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[ORDERS BY LT.-COL. L. 9. BIRD, B.5.0.. COMMANDANT. ]

No. 326,

1.--Presentation Of Colours,

The Corps will parade as strong as possible in four Companies at Volunteer Headquarters a: 9 n. on Sunday, May 6th, 1019,

Attention of all is drawn to In fantry Training Vol. I. Chap. 14, Sec. 204

Practice Parades will be held at Corps Headquarters on the follow. ing dates

Thursday, April 26th, at 5.30 p.m.

Mufti Thursday, May 3rd, at 5.30 pm

Uniform

Details have been circulated separately to all ranks of the Corps on April 10th, 1999.

2.--Muskatry,

Sunday, April 22nd, 1998. The Portuguese Company will fire Part I. Table "T" nt Stonecutters on Sunday, April 2nd, 1938.

Range Officer: Lt. R. R. Davics, M.C., "M.M.

Launch will leave Murray Pier nt 9 am, and call at Kowloon Pier at D.10 a.m.

Drees: Uniform or mufti optional, but rifle, bayonet, pouches, braces and belt must be worn.

Arms will be drawn from Corps Headquarters to-day, between 0 a.m. and 12 noon, or 2 and 4 p.m., or 5 and 8 p.m.; and on Saturday. April 1st, between 9 a.m. and I

"p.m.

3. The Battery. Parade at Corps Headquarters on Thursday, April 29th, at 5.30 p.m.

Rehearsal (in mufti) for presenta tion of Colours. Every member is expected to attend.,.

Royal Artillery Association. All members are reminded of the Smok ing Concert to be held at R.E. Theatre on Friday, April 20th, at 3.30 p.m. Tickets 30 cents each are obtainable at the door. It is hoped there will be a large attendance.

Musketry on Sunday, May 6th, is cancelled.

Casuals in Part I, arrange to fre with other units, last Sunday avail able May 27th, 1928.

4.-Infantry Company. There will be no further Company Parades this month but all mem bers of the Company are expected to make every effort to turn out for the Presentation of Colours to the

Corps on Sunday, May 6th, details later, and to the practice parades as hereunder

Thursday, April 28th, at 3.30 p.m. at Corps Headquarters. Dress: Mufti, belt and side arms. Thursday, May 3rd, at 5.30 p.m. at Corps Hendquarters. Dress

£1,000' DAMAGES FOR HER HUSBAND.

LOVER SUED.

.

LUXURY TRAIN ON FIRE,

WOMEN LEAP FROM WINDOWS.

MILLIONAIRE ESCAPES IN

PYJAMAS.

CAIRO, March 12th.

MODERN AFGHANISTAN.

KING AMANULLAH'S RE-

FORMS,'

7

By his presence here, säys the Manchester Guardian, the Afghan Aa unusual case, in which a bus-

monarch shows that we shall soon band was awarded £1,000 damages

have to have pew ideas of Afghanis against another man owing to the

Passengers in the train de luxetan. In his attempt to modernise man's misconduct' with his wife, travelling from Luxor to Cairo last Afghanistan King. Amanullah has since dead, was heard by Lord night had a terrifying experience engaged the services of a large num-

of Europeans. Merrivale and a special jury in the when, as the result of a hot axle-ber

Germans, Divorce Division.

box catching are in a coach used as French, and Italians are employed The husband was Mr. James a sleeper, the train sped on its way as engineers, architects, and school Edward Crabtree, a blanket manu- with the coach blazing.

teachers, and "Turkish officers are facturer, of Dewsbury, living at Efforts to stop the train were un-training the Afghan" army, A Westcliff, Oxford-road, Dewsbury, availing for some time, because the party of Afghan boys is now in and he chimed damages against communication cord had bees Birmingham being trained in Mr. Percy, William Marshall, a damaged.. bookmaker, who had a bungalow. Finally the guard clambered over caled Talybont at Gurnard, Isle of the roofs of the carriages, reached Wight...

the engine, and warned the driver, who stopped the train.

Meanwhile, the fire had spread to another sleeping coach, which had to be detached. Both were soon reduced to cinders..

The us for the jury was whe- ther miscopdpet had beca com-

mitted by Mrs. Nellie Crabtree, the 1ste wife of Mr. Crabtree, and ir. Marakal, and, if so, what damages should be awarded.

British. polico methods. The Queen's brother, Mr. Abdul Wahab Khan, who is also the son of the Afghan Foreign Minister, is now at Exeter College, Oxford. Other Afgban youths have been sent to France and Germany, and there are German and French educa tional missions in Kabul.

The King has said thas to him |an Afghan boy is worth ten growi There were several narrow men, because boys can be develop- escapes, some of the passengers hayed and trained, whereas grown Mr. Marshall denied the allega-ing to be rescued in their sleeping men in many cases are fit only for

clothes through the windows of the burning coaches, abandoning all their hand baggage.

tion.

Mr. Crabtree denied cruelty and misconduct alleged by his wife in a petition for divorce the instituted immediately after she left him.

Lord Herrivale, cumming up to the jury, said that ordinarily a claim for damages auch na

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made in that case was made inci- dentally in an

action in which

divorce was sought. The present ease, so far as it was a suit for divorce, had come to an end, but it continued so far as it was an action for damages.

Loss By Injury." "It has been accurately said that damages in respect of misconduct are not assessed by way of punish. "cn" be said, "but by way of ascertaining what is the loss, so far as" can be measured, and what is the damage caused to the complain ing party by the injury which he has suffered.

Among the travellers who arrived later in Cairo in their night clothes by a relief train was Mr. Eastman, the American camera millionaire.

No one was injured.

"Leave Everything." - An extraordinary sight greeted the people who were anxiously waiting the arrival of the Luxer relief train at Cairo station when the train drew in, four hours over

duc..

From

the scrapheap." During the past few years great progress has been made in the use of motor transport in Afghanistan. A metalled road runs from the frontier at Torkham, at the foot of the Khyber Pass, to

Jellalabad, and thence to Kabul

There 070 motor roads. from Chaman to Kandahar, and thence

vid Ghazni to Kabul. The north road from Kabul is good enough for motor frame as for a Bam 150 miles north-west of the capital.

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is reason to expect that some use. gaily-coloured pyjama conta and

may be made in the near future of British six-wheeled motor crumpled trousers, with slippers on vehicles for use on such reads as their feet, and others in obviously the proposed road from Kandahar QUARTS borrowed clothes.

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Some American women tourists who were in the burning coaches said the flames were already en veloping the corridor when the alarm was given, and the windows were the only exit, leading to a steep embankment. The travellers bundled one another through the windows.

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Launch will leave Murray Piec at which no doubt should be forgot thing! There is not a second to

for G.O.C.'s Inspection. Musketry, Part I. Table "T" will be fired at Stonecutters on Sun. day, April 29th, 1928.

9am. and call at Kowloon Pier at 9.10 ..

Dress: Uniform or muiti optional, but rifle, bayonet, pouches, braces, and belt must be worn.

Arms will be drawn from Corps Headquarters on Friday, April 27th, between 9 am, and 12 noon, or and 4 p.m., or 5 and 6 p.m.; and on Saturday, April 28th, between 9 a.m. and I p.m.

5-Portuguese Company. Musketry Part I, see order No. Tuesday, April 24th, at 5.30 p.m.: Nos. 1 and 2 Lewis Gun will parade at Corps Headquarters for Lowia! Gun Instruction.

ters.

5.-Strength.

The following recruits are taken on the strength and posted as under :-

No. 1308 Pte. J. D. Azedo, No. 9 Platoon, as from April 13th, 1026.

"There are no doubt many cases in which death might wipe out any sense of injury as far as a dead person is concerned, An injury

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lose " "As far as an injury done by a living person is concerned that is entirely another matter, and a mat- ter for you to consider."

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Lord Merrivale added that the jury not let indignation against Mr. Marshall aggravate their

asaccement of damages. When the wife left her husband she made no claim on him, and her first

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The Chamber of Deputies have have been to his and her credit if voted a Bill which allows stations quarters for Arms and Squad drill.

Thursday, April 26th, at 5.30 p.m. he had gone into the witness-box already authorised to continue to The Company will parade at full and said that there had been no work provisionally until an organic wo Cotions Tis, 8.20 bay. strength. Dress: Mufti, belt, side-taisconduct between them. It would law is introduced dealing with the Orientals Cottons........Tis. 1,90 buy. arms and rifle at Corps Headquar-have tended to abeolve her memory State's rights in the matter of wire- 8 hai. Uettoris (ok)....Th. 55 nom.

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Do. (Low)......Tim. 29 now. witness-box to deny the charge." M. Poincaré declared that the HK & Hats 191 m.

The jury found that there had Government did not propose to in- E.K. Lands.......8061 bay... been misconduct between Mr. Mar- terfere with

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313 bay. transmitting atations, but the wire- Peak Trams (sid)

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Do. (now)......$13.36 vol. duly authorised, by the Government. H.K. Electrics 110.571 bay. & sa.

The Government, added M. Poin-Macao Electrics

buy. Lieut.. A. H. Poan, Infantry Co.,caré, wants to know exactly how Telephones...................................... o buy. is granted leave of absence from the certain private stations are used for China Buses

lia. 74 buy. Corps from April 15th, 1929, to May the broadcasting of political pro- Singapore Tractions......11/9 now. 31st, 1920. ,11

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will not allow its right to be Canton Ices

No. 1300 Pte, N. A. E. Mackay, No. 2 Platoon, as from April 17th, 1028.

7.-Promotions and Appointments.

The following promotions and ap- pointments tako effect from April 18th, 1998-

NO. 2 PLATOON.,

No. 1004 Lee-Corp. A. Urquhart,

to be Corporal

No. 767 Lee.-Corpl. W. H. Groves,

to be Corporal.

9.--Reversion.

No. 777 Lee.-Corp. F. E. G. unn, No. 2 Platoon, reverts to the ranks at his own request, as from April 18th, 1928.

10.--Leave.

1L-Resignations. Having left the Colony, as from

"OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE No. 1103 Pte. D. M. Richards, to April 18th, 1998-No: 446 Pte. Rusurped by surprise.

POLICY.

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be,,Lance-Corporal. 8.-Transfera.

No. 048 Spr. G. Davidson ~ is transferred from Field Section, Engineer Co., to the Mounted In- fantry Co., as from April 3rd, 1928.

No. 945 Signaller H. W. Pomeroy is transferred from Signals to the Lights Section, Engineer. Co., as From December 22nd, 1927.

PILLS No. 1110 Signaller A. L. Cole are

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No. 477 Signaller J. J. King and

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No. 614 Spr. A. J. Widmore is transferred from Field Section, En- gineer Co., to the Reserve Co., as from April 18th, 1928.

No. 1132 Pte. F. G. Ribeira is transferred from No. 10 Platoon to No. 9 Platoon, ac from April 12th, 1928.

(Vontinued on next Column).

W Williamson, No. 7 Platoon.

On Medical grounds, as from April 3rd, 1928-No. 1195 Pte. E. G, Luz, No. 10 Platoon.

R. A. WOLFK MURRAY, Major, Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Hong Kong, April 20th, 1928.

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