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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18tæ, 1926

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER

DEFENCE CORPS.

[ORDERS BY LIZUT-COL, L. Q. BIRD, 2,301, ADMIN (ŠTRATIVE COMMANDANT.]

No. I

1.-ENGINEER COMPANY-

LORD MAYOR'S VISIT TO A

GAOL

COMRADELY" TALK TO

FRISONERS.

WHAT THE PARROT SAID. “

The Lord Mayor (Councillor Frank The Miniature Range at Corps Head-Finn) paid a visit to Hull Prison with quarters is at the disposal DE the loaders, to wish the prisoners & brighter the sheriff, magistrates and other civic

Engineer Company on Monday, 2nd New Year. He threw of all official. February, at 5.30 pm gr

solemnity, and, addressing the man as "Comrades," introduced a spirit of 2-MOUNTED INFANTRY AND geniality that released roars of laughter

ARMOURED CAR COS.

long locked up. Muskotry Course Part I will be shot at Stonecutters Range on Sunday, 21st February, 1926,

Range Officer: Lieut, R. L. Moneris. Launch will leave Murray Pier at 9 am and call at Kowloon Pier at 2:10

1.m.

+

His visit was not made is any spirit of curiosity, he explained at the outset, admitting that the pleasure of the visit was heightened by the fact that the visitors could leave when they liked. (Laughter.)

"We have come,' said the Lord sincere Mayor, to give you..our wishes that the Now Year will open out a dawn of happiness and will cement Dress: Uniform optional, but rites, the feeling of good will amongst us all, bayonets and penches must be taken.

"Despite our individual failings, com- Members much draw their rifies and rades-and we all have our failings-we bayonets on Friday, 19th February, becan all try to pull together this year to tween 9 a.m. and 12 noon, and and help to lift our good old country out p.m., or 5 and 6 p.m., and on Saturday, of the mire in which the aftermath of war

0th February, between 8 and placed it."

3-ARMS...

Bother

Members are reminded that the rifes and bayonets must be returned to Corps Headquarters as soon as possible;

+ STRENGTH.

PRISONER'S SPEECH.

One of the men prisoners, proposing thinks to the Lord Mayor, and the Sheriff, spoke of the grout services ren- dered by visitors and teachers who had sacrificed time and home comforts to go into a place like that.

The following are taken on the "They have brought sunshine into our i strength-

No. 1012 Pte. B. Murray, No. 7 Platoon,

as from 6th February, 1920. No. 1013 Pte. J. Petrie, No. 7 Platoon,

as from 6th February, 1995,

lives," he said, "and I wish to assure them on my own behalf and on behalf, of my fellow prisoners that their labours have not been in vain. We are deeply grate fal, and your names will over be respect-

No. 1014 Pre E S. Boulton, No. 5ed by us Our united' wish is that the

Platoon, as from 9th February,

1096.

No. 1015 Pte. W. Jenner, A.C. Co., as,

from 9th February, 1926.

5-PROMOTION.

No. 713 Pte. W. E. Elliott, Medical Section, to be Corporal as from 4th February, 1926" "

6.-LEAVE.

Lieut. W. Brackenridge, M.C., ed Car Company, rejoined from leave on 9th February, 1926.

New Year will bring you happiness, pros perity and peace."

The Lord Mayor's parting message was an anecdote.

There was an old woman, he said, "who kept a parrot that used un- Parliamentary language. Being devout, each Sunday she covered the bird's cago with a cloth, so that devotions might not be disturbed by strong words.

One Tuesday the ritar arrived un- Armour-pectedly and the old lady, in order that he might be saved from shock, adopted the Sanday practice of covering the cage. Poky, however, was hoard to remark: This is a short week, anyhow."

No. 782 Fie F. G. L, Wheeler, No. 3 Platoon, is granted leave from 4th February, 1928, to 17th February, 1928.

The story was received with uproarious

No. 870 Pte. N. J. Austin, Reserve Colaughter and when silence was restored

is granted 19 months leave from 5th the Lord Mayor remarked: February, 1020, to 4th February, 1987.

No. 238 SQ.M.S. D. Davies, Medical Section, is granted 10 months" leave, Trom 1st March, 1998, to 31st December, 1926.

No. 150 Pte. G. E. Easkett, Reserve Co., is granted 11 months' leave, from 5th February, 1926, to 4th January, 1927.

No. 848 Pte. H. G. Howard, No. 7 Platoon, is granted one month's leave, from. 8th February, 1920, to th March,

parrot's during your stay in this build- "May your weeks be as short as the

ing."

1926.

"

7-MARKSMAN.

The following has qualified as Marks man and is entitled to wear the badge for one year: No. 862 Pte. C. W. Bewick,

No. 7 Platoon, 50 points

8.-RESIGNATION.

H.E. the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by Lieut. Joh Bartholomew of his Commission in the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from the 3rd Febrúary, 1926.

The following are permitted to re- sign from the Corps:

No. 167 Pte. A B. Purves, No.

Platoon, as from 5th February, 1926. No. 561 Pte. E. F. Stewart, No. 1 Platoon, as from 5th February, 1926. No. 853 Spr. E. L. Stainfield, Eng. Co.,

as from 5th February, 1996.

£1

No. 700 Spr. C. W. Long, Eng. Co., as

from 5th February, 1926.

i

No. 620 Pte. C. M. Vise, M.L. Co., as

from 5th February, 1026. No. 543 Pte. C. H. Haslewood, Reserve Co., 43 from 6th February, 1926. No. 889 Pie. J. H. Brister, Reserve Co.,

as from 3th February, 1926..

LD. JOLL, Captain

Adjutant, H.KY.D.C. Hongkong, 12th February, 1926..

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CARDINAL'S WAR VOW.

CHURCH OF ST. JOAN TO BE BUILT.

THE

CANADIAN MIGRATION.

the creation of

4.

"CLAN DONALD COLONY." The Canadian Pacife Railway Coldni sation Department has announced the signing of an agreement with the In- Perial Government Overseas Settlement Committee," the fruits of which will be Northern Alberta under the name of the British colony in Clan Donald Colony." Another signa- tory of the agreement is the Scottish the necessary immigrants to complete the Immigrant Aid Society, which will secure colony of one hundred families, forty of whom are already in Canada. Thirty thousand acres of land in the Vermillion district" of Northern Alberta have been purchased by the Canadian Pacise, to being assisted to the extent of $100,000 be divided among the settlers who are by the Imperial Government Overseas Settlement Committee.

is providing $75,000 for the erection of The Scottish Immigrant Aid Society buildings.

Under the agreement with the In- perial Government each settler will have a farm of at least 160 acres with a farm- equipment, and will have an opportunity house, a certain amount of stock and

capital at a price which must not exceed of purchasing his farm as he acquires

of about £1 per acre. an average over the whole 30,000, acres

The capital expenditure is in the nature of a loan, and as far as the land and buildings is of a long term character.

Each accepted settler, if be is suff ciently skilled and has a small amount of expital, will be placed directly on a farm, and already 40 of the former set tlers on the three, aere plots have been "accepted for transference when the farm- Preparations are now being made by houses are built. There will be a farm the Roman Catholics of Paris for the superintendent for the area and the new- execution of a solemn vow made by comers will have his help and local Cardinal Amette, then Archbishop of knowledge in working the farms. The Paris, in the dark days of September, land is virgin soil which is free from 1814, when the invading horde, of Ger- timber, and although no revenue from mans threatened to sweep over Paris eropa can be expected at first, the live Just before the Battle of the Marne stock section of the farm should soon be Cardinal Amette, speaking in the gin to be remunerative. In any case, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, said that, if conditions of repayment are such that as be expected, France were given the no rental purchase paymente become due victory, French Catholics would render until the end of the year following the thanks by building a church in honour year of occupation. Those families

of Joan of Arc. She was not then a which have not the Experience or the saint, but was canonised by Pius X. capital to go direct on a farm will be after the Armistice and became the first placed in the cottages vacated by patron saint of France. When her the men who have now, gained experience festival is celebrated next May it is and will work for a wage on the land hoped to lay the corner-stone of the until they, too, are in a position to victory thanksgiving Church of Saint form for themselves. Joan, which is, to be erected. near Saint Denis de la Chapelle, near the spot where Joan of Arc prayed in 1429 just before she launched her attack upon Pafis

TOO. LATE,"

The prayer was offered up in the edifice Here is a story all the way from which preceded the present church of Bucharest. A young Civil Servant bought Saint Denia, and after having led- hehe arrived home he found a rather blur- some eggs for bis evening meal. When army in its unanccessful attack and having been wounded by an arrow, red inscription on one of them: I am she returned to the same spot, which twenty years old; fair; blue-eyed, with has ever, since been associated with rosy complexion. I wish to marry, I her name. The present church will pro- this egg comes into the hands of a nice bably have "to be demolished to make young man I beg of him to write.. Ad- room for that which is to be raised in dress. The young man burried falfilment of the Cardinal's row, and to the nearest post-office and telegraphed plana, are now being made by the com to the girl. Two days later he received mittee, headed by Mgr. Poland Cosselan. a short reply by post Too late! *1 Over 3,000 square yards of land have have been married four years and am the been purchased, and contributions to the mother of a charming little girl. I am building fund are floxing in every day, sorry,

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