Page
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933.
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
́Orders issued by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.O., 0.1.E., Com-
mandant H.K.V.D.C.:——
Hong Kong, Friday, May 12,
PARADE
The Battery.
THE CHINA
MAIL.
RADIO Royal Air Force
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
will
The following programme be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting · Station - Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 K.C.'s) -
12.30 p.m.-European programme of Victor & H.M.V. recorda.
1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Be- port.
Allotment Of:-
1.15 p.m.-A relay of the Hong Kong The Kennedy Road Range Hotel Orchestra by courtesy of the allotted to the Armoured Car Sec-Management. (During the -intervala recorded music will be broadcast from tlon on Monday, May 16.. Maskelery Cup and Efficiency Cup. the Studio.).
A. The Musketery Cup for the There will be a parade for Training Season 1932-1933 has forecast, etc. Lewis Gun Instruction at 5.30 p.m. been won by the Engineer Com- at Headquartere May 18.
on Thursday. Pany with an average of 68.73.
B. The Eciency Cup for the Training Season 1932-1933 has Peak been won by the Motor Machine
will Gun Section.
Those members attending Range on Sunday, May 14 catch the 9.80 a.m. Peak Tram.
Dross-Mufti or Uniform. Range Officer-Lieut. M. L
Ville.
Engineer Company.
The Commandant congratulates and Capt. A. A. Johnson, M.M Lieut. H. G. Williams their
on
de Eficient Units.
Leave.
No. 1300 Trooper R. J. D. C. Practice at Miniature Range on Grieve, Machine Gun Troop, grant- ed 12 months leave with effect Monday, May 16.
from 7.3.33 to 6.3.34.
Corps Signal.
No. 1685 Cpl. J. H. Davy, Parade at Corns Headquarters Machine Gun Troop, granted eight at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16, months' leave with effect from!
128.2.33 to 27.10.33.
1933.
Machine Gun Troop.
Parade at Causeway Bay Stables
at
at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16. Armoured Car Section. Parade on Monday, May 15
at 5.30 p.m. for Headquarters those who have been detailed,
Scottish Company, Parade on Thursday, May 18, 1933:---
No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon under Lieut. T. P. Saunderson for Revol- ver Training."
No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters under Lieut. A. W. Brown for Machine Gun Traling.
Struck Off The Strength. Permitted to resign.-
No. 26 Pte. J. L. McPherson, Re- serve Company, with effect from May 12, 1933.
No. 542 Pte. W. J. Simmons, Re-t serve Company, with effect from May 12, 1933.
Having completed three years' Service:-
No. 1417 Pte. C. V. Marques, No.j $10 Platoon, with effect from
22.3.33.
Strength.
No. 2058 Pte. G. O. W. Stewart, H.K. & S. Bank, Tel. 30221, M.G. Troop, 9.5.34.
The Officers Commanding the No. 2059 Pte. F. J. Bond, undermenfioned Units will issue H.K. & S. Bank, Tel. 30221, M.G. thefr Orders separately Lo their Troop, 9.5.33. Commands:-
No. 2060 Pte. W. E. Hunt, Motor Machine Gun Section. A.P.C., Tel. 28041, M.G. Troop:
A.A.L.A. Company.
Portuguese Company,
Anzac Company.
Kennedy Road Range-
HURCHES
STAROS OP ONS DOLLAR IB MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIS FIKADONG
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, WANCHAL
10.5.33.
W. H. G. GOATER, Captain, Adjutant, H.E.V.D. Corps.
FAMOUS RACONTEUR
PASSES.
In Paris.
1.30 p.m.-Local Time & Washer'
2.15 p.m.-Close Down. 4-7 p.m.- Chinese recorded pro- gramme.
7-11.30 p.m.-European programme. 7-7.18 p.m.-Musical Comedy.
SelectionShow Boat
The New Mayfair Orchestra C1531 Song of the Drum
The New Mayfair Orchestra C2143. 7.18-7.50 p.m.-A Concert Violin Solo
Dance of the Maidens (Friml-Kreisler) Blue Skies (Berlin-Kreisler) Song-
Fritz Kreisler 1233. Mighty Lak' a Rose (Stanton-Nevin) Somewhere a Voice is Calling
(Newton-Tate)
Frances Alda (Soprano) 1189. Ok, That We Two Were Maying
(Kingsley-Nevin)
Thy Beaming Eyes
(Gardner-MacDowell)
Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone)
Piano Solo
Tango (Albeniz) Soaring (Schumann)
Wilhelm Bachaus 1445. 'Cello Solo-
Gavotte Tendre (Hillemacher) Menuet (Debussy)
Pablo Casals 1181. 5.50-8.25 p.m.--Varlety,
8 p.r.-(Local Time & Weather Re- port).. Orchestral-
Nobody's Baby is Sontebodys
Raty Now
Ted Weems & His Orch: 22829. Humorous Song--
Mary Ellen's Hot Pot Porty
Gracie Ficids $4817. 'Orchestraf-
Watch the Navy Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orch.
B0236. Humorous Song-
The Return of the Gay Caballero
Frank Crumit 22154. | Orchestral—
Any Corner is a Cosy Corner
Ted Weems & His Orch. 24829. Song-
Say It Isn't So
Gracie Fields (Comedienne) B4117: Orchestral
When the Band Goes Marching By.
Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orchestra B6236. |Humorous Song--.
A Tale of the Ticker
Comes Of Age
Started In War Without Even A Revolver
ARMY AND NAVY LAUGHED
The Royal Air Force came of age Force across the Channel and "ao on April 18. In the 21 years of became the first air force in the its history, this, the first air fight-world to travel overseas and to go
{into action. ing service, has covered itself with
On August 19 the first aerial honours as proud and gallant as reconnaissance in history was any boasted by the other two sen-off at 9.30 in the morning without made by two machines which set
ior services with centuries of wars observers. The idea of sending and tradition behind them.
lout two machines was that if one The aerodromes of Britain, Pa- had to make a forced landing, the other could return with the news lestine, Irak and India in two de-and also the results of the re- cades only have built from a shaky connaissance. Unfortunately both battation equipped in 1912 with machines lost themselves, but they French-made airplanes the most came home safely and were able to give valuable information about the efficient fighting force in the world. movement of German troops.
Unarmed Planes.
What other force in the story of combat has ever gone into action without a single weapon of any de-
Every day machines went out revolver, a rifle, a scription? The old Royal Flying without a
machine-gun, or a single bomb. It Corps did in 1914.
What other force of only à, cou-, had never occurred to anyone that ple of squadrons of machines and the war might ever be taken into a personnel of a handful has ever the air and it was not until conquered a whole army all by it machine came back with an ob solf The R. F. C. did in Pales-server wounded by rifle fire from Infantry that the Royal Flying tine.
R
ever
This is the story of how it be- Corps retaliated by carrying re-
volvers and then rifles. gan.
The first aerial battle The Air Battalion was born in 1011. Mr. Asquith in 1912 ap fought took place on September pointed a committee to go into the 22, when a German "Albatross" at- tacked a British reconnaissance national question of creating a Jair service which would serve machine, the pilot of which was In the leg from a Te- both the Navy and the Army. wounded and on April 18th of that year the volver bullet.
Then, on April 1, 1918, the Royal Flying Corps was formed and
a month later the Air Battalion Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service ceased to exist was absorbed into it.
The R. NA. S.
as separate entities and became, merged in a new body called the
A prosaic enough beginning: Royal Air Force. the handful of officers and me-] The new service did not have chanics brought with them to the long to wait for honour, for on new service a few weird-looking September 22 in the same year it Bleriot airplanes and with these gained for, itself undying fame for Corps set about making some fare, and lots of hope the Royal Flying the greate hingle combat in war-
thing of itself-to the huge amuse- On the day the Seventh Turkish ment of the Navy and Army Army wie in full retreat across To-day there is one officer ser the Jordin at Jisr and Ed Damiye, ving who was a member of the ori-Plans were laid for its complete Frank Crumit 22154.ginal company. He is Air-marshal confusion and to the R.A.F. fell 8.25-0 p.m.-Orchestral
Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, air the honour of carrying it out. 18th Century Dance (Josef Haydn) officer commanding-in-chief the air The attack was arranged so that Minuet (Boccherini) M. J. W. Bienstock Dies Leopold Stokowaki & the Philadel- defence of Great Britain, and he is two airplanes should arrive over phia Orchestra 7256, the only one left.
the objective every three minutes Creole Rhapsody (Ellington)
Just before the war the Royal with additional formations of bom- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 30040.
Naval Air Service was formed bers every half hour afterwards Capriccio Italion (Italian Caprice)
(Tschaikowsky).
without any authority except that from Ba.m. till noon.
Nothing like it had ever been Leopold Stokowski & the Philadel- of the Admiralty itself, so the la-
phila Orci 6943-50. gend goes.
seon in was before and not even 9-9.30 p.m.-From the Studio.
the R.A.F.. itself Imagined that Hawalian Selections by Ho Yuk Lum When war broke out, however auch amazing success would at Ho Yuk Ming.
the Royal Flying Corps had 179 tend its operations. machines; the R. N. A. S. had 99
The sides of the road, were end the total personnel was 1900 bordered by steep ravines and officers and men, be
Paris.
The world's greatest raconteur has died in Paris. He was J. W. Bienstock, writer and journalist, In Russian by birth but a citizen &
of Paris for the past 40 years. His fund of stories was J. Courtenay (exhaustible, and far from being
Opponite Royal Naval Hospital, Queen's Road E.
Sunday, May
14, 10.15
Preacher: Rev.
Jacobs,
a.m.
Programme.
in-
1. Hula-Hula Girl.
2. Full of Life.
3. All for You.
4. Halona.
6. The Four Islands,
touched with Russian melancholy
6 p.m. Preacher: Rev. J. Cour-they had a distinct Gallic humour tenay Jacobs.
of their own. When anyone else Friday, May 19, 7.30 p.m. began to tell him a story he im- Weekly Prayer Meeting.
mediately laughed.
Sunday, 8.15 Social Hour.
Monday and Thursday, 7 Badminton Club Meets.
p.m.
"But
6. How About Me?
7. Elen, Mikimiki, 9.30-11.30 p.m.
+
·
:
The fastest fighting machine in When the airplanes began to arrive the Turkish Army was caught like the world then was the Sopwith, a rat in a trap. The head of the which attained the speed of 70 column was reduced to complete
inex-
A relny of them.p.h. (about), The Schneider chaos; drivers jumped from their Hong
Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra, by Trophy was won at 86.8 m.ph. and motor lorries in panic leaving SAILORS & SOLDIERS HOME. haven't got to the point yet, said courtesy of the Management, from the the R. F. C. had five squadrons in-moto run amok; maddened
p.m. Christian the astonished story teller. "Ob Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room. (Dur-
horses trampled the soldiery On August 12, 1914, No. 2 Squa- underfoot; guns, teams, limbers I'm not laughing at your tale, Ing the intervals recorded music will cluding one roserve.
bo broadcast from the Studio). p.m. was the quick rejoinder, "I'm
Press dron left Montrose for Farn became locked together 10.30 p.m.Rugby. Mid-day laughing at the one that I'm goNews.
borough and was joined next day tricably but there was never a ing to tell you when you have 11.30 p.m.-Close Down.
(All records in the above European by Squadrons Nas. 3 and 4 and respite from the hail of bullets supplied by later No. 5, which flow to Dover from the swooping formations or finished."
Programmes are kindly
after what the official reports call the rain of explosives from the Bienstock, with his Mephisto Messrs, S. Moutrie & Co.). phelian beard, was immensely
"some accidents," Two or three bombers as they dived steeply popular in Paris. He was also an
of them made forced landings and down, zooming and rolling in the indomitable worker. He trans-
one or two more tipped up on their air clear of the force of successive lated the whole of Tolstoi (27 A SENATOR AMONG Hoses,
detonations. KONG. volumes) into French; he adapt-
THE TRAMPS. ed Dostoievski for the French
Monday, May 15, at 5.30 House Committee Meeting.
Tuesday, May 16, 8.30 p.m. Christian Social Hout.
UNION CHURCH.
KENNEDY ROAD, HONG
Sunday, May 14.. Sunday School 9.30 a.m. Morning Service 10.30 am. Preacher-The Minister. Evening Service 6'p.m.
stage; he wrote a study of the
In the command of Brigadier general Sir David Anderson. they
revolutionary movement in Rus Train-Jumping Official's accompanied the Expeditionary
sia, and in collaboration with Curnonsky published a number
of amusing collections of stories
Preacher: The Rev. Frank Short. which provide conversationalists A Social Hour will be held in with n
Investigation.
Melbourne. Senator R. D. Elliott has just mine of merriment on returned to his home here after the Church Hall after the evening which to draw. Reuter,
a week of "jumping trains" and service.
living with tramps. He declares that fellowship and kindliness exist among them in a way that is seldom known in more fortun- ate circles. A
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scien that, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A.J
Macdonnell Road, Below Bowen Road Tram Station,
COMMUNIST MONEY BAN IN CHILE.
2200 War Machines. By the time the British troops arrived, the Seventh Turkish Army had ceased to exist.
When the war ended the original little force with a few Tamshackle French monoplanes had grown to a tremendous fighting machine.which at home had com-
New Issue Of Stamps pletely conquered. the Zeppelin and
And Coins,
Gotha raiders and won supremacy in the air above the trenches,
It possessed then 2,200 machines, "40,000 engines and been establishment of Just
though: wer;;1
Santiago, Chile, Communist money, has The Senator carried with him abolished in Chile, and all
his bundle of clothes and his which include a sickle and ham-
To-
COMMUNIST MENACE
IN GERMANY..
Hungarian Bed Leader Hiding In Country.
rucksack of foodworker mer in their design are to be
Once rallway detectives put withdrawn, sond Berlin. him off a train which he and a New coins will be designed The Sunday School is held on It is reported that the authori- group of workless had "jumped:" with wreath of the national Bunday Morning at 10 o'clock, ties have very good evidence" He travelled at one time on top flower instead of laurel leaves a Wednesday Evening Meeting at 8 that Bela Kun, who was Dictator of a truck laden with flour. A On the reverse there will be an speed p.m. Reading Room at above ad- of the Red Republic in hungary gust of wind carried his hat away engr
of a vulture. dreas open Tuesday and Friday, 10 after the war, and an associate and a Scandinavian tramp gave am, to 12 noon, Monday and are somewhere in Germany him his battered
Bunday Service 11,15 a.m.-
Thursday, 5:30 to 7 pm The They are stated to have made He
Public in cordially invited to ab their way into the country from
tend the service and visit the Russia with the object of
Reading Room, Brandir of The organising Communist Betle
Mother Church, The First Chorób Kun's associate Is Mas of Christ Scientist in Boston, who led the Red He
Saxony. In 192145
also making new issues
m.ph.
project
the
STARTING TO-MORROW AT
THE CENTRAL
DELIGHTFUL SONGS, SNAPPY DANCING AND FAST ACTION IN A SMART BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY.
Jack Buchanan
YESH BROWN
ELSIE RANDOLPH
Gay Funn = Excellent Comedy
YOU'LL WANT TO SEE IT MORE THAN ONCE,
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS. DIAMOND MERCHANTS.
Union Building (opposite G.P.O.)
Apents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S 'NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers,
High Class English Jewellery,
There's No Magic About it!
Our Free Offer Consists of One Sanitex Mothproof Bag One Enamelled Hanger From Now On Until Further Notice For Every Winter Suit, Overcoat Or Costume We DRYCLEAN, Don't Be Too Late,
THE STEAM LAUNDRY
CO.
THE LARGEST DRYCLEANERS AND LAUNDRYMEN IN THE FAR EAST
HEAD OFFICE & WORKS, Mongkok, Tel. 67032. KOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT, Tel. 58545.
HONG KONG DEPOT, 60, Queen's Road Central, Tal 21279, PEAK HOTEL DEPOT. Tel 20071. PENINSULA HOTEL (Visitors only);
HONG KONG HOTEL (Visitors only).. GLOUCESTER BUILDING (Residents only)... Tel. 28938.
.. SPECIAL VALETERIA SERVICE No. 2, Peninia Hotel Arcade, Tal, 58081.. No. 886, Nathan Road, Tel. 58906.
No. 60, Queen's Road Central, Tel. 21279,
Can You Draw Funny Faces?
WIN A $10 PRIZE!
Slim Summervilla- and Zx81 Pitte have; funny faces. Elbre are Parts of both of them. Fill in the miasing Leatures and win a prizel.
long distanc
establishment, in? L2,600)
There are two "happily mar ried" looks of bliss and content- ment that fit perfectly into the above half-completed sketch.
Get your ponell busy Mr and finished the portraits you are; through, “what
aru Pittas coming
pleted drawing and you may be lucky and win one of the follows, ing prices First, $10; second, 5R Drexe Circle Ticketa;” third, Dream Oirele Tickets, week dr All drawings, must be i
hands of the Bummer Contest Edito