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THE SERVICES
ROYAL NAVY
RETURN OF "THE PENZANCE
mand the Leeds Rifles. He was made brevet colonel recently, and has relinquished the command. APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA
Commander-in-Chief in
The
be
The escort vessel Penzance, Com- mander A. W Clarke, has been ordered home from the Africa Sta-India has made the following ap- tion and is to become the ship ofpointments:-
Major A. J. M. Wilton to the Local Fishery Naval Officer. North, in succession to the Lupin, Deputy Assistant Military Secre- Captain H. A. Rowley. The latter lary, to All a new appointment. ship is to reduce to reserve after Easter leave and is to be manned by civilian pensioners in time for her crew, to be available to man the Penzance in mid-May.
COMMANDER OF THE BARHAM With effect from Feb. 22 Com- mander A. C. Chapman, hitherto in command of the escort vessel Fleetwood. joined the battleship Barham, on her return from the
Mediterrean, tor duty as executive offeer in succession to Commander H. G. Norman, who has teen in the ship for 21 years.
CRUISER CONSTRUCTION The keel of H.M.S. Sirius will be laid at Portsmouth Dockyard early
Captain K. C. o. Bastyan tol command the 2nd Cavalry Brigade' Signals.
MADE A PREFECT 2 DAYS BEFORE SUICIDE
Public School Boy Who Took Poison
· LABORATORY JOKE ABOUT CYANIDE
Two days after he had been made A prefect, Samuel Felix Lieutenant-Colonel R. Richard-Wilson, an 18-year-old pupu, of Bon, M.C., to be Commandant of Felstead School, near Great Dun- the 1st Battalion, 13th Frontier mow. Essex, climbed through the Force Rifcs.
window of the locked laboratory Colonel G. B. Howell, M.V.O.. land drank polson.
This was revealed at the inquest M.C., as officiating General Staff
at Braintree when a verdict that Brigade, Southern Command.
Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Sand- he "came to his death by cyanide 1st Battalion. 1st Punjab poison self-administered while the Regiment, as officiating A.A.G. for balance of his mind was disturbed" Personal Services.
PIS,
Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Jobson; as offlelating Director of Remounts.
COURSES COMPLETED
was
was recorded. The boy
the son of Dr. Samuel Wilson, of Roche House. Rochford, near Southend.
Mr. J. F. Alston, a master, said Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel E. S. that Wilson, was found dead in
ordinary
in the financial year beginning on B. Williams.. 2nd Battalion. The the biology laboratory, lying across The room April 1. This is the last of the five Rifle Brigade, and Major C. M. Val-lan overturned chair, cruisers of the Dido class, of 5,300 lentin, M.C., R.A, have completed was in darkness.
Mr. J. F. Everett, biology master tons provided for in the Navy a year's course at the Royal Naval Estimates of 1936. The Naiad was Star College, Greenwich Major J. in charge of the laboratory which laid down at Hebburn-on-Tyne in C. Gain. M.C. (1st Punjab Regi-stands apart from the
buildings. said that be August, the Phoebe at Govan in ment), Major R. H. Nimmo (Ausschool September, and the Euryalus and tralia, Major R. L. Fortt (Canada),[Locked the laboratory about lunch- Dido at Chatham Dockyard and and Captain J. E. Ross (South time.
Wilson The master said that Birkenhead respectively in Octo- Africa) have completed a course at
the Senter Officers' School. Sheer-always seemed cheerful. The only way he could have got got into ness,
the laboratory was through the window.
ber.
"DUSTY" MILLER FUND
TO HAVE STUDIED AT GUY'S The Rev. K. J. F. Blckersteth. of Felstead School,
Two more of the class in the 1937 programme are also in hand the Benaventure having been laid
A fund is being raised by the down in August' at Greenock and chairman of the Army Boxing As- the Hermione at Govan in Octo-sociation to mark by a presentation ber. In addition to the seventhe services of the association's headmaster Didos, 10 other cruisers of larger coach. "Dusty" Müller, the Lanta said that Wilson was admitted in types are. in hand.
shire sergeant and Army cham-September, 1933, and during his Gloucester will be completed this which have been helped by him been sent to
career" had never
The Liverpool. Manchester, and pion. It is felt that many units whole school nim for any mis-
The Belfast and Edinburgh in the past, and individuals who demeanour.
"ELS character was absolutely
[year.
are to be launched next month.
have been trained by him, will
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Prices $3.00 82.00 81,00.
The five 8,000-ton cruisers of the wish to contribute to the fund on arst class," Mr. Bickersteth said. F1 class were ordered in Decem-Dusty" Miller's retirement. Do-"He was to have left at the end ber, and one, HMS. Nigeria, has nations should be sent to the lot this term to enter Guy's Hos
the A.B.A., Army pital in April to study medicine talk with other boys about potas said:
Only two days before his death hesum cyanide. School of P.T., Aldershot.
had been made a house. prefect." Wilson made a frivolous remark
A fellow
Replying to the coroner, Dr. J ‚F. pupil, Peter John about It" he said. "One of the boys
that he had found some MacDonald Sutherland said that' Sutherland said that he and Wil-sald
already been laid down at Walker-Chairman of on-Tyne.
NAVAL OFFICE IN COLOMBO Paymaster Commander C. J. B. Harris has been appointed 50
H.M.S. Norfolk II for duty in the PLAN TO
Naval Ofice in Colombo, in sue- cession to Paymaster Commander E. E. Brightman.
SEA TRAINING OF BOYS
"The Wanderer and Wishart,
STRENGTHEN
THE LEAGUE
emergency "destroyers at the Nore, Co-operation or Coercion? By L. P.
are to visit Harwich from February
28 to March 4 and from March 141
Jacks. (Heinemann. 8s. 6ď.) The distinguished editor of "The
to 18 for the sea training of boys, Hibbert Journal" makes a strong
from the shore establishinent at plea, for the revision of the Lea- Shotley.
APPOINTMENTS
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gue of Nations Covenant and the consequent strengthening of the League's power for good. With The following appointments are
close reasoning he shows how the made by the Admiralty:---
Capts.-F. N. Attwood and H. M. coercive powers in Articles X. and Barnes. to President for S. O. War XVI are not only impracticable in a world made up of sovereign course (March 14).
Cdr.-C. A. N. Chatwin, to Gar-states each insisting on its own land (March 251.
Lt.-Cdr.-, W. F. D. Cowgill, to Arrow (Feb. 18).
Lis.-K. C. M. Fleetwood, to St. Vincent (March 23); A. C. G. Mars.
sovereignty, but bring discredit on Geneva by reason of their im- practicability. says the Dally Telegraph.
Dr. Jacks makes no hostile ap- the to Phoenix; M. Willmott, to Rove: Proach to the League; on
contrary he declares it to be "the (undated).
Surgn. Lts-E, J. Littledale, toworld's most valuable, fostitution today." His object is to increase Pembroke for R.N.B. (February 21; C. J. Mullen. M.B.. A. P. ata value and its use. To this end, Clark, MB.. transferred to Emer-his book is divided into two parts: Critical and Constructive. In the Kency List (March 1).
former he reviews events in Surgn. Lt. (D.).-H. P. L. Rhodes, L.D.S., to Royal Sovereign (Feb. 181, Abyssinia, and China which have
Proby. Lt.-P.
caused many to declare that the 5. Evans, to
League cannot be of use because Malaya (Feb. 25).
Sub-Lts-5. L. Haydock, A. Lit has not prevented war or, at
least, checked the aggressor. Harper (proby.). to Barham (Feb. 9) A. Gregory, to Vulcan (Feb. 15); A. W. Langridge, to 43 19); G. D. Gregory, to Malaya (Feb.
25).
to
In the nature of things as they Feb.are, he demonstrates, the League
Cannot take action to check as powerful and determined state. and, in failing to do 50. all its j constituent nations are Covenant breakers under Articles X. and Gunner.-G. W. Vine, to ArrowXVI. Better, then, to excise these (Feb. 18).
Wt. "Engr.-P. W. Hoad, to Hood, two articles than discredit the (undated).
CA. Engr.-E. J. Sawdy. Antelope (undated).
PROMOTION
Lt. (E), Retd.-W. T. Kirkland, to rank of Lt.-Cdr. (E.). retd. (seny, Feb. 20).
whole institution.
In the constructive part, he pro- poses what he calls a "powerful diversion" from the warlike tradi- tion by creating an international fund out of money saved from a general reduction of expenditure jon armaments, a reduction which Cd. Gunner.-J. H. Scrivens, with he puts tentatively at 10 p.c. This rank, of Lt.. (Feb. 24).
RETIREMENT
fund, which he calculates would amount to £600,000,000 in three Tears, would be spent on measures of world appeasement" and com- mon assistance under the direction of the League.
NEW LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Major M. C. Dempsey, M.C., who has been an instructor at the Bouth African Military College
He is no dreamy Utoplan; as he since June last, has been promoteci Heutenant-colonel to command says, he is "pacifically minded but He does not be- battalion of The Royal Berkshire not a pacifist."
lleve in any sudden conversion or Regiment.
total disarmament by example; he COLONEL J. B. GAWTHORPE aims "rather at outmanoeuvring Brevet Colonel J. B. Gawthorpe war than at crushing it" has been promoted colonel in the This short book is in the best Territorial Army alter 28 years' tradition of pamphleteering, con- commissioned service. He was cise, clear and forceful- Anyone gazetted to the Leeds Rifles in 1911, may read it with complete com- and served in France with his prehension without any previous, battalion, with the Machine Gun knowledge of the League Covenant. Corpa as instructor, and at the There are, no technicalities. It's Machine Gun "School at Seaford. (qualities are ‚commonsense, and In 1934 he was appointed to com- simple English.
I think I'll have some of that.' It was only a joke. Any- body might havet said it."
son were working together in the potassium cyanide and that it was Wilson did not take any of the laboratory when there was some still in its usual place.
Wilson poison away.
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