HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
BRIGADE INSPECTED
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GENERAL
LONDON GAZETTE
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Art. 182A. Royal Warrant for Pay Devon R.-Sec. Lt. M. W. Howard and Promotion. 1931 (March 1)from Supp. Res. of Of., Devon 1
York, M.C., RE.
Loyal R-Capt. H. K. Watkins is resta. to the estabt." (Dec. 3, 1937): Lt. F. R. N. Cobley to be Adjt. vice
Northn. R.-Lt. B. E. Hastings- Thomas is secd. while holding the appt. of A.D.C. to the Gove. ot Bihar (Feb. 25).
R.W.K.-The follg. Lts to be
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH [That question is being investigated | J. H. T. Icke, P.W. Vols. W. H. to be Sec. Lt. (March 12). After the presentation of tro-at the present time, phies, His Excellency the Governor The third step is to set about
COMMANDS AND STAFF addressed the Bitgade. He said:-|getting the necessary balance of
The follg. apptalare made:-Col. It has been with a real sense of personnel: and obviously three R. B. Pargiter from G.S.O, 1st Gra-Capt. H. K. Watkins (Dec. 3, 7937). pleasure and privilege that I have main conditions must be fulfilled de, to be Brig. Gen. Staff (CI. T), (Substituted for the notifns. In the carried out today my first Annual Ir we are to be successi at this war office, and granted the local "Gazette" of Nov. 19, 1837.)- Inspection of your ranks. and in stage. Firstly, the basic organisa- rank of Belg, whilst so empld. (Feb. addressing these few words to you tlon will have to be broadened: the 1); L-Col J. E. T. Younger, RA, this afternoon I feel very happy magnificent progress of the Hong to be Asst. Dir. of Arty.. War Office that I am able to begin by con- Kong Ambulance Brigade has been (March 7): Capt. H. M. Paterson, gratulating the Brigade on several due, as Colonel Sleeman points out, R.A., from Sec. Asst. Supt. (C) CC); principally to the extreme gen- Design Dept., to be Dep. Asst. Dir. In the first place I do so on accrcsity and the zealous energy and of Munitions Production. War Of count of the strength in which you capacity of the Director of Amfice Feb. 7); Lt. R. E. C. Mortimer, have turned up today and on thebulance, Mr. Alfred Morris, but R. Fus... to be A.D.C. to the Gov... smart und steady bearing which everything has its limits and that S Australia (Jan. 29). you display; there could be no bet-is true of his almost superhuman ter Incentive to further recruit activity; It follows that if the Hong ment to the Brigade than the ad- mirable Inspiration which this Parude gives to its onlookers, and luther recruitment of your ranks is a very desirable development: that is a point which I shall take an opportunity this afternoon to dwell upon shortly.
Kong Brigade is to grow to the extent envisaged he will have to 4ave more help than his present de- voted assistants can give him. “
COMMUNITY'S GOODWILL The second condition of success is the continued, indeed the am- munity, European and Chinese pufed, goodwill of the whole com-
That goodwill
can be shewn in
KOYAL REGDIENT OF ARTILLERY
Ataj. E N. Crosse, M.C., is restd. to the estabt. (Dec. 10, 19371: Lt. H. F. C. Horne is secd. for serv with the Ind. Army (Jan. 31); Lt. I. R. McIntosh to be Adjt. vice Capt. E. 9. Morley, Feb. 11).
Capts. (Nov. 26, 1937)-R. J. C Kenny and remains seed., L. F. W. Jackson.
ROYAL, ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
Short Service Commissions.--The tallg. Lts. (on probl. are confirmed Irr their rank: J. A. Manifold, W. G. MacDougall, M.B., C. McNell, M.B. R. L. Townsend, F. J. S. Baker.
The follg. Lts. (on prob) are conarmed in their rank in the fol- lowing order of seny.:-T. M. Fow- [ler, M.B., G. F. Valentine, M.B., P. CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS Secondly, I have to congratulate
of. RE. to be Mal. (March 5M.D., with seny, next below Lt. P. Maj. R. G. Christie, from Rea, of L. G. F. Valentine. T. A. Face. J. Fox. M.B.. with seny. next below you very warmly on your hlebly creditable showing during the past three ways; by coming forward in
with Army seay. Nov 11, 1933, and p Stewart. E. D. H. Williams. M.B.. year, As the hardworking Hon. sufficient numbers to serve in the rest!, precedence next below Maj-with seny. next below Lt. J. H. Secretary of the Brigade observes Brigade: by contributing to the B. Elkington (substituted for the Mil'igan, G. H. Saunders, E. J. An- in her Annual Report, which I have funds of the Brigade: and by 4: Capt. C. A. de Linde. B.A.. to be Lt. R. F. Hendry, J. Ledingham, notifn. in the "Gazette" of March derson, M.B. with seny, next below read with deep interest, 1937 was genuinely friendly attitude towards Mal. (Feb. 27): Capt. (IREM) GMB., with seny next below Lt. D. a memorable year in our history. the Brigade.
I would take much too long for
The last condition is the provi-C. Chambers to be Maj. (IR.EMA | Matheson. G. W. D. Reeves, E, M, me to make mention even of the sion of sufficient funds. principal features of that year's spoken of the great private muni- Brigade work and I will not at-cence which hitherto has enabled tempt to do so: let it suffice to say the Ambulance Brigade to reach be Capt. (March 9), that abroad and at home, amid the the pitch which we see demon-. arduous festivities of the Corolla-
R. Scots. The follg. Capts. retire tion
strated today: I trust that those and the bewildering rain
springs, so far from drying up, willon et pay:-A. T. McL Mitchell-
I have
5(March 1).
FOOT GUARDS
Rowland. B. Lapedus, M.B., H. F 5. Ods.-Lt. F. H. E. B. Harris to low Lt. S. O. Bramwell. O. Walker, Lambert, MD.. with seny. next be-
M.B., R. A. Bond. M.B., W. M. Ste- Murray, M.B. wart, M.B., D. D. Maitland, A. F.
(March 11).
INFANTRY
Lt. fon prob.) T. P. Howkins is
wrought by the great typhoon and run with ever-growing now. But Innes (March 10); F. A. Rundall Seed, under the prov, of Art. 213. other disasters, the long Kong I cannot conceal from myself that Ambulance Brigade not merely sus-public funds will also have to find The follg. Lts. to be Capts Royal Warrant for Pay and Promo- tained their fine reputation but their share if the Hong Kong Am-M Bucher (March (0); J. Master-
earned new laurels."
· GREATEST THRILL
bulance Brigade is to succeed in finding the services which I have
tion. 1931 (Feb. 15).
ton Smith (March 11); R. N. Gil-
THE ARMY DENTAL CORPS Short Service Commissions-The bertson under the prov. of Art. 118,: But gratifying as is the "well-outlined today.
Royal Warrant for Pay and Promo-g. Lia (on prob.) are confirmed earned commendation which such
in their rank:-F, K. Johnson, E So far as Hong Kong goes, the tion. 1931 (March 11). services bag in their train, never- Legislative Council, not I makes
R. War. R-The follg. promo-Smith, B.D.S.. E A. Moore. theless I think that the greatest provision of that nature and it tions are made (March 10):-Maj. QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S IMPERIAL thrill which the Members and would not be proper for me to go W. L. Dibben. M.C. to be Lt. Col.: MILITARY NURSING SERVICE friends of the Brigade felt last further today than to say that I. Capt. and Bt. Mai. R. E. Barnwe'l The follg. Staff Nurses to be year must have been to read the personally, do not think that is to be Maj.: Capt. P. J. Gething, Sisters:-Miss E J. Howson (Jan. eulogistic pages of the report of members will be backward in shew M.G.. to be Maj.: Lt. C.-H. Nicolson | 28); Miss M. McN. Stuart (Feb. 2); the Chief Commissioner, St. Johning their goodwill.
to be Capt.
Miss E. M. Turner (Feb. 4). Ambulance Brigade Overseas, in I cannot, of course, in any way.
R. Fus. Lt. R. E. C. Mortimer is The follg. provi, Statz, Nurses are which Colonel Siceman expressed pledge the Imperial Government, secd. while holding the appt of confirmed in their appts.:-Miss Q. his appreciation of the Hong Kong but I think that it would be rea- A.D.C. to the Association and Brigade, I will sonable to approach them for an- (Jan. 29).
8. Knight, Miss D. E. Craig. quote one statement which he ancial help if the local Brigade is to train their stretcher-bearers and other personnel,
mace:
A LOT OF EFFORT
"Unquestionably, nowhere within the Empire is better First Aid and Ambulance work being done today
I have spoken at length on this than in Hong Kong and the New subject because it is not only of Territories and an epic could be importance. It is also instant: not
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ARMY LEAGUE [SCOTLAND'S
FORMED
written upon the wonderful werk that there is any reason to think Land Defence Urged
for" humanity being cone by those, that war is imminent but because who represent the Order there"
the programme which I have out-
POPULATION FALLING
1937 Sets New Low Record
HEARTS
A Few Misplaced Organs
In a tent at Mt. Barker, West Australia, 51-year-old Italian who has two hearts was recently interviewed. He is James Alvaro, a native of Calabria in Southern Italy, and for many years he worked as a scrub clearer in the Scotland's population is declin-south-west of Western Australia.
(BY AIR MAIL)
Having regard to the immense lined will take a lot of time and has performed a useful service by For many years the Navy League experience of the writer of those effort before it can be carried out; interpreting to civilians the fight- | words, one could not wish for high-so the sooner we start on it, the ing forces at sea, and keeping the er praise: It makes one the happier better. therefore, to remind you that there i
needs of maritime defence before Members of the St. John Am-the political eyes of the people. are many other passages in Colonel bulance Association and Brigade in Sleeman's report on the Hong Kong Hong Kong, it only remains for stantly out of sight, does not slip vealed in a preliminary statement organs in the wrong places. He The Army, which is less con-ing at an alarming rate, it is re- Nature has placed most of his me to renew my congratulations so easily out of mind; but its de-
Unit which are comparable to that
¦
One
Н
SOUND ADVICE
on the vital statistics
.
to you on your zeal and efficiency.pleted numbers in these dangerous which
for 1937, has a large heart on the right of which I feel confident will carry times naturally raise the question Registrar-General in Edinburgh,
has been issued by the the body and on the left a smaller heart which reacts with a subsl- But the Chief Commissioner did you forward into the future, and whether some similar society might not content himself with praising: to wish you the very best of good not do equally good work on its land in pre-war years was usually left.
The natural increase in Scot-dlary beat. His ilver is on the his report teems with sound advice luck into the forthcoming year. | behalf, states The Times. and it is essential to our future! The parade concluded with a welfare that it be studied with march past the Governor, earnest and willing eyes. This is
THOSE PRESENT
50,000 births over deaths, but in Alvaro, who is an Italian war Such a society has now been. 1937 it fell to 18,870-a new low veteran, and was with the army of founded by a number of distin-record and 3000 lower than 1933, occupation in Albania, and now an guished soldiers and dvilians, under the previous biggest "fall" year.
invalid in the little fruit-growing not the occasion, of course, for a Among those present were the the rather clumsy title of the Amy repetition of the many valuable Eon.
One satisfactory feature of the centre of Mt. Barker, was offered Mr. N. L. 'Smith, Sirjand Home and Empire Defence report is that the marriage rate 4000 by doctors in Italy for his suggestions which he made, but I Henry and Lady Pollock, Surgeon League. The new league announces of 7.7 per 1000 set up a new high body when he died. wish to touch on one important Capt. and Mrs. G. 1. G. Fergusson simultaneously its existence and record, excepting 1873 (7.8) and There was a catch in this, how- point, to which he directed atten-Col. H. H. Blake, Herr H. Gipperich, its programme, which is to urge the abnormal post-war years 1919-ever, as they would only pay the
Professor W. I Gerrard. Mr. Ho upon the nation. by the recognized 29-21.
tion.
That briefly is the prospect that Kom-tong, Mr. Tang Shļu-kin, Mr. devices of propaganda, Including a the St. John Ambulance Brigade Chan Lan-tong, Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, monthly magazine, the needs of in Hong Kong should be enlarged Mr. Ngan Sing-kwan, Mr. Sam Pak-land defence in case of war, and to a dimension which would, in the ming. Mr. Fung Heong-chuen, Mr.to enhance popular respect for the event of war, provide not only for Kwok Chan, Mr. Lau King-tsing men professionally engaged in it. the ambulance needs of the civil and others. community but also—and this is of
at least equal
Importance-for
those of the fighting services,
The latter purpose has, as no doubt is well-known, had local con- sideration already, but it is a very long way from fulfilment and a great deal of further organisation is necessary before that will be possible. Development on this
FORTHCOMING· MARRIAGES
Defence is to be interpreted in the
widest sense.
FEWER BABIES DIE
statistics is that maternal and in- Another bright spot to the fantile mortality show a marked Improvement. The Infantile mor- tailty rate of 80 per 1000 births
was rather lower than 1936 while Not only will the league endea-maternal mortality, at 48 per 1000 your to stimulate recruiting for the living children, is described as a Regular and Territorial Armies, "striking decline." but it will interest itself also in the The following forthcoming mar-training of civilians in the man-ed 68,942 equal to
Deaths from all causes number. riages are announced:
an annual Mr. Martin
fold defence duties that may, under mortality rate of 13.9 per 1000 and Ritchie "and Miss Wal-long; Mr. Li Shi-modern conditions. of war, fa 0.6 higher than the five teacher at the Cheung Chau upon their shoulders. It may be average. For the third year in
Fan
years
scale would, I assume, entail the Government School, and Miss Icharacter of the Army is not over shown an increase, and the 1937 Alvaro fell a victim to bubonic
Wal-yee, teacher.
money after his death to his re- latives. Alvaro insisted that he
offered to give an must have the money down and
not to leave Italy. The doctors undertaking
refused his proposition and shortly afterwards he left his country.
His body is still for sale, if doc- tors in Australia are willing to pay cash before Jimmy's death.
In the tent near Mt. Barker. Alvaro removed his shirt, and al- lowed his interviewer to check the peculiar tick and counter tick e his two hearts.
After contracting malaria to- supposed that the rapidly changing succession the death rate has wards the end of the Great War looked by the promoters, arid that figures are the highest since 1929, plague, and doctors were staggered the requirements of mechanized warfare in material as well as in number of
The considerable increase in the when examining him to find that
deaths due to heart he had two hearts. An application by Jong Bang men are preserit to their minds.
dhesse continued, although not on Altogether the doctors took 10 Turner, formerly known as Jong Although the manifesto may be so marked a scale. Deaths from X-rays before Alvardo The first step that is necessary Sung Yung. widow of Morrison suspected of exaggerating the accident's involving motor vehicles down their offer of £4000 and re- towards this end is the estimation Brown Yung, who died in Pelping nation's present ignorance of the numbered 608 44 more than last turned to America, from where he of the strengths, equipment and so on September 11, 1933, for cessate state of its defences, there can be year.
had enitsted on the outbreak of forth required for each purpose; grant of letters of administration no doubt that useful work is ready
war, Hallway
there WAS happily a good deal of preliminary to the estate of deceased has been for the feague to do. Properly dir- work has been done on that sub-allowed. The estate was
The 23rd annual athletic meet profitable, but eight month ago the sworn ected, its contribution to national of the Hong Kong University liver, which a perverse Nature had ject
safety may become substantial. Athletic Club will be held put in the wrong position, began to The second is to work out how
on Dr. FK. Chen, skin disease but the value of its service will Wednesday, April 13, at the Uni-give trouble. Racking pains caus- many women and men, fully train specialist from Shanghai, will de- depend primarily on its successiversity, Athletic ground. Fokfulumed him to lay down his axe. He ed or in training, the Ambulanceiver a lecture on Skin Diseases to-harmonizing its work with that of Road, His Excellency the Gov-has not picked it up since. Brigade has today who in the event morrow at 5.15 in the school of war would be available for duty with the Brigade: I understand surgery, Hong Kong University.
parallel growth of two divisions within the Brigade, one trained for military, the other for civil am- bulance work.
THE THREE STEPS
J
that our existing ranks contain a
Järgish number of "key" men whose
LOCAL ESTATE
H.M.8. DECOY LEAVES
ofathers. At the present moment ernor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, will"
movements unprecedented in time distribute the prizes.
of peace for awaking the nation to
the needs of defence are being set
on foot by official authority, central there is no doubt a place for the normal duties would effectually HMS. Decoy left Hong Kong for and local, In all the complex new body: but that place needs to prevent them from turning out. Amoy yesterday.
organization, that already exists be carefully studied and defined.
work
turned
Alvaro is to appear before a panel of three doctors, who will make a thorough examination un- der X-ray.
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