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HONGKONG DEFENCE CORPS
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS BY MAJOR H
KONGAN, ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT/
STRENGTH,
No. 953 Pte. N Burna was enrolled on 7th March, 1918, and posted to Mounted Section.
No. 854 Gar 8. Edwards was enrolled on
8th March, 1916, and posted to Artil lery Co
V Spr. H. Arnott, Engineer Co., is per
mitted to resign on leaving the Colony dated 9th March, 1918. Spr. D. J. Finlayson, Engineer Co., is permitted to resign on leaving the Colony to date from day of depart ture..
Pte. B. F. Stoneham, B Oo, in per- mitted to resign on leaving the Colony to dute from day of depart- ture C
IZAVE. 2nd-Licut, J. E. W. Board, Cadet Co., is granted: 1 month's leave from 23rd March, 1919. Pte. C Hodgson, Engineer Co., is granted 30th days leave from 18th March,
Fie A. A Claxton A Co. is granted
9 months' leave from 1st April, 1918. Pte H It. Harling, "A" Co., is grant ed 3 weeks leave from 18th March
Pte. 8. H. Weat, "B" Co., is granted 2
months leave from 15th May, 1018/ Pte. O, B. Chunyutt,B Co is grant ed 2 months leave from 3th April,
1818.
Pie. V. Goulborn, M.G. Co., is granted leave for the duration of war from 26th March, 1918.
RA
KVSZETEY
Spr. R. K. Duncan, Eng Co. is granted
U works' leave from 7th April, 1918; Spr. W. Manning, Eng. Co., is granted
2 months leave from 10th March 1918.
Annual Musketry Course, Individual Field practices, at Kowloon City Rango, on Sunday, 24th inst., for B21 NC.Os and men of A and B Companies, Mounted Section and Signalling Section who have not com. pleted these practices, Parade at Blake Pier at 8:30 am and
prod by launch to Kowloon City Dross Marching order. Helmets to be
worn,
Lieut. Evan-Jones and 2nd Lieut. Thomas
will attend..
Note. Only those who have passed the Tests of Elementary Training may fire these practices
TRANSFER,
No. 103 Corp. J. E. Eldridge, Engineer
Co, is transferred to the Hongkong. Police Reserve, dated 13th March, (1918,47
ATTACHED
BCOMPANY."
Monday, 18th inst
ORDER OF BRITISH EMPIRE
440 p.m. Annual Musketry Course,
SIX LOCAL APPOINTMENTS. Part 2, Fractives 5, 6, 7 and 19, at King's Park Range, for all who
His Majesty the King has been gra have not fired these practicenciously pleased to approve of the follow- Dress Drill order with pouches.
ing appointments to the Most Excellent Vote Only those who have passed
the Tests of Elementary Training Order of the British Empiro:—
COMMANDEER. may fre
The Hon, Mr. J. H. Kemp. Mr.
Jenkin.
5.13 p.m. No. 8 Platoon at. Kowloon
Dock, Platoon drill Tuesday 18th inst
4.45 p.m. At King's Park Range. Men over 50 years of ago who have to fire the Special Musketry Course. Dress Drill order with pouche 1 Practices 1, 2 and a will be fired. Wednesday, both inst
5.30 pm. No. Flatoon on Polo Ground Hongkong residents will parade at Cricket Club at 5.10 p.m. and proceed by tram to Causeway Bey
Thursday, 21st, inst. •--
OFFICŠER
The Hon. Mr. E H Sharp, KO.. Mr. J. Stabb Mr. C. G. Alabaster,
MKUBER. Hutchison
Mr. L. Q. Hu
CANTON NEWS.
[SE OGURTESY OF THI ·ORUNU NGDI?
BAX PO
CANTON, March 15th. CANTON LEADER DECLARES INDEPENDAÑA..
There is a rumour that Commander Lam Fu who is participating in the fight- ing in Young Kong, has declared inde pendence from Canton and has submitted to the Paking Covalent It is in- possible to obtain any confirmation of the reportsman
CIVIL GOVERNON'S TROOPS.
The Civil Governor, Li Yow-hon, in accordance with General Luk's request that he should resist General Lung's attacks, has sont a large body of his troops from Shui Hing to Young Cluca district to co-operate with other armies on the Yeong Kong front. THE SALT TAX DISPUTES,
The Order of the British Empire was instituted is a recognition of the services of British and Allied subjects rendered in connection with the war. There are five Classes to the Order, namely, Knights Grand Cross 2, Knights Com manders 3; Commanders; 4, Officers; Members. Ven
The Hon. Mr. H. Kɛve, C.B.E., has discharged the duties of Attorney General since March, 1914, although he was nut appointed to the office until November Cricket Ground, Platoon drill of war has undoubtedly thrown con
lation rendered
outbreak necessary by Dres · Dril order.
4:45 pm at King's Park Range Men over 50 years of age who have to fire the Special Mnaketry Course, Dress Drill order with pouches Practices 1, 2, and 3 will be fired. Friday, 22nd inst
It is stated that the Provisional Government which intended to take charge of the salt-tax in the province, has sent à representative to consult tha Tuchun about the matter. The Tuchun has asked General Tak for instruc tions and has rejected the Provisional
5.15 p.m. Nos, 5 and 0 Platoons on of the following year. The new legis Government's Pa
A MACHINE GUN COMPANY.
Monday, 18th inst,
0.10 pm Drill at Kowloon Docks Nos. 1 and guns only. Hongkong residenta proceed by launch from
siderable amount of work upon shoulders. He is
A GENERAL LUK'S
It is reported that General Lak Wing-
Univented a cadet in 1898 me to stay in Nanning,
B.A of the Cape ting and his army have arrived at Wang and barrister nt law. He Chor. Luk has ordered Chan Ping-kwan that time he has filled numerous positions [FROM THE CANTON INTELLIGENCE BUREAU in the
CANTON, March 14th. Service Civil
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Generalissimo of the
уда
of
of the
mostaln
with the
Queen' Statue Pier at 4.30 p.m. which have been Vilitary Government, has declared that
Tuesday, 18th inst. ---
7.10 am. No. 3 gun at Headquarters, Wednesday, 20th inst.
6.10 pm Drill as Headquarters Nos
4 and 5 guns only. Thursday, 1st inst
5.10 p.m. Drill at Headquarters The following men only need at tend Ptes. Field, Irvine Labrum, Logan, McKerns, Pingurt and Stapleton
MOUNTED, SECTION.
administration of the
of
un
with
Show their
MY. FRANCIS CHARLES JENKIN CBE, the Peking Government, now unconstitu has earned his decoration by the time tional, has to right to contract further and ability he has expended upon the loans, and that the proposed Bonds of the organisation of the Police Reserve-an Seventh Year of the Republic will not be armed force numbering upwards of 800 recognized.****** members whose sphere of usefulness is The United Chambers of Commerce of Ponstantly und
being extended under his China, in their general proposal for energetic.
For a long time national pence, have suggested the immo- after its formation he carried it on prac-diate laying down of arine, a request to tically
- single handed, ⠀⠀ subordinating the Acting President not to resign, the every other interest to its success. He observation of the Provisional Constita- was rewarded by seeing the Corps gr05 | tion adopted the first year of the Repub- rapidly in size and efficiency and, lic, the re-convocation of the National on the first anniversary of ita establish
Assembly according to the Provisionat the members of all nationalitics
Constitution of the first year of the mond tos
Republic and the organization of a act skilful his
hin responsible Cabinet. and public
presonting table centre-piece, sword, and & Deputy Superintendent's belt. Born on April 22nd, 1882, he was educated at Plymouth and Exmouth under an Army tutor, and then passed into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a gentle man-cadet in January, 1901. Mr. Jenkin. however, did not continue with carder for family reasons, but was ted a Second Lieutenant in the first Territorial Battalion, Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment, early in the same year.
promoted December Captain on
1906, 4.do p.m. Annual Musketry Course, but resigned to the Bure prac
in 1908 9 Practices 5, 8, 7 audi 12, at King Park Range, for all who fised in London; and on the Western until he came to Hongkong in On the outbreak of the War
Monday, 18th inst, :—
4.45pm. Annual Musketry Course,
Part 2, Practices 5, 6, and 12, at King's Park Range, for all, who havo not fired these practices. Chinese General's Dress Drill order with pouches. Note-Only those who have passed the Tests of Elementary Training
may fire.
5.15 p.m. At Jockey Club Stables
Dress Drill order
Thursday, 21st inst. :---
615 p.m. At Jockey Club Stables,
Dress Drill order withen, rifles.
SIGNALLING SECTION.
No. 870 Pie J. Brook D Co Monday, 18th inst. ---
18 attached to the Hongkong Polica Reserve from 13th March, 1918, -
COMMUNICATION DRILL)",
At Headquarters on Tuesday, 19th March, at 6 pm. Officers and "NCIO of "A" and "B" Companies will attend Other Officers and N.C.Os may tend if they so desire. Plutoon drill will be practised. ~
LEDTURE
At Headquarters, Friday, 22nd March.
at 6 pm. Subject, Map reading and
Field sketching.
ORDERS FOR: ARTILLERY COMPANY BY CAPTAIN
JB W. ARMSTRONG, V.D
PARADES AT DELCHERS BATTERY.
Monday, 18th inst. ——
7.39 am Right Half Co. D.R. cines
only.
||
on being called
He was
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE
HONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT
Divisional Superintendents are requested
to make known to the members of their respective Divisions the contents.. of a telegram recently received from Major-General C Dalton, Chief Commissioner. Brigade Overgens, Thursday, Mar
March
NO. SV.A.D.
Vist 5 pm. Route March. Fall in aver the West Gate of the University in Pokfulem Rond. ** Dres: Drill
No
NO. 5 VAD. Monday, March 18th
1.15 p.m-Recruit
No stretchers.
have not fired these practices AZ offor his services to the Tuesday, March 19th.
Drass Drill order with pouches. -·| July, ete. Only those who have passed Mr.
the Tests of Elementary Training Hongkong Volunteer Reserves, but WAS may fre
unable to obtain an appointment. Un Wednesday, 20th inst
dismayed by this, he offered his services 4.40 p.m. Annual Musketry Course, to the Captain
in Superintendent of Police
placed him in charge of the
Drill
1.15 pm-Recruit Drill Wednesday, March 20th *****
2.30 p.m.-Band Practice. Thursday, March 2185:-
Drill,
Part 3 Fractices, 13, 14 and 19, at Special Police Early in February, 1915. 1.15 p.m. Recruit, King's Park Range. Dress, as above he ofered himself as a member of theriday, March 22nd
Friday, 22nd instr
1.16 p.m.-Recruit. Drill.
4.4 p. Annual Musketry Course, Hongkong Police Reserve, which was
about to
be
formed
5.46 p.m. Company and Stretcher and was appointed
Drill Assistant Superintendent of Police
February, 1915.12.30 p.m.-Band Practice,
Saturday, March 23rd-
Part 3, Practices 13 and 18, at King's Park Range Dress, as above, a
*
*****/ STRETCHED DEARER SECTION. S Tuesday, 10th inst.
5.15 p.m. Parade at Headquarters.
EEURUITS
5.15 p.m. Left Half Co. DR.F. class Monday, 18th, and Friday, and inst
only
6:15 p.m. All units, except "D" Co.,
Tuesday, 18th inst.
7.30 am Right Half Co Fall drill with the exception of D.R.F. class. 5.15 p.m Left Half Co. Full drill,
with the exception of D.R.F. class. Thursday, 20th instey
داشتن از
*
7.30 nm Right Half Co. D.R. Erolazo
only.
3.15 p.m. Left Half Co. D.BF, Claes
only
Friday, 22nd inst —
7:30 am Bight. Half Co. Full drill, with the exception of D.R.F. class. 3.15 p.m. Left Half Co. Full class, with the exception of D.R.F. class.
ORDERS FOR ENGINESE COMPANY BY CAPTAIN
W.LUSBELL
15th to 22nd inst. :--
E. L. Manning Nightly. Parades a per rosters posted at Headquarters Engine drivers at 6.15 pm., Elec- tricians at 5,30 p.mess Officers next for duty.Belobers; Capt. Russell Lycemun, 2nd-Lieut. Hill; Stonecutters, Licut. Steven- son.
Instructions for NCOs, and men of Infantry Battalion attached for duty-Class 1 at Belchers at 6.30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, Class 2 at Belchers at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, Class 3 at Lyeemun at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays under Staff Bergta Ovendene and Parsons RL Corp Day and Sad-Corpl. Norrts, HKD.Cat Belchers, and Staff- Sargts. Barclay and White RE. and Berg Williams, H.K.Dat Lysemun.
Details of duties at Lyeemun from
18th to 31st March is posted af Headquarters.
ORDERS FOR INFANTRY BATTALION EY MAJOR
PAT NA MORGAN,
PÁRÁDESA OOMPANYINGKA Monday, 18th Inst. S
4.45 pm: Annual Musketry Course?
Part Practices 6:6, 7, and 12. Kings Park Range for all bave not fired these
Dress Drill order
ponch
ete. Only those who hařO PESS the Tests of Elementary may fire. Captain
Tuesday 19th inst. ----
* 5.15 pm. No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 Platoon. yon Cricket Ground-Platoon dril,
Dress; Drali order
following
Promoted Police Reserve Force. Further honours
for on
of
March 19th-
Queen'
Deputy Superintendent, and since then he has been in command of the 1920 awaited Mr Je 103 Exor, who alo
1917, be was
Peace by H. the
on August
Dress
Fall in
for duty on College football ground. Drill Order Four senior
members as warned, will carry haversacks. One stretcher will be required
17th of the same year Mr. Jenkin has Thursday, March 21st-
been very auccessful at the Bar, appear-
made him an honorary
on Murray Parade Ground, under Bergts. Oxberry and Edmonds and Cpl
Grimes, Dress: Drill order.
|
hon
ing
'' COMPANY.
Tuesday, 19th inst. -———————
4.40 p.m. Annual Musketry Course, Practices 1, 3 and 3, at King's Park Kange for all N.CUs and men
4.20 p.m.-Bandaging Practice. 211 sotee of the cases which Friday March 22nd: have come up for
before We
Squad and Stretcher Drill. Supreme Court. His first case on his 4.20 p.m.-Syna arrival in the
SECTION. Colony was in connection Monday, March 18th named Ebrahim, who was charged with with the defence of a Sepoy soldier 1.20 p.m.- First Aid Clas murder. At the first trial the jury dis 4.20 pm-Squad Drill
Parch 18th: Monday, agreed In the second trisl the prisoner Thursday, March 1st -
verdict was 1.20 p.m.-First Aid Class
but the
of Nos 1 and 2 Sections who bave was found the legal questions Friday, March artice.
not fired these practices. Dress Drill order with pouches Thursday, 21st inst, -
4.45 p、m Annual Musketry Course, Fractices 1, 2 and 3, at King's Part Range, for all N.C.Us. and men of Nos 3 and 4 Sections who have not Ared these practices. Dress, as
above
Friday 22nd inst. :---
6.15 p., All Sections, Rifle exorcisea
Dreas:
ORDERS TOE CADET COMPANY B 2ND-LIEUT, J. B. W. BEARD.
PARADES,
appealed against and
Bandaging
- (Bd) E BALPHA, District. Supt. in Charge of District Hongkong, 15th March, 1818.-
arising as to the prisoner confession 1.20 to Major Burrat were
eventually before
Priv the
Council good last big case was the Million Dollar Opium case, in which he created something in the way of a local record by cross-examining the principal defendant for fourteen days and making a final speech which extended over thirty days,
appointment in the National Museum at The Hou, Mr. EH. Sur, O.B.E. Dublin in 1898. Two years later be entered as a student at the Inner Temple and Section drill on Murray is Chairman of the War Charities. Com- and was called to the Bar in 1964. –– After Parade Ground
Drittes and has served on the committees practising at the Old Bailey and North order
of various other local organisations for London Sessions and on the Western raising funds on behalf of our goldiers Circuit (where he defended McGuire in and sailors and their dependents. He the Bournemouth Cliff Mystery case) is an unofficial member of the Executive he came to the Colony in 1909. In 1911 Council, in which he occupied a seat he acted for nine months as Attorney- while Acting Attorney General in 1904-5 General and member of the Executive, and of Civil Law, of Oxford, and was called on leave of Sir William Rees Davies and He is a Master of Arts and a Bachelor Legislative Councils during the absence to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1901, again filled these positions for five months in 1912 when Sir William was promoted Mr. NJ STA, O.B.E. is the Treasurer of the War Charities Fund and of the Government for each of there 5.15 p.m. Nes 3 and 4 Sections at of various other cleemosynary organisa-periods of service. From 1912 to 1913 be
Gun Club Hill Range
hions. He has been Chief Manager of the was employed by the Government in 5.30 p.m. Band practice at Head-Hongkong and Shanghai Bank since 1911, editing the New Bevised Edition of the
quarters. T
and is a member of the Committee of the Laws of Hongkong, for which he received 8.30 pm First Aid Class at St Hongkong General Chamber of Com- the thanks of the Legislative Council and
Monday, 18th inst. :-
5.15 p.m. Nos 1 and 3 Sections at
Kennedy Road Range
5.30 pm Band practices at Head- taking silk in 1909 tag to the Bench, He received the thanke
quarters Wednesday, 20th inst
Andrew's Church Hall.
G. E. STEWART, Capt.,
Adjutant, HKDC Hongkong,, 14th March, 1918.-
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
GEDERS ISSUED BY MR. JENKIN, D.3.r.
SENIORITY.
A list of all members above the rank
Constables, showing their seniority in the Police Reserve Force, is exhibited on the Notice Board. Any corre tions must be submitted in writing on or before Monday, March 25th,
By Order
WTF HOUGE, ASP (Rand Adjutant Thongkong, March 15th 1918.
metoc
from the Government a library of Mr. C G. ALABASTER O.B.E., was aw reports, Offering his services general- Deputy Cable Censor until recently, and, y at the outbreak of war he was, E although that was a salaried position, it stated appointed to the cable sensorate must have involved considerable financial asistant censor, becoming Deputy loes to a busy professional mat While Censor of Cables a few days Inter. By he was in charge of the office the Press a happy coincidence Mr Alabaster's Dever bad cause to complain of their decoration: Aynchronisen with the promo messages being hung up on frivolous tion of his only surviving brother, Capt. pretexte Mr. Alabaster apparently Acting Major) E O Alabaster, L., to realising that danger lay not in cables Breret Major for distinguished servies în already passed by the Press Bureau in the field
London but in commercial and private Mr. R. O. HUTCHISON, M.B.E, at pre messages with an enemy taint from other sent on leave, has been Superintendent parts of the world. The eldest surviving of the Exports and Imports Department son of the late Sir Chaloner Alabaster, since 1811-a Deoartment whose work has KCG some time H.B.M. Conal increased considerably since the war Generla Canten, Mr. C. G. Alabaster owing to the now taxes and regulations was born in 1830 and was educated at imposed. He was appointed Tonbridge School and subsequently in the end of 1904. He holds & Commission Germany and France. He held an in the local Defence Corps and is an ** (Continued at foot of nezt Volumni) AD.U to H., the Governor,
cade of