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VOLUNTEER ORDERS

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

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

(CONTINUED FROM SATURDAY) ·

QUALIFICATION-MUSKETRY

ing programme parade No, 2. Belt have and frog to be worn.

The under-mentioned classified as Marksmen (Rifle) and HE Undersigned have received are entitled to wear the prescrib-

instructions

THE

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

On

Thursday, the 25th April, 1940

commencing at 11 a.m.

at Godown, No. 13 of The China Provident Loan & Mortgage ·Co.. Ltd., West Point,

for account of the concerned.

30 Cases (180 Baskets Safety Matches" Brand

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS

ed badge.

Field Company Engineers: Sgt. J. G. Balley, L/Cpl. T. A. Warnes.

Cerps Signals: Pte. W, Eu, Pte. N. J. Booker.

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No. 3 Company

Apr. 25, HQ, 5.30 p.m. Trairing 115 in

training Company

pro-

gramme

No. 4 Company Apr. 26, H.Q., 5.30 p.m. L.G. Les- Car 500 14.

Mobile Column-årmoured Platoon: Sgt. G. E. R. Divett, Cpl. J. H. Fox, L/C, M. G. Carruthers. L/C K. Crawford. L/C. J. Chao. Pte. D. W. Beeken, C.S.M. F. Brett, Pte, H. H. Andrews Fte. L. A. GID- son, Pte, C. D. N. Walker, Pte. J. E Tocher.

No. Company

Apr. 28, Kowloon City Range. LG. Classification Table D. All men not yet classided will fire.

Army, Service Corps, Company Apr, 25, Kowloon Bus Company's Moter Machine Gun Platoon: Garage, Castle Peak Road. 5.30 Sgt. F. H. Neale, Pte. R. B. Quin-p.m. Transport Sectiori. Lecture. Dress Mufti. Transport as usual. Jan, Sgt. A I. Cash,

No. 1 Company: Cpl. V. M. Apr. 26. 28, Inclusive. RASC. Volunteer Officers and Hammond, Sgt. R. Edwards, Pte. Camp.

N.C.O.'s

attached for training G. H. Aman, Pte. W. M." Groves,

be issued Details wil! No. 2 Company: P/Major W. C. purposes K. Mackie, C.QMB, J. C. Polson, later. Sgt. T. F. Stainton, Sgt. T. Swan, Set. A. K. McKenzie, Ptc. W, C. Tillery, Pte. W. K. Mackie, Pte. G. A. Leiper, Pte. C. S. M."Thom. Pte. E. Curtis.

PUBLIC AUCTION. Jaffer.

THE Undersigned have received

Instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

Friday the 26th April.

1940

commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, No. 35, Han- kow Road, Kowloon.

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A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Comprising:-

Teakwood Dining Room, Bed Room. Drawing Room and Office Furniture, Wardrobe and Cabin Trunks, Perambulators. Electric Lamps, Celling and Table Fans. Gramophones and Records, Curios, Ornaments, Brass, E. P., Aluminium, Cloisonne, Lacquer, Ivory, Porcelain and Glass Ware, Pump Stoves, Wall and Table Clocks, Cooking Utensis, .etc., etc.

also

A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD

FURNITURE

and

1 Teakwood Modern Bed

Suite

I Upright Piano

.1 Piano Accordeon

1 Bliver Statue (Horse)

1 Slicing Machine with Stand

2 Pairs Binoculars

2Sextants

4 Radio Sets

Room

On View from Thursday, the 25th April, 1940.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

AUCTIONEERS.

Field Ambulance

GENERAL

"HOME LEAVE-VIA SOUTH AFRICA"

Interesting Talk At Rotary Club Meeting

The third and concluding chap Cape is a most stately thing and ter of his talk on "Home Leave the fairest Cape we via South Africa"

was given to whole the Hongkong" Rotary Club at earth." their weekly tiffin meeting yes- terday by Rot. Dr. J. H Mont- gomery.

N. G. Seale, I. N. Murray Strellet Apr 28, St. Paul's College. 5.30 and Rev. A. S, Moors Anderson.

PIETERMARITZBURGH P.m. Lecture,

Pay Section

saw in the

(1 circumference

BEAUTIFUL DRIVE The drive Peningala

around

the

the Cape be one of

was

is said to Before calling upon Dr. Mont-finest in the world and it is hara gomery to give his address, Mr. to imagine anything finer. L. C. F. Bellamy, president of the drove first by way of the Univer- Club, welcomed two visiting sity, laid out on a beautiful ste view and Rotarians from India Mr. Walter and with a marvellous Buchan, a director of the Calcutta Campus, to the Rhodes Reserve. Rotary Club, and Mr. J. J. Ehandy It was with real regret I left

as there

much of Jamshedpur, who brought a Capetown

be beauty and interest still to flag for exchange,"

The following guests were also seen, but, time and tide and the welcomed by the president:-Mr. boats wait for no man and I had

DT C. W. Jeffries.

Shannon, to catch the Dutch Ship. Bosch- Messrs. & H. Langston. W. o. fontein, bound for Southampton.

* TABLE MOUNTAIN Orlowitz, Azzoline, D. B. Evans,

Table Mountain looked its very best in the light of the setting sun as the boat sailed away and

"tablecloth

it, C21 *Addressing

the gathering, Dr.there was no

only a golden and red glow light- Apr. 26. Command H.Q.. 5.30 Montgomery said, h; part:-

Part Two of this trip froming up the whole" mountain that p.m. N.C.O.'s detailed by O.C. Unit. Practical work on Soldiers' Hongkong to England Via S. Africa made it look living and vital, 38 dealt with Bulawayo. the Victoria if calling one to return for another accounts.

Falls. Durban and the Journey visit. PROMOTIONS & APPOINTMENTS from Durban via the valley of a The voyage home was pleasant Bdr. G. Eastgate, 3rd Bty. to thousand hills to Pietermaritzburgh with only one stop at Dakar in

and I mentioned be Sgt., 19/4/40.

the beautiful French Senegal on the West Coast avenues of Jacaranda and in 15 days we tied up Bdr. D. J. Leonard, 3rd Bty. to sight the be A. L/8gt., 19/4/40,

and Flame of the Forest presented Southampton alongside the Queen in that interesting town.

Mary and Empress of Australia Pietermaritzburgh is an impor. and it was only then I realized tant industrial and a leading how small the Boschfontein was

to those

ocean educational centre. whilst it's in comparison L/Cpl. M. A. Cairns, Mot. Col.

beautiful setting in

a smiling Glants.

I arrived in London Just in H.Q. to be Corp., 20/4/40.

valley surrounded by highly wood- L/Cpl A. Hurlow. Mob. Col.ed heights, gives the city a charm-time to see the King and Queen ing serenity pecuhar to Itself. setting out for Canada fitting Climax to a wonderful home leave Leaving Pietermaritzburgh an- other day and night in the trati, via South Africa. ".

The vote of thanks to the spea- travelling N. W through Natal,

No. 3 Company: Sgt. V. H. White: Cpl. F. C. C. Quah, L/Cpl. N. Broadbridge. L/Cpl. N. A. E Mackay. Pte. A. Lim, Pte. S. B. Izatt. Pte. S. L Wong. Pte. N.

No. 5 Company; Pte. G. N. Cosano,

No. 6 Company: C.S.M. M. F. Baptista, Sgt. J. P. Baleros, Cpl.

Bdr. A. Hussain, 3rd Bty, to be J. C. Remedios. L/Cpl. A. D'Al- quino, L/Cpl. A. P. Pereira, L/Cpl. | A; L/Sgt.. 19/4/40. J. O. Sequeira. Pte. R. M. B. Gutierrez. Pte. P. D.. Silva, Pte. G. A. Ribeiro, Pte. E. A. V. Remedios. Pte. R. M. Silva, Pte. F. G. Ribeiro. Pte. C. F. Remedios,

Cpl. J. H. Fox, Armd, C.PI to be Sgt. 20/4/40...

No. 7 Company: Sgt. H. L.HQ. to Corp. 20/4/40, Lockhart, L/Cpl. J. Lee.

L/Cpl. K. Crawford. Mob. Col. A.S.C. Company: Sgt. G. HHQ to be Corp., 20/4/40. Cuthill, Pte. J. B. Kooter. L/Cpl. W. Hyde.

QUALIFICATION DEL

請

The following members of 2nd Battery passed

practical examination on 11/3/40 in De- fence Electric Lights and are qua lified to act as S.LO, and Engine Driver (Crossley): 3019, Gnr. R. C. Beavan, 4255, Gnr. V. Tesar.

"Kowloon City Range

May 5. M.G. Casuals. Mobile Column. No. 1 Coy. and No. Coy.

PARADES

Corps Artillery 1st Battery

TRANSFERS

Pte. W. E. Broadbridge from No. 3 Coy to 5th A.A." Bty.. 14/3/40.

Gar.. N. Dessoulavy from 5th A.A. Sty. to Unit Res., 17/4/40.

Pte. V. A. Novikov from Mob. Col. H.Q. to M.M.GPL, 20/4/40.

Sgt. A. H, R. Butcher from No. 4 Coy. to Unit Res., 25/4/40.

LEAVE

Pte. E. V. Alves, No. 5 Coy, 17/ 2/40-16/3/40.

Capt. J. A. R. Selby, Res. of Ofrs, 18/4/40-20/1/41.

you

at

pass Ladysmith. A Ittle Ker was proposed by Rot, WE North is. Glencoe

and only 20 Rickwood, miles to the West is Spion Kop. names linked

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

24, 1940.

BLACK & WHITE

"FINEST QUALITY IN SCOTCH WHISKY

YOUR FIRST SIP TELLS YOU IT'S THE SCOTCH

R.E.O.C.A. GRAND CABARET DANCE

ENGINELESS CAR RUNS INTO WALL

The Next R.E.O.C.A. function, which will be a Grand Cabaret Dance, will be held at the Penin-

The story of how a man driving - Sula Hotel on Saturday next, April

an engineless motor car, caused 27. from 8.30 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Music will be provided by the the vehicle to collide with a wall Dance Band of the 2nd Bn. The of St. John's Cathedral and break Royal Scots (by kind permission of a water pipe, was told in the Cen- Lieut.-Col. D. J. McDougall, M.C.traf Court before Mr. E. G, Sheldon and Officers).

yesterday when Au Chi was sam- The following artists will appear: moned for driving without a

(by arrangement with licence; Dances George Goncharoff): Nura Känis, Gaston D'Aguino. Ernest Perry:

Trafic Sub-Inspector Clarke pro-

There will also be Spot and secutiong said that the car had

been purchased by a marine store ! Novelty prizes.

Admission (the right of which is dealer for scrap purposes. It had strictly reserved by the. Com- no engine and was being, pushed mittee); Ladles $1.50; Gentlemen by some men from Conduit Road with sad defeats Mrs. James Roosevelt. the $2; Members (under the rank of to Garden Road with defendant of President Roosevelt, Sergt.) $1.50. Bookings may be at the wheel when the vericle ap- and great victories From Lady-mother smith you go through Harrismith was the guest of honour at a cock-made at the Hotel, Tel: 58081 or parently gained too much speed down the incline and crashed into Bethlehem to Kroonstadtail party held by the New York the Hon. Secretary, Tel: 21710.

The final function of the Season the wall, which takes you from Natal into chapter of the China Ald Council

His Worship said that he was the Orange Free State just North in the Hotel Beekman on January will be a Social for Members and of Basutoland. From Kroonstad 28. Between 500 and 600 people their friends on Saturday, May 11, not prepared to take evidence in

admission defendant's absence and adjourned " you go almost due South to Bloom paid the dollar admittance to the 1940, for which

the hearing for two weeks. fontein, capital of the Orange affair which raised $700 for China. charge will be $1. Free State and the seat of the Court of Appeal for 3. Africa.

and

CQMS. J. C. Polson, No. 2 Coy. By 19/4/40-18/10/40,..

Onr. B. T. Flanagan, 2nd Bty., City of South

Apr. 24, Belchers. 5.45 p.m. Lec-20/4/40-19/10/40, ture by Lieut. (D.O.) W. Squires, Pte. W. G. Robertson. No. Z Coy,,

All members should attend. £3/4/40-1/6/40. RA. Dress Overalls.

Wellington Barracks, Apr... 24. 5.30 p.m. D.EL. Section: Dress - Overalls

2nd Battery Apr 28, Peak Range, 8.30 am. Table A for all O.Rs. who have, not yet. Ared.

"

All those who have not return- ed rifles drawn for the shooting on April 7 and 14 must do so im- mediately.

3rd Battery

I

Pte. I. M. Macrae, No. 2 Cop., 23/4/40-9/5/40.

Capt. N. Garland, 2nd Bty., 24/ 4/40--31/1/41.

Pte, J. H. Odell, M.M.G.PL, 25/ 4/40--1/5/40.

reason of its geographica! position it is called the Centre Africa and has a population of sixty two thousand, EAST LONDON Another day and night in the the coast train took me again to to East London. Alongside E. *HTOOUT апа London is Buffalo

this is the Union's only River Port and from it much of the country's wool clip is exported.

Sgt. A. H. R. Butcher, No. 4The town of E London is beauti- Coy.,. 25/4/40-25/4/41.

Pte. H. L. Mackenzie, No. 2 Coy.. 1/3/4031/B/40.

The following leave is cancell- ed:-Gnr. J. Hart-Davis, 2nd Bty., 12/4/40-17/4/40.

STRENGTH-DECREASE Pte. Fung King Fan, No. 3 Coy.. 18/9/39.

A/Cpl. A. W. Rowe, No. 3 Coy..

fully situated on the coust and 13 the commercial hub of a large and flourishing countryside. As a seaside resort, E. London has a legion of ardent admirers and tra addition to excellent surf- bathing, there are facilities' for all manner of recreation..

*

The next stop and not very far away Is Port Elizabeth. The his-

Apr, 25, Queen's Pier, 5.15 pm for Aberdeen returning 10 p.m. Dress-K.D. jackets, trousers, S.D. caps, boots. web bait, water-bot- tle (lled). Overalls and G.P. 24/10/37. shoes to

L/Cpl. 8. Bard, Fd. Amb., 11/3/ when the lastrious Haversack be carried. rations will be provided.

- 4th Battery Apr. 26. Queen's Pier, 5.30 p.m.

Returning 8 p.m. Ail No. 2 Gun.

"B" relief B.C. Staff, "A" relef

LAMMERT BROS., DEL personnel. Dress S.D. cap. Jacket, trousers. web belt and boots (Overalls and G.P. shoes to be carried.

WEDDING AT

REGISTRY

The wedding took place yester- day at the Registry, Supreme Court, of Mr. Kwan Chi-nin, son of the late Mr. Kwan Cheuk-chuen, for- merly well-known in Hongkong commercial circles, and Miss Haul Hul-fang..

Mr. T. 8. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Marriages, officiated, The wit nesses were Mesara. Fung Hong-un and Kan Koam-tsing.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The forthcoming marriages are innounced of Mr. Trinh xuong, teacher, of No. 4 Rue d'Ayat, Balgon, and Miss Tan Po-ting, of No. 4IB Conduit Road; and Mr. Tsang Lee-cheung, civil servant of the Chinese National Govern- ment, residing at No. 173 Wong- nelchong Road; first floor, and Mus Leung Wal-seeta, of No. 1 Sat Wa Fong fret Boor.

40.

Pte. Sun Sze Kit, No..? Coy. 12/3/40.

.

Pte. E A. Alves. No. 5. Coy., 26/ 3:40.

Pte. F. X. Chung, No. 3 Cay., 31, 3/40.

Pte. G. V. Remedios. Fd, Ambu- | lance, 9/4/40:

Sigman. Eu Keng Ol. Corps Signals, 15/4/40,

A/Cpl. C. Cauvin, No. 3 Coy.. 30/4/39.

5th A. A. Battery Apr. 15, Queen's Pier, 5.15 p.m. No. 2 Section. Dress-Overalls.

Apr. 25, H.Q., 5.30 pm, No. 1 Section. Musketry. Dress-Over- Coy, 30/4/39. alls.

Pte. B. P. C. Fletcher, No. 3

Pte. Shea Samuel, No. 3 Coy., 30 14/39.

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tory of this important city is In- teresting änd goes back to

Explorer, Bartholomew Diaz rounded the Cape and discovered a large bay which he named Bay of the Lagoon on account of its unruffled surface and void blue appear-

ance..

From Port Elizabeth, a night's to Journey by train takes you Oudtshoorn on the Garden Route of the Cape Colony,

GIANT KLOOPS Oudtshoorn is a small town of Inhabl- only fourteen thousand tants and lles on the Grobbelaars River in a valley sixty miles long. walled and sheltered by superb- Field Company Engineers

Pie, L. Choa, No. 3 Coy., 30/4/39. mountaina, giant kloofs and won- Apr. 25, KC.R., 5.30 p.m. Lec- Sigman, A. Cheung, Corps Sigs.,derful water courses. Its double

"Modern 1676/39.

aspect of natural grandeur and ture by Lt. Hilton. R.E.

fertility makes it a place of great Bridge Technique.”

scenie splendour and the 'country flourishing

.

Corps Signals

"J

40.

Apr 26, H.Q. 5.15 p.m. Signal training.

STRENGTH-INCREASE

Gnr. C. A. Smith, 1st Bty., 1/4/side is dotted with Apr, 24, H.Q., 5.15 p.m. Special

farms with a background of won- class of instruction.

Onr. C. J. Powell, 1st Bty.. 9/4/derful mountain scenery,

CAPETOWN 40.

Sigmn. W. 8. Anderson, Corps. I must leave out the" other places in the, Garden Route and Sigs., 13/4/40. -

Gur, R. H. Blake, 2nd Bty.,. 15/imagine you have reached Cape All 4/40.

towa

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Mobile Columni Armoured Car.. Platoon.

Apr. 26, HQ., 5.30 p.m. Classes. Anti-Gas training.

Motor Machine Gun Platoon Apr. 26, HQ., 5.30 p.m. N.C.O.'s Class.

No. 1 Company. Apr. 20, No. 7 Squad HQ, 5.15 for Kennedy Road. Re- p.m. Innes, mainder, H.Q., 5:30 pm, as Com

pany programme --

Pilot-Officer EL A. younger son of Colonel 8, Innes and Mrs, Innes, Fairmount, Perth... who was awarded, the D.F.C, last mata, has been killed in a flying accident in England.

40.

Pte. J. Adam. No. 2 Coy., 18/4/

Pte. J. Revie, No. 2 Coy., 18/47 40.

Pte. J. McKelvie, No. 2 Coy., 18

14/40.

"

The Cape, like Port Elizabeth, was discovered by the Portuguese Explorer, 'Bartholomew Diaz when in 1487 he set out to discovér a

Pte. J. G. R. Humble, No. 2 Coy.sen route to India, in which quest 18/4/40.

he was unsuccessful Capetown-

founded was

by Johan Van Riebeeck in '1652, as a station of the Netherlands East India Co. It was merely a small settlement on the shore of Table Bay, nestl- ing beneath the majestic mass of Table mountain: "Of the Cape Slé Francis Drake "said, "This

Pte. W. F. Ford, No. 2 Coy, 18/ 4/40.

Pte. T Coleman, No: 2 Coy., 18" No. 2 Company Apr. 25, No. 8 Platoon. Howloon 4740: Dock, 5.30 pm. M.G. training: No. TPlatoon, HQ, 5.30 pm Train-

EN. THURSBY, Captain,

Adjutant, E.K.V.D. Corps

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