Lt.-Col. Hopwood of the 2nd Lincolnshive Regiment will leave the battalion before his tenure is up in order to be an instructor at the Senior Officers Schoo! at, Sheerness jin September.
He will be promoted. This will give a somewhat earlier step up for officers at Dover and Shanghai.
Colonel George N. Humphreys who commanded the R.AS.C. in from 1919 to 1922 and has Malaya duty also, will be As.
tant Director of Supplies and transport at Malta from August 3.
The {following have passed for promotion:
C.C. Duchesne, RE, Hong-land for back double rooms $14 inclusive. Boarding houses charges fare from $200 to $450 per month. Practically there is no place for European children to play. The Indian Infantry Barracks are situated in the midst of Kowloon close proximity to Chinese bazaars, Two small rooms for leach Indian officer about 10ft by 10ft, with washing rooms, etc., attached to each quarter are' available, but these are very hot during the summer months. All other Indi ranks are accommodated in, Wi field Barracks with an overflow in Whitfield Camp Barracks but even then the "accommodation very short. The buildings Whitfield Barracks are mostly two storied bungalows with verandahs fon both sides, but in Whitfield Camp Barracks are single storied one verandah only. Build-stores, coffee shop, Indian office ete, have to be taken from wh should ybe living accommodation. good with tap water Inid on. Sufficient accommodation also applies for Warrant officers of the Indian Army Service Corps; the Indian personnel of the Mule Corps. are not housed in separate lines but, are in Whitfield Camp Barracks with other units. £8,000 being spent, this year on officers' quarters at Kowloon and £20,000 at sham-shui-po Camp on reconditioning the hutments there, Latest Trooping Arrangements The War Office programme pro vides for the movement of the 2nd A and SH. from Shanghai in the Neuralia during November so as to disembark st Bombay on December 1, for Rawalpindi, The transport will also carry the first details from China to home calling at Sinagpore, Colombo, Bombay, Port Sudan, Suez, Port Said and perhaps Malta.
Lieut, HKL. Davideon, 2ad A.
'RL Hopper, RASE
Lie. Tit doffers, RASE, Hong ons The Royal Marines, Portsmouth, won both tug-of-war championships at the national athletic meeting. They won both at the inter-services L competitions previously and so, are undefeated champions of Great, Britain.
It, Tuckey, RE, is Army Jawa tennis champion again.
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