PROFITS IN BILLETING.
HOW THE MONEY GOES..
The billeting of soldiers on private parsons has been the cause of a whole sucocusion of minor romanoes, comedies,
MILITARY INSIGNIA,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1916.
The standards, guidons, and colours" of the British army are the concentrated emblems which perpetuate the gallantry and devotion to daty of the regiments tha are entitled to carry them, writes George
1
was
THE MARRIED SOLDIER.
and tragedies in England since the war Bigwood in the Manchester Guardian. badge as a mark of respect for the E allowed to stay at home-often in Govern-
began. The Department of the War Office which arranges this matter he made a rare muddle of it, onuing ends heartburnings and an extraordinary amount of waste.
If one may judge by the correspondence which has poured into The Daily Mail office during the past few weeks on this subject the War Office has not yet made up its mind what it will pay the citizen for feeding and housing soldiers. The price varies from 28: 30 day to 39. Ald. In some towns both the higher and the lower prices are paid:
honours. "Colours
They are at all times accorded the highest have not been carried by light cavalry regiments (Lancors or Hussars) since 1834. Nor are rifle regi ments or the departmental corps permitted to bear them. In the case of the former their battle honours are displayed on their regimental appointments. The guns are It is the standards" of artillery. recorded by the historian Duncan that a company of guaners, in commemoration of special service tendered at Martinique, for some years carried before it a battle axe. The axe was mounted on a tall polo, the and the company was known as
battle-axe company," The tallest gun- ner was accorded the privilege of carry and he was allowed to wear ing the
nachos, But all the regiments have
A CANADIAN'S VIEW. Members of Parliament and others have discoursed much of late on the more extra- vagance of having married men with fam- Tics fighting at the front while bachelors are mont employment. A corporal in the First Canadian Division writes to a friend a England on this subject. His wife wal family are on this side, and he was in England for a short leave. After being at the front again for a few days he writes. thus: I think I nover was asked to gr through such a terrible time as when it came to the parting last Friday. There was never anything so painful in all the fighting I have been through with my never be called upon to do so again. I division, not eron at Ypres, I hope I shall think if over I meet my wife and family I notice there is a great question being again I shall never leave them. raised, namely, the cost of the married soldier to the country; this is a question, or rather a position, that could easily be on the subject, and this is what it always amounts to
poor quarter of Leeds or Nottingham for some insignia-some distinctive device | Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 18 rectified. I have heard many discussions
Now 28s. Tid. a man per week is net very much if you feed a main well, give him a bath and a bed, plenty of clean line, and hot shaving water in the morning, but it is an amazingly large sum if paid to a working woman in
on the four of a Kiving a "shakedown" cottage room to one or half a dozen men with three meals a day of tea, bred, margarine, and cheap butcher's meat.
are honest countrywomen and to where men who look upon 2, 73d. per A Cleethorpes man as wicked waste. woman has called it absurd" in a letter A Chichester to The Daily Mall, woman has told us that 15s, a work is enough. An Ashford woman asks "Have they money to give away?" In Colches ter there is a landlady who is so pleased with the profit she has made from her half-dozen Army "boarders" that she has given each of them a silver cigarette case. From Whitstable comes a letter which declares that the working women of the oyster town are glad to give board and lodging to visitors of their own class for 199, dd, and 139, d. a week. Whole Lamilies,"
"adde the writer, are being kept ont of the 19s. 6d. and 17s. 6d. paid, by the Army."
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Regiments with service in India aro authorised to display the royal diger or the elephant with boudah. The sphynx, which is worn by many of our troops, recalls service in Egypt. Some years ago the 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards granted permission to wear the double eagle of Austria in the form of a collár peror Francis Joseph, who in 1896 wa gazetted colonel-in-chief of the regiment. This honour done to the Emperor has since been withdrawn. The coronet of her late Majesty the Empress and Queen Frederick of Germany and Prussia, as Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, adorns the appointments of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards. The badge of the Innis killings is Inniskilling Castle, the Devons wear the Castle of Exeter and the King's Own Scottish Borderers Edinburgh Castle, and the castle and key (the arms of the fortress of Gibraltar) commemorates the services of the Suffolks, the Dorsets, the Northamptons, and the Essex, men at The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Gibraltar. the Manchestera, and the Gloucesters wear the arms of their respective towns. The identified by its badge, The Paschal Lamb," which has decorated the appoint
According to a sartorial artist who gave ments of this regiment for many years. The badge of the Royal Army Medical married men who are, at the front, and let his impressions to the Daily News, the them replace single men who are doing. Corps is decidedly appropriate. It is a
Government work in Engload or else predominating colour for masculing wear
in the autumn and winter will be grey-Mr R H Armstrong laurel wreath surnamed by a crown wint where? Now, personally, I know that the that is, for those who will not be adorned Mr J. H. Baring the rod of Esculapius with a serpent majority of married mon, especially thos
Mr. E. Bellios The forthcoming grey season" will
Mr E R Belilios entwined, Esculapius in Roman mythe-who have seen any active service, would with khaki, the most popular wear of all. lagy was the god of medicine. His worship make far better workmen in animunition
Mr C. D. J. Bell a necessity enforced by the shortage of
DC. was introduced into Rome by Epidaurus factories or arsenals than azost of the not so much be a matter of choice as of about 204 B.C in response to an oracle f
Blecke t the Sibylline Books promising relief from ingle men who are point, at in the dye-stuffs. Whilst browns will be scarce,
to be at a premium, as the cheaper lines Mr & Mrs A. Felello the plague then raging. The serpent in working at such jobs. Then by doing thes the hedge is said to have reference to the they would greatly reduce the cost of sun favourite blue serge threatens would still be soldiers. But this menns also that the Government would naturally price since the war began, Thus it would Mr & Mis RD Buon nationalise the labour of the country, and appear that the man who desires to clothe I should say give the work to the right himself at a reasonable cost, and have prompt delivery of his orders, will have to There is no question as to who is the content himself with a choice between dark most valuable to the country, the man who and light grey. is rearing a family for the future of his. country, or the single man; a family once they loss the father is for ever an expense to the country; I think myself that much married men, and giving them work under good would come from the drawing off of the Government in which case they would
Why not draw off the
Mr & Mrs F.-X. d Mr E. Joseph
Almada e Castro had Almada e Castro Master d Almada e
Castro
Mr H. Murray Fain
Mr., Bandel
one lifted up by Moses in the Wilderness. married soldiers to the country, as they of blues have shown an appreciable rise in Mr G. Bouman
and on which the children of Israel gazed and were cured.
SOME VIVID STORIES.
man,
attached to their uniform or appointmen's to perpetuate important or time-honoured It is only at panades that comun customs. under the heading ceremonial" that we seo our troops in all their military gran deur, wearing their officially recognised badges and ornaments which alone epite mise so much of our military history. Modern war has put an end to the presence in the field of brilliantly caparisoned cavalry with standards flying, and infantry advancing to the attack with their bright appointments glittering in the sun like hundreds of heliugraphs at work. Even the "flash," which is ordinarily worn by the officers, warrant officers and staff ser geants of the 23rd Foot or Royal Welsh Fusiliers, must not now be worn when actually in the theatre of war. "flash" is peculiar to the Welsh Fusiliers, THE FIGHTING AT HOOGE. and was officially sanctioned in 1834. It consists of a bow or roscite made of broad black silk ribbon with three ends about six inches long, and is attached to the back In Dumfries there lives a cansy reader of the tunic collar. The "flash" can of this journal who remarks upon the odd hardly be regarded as an attractive addi fact that lads who were content a year tion to the uniform, but it serves to com ago to earn 10s. to 158. a week in "works" memorate the time when the hair was
worn in long phits. This way of dressing' are now happily billeted in their own town at the rate of 238. d. a week each, the hair was not confined to the Welsh
A and having a very fine time."
Fusilers or indeed to the British army, Guildford render is among the many who for it was the "fashion of the grenndiers would be content with 178., and suggests in our army and the foot soldier in the that 14s. would cover the cost. country village comes a delightful storyPrussian army to have powdered hair and But the 23rd Foot were parti- of bow Jack has bought a mangle and "Bill the cowman" has put a hun. cular about the appearance of their dred" in the bank, though in the latter uniform, and so that their scarlet tune case there is a suggestion that the for should not be stained with the pomade anil tunate Bill has also bad sundry proft other dressings applied to the hair the able transactions with the camp in the wore what is now known as the "flash." The redoubt fell into our hands with very little opposition, which was largely The badge and other ornaments worn on swill." matter of pig und poultry
Southport is responsible for another regimental appointments often arise out owing to the pace and promptitude with made billeting. In of some incident in the camnion which the attack was delivered. The enë, story of fortunes that popular seaside resort one beers of past. The rather guesome device of the 17th my's method was evidently to keep very few men in the trenches, during a bom (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers-a a man with two houses in street
"Death's Hood" with the words "Or bardment, the remainder retiring to their
Mr. Eustace Ellman, formerly of Pem- who has made £700 out of 100 soldiers, not an extravagusit pront perhaps when Glory," which has earned for the regi- dug-outs until the bombardment: ended one remembers that the Army would payment the nickname "Death or Glory and the attack began. But this time the broke College, Oxford, who has been serv £11,500 for the billeting of these 100 Boys" and "Skull and Cross-bones "is attack was upon them before they hading with the Royal Naval Division at the and removed to Malta Hospital, writes soldiers for 100 weeks.
It must not be imagined that 238. 7d by way of remembering General Wolfe, realised that the bombardment was of Dardanelles, and was recently wounded
them.
to a home paper:-
queues,
Some vivid stories of the fighting at Hooge, where we recaptured our lost trenches and took some others, have been published.
still be a soldier as well,
Don't you think that a married man, say, Mr. Prevost Battersby, in the Morning Pest, boro enthusiastic testimony to the with a pay of 30s. a week (from the of more value in England than the same accuracy of our fire, and other corres-Government as an ammunition worker) pondents tell the same tie. We had ass many shells as were required. The attack as a soldier with the cost to the country was beautifully timed, says Mr. Batters of anything from C2 10s, to £3 10s, a week by. At the identical moment that the fire as a fighting urrit! I think so anyhow. !!
England generally, ceased the men leapt forward, and the would also tend to make a more happy Germans were surprised.
THE STUDENT. In one of these dug-outs a benevolent
locking gentleman in gold-rimmed spec tacies was found so absorbed in a work of philosophy that he had apparently for gotten that a battle was going on. In another a late suppor was being, con cocted, and a British soldier was incon siderate enough to drop a bomb into the soup, in consequence of which there was neither soup.nor anyone to eat it.
A TASK OF SKILL. DIFFICULTIES OF REMOVING THE
WOUNDED.
Imagine yourself in the act of Alling in a disused rubbish trench, shallow enough to prohibit work in an upright position. Suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, with out warning of any description, vou feel as if someone had swung an hammer good and hard into your side, or as if a mule hud let into you with his off-leg
There are seven infantry regiments which is the universal price, but it is plainly served under General Wolfe who are per- one to which the War Office is gradually climbing everywhere. We have received nanently in mourning for that great climbing every seribing the joy, and soldier, but instead of a sprint badge, ta amazement of landladies upon receiving, officers of these seven regiments wear a quite unsolicited and even against their black worm in the lace used to decorate better judgment, the full sum after being their uniform. The Royal Sussex com- quite happy and content with as little memorate Wolle's victory in their badge, as 149. This pleasent surprise came to a which is formed of Mattese Cross and south coual town quite recently. Last white (Rousillon) plume. The cross recalls winter," writes a correspondent, the the capture of Malta. The Hanoverian rate was 1ds. per man. Three weeks ago White Horse is a common device in our
There is nothing that Thomas Atkins the billeting officer eato round to make army. The Royal Fusiliers (City of Lon-
seems so thoroughly to revel in as these arrangements for the autumn. Each of don Regiment) and the King's (Liverpool the houses Lakes from six to twelve men, Regiment) used to be called the Hano-attacks on dug-outs, He has a very poor and last winter's rale proved a very verian White Horse Regiments. The opinion of the people who stay in dug good thing Everyone presumed that the white horse galloping on a red shield-the outs on such occasions, and the destrue rate would remain the same. When the armorial bearing of old Sazony, or Westion of them appeals to his queer conse Not that he has it, as a money was paid at the new rate the land-phalia-in said to have been adopted of humour. ladies concerned could hardly believe instead of a more ancient black horse by rule, or had it on this occasion, all his Wittakond, the Last Saxon King, on his own way. The trapped men often put in their good luck."
conversion to Christianity by Charlemagno, some desperate fighting, if they are stout the white being emblematic of his new and hearted enough to decline to surrender purer faith. With the nocession of the The enemy's officers, for example, fought House of Brunswick to the British throne, to the last. They were mostly in dug-speed. it was Introduced in the standards and outs, and declined to be taken. "coloura" of the regiments of horse and foot in our army.
MARRIAGER ARRANGED.
Letters are not wanting in whch readers complain that 176. 6d. is not enough. From Aldeborough comes the plaint "What about war and tap and mdeed it all the stories told are true there is a shocking amount of wear und tear in houses where me are not kept well in band. Leeds this there is
KILLED WITH THEIR OWN BOMES.
invisible
Oh," I cried, feeling rather short of wind for the moment. A pal unwittingly gripped me. Look out, Charlie gasped, that is where I'm wounded."
Willing hands quickly helped me to a recumbent position on a waterproof sheet, emergency bandages were fixed by our Red Cross men, and I was carried a short distance till a regulation stretcher The innumerable could be procured. bends and angles and the narrowness of the trenches in parts rendered the work of the bearers a task of skill, which they managed with marvellous success
and
"At a Red Cross station my bearers were relieved by two other men, who, on arrival at a certain meeting of the ways, found it expedient to go back downs turn round. Then they started to "chew
Two, who had lengths of railway line Every
In the time of Hoary 17. a badge con
the fat" as to who should move first.
Nothing I can assure you is more irri- little margin" in them, and Ipswich sisted of the master's crest on a separate in place of a door, shot through the aska "How can you keep men for 17s. piece of cloth or sometime on silver in thinks with their pistols at our men as ed with beef at le. 4d. the pound, bacon the form of a shield fastened to the left they passed, wounding one officer in the
In Queen Elizabeth's reign the knee. So that finally the Bandhags had tating than to listen perforce to people at la, 3d., and American cheese at 1s. ?" sleeve.
A gave them the scratch. Anyhow I had not lost the Nevertheless, on the whole it is fair to nobility placed silver badges on their ser-to be torn from the roof, and a bomb arguing when you're not feeling up to
One of the best known badges of dropped in from above. say that the correspondents of The wants.
by giving the front bearer a hefty flat- Daily Mail are agreed that 238. 71 the English nobility is the bear and one other oane," said the bombardier use of my left leg, and cut matters short To supplement our own bandy little footed plant right in the small of his a week for each man is a wasteful sum ragged staff of the Earls of Warwick describing the oporation. and an even pound a week, in spite of This badge has been appropriated by the bombs, which can be carried or passed back, exhorting him thuswise: If you Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a tunic up a trench so easily, we fortunately dis want a rest, take a rest, but quit chewing war prices, a generous allowancx
Such is the monetary side of billoting collar badge, whilst the official badge on covered a big store of the enemy's which the fat and get a move on!" Injured As far as I can judge we came at an from the public point of view perhaps the helmet plate is the figure of an ante are considerably heavier than ours, fitted remonstrance ensued, and we moved on, the most important. But there is an other side, and it waits, the cumming hand lope, which forms the centre of the regular with a rounded wooden handle and set tion gilt star and wreath. "The Bear and
bombardier was delighted with the dis which was good travelling considering of the short story writer to describe it. I
covery, and thoroughly appreciated the the difficulty of the journey. The latter find it buried in allusions to marriages Ragged Staff" was the old badge of the going by pulling a piece of string. The average speed of about one mile an hour, which have been made and alas! some Warwickshire Militia.
German weapon. It was suggested that part was made in two stages, the first in a timber wagon, which jolted horribly, times married while men have been in the home surroundings of billete. I find one is the united red and white rose. When he did not know how to use them.
"We didna know how t'use them," he and the latter in a motor-ambulance, for which an obliging doctor telephoned. indignant correspondent alleging that the Territorial titles were introduced the
of whom the elder Cheshires were included among a number agreed; "but we had pris'nera," those. widows Woller was so fearful set out of deliberate of regiments without badges, and theo, one by one, the dug-oute and their Wounded shortly before noon, two hours intent to capture Lord Kitchener's fledge authorities in each case proposed the adop. occupants were, blown to pisces; and the later I was enug in my bed on the hos
tion as a badge of the red and white rose, fight pushed forward out of the radoubt pital carrier ship. tings and entrap them into marriage in order that they may benefit by the There is, however, in use a distinctive to the north-west along the trench which It was not intended to extend our line separation allowance at once and the device of acota and oak leaves which forms declined from it over the rest of the bill. possible pension, if the youthful husband the centre of the eight pointed regulation ments death on the battlefield. On the star. History relates that at the battle far along this trench, because, falling as other hand, has not many & happy mar- of Dettingen King George II was in it did to low ground, it was of no value
danger of being made a prisoner by the to us. riage besa "arranged landlady's daughter" and the sunburnt French, but was saved by the Cheshires, hero who comes swaggering in from route and, plucking a leaf from an oak tree, the marches to a friendly fireside?
between
One
The Cheshire regimental badge officially
. LUDICROUS INTERVAL Meanwhile, on the right of the redoubt,
would like to think that." billeting." King desired that the regiment shond the trench bad been carried as far as the with all its waste and absurd inequa adept it as an emblem of their gallantry. lities of food and treatment, has yet been Many English regiments wear what are old crater, which was filled with Germans. the means of bringing life and love into the ghastly business of modern war.
All the same it is time the War Office decided to put the price and accommoda- tion and other details of this billeting business on a sound and common-sense footing-G. C, C. in The Daily Mail.
most anxious to come out and surrender
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apparently waiting in reserve, though it kwn as the Royal badges a white rose seemed a queer place for reserves to be. within a red surmounted with
Crow Their position when our men gained the Scotland The regiments recruited in usually adopt the thistk, crowned, the lip of the crater was hopeless. They were Irish regiments, a harp or stringed argent clambering up the steep sides, in order and a trefoil vert, and on a mount vert a to yield themselves and get out of danger dragon passant with wings expanded and to yield themselves and get out of spot in endorsed gules for Wales. A stag's head the moment, there was a ludicrous in- and above it the coronet of H.R.H. the terval, while the Tommies kept the Duke of Albany serves as a badge for the Bosches down the sides of the crater.
The bulk of the prisoners taken came It is officially announced that the losses Highland bonnets of the Seaforthy. The cansed to the Danish mercantile fleet collar badge is a representation of an from this spot, and it unfortunately hap through German mines and torpedoes elephant. About seventy-eight years ago pened that when marching to the rear, amounts
kroner (abont the officers returning from foreign service et socoe, distance from the point where to 4.500,000 £250,000) while the loss caused through th brought a young elephant with them, sand, they were taken, one of the enemy's shells
of the escort detention of Danish goods in England it it was trained to walk at the head of the killed a number of them, as well as some
regiment. estimated at over 5,000,000 kroner.
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work to pay much attention to such facturers have been too busy on khaki- matter, either in regard to suits or over- Moreover they experience little coats.
Although an actual shortage of clothing difficulty in disposing of their ready-made
restricted supply of last autumn's stocks, is not anticipated, manufacturers have s
khaki. These stocks have largely been bought up by the Government, who have which were on hand owing to the rush fir
also placed big orders for clothing for discharged soldiers,
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