SATURDAY,
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Orders issued by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.0. O.BE., Com-
mandant, H.K.V.D.C.:—
Hong Kong, Friday, June 16,
PARADE
Corps Band. There will be a Band Practice on Friday, June 23 at Headquarters at G p.m. sharp.
The Battery.
FRADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres (845) K.C.'%):-
1230 p.m.-European programme. 1. p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-
men of the Company who wish to port attend may do so.
2.15 pm-Close Down Dance Programme To-Night. 4-7 p.m.--Chinese sramore.
intervals
recorded pro-
1.15 p.A relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra by courtesy N.C.Os are requested to send in Management. (During the of the questions on any point in connee-recorded music will be broadcast from tion with their Eraining as anthe Studio). Infantry soldier, to the 0.C. Com- 1.30 p.m.-Local Time & Weather
Forecast, etc. pany. These questions will be There will be a parade for Lewis answered and discussed at Head- Gun Instruction at 5.30 pm on quarters on Tuesday, 27th instant. Thursday, June 22 at Headquar-It is hoped each N.C.O. will send in at least one question so as to The Miniature Range will be make this evening as useful and available for Battery
on instructive as possible. Wednesday, June 21.
Corpa Signals. Parade at Corps Headquarters 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20.
Armoured Car Section.
ters.
use
7-11.30 p.m.-European programme. 7-7.14 ph
A Children's Overture (Quilter) Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the
London Philharmonic Orch. DE951-2. 7.14-7.45 p.m.-A Concert. Octet---
Serenade (Pierne) Gavotte Tendre (Ganne)
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet DE923. The Cuckoo (Lehmann)
Anzac Company, Parade at Volunteer Headquar“ at ters at 5.25 p.m. sharp on Monday,
June 13 and proceed to Kennedy | Road Range for Vickers Machine Song The Section. will parade on Gun firing instruction and demon- Monday, 19th at Headquarters at stration. All members of the 6.30 p.m.
Company who joined after January Those who have been detalled 1 are requested to make a special for the Field Firing on Sunday, point of attending this parade. 18th will parade at Headquarters The truck will leave Headquarters at 9 a.m.
at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Any member Dress:-R.T.C. Caps & Helmets, who misses the truck will have to Shirtsleeves, Shorts, Hose-topa, find his own means of conveyance Puttees, Boots.
to the Range. Motor Machine Gun Section. N.C.Os Class will be held on Parade at Headquarters on Mon-Friday, June 23 at 5.30 p.m. day, June 19 for Machine Gun Instruction.
Machine Gun Company. N.C.O.S Instruction Class Thursday, June 92. Lecture "The Rifte" by Lt. V, C. Branson, M.C.
Nos. 1 Parade-Friday, June 23.
Paint B.D.A.
Portuguese Company, There will be R lecture
The Officers Commanding the undermentioned Units will issue their Orders to their Commands separately:-
Engineer Company. Machine Gun Troop.
· Scottish Company.
A.A.L.A. Company.
Rifles and Bayonets.
to All Rifles and Bayonets to be
N.C.O.'s on Tuesday, June 20 at returned to Stores for Arms Headquarters lecture room at 5.30 Inspection (repeated).
p.m. "Duties and Responsibilities
of N.C.O. of an Infantry Bat- talion" by C.S.M. Slattery.
CHURCHES
CRARGE
OF ONE
DOLLAB 18 MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIA HEADING WESLEYAN METHODIST
Any
CHURCH. Opposite Royal Naval Hospital, Queen's Road E.
Kennedy Road Range--
Allotment Or
The above Range is allofted to The Armoured Car Section on Monday, June 26 at 5.30 p.m.
Appointment,
I Know a Lovely Garden
(Teschemacher-D'Hardelot)
Maria Jeritza (Saprano) 1301. violin Solo
Poupee Valsante (Poldini-Kreisler) The Song of Songs (Moys)
Sascha Jacobsen 4771. Silver Wings-Far Away
(Furber & Sarony) (Titheradge & Tunbridge)
Song-
LAST OF EUROPE'S FEUDAL STATES
Happy Paradise In Isle Of Sark
No Unemployed Problem
(By J. Wentworth Day.)'
:
2 Silver Wings-Asleep in my Heart way's feudal title is Le Seigneur de the friendliest witch is a nuisance
London. Sark.. There is none without work Out of a mackerel sky our air among them. They are free aliko plane descended on the last feudal politicians. Income tax they know of public debts and professional state in Europe, the island of Sark not. Our airplane, at which they In 4 hours 15 minutes of dying gazed wonderingly. was the first time Colonel the Master of Sem-that most of them had seen at close pill had piloted
quarters.. us from sprawl- ing. complicated London to this without leave of the Seigneur, and No, man may settle or take land compact domain ruled by an Eng-no house is built without ledges lishwoman and her American-born for the witches to sit upon. There husband who have their own army,
are lots of witches in Sark, accord- ing to Island legend-friendly ones summon their own Parliament and of the sort that fly on midsummer make their own laws.
nights to care sick cows and cast Mr. Robert Woodward Hatha-spells on wicked men; But even
Trever Watkins (Tenor) DB142. Serk, his wife is La Dame; and I
if she gets in the chimney, so every Piano Solos-
Sark chimney has its witch-rests. Three Dances in Syncopation
learned a hundred interesting Superstition, of a harmless kind (Mayerl)
Billy Mayerl DB45, things about the smallest self-that has no terrors, is pleasantly 7.45-9.16 p.m.-Variety,
governing part of the British Em-rife on Sark. Not long ago Re-pire, when we landed there after Dame's daughter suffered from
a perfect flight across & mother-of-warts. La Dame, urged by the is pearl sca.
landers, went to the Wise Man of We had left Hanworth aerodrome Sark. He promised, to charm them J. R. Squire Celeste Octet DB3 at 10.40 am, passed over Surrey, away-and they went. Vocal Quartette
"And Ke Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, would take no fee at all," La Dame etched a lonely flight above 70 al-told me. The Harmonians DB1097. most empty miles of English_Chan-
8 p.m.-(Local Time & Weather port).
Octet-
The Fly's Courtship
The Ant's Antics
Black-Eyed Susan Brown
At the Baby Parade
| Instrumental-
Hawaiian Hula Song
Pua O'Kealoha
Song-
La
There was a cow which often fell rei, and, at mid-day, soared over sick. It had swollen hocks, it the twin grey castles and hump-nearly choked to death it went sud- Sol Hoopil's Novity Trio MR217. backed hill pastures of Alderney.denly lame all a mystery.
Gettin' Sentimental
Spring is Here Again
Marion Harris (Comedienne)
Kew.
Piano Solo-
Jasmine
Sweet Nothings
Song-
The Sidewalk Waltz Hold Me
No. 374 C.Q.M.S. A. E. Armoured Car Section, is appoint- ed Acting Regimental Quarter- master Sergeant with effect from | 13.0.33.
No. 868 Cpl. A. Nissim, Armour- jed Car Section. is appointed Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant of the Armoured Car Section with effect fron 13.6.33.
No. 1489 Acting Cpl. W. Stoker,
The following are the forthcom- ing services, etc., at the English M.M.G. Section, is appointed Act- Methodist Church. Wanchai (Oping Lance Sergeant with effect pasite Royal Naval Hospital, from 16.6.33. Queen's Rd., E).
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B.III.
Jeue 18, Second Sunday
after Trinity
Leave.
Lieutenant J. F. Wright, Arm- loured Car Section, granted Morning Order: 10.15 until 11.15 weeks' leave from 16.6.33 to 20.7.33. No. 1489 Acting L/Sergt. W. Preacher: Rev. Erria C. H. Trib-Stoker, M.M.G. Section, is granted beck.
10 months' leave from 16.6.33 to
15.2.34.
Evening Order: 8.15 until 9 p.m. Preacher: Rev. Erris C. H. Trib- beck.
No. 1675 L/Cpl. Szeto Yan Pul, Medical Section, is granted 15 days' leave from 14.6.33 to 28.6.33. No. 1681 A. L/Cpl. R. M. Pearce, KENNEDY ROAD, HONG KONG.M.M.G. Section, is granted leave
from 12.4.33 to 30.6.33.
UNION CHURCH.
The following are the forthcom- ing services, etc. at the Union
Church, Kennedy Road.
Sunday June 18
Sunday School 9.30 a.m
Morning Service,
10.30
No. 1573 Pte. J. E. L. Parry
Herm and Jethou lay on our lee One morning La Dame walked into like polished stones aet in the floor her cowshed and found white wool DB851. of the seas. Between them and wound about the cow's leg, and the the low, blue hills of Guernsey we cow chewing an unembarrassed saw the dread Casquets ringed with cud. The cowman explained. He Billy Mayer 5671. lace-like breakers. On the port had called in a witch. While the
side was Jersey.
wool remained the cow would be Soon, in the sea haze, Sark come well. La Dame left it so. . The Paul Sunal! (Tenor) DB1096. to view cliff-ringed, surf-girdled, eow is still well. Orchestral—
At Twilight
Tango Argentino
a patchwork of purple and yellow, green and amber. We descended,
Jure Lucchesi & His Orch. CB593. circling in two-mile sweeps, The Organ Solo-
s
Army of 40.
They do not scoff at these things
lighthouse tipped crazily," a sheer in the sun-warmed, towered oki white tower on its beam-end, Seigneurie. Is there not In that DB1098.we banked., White gulls wheeled house 3 White Lady in high-heel- In sudden, gusty panic. The towers jed shoes who goes tap-tapping and gardens of La Seigneurie stood down the stairs when one of the out proudly in the wooded heart of femily is about to die? She was its kingdom.
Moon Song
Farewell to Arms
Quentin M. Maclean Humorous Song-
Seven Vells Dear Old Fashioned Thing
Norman Long DB383. Xylophone Solo
Rio de Janeiro Joey the Clown
Song
Rudy Starita DB729.
The New Vision. People ran, cows looked to the skies whence came this new vision, Say "O" Cherie
and we glided down into a long, Love is Like a Song
Norah Blaney (Soprano) DB312. narrow field full of clover. Vocal Quartette-Darling
Good Friends
The Big Four DB488. Organ Solo-
Alice, Where Art Thou? Cinderella Waltz
Pattman DB104.
9.16-9.30 p.m.-Selections from the Wingfield, No. 4 Ptn., is granted him "Tell Me Tonight" kindly leaned by Listener. (This film is ehortly to montha* leave from 11.2.33 to be shown at the Cenntral Theatre.), 10.8.33. -
Orchestral- Here's Hoping No. 1390 Pte, J. Revie, No. B a.m.Ptn., is granted 9 months' leave
Song- from 25.2.33 to 24.11.33.
Evening Service, 6 p.m. Preacher at both services: The
No. 1873 Pte. C. B. Daziel, No.
The B.B.C. Dance Orch. divorce.
La Dansa Tell me Tonight
heard when La' Dame's grand- father lay at the point of death.
He, that grandfather, was the last colonel of the Sark army when it numbered a full hundred men. To-day there are but the. forty
It was by the previously obtain- feudal tenants, each of whom, by ed special permission of La Dame the charter which Elizabeth grant- de Serk and her husband that weled under the Great Seal of Eng- landed on the island. That per-land, must maintain a man with a mission was very necessary, for musket. Sark seat her full army they are powerful rulers, though to aid "the Duke of Normandy" in the Great War. Seventeen of the charming and benevolent ones.
They prohibit motor-cars, Holi-forty never saw the quiet fields or day-makers are welcome on Sark, mackerel boats of their island but nudists are barred. So is again.
The "incompatible tem
Winter storms in Sark are grim peramenta" of Sark just cannot be
and terrible. There are winter divorced. But incompatibility in this gull-dappled Isle is as rare as when the fog shuts down like a nights, too, of awesome silences, Jan Kiepura (Tenor) 9.30-11.30 p.m.-A relay of the Hong crime, and crime is so. rare that, blanket of death and only the fog- Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong although Le Seigneur has his own bells ring, the foghorns thump and Keng Hotel Grill Room by courtesy of Corps Order: No. 22/33 dated the Management. (During the inter-prison, only two people have been the gulls.ery unseen. It is forbid At the Saltors' & Soldiers' Home. 3.6.33-Leave of 2/Lt. F. P.vals recorded music will be broadcast inside it in 40 years.
from the
den to kill a gull on Sark for Sequeira should read from 1.6.23)
Studio).
Le Seigneur. has, too, his own Sunday
many a fisherman has been warn- June, 18.-Christian to 1.8.33.
police force (I met him--a splen-ed of rocks by the gull's scream lout p.m.-Rugby Mid-day Press Social Hour 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. (A) Struck Off The Strength.
bis did fellow) 11.30 pmClose Down.
сапроп extended to hearty welcome is
All records in the above European mounted at the back of his castle. His Excellency the Governor has. Civilian and Service friends),
programmés, except where otherwise been pleased to accept the resigna-atated, are kindly supplied by Messrs, Monday, 19th., and Thursday tion by Major Henry Edmond Anderson Music Co. 22nd June. Badminton Club Standage, O.B.E., and Lieut. Henry Meets 7 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. Pooley of their Commissions a
Tuesd 7
13 Ptn., is granted 6 months' leave
Church Choir practice every from 21.2.33 to 20.8.33.
Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen.
Tuesday at 6.30 p.m.
June 20-Fellowship
Meeting 8 p.m. until 9 p.m.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
Leave-Amendment Of.
10.30
the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence BLUE PAPERS" NOW
Corps, with effect from May 27,1 1933-C.5.0. 3/198/33.
WHITE.
OWN
The Sark Parliament sits thrice:
Permitted to resign.-No. 1238 Reason For Government land. No other nation speaks it the comfortable, homely hall of
L/Cpl. L. F. de Souza, Corps Band,
as from 12.6.23.
Having completed three years! service. No. 1210 Pte. A. F. P. Silva, No.-10. Ptn., as from 2.0.38.
ten.
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and, most important of all, his own a year unless summoned in an language, which his people speak jemergency by La Dame or her among themselves. It is the Nor-husband; who inherits through her man French in which the great the seigneurial powers of her Duke swore by the Splendour of family. It devises its own laws God-the rough, powerful speech and settles its own disputes, but. of 1066 which conquered Eng most of them are set to right in to-day. It cannot even be writ-the Seigneurie by Mr, and Mrs. Change Unknown.
Hathaway themselves. England fa And Le Seigneur de Serk owns a faraway land to these idyllic London allegiance to the King, not as King people. I mentioned the Prime Members of Parliament had Left the Colony.-No. 1960 Pte. surprise recently when they
King to an islander in a blue jer- J. C. Adams, No. 14 Ptn., as from noticed that the usual minutes! I walked about the island, along acy and sea boots. He disclaimed
and notices of the House, which T. H. S. GALLETLY.
are circulated daily as "Blue gorse-bordered roads; through tiny all interest in Mr. Ramsay Mae Lieutenant, Adjutant, Papers," had been printed on valleys full of bent and riven Donald of his noisy Parliament.
Even today, in time of sudden H.K.V.D. Corpe white paper instead of the usual trees, innocent of snake or toad;
past white stone cottages with assault or trouble an islander of NOTICE:--
blue, Leave.
Hitherto "White Papers" their faces to the sun and no adver- Bark will fall upon his knees and cry pm. Reading Room at above ad- It is hereby notified that in have been documents of a dif- tisements to mar them. I talked là a loud voice the prayer that was dress open Tuesday and Friday, 10 future should any leave be granted ferent sort usually details not to men in ses boote and peaked cried a 1,000 years ago - in Nor- a.m. to 12 noon, Monday and to N.C.O.'s and men of this Corps, incorporated in a bill, or corres caps who lived by fish and farm, mandy, the cry that was raised at COMPRADORES Thursday, 5.90 to 7 pm. The their Arms, Uniforms, Equipments pondence, such as the recent by plough and sall, and the things Caen at the burial of the great Public is cordially invited to at etc. must be returned to Corps letters from Britain's late Am-they told me of their way of life Duke, the Clameur, de Haro, which tend the service and visit the Stores before leave being. com- bassador in Moscow. But now, made a chapter half Utopian, half is the soul of feudalism "Harol Harot Haro a monalds, mon Reading Room. Branch of The menced.
It appears, the Stationery Office medieval.
Prince, on me fast fort!" And the Mother Church, The First Church Unless this order is - complied has seen fit to change the aYS- of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, with such leave will not be tem for some reason not so far Six hundred and seventy-five in supplight is safe until La Dame and
Rranted,
explained Reuter,
number are, the inhabitants
(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Chrt, Scien- fist, in Boston, Mass., U...LA].
Macdonnell Road, Below Bowen Road Tram Station. Sunday Service 11.15 a.m. Subject: Is the universe, Includ- ing man, evolved by atomic force?" The Sunday School, is held on Sunday Morning at 10 o'clock, Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6
Mass. U.S.A.
1, 83:
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