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movement, for the Marianne and Caroline Islands are an obstacle to the Japanese advance be Reichsbote consoles itself with the thought that for the present Japan desires to remain on a good understanding with Germany, for the sake of the latter nation's technical and financial services, but it is of opinion that Germany's best policy is to accelerate the building of her Fleet as much as possible, so that she may be prepared when the moment of danger arrives.
There would appear to be some method in this madness, but the method is more contemptible than if the thing were merely gratuitous. It may be the cowardly policy for which China has so often been contemned, that of allaying personal tre- mours by endeavouring to set all potential enemies by the ears. A local San Franciscan recently remarked that he would like to see Germany and Japan fight an exhausting fight, and then to see America Tek both, This Neronian ruthlessness was, we fear, a result of newspaper nurture; and it cannot | be overlooked that it is a growth bound to bear frui, at polling booths and elsewhere.' It will be a sad thing if some historian of the future has to write that the Press, which so largely helped to give man liberty, finally converted him into a bloodthirsty coward, who would neither learn to shoot nor ceaSE to shout; who bellowed for causeless wars, and sent his undergrown an underpaid striplings to take part in them. Yet there are signs that some such verdict may oue day have to be recorded.
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but toll,' so to speak, will, it is hoped, he to denounce sin more authoritatively. But taken of the Militia to form the nucleus of such specific applications of the caption are the new supplementary reserves for the less correct than would be the connection of regulars, which, although trains¡ upɔn an
the word with any one of REUTER's hetero- auxiliary basis, will in point of fact become gene us daily epitomes. A phrase much in part and parcel of the regulars." By vogue lately shows that in the whirl of Section 33 of the proposed Territorial civilization there are revolting spirits givento and Reserve Forces Bill of 1907. non-thinking about "life"-at least there be regular reservists will be liable (if they s me who have obviously reached the stage have consented thereto) to be called up for of deciding that it needs simplifying. service without reference to a Proclam. Sometimes we have reflected that "the ation'
or communication to Parliament, Simple Life" must be much older than the whenever warlike operations are inant phrase in which the conception has preparation or in progress, provided that been crystalized; that parhaps their services are required outside the bygone travellers who foundel Hongkong United Kingdom. This provision of power and other similar places were actuated to his Majesty to call up the reserves, somewhat by a desire to escape the trammels quietly without Proclamation, in preparation and complexities of that civilization which for hostilities that appar to be imminent, ዩ። are so keen to force upon peoples is obviously a great advantage. Another actually and unconsciously living
"the good feature is the provision of competent Simple Life". If it be so, and we have officers and N.C.0.'s for the second line, heard the casual complaints of luter wan- with a strong reserve of subalterna for th| derers, who in coming to these far outposts first, by the offer of better financial induce of Empire confess to have dreamed of meats, Provided that the Volunteer forces | sartorial freedom in pyjamas aud sandals, are not thinned by fear of the possibility of as well as other wild imaginings, then we the King's proclamation, Mr. HaldaNE'S may go on to fancy how some of them scheme seems to offer a standing army such would fald up tent and steal away, to places as the European couscrintion system gives, where KIPLING's hacku yed and mislea ling with no such gan between Regulars and jingle juxtaposing drink and the Decalogue Auxiliaries as exists at present, and though would be more applicable. For truth to the latter will be numerically 30,000 less, | tell, Mr«, GRUNDY is a far more pushing, they will be greatly strengthened in enterprising, and persistent missionary effectiveness, with better training and thau any of the hired servants of the longer service.
churches. ACTOLYCUS has no business in Hongkong, Shanghai, or Yokohama. That figurative lady Mrs. Grandy -not fictitious, (Daily Press, April 3rd.)
for she is really as evident and powerful as Itis very difficult for civilians to grasp the
the Chinese Empress-Dowager—has “jum- full significance of Mr. HALDANE'S scheme We have received, and returne 1, au essay pel the claims of the refugees from of army reform, but we may take it that the submitted for publication in this journal. | civilization, and has hung up a silk hat aud mildness of criticism and-general approval The writer, with that sublime frontery a straight-frouted corset as a sigu of posses- it bas met indicate that the Secretary of for which the hack almost envies the sion. A protest made by His Excellency State for War has hit upon a compromise amateur, simply entitled his literary effort the GOVERNOR Some little time ago against that is practical and practicable.
Life." The essay itself has no concern in th prevalence of plaster over honest brick patriotic co-operation of the British public these comments; it dwudies to ver. in al architecture might have served as is, however, indispensable to its complete whelming unimportance beside its modest a text for a Serm H on the subject, success. The new scheme admits of expan heading It is a good heading, as a famous "Stuccoville" might be its uaine, Re. sion, a desideratum specified by the Elgiu American journal of humour has no doubt spectability its creed, and Mrs. G. its Commission on the South African War, realized, but it was misapplie. It fits tutelary god·less. It has its alvantages, and this expansion must come from auxiliary more things thau dilettant scribblings. It We would not hanker after nor recommend forces. The experts, disagreeing as usual, might, for example, have replaced the | such places as Bret Harte has pictured yet seem all to bave thought hitherto that word telegrams in yesterday's shipping for us. They must be mare comfortable to the correct principle of organisation of; extra, for if the collated messages from the read about than to live in.
It is just us British land forces lies in three lines, the outside world, referring to the governorship | Regulars for frontier work, the Militia to ¦ of Jamaica, an official's promotion, the supplement, relieve. and fill up gaps, murder of a merchant prince and the senti, therein, and the Volunteers to do anything mentalistic reprieve of the murderer, the their title implies-that is. home defence gaddiugs of presidents and prince, the primarily, but in addition any other work grounding of a steater and the impeding of they care to volunteer to do. Mr. HALDANK'S Canal traffic, the national revenue, profes. idea is that this well-worn ideal is im- sional billard players' performances. & practicable, and bis scheme is for two lines single death in Society and wholesale battle, caly, the first the Regulars plus an irre- arson, and rapine in Roumania-if all these gular reserve; the second live he calls things together do not vividly suggest such "Territorial Forces," cubracing the Militia, a caption, no inexpert hash of transcen- Yeomanry, and Volunteers. Writing from dentalisoi cau deserve it. In Hongkong a not too clear recollection, we think he has and elsewhere in the Far East some of us perhaps drawn a hint from one of Kreiso's appear to cherish a vague impression that parables, for he proposes that the raising w and administration of his se oud line should be, within certain limits, entrusted to County Associations," having at their head the Lord Lieutenant, and for members the Deputy Lieutenants, local officers (to the extent of "at least one half"), and certain other perscus appointed co-officio,
The result is that neither will the Militia; examine essentials, KIPLING during a case tam disertis, qui Musan colimus seceriores; itself be absorbed by the Volunteers, nor
short stay in Hongkong took opportunities; hut it is a post-spirited horse that never the Volunteers, by the Mihtia; but that' to describe ** life as the term is specialised · clues sometimes. an entirely
or more accurately by certain foolish, chit-signing Young a reconstituted, National Militia will in the, animals full of poor liquor, and he spoiled a course of time absorb both. The cadres highly effecure bit of first-class literary of the existing Militia, together with those realism by a tag of second-rate mutalising of the Volunteers, will pass to the new thrown 10. possibly, as
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well to have a few restrictions, and we fancy there are more than the Ten that KIPLING has declared are overlooked. Mrs. JRUNDY could never be satisfied with so few as tan. There are as many of her "don'ts" nad "mustn'ts in Hongkong as in London, yet most residents contrive to exist very comfortably, Theu why, it will now be enquired, all these divagations? If they had a renouable purpose, we would be glad to declare it, but earnest meatal searching fails to discover even a shadow of it. Like Torsy, we expect they growed", out of a contemplation of a small word neatly written at the top of a rejected contribution. Toat essayist (he will forgive these references, we know) did not do ill io writing what mad as he did. Tue only mistake he made was in calling it Life. Therein, for those whɔ do not do all their reading on the run, there appears to be a faint suggestion of the point and purpose we have formally d med. Nobis non licet
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It is reported that II E. Yang Shih-halang, fovernor of Shantung, has given permission to a (loemao syndicate to construct a railway between the district city of Ysksion and a town on the Tienchuang river A German engineer, it is further stated, has already started to ear. vey the proposed route.
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