H.K. VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS
Orders For The Coming Week.
Orders by Lieut. →→Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O. B. E. Com- mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps: ---
Hong Kong.
Friday, 22nd June, 1934.
PARADE
Corps 1st Battery
There will be a parade on Thurs-
day, 28th June at Belcher's Fort
at 6.00 p.m. sharp,
Dress:-Blue Caps.
platform shoes.
Corps Engineers
Overalls,
Parade at Miniature Range at
5.30 p.m. an
1934.
Monday, 25th June,
Thursday, 28th June-D. L Training at Belcher's' Fort.
Corps Signals
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 26th June, 1954.
Machine Gun Battalion Troop Machine Gun Drill parades are postponed indefinitely. No. 2 Company-will continue parades under existing M. G. E. arrangements.
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 28th-"HOLD. ING."
Troop
Parade on Tuesday, 26th June at 5.30 pm. at at Troop Stable, Cause- way Bay for Pack Saddle Drill and Riding School.
Armoured Car Company Parade on Monday, 25th June, 1934 at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m.
EFFICIENCY CUP
The Troop has won the Efficiency Cup for the training year 1933- 1934. The Commandant con- gratulates Captain A. H. Potts and ali ranks of the Troop un their
success.
VOLUNTEER AIR ARM
The undermentioned members are. transferred to the Waiting List:-
No. 1697, Sgr. K. S. Mehal from "A" Flight.
No. 1507, Sgr. F. K. Babi from
"B" Flight.
TRANSFER
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934.
**To Yolo we will go," in the after lunch over the Yoho Panu Falls Cabin. The fourth day slogan of the skf Line Trail to the Toho Valley Chalet-Bun- there will be a hike over the high Hikers of the Canadian Rockles galow Camp, seven miles distant,line trail back to the Toho Val- for the coming season and the The first night will be spent in ley Chalet-Bungalow Camp where dates fixed are Friday, August 3 thất, camp and the morning hike the Pow-Wow will be held in the to Monday, Augual & which will on the second day will be to Twin | afternoon. Then, those who wish enable those taking part to go, Falle In the afternoon there to catch train or bug for Lake if they wish, on the Trail Ride will be a bike over the upper Louise or Banff can do so while (July 27-30) or participate in the meadows, to the Yobo Glacier, there is the cholos of staying over Annual Camp of the Alpine Club Camp for this and also the second and biking over Burgess Pasi to of Canada (July 16-31) and fol-night will be at the Twin Falls Field or continuing their explore- low on with the Trail Hike. Cabin, supplemented by tent action of the beautiful Yoho Valley.
Plans at present are to meet at [commodation. The third day will | A large turn-out is expected fol. Emerald Lake Chalet on the be spent hiking through the Little lowing the successful hike of last morning of August 3, starling out Yoho Valley, returning to Twin rear.
ROOSEVELT'S GREAT WORLD'S OLDEST
MOMENT
PRESIDENT REVIEWS THE FLEET
CHORUS GIRL
66 Years With Famous Opera Company.
STILL GOING STRONG
New York.
YACHTSMEN
TO CROSS
ATLANTIC
Americans Plan Trip
To Finland.
VISITING FAMOUS SEAFARER
New York..
A crew of young. American rachtsmen, including Mr. William Phillips, Jr., son of the Under- Secretary of State, will sail 10,000 miles this summer in a schooner to pay the respects of American sea- en to an old Finnish sailor.
The man is Captain Gustaf Erikson, a sea cook who became sea king, and who, from the little port of Mariehamm, Finland, sends to sea the last fleet of windjammers. left in the world.
The young Americans, most of them students at Harvard, say that they wish to tell Captain Erikson that they appreciate what he has done during the past fifteen years to keep alive the Bailing ship) [tradition.
They will set sail from Marble- head, Massachusetts, in the two- maated schooner "Wander Bird," 99 feet long. She is an old German pilot boat and is the property of Mr. Warwick Tompkins, of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts.
They will sail north of Scotland, across the North Sea, and after |navigating the narrow Skaggerak between Denmark and Sweden will turn northward in to the Baltic.
In the crew will be William Elsworth, of Montclair, New Jer- sey. Vaughan Ferguson, of Schenec. tady, New York, James Wykoff, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Walter Knight Sturgis, of Boston, and Verne Thompson.
Capt. Erikson, who often has to send his ships out without insur- Jance, to make ends meet, owns 20 square-rigged wind-jammers. He has a one room office and one scere: Proud and smiling, and claim-tary in Mariehamm. Once a year ing to be the "oldent chorus girl in the visits London, where he always the world," Mme. Maria Savage finds fault with the pea soup.- has just concluded her sixty sixth Reuter. President brought A greater year with the Metropolitan Opera moment of pride and joy to Mr.Company. Roosevelt than when this grey;
Boyhood Dream Realised
PLANNED,
Gigantic Studios On Caspian Sea.
--
Moscow.
New York, Thursday,
No. 1540-C.S.M., K. S. Slattery,
President Roosevelt, Comman-
Her white hair concealed by a SOVIET HOLLYWOOD, No. 1 Company is transferred to der-in-Chief of the United States
Navy, reviewed his fleet this after- steel line passed before him. wig of brown curls, her features is ap- Corps Headquarters and
The sea is in the President's freshened by grease paint, she ad- pointed Drill Sergeant Major with noon in a parade of splendour
blood and from his boyhood hemitted that she is "Boating be- effect from 1st July, 1934.
never before seen in New York
has dreamed of such a moment tween 60 and 70, but I am closer No. 1641-Pte. R. H. Griffiths, waters
on this. Armoured Car Company is trans-! The great armament, 12 miles
to the shore of 70.”
She has been a chorus girl for ferred to the Reserve Company as loug, passed the cruiser Indiana- He spent last night at his New from 14th June, 1934.
polie, carrying, the President and York home, which houses the 47 years, first in her native Bel- his staff, in a review outside New greatest collection of naval prints glum, and then in England and No. 1767. Tpr. A. F. Jenkin. York harbour that presented a in the world: Mr. Roosevelt began New York. Machine
After her first performance on Gun Troop. granted spectacle of naval strength impos-making this collection at the twelve months as from 1.4.34 to ing in its dignity and majestic in of 14. At that tender age he was a the stage, she returned home, she They plan to build gigantic clone student of well-known books said, "sure I would conquer the studios and film factories in Baku, Here were ranged 700,000 tons on naval strategy and tactics writ-whole world." The door was bar ancient capital of Azerbaijan, or On Medical Grounds of shipping, comprising 88 ships of ten by Admiral Mahan, no easy red against her then and ever the Caspian Sea, one of the warm- No. 2109, Gnr. D. W. Jones, war and 174 fighting aeroplanea. reading for a boy.
afterward when she revealed that est and sunniest apote Corps 1st Battery, na from 1.634. liere were ion battleships, each
she had gone on the stage.
U.S.S.R. STRENGTH
LEAVE
28.2.35.
STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH
its sense of power.
The Greatest Navy.
age
The construction of B Soviet "Hollywood" is the latest project of cinema circles here.
01
in the
luxurious
costing £4,000,000, two aircraft Little did young Roosevelt know Mme. Savage has been happy The new cinema-capital will have No. 2133 Sapper J. Mc Boyd En-carriers, these glants of the fleet, that in days to come he would be here in the chorus and one of her none Hollywood's gineer Coy. 15.6.34, ■
built at a cost of £9,000,000 apiece, First Assistant Secretary of the most treasured possessions is a homes, motor-cars, and clothes, Sd. P. S. M. WILKINSON, Captain, | swift destroyers weighing only Navy, then i18 Commander-in-gold medallion presented to her by however, because there are no stars.
Adjutant. H.K.V.D. Corpa.
the great Caruso.
NOTICE
1. There will be a meeting of the Swimming Committee nt Head- quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 28th June, 1934.
2. The Swimming Sports will be held at the Victoria Recreation} Club on July, 21st., 1934.
MACHINE GUN COMPETITION
3rd. Stage
EXCITING FIGHT WITH SHARK.
Cornish Pilot's Thrill In Rowing Boat.
1,100 tona, but worth £400,000,| Chief.
in the Soviet film Armament-and down to humdrum oiltankers.
With the President in the In- Her daughter, May, is also a no salaries paid on the lavish Fog, against which the might-dianapolis was his old friend and member of the Metropolitan Hollywood scale-Reuter. iest armaments are helpless, de- "chief," Mr. Josephus Daniels, Chorus.-Reuter.
layed the great parade. Instead now Ambassador to Mexico, former- of noon it was 2.30 before the ly Secretary of the Navy, to whom P. & 0. COMMODORE. flagship Pennsylvania, with Ad-ļis attributed the present efficiency miral Sellers in command of the and might of the American fleet.
RETIRES.
flect, passed the Indianapolis. There was Mr. Daniels beside his Captain Ohlson Ends 40
In the wake of the great ship President, congratulating him on [came two alreraft carriers, hum-"developing the greatest
Years' Service. navy.
THEY LOST THEIR FALSE. TEETH.
31 Sets To Be Sold By G.P.O.
left
London,
Machine gun shoot as detailed on ming with activity as the aero-America has ever had." 24th June, 1934 is now postponed planes aboard Look off
The Fleet has just come through | to show
London. to Sunday, 8th July, 1934.
[their prowess in mimic warfare and the most
Articles important naval
in British Post Captain B F. Ohlson, the Com-Offices, or sent in insufficiently ad- stunt flying before the astonished manoeuvres in its history, as it modore of the P. and O. Line, and dressed packages, are being sold in Jeyes of millions of spectators. passed from the Pacific to the Atcommander of the 22,500 tone liner London. One item is:-
The actual review, taking place lantic coast. It stays here until "Strathnaver" has retired, after 40 in the open sea, was a spectacle June 15, when the Pacific Ocean years at sea.
"31 dentures and parts of ditio."| for a privileged few, but the fleet again becomes its objective,
Other things sold as a result of Captain Ohlson, who is retiring three months' forgetfulness on the continued its sea march into New
When It left Californian under the age limit, had a die-part of the public are about 200 [York harbour, mooring in the deep
waters there were reports that tinguished career during the War. waters of the Hudson and the ad- its departure was a gesture of
watches, 20 clocks, hundreds of When the Strathnaver reached rings, precious stones, gold and jacent anchorage.
friendship towards Japan. Now Plymouth, at the conclusion London. From vantage points on
observers are saying that the Captain Ohlson's last
of silver cigarette cases, modals and Two pilote had an exciting en-ernor's Island, Long Island, Staten
display in these Eastern waters Commander from Australia, the pendants, bangles, earrings and five voyage an coins, 200 fountain pens, spectacles, counter with a shark in Falmouth Island, and city skycrapers, mil-
is the President's dramatic ap-new Commander, Captain Harrison, bottles of mercury. Bay, Cornwall, while they were inlions of people thrilled to this peal to a taxpaying democracy, formerly of the P. & O. Mooltan, a rowing boat two miles from the majestic vision armed strength.
Colossal Entertainment. joined his new ship. -shore.
Grey Steel Line. They estimate that the creature was nearly 20 feet long.
Gov-
He intends to build a United The Strathnaver, with her In a tradition learned from the States navy up to full treaty sister ahip. "Strathaird" is the British Navy, the 8,000 officers and strength, and to-day's review is largest of the P. & 0. Fleet It came up within a few feet of 40,000 men of the fleet honoured his scheme to make the burdens of Reuter. the boat and made as if to attack their commander-in-chief with full taxation seem light in the eyes of it. One of the pilots struck it with naval ritual. Battleships and the enthusiastic naval-minded
an oar, grazing off a piece of its cruisers boomed their salute of 21 Americans.
skin.
visitors. Entertainmenta mon
SHAM BATTLES. IN TIENTSIN
"
Proceeds of the sale to Post Office charities.--Reuter.
GIRL STUDENTS AS WAITRESSES.
Fee-Earning In Finland.
Helsingfors. Three hundred girl students of Helsingfors University have applied for summer-time posts as waitresses
In hotels of the Finland Tourist
guos, fired from three-pounders, When the Navy returns to theị The fish dived hurriedly and re-the officers and men appeared on the other side of the time "manning rail-end," in other tude of its power as a weapon of Tientsin staged sham battles
at the same Pacific-zone-it will be at the plent-
Japanese troops stationed in boat, and then made off, much to words, standing on the decks in defence.
In the men's relief-Reuter,
straela in the Japanese Concession: regular formation, with hand at During it stay here the ships recently according to a Chinese re- the salute and facing the Presi will be inspected by millions of port from Tientsin, dent
Drums and buglen were sound-colossal apala await officers and making a grand total of 100,000 Association. ing, the United States national men weary of the sen,
coples distributed this year. to An only proficient Inguists: are Major W. C. Crane, Military At-anthem from numerous bands rent The Society for the Prevention sailors who have coma' ashore. chosen for these jobs, foreign tacho, to the American Embassy in the air, and guards presented of Cruelly to Animals offers to take] Wiven, sweetbaarta, and relatourists and. It exceedingly conven- Tokyo, is now, on a tour of Man-arms.
care of all mascots or alling peta......... Lives from' all parts of the country lent" that Finnish girls earn their chukao and is expected to return) Itția safe to say that not evan The New York. Bible Boclady: Ju have invaded; the city to welcoms Univeralty dens In this to Japan shortly."
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