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ROYAL NAVY
RETURN OF THE AMPHION
THE ARMY
NEW BRIGADIERS
1st.
ROYAL AIR FORCE
to
D.
Rhine Troop Movements
SEPTEMBER 13, 1938.
Cologne, Sept. 12 Considerable troop move- ments took place yesterday along both banks of the Rhine. It is difficult for observers to form an opinion of what is along the right going on banks but it is generally be- lieved that large numbers of troops, and also quantities of heavy artillery, are being max- sed there-(Reuer).
The departure of this detach
made under. General new compulsory labour men will be
LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
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R.A.F. APPOINTMENTS The following appointments in HM.S. Amphin, Captain R. L. The War Office announces, that the Royal Air Force are notified:--
GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH Burnett, O.BE, which has been the following appointments have
Squadron. Leaders.-J. flagship on the Africa Station since been approved by the King:-
Coloriel A. F. Smith, D.SO., M.C.. Anderson, to No. 207 (Bomber) her completion in 1936, will return
Officer Commanding the squadron, Cottesmore, to command to Portsmouth in December on the from
her commission Coldstream Guards Regiment and Aug. 20); J. Coverdale, të No. 103 termination of She is to be transferred to the Regimental District, to be Briga (Bomber) Squadron, Usworth, to Royal Australian Navy next year. dler. General Staff. The British command (Aug. 22); J. W. Homer, and will be renamed the Perth The Troops in Egypt, vice Colonel to Headquarters. No. 11 (Fighter)
H.
G Group, Uxbridge. for Air Staff at
Brigadier) the temporary Devenshire, present In
TO ERECT FORTIFICATIONS Mediterranean, will replace her in Loyd, D.S.O., M.C., who is being (Armament) duties (Aug. 20);,,J.
Berun, Sept. 12 In W. Lissett, to Headquarters. Train- African waters about July next
appointed Commander,
withing Command,' Market Drayton, for Two thousand workers left here fantry Brigade (Guards).
train for Sant- TACTICAL SCHOOL STAFF
effect from December 1, 1938.
a manent duties (Aug. 20): W. J. last night by Colonel J. Muirhead. M.C., to be Millen. Lieutenant-Commander W. K V
Recruits Sub-Depot brucken, where they will be em- Fairlie, who has been a naval as-Commander, 143rd (Warwickshire) Upword, to command Aug 22:ployed erecting fortifications along sistant to the Hydrographer ance Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army. E. S. Moulton-Barrett, to Na. 204 the frontier. 1834 will join the staff of the with the temporary rank of origa-General, Reconnaissance) Squa- Colonel Tactical School at Portsmouth to dier. vice
temporarydren. Mount, Batten. for flying mens, was succeed Lieutenant-Commander Brigadier O. D. Smallwood, CBE duties (Aug, 22; E. C. Passmore, to Goering's
(Fighter)service law. The whose Headquarters. No. 12 Territorial Army. P. W. Pilditch. The intter office T.D., has been appointed for navigation tenure expires on December 1, 1938. Group. Hucknall, for signals staff gone for three months-Retter).
MORE KESERVISTS duties at Portsmouth Dockyard Colonel J. M. Hamilton, D.S.O., duties (Aug. 22).
Nancy. Sept. 12. and assistant to the King's Har to be Commander, 144th (Glouces
Q. H.M.S. Argus. Captain W. Althbuch Saturday was the last Four Master vice Lieutenant-Com-tershire and Worcestershire) In- mander R. G. H. Milligan.
fantry Brigade, Territorial Army. Benn, now completing for sea at day for the arrival of the spe- vice Coloriei (temporary Brigadier) Portsmouth. Is the first of our clalised reservists called up for ser. famous Maginot 4. L. W. Newth, C.B.E.. D.S.O., M.C., aircraft-carriers to be commission-vice along the
15 Line. It now learned that T.D.. Territorial Army, whose led on a Fleet Air Arm basis.
She has no Royal Air Force further detachments will continue tenure expires on December 1, 1933.
Headquarters Fight and only a to arrive at the garrison towns few RAF. officers are serving in mt! September 14 at least.
Almost all the movements In accordance with their annual her. but she has, of necessity, the
isual
complement of R.A.F. troops occur at night and with custom, the officers and men of "L"
constant (Nery) Battery, R.H.A, now sta- mechanical ratings for the main the rapidity born of tioned at Trowbridge. Wilts, have tenance of her aircraft since the practice-Reuter.) Farranged for the placing on their Navy has no skilled ratings avail- historie gun of a poppy wreath in able for this duty. They have yet commemoration of the battery's in be trained, heroic stand against 12 German field guns at Nery on September 1, 1914, during the retreat from Mons. For this gallant action four VCs were awarded. The gun is exhibited in the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road. S.E1.
DELIVERY OF THE SCORPION The new river gunboat Stor- pton, under construction by Messrs. J. S. White, and Co., of Cowes, is to be delivered by the builders at Hong Kong. and there commissioned for service on the river Yangtze Klang, EL.M.S. replacing
Bee flagship of Rear-Admiral R. V. Holt.
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She will be towed to Hong Kong, arriving about October 20. This procedure is without procedcnt, but It is convenient. since" river gun- boats have to be specially -treng thened for ocean passages, and the extra bulkheads built in for that purpose make it impossible to accommodate the full crew needed in a commissioned ship proceeding under her own power.
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The Argus will be depot ship for The Argus also carries a Fleet the Queen Bee wireless controlled Requirements Flight Fleet Alr
London, Sept, 12. target aeroplanes and will serve Arm unit of which Lieutenant-
United States, cruiser. operational charge-a feature of with the Home Flect and the Commande: H. Wright, RN., is in Mediterranean Fleet as required.
Although her Queen Bee fight is the Argus is that airers will not Nashville, one of the newest in embarked as a Royal Air Force take off from her deck in the the United States Navy. is arriving unit. It is in the operational control customary, way. Instead, they will at Portsmouth today and will re- ct Lieutenant-Commander R. Abe shot into the air by an "acmain some time.
The United States cruiser Hono- « Because of the scarcity of norses. Peyton, R.N. All Queen Bees are celerator"-a sort of catapult. She military funerals at Woolwich, Bar-produced ander the Air Ministry at will join the Home Flect during its lulu is arriving on September 20. racks will, so far as practicable Henlow, near Bedford, from where autumn cruise.
MILITARY FUNERALS
be carried out with the aid of mechanized vehicles. The gun-car- Hage in future will be drawn by
special motor-vehicle.
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Naval pensioners of the seaman branch are invited to re-engage In the Navy for shore service only, for periods of three to five years. They The crew will consist of a driver are required for manning the and two attendants. If necessary. observation minefields which form wreaths may be carried in another will part of the defences of various Army motor-vehicle, which
follow the gun-carriage at
all parts.
Those accepted for this service funerals for which permission has will draw. in addition to their been given by the garrison com- pensions, full active service mar-mandant,
rige and children's allowances. together with a consolidated rate of pay ranging from 36s, 2d. a week for able-seamen to 138 6d. a week for chief petty officers.
The majority of vacancies are able-seamen. Applications should
be addressed, to the Commodores,
tember 23 to 26 and Stornoway from October 1 to 3. She will rejoin the 2nd Submarine Flotilla at Rosyth in October
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS The following appointments are
of Royal Barracks at Portsmouth, made by the Admiralty:-
Devenport, or
Chatham. or 20
recruiting offices-
COMMAND AT AUCKLAND-
BASE
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Engr. Capt.-G. Morgan, to St. Angelo, as Engr. Manager, Malta Dockyard (Sept. 23).
Cdr. (E)-L J. Goudy, to Prince of Wales Sept. 27).
Captain H. M, Barnes has been Sargn, L.-Cdrs.-F. M. Duthie, lent from Sept, Z to the New Zea-M.B., to Pembroke for R.M. In- land Division of the Royal Navy for imary. Chatham (Sept. 17); G. duty as Captain-Superintendent of Philips, M.B., to St. Angelo for R.N the Naval Repair Yard at Devon-Hospital, Malta (Nov. 1. port. Auckland. This is a new post Lts.-H. J. Slaughter, B. J. C. under the Dominion Government, wise, to Victory for course (Sept. for hitherto the commander in 25); R. C. 3. Dreyer, lent to R.A.N. cormanand of the training and for two years (undated).
Philomel depot-ship
has been
Chaplaini-Rev. G. D. Bartlett, Naval Officer-In-Charge. Auckland. transferred
List to permanent (seny. Aug. 31, 1934)," THE HOME FLEET
Cd Engr. FF. Gdes to Vanessa. Summerleave in ships of the
(Sept. 22), Home Fleet expired at noon on September 2. The autumn cruise to Scottish waters, has begun and most of the ships will be absent from their home ports till November 17. The Narwhal: -submarine mine. layer, Lleutenant-Commander H. R Conway, will leave Devonport on
Lt.-Cdr.-C. G. N Graham.. September 7 for trials in Scottish waters, visiting "Oban tom Sep- placed on the Retd. List (Sept. 6).
PROMOTIONS Surgn. Lt.-D. D, Steele-Perkins, LRC.P. and S., to rank of Surgn Lt.Cdr. (seny, Sept. 8).
Wt. Tel.-TW-Bacon, to rank of Cd. Tel (seny, Sept. 7).
RETIREMENT
They Call Him "Tiny"
Armiral Sir Charles Little cu for the German naval agreement September 2, went to the Admiral of 1935. Has a reputation as one to understudy. Admiral B of the Navy's most successful Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, V.C.. Se-diplomats.
ty
cond Sen Lord, before taking over Born in Shanghai, where, his that post at the end of the month father was medical officer of the Huge. and a typical sea-dog, at hospital and his uncle editor of 56 Sir Charles still carries the the "North China Daily News." So nickname "Tiny" of his mičahip-his last appointment,as Com- mander-in-Chief, China, was a wise man days.
Ha has had a brilliant 40-odd choice. VERTS' career. Want into sub marines when they were "clock: work mice," became Rear-Admiral Submarines in 1931.
Commanded undersea" notas at Dover and with the Grand Fleet during the war. On
acolt "January morning at Seapa Flow in
CHINESE
MOHAMMEDANS
URGE SANCTIONS
Chungking, Sept. 11.
On behalf of 45,000, Mohamme- 1917 he dived over-board, fullyan followers in China, General clothed, in an attempt to rescue à seaman; received the bronze medal Fa Chung-hi, who is the chief of the Royal Humane Society for exective of the Chinese Moham medan National Salvation Associa
that.
Member of the Briash delegation tion, yesterday addressed a wire to to the Washington Conference of the League of Nations, urging' It' 1921, and Deputy Chief of the to apply erective sanctions against Naval Staff during the negotiationsfapah (Central News).
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