THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1938.
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NAVY NOT TO BE LEFT OUT: BETTER SERVICE CONDITIONS Full Pay For The Temporarily Unemployed
New Rules For Flag Officer Await On New Promotions
London, To-day.
The Admiralty announce the result of an inter- departmental discussion in which all of the three fighting forces have participated. Important decisions affecting the emoluments con- ditions and service of officers of the Navy were made, to include officers temporarily unemploy- ed, through no fault of their own, who will re- ceive full pay. If they are of Captain's rank or below they will also receive the provision and marriage allowance where applicable.
DUKE'S DOUBLE IN COLOMBO
Ceylon, July 20.
In future, Flag Officers, if their further employment is uncertain, will receive six months' full pay, six months at two thirds pay, and there- after half pay.
Senior officers are to be retired when it is certain that no further employment can be found for them. It has been decided to terminate The cynosure of all eyes aboard the practice whereby Rear-Admirals the P. and O. Rawalpindi, which and Vice-Admirals get a step was in Colombo for a few hours rank and though unemployed in the yesterday, was an Admiralty new rank, qualify for retired pay agent who is said to be the Duke at the rate appropriate to the high- of Windsor's double.
er rank.
NEW SCALES
in
He is travelling to Singapore. He was seated in a deck chair
The result will be that the retir and reading a magazine when I met him; writes the "Observer" ed pay scales of Flag Officers will He told me be identical with those of a Gen- shipping reporter. that I was the third newspaper eral and Air Officer, the rates be- He reing £950 sterling for the rank of _man_to_“discover" him.
He Rear Admiral, £1,120 sterling for fused to divulge his nanie, had nothing to say because, the rank of Vice-Admiral and £1,300 being in Government Service, he sterling for the rank of Admiral.
The new rules, however, will not did not desire to grant inter-
be put into full effect for executive views.
Embarrassing Situations
officers of flag rank until officers However, he said that he had promoted hereafter to Captain,
flag rank-Reuter. been put into embarrassing reach the situations "only a couple of hun- dred" times on account of his being recognised as the. Duke's double.
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"I have never met the Duke face to face," he said, "but I times, have seen him several and I must say that I always kept clear of him!".
H.K. DIVORCE PROCTOR
By virtue and in exercise of the power conferred on him by rule 18 He was born in Poona in India, of the Hong Kong (Non-domiciled- he said, where his father was parties) Divorce Rules, 1986, the attached to the Indian Army. He Governor in Council has pleased to was 27 years old. He was born appoint John Alexander Fraser, on May 28, the same day as that [Esquire, M.C., Barrister at-law, on which Queen Mary was born. Acting Attorney General of Hong His gestures and expressions Kong to be Proctor in this Colony conveyed the exact picture of the and as such to
exercise within the Duke as seen in news reels. He jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is shy and retiring and hates of Hong Kong the duties assigned publicity.
A FATHER'S HEROISM
Copenhagen.
to His Majesty's Proctor in England by sections 181 and 182 of the Su- preme Court of Judicature (Conso- lidation) Act, 1925, (15 and 18 Geo.
49)
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Farmer of Hoerroed, Den- So he crept up to her and sud- mark, was working in a field acdenly seized the snake by its companied by his little daughter neck.
The reptile' freed itself and bit aged three.
After the child had played for him several times. He eventually a time, she lay
to sleep. succeeded in killing it, and then When her father went to fetch rushed off with the child to the
found an adder doctor.
her for dinner! I aleeping on
He did not d
His little daughter's life had Wake the child, been saved, and he himself is now should bite her out of danger—(Router.)
picture is unique. It shows the Cutty Sark passing the windjammer "Passat", which, after recently arriving at Falmouth second in the grain ship race from Australia, left the port a day be- fore the Cutty Sark. The Cutty Sark caught and passed the Pas- sat off a Dungeness. (Copyright).
IRON GUARDS SENT and another leader, Cristescu, who
TO PRISON
Bucharest, Friday. Sentence was passed by a Bucharest court-marial at five in the morning on 19 members of the Fascist Iron Guard, charged with conspiring to upset the social or der.
Prince Alexander
in had escaped," were sentenced their absence to nine years' impri- sonment and £200 fine.
were
Thirteen commandants gicen seven years imprisonment; three others five years; and a priest one year
Zelea Codreanu, the leader, who is serving a 10 years' sentence, has appealed to be transferred to a sana- Cantacuzenu torium.
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