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DEFENCE CORPS Around the Courts
"Myrine-Jones said that bad death
(Orders by Col. L. Q, Bird. D.SO SEQUEL TO CAR been produced a blow it would
O.B.E., Commandent,
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1 Parade.
(a.)Corps Signals:--
There will be no parade until the 9th January, 1934.
(b.)-Scottish Company-
Parade Thursday, 4th January. The Company, including Pipe Band. will parade at full strength at Headquarters at 5.30 pm, for the purpose of receiving Camp "Pay. No pay will be distributed except on this parade."
COLLISION
Fine of $20 for One
be almost impossible for the pro- secution to prove which of the accused delivered it.
TRIAL RE-COMMENCÉS
The second day of the trial com-
cross examining Wong Sum Chui, who told of his witnessing a ght Kwok Wel, the driver of ear No. between the deceased and the two 419 and Un Tin Cheung, driver of defendants at the dye works in car No. 231 were summoned before which they were all employed. He Mr. Hamilton for negligent driv-claimed that they struck the dead ing the case arising as a sequel pan with a bamboo pole and that he retaliated by throwing - a to a collision at West Point.
basket "full of crockery 'at one of them.
and Warrant Issued manced with Inspector Murphy
1.
(c.) Portuguese Company:-
1--Parade: Parade on Tuesday,
The Arst defendant was not pre- January 2. at 5.30 pm at Read- sent in Court and after taking.) quarters to receive Camp Pay. the evidence of the constable who 2-Classification Tests-Stone-served the summons, Mr. Hamilton cutters Range. Musketry and Issued a warrant for his arrest. Lewis Gun Tests will be fred on Defendant was also summoned for Sunday, January 7. Range Officer: not parking at an appropriate Lieut. J. V. V. Remedios. Launch stand. will leave Queen's Pier at 8.30 alin. and Kowloon Police Pier at 8.40 aum. Categories" "A" and "R" will Are Lewis Gun Classification Tests and Categories "C" and "D" Musketry Tests. Platoon Commanders will please see that recruits who have not yet complet ed their Musketry training are warned not to turn up on this oc- casion...
(d.)-Machine Gun Troop:-
Parade on Tuesday, January 2, at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m.
for M.G. Instruction
(+)-Anzac Company:-
1-The Company will parade at full strength on Monday, January 8, 1934, 5.30 p.m. tor Machine Gun Instruction.
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Given an opportunity to ques- tion the witness the first defend- ant stated that the witness threw the crockery and that the fight only occurred when the deceased endeavoured to claim some cloth which was rightfully his, and Serbeant Hayward, giving evid- which the deceased tried to steal. ence against the second defendant, Witness denied this allegations. The second person to give evid- said on December 2, there were about ten public cars in Queen's ence was Wong Lum, a nineteen Road West, near Hill Road. On year old fellow worker who after his approach they all drove away, being repeatedly warned for giving About Ave minutes later, thinking false evidence, contradicted the he had gone, they began return-first witness and stated that he ingy Car No. 31 came from the did see the accused strike at the direction of Hin Road and turned deceased but did not see any blows Lato Queen's Road West, and was land. He claimed that the accus- backing when it was struck fromed hit him with a pole. behind by car No. 419, which was backing in the opposite direction, They were apparently trying to get to their original parking places. The rear bumper and mudguard of No. 231 were "damaged, while the mudguard of No. 410 was slightly damaged
Defendant denied driving neg- ligently, but said he was station- ary, and that the other car had struck his.
Platoon, Sergeants and Section
Mr. Hamilton decided to convlet. Commanders are requested to make Defendant admitted eight pre- a point of reminding all ranks "vious convictions, and the suspen- under their Command to attend sion of his licence for three this parade and to bring their rides and bayonets to store.
2-Field Day on January 21 1934-A those men who can at- tend the field day for constructing and camouflaging. emplacements are asked to give their names to their. Platoon Sergeants at once.
The actual date of Field Day will be confirmed in subsequent orders.
2.-Allotment of Peak Range. The above Range is allotted to O.C. Engineer Company on Sunday, January 14, 1934.
3-Appointment. Lieut. J. V. V. Dos Remedios is appointed Hon. Mess Treasurer, Officers' Mess, with effect from January 1, 1934.
4-Leave.
No. 1461 L/Cpl. R. M. Wood, No. 4. Platoon, granted 12 months leave from January 1, 1934, to January 1, 1934.
No. 689 Spr. C. Strange, Engineer Company, leave extends to Feb ruary 22, 1934.
5. Return from Leave,”
months...
Mr. Hamilton warned him that if he came up again, his licence would be suspended for a year. He now fined him $20,
CHINESE LET OFF ON SERIOUS CHARGE
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woman.
Chun Tal á married said that prior to the deceased's death" she had seen a quarrel be tween the first defendant and the deceased but she did not actually see any blows land upon either! party.
His Worship then discharged both defendanta.
SALESMAN SENT TO PRISON
Steals $65 From Mess Cook
A salesman employed by the Wing On Company, was yesterday sentenced by Mr. Balfour for theft of $65 from the cook at the firm's mess
"It was stated that defendant kad been employed by the Company. for four years and his wages were 89 a month. About 7.30 am on December 27, the complainant missed the key to his box and shortly after, found that 865 had Lack of sumcient evidence re- been taken The watchman found garding the actual cause of the the key and the complainant rupture which resulted in the suspected the defendant. Ques- death. of Wong Sung Li. on Detloned, the defendant admitted cember 16, caused Mr, Wynne-stealing, and when searched 884 Jone to discharge Tam Fing and was found on him. He had stolen Chan Shun who appeared in the the key in the first place. Kowloon Court yesterday" on charges of manslaughter.
יד.
A young Chinese" who conceal-
In discharging the defendants ed two-and-a-half pounds of his Worship stated that he refus-tobacco in a bundle of blankets. ed to commit them on the evid- in an attempt to evade duty, was ence produced, as the deceased's - Ened · 840 ar "three weeks in'
death could have been due to prison by Mr. Balfour Iri either of three things. First the Central Magistracy yesterday. ruptured spleen caused by a blow | Another Chinese was fined $50 or secondly a spontaneous rupture, four weeks on a similar charge: and thirdly, by falling or knock He concealed the tobacco in a ing against some hard object. In rattan basket wrapped up in a cot- summing up the evidence Mr. ton quilt.
No. 2055 Pte. L. A. Burlow resum U.S. DEMAND FOR STRONGER ARMY
ed duty from December 17, 1933.
6.—Transfer,
No. 1594 Pte. C. L. Arla, M÷M, G.
United States does not need a mil-
Section, is transferred to Reserve Below The Danger establishment comparable to
Company (Section A) as from De- cember 31, 1933.
7.—Struck Off the" Strength." No. 25 L/Cpl. G. P. Lammert, MG. Troop, as from December 29,
· 1933,000
General
Line
the great armies existing in cer- tain foreign nations, the strength and efficiency of the professional- Douglas MacArthur, civilian military system prescrib Chief of Staff of the United ed in the National Defence Act States Army, in his annual report. must be maintained." declares that America's military Recommendations are made by strength and readiness for war are Gen MacArthur for that purpose, "below the danger. line.”**-
but their immediate adoption, he declares, will still leave the United States with an organised army of approximately half the size of that which Congress, after exhaustive study in 1920 of world war experi- The report, which will be sub-ences, deemed essential to the mitted to President Roosevelt. Con country's continued safety. demais recent reductions in the Army appropriations, and recom- mends:
Permitted to resign: No. 348 FL/Cpl. A. Duncan, Scottish Co., HQ, as from December 29, 1933.
Having left the Colony:-No. 788 Pte. A: G, Gordon, No. 1. Platoon, It is of the most urgent im- as from December 29, 1933 and No. portance that the army's weakness in personnel and material" he 1825 Pte. J. L. Kent. No. 14. Ela toon, as from December 28, 1933. states, should be rectified with
Transferred to another Fort: out delay." No. 1635 L/Cpl D. C. Brodie, No. 7 Platoon, as from December 23,
1933.
8---Strength.
No. 2105 Pte. E C. Drown, Sant- tary Dept. Tel 39/19, No. 2 Fla- toon, as from December 22, 1933.
P. B. M. WILKINSON, Captain, Adjutant, HKVDC Hong Kong, December 29, 1933.
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OBSOLETE TANKS Except for about a dozen mach Ines, he says, every tank in the
An increase of army from 120 army to-day is of world-war man- 000 to 165,000 men.
ufacture, and their number entire ly inadequate. He is able, how- Urging that the 15 per cent, cut ever, to report con mued improve- in the pay of enlisted men should ment in air corps equipment, and be restored. Gen. MacArthur de points out that, while in its organ- clared that the men continue to Ised military forces the American Derform their duties faithfuil an Army stands seventeenth in the anciently, but emphasised that world, the United States, total se HENRY THE MAGICIAN the number of re-enlistments is roplane strength places it second
or third
Charity Performance At Ko Shing
diminishing, while at some sta- tions desertions have been moreMoreover," he adds, numerous ? E
and yery
These facts, he added, indicate important, lying behind our air some loss of that fire morale that crops is an industrial capacity for has always distinguished the men any other nation.
Mr. Henry, the well-known and of the American army, The Chief of Staff remarks that the conception of the nation - în clever magician, gave his farewell: "STATE OF UNRESTANZ
arms will not be abandoned in performance in Hongkong at Ko The report (says a Reuter mess future wars, but a smaller propor- Shing Theatre last night in aid of age from Washington), which the New Territories medical bene- was originally submitted to the Take part in the actual fighting tion of populations will probably volent work. Mr. Henry's art is Secretary of War. Mr. George than during the world war, while already too well-known to need Dorn declares: t
producing armnamnents.
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