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APPEAL FOR ANTI-AIRCRAFT SECTION.
ROTARY TALK.
Mr. C. Champkin was in hin mood when he usual humorous-
delivered an address at yesterday' Juncheon of the Hongkong Rotary Club,
Anti-Aircraft ол These Guns," in the course of which he appealed for men to come forward and join the newly-formed Anti- Aircraft Light Automatic Company of the Hongkong Volunteer De- fence Corps,
The Chairman (Sir
William Hernell) welcomed the following guests, sa non-Retarians. Mr. R. (California), Mr. V.G. C. Turvini Bronson (Hongkong), Mr. A.D. Muir (Hongkong) and Mr. F. Syme Thomson (Hongkong), and Dortor HP. Yew, (Yunaniu).
Also the following Rotarians, Mr. C.E. Horsman (Shanghai), Mr. M. Sandor, Mr. W. Yinaon Lee and Mr. R. Farr, all of Shanghai, and Mr. T. Fox (Bangkok).
Mr. Lee expressed his pleasure at Anding the Hongkong Club pro- spering, saying Shanghai Ro- Larians brought back news of the activities in Hongkong, and they greatly appreciated the welcome always given them.
added. "I left Shanghai the day before the Lytton Commission arrived so I cannot tell you much
hout the peace negotiations.
1
do notien Kere, however, that the pews that appears in the Hong- konse papers IR very meagre daughter) compared with what appears on the spot. We have the frunt and sometimes the second
plastered page
with NWA (Laughter).
Mr. Champkin's Address. Mr. Champkin said, I was with nomo dilenity that I persuaded my friend, Mr. Macpherson, to prevalt apom me to accept your kind in- vitation to-day. You have been very patient with me here on other pcensions when I have spoken on subjects of which I know nothing. but I confess I feared the danger of putting your forbearance to a breaking strain on the subject of these anti-aircraft guns.
It in only fair to Me. Macpherson for me to say that he endorsed my apprehension with a wholeheart- Lodness that seemed la më perhaps a little ready. having regard to our long and friendly association In imposing on the suffering public of this Colony,
An Absorbing Passion. Anti-aircraft guns happen to be an absorbing passion of mine, bui I don't expect you to be anything : but mildly interested in them, any more than you would expect me to be particularly interested in golf, of snipe, or
or the ass3881 271 Laughter).!
the nude
We all have our hobbies and I didn't come here to talk about mine. I am here principally de- cause I find It pleasant to be in The goodly company of so many old volunteers, and I am more gind than I might be, after tasting this
fffee, to know that most of
you don't think anti-aircraft guns 'are worth a damn-(Laughter) Should be much discouraged if you thought otherwise! When old volunteers develop the habit of taking a cheerful view of volun- terring they ought to retire. can always find them a congenial job in the Boy Scouts.
We
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23, 1932.
the
the
The Colony expects, and hae every right to demand, a decorous and decent despondency from its Defence Corps, (Laughter) for there has never been a time in its history when the Colony's beat volunteers
were not world's worst pesalmiats.
It was so in our time, and It has always been so.
daresay most of you can go back twenty- five
when the rifleman with dull amazo.the first watchers,
disturbed aeroplane that pleasing amenities of his Easter manoeuvres. He know then that volunteering was Anished. Ke Know the aeroplane had beaten him and that the end had come, Whiskered Warriors. Forty years before his time, the whiskered warriors, whose traits are preserved in our cers Mens, whowed their beards with the name diamal foreboding. They laid aside their crossbows
(Laughter) whatever amallarms they used in the sixties, and
took they up the Intest thing in gents' snappy Sul- der rides, and they also know the and had come. They also knew that modern armament had put a sock in the old spirit and that volunteering would never be the same again.
and
ind
hattioases
por-
om.
or
So it has been throughout three quarters of a century of volunteer- ing history. We have all been elmy prophets, but, like old Ezekiel, we have seen the dry lanes, stirring, and we are
not without hope that the spirit of the nixties, that never failed us yet, will serve the hour and need long after we are gone.---(Applause),
Never More Keen.
We know that if the Colony's volunteers to-day are small In numbers they have never been more keen and that they are im mensurably more efficient than at any time before.
We know that those old warriors" in picturesque poses, throwing the weight of their bodies on their chinstraps (laughter) were splen- They did fellows.--(Applause). handed down something more last- ing than a pecular fashion in sidewhinkera. They started great movement. They passed on A great tradition. They gave to these who came after them a spirit that, if it has wearied at times, Ins gathered strength again,
and
Kone
from strength 10 strength when real and urgent need has called on this Colony for volunteers.
A. A. an Urgent Need.
The Anti-aircraft Light Auto- matic Company anticipates a rent and urgent need-the need to guard against once that twenty- five years ago would have seemed na fantastic as it seemed forty years before then, when Tennyson forevisioned the nations' acrial ravien grappling in the central blue.
We know how real that menace is to-day-not to us of course, (Continued on Page 11.)
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