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THE SERVICES

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER. 4, 1938.

NEWS ABOUT THE SERVICES War Against

October 16 to December 15.

Senior Officers' War Courses, | Greenwich.-March 13 to July 21;

October 8 to February 16." 1940.

Tactical, Courses. Portsmouth.-- May 8 to July 21; September 25 to December A

In view of the obvious advantage MBE, to rank of Payr. Lt.-Odr. of a knowledge of local languages (retd) (seny. Oct. 21). their Lordships urge naval and marine officers on other stations to lose no opportunity of acquiring some conversational ability in the

useful

HIS

THE ARMY

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Malaria

MODERN METHODS

EMPLOYED

The conquest of the alt, which has lately been developed to a remarkable extent. has acct- tomed us to the use of aeroplanes for the strangest Finds chandise. Nevertheless, the

of mer- fact that thousands of Ash are own in aeroplanes is not yet common

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1938.

ROYAL NAVY SENIOR OFFICERS' COURSES The following dates have been

AFRICAN COLONIAL FORCES approved for senior officers' courses

A new appointment of Inspector- and for the staff course of 1939:-

General of the African Colonial Sta Course. Greenwich-languages spoken.

service conditions do not permit Forces has been created, and the January 10 to December 15.

Technical Courses, Partsmouth-of intensive study and for this holder of it is to be Major-General January 9 to March 19; April 24 toason the appointment of fully a. J. Olffard, C.B, D8O. who is Jane 23: August 14 to October 13: qualined interpreters is necessary. Inspector-General of the Royal but the number of these is limited. | West African Frontier Force and and therefore the presence of per- the King's African Rifles.

present stan-Lieutenant-knowledge. sonnel with a general knowledge of a language can prove extremely Colonel W. H. A. Bishop, Major: 8. This novel method is used for SATURDAY, the 5th NOVEMBER,

J. Cole, Q.BE., and Major J. D “a special—but certainly very The fact that an officer has ac-Chalmers will be Staff Officers | portant-purpose Fish are CAT-

ried quired some conversational ability African Colonial Forces.

maintlàn by aeroplane to the night against one of the most 19TH BRIGADE STAFF The period from January 16 to in a language is to be specially March 24, which would normally noted in his reports.

The staff of the 19th Infantry | dangerous species of insect in the ARMISTICE DAY PUPPIES

Brigade in Palestine will consist of world, the anophele, the bave been

by occupied

Officers and ratings in uniform Brigadier H. E. de R. Watherall; amitting agent of malaria. first Tactical Course of 1939, has been appropriated for the theore-and off duty may wear the popples Major M. B. Jennings, RA, as view of the fact that the

drawn up by numerous tical investigation of tactical and which are to be sold for the benefit Brigade Major on transfer from ports strategical problems at the Tacti-of ex-Service men and their depen-G30.3 in Jerusalem; and Captain medical men state that this dan- cents on November 11. For the pur. I. Malcolm, A. and S.H., as Star gerous species multiplies in a pose of this 'order the term "off Captain.

catastrophic manner and is 18- sponsible for a terrible list of duty" is to be interpreted so as to include all officers and men on

maladies that are very frequent- board ship or in naval barracks

ly fatal, no stone is left unturn- ed to obtain as efficacious a re- who are not carrying out any

sult as possible in the Night specific duty.

against this insect.

cal School.

who

CAPTAIN C. E S. PARRANT "Commander C. E., S. Farrant, relinquished recently the command..of the cruiser Dragon in reserve at the Nore... has been placed on the retired list with the rank of captain after 34 years ir the Navy.

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NEW-BATTALION COMMANDERS

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Commencing at 11:00 am.

At their Bales Room, No. 2 Connaught Road, Central, (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor),

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A QUANTITY OF CLOTHING

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Lieutenant-Colonel L Bootle- Wilbranam M.C. who has been promoted to that rank to command a battalion of the Coldstream ENTRY OF APPRENTICES

Guards, mobilized with the Special The next open competitive ex- Reserve and was adjutant of the

GREAT CAMPAIGN Special species of fish, that, are amination for the entry of artificer 4th Battalion in France. He naš

known to be the best destroyers FOREIGN LANGUAGES and air apprentices in the Roy been A.D.C. to the Viceroy and to

0: mosquitoes, are collected in Admiralty Fleet Orders issued on Navy will be held during the third the Governor of Madras.

tanks They October 21 refer to a report re-week in March next. Candidates

Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. Hayes, large light metal

are thus carried in aeroplanes celved from the South America must be between 15 and 16 years the new commander of the 2nd

the purpose,

PROPERTY Division of the America and West of age on May 1, 1939.

Battallon, The Royal Norfolk Regi- specially built for

and discharged in A limited number with Service ment, at Gibraltar. has served

the regions Indies Station in which the Com-

Situate in the great African watered by the to the claims who reach the qualityins since 1915, and was in Mesopota- modore draws attention desirability of naval and Royal standard will be nominated for mia, Persia, and Russia. He has river, the Congo. A great

been undertaken for King's Road District, Hong Kong Marine personnel acquiring a entry by the Admiralty from a list been on the War Office staff since palen has

To be sold in chief and other senior officers: Major of the 19th Infantry Brigade. releasing these fish in the waters preference being given to orphans Lieutenant-Colonel N. McMick of the Congo. The machines are already called "express planes whose fathers have been killed in

ing, D.9.O., M.C., the new comman-

for th" and whole squadrons. action or lost at sea on active serder of the 2nd Battalion. The Black

have already made several flights vice.

Watch. in Palestine. has been

This is one of the most effica adjutant of the battalion and also adjutert of the Band Battalion, clous means of fighting malaria. He was a G.S.O. in Frence, where but there is another that he was wour.ded three times.

pletes it perfectly. The specific remedy for malaria, quinine, in the form of a daily dose of six grains taken As а preventive prescribed by the Commission of the

For SKIN TROUBLES knowledge of the Spanish lan- recommende by commanders-in-1934, and before then was Brigade the destruction of mosquitoes by

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·Recommendations MAIST the Admiralty by January 1 next.

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

Cdrs.-F. D. Morris, to Dauntless,

in command (Oct. 19); A.. O'Leary,

ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS The War Office announces that

to Carlisle, in command: the Hon. Major T. M. Lawrie has been seleç Q. W: Cornwallis, to Cairo, in comted for command of the 4th/5th Battalion, The Royal Scots mand (Oct. 2011

Instr. Cd:.-W. G. West, to Pre- sident for crse. at R.N. College.

Fusiliers, vice Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel J. D. Catts, whose tenure expired recently.

Greenwich (Oct. 31).

Lt.-Cdts.-R. T Gardiner, to Centurion (Oct. 24); J. D. Littlej (S/Ldr., "RAF.), to Glorious (Nav: appointed

APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA Major G, Carr-White has been to command Prince

1); N. de G. Waymouth, to Pem-Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (11th broke for Sig. School (Nov. 16); r: Frontier Force in place of Lieu- A. S. Brame, lent to R.AN. (Dec.tenant-Colonci H. A. Garstin, M.C.,

retired.

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Payr. Lt.-Cdr.-K. L Barrow, to Presdent for: crse. (Oct, 24),

Lt.-J. C. Stopford, to Victory for Sig. School (Nov. 21),

Lts. (F./0, RAF).-P. E O'Brien, J. A. Ievers, to Victory for crse. (Oct. 18 and 24 respectively); J. H. Dancas, to Courageous (Oct. 24).

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Sub-Lts.-M. R. North (F.jo, RAF), to Courageous (Oct. 19); H G. G. Ogilvie, to Liverpool (Oct.

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League of Nations. is already be- The 9th Day of NOVEMBER, 1938 coming general practice. War- all fare is thus being waged on fronts against the enemy of the public health, the anophele." This is a fight for a noble cause, the protection" of "humanity. · Fremg

For treating cases of malaria. the Malaria Commission of the League of Nations prescribes a daily dose of 15 to 20 gra'ns of Major G. R. Clarke has been ap-quinine to be taken during five pointed Commandant of the 3rd to seven days. Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment, vice Lieutenant-Colonel H. P. Radley, CLE, MC.

Majors R. A. Slater, M.C., and D. McK. Kennelly, and Brevet Lleu- W. L Fawcett. tenant-Colonel M.C., have been appointed second- in-command of the 10th Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment, 5th Royal Battalion, 5th Mahratta L. and

103 CHINESE

PAPERS

CLOSE DOWN

20); T. B. Winstanley (art.) to 2nd Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rines 157 Films Censored

Beagle (Oct. 25).

Sub-Lt. (A).-G. P. Hewson, to Repulse (Oct. 19).

Cd. Gunner (T).-W. J. G. B. Hayter, to Illustrious (Oct. 17).

Cd. Eng. J. H. Harrison, to Aberdeen (Nov. 1).

Gunner.-J. Periss, to Redetart (Nov. 2).

respectively.

RETIREMENTS

The retirement of the following officers has been notified at Army Headquarters in India:-Lieuten ant-Colonel A. S. Mackay, MC., 7th Gurkha Rifles (Oct. 13); Lieuten- ant-Colonel A. 8. Meek, C.MG. Supernumerary List (Oct. 7); Lieu- tenant-Colonel E C. Mockler, to Supernumerary List (as from Sept. 11): Lieutenant-Colonel E. 8. Goss, M.C., LMS. (Sept. 25): Colonel A.J. Cruickshank, D.8.0. R.E. (Sept. 27); and Major W..P. Ogg,

to

Wt. Shipt.-W. G Deer, Pegasus (Oct. 20); F L Hore. Emerald (Oct, 21);

Schoolmaster.A. H. C. Brister. to Osprey (Oct. 20)

PROMOTION Pagr. Lt. (Retd.). P. Canty. LAO.C. (Sept. 27).

LESSON DRAWN FROM CRISIS

"Words No Match For Pistols"

Gen. Sir Walter Kirke. Direc- tor-General of the Territorial Army, opening a drill hall at Middlesbrough recently, sald that we had recently passed through some nerve-tacking experiences, and maný lessons for the future could already be clearly drawn.

In Shanghai

A total of 103 Chinese publica- tions for which the Municipal

Council had issued registration

by

Meurs LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers.

At their SALES ROOM, No. 2 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL,

2nd Floor (Room 205), Victoria, Hongkong.

All those pieces or parcels of ground situate in the King's Road District in the Colony of Hongkong. and registered in the Land Office as section E and the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 897 to- gether with all messuages or tenements, erectioris or. buildings thereon known as Numbers 400, 402, 408, 408, and 410 King's Road and Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Ming Yuen Western Street and all rights, easements

and appurtenances thereto belong-

ing.

The Crown Rent of section 3 of Inland Lot No. 897 is $1.80 per

annum:

certificates had ceased publica- tion last month, according to the Commissioner of Police for September, says report of the

the North China Daily News.***

The Crown Rent of the Remain- Dealing with the month's acti-ing Portion of Inland Lot No. 897 vities, the report states that 13 is $41.27 per annum newspapers were warned by the Police for publishing incorrect reports or other. objectionable

articles

-The editor of a Chinese maga- zine was fined $250 оп Beptem-

ber 22 at the Shanghai First Special District Court for pub- -lishing an indecent article.

Beveral coples of Indecent books were seized during the month at three book stores and were order- ed by the Court to be held by the Police pending action against the responsible persons.

During September, registration certificates were issued to 33 Chi- nese and 3 foreign publications. Up' to the end of the month a total of 52 registration certia- cates had been issued to foreign

The area of section E of Inland Lot No. 8971 is 825 square feet ap- proximately.

The area of the Remaining Por- tion of Inland Lot No. 897 in. 17,795.54 square feet approximately.

For further particulars apply to the Crown Solicitor, Courts of Justice, or to-

Messrs: LAMMERT. BROTHERS_ Auctioneers.

No. 2 Connaught Road Central.

750,000 ARTICLES ON SCIENCE A YEAR

Viscount Stanhope,

Prezident:

of the Board of Education, Gree

"Clood words and good inten- tions," he added, "are poor equip ment with which to face loaded pistols. We must then be strong, and, rightly or wrongly, we depend on voluntary effort to make us so. "To-day the door is open wide to everyone who wishes to do his of her bit. In fact, so many doors are "The first," he said, "is as old as open that there may be some unpublications and 276 to Chirlese.cently welcomed to a Government history that Where the carcase is certainty as to which should be of the latter number. 103 have there will the eagles be gathered together."

"I will only say that the door "When the tiger kills, the lesser carnivora are ready to snaten their labelled Territorial Army is a very ruitable one for any young man bit, and the scramble going on for with good health and the right portions of Czechoslovakia shows spirit,

what a calamity it would be for

untered.

world peace if the idea got about "It is not only the anti-aircraft that the British Empire, could not portion of the Territorial Army protect its world-wide possessions that requires such men. The Ter- In such an event the problemsritorial Field Army must form the of Czechoslovakia might be re-bulk of our eport on land.

"The third lesson is that the produced simultaneously on a far greater scale in every continent. Territorial soldier can be relied lesson was SLEEVE we pon to carry out any task allotted Howes, pol lot and the Bind Th way in which officers

banguet delegates from more than since ceased publication::MEN 30 countries attending the 14th an- hual International Conference FILM CENSORSHIPS Regarding film censorship, on Documentation at Oxford. 157 nims comprising 31 feature He said that 750,000 articles productions, 118 short introdue about science and its application tory films and eight newsreels were published every year were censored during Beptember To clarify and make avaliable in various theatres in the Settle to the world that males of in- ment and the French Concession. formation was a work of funda

Of the feature films. 27 were mental importance, passed without question, three were approved after certain cob-approved for private exhibition fectionable parts had been deleted to members of the medical while the decision over the re- lesion only and decision in maining one was pending at the gard to the remaining"one end of the month.

bending. Of the

*without Por me shore time111 were har passers

without question, dx were two were approved wit