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FEAR.
COL. JOHN WARD, MP.
HOME AFTER THREE YEARS'
SERVICE
BOY IN CHAINS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SCHOOLMASTER · FINED AND
SERVANT SENT TO GAIL.
Men who have lived with danger for a year or two seldom yelp about courage in the fashion of folk whostay at home and whip their cowardice, which many flatter with the name of hate, into verse and speeches and Col. John Ward, M.P. arrived in echoing articles. We, whom Death London on Sept. 3, having been call the flirt refused to hug. knowed home from Russia by the Waring about the city streets with a that a peep at peril would summon Office for a consultation. fear as surely as the sun cur shadows. At twenty-five minutes past three one October morning when we were out "on the Dogger patrol I remember the officer on watch dropping an oath down the valce pipe to us by the
wheel:
"Hard to starboard!" he sang out, and the horn upon the bridge 'hooted at the fog that lay across a still sea. In his shirt sleeves our captain nipped from his sea cabin up to the bridge above, and all of us save the helmsman melted into the open. The "Renown" and the "Repulse." the two largest battleships afloat (each of them could have hoisted us.. a destroyer leader, upon her fo'c's'le), were bearing down upon us with the "Lion" and the "Tiger" and an escort of swift destroyers of the Simoom
class..
"Switch on navigation bellowed the captain.
Col. Ward left England three years ago in demand of the Navvies' Batta lion of the Middlesex Regiment. His coolness in the sicking of the "Tyn- dareus" (when he ordered the famous Birkenhead drill by a mine near Capetown on February 9, 1917, won general admiration, says the Daily
Col. Ward and his battalion spent some months ir. Hongkong and afterwards formed part of the Allied force which overthrew Bolshevik rule in East Siberia. Recently they have held positions in North Russia in connection with Admiral Kolt chak's operations. It is understood. that the hattalion is now on its way home
Re-elected to Parliament in his absence, Col. Ward finds himself in a peculiarly detached position with re- lights!"gard to parties. He gave no pledges
to anyone at the general election he Navigation lights burning. sir said in an interview recently did not in fact know that he was being "Switch off navigation lights **
proposed, cr that he had been return- "Navigation lights off, sir?" As quickly as that the battle squaded till three months later.
The horrors of the rule of the Bolsheviks had not been exaggerated in the English papers so far as he had seen them. He was doubtful if half the truth had been told.
ron had come and gone. We slewed "Damn fine thing if they'd been
just as they cut across our bows.
Germans," observed Tubby, little of us left. The idea had also occurred to, the starboard look-out. These men were not fearless. Nobody with his wits about him can be fear. less fear is as much a part of us as the quality of reason which throttles
of the Church. The Church herself
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chain on one ankle.
OLDEST “PIT-BROW LASSIE."
THEIR PUNISHMENT.
The beech-lea, tobacco which is | one of the penalties of their militarist FIFTY YEARS OF HARD WORE system must remind Germans pain- fully that real tobacco, good tobacco, was once grown in more than one
There was a sequel at Bath to a policeman's discovery early one Mrs. Bridget McHugh, of Pember-Prussian province. In Brandenburg morning recently of a boy wanderton, Wigan, who has died at the age particularly so much tobacco was of 80, was a pit brow waman for cultivated that Frederick II. felt over half a century. At the time called upon in 1776 to regulate of her retirement from active pit matters. First the quantity was cut brow work she was 75 years old, and down, and later it was allowed to be had the reputation of being the grown only in districts in which oldest "pit-brow lassle" in the agriculture did not flourish. In one country. For a full half-century she year alone, 1781-2, 168,000 cwt. was was accustomed to leave her house Town. In 1780 Frederick ordered a shortly after five o'clock each work. Berlin chemist, Achard, to experi day morning, and was at her placement with the object of improving on the pit bank before the colliery the quality of the tobacco. Attempts whistle blew at six o'clock, working Berlin, to introduce Virginian tobac
were made at Lichtenberg. until between five and six o'clock, at night. She was a grandmother long before she ceased active colliery
The boy. Frederick Green, aged 13, belonging to Ilford, had escaped from the Prior Park Roman Catholic School. The. local Industrial"
heard summonses magistrates. alleging cruelty to Green against the superintendent of the school, George L. Harding, and three other officials, Gaston Renard, the school tailor Henry White, manual instructor and Charles Rosenthal, the gardener. In the end Rosenthal was sent to
prison for a month, Harding was fined £10 and ordered to pay special costs, White was fined 40s. Renard was found not guilty.
The case against the superinten dent was taken first, and the boy Green, aged 13, in his evidence declared that as soon as he arrived at the school Harding wrongfully accused him of trying to escape and punched him on the jaw. His head also was shaved. Incensed, he did escape the next day, but was dis- covered at Hungerfors, in Berkshire, and fetched back by Rosenthal, who when they reached the school grounds made him take off his boots and socks and walk barefooted along a road- way of sharp stones. In the schock he was dressed in clothes with a red "A" so that he could be recognised if he escaped again.
Then, said Green, White chained his ankles and he was dragged to bed, up fully a hundred stairs, to the top of the building. He slept in the chains. In the morning he was taken to the scullery by a boy named Phil in that position Harding beat him pott and chained to a table. While about the head and body with a rolling pin,
The boy Philpott, called as a wit Dess, said he saw the chains padlock ed round Green's ankles. He also say Harding hit Green with his fist, but no rolling-pin was used. The next night Green was chained to him, Philpott, in bed, the chains being padlocked to their wrists.
Medical evidence was that Green had scars on the upper lip and the scalp, bruises on the shoulders, ribs, buttocks, and left thigh, and ulcer- ated sores on the left Instep and wrists.
EX BOXING CHAMPION.
into Going
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NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The light cruiser "Hodkins" is about to leave for the China Station. She carried
trials cut further lately under the command of Captain R. G. H. Henderson, her skipper and flag captain to Vice Admiral Sir A. Duff, Coramander-in-Chief of the Station.
Captain G. B. Powell, C.M.G., posted to the command of the battle. ship "Monarch," is well known on the China Station, where he has seen much service. He was
Heutenant
of the cruise "Aurora" during the Boxer campaign of 1900, was in the Naval Brigade which advanced on Tientsin, where he was severely the attack on the Chinese field batteries (mentioned in despatches, medal with clasp). Subsequently he was
appointed
wounded in
to the command of the river boa: "Kinsah," which he commanded with much ability in the Yangtze above the rapids. In the late war he commanded the light cruiser "Egmont" and the "Devonshire" in succession (mentioned in despatches, C.M.G, Legion of Honour).
Engineer Rear Admiral G. W. Roone, C.B.E., who has been advanced to that rank, was chief engineer at Hongkon Dockyard from January, 1912, to his appointment to close of the war. He received the the battleship Lion" towards the
C.B.E for his services in the war.
Lieutenant G. A. M. V.. Harrison
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09, and that they were successful can be assumed, since Achard was given a handsome pension for life for his services in improving tobacco cultivation." There is no record that the inventor of beach-leaf tobacco has been given a pension.
CHURCH SERVICES.
St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon."
1878 SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.—Uct. 19th.
Holy Communion at 8.15 am. Morning Prayer at 11 am.
Opening Voluntary; Responses, Ferisi;
Psalms of the 19th Morging. »– XUV-Old Melody, XUVI.—Lawes, OVIL-King To Deum, St. Jude: Jubilsza, Elvey,10th Morning.. Hymus, 147, 218, 368 (Tane 180) 423 (A. & M. 438), BSC.
Concluding Voluntary.
Evening Prayer at 6 p.m. Opening Voluntary; Responses, Ferial';
Psalma, of the 19th Evening: XUVIII-Fussell, ___ XCIX.—Etti- abill; Magnificat, Beactosan-Sith Morning: Nane Dimittis, Heywood.-- 16th Morning Hymns, 219, 493. (A. & M. 435),. 397, 263.
Vesper Hyma... Concluding Voluntary N.B.Choir Practice next Friday at 6.00 p.m.
Union Charah, Kennedy: Road.
Sunday Services, Cctober 19. Morning Service. 11a.m.. Uymns, 347, 972, 427, 424. Subject: The Church in Thyatira. Treacher: Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie. Hymns, 809, 981, 193, 43, 425. Evening Service, 6 p.m.
Collections for Hospitals.
Sunday, October 18. a.m.-Holy Communion. 1a.m.-Morning Prayer and Sermon. Prescher: Rev. U. T. Waldegrave.
Peak Church.
The Gospel Hall.
Faith alone glossed these simple souls with calm. The lower deck has a lively loathing for the services it ere it grows to terror.
Each of us had his appointed is tolerated because without her aid station for abandoning ship, concern-respectable folk could not be decently ing which there was a deal of ghastly married or decantly buried. Ability to babble the Creed is a mark of argument-why the whaleboat was safer than the motor boat, even with good breeding; but the creed which its engine thrown overboard; how is believed is not recondite. ** If the Carley floats were better your time has come, it has come." than either, unless the weather is the beginning and the end of it were cold.. when, with your Right heatedly the lower deck clings legs for ever dangling in the to its one article of faith, showering ditch, you might die from the sea upon the unbeliever proof after lapping around your thighs. Most proof of its virtue. I suspect, of us supplemented these arrange nevertheless, that, like some more ments with a private plan for cheat- showy religions, the creed of the navy ing death. One man fancied that he is but a dope for fear, because, not would do very well with the wooden withstanding their belief in it, men grating upon which the helmsman were ever ready to take charge of stood behind the wheel. Some clung their oa destinies, wrangling one to the Service blow-up lifebelt, for with the other whether it was safest which, as against the disadvantage to sleep.for'd, where the bows might that it might easily be ponctured by pick up a mine, or aft, where the
witness-box has been appointed to the river St. Peter's Church, West Point. 'shrapnel, one could urge its uses as wash of the ship might carry one to Harding said Green was sent to the steamer "Kinsba" of the Yangtze, a pillow. at night action stations. the stern, or amidships, where the school as an incorrigible absconder and Lieutenant L. King to the On the day gunboar Thistle on the China Others, wedded to life-saving waist-engine room offered a target to with bad record. coats, would grow corpulent with torpedoes. On
details of his arrival he was seen trying to Station. differed volubly, although climb over a wall and he (Harding) Lieutenant-Colonel and one or more of them the moment they
Brevet that we slipped for sea..
they all agreed that it was boxed his cars. His hair was cut Colonel B. Vincent, 6th Inniskilling Courage and its companion, fear, indiscreet to sleep below. Thus at with ordinary clippers and not Dragoons, who has been promoted
produced shade off into a myriad varieties. sea one officer would clamber aloft shaved. Harding
the to substantive Lieutenant-Colonel,
that the motorboat, and another doctor's report showing that shortly
distinguished cavalry 3.15 am.Holy Communion. Normally, courage is high or low in into-
engaged in the 6.30 Evaning Service. the individual, as well as between always slept in a caboose upon the after his arrival Green had 24 scars regiment, was one individual and another, because upper deck, shunning his cabin so on his body. The morning after China War, 1900 (medal), South was brought back" from African War, 1899-1902 (Queen's it depends upon the state of the heartily that he would even send me Green" nerves, and the state of the nerves there to cut him off a chew of ship's Hungerford he saw him in the medal, five clasps), was an attache of is affected by a chain of accidents, tobacco while he was on watch. scullery, and went to box his ears, the Japanese Army in Manchuria such as the amount of sleep which Despite these precautions. he died but Green ducked and the blew during the Russo-Japanese War, you have been able to steal; what of Spanish influenza two weeks be caught him in the face. He did not 1904-05 (Japanese War Medal, Order tobacco you have been smoking; above fore they signed the Armistice. He know until afterwards that the boy of the Sacred Treasure), and in the all, the condition of the stomach. A was an officer, and he gave me to had been chained. He denied that Great War won much honour (men. man who had beer, seasick for understand that I was a fool; yet 1 he used a rollingpin, and be doubted tioned repeatedly in despatches, twenty-four hours might have been was sorry, for he had his points, if he clenched his fist. Being an ex-C.M.G., brevet lieutenant-colonel and more indifferent to danger; certainly which is more, than can be said for amateur boxing champion, he would brevet colonel).
bave marked the boy had he done Commander A. L. Gresson, who he could not have been as alert as many officers. the other man who had eaten a In the navy I never saw fear break hearty dinner embellished by one lot loose into general terror,, although I of neat rum. It was a disadvantage have seen individual men seized with of night action that it found us more it in circumstances which it would or less ravenous, because the lower not be decent to describe; for terror deck's one square meal was eaten is the most dreadful affliction of the at midday.
human spirit. I have been seized Absolute
courage and chronic with it myself. It freezes the mind. terror are symptoms of weak wits. You can reason with is no more than During a scrap in the Bight I was I could reason with the wave which working at the after magazine with made me as terrified as a mortal being a man whose mind was feeble, and could be. A brother of this water moun be made the nicest distinction over tain slung our five-ton motor-boats, who should actually go into the davits and all, into the Penland Firth. magazine and pass up cordite. I looked up at it as it reared itself pointed out to him that, if the on our starboard bow, higher than magazine did blow up, the man above the upper bridge, and I was afraid. would only profit by traction of a I clung to a gun-platform, shivering second, whereas he mumbled that as from my second drenching within an I was tallest he would take my place hour. The wave came at me as if it on top. Ashore, fellows of that type was a human lunatic. It lifted me would honestly expound the heroism to itself. "It bore me about for a of their lives to barmaids, clergymen, second or two, and I was wondering old gentlemen in railway trains, hut whether I was to be cast into the workers; in short, to the entire regi-Firth when it folded me over an iron ment of public chatterboxes. They stay as neatly as if I had been a suit would direct the whirlwind of their of pyjamas on a clothes-line. I was irony upon conscientious objectors, now territed; and the thing that I Irishmen, munition makers, "Huns," heard moaning, beside me must have pacifists, the population of the been I.
United States, and foreigners in But there is no profit in the dis
general all of whom they suspected cussion of this horror. It is permitted of a failure to appreciate their real to show its horned head at all. not magnificence. Aboard, they cursed to fill up space (I have indeed left with feeling whenever we were sent out as much as I have written), but to sea, certain that Jutland was again because it is fear's hideous corollary, upon us, and growing more certain | Vice' is ugly; terror is uglier; death if our gossips hac do inkling of what is ugliest-Robert Williamson in was afoot.
Manchester Guardian.
so.
Rosenthal. chains by
was commander of the light craiser "Newcastle" during her recent commission in the Pacific, has taken over command of the "Ganges" at Harwich.
10 & 12 PADDER ÄTSZET, Weakly Services-Sunday: Breaking of Bread for Believers only, 11 8.0. Gospel Meeting, 8 p.m. Bible study, Tuesday, 5.30 p.m. and
Thoriday, 8 p.r. Friday, Ladies Bible study, 5.30 pm. Saturday, Prayer Meeting, 6 pun.
First Church of Christ Scientist,
MacDonnell Road.
Sundays, 11 am. Wednesdays, 5.30 p.m.
Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wana phải.
Morning Service, 10:16 am. Evening Service, &15 pm.
In his evidence against other defen- dants Green described a second escape to Corsham, Wilts. He was brought back again and, be said. pat The in
An Army Council Instruction states chain passed from his ankles, up that until further orders field
and his back to his wrists, which marshals, general officers,
He was colonels will, when dismounted, wear were held behind him.. chained up night and morning, and swords with the Sam Browne belt at night his legs were fastened upon al ceremonial parades, at inspec behind him, and he was put to bedtions, presentation of Colours, and at on his side. He fell out of the bed official ceremonies. When mounted, the sword will be carried on the and could not get -back. He even tually got away and was found in saddle. Swords will not be worn by the streets by the police with the remount officers when parading with Sunday Evening, Gospel Meeting,' 8 pm.
units under inspection, except in. chains on him.
St. Joseph's Church, those services where the sword is the
Garden Road.... arm carried in the field.
Cross-examined, Green said that while he was chained up the other boys fought him with belts, and his face was covered with blood.
The three defendants denied strik- ing the boy, and said they only chained him up loosely with an old chain, not knowing what else to do to keep him from absconding.
At the end of the case Sir Harry Hart, the chairman of the bench, urged Green to get rid of the idea that he was a hero. "You are not," said Sir Harry sternly. "On the con trary, your conduct alone was re- sponsible for the fact that three men pf hitherto unblemished reputation have been brought before the court and subjected to penalties. Your sufferings were maidly due to your attempts to escape and were brought on yourself.
DIPHTHERIA-HOW IT MAY BE AVOIDED.
Don the child has & cold. The IPHTHERIA is usually contracted
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Arsenal Street.
Mass and Sermon st∙10 s.m. followed by the Benediction of the Bleened Sacrament.
Boman Catholic Cathedral, Glonealy.
cold prepares the child's system for the Mass at 6, 7 and 9.30 am. reception and development of the diph-High Maas at 8 am. therla germs. When there are cases of 5.30 pm.-Benediction of the Blessed
Bacrament. diphtheria in the neighbourhood children that have colds should be kept at home and off the street until recovered. Give them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM. they will not have to remain at home HERE is nothing so good for musen- long. "It also cleans out the culture lar rheumatism, sprains, lameness bed, which form in a child's throat craps of the muscles, bruises and like when it has a cold, and minimizes the injuries as Chamberlain's Pain Balm. risk of contacting infectious disen ag I will effect a cure in less: time. than For sale by all bonists and store any other treatment. For tala by all keepers.
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