THE SERVICES
¡By The Air Mail, London Dec. 4.)
Field-Marshal
Major-General
Sir Cyril Devereli Lord Gort, V.C.
ROYAL NAVY
EAST INDIES STATION The cruisers of the East Indies -Station · will spend Christmas at ports in India; the Norfolk, which will by then have rehoisted the fing of Vice-Admiral, the Hàn. Sir Alexander Ramsay. and the Emerald at Calcutta; and the Enterprise at Bombay.
The Norfolk will leave Calcutta on January 4 and will be at Ran- goon from the 7th to 17th. The Enterprise will leave Bombay on January 3 for Goa, January 4-9: Mangalore. January 10-13; Calicut. January 14-16; Cochin, January 17-21: Colombo, January 22-29; Mukalia, February 3-6; Berbera February 7-11: and Aden. To-
wards the end of February she is due to leave the station for home on the conclusion of her commis- slon,
THE AFRICA - STATION The Admiralty announce that the date of the appointment of Rear-Admiral .. H. D'Oyly-Lyon, C.B.. to be Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station. in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Francis L. Totten- ham. K.C.B., CB.E.. Mas been amended to January 31, 1938.
Rear-Admiral Lyon will assume Command about March 7. 1938. He will take passage in the Winchester Castle leaving England on February 18 and arriving at Capetown on March 7.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS The following appointments were made by the Admiralty:-
Capt.-P. W. B. Brooking, to Vic- tory, and in charge of Junior Off- cers War crse, (Jan. 3),
General Sir Harry Knox
P. Wavell, 5.-Major-General A.
C.D. C.M.G., M.C., to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command., in succes- slon to General Sir J. Burnett- Stuart. G.C.B. K.B.E., CMG D.S.O., who is due to vacate that appointment In April, 1938. 6-Major-General R. H. Haining, C.B.. D.S.O., to be General Officer Commanding the British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan, in succession to Major-General A. P. Wavell, C.B., C.M.G., M.C.
The War Office states that it is
the intention In future to bring General Officers holding the prin- cipal commands" at home into closer association with the central direction of Army policy.
DETAILS OF THE NEW APPOINTMENTS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1937.
NEW "WATER PIPES FOR
HARBOUR
Recommendations contained `in
a Report on the Water Supply of Hong Kong, tabled in Legislative Council last April, are being put
In hand
by Government with radical alteration.
Instead of adopting the recom- mendation for the construction of a new 18-lach harbour pipe-line, at an estimated cost of $290,000, Government has decided to con- struct two 21-inch mains across the harbour bed, at a much greater cost..
r.
Notice of proposal to construct the new pipe-ilnes is contained in the "Government Gazette.”
Work has already commenced on dredging the harbour bed to take the lines, which will be laid down slightly to the westward of the existing pipe-lines.
As soon 113
the new 21-inch matus are completed, the existing lines will be abandoned.
Examination carly this year by a PW.D. diver revealed that the 12- bour in 1929-30 has practically inch pipeline laid across the har- reached the limit of its useful life. Corrosion has so affected the metal that in the event of a fracture of the pipeline it is doubtful if reinstatement could be affected Berious corrosion has also takem place in the existing 18inch main.
mains, instead of one 18-inch pipeline, as recommended.
COLONY'S CREDIT
BALANCE
A credit balance on the first nine months of the year of slight- ly over. $300,000, with total revenue nearly $3,000,000 in excess of that for the corresponding period of last year, is recorded in the finan- cial statement published on Satur- day by the Financial Secretary and Colonial Treasurer.
Revenue up to 'September 30 at. $24.316.677.65 compares. with an whole year, a agure which is now expected will be exceeded by more than $3,000,000..
estimate of $28,780,250 for the
The Post Office with revenue to-. talling $2,237,897.10 for the first nine months of the year, has al- ready exceeded the estimate for the whole 12 months by nearly two lakhs.
FALLING-OFF OF
EXPENDITURE
The Agures show that under" every head of revenue estimates are likely to be substantially ex- ceeded. Receipts from duties are $550,000 higher than last year, from Licences, $450,000 higher, Post
laneous office, nearly $200,000, and miscel- Land sales at $360.243 are $150,000 receipts, $500,000. up.
higher than expectations for the full year. and $240,000 higher than at the same period a year ago.
On the expenditure side, there is little of special note beyond the falling-on of expenditure on pub- Ic works extraordinary, while total outgoings are nearly $2,000,- 000 greater than in the first nina" months of 1938..
FROM THE GAZETTE
The Report tabled in Legislative Council last April revealed that any damage to existing pipelines The name of Dr. Tsal Len-hwon across the harbour would leave the has been added to the Register of Island in a serious position. These Medical Practitioners entitled to lines. It was stated, form a vulner-practice medicine in Hong Kong. able section of the Island's "lines of communication.""
The name of Mr. George McK. Park has been added to the Hat of Architects authorised to practice in Hnog Kong.
General Lord Gort, V.C., who becomes Chief of the Imperial
The mainland makes 4 con- General 'Staff, is 51 years of age. siderable contribution to the City's He was born on July 10, 1886. He water needs, and the importance Joined the Grenadier Guards as of the security of cross-harbour Second Lieutenant on August 16, pipelines is recognised to such an
During September, income was 1905. At the outbreak of the War extent by Government that it has $500,000 better than in the same he was serving as Alde-de-Camp to decided to secure adequate sup-month of 1936, the total revenue the General Officer Commanding.plies for many years to come by being $2.519.235. Expenditure for London District. He went to laying down two new 21-inch
the month was $2.402,355. France with the first contingent, During the War he served both on the Staff and at regimenal duty, being wounded three times, earning the Victoria Cross, the Distingufah- ed Service Order with two bars, and the Military Cross, and Was mentioned in dispatches eight times. At the end of the War he had attained the rank of Captain (Brevet, Major), and had held the acting rank of Lieutenant-Colonel for a year and a half. He attended the first course to be held at the Staff College after the War, sub, sequently returning there as an in- structor from January, 1921, to April, 1923. After commanding his regiment and serving as an in- structor at the Senior Olcers School he became 0.8.0.1, Shang- hai Defence Force, in January, 1927, After further Staff employment at home he sailed for India in Novem-In 1935 he again returned to the ber, 1932, to take up the appoint- General Staff of the War Office ment of Director of Military Train- and was appointed Deputy Director ing. India, with the rank of of Military Operations, with the Lts.-R. E. Gunston (F/Lt. | Brigadier. He held this appoint- temporary rank of brigadier,- in RAF) 8. G. Stopdley. H. G.
October. 1938, which appointment Dymott. J. D. C. Little (F/Lt..
he vacated the following month in RAF.). E. F. Pizey, W. A. K. N.
order to take up the duties of Cavaye, RC. Harrison, R. T.
C.R.A. Lit Division, Aldershot. In Gardiner, W. G. Shaw. H G. T
September, 1937, he was appointed
Miss Lee Ya-ching, daughter of Padfeld, to rank of Lt.-Cdr. (seny.
Commandant of the Staff College. Mr. Lee Ching of Hong Kong. Camberley, with the temporary arrived in the Colony on Saturday rank of major-general. He is a by the Victoria, from Shanghai, graduate of the Imperial Defence An Executive member of the College.
Lt.-Cdr. (S/Ldr.. R.A.F.).-L." G. Richardson, to Courageous (Dec. 13).
T
Lts. (E). Retd.-W. R. Boisten, to Campbell (Dec. 10); G. A. Grid- geman, to Pembroke for M.T.E., Chatham (Dec. 14); F." W. Thorn- ton, to Bruce (Dec, 15).
Lt. (E).-G. H. Cummins, 10 Erebus (Jan. 171..
Cd. Engr.-B. G. Clynick, to Ardent (Jan. 12).
Dec..1).
PROMOTIONS
Lts. (Retd).-R. H. Aldworth and R. H. Aldworth and R. B. Edwards, to rank of Lt.-Cdr. (retd.). (seny. respectively Nov. 16 and Dec. 1).
ARMY CHANGES
Lord Gort To Be C.I.G.S.
ment until March, 1936, when he became Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley. having been promoted Major-General on No- vember 25, 1935. On September 24... 1937, he was appointed Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War with the local rank of Lieutenant-General.
GEN. LIDDELL
Major-General Clive Gerard Lid- dell, the new Adjutant-General to the Forces, was born on May 1, 1883. He joined the Leicestershire Regiment on October 22, 1902. At the outbreak of the War he was serving, as Staff Captain, Northern
Mig Bertha Emedley, B.Sc., has DSO, and O.B. After the War been appointed Assistant Mistress he became, successively. Brigade in the Kindergarten Section of the Major, Royal Artillery, at Bordon, Education Department. 13 from and General Staff Officer in the December 8. "The appointment is War Office. He was appointed announced in "Government Gaz- an instructor at the Stafette" of Mr. E. C. Luscombe as Fo- College in 1923 and returned ice Probationér, with effect from there as a General Staff Officer in December 9. 1933, having in the meanwhile held further War Office employment.
GEN. WAVELL Major-General Archibald Per- cival Wavell, who is to be Gen- Southern Command, was born on eral Officer Commanding-in-Chief.
May 5, 1883. He obtained his com- mission in The Black Watch in 1901, and saw immediate active
Mr. W. G. Fitz-Gibbon, J.P., B.A., General Secretary to the Public works Department, who has been on leave since February, returned to the Colony from England an Tuesday, December 14.
"CHINESE AVIATRIX
IN COLONY
Citizen's Emergency Auxiliaries, she has been actively engaged in patriotic work in Shanghal, and organised and conducted the 24th branch" Red Cross Hospital in Jessfield Road. In addition she is regarded as an extremely efficient aviatrix.
After a brter rest here Miss Lee
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Command, York, and in November. service in South Africa. In 1908 will continue patriotic work in Own Farm Fed
he took part in operations in the Zakka Khel country on the North- -West Frontier of India, and on the outbreak of the Great War was
The War Office announces that the following appointments are about to take effect:-
1914, went to France as Deputy As- 1.-Major-Gerieral ... (local Lleu-sistant Adjutant and Quarter- tenant-General) the Viscount master-General. He served In Gort. V.C., C.B., C.B.E, D.5.0.. France until the end of 1916, when M.V.O.. M.C., to be Chief of the
he was recalled for special employ-serving as a General Staff Officer Imperial General Staff and to be
ment at the War Office. During promoted to the rank of General, the War he was mentioned six in succession to Field-Marshal
times in dispatches and earned the Sir Cyril Deverell, G.C.B., K.B.E, CM.G., CBE, and DAO. He ..who has resigned that appoint served as an instructor at the Staff
ment in order to facilitate the promotion of younger officers. 2.-Major-General C. G. Liddell, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.5.0, to be Adjutant-General to the Forces,
South China for the Auxillaries which have been invited to co- operate with the Kwangtung au- thorities "with reference to trans-
port for the medical services.
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Trained in Geneva, and in the Boeing School of Aeronautics in the United States, Miss Lee has flown over alll the air lines in China, She also holds a local "B" certiucate.
Pheasante
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SUCKING PIGS
CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS
Crosse and Blackwell $1.07 per 1 lb. tin Finest Quality, and Cooked, Ready for Serring.
MINCE MEAT
In 1'ib jars
Crosse & Blackwells.. .78 per jar Chivers
HORS D'OEUVRES
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CHICKENS
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SAUSAGES
under 10 lbs LocalTM
under 10 lb■
PORK
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Caviare
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Caviare
$5,25 per { ib jar
(Red)
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Fillets Leg (Whole) Chops. Trimmed
Blue Moon
$1.00 per Ib
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Cheese
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FISH
4.85 per lb Fresh Local
Garoupa... Macao Sole
$ .82 per lb
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$1.50 each
Balmon
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Smoked Salmon
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College from March, 1919, until
ed, mentioned in dispatches three from any other centre, she sayя April, 1922, and then as G.8.0.1 at
If desired, birds will be dress- times, and awarded the CM.G. that women pilots could fy medicaled free of charge, and stuffed., M.C., and the brevet of lieutenant- supplies to the war front orto
Stuffing colonel. After the War he served on the staff in Egypt, with the rank of brigadier-general. Sub- aequently he served on the staff at the War Office and in the Southern Command. From 1930 till 1934 he commanded an Infantry brigade at Aldershot, being promoted major general in October, 1933. In March, 1935, he assumed command of the 2nd Division at Aldershot, which appointment he vacated to take over the command in Palestine in Avgust of this year,
the War Office. In June, 1931, he took over command of the 8th In- fantry Brigade at Plymouth, which in succession to General Sir
he gave up in April, 1934, having Harry Knox. K.C.B. D.SO., who been promoted major-general the has also resigned in order to previous December. On January 1, facilitate the promotion of 1835, he assumed command of the younger officera.
47th (2nd London) Division, Terri 3.-Engineer Vice-Admiral
Sirtorial Army, and in November of Harold A. Brown, K.C.B., Direc- the same year he was transferred tor-General of Munitions "Pro-
to the command of the 4th Division duction, to take over the duties at Colchester, which appointment of the Master-General of the he holds at the present time. Ordnance from Lieutenant-Gen- | Major-General Liddell eral Sir Hugh Elles, KCB.graduate of the Imperial Defence K.C.M.G., K.,C.V.O., DBO., who is College. From 1923 to 1925 he held relinquishing his present post to the post of Deputy Administrator. facilitate a reorganization under British Empire Exhibition." "Wem- which the two departments are bley.
to be merged.
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GEN. ADAM
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Bir Harold Brown will retain the title of Director-General. of Major-General Sir Ronald Forbes, Munitions Production and will be Adam was born ~ón: October 30, assisted," by Lieutenant-General 1885. He joined the Royal Artillery
New Service Station
An elaborate new service station is under construction and will be completed shortly for the Standard
M. G. Taylor, C.B., C.ΜG., DSO, on July 27, 1905; and was serving | Vacuum Off Company at the corner who will have the title of Deputy as a regimental captain at the out-of Arsenal Street and Lockhart Master-General of the Ordnance. | break of war:: He went oversea in Road, Wanchai.
ANNUAL SALE OF WORK
man expert. the turkey
Pork...
Dark or Light.
(Sorry 1) Uzford The students of St. Stephen's or Cambridge. 80 Girls' College, held their annual Tomato (to order). .70 sale of work on Saturday in ald Vienna of the ministering children's league and local charities.
Hundreds of visitors thronged the Kwok Blu Lau Hall of the College, in which most of the stalls were situated...
The sale was officially opened by Mrs. C. Middleton-Smith, who was introduced to the visitors by the Headmistress of the College, Mias E. 8. Atkins, supported by the Rev.
4.-Colonel : (Temporary Major-September, 1914;"andfosaw service The building, will, be used as a C. R. Carpenter, Mis. W. B-Fin- General):Sir Ronald Adam, Bart, in France, Belgium, and Italy. He filling and service station, and nigan, wife of the Registrar of the D8.0, O.BE, to be Deputy Chief | was mentioned three times in die will be complete! with the latest | University, the Reverend'- Y. L. of the Imperial Clenéral, Skałka patches; and !- was^) awarded the I garage equipment for car owneri, 1 Chung.
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