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No. 309. Hongkong Volunteer De. fence Corps Orders by Lieut. Colonel I. G. Bird, D.S.O., Commandant.

Hongkong, Friday, Dec. 23 1927. 1. Musketry.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927.

CRUEL MURDER.

OLD WOMAN KILLED BY

TWO ROBBERS.

An armed robbery, perpetrated on Wednesday night by two robbers, a man and a woman, at the Sni wan, district, at Cheung Chow, New Territory, resulted in one of the inmates of the house being Romurdered.

Sunday, 8th January, 1928. serve Company and. Casuals will fire Part II. Table T, nt Stonecutters Range; full details will be published later,

2. Casuale.

A large number of all ranks have not yet fired Part II,, Lists of names are posted on Corps Notice Boards. All such will make arrangements to fire by Sunday, 9th January, 1928. the last day on which Part II, will

be fired.

3. Peak Range. Applications for use of the Peak Range for the 1st six months of 1928 should be submitted to the Adjutant immediately.

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According to the vernacular press, the housewisited by the rob- bers was non-numbered and was occupied by an elderly Chinese wo- widow. aged 76, and hergrund-daughter. This girl alleged that she was sleeping her grand-mother 11- with

the sido

at about 7.30 the noise made by the robbers when they entered the house woke up her grandmother. The old woman ventured out to investigate and was roughly handled the robbers. When the by xiri went out to the front part of tha. house, following her grand- mother, she found that one of the robbers was strangling her,

4. M. G. Competition. Sergt. Spradbury's team of the Mobile Section of the Armoured Carly, Company wins the M. G. trophy, to be held for one year with a total score of 45 points. The Commandant offers his congratulations on the fine drill and shooting of his team.

Scores of other teams are posted on Headquarters notice boards.

Results of Field Firing trophy will be worked out as soon as correct eamp strengths are submitted by unit

commanders.

5. Corps Signals. Parade for Camp Papat 5.30.p.mi. on Thursday, 20th December at Corps Beadiguarters.

6. Artillery Company,

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The woman pleaded with the rob- ber not to treat her so cruel adding that if they were after money they could take away anything they liked from the house. The robber then warned the woman not to shout so loud, but she kept on making a noise. Unable to give her grandmother any assistance, the girl re-entered the bedroom and found that the female robber was ransacking the roum. Eventually the girl suc- veeded in cluding the thieves and slipped out, going to a neighbour- ing house when she gave the alarm, As 110 Anu responded to the alarm she and the neigh- bour returnal to the house to find that her grandmo- ther was dead. By her side was

No partide will be held at Corps a knife helleyed to have been left Headers. on Thursday, 20th ber, 1927

Thursday. 6th January, Parade at Corps Headers. at p.m. for Battery Drill.

7. Promotions,

Decembehind by the robbers..

1928, 5.25

The following promotions take effect from the 14th December, 1927. Artillery Company. No. 660 A/Bdr. M. II. Wallace to be Bombardier. No, 1 Platoon. No. 1075 Ptc. J. F. Wright to be Corpora

8. Leuve.

The following are granted leave of absence from the Corps:-

No. 833 Spr. K. S. Robertson, En- gineer Co., from 1.1.28. 10 31.10.28.

No. 511 Pte. O. Enger, Reserve. Co. from 1.1.28. to 31,12.23.

9. Long Service Medal, His Excellency, the Governor has Awarded

Colonial the

Auxiliary Forves Long Service Medal to No, 224 Lance Sergeant J. C. Fletcher of the Scottish Company. H.K.V.D.C., on 10. 12, 27.

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10. Struck off the Strength. Having left the Colony, as from 1. 12. 27. No. 668 Fte. T. Low, Nu.

7 Platoon.

503

Having completed three years' service, as from 19. 12. 27. No. Pie. Will, Reserve Company. R. A. WOLFE MURRAY, MAJOR

ADJUTANT, H. K. V. D. CORPS

Notice.

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The Commandant wishes all ranks of the Corps a Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year.

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After Order.

1. Musketry: Stonecutters Range is allotted as follows:

Sunday, 8th January, 1928. Reserve Company and Casunta.

Hange Officer: Lieut. A. M. Thorn.

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The girl added that both robbers had painted their faces black. The house was in the most dis-

orderly condition, but at the mo- ment the girl could not make cut what had been stolen by the rob- hers. The girl reported the crime to the Tai O Police yesterday morn- ing at 5 o'clock..

THE NEW AIRSHIP

AIR-WORTHINESS BEING

INVESTIGATED.

London, Dec. 22. Questioned in Parliament re- garding the airship Re.100, now under construction privately for

Sir the Government,

Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air, Suid it did not ap- pear Jikely. that the .total fuel weight of the airship, includ- ing the passenger car and fittings, would exceed the contract figure of 50 tons.

Two scientists who were, in- vestigating the air-worthiness of the two airships now being built could not complete their investiga- tion of the". Re. 100 for some months, but so far it appeared that the factors of safety" Inid down in the, report of the air- worthiness of the airship panel had been fully adhered to.

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Sunday, 15th January, 1928. Corps Signala, Portuguese Company Casuals.

Range Officers, Lieut. M. G. Noll an 2/Lidut. S. Jarvis, M. C. Sunday, 22nd January, Armoured Car Company, Infantry Company and Casuals.

1928:

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ADJUTANT, H. K. V. D. Corrs. Hongkong, 23. 12. 27.

Replying to another question Sir Philip Sassoon said that seven Sunday, 29th January, 1928: Scot-high-speed aircraft were being tish Company, Engineer Company built this year and six of these made available for the were Schneider Trophy, They were constructed for the purpose of carrying out an important pro- gramme of research into the pro- blems of high-speed fight. Valu- able data hearing on the problem of improvement in the speed of aircraft had already been secured with these machines.-British Wireless.

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.

"CHRISTIE AND BLUHM 'ON

NEW CHARGE.

Before Major C. Willson yéster- duy afternoon, J. Christie and C. Bluhm were charged jointly with conspiracy to defraud money from the Chinese police reservist, Aut Ycung Kin Heng.

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