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FORDERS BY LIZUT-COL LO, BIRD, ADMINISTRATIVE (COMMANDANT,

No. 209.

ANNUAL INSPECTION.

8th February, 1998.

(a) The General Officer Commanding the Forces China will inspect the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps'on Monday, 8th February, 1996, at 6.45 p.m. on Murray Parade ground.

Every member of the Corpa (Reserve Company included), is required to at tend.

(b) The Mounted Infantry and Armour- ed Car Companies will parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.15 p.m.

One Marker from each unit will report. to the Corps Sergeant-Major at 3.30

p.m.

(c) The Artillery Company will clear their guns from "Corps Headquarters Parade ground as soon as possible, and march to Murray Parade ground inde- pendently.

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Mounted Infantry and Armoured Car Companies will parade on Murray Parade ground at 6.15 p.m.

(d) The Corps will be drawn up in diagram No. I sent to officers.

Dress; Drill tunics, shorts and patties, helmets, belt, rifle and bayonet. Medals will be wom if in possession: if not, ribbons 1 inch long. Obin. Straps will be worn under the chin.

Artillery Company: Bandoliers. No

rifles or bayonets.

Mounted Infantry Company wit parado with rifles, bayonets and bandoliers,

Breeches..

Armoured Car, Machine Gun Section: As for Infantry, except Nos. 1 who will be armed with revolvers

Scottish Company: Glengarries, khaki tunies, kilts and sporrans, diced hose tops, fashes and spata. Belt and frog.

Officers' Dress: Khaki drill, breeches, putties, Sam Browne belt,, words and sword knot, helmets.

PRACTICE PARADES. V Monday, 1st, and Thuruday, 4th*

·February, 102U,

Practice Parades for the above Inspec tion will be held at Corps Headquarters at 3.30 p.m. on Monday, 1st February, in mufti and on Thursday, 4th February, n uniform.

Arms: Members must draw their rites and bayonets from Corps Head- quarters before 1 p.m. on Saturday, oth February, 1993.

It is hoped that all members will at tend these parades. Members are re- minded that attendance at the G.O.C.'s

Inspection is one of the qualifications for efficiency.

RESERVE COMPANY.

Musketry Course :- Part II Part II., Musketey Course, will be fired at Stonecutters Range on Sunday 24th January, 1026.

Range Officer: end-Licht. G: K. En

Brutton.

Launch will leave Murray Pier a.m. and call at Kowloon Pier at 9.10

3.M.

Dress: Uniform, optional, but rifles, bayonets" and pouches must be taken.

Arms Will be drawn from Corps Headquarters on Friday, 22nd January;

JACOB BORODIN.

INVESTIGATIONS BY SIR P.

PHILLIPS.

DAILY MAIL SPECIAL

ARTICLES.

SITUATION REVIEWED FOR BRITISH PUBLIC.

3x our readers are quare Sir Percival Philips, K.B.E., was sent out by the » Daily Mail ? in November laxi to study the situation here. The result has been a series of special articles which" have aroused considerable interest in Great Britain. A grant many of the facts contained in these articles are, of course, already well- known to Hongkong residents, but is is interesting to read how the situa- tion is represented to the public at Home. The following article, which is dated Hongkong, November 10th, appeared in the Daily Mail" ou

December 10th, Whatever the character of the anti- foreign agitation in the north, Great Britain is here the sole object of attack All Bolshevik propaganda is concentrated against her. The English-printed daily Canton Gazette, nominally edited by a Moscow-trained Chinese, but actually con trolled by a Russian woman writer from the Soviet Press Bureau. is a familiar specimen of the material used by the Reda in their attempt to destroy the British Empire. The Communist courses for Chinese students at Canton have it as their keynote. The glib-tongued Russian agitators now proselytising in the pro

hatred of capitalism second. vince preach hatred of England arst and

:

All authorities agree that the blockade and hoycott against Hongkong is ah. artificial movement maintained by the Russian masters of Canton. With their disappearance would come peace between East and West in this pack of Chios."

Russia began to exploit Cantor more than two years ago, when the late Sun Yat Sen still-ruled there. Jacob Borodin was sent from Moscow to make friendly, overtures to that discontented leader of Young China. Jacob Borodin is a Lettish

Jaw who lived in exile in Switzerland

with Lenin and Trotsky, and with them. returned to Russia in time to profit by the Bolshevik rise to power. His real name is unknown here.

£200,000 FROM MOSCOW. Borodin tempted Sun Yat Sen with offers of assistance. He pointed out what could be done in China with a small but well-armed body of resolute men. He recalled the success of General Gordon Bolsheviks began drifting into Canton inconspicuously. Borodin returned to Moscow a year ago, and his report on the possibilities of seducing South China so impressed Zinoviev that he was sent back carly in this year with instructions The Soviet granted a subsidy of to begin an intensive campaign. £200,000 to the Whampoa Academy, which was founded to provide officers for the future Chinese Red Army, and also agreed to defray the running expenses, amount- wing to £25,000 a month. This so-called academy has bred the nucleus of the army tung under Russian leadership... now operating in the province of Kwang.

between 10 a.m. and 19 noon, or 2 and 4 p.m., or 5 and 6 p.m. and on Saturs day, 23rd January, between 9 am, and 1 p.m.

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STRENGTH.

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TRANSFER.

No. 579 Pre. R. W. Stoddart, Armour ed Car Company, is permitted to transfer to the Reserve Company, as from. 5th January, 1996. „·

LONG' SERVICE MEDAL

To-day, the flower of the Red Army consists of some 10,000 Chekiang troops, well officered and well disciplined, aug- Russian leaven is increasing. The most mented by about 3,000 other levies.. The conservative estimate have obtained

A Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal has been awarded by HE, the Governor to B.S.M. Cplaces the number of Russians actually Summers, of the Artillery Company enrolled in this organisation at 300. H.V.D.C., dated 14th January, 1926.

RESIGNATIONS.

The following are permitted to resign from the Corps:

Jacob Borodin moved quietly until the beginning of this year, when he decided that the time had come to take the offen- sive The Red Army (also known from its origin as the. Whampoa, Cadets) made

No. 027 Spr. J. C. Lang, Engineer Costs first campaign, occupying Swatow and

dated 15th January, 1926. No. 888 Pte. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, No, I Platoon, dated 14th January, 1926,

No. 382 Sergt. T. Swan, No. 6 Platoon,

dated 14th January, 1926. No. 419 Pto. G. Morrison, No. 13.

Platoon, dated 14th January, 1926 No. 448 Lce Corpl. Wm. A. Stowar

No. 7 Platoon, dated 25th January,

1928.

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driving the anti-Bolshevik troops out. More than a month later the companion The opposition to Bolshevism in the pro- of Ivanovitch confessed that they had yince of Kwangtung led to the Yunnanese been bribed to begin the firing, and his troops occupying Canton and Ha Han only concern was that it had taken him in the Red Governor, being evicted, three weeks to collect the blood money He is now in Moscow as the guest of from Borodin. the Soviet.)

CAMPAIGN OF HATE.

10,

which was written in minute Russian characters the following:-

Certificate 43

.

The bearer of this, Comrade Desser (Communist Party ticket, No. 433), is sent by the Agitators Department of the South Section of China to Hong kong and Canton for the organisation "of strike committees. All members of the Russian Communist Party are to give him all assistance, in his work. This is certified by the seal of the. Agitators Departhcot. 16 June, 1025. Shangbai.

BRIBED TO FIRE ON CHINESE.

Upon the so-called "Shameen inci- Then the Red Army came back to Can dent the Russians built a substantial gton and attacked on Jane eth. After campaign of hate against Great Britain several days fighting, the Yunnanese Although French troops had joined in the were defeated. These two operations counter-fire, France was net included."in gave the Whampoa Cadets great prestige. the boycott. Throughout the length an Borodin then began a violent propaganda breadth of Kwangtung province the Rus The Dossers were sent back in custody campaign against the treaties and the sian-inspired propagandists spread the te Shanghai. While they were in prison. Treaty Powers and tried, to arouse public story of a British attack upon unarmed the local Soviet Consul instructed one. Even when a sympathetic strike was de opinion. He was largely unsuccessful and harmless ocolies, 20

Dr. A. F. Fortienatoff, described as a dlared on June 21st, following the inci war into Hongkong itself. From their Consulate, and known to be an ex-agent. The Russians determined to carry the officially designated as "doctor to the

second-rate Vladivostock physician. dents at Shanghai, the population failed Bolshevik headquarters at Shanghai to respond enthusiastically.

The following Committee has been selected for the purpose of drawing up a programme, and transacting any other

business,

D.S.O.

wart.

The Committee will assemble at Corps Headquarters at 6.30 p.m. on Monday, dent. A great procession of students. Dosser, was sont into British territory to mised £1,000 (£800 of which was to be in It was necessary to create an inci trusted agent, one Zinoviev Nikolievitch of the Cheka, to bribe the Russian police. man Kedrovanski. The latter was pro 23th January, 1926.

workers' guilds, and coolies was organised organise disorder. The story of his dis American notes), if he would testify that. Chairman: Lieut.-Colonel L. G. Bird Canton for June 3rd. It would have comiture is like fiction the document he had found was a forgery, Passed off peaceably but for Russian in Dosser landed in Hongkong on June Kedroliranski informed the authorities, Secretary: Pte. C. E. Frith.

tervention. Two Russians, one of them 25th with his wife, Eugenie Mikhailovnu and when Dr. Fortiesatoff arrived at the Asst. Secretary: 0.048. E. G. Bleed Ivanovitch, fired-by arrangement Dosser (who was to be in charge of pro appointed rendervous in a motor-car he into the crowd as the procession was paganda among the women) and a pass too was arrested. He had in his posses Members: Artillery Co., B.5.AL CHassing near Bhameeu, the foreign settle port, which described him with charac sion, the £1,000-300 of which was in Summers; Engineer Co. C.S.MR JmentImmediately afterwards Chinese, toristic Balabevik falsity as General American notes, as promised. Fortiena Everest; M.L. Co., Sergt. M. M. Watson ninthine guns, which had been concealed Manager of the Petroleum Office of toff was released on £1,000 bail furnished A.C. Co., C.Q.M.S. AE. Kew Infantry on housetops the night before, also opened Trade. He was detained. A Russian in by the Soviet Consul He absconded, Co., Sergt. V. C. Branzon, MC, Sergt. Bre. Send

the British service, who examined his and so the Dosser adventure cost Moscow H.. Owen-Hughes; Scottish Co., C.S.M. Two Freuchen were killed and many papers came across a small code book. 22.000 D. J. Purves: Reserve Co., Sergt. GE other people wounded. The fire was re- The Russian noticed a small fragment of Hongkong has since been free of Rus Falkner, MO. P

turned from the foreign settlement, as silk protruding from one edge of the bindian trade representatives," but the Officers are requested to attend the the Russians anticipated, and Canton rose ing. It was scarcely more than a thread. campaign of Hate continues unabated first Committee Meeting to make any in fury

The binding was carefully prised apart from the safe headquarters of the Reds suggestions they may have.

Continued on nett Columnja

and a small strip of silk revealed, upon at Canton.