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MORE ARMY PROMOTIONS OVER HEADS OF SENIORS

Recognition Of Peculiar Fitness For The Post" YOUNGEST GENERAL

IN BRITISH

ARMY

London, To-day.

In pursuance of the principle that army officers will receive appointments solely in recognition of their peculiar fitness for the post, instead of by seniority and good record, several colonels, most of them temporary brigadiers, have been appointed to new posts.

Major-General H. R. L. G. Alex-, G. Johnson to be Commander of the ander becomes commander of the Fourth Division, with the tempor- First Division,-

ary rank of Major General, succeed- General C. G. Colonel D. G. Johnson, becomes ing Lieutenant commander of the Fourth Division, Liddell, appointed Adjutant Gen-

Colonel B, C. T. Paget, becomes eral to the Forces. Commandant of the Staff College' at Camberley,

STAFF COLLEGES

Colonel H. R. Pownall becomes Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Director of Military Operations, B. C. T. Paget to be Staff Com-

Staff Colonel T. R. Eastwood 'becomes mandant,

College, Cam- Commandant of Sandhurst, and

with the temporary Colonel P. Neame becomes Com-rank of Major General, succeeding mandant of Woolwich.

Lieutenant General Sir Ronald F.

NOT BAR TO SENIORS

berley,

Competing in the Amateur Skating Championships at Wembley Pool next month, Miss Pat Sheridan, a 15 year old London girl, is practising every day the various figures to be worked on the ice during the compe- tition. Photo shows-Miss Pat Sheridan displaying a remarkable feat in the figure 8 which she traversed nearly 100 times, retaining all her skate marks within a few inches. (Fox - Copyright),

BRITISH DESTROYER'S ESCAPE

London, To-day.

H.M.S. Guardian, (2.860 tons) the biggest, destroyer-netlayer in the world, was holed above the waterline when she collided with a wharf at Plymouth in a sudden squall yesterday.

[EXCHANGE OF

PRISONERS IN SPAINAIK

London, To-day. Success has attended negotia- tions in which the International Red Cross and British officials participated for exchange of pri- soners on both sides in Spain.

It has been agreed in principle that prisoners will be exchanged in batches of twenty-five.

All the above officers (except Ma- Adam. jor-Gen. Alexander) are granted Colonel (temporary Brigadier) S. temporary rank of Major-General- R. Pownall to be Director of Mili- Major-General. W. D. S. Brown-tary Operations and Intelligence, rigg and Colonel Sir Ronald Adam War Office, with the temporary are granted local rank of Lieut-rank of Major General, succeeding Gen.

Major General R. H. Haining.

Colonel T. R. Eastwood to be. It is stated that although several Commandant, Royal Military Col- of the newly appointed officers rank lege, Sandhurst, with the tempor- low

rank of from the viewpoint of age, ary

Major General, in their promotion is not intended fin-place of Lieutenant General W. D. ally to block their seniors' hopes of S. Brownrigg, who was originally advancement.

selected for this appointment but The establishment of Major-Gen-has now been appointed Military erals is filled up temporarily, but Secretary to the Secretary for War. the Rumanian guest at the station. the sentences being carried out.— officers passed over may again be Colonel (temporary Brigadier) considered for posts when they fall P. Neame, to be Commandant,

vacant three years hence.

Major-Gen. Alexander is youngest Major-General in army. Reuter.

Royal Military Academy, Wool- the wich, with the temporary rank of the Major General, succeeding Major General A. A. Goschen. British who Wireless.

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Major-General Alexander, was appointed A.D.C. to the King in 1936, is only 46 years of age, and

until his new appointment had held MORE EXPERTS FOR

the post of Commander, Nowshera Brigade, Northern Command, India, since 1934, prior to which he was G.S.0.1 in the Northern Command. CONSEQUENCE OF EARLIER CHANGES

WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS

London, To-day

The King has approved of the local rank of Lieutenant General be- ing conferred upon Major General W. D. S. Brownrigg, Military Se decided to spend £5,000 on cretary to the Secretary for war and Major General Sir Ronald F. Adam, Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff.

The chairman's sub-committee of the non-intervention committee has study

Major General R. H. Haining will also be granted the local rank of Lieutenant General from the date of

of

administrative problems re- quiring solution when the interna- tional committee finally adopts the Spanish volunteer withdrawal plan.

· It

engaged to advise in re- gard to the problem of

assuming his appointment as Gen and supply of eng had reported that specialists

chief medical

eral Officer · Commanding, British medical officer to Forces in Palestine and Trans Jor problems involved in application of

the withdrawal scheme

danis.

His Majesty, has further approved

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the following appointments, con M. MICESCU IN

sequential upon changes in the high-

er posts of the Army recently -an- nounced.

BELGRADE!

Belgrade, To-day.

Major General, the Honourable HR.L. Alexander to be Com- The Rumanian Foreign Minister, mander of the First Division, suc- M. Micescu, arrived here yesterday ceeding Lieutenant General C. C. from Prague, where he had had Armitage, appointed Master General long political talks with Czecho- of Ordinance in India.

Slovakian statesmen. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) D., The Jugo-Slav Premier welcomed

The destroyer narrowly missed by a foot a tanker discharging hundreds of tons of petrol-Reu-

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Trans-Ocean.

Anxiety on the Government side over the fate of many prisoners on Franco's side under death sentence is allayed by an assurance by the British Agent at Salamanca that there is no immediate danger of

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