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By The Air Mail, London Dec. 18) ROYAL NAVY

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE KAST

Colonel J. J. Llewellin, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, is shortly to make an inspection of naval establish ments in the East, and with this inspection will combine a visit to Australia as principal delegate ôt the Empire Parliamentary Associa- tion at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebrations of New South Wales.

The Civil Lord ialled from Toulon on December 24 in the s.s. Oronsay. He called at Aden on January 2 and will call at Colombs on Janu- ary & to inspect the naval es- tablishments. He will meet, en route to Sydney, the West Australia.

and ..South Australia,

Victoria branches of the Empire Parliamen- tary Association, and will arrive in Sydney for the anniversary cele brations on January 25. He will leave Sydney, "on February 4 for Singapore, meeting the Queensland branch of the Empire Parlamen- tary Association on the way, and will arrive at Singapore on Febru- mary & He will stay at Singapore till February 16, there making an inspection of the dockyard and naval establishments, and will re- turn to England by air.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

The following appointments have been made by the Admiralty:---

Capt.-C. E Hotham, DSC, to Hawking (Feb, 14).

ing or on order for the Royal Navy, three belonging to the programme of 1935, and seven each to those of 1936 and 1937. They fall into

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HOMEWARD

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DORSETSHIRE

Troops For Palestine,

C.P.O. DISRATED

Court Martial On H.M.S. Suffolk

Found guilty of having stolen two $10 fotes from AB. Wood-

three classes, five being of the India And Singapore ward on December 1, Chief Petty

Southampton, or Improved South- ampton type between 9,300, and 10,000 tons; five of the new Fil class; and seven of the Dide class of 5,300 tons,

Several other contracts still re- main to be placed under the 1937 shipbuilding programme.

THE ARMY

REFORMS AND AIR DEFENCE In December's issue of the Ter- ritorial two topics overshadow a others: the first of these is the re- forms in the administration of the Territorial Army, the higher status conferred on it, and the new op portunities which the recent changes will give Territorial. officers of participating in the higher con- trol of the Army in peace and war the second is anti-aircraft defence.

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Omeer Reginald Walter Gardner, of "H.M.8. Sukolk, was disrated to Able Seaman and had three badges and a medal confiscated.- when he stood trial by Court Mar- clal on board the cruiser yester- day,

On her homeward bound trip. which will be sometime in the middle of this month, the trans- port Dorsetshire. due here on January 8, will have numerous personnel on board, including 11 Royal Ulster. Rifles bound for

The court comprised Capl. H. Palestine and 110 Seaforth High-ingham Grahame, Capt. E. G. N. Hickling (President); Capt. Cun- anders returning to the United- Kingdom..

TO UNITED KINGDOM 1st Bn. Láncnshire Fusiliera,—

3/Lieut. J. E. L. Willis.

RAS.C. two details.

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8th Heavy Ede, R.A--Lieut. J. T. March and ten details.

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Rushbrooke, Cmdr. Loly and Cmdr. Robinson...

Paymaster-Lt. Blamey, was De- puty Judge Advocate. The case for the prosecution was conduët- ed by Capt H. C. Phillips, whilst accused was. defended by Mr. W. A Mackinlay. of Messrs. Deacons. Giving evidence A. B. Woodward stated that he received his pay for November at about 11.30 in the morning, in $10 notes the numbers of which were in sequence. On completion of his duties afloat, he went ashore, and at night, return- ed to the ship where he laid out 2nd Bn Royal Welch Fusiliersms money out of his pockets and hts camp bed in the pantry, took

5th Heavy Bde. R.A.—13 details. Fortress R.E.-Capt. and Mrs. C. M. Singer. Capt... and 'Mrs. D. `M. Eley, S.CS.. J. Faro and. F. Smyth, and wives. S/Sergt. and Mrs. E. QMES, Hayden, W. Warren

Isley, and 13. details.

20 detalls.

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1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment.-- Capt. and Mrs. M. Crawford, 11 details.

An editorial distinctly critical of

Hong Kong Bde. H.K. & S.RA --- the Government's record and in-QM.S., and Mrs. A: Glasspool tentions in regard to air raid pre- cautions is followed by an article by Air Commodore A. J. Chamier, who emphasizes the possibility of making aerial attack unprofitable- by co-ordination bf "aclive," "static" and "passive" detencë Other interesting features are ar- ticles by Maför-General H. Need- hom on "Why the Horse is Doom- ed" and by Lieutenant-Col. R T

Pay. Cdr.-F. J: Hoyd, to Pern- Price, C.B.E, 53rd (Welsh) Division, broke (Jan. 4).

on field defences, dealing with the į demonstrations his unit carried out

this year at Hereford..

Lt.-Cars. (Flt/Lis., R.A.F.)--O; S. Stevinson, to Victory, for Gosport (Jan. 3), and to Landon (undated); J. Dalyell-Stead, to Courageous (Jan. 31.

.Lts, "(F./O., RAF.)-R. N. Everett, R. W, Blater, J. H. Bames,

(Jan. 14),

Lt. (F/Lt. RAF-E G. Clut- ton, to Newcastle (Jan. 3).

Temp. Instr. Lt G. Steel, to Glorious an. 1),

ARMAMENTS YEAR BOOK This is the thirteenth year in which a comprehensive survey of the personnel and material of the armed forces of the principal ¿oun-

R. L. Strange, H. 8. McN. Daventries of the world has been pre- port, T. C. G. Helford, J. A. Levers, pared under the auspices of the to Victory, for Gasport; G. Starkey. League of Nations; and the super- A. H. Abrams, LE D. Walthall, to stitious may well be pardoned 17 Courageous (Jan. 3); J. L. Halle- they trace some connexion between well, R. HL Furlong, J. H. Sterning. R. L. Williamson, to Victory, for the contents of the volume (pub- Gosport (Jun 3), and to Glenoti lished by Allen, and Unwin at 258,) and the traditionally unfortunate number 13, for the former inevit ably redect the continued ex- pansion or armaments which ro- sults from world unrest. The pre- face claims that it has been possi- Bürgn, Lts,--D. W, Pratt, M.B., to Furlous (Jan. 10); W. W. Simkins,ble to bring most of the relevant to date, and in Information up M.R.C.S., L.R.O.P., to Newcastle (Jan. 11); G. H. C. R. Critien, M.B., most cases the claim is justified, to Pembroke, for RN. Hospl, Chat- but in the particularly interesting ham (Jan. 28); R. M. Kirkwood, cases of Germany and Italy it has been impossible to obtain authori- 'M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., to President, for tative information as to either ex- crse.. at R.A.F”, Central Medical En tablishment (Feb. 14), and to Fari penditure or material, except as to

viaval building programmes, ous (March 6).

Payr. LA. W. Richards, to Ex-spite of one or two gaps which it All, this has been Impossible to mouth (Jan. 14).

volume. En its predecessors, is 12- dispensable to those who require

Sub-Lt. (F./0,, RAF)-D H Burke, to Fletory, for Gosport (Jan.

3)."

Wt. Engrs.-A. Sarias, to Oxley (Dec. 27); H. Griffiths, to Tibune (Jan. 7).

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PROMOTIONS

Cd. Engr.-J. & L: Hoskin, to rank of Lt. (E) (seny. Dec. 4).

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to have the data available as to the armies, navies, and air forces int the world.

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ARMY COUNCIL CHANGE The reconstituted Army Council, following the revolutionary changes recently announced by the Mials- ter of War, Mr. Hore-Bellsha, has,

wt. Shipt.-F. D. Rich, to ranirit was announced in the "London of Cd. Shipt. (seny: Dec. 28),

Gazette", been appointed by the King by Letters Patent under the Lt.Cdr.-N. H. Beaver, with rank Great Seal dated Decetober as

BETIREMENTS

of Cdr. (Dec: 25):

Shipt. Lt.-G. A. Evans, placed on the Retd. List (Dec. 25)

CONTRACTS FOR NEW.

CRUISERS

The Admiralty have decided to place orders for the four Fiji elas cruisers of the 1937 programme with the following firms:--

follows:-

Mr. Leslie Hote-Belsha-Pres}- dení,

Captain Donald Sterling Palmer, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

Vice-President.

1st Bn. Seaforth Highlanders 110 detatis.

1st Bn, Royal Ulster Rides. --- R.S.M. and Mrs. C. Henniker, Rin "and Mrs. Henry.

R:AMC-Major and. Mrs. J.,D, Corner, Capt. H. N., Walker, Ptel and Mrs. Munt.

RA.O.C.-S.Q.M.S., and Mrs. J. Davies, detail.

laid it on the mess shelf by the bed. There were three $10 notes and some small change. :

On waking up the following morning at he saw C. P.O. Gar- diner sitting by the foot of his bed as usual, for morning tea.

At 6 o'clock, witness got up. went to the mëss-shelf rolled up the money and placed it in his pocket without counting It. Half an hour later he noticed that two notes were missing.

Witness was quite certain that, RAPC-Major and Mrs. R. H. Smyth. Capt. and Mrs., R. L Ing-dropped during the time he had the money could not have been

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Army Educational Corps-Capo: and Mrs. G. W. K Kimm,"

Q.AIM.N.S. Sisters Miss Moubray and Miss G. A. Beeley. Royal Air Force-Ave details.

detalls Royal Navy.-11

and

miscellaneous passages.

Miscellaneous passages. Lieut. R. L. Gairatt, 1st Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers; wife of Lieut.-Col. Tid bury, Middlesex. Regiment; sister of Lent. Winkfeld, "Miss. B. M. Howell, B.Q.M.S., and Mrs. Balchin and slater.

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TO PALESTINE 1st Bn."Royal Ulster Rifles.-111 details

LA.C.C.-Wife of.. Sergt. Walking and ister.

TO INDIA

1st Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles- Capt. and Mrs. F. 0. Rateliffe, Capt. G. S. Frizelle, Lieut. D. C. Lincoln, C.Q.MS., and

Mrs. F.

taken the money from the shelf and noticed its loss. He did not dispose of any notes other than those he already referred to.

RECORDS OF ALL NOTES Pay.,Lt. Spittle; second accoun- tant officer in charge of stores, festined that payment for Novem- ber was made on November 30: He put up the money for the sea- men in the highest denomination of $10 $10,000 of the money. wüs in sequence and '$300 was not.

The new notes in sequence were paid to the seamen but no new notes were paid to the P.Q's and .C.P.O.'a

"I have records of all the notes paid to Woodward." continued witness, "they were A/C 933049x to 939055X. Subsequently notes dumbers 939051X and 933055X were paid in by A B. Woodward and Shipwright Wright for safe

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FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS

The following forthcoming wed- dinga are announced:

Mr. Philip Barron Parks,, metalą, lurgist, of No...4 Albion Terrace, and Mrs. Ann Apwicon Docks, Mabel Turner, stenographer, of No. 197 Price Edward Road,

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Hynds, Endsmn and Mrs, W. Me. custody. Two other notes were paid-i residing at No. 89 Caine Road, and

Carthy, and ten details. QAIM.. NS-Sisters Miss M. A. Mescall und Miss E. M.. Walsh.

in for the Post Office on Decem-

ber 1.

On that date, he was on duty and was responsible for asuing

Mr. Leung Man Chuk, teacher, of Kwang Taf Accountancy College,

Miss Cheung So Ha, of No. 201 Wanchai Road, Arst floor,

Mr. Ronald Yuen, merchant,

1st Bn. Royal Ulster Rides postal orders and dealing with residing at No. 112 Jervois Street,

111 details.

TO SINGAPORE Rev. M. A. Farren, M.A., Assis- tant Chaplain General for Far East.

R.A.M.C.-Captain C. W. Maisey Capt. D. P. Stevenson, and 18 de

talis.

Royal Air Force.-Flight.-Lleut and Mrs. T. U. C. Shirley, W. O. H. M. King. Sergt. J. E. M. Mae- Callum: 11, first class and 12 other Indulgence passages on round trip from Malaya.. -

COLONY'S HEALTH

Oletal health returns issued for

withdrawals and payments in for the Post Office Savings Bank

Accused was the first rating to be issued with postal orders. As $10 notes were received, witness placed them on a pile in front of him and these were not touched until the plle became fairly high, when he placed them in the safe behind him.

and Miss Jennie Chan' of No. 113

wanchal Road, first floor.

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Mr. Ng Men Gwark, altas Wil- liam Dunn, engineer, of No. 675 Nathan Road, first floor, and Miss Elsle Chan, of Avenue.

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BACK

When the master-at-arms re- ported that Woodward had lost It was learned that Messrs. A.G: two.notes he kept a check on all Hargreave, A.D. Coppin" and JR. money paid into the bark and Johnson, whose yacht was report- eventually took the pile of $18ed to have been fred on by snipers on Wangcum Island while sailing notes out of the safe, reversed the

to the Colony on order and found the notes which from Macau

have returned here Woodward reported missing. He Saturday, had first ascertained the numbers

Earlier reports stated that the of the notes which Woodward had

passing the island, drawn for his pay, by referring to yacht way

which was last, week, occupied by Japanese marines, about 4.30 p.m. 00. New Year's Day when rine shots were heard. The yacht was the engine put out, of

The party sailed as quickly us possible for Tal-O, where the Police were informed"and"un" attempt made to remedy the engine. defect,

was

Major-General (Local Lieuten- ant-Generai) John Standish Sur- tees Prendergast, Viscount "Gort, V.C.; General Sir Harry Hugh H.MS, Mauritius-Swan, Hunter Sidney Knox; Lieutenant-General the week ended midnight, January and Wigham Richardson. Lialed Sir Reginald Seaburne May: Lieu-

1, ahow the following reported the ledger. Wallsend-on-Tyne; machinery by tenant-General Sir Hugh Jamieson

cases for the period:-cholera (1 After further. evidence

accused the Wallsend slipway and Eng!- Elies: Sir Victoria Alexander case, one death), small-pox 8 given, the court fourid neering Company, Limited, Wall-George Anthony Farrender, Bt.:

cases, 5 fatal), diphtheria (7. 3 gufity, and punishment was in- send-on-Tyne.

Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Harold deaths), enteric fever (6, 2 deaths).flicted on accused, as mentioned hit and

action HMS, FIL-John Brown and Arthur Browit; General-Sir Walter measles (1), cerebro-spinal men- above. Co., Limited, Clydebank,

Mervyn; Bir George Kirke, Aide-de. ingitis (7, with 4 Tatalities), dysen- HMS. Kenys-Alexander Ste-Camp (Jeneral to His Majesty; and tery (11, 6 deaths), and 82 deaths phen and Sons, Limited, Govan, Sir Herbert James Creedy. Glasgow.

OTHERS TO COME H.M.S. Nigeria — Vickers-Arin- "strongs, · Limited, High Walker, The only change in the Army Newcastle-on-Tyne; machinery by Council announced last night is the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine caused by the appointment of Lord Company. Limited, Wallsend-on. Gort--whose promotion from Ma- Tyne; machinery, by the Parsons for-General to General is also Marine Steam Tuurbine Company, nounced as Chief of the Imperial Limited. Walisend-on-Tyne.

General Staff, «-

The value of these contracts,

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from tuberculosis.

During the 24 hours ended mid- night, January 3, 5 cases of small- pox afïd 5 cases of dysentery were reported.

TO BE MERGED

WATERFRONT FRACAS

Aucording to a notification "re-

SNATCHING

ceived by the local Japanese Con- THREE MONTHS FOR sulate. two Formosans, Wong Chor-sau and Lam Sal-king were moblied by a crowd of wharf coo- lies during the early hours of New Year's Day.

Sentence of three months' im- His duties will be taken over by

prisonment was imposed on a 24- The changes will in all involve Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Harold

year-old unemployed by Mr. K. which are equally shared between three letters patent. One will be A. Brown, director-general of muni-

It was alleged that the two men Keen at the Kowloon Poilee Court the Tyns and the Clyde, amounts issued later to give effect to the tions production, the two Depart-engaged two coolles near the Kow-yesterday when Ng Kau appeared to nearly £7,000,000. The F11 appointment of Major-General C. mente being merged. To give efloon Wharf to load cases, con-on a charge of handbag snatching.

a letters class will be an altogether new type, G. Luddei, as Adjutant-General of fect to that change of 8,000 tons, Five were voted in the Forces in place of General Bir patent will be necesary, as well as the 1937 Navy Estimates, and the Harry Knox. Major-General. Lid-a fresh Order in Counell, the divi- other ship, HMS. Trinidad, will be dell's appointment dates from Dec.

sion of business between the mem-- built at Devonport Dockyard, The 13,

bers of the Army Council being programme also included two

The reconstitution of the Coun- laid down in Orders in Connell cruisers of about 5,300 tons, and elt also involves, the resignation of The formal resignation, of Field orders for these were placed in ❘ a third of the four military mem- Marshal, Bir Cyril J. Deverell as March last, the Bonaventure with bers-Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Chief of the Imperial General Staff the Scotts' Shipbuilding Company. Elles Master Genaral of the and the appointment of Viscount Greenock, and the Hermione with Ordnance who will relinquish his Gort to the position, both dating Messrs. Stephen and Sons, Govan appointment at the end of the from December 6, are also an-

There are now 17 cruisers build- year.

nounced.

taining parts of a printing press, Detective Bub-Inspector Cun- on to a sampar. A dispute arose ningham sold that while the vic between the coolles and the two tim, a married woman named men, and a little later a crowd of

Yuen Kwan-niga, was looking at a coolles gathered and attacked the shop window in Nathan Road de- Formosans..

fendant approached from behind and snatched the handbag, Com- plainant raised the alarm and Mr." M., Woo, the interpreter of the Second Court at the Kowloon Magistracy, who happened to wit- ness the incident, gave chase and arrested defendant.

The men were forced to aban- don their property and took fight, escaping with slight injuries.,

The cases were not recovered, It is understood that the police are still investigating the alleged incident.

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