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WOMEN POLICE.
THEY ARE A SUCCESS.
With far more impatiense than dis éretion I alighted from the still-moving train at a London terminus a few days ago, with a disastrous result from which a little forethought would have suved
me
I had a hasty impression of the plat form seeming to rise up at me, then oblivion. My next somewhat vague re- collection was of a seething mass of curious faces gathered round, regarding me with that same interest displayed before the cage of some strange animal. at the "Zoo," and of a blue uniformed figure carrying me to a waiting-room near by.
Woman.
THE MADNESS OF WAR,
HOW IT GRIPS A DIAN
It's an amazing thing," said an in- fantry officer to me the other day, how that show across the water gets hold of one. All the dirt and the discomfort and the boredom and the fright--one would -havo thought.
He laughed. "I suppose it's the madness in the air; Lone's got to get back."
AMERICAN RELIEF FOR POLAND.
SAFEGUARDS AGAINST ENEMY
ABUSE.
BRITISH CONDITIONS:
The Foreign Office has issued a state- ment upon the proposal that Great Bri tain should facilitate application to Poland of the organization of the Amer- can Commission for the Relief of Bel-
Mans,----
It is explained in the Foreign Office statement that there are approximately 1000,000 people in the German-occu pied eastern area, including Russian Poland and Western Russia Of these between 3,500,000 and 4,000,000
people are concentrated in in cities of Warsaw, Lodz, Czestochowa, Vilun. Korno, and Biala Ettan, On Feb Tary 21st last the United States Ambus sador communicated the following pro posals for affording relief in this area:
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
PARADES, ETC. Thursday, June 29th-Meeting of Com- pany, Platoon, Section and Squad Commanders at D.S.P.'s office, at 5.30 .m
Friday, June 30th.-Meeting of members. named in Orders of June 27th to 28th concerning proposed Cyclist. Patrols Staff Inspector Clarke will attend.
NO. 4 COMPANY,
Sections 18 and 14, will parade at Central, at 5.30 p.m., on Monday and Wednesday, July 3rd and 5th. The C.S. M. will attend.
The whole of No. 4 Company, except
NO. 2 PLATOON. The muenibers of No. 9 Plateon will be exempt from all Company Drills and all First Shift. Patrol Duties during the month of July. They will attend all Emergency Calls, also all Com bed parades, unless specially ex- empted in Orders.
ORCHESTRA.
Lusitano, al & pan
.JOINED.
Mounted Patrois.-J. F. Sirke.
P.
TRANSFEL.
734 A. Edwards is transferred from No. 1 Section to the Maxim Gunners as from July 1st.
It is trucut that is what these others' cannot understand; those others who bave not been across. Even the man who comes gitti. Subject to certain conditions, Inid back on short leave hardly grasps how down in order to prevent abuse by th the thing has bitten into him hardly enemy, the Government is prepared to realises that the madness is in his soul.meet the "wishes" of the Commission, He has not timer his deare is just an interlude.
A great part of the population is starr- He is back again in France ing owing to the extortions of the G almost before he realises he has left it.
There is humour there in plenty - farce I was very quickly aware that the even : - boredom, excitement, passion, tender - solicitude bestowed on
me was intred. Every human emotion runs its more than usunt, and scarcely to be ex-full gamut in the Land of Madness; iu pected from a member of the police, the place where the life of a man is no There was an undercurrent of the perfect longer three-scure years and, ten, but understanding of exactly how to act in just so long as the great Harbinger may such circumstances which aroused in medecide and no more. And one is caught suficient curiosity to restore me to con- the whirt one is tossed here and there the immediate neighbourhand of, the Thursday, June 29th:--Practicent Club sciousness very quickly. And 1 found by a life of artificiality, a life not of myself in the able hands of 4 police's own arching, but a life which, having one eaught us, we are lonth to let go.
Which is a hard saying, and one in possible of comprehension to those who wait behind to the wives, to the mothers, to the women. To them the leave traiți pulling slowly out of Victoria Station, with their man waving a last adica The need of women police is by no through the window of his carriage, mcans new, nor is it a creation of war,means the ringing down of the curtain thought the outbreak of war has produced once again. The unknown has swallowed conditions which have given rise to the bim the unknown in which they car chance of their employment in this coun
not follow him. Be he in a Staff office at try, a practice which has so long and the base or with his battalion in the fruitlessly been advocated and urged.
trenches, he has gone where the woman For some years past women police have to whom he only counts cannot : pieturo been appointed with full authority on him in her mind. To her Flanders is the Continent and in the United States, Flanders and yar is war-and there are and was the undeniable value of the casualty lists. What matter that his services they have rendered to the combattalion is resting; what matter that he munity which prompted an effort to is going through a course somewhere at secure their adoption in this country.
the back of beyond! He has gone into The partial success of this endeavour is the Unknown; the train steaming slowly one of the lasting blessings of the war, for out is the last link; and now that is gone the advantages, both to the public and the or is it only that her eyes dim with the police, resulting from the invasion of tears she kept back while he was with women into the police force are being her ? speedily recognised.
No evidence could have been more truly convicing of the undoubted value, and distine! superiority of the police woman than the assistance rendered to me in this, one of the most trival instances when a woman can be of so much more vile, than a man,
At last she turns and goes blindly back. to the room where they had breakfast; she sees once more the chair he used, the crumpled morning paper, the discarded cigarette. And there let us leave her with tear-stained face and a pathetic little sodden handkerchief clutched in one
A national prejudice alone prevented their employment long ago. For there can be no question of the existence of many duties hitherto discharged by the policemen which women can perform in Baitely better-particularly in cases of offences against children and young girls, and in all enses where women are cond, while at interrals a half-choked cerned; in patrolling the streets, parks, prayer breake from her lips: "O God! and grounds open to the public; in house dear God! send him back to me." visiting in the supervision of music
women do not show us this side very much halls, kinenias, and dancing halls, and in
when we are on leave; perhaps it is as the inspection of common lodging-housen, well, for the ground on which we stand
His holy.
The patience and fact peculiar to woman render then specially usefal in investigation and in dealing with cases of drunkenness and brawling.
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The training includes:
Drill First aid.
. יו: :
(1)The American Commission to undertake the revictualling of the above- mentioned eities only. The German Gov- crament to furnish to the cities 100 gramines (about 14uz) of potatoes, 10 grammes (about joz.) of salt, the same. quantity of sugar, and 3 grammes (about 1-1002.) of ten, per diem per cupta. The American Coinmission to import cereals sufficient to give per capita 340 grammes (about 1202.) of wheat, or beans, peas, rice, or maize, also 40 grammes (about || 2-5oz.) of fats and a moderate amount
of condensed milk for children..
(2) The German Governinent to re- victual the rest of the balance of the population in the occupied territory.
(2)- The German Govoriment to devise financial means for the provision of gold exchange abroad to pay for the foodstuff purchased by the American Commission. The Allies to give the necessary permits for this.
(4.) The German Government to turn over to the Commission suficient German shipping to do the entire transportation from North America or other places to Danzig
til October 1st, when the new harvest will (5.)—The revictualling to last only un- suffice for the entire civilian population
(8.) The German Our
Government to
undertake that there shall be no inter ference with the imported foodstuffs; that they will be consumed absolutely by the nutive civilian population; that the And what of the man? The train American Commission will be furnished rushing through Herne Hill when he puts every facility for the control of the entire down his Times and sees another mantelnding the German contribution to the
rovictualling of the cities in question, in His brigade also returning from leave.
Hullo, Jim What sort of a time have you had?”
"Top-hole. How's yourself? Was that your mem-sahib at the station !,”-
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So I believe. Anyway, I hope they've buried that dead Hun just in front of
ration
(7)-In order to carry out the alove it will be necessary to im part approximately 40,000. tans of foodstuffs per month, The German Government is prepared to give free railway transport over the occupied areas and one-half railway rates over the Ger: man State railroads. It is proposed to prevision the destitute without cost, but to sell the fond to the well-to-do.
BRITISH· ASSURANCES - REQUIRED.
APPOINTMENT
Inspector Wei Wing Sam is appointed Acting Chief Inspector during the
· M. illness of Chief Inspector J. Wong
PROMOTIONS.
The Hon. C.S.P. has sanctioned the fol-
lowing promotions:- Sergeant Fothergill, Water Police, to bo
Crown Sergeant.
Sergeant Wilks to be Crown Sergeant, P. 667 Packham, Water Police, to be
Sergeant.
Pe. R169 Mok Lai Sang, Orderly Clerk,.
to be Sergeant,"
F. C. JENKIN,
D.S.P. (R).
lief Commission.. They must therefore re- quest that in this respect the constabulary, should be placed on the same footing ans the occupying army.
(3) From the same document it ap pears that the German authorities wish potato supply. As a result of the ex- to export from Poland any excess of the
perience which they have gained in con- nection with Belgian relief, bis Majesty's Government are most reluctant to agree to the exportation from Russian Poland of so-called excess supplies, since the ques tion of what constitutes an excess is largely a matter of opinion. Neverthe- less, in order not to prolong the negotia- tions, his Majesty's Government agree to the export of potatoes at such times and.
lung as, in the opinion of the neutral
relief authorities, an excess supply in fact exists over and above the require- ments of the whole of Russian Poland.
(4.)The German vessels mentioned under paragraph 4 of Mr. Page's pro- posal must fly a neutral flag, be under the sole control of snentral body to he agreed upon, be manned by neutrals, and be run entirely at the expense of the Ger-
an authorities.
There has been ample evidence that police women have been able, by their very presence in uniform, to exercise a beneficial and quieting influence among the inhabitants of certain notoriously Yes. Dislike women at these partings troublesome districts. How infinitely as a general rule-but she's wonderful. more effective their assistance would They're pulling the brigade out to prove, if officially recognised, is only too rest, 1 hear.' obvious, for at present they posses no aathority to arrest. Their success to-day is dependent entirely upon their personal powers Were those same powers supple-
He was getting beyond a joke.
(.)--It should be understood that the mented by the arm of the law, the results again; there is nothing incongruous to He is back in the life over the water
responsibility, of the German Govern- would be even more beneficial.
him in his sequence of remarks; the time
His Majesty's Government at once rement is not ended by the supply of the Official recognition is the ultimate aim of his leave has been tou short for the ferred the question of principle involved partial ration mentioned in the above th the corps. There is no suggestion that contrast to strike him. In fact, the whirl in these proposals to the Russian Covern scheine of relief. His Majesty's Govern- they shall superade or supplant the of gaiety in which he has passed his seven ment, who have now accepted it. His ment cannot undertake to allow the Re- pokerman. They only wish to assist him. It intended that they should be em-
days sees more unreal than his other Majesty's Government are accordingly lief Commission to import more than a ployed in dealing with special cases and only when a man is vented and cones auguration of the above arrangement, above the maximum which the enemy are life-than the dead German. And it prepared to agree to the immediate in minimum supplementary ration over and fora vision, the need for which the members.
A special branch of police super-home to get fit, when he idles away he provided that the German and Austroia a position to supply at any given of the force are only too ready to acknowday in the home of his fathers, with a rod Hungariau Governments are prepared to time, ledge
or a gun to help him back to convales-give certain assurances. In assenting in (0)--The neutral relief authorities in The question of official recognition is cence, when the southing balm of utter principle to the grant of relief to a terri Foland must enjoy absolutely free and. believed to be only a matter of time, peace and contentment creeps slowly tory occupied by the enemy, in spite of unfettered facilities for the communiça- meanwhile recruits are being trained to through his veins, that he looks back on the statements recently published by the tion to their London office of any deta enable them to fill positions of profes-the past few months us a runner on a German authorities that they are in real connected with their work. They must sional police women in towns where they just for. He has given of his best,ity able to relieve the Polish population have every facility to satisfy themselves. are required by the authoritiek
he is ready to give of his best again; unaided. His Majesty's Government feel of the manuer in which the undertakings but at the moment he is exhausted; he that they have made a concession in re of the German and Austro-Hungarian is at peace. For the time the madness has turn for which they have a right to de: Governments are being carried out in all lefz-him; he is aune. Bu. it is only formand that their enemies shall now at parts of Poland. It is, of course, under- the time.
length place beyond doubt their intenstood that the "German relief officer for He is able to think ouderently; he is tions towards the populations of occupied the civil population: mentioned in the able to look on things in their true light. territories whose treatment by them inclosed memorandum before alluded to He has the knowledge, and he views that the past has been so much at varianes shall have no control of any kind over knowledge from the standpoint of a with the responsibilities of civilized war and shall in no wise interfere with the rational mate To him the teave train fare and the dictates of humanity. The complete discretion of the American. contains no illusions; the territory is not assurances required are as follows Commission or its representatives, unknown. No longer does a dead Bun (1) The achome submitted by the (7.)-The German and Austro-Hungar- dwarf his horizon to the exclusion of all United States Ambassador relates only to ian Governments should undertake, as a It extends over a period of about eight else. He has looked on the thing from that part of Russian Poland at present part of the present arrangement, adv weeks. The strenuous training very soonelose quarters; he has been mad with pus-in the occupation of the German forces.quately to supply and care for the popu weeds out the physically anfit. When re- sion and shaking with fright; he has been His Majesty's Government consider it lations of Servia, Albania, and Alon cold and wet, he has been hot and thirsty. essential that ariy system of Polish relieftenegro, all of which, countries are now ployed (1) as semi- police women He marvels that men can be such won should apply to Russian Poland as a being reduced to a state of starvation and work under the direction of either derful, such super-human fools; he mar whole, and they cannot recognize the through the removal, or the use by the the civil or military authorities, or both,vels at the ineptitude of a Power which existing division into two spheres, oceu occupying forces, of the supplies of nativo and are maintained by a local fund or allows such a holocaust; his philosophy pied respectively by German and Austro- foodstuffs. gauised by a committee of those interested changes. He recalls grimly the particular Hungarian troops. There must be a de- undertaking should be under the super- The carrying out of this In the movement; or (2) as officially might on which he crept over a dirty anite undertaking by the two Govern vision of neutral subjects or organiza 26 an authorised adjunct to the
ploughed field and scrambled into a shell- ments that the export from the whole oftions in those countries.. police force, under the direction of the chief constable and superintendent of the
His Majesty's Government trust that district, and are maintained by a grant the blackness of the sky; then the bursted, and that any excess over domestic the above proposals, which represent from the rates
the ghostly light flooding the desolate needs which may exist in the southern practices and assurances for the due re- merely the renouncement of indefensible The pay runs at about 30s. per week landscape the crack of a solitary rifle part under Austrian administration for the ordinary member and two away to his left. And as the flare came (which is understood to be self-support-spect of the lives and rights of the popu guiness for the inspectors.
slowly hissing down, a ball of brilliant ing) will be employed exclusively for the lation of occupied territories in the Their services have been employed in fire, he saw the other occupant of his hid provisioning of Northern Poland, whe future, will meet with the prompt accept many large towns and boroughs, including place a man's leg, just that, nothing ther such foodstuffs are utilized to supply ance of the German sad: Austro- ing Grantham, Hall, Wimbledon, and more. And he laughs; the thing is too the towns under, the daze of the Relief Hungarian Governments, so that the Richmond, with evident success. In the absurd. latter borough a police woman has been
Commission on the country districts to be accessary preliminary arrangements may It is, it is absurd it is monstrous, revictualled by the German Government.
be made without delay. elected to the position of probation farcical. The realisation has come to
The draft guarantees, sketched by Mr. officer as a result of her excellent
(2.)—It is understood from 'n' document work him; he is sane-for a time. among women and girls
which has beer communicated to His Walcott (referred to in paragraph e Miss M. Damer Dawson, chief officer
Majesty's Government by Mr. Walcott, above), include pledges by the German The woman sees it first, though to save of the Rockefeller Foundation, and of authorities that all the food supplies in- of the Women's Police Bociety, tells me her pain he has not spoken a word. Once which a copy is annexed to this memo- troduced by the Americans shall be ap that the presence of two of their members again in her mind she sees the leave train randum, that the German authorities in plaed oxclusively to the civil population, has been especially appreciated in a pulling out once again the Unknown Northern Poland undertake that all food Midland town of about 20,000 inhabitants, looms in front of her. There was with a camp of over 25,000 soldiers lying chance of his getting job in England,
Practical instruction in police duties gained by actual work in streets, parks, etc. Study of special Acts relating to women and children, also in civil and criminal law. The procedure and rules of evidence
in police courts.
eruits are proved they are em
Appointed police women, when they whole as he saw the thin green streak of Russian Poland of all foodstuffs, native
just ontsïde, and has been
a German flare like a bar of light against or imported, will be absolutely prohibit-
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as a great safeguard to the moral welfare but he did not. She never pressed for
acknowledged town. Bo reasons
supplies orginating in Poland shall be used exclusively for the civil population
and the constabulary. His Majesty's Government cannot admit that the con-
and distributed according to the methods and Belgium, and that all food supplies now obtaining in the North of France originating in Poland shall be us constabulary. Excepted from these are clusively for the civil population and the
foodstuffs which have subsequently to be the civil population and constabulary have replaced by supplies imported by the Ren completely covered. The constabu (Contiqued on next Column.) lary is required to pay fair market prices.
of the young girls in the torso much He bas realised, true; be sees the monstavalary should be allowed to use native the commanding officer of the particular strous absurdity, but the madness has division, wrote a strong protest in him again; the madness of the world their projected-removal and paid high | He must get back tribute to their work-Daily Mail.
C. N.