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WEST HAM SCANDALS.
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Court periods of imprison u ment ranging from two years to six months. Early December, arrests were made in connection with the opal contract scandal at the West Ham Union, and before the end of the proceeded month-eight pareous had han against,
JAPAN'S MILITARY SYSTEM
THE REASON FOR 1. EFFICIENCY,
A Japanese correspondent write." to a London
Faper:-
our service, too. Everyone may be
Whilst in Japan we have ovory reason to be satisfied with a military system which costs ** but half-a-crown per head (English money) por aurum, and yet, proves itself, when put to the test, adequate for the protection of the nation's interests. it would be impertinent in us to suggest that a similar system might or could be Their descriptions were as folowa -
equal so
to the needs of Brest Britain. Thers are George Arthur Cramp, aged fifty-fire, news perhaps one or two little matters connected with which we think are not. agront, Leyton (guardian); Richard Philip
universally Tarrant, forty-eix, taller, Canning Towa dina); Frank William Hill, thirty-two, printer,
aware that all Japsasas male aabjoote from the East Ham (guardian): John Anderson, Horty. tince they become seventeen years old until they
to five, estate agent, Walthamstow, also of Holm
ara Hable reach farty wood, Kelworth-avenue, Southend (guardian); Edward Joba Bodgkin, thirty-nine (master of West Ham Work house) Lewis George Hill, thirty-three (ex-steward at the infirmary, Whipp's-cross-road (Lortonstone); Alfred Ri chos, thirty-saven (or store kooper at the infir rusty) and John Baird, thirty-soren (chief engineer at the infirmary).
Further arrests followed, and shortly after Christmas six members and four officials of the West Ham Board of Guardians were being obarged under the Pabila Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and some of them also ou a general charge of conspiracy.
Sourational statements were mails by Mrs. Bond, wife of an ox-contractor, who has been undergoing a term of imprisonment in con- nection with the alleged frauds.
tion he offered assistance, suil when sha objected to charity, ho said. "Oh, you musta't take it a charity, bat as one feis ad helping another.
not always reliable, litary service. It is
in Europe that this means in practice-not merely in theory- the infusion into the ranks of the army of mon of all grades of society, from the Imperial prin gus, who are elody related to the Emperor, dorn to the humblast of his Majesty's people, and that in the ranks undergoing drill will be found at any time the son of a marquis it may be, shoulder to shoulder with the son of a gas- doner or shopkeeper.
The question may be put: How is it that the son of nobleman, who presumably would receive the training suitable to enable him to fall the duties of an officer rather than those of private, may be found with rifle in han and konpsick on back, beginning, as it were, st
? the very battom of the tree in this fashion The answer is that all Japanese officers when She explained what tok plass after they join go through a year's training in the her husband was convicted. On September ranks on this basis. For the first three months 8th, Cramp called on her and said he heard they are privatas, sabeut to precisely the same from her stepson Harry that she hadu't regulations as the common soldier, the single much to live apon." After some conversarcoption being the they are always`joviled to join the offers mera at meals; the next three months they are corporals; the following three months they home sergeants, and so on. The result of this arrangement is that every officer has in reality risen from the ranks" si to speak, and is soquaiited with of the duty of those orer whom he every part wi in the natural order of things
presently he called on to exercise control. Tu practice this close association of the offers with their man for a time is never found to lessen in the slightest degree the respect which the rack and Gle ovince at all times for those in military station above them on the contrary, it is believed to contribute not little to that spirit of absolute devotion which privatos and non-com- missioned offers alike display towards their supario- officers off or on the batti - fi sid, ne illus trated by amberless cases recorded in connec- tion with the late war.
In further conversation, Mrs. Boad told Crump that she saw no reason why her husband should suffer when other men zore guilty than ho were at
liberty.
"At the same interview Crump asked if Anderson had been to see her. As he had not bee up to this time, Mrs. Bood said so, and Cramp replied, "
"He will call in a day or two he is the man."
Mr. Bodkin: Did you ask what that meant Yas, and Crump replied, "He is our cham- pion bleeder." I had never heard the term before, and when I asked what it meant be replied, "That's all I can say he is our champise bleeder,"
Dae of the socused men committed suicide some weeks ago.
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Prince Fushimi, now a full general, might in his day have been soen with a kanpasek on his shoulders going through the routine of drill in the ranks with men of all grades, and the same remark applies to the young princes of the differ
this
A discovery recently made at Scarborough,ant branches of the Imperial house to-day. in Yorkshire, is interesting as showing that Much importance is attached in Japan to this state of things prevailed in England as regards firm adhesion to spatem, irrespative of position the right to miuting copper coins not unlike in life, as inculcated in our military ands, and to the grauts made in Korea of late years for the the primary necessity of Shu.to Mam-miten- manufacture of nickles and also that the prac- completo attainment by cornpulous caroitu
Prince Fasbimi, as it tice land in the one case as in the other to illegal
thorougboom." coinsge
Imperial princos the It appears
that during the eroavation happened, was the first of of a well in the ruins of Scarborough Castle, to undergo this rigorous training, but all of the a number of old coins and bite of metal were members of the Imperial families who have since discovered. Some of these were sent to Mr. H. entered the army have followed in his footsteps A. Grueber, the Keoper of the Coins at the in this regard, those who have joined Cavalry British Museum, who has forwarded an interset regiments having had to groom their horas in ing reply to Alderman Hastings Fowler, the exactly the way that their fellow troopers for Deputy Mayor of Scarborough, Mr. Fowler the time being ware required to do, and they writes as follows →→→
always declare themselves to bs the better for The find consists of a large mass of copper
experienos of barrack lifa Consoription to give it the Continental term or broues strips, out of which coins have been punched, together with a number of imperfectly cannot be said to press hear ly upon as in struck pins. The Bind took place at a Japan. The word with us is Cho Hei, to lers I hate troops, and though by the law all are liable, only distance of 130ft, from the surface. submitted specimens to Mr. H. A. Gruber, the about one-third are called upon for service out Keeper of Coive at the British Museum, and he of 550,000, or therabonts, who become liable in pronounces the coias to be incompleted farth any given year. In 1901, for example, 7 per cant, wore srompted for various reasons (physical ings of Charles I, issued between 1628 and 1690.
par 16 appears that the right to issue coins was defecta, &o) from servios altogether, 451 granted by Charles I, to the Dowager Duchesscent, were exempted from that particular levy, of Richmond and Bie France Crane, who, no and in 21 per cent, of the cases the lory was doubt, made a considerable profit pa their indefinitely posponed, so that only some 36 per cent, of the total number available had to underge monopoly. The result of this monopoly sooms to have been that extensive forgeries on these military training thers and then. A, however, coins took place, and Mr. Grueber is of opinion we number over eight millions in our whole that the cains found in the castle well are population, who are males between saventeen forgeries struck at the time, and that in all and forty, and therefors liable for military probability they
were throw down the well to service, making just 36 por cent. of the miss population of the Empire, it means that we have avoid detection."
Private monopolies of coinage would thas at auy time a very larga reserve of trained seem to have had the same effect of encouraging men. anlicensed minting in the seventeenth century in England as in the twentieth century in Котев. In both cases the licensed and unlicensed mints obtained their profits from the difference between the real and the fictitious value of the metal after it passed into the currency, the false coin being of an equal intrinsic value with the genuine.Japan Chronicle.
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by Ban Sayers. hey are taken from that Look, "Great Golfers in the Making" by Houry Leach. I have just received it from home. The stories are now, I think, and worth priating.
INDIAN DOCTOR'S DISCOVERY.
Everyone interested in medico legal cases knows how difficult it sometimes is to recognise a blood stain, especially if it is old, and more especially if the summar heat of India has écorched it.
Dr. Hankin, the Chemical Examinar to the Government of the Daited Provinces, says the Civil and Military Gazette, bas lately published a paper on improved methods for recognition of blood and other such stains, which paper contains results of researches that he has carried on during the last four years.
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are briefly sum marised as follows:--With regard to blood
the stain in order to apply the spectroscopic test. of And talking of caddies generally, we have By simply moistening the dry stain (on a pleca
of clothing for instance) with a solution had some very funny fellows at North Bor.
ammonium sulphide the colouring matter of the wick, and I some good stories are told of them. blood is so sltured that it will give the distine- On one occasion one of our caddies, whose
live spectrum of reduced broochromogen, education and
counting ability were decidedly
although in an apparently undissolved condition limited, was carrying for a gentleman, who
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him how sabing
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A New York message states that a London While writing about teaching. I may say that I think it is a great mistake for anyone dispatch to the New York Times is to the effect who has not played golf from his youth to that Bir George Alexander Cooper, Bart., and attempt to learn it quite unaided. He is al- Lady Cooper sailed recently on the steamer most certain, if he does so, to contract some Deutschland for the United States to aid in the settlement of the estates of Mr. James is taken on, faults in his game, which, well nigh itaposible to get rid of. He should Honey (Silent") Smith, who died in Kyot
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left-handed club. woll-gave him a right and
laboafato will have been completed.
Lady Cooper and Mr. James Houry Smith the Away he went, quite pleased; but some of
were children of George S. Smith of Evanston, hanging about outside pointed out the difference between the two clubs, so bick he
a cousin of George Smith, the Chicage came to the shop again for an explanation, real estate orner and promoter of the Chicago, when, in furtherance to the joke, he was told Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and other
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Mr. August Meyer Mr. Reginald Patern Mr. Pearson
Mr P C. Hutton Potts Mr. G Sechse Mise Seltzer
Miss N. Seltzer Mr. & Mra, H. Sim Mrs. A. M. Smith
Major Hon. M. Wand Hon. Mrs, M, White Dr. & Mrs. M. Whi
purchase
VISITORS TO CANTONI FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON,
BY THE PEARL RIVER"
BY CAPTAIN C. V. LLOYD (9.8." HANHOW" With Illustrations, Maps and Plane.
Price.........
$1.90
On Sale of→
Hongkong" DAILE Pares" Office,
Meyer, KELLY & WALSH. Mosers, W. BLEWER & Co.' Mears. A. 3. Watson & Ux
Hongkong, 4th October, 1903.