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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1930.

KING'S BIRTHDAY

HONOURS.

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ARSENAL SET ON FIRE.

PARADE AT THE CENOTAPH.

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Admiralty Intelligence Division, ATTACKED BY REBELS and Singapore Brigade; Royal En-

He joined the Labour Party in 1916.

AT TSINANFU.

EXPLOSION.

Major Thomas Henry Crozier, late Royal Field Artillery, Chief Inspector of Explosives at the PANIC IN THE CITY FOLLOWS Home Office since 1926, He was Professor of Artillery at the Or dance College 1899-1904, and Chief Inspector of Artillery at the R. M. College, Woolwich, 1906-08.

FORTY MEN KILLED.

Professor Leonard Erskine Hill,

Tsinanifu. June 2. Fellow of University College, Pandemonium reigned at London: Director of the Depart- Tsinanfu for two hours when ment of Applied Physiology, a small contingent of plain National Institute of Medical Re- clothes Shansi insurgents, armed search; President of the Associa- tion of Sanitary Inspectors, and with hand grenades bombed the Member of the Navy Medical Ad- Government arsenal at Northern visory Board. He was formerly Hill shortly before eight o'clock Professor of Physiology at the yesterday evening in an attempt University College, London.

to seize the city during the Mr. Guy Anstruther Knox Mar-ensuing panic. The Govern- shall, C.M.G., Director of the Imment troops at the Arsenal were perial Bureau of Entomology, completely surprised and follow- Colonial Office, since 1913. He ing on the attack the large was formerly Scientific Secretary stocks of arms and ammunition to the Entomological Research exploded with terrific force. Committee of the Colonial Office.

Mr. Herbert Wright.

G. C. B.

gineers and Royal Siguals; 1st. Battalion the Somerset Light In- fantry; Royal Army Service Corps and the Hongkong Mule Corps: the 3rd Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment;, the Royal Air Force; Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps; Ist. "Mountain Battery, H.K.S.R.A., the 2nd Battalion' Argyll and Sutherland Highland- ers and other representative bodies.

The March. Past, Column of route formation was

maintained for the march past His Excellency the Governor, bands ceasing playing for their unit as soon as the rear of the unit pass- ed the saluting point. The band of the Argyll and Sutherlanders played for the march past of the Royal Navy, Heavy Batteries, Royal Artillery, H.K.S.K.A., Royal Engineers, Royal Signals, Royal Army Service Corps, the Hong- Air Force. kong Mule Corps and the Royal

The march past concluded, His Excellency the Governor left the Cenotaph, the Guards of Honour and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders remaining in position until he had done so. His Excel-. lency was escorted back to Govern- mounted section of the H.K.V.D.C. ment House, by members of the

The soldiers made a gallant attempt to move part of the ammunition supplies but these exploded with the result that forty Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, who soldiers and guards belonging to the was on May 7th promoted to the Six were also fatally wounded in Arsenal were killed instantly. rank of Admiral of the Fleet. He addition to a large number of is best known for his exploits at troops and policemen who sustained of two

The Naval detachment consist- Zeebrugge, when he was in com- ed minor injuries while fighting Eighth Destroyer Flotilla and two platoons from the mand of the operations there on St. the blaze. George's Day, 1918.

platoons from H.M.S. Suffolk ua- Residents near-by were panic-der the command,of Lieut. Com- Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-stricken and throughout the even-mander W. G. L. Cooper (H.M.S. Sinclair, who has been in Com-ing there was a general. with- Bruce). The Royal Marine de- mand at the Nore since 1927. He drawal from the environs of the tachment was Commander-in-Chief of the China Station in 1925-26.

C. B.

Air Vice-Marshal David Munro, Director of Medical Services of the Royal Air Force; He was Surgeon

Arsenal in anticipation of further attacks by the Shansi rebels. The fire brigade and Police forces responded promptly and did much to check the spread of the fire.

Martial Law Proclaimed.

The proclamation of martial to H. M. the King in 1925. He law added to the tension of yester- saw considerable service during day evening. The Police spent the the war in Mesopotamia and Pales-whole evening conducting seaches tine,

K. C. M. G.

Sir William Henry Clark, High Commissioner in Canada for H. M. Government since 1928. He was Secretary to a Special Mission to Shanghai to negotiate a Commér cial Treaty with China la 1901.

Mr. Reginald Fleming Johnston, who has been Commissioner at Weihaiwel since 1927. He was formerly in the Hongkong Govern- ment service from 1899 to 1904, and is an LL. D. of Hongkong Uni- versity. He was tutor to the ex- Emperor of China from 1919 to 1925, and brought the boy Emperor into the Legation Quarter in Pek- ing in November, 1924. He was Secretary to the British China Indemnity delegation in 1926.

C. M. G.

Mr. Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane, who on May 23rd was appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of the F. M. S.

Mr, Charles Fortescue Garatin.

O.B.E.

Captain Charley Darby. Major Alfred Gordon Lec. Captain Hugh Ransome Stanley

Zehnder.

Other Recipients.

for the rebels, hundreds of whom were believed to have secretly entered Tsinanfu. Numerous raids were carried out.

Strong rumours, are prevailing that part of the Nationalist forces under General Han Fu-chu, the officer commanding the army at Tsinanfu, is likely to surrender to the Kuominchun Commanders us soon as the general offensive by the Kuominthan troops from the bank of the Yellow River com-

mences.

consisted of two platoons from H.M.S. Suffolk and one platoon from H.M.S. Tamar under the command of Captain G. H. Morris R.M. (H.M.S. Tamar).

Military Units.

The strength of the military units on parade was as follows.

Heavy Batteries, Royal Artil. lery; 12th (84), 20th (60) and 31st (60)

Royal Engineers, 25 all ranks. (British) 60 Chinese,

Royal Signals, 25 all ranks. Somerset Light Infantry, 'Guard of Honour, two officers and 50 other ranks. Four companies cach of 120 all ranks and band and drums.

Argyll and Sutherland High. landers, Guard of Honour, two officers and 60 other ranks. Two companies each of 140 all ranks, band and pipes,

R.A.S.C. andi, Hongkong Mule, Corps, 100 all ranks.

H.K.S.R.A. 40 in each of the three batteries.

Considerable apprehension pre- vails amongst the thousands of Japanese merchants here in con-

1st Mountain Battery. 180 all sequence of the destruction of the ranks.

Punjab Regiment. Four Arsenal and they have formed a

com- general, committee, which will panies each of 120 all ranks. function as a public safety com- Guard of honour, two officers and mittee, with a view to requesting 50 other ranks, band and pipes. their Government to send more In addition there were detach- troops to Tainanfu to ensure the safety of Japanese in the city.

Hundreds of Japanese residents have withdrawn towards Tsingtao, taking shelter there in view of the approaching struggle between the Nationalist and Shansi-Kuo- minchun armies in Shantung for the possession of Tsinanfu and the Tientsin-Pukow Railway:

Official Shansi messages from Peking state that Marshal Yen Hsi-shan conferred with his Divisional Commanders at Tsang chow yesterday and decided general attacks Nationalist troops

against

along Tientsin-Pukow Railway.

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A British Wireless message gives the following additional Honours: Recipients of Knighthoods in- clude Dr. Harold Delf Gillies,

Shantung Fighting. Chief Plastic Surgeon at the Mini-

Simulataneous fighting between stry of Pensions, for valuable servicea in the treat the Nationalist and anti-National- ment of facial disfigurement, and ist forces has broken out along the Mr. Henry Lytton, famous for his Tsinanfu-Kiaochow Railway after parts in Gilbert and Sullivan opera

the fall of Tsingcheng to the rebels. In all the engagements

Knights Commanders of the Or- with the Nationalist troops in

ments of the E.A.S. M.A... British Legion, Mercantile Marine, Hong-| kong Volunteer Defence Corps, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and the R.E. Old Comrade's Association (Hong- kong Branch). ̧ ....

Subsequently the parading troops and units, except the 2nd Batt. Argyll and Sutherland High- landers, marched through the main thoroughfares of the city to General Headquarters. They were headed by their respective bands, the route taken being via Connaught Road and

Queen's Road Central

COURT LEVEE.

PRINCE ACTS FOR H.M.. THE KING.

London, June 2. The second leven of the season

·

DR. WANG SUMMONED.

der of the Bath include Vice-Ad-Shantung, the Shansi rebels are was held at St. James's Palace this miral David Anderson, Surgeon understood to have fought fiercely morning by the Prince of Wales Vice-Admiral Arthur Gaskell,

with wide-bladed Lieutenant-General Alexander

knives and on behalf of the King, Wardrop (Indian

grenades. General Han Fu-chu Army),

His Majesty is almost certain to and Lieutenant-General Charles ia personally directing the fighting see the Derby, also the Oaks, but Godwin (Commander Peshawar along the Tsinanfu-Kinochow Rail- the weather is so unsettled that District, India). A Companionship way and machine guns and other meteorological prophets are unable of the said order is conferred on modern weapons have been ex- to say whether the race will be run Mr. Robert Craigie, Counsellor at tensively used by the Nanking in rain or sunshine Reuter. the Foreign Office, for services in troops for the defence of Tsinanfu. connexion with the Naval Confer- The Foreign Ministry at Nan-i ence.

king is about to issue a long pro Order of St. Michael and St. to protect all foreign life and pro- clamation reiterating the, Intention George Knights Grand Cross, Sir perty along the Tsinanfu-Kiao- Herbert Stanley, Governor of Ceylon, and, Sir William Erskine chow Railway. This follows to Ambassador at Warsaw; Knights the effect that the Japanese mer dental and intestinal troubles, Dr. Commanders, Mr. Henry Chilton, chants in districts along the C. T. Wang, in response to an Minister to the Holy See; Mr. Her Teinanfu-Klaochow Railway are. bert Malkin, Legal Adviser to the urging the Tokyo Government to Foreign Office; and Mr. Claud immediately increase the Japanese Russell, Minister at Berne; Com-forces in Shantung. panion of Order, Mr. Reginald Leigh, Assistant Private Secretary

University Rafded...

Shanghal, June 2. Although ́ ́ still suffering · from

earnest request by Government leaders, left Shanghai by the noon express, and arrived at Nanking this evening.-Reuter..

to the Secretary for Foreign The Chinese authorities in Affairs.

Greater Shanghai' are maintaining believed to be Communist Imperial Order of Crown of a vigilant watch on Communist suspects.

The Nationalist troops have India Lady Birdwood, wife of activities. Yesterday the Chinese been supplied with a further Field-Marshal Sir William Bird- troops raided the famous Chung 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition wood, Commander-in-Chief, India. Hua Art College, which is managed with the arrival yesterday of a Victorian Order. Knights by Cantonese scholars of high re-steamer bringing a large consign- Grand Cross, Baron Buckmaster putation.

ment of arme for the Nanking

and Lieutenant-General Sir Wil- The raid was organised follow Government. The cargo of arms liam Putteney, Knight Comman- ing on receipt of information that has since been removed by the Assistant Under-Secretary to the at the College. The troops tribution among the troops along der, Sir Hubert Montgomery, Communists were taking shelter Nanking forces to Pakow for dis Foreign Office.

arrested ninety men and women the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.

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