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THE CHINA MAE, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936
The China Mail Ninety-first Year of Publication.
SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 2002.
London Office:
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ST. JOHN'S BRIGADE Here
Annual Inspection By
The Governor
There
and Everywhere
ITALY 1916—1936
OIL SUPPLIES FOR ITALY
EFFECTS OF EMBARGO
ON ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
A distinguished neutral obserWOULD UNDOUBTEDLY DISLOCATE
ECONOMIC LIFE IN ITALY
(By E. H. Davenport)
oi
FIRST AID DEMONSTRATION
7. Garrick Street, London, W.C2
An imposing parade was wit- messed ou the Naval Recreation Notice To Contributors.
Ground at. Causeway Bay yester- All communications intended for day afternoon when His Excellency publication should be addressed to the Governor, Sir Andrew Calde ver who has just returned to Eng the Editor, and be accompanied by cott, carried out the annual inland from Eritrea, had the experi the Writer's Name and Address spection of the St. John Ambulence of serving in the Great War not necessarily for insertion, but lance Brigade.
with French, British and Italian ax a guarantee of good faith.
Looking very smart on parade troops. jevery unit turned up in force, and He went to Eritrea some months |
LIVERY warlike machine,compelled every mineral was watched by ago with one object to compare the ceremony thousands of spectators who used the Italian troops of 1935 with
mores on DH. Warships trader in Italy to maintain a re- bura fuel oil under their boilers:]serve stock of 70 per cent of every vantage point near the those of 1916, and to ascertain submarines use. diesel oil in his storage capacity. In Eri- grounds.
whether Signor Mussolini had suc-diesel engines for surface work; trea, I am told, the bulk storage The officers of the Corps were ceeded in creating an array cap-seaplanes, aeroplanes and air-only consists of two old tankers, under Mr. A. Morris. Punctually on able of serving his ambitions."
ships use oil.
holding about 10,000 tons, an- The mechanised modern army chored at Massawa lives and moves upon the in- In 1934 Italy's consumption of petrol was approximately ternal combustion engine.
For the Italians, in the battle 500,000 tans, of which roughly for Abyssinia, perhaps petrol 350,000 tons was imported and has been more necessary than the remaining 150,000 tons was blood. It is estimated-from obtained from the cracking and
One Year
6 Months
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Hong Kong. Friday, March 20, 1936.5 p.m. His Excellency arrived on
The Empress Of Britain
the ground, accompanied by the A NEW TENTH LEGION Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington and
Capt. W. J. E. Cragg, and was Concentrating his inspection on met by Mr. A. Morris, the Com- such essentials as health, spirit, missioner, and other senior of-discipline and leadership, he finds His Excel-that the Duce has created a new To-day we welcome, on her ficers of the Corps. fifth world-cruise, the liner lency's arrival was greeted by a Tenth Legion. Empress of Britain, carrying Royal Salute, during which the He is particularly impressed by figures officially given for the 11 refining of imported fuel and months ending November that crude oil. During the first mortals who first bars of the National Anthem the physique of the Italian troops-about 100,000 tons of petrol, out nine months of 1935, according some 450 lucky
The discipline, he says, is ex of a total of 160,000 tons for to the official returns, imports are making a tour of the globe was played by the Corps. Band.
After being introduced to mem-cellent, stricter than French dis-all ails, have been imported into of petrol increased by 50,000, under conditions which, a few years ago, had hardly been bers of the Finance Committee cipline, more paternal than Bri- Italian colonies in East Africa tons, while imports of crude and dreamed of. The term "float-and Vice-Patrons, His Excellency tish. All hardships are shared by in 1935.
fuel oils. capable of yielding officers, non-commissioned officers ing hotel" is a trite one to-day; inspected the divisions.
'The Petroleum Press Bureau, further supplies of petrol.. in- it has been used already for The gathering was then treated and men alike.
in its weekly survey for Jan-creased by 118.000 tons. The There have been no courts-mar-uary 17, quite a number of years: and, to a fine display of first aid work.
puts the petrol re-equivalent in petrol of these ex- as on shore, there are hotels Every division on parade took tial and punishments are few. An quirements of the Italian armies tra crude and fuel oil imports. and hotels.
demonstrating some example was the degradation of a in Abyssinia at 20,000 tons may be put at 41.000 tons. The Empress of Britain is thing different from the others, a corporal for not carrying a knap month during the most active These extra imports would, something more than a mere high standard
being sack with his men.
periods. Twenty thousand tons on the basis of a full year, be floating hotel, comparable with maintained throughout. The gas-
a month (when it is not rain-equivalent to an addition of COLONIAL the finest hotels to be found the masks worn by the Nursing Divi- BEST COLONIAL TROOPS
ing) is small as compared with about 1250,000 tons to Italy's world over; it partakes also ofision particularly interested the
our petrol consumption in the stocks of petrol. But even this Health casualties have been re Great War, or with the peace-figure has to be increased, be the nature of a very select club, crowds.
markably few. The medical or time consumption of petrol in cause the official returns do not ganisation is excellent, the food
include the imports of the Ita- Great Britain well cooked and punctually pro-|
But it is quite a large con-lian Admiralty. - jvided.
Bunker Fuel sumption for Italy, whose peace- There is a prodigious use of le-time domestic consumption is
and all water drunk is about 40,000 tons a month. mons, liberally dosed with lemon juice..
part, each
of work
with all the amenities that the Chapter General Awards word connotes. She is the last At the end of the display the word in comfort combined with divisions formed a hollow square sober luxury; no other ship near His Excellency, who distri- affcat can surpass her for the buted several Chapter General exquisite taste and artistry dis-Awards. The recipients were:
L
mination and courage which this
-
I have obtained an estimate of the imports of bunker fuel, played in all her interior fit- Corps Officer Leung Shui-sang.There are elaborate arrangements
Three Methods
which include the Admiralty tings and decorations; not a Corps Officers Chan Yuk-in, Corps for baths.
As Italy has to import prac-imports.
This estimate sug- single garish note can be found Officer Szeto Chung and Ambu-
But it is the new spirit of deter-tically every ton of oil she con-gests that an addition of about to jar the perfect, quiet har-lance Officer Fung Oi-shun, who
sumes, it is important to see 75,000 tons of petrol should be mony of the colour-scheme; she were presented with Long Service observer änds most impressive. It supply of oil for the Abyssinian returns, bringing the total pe how she built up a sufficient made to the officially-disclosed still remains the luxury-ship of Bars; Superintendent A. H. Rum- lis his definite conclusion .that, the world.
jaha and Superintendent U Kai-whatever their value in a Euro-
campaign.
trol reserves accumulated last She used three methods: year up to 200,000 tons. It was a happy thought on sheung, who were awarded Long
pean war, the Italian troops and first, she imported additional Actually, Italy must have the part of someone, whose Service Medals.
the Italian workmen to-day are supplies of oil from abroad, se built up even bigger petrol re- name is not recorded, to employ His Excellency also handed out better fitted for colonial warfare condly, she forced economics on serves than 200,000 tons, for it many of the great liners, that the following trophies:-
than any other army in the world-her civilian population; thirdly, is well known that her dores- could not be made to pay on a Ralphs Shield (Efficiency
---Shaukiwan Division.
she encouraged substitutes for ic consumption has been dras- regular schedule, as pleasure-Award).
Your Daily Smile! oil at home.
tically cut during the last few cruisers. The initial experi- Savage Memorial Cup (runners:
months. ments proved so successful that up). - South China Athletic Di- for some years past many well-vision. known ships have been regular- Mok Cho Chuen Cup (Best this is that Ethiopian guerilla war-zay: "Which is your luckiest, day be. economising from 10,000 to
f
4
Observer witnesses big ‘apes, dzil- ling at Addis Ababa. Dora thinks
ly used for summer cruises of Squad in Brigade). — Railway Di-fare she's read about. varying length to various parts vision.
والی
of the world and some, like the Lau Chu Pak Duty Cup.--Mong| Empress of Britain, have been(Kok Division.
entirely devoted to round-the-¦ Holyoak Attendance Cup. world cruises. This year, the Eailway Division.
Ho Fook Cup. (Inter Railway).
Squad 3.
Abyssinian trouble has proved Wong Kwong Tin Vaccination an ill wind that has at least Cup. Mong Kok Division. blown good to the passengers Jon the great Empress, which has varied her usual route! through the Mediterranean and made her way to the East via sion. the Cape of Good Hope.
Ho Kom Tong Nursing Shield.
King's College Nursing Divi-,
Woo Wai-tak Duty Cup. Hong Kong looks forward to Y.W.CA. Nursing Division. the arrival of these great After His Excellency had ad- cruise-ships with a partly sel-dressed the Corps the gathering fish. but natural interest, for then adjourned to the Brigade the passengers have money, to Headquarters where another ce spend on the silks and ivories (remony took place, this being the and many curios for which the presentation of an operating table Colony is famous. And the to the Brigade by Mr. A. H. Tay- passengers may congratulate lor, on behalf of Messrs, Cow and themselves this year on arriv-Gate Ltd. The table will be used ing at a time when a low dollar at the Au Far Hospital at Cheung- will permit of more extensive chau.
purchases than might other-
wise be made.
new low
the
The
This year the great ship is it has the doubtful distinction scheduled to stay five days in of having created a harbour here, which should give record in temperature for the those on board ample time to past 50 years during which re- see all the beauties of this little Cords have been kept at island of ours and the New
Royal Observatory. Territories, with trips to Can- Previous low record was made ton and Macau also. All that been shattered on no less than in March 1921, but that has can be hoped is that the weather, so unpromising of late, Hongkong is not alone in its
three days this month. will be kinder during their sufferings.
stay.
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March Weather
The whole China coast has been blanketed in cold fog for days at a time; Canton (has reported many deaths from cold and exposure; from Tien- March, in England, is said to tsin to Vladivostock the sea "come in like a hon and go out has been frozen for miles - out like a lamb but this does not from shore; and in northern japply to the Chinese coast, Siberia a mere matter of 90 which is not affected, as our degrees below zero, has been homeland is, by the Gulf registered so perhaps Hong Stream But March, in Hong Kong may be thankful that Kong, has always had the re-matters have not been worse- putation hitherto of being per There is at least a gleam of haps the most enjoyable month comfort in the thought that the fof the year-cool and bracing, climate of the world is not tempered with blue skies and changing as many people are warm sunshine.
fapt to imagine when we are March has not lived up to its treated to an unusual kind of reputation this year at all Not weather and that such a only has it beer, almost wretched March is not likely to uniformly to-date, a month of be met with again for a period cloudy grey skies, with heavy of years, if past experience goes humidity, mist and drizzle, but for anything
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SAME
A decree of October 24, 1935,
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+
The Petroleum, Press Bureau Jestimates that Italy may now
for falling under steam-rollers ?” 15,000 tons of petrol a month out of home consumption. This New pajamas feature treen, azure, does not surprise me, because in correspondent', who asks and canary-yellow tints. It's enough what I think would be the luckiest to make Mr. Hore-Belisha give up the last two years of the world day for him to marry, one can only trying to de-noise London nights.
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