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.
14th September, 1984, Friday,
-...
PARADE
Corps 1st Battery
The Battery will parade
MR. LL. GEORGE AND
WAR MENACE
Building
With One
Hand On The Sword
STATESMAN'S APPEAL ¦
Mr. Lloyd George made a power- at ful uppeal for the reconciliation
Headquarters on Thursday, 20th of patriotism and peace when he September at 530 p.m. for strection on 6-inch Gun.
Corps Engineers
In-delivered his presidential address
Parade Miniature lange on Monday, 17th September at 5,30
P...
Corps Signals
at the Welsh National Elsteddfod at Neath,
Had we seen the last of these devastating frenzie called war? he asked. He saw the light at the end of the tunnel-but we ware at travelling in the shadows of
Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 overhanging precipices. The light p.m. on Tuesday, 18th September of peace was not yet shining on for Signal Instruction.
Corps Machine Gun Battalion Armoured Car and Motor Cycle Section
Car Section:-
the permanent way of nationa:
We had wars and rumours of
war, and, worst of all, we hail pre- parations for more destructive wars than the world had yet seen.
Monday, 17th September-5.30 These preparations were growing
p.m.
Parade
each year. Everyone was afraid
Headquarters for of war, and everyone was prepar-
Machine Gan Instruction, and ing for it, Classification Tesis.
Wednesday, 19th September:--
Parade at Miniature Range for
Musketry Instruction.
CHANGE OF CLOTHING
Nations were spending £1,000,- |000,000 each year on the forging of weapons for human slaughter
and training for the most effec- tive use of them. Women and;
All ranks are reminded that children were now to be included applications for new Kil. must be in the sacrifice.
the British made on Mondays, 17th and 24th The last thing respectively. All applications to Parliament did was to approve of be accompanied by the urticle re- spending an additional £25,000,000 on the most horrible of all des- quiring changing.
PARADES
tructive machines. Patriotism In all lands, All ranks are requested to make had lost its reason special efforts to attend all and was raging and raging with
IN
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934.
Armed police were ordered on duty in New Orleans, La., recently by Mayor T. Semmes Walm- sley to resist a reported attempt of Senator Huey P. Long and his State administration followers to nelze the police headquarters with National Guardsmen' mobolized by Gov. O. K. Allen to guard the city during the congressional elections. Top, crowds about the new Orleans registration office after the troops had seized the registration records at the order of the Governor; below, soldiers guarding the registration office. Mayer Walmsley is a bitter foe of Senator Long.
purites before Camp in order suspicion and downright fear of BELT OF TREES FROM Boy Genius Saved From Colliery
hall Classification. Tests may the very evils they were helping be completed before that date.
No. 1 (M. G.) Company
to creale.
CANADA TO TEXAS
Rule Of Child Mind To-day
"Adolescent Make-Up”.
Of Politicians
CAUSE OF WAR TALK
out a murmur, but his father used to scream the house down,
-"You can say what you like about the younger generation of mothers, but they certainly know how to The world to-day is ruled by child bring up their children, and they minds, according to Dr. Elizabeth take the trouble to learn all they Sloan Chesser, who told the Now can about the subject," Health Society's Summer School, at
In a discussion on diet Dr. Slozn Malvern, that was why there was Chesser described as "rich man's
so much war talk.
"Rich Man's Rickets
rickets" the symptoms which sho "Unfortunately," she said, “politi-asserted were prevalent in British jolana do not know any paychology, public schools, -,
Many of them have the psychologi- "Because of our ignorance of cal make-up of an adolescent rather food to-day rickets is to some extent than of the adult, sane, normal man the heritage of every child in the for woman.
land," she sold. "Rich man's
"Very few so-called normal adults rickets! You see the stigmata, if have reached the age of more than you have eyes to see, in every public sixteen to seventeen from a psycho-school in the United Kingdom. logical point of view. That is what Not only physical rickets, but those makes so many people difficult in twists and weaknesses of the mlad, the home. That is why so many those lazinesses, that spineless, people are always wanting to know helpless, fearful attitude to life what life will give them. They are which we might call psychical not properly grown up. An adult rickets." person should be concerned with People in middle life simply what he can give to life."
allowed themselves to get ugly. Jobese and lazy, whereas if the laws of health and hygiene were better Saying that the modern study at understood and obeyed we should be infantile behaviour was not 80 In our prime at sixty. modern as many people thought, Dr. Sloan Chesser added:
Huxley And The Baby
The idea that it was wrong to drink with meals was contradicted
Personal Pars
Architects In
the
"A daughter of, the late Profes. by Dr. J. Neil Leitch, of the Lon- sor Huxley told me how cross heridon School of Dietetics, who said mother was one day when, hearing unless the stomach were unsound the crying of a six-months-old baby, it was good to drink, with meals if she went upstairs to the nursery one wished to. But If,one had not and found Professor Huxley holding been used to drinking enough water the baby while Darwin was pricking the effect might be disturbing at it with a pin and recording Its first. reactions to pain on a. piece of paper.
"Then they gave the baby somej Isugar and recorded its reactions to...
The name of Mr. Hugh Braga Eisteddfod Violinist genius, but I could not have con-pleasure."
tinued with his training without the Dr. Sloan Chesser paid a warm has been added to the list of Aged 12 Years
help of Rev. T. Rees, vicar of tribute to the married young woman Authorised
Colony. Blaengwyfi, a fine violinist Himself. of to-day. APPEAL MADE TO WALES. [After hearing the boy play, he said: "Some of the young mothers in
He is so brilliant that I will teach the twenties," she said, "bring up] Among the passengers for Hong An appeal to the Welsh nation to him for nothing." Without the their children a great deal better Kong on the N.Y.K. B.S. Fushimi aave a boy prodigy, a twelve-year-vicar my boy would have had to that the mothers of my generation Maru, which arrived here yesterday Unfortunately, to-day the right
old violinist, from going to work in follow me into the pit when he left did. I have a small grandchild of were Mr. George F. Little and An interesting scheme to pre- the pit was made by Sir William school"
three, and he is brought up much Mrs. Mildred E. Little, from-Yoko- No. 3 (ANZAC) Company. hand was on the sword. More than
The Eisteddfod has been a better than his father was.
hams. Mr. H. U. Wilkinson and Parade at Headquarters at 5.80 one half of our enormous national vent the Middle West from be- Jenkins, M.P. for Neath, at the end
a second Sahara of the National Eisteddfod at Neath success, financially as well as musi. "He has such charming, manners. Mrs. L C. Wilkinson, from Naga- p.r. on Monday. 17th September revenue went to pay for past wars coming in time
cally. It has been attended by He kisses me good-night when he saki, and Mr. and Mrs. 0. 0. for 1st Test in connection with and to prepare for future wars, has just been launched. A forest on Aug. 11.
The boy, Granville Avid Jones, nearly 180,000 people.
goes to bed, and goes to sleep with-Womack, from Moji, Japan. Schedule B of the Machine Gun and the essential human services belt 100 miles wide and more than
1,000 miles long will be planted the son of an unemployed collier, | Proficiency Classification.
from the Canadian border to of Cymmer, near Port Talbot, had beaten rivals of his own age in the
A great rebuilding task awaited Parade on Friday, 21st Septem-patriotism in all lands. Devastat-
ed and distressed areas needed £15,000,000 To Be Spent her at 5.30 p.m.
Dress Mufti. Recapitulation restoring. But restoration could To Fight Desert
only be accomplished if we for Test in Syllabus "E".
Company Dinner will he held at voted the whole of our mind and Headquarters on Friday, 28th strength to it, putting two hands to the task and not having one September at 8 p.m.
hand on the sword.
Dress: Cap Tunic, Slacks and
Belt (repeated).
on
were atarved.
Rifle practice will be held in the Miniature Range Thursday, gunter Mansions), 20th September at 5.30 p.m.
Plumes will no longer form part of the Company's Uniform and are to be discarded forthwith.
Corps Infantry (Portuguese) Parade on September, 18th at 5.30 p.m.
Refer to details appearing in Corps Orders No. 36/34 of 7th September, 1934..
RANGE ALLOTMENT Kennedy Road Range is allotted to the Armoured Company on Monday, 17th September, 1934.
PROMOTION
No. 1297, Lance Corporal J. S. Flegg. Corps Headquarters, is promoted to Corporal with effect from 14th September, 1984.
de-
PLANTING 1,000 MILES OF FORESTS
Texas.
Washington.
Mias J. Langley, (6, Ning Yeung
This backbone of trees will junior contest, and then in an open check the wind which carries competition went on to excel 23 Terrace, Bonham Road).
vio- Miss V. Langley (6, Ning Yeung away the soil of the farm lands adulta, some of whom were Terrace, Bonham Road).
and will trap the moisture, lack linists before he was born, Mrs. D. Lamb-Gasper, (G, Ken-of which is already causing an Finally he secured the $150 jexodus of the farming population | scholarship tenable at a musical nedy Road).
Mrs. A. C. Lamb-Gasper, (6, in many parts of this area. training college, which was offered The trouble in the Great Plains at the Eisteddfod for the first time, Kennedy Road).
Mrs. E. J. R. Mitchell, (Shek O). is man-made. Before the frat but the money is sufficient only for Mrs. D. W. Morclock, (6, Ken-settler broke the soil the winde one year's training... nedy Road)..
Mrs. E. Stewart, (St. Paul's lege Hostel, H. K.)
Mrs. F H. E. Skyrme, (16, donnell Road)...
Mrs. J. P. Whitham, Shek 0.) Miss M. Whitham, (Shek 0.)
APPOINTMENT
did no damage. The soil was held Sir William, in his appeal, said:} Col-jfirmly in place by the grass roots "Unless We do something this!
and moisture was likewise retain-genius will go into the pit and his Mac-ed. Now the ploughed soil, bare musician's hands will be defiled by of vegetation in the spring,, is pick and shovel. To ensure his dried and swept away. Jands future four or five years' training closely grazed offer little better are necessary, and I have assured resistance. At times wheat crops the Eisteddfod committee that I
blown out Is appointed have been
of the personally will see that the boy gets Commandant, St. John Nursing ground and traffic held up by his training. There are sufficient Detachment (H.K.V.D.C.) with ef- dust storms in country towns. music-lovers and patriots in Wales Corps Order No. 4 of 35/84 fect from 1st September, 1984. When hardened subsoil is ex-to help me, and I am asking them
OFFICER, APPOINTMENT-
AMENDMENT
dated 1st August, 1934 is can-
pany.
LEAVE
Mrs. J. Durran
LECTURE
posed Instead of sand the rain is to send subscriptions to me." celled. Lieut. E. G. Stewart will There will be a lecture in Home no longer held and the water! The boy was cheered by the
Com-Nursing at Volunteer. Readquar-rushes off.
audience of 17,000, and kis hand" continue duty with No. 1
ters (Lecture Room) at 6 pm. on
Suited To Climate was so often shaken by admirersį Monday, 17th September, 1934. The wall of 3,500,000,000 trees that it became too awollen for him R.S.M., W. II. Edmonds, Head-This is primarily intended for which the President proposes to to play as usual in the Cymmer quarters, granted 21 days leave as those members who have already plant down the centre of the Baptist, Chapel. from 18th September to 8th Octo-received past instruction but have United States will consist of His father said that they were. not yer qualifted: any others who about 100 parallel windbreaks, so poor they had at first to borrow wish to attend may do so, one mile apart. The trees plant-a violin for the boy to practice. with.
ber, 1934.
STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH Over Three Years Service
No. 505, Cpl. R. A. Wadeson. Re- serve Company, "B" Section, as
from 1st September, 1924.
ST. JOHN NURSING DETACHMENT
ENROLMENTS:--,
11th September, 1984;
Miss E. Aris, c/o Dodwell & Co., *Ltd.
A practice in Home Nursingled will be suited to the climate."Experts assured me that he was a (Bed-making) for those members Shrubs will be planted on the out- who have qualified in Hong Kong side rows of windbreaks Nursing will be held at the same To overcome the difficulty of place and time.
targetting the trees started owing to LORD TRENCHARD'S |LUCTURE ·ROQM-ALLOTMENT the lack of water and condition NURSING DETACHMENT:- of the soil, a chain of nurseries
DOG FOILS THIEF
Monday, 17th September, 1934. has been established, in which the "Robert" On Night Duty
* STRENGTH
No. 2191 Private J. 0. Sequeira, Mrs. F. M, Bacci, (4A, Village No. 9 Platoon 6.8.34. Road, Happy Valley..
No. 2192 Private E. A. M. Alves, Mrs. S. D. Begg, (530, Nathan No. 11 Platoon. 7.34. ( Road, Kowloon).
trees will be tended until large; enough, to survive,"
The utimate cost of the project
Makes Discovery
is expected to be $75,000,000 Robert, a Labrador dog-be (about $15,000,000). More than longing to Lord Trenchard, foil-
No. 2193 Private J. R. Canning, 90. per cent. of this will go to the ed a would-be burglar, who tried farmers in the near-by territory, to raid the Metropolitan Police
All the troparing the Hill, Barnet. Herts.
will
Miss V Blackburn, (Helena M. G. E. (Sg:):7,9.34. May Institute, Garden Road). No. 2195 Private P. J. I. Nep-who will be hired to do the work Commissioner's home at Dancer's
Mrs. D. B. Butler, (8, Condult bronner, M. G. Ba. (Sig:) 7.9.54, of planting and pre Road),
No, 2196 Private" G; E. K. Roÿ-land." "All the strips
Lord Trenchard was on, holl- Miss S. M. Baskott, (3, Basileq, lance, M. G. En. 7.9.34.2 fenced against cattle, which will day at Monybule, a hamlet inf Lyttleton Road, H. K),
No, 2197 Private L. A. Sanh, provide more work. A sum of Kircudbrightshire Robert was
$15,000,000 €3,000,000) has been at home on duty.
Mrs. E. B. Brasier-Creagh, M. G. Nn. (No. 1 Co) 7.9.84. (Peak Hotel);
No. 2198 Private W. J. Dyer M. allotted out of drought relief – In the middle of the nighti Miss C Briggs, (4, Broadwood G. Bn. (No. 1 Co) 7.9.84. funds for work this year. Road).
No. 2199 Frivate A. J. Sequeira, Miss Bonnell, (Helena May In-No. 9 Platoon 8.9.8445
dashing, Into some bushes
atitute, Garden Road), A No. 2200 Private H. A. Samuel, the house chased out a man wh
Miss J. M. L Dowbiggin, (Sher Battery 10.9.34.
No. 2201 Private EM. Sequelra Miss I, Dunsford (e/o, Lloyd No. 9 Platoon. 11.9.84 Treatino Navigation Co.; Nó: 2202 Private L Sequeira
|No. 9 Platoo
~ Miss G. Fera, (7, - Hemplroy'a
"Avenue, Kowloon).
My A. W. Hayward, (6%
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8d. P. B. M. WILKINSON, Captain. Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corp
been hiding there
the alarm was at once given, ind-the police in cars bastened the house With torches the icers searched the grounds, hes, and other likely hiding but the man had escaped
Robert, who has been trained to guard the house, heard a noise tside, and barked until women embers of the staff came doy
that was wax
WE
CELEBRATE
OUR
FIRST
ANNIVERSARY TO-DAY
By providing special com- memoration menus on our Mezzanine Cafe from 15th to 17th September, a FREE Commemoration Coupon for Lunch or Dinner will be issued to-day to our cus- tomers for every $10's worth
of their purchases.
bottle of KWONG SANG HONG'S
perfume will be given FREE for
every dollars worth of purchases up to $10.
CHINA EMPORIUM, LTD.