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SICK PARADE HUMOUR AND OTHERWISE.
DEBRETT AND THE WAR.
HEIRS TO MANY TITLES FALL IN
BATTLE.
THE ENEMY IN WAR TIME, IMPRESSIONS OF A MONTH'S
TOUR
[DY A NEUTRAL REIEND OF THE ENTENTE.]
Knowledge of the character of the enemy has always been an pasontial in the The sick parade" the reoruita and the gly illustrated in the pages of the now conduct of successful war. The men who handertake the dangerous task of manning
** Altention!!!
over-cea drafts, several hundred strong, canse stifly to the salute as we hurried into the inspection room of the Bar raeke.
It is 6,30 on a cold, bright winter morn- ing, with the air ng keon as a rasora -Commanding officers prefer to hold- porades at this somewhat unpromising hour so that skrimshankore
f
alingorers who report sick may if re garded as fit for duty have the benefit of a full day a work with perhaps a little bit extra, thrown in for reporting sick on insufficient evidence,
Installed at our table, pen in hand, and surrounded by orderlies and Army forms, we begin work.
The extent to which the peerage has voluntarily surrendered the lives of its sons to the service of the Empire is strik
* Debrett.k
A roll of honour of more than 800 names the listening posts in front of the trenches of those who have been killed or have died do so with two objects to find out by of wounds fills twelve pages and an their language or accent the nature of analysis of the list shows that it con- the troops opposite to them, as well me to taina
gloạn any hints of coming movementa. It is important for the English and the French to know whether any individual regiment is faced by Prussiang Bavarians, Wurtembergers. The fighting Saxons, or
. I member of the Royal Family.
6 poers,
16 barometa.
16 baronets
8 knighta.
164 Companions.
95 soms of poors, 82 sons of baronets. 84 sons of knights.
families is shown by the list. Thus, Lerd The cruel way in which fate has hit some
half-brothers; Lord Desborough has lost Penrhyn has lost his eldest son and two two sons, eary E. St. L. Clarke, and as have also Sir George Dash
Sir Lulbam Pound, while Sir Archibald Lucas Tooth has lost two brothers, and two successive heirs to the earldom of Loudoun have been killed.
Private Smith shouts an orderly and Private Smith, stripped to the waist, pute in an appearancewood Sir
What's the matter, my man bedside manner in the Army, if kindly, somewhat terso and breezy. Those parado" are a hundred strong, and we have had no breakfast yet.
"I've a pain in my side, sir." Wo chase that pain diligently with our stethoscope and find it as elusive as the floating sixpence of the Insurance
Act
Anything clec
"I've a pain here, sir, in the small of the back, and I feel pins and needles in the arms
The pain in the back proves equally clusive, and "pina and needles“ never arouse any feeling but ons of cold soep- ticism. The orderly and myself exchange glances,
*Anything else?'**
Private Smith thinks for a moment c fore replying:
I've a pain in my head, sir," and 1 can't sleep at night.""
Put your tongue out."
Private Smith's tongue is wobbly and shows distinct traces of last night's dally- ing in the canteen: The case is diagnosed. "M and D (medicine and duty) goes down in
the case-sheet, and Priva Smith a sadder man, returns to duty,
The work goes on rapidly and merrily Every genuine case is sent to hospital, for we cannot treat even comparatively mild cases in barracks or huts; every doubtful caso is given the full benefit of the doubt, for mistakes in the Army have a nasty habit of coming back to you when everything, down to a toothache or a thubarb pill,
The system Sheduled in duplicate. has its advantages and its disadvantages too.
~Out of our if sick parado" of a hund- red, at least fifty are sent back on medi cine and duty another thirty, whose eymptoms demand slightly more respect, are sent to light duty only. The rest are sent to hospital or to interview various specialists of the eye, ear, throat, and skin, for we are nearly all ists in the Army.
special
One hundred cases per diem out of a battalion 1,200 strong is a pretty stiff average; we wish we could get that pro. portion in private practice and, wax fat and affluent, but we soon learn the reason. Our predecessor, an amiable gentleman with a kindly manner and a tender heart, has listened rather too sympathetically perhaps to the tales of woe of the Battalion, and has created an impression that the Army is a rest-care for invalids. We resolved to rectify his suaviter in modo by a little of our fortiter in re and reduce the sick parade to reasonable proportions, It delays our breakfast now too much,
Candidates for inoculation coms next un our list, and excuses are many and
varied.
TITLES AFFECTED.
100 titles have boon caused by the deaths Changes in the auccession to more than in the war. Anong titles so affected are the following peerages :-*
Aberdare.
Amherst of Hackney. Aylesford.
Balfour of Burleigh, Brabourne," Bridport.
Castle Stewart, Clifden. Congleton,
Do Blaquiere,
De Froy no.
Do Ramsey,
Desborough,
Dunleath,
Fauconberg and Conyers. Hamilton of Dalzell."" Hardinge.
Hardinge of Penshurst Hawarden. Hillingdon
Kesteven (now extinct) Killanin. Kinloss
Kinnaird. Knaresborough, Leconfield,
Lincolnshire, Loudoun Macdonald,
Manners.
Monck Northampton O'Neill,
Penrhyn Petro
Playfair. Ranfurly. Redesdale. Ribblesdale. Rosend St. Davids, Seafold. Stamordham, Templetown.. Tweeddale. Valentia, Vernon. Westmeath. Yarborough.
IN DOUBT.
In quite a number of instances the peer- age is threatened with extinction owing to the death of all the possible heirs. Among titles so affected are the marquisate of Lincolnshire and the baronies of Rosmead, and Stamfordham, Knaresborough, Playfair, Ribblesdale
Half a dozen baronofs are also left with out heirs, and several titles are in doubt owing to the heirs being reparted *Bing."
quality of each is different. The Saxons Aro supposed to be a little more humanri than the Bavarians, who in the excitement of war are oruel, while the Prussians are the real brutes of the German Confedora- tion. On the whole, I am inclined to proximate to the English standard of be think that the Wurtembergers moro op
West Prussians from Westphalia and Bre haviour. It is only fair to say that the
Prussians men are certainly not so harsh as the East
pear to make no differones and regard "Civilian English people general ap
Germans. For the purpose them all as
of this war you are right, for Prus sianism has infected all the Germans, in- only in Bohemia that German Kultur bus lading the Teutonic Austrians. It is not bad its effect. Even the Hungarians have had a mad attack of Prussianism in this war, for which they have suffered heavily, it being common talk throughout the enemy countries that the Hungarian losses are terrible. Discussing the whole question of the race value of the Germans as compared with the race qualities of the Entente Allies, with a learned friend of the University of an ethnologist of no mean ability, I passed an interesting hour.
of
My contention was that this was a war tenacity, and that at no time in Ger man history had the Germans shown them- selves equal in tenacity to the English, who had by their side not only the French, but the splendid big Britons from Canada and Australia who so impress a friendly neutral in the London streets.
LONG HEADS AND SQUARE,
Like overybody else in Germany my friend is able to turn every fact within his knowledge to the glory of Gorman suc ses in world politics. In my opinion," he said, we shall wing because we have so large proportion of longskulle (dolichocephal},"
to which I replied,
Surely it is admitted that Great Bri- tain is practically entirely peopled by the longakulls, and that the short-headed (brachgocepha?) are in a far greater minority in Great Britain than in Ger many "
The good man could not deny, this state- ment. It is obvious to anyone who goes into a restaurant in Germany, for he will see that the place is filled with square akulls, and as if to advertise this char acteristic the Germans crop their hair. unnecessarily short, The Americans call Gormans square-heads, and the term is not one of admiration.
The good professor was obliged to con- fess from his own studies, that I was right, but with the customary German. blindness to facts, he remarked, "Yes, but the British are truiters to the Ger manic rece. They are, in fact, degenerate They have been spoiled by dong years of prosperity and their bullying of inferior ruces. They have given up their lives to sport and games. The object of every Englishman is to make suthcient money to retire and become what he calls a
country gentleman.
These theories about England are one of the stupidities that have landed the German Empire into this horrible strug- gle. Even now the Germans are not mis-awake, though their comic papers do not
deal so freely with the wealthy and de generate Englishman as they did before the war. Tommy Atkins has during the past 17 months used some powerful arguments which have been transmitted by word of mouth throughout ali Ger- many y
The total number of new honoure of all My doctor says I have a weak heart, classes announced during the year Decem says one. We examine that heart a second ber 1914-1915 was more than 1,485, an ag time for all hearts are examined, as agregate only once before exoceded, in routing before the operation and had no 1901, during the South African wor woakncas.
"Do you refuse 1!! The recruit hesi- tates-and is inoculated.
Another bolder spirit says defiantly: I refuse to be inoculated.
Fall out shouts the orderly. That
is all. There is no argument about it, no persuasion, for inoculation is optional in the Army,
The operation is a triumph of organi- sation, and several hundred can be in- oculated in the home.
The men are drawn up in a long line that threads its way right out through the door into the barrack square. Eacn man, his left shirt sleeve rolled well up the arm, the elbow bent at a right angle, the hand placed firmly on the hip, passes first before an ordenly who paints a dab of ioding on the proper spot for the oper tion. Then the whole lite moves slowly forward past the doctor, who, armed with a Large syringe, rapidly injects the serum Next to the doctor stands an- other orderly who paints a second dab of iodine over the puncture. All the while the lice is moving slowly onwards. A third orderly makes an entry in the book each man carries certifying the first dose has been given. A second dose is given after a week's interval.
One of our orderlies is a facetious Welshman.
Any gentleman who wishes to faint will kindly do so now," he shouts, as the shivering line of recruits moves slowly towards us. The medical ficer must not be delayed in his work." The joke, a daily habit of his is greeted with respectful laughter, like a judicial hu- morism. Two or three do faint every day, at inappropriate moments, and de- stroy our record for so many inoculations
vinations are even
are-even-speedier than inoculations, and the record stands, at 583 cases in two and a half hours. One man cleans the arm with methylated spirit, a sound blows the lymph on it, the medical officer scratches in three places with a needle, and a fourth man puts a bandage on,
hour.
Our methodical labours are interfered with, as is usual, by one or two fit cases. Apparently all the epileptica-or pseudo-epieptics of the nation have en listed in the Army, and the difficulty is to get rid of them,
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Germany in this war auffers from the lick of force of character of her women. It is not a question of education, because German women are admittedly as highly educated (so far as book education is concerned) as any women in the world; nor do I believe it to be a matter of en- vironment or custom. German girls who return from living in the United States and England, and who have therefore tasted the freedom and independence of Anglo-Saxon life, are glad to be back in Germany, though their status is not far removed from domestic servitude. The Noon The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock German aristocracy, between whom and
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I liked the parade arrive the overse drafte-and ways, and, personally, these we simply gallop through, for the man cookery better during my recent visit mirable. Their nursing is not of course, principle is that all men reasonably fit because of the absence of fat as good as that of the English, but it is The great over-eating, which has been unsparingly offered. Women are doing go over-seas Excuses are numerous, for the casualty lists are not encouraging, but so noticeable a feature of German life much heavier work than Englishwomen. we simply ignore them and trust to our during the last 25 years, bea been as The ocean letion of the Ford und Std un- judgment. The only really sound excuse marked among women as among men. If derground railway in Berlin is being con- is teeth," and if they are extraordinari-the war reduces life to the simplicity of tinued through the war by female labour a quarter of a century ago, it will have night and day. The women's patriotism. y defective the Army supplies now ones up to a value of £2, which means a month had one good effect. Meanwhile, it is not is great. They profess the utmoet con- a pleasant reflection for Germans that or so of delay.
And so the morning ends, and hungry the chief part of the grumbling in con and tired, we go back to a late breakfast. nection with the war should be by women ALAN RALEIGH and about food
The relatives of epileptics, who as a rule do not earn a living and whose in- firmity cannot be diagnosed if they keep their mouths shut, have clearly discover ed this fact
What's the evidence of this fit?" we inquire. Two privates slip forward, salute and tell their tale a genuine enough one, no doubt
Has any medical officer seen him in a
we inquire. "No, sir."
Then let him report for duty.” The case to closed.
"Fits," to be officially recognised, must
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