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BRITISH NAVY AND ITS
WORK.
THE BELGIAN RIDDLE.
WHAT THE SOLDIER THINKS
OF SHAW.
When Bernard Shaw went to the front he was discovered by a journalist, who [NY MICHARD KURD.]
sent his account of the meeting off post- When the war opened we were able to haste to the London papers. It was an ase the Belgian cast in our endeavour amusing interpretation of the Shavian. to give Ruccour to the Belgians at a point of view, and dwelt on the incon moment whey they were defending their gruity of Shaw in the war-zone. We get country from invasion We landed with the soldier's view of Shaw in a recent out difficulty by a friendly soil, there letter to the New York Tribune by the were no guns to oppose us or mines to dramatic critic, Mr. Heywood Broun interfere with the movements of our He describes having come upon the signa- transports; moreover, there were no mosture "G. Bernard Shaw," writ small in quito craft at that time to threaten our the middle of a page of the visitors book communications,
at a certain château, and it fairly leaped out to his eye from amid the names of kings, and generals, and mem- bers of Parliament. We read :-
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NODI BAN POL"]
CANTON, October 31st. QUESTION OF A NEW TUCHUN.
Various proposals regarding the ap pointment of a new Tuchuu have been considered,
SPORT.
BILLIARDS:
VOLUNTEER OUT.
The 87th Company qualified for the final in this competition, on Tuesday, defeating their Lyemun rivals by du
As the Civil Governor, points. Gunner J. R. Lord, the last Yew hon, has refused the appointment at player of the sard Company, made a the hands of the Peking Government, plucky struggle to save, his team, but Bost of the leaders approve Admiral without success, although he won by the Ching Pik-kwong as the new Tuchun. comfortable margin of 79 points. His Ching, however, is undecided.
CIVIL GOVERNOR'S RETURN.
The Civil Governor, Li Yew-how, who went to Shui Hing the other day has re turned to Canton.
GENERAL LUK WANTED,
For a long time after the Gendans had obtained possession on this shoal-fringed coast, with its many miles of dunes, the naval and military conditions were fav ourable for an attack, Then why, it may be asked, "was it not at once leter mined to carry out operations with view to evicting the enemy from the Coast 1." The explanation is simple. Our military resources, which were er tremely limited, were heavily mortgaged, and it was realised from the rat that
Awin ass!! soid one who had met it was an operation requiring military as well as naval force. It is no secret that the playwright at the front. He was the naval advisera of the Government no end of nuisance for us. Why, when wore impressed with the peril of leaving he got out here we found he was a vege the Germans to dig themselves in," so tarian, and we had to chase around and to speak. Seamen were fully conscious of have omelets fixed up for his every day.' the threat which Germany could offer to censored by stuff,' said another. this country and its communications if they remained in possession of the Bel gian coast and were left free to provide i with defences. They remembered all about the pistol pointed at the heart of England, Napoleon's phrase. But men-of-war never can fight, and never have fought, an army successfully. The limit of naval power is the range of its heavicat guns, and that power has been restricted by destroyer, submarine and mine. It thus became apparent directly the question was discussed that, if the Germang were to be dislodged; an am phibious operation would have to be carried out. That judgment involved not only a large number of ships of suitable Lypes, but a considerable body of troops, equipped with heavy guns.
The hand was tiny. In a sense Shaw is economical of words. He writes many, but he writes them smal). This time economy was complete There was no preface to the signature, and no handbook For footnotes, The visitor had simply
written G. Bernard Shaw and allowed The Tuchun, Chan Ping-kware, has re it to stand without explanation or conquested General Luk Wing-ting to come ment. The officers supplied that.
to Canton to discuss various maltar. Luk is also requested to decide whether or not the mandate dismissing the Tuchun is to be obeyed
THE ARMY'S (VETO.
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I didn't think uch of it, but I made almost no changes. Some of it was a little subtle, but I let it get by.'
"I inquired and learned that the blue pencil which cut the copy of G. Bernard Shaw had not been preserved. It seemed
pity.
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***I heard him out here,' said a third officer, and be talked no end of rot. He said the Germans had inade a botch of destroying towns. He said he could have done more damage to Arras with a ham mer than the Germans did with their shells. Of course, he couldn't' begin to do it with a hammer, and, anyway, he wouldn't be let. I suppose be never thought of that. Then he said that the Germans were doing a great favour by their air-raids. He said they were smashing up things that were ugly and unsanitary. That's silly. We could pull them down ourselves, you know, and, anybow, in the last raid they hit the post office."
The old boy's got nerve, though, interrupted another oficer. I was out. at the front with him near Arras, and there was some pretty lively shelling going on around us. I told him to put on his tin hat, but he wouldn't do it. I said,These German shell-splinters may get you," and ho laughed and said if the Gormans did anything to him they'd be mightly ungrateful, after all he'd done for them. He doesn't know the Woche."
GENERAL LUK'S MOVEMENTS.
General Luk Wing-ting with his body guards will go to Wuchow to-day. A pronouncement has been sent to Canton stating that General Luk wil! personally inspect various fortified places in order to quieten the people's alarm.
The Police in Canton are warned to be ready for emergency calls. Rifles have beco given to policemen on duty.
KWAI-LIN TO BE ATTACKED.
It is said that General Long Chai- kwong has given orders that Wwai-lin Capital of Kwangsi) shall be attacked
very soon.
NORTHERN TROOPS ARRIVE AT SWATOW.
The Authorities have received a report stating that a few thousand Northern troops have recently arrived at Swatow
from Fukien.
NORTH SOUTH,
CANTON REPORT OF MILITARY OPERATIONS.
The Intelligence Bureau of Canton re-
alist, when I want to know about warports that it has just been officially. nd- I talk to soldiers." I asked him: "Dovised regarding the military activities you mean officers or Tommies?" He said that have taken place in Hanan between that he recant Tommies,
October 12th and 27th..
Now you know how much relianc you can put in what a Tommy says. He'l either say what he thinks you want him to say, or what he thinks you don't want bim to say. I told Shaw that, but he paid no attention.".
When the Hunan forces were holding Hauanchow Market on October 19th, they were attacked by the enemy, and after a battle of four days' duration the
"Here the first officer chimed in again, Well, I stick to what Tve said rightmanes secured the advantage. In an along. I don't see where Shaw's funny engagement on October 13th, Regimental I think he's silly
Commander Fu Liang-tsao, a brother of Military Governor Fu Liang-tac, fighting
The officer who was showing the risi tors book turned over another, page. There's Conan Doyle, he said.iter ary Digest,
damage has been done to property, but although nation bas deeply sym- patised with the sufferers, it apparent that the country's fighting power has not been decreased
breaks included several twenties and a twenty-nine.
The 88th Company made a good start in their semi-final with the "Garrison Military Police, Corp. Gillard gaining a lead in the first game, of 89. Scores:-
BIRD COY. N-G.AZ Gunr. E. Lord Gunr. J.R. Lord
140
200
Total Beoren
87TH COY. R.G>A..
Sergt. Ives.............. Sergt. Barker
900
121
Total Scores
.1464
88TH COY. R-GA;
200
GARRISON MILITARY POLIEP. Corpl. Rolfe
11
Corp). Gillard
A meeting was held in the Soldiers Club yesterday morning to frame the rules for the Soldiers' Chub. Billiard Tournament. Sorgt.-Major: Hurle pres sided over representatives of the various Naval, Military and Auxiliary forces in the Colony. In rovising the rules it was decided to allow the Hongkong Police and Royal Naval Dockyard Police to combine to form a team owing to their
will be allowed to enter a team from each. depleted numbers. The Police Reserve
section, and the Hongkong Defence Corps, will include the Engineer Company in
the "A" Company of Infantry, and the Artillery Company in the: * B Com pany The Sergeants Mess of the Corps may also enter a team.
Entries should be handed in: at 12 noon on Tuesday next at the Soldiers Club, at which hour the draw will take place. Play in the tournament will commence on Monday 12th instant.
FOOTBALL
• 89n» CO....... R.G¡A, 4; »>STAFF AND. 'DEPARTMENTS O.-
It is important to a proper apprecia tion of the position to keep in mind the fact that such an operation would have been no minor incident in the war, but would have required to be carefully plan ned on the assumption that all the naval and naval forces required would be forth. coming when needed. It may be assumed that the Navy was ready to pull its strength. On the other hand, the Dar danelles Commission report has revealed that the military authorities were short of men and ammunitions; they held that they were not in a position at that time to operate. Moreover, it is a mistake to assume thot an ally can always die Ho told me,' added a British journ tribute his force in accordance with his own aœeds, an ally is bound is regard sympathetically the position of the country, or countries, on the same sid At the time when the Germans, settler down on the Belgian coast the positio in France was such that it was held were compelled to render her military aid to the fullest limit of our power.
Later on in circumstances which are fully described in the Dardanelles Report, wo embarked upon the attack on Turkey. There were political and strategic reasons, which the Commission ers do not ignore or minimise, in favour of the attack on the Gallipoli position. The Commissioners do not attempt to form any judgment on the relative merits of the Belgian coast expedition and the attack on the Dardanelles. They were instructed review the decisions reached, be the War Uabinet, after con sultation with Allied Governments. They merely emphasise in their Report the call which the Grand Duke Nicholas made for a diversion, and indicate the support which the Dardanelles Expedition re ceived from the first from the French and Russian Governments. Subsequently the Salonika expedition made claims upon the tonnage and men, and we becaute in- volved in operations in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Egypt. Not until the war is over will the nation be able to appre giate the reasons which led the Govern ment into those commitments We n be sure, however, that there were good, if not overwhelming, reasons, whether weighed in the scales of Imperial policy or military strategy. In that way bạn the Navy and the Army and the Mer shant Fleet became concerned in vast overaca operations, which involved & great dispersion of strength. If you lunge out in one direction, you must restrict your activity in another direc tion. Every country has only a fixed amount of energy to employ in war.
In the meantime events occurred on the Belgian coast. The Germans were left elaborate the system of defences which now exists. They mounted along the coast a large number of most powerful guns, and developed 4 scheme of mobile defence with destroyers and submarines Behind the protective screen which war thus created, they organised the port of
As the war has progressed, the nation Government depertinent was seized with has exhibited a keener interest and a Bruges and built a number of nero drones. In other words, they realised deeper knowledge of naval and military the eccentric desire to combine eficiency the importance of the position, which had matters. In previous articles on the with economy. His main duty was to fallen into their hands, and proceeded Belgian coast position, an effort was made issue a large licence form. He found to develop it methodically in order to to explain some of the difficulties which enable them to attack this country from now confront the naval and military that, folded, this would go into a con- the air and to interrupt our communi authorities, There are others of which venient foolscap envelope, but a Joson's College in a Second Division The following will represent the St. cations in the Channel vital to the nothing can be said at this moment; but existence of the Expeditionary Force the basic fact is that the matter is one of promptly warned that the form must not League match against the 38th Ce Possibly, the Germans consider that they immerse difficulty, and its solution debe folded. The economist applied to the RA. on Saturday, at 3 pm, on
the Navy ground have been rewarded for all the labour pends upon the importance which the Stationery Offices for larger envelopes. U. M. Omar
Jackson, R. and material which was devoted to the Cabinet, attaches to success in dislodging The office had in stock a collection of P. Hyndmann: Abbas, H. John Belgian coast, and which otherwise might the Germans. The Navy alone cannot
Ogley E R. Hyndmann, W. Bandran, We know, however, that their hopes have ses could not be certain of success. But remote past, and found unsuitable by and L. Xavier. not been realised. It is true that they if naval and military force were employ- have been able to carry out his raide oned on an adequate scale, we could con- Stationery Office presisians. The zealous
These teams met on the Club Ground yesterday in the second division of the Hongkong League. The gunners had out
very strong ride, but in spite of this, the Staff, which appears to have the makings of quite a good eleven, managed for the North, was one of several hundead to keep the game fairly even in the first. of the enemy who were killed. The Ex. half. There was a great difference in
assist Hunan arrived a few days later eventually mode a lot of difference, as peditionary Force sent from Canton to weight between the two teams, and this
and was nesigned to the right wing of the light Staff halves were unable ta the army in action, and the Kwangsihold, the hefty Artillerymen towards the PRESENT POSITION OF THE PROBLEM.
Force, arriving on October 20th, to the finish of the game. The only goal in the That brief recital of the sequence of left wing.
first half was scored by Green, for the events may suggest that the Cabinet reached a wrong decision hen it deter-
The Northern Army, in full strength, sard Company. Gretton had bard. lines mined to ignore the position on the attacked the right wing of the Southern in not woring, for on one occasion he hit Belgian coast and to embark upon elabor forces on October 23rd, and the South- the upright with a terrific shot, which rate and costly operations in distant theatres. As to that no opinion can beers soon took the offensive, killing expressed in the absence of the evidence nearly 500 of the chemy and capturing on which the Cabinet, assisted by its about 200 rifles." naval and military advisers, and in con- the Southerners left wing next day, but The enemy attacked sultation with the Ailies, acted. It may be that an under estimate was formed of were casily repulsed. the urgency of the problem which the Belgian coast presented. It is possible that it was not realised at the time, that aeroplanes would be developed which than 1,000, or about four times as may could fly to this country with heavy as those of the south. loads of bombs. It may be that the At Pashing the Hunan troops were Cabinet, did not feel it could press on the Allies the case of the Belgian coast at a time when it looked to landemen as though Germany could do is little harm. Also it had its eye not merely on this They have, however, now combined with country, but on the whole Empire. All the forces of Kwangi and are operat that can be said is that in the process of ing to retake Puching. time the character of the problem changed. Whereas it was a feasible scheme to attempt to dislodge the Ger mans two years or so ago, with relatively small noval and military forces, now the task has assumed far greater proportions.
Since October 12th, the casualties of the Northern army have numbered more
driven out by a superior force of North- erners and retreated to Tao-chiapen.
ECONOMY IN EXCELSIS.
Some months ago the head of a new
certainly deserved better success. The Staff almost manged to equalise before. the interval. A. scuffle in front of your and the ball was on the point of bouncing enticed the 83rd goal-keeper into the field,
into goal, having gone over his head, when Townsend rushed back and cleared. On another occasion, Ellarby almost succeeded, in putting the ball into the not, but could not quite manage the Accessary finishing touch...
The superior weight of the gunners wore down their opponents in the second half and the Staff goal was often in of tremendous drives, which made the danger. Gretton again put in a coupla cross-bar rattle but did not score. Green, breaking through, put his side further ahead with a well judged shot, and, shortly afterwards Lord notched- number three. The Staff then took the leather to the other end and forced a corner, but nothing came of it, and, be fore the final whistle sounded, Green had scored again with a lightening shot which surprised players and spectators alike. Result: 83rd Co. R.G.A. 4, Staff and Departments 0.
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A very even game resulted from the
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