SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1934.
HK. VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS
Orders For The Coming Week.
Orders by Lieut-Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, 0. B. E. Com- mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer
Defence Corps:-
Hong Kong.
Friday, 11th May, 1934.
PARADE
Corpa 1st. Battery
Trumpeters parade at 5.30 p.m. at Headquarters. on Tuesday, 15th May, 1934.
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 17th May, 1934; for Instruction on 6 inch Gun.
King's Birthday, 4th June, 1934 -Every member is expected to at tend this parade.
Corps Signals
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 15th May, 1934. Corps Engineers.
Parade at Miniature Range at
5.30 p.m. 1934.
on Monday, 14th May.
O. C. Corps Engineers eungratu
THE CHINA MAIL,
Oxford Group House Party
MORE than 700 delegates to the Oxford Group House Party held recently at the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, photographed in the
court yard of the famous hostelry. Representatives from all the larger Eastern Canadian and United States cities stlanded. other huge House Party, is being considered for the Banff Springs Hotel, magnificent Rocky Mountain resort, early in June.
DIVORCE ATTRACTS
+
SPANIARDS,
lates teams on their success in the Prophets Confounded By Corns Competitions.
CORPS M. G. BN.
Troup
Parade on Tuesday, 15th May at 5.30 1.m. #L Volunteer Head- quarters for Machine Gun Instruc- tion.
Increasing Numbers.
CASES GIVEN PRECEDENT
Madrid.
There were 4,104 divorce peti- Parade on Thursday, 17th Maytions brought in the Spanish courts at 6.30 p.m. at Troop Stable, Cause-between April 1, 1932, when divorce way Bay, for Mounted Drill, was made legal, and April 1, 1933.
And the number of cases is in-
·
BOSTON LEADS IN PROSECUTIONS
High Rate Of Crime For 50 Years.
HARVARD SURVEY REVELATION
POEM WRITTEN FOR KING ALBERT.
Former U.S. Diplomat's Tribute.
DR. R. W. JOHNSON
New York. Boston. The following poem has been Boston has more criminal pro-written in memory of King Albert, secutions per capita than New by Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson, York or Chicago, or with few Director of the Hall of Fame at exceptions, than any American, New York University and formerly Parade on Monday. 14th May at creasing month by month. thua fessor Sam Bass Warner, of the
Canadian or English city, Pro-Ambassador to Italy:-~ Headquarters #t 3.30
confounding the prophets, who fore Harvard Law School. reports in
** Albert Of Belgium DRESS: Mefti.
Thou shouldst have died in battle, told that as goo as divorce was the second volume of the Har- made possible no family would wish yard Crime Survey.
noble knight to take advantage of it.
"If you immediately rush to
Armoured Car Co.
No. 3 (Anzac) Co.
m.
A wreath was laid by 2nd Lieut.
A. E.
Bates at the foot of the
SHANGHAI Cenotaph on behalf of ANZAC Company, H.K.V.D. the Corps, on ANZAC DAY.
Divorce caseR are treated
granted.
88
Or
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urgent in Spain and take precedence possible explanation of a violent over other cases, but must of the change in the character of the
post-war crime wave, suits being brought are held to be population, you The Company will parade at 5.30 on insufficient grounds, and few are additional facts that this appar- encounter the p.m. on Monday 14th May at Hend-
ently high rate of crime for Bos- quarters for Machine Gun Instruc- Catholics are credited with the ton has existed for over 50 tion in Night Firing.
intention should they obtain power years," he says. "The Boston. Members of Competition Team-of repealing the divorce law. "A courts show a comparatively high will parade on Friday, 18th May at man may quarrel with his wife." proportion of convictions and 5.30 p.m. for Instruction in 3rd says Senor Gil Robles, leader of the Boston has also the highest ratio Phase of Competition.
Catholic party in the Cortes, "and of policemen to population. All Team members are request-vice-veran, but he will not tolerate "Aside from motor vehicle ed to keep this and subsequent her going to another man's arms. offences which are in a class by- Fridays free.
race--and themselves, the most significant 50-year trends are the noticeable decrease in crimes of violence, as- saults particularly, and the great increase, on the other hand in gambling, family and sex offences."
It ів л
Corps Machine Gun Competition-climate."-Reuter."
2nd Stage and Present Position
Tutal Pls. Present to date Position
1,800
question of
Company
No. 3 (Anzac) Company
14.57
2nd Stage Time Points
1,000
1
No. 1 Coy, M.G.) 2 Platonu .. 16,04
933
1,735
2
No. 1 Cay. M.G.) 4 Platoon
16.21
916
1,658
3
No. 1 Coy, M.G.) 3 Platoon
19.18
739
1,496
4
M. M. Gun Section
23.09
508
1.265
5
Machine Gun Troop
22,54
523
1,243
G
No. 2 Scottish) Company
20.24
313
815
7
MACHINE GUN BADGES The following-qualifed on Sun-
day, 29th April, 1934.
(Entitled to wear "M. C." with-
aut wreath).
M. G. Troop Motor Cycle Section No. 1698-Tpr. E. Joseph, Pte. N. Whitley-No. 1981. No. 1657-Pte. J. Smith. No. 2099-Pte. V. C. Bond. No. 1771-Pte. F. H. Neale.
MAP'S
All Maps will be returned to the Adjutant forthwith,
ALLOTMENT OF RANGE
The Stonecutters Runge is allotted
CURIOUS EFFECT OF WINE
Portuguese Runs Amok At Fair.
KEEPS VILLAGE AT BAY
Lisbon.
At the age of 38 Antonio Vargas,
And Bryon should have writ thine
epitaph.
AR-
CHURCHES
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST.
[Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scien- tist. in Boston, Mass., USA]
Macdonnell Road, Below Bowen
Road Tram Station.
Sunday Service 11.15 am.
Subject:-ADAM AND FALLEN{
MAN.
The Sunday school is held on Sunday Morning at 10 o'clock Caesar, who tore a continent in Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6
half,
p.m. Reading Room at above ad- Trampling thy suil with swarm-dress open Tuesday and Friday, 10
ing legions' might,
4.1. to 12 noon, Monday and Knew thy brave race, and would Thursday, 5.30 to 7
p.m. The have chosen thee.
Public is cordially invited to at- His victor, conquered by thy tend the service and visit the
chivalry,
Reading Room,
Though. for a while, men balance
loss and gain
And, in the fatal harvest of the
peed,
The fell surprise of every evil
deed,
Doubt that the struggle may have)
been in vain..
Time shall remember how from
grasping foe
The world was saved by thy
triumphant No.
Dr. Johnson has just celebrated
Professor Warner says that his eighty-first birthday.-Reuter. alarmists must look not to mur-
ders, manslaughters, assaults, larcentes, burgularies, etc., com- monly thought of as the bulk of serious crime, but rather to the U.S. "regulatory offences," to gambl-1 jing, family cuses and sex," not Ito mention the car, for what little corroboration they may find."--Reuter.
CONVICT CLEARS HIS NAME
of Loule, in Southern Portugal, Murder Suspect Turns
had neverted port wine—but! he was ready to try anything once. Visiting a country fair one day,
to the Corps Machine Gun Battalion he bought two bottles of "very as under, to fire their Machine old," which had been stolen from
Gun Casuals on Sunday, 20th May,
1934,
This is the last opportunity for them to conform with conditions of
Efficiency.
Headquarters.
No. 1 (M. G.) Company:-
No. 1 Pistoan
No. 2 Platoon
No. 3 Platoon
No. 4 Platoon
No. 2 (Scottish) Coy.
private cellar.
He tasted it....He Uked it....
He drained both battles.
uten.
Detective.
AFTER GAOL ESCAPE
Belgrade.
DRAFT DODGER SEEKS PARDON
Appeal To President Roosevelt.
LETTER SENT FOR EXILE
Washington. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, who dodged being drafted into the American army during the World
War and who has been "exiled jabroad since he escaped from the military authorities In 1920, has appealed to President Roosevelt for a pardon.
His letter to the President, dated from Weinsberg, Germany. A man who escaped from prison says, in part: and turned detective to clear him-
"I write this letter in the fond
Then this happened.............
self of a charge of murder has hope that your Christian spirit Seizing a heavy stick. António brought about the arrest of 11 and your great sense of justice set upon everybody in sight, clear-notorious criminals in the Parat will overcome all doubts as to the ing the fair ground in a few min- chin district of Yugoslavia.
wisdom of granting me a pardon ! They are accused of a long series for offenses against the draft law | Then he got hold of a gun. When of daring robberies and several and the military. the police arrived they found that brutal murdera.
"In spite of the fact that I have The bad built a barricade of odds
For months the police had been been deprived of my citizenship The launch will leave Queen's and ends, and was defying anyone on the trail of the gang, who, from all these years, I still feel myself
to approach him. Pier at 8.30 a.m.
secret hiding places in the forests, an and Kowloon
American and could Hundreds of villagers turned were in the habit of sallying forth swear allegiance to any other Police Pler at 8.40 a.m.
Range Officer will be detailed by out to help the police, but for to plunder lonely houses and rob country."
whole night he kept them at bay, travellers.
"My mother is now almost 78 taking "pot shots" at everybody who showed his head.
One day they arrested a villager years of age. She is not in the named Randjel Miloshevitch and best of health. She has not seen Antonio and walled for something ders
So they threw a cordon round charged, him with one of the mur-me for a long time. She has not to happen. It did.....
the Adjutant.
TRANSFER No. 1557, Pte. J. Smith from Motor Cycle Section to Corps En- gineers with effect from 11th May,
1934,
LEAVE
never
He escaped and nothing had much joy out of life. A stroke was seen of him for several weeks. of your pen, Mr. President, could Meanwhile, the depredations of give her a few years of happi- the gang continued..
ness,"
With the dawn Antonio fell an Jeep. No. 2078, Pte. B. Zerner, No. 3|
When he awoke in a police cell Platoon, No. 1 Coy, granted three the was
Then Randjel reappeared. Sur His letter has been referred to weeks leave as from 8.5.84 to what
astonished to learn of rendering to the police, he gave the Department of Justice.-Re- had happened-and WAS
them a complete account of the ter No. 2112, Gar. R. T. B. Lammerte against him of being "drunk and headquarters and handed over valu- deeply grieved. at the charge members of the gang, revealed their Ist Battery, granted three werka
disorderly."-Reuter.
28.5.84.
leave as from 4.5,84 to 24.8.24.
No. 1889, Q.Q.M.8., J. O. Polson,
able evidence about several murders. BLACK DISEASE IN KIANGSU |
He said that after his escape, ha
No, 2 (Scottish) Company granted Creagh, Reserve Company "A" had joined the gang, prebending to ten months leave as from 20.4.84 to Section, has been registered in the be one of themselves.
: 20th February, 1935,
Volunteer Air Arm-
Lient. L. F. Nicholson is appoint-
"ed to "B" Flight vice Pte, E. L.
Curtis (on long leave),
No. 2095, Gar. E. B. Brasier-
Waiting List.
Strength N
What is known as the "Black When arrested the leader of the out in northern Kiangau and no les Disease" is reported to have broken gang, Milan Radosavljevitch, con- than one thousand people are already No. 2180 Pte. D. R. Ryde No. 8 fessed to 10 murders and many rob-victims.
The health department of Platoon: 9.5,84,7%.
beries, His confession cleared the Ministry of Interior has sent 8d. F. 3. M. WILKINSON, Captain, Randjel of the charge against him. medical work and establish a specia number of physiciana to nusist in the Adfstant, H.K.V.D. Corps. -Reuler.
hospital to combat the virulent disman.
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