SUBMARINE LIFE.
A DAY UNDER WATER
Many people are under the impressiou. that the crew of a British submarine is composed of a certain number of sailor and a cage of white mice.
were
Shiti used to be the case, but the mics
struck off the books. long ago, In the early days of submarines mice were carried in them as a kind of danger ganga Their duty and they performed It faithfully-was to begin squeaking as soon as poisonous fines escaped inside the host. Being more sensitive to these than nes are, the mics could detect, the fumes much sooner than the other mem bers of the crew could. Therefore, & close watch upon the little animals used to he kep. As soon as they showed signs
NEW FORM OF TRIAL.
WAR MAKES REVOLUTION IN
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 19TH, 1915.
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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS, REVEALED IN OFFICIAL REPORT." The following is a list of unclaimed balegramı Day Flying in the Great Northern - Valgamaa Remarkable revelations regarding mud- Company's odos at Hongkong - dle and waste in any stores are made by the Comptroller and Auditor General Heshing Sljes Trungtaibo in his report for the year ended March Tonghong 31, 1915
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It should remain for ever a wonderful testimony to the English character, writos [a correspondent in The Times, that in the A test, examination of all classes "of middle of a European war the Legislature army store accounts has been carried out has made a revolution in criminal pro by the Comptroller's Department in cedure. There are critics who deprecated France and also in South Africa ́up to such action when the minds of men wern the time of the withdrawal of the Im dominated by other and vital business; perial troops.
The
report states that an and, no doubt, the provisions of the In-inquiry was addressed to the War Office dictaents Act, 1915, which came into force na to the return of stores to the Chief on April 1st, may yet prove to be ill-Ordnance Officer without vouchers by digested in some parts,
units going abroad on mobilisation. It Nevertheless, the measure will relieve our Criminal was found on examination of accounts Courts of a long-standing popular rendered that souchers were frequently proach. Henceforth, a man who is proved
missing or were incomplete. In ROC cases the absence of receiptedisunie by evidence to be guilty cannot hope to
youchers was caused by the difficulty: ex- of distress up shot the boat and opermere legal quibble. A glance at the past for issues to units; and the best evidence escape the penalty of his offence by &
perienced by depots in obtaining receipts went her, conning-tower.
will show the drastic nature of the int available had to be accepted. vation made by the new statute,
Up to February 12, 1916, no store stare accounts of transpert vehicles had been furnished. In reply to applications for be spared, they were required ́in con- nection with investigations as to store charge, the evidence of which on was frequently either lacking or incom vouchers for payment in impressment plate.
No chapters in our legal records pro vidu more startling reading than tho
felons have been set at large merely he cause ingenious counsel had found som: sub-slight error or some word omitted in the drawing of the indictment. Indeed, the public could not be blamed. if they. thought at times that legalism. bad run mad. Miscarriages of justice were Fr quent, because of a pedantic devotion to technicalities.DE
FRE, CASS OF BORD CARDIGAN.
Now the skill of designers has given us submarines that require neither white inien nor potted air" to ensure the safety of their crews. It has also given things andreamed of a few years back, but it has not yet succeeded in making these pleasant to live in. Ask mariner what life aboard" is like, and he will answer nonchalantly. "Oh, it's all right." But if you were able to try it for yourself you would soon fall to wondering what he would deem "all 'wrong if he found this sort of life all right. "As a matter of fact, the submariner has about the most un- comfortable time of any sailor, though the second nature which comes with use in the House of Lords in 1841 is a notable The acquittal of the Earl of Cardigan has so neclinatised him to it that he example. He was indicted for feloniously thinks lightly of its hardships.
shooting at Captain. Harvey Garnett During their infancy submarines en-Phipps Tuckett with intent to murder joyed the fostering care of a mother him. The charge arose out of a duel in ship. when they went cruising. used to look after the material needs of was subraitted for the prisoner that the which. Captain Tuckett was wounded. It the boats and the personal comfort of
case failed because Captain Tuckett's their crews with kindly solicitude, as a
Frame in full as given in the indictment good mother should. Having
grown up," the submarine gets but
had not been proved by the prosecution little mothering and has to look The name proved was Harvey Tuckett after itself.
only; the other names were not prove Lord Denman, who presided, and all the In these days submarines make long,other Lords among them Lords Brough- independent trips, and for the whole am, Lyndhurst, and Abinger-took the duration of these their crews are boxed view that the indictment had not been "in the literal meaning of the ex-proved, and the prisoner was therefor pression. Even the relaxation of going discharged. It was on that occasion thst an deck to stretch their legs is denied the Duke of Cleveland qualified the cus then, because there is no deck worth toinary formula, and said, "Not guilty calling such for the purpose.
legally, upon my honour." Many similar cases which brought dieredit on the ad ministration of justice in our Criminal
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The for horses obtained on mobilisation was admittedly unsatisfac tory: Units (including those belonging to Territorial Forces) left for the Expe ditionary Force without rendering fina! accounts, and many of the accounts ren- Difficulties also occurred in connection dered were in an unsatisfactory state. with parches. The documents issued to the officers who were charged with Be duty of obtaining horses provided. for information to be inserted showing their destination. Frequently information on. this point was not given, and sometimes if given it was insuficient, a town only in or near which many units werd stationed, being mentioned without in dication of the particular unit for which
the horses were intended.
UNLABELLED HORKES.
Horses arrived by rail at night with station from which they came, or with
no voucher to 'show who sent them or the.
identification labels. Units (ras ferred horses to other troops without vouchers, and one unit apparently failed found of receipt or disposal of animals, to keep accounts, as to record could be The movement of troopis necessitated changes at short notice in the collection and distribution, thus, preventing accurate accounting, and horses diverted en route arrived at depots or destinations other than those to which they had originally been despatched. The reports do not furnish any general evidence that horses in one command refunds were obtained were paid for and not delivered, although for animals paid for but not actually
A submarine lying anugly alongside a dockyard jetty giver one no adequate idea of what the same boat looks like when seudding through the waves. Watch her. There is a businesslike air about the new setting off on a trip and you will ser only Act.
fes hands of deck. There will be, and, it is to be hoped, sufficiently con
Its phrasing is simple and direct perhaps, a couple of officers on the compréhensive. A schoolboy equid read an i ning tower and one or two men at its understand any section of it. It is right base. All are clad in thick clothing that it should be so, because section 4.18. and wear heavy, sen boots. Possibly some designed to impose penalties in custhanded over to a unit, of then may have donned.
27. Jammy suits, and you wonder why they adept indictment contains unnecessary matter where it appears to the. Court that an such an Arctic-like rig. A view of the or is of unnecessary length, or is mas
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CHURCH SERVICES.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL Hongkong. Jed Communion (8) Introit, Author of Sunday after Easter, 14th May, 1916, Holy Life Divine Adam; Kyris, Adian; Hymus. 35, 390, 558 and 551, Merbecke Service, Hobins (11 am) Responses, Ferial; Voalte, Aloook: Palms, Boblayon: 19 Deats, Wood- evening) Holy Communion (12 Nom). ward, Smart and Taris; Jubilate Crotch (2 st Hymns, 232, and 131. Evensong 5.5. Re Magolfont, Smart (21st evening); Nuso Dalstis, Wesley Anthem." Why nek yo
Ferial; Palm, of the 14th evening:
Hopkins; Hymns 271 and 497 N.6-Yain 75, vernes 1, 2, 11, 13, 21 and 23 in unison : Psalm 73, verses 1, 11, 12, 19 an 23 GP, in unison. NB-Organ Recital on Monday, at 5.30 p.m
ST. ANDREW'A CHURCH, Kowloon 14th
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day 14th May:-8 m., Help Communion, PETER'S Church, West Point Sun- 10, 20m., Sunday School. 11 am. Morning Prayer and Sermos; Preacher, Bov. WH
May 3rd Sunday after Easter. Holy Com munion, et Responses, Tallis Festal; Venite, 16th morning a. Morning Prayer, at 11 am. Alcock, Palm, 71, Robinson (vermen 1 and 14), 71, Cook (versés: 14; md), 72, Dupuis Jubilste, Goodson, Hymas, 4, 39 and 378, Te Deum, Woodward, Smart and Turle; National Anthems. Evening Prayer, at 6 p.m. Responses, Tallis, Festal; Psalm, 73 Smart, The Comptroller refers to large quan:20, Partell (rerses) and 137. Felon (Pardes I ties of clothing that had been written off and 19), Woodward (varses 19 end): Magnificat, as destroyed on the authority of courts facren; Nuno Dimitti, Munk Hymns, September, 1914, a firm offord & supply of part-worn cluthing for the use of the troops. Purchase was effected, hut shortly afterwards complaints were re ceived as to the unsatisfactory condition of jackets and trousers, some being AN INDICTMENT 90 YARDS LONG.
verminous and others threadbare.
Large quantities were ultimately core Sir Harry Poland, in an introduction demned as unservicable and returned to an admirable little book on the Act the Ordnance Officer, and, together with written by Mr. Herman Cohen (Steve the balance unissued from store, were 28. d. net), recalls a remarkable indist resold to the firm for £400. The price ment which was once drawn by Lord Ja, originally paid for the garments tice Bowen in a Government prosecution about £2,630 Farther quantities of the ment and presented at the Old Bailey was paid, were destroyed by onits as unser- That indictment when engrossed on patch-clothing, for which about £4,700 had been 90 yards in length and contained 145 units. Sir Harry Poland comments upori the cumbrous and sometimes amusing language to be found in indictments, and he points out that even as recently as December, 1914, in the case of exe,
will make the reason apparent to you, of such a provision will be obvious to any
Probably all you may be able to see one who has ever listened to the medieval will be a rapidly moving heaps of white rigmarole in some indictments about the water, amid which one or two heads ap-accused not having the fear of God be pear indistinctly. If you could peer fore his eyes, but being moved an down from an aeroplane upon this tra velling geyser you would and the sub-seduced by the devil, et marine's conning tower sticking up in the middle of it, and would recognise how. necessary WILTI. waterproof clothing was to the man on the top of that strne
Lure.
Although you can discern but little of her the boat is awash that is, travell- ing a high out of the water as she can.
Presently she gives a heave forward and every part except her conning-tower dis- By partly filling appears from sight. her tanks the boat has trimmed for diving. The men who were on deck have dropped through the conning tower, closing the cupola after them, and every member of the crew is now at his post
below.
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Every penny counts in the kitchen now- 14th May, Morging Serving at 11 days. Food prices have mounted rapidly. Hymns, 96, 526, 221 mod 25. Eresing Service They are likely to keep high. You can't at 6, Hymns, 875, 271, 243 and 381; Com-aford to waste; that in very certain, munion at 7. Prouchers Bar, J. Kirk Maconachie
WEATHER REPORT.
To go hungry because food is not obtain- able is bad enough! But to starve in the midst of plenty with good money is your pocket and no hindranes to buying-1 infinitely worse. Yet, this is what a host of pople are doing today, Starving, mial not for the lack of food, but because
Um the 12th a$ 10,55 am –A depression lies to the South of Bokkaido, Pre sure hasa ini digestive organs have lost tone and cressed renderately along the east ecret of
e not properly digest the food they eat, China; but decreased slightly along the sonte. Remember, it is not what you eat, but what set to Cape St. James. It is now stationary you digest, that nourishes your body and at Hongkong
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During 1014-15 stocktaking was carried out at various stations, but owing to the conditions were as a rule found to be un Ahlers it was alleged that the prisoner Ordnance, supply and certain other de reliable. In 1916-16, however, a complete verification of stock has taken place at lad bown seduced by the devil. The pots, and in the case of most classes of And as long as "the boat remains "down
he must stay there. In these old-fashioned lawyer who reverses such stores and supplies a system of conti anderwater craft there is little room for archaisms will be shocked to find thrinuous or monthly stocktaking is at pre- moving about. A man may be at the according to the rules made under the sent in operation. The discrepancies sanka, he may be at the tubes, or he may
Act "figures and abbreviations may disclosed at these complete stocktakings be at any other of the stations, but where used in an indictment for expressing were in several cases very large, but they ever he be there he must stop with his anything which is commonly expressed have not yet been finally desit with. whole mind concentrated upon the task thereby." He will be equally shocked to In connection with ordnance store Hongkong & Neighbourhood durats to sight; allotted to him Some bosts have a tiny he told that:
accounts it was found, on closing the cabin for the officers, but it the men want
accounts of various depots opened in the early part of the war, that large nur pluses and deficiencies existed under taking of the stores at certain other de numerous headings. A complete stock pots which were also opened early in the war has now been carried out, and has disclosed further large surplusca and de ficiencies. These discrepancies were evi- dently due largely to the circumstances prevailing in September, 1914, which ren déred accurate accounting impossible. The deficiencies at certain depots were no doubt in some cases closely allied to the surpluses at others The base and other supply accounts also show large discrepancies.
The statement of offence shall descrit
a uap they must take it on the forthe offence shortly in ordinary langung This, however, is no hardship to a blue- avoiding as far as possible the use of jacket, who is able to sleep comfortably technical terms, and without necessarily anywhere. For sleeping there is no time stating all the csontial elements of the Ja submarine when she is on the move. offense
Remember, they cannot smoke they cannot cook anything, and consequently must live
tinned tack," while upon they wanted to talk the noise made by the machinery would prevent them from doing so. Enclosed in this steel shell they are shat away in the depths of the sea, and only the officer at the persicope knows aught of what may he happening on the surface.
The air in the boat is warm and heavy, and grows more vitiated and sleepify
g
the longer she stays-“ down.” As for the feeling," It resembles somewhat that of being stuck in a “tube" ft for a long period-and one can imagine what an unpleasant sensation that would be.
Murder.
Nothing could be simpler than the new form of indictment for murder?
Statement of Offence.
Particulars of Offence, A.B., on the day of County murdered J.S.
in the
This is the chief but not the only inno vation in the Act. Mr. Cohen rightly questions the wisdom of omitting the word feloniously or the phrase "f his malice aforethought. It might have been well to retain words which drew dis tinctions between degrees of gravity in crimes-
Although instructions indicated that the price payable in impressment for an officer's charger should be £70, it was noticed in the accounts of one command that in three cases £200 per horse was paid, in addition to about 20 cases vary. ➡ing from £110 to £160 Although these purchases cannot he said to be contrary
An eerie feature of this underwater It often happens that a submarine has to regulations,, they seem to be of an voyaging as that although a submarine's to go under, altogether, periscopes extravagant character. The Comptroller crew can see nothing outside their boat, And do not know from one moment to and all, to lie on the bottom and wait, admits that considerable waste of food another what peril they may be running the process. At such times the crew are outbreak of war, owing partly to the chancing whatever may come to her in occurred in this country following the into, they can feel a great deal. Every absolutely cut off from all the world and liberality of the scale. and partly to the knock, every bump, every scrape outside they can never feel any certainty of the bull is audible to them. And they do.
fact that rations were drawn for numbers not know at what moment any one of breathing the free air of the open sea in excess of requirements f
again. Very often there are odds against
these knocks, bumps, or scrapes may them doing so. All they can do is to juean the end of all things for them wait patiently until it is deemed safe
But
War helds many perils for the sailor who dares the depths in a submarine. Death stands ever ut his elbow and fre quently slares him full in the face. the stout follow never quails nor fatters; never turns aside from his job, shows the slightest symptour of fear; indeed, l feels none.
nor
All the officers and men who man our submarine flotillas are volunteers. They know that for them there is no escape should mishap befall their boat, yet despite hardships and dangers there is never any lack of men willing to take on this work
(Continute on next Column.)
to take the risk of blowing out the tanks and going to the surface again.
In fact, connected with the submarine service there is no such thing as pleasure cruising. At the best it is comfortless, Deave-trying, wearing work, full of peril empty of joy, except such as comes at the thrilling moment when a successful shot has been made at the emeras and that compensates for all difficulties and dangers undergone During the war our submarines have braved many risks and done wonderful work, the story of which may not yet be told nor barely binted at. More's the pity.-J. J. in the Daily Jail.
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Unless food is converted by the digestive processes into a condition in which it can be absorbed into the system, muscles, bons, nerves and brain are slowly but surely starvel, In other words, they fail to ger all the nourishment they need to keep them strong and healthy.
Food in such a case is indeed sometimes positively harmful. It hinders instead of helps, weakens instead of strengthens How? Because it ferments in the stomach or intestines, Impurities are given off which find their way into the blood and affect disastrously the whole body,
If you would get full value from the food you eat, you must see to it that your diges tive organs are always equal to the work you give them to do. Now and then, froz one cause or another, they may lose tons At such times you will find it better to save a shilling or two on food and spend it on Mother Beigel's Syrup than to pile up. misery for yourself, hy continuing to eat more than your weakened organg an properly digest:
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