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HONG KONG VOLUNTEER | THE FUTURE OF MISSIONS
DEFENCE CORPS.
{GRDERS BY LT:-COL L. Q. BIRD, D.8.0.,
·ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT,]
No. 291.
IN CHINA.
A UNITED CHURCH.
OFFICIAL SENT TO MAKE FULL REPORT.
1.-Artillery Company. Winter Training Season will com- menee on Thursday, September 8th, While recent events in China 1027, at Corps Headquarters at 3.30 have largely, though not complete- p.m., and and will continue every Thursday until further orders. Copy ly paralysed the work of the mis- of Training Programme has been | zionary societies in that land, the posted on Company Notice Board.
societies are taking a broad view 2.-Mounted Infantry Company. of the future, and are closely en- Parade at Stables at 3.30 p.m.gaged in considering possible future on Tuesday, August 30th, 1997. developments in view of altered
Dress: Mufti,
3.-M., and A.0. Companies. Musketry Part II. will be fired at Stonecutters Range on Sunday, Sep- tember 11th, 1927.
Range Officer: 2/Lieut. J. E Hancock.
Launch will leave Murray-Pier at 5 a.m. nad call at Kowloon Piar
at 9.10 a.m.
Dress and arms will be detailed in
next week's. Orders.
conditions.
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007
1927.
RED TRIAL WITNESS KILLED.
BROKEN SKULL AFTER LONDON MEETING..
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
Lorboy, July 99th. Mr. J. Hector, an oficial. of the National Union of Seamen and Firemen, and a witness in the libel charge pending against leading Communists, died yesterday mora- ing in Poplar Hospital.
He was found tying unconscious in a street in Poplar with a frac sured skull and other injuries to the head.
The charge in the libel onse is against three members of the National
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While it is the London Missionary Society, the body which seat out the great pioneer, Robert Morri- son, to China in 1907, as well as Livingstone to Atrien ball a cen
Minority Movement tury later, which is taking the first Harry Pollitt, Dick Beech, and stops to instigate new conditions Thomas Richard Strudwick-and on the spot Mr. F. H. Hawkins, they have been committed by Mr. their foreign secretary, who left Graham Campbell, the Bow-street 4-Scottish Company...
England on Friday, July 9th, for magistrate, for trial at the Central Special Machine Gun Class as China, has also been requested by lishing in the International Sea
Criminal Court, "accused of pub- already detailed in previous orders will assemble at Volunteer Head other societies to report to them frer a defamatory libel concern- quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, fully the result of his investigag David Scott, a seaman, who was imprisoned in Russia for ten September 8th, 1927. Dress: Muftitions.
He will Hare have the months, Thursday, September 8th-All
Mr. Hector fullest opportunity accorded, to Platoons Vickers Gus Instruction at
gave evidence at Bow-street, and would have been a Platoon Headquarters. Members of him to inquire into the work of witness again at the trial. When the Company are again reminded
maay "other bedies besides his own. the case was heard at Bow-street it that ride, belt and bayonet are to be worn on all parades irrespective M. Hawkins, who gave up his was alleged by Sir Travors Ham- phreys, supporting the summonses, of the nature thereof,
solicitor's practice. at Wrexham that A man named Allison, who Route March-A Company route few years ago to devote himself ta was to be a witness, had been march from Polo Ground to Taikoo will take place on Thursday, Sep the missionary cause, is travelling threatened with personal violence. tember 29th, and this early notice to Shanghai Vanivouver, with the magistrate issued a warning he gave evidence in the case, and is' given to enable all to attend.
out stopping anywhere en route. that if violence were used it would .. 5.—Oficers' Mess Committee.
"After meeting the Chinese
be a very serious matter.
Divisional Detective Inspector A Committee composed as under Advisory Council of
Own Wesley, of Poplar, visited Scotland is appointed. President: Captain society," he told me, "I shall go Yard and after a conference re Sir Eric Stuart Taylor, O.BE; Metabers: Lieut. F. Syme Thomson to Hangehow for the first great turned to Poplar, where & minn and 2/Lieut. E. C. Macnamara. assembly of the United Church ofamed Frederick Isley, aged 31, of Lime street, Poplar, was charged China. This is a most important with manslaughter. 6.--Transfers.
He will ap gathering, for it is an independent pear before the magistrate at body, which has been gradually Thames Police Court this morning. Mr. Hector, who was aged 10 built up during the past few years, and lived in the district, leaves a uniting all the churches of "the wife, and
children. The various American and Canadian eldest of them is not yet fourteen. and the Congregational missions of meeting at.
Mr. Hector attended an open-air Presbyterian missions in China,
the corner. of Bath the American Board and the Loa-street and East India Dock-road, don Misionary Society. Others described as for ex-Service men,
sliminess. are expected in due course to unite but held, it is alleged, in political He is stated to have
Two arguments are adduced in
Avóber 25th, 1927. with this Church, as has recently interests. happened in the United Church of asked a speaker attending, Can support. Women renowned in his A.K. Bak ...................................$1,070
Doy Canada. It means that in future you tell us whom you represent cry for their beauty were, it is
London...114j.nom. the missions of these bodies will a question which, according to include Cleopatra and certain ladies Mercantile Bank, A. &B... nom. argued, rotund. Examples quoted Chartered Bank 20 nom. be controlled by the synods of this spectators, caused some annoyance. described in the Old Testament. Chinese Church Missionaries may
Surrounded.
More recent instances given ace & 0. be members, but they will be on an
After the meeting he walked Catharine de Medici, Catherine of equal and not superior footing with the Chinese members, and they will across the road, surrounded by a Russia, Madame Pompadour, and always be in a minority. This small group. He was seen to fall Lady Hamilton
is in the The second "argument Church will have the control of to the ground People who rushed mission funds, and this will necesOver to his nasistance found him form of sex appeal Men are said sarily mean important readjust unconscious and the police were to dislike slim women as uninspir ments. These will require thought called. After he had received first ing, nervous, excitable, and caustic. ful care, but we are without appre aid in a local post office he was hension of misunderstanding or removed to hospital. trouble."-Fr.
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No., 600 Pte. J. W. Anderson is transferred from No. 7 Platoon to the Medical Section, as from Augast 26th, 1927.
No. 689 Pte. M. Nicholson is
transferred from No. 7 Platoon to
the Reserve Company (Scottish See tion), as from August" 26th, 1927,
7.-Leave:
No. 542 Pter W. F. Simmons, Reserve Company, is granted leare mosence from the Catar August 26th to September 25th, 1927.
R: A. WOLFE-MURRAY, Major,
Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Hong Kong, August 20th, 1927,
- NOTICE.
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1-Artillery Company, Members of the Artillery Com pany Committee are reminded that anting will be held at Corps Headquarters on Thursday, Septem- ber 1st, 1997, at 5.30 p.m.
2.-Mounted Infantry Company. A meeting of the Mounted In- fantry Company will be held at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. ou Monday, August 29th, 1997. All members are particularly requested to attend.
3.-Motor Cycle Section.
A meeting of the Motor Cycle Section will be held at Volunteer Headquarters on Friday, September 2nd, 1997, at 5.45 p.m. All members are particularly requested to at tend.
4. No. 2. Platoon Rifle Club. *: The first shot for the Cup' given by Licut. E. J. R. Mitchell will be held at the Peak Range on Sunday, September 4th, 1997, at 9.30 a.m.
Conditions."
15 rounds. Rapid at 300 yards as
for Corps Championship.
10 rounds Application at 500 yards. Usual handicaps.
"HONG KONG POLICE
RESERVE.
[ORDERS BY THE CAPTAIN SUPERIS- TENDENT OF POLICE.]"
DEATH OF FAMOUS: BOXER.
FREDDIE WELSH, HOLDER OF MANY TITLES.
LONDON, July 29th. The death is reported from New York of Freddie Welsh, one of the most famous boxers Great Britain bas produced. He was only 41
sudden heart years of age; a seizure in the hotel in which he was staying cut him" on in his prime.
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Mr. Havelock Wilson, president of the society of which the dead man was an official, said:
Mr. Hector, who was our dele- gate for that district, was lovable man with a wide cirele of friends. He was of a very happy disposition and knew his district remarkably well, being a seafaring member of a seafaring family. The fact that he had so large a family makes the affair even more distressing. He was born in Poplar and had lived" there all his life.
· CADETS’» UNAPPRECIATED "RAG."
ATTACKS BY AN ANGRY WELSH CROWD.
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Welsh reached the summit of a brilliant boxing career when at Olympia, London, in 1814, he de- feated Willie Ritchië, the American and world's light-weight champion. His skill, science, and stamina in Disorderly scenes were witnessed this contest ware cause for wonder. at Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, and a Hall Thomas was Welsh's proper considerable number of members of name; he adopted the one to which the University Officers' Training Private, 30 days sight he brought world-wide fame -be-Corps stationed in the town were cause he was born at Pontypridd, badly injured in series of colli. O MANILA On demand Wales.
Bigns with an angry crowd.
OR SINGAPORE,On demand. When he was only twenty years About 7 p.m. a large party of Or BATAVIA-Un-demand... roxo On demand ""*** On-HaimonO/ of age he won the light weight cadets marched, through the town
Os Sensa demand championship of Australia. by and forced an entrance into the fire O BAGKOK-On demand ... knocking out Hock Keys in seven-station and took the fire engine and Berries, Bank's Buying rate: 89,93 rean rounds, and he then began to appliances out into the street. The GoLD LEAF, 100 fine, per inel... accumulate tities with almost mono- police, assisted by the fire brigade BA BELVER, per o tocous regularity.
and members of the town council, The first Lonsdale gold belt came intervened and after a fierce strug- to him in 1900, when he beat John-gle managed to get the engine back. nie Summers; an Empire title fol- Soon afterwards a reinforced lowed on the defeat of Hughie crowd of cadets made another at- Mebegan in 1912. This also carried tack on the fire station, but by this The Motor Cyclist Section of the a Lonsdale beit. A third was add-¦ time a crowd numbering several Special Constabulary (Flyinged when he defeated Matt Wells thousands had gathered, and some Squad), is hereby disbanded to date in the same year for the British of the cadets received rough treat- August 24th, 1997.
title.
ment.de
The cadets went to the West End Like that other famous little Welshman Jimmy Wilde, Welsh Parade and taking possession of possessed grit beyond measure. In the band-stand spent an hour sing 1907 he achieved the spectacular bying songs. As they returned out in one afternoon three through the town there was a colli- Any members of the old " Flying
d-class men, including a heavy- sion with civilians, and in the Squad" who do not intend to turn weight 1 He was the first man to disorder, which lasted for about an over to the new Flying Squad" beat Abe Attell, world's lightweight hour, more of the cadets were in- are to return their uniform and champion, after Attell had faced all jured.
The officers urged the police to equipment to the Central Police | comers for five years, par Station.
Success, never spoiled Welsh. He keep the crowd from the camp and remained quiet and unassuming in promised to keep the cadets in their the moments of victory, and he was quarters About midnight, how never dispirited or explanatory in ever, another
The following Police Reserve Orders are issued by the Hon. Mr. E D. C. Wolfe, C.B.P.-
The Motor Cyclist Section of the Police Reserve (Flying Squad), is hereby formed as from the same date and will take the place of the above.
The Flying Squad is an Inter national Company and any gentle man possessing a motor cycle is eligible to join. All information can. be obtained from me either by writ ing or by a personal interview at my offee at the Central Police Station.
G. B. HARTFORD,
D.S.P. (R.) Hong Kong, August 24th, 1927.
defeat. When war broke out ha ed the town of cadets-invad-
with sticks, but.
did valuable work as a director of their officers ordered them back
Three of the officers in charge physical training in the American Army; the coming of peace found said to a Daily Mast-reporter that him just as efficiently directing a they regretted what had happened health farm in London Island, New and stated that it was not an
"organized Tag-
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