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 Valunteer
Defence Corps:—
Friday, 20th July, 1934.
Hong Kong
PARADE
Corps Engineers'
Parade at Miniature Range at
5.30 pm. on Monday, 23rd July,
1934.
Thursday, July 26th-D. L. Training at Belcher's Fort-
parade at 6.00 p.m. sharp. NOTE: After the month of July. training at Belcher's Fort will be on the second Thursday in each! month instead of the last Thurs-) day.
Corps Infantry (Portuguese). N.C.O's Summer Class starts on July 24 (Tuesday) and will be devoted entirely to Instruction on Lewis Gun.
The first three paradea ie, July 24th, July 31st and August 7th will be set aside for Instruction (by Regular Instructors) on HOW TO TEACH.
The remaining parades Lt. Au- gust 14th, 21st and 28th will be set aside for Instruction in STOP-) PAGES starting with. I. As on August 14th.
Sergeants will please advise their respective N.C.O.'s.
The Class is open to all Lewis Gunners.
No further Orders will be issued until the Training Season.
HEADQUARTERS STAFF During the month of August, the leadquarters Offices will only
be open on Mondays and Fridays
as far as evenings are concerned.
The Commandant can be view-
ed only on these days.
This amends Corps Order No. 24/34 dated 15th June, 1934.
JUNIOR WING
As August 6th is a Public Holt- day, the Junior Wing will parade on Tuesday, 7th August, 1934,
VOLUNTEER AIR ARM Flying Instruction will be con tinued with effect from Saturday 21st July, 1934.
1934
DRESS FOR OFFICERS Evening Dress (Short Coat. (Black or White,) or White Shell] Jacket).
MESS KIT
in Corps Orders.
Captain Stevens
Major Kepner
Unloading gas for bag.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1934.
Headquarters for flight.
S. DAKOTA
BRAPID "CITY"
PIERRE
Reparations are being completed for the proposed flight of Captain A. W. Stevens and Major William E. Kepner, U. S. A., in to the stratosphere from a point near Rapid City, 8. D. Headquarters for the flight have been established, and South Dakota. National Guardsmen have been busily en- gaged in unloading gas tanks to fill the 3,009,090, cubic foot bag, which Captain Stevens and Majde Kepner hope will carry their gondola 15 or more miles high.
Turkey Centre Of Modernism
POWER STRUGGLE
IN TIBET.
Three Factions Seeking Political Hold.
CHURCHES
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
[Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Selen- tist, in Boston, Masa, U.S.A.]
Macdonnell Road, Below Bowen Road Tram Station.
Sunday Service 11.15 am. Subject:-LIFE
The Sunday school is held on Sunday Morning at 10 o'clock Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6 p.m. Reading Room at above ad- dress open Tuesday and Friday, 10 am to 12 noon, Monday and Thursday, 5.80 to 7 pm. The Publit is cordially invited to at- tend the service and visit the Reading. Room.
INDIAN GUARD FOUND GUILTY.
Conquer
Chief Justice Postpones Weak nerves—and regain new
Sentence Till Monday.
Found guilty of wounding with Intent a fellow anti-piracy guard on Jon the steamer Fatshan on April 12, by shooting him through the cheat with a revolver, Sarwan Singh, 23- year-old Sikh, has not yet been sen, tenced for his crime
The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Ai D.. A. MacGregor, at yesterday's Criminal Sessions trial, said: I am not going to pass sentence on you! now-yours is a difficult case-but 1 am going to postpone sentence till Monday when, if you desire to call evidence of character. I shall hear
it.
Accused, who was stated to have) ja clean police guard record dating
Istanbul Betrays New Trends received in Nanking, three political pleaded Not Guilty to wounding
In Present Era
According to a Chinese report from its commencement in 1928,
with intent, to groups are struggling for power in charge of wounding. Tibet: the followers of the Into
Dalai Lama, who are now in power; the one who knew the Balkans be- museum.
Even the experienced travaller, thrown open to irreverent eyes as a
the conservatives who favour the Here was u
return of the Panchan Lama; and fore
vision of the pre-war map became that legendary world to which King the pro-British group who favour a obsolete, and Constantinople before Solomon and all his glory belonged, declaration of independence from to call it Istanbul, cannot spoil for Islam. Until I saw those massed la dictated nationalism compelled us as well as the wicked tyrants of China by Tibet.
us the lovely vision that meets us jewels, porcelains, silks, embroi-
Gen. Huang Mou-sung, Chinese
the further
FUNERAL OF LATE MR. W. L. PLEW
Last Rites Paid To
Former Journalist.
经
The funeral of the late Mr. W.
on
All members will attend as pre- viously.
as we steam slowly up the Bos-deries, works of art innumerable envoy to Tibet, and his secretary, L Plew, whe met his death No. 2114, Pte. G. R. M. Ricketts Phorus at dawn and anchor opposite heaped up in room after room. I de Mr. Wu Ming-yuan, have arrived in Thursday morning appointed to "B" Flight vice Sergt.
the ancient city
under tragic mosques and not think I had ever taken serious
Lbana, and it is expected that mea- circumstances took place at the E. II. P. White.
palaces. That is the opinion of ly the descriptions, either in the eures for the reinstatement of the Protestant Cemetery SWIMMING SPORTS--21st July who describes the Turkey of to-day the lavish treasure of the East. cussed with the Tibetan authorities.
writer in a home
yesterday, paper, at least, Old Testament or in fairy tales, of Panchan Lama in Tibet will be dis-the Rev. E. G. Powell officiating. in refreshing style. That vision of It was a shock to return from such
Among those who attended the funeral were members of the Istanbul is a moment of unforget-la past to a more vulgar present, table impression, and it is never when the guide pointed out with many and Italy, it seems a topey-Plow
staff of the Hong Kong Daily Press, with which the late Mr. recaptured. Afterwards, when the equal pride the hideous gifts from turvy dictatorship that frees women years as Night Editor, and repre- sun travels higher, outlines become modern sovereigns to the late Abduljat the word of command instead of sentatives of other newspapers.
was associated for some To All Company Sergeant Majors sharpened, mystery rolls away with Hamid; do royalties pass on their using the same powers to drive her
Company Sergeant Majors will mist, and, coming out of the presents, I wondered, as one sends back to the nursery bring to the notice of the Ser-Arabian Nights with a jerk, we round from, bazaar to bazaar the chen; and if my one day in Con- Barrett, A. J. Palmer, H. Reg. La There were present Messrs. T. and the kit-S. Whyte-Smith, B. Wylie, R. T. geants of their Unit the Commander of the long white building on in the name of charity? But he it demonstrated clearly enough that Haroon, C. C. Lai, Yue Pao, and turn into tourists again and won monstrosities one is forced to buy stantinople taught me nothing else, than, E. Prigent, B. H. Church, S. dant's approval of alterations of Mess Kit, Winter, wear as notified the opposite shore is Florence swept us back again to barbarism there are dictatorships. I doubt if members of the Linotype Room
Nightingale's hospital at Scutari. STRUCK OFF STRENGTH It is at this moment of awaken-little casket in
when he brought us up before a Western Europe has yet grasped and Compositors of the Hong Having left the Colony
ing that we become the prey of the this, he explained, the Sultan's the Sultans. You have to wander,
an anteroom. In the extent and the significance of Kong Daily Press. No.. 1764 A. L. /Cpl. H. E. Lewis, people who have been here before meals were sealed after being tast footsore and satiated with the glit wreaths, flowers were sent by Motor Cycle Section as from and never tire of telling us that ed by some menial, to be unsealed ter of rich possessions, through in- Mm. O. C. Borrétt, President of to the family they remember a Constantinople no by the Sultan himself two hours terminable private apartments, whe- the Garrison and Area Welfare No. 2068 Pte. HF. Russell, one will ever see again. It is use- later, when it was ascertained that ther of enslaved women or of the Centre, Mr. and Mrs. Beck, Mr. Armoured Car. Co., as from less to reply that we saw it just the menial still lived. "I'd sooner master who kept them, in order to and Mrs. R. Cunningham, Mr. D. 20.7.34.
now, when it came and went in the have my hot-pot safely in the old appreciate the scale of the change Dohee, Mr. C. C. Lai, Mr. and Mrs. STRENGTH
dawn like Aladdin's palace. Their parlour at home, uttered in broad that has taken place in Turkey. L E. Lammert, George and Geof No. 2138 Private K. Crawford H. retort to that is that we cannot Lancashire by one of the guide's Not even a Mustapha Kemal couldfrey Lammert, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. K. Electric Co. Machine Gun Bn. see the change they mean unless we listeners, seemed an apt comment have affected it with such complete Palmer, Mrs. Pinquet, Mies M. J.
go ashore, for to them the newlon this anecdote. Istanbul is summed up in the dis-
ness or so swiftly, I think, if he had Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Wom- appearance of the veil and the fez. nor hint of polson, not all the fairy- on his side. That is worth remem- Woods and Mrs. Harry Woods, the But neither the dazzle, of treasure not had the young temperamentally ack, the Misses Alleen and Doris grew a little tired, bofore my one like beauty of dome and minaret, bering when we sentimentalize Hong Kong Daily Press, the day in Constantinople was over, of or the dirt and colour of the about the disappearance of the veil Chinese Staff of the Hong Kong Sd. P. S. M. WILKINSON, Captain, hearing that I ought to have seen bazaars, could keep the new Turkey Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corpa. it in the days when every woman frem obtruding through the old.
wore a veil and every man a fez. The guide's enthusiasm for the re are some who regret the comfort-
Regrets
Daily Press, the Editorial Staffe In Turkey, as elsewhere, there Herald the Staff of the Matilda of the China Mail and Sunday It is true that I found it difficult forms of Mustapha Kemal showed able irresponsibility enjoyed by 8pital, and Stewart Bros,
14.7.34.
16.7.34.
PARADE (Continued)
Machine Gun Troop
at
Parade on Tuesday 24th July
5.80 p.m. at Causeway Bay Stable.
AFTER ORDERS
Parade (Continued)
Armoured Car Company
Dress-Mufti
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I
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The funeral of the late Mr MEMORIAL SERVICE
to picture the young guide in felt that, for the younger generation st Monday 23rd July at 5.30 p.m. hat and ready-to-wear suit as a all events, progress seems worth the those young girls, walking two and vizier's son murmuring "O tempta-loss of a picturesque relic or, two.
wealthy women in the harem; 'but tion of the world" to an exquisite He told us father apologetically in houri whose eyes alone were in a one georgeous apartment that here
two, unvelled, with the prospect of position to drink to him, and almost the Sultan came "when he wanted nice suburban marriage with a a career before them, or perhaps of impossible to believe that the rather to enjoy himself"; there stood the to-wear suit, will not regret it. And dowdy-looking Turkish schoolgirls divan on which he reclined, drank if it is obfected that these changes young man in a felt hat and ready- who filed past us in the street, a little wine, and looked at beauti- have been effected brusquely and New Chinese Project. walking two and two as in a board-ful ladies who danced before him." The Ministry of Finance has furnish romance enough to last for thus described, but he was eager to gradually by the people's choice, ons ger of the Pak Hang Steamship ing school at Eastbourne, could ever It sounded a harmless diversion, by force from above, instead of Chan Ta'o-hang, former mang- elegraphed the provincial aus Thousand and One Nights. But add that such things only happen- seed in this only another facet of Company, and other concerns, orities requesting them to es what is the use of imagination If it ed when Turkish women were still the eternal problem that faces us who died at his Hong Kong real blish schools for the training cannot help us to find romance In slaves, wearing the veil and enclos when we find more practical pro-dence last Wednesday, took place Anancial experts. The report the Constantinople that remains, ined in the harem. "Now," he con de that the government will all that is left now that the veil cinded proudly, "our women are emanating from a Communist-dic-dred relatives and friends. fol- posals for International parce yesterday when over four hun- aploy graduates of these schools and the fez are gone-perhaps free, and we are all equal."
handle financial administra because they are gone?
on in the various districts.
ANCIENT REMAINS IN ARAL SEA
Sultan's In All Their Glory
The real answer to this question
Dictated Emancipation
It is not only the tourist who
Tribute Paid To Late Mr. B. L. Kotewall, C.M.G.
Lo Cheung-Shiu,
GOVERNOR REPRESENTED
Among the leading members of. the Chinese community who called to pay their respecta were noted the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chan, Mr. Lad Ping- chat and Directora of the Tung Web
tatorship than from a National lowed the coffin to the water A memorial service to the late Mr. Hospital, Mr. Ng Wah and Direc Government elected by the people front where it was placed on a La Cheung shlu, who died on June tors of the Po Leung Kuk, Mr. Yau-- But when you have only one day to river steamer for burial in his 80 at his residance m No. 82 Con taun, C.B.E. Mr. Lek Ol-wan, Chair- re- you do not waste it in, spec
apend in a golden city of dreama
native country.
The deceased is survived by The late Mr. Lo Chaun
dult Road, was held yesterday man, and members of the South is wife and three so Meser the father of the well known, local Koni-tong, O.B.B., Mr. Kwok Slu was China Athletic Association, Mr. Ho solicitors Messrs. M. K. Lo, M. W. lag, Mr. Ken Tung-po, Mr. Ip Lan- Lo and Horace Lo, and Mr. M. H. chuen, Mr. Tom Woon-tong, Mr.
Tang Bhlu-kin, M.B.E Mr. Li Hol Captain B. F. Walter, A.D.C. to tung, Mr Ngan Shlag-kwan, Mr. Ho HEThe Governor, representing Ngok-lau, Mr. Thomas N. Tam, Mr. His Excellancy, attended in full uni Ho Wing, Mr. Hang-Taze-leung, Mr. form in the company of the Hon. Shi Yu-man and numerous other Sir Shouson Chow and the Hon. Mr. latives and friends.
older right thing by the giving to fail to get it
is that if imagination fails us at greta the veil and the fez. The whether it is better this crials there will soon be no same romance anywhere. There is enough people are much op paleozoological expedition of of the past left in Istanbul to feed
SR Academy of Selenes the imagination still, as we found, To
nese symbols ared numerous remains following our guide through the is historic vertebrates: the ramifications and splendours of the decry
shore of the Peroy Bay Sultan's old palace and har
How, espec after centuries of horrid mystery, with
the old order ment of constitutiona
dictatorship do sa.I do, buy your onable it delight from the
Chan
Chan Ying-i
service
Sin
and and forget that your
supplied you with;
Mr. Teo Tauz
st half the price: