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JAPANESE ARMY REFORM

BIG REORGANISATION FORESHADOWED

Tokyo, March 23-Army rear ganisation of an important and possibly significant nature is for shadowed by reports, appearing in the Japanese press, Japanese cavalry is at present organised on the basis of one regiment to each infantry division (of which it forms a definite component part), plus four independent cavalry bri gades, each composed of two giments. In future, however, ac cording to Japanese Press reports, the present divisional cavalry is to be organised into groups or corps. The actual term used is "Kihei Shudan, a term usually translated as "cavalry groups" and imploy-, ing two or more brigades.

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Brigade. under Major-General Mo- gi, the 8th Cavalry Regiment un- der Lt Colonel Kamishiro, and the 8th Cavalry Regiment under Lt.- Col. Miyake contributed, out of all proportion to their actual numari cal strongth, towards the Japanese success in Jchol.

Mechanised Arm.

While, however, cavalrymen throughout the world may feel some satisfaction at this latest "in dication of their confidence in the continued importance of the mount- ed arm, mechanisation enthusiasts may likewise derive satisfaction from the fact that Japanse ex- perionco in the recent fighting has Should these reports prove car proved the immense value of motor rect-there is reason to believes that tmnsport and of mechanisation they will the long-existing div generally, even when operating in sional organisation, which forms such difficult terrain as Jehol, De- the basis of Japanese army organ-spite the absence of good roads in isation, will undergo a fundament that mountainous' province, motor vehicles of at change as divisional cavalry will trucks, and motor

all kinds have bcen found virtually cease to exist.

invaluable, not only for the transport of provisions and muni- tions, but also. for the rapid con- veyance of troops from one point to another.

Soviet Threat.

Some such change has been en- visaged for soine time past on ac count of the potential threat pro- vided by the large Soviet cavalry formations east of Baikal, It is noteworthy, too, that the import ance of mounted troops for opera tions on the neighbouring mainland of east Asia has been fully proved by the great use to which the Japanese have put then ever since the outbreak of the Manchurian trouble.

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Japanese infantry, with their ex- traordinary powers of endurance, their high morale and discipline, and their specialised training for operations of the kind just under taken in Jehol, continue to hold pride of place in the eyes of their countrymen, and form the back-bone of the Japanese army; but the Japanese cavalry, too, have Especially has this been truc of emerged with their value enhanced the operations in northern Man rather than diminished, while the churia immediately prior to the importance of mechanisation and rapid thrust on Manchuli in the aircraft has been impressed on the opening days of last December and, Japanese as never before, An in- once again, in the recent sweepcrease of both these last two is through Johol. In the former. likely, therefore, to be witnessed in Major General

Takanami's 1st the composition and organisation Cavalry Brigade played an all-im- of the Japanese army in the very portant part, while the 4th Cavalry near future.-Reuter.

JAPANESE MAY USE MISSIONARY WORK

FORCE

Chinese Boycott to be Stopped

TOKYO SPOKESMAN TOUCHES ON POSSIBILITY

IN SHANTUNG

LOCAL HOSTILITY MITIGATED

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Tenghsich, Shantung, March 17. Tokyo, March 25-Foreign obser-On Feb. 2nd Rev. and Mrs. W. vers were wondering just what a 8. Elliott left us to go their home Foreign Office spokesman intended on Kuling, the well-known summer Their to convey when he said that Japan resort near Kiukiang, Ki. may be compelled to use further sudden departure was caused by a force to atop the Chinese boycott change for the Worso in Mr. of Japanese goods and added that Elliott's health. Later reporta from Japan expects nothing from China them state that they arrived safe until their controversies are settled ly at their destination and that by direct negotiations.

Mr. Elliott's health is improving.

Japan is ready to begin such ne- gotiations, if all sections of China dsaire them, but will not negotiate if only a part of the country ap- proves such procedure.

Just at the same time Tenghaien was favoured with a visit from one

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H. K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS,

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(Orders by Colonel L. G. Bird, D.9.0., O.B.E., Command. ing H.K.V.D.C.)

1.-Parade.

(a.)-Battery-

1-Practice Parade for 6.0.0,'s Inspection. The Battery will parade. with rifles at 6.30 p.m. sharp at Headquarters on Tuesday, April 4.

Dress: Uniform, helmet, jacket breeches, puttees boots, bandoliers, rifle and sling.

9.-There will be a parade at Headquarters on Thursday, April 6, at 5.30 pm for rifle drill.

Dress: Mufti, (b.)--Engineer Company,

Parade at the Miniature Range at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, April 3, at Headquarters.

Practice Parado at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for G.D.C.'s Inspection.

Dress: Ceremonial.

Wednesday, April 3, Combined Operations. Parado ht Belcher's Fort at 6 p.m. Second shift at 11.45 Pm.

Dress: Jacket, slacks, belt and

Monday,

April 10.-Miniature Range.

Tuesday, April 11-Annual Irs- spection.

cap:

(c.)-Corp's Signals:-

All members must attend the. parades at Corps Headquarters on. Tuesday, April 4, and Tuesday, April 11, in uniform. (d)...Armoured Car Section;—

Parade Ground at 3.30 p.m. on The Section will parade on Murray Tuesday, April 4, in uniform.

shorts, hose-tops, puttees and boots. Dreas: R.T.C. cap, jacket, belt,

Machine Gun classification Sunday, Machine Gunners will fire the April 2.

Launch leaves Queen's Pier at 9 a.m. and Kowloon Pier at 9.10 a.m.

(6.)-A.ALA. CO.:~

All Sections will parade at Head- quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, April 3.

(1) Portuguese Company:--

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Parade at 6.30 p.m. at Headquar- ters of April 4. to take part in the practice parade of the Corps for the annual inspection, All ranks of the. Company are urged to attend in order to ensure a srohrt turn out on the date of the annual inspection. No Company Orders will be issued in respect of April 11.

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Platoon Commanders will please that all members of their Platoons are in possession of full details regarding the annual inspec tion.

Company Orderly Officer for the week ending Sunday, April 9 Lieut. J. S. Rodrigues.

Musketry and Lewis Gun Classi- fication:-

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hold Mitchell, O.B.E, to the rank day, April 14, and Saturday, April. of Major in the ong Kong Volur. teer Defence Corps, with effect from Match 21, 1933.

3-Leave.

No. 1420, Sergt. F. Baker, Corps Headquarters, granted nine months leave with effect from April 1 to

December 31, 1933.

No. 1590, Gunner H. C. F. Aris, leave from June 3, 1932, to June 2, The Battery, granted 12 months

1933.

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Stonecutters Flange will be avail- of the most notable and beloved able for the Portuguese Company on Sunday, April 9. All members of men in North China, Mr. A. Kok, the Company who have not classi- Chancellor of the Netherlands Leod, with the exception of Recruits The spokesman asserted that

gation in Peiping. Though em- China is in error if she believes ployed in political work, Mr. Kokare warned that this is the last date who joined after October 16, 1932, the boycott will seriously exhaust is deeply interested in mission Japan's resources. While China is work in China. In Peiping Mr. on which they will be given facilities conducting her anti-Japanese move- and Mrs. Kok conduct a Home of to comply with the requirements for

No. 099, Spr. C. Strange, En- ments, Japan is improving her est especially for missionaries trade with the southern islands from the interior who may be pass Sequeira.

Range Officer: 2nd-Lecut. F. P.gineer Company, lente extended to

June 23, 1933, India, Africa and other parts of ing through the city. Under his

No. 1080, Spr. W. E. Allan, En- Revolver Instruction, On the the world, he continued,

auspices religious services are held every Sunday both in English and be carried out for Officers, N.C.O's leave from April 1, 1933, to January same date revolver instruction will gineer Company, grunted 12 months Chinese.

and Nos. 1 and 2 of Lewis Gun Sec. 31, 1934. tion..

In any event, he added, there is no possibility of a settlement of the outstanding questions between the two countries until China casos all anti-Japanese activities.

It was generally believed that the a repetition of Japan's plea for direct negotia tions and that the suggestion of force was made to give it emphasis.

statement

WAS

Activities Intensified.

efficiency.

4 Regular Instructor will he pre- sent

(8.)-Anzac Dompany:-

1. The General Officer Command

compradores being afraid of any 260, young men and women, who The parade on April 11 is .com-

No. 142, Pte. O. J. D. Law, Armoured Car Section, granted 12 months' leave from April 8, 1933, to March 7, 1934.

No. 1778, Etc. R. W. Jones, Motor Machine Gun Section, granted 18

months' leave from January 28, 1939, to July 27, 1934.

No. 1846, Ptc. F. E. Skinner, A.A.L.A. Company, granted six months' leave, from April 1 to Oc tober 1, 1933,

No. 1836 Pte. F. E. Brown, No. 9 Platoon, granted three months' leave from April 1 to July 31, 1933.

No. 1676 Pte. So Ping Yin. Medical Section, granted six days leave from April 3 to April 8, 1933.

4.Struck Off the Strength, Having completed three years ser- vice No. 1845 Pte. F. C. Mendes, No. 12 Platoon, as from March, Leaving the Colony:No. 19 Pte O. E. Frith, Reserve Company, na from April 3, 1933..

1933.

M. Kok's special mission to Teng- hsien was to consult with others here about plans for developing the League of Christian Churches, an organization of evangelical Chris tians which was formed in Teng-

sten in 1920, and comprises near-ing will inspect the Corps on Tuee ly one fifth of the Christians in day, April 11 and a practice parade China.

in uniform will be held on Tuesday, In the course of the last fort-

April 4. night there has been & recrudes- Also at the same time the North

Fall in at 5.20 p.m. sharp at cence of anti-Japanese activities in China Theological Seminary, the Volunteer Headquarters, north Chinn and in the Women's Bible Seminary, and the

The Company is now nearly a year Yangtze Valley, Terrorism, Mateer Memorial Institute a old and as this will be the first the form" of murders, kid- Bible training school, all located occasion on which it has been in- napping, and throats, has all but on the same campus, opened their spected, all members are requested! put a stop to Japanese businesspring terms: The total enroll to note these dates in order that a in Hankow, Chinese marchanta and ment of the three schools is about good turn out is obtained.

sort of dealings. It was even re-

are preparing for Christian sor-pulsory for all ranks and counts for. ported that the Chinese contractor vice. In the Seminary there are efficiency (vide the Volunteer Ordin- whose bid for the building of the students from more than a dozen ance). flood wall in the Japanese Con- of the eighteen provinces of China, jackets and breeches, boots of re Dress for both parades:-K.D. cession there had been accepted, had and several from Manchuria. been forced to notify the--Conces- For some time our schools here gulation pattern, field service hats sion authorities of his inability to were under the shadow of the Pro- (with plumes), belts, side-arms and do the work.

vincial authority's refused to re-rides. Particular attention must be Bloody Hand Societies.

gister them. Several times we were given to the cleanliness of all but- Reports from Ichang were to the threatened with being closed. In tons, badges, belts and bayonet

No. 1320 Acting Band Master A. effect that wharf coolies there had the last few months there seems to scabbards.

Rifles and bayonets must be drawn. M. Rodrigues relinquishes to his refused, of their own décord or be be a marked change for the better in cause they had been intimidated by the attitude of the Provincial Gov between now and 5 p.m. on Tues acting rank with effect, from March "Bloody Hand societies load aernment toward Christian schools, day, April 4, Saturday and Sunday 31; 1933. Japanese vessel, with the result They are allowed to continue unre- excepted.

6-Appointment. that the vessel was held up and gistered under certain conditions. All ranks who have not yet drawn

No. 2009 Bandsman I. M. da Costa unable to continue its journey it may be that this change is due their plumes must report to the 0.C. appointed Acting Band Master with Stories of the use of violence to to the fact that the Governor, Han Company at once. enforce anti-Japanese sentiments Fu Chu, is a professing Christian,

Corporal E. H. P. White is de-effect from March 31, 1933. have come from other parts of having at one time been connected tailed as marker for both parades. China, notably from Taiyuan, with the army of General Fang Yu.—AN 0.0.'s parade will be held---The following have been taken on Shansi, where a fanatic fiuried a Hsiang,

on Friday, April 7, at 8.30 p.m. at the Strength:- bomb into a group listening to a

Headquarters, thestrigal performance.

All N.0.0.'s are, particularly re- Mo Direct Negotiation.

quested to attend, dency towards an attempt to re- (b)-The Officers Commanding Repeated denials that China will cover the "lost, territories.Re- the undermentioned Units will issue enter into negotiations with on Flanarale Ridge Orders, sguscabels, to mave deel mare oy both civil and Ying Ching und, General Chiang Commande military leaders in north Chinn. Kati Shek are quoted in proof of On the surface, and in spite of the thin, The Foreign Office spokes- withdrawal of the main Chinese man's somewhat cryptic statement forces. from the..neighbourhood of is therefore teken in some cireles the passes along the Great Wall, to be a reminder that Japan's pati there has been an increading ten-suce is not inexhaustible,-United been pleased to approve of the pro (Continued at foot of next Column) Fren.

Machine Gun Troop. Motor Machine Gun Bection. Machine Gun Company,

2-Promotion," "

His Excellency the Governor has

5.-Relinquishment,

7.-Strength.

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List of Events:-

Team Events:-

1

Blake Shield Competition

7 Musketry Competition.

Francis Cup Competition. 3 Tilo Competition,

4 Attack Competition... Individual Events:-

5 Corps Championship. Tyro Competition.

8 Reserve Challenge Cup.

9 Revolver Competition

(Corps).

10 Revolver Competition (Open) All teams will consist of four men.

Entrance Fees:-82 per team fox. events, 1, 2, 3 and, 4; 81 por man for events 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Team competition will be fired on Friday and Indi dual Events o Saturday, with the exception that the Musketry Competition will be fired in conjunction with the Blake Shield Competition and the Hong Competition will be fired in conjunc tion with the Corps Championship and the Tyro Competition.

The Corps Revolver Competition " will be held on both days,

Competitors will make their own arrangements for tilfin

The Canteen will be in attendance on both days.

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Entries will be received up__to_ noon on Monday, April 10, address- ed to Hon. Secretary, Rifle Mect- ing, Headquarters, and accom panied by entrance fees:

will be received after that date at Entries for events 5, 8 7 and 8 double entrance fees.

8. Practice for 0.0.0.' Inspection,

1.-A Corps Practico parade for the annual inspection, by the General Officer Commanding the Troops. in China will take place on Tuesday, April

2-The Corps (less the Armoured Car Beotion, the Motor Machine Gun Section, the Signal Lorry and Medical Section will parade at Corps Headquarters af 5.30 p.m. shaap

3.Tho Units mentioned in brackets above will assemble-on- Murray Parade Ground by 8.45 p.m. under the Second in Command in positions to be indicated by him;

4.-The Colour Party will be formed by:

No. 2007 Pte. A. J. Dennis, Dod well & Co, Tel. No. 28021, Engineer Co., as from March 27, 1933. No. 2008 Pte. P. M. Pephalluriack, Lieut. D. M. Richards, Lieut.

Asia Life Building Aqua City for Brunina MC ne from March 27, 1033, No. 2009 A Bài Master 1 M1, đại Costa, 9, Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, Corps Band, he from March 28, 1933.

8-Elfe Meeting, The annual rifle meeting will ba motion of Captain Eric John Rain-held at Stonecutters Range on Fri-

Three Sergeants to be detailed by 0. C. Machine Gun Co. 5-Full details will be issued to Os C Units and detailed plans have been placed in the Drill Hall,

W. B. G. GOATER, Capt., Adjutant, H.K.V.DO. Hong Kong, March 31, 1933.