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THE WAY SOLDIERS WERE TREATEDN
SHOOTING ON THE CHINA STATION
We take the following paragraph from the Naval and Millary Record of the 23rd uit.
that elop attention is paid to the training of themen. The Argonaut slowsan un‘ensational improv ment on last year, when her tin, gans
45 hits for 142 rounde, as in 1902 her score was 50 for 134, her percentage thus going] other si ́s call rather for silent regret than up from 34.69 to 38.31. The figures from the
comment, '.
AEY, UNFURNISHED ROOM, with almost to death if any enlisted for badge, and returns on that station for 1992, which we have commented on give the any causes to hope for
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BY THE REY. E. J. HARDY, MA.... CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCEE. Mr., Thomas Aikins is made a good deal of now, but there was a time when, in common with his brother Jack of the sea, he was horribly treated, Indeed, service in both our Navy and Army used to be little loss than slavery. Juck was captured by the press-gang and flogged Tommy was generally enlisted efter being made drunk, or allowed to go into the Army if he had committed any offence instead of being sent to Hongkong, and November, 1902. [3119 prison. Many bome soldiers not from any liking for the profmion, but because they were starved into it. This is even by the nickname that still attaches, to the West Riding Itegi- became it was the eastom for the sergeants ment. They are called the Haver-Cake Lade"
when on the march to carry baver-cakes (which was Yorkshire for opt-cakes-haver 3091 being cats) on the point of their swords, in order to entice the hungry to enlist at the time of the Fouinsular War. Towards wild, rough [01, LADDER STREET TERRACE. obaracters, enlisted in these ways, anything like kindness or even humanity was considered a Apply to-
dangerous weekness. During the great war with France our soldiers fought like baroox and were treated like conv cis They were fed, pail, clothed and housed in a way that seems to ti now almost incredible. At the time to which we refer our soldiers kad only one official recognised meat in the day-dinner. The celebrated poli LAU CHU PAK,
tician and writer, William Cobbett, began life Care of A. S. Waten & Co., Ld.
as a private soldier, and taught himself to read by Hongkong, 16th October, 1902. 12784
the light of the guardroom fire. He tells us that TO LET.
so hungry used he to be, that once, whoo with TERRACE," great care he had put by a halfpenny or peung to treat himself to a red herring and someone stolo the coin, he actually cried with vexation-and starvation. The pay at that line was about fourpence a day. There were no bbraries, recres, tion rouais, or any kind of insocent sinuse" mente in barracks. And it was even worse in foreign stationR,
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Besides the monotony of the soldiers duties, the discomforts of barracks ware great. The cubic space allowed by regulation was 300ft. por mau; now it is 600. The barrack-100ms were low, badly warmed, and without light after sunset, and all washing was done in them, for there wors no ablution-rooms er laundries. It secine to us almost incredible, bat it is a fact that, was the year 1840, the wires of soldiers "on the strength" lived, almost with at ozeep tion, in the barrack-rooms away the man. There were generally a married couple fu eseb room, and to these custom assigned the corner farthest from the door.. No matter what the number of the family might le, they were allowed but two singh beds and two men's space, The only pretenos at privacy provided was the six-feet high canvasoreaning, which the Rt 6, QUEEN'S ROAD husband would put round his matrimonial Apply to
bower. In these days enlistment was for life. G. GIRAULT Disebarges were permittel as a reward for Hougtong, 3rd January, 1902,
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in extreme cases of misconduct; but if you were BIRION No. 2, the Pesk, 6 Booms,
not very good or very bad, or medically unfit, Honsa near the Flagstaff from 15th you cea not get away at all. Desertion was October 1992.
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£50 to Admira Six Cyprian Bridge, to be distri- The Hongkong Navy League lave offered huted in prizes to the best gun's crews.en the Chins station, and although the offer, has been Wo Lure now pinee? fairly and impartially referred to the Admiralty, we need be at no before our readers a just comparison between! pains to guess the answer that will be given, the lost firing slips on the best shooting sqund- We publish in mother column the prize firing ron in the navy, and if the figures we have not received from our Hongkong correspondent, and better results in the future them that we have the figurce eloadly show the keenness of the referred to give us profound cause for satisfac. gunners on the statina. Parenthetically may tion. They show most clearly that high sering remark that nothing could be more fat Nathan the effort on the part of the Admiralty to They show, too, that where there is a hunthy is not produced by chance or unfair play. suppress these turns or to regard them as spirit of emulation, where the men are trained confidential, while the firing on the China and the officers are enthusiastic, high scoring holding of the information from the pabio the Admiralty station this year has been so good that the with-in practicable, Wuhopa, also, welnre cọaviacai would be a positive injustice. Out of seventeen regard to the recrecy of those raturna ist ships that competed no less than eight mada more than 40 per cent, of hits to roanda tired, clean paint to good shooting, the fleet, no
a tactical blander. If every officer preferred | CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS and two made over 60 per cent. The Albion matter how ameris-lly strong, would, so far
USED FOR OVER 25 YEARS. appears in the next eight, and as this was her from being a terres to a posible en my, only frat yaur's competition the result, if not bleal, excita his cupidity; but whoo it is zoom that the was certainly creditable. bits to rounds fired is not the boat criterion incally disposed, but that every officer in traïsing The percentage effect la not only unmerically strong and stı ategi- nction, but it is aufe criterion in target prasties. The next test, no doubt, is the number of hite per gun per minuts; but we publish the return ng we have recived it, and by comparing it with the figures of last year wo are able to arrive at a sound conclusion ne to the progress that has boon made. In 1901 the Ocean, with her 12in guns, made 14 hits for 26 rounds; in 1902 she made 17 for 25. To 1901 she mad- 64 hits for 115 rounds with her 6in. guns; in 1902 she reade 117 hits for 163 rounds. We thus see rightly more rapid firing with the 12-in., and a very much more rapid firing with the fin.. and in both cases the percentage of bits to. rounds fired has gone ap that the means of
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the two types of gar gives a total of 68,88 ķīts for every 100 rotoli fired. The Glory was neither so re id nor se aceprate na box sister, the Ox, but she compares favourably with her last year's results In 1901, with her 12in, guns, she gots in 7 hits for 28 rounds, and in 1902 the ar number of bits for 21 romule. But whereas in 1901 sho mado 46 bits fer 302 rounds with her 6in. gins, is 1902 she mado 90 for 115. Her percentage, of hitato rounds food has, therefore, . gone up from 45 with this particular weapon MY W BE SEEN EN OUR to 69,56, sud her mean percentage with both types of gun 515. The 40in was very slow with her 12in. puss, makingaly Il rounds for four hils, bat with ber fin: gunshe got through EVENING GOWNS. 117 rounds and make 57 hits, or a percentage of 48.72 11 will thus be seeur that the competition among tho battkalips on the station has on axceedingly healthy tons, of which neither the Admiralty nor the public need he ashumed
When we come to the cruisers we again see marks af prožrom arising out of the wholesom" spirit of smotation. In 1901 the Tulbof, with her fin, guns, male ton hits for 37 rounds, or a percentage of 2702; in 1902 she made 25 bita for 40 rounds, or a percentage of 625. In 1901. with her 4.7in, gas, she meds 18 hits for 67 rounds in 192 she made his for 73 romula, the percentare going up from 2186 to 63, Hero the rapidity of fire was izermand, and the porce inge of his mero then donblevi, The Blenheim's progress in not less remarkablə. In 1901 hor 921o.gura made fralists for 17 roads, or a percentage of 29.41; in 1902 they madenine hits for IT rounds, or a percentageof 52.94. It will here booburrved that there was nu improvemont in the mpidity of fine but the distinet imiprøve.. ment in the markmusbii was as 9 to 5. No
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The clothes of our soldiers were as nacomfort able as they were noworkmanlike and ridiculous -Guorgs IV. meddiad much in military mil- linery. He was strong où the question of “fit," and often said that while "a sem might be permitted, a wrinkle was unpardonable." The fashion then ran towards great height in the Lend-dresses of soldiers; index, they became so excessively tall that the sentry-boxes-about less satisfactory are her refuras with regard to 66 Royal Palaces had to have their roofs raised. [the Gin, gun, for whoreis in 101 she made £4) And there wse nearly us mach thought hits for 82 rounds or a percentage of 29 26 hits monstrous erectique. Wigs were once wore by given to the hair of the men under these
soldiers, and these were followed by an arrange ment of the men's own baie, generally in the form of a pigtail. Privates going on guard had their hair dressed over night, and when greased with a tallow candle, thickened with dour, and tightly tied according to lie fashion in club tail, macaroni tail, or pigtail, they were compolled to sleep lying où heir faces, nu ány other position would disarrauge. their coiffures. Due man actually got 500 lashes because his pigtail fell off accidentally upon parade.
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rounds, or a parentage of 59 52. The close to rounde fired, in 1902 she maile 50 hits for 84:
similarity of the timber of raujuds fired in the two consecutive years with the enormous im- provement.ia markemanship-throws an interest- ing light on the sluricter of the training, for while there has haạn no appreciable fucrease in the rapidity of us the quality of the marks- manship, has emetly, dembled.
The Terrible want to beg prize-firing this your in a gals of wind, but the task was not shirked, as it was evasidered desirable to as certain what the men behind the guns could do under such circumstances eå night occur in
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actual war. In her 9.20. guns fired. SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITERS.
ed home by the generale us confully as the rounds for 14 bijs, giving a percentage of
Danes were never published, and when, if 18 rounds, or names of officers; but there was a time when 63.63; this year the mode only seven hi`s 85r. e percentage of 38.88. In
they survived a compaya, they got no medal or 1801 "har in, guns fired 129 rounds for 102 any sortof reward. Then oly the superior bits: in 1929 rounds for 66 bite officers" were thought to be duerying of medals. thus hinging her percentage down from 78.68. There was a time when the Arm, was ruled by to 60.55. Her rapidity and accuracy of fre the slick and the cat" Officers and sergeant were, therefore, both lowered, but ng ber mem majore med to carry rattans and apply them percentage with both types of guns wrs 29.71, apparently at wil. A newspaper of the time, she approximated the ideal minimum of 50 por whether seriously or not describes & drummer cent. The little frauble, through she did not flogging a private, the sergeant-xajor busting de sawell as last year, again showed the fallacy of the drammer with a mattes to make him dog the popular ides that good gunnery is negligible barder, and the adjutant doing the same to the quanity in a smell ship. In 1901 her two du.“ sergeant major,. So hardení, did thś zolaiers | guna mide 13 bita for 22 roundejor à pernontage badme that ace of thèm went to the captain of of 59.09; and it 1902 she made 12 bile for 25 Ten bis company and asked him to get him a flogging rounde, or a percentage of 43. Her improved bus he was the only, one is the company rapidity of fire has has been paid for by a slight who avec bad the experience, and he could not. loss of cleiorey, but the fiuures here again show stand the chalf of biscums in consequence. I h. vo seen in the handwriting, of W. lington au order for a soldier to receive, en our day (Juny 10. 1836) 909 lashes for uttering a spurious bærar piece to a ropau at Versailles, Bo
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