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THE SERVICES-

ROYAL NAVY

RE-ENGAGEMENT OF RATINGS A new Fleet Order states that. until further notice, ratings who have been out of the Service not more than two years may be con- "sidered for re-engagement under the conditions announced in Sep- tember, 1938, which include the provision of a special engagement bonus of la, a day.

It was intended that during the financial year from April 1, 1937. to March 31, 1938, only men who had been discharged to pension for not more than one year would be considered, and that from April 1." 1938.

would "be re-engagement restricted to men still serving. been These provisions have cancelled.

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H.M.S. DESPATCH The cruiser. Despatch, Captain E. L. S. King, M.V.O. which re- turned to Portsmouth on Decem- ber 1 from the Mediterranean, "is to begin a refit on January 3 in preparation for joining the Re- serve at this port. The flag of Rear-Admiral L. V, Wells. D.S.O., commanding the 3rd Cruiser "Squadron. was transferred frum her at Malta to the Delhi. and will be transferred again to the Arethusa next month.

THE MILFORD'S COMMISSION The escort vessel Milford w recommission at Portsmouth on December 20 an independent command for further service on the Africa Station. from which she returned in October for refit. Lieutenant-Commander F. H. Dun- lop. late squadron wireless officer: In H.M.S. Hood, has already suc ceeded Lieutenant-Commander M ..D...C.. Meyrick as executive officer: and Lieutenant P. M. Whatley, who has recently specialized, will be the shin's navigator in succes- sion to Lieutenant P. V. B. Wadlow.

COMMANDER OF THE

EXCELLENT Commander R. M. T. Taylor. who has returned from two years in command of the Brazen and ä division of the 4th Destroyer Flotila in home waters and the Mediterranean. joined the Excel- lent, gunnery school, on December 17 as executive officer in succes- sion to Captain G. N. Oliver. promoted in the midsummer list.

NEW ZEALAND. INTERCHANGES

The New Zealand Naval Board have decided that the fourth draft of interchange ratings will not be sent from New Zealand this year, and to this extent the inter- change scheme will be held in abeyance for the time being. Ar- rangements are being made for the repatriation of the 1935 inter- .change drafts.

THE ARMY

prises the following athletic tests: -Running (100 yards and one mile), high jump and putting or heaving the shot.

APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA The Commander-in-Chief India has made

ters, New Delhi:-

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Brevet Leutenant-Colonel A. E. Craig. IMS, as Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, in place of Leutenant-Colonel P. F. A. Grant, O.B.E."~

Major F. H. Skinner. 19th Hy- derabad Regiment, as D.A.Q.M.G.. vice Brevet Major R. M. Hail,

South MC... The

Staffordshire Regiment.

Captain G. R. Bradshaw, RA, as D.A.A.G.. vice Major W. A. M. Stawell, M.C.. R.E

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1937.

SEVERN LEIGH

APPEAL FAILS

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by neutral shipping in Chinese waters, and Japanese warships the following were lying off the coast of South appointments at Army Headquar-China. China has a small feet of vessels of war and also possesses an Air Force which, according to the newspaper article to which the crew referred in their letter of September 7 intended to attack enemy vessels cruising close to the waters of Hong Kong, while there, is nothing but the vigliance of the Japanese Beet to prevent China mining any part of the waters of her coast line. In such dreum- it be said that the stances can respondents were unreasonable in holding that their services in the Severn Leigh, a vessel under char- ter to a Japanese company and flying that company's house Dag, was subjected to risks greater than those incidental to an ordinary commercial voyage in times of peace? In my view the matter is concluded by the decision of the House of Lords in Palace Shipping Co. Ltd., v. Caine (1307) A.C.p. 388, from which I take two eltations from the judgments of Lord James of Hereford and of Lord Atkinson.

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Captain G. W. Eden. 2nd Bat- tallon. The Green Howards, Staff Captain. A. G. Branch.

NEW COMMANDANTS ..

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The following appointments to the command of battalions have been made:-

Major S. J. Somers-Cox, MC.. to the 1st Battalion, 10th Baluch Regiment.

Major A R. Street to the 10th Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Re- giment.

Lieutenant-Colonel D. R. Mullay to the 1st Battalion. 10th Gurkha Rifles, from command of the 2nd Battalion.

Major M. R. Roberts to the 2nd Battalion. 10th Gurkha Rides.

ROYAL AIR FORCE"

STAFF COLLEGE EXAMINATION

The RAF Staff College quali- fying examination, for all candi dates serving at home will be held from January 11 to 13, inclusive, at Ariel House, Strand, the new headquarters of British civil aviation.

A NECESSARY ELEMENT (p. 394). "In determining what amounts to a justification for sea- men, refusing to proceed to sea, I do not think that they are called upon to prove by positive and legal evidence that there was an actual probability of capture; their de- cision has to be formed upon such general information as is at the moment at their disposal. Doubt- less their decision must not be based on merely arbitrary grounds. Good faith is a necessary element, and such good faith would not reasonable unless exist

some grounds for the refusel

its

can be

The hoard of officers to in-alleged." tp 306). "The risk of vigilate at the examination will be capture may be so remote as to character of such a presided over by a group captain leave the appointed by the A.O.C.-in-C..

voyage practically unchanged or so Bomber Command, with awing proximate and imminent as to en- character. It commander appointed by the tirely change A.O.C.-Ja-C.. Fighter Command, as vice-president. A total of 152 officers of the ranks of squadron leader. fight lieutenant, and ing officer has been approved to st for this examination.

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POINTS FROM ORDERS Plots are to avoid taxi-ing' over or landing on the cast from pit covers of the smoke wind indic for apparatus on R.A.D. асто- dromes.

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The number of covers of per- manent passes being used excessive. Those in serviceable

condition which are withdrawn from airmen are to be held for

.reissue with a new inset.

With a view to obtaining greater uniformity in the practice of en- tering convictions by the civil power on Service conduct sheets, REGIMENTAL ALLIANCES

entries which are at present made The King has approved that the

at the discretion of the C.O. are alliances between The Governor-

'n future to be made only when General's Body Guard, Non- the offence is one that has

Active Fermanent

Militia of

brought disgrace or discredit on Canada, and The Queen's Bays

the uniform, the Service, or the (2nd Dragoon Guards) and, be-

position which the offender holds, tween The Mississauga Horse. Convictions; &c., in respect of Non-Permanent Active Militia of drunkenness will be entered in- Canada, and the ist King's variably as at present; other

be Guards may Dragoon

entries must be authorized by an

con-

seas

must be a question of degree to be determined in each case on its own special facts; but it would certainly appear to me that a voyage with a contraband cargo, across which are admittedly the theatre of war, to a port belonging to one of the belligerents which is itself a naval base, and therefore likely sur- to be the object of such veillance and attack as the other belligerent is able to subject it to, or direct against it, is prima facie not an ordinary commercial voyage of a peaceful nature that the crew in this case engaged to serve. And, in my opinion, the burden of re- butting the prima facie presump- tion above mentioned, and es- tablishing that the risk of capture was so remote that the character of the voyage. remained practically unchanged from that which the crew supposed it to be when they signed the articles, rested upon the owners of the ship or their agent, the master. I do not think that

they or he discharged that burden simply by proving that at the port from which the voyage across the theatre of wat was to commence it was in the opinion of officials in a position to judge that, owing to

forces of that belligerent by whom capture, it was to take place, I was to be apprehended, there was no real risk or danger of capture

tinued to The Governor-General's officer not below the rank of wing the crippled condition of the naval Horse Guards. Non-Permanent commander. Active Militia of Canada (formed

The Guard by

by the amalgamation of Governor-General's Body and The Mississauga Horse) that regiment's alliance to the 1st King's Dragoon Guards and The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards).

The King has also approved of

the extension of the alliance be- tween The Peterborough Rangers. Non-Permanent Active Militia of Canada, and The Middlesex Re- giment (Duke of Cambridge's Own') to include The Prince of Wales Rangers (Peterborough Re- giment) (M.G.. Non-Permanent Active Mlita of Canada; and of the 6th Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales Mounted Rifles), Australian Military Forces, being allied to the 7th Queen's

Own Hussars.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LIDDELL

REGISTRY WEDDING

A quiet wedding took place at the Registry of Marriages, Supreme Court, yesterday, when Miss Tang Ngoi Lin, of No. 116 Main Street, Aberdeen, became the

Apllchau,

bride of Mr. Leung Ngai Lam, of Cheung Chau.

at all."

The good faith of the respon- dents has never been challenged. There has been no suggestion that the course they adopted was in- spired by any motives other than those which they stated. The onus of satisfying the Court that. the isk was so remote as to leave the

ANNUAL NAVAL INSPECTION

Vice-Admiral Crabbe Takes Salute

The annual

inspection and

march past of the naval landing parties was held at the Raco Course yesterday morning when the large number of spectators who turned out to watch the pro- ceedings were rewarded with a really brilliant spectacle.

Vice-Admiral L. Eş Crabbe, act- ing Commander-in-Chief of the China Station during the indis- position of Admiral Sir Charles Little, took the salute and inspect- ed the four hundred seamen and marines.

His Excellency the G.O.C... Ma for General A. W. Bartholomew and Commodore E. B. C. Dicken stood by Admiral Grabbe's side as he took the salute.

Mrs. Bartholomew and Mrs. Dicken were present, as were also Flag Capt. J. C. Leach (RM8. Cumberland), Capt. C. B. Barry. D.S.O. (H.M.S. Medway), Capt. A.

M. B. Cunninghame Graham (HMS. Tarantula), Capt. C. Cop- pinger. D.SC. (HMS. Capetown). Capt. C. Moody (H.M.S. Eagle), Brigadier A. B. Thomson, Ccl. N. M. S. Irwin, Major C. A. Power, R.M., Captains and officers of the French sloop Dumont d'Urville and the Portuguese warship Goncalo Celho.

Capt. H. Hickling, R.N.. was in command of the parade and the Royal Marines company was com- manded by Capt. R. M. Giddy, R.M.

SMART FORMATION

The G.D.C. arrived shortly before 10 a.m. and saluted the parade which was drawn up to attention. A few minutes Ister Admiral Crabbe drove on to the ground, and walked to the saluting base facing and seamen the long line of marines. The general salute was given as the Union Jack was un- furled.

Accompanied by Capt. Hickling and his staff, Admiral Crabbe then Inspected the men, walking along the front line and then the rear line. also inspecting the bands of RMS. Eagle and HMS: Cumber- land. which were included in the parade.

The landing parties then march- cd past the saluting base in very smart formation, the bands playing appropriate marches while Admiral Crabbe took the salute.

The landing parties comprised, in order, men of HMS, Cumber- Adventure, HMS. land, R.M.9. Eagle. H.M.S. Lowestoft. HM.S. Falmouth, H.M.S. Wescott. HMS. Medway and the 4th Submarine Flotilla, the 8th Destroyer Fictllia and Royal Marines

CANTON PROFESSOR

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ROBBED

Committal proceedings were-be- gun at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when Lo Kam, a 32- year-old unemployed appeared he- fore Mr. K. Keen on a charge of armed robbery, alleged to have been committed at No. 257, Re- clamation Street, second floor on November 3, Detective Inspector A. E. Carey, conducted the case for the prosecution and told the Court, that on the evening of November 3, when the occupants of the house, professor Wong Ngal-wan of the Canton University and his wife and

daughter were away, de- fendant entered the premises' by a trick, together with another man and held up the amah, Hul Mui. with a knife and after having tied her with rope confined her into a cup-board.

About 8 pm. when Mr. Wong

returned he found that his house

The ceremony was performed by character of the voyage practically Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith. Registrar unchanged is on the master, and of Marriages, in the presence of

n my opinion he has failed to dis-had been ransacked and two suit Messrs. H. W. Fraser and To Tuen.

:harge it.

HONG KONG HOTEL

CARNIVAL

It follows therefore that this ap-

real falls.

SECOND JUDGMENT In his judgment,, Mr. Justice Fraser said: The facts are briefly that a British ship, the Severn The Management of the Hong Leigh, under charter with the Kong Hotel desires to advise Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Limited, a 'Patrone who have booked tables Japanese firm, was in Hong Kong Major-Genera C. G. Liddell, for the New Year's Eve Carnival bound for Hongay in ballast, in CB, CMO. CBE. D.8.0., has at that establishment that the order to take a cargo of coal to been given the local rank of Roof Garden will be open as a Milki and Wakamatsu in Japan Heutenant-general. on assuming Cocktail Bar for the occasion from

On September 6. 1937, before the the post of Adjutant-General to 7.30 p.m.

date on which the ship was due to leave for Hongay, the crew, de- manded extra money for war risks or to be paid off.

the Forces.

SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY

CUP FOR 171ST Á.A. BATTERY

The War Office announces that

The ship's articles were dated the cup presented by the "Daily Telegraph" and Morning Post" The annual reunion of Old and March 10, 1937. Although clause for competition among air defence present boys of the School will 16 of the charter party provides. units of the Territorial Army has take the form of a fancy dress that the steamer shall not be order- been won for this year by the dance to be held as usual or the ed to any ports blockaded or where 171st Anti-Aircraft Battery, 61st school premises at No. 1 Middie hostilities are being carried on and (Fnsbury Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Road Kowloon. The Dance com- there is the usual provision that Brigade. Royal Artillery, Terri-mences at 8.15 p.m. and refresh- the contract is voldable in case of torial Army. The competition for ments will be served during the war in which Britain is involved, the cup, which is on a battery and evening. There will be prizes given there is nothing either in the company basis, is held during an- for the best Male and Female charter party's or the ship's articles nual training in camp and com- fancy dress costumes.

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cases, one passport, two fountain- pens, three blankets and 28 pleces. of clothing were missing. A report for this incident was made to the

Yaumati Police Station.

. On December 11, on information received. a Chinese detective went to No. 8, Hamilton Street and ar- rested defendant. Together with the detective defendant went to various pawn shops and second- hand shops and pointed out the clothing which, he pawned and sold. An identification parade was held on December 12, and the amah identified defendant without nesitation.

Corroborative evidence was given by Mr. Wong Ngal-wan and the. amah after which the case was adjourned till to-day,

HEALTH RETURNS

Three cases of diphtheria,' one of. enteric fever, two of cerebro-spinal rever and one of dysentery were reported to the local Health Au- thorities during the 24 hours ended at manight on Wednesday,

Eyes

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HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT

Customers are kindly requested to note that in celebra- tion of the New Year, our Department Store will be closed to business to-morrow (Jan. 1), but will resume at 1 p.m. on Sunday (Jan. 2) as usual.

Café de Luxe Restaurant remains open to-morrow. Extra special New Year Tiffin and Dinner at $1.00 per cover on that day.

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