A NATION IN ARMS,
THE EXAMPLE OF SWITZERLAND.
DEMOURACY OF FIGHTING"MÈN
FROM "THE TIMES" SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT.]
NECHATEL
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 1ðra, 1913.
danger of militarism, which always springs from antagonism between the people and officers as a class; in Switzer land officers as well as men either belong or feel that fly belong to the people, and there is consequently no friction between them. The Swiss compulsory service also a service of physical train- ing. It is preceded, in all cases, by com pulsory gymnastic training in all the schools and by a large amount of volun- Evon at this hour, in spite of the magui gymnastics and voluntary drill and shooting, wliet last is partly the cause ficent example of a large part of the of the high standard of marksmanship manhood of our nation, there are still, throughout the Swiss Army. But apart it seems, enough influential reactionaries from the practice of shooting (which is, in England, backed up by a tubby dead-encouraged, while at the samo time weight of uninformed public opinion, to mobilization is quickened by the fact that delay still longer the institution of com- every soldier when he is not out training pulsory military service. It is, say these keeps his rifle and his equipment in his gentlemen, unnecessary; it would cust too own houso) the institution of anaual much it would do away with the precious trainings tends to produce a high state British birthright of personal freedom of physical efficiency throughout the it would be undemocratie; it would lead nation. to militarism; and, finally and in conelu- sin (and most triumphantly and foolish. Jy and falsely of all), the country would
nevar stand it.
war.
Between the ages of 20 and 30 thus young Swiss soldier gets a regular yearly period of hard exercise in the open air at the cost of the State: that is obviously a much better thing for him then the scanty and generally misused holiday which the London City clerk has to pay for out of his own pocket.
"AN"ISEXPENSIVE TRATȚ Finally, the service is a comparatively, cheap one. It does not "cost too much." Switzerland spends on her Army 11f. (88. 10d.) per head of the poulation, and 23f. (188. bd.) on public education, Germany, on the other hand, apende 23.51. per inhabitant on the Army and 7f. (58. dd.) on the rudiments of Kultur.
THE WAR SCENES
GALLIPOLI
ON A TURKISH TRANSPORT,
UNLOADING STORES.
The London Daily Telegraph of ke 7th ult published the following from special correspondent :-
GALLIPOLI, Maly 3rd.
Out of the west comes, the rumble of distant guns. Salvo follows salvo with clocklike regularity that bespeaks a task belonging more to unending routine than to the spontaneity of war's drama. When the sun sets this echo of war onees. The quiet of a deserted city settles over all.
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fortress that tops the ridge. Below on the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.
plain is a caravan of camels, Already Turkish soldiers, in ill-fitting uniforms. are piling box upon box of ammunition on the back of the desert beasts. The men aro as busy as the gnomes is one of Wagner's operas. From our ship, whose shallow draught lets us broadside into the dock, broad, cigarettes, and barb ed wire are unloaded. These are carried to the mounds of stores that rise like breastworks all along the shore.
Cargo carried on through Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to DEIRA DELAGOA BAY DUBBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and DAPE TOWN with transhipment at COLOMBO to Steamers of the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE, ·
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civilian workers. These, in their fezes, red sashes, and multi-coloured clothes, recall the wars of other days, when first The the Cross and Crescent clashod. loaded camels unlimber one leg after another, and soon the train moves, at a slow gait out on the winding rond. On such another scene as this must the Great Buleiman have gazed when he planted his standard on the fort that still towers above this bay. With the sun woll up in the heavens there comes again out of the west, from the ships in far-off Baros, the rumble of distant guns.
WEATHFR REPORT.
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Bonine.
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Last night I left Constantinople in "a hundred-ton Bosphorus freight boat. Our cargo w slowed and ready before sun down, but the fear of restive submarines that haunt the Sea of Marmora stayed The whole of these objections, with the
our sailing until near midnight. We exoption of the first and last, are demon
carried bread cigarettes, and barbed. strably untrue; they have been practically
wire, which I have come to consider the staples of war. A half moon silvered the disproved once for all by the Swiss Army
dors of the Masque of Boven Minareta, and the Swiss nation. The other two-
and turned the phosphorescent waters of that the country does not need compulsory
the Grüder Horn into a path of diamonds service and would not in any caso stand
as cur paddles churned them into foam. it-only time (and perhaps disaster) can
Past Seraglia Point leaving Pora, test. To most people on this side of the Channel it is source of perpetual amazement that we should wait for that
mountain of twinkling stars, behind us, time and run the risk of that disaster,
we plunged into the dark opening of the instead of taking the matter into our
Sea of Marmara,. The picture astern was a true page from the Arabian Nights, own hands while we still have the oppor tunity.
You want, they will say, every
The composition and organization of with Stambou! sleeping in the moonlight Thoughts of viziers, and harems, and man you can get if you are to win this the Army are thoroughly modern and
complete. The infantry (traditionally bowstrings faded when we came abreast Yet your Government actually hay to advertise for soldiers urices that is known as Fusiliers and Carbaniers, hat of the powder, works. Here was a scene only another German lie. If it is true, for practical purposes divided into held of modern war. Eight towering chimneys then in the name of common sense what and mountain infantry) are the main beched forth vast clouds of smoke and are you shout? Why does not your arm. The cavalry consists of Dragoons flare, that told of the frantic struggle The Guides are brigaded going on to keep up the supply to feed Government compel every able-bodied man and Guides. you have to join in the defence of his with the divisions; the Dragoons form the furnace of death. Now, out from the country 1. The whole system of the modern independent divisions under the direct hold, come twelve Turkish soldiers, carry State is based on compulsion. If you orders of the Commander-in-Chief. The ing their guns at the ready. These take glory to take a simple English example) field artillery (four guns to a battery) stations along the starboard al port rail, Bongkong & Neighbourhood light to moderate; in the playing of compulsory games at consist of To's and 120's (howitser); the six ou each side. They strain their eyes your public schools, why object to the far mountain artillery of 75's (1800 model), over the waters searching for the dread submarines. To their excited imagina- nobler and more accessary discipline of and the heavy artillery of 120's, firing a
shell of 18 kilogrammes (about 30lb.), compulsory service for the State?
There are six divisions in the Army, tions every porpoise is a periscope. Time each of which can be worked as a separate and again they fire into the floud, the army corps. The first consists entirely of crack of their rifles tending to quiet their French-speaking Swiss, recruited from the apprehensions. Though I searched for cantons of Geneva, Valais, Vaud, and hours through my glasses I saw nothing Neuchatel. In the second division three-that could have warranted this waste quarters of the men are French-Swiss, of ammunition. from Fribourg, Neuchatel, and the French Jura; the rest are drawn from the Bernese
Spreading a blanket on the paddle-box, Jura. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th Divisions
of German-speaking I got some sleep in the pause of the "Tout Buisse doit le service militaire." consist entirely This sentence, which I take from Colonel Swiss, and come from the cantons of Bring. Next morning's sun found our Egli's excellent book on the Swiss Army, Berne, Lucerne, and Soleure, Basel; ship well out in the broadest part of the The guard was still has been the root-principle of Switzer Argovie, and St. Gall and Zurich and Sea of Marmora land's military system for centuries (as Schaffhausen. it once was in England), though it is only Romanches) is recruited from the Tessin, posted on the watch for underwater craft, ince the reorganization completed in the Grisons, and St. Gall. At the begin- but they shot more infrequently now. 1919 that the army has been brought toning of the war all six divisions were The green fields of the peninsula appear- The mobilized. At the present moment only ed like a panorama to starboard as the its present high state of efficiency. results of that reorganization are remark the 2nd, 4th, and 6th are under arms.
That is the answer to those who consider able. At the beginning of the war Swit- zerland, this little nation-in-arms of less that compulsory service would be too than four million inhabitants, had com-expensive a luxury for Great Britain; pleted the mobilization of her army before little Switzerland manages to maintain a In the first highly-effective Army of half a million either Germany or France.
mon at an annual cost of £1,700,000, because week of August she was able to post on her frontiers over & quarter of a million she knows her existence depends on it. fighting men, well armed and well-drilled The service is the same for all, and there much bigger force than Great Britain, fore & handicap for none. It is highly 13 times her size, was able to concentrate democratic, and does not lead to mili- in Belgium at a much later date simply tarism, It interferes neither with per and solely because she has compulsory sonal freedom nor with the country's service. Since then her troops have had prosperity since the yearly value of Swit zerland's commerce amounts to about £32 seven months' bard training se var on- ditions, and are a far more formidable 10s. per head of the population, as com force than they were and a surer delencepared with £21 10s. in England, and the country not only stands the compulsory than many scraps of paper.
system, but regards with pride and affee tion the Army which is ita result
This question, which for various reasons and from different points of view is bein- asked all over the Continent-in hestils and scoffing Germany no less than in friendly France and neutrul Switzerland can only be answered in England. But it seems to me that the case of Switzerland in apposite to the discussion.
SPEED IN MOBILIZATION.
The striking force of the Swiss Army consists of about 300,000 men, divided into the Elite (20 to 22 years), the Landwehr (33-40), and Landsturm (40-18), which number respectively 117,530, 109,911, and 65,000 men; the supplementary services
The 6th (Italians and
If England had had by the side of its Regular Army a Territorial Army on the same scale as Switzerland, the war of 1914 1015 (and perhaps 1918) would never have
£10,000,000 CONTRACT. BRITISH FIRM'S HUGE TASK IN AUSTRALIA.
(men of from 20 to 48, who for various taken place. reasons are not "hone pour service"), muner 205,000, and the grand total of the whole army is just short of half a million, or one-eighth of the entire population. The longest periods of train- ang me the recruits' courses, which every of nau goes through in his first year ervice-85 days for the infantry, 75 for artillery, and 90 for the cavalry-besides which there are compulsory Courses 1 shooting. The Elite, that is to say, they younger men, do seven other annual train ings of 11 days each (14 days in the artillery) before passing into the Land
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paddie-wheels-held-to-their--regular throb- hing. This section of the country is far from desolate. Every acre is cultivated; and windmills crown the rest of the roads wind in and out along the shore, ridge of Gallipoli. Where the sea pushes into the land, forming a bay, a town is always found? In each case the salient feature is a sky-piercing minaret. At
These shelters for Kagoshima .... fixed points along the road z white-tented camp is grouped.
Naka soldiers gave the landscape a resemblance Osti
It is a long sail before the Sea of Mar- to fields of mis-shapen mushrooms. mora begins to narrow. In the late after- noon we come abreast of Gullipoli. The lard cores down to the sea in a bigh cliß, white lighthouse tops the cliff, and inte shaped like a badly-ent loaf of bread. A its sides run deep caveR. population found shelter during the bou bardment. The largest one was appro printed for the headquarters, and another
shltered the telegraph station.
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Pesondoren gun-pointers in the chips in the Gulf of Saros would see these aigns I cannot ex Capton ............ 6 a plain. The fact that several neutral Hongkong structures, including a base hospital and Gap Book ................ a mosque, were hit, impelled Enver Pasha Macao
Wishows! 9 Hello to send twenty-five French and twenty-
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Phalion tinople to be housed in different build-
Cape St. James for these hostages did not enter the Turkish mind, so for six days they Aparri subsisted at the expense of Mr. Philip Dagupan
Finally, Legeplad secretary of the American Embassy who Manila........
persuaded Telebao accompanied the officially. ambitious hostages were returned to their homes. Suriga from his plan of reprisals, and the Loilo with no casuc'ties.
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The contracting firm undertakes to france called up in time of war.
The main interest of these figures for the works, which will be constructed in ac Englishmen is that the periods of traia cordance with plans and specifications drawn ing, though not comparable with those up by the Department of Works, the Govora of our Regular Army or the armies of ment paying per cent, on the cost of con- France and Germany, are far longer and struction, paying for the land, and providing more rigorous than is the case with our all materials.
The works embrace ten rail ways, including Swiss compulsory service Territorials. implies, therefore, a certain amount of the new Sydney scheme, and the completion sacrifice. But it is willing sacrifice of the North Coast line, two water conserva- (without which compulsory service is tion schemes and larbour works, and the The current slavery), for the Swiss are free men. It enlargement of the main canal of the Mur-
They are rumbidges irrigation area. is, als service of honour. proud of it, as they are of their country, award rates will be paid to employees.
The firm also undertakes to underwrite and assist the Government to raise certain Men convicted of grave offences are not loans required periodically.
Provision is made with reference to dis- allowed to join the army, and officers and men whose private life is unworthy of putes and arbitration, the Minister of Works their rank and standing are Court-retaining the right to cancel the agreement martialled and dismissed. It is a univer- so far as it relates to any particular working further down the pinania, and sal service, in the sense that, every man found by arbitrators and an umpire to be who is not accepted in his 21st year for extravagantly performed.
OFFICERS FROM THE RANKS.
physical or other reasons still forms part of it! he pays a tax of te. and an addi-
tional income tax of about 4d., which goes! to the Army Budget; the proportion of
An fheial inventory issued in Berlin
man accepted out of those who present of supplies of grain and flour in Germany themselves varies from about 52 to 64 per shows that they are abundant, says an eent. Next, it is if the strictest sense a Amsterdam message dated June 4th. The democratic service Every would-be off maximum prices previously fixed for cer starts as a private with the ordinary bread and four have been lowered by recruits' course, and promotion to the one-seventh.
and Bon-commissioned commissioned ranks is by merit and not by seniority. except that it is conditional on four year? Although oficer service in each rank. naturally have to do more work and go through longer courses of training than the men, instances of abirking in order to On the escape promotion do not occur. contrary, all through the army both officers and men do a large amount of extra voluntary work.
The democracy of the service (there are no Generals in the Swiss Army except in time of war) due to this system of promo tion from the ranks has this further great
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The mosque is a blackened miss of ruins, and the burnt-out buildings that spot the town show the work of the big |
Yet Gallipoli is by no English guns. means destroyed. That the initial born- bardment was justified is patent from the fact that the headquarters staff of the Turkish army was stationed here. At that time it was the base for the troops opera-
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