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The part played by railways in the prescat war is incalculably great, and will be greater still before it is ended, Up to the present Germany is probably Every trade the belligerent who has most reason to and every industry is under strict Gov-be thankful for elicient railway com
Barring the railwngs of cent control, and practically nothing munication,
produced that does not contribute, Northern France we bave had, owing to "directly or indirectly, to the progresseur command of the sea, to make use But au contrariwise and strange a thing of the war. The extent and minuteness of railways only to a limited extent in is human nature that if shore leave be of the supervision exercised over the food our various campaigns. Molor transport given, these same men utterly forget that supply of the Empire may be judged from as filled the bill for us in raillesa there is such a place as the sick by the fact that in Berlin alone the war countries, and has also been of inmense aboard the ship. They have no use for associations and war bureaux controlling service in France, where, owing to tho it. If n naval surgeon does not become some stage in the production, distri an adept in sizing up" men it is not butions, or consumption of some special from any lack of opportunity for ac-article of food, and sabordinate to the guiring this art.
War Food Ministry, now humber 39. All the "birds
among the crew fly his way at one time to another
ag line being connected with the by many splendid arterial roads, it is just conceivable that we might have hold, the Germans even without adequate To the eye of the neutral, says the o- railways, much as the French did, thanks server quoted, conditions in Germany, into their magnificent organisation of this respect, presen, an impressive con-nister transport at Verdun. trust to those existing in this country where, so far as the visitor can judge
We know to our cost
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
POLICE #CHOOL.
Class Mr. T. H. King, A.S.P., re-
ports the following result of his. Examination (--Passed with Credit, Crown-Sergts. Fothergill and Kew, Sergt. Goodwin; Passed, Crown Bergts. Eustace, Willis, Razack, and Hasham Khan, Sergts. Gibson and Samy. All other Crown-Sergeants. and Sergeants of No. 1 Company, Mounted Police and Maxim Guà ners will attend a further Class.
Nos. 2 and 3 Companies. Twenty P.-es.
each from No. 2 Company and No. 3- Company will attend School, The O.C. each Company will at once arrange for the selection. of 5 men from each Section, and will submit the names to this office. These classes will sit as follows:-
No. 2 Company Class-Friday, - Jen,
19th.
No. 3 Company Class---Tuesday, Jan,
16th,
PATROLMEN. During the present cold weather, Patrol-
bereft of railways serves only to oon- On the other hand, to imagine Germany are up visions of a speedy collapse of the entire war. how, time after time, troops have been rushed from one enemy front to another. at critical moments, thus neutralising to
Ahird you must know, is a man who wishes too sick whenever he Fools incliner for a rest, and you cannot expect a thousand odd men to come to
no effort has hitherto been made tó gelber without some few of this type sure an adequate supply of cheap food getting among the mall leaven for the poorer classes, while certain which does not affect the whole inmp.
neelions of the well-to-do indulge openly In every branch of the Navy the re-
and unchecked in flagrant extravagance spožaible officer has" under him a gund
of living. It is easy to understand the considerable extent the effect of Ger- man upon whom he can rely for easement
not very favourable impression made on many's steadily diminishing forces. The from many little worries. The steward the neutral traveller, who has with dif. railway to Constantinople, and its con- at the head of the sickberth staff acts in ficulty obtained sufficient food to eat in tinuation towards Baghdad, has been a varitable life-line to the besieged Central this capacity for the warship's surgeon.
the best hotels of Berlin and Vienna,
Powers, besides being one of the main 4. A hard-headed sort of chap" this when he first enters one of our more steward, with an unsympathetic soul and expensive restaurants and studies the instruments of Germany's successes, tem- an uncanny knack of diagnosing "that copious menu and watches the heedlessporary though we know they must prove 5 tired feeling with half a liff of his crowd of guests filling every available to be, in the Balkans.
RUSSIA'S DIFFICULTIES. 13 141- eye. Men
reporting sick" must get
And Russia's projected strategical rail- past him before they can reach the doctor
The Germans have already made full "What's up? naks the steward as A.B.
use of prisoners of war in factories and ways in Poland been in existence when. Weargone slides through the sick-bay un farms, and have recently beep carry-war broke out it is reasonable to sup- door.
ing out what are practically slave raids Pose that subsequent events would have "Feelin' out of sorts," sighs Wearyene-order to get more labour. By their pro- Russia set to work soon after the out-7.
in Belgium and Northern France in been very different from what they were. Profiting by this painful experience, "Are you?" Coalin' day to-morrow, ain't it?
clamation of an independent" Polish Therent Wearyone grips his jumper kingdom they hope to obtain large num-break of war on the construction of a with both hands about the region of his pers of recruits, both for the Army and railway that there is reason to suppose will have an immense influence on the diaphragm, and with a woeful contortion the workshop. But even these measures
Cut off from direct of visage declares that he has a kind o`
are not deemed sufficient to provide that future of the war. kink inside him."
margin of safety in man-power which the sea communication with the western foresight of the German General Staff world for more than six months in the eye over the internally kinked one.
"Hore," he says, take these two their part in the general work of the up of the port of Archangel, Russia's citizens are now to be summoned to play and the Dardanelles, and the freezing starters an' come again to-morrow.
life-line during the winter months has This ain't no home o' rest," and he drops nation.
men may wear private overconts, if of dark colour, with the Metropoli- tan Police Armlet on left Sleeve · above the elbow,
MUSKETRY COURSE, PANT 1.
To be attended by all recruits and all
members who did not fre, or failed' to pass, Part II. last year. Uniform to be worn by all to whom
same has been issued.
All Inspectors and Sergeante to attend
with their respective units.
The A..P. (R.) and Musketry Sergt.
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No. 1 latoon and Mounted Police will leave Blake Pier at 8.45 am. on Sunday next, January 14th. Re- tarn from Stonecutters at 1.45 p.m.
No. 2 Platoon and Maxim Gunners- will leave Blake Fier nt 1.15 p.m. on Sunday next, January 14tb. Ro- turn from Stonecutters about 4.3 P.00.
Nos, 1 and 2 Platoon and Maxim Gun- ners will bring their own Rifles. Mounted Police will also have use of these. Ammunition will be provided on the Range.
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The stoward runs a cold,inquiring considers expedient, and all healthy year, owing to the closing of the Baltic 10th January, 1917.
a couple of pills into the calloused palta supplies has been growing steadily more railway. The difficulties in the transport
which Wearyone holds out.
The question of food and other vital heen the thin strand of the Siberian
of munitions for 6,500 miles over this fine, to say nothing of the great delay cusioned in their transport hallway round the world to Vladivostock, soon
urgent. The information collected by the observer shows that is another six months, failing the discovery of some
quainted with the whole of the railway, having himself travelled often over its.. full length. Everywhere he urged the engineers-amongst whom were English men-to greater and still greater efforts. His enthusiasm was infectious, and the work progressed at a magnificent rate,
Off goes Wearvone, disgusted with his luck, thinking bitter things of the stony- hearted poulties walloper," and at the first opportunity drops the pills over- board. They may be good enough for enemies would have been in a serious made it clear that Russia must have aome with such good results that he was re- the fishes but not for him. Physic without plight. But the seizure of supplies in other means of direct communication contly abic to announce the virtual com-
MIGHT GET SOMETHING WORSE."
means of increasing her supplies, our
with the outside world.
comfortable leisure to disgest it was not Romania aust materially relieve the the thing he went in search of.
stringency in Germany. In regard to
The only possible opening to the sea live stock alone, Roumania in 1800-the
was the little port of Alexandrovsk Another bird mentally notes the latest year for which figures are avail- adjacent to Kola Bay, on the Murman Here the water in able--had :-Cattle
coast of Lapland (including 781,227 cows), *,545,031; sheep, 5,655,444; pigs, the harbour never freezes, thanks to the effect of the Gulf Stream, which sweep round the
most North Capi-the
steward as Stoker Wander edges into the boy.
into
No ser does the story start than auspicion becomes certainty in the steward's mind. He knows the " patter."
"Stow it now," he cuts in Trimmin coal in the bunkers to-morrow, eh?
Wanderbelays his yarn to admit that such would be his accupation if he were well enough to do it.
"Thought, so,” comments the steward. Here, have a dose of salts; that'll put you right."
Want to see th' doctor?" "Yes,"
Wouldn't if I were you."
"Why ?**
1,709,205,
THE DEAD EMPEROR.
FATHER BERNARD VAUGHAN OF HIE
"FINE TRAITS."
Father Bernard Vaughan, in his sermon at Farm Street Chapel on November 26th,
pletion of the enterprise.
The line is of the 5ft. gauge that is: general throughout the Russia empire. the prominent excuption is the Finland Railway, which is of the standard British from Petrograd to Tornea, near which
The latter line runs. gauge 4ft. 8in.
town it connects with the Swedish rail-
VAST POSSIBILITIES. The present route has in it vast pos
It
*What's wrong with you? he queries.
On the other side of the account may “Feeling_rotten., right, que på sorta “ explains Wander, promptly launching
bo mentioned the failure of the potato northerly point in Europe from which an eloquent description of his harvest. This is now openly admitted. Alexandrovsk lies about 250 milos to the way system. At one time there was a symptoms, which recital he throws off The already inadequate ration for the in-cast-southeast. The port, besides being proposal that Alexandrovsk should be always accessible to the largest ocean- linked up with Petrograd, not by build- very glibly, having memorised it from a dividual has been curtailed to Oh, a patent medicire advertisement which told week, and it is doubtful whether it will going vessels, is the nearest in Russia ing a new line due south, but by effecting a thousand and one ways in which he possible to provide even this meagre actually bring Russia a day nearer to
to this country. The new sea-route wil junction at Torrea. In this way only 400 miles of new line, instead of 850, ration regularly throughout the season. person night fell ill.
the United Kingdom than is any Baltic would have been required. There word --Times.
to this port. It will divert a vast traffic which, several objections, however, when the latter ports were ice-bound, course, the most important of which was was carried before the war by railway to the much greater distance of the journey Germany, mainly to the great collecting vid Tornes as compared with the direct and distributing port of Hamburg. The route, combined with the lesser carrying Russian Ministry of Communications de capacity due to the narrower gauge. In cided without hesitation that Alexan addition, there were engineering dif- drovsk was the spot for a new all-the-ficulties about building a railway rapidly year-round port, and that it must be through the interior of Northern Finland connected, with all possible speed, with and Lapland, where the country is oven Russia's main railway system.
more difficult, practically all being with- Such a decision would have been a in the Arctic Circle, than in the case of momentous one in ordinary times, but in the route finally adopted war time it was absolutely heroje. It meant the construction of approximately 850 miles of entirely new railway through sibilities quite apart from the war. extremely difficult country, much of taps a region of immense mineral and which was practically unexplored. On forest wealth which has hitherto been the route were scores of miles of donse neglected, owing to lack of railway cum- forest, marshes, and mountains, while munication. Water power abounds, ao rivers innumerable had to be bridged that, given adequate railways, many All this had to be done at express speed valuable industries might be established. if the line was to be ready, in time to Further, the railway may serve as the be of service during the war. In the backbone of lines branching off to the- ordinary way five years or more would east south-east. At present, barring the have been required for this very arduous Archangel Vologda Railway, the enor piece of work to be completed, but two mous territory to the cast of the line years was the time-limit set by the entirely undeveloped. It has been Ministry of Communications in Petro-calculated that such railways, in this grad; this in spite of the difficulty, due Archangel and Vologda governments: to the war, of securing labour and ma alone, would add immensely to the Rus- terials and the weeks of darkness in the sian revenue simply by allowing the Far North, precious time that was saved forests to be exploited. At present only by the use of artificial illuminations about 2500,000 a year le received on that the work weed never cease. And account of the forests by the Imperia!. two years has sufficed. By the end of Exchequer from these two governments, this month trains should be running whereas this sum should be £20,000,000 if between Kola Bay and Petrogred, trains there were secured only the low revenue each one of which will be pumping of 38. 6d. per acre. fresh life-blood into Russia's veins, and making. possible in dao course an irres sistible onslaught on the whole of the Eastern front.
There must have been something mag- netic in the man who could draw love and tears from the hearts of pestants throbbing with devoted loyalty to him. The late Emperor, said Father Vaughan, was an object lesson to the absentee land lord who drained his income out of the sweated tenant and spent it in luxurious
"Salta! Not me !" And Wander puffs | asked prayers for the repose of the soul out an indignant protest.
of the Emperor Francis Joseph. There were, said the preacher, fire traits in the character of the dead monarch. He lived among his people, he was accessible to them, he was almost worshipped by the You might get somethin' worse'n
majority of them. He made it his busi salts"
This is said with a lock ofness not only to give audiences to the Iriendly warning the message in which working man but to converse with him Wander is not. slow to divine, and he is his own native tongue. turns disconsolately away. And so the procession noves along. This, mind you, is only the lighter side of the matter. Should a man he really ill he receives prompt attention and every care, but is birds
are not allowed to go to rout in the sick bay.
Every morning at nine o'clock the doctor, sitting at a little table in living in London. screened-off place, with his day-book
Francis Joseph lived a simple life, open before him, sees patients." The spending little on himself, and giving new cases come first. Each man steps for much away to those who most needed ward, is examined and prescribed for help. He was a father to the poor, and In api of the stewards' watchfulness that was so splendid that he ought to "bird" does sometimes come fluttering be forgiven much for it. Then, as Eng along. Hin the doctor usually treate lishmen and Christians, they must take with tolerant, kindly humour, knowing into consideration, when weighing up the by experience the kind of treatment which life now departed, the avalanche after will be most effective in eradicating any avalanche of private griets and public incipient outbreak of hypochondria calamities that bore down upon the dead among the ship's company.
Emperor during his long reign.
"Give him a dose of castor oil, and aco that he takes it," says the doctor, turning to his attendant steward; then to the "bird" he adds "Come and tell ma how you feel in the morning." Off goes the man for the dose he would much rather be without though it cures him permanently. He will not risk a "ditto repeate of this prescription, and he knows he would get it...
& JUTLAND EXAMPLE,
patrolling an isolated beat thousands of miles from anywhere, as many of our warships do, the sick bay must perforce be the general hospital.
NEW PRIME MINISTER'S WORK.
Railway expansion in Russia must. come speedily, and that on a vast scalo. In this respect Russia stands where the United States of America was thirty or forty years ago. The U.S.A., with a po Who, we may well ask, is the man pulation of less than half of Russia's. responsible for this marvellous achieve 200,000,000, has a railway mileage of ment None other than the new Prime over 266,000, whereas in the whole Rus- Minister of the Russian Empire, M. A. F.sian cumpire, which has an area three. Trepoff, who only a few days ago ex-times greater than that of the United Like everything else aboard her, the changed his portfolio as Minister of States, there are only 50,000 miles of medical staff of a warship is primarily Ways and Communications for that of railway. Russia realises her deficiency, formed to meet war conditions, and in Premier. That his splendid work in his and is to spend next year, in spite of every case has met them splendidly. The recently vacated office is thoroughly ap the war, the immense sum of £35,000,000 The man who is really unwell grus battle of Jutland showed this. Aboard préciated by the British Government is on now railway works. It has been straight-way into the sick bay. For the one of the smaller ships engaged there clear from the fact that last week the officially estimated that at least 4,000 sake of the ventilation this is situated at the surgeon was killed and the sick bay British Ambassador in Russia, Sir miles of new line must be constructed one side of the ship and resembles a small wrecked by almost the first shell that George Buchanan, handed to M. Tropoff every year to cover the average 8 per well-kept hospital ward staffed with struck the ship.
But the sick-berth the insignia of the Grand Cross of St. cent. yearly growth of traffic on In one part of the bag steward of her, although injured himself, Michael and St. George in recognition Russian railway systems. So strong and is a dispensary containing a large chest gut together a temporary staff and tend-of his services in completing the railway so unanimous is the feeling of the public of medicines and another of surgical ed the wounded so eficiently that ho saved instruments. Now tant hospital ships several lives. That is only one illustra accompany the flecta sorious cases are not tion out of dozens that could be cited to kept very long in the bay, nor are any prove the all round cfficiency of a war but minor operations performed there ship's medical department. In fact no The more important are done either in worked harder, more bravely, or more the hospital ships or is the shore hos-effectively during the Jutland fight than and sound technical knowledge there is greater schemes of railway construction pitals, whither sick and hurt men are the doctors and you could not have no doubt that many incalculably precious will be carried into effect. That will be transferred with all possible speed. On found any other officer in the ship, no months would have been lost before the opportunity for British engineers. distant stations and where a ship is willing to change places with them-overseas. M. Trepoff was personally ac have been presented. May we be ready matter how hazardous his post might Russia could have received supplies from Not for a generation will such a chanc
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male nurses.
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Daily Mail.
across the Murman Peninsula and down in favour of railway developments that the shores of the White Sea and Lake the Government has already approved Onegs to the capital. The energy that and authorised a big programme involv M. Trepoff has put into this titanic entering the immediate construction of over prise has been truly extraordinary, and 39,000 miles of new hins of national had it not been for his unflagging zeal importance. When peace comes even