1938-06-11

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NEWS ABOUT THE

THE SERVICES

ROYAL NAVY.

SHIPBUILDING AT

COWES

Co., Limited. The naining ceremony was performed by Lady Mitchelson, wife of Sir Archibald Mitchelson. chairman of the company.

WAS

Flag Lieutenant and squadron ROYAL AIR FORCE

signals and wireless officer, 3rd Cruiser Squadron; Lieutenant V

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

'CIVIL LICENCES

THE SERVICES

39 CHARGED

Subversion In Polish Army

propaganda, in the Polish Army.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1938.

SOUTH AFRICAN | REORGANISATION OF INFANTRY

AIR DISASTER

Military Funeral For Victims

AND ARTILLERY

British Army Changes

400 U.S. PLANES FOR BRITAIN

C. Begg, from the experimental

Thirty-nine people, including 261

London, June 10. The next step is reorganisation department of the Excellent, gun- Because of the reorganization of Jews and nine women, have been!

The War Office announces that of divisions and redistribution of The bodies of the Royal Air consequent upon the reduction in units to bring them under more The scort vessel Egret was nery school; and Commander (E)the School of Air Navigation it will

charred as agents of the Comin-

Force men, which were recovered number of infantry battalions in effective divisional control. Effect. Jaunched on May mat White and officer of the destroyer Dainty in candidates for the second class term (Communist International), from the wreckage of the South a division, as announced by the will be given to this redistribution launched on May 31 at the Cowes E. F. H Lawsun, who was engineer no longer be possible for. RAF

China before his promotion. ciyil aircraft navigator's licence to with having organised communist | African Air Force machine" that Secretary for War in the House of during the Individual training sex-

be examined at Manston. In future

had crashed in the African bush Commons on March 10, it has been son 1938/39-(British Wireless). all applications to sit for the sup-

20 miles north of Limpopo river, decided to make certain changes plementary examination are to be It is alleged that they formed will be conveyed to Pretoria by in the composition of the 1st, 2nd The following appointments are addressed to the Under-Secretary cella of three to five persons as the air today.

and 3rd Div,, and, in peace time. there After the launch

made by the Admiralty:-

of State, Air Ministry, Áriel House, nucleus of regimental cells, with a

The wreckage had been located in stations of certain units, the Capt. R. S. Benson, to President Strand, W.C.2. Claims for exemp. view to the creation of a Popular from the at and a rescue party object being to affect concentra- another ceremony, when the keel- plate of the second of the new for duty on staff of RN. Was tion from certain subjects of the Front. They also distributed pam-at its way through miles of ton of the whole of the infantry

College, Greenwich (July 33).

Payr. Lts.-A V. Veal, to Deexamination in respect of candida-phlets which Soviet army officers bush in order to reach the scene of the 1st and 2nd divisions in the

tes who have passed # short had prepared, teaching soldier was placed in position. This was ince (June 81: F. W. Warn. to navigation course at Manston are how to transform an "imperialist

to be submitted at the same time. war" inte performed by Mrs. Nelva, wife of Captain Neiva, Chief of the

desertion to Russia, in the event STAFF COLLEGE REUNION Brazilian Naval Commission

of war between Poland and the The reunion dinner of the RAF |Soviéť, Europe

Stan College will be held at

Much of the evidence will be Grosvenor House on July 1, with Alr Chiet Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow. taken in camera, .. Hewitt, who was Commandant of the college from 1928 to 1930. in the chair.

Brazilian destroyers, ordered from the firm about six months ago

HMS. COSSACK »

The new destroyer Cossack, Cap | tain D. de Pass, second of the

Pembroke (June 9).

Payr. Sub-Lt.-J. G. West, to Bee (June 10).

Wt. Writers-C Cronin, to Drake (June D: J. A. Oldfield, to Wool wich (undated),

PROMOTIONS

Mids, (A).-C. Wilkinson, K. W. Tribal class ordered under the Hedges to rank of Act. Sub-Lt. (A) supplementary Navy Estimates of sens. respectively May 7 and 301,

1935. will commisstan at k

High Walker shipyard of Vickers-

Armstrongs. Limited. Newcastle-

RETIREMENT

Sub-L.-M. L. Kennard. placed

un-Tyne, un June 10, for her ac on the Retd. List (May 6). ceptance trial and service in thei

1st Tribal Destroyer Flotilla. Mediterranean Fleet. The Cossack

FLEET AIR ARM

will be manned from Portsmouth. J. R. W. Groves, transferred to

(A) (seny where she is expected on June 12 R.N. as Act. Sub-Lt. Among her officers are Lieutenant-June 201, and apptd, in Victory for Commander 3. T. Turnier, formerly|RA, F. base. Gosport.

BRITISH CONSULAR

APPOINTMENT

London, June 10. · · Mr. G. D. N. Haggard, British Consul-General in Paris, will suc ceed Sir Gerald Campbell as Con- sül-General change will take place in the au- tumn-(British Wireless}, "

at New

York. The

of the disaster,

Aldershot Command and of the

a civil war, including Mr. Otto Pirow, Bouth African Mobile Division in the Salisbury

FINNISH GENERAL

ENTERTAINED

"London, June 10.

His Majesty's Government enter- tained Lleutenant General K. L. Desch, Chief of the General Stai of, Finland, at iuncheon yesterday.

troops.

Plain Area.

Purchase Recommended By Air Mission

London, June 10. The Air Ministry announces that Minister of Defence, will attend

It will be recalled that in the Government has agreed to buy the military funeral, along with 3,000 South African and British nouncing the proposed changes in 400 aircraft from two American the composition of the motorised

manufacturing firms. division based on the light

Two hundred of these planes will The Premier General Hertzog machine-gun, Mr. Leslie Hore-

for general reconnaissance has sent a message of sympathy to Belisha explained that a war divi-tuties and two hundred for ad- Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and has sion. which would be a ttexibl started a public subscription on formation at might in the fature, behalf of the dependents of the victims of the disaster. -(Trans acean).

MORE RECRUITS

Landon, June 10. Regular anay recruits last week Sir Thomas Inskip. Minister for numbered 727, an increase of 266 the Co-ordination of Detence. was over the corresponding week of last In the chair-(British Wireless). year.(British Wireless).

vanced training.

The purchase was recommended

should consist of nine battalions by the Air Mission which recently supported by artillery and other arms according to need.

TWELVE FIRE UNITS

went to the United States.

The Mission also discussed with firms in Canada the possibility of bringing into being increased capa-. At the same time. the intention city plants in that country for the zo reorganise divisional artillery in manufacture of aircraft on a long- fre units of twelve instead of six range plan.

kuns was announced.

The Government is considering Changes in infantry and artillery certain tentative proposals which units are necessary to give effect have been formulated as a result Ite the above reorganisation.

of these discussions-(Beuter).

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