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INTERPRETER EXAMINATION

The next preliminary and final examinations in modern foreign

languages will begin on October 20 and will be held in London. The names of candidates are to be for- warded through the usual channels in time to reach the Admiralty not later than August 31. Applications received after this date will not be considered.

VACANCIES FOR NAVAL CADETS The next qualifying examination for the entry of naval cadets into the R.N. College. Dartmouth, will be held in December, and applic tions to sit for this examination must be received at the Admiralty before October 16.

This will be the first entry at which the number of vacancies offered has been raised to 45, in

accordance with a decision an-

nounced in May by Lord Monsell, then First Lord. In 1931-32 only about 30 cadetships were being offered at each examination.

Candidates for the examination in December must be between the ages of 13 years four months and 13 years eight months on December - that is they must have been born between April 1, 1923, and July 31. 1923.

COMMAND OF THE STORK The appointment dates from August 7 of Captain A. L. Jackson to command H.M.S. Stork, the new convey sloop and surveying ship, completing at the works of Messrs. W. Denný and Brothers, Limited, Dumbarton. Since September, 1832, Captain Jackson has been Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy, in which post he has been relieved by Capt. E. F. B. Law. He corimanded the surveying ship Iroquois in China in 1931-32. When ready for service the Stork will replace the Ormonde, which was employed in the East indies up to September last, when she was laid up at Malta. She re- turned to Devonport on July 28.

AIR ATTACHE AT PEKING Wing Commander Harold Spencer Kerby, D.S.C.; A.P.C., has been ap- pointed to succeed Group Captain Robert Peel Willock as Air Attache to his Majesty's Embassy at Peking at the end of October, 1938. -- 2.

ROYAL AIR FORCE

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AILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.

LONDON LETTER

A GREAT PUBLIC SERVANT

to the Royal residence every day. General Bir Alfred Keogh is during their period in office-

usually a fortnight at a time-and attend presentations.

resi-

The duties of the 10 extra ladies-in-waiting are purely nomi- nai. They provide a reserve ou which to draw in case of illness or other emergency.

dead. How few of the many thou- sands who passed through the hospitals in the war will have

COMPANIONS TO THE QUEEN realised what they owe to this great but unassuming Irishman.

Women of the Bedchamber, play Str Alfred, 00 highly were his the part of companions to the qualities estimated and under Queen. One is always in stood, had the distinction of serv- ¦ dence, and her duties include ing two terms as Director General reading aloud and dealing with 01 Army Medical Services, the correspondence. more important of these terms pe- Their periods in residence usual. Ing the period of the Great Warly last a fortnight, and they ar

He saw to it that the entire sur range their times among them- gical and medical possibilities of solves, subject to the Queen's ap- the British Empire were mobilsedproval. They also attend the in the cause of the wounded and Queen in public. in the preservation of the sound by camp sanitation. Thus it was that he Was able to distribute throughout the far-fung centres of the military operations all the leading surgeons and doctors of the Empire. each in the sphere where he might be of most service. Sir Alfred learned to appreciate the medical necessities consequent unon modern warfare during the South African war, when he was in. charge of a general hospital - South Africa, and after "this war tical so long as the Queen was o did great work in laying the Queen Consort, and it then requ'r foundations for pass'ble medicaled the approval of the existing expansion. His eminence as an Ministry. administrator had been realised. and when General Sloggett, the then Director General, went to France in chief medical control with the Beld army: Sir Alfred WILE brought back to the War Office. He was 79 when he died. He had been married twice, and leaves a son and two daughters,

warrant officers to these grades respectively. Owing to the small number of warrant officers in the

WAR BIRTH RATE AND trade of photographer, appoint-

UNIVERSITIES ments to permanent commissions

Several of the colleges will be made occasionally only, and

at Oxford and Cambridge for, the It is therefore not proposed to an Ars time for nounce the annual allocation of have vacancies next term.

many years The vacancies, as in other branches. rush of students to Recommendations are to be subversities since the war has proved these uni- mitted only when called for.

to be embarrassing, and most col- leges have been compelled to spend money in building so as to provide extra residential accom modation.

STAFF COLLEGE REUNION The twelfth annual reunion of the R.A.F. Staff College Dinner Club will be held at the May Fair Hotel on Friday. October 2. Air Marshal P. B. Joubert de la Ferte, C.B., C.M.G.. D.S.O.. will preside. The string band of the R.A.F. will play during dinner. Particulars may be obtained from the honorary secretary at the College, Andover,

Hants.

There are sgns now that the tide is turning. The approaching slump during the next academic year is attributed to the lower numbers of births during the lat- ter years of the war. The students who are expected at Oxford and Cambridge next October were for PROMOTION EXAMINATIONS

the most part born in 1917--a year Promotion examinations "B" and when the birth-rate had fallen. " for all candidates from home

Next year the 1818 vintage of commands will be held at the fol-youth will also be comparatively lowing stations:-Aldergrove, An- small, but after that the increased dover, Gosport, Henlow, Manston, birth-rate following the conclusion Montrose, Thornaby, Uxbridge, and of the war will, so it is expected. Wittering, and in H.M. ships Cour- have its repercussions upon the ageous and Furious.

new entrance to the universities. Candidates are to attend at the examination The low birth-rate of 1917 is har- centre nearest their station. The ing the same effect in many other dates are from September 8 to 11

universities in the country. inclusive.

THE ARMY

QUEEN MARY'S HOUSEHOLD Members of Queen Mary's new household will take up their posts at Marlborough House this au- tumn. From Lord Chamberlaia to chef, they form a group of not- able personalities.

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STAFF AND UNIT CHANGES Major-General Chauncy B. D. Strettell. C.B., who is to take over There win be four fewer the Peshawar District, is Deputy ladies-in-waitins. Formerly there Adjutant-General and Director of were nine in the Queen's house. Organization in India. posts to hold; there are now five Queen which he was appointed in Febru- Mary, as is known, has appointed ary last. The vacancy occars two Ladies of the Bedchamber- through the promotion of Lieut. the Dowager Lady Airlie and the General S. F. Musprati.

Dowager Lady three Women of the Bedchamber. Lady Cynthia Colville, Lady Vic- toria Forester, and the Hon. Jean Bruce.

Ampthill and

"Fall" ladies-as they are known at Court-do not reside with the Queer. They live at home, going

The new commander nas been 36 years with the Indian Army and has done special duty with the 6th Dragcons, and as Brigade Majör. D.A.Q.M.G., G.SO.2. A.A.G., Brigade Although indiscriminately known Commander and Brigadier, G. S. to the public as "ladies-in-walt- Lieut.-Colonel Oscar C. Downes, ing." they full very different D.S.O., M.C., who is to command functions in Court life. the Rife Depot at Winchester, with promotion, is O.C., 1st Battion, The Rifle Brigade, at Gosport. He be- gan his service in The Northum- berland Fusiliers and has been Assistant Superintendent of Gymn- asta, Assistant Embarkation Staff Oficer, G8.03 and 2, and Brigade Major at home, in France, and Malta. He was wounded in France, thrice mentioned, and twice de- corated,

CHARITY CONCERT

To-morrow's Attraction In Aid Of Typhoon Victims

and

The concert organised Major David M. Barchard who arranged by Mr. Gerald Bydney is being promoted to command the under the auspices of the St. John 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welch Ambulance Brigade in aid of the Fusiliers, in Hong Kong, is the typhoon victims, will be held at the senior major of the regiment, with It has been decided that warrant service from 1911. He was both Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden to- oficers (photography) shall in Regular and Militia.

morrow (Friday) at 5.30 p.m. In- adjutant, future be eligible for appointment Superintendent of PT. G8.0, and cluded in the programme are the

permanent commissions for Heutenant-colonel in

following artistes:-Mrs, Matheson, the Royal specialist photographic duties. The West African FF. and was men-

Mrs, Blair, Miss D. O'Keefe, Mrs. M. same conditions will apply to them tioned in France.

Portallion Miss Dixie Davis, Mr. George Frost, Mr. Li Chor Chi and Mr. Simpson. Mr. Gerald Sydney

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as to warrant officers appointed to permanent commissions for other specialist duties.

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EMERGENCY LIABILITY

It is notified at Simla that officers will play at the plane and the Hong

of the Indian Air Force may be re- Kong Hotel Orchestra will play by

ment.

The title of the new grade will

"commissioned photography tained beyond the date due for re-kind permission of the manage- officers." The existing grades of tirement, at a time of national commissioned engineer officers, emergency, and that flying officers, commissioned signals officers, and flight lieutenants, squadron leaders, commissioned armament officers wing commanders, and group cap were established. by an Air Minis- tains who have been placed on the try order dated April 19, 1933, and retired list shall remain ilable for up to the

present there have been recall in emergency up to the age 29, nine, and six appointments of of $5..

The concert is under the dis- tingulated patronage of His Ex- cellency the Governor, Bir Andrew Caldecott and Lady Caldecott, men Tickets, at $5, #3, $2 and $1. exn be obtained at the Hong Kong

Hotel.

The position of the Mistress of the Robes in Queen Mary's house- hold has undergone a change. It is still held by the Duchess of Devonshire, but is now entirely a personal appointment made by the Queen.

The office was nominally poli-

QUEEN OF NETHERLAND ABDICATION RUMOURED

Reports reached Stockholm on August 5 hinting at the possible abdication of the Queen of the Netherlands and of a pending marriage between Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, the Queen's

Sweden, son only daughter, and Carl, Prince of of the Duke and Duchess of Vestergotland.

Similar rumours have been cir-: culated several times during the last few years, the last occasion, be- ing about six months ago, when a semi-official denlal was issued. says Exchange.

FIRST NEW LAND

FOR KING

Coral Island Annexed In South Pacific

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The first new territory to be added to the British Empire un- ! der King Edward—a small island in the South Pacific has been formally annexed by four from Sydney, New South Wales,

The island les in the four-mile- miles wide. Elizabeth Reef 500 north-east of Sydney, and had never before been charted.

Ita discoverers are Messrs John W. Forsyth. Henry Newton-Scott, Norman K. Wallis, and Gilbert Waitley, Ichthyologist to the Aus- tralian Museum,

Collecting specimens "for, the museum and recharting the areas under commission, they were cruis- ing in Mr Wallis's 25-ton schooner "Wanderer to the Middleton And Elizabeth Reefs, 90 to 120 "miles north of Lord Howe Island

60 YARDS IN DIAMETER

When Elizabeh Reef was visited last, after a wreck In 1909, it was only a coral reef which was com- pletely submerged at high tide. Such was its description on the Admiralty chart. The island which has formed since, and which is growing rapidly, is more than 60 yards in diameter.

The island has been named For-' syth Land after Mr Forsyth, who, in a speech when it was annexed. forecast its use as a seaplane base on a Sydney-Fiji-America route.

In the opinion of Mr Whitley and the other discoverers it ap- pears to be the centre of one of the best game Oshing grounds in the Western Pacific,

The island is far from all steam- er routes, and, according to Lord Howe Island residents, the reef has never attracted fishermen.v

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the rumour in the absence from Stockholm of King Gustaf. the Crown Prince and Princess, the On August 5. however, it was im- Duke and possible to

Duchess of Vestergot- get any comment on land, and Prince Carl himself.

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