SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1932.
Prince of Wales' Friends
In His Royal Highness' Confidence: Small, Intimate Circle
young men, one 'fair and the other
dark.
THE CHINA MAIL
ADMIRAL
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The Injured.
Mr. Kawataba, Chairman of the Japanese Residents' Associa- tion who is not exepected to live.. Mr. K. Murai, the Japanese
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Orders issued by Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., Com- manding H.K.V.D.C.:
PARADES.
In a plainly furnished study, al-¡ on a hunting trip, only to be taken Consul-General of Shanghai who Mr. K. Shigemitsu, the Japan- most empty save for one big desk seriously ill miles from civilisation was wounded in the leg.
and doctors. and two armchairs, there are two
"If anything happens to him, I'llese Minister to China and chief never forgive myself," said the delegate to the Armistice nego Prince, and himself nursed the sick tiations, who received a broken leg which may have to be ampu. The fair-haired man-he is the man all through the night and on
tated. the Nile to the
Lieut. General Kenchichi Prince of Wales-is pacing up and board ship down down, talking in rapid ataccato nearest medical post.
Uyeda, second in command of the phrases, emphasising his points
Something of the gay adventur- Japanese forces in Shanghai, with quick. derided gestures, while the other, his closest and most ous spirit that endeared d'Artagnan who has serious wounds in both Signal Section only at 2 pm. at intimate friend, Lord Ednam, son to Louis XIV. links General Trotter legs and abdomen. and heir to the Earl of Dudley, sits to the Prince's affection. There is listening, occasionally interrupting no one he is fonder of than this with a word or two of shrewd com-grey-haired, grey-moustached man
ment.
Adventurous Spirit.
Battery, There will be a parade for
Gunclub Hill, Kowloon, to-day for classification of signallers. Each
Lieut. General Yoshinori, man will provide his own writer Shirakawa, commander-in-chief
down. of the Japanese forces who is with the quiet humorous eyes and seriously wounded in the head the unmistakable military walk of the ex-Guardsman, who always re- fers to the Prince quite simply as "my master."
Of all the men who know the Prince on the easy, intimate terms
Dress-Uniform, shorts, put- tees, boots, jackets, bandoliers, and body.
Admiral Nomura, commander helmets, and haversacks.
There will be a lecture at Head- Fin-chief of the Japanese Naval
forces in Chinese waters who quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, was wounded in the head and is May 5, by Capt. D. Dunlop, R.4., on Mechanised Artillery. Every said to have lost an eye.
Mr. Tomono, secretary of the member must attend.
It is a scene you might see any day, were you privileged to go "be hind the scenes" at York ilouse, at whose old, red, weather-beaten walls so many visitors gaze every day.
The Prince to-day values Lord Ednam's advice more perhaps than of the hunting field, there is per Japanese Residenta' Association. that of any one else, and when he haps only one to-day who can pro- is. busy composing one of his big perly be called a friend of his Royal industrial er commercial speeches it Highness. is to Lord Ednam that he turns!
wus
A Laundry Clerk.
Sunday, May 8, parade at 10 a.m.
at Headquarters. Each member will bring Haversack ration. The bomb was thrown from a Uniform:-Boots, puttees, shorts,
of seven He is Major Edward Dilley Met- distance
feet by a jackets, helmets, bandoliers and calfe, M.C., known for some entire Korean named Yin Hokitsu, aged haversacks. ly mysterious reason, as "Frulty" 25, who was arrested immediate- Metcalfe to nearly every hunting ly and is now held by the Japan- and riding man in England.
Corps Signals.. Parade at Corps Headquarters at ese military. He is said to have 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, for
Signal Instruction.
A first-class horseman, fearless been a clerk in a Chinese laundry to hounds, and expert in the polo- in the French Concession, and to field, he is an outstanding example have been in Shanghal less than of the English sportsman, and it is a year.
to the sport-loving side of
Armoured Car Company.
Car Section.-There will be a parade for the whole Section "on the! After the outrage was com- Monday, May 2, at Headquarters Prince's nature that he makes his mitted all the entrances and exits at 5.30 p.m. for Machine Gun and
to Hongkew Park were closed by Revolver Training. appeal.
for guidance, whether some phrase will please a particular audience of business men, whether this point or that should be stressed or not.
Ednam Lord
has had many trugedies in his life. His mother was drowned, his seven-year-old son was killed on Chelsea Embankment, and his wife, the beautiful daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, borned to death in the Meopham air disaster in 1930.
It was this
last tragedy which brought the Prince and Lord Ednam, who had for many years been great
They are old friends, for up to friends, even closer together, for the Prince, feeling that his grief-his marriage in 1926 to Lady Alex- stricken friend should have his mind andra, the lovely daughter of the Curzon, "Fruity" Met- distracted, asked him to accompany late Lord him on his great tour of South
America.
Throughout that tour, and ever since, the two have been constant
companions.
They are fellow-members of the the Japanese troops. In addition Motor Machine Gun Section.- Bath Club, where they are often to to the Korean, seven Chinese All ranks will parade at Headquar- ters on Monday, May 2, at 5.80 be seen together in the gymnasium were arested.
Kennedy Road. p.m. sharp for Part I. Revolver at or on the squash courts.
calfe acted as equerry to the Prince. Twelve years ago, when the Prince was starting to lay the foundations]
With one prominent Japanese Official dead and four others seri- sational Shanghai bombing out- ously wounded, yesterday's sen- rage has had world-wide reper-
cussions.
Mr. Kawabata, the Chairman
Scottish Company. There will be no parades on Thursday, May 5.
A meeting of all Officers and N.C.O.'s will be in the Lecture Room at Headquarters at 5.45 p.m. rent training season.
of the great personal knowledge he of the Japanese Residents' Asso- to discuss programme for the cur has to-day of the Empire he may ciation, succumbed early this upon to rule, morning to the injuries received one day be called Major Metcalfe, himself only a few in the Hongkew outrage yester-
the Prince, was day. years older than one of those who helped to guide his
their names appear will communi- cate with the O.C. A.ALA. Com- pany with a view to transfer. In- struction will commence forthwith
effect from Monday, May 9;— at the places and times stated with
(a) A.P.C. Section:-
A. E. Stone. *R. M. Jack.
A. C. Young.
A. E. Ablong.
*H. J. Goaby,
*W. Saunders.
*J.. Macdonald.
*F. S. Elliott. *D. Cochrane. *F. P. Kennedy.
Drills at A.P.C. Installation,
North Point, every Thursday at 5.30 p.m.
(b) Hong Kong Electric Section:—
A. G. Langston.
S. Deacon.
*A. F. Paul.
F. Normington.
*J. F. Lunny.
*H. S. Jones (on leave).
E. Thompson.
*C. R. Wilson.
J. C. Dunbar.
CENTRAL THEATRE
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SHOWING TO DAY
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1932 UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
These Enrolments have already
appeared in Corps Orders. Drills at H.K. Electric Co.. Power Station avery Wednesday at 5.80 p.m.
(c) Central Section:-
R. E. Cable.
F. E. Skinner.
E. M. Raymond (on leave). J. Skinnor.
E. W. Hamilton.
W. I. Lewis.
J. E. Wilson.
J. E. Lanepart.
A. Leach.
K. S. Robertson.
Drills at H.K.V.D.C. Headquar
(d) Kowloon Dock Section:-
every Monday at 5.30 p.m..
A.A. L.A,, Company. Perhaps one reason for their
The A.P.C. Section will parado friendship lies in their mutual in-
at 5.30 p.m. at North Point on terests, for Lord Ednam is a scri-
The other patients are pro- Thursday, May 5ụ mọ oua-minded young man who devotes
be ex- The Portuguese Company will much of his time to the study of quest. Major Metcalfe nowadays is gressing as well as can those problems of trade and inter-tremendously busy in the advertis- pected. Mr. Shigemitsu spent a parade at 5.30 p.m. at Headquarters,
very good night and is going on ters on Friday, May 6 (see national commerce in which the ing profession,
bad A.A.L.A. Company Training Details Four years ago a dozen young well. General Uyeda has Prince is so keenly interested.
He is no easy friend, this young men in London could call themselves all the toes of his right foot am-below).
The Officers Commanding the They were putated. Reuter. man with the world-famous smile the Prince's friends.
everywhere together. Their
According to dispatches Tokyo undermentioned Units will issue and the persuasive personality that seen
was horrified, Nanking surprised their Orders separately to their has earned him the title of the names were on everybody's lips.
Commands:- "Babe,"
and Geneva shocked at the inci- "Royal Commercial Traveller.'
Perhaps it la significant that one dent. Impartial observers are of the most frequent visitors to wondering what the final outcome York House is Lord Derby, that will be and comparing it to the great Englishman who is at the Sarjevo assassination of June 28, same time a lover of sport and one 1914, which plunged Europe into That revealing mannerism-al- of the foremost authorities on in- war. It seems certain that the
He is so full of life und energy that his moods change as rapidly as the April sky, and he does not suffer fools gladly.
His Eagerness,
of fingering his tie, or
playing
the Im-
nes8.
I.-Corps Band.
II-Engineer Company. III-Machine Gun. Troop. IV-Machine Gun Company. V.-Portuguese Company.
Appointment.
His Excellency the Governor has
not as well known as his smile-ternational relationships in Europe. incapacitating of the Japanese been pleased to appoint Lieut.
Sir Abe Bailey, the South African leaders in Shanghai will prevent with the buttons of his coat while magnate, is also often an Informal the signing of the Sino-Japanese. F. Wright, H.K.V.D. Corpe, to he is making a speech, is not so caller on the Prince, but they dis truce which was scheduled for to-be one of his Honorary Aides-de- Camp, during the absence on leave cuss other things than racing, for day. Reuter.
H. of Lieut. much a nervous affectation as an
Owen - Hughes, Japanese Military authorities are H.K.V.D. Corps, with effect from outward sign of his eagerness and that is one of the few sports that impatience to "get on with the job," hold no interest for his Royal High said to be investigating the crime to April 12, 1932.
find out whether it was inspired by
Amendment, as he puts it himself.
No account of the Prince's friends
Hokutou's own fanaticism or Consequently, those in
Corps Orders No. 16/32 para 8 prompted by others. mediate royal circle have to possess could elose without mention of
They claim Ptes. G. Miskin and C. Blaker" quick brains and nimble wita, and Prince George, his youngest brother, that he is a close friend of a Chin- should read "Sergeants G. Miskin
lese named Chen Chung-chu, and C. Blaker." the ability to adjust themselves to and one of his closest comrades,
"Babe" the Prince of Wales calls, jeador of the China and Korean the passing mood.
National Association and secretary Perhaps the man who knows the, Prince George. Prince best of all is Brig.-General They are alike in temperament to Mr. Sun Fo.
As he Gerald Trotter-"G,"
is and tastes, and they share many! Thousands of civilians and 10,000) known to every one at Court.
He has been with the Prince bachelor menage at York House, troops were crowded in Hongkow toon, as from April 26, 1982.
The following have been taken since 1919 as Groom-in-Waiting and where. Prince George has now taken park when the outrage occurred. equerry, and his debonair soldierly up, permanent quarters, is a very in the centre of the park a small
platform had been erected on which on the Strength:-No. 1815 Pte. R. Medina (No. 9 Platoon); No. 1816 figure, with one sleeve pinned across happy one. the breast of his coat-he lost an
interests in common,. so: that thei
Struck Off The Strength. Having left the Colony:--No. 1277 Pte: C. A. Gaan, No. 10 Pla-
****Strength.
Kennedy Road Range is allotted
In their "off-duty" moments, the those who were injured were stapte, A. D. Lowson (No. 4 Platoon). arm when he won the D.S.O. in the two Princes will sit in the big cosy ing while they reviewed the troops Allotment of Kennedy Road Range, South African War-is one of the armchairs of their library, talking and addressed the children.
The bomb was thrown while Mr. most familiar aights of St. James'. ears and aeroplanes-they are both
"He is my best and oldest friend," keen drivers, and learned their Murai was speaking. The explosion to the Armoured Car Section on Baid the Prince once, when, in the piloting together and a host of was terrific and it was instantly ob- Monday evening. May 9...
vious that all those on the platform wilds of Africa, General Trotter lay other subjects. Ill with a heart attack.
The Prince is a difficult friend, had been injured. The attack had been developing He is a faithful and loyal one as for some time, but "G." would not well. give in, and accompanied the Prince
Ask "Babe" or "G."
Anzac Company.
The Commandant has appproved of the formation of a new Unit In Many people in the crowd were Injured in the stampede that follow-The Corps to be known as The,
Anzac Company. ted the explosion. The Korean,
A full list of all enlistments In Hokitsu, was set upon by the crowd this Unit will appear in the next and severely beaten before being handed over to the police, issue of Corps Orders.
Chinese Deny Complicity.
Leave.
No: 792 Pte. E. J. J. Spradbery,
STEEL INDUSTRY INQUIRY. of galvanised sheets and triplate and alloy steels will be included, the
In Shanghal Chinese officials were Car Section, granted 7 months' The International Labour Office is manufacture of cast-iron goods will setting up a special committed to not. Efforts will be made to In-quick to deny that their country leave from April 16 to November conduct an inquiry into working clude a comparison of age was involved in the incident. They 14, 1882
pointed out that the review. conditions In the steel Industries statistics in each country, and some
No. 1042 Pte. A. McArthur, No.
of the most important producing account will be given of difficulties of the troops was purely a Japanese 7 Platoon, granted 12 months leave countries. The inquiry will pro in the methods of fixing wage rates affair and that the Japanese, from Apell 25, 1982, to April 24,
had days previously taken precau 1988 bably be confined to the sixteen
tions to prevent any such outrages. AALA Company Training Details countries whose annual output
The following men are taken on reaches 500,000 tons or more." It
the strength and posted to the Ser- tion stated.
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The O.C. AAEA ward to Head- Complet to
J. S. McIntosh.
H. G. Cooper.
J. N. Sweeney. R. G. Craig,
Drills at Kowloon Dock every Friday at 5.80 pangbr (e) Kowloon C.C. Section:→
W. H. Hirst. A. Hyde Lay. H. Hampton,
J. C. Lyal
F. S. Herridge.
F. Goodwin.
G. B. Legge.
E.-S. Abraham,
V. C. Labrum,
E. C. Fincher.
P. Madar.
H. E. Stone.
Drills at Kowloon C.C., every Tuesday at 6 p.m.
(Sgd.) W. H. G. GOATER, Capt., Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps.
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