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VOLUNTEER ORDERS

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS ORDERS BY LT.-COL., H. B. ROSE, M.C., COMMANDANT.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS

(CONTINUED FROM SATURDAY) PARADES

3rd Battery Mar. 14, H.Q. 5.15 pm. All ranks.

ride drill. Squad and

Dress-

HE Undersigned have received Overalls and S.D. caps, webbing

belts, frogs and slings.

THE

instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION.

on

Tuesday, the 12th March, 1948

at 10.30 am.

"

at godown No. 12 of The Hongkong

& Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon.

Mar. 15, H.Q. 5.30 p.m. D.EL. per- sonnel. Miniature Range. Dress: Optional.

5th AA Battery Mar. 14. H.Q. 5.30 p.m. No. 2 Dec. All ranks.

Field Company Engineers Mar. 14, K.C.R., 5.30 p.m. Tech- nical training by Sections.

Corps Signala

Mar. 15. "HQ. 5.15 pm. Signal training-instruments.

Mobile Column

Pte. R. J. Sherwood from A.S.C. Coy. to Fd. Coy. Engs., 1,3.40.

C.Q.M.8. H. J. Millington from Fd. Coy. Engs, to Unit Res., 6.3.10.

L/C. T. J. McCluskie-Beattle from No. 2 Coy, to M.M.G. PL., 8.3.40.

LEAVE

IL

L/Bdr. C. F. Marshall, 5th AA Bty, 8.1.40 to 15.8.40:

8gt. E. Newton, Pay Section; 1.3.40 to 28.2:41.

Cpl. J. V. Ramsay, No. 2 Coy.. 8.3.40 to 8.12.40.

Onr. E. Landau, 1st Bty., 8.3.40 to 29.3.40. ·

Dmr. W. R. Forsyth, No. 2 Coy... 10.3.40 to 9.9.40.

Pte. V. E Ferrier, A.8.C. Coy.. 123.40 to 19.3.40.

Gnr. G. H. Gompertz, 1st Bty.

Armoured Car Platoon: Mar. 15.15.3.40 to 14.5.40. HQ. 5.30 p.m. A Class, instruments.

B Class, stoppages.

Motor Machine Gun Platoon:

Pte. G. Henderson, No. 2 Coy...

首 1.4.40 to 1.1.41.

Pte. G. M. Britto, No. 5 Coy..

-43 Bags Senna Seeds-more or less Mar. 15, HQ. 5.30 p.m. N.C.O.'s 18.4.39 to 17.9.39.

damaged.

Class. Map reading and message writing.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

оп

Tuesday, the 12th March, 1940 Commencing at 11.00 mm.

at their Sales Room, No. 2 Con- naught Road, Centrai. (Room No. 205; 2nd Floor).

1" Case Tea

3 Cases Sleeve Holders

40. Boxes Sleeve Links and Tie Pins

1. Case Raisins.

also

A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS..

AUCTIONEERS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

•

Instructions

No. 1 Company, Mar. 15, H.Q. 5.30 p.m. pany programme."

2/Lt. D. L. Prophet, No. 2 Cor. 1.5.40 to 31.12.40.

Lt. E. M. Bryden, No. 2 Coy.,

As com-1.5.40 to 31.12.40,-

No. Company Mar. 14. E.Q. 5.30 pm. Company parade. Lecture by O.C. Coy. 6.15 pm. Pay parade for Camp Pay.

No. 3 Company Mar:-14, H.Q. 5.30 p.m. Those de- talled. Belts for revolver drill will be brought.

Mar. 17. H.Q. 8.30 am, for Peak Range. Musketry.

No. 4 Company

L/Cpl. J. B. Sturgeon, No. 2 Coy... 8.3.40 to 29.3.40.

Pte. W. S. V. Curtis A 8.C. Coy.. 11.3.40 to 10.12.40.

STRENGTH-DECREASE Gnr. G. Y. M. Yoong, 4th Bty.. 8.11.39.

Ptc. W. A. Fergusson, No, "1 Coy. Res., 18.1.40.

Pte. A. Lau, No. 3 Coy, 18.1.40. Pte. W. R. McCracken, No, 2 'Coy.. 25.1.40.

Mar. 15 H.Q. 5.30 p.m. Company parade. L.G. instruction. Lesson 31.1.40. 10. I.A.

W

Pte. K. A. Munro, No. 2 Coy...

Gnr. L de C. Blechynden, 1st Mar. 17, Kowloon City Range, 9Bty., 3.2.40. am. LG. Course. Table D. Range L/Cpl. V: P. Komaroft, Fd. Coy.

Engs., 5.2.40. Officer. Lt. C. Austin.

Gar. A. R. J. White, 1st Bty.. 7.2.40.

Gnr. J. G. Marshall, 5th A.A. Bty. 21.2.40.

No. 7 Company Mar. 14. H.Q. 5.45 p.m. L.G. train- Ing. Revision of loading, unload, ing and immediate action.

Stonecutters. L.Q. Mar 17, Classification. Table D. Dress 24.2.40. Mufti. equipment must be when fring. Launch leaves 24.2.40. Queen's Pler, 8.30 am, Kowloon Pier, 8.40 a.m.

worn

Pte. E. J. Cowie, No. 1 Coy..

Pte. D. de 6. Carey, No. 1 Coy..

Pte. D. R. Lyen, Fd. Amb., 8.3.40.

PROMOTION

STRENGTH-INCREASE

Army Service Corps Company. Cpl. W..J. Wooley, Pay Section Mar. 14, Kowloon Bus Coy, to be Sgt., 8.3.40. Garage, Castle Peak Road, 5.30- pm. Lecture. Dress: Mufti, Trans- port will leave Star Ferry. (Kow-22.2.40. loor) at 6.20 p.m.

TRANSFERS

Pte. F. O. Reed from No. 3 Coy.

to 5th A.A. Bty., 12.2.40.

Could Not Face Evacuation

Upset because he had received

Gnr. J. Tausz, F. Coy. Engs..

Gar. W. J. B. Carter, 2nd Bty.. 1.3.40.

E. N. THURSBY (Captain),

Adjutant. HKV.D. Corps

NATIONAL RIVALS

MISS PAGET'S ENTRIES"

GENERAL

TA

Picture above is of the cortere of the late Dr. Tsai Yuan- pel, President of the Academía Sinica, who died on March 5, and below are shown former students of the Peiping University paying their last respects to the deceased at the South China Athlelle Association stadium at Caroline Hill. (Photos by New China News Photo Service).

WEEK'S SHIPPING LOSSES HEAVIEST SINCE WAR BEGAN

"

Shipping losses for the week ended midnight February 19 were the heaviest in tonnage since the the war began.

Five British ships, of 39.276 tons gross, and 15 neutrals, of 46,801 tons gross, were lost, making a grand total of 20 vessels of 86,077 tons.

Of the 15-neutrals. 13 were sunk by enemy submarines,

On the other hand, U-boats have been hunted with increased suc- cess. At least four were destroyed in six days. This does not include the submarine bombed by an RA.F. plane last week.

24 CAPTURED

German Pressure On Rumania

It is reported that Germany is As already announced. two bringing pressure to bear on enemy merchant ships. the Mores Rumania to make sure that she and the Rostock. have been cap-gets the oll which Rumania has

by tured recently, as well as a trawler promised her.

withholding the Herrlichkeit. This brings the supplies of German agricultural total of enemy ships captured to machinery and even stopping the agents in Rumania of German-

Ivor Anthony and his brother, his evacuation papers to go with owen, between them have entered HE Undersigned have received the rest of his office to a Northern seven, horses for the Grand Na- 24, of 93,581 tons gross.

town, Sidney Arthur Steel, 24, ational, which is to be run at Ain- Civil servant, of St. Philip's-place, tree on April 5. Ivors candidates Paddington, instead of going to his are Royal Mall, who won the race office in Whitehall, jumped 100ft in 1937, The Uplifter and Milano. from the roof garden of an Ox

Owen has rominated Kilstar. ford-street store:

Roman Hackle, John Chairman and Le Cygne, all of whom belong to Miss Dorothy Page

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Tuesday, the 12th March, 1940

commencing at 5.15 pm.

These facts were disclosed. at the Inquest at Paddington, when Mr. H. Nevil Stafford, the Coroner. recorded a verdict that Steel took his life while the balance of his mind was disturbed owing to 1

at their Sales Room, No. 2 Con-health. naught Road, Central. (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor).

CHINA STAMPS

(A Valuable Collection being broken up).

also

BONGKONG AND BRITISH COLONIES

Klistar started favourite for the National last year, but found Workman and Macmoffat too good

for him.

In addition, 28. German vessels agricultural machinery manufac- of 152,891 tons gross have been turers from delivering machinery sunk, mostly through scuttling. No which is already in Rumania. account is taken in these figures It is rumoured that the Gez- of the Altmark. :.

mans are to demand a fresh re- Only one ship was lost in con-valuation of the let-Reichsmark voy last week; this was the tanker exchange which they want fixed British Triumph, which struck a at 60 lei mine. Orly two neutral ships, one of which was mined, have been sunk while under British escort since the war begah.

The German Government are also reported to be pressing the cen- Rumanian Government so tralize the marketing of eggs in

В

Rumanian

eggs

In the week under review" 160 order, to secure for Germany saddled

neutral vessels were escorted with larger share of out loss. Ships of all nationalities exports." escorted in British convoys now total +8,969.

Owen Anthony, who Mr. Arthur Benjamin Steel Bald

Music Hall to win the National that last May bis BOD acted strangely at the office, went to in 1922, thought that Kilstar had Shenley Hospital as a voluntary a wonderful chance at the weights two last March. "Too good to be true," patient and stayed there

was how he described it before months.

the race, He was right but lost Mr. Steel said that his son re- turned to his office where he re- Kistar might well have won if

The Rumanian Government were authorised by Royal Decree Nineteen or one in 472-were to impose duties on all exports, Including those hitherto, exempted from duty.

ceived bls evacuation papers. he had not blundered at Becher's GERMAN NEED OF first list of dutiable ex- which seemed to upset him, and the second time. left home ostensibly to go to his

work.

Royal Mail was owned by the fate Mr.

Hugh Lloyd-Thomas the race. Mrs. C. "My son was a great sportsman, when he won added Mr. Steel, a fine cricketer Evans bought the horse a couple and tennis player. He had been or weeks before the 1938 National,

On View from Monday, the 11th table tennis champion of the in which he was pulled up after

March, 1940.

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Civil Service.

"He had had a brilliant career at school, and we put down his mental derangement to the heavy reading and intensive study he had made."

breaking a blood-vessel,

He completed the course, again carrying 12st Tib, last March, and will make another bold bid if the handicapper does not treat him too harshly.

the

Ivor Anthony also won race in 1933 with Kellsboro Jack,

RUSSIAN OIL

Search For Means

Of Conveyance

porta includes many products ex- ported in large quantities to Ger many, such as oleaginous pro- ducts. on which export, duties of up to 23 per cent. are levied, and petroleum products, the duty. on which is 13 per cent.

The proceeds of the new duties

to are go towards Rumanian

It is reported from Constanza rearmament.-(The Times).

that Germany has on foot a scheme to get 'Russian oll by way of Rumania.

PACKED HOUSE owned by Mr. F. Ambrose Clark, are still in the paper stage and from sea-going to river vessels

FOR BERG

to whom belongs The Uplifter. Mr. Clark is an American, as is. Mr. Louis Stoddard, the owner of There were surprising crowd Milano. Mr. Stoddard is an ac scenes at the Devonshire Club, complished amateur rider and Hackney, when Jack (Kid) Berg, good polo player. the Stepney. welter-weight, met: He rode Milano at Aintree last Harry Davis, of Bethnal Green, in year, the horse coming down at a 10 round bout. The doors were the fence

the after Becher's closed nearly an hour before the second time round. The Uplifter. programme was due to begin, and too, has had mevions experience for some time afterwards several of the course. hundreds of people clamoured out-

side.

Berg won on points one of the

flercest fights seen at Hackney, for Berg subsequently scored heavily many years. The verdict had a with right hooks to the head and mixed reception, but it was well right swings to the body, but he also took considerable punishment deserved.

After three rounds Davis's better to the face from Davis's left boxing had earned, a slight lead, In the last round it became a but not all his skill could keep the question or endurance. Berg last- relentles Berg at bay,

ed wonderfully well;

The details of this scheme are serve both the sea and the Danube the trans-shipment of oil necessarily obscure as the plans for

known only to the few German The latest estimate of the off experts who have recently been transport capacity of the Danube visiting Constanza.

1s800,000 tons a year. The It is said. however, that the Rumanian railways are thought sibility of erecting at Constanza 300,000 tons a year. Germans are studying the pos- to be capable of carrying 200,000- As the Rumanians have promis- pumps to draw oil from tankers arriving from Batum and othered the Germans some 2,000,000 Russian porta, and even of build-tons; of oll in 1940 it looks as if ing a pipeline to a convenient the Germans will have either to Danube port or to a railway content themselves with less or to the interior of Rumania.

insist on the reorganization of At present there are in Con-Rumanían transport.

well-known. stanza pumps for loading tankero, A and the existing pipeline is from business man stated that Cher- the oilfields to Constanza, but man importers from Rumania are there is no provision for traffic rerusing to have their goods con- signed via the Oraseni-Beuthen. going the other way,

Rumaniam

The Germans are also reported route over Russian Poland, as to be investigating the question whole trains Dear to have been of whether it is practicable to use lest or "diverted," aithrigh this vessels at Gala was denied in Germany and Ras-

Times) and other Rumanian ports which is

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