"M" Battery, RELA. at Aldershot and one in the ist' Brigade RILA, Exypt, have been mechanized to try. out the 37-inch howitzer, with which it is hoped to relegate "the old 13-pounder to the scrap heap. The guns are drawn by light dragons which seat the crews, and the wheels are pneumatic tyred. There are wagons for the battery stof? and for wireless, and light cars for Feeonnalssance. "M" Battery will make an autumn march with the Ist Cavalry Brigade from Hampshire across Bedfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Berk? shire and Wiltshire, Colonel John H. Priestman is to have the 13th Infaniry Brigad Catterick "Camp was in the Lincolnshire Regiment and adjutant of the 2nd battalion, and Joined from the old Royal Lancashire Mulitia. "In 1932 he was senior major of the regiment but went to neither the China or Dover battalion but to the Training Directorate as a Colonel, follows nae SBEFE-OM. Commies tu Den, Quetta, September 1. ces, eae eae
Major-Gen."Luckock, 4th Division, trict, September 1, Rawalpindi Di
Colonel (i> be Mafor-Gen,) Herbert, sot Division, February 2.
'Major-Gen.' Crozier, Aird Dviston, october 1
Major-Gen. tuddleston, Presidency and Atsam District, December 30. Major-Gen, Nicholson, Decean District, December 25.
Jor-Gen. Harrison, Artillery Chief, March 1
Mayor-General Grant is likely to be made a Lieut-General soon and hhis successor as G.0.C. London Dis trict may be MajGen, Sorgison-Brooks who commanded a brigade in China in 1927, New Promotion Plan 'The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Stanhope Committee on army promotion and the details are now being worked! out. 'There will not be any long] delay in announcing the—decision. Some of the proposals have been' prematurely adopted in part already'
the shortened tenures and. the! quicker promotion to colonel and coroner's inquest on a trafic accident, land then out it came. Could. the Phantom Sus fan article of belief nary buses have ceased running, sidents in St. Mark's Road are startled by brilliant lights and, looking out, see an enormous double-deck with all its lights on, but no one it, speeding in utter silence down the streets. An addition to the story is that in Cambridge Road a phantom, fous conductor stands waving madly to any passer-by to get out of the way.
Search for direct evidence of the bus reminds one of the Russians passing Through England in 1915. No tone has seen the phantom himself, but everyone has 3 friend, a cousin lor an aunt who has. In answer to [the coroner's questions, there was Joven a report of a motorist who came round a corner head on to the phant torn, jammed on his Drakes and gave fhimselt up for lost, when suddenly the Dus vanished.
One woman has coarsely suxses!- Jed that what people have seen is merely tne reflection of a bus {com newly painted and very shiny pillar-box, as the vehicle shoots round But Paddington is agreed that her evidence is unworthy of consideration. In fet, they point out she not a Paddingtonian at alt but is be-leved to hail from Notting Hill.
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