SATURDAY, DECEMBER
HONG KONG
VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS]
Orders For The Coming Week.
Orders issued by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., Comman-
dant, H.K.V.D.C. —
Hong Kong, Dec. 29, 1933.
'PARADE
Corps Signals
There will be no parade until the 9th January, 1934.
Scottish Company
Parade Thursday 4th January. The Company, including Pipe Band, will parade at full strength at Head-
One of the six attractive girls, who will appear in 2 the Nine O'clock Revue at the Peninsula Hotel, on New Year's Eve.
quarters at 5.30 p.m. for the purSHIP TRAVELS pose of receiving Camp Pay. No pay will be distributed except this parade.
On
Portuguese Company. Parado-Parade on Tuesday, January 2nd at 5.30 p.m. at Head- quarters to receive Camp Pay.
Classification Tests-Stonecutter} Range. Musketry and Lewis Gunj
10,000 MILES
THER
AM
French Statesman Honoured.
NEW RETREAT
FOUNDED IN
HIMALAYAS
St. Bernard's Hospice At 13,000 Feet
BRIGANDS ESCORT MONKS
Aosta, Italy.
After enduring great hardshipsa monks from the famous Hospice of St. Bernard, in the Alps, who' set out to found a similar Institution In the Himalayas, have reached their goal.
A silence of 10 months has been broken by the news of their safo arrival at the Si-la pasa, 13,000 feet high, on the borders of China and Tibet, "
7
The mission, consisted of two monks, Father Melly, former keeper of the keys at the Hospice,
WITH LIST and Father Coquor, and two Lay
Timber Cargo That Shifted.
brothers.
They spent two months reaching the pass, whers Intense cold and fierce gales take toll of hundreds of pilgrims every year. Here the now
Tests will be ared on Sunday,NASTY EXPERIENCE FOR CREW hospice will carry on the work of
January 7th. Range Officer--Licut.
J. V. V. Remedios. Launch will leave Queen's Pier at 8.30 a.m. and Kowloon Police Pier at 8.40 2.m.
Cape Town.
•Dock workers at Table Bay
Jauccour amid the anowa for which fits parent house is famous all over
the world,
It will be manned by native con-
Paris. The impressive cere mony under, the Cupola of the Pantheon, when the remains of M. Paul Painleve, former French Premier, were laid among the o ther great figures of French-his--
tory.
Categories "A" and "B" will fre rubbed their eyes and started when verts under the direction of the CURIOUS
Lewis Gun Classification Tests and the Norwegian freighter Dagrun monks.
Categorice "C" and "D" Musketry entered the barbour for she ap- Danger would be from 'roving: Testa. Platoon Commanders will
brigands, but it appears that the
please see that recruits who have peared to be prevented from capsiz-brigands they met were so impress- not yet completed their Musketrying only by the tug which nestleded by the medical "miracles" which training are warned not to turn up along her port side. The Dagrunjthe monks derformed that · they | on this occasion.
had voyaged for 10,000 miles from were granted a safe pass wherever
they went...
Machine Gun Troop Parade on Tuesday 2nd January
Pacific Ports for three weeks and One brigand
chief
provided at Volunteer Headquarters at 6.30 her cargo of timber had shifted them with an escort for part of p.m. for M. G. Instruction.
ominously. When she appeared in their journey. (the roadstead she lay at an angle
Anzac Company.
The Company will parade at full
First Year men-Mechanism and double fenders.
J.A.
On reaching the scene of their Ifuture labours the monks im-
WILL IN
SYDNEY
Chinese Testator's Document.
NO WITNESS SIGNATURES
CHURCHESE
UNION CHURCH.
The Rev. Dr. F. W. Norwood
To. Prench To-morrow,"
NO EVENING SERVICE. The following are the forthcom- ing services etc, at Union Church. Kennedy Road:
Sunday, December 31. Sunday School, Kennedy Road, 9.30 a.m.
Bunday School, Taikoo, 2.45 p.m.j Morning service, 10.30 am.
Preacher: The Rev: Dr. F. W. Norwood, Minister of the City Tem- ple, London,
Sydney, N.S.W. Application has been made for strength on Monday 8th January, of 85 degrees, and after she had mediately built a temporary hos- 1934 at 5.30 p.m. for Machine Gun been tied up at the docks she lay pital, where they now treat hun-probate of the will of a Chinese Instruction,
creaking and grouning
against dreds of Tibetans, Indians and market dealer, who died recently in
Chinese. In six months they have
Sydney. It is in many ways a) used 20 cases of medicine. Second Year men-Night Firing. All on board had a worrying time They have also taught some of curious document. The will has Platoon Sergeants and Section throughout the voyage of 63 days the natives how to ski.
· been translated thus:---- Commanders are requested to make from the Pacific Coast to Cape
Their greatest dificulty, they
"The proverb says, "Do not detain Special Notice for this a point of reminding all ranks un-
say, has been in learning to use:
·Sunday evening, der their Command to attend this Town without touching at any port chopsticks so as not to disgrace a person 60 years of age for the
the presence of night do not keep one of 70 years evening worship at 6 p.m. with the This congregation will unite for parude and to bring their rifles and This is almost a record passage for themselves in bayonets to store,
a motorship, or steamer and is re- Chinese notables-Reuter.
to dinner. These wörds- are true, congregation of the Union Church, indoed. I am already 65 years old. Kowloon, when the Preacher will In these my last years I am like Consequently there will be no even- be The Rev. Dr. F. W. Norwood.
a candle in the wind After my ing in this church on Sunday even- filness in the past month I amling, December 81.
Church Choir practice Tuesdayś|| always afraid that morning will
at 5.30 p.m.
Field Day on 21st January, 1934.miniscent of a sailing-ship passage. All those men who can attend the During the voyage the crew had field day for constructing and camoa-an uncomfortable time and the flaging emplacements are asked to ship's cook was at his wits end to give their names to their Platoon keep his pots on the galley stove. Sergeants at once.
The actual date of Field Day will be confirmed in subsequent orders.
Peak Range-Allotment Of The above Range is allotted
to
During the discharge of the car-
go the vessel gave her company and stevedores the fright of their lives by suddenly heeling over from port to starboard. One minute she lay O. C. Engineer Company on Sun-at an angle of 20 degrees to port:
and the next she was at a similar angle to starboard.
day, 14th January, 1934.
Appointment
LITHUANIAN AIR ARMADA.
Long-Distance Flight Round-Europe
Kovno, (Lithugnia).'
net vouchsafe evening. During
The Communion of the Lord's Supper will be observed at the close of the morning service.
Every Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. De many years, by my awent and votional meeting of the Boldiers' blood, I collected some little and Airmen's Christian Associa
Mon. Servicemen heartily' wel- A number of Lithuanian aero-money. Its balance is deposited in comed planes will leave Kovno shortly on the bank. If the unexpected hapis Sunday, January 7, 1934. Lleut, J. V. V. Dos Remedios is
The vessel heaved upright, sway- a long-distance flight round pens, the whole of my things, es- appointed Hon. Mess Treasurer, ed to port again and then swung Europe. They will be in charge of Officer's Mess, with effect from
over. The heavy gangway, with Colonel Gustaitis, the famous pilot tate, and money shall belong to my 1.1.34.
steel railings, took the weight of the and designer of seroplanes. cousin, Louis Chong, who shall re-
e will be ship for one brief moment and then The route taken
ceive. Thus the matter shall be cracked with a loud report and Stockholm to London and then on crumpled up.
Fortunately, the to Paris, Rome, Germany and the settled and in order."
no back to hurt, Reuter. mooring ropes held, and no one was Balkan States and
Kovno-Reuter.
Leave
No, 1461 L/Cpl. R. M. Wood, No. 4 Platoon, granted 12 months leave from 1:134 to 1.1.35.
No. 499 Spr. C. Strange, Engineer Company, leave extonda to 22,2,31.
Return From Leave. No. 2055 Pte. 1. A. Hurlow re- sumed duty from 17th December, 1938.
Transfer
No. 1594 Pte. C. L. Aria, M.M.G. Section, is transferred to Reserve Company (Section A) as from 31.12.38.
Struck Off Strength
*
No. 725 L/Cpl. G. P. Lammert, M.G. Troop, as from 29.12.88,
Permitted to Resign "No, 848: L/Cpl. A. Duncan, Scot- tish Co, H.Q as from 29.12.23.
*Having Left The Colony, No., 788 Pte. A. G. Gordon, No. 7 Platoon, as from 29.12.338.
No.:1825 Pła? JALA Hent, No. 14 Platoon, as from 28.12.33******
Transferred to Another Port No. 1635 L/Cpl. D. C. Brodie, No. 7 Platoon, as from 28.12.38,
Strength =
No, 2105 Pte. EC. Drown," Sani- tary Dept., No. 2 Platopy; 2212.38,
P. 8. M. WILKINSON (Captain), Adjutant, HKV.D. Corps,
BOY CHOKES BEAR TO DEATH
Grim Struggle In Dark Barn.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Wesley Berry le the hero of Bault
Sainte Marlo. He has choked w
bear to death; with his hands.
Three young brothers
“dampingin a barn-e
sce at night and stum)
Hollywood's Matador.
· FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
(Branch, of The Mother Church, The will purports to have been] The First Church of Christ, Scien- executed on "The 21st day of the diet, in Boston, Mass., U:SATZU Republic-the 4th day of the ele-Macdonbell Road, Below Bawan venth_month," and the" signature
Sale Road (Trim: Station:20jasn of the testator, Lent On, also Subject:-CREIST " JESUS. known an Ah On, la followed by Sunday Servica 11.15 a.m. the words, "written by himself." The Sunday school is held on Clearly these words do not refer to Sunday Morning? at: 10 pélock. the body of the document, for the Wednesday Evening Mesting at s testator was a man of little learn- P.m. Reading Room at above: ad- ing, and the will is obviously the sirens open Tuesday and Friday, 10 work of a master of classical to 12 noon; **Monday" and Chiness. It is exquisitely written Thursday, 680 to 7pm The in a language which is said to be Public is cordially invited to at beyond the powers of any Chinese Reading Loom Branch of The Įtand:tke marbles" and!" visit: the in Australia to render into any
thing more than approximate Ergother Church, The First Church High. It in supposed to. have been of Christ, Scientist," in Boston, prepared in China fer the testatorMUL, USA. 127g steikt by some learned feribe, and to haya
been executed by him at Sydney: FIVE STOWAWAYS IN
PACKING CASE?
Italians' Plan Foiled By
Accident you
"""Bo far, it can be ascertained, the estate of the testator consista "of 8620, being the money contained in two bank deposits, There" in aid to be bellet mong his friends, that at one time he pos- Bessed, much more than this, he being acco azan of wealth.
A large packing cam Bow or wh or for
purpose being loaded in the Uner Vulcanis
Palermo, Italy:
for New York, eräshë nide of the ships, T caused by the accide
the
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