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SATURDAY,
MARCH 11, 1933.
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE
CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK,
THE
CHINA MASSA
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN Will Farmers Listen
THROUGH FOG
Wonders Of New Infra-
Red Ray.
London.
Fog, clouds, and darkness can bej
Orders issued by Lieut.-Cal L. G. Bird, D50, QBE, Com-penetrated by the infra-red rays, in-
manding H.K.V.D.C.:—
Hong Kong, Friday, March 10.
PARADES
creased knowledge of which has enabled some remarkable achieve- ments to be carried out in long- The following ranks who have distance photography-that was one not yet fired their Part II Classi-of the things which Mr. Olaf Block, fication which counts for efficiency President of the Royal Photographicį There will be a parade for the are reminded that the last oppor Society, explained in a lecture re Signal Section at 5.30 p.m. at tunity they will have of doing so cently. Headquarters on Tuesday, March will be on Sunday, March 12:-
Battery,
Mr. Block said that among the 14. All signallers must make an! Pte. B. J. Monks, Cpl. J. T. Cook, achievements of photography aided effort to attend owing to the an- Pte. J. M. Kelleher, Pte. W. Stock-by the infra-red process were: nual classification test being held ton, Cpl. N. A. E. Mackay, Pte. Brokenshire, Pte. F. V. Whittu, very shortly.
at
There will be a parade for the Cpl. E. H. P. White, Pte. I whole Battery 5.30 p.m. on Mclanes, Ptc. D. Hynes, Pte. J. Thursday, March 16 at Headquar-Hunter, Pte. H. A. Waller, Pte. J. ters for Rifle Drill. Owing to the Heaney, Pte. E. C. Fincher.
Dress: Either uniform or muitt forthcoming inspection, every must attend.
may be worn, but belt and pouches Annual Classification of Signal-must be worn. iers will take place on March 26,
оле
Saturday
Promotions.
A. No. 1914 Lance Sergt. Amendment to Corps Diary Pago Bates to be Sergeant.
E.
16 line 13 delete "March 24 Bat- No. 1309 Cpl. N. A. E. Mackay tery Dinner" and substitute "April to be Acting Lance Sergeant.
Battery Dinner."
Corps Signals
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14.
- Machine Gun Troop.
No. 1932 Private E. P. Selk to be Acting Lance Sergeant.
No. 1833 L/Cpl. H. D. Matthews to be Acting Corporal.
No. 1782 Pte. J. Hunter
Parade at Volunteer Headquarto be Acting Corporal.
ters on Tuesday, March 14
Arme Drill,
for No.
The following will fire Rifle
1819 Pie. J. P. Way to be Acting Corporal.
No. 1920 Pie. F. J. Net!!
Course at Stonecutters on Sunday, to be Acting Corporal.
March 12:
Pickford.
Tura. Lammert, Fawcett, Butler. Robertson & Tolmie.
Armoured Car Section The Section will parade at Head- quarters at 6.30 p.m. on Monday, March 13 for the THIRD of the series of Lecture on the Motor Engine.
The Officers Commanding the
1-Engineer Company, 2-Motor Machine Gun Section. 3-Machine Gun Company.
Casuals.
from the camera.
The shewing, in the photograph of a clean-abaven man, the hairs of his beard-though they were still below the surface.
To Roosevelt?
Stand Against
War Debt Reduction
BARTER TRADE SPREADING
While the United States is willing obliged to pay again or default. to hold debt conversations with A prominent official remarked Britain, as indicated by the Hoover-privately in Washington the other Roosevelt proclamation, she expects day that "it would take a greater A photograph, taken from a these conversations to be a bargain- gift than that of Midas to solve this height of 23,000 feet in the air, ing conference. That summarises question. We had better call every- of a mountain 311 miles away America's position on debt negotia-thing off and start again, and I hope we won't ever again muddle our tions.
The United States wants Briway into such a tangle." tain to return Lo the gold Turning From The Dollar. standard.
The United States wants Bri-standard, there has been an amazing tain to make world trade and growth in the movement which is tariff concessions as the price of turning away from the dollar basis debt revision,
to barter and trade script unbacked Those who know the real situa-by gold or currency. This move- tion in Washington admit that the ment already involves nearly 2,000,- proposed conference cannot accom-000 people from coast to coast, and, plish anything before June 15, when is rapidly growing. Well-organised A Britane next gold instalment falls associations are springing up in
The making visible of passages in a book which had been obliter- ated with black ink by the Inquisi- tion over 300 years ago.-Reuter.
DYNAMITE DESTROYS
CROCODILES
But Seriously Injures Destroyer.
Part
TRACE
MARK
WATNEYS
BRITISH ALES AND
STOUT
HEALTH GIVING
and BODY BUILDING.
Although America is on the gold SPARKLING ALE
due.
every State-not even excepting the Even if Mr. Roosevelt were will-money capital of the country. New ing to agree to some proposition York. radically scaling down the debt to They exchange goods and services
within Britain's capacity to pay, or without the transfer of actual cur- even some plan whereby the debt is rency. Where a medium of exchange Bulawayo.
virtually cancelled without it ap-is needed they issue otherwise Dynamite is now being used to pearing to be direct cancellation, he worthless script which is redeemable Tprz Tandy. Mackintosh & undermentioned Units will issue destroy crocodiles which are causing could not swing the United States with goods or services through the
their Orders separately to their heavy losses of stock to farmers Congress and the American voters local associations.
For example, a cobbler repaire with their homesteads near rivers to support such an agreement. The following will fire Machine Commande:---
The Special Session of Congress the green-grocer's, shoes and re There was a nasty sequel to one of Gun
Courge at Kennedy Road
these
which will undoubtedly be called ceives what they deem to be a fair dynamite expeditions to Range on March 16:-
destroy a crocodile which had killed some time in April will not reach amount of food in return. A house- the debate on debts immediately. wife delivers a piece of furniture to un ox in the Beatrice district. Rise Part II.. Stonecutters. Mr. J. Rohn, a Salisbury farmer Even when it gets to debts it will exchange, receiving in return a piece at an early decision, of "money" which later she can pay Range Officer 2nd Lieut. J. R. and a companion went in search of never arrive Way.
the reptile. A charge of dynamite because of the obdurate attitude of to an odd-job man who cleans out Launch leaves Queen's Pler at was thrown into a pool and this the poverty-stricken Western farm- her cellar, he in return getting food, are the backbone of the clothing, or whatever he needs from 9 a.m. and Kowloon Police Pier at proved effective. At the same time, era, who
the local exchange to the estimated 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, 12th instant however, two other charges which voting population.
Hard-Hit Missouri.
value of his script. Lecture Noom. Allotment Of. Mr. Rohn was holding in his hands
It would not be difficult for the The Lecture Room is allotted to also exploded, blowing off both arma the Armoured Car Section on Mon- below the elbow and inflicting other British people to realise the Amer ady, March 13.
serious injuries. Mr. Rohn's comican debt attitude if they understood panion was hurled some distance by conditions In the agricultural re- Re-wise was unhurt. Mr. Rohn was re-reports show
the force of the explosion, but other-¡gions of the United States. Official antiquated legislative system by that 50 banking in-which it has a Congress in office moved in a critical condition to stitutions closed down in the past after the November elections until week in 22 Stated: For the first the following March without any hospital.-Reuter.
fortnight of 1933 bank closures real power or popular mandate. Inumber 134.
This is graphically illustrated by the It is significant that most of these present Congress.
Little attention has been paid bank closures occurred in the mid-1 western farming States. Missouri abroad to the "Lame Duck" Amond-
This Section will fire the Vickers Gun Course on Sunday, April 2.
Scottish Company, Parades on Thursday, March 16 at 5.30 p.m.
Transfer.
Appointment.
No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon Deck 7 Platoon, is transferred to
No. 1738 Ptc. R. Buchanan, No. under 2nd Lieut. T. P. Saunderson. serve Company on 6.3.83.
No. 7 Platoon at Headquatera under 2nd Lieut. A. W, Brown,
No. 1668 Pte. R. G. Butler, Squad drill with Arms, Belts &
Armoured Car Section, appointed! Froga to be worn.
Pipe Band and Drummers will Lance Corporal with effect from
parade as strong
Headquarters
dates:-
оп
as possible at following the
Wednesdays, 22nd instant and 5th April.
10.3.33.
No. 1690 Drummer C. F. An- drews, Scottish Band, appointed
MUSLIM DENIES HE IS COL. LAWRENCE
and 29th Rand Storeman with effect from Romantic Figure Said To
Be In Bombay.
Practice for G.O.C.'s Inspection.
A.A.L.A. Company.
The following Sections parade at Headquarters ut
wit 8.20
p.m. on Monday, March 13
A.P.C. Section.
H.K.E.C. Section.
Centre Section.
The following
March 3, 1933.
Struck Off The Strengib. Permitted to resign.-No. 1633 Pte. A. Popple, No. 2 Platoon, as from 9.3.33.
Leave.
No. 1085 Sergt. E. L. Groome, Motor Machine Gun turned from leave on 4.3.33.
Club at 630 p.m. on Wednesday, 20.1.34.
March 15,
Kowloon Dock Section, K.C.C. Section.
Portuguese Company. Parade ut Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14 for Squad and Arms Drill la prepara- tion for G.O.C.'s Inspection.
Two Regular Instructors will be available.
Classification Tests--
Stonecutters Range
All members of the Company who have not yet passed their
Co., 6.3.33.
Strength.
This movement is causing concern
to bankers and merchants.
"Lame Duck" Reform. America is about to modify its
has had 16 bank closures since ment which has long ago passed
January 1. The bank suspensions Congress and is now being ratified
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of the past two weeks have tied up by the necessary three-fourths of 60,000,000 dollars (£12,000,000 at the 48 States. It has par) of their depositors' money. ratified by 33 States, and needs only Bombay.
A development is the defensive three more before becoming the The colour in the Arabian
measures perfected by the farmers Twentieth Amendment to the Con- romance of Colonel Lawrence has so to save their land, implements and stitution. jattracted India that his exploits and property. Most of the mid-Western Hitherto a newly-elected Con- personality are probably better banks and other holding companies gress, auch as that elected with Mr. Section, re-own to the Muslims of India than scarcely dare foreclose on any mort Roosevelt, must wait. 13 months-
he la to his own countrymen.gaged property in these days. If that is, until the December of the No. 1532 Pte. W. E. Peers, Motor Thousands still believe that he is, they do, embattled neighbours of the following year, unless called to- Sections will Machine Gun Section, granted 12 still in India carrying on some my-victim gather from miles around for gether for a special session. parade at the Kowloon Cricket months' leave from 21.1.33 to sterious work among the Muslims the foreclosure sale, and woe betide Under the new law the new Con-
in the North,
anyone who bids for the sake of gress would be inaugurated on } No. 1961 Pte. J. C. Miller, No. 7
Rumours of his presence in Bom-
profit.
January 20 after the election, in-] Platoon granted 3 months' leave bay have been whispered round the Frequently relatives or friends stead of March 4, and the old from 2.3.33 to 1.6.33.
Bazaars for the last two months. It bid a few dollars for the entire Congress would automatically expire. seems that the rumours originated assets, afterwards turning over the Theatre Prices Slump. The following have been taken with the arrival of Fir Karam Shah, property to its original owner, One of the most significant mani- on the Strength:—
* fair skinned Arabic-speaking mortgage-free, while the mortgage festations of present economic con No. 1999 Pte, L. E. Morgan, Muslim who arrived recently from holder gets nothing.
ditions is the swift descent of Dodwell & Co., Tel. 28021, Anzac the North. He was recently placed Hero 38 &n example from theatre prics in New York. Two before the Presidency Magistrate Nebraska. A foreclosure anle was years ago musical comedies charged No. 2000 Pte. D. E. Cameron, after being arrested on a warrant ordered on a farmer's property by 6.60 to 6.60 dollars for stalls (then Company Orderly Officer for the H.K. Rope Works, Tel. 20045, Au-issued from Jullunder in connection a bank which held a 4,000 dollar 228. to 208.). Good straight plays week ending Sunday, March 19.zac Co., 6.5.38.
with a case there.
mortgage. Neighbours stood glower-cost about 4.40 dollars (188.) to see Lieut. H. J. Silva.
(Sd.) W. H. G. GOATER, Captain.
So strong was the belief that being while nobody dared to bid except from the stalls. Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C.
was Colonel Lawrence that the ac- the farmer's brother, who bought Today three dollars is considered ensed made a declaration in the the entire assets for 50 dollars the highest price for the most Court that he was definitely not That was all the bank got, while the elaborata musical show, while for Lawrence of Arabia.-Reuter.
farmer resumed possession,
straight plays prices are returning In view of such conditions mort to the pre-war "top" of two dollars, gage holders now rarely forecloss, Even the Metropolitan Opera bat permit the farmer to retain House has reduced the prices of its possession without payment of prin- stalls by 15 per cent. Some say the cipal or interest until conditions effect of this will be to improve the and ensure that all their men are
and replace quality Jetage improve. notified. With regards to Recruits.
Farm Belief First.
misguided “magnificence.” This Bidelight
American only those who have had Munketry Trianing and have fired a Service!
agriculture Illustrates Mr. Roose Ride will be permitted to fire at
The ice period in Sweden-ended velt's difficulty in negotiating any
The Stonecutters.
Soviet Government has, 8,500 years ago, according to Mr. Kabul. immediate debt settlement with Bri- Range Officer-Lieut, J. 8. Rod-Cresta Run tobogan slide at St.
granted 45,000,000 roubles (about Ragnar Liden, a Swedish geologist. rigues.
Moritz, The, men of the Tobogan- "Buy Afghan" is the slogan in tain, or any other country, without
The death here at the age of 50, £8,750,000) for the maidag of Bus Mr. Liden in fixing the age of the different geological periods uses. the. Launch will leave Queen's Fier ning Club have again voted, as they Afghanistan to-day. Even the coun- first finding real relief measures for
-high river banks of the large north- at 8.30 a.m. and Kowloon Police did in 1929, that the run is too try behind the impenetrable barriers the rural population. That is why Fier at 8.40 a.m
of the Himalayas and where, too Washington statesmen, while realia-after a long illness, of the well-sian dims this year." Mrs. Mollison and Mrs. Irving zealous progress has lost many a ing that Britain cannot pay, must known marine artist Christopher It is proposed to produce 95 dims, ern Swedish river Aangermanacivan almanac, in which he has Anzac Company,
of which 80 are to be "talkidos." Tenas an The Company has been formed Netcher (who was Miss Rosie Dolly, hand and Crown, has begun to stir present trade and tariff demands Kave, recalls a moving story of
which, at least ostensibly, would heroism in the Arctic.
The palater, who led an adven-are frankly described as "profound regular strats of loam that enable him to follow the geological Into two Platoons as from this date the dancer) were particularly an-in a movement of nationalism.
New Industries have been en prove of immediate benefit to the
turous life," was "a" meinber of pagandist,*:
development of the land through the Le. Noa. 18 & 14 Platoons. Axious to take the thrilling ride.
The cost of each "talkia" it is ranks will be notified by circular They pleaded with the male mem-couraged and new factories estab-farmers.
| Axes. * Even
non-internationally Schroeder Lantz Arctic Expedition, such bors of the club to relax the rules lished at the state expense. Although
About 8,500 years ago, Mr. Laden us to their respective Platoons.
Rave saved the life of Professor estimated, will be about 490,000 Parade at Readquarters at 6.80 and give them passage on that Peralan 18 largely spoken through-minded States as Town and Kansas which came to an unlucky end. -
out the country yet Pushtu la the recognise only loo sally that if p.. on Monday, 13th instant for breath-taking drop. Squad and `Arma Drill. Belts and So the men talked it over and national language and this is to be Britain continues to trade off the Ruediger, a fellow member of the roubles (#64,500) `compared with stater, the land was 260 meters the land level rose gradually while the river cut Itself down between Frogs must be worn. All ranks shook their heads, by a vote of 18 encouraged by the establishment of gold standard, then America must expedition, by performing a danger 250,000 roubles (237,500) for a lower. When the ice melted away
Vegeta valfe, The professor is still slive
M. Henri Barbusse, the well-the rising banks on which annual are carnently requested to attend to 10, at any alteration to the order, training schools throughout the suffer if she tries to sell in compeli- qua operation on him with a pocket fent picture. as the time is drawing pear for No, they decided, Amy Johnson country. Bo strong in the movement tion with her, E the G,O.C." Inspection... might daunt the African desert and that a new Fushta dictionary is be Consequently thers la not likely to and well, in Stuttgart
N.CO.'s parade will be held on jungle in an aeroplane but a bobsled Ing brought out and all foreign to any defatis debt settlement be Have was also on board the sail known French author, who lives in rings like those of a tree appear and
one of the films-Beuter,
geologists; —— Reuter. Friday, 17th instant. All N.C.O. in the Alps was another thing-words that have crept inta usage, Zore June, and a new crisis will ing-ship "Preussen," when it ran Moscow, is writing the scenario for form a reliable calendar for the
will be omitted. Beater.
arise in which Britain will silber be around in 1910-Beuter. | Reuter, are expected to attend.
classification tests for Musketry TOO DANGEROUS FOR and Lewis Gun are notified that AMY JOHNSON.
the last date available in March 19
Platoon Commanders will please
check the records with the CSM Cresta Bob-Sleigh Run
Closed To Women.
⚫ London. & sport that is too dangerous even for Amy Johnson is the famous
hazardous for women riders.
NATIONALISM GAINS IN AFGHANISTAN.
“Buy Afghan" Move In
Kabul.
од
WELL-KNOWN MARINE PAINTER DEAD
Hamburg,
for
£6,000,000 FOR
FILMS.
30 Talkies Will Cost
£64,500 Each.
Helsingfors.
RIVER BANK AS ALMANAC.
Geologist Estimates Sweden's Ice Age.
Stockholm.