Page
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1933.
CORPS
FALLING
SENSATIONS
DESCRIBED
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE
Parachute Ace's
Opinion.
CONCENTRATION FOR SUICIDE.
Berlin:
given Three people here have their views of what it feels like to fall from a great height. They
were:
A girl who had thrown herself 240-feet from a tower;
A famous parachutist:
A ski-jumper. *- They had been questioned by a Berlin paper and this is what they said:-
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
THE CHINA MAIL
Leaving the " Colony:
Pta. C. E. Frith, Barerre Company as from S.4.33.
Relinquishment.
No. 1329 Acting Band Mustar [A/J-M2 Rodrigues relinquishes to His acting rank with effect from 31.3.33.
Appointment. S
No. 2009 Bandsman L M da Costa appointed Acting Band
Orders issued by Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, D80, OBE, Co Master with effect from 31.3.33.. manding H.K.V.D.C.:-->
Hong Kong, Friday, March 31. PARADES
Battery.
Anzac Company.
Strength.
The following have been taken Jon the Strength:-
'No. 2007 Pte. A. J. Dennis, Bod- well & Co., Tel. 28021, Engineer: Co., 27.3.33.
The General Officer Commanding will inspect the Corps on Tuesday, Practice Parade for G.O.C.'s|April ́11 and a practice parade in No. 2008 Pte. P. M. Penhal: Inspection. The Battery will Uniform will be held on Tuesday, luriack, Asia Life Bldg., Anzac Co., parade with riffes at 5.30 p.m. April 4
27.3.33. sharp at Headquarters on Tues- (day, April 4.
ฟ
Fallin at 5.30 p.m. sharp st Volunteer Headquarters. Dress Uniform-Helmet, Jacket The Company is now nearly a breeches, putters boots, bandoliers, year old and as this will be the rifte and sling.
İfirst occasion on which it has been
Hunting The Whale
1933 Style
Liners Convertea To Fishing Vessels
GIANT FISH AS
FENDERS
(By Montague Slater).
LONDON
POLICE
PRAISED
Eulogies In Spanish
Press
NO PARALLEL IN WORLD
Sympathetic, human
tremely
given of the London po
writer who sings
| his praises in Spain's
daily. Although
been made he declares, to con No. 2009 A/Bd. Master L M. da
bobby in many parts of the Costa, 2, Salisbury Ava, Kowloon,] The whole of the 1932-39 sea-icertain whether they do not shift “as a finished product, Corps Band, 28,3.33.7.
son's production of whale oil has house occasionally · from- one tiah race," the Lond Ride Meeting.
been purchased by Unilever, hemisphere to the other, but has no need to exhibit a The Annual Rifle Meeting will Ltd. The amount of the deal is they turn up with regular per- his uniform to There will be a parade at Head-inspected. All members are rebe held at Stonecutters Range on estimated at 70,000,000kr., or Bistency near the South Pole tions." quarters on Thursday, April 6 atquested to note these dates in Friday, April 14, and Saturday, more than 23,600,000 at the pre Seas round the Antarctic Con- Visitors from 5.30 p.m. for rifle drill.
order that a good turn out is April 15. Dress-Mufti.
obtained.
Charlotte Lehmann, the telephone girl, who. weary of life, hurled herself from the Wireless Tower to the ground 240 feet below, and who has now completely recovered in
Engineer Company. hospital:-"With all the energy Parade at the Miniature Range which I could muster I set myself (at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, April 3 at to think of nothing, nothing at all. Headquarters.
Dress-Ceremonial.
The parade on April 11 is com-Team Events pulsory for all ranks and, counts for efficiency (vide the Volunteer Ordinance).
I hadn't even the feeling of falling. Practice Parade at Headquarters. But it seems tu me now as if at 6.30 p.m. for G.O.C.'s Inspection. Jackets and Breeches, Boots of cannot have lost consciousness till I hit the ground, when I went through the movements which every jumper makes to break a fall."
Parachute Jumping. Richard Kohnke, famed as Ger- many's coolest parachutist:-
never
p.m.
Dress for both parades:-K D.
Regulation pattern, Field Service Wednesday, April 5, Combined Hats (with plumes), Belts, Side- Operations. Parade at Belcher's arms and Rifles. Particular atten- Fort at 6 p.m. Second shift at 11.45❘tion must be given to the cleanli
ness of all buttons, badges, belts Dress-Jacket, slacks, belt and and bayonet scabbards.
"Rifles and bayonets must be Monday, April 10-Miniature drawn between now and 5 p.m. on flange.
| Tuesday, April 4, Saturday. and Tuesday, April 11—Annual In- Sunday excepted.
All ranka who have not yet ¡drawn their plumes-must report to
the O.C. Company at once.
cap.
Armoured Car Section
Machine Gunners will fire the Machine Gun classification Sunday, April 2.
Launch leaves Queen's Pler at 9 a.m. and Kowloon Pier at 9.10 a.m. A.A.LA. Company.
April 3.
Machine Gun Troop. Motor Machine Gun: Section ..
Machine Gun Company
Promotion,
List of Events.
1 Blake Shield Competition
7 Musketry Competition
2 Francis Cap Competition
3 Tile. Competition
· 4 Attack Competition Individual Events-
·6 Corps Championship
Tyro Competition
B Reserve Challenge Cup
sent rate of exchange,
tinent which Scott and Shack- speak feelingly Whaling operations have now leton were charting only (it policemen as the restarted in the Antarctic, and seema) the other day are the their own"" | good catchës" are already being modern hunting grounds.
mind. The quiet under Cap [reported.
tain Larsen started the || new "Roberts" contrasts. whaling when he anchored the excited gestures of What happens to old liners? Mahronda (13,000 tons) by the policeman. Whereas the They become whalers- at Great Barrier, Ice, and his five policemax is observed to least, some of them do............. little catchers, scouting all over "impartial if inexorable authority
There are already firve, includ-the Southern Seas, brought him without raising his voice, the ex ing two ex-White Star boats, the back whales. That was the ex-cited gestures of his Madri Medic and the Suevic, which periment: now we have the full-league show that offences spend months of the year an-sized industry.
laws and regulations are tak choraged in South Polar waters The factories, manned mostly personal insult.
still more
[that]
After this, he did not feel so sure
you
9 Revolver Competition (Corps) 10 Revolyer Competition (Open) All Tems will consist of four as the floating factories of the by Norwegians, sall from the That the Spaniard's picture of a men.
new whaling. •
Mersey to the South Shet-London policeman leavOS NO TOURI "I love jumping off, I like the
Entrance Fees $2 per Team for The kind of whale hunting of lands
South Georgia, for imperfections is obvious from feeling of floating, and rejoice in
Events 1, 2, 3 and 4. $1 per man which Herman Melville wrote sometimes going into the Ross the profound disappointment at any the view from up a loft and the spection.
for Events 5, 6, 7 and 8.
died long ago, but whales are now or the Wedell Se and maybe of his shortcomings. A⚫ Spanish prospect of the coffee, which is
Carps Signals
Team competition will be fired hunted more than ever with a only a matter of ght hundred army officer, an admirer of the Bri- waiting for me. down below. Any- All members must attend the
on Friday and Individual Events strange and new technique. miles from the P. Then they tiah Empire in general and of its -body, provided of course that he has parades at Corps Headquarters on Corporal E. B. P. White la de-on Saturday, with the exception To those accustomed to liners anchor and the catchers set off." administration of justice in particu the necessary tense concentration of Tuesday, April 4 and Tuesday, tailed as marker for both parades. that the Musketry Competiin all their glory, it is a curious] The new whale chase is quick-lar, recently returned from his first merve, can open a parachute when it April 11, in Uniform.
A N.C.O.'s parade will be held tion will be fired in
con experience to walk the empty er, more deadly than the old visit to London in a very pessimin. fails to work. I maintain that
on Friday, April 7 at 5.30 p.m. at junction with the Blake Shield decks of one of these floating Whales are taken which Melville's the frame of mind. He confessed to nobody need be killed in this way The Section will parade on Mur-Headquarters.
Competition and the Hong Com factories, with its slipway in the men, the Nantucketeers, could bis English, friends that he had dia- All N.C.O.'s if he keeps his head. Jumping is a ray Parade Ground at 5.30 p.m. on
are particularly petition will be fred in constern for hoisting whales from never have touched, wh
covered that the London obby matter of habit. The first time one Tuesday, April 4 in Uniform. requested to attend.
junction with the Corps Champion- the sea-a slipway almost like a The harpooner has his gun fix- did not wear a stiff collar under has heart flutterings. All beginners Dress R.T.C. Cap. Jacket, Belt, The Officers Commanding the ship and the Tyre Competition.
habit ed in the bows of the little steam that of his unifor railway tunnel. shut their eyes tight and when they Shorts, Hose-tops, Puttees and undermentioned Units will issue
The Corps Revolver Competition
A modern, rationalised indus.ship. As soon as the watch nother cleanesor sma their Orders separately to their will be held on both days. reach the ground drink a few Boots.
Commands:- brandies, and if you ask them what
Competitors will make their own, down among the ice and the shouts, "There she blows he la What impressed their sensations were, reply 'None."
still blue aid of the Antarctic, automatically in command of the unfavourably was the arrangements for tiffin.
tramps may be seen For myself, if I ever had the feel-
The Canteen will be in atten-1s a fantasy the mind fibs at: ship...
benches in London Dean yet nothing could be more pro He stands by his gun. ing of insecurity, I would
Per- dance on both days. ́ ́
“No "varranti!!, Malle? w ty to sale than the way in which the haps for an hour or two the six foot tall, pretends not to see jump again.
Entries will be received up His Excellency the Governor has noon on Monday, April 10, address factory crew do their work no-ship turns and twists, races for them coah sebe engg PARHA "None the less," he added laugh- ing, "I can't look down from the All Sections will parade at Head- been pleased to approve of the ed to Hon. Secretary Rida Meet thing more reminiscent of Birward, stops dead, the harpooner wireless Tower without a feeling of quarters at 6.30 p.m. on Monday, promotion of Captain ERIC JOHN ing, Headquarters, and accompani-minham or the Tyneside than the muttering to himself, the tele about the British Empire
REINHOLD MITCHELL, O.B.E..ed by Entrance. Fees,
T way in which the high-pitched graph ringing and ringing. They insecurity, and I am amazed at
Portuguese Company.
to the rank of Major in the Hong Entries for Events 5, 6, 7 and 8 rattle of their whale mincing follow the spouts, now ahead, people who bring themselves to leap off it."
Parade at 5.30 p.m. at Headquar-Kong Volunteer. Defence Corps, will be received after that date at machines intrudes upon the long. now astern as if the whale had ters on April 4 to take part in the with effect from March 21, 1938. double Entrance Fesso lets
slow swell of the Southern Seas, the laugh of the whole outfit.: -Leave.
Sometimes the Practice Theirs is a life mostly, of ma- G.O.C.'s Inspection."
steamship Luis Trenker, the champion Bk the Annual Inspection. All vankej No. 1426, Sergt. F. Baker, Corps fort-
chine-tending, interrupted oc-creeps up behind until the watch- jumper; "It needs thousand-per-of the Company are urged to Headquarters, granted nipe A Corps Practice parade. for casionally by a shortage of water, ers can see the whale's great bulk cent. concentration. Of course attend in order to ensure a smart months leave with effect from The Angual Inspection by the for they use forty tons of fresh in the water and his worried there are jumpers, and good ones, turn out on the date of the Annual 1.4.33 to 31.12.83. ↑
wrinkles. General Officer Commanding the water a day, boiling whales.
Still the gunner re- who see and hear nothing after they Inspection. No Company Orders No. 1530, Gunner H. C. F. Aris, Troops in China will take place en:
Satellite Ships.
frains from shooting.. A miss have taken off. And when Buch will be issued in respect of April The Battery, granted 12 months Tuesday, April 4. Kore
The "catchers" bring in the means losing the whale. Jumpers go wrong, it's bad for 11.
The Corps (less The Armoured whales. Each liner has a fleet) Then an explosion, and a red More than 755,000 persons have them. But if one gets off well and Platoon Commanders will please No. 699, Spr. C. Strange, Ea-.
been arrested by Federal prohibi- knows the jump's a good one, it's see that all members of their gineer Company, leave extended to Car Section, The Motor Machine of up to a dozen of them tiny streak on the whale's back,
Gun Section, The Signal Lorry but powerful steamships not. If the shell on the nose of the tion agents in USA, during the 18 marvellous. Naturally it costs some Platoons are in possession of full June 23, 1933, effort, and I think that it is because details regarding the Annual No. 1680, Spr. W. E. Allen, En. Medical Section) will parade at much bigger than drifters. They harpoon has killed him he drops years since national Prohibition Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. make the voyage out with their like a stone; if not, he dives, the went into force according to figures he lashes up his nerves, and gathers Inspection.
gineer Company, granted
SHARP.
factory ship like destroyers with harpoon-line rushing out of the published by the Federal Prohibi- all his will-power together for the
leave from 14.33 Company Orderly Officer for the months
The Units mentioned in brackets a batteship. The ex-liner carries ship and straining at the mast- tion Bureau. apring that eight to ten jumps in a week ending Sunday, April 9—31134.
Last year 75,883 persons were assemble Murray their coal. When the factory head pulley. day are enough to tire a man out. Lieutenant J. S, Rodrigues.
No, 1742, Pte. C. J. D. Law, above will
When it is all over the steam-arrested for breaking the Armoured Car Section, granted 12 Parade Ground by 5.45 p.m. under anchors at the journey's end the months leave from 8.4.38 to 7.3.44 the Second in Command in posi-catchers go out and scout for winch hoists him and the last in law-Reuter.
whales,
dignity is reached. Skilfully the No. 1776, Pte. K. W. Jones, tions to be indicated by him.
The Colour Party will be form- These little convoys have to harpooner makes an incision In
travel from one end of the world the blubber. Even more skil- In the old days, as Melville has Lieut. D. M. Richards, Lieut. to the other to catch their fully he inserts the nozzle of a it, the Nantucketeers claimed as quarry,・ You remember that hose and the whale is inflated till their province all the sea,-- and V. C. Branson, MOMS
Three Sergeants to be detailed there is a Bay of Whales in the he floats. That is moderni parcelled among them the At by O.C. Machine Gun Company, Boss Sea, and the name seems whaling scientific, efficient; but the Pacific and the Indian
Oceans. The sea was Full details will be fagured to 0.8 right. Here, if anywhere, is the alas, poor Leviathans
Ski-Jumping.
practice parade of the Corps for
Musketry and Lewis Gun Classification.
"It's different when one falls in: the mountains, and. Is taken un- awares, Then one manage at Stonecutters Range will be avail-,
leave from 3.0.32 to 2.6.38,
12
to
most curse, or the thought Now able for the Portuguese Company Motor Machine Gun Section, grant- It's all over, and after that only on Sunday, April 9: All members cd 18 months leave from 28.1,33 to jed by: the sub-conscious lives on, and tries of the Company who have not 27.7.34.
granted
B
leave from 1.4.33 to
to find a grip. Fortunately mine classified, with the exception of No. 1846, Pte, F. E. Skinner, has always found one, or I shouldn't Becruits who joined after October A.A.L.A. Company, be here expressing my views. But 16, 1932, are warned that this is months have never experienced anything the last date on which they will be 1.10.33. of that review of past life which given facilities to comply with the they talk so much about. I consider requirements for efficiency.
It a Swindle. A shock of horror, and Range Officer-2nd Lient; F. P. afterwards one is white and shiver- Sequeira. Ing. That's all. Believe me. Revolver Instruction. Reuter.
On the sama date Revolver instruction will be carried out for Officers; N.C.0.'s and Nos. 1 and 2) of Lewis Gun Section.
SALT CLUE LEADS TO ARREST.
..
755,000 ARRESTS UNDER “DRY" LAW. National Prohibition's 13-Year Toll
Washington.
No. 1606, Pte. E. F. Brown, No. C. Units and detailed plans Piccadilly-circus of whales. The inflated carcase is towed they said, and other sai
9 Platoon, granted 3 months leave have been placed in the Drill Hall. Shackleton's Discovery, on its to the factory-ship, hoisted up only a right of way through
W. H. G. GOATER. repeated research voyages, is the slipway, and then amid the But now the whale from 1.4.33 to 81.7.33.0
Captain, Adjutant, slowly tracking the whales' my clamour of mincing machines ing less space He
HKV.D. Corps.sterious paths. It is not yet translated Into oil,
No. 1676, Pte. So Ping-yin, Medi
cal Section, granted 6 days leave from 3.4.88 to 8.4.33.
Struck Off The Strength. Having completed three years' service:-No. 1485 Pte. FC
A Regular Instructor will be Mondes, No. 12 Platoon, as from present.
18.3.32.
Liquor Seller's Nails And now-SCRUBB'S
Reveal Plot
Johannesburg. rains of salt found under a iropean'a finger-nails by city
Ves were largely respon for her being sentenced in Johannesburg magistrate's 12 months hard labour,
Katie: King" (26), and] nd guilty of having sold brandy and a bottle of Native traps75,
WCLOUDYNE
AMMONIA
your after - the- gama, bath.
panciratas the pores ifreshes the skin.
sired": "foaling-
.... a cooling drink for the skin'
grthe raid after a G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG) LTD.
had been sent with]
tivè said!
158 for mark-
was found in
on the
WATCHMAKERS &
DIAM
Union
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Management
EXCELSIOR RESTAURANT
22. DES VOEUX R TOpposite Gover
to be satisfied with position at the
of the world, the |seas join.
whaling |but with eatches,