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LOCAL PEACE GROUP CRITICISE LEAGUE

OF NATIONS

27, 1932.

H. K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

LORDERS KY LIBUT.-COL. 1, G. BIRD,. D.8.a," O...]

1.-Farades.

(a.)-Battery-

1. There will be aparade for The local Petco Group has issued Signallers and Staff at Headquar the following manifests on-theters at 5.30 p.m. sharp, on Tues League of Nations attitude towards day, December 30, the Manchurian situation.

2. There will be no further parades until Thursday, December 29.

b.)-Engineer Company :----

The Straits Timer of December 15 states that a circular was issued to all members of the Singapore

of Chamber

Commerce which None will be disposed to deny several of the recipients consider that the situation with which the deals a deathblow to a. large vo League is confronted over Man-

A Company Shoot will be held on on Sunday, lume of the trade between the Co-churia is a peculiarly difficult one. the Peak Range, long and the F.M.S.

Particulars will b But it is by no means certain that the difficulties are sufficient to January 8.

issued later and members aro ro- The Commissioner of Trade and justify the policy of delay and in qucated to keep this date open. Customs, FALS. has informed the action which is being pursued.)-Corps Signals: Chamber that lutiable goods of What seems increasingly evident and description which have been is that the problem is being an imported into the Straits Settleproached from a wrong angle. ments direct from other parts of the British Empire and are subse- We hear of efforts at. Geneva to quently re-exported to the F.M.S. find a formula which will be ac will not be allowed the preferential ceptable to both parties, to effect rates of duty unless certain condi-a compromise between rival claims, to seek a quid pro quo for this or that concession, and so on. This, however, is not what had been hop. ed for.

tions are observed.

These are:

(1) All dutiable goods must be in the original unopened

CARCA.

.:

Already under the pre-war sy tem, ample provision was made for

exerted by interest

(2) Duty must be paid to either conciliation and compromise and

the Supervisor of export pressure duties, Prai, or the Supervi- | ed sor of export duties, Singa-be

pore.

(3) All such goods having paid

duty must be dispatched rail to their destination.

East Coast Ports.

by

In the case of dutiable goods dis patched to East Coast ports from stocks held in the Straits Settle ments and on which it is desired to claim the preferential rates of duty the following rules apply:

(1) All dutisble goods must be in the original unopened cases.

rates (2) The preferential

of

duty can only be granted Kuantan and Pekan,

at

the

(3) Duty must be paid to

Superintendent, Trade and and Customs, at Kuantan Pekan, and the necessary docunients rendered to this

officer.

...The preferential rates of duty will not ho granted in respect of

by post from the S.S. when such articles form part of consignments of goods which have been brought in to the 8.8.

The total imports into the F.M:8. for the third quarter of 1932 were valued at 816,991,051, as against 824,862,830 for the corresponding period in 1931.

1933.

There will be no further parades until Sunday, January 8, Musketry Practices will be fired at Stonecutters Tange of that date.. (d.)—Armoured Car Section:-

There will be a meeting of N.0.0's nt Headquarter's on Fri: day, January 6, at 5.30 pm.

There will be no parades for the Section until Monday, January 0, 1933.

(5.)--‚ÂÂ, Company:—

There will be no parades until Monday, January 9, 1933, (1) Anzac Company:-

There will be no further Com- parties. All this would pany Parades until January 8, 1933. forthcoming to-day with: | (g)): out the League. The expectation

The Officers Commanding the

I-Machine Gun Troop. II-Motor Machine Gun Sec-

III-Scottish Company.

tion.

1-Oorpe Orders.

No Corps Orders will be issued

Friday, December 30, 1932.

of the peoples was that the League undermentioned. Units will issus would do a new thing and settle their Orders separately to their questions brought before it on the Commands: basis of simple and straightforward justice. It is being said on- all hands that the League would be seriously compromised by failure to find a solution to the Manchurian problem. But merely to produce a solution is not enough. If the on League succeeds in effecting a settle ment by bargaining and secret diplomacy and the sacrifice of the plain meaning the

of retain a Covenant in order to powerful member, the resulting blow to ita prestige will be for failed greater than if it had honourably in an effort to interna- tional affairs, successful diplomacy is much less needed than a firm stand for justice.

It may well be that the weakness of the Lengue is due ultimately to the fact that many of its members, placed in the same situation as Japan, would act as she has done Any protest on the part of the peace

therefore movement should

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be

3. Parades at Headquarters, No parades will be held at Corpa Headquarters from Wednesday, De cember 21, to Monday, January 2, 1933 (repeated).

4.General Holidays. Corps Headquarters will be closed for Christmas Holidays from De- cember 24 to 27, 1939 (both, days in clusive), except for business of an urgent nature.

5. Relinquishment.

No. 1524 Spr. J. M. Purvis, En gineer Company, relinquishes the Acting Rank of Lance Sergeant with effect from November 20, 1032. 6.-Appointment.

..

articles imported into the F.M.-directed, not so much against a No. 1705 Acting Lance Corporal single country...as against a whole R. A.. Edwards, No. 2 Platoon, ap- world system. Diplomacy to-day pointed Lance Corporal as from. accepts national sovereignty and December 23, 1932. oconomic self-interest as final in -Struck 07 the Strength,

Having completed three years' their respective spheres and sims only at enabling them to function service: No. 1198 Spr. J. W. Beat- with minimum of friction. tie, Engineer Company, as from Whereas the lesson of what is hap- November 28, 1932. pening in the Far East is surely that there can be neither peace nor Singapore exported into the

Becurity till we have repudiated F.M.S goods valued at $5,590,564 alike national sovereignty and and Pennng $3,201.752 whereas Ma-economic self-interest.- lacca and the U.M.S. were respon- sible for $1,097,735 the United Kingdom $1,718,000, British Pon- sessions and Protectorates, 81,285,

653, and other foreign countries EARL HAIG'S HOME $3,408,151.

There are no returns for that quarter in respect of imports by parcel post from Singapore, Pen- ang, Malacca and the U.M.B.. ΟΙ foreign countries, the United Kingdom sending goods to the value of 891,842 and British Pos sessions and Protectorates 837,478 by this method.

BEMERSYDE TO BE LET

Bemersyde, the ancestral home of twenty-eight generations of Haigs and & public gift to Earl Haig, the victorious Commander-in-Chief of the British armies in the war, is to let, says a Home paper.

Instructions have been given on behalf of Countess Haig, the feld- for a term of years. marshal's widow, to let the estáte

May Have to Close Down. Interviewed on Tuesday a direr- tor of an important firm of import and export merchants in Singa pore said the new rules were inevi Countess Haig, in ill-health and table as far as he could see in order | confined to a nursing home, has effectively and ecmomically to en- bought a small house in Edin- force the duties but-

"The outcome will be a steady transference of business from the Colony to the F.MS., that is, busi ness will be transferred to Port Swettenham and into the hands of ilirect importera

"Many, Singapore dealers with a large volume of trade with the F.M.S. may have to close down. In the past they have been able to provide a very big assortment of goods for a comparatively small outlay. Now they will be unable to provide that assort

burgh. Here will be established the home of the late field-mar- shal's family-Earl Haig, who was born in March 1918, and the two unmarried daughters, Lady Alex- andra and Lady Irene.

subcription: as a tribute to Earl Bemersyde was bought by public Haig Parliament had previously voted him £100,000.

Interest Only Paid

Earl Haig never received this £100,000 It was placed in the Hands of the Public Trustee, in ac- cordance with a decision of Parlia ment made after Lord Wolseley spent all his war grant and died a

The interest only was paid to Earl Haig, but for death duty purposes the £100,000 was included in his estate, which was valued at

British Empire goods must be ind- ported into the F.M.8, in the original cases, unopened, in order to gain preferential treatment, and it will mean too big a quantity of £17,033 one particular article,

death

V-About £40,000 was, paí

duties, exemption of the £100,000. “gingnphẩờ has been the ideal hing precluded by the precedent

distributing centre in

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8.--Leave,

/Lieut. M. I. de Ville Battery, returned from leave on November 96,-1939,

No. 1883 Gar. H. S. Dinsdale. Battery, granted three months' leave from November 30, 1932, t February 28, 1933.

W. H. G. GOATER, Capt., Adjutant, H.KV.D.C.

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