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SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1933.

HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS

ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.

Orders issued by Lieut.-Col L. G. Bird, D&O. OBE, Com. manding H.K.V.D.C.:-

Hong Kong. Friday, March 24.

PARADES

Battery,

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especially requested to point of attending.

make

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be

Bella and Side-arms must on worn.

There will be parade Thursday, March 30 at 5.30 p.m. at Headquarters.

Engineer Company. Parade at the Miniature Range Monday. 27th

at 5.30 p.m. instant.

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Corps Signals

Parade ut Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28.

Plumes for field service has have now arrived and will be issued after parade by C.Q.M.S. Stainfield.

Practice parade in uniform for the entire Corps will take place on Tuesday, April 4 and all ranks of! the Anzac Company are requested to make a note of the date.

The Officer Commanding the The Section will parade at Head- undermentioned Unit will issue hi quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, orders separately to his Command:

Machine Gun Troop. March 27 for the fifth of the series of Lectures.

Armoured Car Section

There will be a parade for Machine Gunners

Thursday, March 30 at Headquarters.

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Motor Machine Gun Section. Parade on Monday at 5.30 p.m. at Headquarters for practice ride

March 27.

Lecture Room.

Allotment of

Armoured Car Section on Monday.) March 27.

Transfer. No. 1492 L/Cpl. J. E. Richard- son, No. 4 Platoon, is transferred |

Headquarters, Machine All members

Solo ito owning Machines are requested to attend. Company as from 24.3.33.

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Machine Gun Company. Parades.-The Company

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on Friday, March 31.

Gun

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MAN'S CHANGING

FASHIONS

More Durable Materials!

Demanded.

PROSPERITY SIGNS

London.

The chief requirement of men's elether in 1933 will be simplicity and economy according to the tailors and manufacturers who

One of the results will be the

Religion In Human Life

The Creed Of Modern Humanism

the real world have been discussing the styles HE suspicions that many people be perceived in of men's wear for the coming

have might be illustrated in which God has made. Men, spring and summer.

they this way.

In the early days of Does this mean that the imagina- demanding that their say, are

were tion can actually create? The best making observations map clothes shall last longer and are commonly taken from the tops of imagination seems

to create, bo- It subordinating everything to last-

churches. Now aeroplanes are cause it is a kind of faith. used. Is this a parable? ing power and simplicity.

ranges about, and reaches and uti- Sometimes a The answer is that, while obser-lises a real thing. turn of the single-breasted suit vation is essential, there must be powerful imagination is touched to favour. The double-breasted much more than observation. with morbidity. suit has had a long run but its There must be equipment. Does popularity has been slowly fading. the Church-any Church-still Fashions generally will be simple keep in the old weather-beaten and subdued though soft hats will armoury the true spiritual panoply have colours slightly lighter and for modern man? more pronounced in shade. hard fell hat is rapidly returning

is welcomed by one

and

The

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In the more heavily-weighted storles of a George Eliot, a Har dy, or a Theodore Dreiser, you can ace a dull thickening of dis aster closing in upon a helpless Maggie Tulliver a puzzled

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DISHES WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.

Russian Chef

Indian Cook

European Supervision.

But first of all, is it agreed that

this spiritua!! must have to the favour from which it was panoply from somewhere? I think

Yet, even so, there is a plan ousted by the soft hat, particularly it is. There are differences about emerging from somewhere. Lecture Room Is allotted to the the soft black hat, and its return the best way of covering our author is like a gifted eccentric well-known nakedness, but not much about the child, not at home in his own fam- hatter as "a sign of increasing necessity of cover.

ily, misunderstanding and misjud- prosperity

formality."-

Source of Truth.

ging his father, magnifying the dif- Reater.

The sort of modern book which ficulties, forgetting the compensat- is very apt to assume, without any ing joys. He has a power of sear- argument and with very little ap-ching vision, bravely exercised, No. 1221 L. Sgt. J. P. Baleros,

The Canteen will be in atten-pearance of knowing the facts, that though astigmatic in its quality. Christianity is a spent force, is

True Religion. will No. 9 Platoon, is transferred to No. tendance on both days.

Much of the best literature has evertheless probably seeking and Duties Range Officers. parade at 6.30 p.m. at Headquar-10 Platoon as from 24.3.33.

2nd Lieut. Sequeira, No. 10

The following Officers will per- often claiming to have found, some this touch of bitterness in its trage. ters in mufti with rifles, belts and

and take form the duties of Range Officers sort of unifying philosophy of life.dy, because fiction chooses the un- side-arms for practice for G.O.C.'s Platoon, is transferred

It is generally agreed that a phile-usual, piquant and yet not impos Slattery Command of No. 9 Platoon with on Sunday, March 20:- Inspection under C.S.M.

effect from 24.3.33.

Stonecutters-Lieut. 1. G. Wil-sophy of some sort is necessary to sible situation. And, indeed, there

salvation.

is much dreadful tragedy in life. It There must, if possible, be, cannot be denied.

It is among the data of which some constant background.

Even in the hard province of the unifying philosophy must ren- commerce and industry, in which, der an account. All the real pro- Capt. E. J. R. Mitchell, Machine' The attention of all Officers despite Ruskin, there is something tests, whelher violent like that of Gun Company, granted 7 months Commanding Companies and Unita of an iron quality, there neverthe Shelley, sombre-philosophical like M. leave with effect from 1.4.33 10. again drawn to Corps Training less operate principles which are that of Mill, sombre-artistic like only to be discerned by what is, that of Hardy-all the real protests Circular No. 6 dated March 16,

For the information of all other called Vision. The live trades are against what is assumed to be reli- All those detailed to shoot in the No. 1595 Cpl. V. 31. Nunes, No.

10 Platoon, grunted 1 month ranks concerned, the following is those which practise industrial region, made in the name of something Easter Meeting will attend.

leave from 27.3.33 to 26.4.33. the allotment of Ranges for April, search.

No. 1492 LCpl. J. E. Richard-2:- All sections will parade at flead:

Car Stonecutters - Armoured quarters at 530 pm, on Monday, son. Headquarters-Machine Gun

granted ten months' Section and Casuals, Vickers Gun. ¡Company, Murch 27.

Peak-Machine Gun Company leave from 1.4.33 to 1.2.34.

No. 1385 Spr. F. S. W. Smith, and Casuals, Rifle.

Company, granted GF G.O.C. Inspection. Practice for:! leave from 1.4.33 to A Corps Practice parade for the Annual Inspection by the General

The Colour Party will parade under Lieut. D. M. Richards also in mufti

liams. Promotion & Appointment. No. 1826 Pte. B. J. Monks, Anzac Peak--To be detailed by 0.C.| Company, appointed Lance Car- Portuguese Ca.

Annual Classification-Rifle and Musketry. The Peak Range isjporn with effect from 17.3.33,

Vickers Gun. allotted to the Company on Sun- day, April 2 at 9.30 a.m. for Rifle

Casuals.

Range

Richards.

Officer-Lieut.

A.A.L.A. Company.

D.

31.10.33.

Leave.

Inter.

Two Regular Instructors will be from 13.3.33 10 12.6.39. available

2 Lieut. F. P. Sequeira.

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Research involves vision better are part of the preparation CEYLON

and education.

for the true religion. is a method And education

This true religion is discerned hy neither of inserting information eyes purified through suffering. Into a receptacle nor of simple The saber enthusiasm thus engen- extraction. It connects with dered gives the true vision. Learn- something which some of us are, ing obedience through things suf bold enough to call eternal. fered is a way into the Kingdom of It is based on the belief that God.

to

Portuguese Company. Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on March 28 for practice for Engineer the Guard of Honour to be provid-¡months'

a spring of truth, not The protect was an experiment ed by the Portuguese Company on 30.9.33. 31st instant. Further details of Na. 782 Pte. A. L. G. Eastman, Offfeer Commanding the Troops in there is practice parades etc, will be issued No. 3 Platoon, Machine Gun Com China will take place on Tuesday, merely far beyond what is already which some must make, and all

3 months' leave April 4.

contained in the united capacities must note. But the true imagina- granted pany,

The Corps less The Armoured of teacher and learner, but inex-tion is not baffled by the tragedy. It pierces through the tragedy to No. 1830 Pte. F. J. Wingrave, Car Section, The Motor Machine haustible.

The promise that belongs to God. At one point, in the supreme Company Orderly Offfeer for the Anzac Company, granted 6 months' Gun Section, The Signal Lorry &

other paradox of Calvary, it even finde Medical Section) will parade at education belongs also April 2-leave from 17.2.88 to 16.7.333. week ending Sunday,

To God in the tragedy. No. 269 Ple. W. C. Watson, Res Corps Headquartere at 5.30 p.m. provinces of human action.

achieve a

the satisfying result

Some people think that they of Two sorve Company, granted 12 months' Sharp.

can evade the significance of A Guard of Honour

The Units mentioned in brackets action must be based on a belief Officers and 50 other ranks will be leave from 25.3.3% to 24.3.34.

Calvary by calling it "the sub- Struck Of The Strength. above will assemble Murray in that which is deeper than in-l

more vital provided by the Portuguese Com-,

lime poem of the Christ-life." All that is very nice, and true! pany on the rasion of the visit Having completed three years' Parade Ground by 5.45 p.m. under genuity, fresher and

the second in Command in posi-than machinery. of HE the Governor of Macao on service:—

Can we go farther than that, and enough as far as it goes. But it the 31st instant. All ranks of the No. 1326 Kdr. A. S. Bliss, The tions to be indicated by him.

The Colour Party will be formed say, "e belle? in that which is has two weaknesses. In the first Company are urged to attend the Battery, as

diviner than democracy"? Is it place, the meaning of Christ's life by:-- parade on Tuesday, 28th instant,, 1982.

Lieut. D. M. Richards, Lieut.really true that without belief in and death is not completely ex- God we shall not be able to under-pressed by calling it a poem, un- Three Sergeants to be detailed stand the world, or use it aright? lesu, indeed, the term be defined in by O. C. Machine Gun Company. Is truth not only at the bottom of its strict Greek sense of polema, a a well, but stored and available in thing done. History cannot be re- Full details will be issued 'O.'s C. Units and detailed plans Heaven, and to be sought there-solved into picturesque ideas. No. 2003 Ple. J. B. Woolley, have been placed in the Drill Hall. from? Sanitary Department, Tel. 39-16, Annual Inspection of the Corps Engineer Co.. 12.3.33.

By The G.O.C. The G.O.C. will carry out Annual Inspection of the Corps Tuesday, April 11.

A that the final arrangements can ensure a

be made to out.

Lewis Gun Badges.

smart fur11

The follow-

Fum February

Strength.

24.

The following have been taken! on the Strength:--

No. 2002 Pto. W. W. C. Shewan,

ing N.CO's and men qualified on P.W... Tel. 39—197, Engineer Co., Sunday, March 5 and Sunday, 183.35. March 19 for Lewis Gun Badges.

CS.M. Haptista

C.Q.M.S. Rebeiro

2004

Pte. A. Foster,

Sanitary Department, Tel. 39–16, Engineer Co.. 18.3.33.

No. 2005 Ptr. C. A. Braga, China Light & Power. Tel. 28538, Anzac

Co., 20.3.33.

No. 2006 Ple. R. 9. Tissington, University, Tel. 28056, Anzac Co.,

Highest possible score 40.

Pie A. Ward

38

36

Ple. R. Medina

32

Pie. L. A. Roza

42

Ple. A. 1. V. Remedios

30

Cpl. L. Soares

30

Pie. L. G. Silva

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Ple. P. Tonnochy

30

30

Ple. F. M. Silva

34

L/Cpl. F. M. Britto

30

Ple. L. G. Morales

30

Pte. L. M. Roza Pereira

30

Pte. A. M. B. Rocha

30

Friday, April 14

and

Pte. C. M. Silva

30

April 15.

Pte. F. A. Santos

30

List of Evente:-

Pic. W. C. Ogley

30

Team

Events-Blake

Ple. E. A. Remedios

32

Pte. S. R. Silva

30

30

Pte. A. J. Castilho

Marksman'a Badge. On the same

20.3.33.

Rifle Meeting.

The Annual Rifle Meeting will

be held at Stonecutters Range on

Saturday,

Shield

V. C. Branson, M.C.

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on

in

There

The other weakness is that the create. Some people are very unwilling imagination cannot really to believe God.

are It can only find. A very interest- his various reasons, sometimes pride, jing and beautiful attempt to con sometimes shyness, sometimes struct a human religion was made other things. Anyhow, alternatives lately by Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet, in his book called "The have been put forward.

There is a modern creed called Religion of Mun." Humanism, a desiccated form of poetical and very religious. But Auguste Comte's Positivism, or it was all purely human. Task Of Poetry. Worship of Humanity. Comte had

Dress. Officers. Summer Mess Kit will be worn as from 27th instant.

W. H. G. GOATER Captain, Adjutant,

H.K.V.D. Cords.

NOTICE

General Meeting of Sergenals' Mess.

on

A General Meeting of the Ser-

be held Competition, Francis Cup Competigeants' Mess will tion, Tile Competition, Attack Com-Wednesday, April 5. petition, Hong Competition.

Individual Events-Corps Cham-

dates the following Officer and pionship. Tyro Competition Mue-

N.C.O, qualified for

man's Badge.

Lieut. J. V. V. Remedios. L/Sgt. J. P. Baleros, Muskelry. The Peak Range is

allotted to the Portuguese pany on

(open).

All Teams will consist of four Commen.

Entrance Fees-$2 per Team Sunday, March 26 for classification tests. Any member for Team Events and $1 per Team

A full attendance is requested. Golf Match.

It was

very

been bred a Roman Catholic, and He even printed at the end of so be incorporated into his rather his book a conversation between and new religion a number of in-himself and Prof. Einstein, in teresting ceremonial features, a which the Professor attributes to liturgy, and holy days, and so on, truth "a superhuman objectivity; a from that form of Christian faith. reality which is independent of our

Modern

which existence and our experience and Humanism, flourishes mostly in. America, la our mind." more restrained, more Puritan. There is no God, but there must not be any Popery élther.

Yet it has felt a need, and in

wholly barren and

zion-

Creation. in Novels.

The poet questions this, and the Professor's last word is, "Then I am more religious than you are!"

Is It wonderful that Bishop The following will represent the ita

the theological way it achieves a cer-Gore could "not resist the impres- Reserve Chal-Corps in a Golf Match with the Marks-ketry Competition,

sion that if India is to find the Room Officers, H.M.Stain faint aroma of religion, lenge Cup, Revolver Competition Ward

principle of moral renewal it must (Corps), Revolver Competition "Tamar" on Wednesday, the 20th

instant:

Its picture can be interesting look for help to something outside enough. Any picture of humanity its own traditions, whether of re- can be interesting, and when ligion or philosophy?" humanity in dressed up in the gar- ments of a sort of deity, it gains a spurious mystical value, which deceives the unwary. But there is nothing behind it. The figures in Heavy Batteries the picture like are the stock charac- that the Musketry Competition Sports are being held on April 12, tera in the ordinary commercial Range Offcer-Licut, J. V. V. will be fired in conjunction with 1933, on the Soakumpoo Ground: glm, who move mechanically to an The claim to be a creator is only the Blake Shield Competition and There will be a mile Medley Race engineered, conventional conclusion. relative. It is, to use the phrase Remedios.

4.30 p.m. open The best novels and the best of old piety, "under God." the Hong Competition will be fired (220-440-880) at

of Category "C" and any member for Individual, Eventa.

Team competitions will be fired

of Category "D" who joined before October 1982 and who has not fired on Friday and Individual Events Musketry Part III-must attend on on Saturday, with the above date.

Firing commences at 3 a.m.

Lant

Leat tram up 8.30 a.m. Anzac Company.

one exception

Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E. Captain E. J. R. Mitchell, Q.B.E. Captain H. Owen-Hughes. Lieutenant A. H. Potts. Lieutenant H. G. Williams. Lieutenant J. F. Wright.

Royal Artillery Sports. The British

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It is, Indeed, as Wordsworth know, the task of poetry to bring to bear upon any or all the cir cumstances of life, the wisdom: which was gathered beneath the silent stars.

But poetry has two limitations.

The

In conjunction with the Corpa to all Units in the Garrison, HLM.plays have more than this. In them poet imagines, he discerns signifi. Championship and the Tyro Com Ships, Hong Kong Volunteer De-imagination shows Its kinship with cances, ho guesses at harmonies, often be lights upon the, truth. fence Corps, and Hong Kong the creative faculty. The Company will parade in full petition.

Their characters are alive, and But it is. because the significance, strength in mufti on Monday, The Corps Ravoiver Competition Police. Cups will be presented to

the winning team. Entries to the behave as real people. There is at the harmony, the truth, were there March 27 for ceremonial drill in will be held on both days.

Competitors will make their own Adjutant, Royal Artillery, Victoria least something of the true and already. preparation for the G.O.C.'s In-

Barracks, by April 6, 1988.

mysterious development, which can ranks all

ure arrangements for tilin.

spection, and

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