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THE CHINA MAIL.
Evidence of Progress in New Russia
LAYERCKOPO NGANT
"XAHOBA"
But for the sign in the native language and the peculiar vyps harness on the horses, this procession of wagons, laden with farm produce might well have been pictured anywhere in the American hinterland. It gives a graphic idea of how Russia has progressed in the past few years. Here you can see a first class road, danked by a trolley line (at left), well-built houses and, in background, a modern apartment house, of the type that is fast supplanting the drab abodes of rural dwellers in the Soviet
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DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE AMERICAN MAIL LINE
£12.0.0.
XMAS
HOLIDAY CRUISE
Choice of "PRESIDENT HOOVER"
sailing from Hong Kong.. Dec.21 arriving Manila
Dec. 23
or
"PRESIDENT GARFIELD"
sailing from Hong Kong. Dec. 23 arriving Manila Xmas morning.
Returning by
"PRESIDENT HOOVER"
sailing from Manila
Dec. 27
arriving Hong Kong
Dec. 29
OVER THE NEW YEAR
HOLIDAYS.
Round trip on
8.4. "PRESIDENT GRANT sailing from Hong Kong Dec. 30 arriving Manila. New Year morning sailing from Manila arriving Hong Kong
..Jan. 3
Jan. 5
**SOMALI
GROO
17,000
15.088 4,000
RANCHI
CARTHAGE
**BANGALORE
NALDERA
CORFU
BHUTAN
JUTT
9th Dec.
14.213. 14th Dec. 30th Dec. 6th Jan.
15,000 13th Зал
15.000
27th JAD
4,000
3rd Fab
RANPURA
FBEHAR
17,000 4,000
10th Feb 17th Fah
RAWALPINDI
17,000
24th Feb.
**SOUDAN
4,800
3rd Mar.
COMORIN
CHITRAL
BURDWAN
15.000 10th Mar. 15.800 24th Mar
4,000 31st Mar.
RANCHI
17,000
1th Apr.
CARTHAGE
16,000
23 Apr.
+ SOMALI
15,000
28th Apr.
NALDERA
16.000
5th May
CORFU
15,000
Marsellok, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Ram. Antwerp & Hull.
Bonny. Marnellies & London Rombay. Marseilles & London
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Ridam
Bomb Antwere & Hull.
Marseilles & London.
Bombay Marseilles & & London. Warecilice. Harvie London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay. Marseilles & London.
Marseille, Haryre, London, Hamburg.
& Antwerp.
Mararilles & Landes.
Havre, London, Hamburg,
Batterdem Antwerp & Hull Marseilles & Lundan. Marseilles & Landen.
Bayre
London, Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall Marseilles & London. Marseißer & London
Marseille.
Marseilles & London
Betray Marseilles & London. 19th May Bomba Mailles & London
* Cargo only. 1 Calls Cambiança. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- tantinople, Pirena, Smyrna and other Levant Porta by steamers of the Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
CALMA SHIRALA SANTHIA TAKADA
1933.
10.000 21st Dec.
Michel Ab Jan.
3 20th Jun. 7.000
• Calle Rangoon
3rd Feb.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutja.
DO
የነ Do
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for
1st and 2nd class passengers.
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE
CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
GERMANY'S PRISON CAMP
Continued from Page 5.)
AUSTRIAN S.S. TROOPS
In Goal For Discontent
Orders issued by Colonel L. G. Bird. D.S.O... O.B.E., Cornman was surprised, dant. H.K.V.D.C.:~
Hong Kong. Dec 7, 1983
PARADE
The Battery. There will be a parade for Signal Section and Staff at 5.30 p.m. un Tuesday 12th December at Head. quarters
Duties In Camp
1 Orderly Officer - 8th December,
Or the morning after my arrest
after a sleepless' night, to hear the tramp of march- ing men
adjacent passage. and to hear several sharp words of Peering through the command. ftap in my cell door, i sau several | 1983--L1. J. S. Rodrigues,
dressed in their brown Orderly Officer -9th December. Nuzis,
jackets, black breeches and riding 1933. J. V. V Dos Remedios,
morning exer- Orderly Officer 19th December, boots, taking their
cise. 1933-L1 H. J. Silva
They, too, were prisoners. Detail of Orderly
When I was released for exercise There will be a parade for Lav-be issued in Camp.
un hour or so later passed the ung and Gun Brill at 5.30 p.m. on
cell where these men were confined. It was a large one, at the end of a Thursday, 14th December at Head-
With
1st January, passage, and accommodating seven- artera.
1934. the Machine Gun Units of the teen prisoners. Some were lying Dress-Overalls and Blue Cape Corps will be embodied into a Corps asleep on straw mattresses, others
Engineer Company.
under the were playing cards or reading Subsequently I learn- newspapers. ed what offence had brought them there.
Parade at Miniature Range
Sergeant will
Organization effect from
Machine Gun Battalion on Command of Monday. December lith at 5.30 chell. Q.BE.
..
Thursday. December 14th, D. I.. Training. Wellington Barracks
Sunday, Becember 17th, Cum- Rifles pany shoot at Peak Range. Imast be drawn before 12 noon
Saturday December 16th. will start at 9 a.m. sharp.
Corps Signals.
uf!
Firing
Proceed to Camp at Fanling on Friday, 8th December, 1933.
Mazor E. J. R. Mit-
Constitution
Battalion Headquarters. Troup.
Ventoured Car Section Motor Cycle Section.
No. 1 CompaTIN.
They' were Austrian Nazi S.S.
troops Defence Guards), who had
been brought
Fare includes living
on board whilst :) Manila.
Special rates for hotel accommodation in Manila if desired.
BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE
PACIFIC COAST
US.A.
MONTHLY SERVICE
To
PANAMA CANAL
ZONE
AGENTS:
ATLANTIC COAST. U.S.A.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
across the frontier Fehler, a brother
Queen's Buildings
He
of the present SHAMS DEATH TO ESCAPE
and stationed in the Nazi camp at Nazi Burgomuster of Munich.
Here, with has been confined for seven weeks Lechfeld, in Bavaria. other Austrian Nazis. they were without being charged with any He has written many let- being trained in order to partici- offence.
in
No. 2 Company (Scottish). No 3 Company (Anzac |. Details of establishment will be pate published later.
Dress Parade at Corps Headquarters Winter Mess Dress will be taken
a contemplated putsch ters to prominent Nazi leaders, of against Austria. Foreign political whom he was a close friend, but he pressure obliged the Nazis, how-quickly discovered that it was wiser lever, to abandon the idea of staging to desist from making any petitione
a putsch of this kind, and the from prison.
FROM BEAR
Peasant Buried Alive By Animal.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) ai 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 12th De-into wear from Friday, 1st Decem-Lechfeld camp was broken up. He has been a member of the STRANGE STORY FROM TURKEY
NANKIN
NELLORE
1911. 7.000 30th Dee. 7,000 3rd Feb. 7.000 3rd Mar,
7,000 80th Mar. 7,000 4th May. 2nd Junu 7,000
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE TANDA
Manila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney &
Melbourne
Begular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 10 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following `---
The Union 8.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mall Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.'
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
SANTHIA
1933.
15th Dec. 15th Dec. 28th Doc. 20th Dec. 29th Dec.
1984
NALDERA SEIRALA
*BHUTAN
18.000
8,000 6,500
CORPU
16,000
8,000
NELLORE
*BEHAR
RANPURA TAKADA
7,000 0,600 17,000
7,000
0.900 24th Jan.
⚫SOUDAN RAWALPINDI
TANDA
AN
CHITRAL BANCHI *BOMALI CARTHAGE NELLORE NALDERA
70 Зап. 7th Jan. 12th
Jan
12th Jan.
17,000 20th Jan. 4th Fab.
7,000 15,000 6,000 22nd Feb, 16,000 2ird Feb. 17,000 9th Mar. 6,800 21 Mar. 15,000 23rd Mar, 7,000 5th Api. 10,000 5th Apl.
* Cargo maly.
Shanghai Moji, Kobe, & Yokohama. Amoy S'hai Moli Kobe & Osaica. Bhanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amay, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osake.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Maji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai. Robe & Yokohama. Amay
say. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
Kube & Shanghai,
Shanghai, Koht & Yo
loji, Kobe
ma Yokohama.
Shanghal. Moll, Ro Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghel, Kobe & & Yokohama.
Shanghai, Kobe &
& Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Bhanghai Moji, Kobe, & Yokohama. Shanghai Moji, Kobe, & Yokohama.
demoer, 1933.
Machine Gun Troep.
The Troop will parade at Blend quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 12th December, 1933.
Beginners-Lecture on Vickers Machine Gun.
Remainder-Stoppages.
Armoured Car Section. Those proceeding to Camp on Fri- day evening will parade at Head- quarters ut 5.30 p.m.
Scottish Company. Parade on Tuesday, 14th December, 1933.
al
The Company will parade Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. unde Captain H. R. Forsyth,
There will be a short Lecture un possible re-organisation and dia- cussion on. Training Programme for ensuing six months.
lær. 1933.
80.
1923:
More forbidding among the Nazi
Istanbul.
Mauled by a bear, which put its
A
with
I inmates were ordered to pro-Nazi party for eleven years, and Leave
ceed to Northern Germany, osten-Look part in the Hitler putsch of Smith, sibly to combat "Communism." No. 1895 Spr. F. S. W. Engineer Company returned from
Seventeen of them refused to do This was not, they said, the leave as from 16.11.33.
was a rubicund Pew on his heart when he shammed No. 1666 Spl. R. E. Statt, Corps reason why they had been detailed political prisoners
gentleman named Rochrhein. He death, then dragged by it to Signals, granted 22 days leave us to Bavaria. They were. morcover.
inscooped grave and covered seemed, during rate of pay, from 15th November to 6th Decero-disgruntled by their
โป the extraordinary which had been whittled down to tervals, to be avoided by most of his earth-this ber, 1933.
fellows. It was in a whispered con- about 50 pfenniga per day, and they No. 705 C.S.M. B. S. Rogers,
versation, while replenishing my tin tale related by an Anatolian made complaints about their food. Motor Machine Gun Section, grant-
Together with their leader, whe water jug from the tap outside my sant, whose wounds testify to part
about Roehr-of his story, ed one month and six days leave as
occupied a separate cell-eighteen cell, that I learned from 25.11.33 to 31.12.38.
from a prisoner who in all-they were arrested and im-bein's career
den, Machine Gun Troop. granted | twelve
months leave 10.11.33 to 15.9.34.
the
exercise
pea.
A peasant of Mouche (Anatolia), No. 2072 Tpr. R. de C. Belchynnrisoned in the Ettstrasse. At first had been confined in the Ettstrasse
searching for his bullock found it a strike, but, for several months. from they went on hunger
A special friend of realising the futility of this move.
Capt. Partially devoured carcass, while they abandoned it after two days. Rhoem, the Chief of Staff of the large bear sprawled asleep be. Lieut. J. V. V. Dos Remedios, Few, if any of them, had money Storm Troops, Rochrbeln had in-side it. Portuguese Company returned from with which to purchase comforts, curred the enmity of General leave and resumed duty as from 1st and they seemed to be enduring | Goering and of other Nazi leaders December, 1933.
exceptional, hardships.
Struck Off The Strength Portuguese Company.
Having completed three years Parade on Tuesday, 12th Decem Bervice.
at 5.30 p.m at Headquarters
No. 1559 Spr. T. Detaile will be found in the Appen-Engineer Company,
15.11.33.
ber
Farious at his loss, the peasant
The peasant, dizzy and bleeding from neveral buffets, found him.
who were on bad terms with the recklessly hurled a-boulder at the bear, which awoke and charged Hitler-Rhoem clique. A day or two before my release!
him. they were transported to the neigh-IN A DARK CELL bourhood of the notorious concen-Daylight But Once a Week Armstrong.)
Dachau, near
His house was searched, and it is self flat on the ground with his foe 01 from tration camp at
Munich. They are now being hous-stated that documents embarrass-slanding over him. His only No. 1482 Sergt. L. Goldmen. No. ed in its vicinity. According to one ing to many prominent Naal were chance of safety, he thought, was All ranks are remined that
report, they are being employed as found.
fact Despite the Company will proceed to Camp on 1 Platoon, as from 4.12.33.
that to felga desth. I am ububle Roehrbein had commanded one of Then the bear, he says, dropped 8th December, 1933,
Neguards at the camp.
dix.
the
No. 1638 Plc, E. F. Brown,
9 Platoon, as from 16.10.13.
|
No. 1811 Pte. L. G. Lima, No. 10 Platoon, as from 15.11.33.
No. 1518 Pie. Ly E. Remedios, No. 11 Platoon, as from 7.11.38.
No. 1577 Plo, A. V. Gosano, No. 11 Platoon, as from 16.11.88.
No. 1599 L/Cpl. A. A. dos Remedios, No. 12 Platoon, as from
of that statement.
to vouch, however, for the sccuracy the notorious Rolkommandos" (arm-on to its forepawe beside him, and ed motor corps, whose business it rested one of them against his left was to deal with undesired members (side, just over the heart.
TWO PROMINENT NAZIS A Part In The Hitler Patsch
Another Nat! prisoner who oc cupled a cell near mine is Herr Continued at Foot of Next Column)
•
APPENDIX TO ABOVE Parade-Tuesday, 12th December at 6.30 p.m.
of the party), and despite the fact After a few momenta, sa if sa- Category Lesson Location
that Capt. Rhoem had publicly com-tisefied that it had felt no pulse, It All Arms, and Foot Drill:Headqrs,
Anzac Company.
mended him for his excellent work ambled a few paces and began to Company will proceed to Camp
in establishing Nazi rule in Berlin, scoop a shallow pit in the ground be was arrested, and, or a time, with its capable paws, on Friday, 8th instant by traine
was placed in the Dachau concen- Returning, it half pushed, halt leaving Kowloon at 4.55 p.m. or 6.07
tration camp
carried him towards the pit rolled pmand all ranks are requested to 18.11.08. attend.
No. 2099 e. V. C. Bond,, 8,
Here, In order to break his spirit, kim in and piled the earth on top he was conflsed in a dark call forfof him 'There will be no parade on Mon. Norfolk Road, Kowloon, M.M.G.B.
nearly a month: Only once a week After about 10 minutes, during day, 11th or Friday, 15th Decem-27.11.38.
No. 2100 Pts. J. Skinner, G. C. 'H.:
was he allowed, for the space of which, time he frequently felt ita 1933.
19/02 Med, Sec, 30.11.38.
one hour, to emerge into the day-heavy weight on the loose pall of A. A. La A. Co.
light. Prisoners told me that when, earth, the bear made off and the There will be no parade on No. 2101 Pte. J. B. Barnes,
Sanitary Dept. 89/205 Med, Sec. WII all those who wish to play after this ordeal, he was returned paisant struggled up and rushed
the man was back to the village. Monday, 11th December, 1088.
In the Volunteer Cricket: If during to the Ettstrasse, The Officers Commanding the un-30.11.38,
The carcass of the bullock, dermentioned Units will issue, their No, 2102 Pu, G. C. Dudley, W. 8 the Cricket Season, please send in almost unrecognisable.
(Another article by Mr. Panter traces of a struggle and the dia Orders, to their Commands separ. Bailey & Co., 58021, No. 13 Pist their names to Bergeant A C. Beck,
Asiatic Petroleum Co., Tel No. will appear in the China Mail to: hevelled "greye" have all been alely: Motor Machine Gun Sec. 4.12.83
foundReuter. Agentation, Machine Gun Company
"Nd. 2103 Pid. L. C. Millington, 8, 128041;'
morrow),
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apply to t CO.,
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