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NEWS ABOUT THE SERVICES
ROYAL NAVY
Inte Naval Attache in Paris, whose | last see service was in command of
the aloop Cornflower in China, INCREMENTS OF PAY
The Enterprise left on April 20 to Detalls are published in Fleet make the annual trooping voyage Orders of the grant of increments to China with half-crews for the of pay to lieutenant-commanders gunboats in the Yangtze and West (executive, engineering, and ac- Rivers, She is due at Hong Kong countant branches) and to cap-on May 28, tains, Royal Marines, on attaining nine and 12 years' seniority.
APPOINTMENTS
The following appointments are made by the Admiralty:
Act. Payr. Sub-Lt-J. D. Cox, to Ramillies (April 30).
Schoolmasters (C.W.D.).—T.
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ROYAL AIR FORCE
'NO, 64 SQUADRON® Squadron, Leader H. M. Pearson, on returning from duty as Assis- tant Air Attache in Paris, has been appointed to command No. 54 (Fighter) Squadron at Horn- church in succession to Squadron Leader C. A. Bouchier, O.BE., j D.F.C.
Hitherto, the highest rates of these officers have been reached
TOURS OF DUTY OVERSEA after six years in the rank, and
The growth in the proportion of have been 30s. 102, A day for executive, engineering, and marine Impregnable (May 4).
Serler Master.-A. F. Howell. to the RA.F. at home stations since officers, and 34s. id. a day for
expansion began is reflected in a decision of the Air Council to re- englueera.
Provision is now made for new Willams, to Impregnable (April duce the periods of overses tours rates for the former of 32s. 10d.25); J. H J. Rowe, to Royal Oak, of duty of officers and airmen. after nine years and 34s. 10d. after Lawrence, G. P. Sullivan. D. E been not less than four years nor addl: W. E. Tomlinson, I D.
Hitherto the normal period has 12 years; and for engineer officers Winkworth. F. T. Michell, T.more than five years, excluding of 368. 4d, after nine years and Hoskison, to President for course at the time allowed for travelling. 38s. 4d. after 12 years. In common RN. College Greenwich (May 5).. with the existing rates, the new
Fi future, it will be three years, rates will be subject to a reduction Glasgow (April 27); J. H. Whyatt, excluding the time
Gunners.-E. J. Woodzet, to and two years in Iraq and Aden, of a. a day for married officers to Excellent (May 9); C. B. Tithes-
allowed for who elect to receive the newly idge, to Argus (May 10).
travel. granted marriage allowance..
Wt. Tels-F. N. Meldgate, to
So far as possible, officers and R.M. SEARCHLIGHT ALLOWANCE Grenville (April 2); H. F. Batter-airmen will be posted direct from
Specialist allowance of 2s. 6d asby, to St. Angelo (undated).
the United Kingdom to their over- day, and non-specialist allowance Schoolmasters.-F. J. J. Blann sea station, and will return to the (proby.), to Pembroke for Sig. United Kingdom on the termina- School (April 25); W. A. Mant, totion of their tour. The tours of Revenge: D. E. Taylor, to Royal duty with the Fleet Air Arm will Sovereign (May 8))
of 1$.
day to such officers who perform the duties of a specialist where one is allowed by comple- ment but not borne, are authorized by a new Order in Couneft for lieutenants and captains. Royal | Marines, in respect of searchlight duties. Hitherto these allowances have been limited to those qual- fled in gunnery, small arms, Army signalling. wireless. staf. or mechanical transport duties.
COMMAND OF THE ENTERPRISE
Wt. Writer.-H. H. Musselwhite, to Maidstone (May 9):
F
THE ARMY
remain as at present.
It will necessarily be some years before the new policy can be brought into full operation and it will not be possible to give the full benefit of the reduction to officers and airmen at present serving APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA
oversen., Postings during the next Lieutenant-Colonel H. & Cour- and ensuing trooping seasons will, tenay, D.FC., has been confirmed however. be so arranged as to in the appointment of Assistant effect such shortening of tour as Director of Supplies and Transport,may be practicable. Rawalpindi District, in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. B. Gompertz.
Captain C..E Morgan, D.S.O.. re- linquish at Portsmouth, on April 11, the command of the cruiser | Enterprise, which, he has held on the East Indies Station since November, 1935. He will be suc- Assistant Director of Transport, ceeded by Captain C. F. Hammill, Northern Command H.Q.
The Conquest
Of Malaria
TWO BENEFACTORS OF HUMANITY The most
Imposing funeral įmonument in the world is that (which the French erected in Paris in honour of Napoleon. Not far from that spot is a second monu-. ment which was erected in memory [of twb men who did far more far the whole world than the great Emperor
Malar F. D. Martin is appointed MORALS BROKEN
SOLD!
BY CLIMATE
Plea For Gold Coast
"M.O.H.
SENTENCED WHILE
ON LEAVE
An advertisement has been, in- serted in the Government Gazette In Lisbon by the Public Prosecutor, to draw the attention of any pos sible creditors of a bankrupt elec- trician to an auction sale of his
effects, at which they may obta
'pro rata payment of their debis||rules of morality are subjected to This is the lists"
"These men have been living in
a latitude where the conventional
a strain, which frequently breaks
A fountain pen (estimated 'value them." 7. TAC
Mr. Eric Neve made this plea at
value 34d.).
A propelling pencil (estimated Lewes Assizes recently on behalf of a doctor and an accountant on
A packet-book (estimated value leave from the Gold Coust, who 2d...
were found guilty of offences
18/-.
Barrie
MS. Sold
The accountant, Raymond Elmer Hunt. 51, who pleaded guilty to three counts, was sentenced to 18 months hard labour.
The other man, William Chis- bolm. of the West African Medical Service. pleaded guilty to one offence and was sentenced to six months' hard labour.
The advertisement occupies five against boys at Brighton, says the This statue, which is on the inches in the Gazette-and costs Daily Telegraph. Boulevard Saint-Michel, comme- morates two French chemists. Pelletier and Caventou. In Septem- ber 1820. these scientists made a discovery which has saved the lives of more people than Napoleon caused to perish in all of his wars. Ee:ore 1820, quinine was 1771- known and treatment of malaria was a most difault and often a hopeless task. Fatlents were given doses of bitter clachona bark, without any standardisation, so " that nobody eculd tell exactly how much of the active substance was J. M. Barrie's "What Every Wo- taken, and those who took this | medicine were not always cured.
NEED OF REMEDY
Pelletler and "Caventou took up research work on cinchona bark,
For £310
The original manuscript of Sir
Det,-Sergt. Collier said that Chisholm, a native of Morayshire, was separated from his wife. He held the degrees of M.B. and Ch.B., and in 1929 became Medical Officer of Health for the whole of the
man Knows." belonging to the Hon Mrs. Maurice Brett (Zena Gold. Coast. Dare). Was Sold for £310 to Messrs. Quaritch at Sotheby's Lon- don, says the Bulletin.
WAR SERVICE
"
Hunt. a single man, had been
So the whole world stood in dire need of a better remedy, for, in the It was a Christmas gift by Bar-a chief plerk on the London Stock tropics, millions of people died of rie to the late Lord Esher in 1909. Exchange before the war. He en- malaria. Also in the United States The play was produced at the listed and became a captain of malaria worked great
havoc Duke of York's Theatre, Lodon, in the R.AS.C. After the war he re- amongst the population of the September, 1908, and in New York enlisted and later served as R.Q South-eastern States.
three months later.
M.B. with the West African Fron-
Contest for the manuscript yes-
tler Force..
terday Was between Messrs. In 1831 he became accountant After long and exhaustive experi- Quaritch's London representative of the Public Works Department ments, they announced on Septem- and Mr. John Smith, of Glasgow. Jon the Gold Coast. ber" 11, 1820, that they had disco-From a small opening of 210 the There vered a substance to which they two advanced £5 bids until the against either of the men, had given the name quinine. And English firm had the last word at they described to the whole world how, ang chemist could extract quinine from cinchona bark.
DAILY DOSE
This discovery brought about a change in the lives of millions of people exposed to malaria. We owe
to these French scientists our abil-
£310.
were no convictions
Mr. Neve, for both accused, said: ; "For some terrible sexual urge due very largely to the climatic conditions, under which they have been living-they have been driver' into this sort of thing. They wil do anything possible to break themselves of a habit which has The various "freedoms" conter-smashed them to pieces.
There were no extravagant lor Barrie's books and manus- cripts. One of the only two coples of "Caught Napping” "had a final bid of £9. It was
Batric's Arst play.
Ity to go into any chemist's shop red on Barrié were sent for sale Passing sentence, Mr. Justice today throughout the world and by Mrs. W. Winter, his niece by Branson remarked: "I hope that purchase a cheap remedy costing marriage. The silver casket con-when you come out of prison you only a few pence, which is a certaining the freedom of Kirrie-will get into an institute, and have
muir was sold for £56 to Mr. John yourselves cured." tain cure for this disease.
The Malaria Commission of the Smith, of Glasgow. The others League of Nations recommends for were:-8liver casket of Edinburgh. prophylaxis a daily dose of six 1929, sold to Mr. Maggs for £30; scones trom a baker in Blooms- grains during the whole malarial Dumfries £20; Jedburgh (wooden bury. sesson, and for treatment a dally casket) £7 10s. The Stationers' A good copy
"Caught Nap-
dose of 15 to 18 grains during five Company's scroll and oak carketping" was bought by Messrs. to seven days. After-treatments are were sold for £14.
omitted, but all relapses are
treated in the same way..
Benefactors such as Pelletler
HALFFENNY SCONES „CONFESSION
and Caventou really have no need A series of Interesting Barrie
of statues. Nevertheless, the world letters telling of his early strug-
Quaritch for £38, and a copy of the book of Broadway cricket for 1899 was sold for £17 105... The dedication page was signed "Mary Anderson de Navarro, captain of Broadway team."
has thought otherwise, and this gles in London were sold for £26 Bartle's manuscript criticism of monument was erected by public In one letter Barrie confessed that Meredith's novels in 1388 was sold subscription.
he often dined on halfpenny for £58.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938.
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