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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1932.
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK,
Orders issued by Lfeat. Col. L. G. Bird, D.80, OBE, Com- manding H.K.V.D.C.:—
Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 16.
PARADES
Battery,
There will be a parade for Signallers and Staff at Headquar- ters at 5.30 p.m., sharp, on Tues- day, December 20.
There will be no further parades until Thursday, December 20.
Engineer Company. Monday, December 19-Minia- ture Range.
UNCANNY GUNNERY OF BRITISH NAVY.
Targets Shattered At Nearly Ten Miles.
EFFICIENCY OF SERVICE.
I know that all those who, like; myself, were privileged to live on board his Majesty's ships during the recent Home Fleet assembly at Weymouth came away deeply Im- pressed with the professional keen. No.ness and the spirit of good comra-
No. 1203 Pte. J. J. Xavier, No. 11 Platoon, as from 15.11.82,
No. 1877 Pte. E. F. Souza, 10 Platoon, as from 10.12.82.
No. 1444 Pte. F. A. Delgado, 12 Platoon, as from 16.12.82.
Permitted to resign:-
No.
deship which pervades the whole service, writes Hector C. Bywater |
No. 1565 Pte. A. G. Clarke, in the "Daily Telegraph." Armoured Car Section, no from 18.12.32.
Although navies may be in the No, 1972 Pte. F. C. Goodman, melting-pot, and no officer or rating Anzac Company, as from, 12.12.82. | can be certain as to what the future
Having left the Colony:-
halds in store for him, this incer No. 1053 Pte. H. A. Gregory, titude is not allowed to clog the Thursday, December 22.-D. L.No. 1 Platoon, as from 9.12.32.
wheels of efficiency. Instruction, Wellington Barracks. No. 1930 Pte. J. G. Raven, Anzac There will be no Miniature Company, as from 16.12.82. : No. 1822 Sgm. Sam! Bejonjes Range on Monday, December 26.
A Company Shoot will be held Corps Signals, as from 16.12.32.
Leave,
In the first place, the gunnery, tactical exercises which took place the torpedo practice, and the other,
before the King were by far the Peak Range, Sunday, January 8. Particulare will bo Lieut. J. Norrie-Owen, A.S.C. most perfect I have witnessed in an issued later and Members are re- Cadre, granted 12 months' leave experience stretching over many quested to keep this date epen., from 1.1.33 to 81.12.38.
on
the
Corps Signals
until Sunday, January 8, 1933.
Armoured Car Section There will be no parade
* Monday 19th instant.
on
All Revolvers to be returned to
Store as soon as possible.
No. 423 C.S.M. G. T. Padgett,
on 12.12.32.
12.12.32 to 26.12.32.
years.
Strict Secrecy. For obvious reasons, the Admir-1
THE CHINA MAIL.
Priora, the great Australian tenor, who is appearing
with the Australian Trio at the King's Theatre to-morrow.
ROMANCE AT KING'S have no financial Interest in the
CROSS.
Where Giants Obey Blinking Lights.
There will be no further paradea Corps Signals, returned from leave,alty discourages too detailed, ac- No. 1316 L/Sergt. H. Burson, counts of such warlike operations. No. & Platoon, leave extended to But this much may be said without 31.12.32.
impropriety: The 18in. gun shoot- No. 1760 Bdr. D. Marshall, Bating held off Portland was so accu- tory, granted 2 weeks' leave from rats as to be uncanny. Salvo after salvo fired at nearly 17,000 yards) not only "found" the target in the sense of straddling it, but actually crashed through the 30ft high AND MASTER'S HAND. wooden framework which repre- sented but a small section of al
By Bernard J. Farmer. modern battleship. Of the thirty- This evening I have been to two rounds fired from H. M. S. King's Warspite, the ship I was in, I be boarded no train. I simply walked Cross. I took no ticket,
No. 1748 Tpr. L G. Robertson,
Machine Gun Company. There will be no further parades until Friday, January t of which Machine Gun Troop, leave extend- further detaila will be issued later.ed to 2.1.32.
A.A.L.A. Company.
As from date, and until further | ordera, Section Drills will be die- continued and Members of the Company who have not yet com- pleted the necessary number of drills for proficiency will parade for combined instruction at Valun- teer Headquarters every Monday at 5.80 p.m..
Portuguese Company
(8d.) W. H. G. GOATER, Captain,
Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C.
QUESTIONS WON'T TROUBLE ALEKO.
Mystery Man Comes To
To Taiping Theatre.
lieve that half at least would have to the extreme end of the main been direct hits on an enemy ves-, departure platform and watched.. Bol.
Signal lights, red, white and The steam evolutions or P. Z. ex-green, shone with the hard imper ercises, some of them highly com- sonal. eye of electricity. Little plicated, which the Home Floot car groups of men waving lamps and Have you lost a sweetheart, or a ried out on this occasion, were uttering hoarse shouts, apparently. There will be no further parades gold watch or your false teeth? Do marked by the faultless precision at the sky, moved about among the for the Company during December. On Tuesday, December 20, there you want a sure tip on the stock and absence of fuss which we like points.
And then I remembered; of will be a meeting at Corps Head-market or wish to know if your to think is traditional in the Navy.
crops will be good this year? Are But without drawing invidious com-course they had just changed over quarters at 5.30 p.m. of Platoon Commanders, C.B.M. C.Q.M.S. and you puzzled over the question of parisons, I doubt whether a com- from the old manual signalling to all Sergeants of the Company to teatrimony, or uncertain about your plastically al schede, involving the electric track system. to discusa general questions.
On the left a train steamed up a
concerned are requested to make a
Taiping Theatre to-day because Ale-4 hostile fleek, has ever before been lous section labelled "E" to beckon special, effort to attend, in order
ko and his company of truth tellers executed with such masterly skill it on. It seemed unsporting, 1 that the views put forward and
as that which we saw in the Chan-thought, to stop en engine-and are on the bill.. requirements arising therefrom
nel last week. may be as representative as postions that may be asked by those in They promise to answer all ques-
only a little tank loco at that just Incomparable Pensonnel.
as it was nearing the worst part of sible.
As regards its materiel organisa- the gradient. But electricity is The Officers Commanding the the audience. When Alako visited undermentioned Units will issue this city some six months ago at the tion, and tactical officiersy, the unsporting; at least, it has no soul. Queen's Theatre he answered hun-Navy is tuned up to concert pitch. Another tank-a larger one- dreds of questions and everybody Some of its ships are old, it is true, came to help; they "double-headed," was satisfied. During his stay here and in certain categorias there is and a long line of wagons, clanked shortage. The Navy is past. The signal changing to red The will give private readings after a grave
job? If any of these perplexities Practically all the operations which All confront you; you must attend the would be necessary in action with long bank and waited for a myster-
their Orders separately to their Commands:
1Machine Gun Troop. 2.----Motor Machine Gun Section. 3. Scottish Company. 4.-Anzac Company.
Pärades At Headquarters.
December 21 to Monday, January
the act. He does not claim to be making the most of the means at the moment the last one was by, as a wizard and does not advertise its disposal, and the country may if saying, "Use the track you may. himself as a mystic, but he is a rest assured that the ships we have but hurry up, and the minute and shoot as well as you've gone you cease to exist in marvellous fortune-teller.
dur eyes."
can steam
As for the personnel, perhaps I
No parades will be held at Corps Headquarters from
He won't tell you how he does it over. Wednesday,
but he says he is perfectly willing to prove to all comers that he can satisfactorily answer any legitimate question.
2, 1983,
Board of Survey. The Stores at Headquartera will be closed on Monday, 19th instant for Stock Taking.
Rifles, Bayonets & Revolvers. All Rifes, Bayonets and Re- volvers will be returned to Store before December 24.
Promotion & Appointments No. 1829 Bdm. A. J. M. Rod- rigues, Corpa Band, appointed Act- ing Bandmaster with effect from 9.12.32.
No. 1915 Cpl. E. C. Hudson, M.C. No. 8 Platoon, promoted Bor- geant with effect from 18.12.32.
Struck Off The Strength. Having completed 8 years' . ser- vice:
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
GRANTED) TOO O NIP TRA ADQEQI
POE APSE
S
TO GET
NS AIR ACNE ODE P OR NE D A
R EST NOS EN
DLES
KING'S THEATRE
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
THE CELEBRATED
AUSTRALIAN TRIO
JOHN PRIORA
BERTINI
HARRY STORY
GOLDEN-VOICED TENOR. VAGABOND VIOLINIST.
AT THE PIANO.
THE BEST BIG TIME ACT
TO PLAY THE FAR EAST.
SINCE THE VISIT OF
SIR HARRY LAUDER,
Huge Locomotives.
am prejudiced; but, speaking with
I turned to watch a huge locomo come knowledge of the human ele- ment in other navies, I believe our tive stealing down-one of the officers, seamen, engineers and latest 4.6.2. class, "Diamon Jubi, specialists, ranks and ratings to be 'lee," the boiler rising to the utmost incomparable. Whatever incidents limit of height in front of the cab. due almost entirely to depart and tremendous in its sense of mental ineptitude--may have ruf- power. How quietly she moved! fled the surface of naval discipline She alone seemed oblivious of this in the past, the Navy to-day is a new-fangled signalling. True, she barmonions entity in which, as in halted before a little red eye to Drake's Golden Hind, "the gentle- take up coal, men pull with the sailors."
A local to Hitchin bustled out, The average ship in the Fleet sparks dying from the engine. The is a "happy ship." Between officers electric whatever-you-call-it had |and men there is mutual confidence given 'the driver the right of way and respect. Wherever acamen are there was the green-and what- gathered together there is bound ever happened had nothing to do to be grumbling, and when other with him,
topics fall the system of general Great mel, these drivers, and messing-1, the drafting of ste- how it does pay to keep calm! reotyped menus for the whole And now Diamond Jubilee again. Fleet will always provoke a grouse Quiet as ever, she was backing on on the lower deck,
...to the train on my right: the-Night
-But on the whole the Navy is a Scot. Heavens! what a load to happy, contented, and finely discl- pull: mail vans, sleeping cars, first plined service, whose watchword clasa and third class, restaurant is one hundred per cent efficien- care vehicles stretching the whole cy." It is safe to say that never length of the platform. It seemed before has the nation received bet- Incredible that any locomotive could ter value for its expenditure on haul such a weight, could even naval defence,
start it.
A LANDMARK REMOVED.
The Supermen. Prze Then I go up and stare, like any boy at circus, at the driver, and fireman, looking for the superhu- man attributes which they must The Hong Kong Tramway clock possess to control Diamond Jubilee standard that has stood for nearly (for, like a beautiful wonden, the 15 years opposite the General Post is only happy with a man can Office Ballding in Des Voeux Road master her and Heaven help the Central, near the traffic beacon, was man who tries and cannot!}, "mis
re is more and m removed yesterdaycon
d
The clock, which has become very behind. Someque very dilapidated of Late, no longer served
any useful purpose since the clock- tower of Gloucester Building, which
La flood-lighted at night in clos hand.
business people: -miss seeing the clock, before-rush- the forrd!
of the company.
with the
bustle
10.20, W6
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L. N. E. R., but I would do anything: for then jump down on the track, connect pipes; shovel coal--any- thing to help. I would be proud to. Diamond Jubilee gives a hint of her power. She blows off steam: a fierce roar that blasts every other sound out of existence. Doors alam. Right away.
To-morrow night I shall come again. If the railway company charged admission, the price of a theatre ticket, I would pay it.
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