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THE SERVICES

THE SERVICES

ROYAL NAVY

ENGINEER MANAGER AT AT CHATHAM

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Director-General, Anny Medical Services, The War Office, Londen. 3.W. 1.

NEW NIGERIA COMMANDER Engineer Captain G. B. Allen,

Major Henry Marshali has been nitherto Chlef Engineer At selected for command of a bat- Sheerness, has taken up the posttalion of The Nigeria Regiment of Engineer Manager at Chatham and to be a Lieutenant-Colonel. Dockyard in succession to Engineer Rear-Admiral H. H. Perring, C.B. who is retiring after 33 years' commissioned service,

Exigineer Captain Allen WHS

ROYAL AIR FORCE...

WEDNESDAY,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Uadorsigned have received THE

instructions

TO SELL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

THURSDAY, the 6th OCTOBER,

1938.

Commencing at 2.30 p.m.

At the Sales Room, No. 2 Connaught Road, Central. (Room No. 206, 2nd Floor)

DETLING STATION OPENED No. 500 (County of Kent) (Bom- promoted in December, 1934, when | oer) Squadron of the Auxiliarý Air Assistant to the Engineer Manager Force moved on October 3 from яс Malta. and has been at Manston, where it has been since Sheerness for nearly three years. its establishment in March, 1931, He served afloat during the War to the new air station at Detling, engineer lleutenant in the near Maidstone, which was opened battle-cruiser Indomitable and the last week. destroyer Lydiard, and his subse. Deting has been placed in the quent ships have included' the Bomber Command in No. 6 Porcelain, Pottery and Pictures battleships Barham and Warspite (Auxillary) Group. No aerodrome from the Tong. Sung, Yuen, Ming- and the aircraft-carrier, Coura facilities will be available until and Ching Dynasties.

after the arrival of No 500

£13

geous,

He has also served on the staff at | Squadron. The nearest railway sta- Keyham College and in the tion is Maldstone. four miles Engineer-in-Chief's Department, distant. Admiralty.

INDIA HEADQUARTERS MÜVE CRUISER STRENGTH

Headquarters of the RAF in With the completion of

India will move from Simla to Rae

New Delhi on October 11. On and Liverpool, the total of Eritish cruisers on the effective list is after October 6 all ordinary corres brought up to 59. This excludes pondence is to be addressed to the Coventry and Curlew, conver-

the Imperial Secretariat, South ted to anti-aircraft ships, and the Block, New Delhi, India. Urgent Vindictive, which has been demi-correspondence and signals will be litarized and has only two 4.7in dealt with at Simia up to October guns for training purposes.

11.

Of the 59. there are 21 which EMERGENCY AXES IN AIRCRAFT are over the age limit; four are It is announced in Air Ministry of War types but are still within Orders that provision is being the age limit as they were deferred made to stow a fireman's axe in in completion; and 34 are of post-the larger types of aircraft, The War types. Including the Hobart use of an axe has found to be the and Tasmania, which are being simplest and most effective woapori transferred to Australia, there are for breaking through metal panels elght cruisers in the Dominion and other types of fuselage cover- Navies, leaving 51 on the list or

the-Royal Navy (20 over the ageThe axe is for use in the event limit and 31 ander-age).

of a crash or similar circumstances,

There are 22 cruisers building, when the normal exits provided are The Oloucester (1935 programme) found to be unusable. Command- should be Anished before the ending cfcers concerned are directed

and can

A Fine Collection of Old Chinese

" also

A Selection of Carved Ivory and Lacquered Ware. Jade and Bronze Ornaments. Embroidered darin Coats, etc., etc.

and

Man-

OCTOBER 5, 1938

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

PHE Undersigned · have 'reccived.

instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

WEDNESDAY, the 5th OCTOBER..

1938.

Commencing at 2.30 p.m.

باله

At their SALES ROOM,

No. 35 HANKOW ROAD. KOWLOON

A “QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD" FURNITURE

Comprising:-...

Teakwood Drawingroom, Bed- room, Diningroom and Office A Few Pieces of Fine Blackwood Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Furniture.

On VIEW from WEDNESDAY, the 5th OCTOBER, 1938,

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Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS

AUCTIONEERS.

PLANES DELAYED

BY TYPHOON

Due to a typhoon in the vicinity

of the year. The seven authorized to explain to the personnel which of Hongkong and Macao, the In- In 1936 were laid down by October. portions of the cabin or fuselage perial Airways planes, Della and 1937. and two (Belfast

be most. Edinburgh) have been launched through. The seven authorized in`` 1937 were laid down by July. 1938. and the first should be launched in Decem ber.

The seven 'authorize 1 1938 have not yet been laid down but contracts for three were awarded In August.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS The following appointments are made by the Admiralty:--"

Cdr.-E. 9. F. Fegen, to Dragon, In command (Sept. 9). Surgn Cars.-G.

**

"Heath,

M.R.C.S., L.R.CP., D. Duncan. M.D to President (Oct. 3 and 10 re spectively).

Lts.-T. H. B. Shaw, G, R. Heppel to Walker (Sept. 15)

Gunners, T. Bell; to · Excellent (Sept 12) H.. McDonald, to Ber- wick (Sept. 19); H I Mackle to Repulse (Oct. 31.

FLEET AIR ARM

readily broken Daedalus, did not leave yesterday fer Bangkok. They will leave this When this is not self-evident the morning with, mall and passengers most sultable areas are to be The incoming plane is due torday outlined in black or yellow.

about 2. p.m.

Scientist Denies Blame

For Modern War Horror

Scientists were vigorously defended against the charge that they were responsible for the horrors of modern warfare because their dis- coveries were often put to destructive uses, by Lord Rayleigh in his presidential address to the British clation at Cambridge recently. |

...

The whole idea that scientific men were specially responsible was a delusion born of imperfect knowledge of the real course of the process of discovery, he said, and pointed out that chlorine was discovered 140 years before the Great War, while mustard gas was known as far back as 1894,

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Lord Rayleigh also claimed that The notion was sometimes en- were countered that thermite was in- discoveries and inventions usually made many years prior to vented for the purpose of, spread- their exploitation for military pur-ing the terror of fire broadcast poses, and that the men who made through the great cities, but ac- DW. H. Gardner, 'ransferred to them had no thought of war. tually it was invented for welding RN. as Lt. (A) (seny, April, 20. The great difficulty of forseeing | purposes. 1937) and apptd., to Victory for how fundamental discoveries in The various terrors had become [rse, (Sept. 20, 1938)..

science might be applied to pur-applicable against a civilian poses of war made it impossible to population, only by the 'develop- control discovery at the squrce:

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THE ARMY

ULD COLOURS OF GRENADIER GUARDS FOR ST. PAUL'A

"For good or ill," "he added, "the urge to explore the un- known is deep in the nature of *some of us, and it will not be deterred by possible contingent results."

The Old Colours of the 2nd Battalion. Grenadier Guards, were laid up in St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday, The battalion, with the band of the Regiment, under the

The British Association was con command of Lieutenant-Colonel F. sidering setting up a division for A. M. Browning, DSO, and a con- the study of the social relations of tingent of old members of the science which would attempt to

shed light upon, rexed questions. Regimenty marched from Welling.

Porcelain and Glass Ware Or- naments. E. P., and Brass Ware, Electric Table Lamps and Fans. Gramophones and Records, Radio Sets, Enamelled Bath, Cooking Utensils, Cooking Stove, etc., etc.

also

A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD-

FURNITURE *-

On VIEW from TUESDAY, the 4th OCTOBER, 1938.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE

Undersigned have received

instructions....

To Sell by

w

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

4

THURSDAY, the 6th OCTOBER,

1938.

Commencing at 11.00. a.m.

At their Sales Room, No.. 2

Connaught Road, Central

Ground Floor.

A QUANTITY. OF MISCEL- LANEOUS GOODS

Comprising:

ment of aircraft, but military ob- jects were certainly not the incen- tive of the successful pioneers of

Sulpher, Safety Matches, Wire flight.

Nalla, Miso, Grain, Porcelain Tiles, Even as late as 1908, the then Lucerne Hay Sodium Sulphide, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Fire Brick. Record Cases, Earthern did not belleve in the military im-ware Rattan, Glass Ware, Old.. portance of fight.

Newspaper, Galvanized Iron. Sheets, Round and Square Iron.

POLITICALLY-MINDED Bars, etc., etc.

AIR MARSHAL Alr Vice-Marshal Babington, who has just been appointed Air Officer Commanding the RA.F. In the Far East, is at 47 one of the youngest and most politically minded of our Air Vice-Marshals.

ton Barracks via Birdenge Walk DEVELOPMENT OF Admiralty Arch, Trafalgar Square. FRIGHTFULNESS Strand, Fleet Street, and Ludgate Hill, to St. Paul's Cathedral.

During the Great War, continued Lord Rayleigh, few scientific men COMMISSIONS IN THE RA.M.C in any country doubted that it was Applications from medical men their duty to do what they could for appointment to commissions in to apply their specialised know- the Royal Army Medical Corps are ledge to the purpose of war, and

He began his career in the Navy, invited by the War Office. Cat-to-day it was chiefly in vague gen RFC. in 1913.

joining the naval wing of the didates will be selected for com-eral discussions that the opposite missions without competitive ex-view became vocal. amination and will be required to Science, it was urged, was the politics. He first served on the present themselves in London for source of all the trouble." physical examination and inter- view on or about October 21.

It was in 1929 that he first came into

international contact with

Preparatory Commission for the: Discussing how far the develop-

Disarmament Conference. ment of frightfulness into modern

Bubsequently he was a member They must be registered under high explosives was deliberate or of the United Kingdom delegation the Medical Acts and normally not, Lord, Rayleigh sald high ex- at the Geneva Conference, and also must not be over the age of 28 plosives since the discovery of acted there as our air representa- years.

dynamite in 1863-had been too tive to the League,

Successful candidates will, in the long in use h peaceful industry. The Air Vice-Marshal, is tall, first instance, be given short ser-such as mining, for their misuse to thin and looks more like a guards-

ful and urbane disposition.

1 Bag of Copper Wire

2 Cases Porcelain

1 Keg Nails

1 Case Vases

i Case Plates

3 Cases Nickel Plated Belt

Buckles

8 Crates Black Tile Fittings

Terms: Cash on Delivery...

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS.

period of tension may wish to return to their regular, employ ment-Transocean..

vice commissions for Ave years, be laid directly to the account of man than a sailor. He has a tact-those who enlisted during the

During the fourth year of this science. period they will be given the Dealing with poison gas, hè re-j. opportunity of applying for pex-called that Pliny was destroyed by manent commissions in either the sulphur dioxide from Vesuvius ini Royal Army Medical Corps or the A.D. 79. and that Indian Medical Service, Those not selected will retire on completion onve years service with a gra tuity of £1.000.

The veteran "Admiral, Lord Dundonald, urged that the fumes of burntur, sulphur should be used in the Crimean War: BMI, RAN

RECENT RECRUITS.

MAY RECONSIDER

NAVAL KESERVISTS

··· London, Oct. 4

London, Oct, The remainder of the navar Recent enlistments in the British Army have been given until reservists who were called up duri. October 15 to consider whethering the crisis will be released as That sugeration was not adopt they wish to remain in the service, soon as possible this week, subject bead-bat, even if it had scientific it was announced by the War to sudden recall. The release doek research would obviously have had Office yesterday, de pared not imply reserve feet démodfiisa... letter or in person, to the Assistant little to do with the matter, Mate It is explained that some of tion-Reuter.

Full particulars of the conditions

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