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THE OUTLOOK.
INDIAN TROOPS. CHIEFTAINS" DEVOTION TO THE KING
India.
A HUMAN DOCUMENT....... FROM AN ENGLISHMAN TO A DERMAN LADY.
HONGKONG DEFENCE "CORPS.
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS BY MAJOR 0. M. WAKEMAN, -V,D), OFFICIATING ADMININ- TRATIVE COMMANDANT.
STRENGTH.
330 Pte. C. H. Parkinson, "A" Co. is permitted to resign, on leav ing the Colony, to data from day of departure.
PERING, April 3rd. "
In a recent lecture at the Royal In-
My dear-Do you remember how The outlook has become clouded again. Telegrams from Shanghai, which, untilatitation, Mr. J. W. Fortescue dealt with in the summer of 1909 I cane to see you
that part of The Empire's share in and your parents in Frankfort? I bud Capt. D. Landale is permitted to resign, on leaving the Colony, to date from this week, had been cheers, are again England's wars which belongs.
day of departure. pewimistic, owing to a threatened dead-
Mr.. Fortescue gave an account of the only met you twice and I came as a very young man to propose marriage. You lock regarding the solution of Parliarise and progress of British power in were then a British subject, and your No. mens, both sides, apparently, being in India, pointing out how one native fightinther refused to be tricked by Bismarck clined to stand by the legality of their ing race after another had been van- into losing his nationality and was pai respective institutions. This is a pityished and then taken into the British Rely held up as an example by the Kaider because neither enn succeed. A report service as soldiers. A few Indian troops to Germans who bad naturalised them-No. which cannot be confrmed at the moment went to Egypt in 1301, bat the first real selves in Great Britain. I arrived th visit of Indian troops to Europe was in find you already betrothed to a lierman credits Sun Yat-sen with indulging in a
This se criticista of Tang Shao-yi.
1978, when Lord Beaconsfield summoned professor whose abilities I have always impossible, but still "one never can tell.” One Peking theory, was that Sun had them to Malts to fight, if war should admired. And then-I never saw you
hrank out with Russia.
again till a few months before the way. The tool of the unwittingly become the
when I spent a delightful period at gi Northern militarists, whose one great
hours with you and your family in Prussia
hope, according to current belief, is to
wreck the Conference and reanne hostili tien against a weakened South, PREMIER AND PARLIAMENT,
Even in the calmer atmosphere of the capital there has been trouble, and the First of reasons therefor are several. all, members of Parliament have been anxious lest they be sacrifced, or, to be niore impersonal, that Parliament may bn sacrificed in order that a compromise with the South may be reached, and M.P.'s want an assurance that their legality will be insisted upon. So far the Cabinet has expressed its willingness to give this assurance, but how far real intention is behind the words cannot be asserted. Such discussious. did not, of course, take place within Parliamentary precincts. Discussions inside the House of Representatives were decidedly uncom fortable for the Premier and the members of his Cabinet. The other day he at tended and was submitted to a heckling regarding the disputed Eighth Year Domestio Loan and the redemption of local bank-noten which was not to his liking, and he left the Ilouse in high dudgeon, threatening to resign. Presid- ent Hsu Shih-chang and others succeeded in mollifying the irate Prime Minister, whom they induced to withhold his letter of resignation and thereby arert the threatened crisis, but the Eighth Year bonds are still below par while Peking bank-notes are at 87. CHINA AND SI1M.
SHARE IN THE WAR.
withstood the
German
Describing the share of Indis in the recent war, he said that on the Western front, in a kind of fighting which muss
You apologised for Prussian manners, have been odious to them, the Indian which I found surprising after many little..
tours in South. Germany and one in troops nably assaults, and in the second battle of Ypres Rust. You explained that though you freethinker, when units were reduced to such tiny sympathised with ine as strength that the old organization ceased, you had had to have your children bap and they were cut up and put down tized (which I had, not), because if the wherever they were wanted, the Indian German ceased to believe in God he troops went through the trial" most ad- would not believe in the Kaiser, and you did not exactly know what to say when mirably,
Referring to the Dardanelles campaign; I asked you why the German should-be Mr. Fortescue said that if the men welieve in the Kaiser. had sent to the Dardanelles had been sent at first in one body we should have
11
Then I got to know and love your
eldest son, aged 11; I have no sons, though I always wantel one, and there was a cheerful correspondence between me and him and a more academic correspondence rian interests we had in common. with your husband on certain antiqua
He
asked me to subscribe to Kant's tomb, and I said I would do it when there was a memorial of Reine in Germany.
forced the passage of the Straits without dificulty; and if the troops we had sent to get General Townshend out of Kut had been added to his force at first he would doubtless have reached Bagdad, In the Dardanelles Indian troops behaved mest brilliantly. The Indian forces got better chance later in the operations Sir Stanley under in Mesopotamia
The war broke ott. Your husband did Maude and the wonderful operations in Falestine ander General Allenby. The great service to his country. Your bro later called for enormous physical axerther enlisted in the British Army. Your tion and endurance, and the cavalry marched great distances over bad roads, yet the casualties among the horses were smaller that in an ordinary campaign,
Capt.
342 Pte. F. E. Joseland, A Cu. (formerly attached to Hongkong Police Reserve), is permitted to re- sign, on leaving the Colony, dated May 1st, 1910.
leave graated to No 893. Pte. W. T
Watts Evans having expired, he is struck off the strength of the Corpa from May 1st, 1918.
APPOINTMENT.
the Officer Administering the Government has beca pleased to appoint Lieutenant R Hall to be Captain in the Hongkong Defence Corps, with effect from May 1st, 1910.-
PORTING
the E. Evan-Jones is posted to Signalling Section, in command, dated May 1st, 1810. He will also: act as Officer Commanding "B" Co., until further notice.
LEAVE.
Section, is granted to months' leave, from May 29th, 1918.
Lee. Corpt. H. E. Goldsmith, Signalling
Pte. N. D. Pullen, A Co., is granted
8 months' leave from May 3th, 1910.-
granted 6 weeks' leave, from May.. PA. B. Stewart, Machine-gun Co., is
15th, 1919.
Gnr.
A. W. P. Spiers, Artillery Co., is granted 12 months' leave, from May 5th, 1919.
DRISS...
- EQUIPMENT BOARD.
and after May 1st. father was exiled and died bere; but Helmets will be worn at all parades on before his death we had long talks. He told me then that when peace was declar ed he would return to these Germans. whose conduct be detested, and spead the rest of his life trying to promote inter national decenes.
You were always cosmopolitan and be lived in a cosmopolitan ideal. Despite the war. You deplored the folly of the the censorship we corsesponded during Germana, though you thought the war was historical necessity. I forbere from quoting the text about him from whom the offence first cometh." For in deed I thought that more might have been done by my own countrymen to in "dicate that we were ready to fight in the last resort..
The
Board will sit at Headquarters from
5.30 top.m. on the following dates:
Monday, May 5th.
Friday, May 18th. Monday, May 28th. Friday, June 4th.
EXAMINATION FOR PROMOTION.
Reference Corps Order No. 5
dated January 10th, 1519, a lecture will be given by the Adjutant at Head- quarters, on Wednesday, May 7th, at 6 p.1.
DYDERS FOR ARTILLERY COMPANY, BY MAJOR -
3... W, ARMSTRONG, V.D. Monday, May 6th:--
He was told by an officer in high com mind that "there were times when be preferred Indian soldiers to the British Some strongholds tad to be attacked in worths single the formation called Chiness residents in Siam have pet-files of men ad the Indian troops took tioned Peking to aachiorate their plight.to this formation very readily. The Bri- The suggested remedy is the opening of tish soldier, however, liked to see com- treaty relations regarding which, how.ades on each side, in this differing from ever, Siam is rather eny. Siam does not others nations, who liked to be supported irom behind. In this war it had fallen to see the need for it, and, not unnaturally the share of the British Empire to con- is disinclined to ask for it. Siam's regula quer Turkey, and latterly the bulk of the
to the tions, though seeming harah
force engaged
in that work had consisted Chinese affected, may not appear to be so of native Indian troops.. unjust, when one imagines the fears of
"AN INCREASED ARMY. a small nation becoming absorbed by the An enormous increase had been neces- We bad more industrious and more prolific race sitated in the Indian Army. living within its borders. It recalls the drawn heavily on the fighting races, and position of the Transvaal and the he had no doubt that we could have done Uitlanders. If Chinese be becorded the so still more heavily
He believed the King had contributed rights which they claim, their increasing sumbers will operate against Siamese not a little to that great result. He was On the with his Majesty in India in 1911. The homogeneity and nationality. other hand, Siam cannot expect in as King went out to India against the wishes similate ita large proportion of Chiness of his Ministers, perfectly sure he enald residents and remain. a distinctive render service and being anxious to bring race Biam is not particularly cages in India closer to England. His Majesty cstablish & Legation in Poking nor toda wearing life daring the first three
weeks. He never had moment to
1 over, Sism would insist in any such self He was giving interviews to native Agree to opening one in Bangkok. Mare treaty upon the privilege of extra rulers every day and all day, and he German citizen, Your family will "have The result of the Barker Cap rifle cam-
always looked happy and glad to sec territoriality, a privilege which China them. The devotion with which bis wishes to curtail rather than to extend, Majesty was regarded by one and all of while to grant it to a small nation like the great Indian chieftains was very Siam, which was formerly a vasal state touching: All these great chiefs had come of China, would be very humiliating in-forward in the war. deed to the Peking Government; THE CHINESE CALENDAR,
it was a case of dead reckoning. It came
on the exact date expected. Needless to
bim
The
How, if ever, can we meet At least one of your children is dead as the result of the blockade, and I have lost at least aix very intimate friends. Your son is a German, who will always associate Englishmen with a period which must have erbittered all his adolescent me morica My own family, threatened re brutal air-raids, which destroyer my office and elightly mutilated posted by my home, will not find it easy in the fature to make any allowances for the diabolical means by which "the German Government poisoned the mind of the suffered more and will still be suffering when my country (once yours) will have recovered its balance.
E-
3.30 p.m. Lert Half Co. Parade at
Headquarters (all members to at tend). Inspection of arms, am- munition and equipment.
Full marching order (helmet, shorts and putties, but no overcoat or ema kun). Tuesday, May 8th:-
7.30 am. Right Half Co. Parade at Headquarters (all members to at- tend). Inspection of arms, am- Full munition and equipment. marching order" helmet, shorts and putties, but no overcoat or
"
DEL
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CAN
petition between Half Companies, beld on 27th ultimo, is Bigat Half 518 and Left Half 658 points, the" latter thus winning by 8 points. ORDERS 101 ENGINZER. COMPANY-BY CAPTAIN & HALL.
INSTRUCTIONAL CLASS TOX RECHEITS tion under E. Staff-Sergeants at Recruits will attend for D.B.L. Insura
Belcher's at 9 p.m., on Wednesday, May 7th. 2
Officer on duty-end-Lieut. Blackburn.
INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES FOR OFFICERS AND N.C'O'S.
After all, we may never meet, and that He hoped the wax would do much to may preserve the perfect memory I now bring Indi and England closer. India have of you and yours. And that memory The Spring rain came this year one had rendered enormous service. Her will help me to think internationally. day ahead of time. According to the troops had shown astonishing gallantry Xou were caught up into the German we system through no fault of yours or mine. I do not see how you could have avoided Chiness calendar it was not due fill April and her chiefs a loyalty for which
it. I should like to think that your Stat, but it came on April 20th Last year ought to be devoutly thankful..
grandchildren and mine could mees, even if our children do not; and with that feeling I can work very hard towards an international understanding. But never forget that much as all the world has These Tuesday classes are discontinued "suffered, I feel the fate of France more keenly than that of any other country The high wind have continued unWhat purports to be inside information except, perhaps, Belgium, and I am sure Nos.
has been given out to the effect that in you do also. I know, at any rate, that usually late this spring These are. according to reckoning, to last for forty structions have been conveyed to the I bave never been able to speak French five days. If they do they will be respon Chiness delegates in Paris from the with your mastery of the language. Nor sible for mach injury Already the Peking Government which have prae- have I really your deep love of huma apricot trees have suffered, and the crop Lically muzzled them, the suggestion nity. Recently I have been disposed to will be a poor one DAYLIGHT BAYING
say, the people were overjoyed to see it to every woman in the capital. Of late the dust has been unusually sgures according to a census carried out trying, and most folks felt com.orted to by the police are 637,531 male and experience a sense of moistness in the 234,830 female-a total of 932.540. atmos_hero,
has
A SUGGESTION.
think that monkey have a certain supe. riority, if only because they have not in- Nevertheless my adoration of you has vented our weapons of destruction.
being that it is done in accordance with Peking is very much interested in the Japanese wishes. Such a charge is very my sources of information, which are movement for daylight saving. Already serious, but I cannot get it confirmed, the Telegraph Administration pioneered by advancing its clock one also official, emphatically declaring that survived the lapse of nearly twenty years bour, but nobody else. has followed suit. no such instractions were given by the and even this borrible war. And though | The Banks have not yet made up their rekingoverment Most people would minds on the subject, but most of the regarded the long communiqué issued by we may never meet again, it will at least
Yours always, the Chinese delegation in Paris, and help me to work in the right direction- foreign community, including several issued locally by Reuter, as a refutatión Legations, would not welcome the change of any such charge, but the well-informed It would bring us into line with Shang hai and possibly Tigatain, but sie would still have to wait until the sun went down a little before starting tennis in the
afternoons.
AN INTERESTING REPORT.
The above is a genuine letter written. a dismiss this important document as by a distinguished Englishmao, but not intended for Press consumption, an ex- pianation which is ao explanation. I sent, for reasons into which we cannot understand that the instructions given in cater We publish it without comment the first instance to the Chinese Peace as a Human Document, for which purpose delegates have in no sense been changed. it was confided to us--ED, S.R.3 They were to use their own discretion and to act as socmed best according to their judgment.
An interesting report appeared local two days ago to the effect that a loan of
SALVING BARBED WIRE. twenty million yen had been contracted from Japancro sources for the purpose
PARLIAMENTARY PROBLEMS.. of reminting the Yuan Bhih-kni eginage
Members of Parliament, are, giving Unfortunately, it is not true. In the thought to the problem of Constitu WONDERFUL MACHINE PULLS IT
OUT OF THE GROUND. first place the need for the reminting-ition drafting. At a dinner given the not a matter of any great importance, other night by Wang I-tang, the Speaker
"There must be at least 100,000 tons of while the principals who signed the loan
of the Louse of Representatives the are an antagonistic combination.
subicct was lengthily discussed and, renarbed wire buried to our own lines in ANOTHER JAPANESE-AMERICAN ÏHUIDENT,
arkable to relate. the concensus of France alone, said Colonel Stanley opinion seemed to be that each Parlin Smith, of the War Office Salvage Cou
We hope to recover went should prepare its own draft Con- mittes, to a Daily Chronicle representa- stitution and should dissolve itself. It tive recently. a American near Mukden, which is that too much to expect that lofty patrio practically the lot."
Were it not so serious, one would smile at the explanation of the latest outrage perpetrated by Japanese militarists upon
from this week,
INFANTRY INSTRUCTION,
Wellington Barracks, and Na 3 18 and 4 Bections will parade at Section at Taikoo Dockyard, for Infantry instruction, at 5.30 p.m., on Friday, May 9th Dress, drili order (shorts and putties)-
FOR INFANTRY BATTALION BY MAJOR
O, H, WAKEMAN, VID...
ORDER Monday, May 5th; —~~
5.15 p.
A Co., No. 4 Platoon, at Headquarters. T.E.T. Rife, belt, pouches and dummy cartridges to be carried.
Tuesday, May 8th:-
2.
5.15 p.
A Co, No. 9 Platoon, at Headquarters, T.ET. for N.C.OL and men
detailed by 0.0 Fintoon.
+
Thursday, May 8th:
靠
5.15 p.ro. A Co., No. 3 Platoon, at Headquarters. T.E.T. Rifle, belt, pouches and dummy cartridges to "be carried.
BIGNALLING SECTION.
Tuesday, May 6th:-
5.15 pm, AL Headquarters T.E.T. Rifle, belt, pouches and dummy cartridges to be carried,
G. E. STEWART, Capt.
Adjutan, 4.K.D.C. Hongkong Muy 2nd, 1919,
A BRITISH MOTHER
The Bishop of Chelmsford, speaking så the Church of St Fotolph, Rishopsgate,` rt a remorialrervice for nearly 500 mem- The task of solving by Land was, found hers of the staff of the Indon County he was pushed out of the way of antism will distinguish so many parliamen officer's fractions horse by a thoughtful tarians Nevertheless, it is the obvious impossible. The Balvare Committee de- and Westminster and Parr's Bard, Ltd, *ined a machine which absorbs the who have fallen in the war. told the story soldier armed with a bayonet. Mr. 8. solution of the difficulty.
buried wire as nearly as a vacuum cleaner of a brave Bethal woman who had lost her son, The Ind was in a British W. Glass, an employé of the B.A.T., was ABTAKTLING REPORT. -. Assaulted by a Japanese soldier and taken The flocking of ex-M.P'a to Peking sherbs dust,
Thez fret machine was recently sentuhmarino, whith an ved sling by scom- to the Japanese polleo-station at Fahas given rise to the startling report that Miencheng, released, re-arrested again, and taken to the Japanese military bond these gentlemen are working in associato France in charge of two olicers of the ing between it andƐan eramy Kuhmarine.. tion with Feng Kud-chang and Hsuing committee, whose report came to hand and receiving the tornedo intended for
The Fritish submarina: was, ignarters, where he was detained for two-ing for the establishment of new rocently, with an order for 40 mora wire the line all on board petishing. 3: The
destroyed, hours befors being liberated. As a Goternment at Nanting. The former is cons
OfEvery and
carries the whole mother of the Betzal eens boy,zon. trailer Mien-cheng is not within the sphere of to be elected President; Li Chun, Vice
wire rope with good thing that the iomedo, struck the the South Manchurian Railway zone the resident; Tang Shaoy, Fremier and of the plent, which work on the most being interviewed anidi. Was it not Japanese have no authority or right to Minister of Communications; Haling sinumber of hook s arrest any foreigner
Hai-ling, Minister of Finance; Chú Chi; As the barbed wire drawn on it pa said the, interviewer, MORE, MEN THAN WOMEN.
chica Minister of Interior, etc.-in short, thngh two sets of toller, and the salved coalition cabinet, The project is not metal aphers in blocks from a foot to 18 new one. All that can safely be said i inches snare and weighing from 70 to
If the Intert census figures be taken na wenrate, there are more than two men (Continued at foot of next column.)
-innevel: Klosed, 3/2ed by winch. Fsubterine and plot poed van But
by
the submarine Yes, but you we replied the mother, "if it had atrucie tho. liner there would be a thousand women
is that there may be something in it. 90 lbs. For smelting it sells for £o a ton like me.