitors are Somerset Light Infantry at Kow-taken up with criticnt and chemical advised to make tiffin arrange Inon City Range Wednesday, amlyges, historical study, and the
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April 3 at 2 p.m. have been post- taking of experts' depositions, Thursday, April 4, 1929. Those ed on Corps notice boards for the the results of which will be laid members who have begun M.G. information of those interested before the jurors. On their deci Part I. will parade at 5.15 pm. at Arrangements for entries must be sion, depend the hopes of a group Headquarters and proceed by Ford made through The Adjutant.
Truck to Kennedy-road Range.
All others will parade at Head-
Sergeants' Mess Meeting There will be a Sergeants Mess quarters at 5.30 pr. for M.G. Meeting on Thursday, April 4, Training
1929 st 6 p.m. All members are expected to attend.
Motor Cycle Section Thursday, March 23. There will be a musketry, parade at 6.30 p.m. sharp at Volunteer Headquarters for all who wish to practise rapid loading.
Machine Gun Co.
A TRAGIC VISIT
FATHER LEARNS OF SON'S DEATH ON LANDING
of French heirs, who, in the dark days following the war, decided to part with the painting.
Mme. Hahn holds that the "La Belle. Ferronniere" in the Louvre is not an original Da Vinci.
In 1923
2 committee of nine critics made a microscopic com- parison of the two paintings in
Paris.
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They were permitted to HONG KONG HEIGHTS
place the "La Belle Ferronniere" of the Louvre beside Mme. Hahn's painting, and the tests they made will be described to the court by
Monday, April 8. All ranks parade with motor cycle at Volun- teer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for instructional ride. Sidecar outfits will be in charge of L/Cpl. Thomas When M. Crignon, Chef du counsel for Sir Joseph Duveen. and Pte. Groome. Dress: Mufti. Cabinet to M. Poincare, the Sir Joseph Duveen, in giving French Prime Minister, arrived evidence, said that an expert in art # Man who could tell an The Company will parade at at Dover recently, he was inform-wes Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tues-ed that his son had died suddenly original from a copy. To be an day Aprü 2 for Machine Gun in London some hours previously, expert one had to have a knowledge Training except those of No. 3. Sec- The news was conveyed to M. of drawing, of colour, and of form. ¡tion detailed for M.G. Part I. who Crignon by the French Consul at Ope must also be able to feel the will fall in at 5.15 p.m. and pro-Folkestone, who had come to life of a picture, to appreciate that it was not merely a surface covered ceed by Ford Truck to Kennedy-Dover specially for the purpose
Greatly affected by the news of witheous, but that it had depth, road Range under Lieut. H. Owen Hughes. Dress for all overalls his son's death, M. Crignon .com and revealed not merely the shape Recruits will parade, in mufti in tinued his journey to London by of the subject's head, but also the thé Miniature Range for musketry the boat train.
state of the mind and the soul.
the following list of some of the For the information of visitors highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:-
Island. Victoria Peak Signal Station Mt. Parker....
The Eyrie
* Mountain, Lodge
Feat.
1823
1774
· 1784
1725
1726
1305
Taikoo Sanatorium Mt. Davis
1000
877
Bowen Road (filterbeds). 297
Mainland
.Feet.
Talmoshan
Peak Hotel
Kowloon Peak
8124
··1971.