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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, HATURDAY, JUNE 2ND. 1917,
NEW MODELS
ALLISON
PIANO
AN INSPIRATION TO THE ARTIST.
FUTURE OF ARABIA.
A HIG PROBLEM FOR BRITAIN.
S. Nihal Singh says that with the fall
of Baghdad-1ae nerve centre of Arab civiliation--the future of the Arabs be comer a live question. Rightly treated, this face can be made a great friend and
THE GIRL SMOKER,
TOO MUCH OF IT.
FAR EASTERN MEN AND
-THE WAR.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,
GOKES ORDERS DE MAJOR. D. BACDONALD, V.D.
1-RESIGNED
Two men on service returning to Porto Mr. C. Bowern, son of Mr. T. W nyd mouth from Victoria recently found Mrs. Bowern, of Shanghai, has gone. In every smoking compartment in the train homie to offer his services to the British. by which they were to travel occupied by Government. women. Some of the occupants held. cigarettes in their fingers, all of them in
smiled
2nd-Lieut. G. Norman Brockhurst, of
the Royal Flying Corps, son of Mr. Brockhurst of Yokohama, in a prisoner- of war at Karlsruhe. At first he was re
missing.
a poserful ally of the British, and contended to smoke on the journey down, for wer prevent German machinations
and more than one
in a superior Irum coming to anything in the Middle
way at the men who looked at. theported East
smokers and passed them by..
MUSICAL STUDENT AND AMATEUR cice, and religion. It equally ignores
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DETAIL
consequence of the re-organization of
the Corps, His Excellency the Gov¬ ernor his accepted with regret the resignation of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Chapman, V.D. from the Command of the Corpay with effect. from the Lord May, 1917, No. 1992 H. Peters is permitted to Foon leaving the Colony," dated 25th May,
1917 LEAVE
2nd-Lieut. T. H. Mattewman is granted
gmonths leave from 1/8/17
Ne 1377 Bpr. W. H. Cornell is
2 months leave from 1/0/17,
grouted
No. 1696 Pte. D. E. Clark is granted
2 months leave from 26/6/17.
No. 1599 Gr. 9 Boulton is granted
No.
month's leave from 7/6/1T
2048 Spr. O. Carvalho is granted 3 months leave from 1/6/17.
The leave
The word " Arab" has so degenerated
It is a sign of the times--and a bad one.. in all countries where English is spoken, that he mere mention of it calls up a
Smoking after lunch is now officially vision of an elad, homeless wanderer.
permitted among the women workers tem porarily engaged at the Foreign Office: ORDERS BY MAJOR WALLMAN, O.C., R.K.V.B. whe ɑɑnot be trusted to speak the truth
and in other Government Departments. or to keep faith, hat impression 19` în 15- where official permission is lacking, sys- chievas. It ignores the resplendent past tematic smoking among the women em of the race, the fine culture that it has ployees is winked at. in public depart On duty from the morning of Sunday, made to the world's literatura, art, ments, in the offices of private irms, in 3rd June, to the morning of Sunday 3-STRENGTH.
factories of all kinds, the same state of 10th June A Co.K.V.R..
Orderly Officer-Lieut. E: Evan Jones. things exist before the war these women Next for duty.HR.V.C
In the days who smoked did so in moderation, usual-PARADES FOR THE WEEK ENDING ly if they bought twenty cigarettes on Monday, th instant Monday there would be one or two of Tuesday, 5th instant-
At Aand Cos. on the road out then left on the following Monday. It is strange that it does not occur to the present time there are dozens of the persons who employ the word:'* Arab” women who admit smoking from one to la derogatory sense that the very two hundred cigarettes and sometimes numals that they use were invented hymore-very week. A surgeon who in the Arabs. Algebra is the Anglicised the last days of 1814 declared that exces
the the qualities of head and heart that the Arabs of to-day possess, and the great morenent that his been going on among them during recent years to revive their ancimt glories. Fo
ARABIA'S ANCIENT GLORIES.
JUNE.
side the Orderly Room, at 15 p.m. Kowloon and Talkoo Sections on the. Football Ground, Happy Valley, at 5.30 1. Dress Drill Order
Classes at Volunteer Headquarters, Signalling Section:“A” and “B”
6th instant
form of an Arabic word that was coined Bive and irresponsible cigarette smoking at 5.1 p.m. Dress: Clean Fatigue. that the Arabs discovered, The Arabs proving unit for general service has just at 5.30 p.m. Dreas: Drill Order... of dd were great astronomers. The duced by the war was the growth of this WeRectus on the Cricket Ground, at stated that one of the greatest evils pro- sdiens of chemistry originated from their habit in women. experiments in alchemy another Angli-Bran cised version of an Arabic expression. “ Cherubs devotion to literature, portly,
and art made Baghdad a great contro of culture whose fame spread over the East and the West.
5.16 p.m. under Instructor Sergt. Oxherry Dress Drill Order:
moler's heart was an anomaly. To-Thursday, 7th instantion at Wellington
the war a woman suffering from
day a physician working in a munition ares tells me that among his pavents at the present moment are no tower than The pursuit of the gentle arts did fourteen women suffering from this com form, prevnt the Arabs from developing poliplaint in a more or less aggravated tical power. In the heyday of their. Some of them are quite young girls. All splendour they dominated a considerable of them are women to be regarded part of Europe and Africa, while their turally as mothers of the future, Asiatic Empire stretched from Asta Miner to India. They were great traders 25 will as conquerors and statesmen, and their commerce extended far beyond their dominions. I
na
There never was a time when babies were of such vital importance as to-day, yet at the very time when we most want strong and sturdy babies, children aro likely to come into this world in a weak, Talim, born mongst the Arabs, was the weedy, and rickety condition, paying the for their mothers devotion to power that impelled them to develop their tobaccos hable or
political power, trade, arts, and sciences, Before the trophet Muhammed rose amongst them, they were a disorganised congeries of races, with low moral and social standards. His vigorous doctrines however, emancipated them from evils and fired them with a real that made then the rulers of half the then known world:
ENFLOITED BY THE TURE..
A series of misfortunes overtook the Aras in the Middle Ages. The last and gredest of their all was the establishment of Turkish rule over them. The Otte man plundered them They stimulated animosities between tribe and tribe and clan and cien, on the principle of “divi and rule, Ignorance was encouraged, espesially ignorance of modern weapons and tactica of warfare.
Barneks, at 5.15 p.m. Dress: Clean Fatigue.
Mounted Section at Jockey Club Stalles, at 5.30 pm Dress: Drill Order: Friday, 8th instant:-
A'' and "B" Cos. and recruite on the road outside the Orderly Room, at 5.15 p.m. -Kowloon and Taikoo Sections on the
Pole Ground, at 5.30 p.m...
Dress: Drill. Order. Signalling Section
"A" and "B" Classes at Volunteer Headquarters, at 5.15 p.m. Dress: Clean Fatigue. Saturday, eth instant..
TRANSFER
No. 189 Fie. J. Spradbery is transførred
to D. Co.,
- NOTICE.
Reference Corps Order No. 31 Pte. S. I West is posted to Platoon Sy Section 15, instead of Section 12. -
Another peril of the habu concerns munitionibres, among whom the smoking craze. has made particular headway. Since it became a breach of the Defence of the Realm Act for matches to be taken into munition factories more women than men have been found guilty in this respect. Smoking in a munition factory imperile the lives of and hundreds of people, yet even this kn ledge will not help some women to set aside their crav ing for tobacco. Again and again women workers are found trying to smuggle matches and cigarettes or a pipe and ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE tobacco into the
ber
weeks nearly tory In about thre
and fifty pounde was paid in fines hy ni mapition workers for such offences, bes del núm
Di sentences of imprisonment
Passed the by magistrates who-
to give option of a fine ticular Vice Tough Turkish misrule and oppression
In most cases when 2:
particular ken the Arabs disorganised, weak, and grips women it confines its operations unkttered, it failed to crash out their more or less to one class, but the smoking spint. They preserved their race-connabit seems to have seized on women of ourness to an amazing degree. They kept all ranks. It is the old, old story of the the physical vigour, and they reftised quite good or harmless servant making to be enslaved. Baghdad maintained its an extremely bad master. If women repitation for fine arts and literature choose to smoke in moderation and to though not anywhere near what it was have a cigarette or so at the end of "a
hard day's work, even those who this in ts palmiest days:
The Arab of our day is a well-built the habit unnecessary, will hot gainsay it. man His limbs are lithe He is unex But when moderation is thrown to the celled in horsemanship. He is unafraid winds, when women are never happy un- of danger is wits are nimble, tres less they are moking, when they are though he may be unlettered. He ready to take and risks in order to satisfy prind of the blood that flows in his their craving, the position becomes very Veins Indeed, be possesses all the basic grave-H.M.K.N. attributes of & modern fighter. All that he needs is a training under capable and sympathetic persons,
That a race composed of such men ahold remain under the Turkish yake without making a supreme cffort to Tegin its freedom would be against human nature, A movement originated among the Araba many years ago to revive their arts and crafts and to strike allow for liberty, Turkey's folly in joining the Central Powers gave these propagandists the opportunity for which they were looking, and under the banner of the Sheriff of Mecca, they freed the land of the Prophet from the presence
of the hated Turk
A BUFFER STATE
I is in the stress of things that the Ah should be the master of Arabia, The land is his by right divine. It physical forces have acted and reacted upin his body, and have given to his mind and spirit their peculiar characteristics He once dinned the name of Arabia into
THE VOGUR OF THE PIPE
IS IT
ARE SYMPTOM OF THE:
BREAK UP OF OUR SOCIAL
FABRICA
I'd rather see brown boots and a frock enat than a silk hat and a bull-dog briar," said a man in London recently
The spread of the pipe plague among civilians is probably due to infection by the Army. It has been described in the smoking-room of one of the best clubs as *an undoubted symptom of com
of the break-up of our sociale of a stroll from Pall Mall
In the course of
to Leicester-square, by way of St. James'- stret, Piccadilly and the Circus, a mem ber of the Daily Nece staff observed
Sgd.) C. CHAMPKIN, Capt,
Adjutant, H.K.V.R Hongking, 1st May, 1917.
LASHONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT.
M.C.A DIVISION Tuesday, June 6th-~~-~-
Been Uniform: Helmets, Haver 8. pub. Inspection by Divisional Sur- Backs (Atted), Water Bottle (filled), Shorts Puttres
Thursday June 7th:-
8 p.m. Squad and Stretcher Drill. 79. Gymnasium,
KUMU SAYINGIUN DIVISION.
Wednesday, June 8th :---
* 7 pc. Gymnasium; Bandage Pran- Friday, June 8th
7p.. Squad and Stretcher Drill, Tuesday, June 5th
QUEEN 6 COLLEGE
DIVISION
4.13 p.m. Ficat Aid Instruction; Car
poral Kong in charge. Wednesday, June 6th
?
pin. Gymnasium,
Thursday, June 7th-
4.15 p.m. Squad Drill--Recruit
only. Friday, June 8th:
4.15 p.m. Squad and Stretcher Drill.
VICTORIA DIVISION, Friday, June 8th:
5.15 p.m. Bandage Practice.
(Sgd.) E RALPAS (Officer in Charge of District)
WAR NEWS,
GERMAN BAILOR RENOUNCES
HIS ALLEGIANCE
After renouncing allegiance to the A young gentleman of (obviously) noble Kaiser, Otto Herring, a young sailor birth, wearing perfect tweeds and a from one of the German liners lying at velour hat, who removed a stubby briar Hoboken, N.J., received his first naturali- from his mouth in order to salut
salute a sation papers as an American citizen at duchess in a Rolls-Royce car,
not he appeared at the local armoury. and unknown in society, silk hatted, gripping enlisted as a member of the Eighth strong teeth as he hailed a taxi, and took ness to light against Germany, although well-polished briar-root between his Pennsylvania. He declared his willing his seat in it by the side of a lady. three of his brothers are German soldiers.
Soms men say that the all-conquering briar is doing much to oust the compara-
granted to No. 1732 Pto 0. HSoper having expired, he is re moved from the strength of the Corps, dated 30th May, 1917.
4-ENGINEER COMPANY.
3 CARE OF ARMS.
Detail of Engineer Company duties at Lyeemun from lat to 16th June, 1917, is posted at Headquarters. Members of the Corps are reminded that wire gauze is to be used on pull through only for removing hard fouling or rust. For the ordinary cleanings, pull-throughs are to be used without gauze.
6.PARADES. Tuesday, 5th
5th instant
7.30 am. Belchers 6 Section
Belchers Battery, 5.10 p.m. Ce Kowloon
24t
Section M.G. Co. at Testa of Elemen-
tary Training. Hongkong resi dents proceed by launch from Statue Wharf, at 4.30. p.m.
5.30 p.m. Mounted Section at Jockey.
Club Stables
5.30 p.m. Stretcher
at
Headquarters
Section
5.30 p.m. Eight Bection M.G. Co. and Scoute Company at Headquarters under unit Commanders. Aiming. Instruction and Firing Instruc
5.30 p.m. Left Section M.G. Co, und Civil Service Company at Head- quarters under unit Commanders.
of Elementary Training, 5.30 p.m. Artillery Battery at
Belchers Battery
2.45 p.m. Signalling Section “A
class at Happy Valley. Wednesday, 6th instant
... 5.10 p.m. - Centre Section MG. Co, at Kowloon Dock. Testa of Ele mentary
dentsining. Hongkong resi
by launch from
Statue Wharf, at 4.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m. Recruits of all units, at
Headquarters, under Corpis. Edg cumbe,
Grimes and Edmonds,
15:30 p.m. Left Section M.G. Co. and Civil Service Company at Head- “quarters under unit Córamanders.
Tests of
5.30pmaining,
Section: B
class at 1. A. Theatre, Thursday 7th
instant
Club Stables, 5.30 p.m Mounted Section at Jockey
5.30 pm Artillery Battery at
Belchers Battery
Friday, 8th instant ----
7.30 am. Belchers 8 Section ab Belchors Battery be 6.30 p.m. Recruits of all units on Murray Parade Ground. C. S. M Witchell, Corpis. Grabies and Edg
cumbe
6:30
will attend,
p.m. Centre Section and Left Section M.G. Co. and Civil Service Coat Headquarters under unit Commanders. Tests of Elenientury Training.
"B" clas
5.30 Signalling Section:
at R. A Theatre.
5.30 p.m. Artillery Battery at Belchers Battery
7- DETAIL
On duty 10th instant. Centre Section.
M.G. Company
On duty 11th instant.--Right Section
M.G. Company.
On duty 12th instant-Scouts Co.
On duty 13th instant-Scouts Contemp On daty 14th instant-Civil Service Co. On duty, 15th instant. Centre Section
MG. Company.
Section
On duty 18th instant-Right
M.G. Company.
Orderly Officer from 10th to 16th instant.
Lieut. Danby.
BTEWART, Capt Adjutant, H.K.V.O. Hongkong, lat, June, 1017,
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE
MONDAY, JUNE 4TH,
No Parades or Police School will take
place on this date. 2: VARER POLION SUHOQE, 5.45 P.24.
the world's ears. With the Turkish member of the Government Mahanoy City: A few hours afterwards Tuesday, June thClass 13 (Inspector
tively extravagant cigarette There 18 no news of that in the tobacco shops, however.
hard rap removed and with the syrapathy anmak Arabia respected once again and co-operation of the Allies fecured, Fot much reflection is needed to con vice anyone that it is to the interest of all the Allies, and especially of Britain, to help the Arabs to become strong, and to remain in frienary alliance with them Suran Arabia would constitute a buffer Stite. A strong Arabia and German domination of the East cannot exist at the same time. Anything that may be done to protect Arabia from the Turks and to develop its military and other remaroos treans greater security for British interests in Egypt and Indie and for Russo-British interests in Persia.
Any help that Britain and the other Alles may give to Arabie would benefit them all in another way. The Mislim subjects of all the Allied Powers of that the Muslim shrines abould be in the custody of a Power of their own faith sting enough to maintain them inviolate the
SCHOOL UP TO 18.
CONTINUATION CLASHES AFTER THE WAR.
The Departmental Committee on juve- nile education issued an important report REPRISALS ON GERMANY.
recently,
Reluctantly coming to the
the conclusion Replying in the House of Lords to that the time has not arrived for a leav- protesta made by the Archbishop of ing age of 13, the committee recommend Canterbury and Lord Beresford against that no child should leave school before reprisals, Lord Curzon said that the 14, and that with certain exceptions all French Government and the Imperial up to 18 should be compelled to attend
continuation classes, held between 8: BO War Cabinet hatt endorsed the policy. It was too early yet to say whether it would and 7 pa for not, fewer than eight hours be successful, but only one hospital ship a week during forty weeks in the year had been attacked since the raid on Frei- The employers should equally be com
pelled to give them facilities to attend. horg
For all physical training should be in- dispersable. Between 14 and 16 they should get a general education, with bins from 18 to 18 a greater amount of specialisation should be given
from outside aggression, Anything that Muslims in India, not to speak of the
Gordon). WA
Thursday, June 7th Class 14 (Inspecter Wednesday, June 8th-Class 16 (Chief
Inspector Kerr
Gerrard).
Friday, Juno 86h-Class 12 (Inspecter
Grant).
PARADES, CENTRAL, 5.45 P.M Tuesday, June 5th Ambulance Platoon.
Also Recruits of all Companies under Thursday. Time 7th. --No. 1 Section and
C. 8. Majors.
2 Platoon
Friday, June 8th No Company Alser
Recruits of all Companies.
UNIFORM.
Parades
Helmets, not Caps, are to be worn on all
REGISTRATION
Members of the Police Reserve (other than those of No. 3 Company, Ambul- ance Platon and Buglers) who have not yet done so, must register under the Registration of Persons Ordi- nance. Forms may be obtained from this office or from Pass Office, Central Stations a
wold better the position of the head of Empire or under its protection France
y be done to secure the entity of Arabia Muslims in other countries within the s towards their future vocation, and The Ordinance applies to (1) all the above
that country as Caliph of Islam, the spiritual leader or Russia, and Italy also have Muslim out
Great Britain, it must be remembered, hare Muslim subjects than any other Power, Eastern or Western, Muslim ng otherwise. There Are about 70,000,000
(Continues › fou of next column.) keeping
Tests. It therefore behoves them all to do everything in their power to gain the goodwill of the Islamic world by strengthening the position of the State that has Merca and Medina in its safe
The east of keeping wall children of school up to 14 for which 5,000 more teachers, would be required, is estimated it from £1,000,000 to £1,250,000. The 2007,000 continuation pupils would re- quire about 32,000 teachers, at £6,000,000 to £8,000,000 a year.
membors over 18 years of age; and (2) their wives and daughters, if over 18 wyrars of sxe Forms, only filled an, may he returned to this office or to Central Station,
BC. JRKKIN,
D.B.P. (R)
1st June, 1917