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THE SERVICES.
ROYAL NAVY
CAPTAIN T. B. FELLOWES
Captain T.. B.
Fellowes late
THE ARMY
promoted...
"
BIG ARMS DRIVE NEEDED
Sir Roger Keyes's
the
He said: "I have an immense admiration for the gallant effort of Mr. Chamberlain, "whose undaunt- ed courage and persistence
and theThe averted a bloody war obliteration of Czechoslovakia the very eve of sero hour.
On
be
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1938.
› VALUABLE - LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
Situate, at
Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong
To be sold in
ONE LOT
By order of the Mortgagee
by
PUBLIC AUCTION
021
MONDAY,
21st Day or NOVEMBER, 1933
at 3 O'CLOCK PM.
by
Messrs. LAMMERT. BROTHERS. Auctioneers.
A.D.C. TO THE KING The War Office announces that
Déclaration Chief Stan Officer at Gibraltar, his Majesty has approved of the
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger has retired
own request following appointment as Alde-de- at his
Keyes, the Conservative member after 35 years in the Navy, He Camp to the King:-
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) J.
for Portsmouth N., recently. Is- was a member of the Arst term of radets entered at Osborne in 1903, A. Churchill, M.C., late The Dursued a statement explaining why and was promoted to commander ham Light Infantry, with effect he abstained from voting in
from October 26, in succession to House of Commons un the mon in 1926 and to captain in 1934.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Ation of confidence in the Gov- During the War Captain Fel. A. N. Thorne, C.M.G. D.S.O., late ernment's foreign policy. lowes, who is the son of the late Grenadier Guards, who has been Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Fl lowes; served as a lieutenant of
BATTALION COMMAND the Dreadnought until 1916, and
The War Omce announces that then joined the destroyer Unity, in which he was present at Jutland. Major W. H. E Gott, M.C.. The he com-King's Royal Rife Corps, has been From February, 1917, manded patrol boat P.36, and the selected for command of the 1st
"Whatever criticism may destroyers. Mosquito and Ophelia Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle
Corps, vice. Lieutenant-Colonel G. levelled against the Government up to July, 1916, when he was aps. Oxley, M.C., whose tenure expir- for their foreign policy, which pointed to the start of Vice-
culminated in the sacrifice of led on October 30. Admiral Pakenham in HMS. Lion.
LONG SERVICE OVERSEA gallant nation in the interests of He graduated at the Staff College
The retirement on November 2 peace, the deplorable delays In 1928, and was afterwards for two years on staff duties in the 'of Major-General H. J. Huddleston, rearmament the appalling gaps our unread- he C.B. C.M.G., DAO, M.C., brought in our defences and Plymouth Command.
Srose, Mr. icturned to destroyers, command- to a close a notable record of seriness when the crisla Ing the Wryneck and
Invice in the Sudan, Egypt. and West Chamberlain has won the grati- Africa. This he began in 1903 with | tude of the whole world for what the Mediterranean.
the 3rd Northern Nigeria Regiment be personally did last week to
aver the catastrophe—and
All those pleces or parcels of FIRST OSBORNE CADETS
after being two years in the ranks
no one more than the people of ground situate at Victoria in the With the retirement "of Captain and three as a subaltern in the
Colony of Hongkong and register- Fellowes, there are 14 officers, re- Dorsetshire Regiment, and ended Germany.
There can be no shadow of ed in the Land Once as sections maining on the active list of the, in 1930 as G.O.C. in the Sudan.
of Great D, E, F, G, I, J, K, and the Re-. first term at Osborne.. Five are In the interval he served with doubt that the people
maining Portion of Inland Lot No. captains O. Bevir,
T. C. the Egyptian Army; had charge of Britain, who displayed such calm H.
show- 672 together with all messuages: ori Walker, A. G. B. Wilson, L. H. K.a column in the Sudan; command- and resolute courage and
ed that they were only too anxious tenements. erections or buildings Hamilton, and C. A. A. Larcom; ed a brigade in Palestine; served in
country in any thereon known as Numbers 564, four, commanders-J. S. Hammitt, Mesopotamia as G..5.0.1; returned to serve their
566 663 and 570 Queen's Road C. H. Allen, R. H.,V. Buxton, and to the Egyptian Army as a colonel way they could, if given a lead.
West and Numbers 2, 4 and 6 Yat L. F. N. Ommanney; three are and was made a major-general as are united in wishing Mr. Cham-
efforts tu Fu Lane, Victoria aforesaid and captains (E)-D. C. Ford, C. W. B. Chief of the Staff and AG: and berlain success in his
commanded the Sudan Defence obtain lasting reace by appease-all rights, easements and appur→ Gibson, and B. L. G. Sebastian;
Force.
ment and negotiation.
tenances thereto belonging. and two, commanders (E). P. Charley and G. F. B. Ottley.
Later
Daring
"
..
trom
con-
At their SALES ROOM, No. 2 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL,
2nd Floor
Victoria, Hongkong.
Annual Crown Rent $37.30,
Area 9,050 square feet approxi-
mately... ability
Beginning with the South African
WHY HE ABSTAINED War, he took part in eight cam-
"There is no indication, how- All the lleutenant-commanders palgns. He subsequently command- from the term have now been re-led the 14th Infantry Brigade, and ever, that the Government, tired for age. Two cfficers who became a district commander instituted as it is, has the joined the R.A.F. are still serving India. On his return from India or even the wil -Air Vice-Marshal J. T. Babington he became Lieutenant-Governor tremendous effort to rearm and Group Captain C. H. R. Ed-and Secretary of the Royal Hos- reorganise our national monds.
pital. Chelsea.
There were 278 candidates
LIEUT.-COL. J. D. RUSSELL examined for the term, of whom
Lt. Col. J. D. Russell, M.C., from 75 were accepted and joined command of the HLI Depot at Osborne, 64 passed out of Dart Glasgow, has assumed command of mouth four years later, and 58 the old 71st Foot. He joined the went to sea as midshipmen from Service in 1914 and was wounded the training cruiser Cumberland twice in France. He was men- ir 1909. Seven were killed in action during the War.
REPAIR OF THE DUNDEE The escort vessel Dundee, Cap- tain C# C. A. Allen, has completed repairs at Halifax after grounding in a log on a reef near Ellis Bay Anticristl Island, on September 20.
nd has returned to Bermuda. cording to programfhe.
ELM.S. HERALD-
-
ioned in dispatches in the Moh-
to make the
and
defence scale ne- on anything like the cessary to enable the Prime Minister to go to the "next con- ference and meet on equal terms the dictators and who have dominate aspired to
the world
by force of arms.
"As I am passionately convinced that, unless the Prime Mints-
For further particulars apply to the
Crown Solicitor. Courts of Justice, or to
Mesirs, LAMMERT BROTHERS.
Auctioneers.
No. 2 Connaught Road Centrai. Hongkong. 14th November, 1938.
PUBLIC AUCTION..
THE
Undersigned have received: instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
од
THURSDAY; the 17th NOVEMBER.. 1938
Commencing at 5.35 pm
At their Sales Room, No. 2..
Connaught Road, Central, #Room No. 205, 2nd Floor)
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS
On VIEW from WEDNESDAY, the 18th NOVEMBER, 1938
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
得
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
Situate in
Second Street and Third Street..
Victoria, Hongkong
To be sold in
TWO LOTS
by
PUBLIC AUCTION.
MONDAY,
mand operations of 1935, and was ter is thus fortified, there is little DICTATORS' PLAN| The 21st day of NOVEMBER, 189,
promoted to the rank of major in
that year,
GENERAL IRONSIDE'S'
hope of achieving a lasting and honourable peace, I felt I could TO SHARE ?
not conscientiously support the Government's motion asking for unqualified approval of their po-
SUEZ CANAL
55
M.P. On Secret Document
2
DEPARTURE General Sir Edmund Ironside,licy. G.C.B., CM.G., D.9.0., AD.C., has
"I had hoped to express these Commons "completed the spécial mission on views in the House of
which he had been temporarily and obtain, if possible, a state-. employed, and left London, to
Minister ment from the Prime assume the Governorship
which would allay my anxiety,
Comdr. Oliver Locker-Lampson, Gibraltar on November §.
"But, although I seldom left
MP., declared at a meeting in Lon- the Chamber during the four
don on October 25 that Britain day's debate and begged to be
had discovered Я "secret docu- allowed to speak, feeling that, ment" which described how the
ROYAL AIR FORCE
H.M.S. EAGLE
of
as a representative of the
Navy
H.M.S. Herald, Commander W. C. Jenks, surveying ship on the China Station, and at present em- ployed off the coast of Bernco, is ordered to recommission at Hong-
The aircraft-carrier Eagle, Capt. kong about November 23, and to Clement Moody, which took the one of the very few members of the House of Commons who remain there for the winter sea-place of the Hermes on the China
command and son. Her present ship's company Station nearly two years ago, and had held high
great responsibilities in is due for recommissioning in the borne
the last war, I had some claim spring, will recommission on the
to do so, I had not the good for station.
tune to catch the Epeaker's eye"
Joined on March 26, 1936.
NEW SUBMARINES
The keels have now been laid by Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs, Bar-
row. and Cammell Laird, Birken- RUGBY STAR
head, of the submarines Tetrarchi
and Talisman, of the 1938 con- DIES IN
struction programme, orders for
which were placed in May last. AIR CRASH
The third submarine of the pro- gramme. the Torbay, will be begun shortly at Chathani Dockyard.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS
Ad-
Scots Find
Love-Mail
Too Dear
Suez Canal is to be shared between Mussclipi and Hitler..
at 3.30 O'CLOCK P.M.
by
Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers,
At their Sales Room,« No. 2 Connaught Road Central, 2nd Floor,
Victoria, Hongkong, tot 1-No. 141 Second Street and.
No. 14 8am To Lane. *All that piece or parcel of ground situate between Second Street and Sam To Lane Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered
He was addressing a meeting
in the Land Ofáca as Inland called by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland and Lot No. 3390 together with the messuages or tenements, erections urged the placing of five million and buildings thereon known as Jews in Palestine to help defend No. 141 Second Street and No. 14" British interests in the event of Sam To Lane and all rights, ease- certain Power" marching ments and appurtenances therto through Rumanta to take the oil-belonging. fields and the Canal:
After the meeting he said: "I have my information about the Canal plan from an au- thoritative source. I do not think there is any doubt about it."..
J. D. Sowerbutts, the R A. P and Blackheath scrum-half who played in English trials in 1936
"I understand there are typed and 1937, died with two aircraft- Thirty young women of Wattord documents which have been ale men when an R. A. F. bomber he tach willing to marry a Highland tributed to the young Arabs all was piloting crashed into the hill- soldier. have had their hopes over the East. In them they are
The following appointments: have been made by the miralty:
side on Wemmergi Moor, Yerk- Cdr. (E)-C.. P. Gallimore, to shire. Sheffield (Nov. 2).
The dead airerattien were Will Lt.-Cars-G. St. A. Alcock, to lam Ashbridge and Horace Red Colombo; J. W. Studhotme, to fern, attached to No. 34 Bomber Seawolf, in command (Nov. 7);Squadron at Upper Heyford, Ox. M. A.: O. Biddulph, to Niger (Nov. ford. 6); E. C. Windsor, to Despatch, in command (Nov. 9); H. Gartside- Tippinge, to Caledon: J. Bostock. it.. Pembroke (undated).
Lt. (F/L. RAF.).—H J. F Lane, to Victory, for erses. (Nov. 7).
LJ. F. D. Bush, to Wrestler (Nov. 7) and to Nubian (undated). Cd. Ord. Officer-P. Pugsley, to Drake, staff (Dec. 5).
PROMOTIONS LL-D Day, S. H. Beattle, to rank of Lt.-Cdr. (seny. Nov. 1).
Lt. (Retd.).-3. C. Elworthy, to rank of Lt-Cdr. (retd) (seny. Nov. 1).
RETIREMENT Payr, Cdr.-A. B. Johnston, with rank of Payr, Capt. (Oct. 23).
Fragments of the 'plane, which had left Catterick Aero- drone recently and had not been heard of since were. scattered over a wide ares,.. and suggested that there had been explosion.
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¦
The plane was seen near: Middleton; in Teesdale, and from the noise of the engines residents thought that the pilot was in difficulties.
NAVAL FUNERALS
The Board of Admiralty. have decided that at naval funerals the bugle call "Rouse" will follow, after short pause, the sounding of "Last Post"
dashed."
Their husbands-to-be would not pay excess postage on their pro Dosals.
"We are pretty serious-mind- ed fellows andl, being Scots, we have a certain amount of can- niness. That is about the lat
of our virtues, but we hope to make good husbands," wrote twe Gordon Highlanders from 'Singapore to the Mayor of Watford, Councillor T. Rigby. asing to be put la touch with two women with a view to natrimony.
The Mayor did his best and sent between thirty and forty letters from Watford domes: but lo-day received them back marked "Un- claimed together with a postage bill for B. ed.
The Mayor says he can do no more. Be cannot understand why the letters were unclaimed as he had a second letter from the sol- dier who wrote to him, Whether the fact that they were Scotsmen and refused to pay the extra postage of about 500 cents caused the return of the letters, he does not know. One soldier wrote that they were
Officers' salutes with the hand will be confined to the single oc- casion when the armed party "Pre- The supreme championship of sent Arms" after fixing bayonets. the Scottish Eganet Finb show. The position at the salute is to Edinburgh, was won by Heather be held during the sounding of coming to Watford for vocational Benefactor,
10-montus-nid "Last Post and Rouse, which training before entering Beottish terrier whose are follow immediately on the "Present life. Heather Realisation. Esined the Arm The sounding off the title in four successive years, "Commodore's, mitte") "dying, "last" "SUTID
leys is to be discontinued."
The annual Crown Rent is $10,00 and the area is 777 square feet approximately.
Lot 2.-Nos. 44 and 50 Third Street,
All those two pieces or parcels of ground situate in Third Street Victoria in the Colony of Hong- kont and registered in the Land Office as Sections E and F of Inland Lot No. 684 together with the
told that in the event of a war messages or tenements, erections and 50. Third Street Germany and Italy would unite to and buildings thereon known as take and control the Stes Can Nos. 44
Cmdr. Locker Lampson and it respectively and all righta, ene was possible that the matter might ments and appurtenances there to
belonging. he brought up in Parliament.
10,000 TURKEYS SOLD FOR £6,000
Ten thousand turkeys were sold at the annual fair at Attleborough Norfolk), when there were buyers present from Cheshire, Somerset Dorset, Wales, Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire,
London wholesale houses were also reprezented, and there was keen bidding for the splendid Nor- folk-bred birds, which will meet another fine market when they are fattened for the Christmas trade.
Keen demand was due in part. to the fact that the costs of feed- ing turkeys and other poultry is now considerably lower than it was at this came time last year. The aggregate total for the sale was more than £6,000, which was the largest for 10 years.
The annual Crown Renta are 'as. follows:
Section E of I. L. 894.... kks- Section F of I. L. 681...$8.65 The approximate follows:-
Section E of I. L. 584-
"square feet
Section F of I. L. 684-837
square feet!
For further particulars apply to the Crown Solicitor, Courts of Justice, or to:-
Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers.
No. 2, Connaught Road, Central.
A Territorial Army anti-airer gun crashed through a Kerb guard rall and stopped against the Lon
Nearly 300 employees of a can- densed milk factory at Tutbury railing fronting the villan Burton-on-Trent, are temporary Maternity Hospital in Commerci 15
unemployed because of fears that road, aterrey No one a 200ft high chimney, which debut the rating was tor
footpath, veloped a Hat during a recent gale might Tall
They Wanted to meet two TOUS vol women who were not afraid to
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