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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1935.

TOO MUCH "BACK-CHAT

In addition

form of conscription wus employed in Hong Kong. It should be em- ployed in time of peace. The con- scription system had many adyan- tages over Volunteering, firstly it enabled the utilisation of man- power to its fullest extent, second- ly it enabled a unit to be efficient and not attractive. men could be detailed to the units they sulted and not to units which suited them. The reasons why "certain persons did not join the -present Corps were many. There were many counter "attractions--- sport, chab etc and people were not being thoroughly convinced of the necessity of jolning. Another reason was that a minimum num- ber of parades was fixed to decide whether a person was efficient or not.

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TOO MANY OFFICERS As far as he knew there was no promotion to commission and non- commanded ranks by examina- tions. and there was also the failure to take war time experi- ence into consideration. "Several

thought that one week's, training In war time would enable a man to catch up a Volunteer of three 3ears service. There was also the feeling that the Corps was over- staffed with officers and N.C.O.S. LAP- In proportion to privates. plause.) Others who did their bit during the war used this excuse. stating that it was now for the youngsters to do their bit. Many ex-servicemen who had been used to proper discipline disliked In- and tensely the unpunctuality. slackness which was usually pre- sent in Volunteer forces in peace time.

Assuming Conscription was in should Iorce in Hong Kong. satisfy the military authorities much better than the present system. The Corps raised should

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CAMP COMPULSORY The type, personnel and or- ganisation of the Corps units should be laid down by the G.O.C.. but Ence the units were con- sidered eficient ал absolute minimum of parades should be re- quired such as (1) periodical in- spection of arms and equipment; (2) re-qualifying tests,, in mus- ketry, machine-gunnery or special- Ist work, and (3) attendance at Camp.

Camp should be compulsory. All employers should be compelled by

law to release their men to attend.

Medical certificates by a. Corps medical officer only should excuse. The duration of camp should be ten days per year.

Under no circumstances should a committee be formed to run the Corps. One qualified officer with common sense and driving power was worth all the committees that ever were formed. No successful military unit or enterprise had ever been controlled by a Committee.

No conscript should be paid un- less there was general mobilisation. said Mr. James in conclusion.

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ONE MAIN QUESTION Mr. C. E. Moore said there was far too much "back-chat" in the Volunteers. There were too many people who had been in the Corps and for some reason or other had ceased to be Volunteers, and hay- ng done so had nothing good to say about it. He understood that in these days there were units re- commended as units for men be- tween the ages of 85 and 40. also understood that there was a written or unwritten law whereby commissioned rank was only open to those under 35 years of age.

There is one main question I be more efficient and stronger and "would like to ask and that is whe- all would be doing their duty.ther there is any use at all for the When it was forced there would ex-service man to-day? If that is so is he going to be used as a naturally be a certain amount of

subordinate grousing but after a while the scnior officer or a system would be accepted as a officer? I would also like to ask

fait accompli."

His Excellency whether he would a meeting of the serving Volunteers in order to know from them whether there is any dissen- slon in their rank I feel there have been too many resignations from the Volunteers and if we had the fundamental reason for this, these resignation will cease and we would have a Corps which could go forward with a united front.

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The control of the Corps, he suggested, should be vested in the military alone. At the present moment it was Ananced by vote of the Legislative Council. That, he suggested, should be added to the Colony's military contribution and to turn over to the military to administer. As regarded the com- mand and staff, the Commandante should be a regular officer of feld rank appointed by the 0.0.C. and the staff consisted of an Adjutant, Quarter-Master, Regimental Sergt. Mr. J. G. Hooper sald, as an ex- Major, and Regimental Quarter-Territorial he found that there all regulars was not enough attraction about

Master Sergeant, seconded for duty and not time- expired. The type and organisa- tion of units should be left to the

GO.C. The Commandant should be given the power of a magistrate over the members of the Corps for punishment for breaches of dis- cipline. All punishment so award- ed, entailing imprisonment to be confirmed by the 'GO.C. (Laugh-

ter).

INTENSIVE TRAINING -

and

NOT ENOUGH PLAY

1.

mostly.

tent with them as they are, bu we hope that in due course better Headquarters will be bullta

VOLUNTEERING IN INDIA

I think the Valunteer Ordinance is somewhat inadequate and I would like to see the Volunteering covered in this Colony as in India where a whole volume is devated

to

success.

married men from

It is

keeps many joining.

The Civil Advisory Board hare is not what it should be. not expected to be civil and it is equally rot capable of advising (Laughter).

THE FIRST DAY AT LORD'S

Surrey Recover From

Bad Start

(Special Air Mall Service) London, May 3.

▸ new

to it. That volume covers every The Arst day of the season at subject. In addition the cr-Lord's is always an occasion for dinary training of Volunteer Off- those to whom cricket is some- cers in India. which does not in- thing more than a game, but it terfore with their business. camp-needed a great deal of romantic ing is usually held lasting a imagination to find any glamour month in the immediate vicinity in Wednesday's proceedings. when of the business

0. quarter. Such

at o'clock play was abandoned. system could well be adopted here Yesterday things were very diffe- by holding a camp on the Racerent; the sun shone. the trees

to have found Course. I have very great doubts seemed whether this compulsory camp at shade of green during the night, Farding is really a

It and the spectators were numerous enough to have every right to call themselves a crowd.. Surrey, in their match against a moderately strong M.C.C. eleven. captained by R. E. S. Wyatt. lost their first three wickets cheaply and were eventually out for 222, their cap- Mr. Champkin then went on to lain, ER. T. Holmes making the refer to the Military authorities top score with this 63. Smith dis-

de- tingutshed himself with an as being responsible for the fence of the Colony and said they alysis of 17.4 6 35 4. At the close were responsible for providing the of play M.C.C. had scored 73 runs requisite number of men. As such for no wicket.

19 they made demands on the Com- mandant of the Corps who powerless to comply

them. The Governor was in a position as head of the Civil populace to Infuence the Volunteers or have the necessary

humber of men raised. He thought if the Governor of this Colony lock more interest In the Volunteer movement, cam- pulsory service would be entirely

unnecessary.

with

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Bowes, from the Pavilion end, bowled the first over of the day. and Gregory hit his second ball to mid-wicket for 6, and so the gratified people who were there when the umpires went, out had the early satisfaction of seeing the first Lord's six of the season. Afterwards Surrey did badly, and by the time the score had reach

ed 22 three wickets had fallen. The pitch was slow, and although If " the Governor the ball

enough turned slowly placed before the people the occasionally to allow the batsman needs of the Military authorities to it against the break if he be thought they would be able to felt so inclined. With the total raise 1000 men,

at 11 both Gregory and Squire's ANOTHER MEETING

were out. Gregory caught in the "I hope the Military authorities gully and Squires bowled first ball from Smith which came will ask as little as they can from by one the Volunteers and in conclusion back sharply. At. 22 Whitfeld. did I would like to express the hope not get hold of a ball from R. E. of a8 Wyatt he meant to drive and that this be the nucleus

or possibly a was caught at mid-off. public meeting Commission apointed by the Gov- ernor to go into the whole mat- ter.

His Excellency: I thank you for the great help you have done and we will go into the matter very carefully. There are only two this I would like to say. The first is that very few Generals of recent years have been killed in War but quite a number have lost their I can- Jobs by talking too much. not address you on the defence

the

Holmes Dismissed

Fishlock and Watts were dis- tinctly suspicious of the bowling. but the slowness of the scoring did not in the least matter com- pared with the facts that the sun was shining, sweaters were by no means general, and that the sea- son seemed to have leapt on the instant

into something like its "Watts, after scoring T zenith

to hult a ball fairly hard back

Fishlock. Hearne, and, at 175, who once drove Pickthall, who was bowling a little faster than 4. hit a he ought. straight for ball to J. H. Human, wide and Hearne, who al- deep at mid-on. ways looked as though he would be a little too much for the more inexperienced of the Surrey team,

got

Berry leg-before-wicket at 191, but P. G. H. Fender and Gover were together at tea when the total was 213.

added ruas were Only nice afterwards and M.C.C. were left with an hour and a quarter's bat- ting at the end of the day. Gover's first over was a good den! that "faster than anything else

had been seen during the day, but from was by no means free it error and R. E. H. Hudson took two boundaries to leg off balls which could hardly be treated in any other way.

Score:-

SURREY First Innings.. Gregory, c. Hearne. b. Smith Whitfield, c. Smith, b. Wyatt Squires, b. Smithson Barling. . Smith. E. R. T. Holmes, b. Hearne Fishlock, c. Human, b.

Pickthall Watts, e. and h. Hearne, Berry, 1-b.-w.. b. Hearne P. G. H. Fender, b. Bowes Cover, 1.-b-w... b. Smith Brooks, not out

Byes. 17; 1-b.. 4 ......

Total M.C.C.-First Innings R. E. S. Wyatt, not out..... R. EH. Hudson not out

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J. H Human, Lieutenant. K. A. sur and the breeze, had dried out a little and the ball was coming Sellar, J. T. H. Comber, the Rev. off faster.

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a snick, and then proceeded to scheme. but I have told you what show what a good and attractive I want the Volunteers to do. The bat he is by driving Bowers and the Volunteers. It was

Bowes He second is calling a meeting Wyatt to the on and off respec- work and very little play.

Corps without tively for 4's. At 151, however, he pointed that in other places more people in

Hearne, but interest was taken in rifle shoot-treading on the toes of the Volur jumped into

If I get permission have hit over a ball he seemed ing and it was years since Hong teer Officers.

to do so I will do it.

to get to and was out for a 63 man to Kong Volunteers sent

which was by no means faultless. Bisley. Competitive shooting was

but which contained some beauti- a very great attraction to Volun-

ful forcing strokes in front of the he teers and

suggested there

wicket, should be more ranges in the Colony which would give rise to the between more competition various units and Clubs which could be formed. "

SCOTS RUGBY AND

HOCKEY

Internationalist Married

With the exception of the Corps Medical Staπ, all medical men, and

Referring to sport in the Volun- those employed by public utility

teers, Mr. Hooper said it should Civilian companies, Naval

(Special Air Mail Service) not be necessary for Volunteers to Dockyards, Water-works, Sanitary

London," May 3. Department and certain branches Join other, Clubs for their recrea-

the The Church of St. John of the P.W.D. should be excluded tion (Applause). A number of the Singapore Volunteers, present at

tibe was Evangelist. Edinburgh. from the membership of the Corps.

had found

scene of # pretty wedding be- Those to be conscripted should be the meeting sald he

there were more facilities offered all reasonably able-bodied Eu-

Elizabeth Annetta ropeans British-born males. whose in Singapore "to members than inween Mr. William Erskine Bryce

in-and Hong Kong. business or employment it was

c'uded Chinese and Malaya and Brown, daughter of the late Mr. considered would automatically

Herefordshire.

The

members

Mias

Wyatt ...... Pickthall Human

MR. D. F. TOPHAM prominent hockey player, and for

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RETIRING

28 Years In Kuala "Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, "May 11. After nearly 30 years in Malaya.

a umber of years he represented the State. He has since turned his attention to golf and has a hands- cap of 10. He played a lead part in the transfer of the Golf Club from the old Petaling course to the present site, and has held at different times the offices of pre sident and hon. secretary of the Club.

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cease in wartime. A man should they each had their own Clubs and Mrs. Edward Brown, Birtley Mr. D. F. Topham, who is a direc-, giment. He never saw active ser- day at his home at Gerrards Cross The interpretation of these remark-

be valued in the Corps for his

All

military worth and not for his

commercial value. social or such males liable to reside in Honglar Kong for one year or over should be conscripted. Men should not

5

MESSES NOT FAVOURED

over

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-in

returned to his laboratory and resumed his studies of the influence of moisture. Various liquids which had been set aside befare the War in order to be thoroughly dried were now re-examined and found to have undergone remark- Loudon, May 3. able changes of properties Beu Proteasor Herbert Brereton sine, for example, which had been He was for many years a mem- Baker, F.R.S., Professor Emeritus dried in this way was found to

the Imperial boil at a considerably higher tem ber of the MS.V.R. and at one of Chemistry

perature than ordinary benzine. time held a commission in the re- College of Science, died on suur-

at the age of 73.

able observations has proved diffi- tor of Harper Quillan and Co., ofice with the regiment. however,

ther- Promotion examinations were con-

As a young man Professor Baker cult, but the phenomena The bridegroom, who is a son

the Malay Mall Press Co., Ltd., as he was in Kuala Lumpur at

was associated at Oxford with the selves have attracted much atten- ducted by Command Headquarters

and and lectures were given by regu-ot Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Bryce, and of a number of other local the time of the muung

late Professor H. B. Dixon, andtion, Gifford, East Lothian, played for companies, is to leave Malaya on England on the outbreak of the arising out of this association his Born in 1862, the son of the Rev. officers,

some time with the Selkirk Rugby retirement next week, sailing from Chinese riots.

earliest researches Wera concerned John Baker, of Blackburn, he was Olub, and was on 11 occasions Port Swettenham in the Patroclus

Sense of Pable Baty

with the influence of moisture on educated at Manchester Grammar devised School and WHA a Brackenbury An injury on Thursday, accompanied by Mrs. capped for Scotland.

He was for some years Governs chemical change. He

Boscholar of Balliol College, Oxford, methods of desiccating gases be conscripted at random but say

stopped his football career, and

Topham

ment nominee on the committee drastically that chemical reactions He obtained a firstclass in the quarterly or half yearly so that The Chairman: I am sure you he turned his attention to hockey,

Home Connections

of the Belangor Club, but resigned which ordinarily take place with final school of natural science in they came in a squad and not in- agree with me that it has been in which he has many times re-

dividually-to hold, back the re- interesting to listen to what has presented Scotland,

In England Mr. Topham will be because he held as he still holds explosive violence are completely 1883, and for two years was demon- affairs of the Club inhibited. He found, for example, strator in chemistry at Balliol. mainder.

been said. We have gone

The church was finely decorated connected with the home agency-that the

shculd be conducted by its young-

that the mixture of pure oxygen From 1885 to 1902 he was head of All conscripts, regardless of pre- a great deal. of ground. It seems with daffodils, lies of the Nile, of Harper Gallan and Co.

er members,

and pure hydrogen which had been the science side at Dulwich College, vious training in the regular army to me either there is something and white iris blooms. The Rev. He has been in Malaya for 28

Mr. Topham is of that all too dried adequately with phosphoric and after a short period as bead- etc., should first be sent to a train-wrong with the Volunteers, some-C. H. Ritchie officiated, and the years, all of which have been spent ing squad for intensive training thing wrong with the young, men bride was given away by her in Kuala Lumpur. He joined Mr.rare type of man who takes a part oxide could be heated to a high master of Alleyn's School, Dul-"

Dur- of the Colony or there is some-

A C. Harper as a partner when hẹ lasting, say, three months.

in public life from a sense of duty, temperature without any combinas wich, he returned to Oxford as friend Mrs Wright Mitchell I

and that very fact has rendered tion taking place. In other reac Leo's Reader in Chemistry and ing this time they should parade thing wrong with the system.

The bride wore a simple dress first came out, and became a

was his services to the town and the tions also the striking effect of the Student and Tutor of Obrist at least three evenings a week do not think there is much wrong

I would, of white faille mounted on blush director when the business

State the more valuable. Their complete absence of moisture was Church. He was elected F.R.8, in and say one whole Bunday per with the Valunteers.

She wore a latticed head-made into a company in 1917. month. When passed out from however, like to see

one or two pink.

Although Mr. Topham, who is of many friends in Malays will wish demonstrated in a remarkable way, 1902, served by the council, and those squads they should be trans- changes. I would like to see the dress of pearls, with clusters of

a retiring diaposition, has never for Mr. and Mrs. Topham a long so much so that the phrase "Baker was Davy medallist in 1923, He, was also a member of the Council. ian drynes" became almost pro ferred to the trained units as ro- Officers and Sergeants Messes orange buds over the ears, which

in place the long vell of sought public work, he has a long and happy retirement In England. verbal. When the first gas attack of the Chemical Society, Longstaf quired and as their age and abili- abolished. I

not think the held

record of public service which, in-

occurred during the War Professor medallist in 1912, and resident in tles permitted. An ex-service man average Volunteer Corps can very white tulle.

cludes a year's temporary mem-

Baker was immediately called into 1996. From 1912 to 1932 he waS The ends of the veil were ear- on being conscripted should be well keep slavishly to the tradi

No Admission,"

consultation by the authorities, Professor of Chemistry in the Im and he and his collaborators were perial College of Science He was given the chance of passing out tion of the social usages of the ried by the two bridesmaids, Miss bership of the Federal Council,

Kake.

"At a Church Congress held some

concerned in devising made a C.B.E. in 1917, and wa of the training squad as soon as regular regiments. I do not think Jean Bryce (sister of the bride when he acted for Mr. Egment

protection against D.Sc. of Oxford and LL.D. of. he was capable without waiting the officers in the average Volur.-groom), and Miss Prue Mitchell

He has also been a member of years ago in Birmingham, the late largely the three months.

teer Defence Corps can afford to They wore effective spring dresses Special classes should be formed entertain Mess dinners and I do in white doral chiffon ngured the Sanitary Board, and Chairman Canon Knox-Little said be remem-nethods of

helmet Professor was the author with her of a paper the with blue and yellow flowers of the Chamber of Commerce, bored a-lych-gate which was newly poison gas. For the choice of the Aberdeen. He married Muriel.

This is the gate of military gas for N.C.O's and only men who had not think it conduces to

Baker was to a large extent Tes on gaseous nitrogen trioxde He passed the various examination to Volunteer spirit. Discipline of the They wore wide-brimmed white while. at present he hoida seats on restores and had painted over the ingredients finally adopted for the daughter of Mr. H. J. Powell, and also contributed many papers, to Underneath was the Large Ponsible. be conducted by Regular officers Volunteers comes from within and crinoline hats, and carried tight the Railway Board and the Fort

Brilliant Career

the Journal of the Chemical from without. Volunteer postes of primroses and violets. Bwettenham Advisory Board." should be promoted. Advanced not

After the War Professor Baker Society on his special subject classes for future officers, should Headquarters, are not all that they! Mr John Kemaley acted as best

might be but we have to be con- man." also be formed

do

As a younger man Mr. Topham will be rensembered by many as a

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