THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE
H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
CHEUNG CHAU NOTES
ORDERS FOR THE
COMING WEEK
Orders by Lieut-Colonel H. B L. Dowbiggin OBE Comman-
Future "Brighton Of dant. Hong Kong Volunteer De
Hong Kong?
-LARGE INFLUX OF VISITORS
Hence Corps
Hong Kong. Friday, 14th June 1985.
GENERAL
His Excellenty the Officer Ad- Cheung Chan, To-day-ministering the Government has Judging from the crowds who been pleased to appoint the follow- Blocks over on.public and other holi-ing Officers to be his. Honorary days, Cheung Chau promises soon Aides-de-Camps, with effect from to become the "Brighton" of Hong the 6th June, 1935: Kong. The early ferry on Monday! brought, a party of soldiers, whoffard Moatrie. « spent the day at the home of Dr. and
Second
Lient Geoffrey Clif-
Second Lieutenant Henriqne`Al-
Mrs. Clift. Mrs. Clift is leaving for herto de Barros Botelho. England on Saturday to join her
RANGE TAKING CLASS
husband. We wish her a pleasant The Range Taking Class will trip
5.30 parade at Headquarters at Another party of Roman Catholic Sisters and scholars came later, and on Tuesday, 18th June, 1935 to proceed to Kennedy Road Range for instruction in Range Taking evening ferry was parked to capainder a N.CO. from the 1st Bn city, and some of those travelling The Lincolnshire Regiment. by it could not obtain seats.
a contingent for house No. 12. The
Simmer Visitors
MACHINE GUN COMPETITION—
STAGE II
ORDER OF FIRING 1st-Motor Machine Gun Sec-
The stammer visitors have began to arrive. Dr. and Mrs. Hayes are down for a short stay, and they are coming again in August. The Bev. tion-B Team.
and Mrs. E. S. Burket arrived from? 24-Motor Machine Gun Sec- Swatow yesterday, and are at Notion-A Team.
3rd-M. G. Troop. 13. No. 20 is also occupied, while boises Nos. 4, 9 and 10 have been 4th-No. 1 -ocespied for some weeks by men-E. Team bers of the Signalling Corps.
(MG). Company-
Sth-No. 1 (M.G.). Company~~
A very heavy thunderstorm raged C Team. this morning, and it is curious to 6th-No. 1 CMG) Company- remember that just at the time the D Team. - ferry was leaving two years ago "to date, one of the houses was struck A Team by lightning and badly, holed.
NEW ASSOCIATION ROOMS OPENED
For Australian And New: Zealand Residents
7th-No. 1 (M.G) Company-
8th-No. 2 (Scottish) Company.
RIFLES AND BAYONETS All Rifes and Bayonets must be returned to Store at once for An- amal Inspection by the Armourer.
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PARADE
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Mina Amelia Earhart, the famous American airwoman, who has the unique distinction of being the only woman to have fewn the Pacife from California. to Honolulu and back, is shown, being gally garlanded by a young admirer in Honolain.
ALLEGED FORGERY.
OF TICKETS
Second Kowloon Bus Company Case
FIVE EX-CONDUCTORS CHARGED
ALLEGED COINERS
CAUGHT
Kowloon City Raid
FOUR CHINESE ARRESTED AND MATERIALS SEIZED
BENTLEY UNCANNILY QUIET & EFFORTLESS
At Top Speed Never Better
CRITIC'S GENUINE-SURPRISE
I have driven silent cars and 3) have driven cars of high speed, and vivid acceleration: until recently did not know that a car of such performance as the Bentley could be
sa macannily quiet and effortless að the time, writes a Home correspon- dent,
bayra
The first reaction on taking over fina London street was surprise that the car should be so utterly Jaimple to control, dead, "silent on second and third as on top, and willing to glide along among the beavy traffic as sedately as a Rolls- Royce
+..
Out on the open road the frat impression is a slight dimppoint- mar, until one notes the speedo meter reading. There is "sporta
|performance · all right; but with nome of its usual, I would once have said inevitable.accompaniments. To move along the road at those. speeds with no feeling a bit of breathless haste, but with, Instead, the asamance of complete mastery is as exhilarating as it is unusual.
There has just been added to the Bentley a new system of Culvery controlled shock absorber adjust- ments designed to cope with the - varying demands of varying loads!
and speeds Springing of such a (car must always be a compromise. apparently. At top speed the Bent- ley could not have been better
Four Chinese were charged” be-i
fore Mr. Thomson at the Kowloon ENDURANCE TESTS ON
afternoon
A second case of alleged for-Magistracy yesterday gery of Kowloon Motor Bus Com-with, (2) counterfeiting Hong Kong
LUCAS LAMPS pany's tickets came before Mr. E. silver dollars and ten cent pieces; L Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon (b) possession of moulds for coin- Corps Engineers
five ing, and (c) possession of counter-
Equivalent To Years Magistracy" "gesterday, when Parade at Miniature Range at Chinese ex-conductors appeared on feit coins.
Of Service 15.30 pm. on Monday, 17th June, various charges of embezzlement The defendants were Teang Fing!
1935.
defrauding and uttering of forged alias Yering Hon-lee. Tsang Ming
Endurance testing, where all The opening of the Association
Corps Signals
tickets. The five were:-
alias Tsang Hop-wing, Wan Cheung types of automobile electrical equip "Rooms of the Australian and New Parade at Corps Headquarters atļ Tang Koon-wah, 25 years of and Tsan Chuen Tsang Ming, the ment are run
under the "most "Zerind Association in the Glouces-15.30 pan on:—
age, ex-conductor, charged with second accused, was represented by arduous conditions to destruction, In-hating, on April 10, (a) embezzled Mr. Hin-shing Lo instructed by Mr-has been brought to a fine att at
ten cents from the Kowloon Motor M. A da Silva.”:
the works of Joseph Incas, Ltd, atļ Bus Company,
Detective Sub-Inspector Canning Birmingham (b) uttered
The tests carried forged ticket and (c) defrauded ham, who appeared for the prosecu-out enable observations to be made the Kowloon Motor Bus Company. tion, stated on May 30 under in on what is equivalent to years of Fung Hap alias Fung Chan, 22struction, stated on May 30 under strenuous road service in the course) years of age, ex-conductor, on instructions received from the Chief of days. Observations are made similar charges to first defendant. Detective Inspector, he went with systematically, and the causes of
Lau Cheuk alias Lan Kwan, 26 Detective Sergeant Goodwin and a breakdown carefully analysed. years of age, ex-conductor, charg-party of detectives to No. 10 Taku-
Take, for instance, a test
*ter Building yesterday afternoon Tuesday.-18.6.35 for Signal
was attended by a large section of struction.
the local. Australian and New Zra- Thursday.-20.6.35 for Drill Tand community.
Dr. H. D. Matthews, the Presi- | -dent of the Association. before fasking his wife to declare the rooms)
struction.
Machine Gun Battalion:-
Troop
Machine Gun Competition, Part -open, said in part: "Ladies and L-The following will parade at --Gentlemen: First of all I would Volunteer Headquarters at 645 like to say how very glad we are fam. on Sunday, 16th June, 1935. to see so many here this afternoon: I think that to-day is a most -momentous one for the Australian
and New Zealand Association in) Hong Kong and South China, for at last we have at our disposal roomsį where we can offer hospitality to 5.30 p.m. at Causeway Bay Stable our friends, both *Colony and those passing through.
Sergt. Ferguson, Trps, King A/Cpl. Field, Trps. Nigel L/CPL Cumming. Trps. Gregory L/Cpl. Robertson. Dress Shirt sleeve order. Parade on Tuesday, 18th June at
ed with uttering a forged ticketling Road, second floor, Kowloon starting motors. Two starters are
Wong Shui-ping ала Tsang City, where a raid was conducted.
mounted so that their pinions en- Yeung both charged with embez-
Details of the raid and seizure of gage with the flywheel of an engine. zlement, uttering forged tickets materials was then given, Mr Ar Automatic switching is arranged thur Jackson, Acting Government so that each starter operates about and defrauding the Company.
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, of Hastings Analyst, also testifying as to the four times a minute. This means in and Company, appeared for the metal and other objects taken. a 24-hour day, more than 5,000 The hearing was adjourned till starts possibly more than a year's prosecution, while Mr. D. L. Strel- Parade on Monday, 17th Jane atlett, of Hall Brutton and Company, 2.30 p.m. on Monday.
ordinary road service. Even so, "As it was not desirable to keep 5.30 p.m. at Volunteer Headquar represented four of the defen-
the conditions are made much more you all. standing in the corridor ter for Revolver practice 2 dants.
strenuous than would be experienced -while a tape was cut to show that Kennedy Road Range. Belts must Mr. Brooks opened the case
fin road service. For example, the the rooms were opened, we decided be brought.
voltage at which a starter motor operates is higher than is obtained
resident in the
Árisoured Car Section “
that the best way was to unfurl the Motor Machine Gun Section Australian and New Zealand flags. Machine Gom
Competition.
against Tsang Yeung. After evi- dence had been given of the dis- covery of the forgery, the case on Sun-Wednesday.
I now have great pleasure in ask-Members of teams will parade at was adjourned to 230 pm, on ́inx my wife to open these rooms by Volunteer Headquarters "breaking the flags.”
Mrs. Matthews then performed the opening ceremony amid ap- -plause from those present.
NEW CHRYSLER CARS
Streamlining With
Less Surprise
“AIRGLIDE" MODELS
Chrysler cars created something of a stir last year by their "stream- “lized” radiators and" "front wings..
day, 16th June at 6.45 am- in readiness to move off to Shek O.
Dress:--Helmet, Jacket, Shorts, Puttees, Boots and Belt, -
Wednesday, 19th June 1935-- Riding parade.
M. B. En, Signal Unit · Sunday, 16th June-M G Competition At Shek O`1⁄2? The following men will parade at Volunteer Headquarters at 7 am as instructed.
AFFILIATED UNITS Narsing Detachment, HKV.D. Corps RESIGNATION
Mrs. M. M. Behague as from 31535 (left the Colony).
......."(Sgd.) M. M. MELLOR.
Acting Commandant, Nursing Detachment, HKVDC/
2nd STAGE
Signallers Cole, Hirst, Whitley, MACHINE GUN COMPETITION- Thompson Sommers, Gaubert, Rathmell
Uniform Shorts, Puttees, Helmet, Webbing, Belt etc.
The shoot at Island Ray on Sun
Saun day 16th June, 1935 will take place notwithstanding the stage of
Transportation-Signal lorry. Wednesday, 19th June, 1935.
the weather
NOTICE
ANNUAL SWIMMING SPORTS The Annual Corps Swimming
STARTING THE ENGINE
"Idling
Induces Wear Of Cylinders
شست
on a car, so that the rapid accelera
tion of the pinion makes the en- gagement with the flywheel more ⚫ severe than is obtained in service.
Another example is the horn
Samples
There is considerable difference of opinion among motorists as to endurance test. “wazming up an engine when mounted in sound-proof homes and first starting up. Some motorists are arranged to give 24 blasts of start their engines and leave them one second duration per minute running for several minutes before continously. These tests are re- king the car out on the road corded graphically and the time of There is something to be said for failure is automatically recorded on this practice in cold weather, for a chart cold engine should not be put im- merlistely under load; but in warm weather it is unnecessary to keep
an engine running for my length DRIVERS WHO DO NOT
of time before driving away.
giving them a highly unconven- Unit will parade for Signal In tional appearance. A range of new struction. After parade there will models, displayed at the New York be a meeting of Sports Committer Sports will be held at the Victoria It may therefore, be "show last month, were recently ex- Signaller Carr will return his Recreation Club on Saturday, 27th
hibited for the first time in England Box Respirator immediately.
at the Kingsway Hall, KingBWRY-
modala
APPOINTMENT
Recent investigations in regard to cylinder and piston wear reveal- ed that cylinder wear occurs much are rapidly at low temperatures than at a normal running tempera
sumed that prolonged raming with lan engine “idling" induces cylind
As a general guide, 23 as the engine is running evenly first starting-up, driven out, alth imply the the Lecture Room, HEV.D.Cedia
July, 1935.-
Farther details will be published The cars are six and eight-cylin No. 1697, Signaller K. S. Mehal, in mbsequent Corps Ordezza der machines, ranging from 20 to Corps Signals, is appointed Lance Mámeeting of the Swimming. 40 hp and from £289 to £725 in Corporal with effect from - 14th Sports Committee will be held in
price, The "airflow," or more June, 1935. frigorously streamlined.
have wnew style of radiator ed to be less surprising in ance without loss of str They also boast the new drive” gest-buz which, as
cently in The Daily
omatically gives a
or “high” top
elense
Other mo
ng BANGE ALLOTMENT Headquarters, on Tuesday, 18th
Kennedy Road Range-17th June, 1935 at 5:30 pm. June, 1935-Armoured Car Section.
LEAVE
over No. 2071, Tpr.-P. H. Cole, M.-G.
Troop, granted three weeks leave WOMEN FOR HENTSIN BUREAU as from 14645 to 4.7.35,-
STRENGTHS
No. 2357, Arumpeter V. ROMI-
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No 2368, Private, V. A
Corps Int
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