1937-10-18 — Page 7

THE SERVICES

(By Air Mall, Loudon, Oct. 2).

ROYAL NAVY

VISIT TO BEIRUT

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The cruisers London and Sussex, the former flying the flag of of Vice-Admirat C. E. Kennedy- Purvis, CB., arrived at Beirut re- ceatly. They are to return Malta on October 29.

These vessels of the 1st Cruiser Squadron have been since August- 44 on a cruise which has taken them to Venice and various Greek the The Devonshire, of ports.

squadron, same

has been at Alexandria for the past month for firings, and the Shropshire 13 at Chatham for reft and recom. missioning.

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COMMANDER OF THE AJAX Commander D. H. Everett, M.B.E., is appointed to the cruiser Ajax for duty as executive officer in succession to Commander J. Sissmore, D.S.C., who has served: during her 21-year commission. partly on the America Station and partly in the Eastern

Mediter-

ranean The Ajax is now under- going a long refit at Portsmouth. Since graduating at the Staff College in 1934 Commander Everett has been stall officer (operations) in China, and recently has been Ke commander of the Warspite. specialized in signals in 1922-23. and was feet signal officer, Home Fleet, at the time of his promotion to commander in 1932.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1937.

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EXCHANGE FUND CORRESPONDENCE

Colonial Treasurer's

Report

Plymouth Hospital and from 1939 to 1936 was in the hospital ship Maine.

In accordance with policy an- CADETS AT NAPLES.

nounced at the last meeting of the HMS. Vindictive: Captain E. J. Legislative Council, the Financial Spooner, D.S.O., training cruiser Secretary and Colonial Treasurer. for cadets, should arrive to-day at Mr. S. Caine, on Saturday review-| Naples in the course of her drated the position of Hong Kong's cruise since replacing the Fro-Exchange Fund as of June 30 last. bisher. On Monday she will leave The Colony's assets of over tor Capri and Malta.

£10,000,000 are roughly £1,000,000 beyond the total of Certificates of Indebtedness, according to the "Government Gazette."

Mr. Caine's report follows: The Exchange Fund set up in December, 1935, took over, in ac-

NEW LIEUTENANT- COMMANDERS

Of seven lieutenants, R.N., who are due for promotion to leste- nant-commander four have specia lized. Lieutenants H. Riley in physical training. K. D. Macphail and E. T. Larken in gunnery, and A. D. Lenox-Conyngham in signals. The others are lieutenants S. J. Gunh (who gained his commission from the lower deck as mate), R. A. Forbes, and D. C. Kinloch. The last-named is Flag Leutenant to Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse. Commander-in-Chief. Home Fleet.

THE ARMY

NEW COLOURS FOR ROYAL

The

IRISH FUSILIERS Duke of Gloucester will present new Colours to the 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Royal Irish Fusiliers, at St. James's Palace on Monday, November 1. This, it is belleved, will be the first occasion that two battalions of one regi- ment, other than the Brigade of Guards, have received new Colours at the same time and place...

The 1st Battalion is a Bordon. and the 2nd, which was Ports-

re- eight formed last

SUBMARINES FROM CHINA The submarines Ostris, Comman- der W. E. Banks, and Oswald, Lieutenant Commander M. T.

returned to Collier, have mouth after

than more years' Service on the China Station, where their places have been taken by the new submarines Grampus and Romual. They are to be re- duced to Immediate Reserve at Portsmouth.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Mr. A. D. Constable, O.B.E., Has retired from the post of Director

Electrical Engineering at the Admiralty, in which he will be Pringle, succeeded by Mr. J...S. O.BE, hitherto Assistant Director of Dockyards. Mr. Constable enter- ed the Admiralty service in 1903. and was electrical engineer at Bér- muda and Gibraltar Dockyards from 1904 to 1913. when he was appointed to the Admiralty. He became Assistant Director of Electrical Engineering in 1918, and for some years was employed on electrical design for the Naval Ser- vice and latterly on research and experimental work He was. ap- pointed Director in 1934,

SURGEON LIEUTENANTS, R.N.

The Admiralty announce that the following have been appointed Surgecc

for Lieutenants, R.N., short service!—

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on the

April after being. amalgamated with the 1st Batta- Hon in 1922. Is stationed at Alder- shot. It is probable that the old Colours will be trooped parade ground at Aldershot for the last time later in November.

APPOINTMENTS AND

MOVEMENTS

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cordance with Ordinance 54 of

1935, the silver which had to be delivered under that Ordinance; it also purchased during the first few months of its operation sub- stantial quantities of exchange which were offered on the local market, It has since both bought and sold exchange as has been found necessary.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT The silver taken over by the Fund was sold and the monies 80 obtained and exchange bought by the Fund constitute assets against the abilities represented by Cert!- ficates of Indebtedness issued by the Treasurer to the Banks.

Chinese Catholics And The War

(To the Editor, of "The Hong Kong Dally Press")

Sur,With reference to Reuter's Information of the activities

of Japanese Catholics in favour of their Government, I crave for some space in your valuable Paper, in order to make clear the position of Catholles, both in China and Japan in the present conflict.

It is the duty of all Cathollés, im- posed by the teaching of Christ, to support their country, to love and defend it to the best of their abilities. This is what Japanese

Catholics are doing when they or- ganise themselves to help Japan, It is their duty.

However, it is to be pitled that their Government keeps them in blindness with regard to the true

spirit and motives of this inhuman

war. It is very well known that to conceal her barbarism Japan tries to masquerade her activities under the appearance of a holy war against Communism in China and thus tries to gain the support of her own people and of nations abroad. We who live in neutral countries and get news from both sides can see the truth, but those who live in Japan and read and know only what a strictly censored press lets them know and-read, how can they possess the truth? This is the reason why Japanese Catho- lics support the barbarism of their own government. They are m- lead. If they could know the truth,

On June 30th last the Certi- ficates of Indebtedness outstand- ing amounted to $152,652,579, which is equivalent to £9,342,020 at the rate of 1/2.11/18, the mid- dle market rate on that day; the total assets of the Fund amount- ed to £10,318,240 of which 62.971 per cent was invested in gft edged sterling securities and 35.91 per cent was held in cash or on de- posit in London at call or short notice. The balance 1.12 per cent. represented silver

The financial statement of the Treasury tor the month of July is to hand and shows that, now $3.444.814.23 was spent, leaving an excess of assets over abilities of

Lieutenant-Colonel C E. G. $13,529,915.85. Revenue for July Shearman, DS.O., M.C., vacates was slightly more than expendi- command of the.

1st Battalion, ture at $3.528,961.79. Outstanding The Bedfordshire and Hertford- comparisons with the revenue in shire Regiment, on promotion and July of last year show that receipts to take up the appointment of from the Kowloon-Canton railway Assistant Quartermaster General were down last July by $7,000: at Yrk. He succeeds Colonel V. Duties were up by $100,000; Post E. Mocatta, O.B.E., on the North- Office was up by $12,000; Licences

erh Command headquarters staft. and Internal Revenue was up by He has been Brigade Major in❘ $330,000. Ireland, G.S.0.3, Eastern and Aldershot Commands, G.3.0.2 for Royal Air Force Co-operation, and DA.A. und Q.M.G.. Western Com- mand,

Colonel G. S. Brunskill, M.C., late 1st Batta on, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry has assumed his appointment in Jeru- salem as A.A. and QM.G.

C.M.G..

resume

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter. K.C.B., D.S.O.. from leave will the Governorship duties in Malta. S. Gaskell. Major-General" H. C.B., D.S.O., will leave Marseilles for New Delhi to resume the Engineer- in-chlefship at Army HQ.

P. H. K. Gray, M.R.CS.. L.R.C.P. (Guy's). W. L Latham, M.R.CS., L.R.C.P. (London), R. McM. Latta, M.B., Ch.8. (Glasgow Univ), F. E Lauder, MRC.S., LR.C.P. (Char ing Crosa). E. B. Martin, MR.CS.. L.R.C.P. (London), D. Martyn; M.B., Ch.D. (Glasgow Univ.), J. H. Mit chell, MB., B.Ch. (T.C.D.), K. J. O'Connor, M.R.C.S., LR.C.P.

Manch. Univ.), W. V. Owen, succession to Lieutenant-General MRCS LRCP. (Camb. Univ. Sir John E. S. Brind. KCB.. and Westminster), V. J. R. Sherl K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O., the" dan, M.B. ChB, (Edinburgh Univ.), Commander-in-Chief for Southern and B. W. Walford. M.B., Ch.B. India. (Birmingham Univ.).

FOURTH SEA LORD Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, K.C.B., C.V.O,, has relinquished the post of Fourth Sea Lurd and Chief of Supplies and Transport, which he has held since February, 1935.

Rear Admiral His successor is Geoffrey S. Arbuthnot, DS.O., who in February last, consequent on his promotion to flag rank, re- linquished command of H.M.S. Vallant, in which he was day cap tain and chief staff officer, to the Second-in-Command, Mediterra-

nean.

RETURN OF THE MILFORD The escort vessel Millford, Captain E. C Thornton, DS.C.. will leave Bathurst, Gambia, for Portsmouth on the conclusion of her second commission on the Africa Station. She is due on October 15, after a call at Madeira from October 8, to 9. The Milford will be docked and refitted and is to recommis- :sion with a Devonport crew about

inid-January.

SURGEON COMMANDER

RETIRED

Lieutenant-General Sir Roger C. Wilson, K.C.B., DS.O., M.C., has left London for India to take up the Adjutant--Generalship in

Lieutenant-General Bir W. Pfit-Taylor. K.C.B., resumes charge of the Command in India...

QUETTA ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

new

Walter C.M.G., Western

At the entrance examination for the Star College at Quetta seven British Service and 11 Indian Army vacancies will be filled by competition, and eight will be fill- ed by nomination, of which three will be for the British Service, The competitive vacancies

Will

be filled from the first 25 officers in order of merit, but if seven British and 11 Indian Army officers placed in nat

the first

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25 the balance will be filled by nomination.

ROYAL AIR FORCE

COMMAND OF NO. 47 SQUADRON Squadron Leader Q. R. C. Spen cer, who has been appointed to

command No. 47 (Bomber) Squa- dron at Khartoum, has already served in the Middle East Com-. mand for two years on air staff duties at Cairo.

Sürgeon Commander W E. Heath, recently serving at the R.N. Barracks, Portsmouth, has been placed on the retired list after 19 NEW BALLOON CENTRE years' service. He was as surgeon

No. 1 Balloon Centre formed at Heutenant and lieutenant-com- Kidbrooke on October 4, on which mander in the cruisers Constance, date it was placed in the Fighter -Ceres, and Colombo on the America Command in No. 30 (Balloon Bar- and Mediterranean stations; the rage) Group. The telephone num- Iron Duke, when Mediterranean her will be Lee Green 1920, fingship, and the Marborough in home water. He became a sur- geon commander in 1930 and has since been on the staff at

defence for the London area, and the training of personnel as in- structors has been in progress for some time at Cardington and at Rollestone Camp, Salisbury,

CHINA SQUADRON DISPOSITION

The following is the disposition or H.M. ships in North China:-

Shanghai: Danse. Sandwich,

Folkestone.

Tsingtao: Duncan.» Chefoo: Decoy. Wethelwel: Adventure, Tangku: Grimsby, Defender. Hankow: Capetown Swatów: Diana, Diamond.

WARSHIPS IN HARBOUR The following warships were in port yesterday:-

South Wall: Cicala, Phoenix. East Wall: Duchess.

Dock: Orpheus, Proteus. Pao-

dora

am sure, they would act and speak differently.

What I want to point out now is that Chinese Catholics are doing much more than the Japanese for

their own Country. Since the be- ginning of hostilities. Pastoral let- ters of all the Blahops in China have urged Chinese Catholics to do their duty. Practically in all Churches and Institutions, collec- tons have been made to help in different ways the war rellef fund. and Chinese Catholics, as I have been told by Mgr. Yu Pin, have largely subscribed to the National Loan. Since last month a National Committee presided by three Bi- shops has been formed in Hankow to organise the relief work of the 4 million Catholics of China.

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Foreign missionaries who belong AMBULANCE BRIGADE

to over 19 different nationalities have appealed to Catholics in their Own respective

and countries, money and clothing are slowly but steadily reaching, China through these sources. It is true that all this has not been published by Press Agencies, but, these are none. the less true facts.

Mgr. P. Yu Pin, the Chinese Ca- tholle Bishop of Nanking, was the first to urge Catholics to do their duty to China and to donate his golden medals to Chiang Kai-shek for the war relief fund. He is now on a visit to the Holy Father in Rome, and he is sure to lecture through Italy and Europe pleading. China's cause.

The Director of Ambulance has the honour to acknowledge with grateful appreciation and thanks the receipt of the following dona-

tions:-

Messrs. Shing Kung Cho Tong, Talpo Market (per Mr. Sum Pak Ming), $800. ..

The K. and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., $500,

Mr. Chau Man Chl, $200. Sir Victor Bassoon, $100; Staff of China Light and Power (per Mr. D. W, Munton), $41.50.

Mr. Thomas Yu, $10. Kitty, $10.

For Canton Medical Relief Mr. A. Van Steenbergen and Colleagues. Bandoeng Java (per Mrs. Chan), $200.

Hong Kong Catholics have cer- tainly done no less than their core- l'gionists in China Proper. Since early, in August the St. Joan of of Arc's G.Y.LA, under the able North China Hospital Relief Fund direction of the Sisters of the Wanchal Ambulance Division. Italian Convent and helped by $20. School-girls, has started collections and bandages work. The initiative. was later taken up by the Diocesan' Council of Catholic Action of HK..

Taikoo Dock: Delight, Lowestoft. presided by Mgr. H. Valtorta, and No. 1 Buoy: Eagle.

H

No. 2 Buoy Medway and the

Fourth Submarine Flotilla

No 3 Buoy: Olympus, Otus,

Dainty.

No. 5. Buoy: Rainbow. No. 6 Büoy: Suffolk. No. 7 Buoy: Daring. No. 12 Buoy: Westcott, Thracian.

FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR American: Asheville, Barker Chinese: Chun Hsing. Chinese Customs Cruisers (15). Gunboats (2), Transports (2). MOVEMENTS H.MS. Eagle, aircraft carrier at- tached to the China Station, which arrived here last Thursday. is leaving for the north to-mar- IOW.

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HMS. Dorsetshire is due to ar- rive here to-day from Home where she has been altered and newly

commissioned

SUBMARINE EXERCISES

Notice is given of the com-

mencement of exercises by HMS. Eagle and the 4th Submarine Fotilla to-day. The submar- Ines will be in the vicinity of the south and southeast of the Colony. The alrcraft carrier will ny her planes to-morrow. If condi- tions are good it is likely that some night flying will take place.

It is intended to create 10 special Tytam Bay, Junk Bay and Port units of the Auxillary Force to Shelter are available as anchor operute the balloon barrage in ages for the warships during the connexion with the scheme. of exercises.

Mr. Chan Wing Hon, $10. Mr. Wong Kwan Cheung, $1.

APPOINTMENTS

Coronation Medal to Mr. Tso Tsun-on of the Police Reserve in recognition of his loyal and valu- able services to the Empire,

all other numerous associations of Catholic Action have enthusiast!- cally answered the appeal by mak-

In the name of His Majesty the ing door to door collections which xing. His Excellency the Officer are still continuing and have yield-Administering the Government has ed so far several thousand dollars. been pleased to award the King's

In the Catholic Schools daily collections are made. The St. Teresa's Chinese Young Men's 80- clety is now organising a grand concert with the co-operation of the Choral Group and of the Band of the Conte Verde in the Kowloon Tong Club on Wednesday, Oct. 27.

collected by All receipts C.YMS, will be duly acknowledged through the press and sent to the Red Cross in Nanking.

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SZ YAN KIT.

DR. STANLEY JONES

To-day at 5.30 p.m. in the Fung Ping Bhan Chinese Library, the University (entrance on Bon- ham Road), the Rev. Dr. E. Stanley Jones will speak to the League of Nations Society on "What can we do in the present world crisis?"

Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chan cellor of the University, will take. the chair.

Dr. Stanley Jones is well-known as a man with a message, and it is hoped that all who are interested will take advantage of this op portunity of bearing him speak.

It is notified that Mr. W. Jet- fries, F.RA.8., resumed duty as Director, Royal Observatory October 14.

on

Mr. Graham Scudamore Percival Heywood, M.A., B.Sc., has resumed duty as Assistant Director, Royal Observatury.

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saxceliency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has appointed Mr. John Sutherland MacLaren to be Chief Assistant to Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

REGISTRY WEDDING:

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A the Registry of Marriages, Supreme Court on Saturday. wedding. took place between Mr. Tam Yung-hing, accountant at tached to the Man King Company, realding at No. 7 Yuen Chow Street, and Miss Wong Bin-kwan. of No. 103 Gloucester Road. The ceremony was performed by Mr. T. B. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Mar- riages.

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