THE BRITISH ORDERLY OFFICER.
Of the Orderly under peace conditions I cannot speak (writes "One at the Front" in the Westminater), except that I would venture many a france he is never obscure. If it were not war-time and imagination were alive, I would trace his effect on the Staff routine of the British Army from the earliest times to the present day. Certainly for in stance, it was the Orderly's dislike for words of inore than one syllable which was responsible for the present glorious array of capital letters with which the Arany takes the field. It required direct ness of mind to call a Director of Ordnance Services D.O.S. It required an Orderly to enforce the habit.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY JULY 18TH 1916.
THE ARGONNE DEFENCES. MEDIEVAL PRINCIPLES AND MODERN METHODS,
JAPAN AND THE WAR.
VIEWS OF HER STATESMEN.
WIRELESS IN WAR.
MARCONI'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
Mr. Marconi, to revolutionise modern Werfures has returned to London from Italy with news of important develop
(wrote Mr. H. Warner Allen a few weeks large place.
The last time I visited the Argonne by The Times. Naturally the war fills a A Japanese Supplement has been issued
back) was some eight or nine months a special message to the English people
Count Okuma addresses age, and perhaps nowhere on the French Buron Takahashi writes on the Importments in wireless science, In an inter- front could one find a finer example of ance of the Alliance, Viscount Kanekutive he said: the extraordinary evolution that the on t'e "Ideals of the Two Island Em defensive organization of trench war-
view with a Weekly Dispatch representa
make wirekss communication in this war The new developments will not only
intercept and tap messages. more efficient than ever before, but will make it more difficult for the enemy to
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fare has undergone as a result of expires, and Baron Takaaki Koto on perience, was regarded as absolutely impossible for
Not so many months ago this country writers" agree upon the supreme import Japan's Part in the War." These four an invader. dig, since water was very near the sur-Alliance, which, in the past, bas render Trenches were difficult to anes of maintaining the Anglo-Japanese face, and it was believed that the thick ed inestimable services to both countries details, but I can tell you that for one As you know, I am in the Army and 1. can only take him as he stands in
ness of the undergrowth and the broken |---and not to then alone and has, dur- thing the work of the wireless operators in the present conditions I cannot go into 1914-1916. He arrives on the L. of C. by prevent any advance on the part of line with the Great Powers of Europe in skill in the
nature of the ground were sufficient to ing the present war, brought Japan into will be made easier and will require leas an irregular orbit from french via base. No matter when he arrives, he has been were practically no barbed wire entangle- Allied cause. In the course of his the aeroplanes and air-
the enemy. twice woanded, and though only marked
The result was that there defending, whole-heartedly, the common ments.
manipulation of the Instit "T.B." or "A." he tells you he is unonte no continuous system of trenches marks Baron Kato writes: doubtedly “P.B., or even "P.U." (At shelters dug deep in the rock to protect except in the advance lines, and no
These improves d
will the beginning of 1016 there is no excuse the defenders
tesships, where of course the operators werk apply to For any British civilian not undiorstand Modern warfare has shown that natural kind, and the whole civilised world is mentioned by Mr. Marconi, which is of
Europe is pasting through the greater dificult conditions, from bombardmentet crisis recorded in the history of man One very important development was ing this equation) Within five minutes difficulties, if they are not supplemented feeling its effects. The end of the gigan- especial value to this country, which is he is at home, walking unabashed, among by artificial defences, are insufficient as a tie struggle is still not in sight, and its almost entirely dependent upon its gero- the red hats and batons, giving each its barrier. particular and requisite portion of acknowledgement with a nicety that is
result is unknowable. It must, however, planes The French front from the North Ben be the desire of everyone who wishes for air the conduct of the war in the the despair of the amateur soldier. He thanks to science and the military cause of the Allies shall be attended with planes have been at a disadvantage with to Switzerland was so strongly fortified, the triumph of right over might that the comps into the office apparently a mer engineers, that the Argonne Forest, with unqualified success, and the world be airships in wireless work, because while
Hitherto, senger, but really a soldier among mili- all its thickets and ravines and natural fread from the mence of the aggressive they were able to transinit messages they
said the in tiamen. He proceeds to organise the cover, appeared to the German High nation which thrusts away all cations of live not been able to receive them. This work as it should be organike. haphazard allocation of despatches he plains of Flanders and bare rolling hills dealings, and has no scruple in decom faint to be distinguished, being drowned NETH. frowns upon More securately, he exer of Champagne The result was that it plishing its sinister designs by sheer Now ye have been able to strengthen the Any Command easier of assault than the civilised intercourse in its international because the receiving signal was too cises the right of free spech. making an exception in the case of a made one of the greatest German offen
Always was here that the Crown Prince's army brute force.
by the noise of the aeroplane engine. Regular N.C.O.. corporal is a corporal, and a man to the war up to the tune of the attack on war In order to root out the political I think we are ahead of the Germans
A Regular lance sive efforts that had been made during
messages to be taken. receiving signal sufficiently to enable be obeyed without parlay. This is one of the cardinal laws.
Verdun. The valour of the French and economic influence of Germany, so far as the efficiency of our instruments troops took the place of barbed wire and which had rapidly bean increasing of re-are concerned, but we are certainly not vance as the enemy could make was dear- detr ment of Japanese and British in their wireless systems. That, as we earthworks, and such insignificant ad cont years in that part of the world to the ahead of then in the organisation of terests, and at the request of her Ally know, applies to a good many things in Japan decided to throw in her lot with this war, where German organisation is French, and since the German offensive the strong fortress of Kiao-chow, the cen isntion, not only in regard to the inside But the lesson was not lost upon the the Japanese Army successfully reduced have the advantage, and the Allies have Great Britain and her Allies. On land superior. But in wireless science we working hard to convert the Argonne commercial activities in China, and at tween the armies. at the end of last summer they have beentre of German military, political, and communication in each army but also be- nade enormous improvements in organ- Forest into an impregnable fortress, for a Japanese warships have been co Long distance communication, eg which it seems to have been expressly operating with British men of war in pecially between England and designed by Nature. there has been a change of generals, and in all parts of the vast Pacific Ocean she new ideas, based on experience, have been also in the Indian Ocean. In this man have been frequently made that the Ger
Since that date chasing and destroying the German ships has been very much improved given their fall effect. There was school which declared that barbed wirele in the prosecution of the war, and thus prevented messages being effectively In encounters at sea the statements entanglements were prejudicial from the
aner Japan han played a very important | mann have made of view of the offensive, since, they the German power forta se destroying passed between our ships sald not be Jammed the wireless!! and
Starting with big Vance from the trenches. But to-day it, in the Far Eastern regions. She is prolt is not so serious 88 one would im-
Fer the most part in his scanty leisure the Orderly is engaged in literary parly paid for. suits. A man of many letters, the Order- ly. He soon loses interest in typing off- cial recommendations for lease--a task undertaken to see how it looks to be a man, noted in the margin to proceed to the United Kingdom on seventeen days leave. After a course of three weeks typing his number, rank, name, and regiment, he proceeds to real letter-writ ing. A conscientions craftsman, he drafts and redrafts Occasionally he will com- plete a letter in four days; more often be prefers a fortnight. He likes to get fresh intelligence to bear upon his work, Especially will be submit for amendment
A LESSON NOT LOST.
dificult the infantry to ad-
to attack the enemy.
"Eastern Asin has been affected by the
raischief-making
Too much importance attached to this," said Mr. Marconi.
protent
It
letters of a gentle nature requiring sub-
lety of expression. fellows-privates, he will work his way that organized system of trenches which gratified with the fact that she has been agine, and it is in fact very difficult to is admitted that without barbed wire and of her achievements, and particularly watil he arrives at warrant rank. Only then will he reluctantly admit that the
has taken the place of the castles and able to discharge fully the obligations What happens is that the German opera- thing may pass for a love-letter.
fortresses of the past no troops can hope which she owed to Great Britain in con I am sure it is with difficulty that the re-
But for success, whether they are standing on gutence of the Alliance. She is, muretors attempt to produce confusion.
a message getting through. Trains from forwarding it to the Major
the defensive or gathering their forces over, quite determined to do more in the mixed up so that the matter is unintel for information and pecessary amend-
is like the type in a printed, Tent The Orderly types the lettera
To-day no part of the French line is It is true that distance forbids Japan skill of the operators. Our operators are same direction if the necessity ever arise, ligible. A great deal depends upon the page Betting in triplicato, and generally labels them of the Argonat. From the nature of the theatre of war in the shape of nien and Navy Are splendid. Pe
more highly organized than the defences sending material force to the main as good as any, and those in the Britishi Becret. I have never quite understood why he should prefer to write the env ground continuous trenches are fupos ships, but, short of that, she has done lepes. It is an important point, because adopted is that of a series of centres of ious ways the Allies in the conduct of the
sible and he is so meticulous that he requires five reaistance,
undesirable. The system and is doing her utrnost te help in varments have been made in wireless tele- or six or moven envelopes per letter, is as well not to praise the final candidate fortress. On the higher hills ti re have Whereever there, is a hill there is a
mutually interdependent.wer, too readily. He will suspect that you are word:dly anxious for your lock of uri- vate envelopes. It is of small comfort to you after he has left to unearth sheaves of envelopes (your velopes) partially Jascribed and bearing the sweat of heavy. labour.
It
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phony for use in the war. The war," Mr. Marconi says that maut improve-
been built citadels that commund the German activities have been crushed use of wireless when the war is over ma he said, has by no means hindered the lower eminences, every one of which in the Far East, for the present at any Submarines can still only, establish development of the science, and I anti- fortified.
cipate great strides in the commercial and miles of barbed wire have been set their friends must endeavour to prevent will never be able to do it when submerg
Before each earthwork miles rate, and Japan, Great Britain, and and woe betide the enemy that attempts their recurrence. In these ondeavoursed, but it has not yet been found possible
wireless communication when an infantry charge blindly through the China should take a part, but that coun to send messages through the water at face of the water. I don't say that they the sur
A certain difidence in buying cian. their way through the trees and brambles, in any case defective, is at this moment brushwood. Suddenly, after fighting try, whose qualifications for the task are rettan and matches is characteristic of ing with concealed barbed wire, scross undergoing the calamities of civil strife French front and found the soldiers very
they will End & dip in the ground bristi- the Orderly, Lowd fellows of the baser which no troops in the world can hope and is quite incapable of joining in the
any considerable depth. surt bave been known to impute that he, fy dint of infinite labour and self-denial,
to pass. elleets one box of matches per year, and
work. The strife has been caused by an keeps these in the deeps below his small book as emergency rations. •The same slanderers have stated that the Orderly has been known to borrow a match from a militiaman, absent-mindedly taken an- other" from an unclaimed box turo Around us the owner comes in hot search, burzow a match, and light his cigarette at the end of a passing soldier's. Trus it is that careful students of the Orderly have watched for years in the hope of catching him with a box of matches on tobacco ration day; but no definite result Jus yet been obtained.
The fortresses themselves, behind their and his parasites to gratify his selfish
cheery and more full of confidence than Mr. Marconi has recently been to the
ever, I was impressed by the number determination of the people to make any aerifiee to win the war.
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In my own country the warfare is hand in hand in this and other affairs communication from peak to peak and There we have wireless It came as a surprise to visit one of China is, indeed, one of the principal Italy in a few days to continue my ex- these earthworks on an important hill,
con ected with China. The welfare of valley, to valley. I am going back to and suddenly to discover that it was surns of the Alliance, and beth nations Perimental work the fortress was provided with a draw-mate means at their disposal. rounded by a mont, bridge across the noat, which was filled,
The main gate to must see to its promotion by all legiti
array of cherum de frise that boded ill Japan, mainly irresponsible journalists. not with water, but with a bristling that there is a handful of persons in "In this connection it may be observed It is the Orderly who brings all the their points. The moat was carefully the Alliance, because they seem to think for the unhappy Germans who fell upon who raise a note of dissatisfaction against rumours. He gets them direct from concealed, so that a charging mass of that their activities are sometimes hami Headquarters, or at any rate from an men, convinced that they could reach the rered by English influence in China. other orderly. He keeps a careful censor trenches in front of them, would sudden Similar people existed in the early days ship and allows nothing of a hopefully disappear down a drop of many fect of the Alliance. But they must remen- nature to creep ont. He is masterly at to be slain at their adversary's good bar that every nation has its own legiti interviewing French soldiers and Ger- pleasure man prisoners who have come direct from the front His knowledge of naval affairs
mate interests to protect an Chinu or likewise first-hand and accurate. In medieval principle. Thanks to a cun Divergence of interests which may some elsewhere, and cannot unduly encrifice The drawbridge worked gu fact, were he not so careful a student of ning system of weights, it could be rein times occur between the Allies in no res them even for the benefit of its Ally. the phrase, he would undoubtedly beed by a touch of a hand in a few seconds son for doing away with the Alliance, but that is better left unsaid. Reing only time. There was no portcullis, but in its but the intimate relationship which re human, he is inclined sometimca to use stead there was a wooden door, duly sults from the Alliance ought to be use- his power harshly. It is well to be friend-loopholed, against which sandbags could ful for satisfactorily adjusting the rival ly with him when leave is in full swing, be piled, to resist any attack. The sand claims in order to avoid any unpleasant us he can turn out a bit of frightfulness bags were ready in the passage behind, conflict Such is the view and desire of overy half-hour in that connection.
But there it ia. Life would be very, could have backed the door with them. they all desire that the Alliance may long and in three minutes half a dozen men all responsible persons in Japan, and very dull without the Orderly, and his gay irresponsibility is as much a joy and
In the ancient castle the gates gave access continue in force and serve its noble to a courtyard on the ground level. In purposes as it has done in the past, be- soldier as it is to the Continent. Hic is open on a narrow dark corridor that ciprocated by reponsible people in Great the truest philosopher. The night finds slopes down into the bowels of the earth. him everywhere at home, and he will faco. There, under twenty or thirty feet of
Britain any morning with an inch of soap and soil and rock, the garrison can placidly the razor, which he will nover Without him, fteen tiles from the firing that can reach them. The last two years flog" await the end of bombardment, knowing that science has not yet forged the shell ling, it would be difficult to imagine that there was a war in progress. Every artillery and modern explosives, but at BALM, a modern emancipetor from the have shown the terrific power of heavy where he is the same. The personality the same time it has been demonstrated aches and pains of the human body. remains, though the individual changes that their effect is, if one considers the mere rolief, but permanent freedom from Tell him about LITTLE'S ORIENTAL and it is the rock on which the Great extent of the battlefields of today, ex the tortarts and deformities of Thou- Baldini, Kowloon Conspiracy has shattered itself,
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