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THE REGULAR ARMY UNDER RADICAL GOVERNMENT.
TI-THE RESERVE.
[BY THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, X.-Q.] The condition of the Regular Reserve is rapidly becoming critical. The Secretary of Blate for War himself admits the hot. This year, in introducing the Army Estimates, Mr. Elations stated that "he was not satisfied with the future of the Regular Resares, and he was anxious to draw the attention of Parliament to the matter in order that there should be no mistake, Two great Army problems demand simul- tansons solution. One is the maintenance of a Large Army Reserve, the other is the supply of the Indian drafte. Lord Midleton created the largest Army Remarre wo have ever had by the plan of three years Colour service; at that period of enlistment did not suit for the provi. sion of the Indian drafte. Therefore it had to be abandoned. Mr. Arcold-Forster endestoured to solve the double problem of
of maintaining the Regular Reserve and of supplying the Indian drafts by creating concurrent Government and short service onlistment The present Government on seruming office hastened to wipe out that plan without even giving It a trial. In short, they reverted to the same system which had been proved by experience to finish an insuf toisut Besorvo in time of war, although it did mest the difficulty of the Indian drafts in time of posca. Now, sfter four years, they warn te that the problem of the Roxular Reserve is
in 1913, on which the Government calculaton, must be greatly overestimate!..
The high-water mark of the Regular Reserve, the outcome of Lord Midleton's polisy, will be reached this year. It is 137,000 mon; the low- water mark. 166,000, will be reached in 1913, when the reductions now in progress will be realised. The difference is 31,000 men. But there is also a wide difference between the value of the Agure of 137,000, which is the setual strength of men presented by the Army Annual Return, and the value of the figure of 106,000, which is a hypothetical number calculated in the manner I have described.
ADMISSION OF INADEQUACY BY THE ARMY GOUNCIL.
“HOW OL BE HAPPY NAPIER JOHNSTONES'
عمده
THOUGH MARRIED."
The writer of the slover book mider this title has given good advice to husbands and wives, bat it seems to us that he has overlocked que important fact. Some unhappiness may be caused when husband and wife do not pall together," but most of the unhappiness-in married life and out of it-is caused by poor health.
cait
The men and women who are not well and strong, are a source of misery to themselves and The result of reducing the Regular Army in others. What makes a mother, for instang, that fa 1913 the Regular Reserve will not be more unhappy than to know that she is unable squal to the requirements of the Expeditionary to do all for her children that a healthy mother Force. This I pointed out in December last and mentioned in the House of Lords in July of The best advice we can give a mother-or, this year. The Under Secretary of State for indeed, everybody-is- Keep your digestive War declined on behalf of the Government to organs in perfect working order. Then your scoopt my statement. I then published the feud will nourish you and you will be sure to Agares I had used in December, 1909. The Un- have good health,, without which happiness is der Scoretary of State replied, taking exception impossible. in the Regular Reservo as excessive. I had livet, you can easily and promptly remedy it by to to the rate per cent. I had allowed for casusities `If you have any trouble with your stomach or allowed 15 per cent, but Lord Lacas considered taking a short soares of Mother Seigel's Syrup. 10
10 per cent. sufficient, He also pointed out that This Syrup is known the world over as the best had allowed for the maximum number of stomach and liver tonic-the sure cure for pains 10,000 Regular Reservists allowed by regula after eating, wind in the stomach, that nasty tions to live abroad, whereas there are st present. taste in the mokkh, loss of appetite, bilioteness, 7,000 out of the country. It seems with the
headaches,
constipation, and
or low sp shrinkage of the Regular Reserve this number is Mother Seigal's Syrup, the paraly not to be exceeded. This shows that there was stones up and strengthens the stomach and
erTür
er of calculation in fixing 10,000 reg AS 6 his instance.
unce. When Lord Lens to the
Linens gave his assuzanos
that
nsolved, and that its future is critical and Maximum number in the first 284lates the action of the liver and bowels.
there they are content to leave on. This warn ing of the Secretary of State for War
you, clears
"SQUARE BOTTLE”
WHISKY.
IN 1745.
St
BEWARE OF
UNVARIED FOR
THE SAME TO-DAY
150 YEARS
IMITATIONS
SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG;
and from Az.. WINK MERCHANTS. [49
LABUAN COAL.
COAL san uily be
first Thus, it mide digestion, makes food nourish LANE, CRAWFORD & CO., future critical condition of the Regular •Reserve, 2 to the adequacy of the Army Reserve in 1913 digested food, purifies the blood and ensures the the most important part of our Army, may come
in the House of Le was ander the
that some i impression
7000 man of Section D As news to the general publio new, but that the menit was inevitable was obviously foreseen by of the Regular Reserve would be available in the Arms Connell in Marol, 1909, when they that year, not being then sware of the fact that anid that the reduction of ten Infantry bat-all these man will become time-expired before talions was tantamount to insanity.
1913, and, therefore, do not enter into the calculation at all. The most important new departure on the part of the Army Council which appeared in the course of the corres poules between Lord Loss and myself is that Section D of the Regulse Reserve, which 1.908, was re-opened in
DRYING UP THE SOURCES.
After the South African War the most urgont question was to refill the depleted Army Roserve. To accomplish this object the late Government in 1902 pisood the whole Infantry
of the Army on a three years basis of Colour had been closed intment. By this nation
BATVIDA
away the decayed products of un- fall vigour and glow of health. Wychtree Street, Morriston, Swansea, on April "Mr. M. A. Murray, who resides at 41, 11th, 1910, said:"I have suffered, on and off. Nobtained from TuS LABUAN GOAL from Indigestion nearly all my life, but abent mix years ago I became seriously ill. My health FIELDS Co., ED., who are prepared to Supply tire does altogether. I became constipated, FRESH COAL stright from the Mines had almost constant pain soross, my chest and Steamers load at the Wliarvas. Quick despatch between my shoulders, with frequent headaches, Telegrama: «Labor Labuan." and more alarming than all other symptoms- violent pains in the region of the heart.
"
BRADLEY & Co., Agenta. Hongkong, 12th August, 1909.
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"A well-known doctor told me my stomach the Army Coanofl acknowledge that Section A and liver were bully out of order. He attended and B of the Regular Resorra will be inadequate, me, but after three years I was not a step nearer and it is a welcome indication of a reveral of recovery. It was a neighbour who first advised the elio of reducing the Regular Reservo me to give Mother Seigel's Syrup a trial, three and substituting usbulous non-Regular forcon. years ago. The very first bottle did me a world MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA.
taking
UNTRAINED RESERVISTS,
bave com
I
good, and I needed no persuasion to continue
the medicine. Its
effect was wonderful.
think I had about eight bottles of the Syrup,
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and by then my ours was complete! As the COAL DEPARTMENT. to be able once more to attend to my household BOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKASIMA mother of a numerous family, it was a joy to me
duties, and for this blessing I must thank
OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, Mother Beigel's Syrup.”
SAYO, SHINNEW and KAMIYAMADA, Collierius. BOLE AGENTS FOR KISHIDAKE, MIYAO and KIGYO
KOMATSU Coala.
Hence, in due course, a much more January, 1910, for rapid transfer to the Reserve took place. We must remember that the late Government added 14 Line and two Guards battalions to the Infantry of the Regular Army. The Government reduced eight battalion present of the Line and one of the Gaards, after those bat- taliens had been in existence from seven to eight It is necessary to explain what Section D of years. These nine battalions have been din. the Regular Reserve is, and why it differs in banded; but the men, passed through them to quality from the rest of the Army Reserve
Seation D is composed of men the Bererve, cannot be replaced as they become pleted their full term of both Colour and Reserve
who time expired, because the cadres which created them are no longer in existence In a few service. All their Army engagement is over, Your the Reservists created by the disbanded and they are asked to re-enlist for further battalions must dissppear from the Rogalar period of four yours. Optional enlistment must If you have stomach or liver trouble, in any Reserve, also the large number of Ramreists always be nucertain. A man who has completed form whatever. Mother Beigel's Syrup will curs dua to the whole of the Infantry having been his 12 years of Colour service and Reserve you as quickly, completely and permanently sa put on the three years basis of Colour service service would gladly he gait of farther it has cured Mrs. Murray. Take it daily, after will pass out of the Reserve. The term of attendant drawbacks, if he could afford it. His
Reserve obligations,
[67.13 OLDS meals. service now soron years with the Colours and Ave in the Reserve. The establishment, of inducement to
further to re-engage for of only vary home battalion bas been reduced from 800 periost of four years is the pay of sixpence a to 720, which means that there will be a smaller day. Those Reservists who have been failures Reserve-creating unit, and a bigger shortage of in civil life after leaving the Colours are com- i
with the Colours to be made up from the
pelled
want and not by choice by Rigorres on mobilisation, su cair, and immediate Consequently they are not by sy mean irty
to upwarde of Men cannot less than ung 80 ton por when they join Section D, and some may be
men
of the
with
their
ré-engage,
forty-one years of age before completing their last year of service. Seulica D men were adversely reported upon by Lord Matham and General Bir T. Kelly-Kenny for active service during the South African War. The drawback
8,000 mon due to the Battalion on the home and oddosial list. Thus a special and large entflow from the Regalar He- soon due, and not only is there no special intake to balance it, but the normal intake in fa- ture must be less than it ever has been in the past, 10102 The heap away
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Barometer: E
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fer
Reserva in 1913? At that date the Inst from the Colours and have done 10 OF
Reservists created by the three years basis of sight, or nino, or ten years. In the Colour service will have passed out of the Re-the British Army-for- the year.
Septem ending serve; the Reservists created by the nine dis- ber 30, 1908, the following paragraph appears
the banded battalions will have become time expired.
The maximum age for e, recruit
ety. This AL the same time the period of Colour service Special Reserve has been fixed at
Thirtyment fo seven instead years
of three, and the Reserve limit of aga has caused considerable comment, creating battalions stand at 720 instead of 800. and it has beau pointed out that ex-soldiers are Further, how de the Government in 1903 pro- thereby debarred from enlisting into the Special pose to mobilise the Infantry of the Expedition Reserve on termination of their Army and
Force, when **ome 8,000 additional man ne
Reserve
point, however, is over- service. The required on mobilisation, to make up for the looked that these Special Reservists ars required battalion establishment, when the in time of war to take their plans as drafts for immaturity of the men with the Colours has the Regular Army, An ex-soldier, on completion been greatly increased by the enlistments of 17. of his valve years' rorrice, cannot be lens tha year. old
boys from the Special Reserve, and at thirty years of age, and may be considerably moment when all the Indian drafts have more, while if he has taken advartage of his heen seat abroad? All the factors I have just opportunities and enlisted in
D he Section mentioned tend to deplete the Reserve by dry. must be at least thirty-four. Lo enlist such ing up the source of supply.
are all soldiers into the Spenial Reserve would meru coming into operation and aro
moletivo in
that the drafts for the Regular Army f in time their action.
of war would be liable to be composed to a con. CONTRADICTORY RETURNI.
siderable extent of who would be loss fitted When the term of Colour service was increaseil, to undergo the arduous work a campaign.” and the number of men serving in each At the present moment the men who are battalion decreased, and nine Reserve-creating relied upon by the Army Council to form cadres destroyed, it was assumed as a matter of Section ars three-year men with the Colours. course that
hat the nar
nambers in the Reserve of the Consequently all those in the latter half of
of their Regular Army would be diminished. The enlistment into Bection "D will have been
BWAY Far Office at once produced arithmetical proof from the Colours for twelve and thirteen years. of the contrary. A Beturn was prepared and Mr. Winston Churchill, in the House of Com Published showing a atafactory increase in the mons on March 5 last, fu praising the Army of his colleagan thus referred It so happened
administration of that Mr. Arnold-Forster was able to supply
to the system re-that it produces and would. of three years of Colour marvios; of
It is quite vary convincing rejoinder. A Secretary State for War he had caused a a calculation to have produced
A very large Recarre; hat that be made in order to ascertain if, by
Reserva in its Jater term would have been of by pra
品
men
serving the number of Reserve-creating very untrained men, who had only been three cadres, but by reducing their establishment from yours with the Colours, and who had been away 800 to 750, & rufficient Reserve would be created, siz, seven, eight, and aren nine years from the and at the same time economy effected. Thus, Colones, and thore
could vot
be satisfactor there was in the War Office another Retura, soldiers on whom to rely at a moment of drawi
Nor,
Mr.
bis 190
1906 up not many months before, and purport
to rely on men who have
ing to be signed by the same sotuary in which | policy, is compalaresult of
When "Only Middling"
your health is very far from satisfactory. The slightest knowledge of pathological
osicine is sufficient to inform
us how precarious is the con dition of the person who is "only middling." The power of disease-resistance is practically nil, & an ordinary atmospheric change or dietetic irregularity may lay you up for weeks.
Take
care therefore that you possess nothing less than vigorous, robust health. Just as nothing succeeds like Success so there is no better guarantee of sus- tained health than never to let yourself run down. Conse quently if you are not feeling up to the mark get yourself into tip-top condition at once, by taking a few doses of
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the same problem was treated. I quote these been away twelve and eron thirteen years from AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF twa Returns, which are pablished side by side the Colours for his Expeditionary Force in 1913.
in Mr. Arnold-Forster's last book on "Military Section D of the Army Reserve is quite Needs and Military Policy.
for the mounted branokes of the dation which Section
War Office Calculation War Office
apsaited
co Calonlation Service. There at all on mobilisation, and
of Reserve produced of Reserve produced by 156 Battaliona. · by 148 Battaliona.
1905.
1907. Establishment: 750 Establishment: 720
Sections A. and
B
Bertions A and
B
Section D......15,023
..... 40,522
Total
45,970
Beotion D...17,400
55,645 Total 63,370
The result of the Return prodgood by the
Dmen could usefully
Beotion D. The
I would never advocate closing 8
One use.
however,
for which
they are not fittul. owing to this long absenes from the Colours,
rice with the Expeditionary immédiate active service Foros. Yet that is precisely the
purpose for which the Army Counsel, owing to the policy they adopted i
in 1906, now find themselves com-
pelled to employ them, bosure,
beesuse, without Bection
men. the Under Secretary of State for War
[719 War Ofice in March 1907, is that the case of himself admits that the Regular Reserve must
inadequade for the requirements
Force in 1913.
Intontry battalions alone, the pc of the Frason to han if Command.
smaller number of units and the smaller establish of the
prefer
azo
ment exceeds that of the larger number of units It would be interesting
would 7.725 men. In ing Offors in the Regular Army and larger establishment other worde, with a diminished number of cadros, to take their battalions and regimente abroad establishment in och sedre, and for instant active service with 'ne.......withant a reduced
in the ranks. But this is just longer period of Colour service, the Reserve of Bestien. D
pon which their months the Regular Army will be iusrewed. This is one of the points upon wh
You are to sheard, but it is the principle upan which the shut. The Army Council Day: strength of the Army Essere for 1915 take your battalion orrer imani on Botive service is calculated, In
with the numbers with Section men in the ranks, because in our dealing
avid B Bof of the Army Reserve, the Government have wisdom we have reduced Bections A hitherto based their calculation
Tominal the
ish the requirements of the Expeditionary Force. The value of | Xt
If your battalion or regiment fails on activa
no
a not on actual figures, that is, on establish they, Bessive till they are inadequate for
Temperature. Humidity
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Wind Direction
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etransth
czare
to blame, battalion so Reserve
creating ca
me, and it errice, ¡you and you alone are. Í always reckoned at its fall stablishment when anything goes wrong theon will be an end of
No
member of the very likely it has been upwards of 100 men your professional career" abort of its proper establishment and that for Army Council has ever cuanded in enginept, * 60 veral yokra
I pende in na the number of the Reserve de- and no roam bar esta possibleidud himself geluk
apon establishment, but sole-on service exposed to that responsibility which Ty upon strength. Those being the foots, it is for the fine the Connel upon in their certain that the numbers of the Regular Reserve | subordinates-London Morning Post,
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NONSIGNEES of Cargo from London 6X 1.8. "Matapan" and "Modoo" from Bordeaux ex a..." Ville de Lille" and V. do Catte" in connection with shove Steamer, are hereby informed that their goods ption of Upium, Treasure and exouption Valuables are being landed and stored at their risks into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong-Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, whence delivery be obtained immediately after landing.
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All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 4th Oct., or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on the 3rd Ost., at 3 'v.m.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
P. THOMAS, Agent. Hongkong, 26th September, 1910.
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From
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Optional Goods will be landed here ualoss instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours.
Goods not cleared by the 4th Oct., at 4 F.Mu will be wobject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any esee whatever.
Damaged packages must be left in the Go- downs for examination by the Consignvo's and Tepresentatives an appointed the Company's hour. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival Bere, after which date they cannot be
*No-ciális will recognised be admitted after the gods here left the Gedowns.
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