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|_ THE TRAINING RESERVE
DETAILS OF ZIE REFORM,
Instruction has been
OFFICIAL NIGHT,
The following table shows the Standard Time at which official night ends, and be
DATE
Army. Coup issued repently on the organizat four of the ging during the month of October :--- Traids Reservo. It is stated that the
ENDS
BEGINS. Ocl
6.3 a.m.) 0.23 p.m.. Oct. 2nd, 16.3 a.m. Oerd. 63am. Oct 4th, 6.3 a.m.. Oct. 5th.
map object the Training Reserve is to facilitate the provision of drafts to regi-
The general wone of the market has if anything, slackencud since the issue of our last report under date of 1ûth instant, but nevertheless a few fixtures have been a ranged under time-charter conditions ;
Since these fixtures, however, the local | |- the market, for all prades, has dropped ments which have not sufficient men în to such an extent that prices quoted have their reserves to supply the drafts re 'not been at such low level for some- thing like the last nine years and business liere must, therefore, until it improves, reniain at a rather low ebb News from Canton is to the effect that the new-Mil tary Governor has takett office, and affairs generally show that order is well on the way to being restored, and it is to be hoped that sare ill have a firming affect
on our market.
Business up North is reported still firan,
quired. 43
Under the exting system all infantry reserves are trained, in reserve battalions forming parg af regiments. When a regi- neu, suffers casualties which cannot be replaced at once try the drained men in its own reserves, it is necessary to transfer trained sien from another regiment which lins more reserves thus requires. This method is undopular and cumbersome,
Under the new system the regimental ***SALGON HONGKONG -Although rates in reserves will be maintaified at their fall this direction showed a slight tendency establishment so ring full uw may be to rise when our last-report was going made of the excellent training machinery to press, very little business has since of the Special Reserve batrafions, Behind been done, only two outside vessels, under the regimental reserves will stand the Chinese charter, having been fixed. Training Reserve as a general pool from These were made on a basis of 47 and 40 which drafts on by found for any regi- feents per, pieul, but as the charterers are ment which cannot find all the men it also principals in the rice cargoes those requires from its own regimental reserves, figures cannot be looked upon as the cur The Tires Military Correspondent sob- rent rate and, with the ring market herejserves that beyond stating that the change in its present state, it is difficult to give lis intended to facilitate th
"the provision of infantry drafts the Insigniction is silent
TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION any exact, iden of the rate concerning the cruses which have com
INCLUSIVE.
RHODINE
RHODINE mens ucetyl salicylic neid of the purest quality.
It is the equivalent of the German Aspirine and is us efficient
so than this last produes for the same therapeutic purposes
Rachatablet contains gramine of pure RHODING
From 1 to 6 tablets, nay may be taken nording to physician prescription.
BHODINE is a special remedy for acute rheumation. If taken in proper doses, it will often core and always alleviate headache, neuralgia, stomachio paine, etc., if these complaints find their origin in rheumatism."
Iis very valuable is influenza, typhoid fever and in all kinds of infectious discuses attended by feverishness.
These tablets may be taken at any time, in a small quantity of water in which they will dissolve almost immediately.
Alkaline water, Eau de Vichy or water containing bicarbonate of soda, før. Jistance, should be avoided.
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topelled the Army Council to effect such a considerable change in your recruiting machinery in the midst of a great war. We have, therefore, in order to present
Exports rice From Saigon Trom January to 22nd August amount 675,237 tons, as compared with 576,279 tons for the same period Inst year, Quotation for No. 2 while round sifted rice stands at $4.40 per picul fob. For September-October shipment,
BANGROK HONGKONG, -- The rate Inst reported, in this direction, as 70-60 cents per picul has, in the meaning, drapped: to 60-55 cents per pival for inside-outside the bar loading respectively and it may still shew further weakening in eonse quence of most of the old contracts having been fulfilled-with-little rice, therefore, coming down from the interior-and nothing much of the new crop being ex pected down before, the end of the coming
month.
SAIGON-PHILIPPINES. We have nothing further to report in this direction, 1
SAIGON JAVA-A fixture in this dieee tion has been made of a medium sized steamer at 80 cents and it is rumoured that rather larger outside tonnage has been fixed at about 70 cents per picnt There is, however, a certain amount of denandunsatisfied in emsequence of owners not being willing to route their boats so far south without definite return employment which, at present, is seure.
NEWCHWANO. Business has resulted, since our last report, in the fixing of three regular consters, with usual quan; tites, at 70 cents per picul, and a small Japanese vessel is also reported fixed from Daly at 55 cents per picul
COAL-Very little business has been donc owing," to an extent, to the compart tive, absence of loose tonnage and to stocks" here being, still plentiful with little enquiry.
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FIXTURER REPORTED. Hongay Canton, Spec, tong Hongay Hongkong, 84 per ton
SAIL TONNAGE LOSING OR TO LOAD-- Nil.
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Oct 24th,
G.1 a.m. 6.11.a.m.
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6.12 a.m.
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Oct. 27th,
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6.5 p.m.. 6.1 p.m. 6.1 p.
Det. 28th Oct. 29th,
6.13 a.. 6.11 am
Oct. 30th, 6.14 a.. Oct. 31st, 6.15 an,
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** Au- amended · copy of the Hongkong. Recruiting has giveīlaus greater anguish Volunteer Reserve Orders published in than almost anything else since the war our-issue-of-Saturday-last-has-beer A" Co., platoon began, except munitions, and had there issued, showing that not been a Censorship to act as the will assemble at Blake Pier for pairan salat of inefficiency some very musketry to-morrow afternoon, at 3.45 hard things would have been said about instead of at 3.15 p.m., on Wednes it long ago. In expanding the Army our day,D" (not "E") Company will assemble at Volunteer Headquarters. line of least resistance and of greatest profit would have been to have taken the under E.S.M. Cooke, at 6.30 p.. Territorial Force organization and to signallers at Volunteer Headquarters at have built upon it through the Associs-5.16 p.m., "A" Co., Platoon 3, at Blake MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
But other views prevailed, and Pier for musketry, at 3.45. p.m., and the battalions as well as other units were following members on the Cricket Ground accepted for New Armies at the enges Pie. 3. T. Mericki, Pte, J. M. Gordon, (instead of at Blake Pier), at b.15 p.m. - tion of any local ningnate, or district, Pte. J. H. Barr, Pie, D. Muir, Pte. W town that proposed to raise one. proper steps were taken in most cases. Tayice Pte. V. C. Pare, Pte. C. Stuart
Robinson, Pte. "P: Potts, Pte. . H. ascertain whether the district in question was able to maintain the bw battalion.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE. in the field, and while one district might. are far more units th it could sup
COMMAND. port, another had fewer than it should have formed. The Territorial Force, which had taken the field early in the war, found itself deprived in many cases of adequate reserves owing to the rush to in the New Armies, and many Territorial Divisions in various theatres of war have consequently been very short of men. ↑
No
The full extent of the Mischief became apparent when the war was in full swing and casualties became heavy. Then it was found that in certain regiments and cerain distrins there were not enough reserves to maintain the strengths in the field, while in others there was a large surplus which could not be utilized. It becaine necessary to take power to trans- fer trained men from one regiment to another, and this very unpopular step caused intense feeling, and even commo tion. As voluntary recruiting, began to fail, the situation became worse. Large deficits appeared in our strengthis abroad, Service Act the Aries in the field would and had it ant hein for the Military
have withered away.
The andersigned will take charge of the Police Reserve Force during the absence on leave of the D.S.P.
CENTRAL STATION CANTEEN.
Members are informed, that the chit sys- tem is abolished as from this date.
_______ BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP
The Final between Cr. Sergeant 657 Rosario and P. o. 754 Mutton will be played a Headquarters Club on Monday, October 2nd, at 5.30 p.m.
J. WFKANKS,
D.S.1. (Reserve),
THE QUEUE GENERAL?
The people of Kiangen are getting tired of the notorious Queus General" Chang Heun, who is now being attacked from all sides. Since the saving of the He have been abolished, save the one main Public, all the secret service bureaux tained by the General. This one is caus
much mischief up and down the Yangtze Valley.
Archibald Herd, the Dedy Telegraph naval expert, discussing the new nave' programme of the United States, says it
We must make every excuse for those exhibits, in its expansion and ecclera who managed or mismanaged our recruit ti, the lessons of the Jutland battle,ing under the voluntary system. They
The Shanghai Kiangau people held a He dda
had to take aen where they could get meeting on September 20th at which it The more closely the Senates action them, and when the recruits chose to coine was decided that a telegram should be is examined the less easy it is to reachin. There resulted a great waste of power sent to Cha g Hsun asking him why ho ab estimate of its importance. Two con- and of money, but we must not be unjust does not obey the instructions of the Con siderations arrest attention. First, the to the Adjutant-Generál's Branch during tral Government to abolish the detective United States Navy already is short of the first two years of the war for, bureau. Chang Hsun also is defying the man as well as officers, and the ships can though it made many mistakes, it was Government with regard to his appoint- be built quicker than crews can be train-working under the extreme disadvantage ment as Military Governor of Anhui, The provision for additional per-of a worn-out recruiting system for which which often be flatly refuses to take over. sonnet is quite inadequate.
it was not responsible and, though it seems us that Chang Haun in the last Ave years has constituted himself, & regular Old Man of the Sea on the back of the struggling Republic of China, We hope that the presear Government will prove to haves backbone chough to throw him offhing Press.
od.
The second point it this: At present should have made a firmer stand for com there is no dry-dock in the United States pulsion at a much carlier date, it cer which can accommodate a battle cruisertainly accomplished a good deal with about 200 feet longer than any present DRIER CANK, United States vessel. It takes longer to
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* In the light of these and other eirits work in Francs, to review the whole
infantry reserve battalions now existing. umstances, the real purpose of this field, and to see what could be done to action on the part of Congress in maintain existing units and to provide Reserve battalions, all of which are ask
including the 2nd Reserve and Local authorizing sixteen capital ships is that in advance for the probable requirementa ed, for the good of the general cause, to the Democrats have decided that, in view of the army during a long war. Regi discard their present regimental drug of the coming contest, they cannot afford mental feeling is very deep in the British nations and to accept consecutive numbers Aring the Territorial unexium, as battalions of the Training Reserve to be outpaced by the Republicans.
systematized by Cardwell and Wolseley The constitution of this Training Re ANTI-AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT.
and expanded by Lord Haldane, had been "Finishing touches have been given to
Serv showing the old and new desige the installation of four anti-aircraft rifles most fruitful in good results. But the nations and the establishments of ach aboard the trandafight Olloh the good of the Amy as a whole, and the battalion, is shown in Schedule B of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The big vessel, even of regimentul feeling, and if the new
success of a great cause, take precedence Instruction Drafts from the Training. equipped with the new defensive weapons changes may cause resentment direct from the Training Reserve batta Reserve will normally be dispatchil is expected to join the Atlantic Fleet.quarters, people must learn to regard in Such is the path of the new systen. Her sister ship, the Nevada, is now with them front a higher standpoint and to The rest of the Instruction concerns de the fert and is the heaviest among the count the esprit de Parmer above the tails of administration. One need not
A CURE THAT CURES, ahips.
esprit de carpe After the fleet hanwuvres in October. It must be said at once that there is no ments laid down, for it is probable that, locality who are being racked to death make much of the totals of the etablish There are men and women in every anti-aircraft rifles will be installed on all design whatsoever to intre or destroy so far as numbers are concerned, only a with Rheumatisma Many of them bave the other ships that make the Brooklyn either our old Regular regiments, of part of the picture is revealed
tried clectricity, liniments Turkish and Navy Yard their home port.
We are not dealing with a tabula rasa mineral baths, massage, etc., while others equipment will be placed aboard the Territorial Force which bas Nevada and Pennsylvania, The New laurels in the war and is likely still to sghting, units which have to be kept up all hope and patience. LITTLE'S Torby T'eau, Arkansas and Wyoming form the nucleus of the untional Army in one way or another, and unless we are ORIENTAL BALM was, by its thousands will each mount two anti-aircraft rifles.
of the future. The good intentions of the War Office in this matter are proved by prepared to disband large numbers of of successful cures, demonstrated its the retention, under the now system, of these units for the sake of symmetry and superiority over any known treatment for the Special and Extra Special Reserve fult to see what other arrangements
on the altar of esprit de corps, it is dif the cure of Rheumatisio, Through it
sufferors have abandoned their crutche battalions, and of a large number of could have been made. As practical ethers have boon cured after years o Territorial Force Reserve battalions
Suffering. We have yet to learn of a that single instance where which are shown in Schedule A of the People our starting point must be
unita which enter into the constitution."
LITTLES Instruction. These will be maintained as our present field armies must be main ORIENTAL BALM has nob Curedhen- regimental reserves in each regiment, and tained, and as our war organization has given a fair trial, they will always be kept up to full es- The Vorwürts says that the petition or tablishment by recruits who will join for as to keep things going on a wholly ford, writers: For the past 5 years I been so botched, and it is impracticable Mr. H. E. Wood. Whitcress St., Here 3 speedy peace without conquests "
Train issued-in-accordance with the appeal of them directly and not through the the party committee of the Social Demging Reserve. They will wear the uniforms regimental system, there is nothing for it have been laid up totally lame from
and the badges of the regiments to which battle-areate a pool in order to keep all Rheumatis, and suffered the most excri cratic Party on August 1ith received on they belong, and when a deft is required our establishments up to strength it is ating pain all medical aid was un.
Two bottles of LITTLEB", the first day of its being offered for signa for any regiment the trained men will be very much against the sentiments of men ay ture in Breslau 17,000 signatures. Many taken firet from these regimental reserves to belong to the Army and yet not to ORIENTAL BALM persons of the shopkeeping class signed, besides the working class, while officials But if the numbers of these regimental any regiment, but the period training pletely d partially-held back The collection of reserves are insufficient to And the neces in the new Reserve is nut long and these signatares is proceeding and promisessary drafts, then the latter will be made men will quickly pass into a regiment and usually remain in it till the war be a great success.
Continued a foot of next Column.) ends
or the
Similar which the New Armies for any but with a, mass of units engaged in have been doctored until they have lost
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