H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
ORDERS FOR THE
COMING WEEK
Orders by Lieut.-Colonel H. B.
pie-Captain D. W. Mortlock.
30th May-No. 2. Company, Um- pire-Major E. J. R. O.B.E.
Mitchell,
Lieut. C. de S. Robertson, M. M.
L. Dowbiggin. ORE. Comman-will arrangement with Corps Head- dant, Hong Kong Volunteer De-quarters for filling of belts and of stoppages before
tence Corps.
Hong Kong Friday, 10th May, 1935.
GENERAL
King's Silver Jubilee Medal The following members of the Corps have been awarded the King's Silver. Jubilee Medał :---.
Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E. Lieut. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin. O.B.E.
Lieut-Col. G. D. R. Black, O.B.E.. V.D., M.D.
Major E. J. R. Mitchell. O.B.E. Lieut. N. V. Halward, M.C., M.A. Battery Sergt. Major J. M. Jack. Company Sergt. Major M. Baptista.
Sergeant E. C. Hudson, MC.
DESIGNATION
setting up hind."
LEAVE
No. 2230. Ptes P. G. Strickland, Armoured Car Section, granted leave as from 10.5.35 to 31.5.35.
STRENGTH
M. G. Battalion, (A. Car Section). No. 2352 Private, J. L. Bonnar, 9.5.35.
(Sgd.) P. S. M. WILKINSON, Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps.
Captain,
Nursing Detachment, H:K.V.D.C.
AFFILIATED UNITS
An examination in First Aid F.will be held at Volunteer Hend- quarters on Wednesday, 22nd May, 1935 (provisional).
Details will be circulated in a
In future "No. 3 (Anzac) Com-few days, pany" will be known as "No. 3 M.)
-G. Company.".
PARADE
Corps Engineers
5.30
(sd.) M. M. MELLOR Acting Commandant, Nursing Detachment, HR:VD.C.
Parade at Miniature Range UGANDA FINDS BY Monday, 13th May, 1935 at
UGANDA FINDS BY p.m.
Corps Signals
Parade at Corps Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 14th May for Signal Instruction.
Parade at Corps lieadquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 16th May for Signal Drill.
Corp Machine Gun Battalion:-
Signal Unit
SCIENTISTS
English Plants At 13,000 Ft.
CHRISTMAS THRILL KING'S BLESSING
Wednesday-15.5.35.-A| ranks Last
spection.
Troop
Btruction.
All should bring belts. APPOINTMENT
19:6.
No. 1297 Corporal J. S. Flegg, Armoured Car Section is appointed Sergeant with effect from 1st Mas,
miles an hour.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1935
Scenes auch as this became more common through the West and South-west as dust storms swept the region last month with increasing fury. This Oklahoma farm home was deserted because the dust literally burried ft.
WILL COLOUR OUST
LOW PAY AT SEA
Officers Who Get
Less Than Men
DRASTIC REFORMS ARE NEEDED
Officers of the Merchant Navy who receive less than the men. they command, and war-time master mariners now-in---dire poverty, are among the matters commented upon in a report by the Officers' (Merchant Navy) Federation issued. recently.
"The romance, 'honour and glory of officer rank on the bridge or in the engine-room are all very well in their way-but the 'grim joke' of sea-going officers' pay has endured for too long," it states.
The report, an interim one, for the consideration of navigating and engineer officers, has been issued because of the "far-reach- ing effects" the Federation's membership of the "National Maritime
Board
(Navigating Officers' Panel) "must necessari- ly have on the conditions of ser vice of officers in both navigating and engine-room departments."
The council of the Federation
BLACK AND WHITE? strongly recommend these officers
Hollywood Produces Full-Length Film
LONDON TO SEE RESULT VERY
SHORTLY
By CAMPBELL DIXON
"
to give the new opportunity for negotiation 3 They addi
thorough trial
Will Bring Revolt
"To the shipowners' represen- tatives we would say with sin- cerity and respect that a con- tinuance of their attacks-be they intentional or unintentional on the traditions of loyalty and service will assuredly bring revolt, and expose many officers of the British merchant navy to the specious arguments of the junscrupulous. agitator always
September two scientists are requested to attend this parade from the Natural History in order that a training schedule Museum, South Kensington-Dr. may be decided upon.
F. W. Edwards (Entomologist) Gas Masks.--This equipment. land Dr. George Taylor must be returned to Stores for in-Botanist)-quietly left England The first full-length colour film photography will certainly be the ready to make trouble (and for Uganda to collect plants and has been finished in Hollywood, establishment of laboratories in money) out of the desperation of Revolvers: There are
insects in the mountains. still two
and is due shortly to be shown this country by American revolvers la be returned, Will
Recently they arrived back in in Britain.
pro-sound men roused by prolonged Bignallera Carr and Sloan please had seen and found.
the Museum to tell what they
ducers. The import duty on injustice negative is only 1d. a foot, but! return them immediately.
It is "Becky Sharp,'
"It is contrary to tradition A Different Country
from to pay duty on the 60 positives that qualified officers carrying Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." with required for Great Britain is out immense responsibilities should They have brought back 50 Miss Miriam Hopkins in the fof the question. M. G. Competition Team. wil parade on Tuesday, 14th May at exact value of which will not be supporting cast, including Sir cases of flora and fauna, the title-role, and a large English
be less well paid than men serv 5.15 p.m. sharp
ing under their command, and and proceed by known until the scientists have Cedric Hardwicke
The only alternative is to print contrary to tradition that mas- forry to Kennedy Road Range,
as "Lord them in this country. As the ters of great ships should live in Armoured Car Section
more carefully examined them. Steyne But they tell of a new, Uganda,
colour process is vastly compli- fear and trepidation of instant Parade on Tuesday, 14th May at so developed that it is possible!
icated, and is understood by only dismissal Voluntere Headquarters at 5.30 to travel across it almost any- Sharp" depends the fate of the establishment of a special unit in that refusal to break the law On the reception of "Becky a handful of technicians, the sometimes even in the knowledge without, redress- .p.m. for Revolver and Driving In-where along good roads at
40 black and white film we have this country will be essential. may mean professional ruin.
known for over 30 years. If it The colouring in some processes "We know of fourth officers With 50 porters and native enjoys half the success gained Technicolour, for instance is holding masters' certificates with His Excellency the Governor has climbed the Ruwenzori Range"black and white" is doomed.
guides carrying the stores, they by the first talking pictures, then done partly by hand, which over 20 years' experience in one been pleased to appoint Corporal and other ranges of similar alti-
means, the training of highly-company, who are in receipt of 'A. N. Braude to be Second Lieu-|tudes.
Sir Cedric is enthusiastic about skilled artists, as well as lighting less than 10 guineas per month tenant in the Corps Machine Gun them they collected many speci- has brought back from Holly-jists.
On the top of some of the new colour photography, and experts, cameramen, and chem-drawing less than the carpenter Battalion, Signal Section, of the mens of the everlasting type of wood small pieces of film, and an
Jand other ratings under their Hong Kong Volunteer Defence flowers, Corps with effect from 1st April, daisy family, and some fine speci- little pictures--no bigger than will have on the popularity of officers with little or no prospects
some resembling the instrument through which the
One of the most interesting
command."
A Better Outlook problems of colour is the effect it} meas of the giant lobelia and the postage stamps-may be seen to
Many senior giant groundsel.
unemployed "stars." advantage. "Some of these groundsel are
Like the coming of were living proudly in trees 15 to 20 feet high," said
talkies, it will probably make poverty. One, aged about 60, a dire Nine More Pictures、
some and break others. Dr. Edwards, "and two or three
Goldwyn mentioned Miss Miriam mariner, who commanded trans- Mr. thoroughly competent master feet in diameter.
One of the men behind this determined and scientifically Wingless Flies
Hopkins, a radiant blonde, as alports during the war, was re- planned attempt
girl who should be a great suc-jceiving "vocational instruction." "We also obtained a large col-colours films is Mr. J. H. Whit- launch
cess when her natural colouring consisting of painting cardboard, lection of insects, butterflies and ney, the young American mil-
is seen. Miss Greta Garbo is model houses with water-colour: wingless flies which abound in lionaire and The following are transferred to most
sportsman. Mr one of the others whose natural paint as a condition for receipt mountainous the Volunteer Air Arm:-Pte. J. L. Where there is much wind the director, who made such varied and who should have a greater
regions. Merian C. Cooper, the Hollywood colouring excites admiration, of public assistance: Bonnar, Armoured Car Section,y frequently loses its wings, pictures as "Chang" and "King following than ever.
"The British public should with effect from 4.5.35.
Pte. 6. M. W. Scott, No. 2 (Scot- heights of about 13,000ft, we in the new process one of that colour photography is kind paid, have shivered this winter in
Among the mountain insects, at Kong," interested Mr. Whitney
know that many of their "war time master mariners, to whom tish) Company, with effect from found in temperate
Despite Mr. Goldwyn's dictum so much lip-service has been as are number of rival methods by! climes England.
in which the highly successful
to all, others who have hair, eyes miserable one-room apartments short film "La Cucharacha" was real as uninteresting and drab speedy passage of time to bring "We also found various British made,
jor skin that the camera will re-with little to hope for but the O.C., Motor Cycle (MG.) Section, plants on the mountains, but not!
Mr. Whitney and other mem-Those whose colouring is natural will arrange a Motor Machine Gun
in the plains beneath."
can hardly fail to lose ground.jan end to their miseries.” Escort to His Excellency the Gover extinct volcanoes,
bers of his family formed Pioneer will fare best. The undyed will tion in the report of grounds for The scientists climbed three Pictures; Mr. Cooper and Mr.
There is, however, a recogni- nor on Friday, 17th May on the o-boo forests they discovered two designer, who has specialised in lie sheen on the screen.
In the bam- Robert Edmond Jones, the stage dyed hair is apt to have a metal- casion of His Excellency's depar-new species of mosquitoes.
see poetic justice in the fact that hopefulness: ture from the Colony.
caterpillar bores holes in the within a year, the first big pic-
A colour, set to work. The Escort will report to the bamboo stem which admit water, ture is finished. This company, Now, A.D.C.,
Government House, at 2 and mosquito larvae breed in the which has almost unlimited capi- GYMNASIUM FOR THE p.m.
The Quartermaster will arrange white frog.
water, They also found a new tal behind it, means to spend at for one Sole Machine and two Com-
least £1,400,000 on nine colour. binations (with gans) to be ready after Christmas dinner on the
One of the greatest thrills was pictures. at Volunteer Headquarters at Ip.m top of the Ruwenzori Mountains colour has long been established, That pictures can be made in Dress-Review Order (Mounted) when the scientists, after turkey but the definition of the early Machine Gun Competition-Ist
and (tinned) Christmas pudding, production has blurred and the switched on their portable wire-cost proved a powerful deterrent. Owing to the Jubilee Celebra- less set. tions and Guard of Honour Parade
The actual negative costs only at ld a foot, but in addition the Technicolour
1935.
LEAVE
No. 2325, Sig, S. A. Jabbar, Corps Signals, granted two weeks leave
as from 7.5.35 to 20.5.35.
VOLUNTEER AIR ARM
30.5.35.
them
M.
ESCORT DUTY
Stage
found the same types
:
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Atmospherics were bad and practice parades, the time for 13,000ft. and time had been mis-holders of the carrying out this competition has calculated. been extended to the end of May, heard the last four words of the a foot. The extra cost on a film ceive $30,000 from the well-known national recovery has not as yet
But the lonely party patent charge a royalty of 314d. Hong Kong University is to re-
warrants qualified optimism. but those teams who have already. King's broadcast from Sandring of 7,000ft, is negligible, but it Malayan millionaire, Mr. Eu Tong-extended to any very marked de- "It is true that the undoubted ad their dates alloited, will adhere]ham: "God bless you all." has to be borne in mind that assen, for the purpose of erecting agree to sea transport. It is 9th May-No. 1 Company-Um-is planning another expedition, in the making, and that to dis-gymnasium.
The Natural History Museum perhaps 100,000ft. has to be cut building and equipping it an a estimated, however, that re-Lieut. C. de S. Robertson, this time to Abyssinia, to be led tribute a successful film through- This generous gift will be greatly shipping services increased from "Invisible exparts" by way of 10th May, No. 1 Company-Um-G. Alston.
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