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INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.
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That conflict has temporarily diverted THE COURTSHIP OF TURKEY. A CONFESSION OF GERMAN AIMS- the stream of embryonio administrators
IN THE EAST, from India, and a majority of selected candidates for the covenanted Bervice That nothing happonu save the un- have obtained commissions in our Ariny, When the survivors return to civil tifo expected" applics in full force to the they will have run through an entire vicissitudea of campsiguing, says the gamut of emotions and undergone ex existence. Speculation as to the precise human type evolved by warfare is purely Indianium. No sale man would venture periences utterly alien to our national genius and the institutions academic: but we may rest assured that The most young civilians of the immediate future will not be mere bookworms; that the joy to which it has given birth. phlegmatic Briton finds his emotional of battle will inspire them with a love of capacity raised to the nth power, and his adventure and implant habits of initia. other hand, millions of Indians are bar horizon proportionately extended. We tive in their pliable natures. all look back on the ante-bellum period, ing the hopes and fears of their British with its paltry ponical and economic fellow-subjects, My ecel striveth with stride, as on ancient history; we feel to-morrow" said Prince Metternich, prav justinctively that Lue Empire which will ing thereby that, with all his limitations emerge triumphant from a struggle for he had tumped the true inwardness of The appointment of the existence must differ radically from the statecraft. Empire of sino months ago. A side. Public Service Commission was evidence isaue of great importance is the probable of a parallel readiness on the part of the influence of warfare on the personnel of responsible governors of India to meet the ludian Civil Service, It is one of changes of opinion more than half-way. which are habitually But the administration will now have to those truisms ignored that India's future depende ou face the more difficult problem of select CHINA COAST: "METEOROLOGICAL the character of the average district of- ing its civil servante from among young cer. There must always be a reserve of men trained in the unusual but most force for the purpose of keeping unruly effective school of War. elerbents at hool; but, as Prince Napoleon "You can do told His imperial cousin anything with bayonets except sit upon them." Our hold on India domanda sym- FLIGHT OF "GOEBEN" AND further remasks Here Rohrbach emphatid
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nima. Ha pesoeful admitted that, had Germany followed the enfant terrible, has again been talking to engaging frnokuras on Germany's behests of Bismarck not to meddle in. Near Eastern affairs, there would have been no war with Russin. It would, however, have made no difference as regards England, since
Germany could only expand at the of the economic existence of England." But On the the continuation of Bismarck's policy if the conflict with England was inevitable, would have left Germany without the valuable aid of Turkey. "This nid," he says, "is needed by Germany in order to attack England in her vital spot, The submarines are more a subordinate than a decisive menna for bringing England to lur knews. We ca only master lingland if we get hold of Egypt and the Suez Canal. And this we can be This interpretation of Germany's polley do with the help of Turkey," Constantinople since the famous visit of the Kaiser to the Sultan soventeen years ago will be little liked by those who on the
It will also be little liked in Turkey itself, which is now openly proclaimed to have German sile, represent Germany as having never entertained any aggressivo intentions.
been all along Germany's tool in the pursuit of a "world-policy." In the course of this view of Turkey by saying: "If Germany should emerge victorious from the present war she will also become the architect of the pathy bred by mutual knowledge between
Turkish Orient. The Hussions cannot build- administrators and the masses for whose
THE KAISER'S CALL.
they only destroy. The French lack the happiness they are responsible. How far
means for constructive effort, while England has, this essential been accured by methods
For the first time the full story from the with all her gigantic forces, has come to of recruitment, past and present? Sirty Coyonapted" Service was years ago the
This interesting address was delivered by regarded as a close preserve by directors German point of view of the exploits of the perceive that we are equal to her." of the East India Company. Its members German battle cruiser Gochen and the cruiser were all more or less closely related; it Bitelaw, their escape from the British and Her Rohrbach before the Bamburg branch possessed the advantages and drawbacks French fleets to the Dardanelles, and their of the Zionist Association, and what he said The nomination subsequent raids in the Black Sea is told in about the Zionist movement itself burg the of an organised caste. system attracted the flower of our upper a letter from a warrant officer in the Goeben. same stamp of Gorman Imperialism. middle class. After securing his coveted The letter, quoted from the Arbeiter Zeitung movement, he declares, can only be writership the embryonic civilian of Vienus by Reuter, tells how Philippeville ported if it maintains the necessary underwent a very inadequate training atral Dons were attacked on August 4, the tion with Germany's interests in t
movement should not affect the Haileybury College. On arriving in two cruisers meeting immediately afterwards. Fast. We must demand that the India he shot and bunted with ardour The writer says
We had not been in company very political integrity and progress of the
squadron of Empire, but should see its ideal in the after the fashion of his class; mixed freely with the people, unconsciously absorbing much knowledge of their wants Ong when we sighted a and aspirations. The nequirement went warships. We cleared for action and steamed tion of a compact and well-defined ex
be British, and Great Britain had not yet taxation and military service to the Otte far to counterbalance the results of towards them, but the vessels turned out to hity, subject, however, in the watter defective education.. ush were to be declared niet
and closed up behind us They were that it should recognise the necessity of Company's hard bargains" were to be met with, yet, taken as a whole, the pro- the armoured cruisers Indefatigabic and ducts of Haileybury proved themselves Inferible and the light cruisers Gloucester Unhappily and Weymouth. We asked them what they solons of an imperial race, for India, the service was notoriously wanted, and received the reply, "War is undermanned for a reason not so com-threatening between Great Britain and Ger-
The old East India Tia3:;" monly recognised. Company being a commercial undertak.. ing, its directora were unceasing in their injunctions that working expenses oust be kept down to an irreducible minimum In the earlier days of British rulo this short-sighted postulate was secured by doling out a nominal salary to the civil officer and tacitly permitting him
"
to
And now our business was to clear out, as their superiority was altogether too much for us. After superhuman efforts we succeeded. for 24 hours everybody on board, including stoking or coal trimming. In the afternoon we officers and warrant ofheers took his turn at had worked up to a speed of 30 knots, and I blow up. The Goeben, shook and trembled
spreading German culture in the Orient and seeks to come into touch with Western civilisation through the medium of the Ger
an language.
WAR NEWS
ORIGIN OF BOORE.".
increase it by trade, the result being that thought every moment that the ship would slang name for the Germans is" Boches."
b his private interest took precedence of
the public weal. Lord Cornwallis went as the were wit of high by the out as Governor General in 1789 with a evening the British were out of sight. The mandate to reorganise, the Civil Service same night we learnt by wireless of England's lng to tradition, was a giant, able to vault
declaration of war.
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REPULSE OF TORPEDO ATTACK,
As everybody is aware, the French but probably few know how the term originated, A century before our or the
Over six horeca abreast, He was, however, Germans were ruled by a king who, accord
despite his physical attributes, token prisoner by the legions of Marius, Romar The history of our judicial bench had Sproved that malpractices which enllied the
Half an hour later, standing stripped Consul of the period, and chained by the crmine disappeared when judges were paid on a fiberal scale. Cornwallis, therefore, allotted salaries to his civil and black as niggers at our gun, we legions, as he was returning from Iboris, "Teutoboch us. And it is a fair assump offers which placed them above tempta beat off m attack by six torpedo-boats. having crossed Gaul to enter Teuteris tion; but the counting house limitation We reacheri Messinn utterly worn out, This King of the Germans was
correspond with the two We had to take in all" Teutobothe
which Imposed by Leadenhall Street forbade any but as we knew that we should have increase in the cost of the administration to leave the harbour within 24 hours there tion that the two parts of the mig stuff. So at twenty-eight or thirty years was no time for rest. of age a civilian found himself in sole the coal we could. Meanwhile a Frough words." Teuton" and "Boche, charge of a district, and forced to rely squadron assembled outside the territorial. have led our Alfies to designate the enemy. upon Indian subordinates who had been waters in order to cut us off. While we were in the plural" Boches, Probably some Emperor which said, "I am truly convinced and others mistook it for Tete-do- trained in the corrupt Mughal school. coaling we received a telegrain from the people were heard saying Teutoboche The consequent lose of touch between that the Gochen and the fireslas will fight Boche," or "head of a German."
We threw all we could over- administrators and the population at
way through. board and steamed out of the harbour at 6 Mutiny. large bulked among the causes of the their way through." And we did fight our
velock, trusting in God.
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Three years before that catareyem burst upen India current methods of recruiting the Civil Service had engaged the atton The democratic tion of Parliament.
"THE GOODS.”
Surely an American locution bus never had such high benediction abroad ne the
grocer's invoice; but, all the same, as phrase" deliver the goods. It is quite
origin, style and applica lon. And now good English, and might appear on any phrase it was distinctly American in its Mr. Asquith, who uses the most classical and precise English of any speaker of the time, has put his seal on the phrase.
Now it only remains for Mr. Mr. Lloyd George, who is more foresful but not so classical, has talked about push struggle Balfour, if he can spare a moment from These things. us to get a move on.
the Gorben.
University men. But abuses erept luo the Day Breslau, and at 5. o'clock on returks a contemporary, will not be lost
crammers
reacted
THE WAR AS A TONIC
Thirteen large ships and ten destroyers were waiting for us outside. Ours was n life mfuge in Port Said and Alexandra heavily movement was fairly launched, and its and death run, and that can be vouched for champions clamoured for the suppression by the Trench and British cruisers which took of patronage in filling public appoint damaged and no longer capable of fighting ments. Under the inttuence of Lord They how how Gerican seamen can shoot
On Sunday, August 8, we reached one of Macaulay and his kinataan, Bir Charles Trevelyan, a very bold experiment was made that of democratising the Indian the numerous little Greek islands. It was A competitive examina in possible for us to leave the Mediterraneat Civil Service. tion, open to all youths of British birth, and our communications with the Austrianis
British and French feats. There was nothing and go.
the gradually replaced the old method of in the Adriatio were interrupted by tho directorial nomination. The new depar Aure scored an immediate success, endow left for us to do but to take " then our his now duties at the Admiralty, to tell
overwhelming odde ing, India with a galaxy of brilliant agsverance came to us. We were lost to
but Turkey bought It encouraged ayatem of selection.
men who specialised in the August 10 we ran into the Dardanelles sight of by the most powerful of the nations can exchange-ideas in such homely, art of enabling their pupils to gain a Two hours later Give Inge British neutrals, and the fact that the two great maximum of marks with the least output ships and seven torpedo-boats were outside language must be very annoying to Ger- of exertion. Their manoeuvres
should be allowed to enter the Straits and distance to go before they attain to the most unfavourably on the standard of the Dardanelles and demanded that they many. But our statesmen have still some men, Sir Edward Grey, for inetator, has examination, and success was achieved by that we should be given up to them. Both homeliness of phrase of America's public candidates who were able to armilate demands were refused by Turkey
But
We breathed more easily, for we were so
Germany to a frazzio.' knowledge with the greatest ease, such acquirements rarely strike their
to bold out another week. We were given a roots into a ladr intellectual being. The exhausted that we would not have been able not yet stated our intention of beating Civil Servior included a large percentage fortnight's rest, and the British Admiral of hookinen, for whom sports were Commanding the Mediterranean Squadron Again did the gulf between was called home and tried by court-martial anathema. rulers and ruled increase, and it would because he had allowed the Goshen and the: We had to make been far wider but for the Breslau to escape. Our activity in the Tor have adaptability which is a heritage of ourish Navy began now. 6 31 d. 4
race. Fer many years, however, the raw good what the British naval mission had 33-material attracted by Indis maintained a
fish carried on here. It baffles description. 05 high level in point of quality The neglected. I will tell yon later how the Eng
THE RAIN ON ODESSA, glamour of the East was still upon British youth, and candidates looked scka ce at
After describing the hurried efforts made clerkship in Whitehall; they deemed Indian service the blue ribbon of Imperial to Germanize the Turkish Navy, the writer A reaction came with goes on to tell of what he calls the colossal administration. the rapid increase of wealth, and its atten: achievements in the Black Sen. He says:-
dred
On October 28 we wens aftacked by the For nearly one dant luxury. years the Empire underwent no struggle Russians in the Black Sen. The Russians, for its very life; and such en fiets as however, Jost two of his ships while we lost We then steamed with two German occurred left the broad current unnone.
The eighties and 'ri eties Huilt torpedo-boats to less and crept into changed. were the golden age of eight foot the harbour at 3 o'clock in the morning them think of others, sympathise with ball; then young Britong became possessed were there an hour and 20 minutes, and the others and, in many cases, work for others, by the gulfing crazo; cheep drepid result of our raid was on Fonboat has done both mental and moral geod by means of communication de the Con- auxiliary cruiser, three steamers, and bringing all classes closer to one another. tinent one rast playground. 'T" young coastguard ship destroyed, the steamers
an roment severely damaged, and five petroleum tanke Bofore the war, it is true, in practically men reared in twenty years of Europe seemed hetter than set on fire. We also destroyed the electric evry department of daily life disruptive all groups, from the family to the State, light works, and Odessa was without light forces appeared to be gaining ground. In Civil The Irdi: a cycle of Cuthay. Service lost much of its attention, and for at least three weeks.
"heuu- All this was done by two small unprotected and insidiously invading every aphere the dwindling rupee iva.
Durio the last torpedo-beats. Later we also took part in religious, social, ceonomic, and political- popularity at home. decade or so candidates who e red the the bombardment of Sevastopol, naturally there appeared an increasing inclination highest places preferred the case and with the help of our beloved Goeben. Wie font conventional carons and to defy material advantages of a hora anpoint sank the Russian cruiser Pirut (minelayer legal restraints from a mere matter of So acut did the problem of Frost), and put two other ships out of action. dress and deportment at one end of the recruiting the administration of India On November 18 we put five ships of the become that a Public Service Commission line and two cruisers to fight. Now we are scale to preparation for civil war at the
stayed. was incubating thereon when the outbrea's peaceably back in Constantinople. In the other. At the touch of suffering thes of war turaed our national energy into words of Bismarck, Wo Germans fear God, tendencies have, unquestionably been
but nothing else in the world." other channels..
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It is interesting to find the British Medical Journal of the opinion that the The devastation of Belgium and Koul, psychological effect of the war on the half-Poland, the accumulated sadness of lengthening casualty lists, the feeling of British public has, on the whole, been
tension that accompanies long waits for news, all these and many other forms of ed, have had effects the very reverse of mental shock and strain might, one fear- In thousands of individual cases good. such must, indeed, have been the case, yet the nation as a whole, says the journal, has gained. The war, it argues, has taken- people out of themselves and by making