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HỒNGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY JED, 1918.
SEEDS OF NEW WARS.
HOW TO DEAL WITH THE
YELLOW PERIL"
NAVAL MENS PAY INCREASED
AT AN ANNUAL COST OF SIX MILLIONS STERLING,
The Government have approved the. decision of the Board of Admiralty, in
SIR D. HAIG'S WARNING.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was on May 14th installed Rector of St. An-acoapting the recommendations of Að drew's University, to which, position he miral Jerzam's Committee in regard to was elected in 1016. He was also ad the pay, etc.. of petty offers, non-com- missioned officers, and inen of the Royal mitted to the honorary degree of LL.D.
In his Rectorial address Sir Douglas Navy and Royal Marines, and increases Haig said if we were to avoid a repeti- have been sanctioned which will eventuál- tion of such catastrophes as the war justly cost £8,148,000 a year. now ending we must be prepared actively to prevent them, and inust know what course to pursue in order to attain our object. For, though for a while they might lie dormant, the passions from which war sprang were not yet dead in the hearts of meni The seeds of future, conflicts were to be found in every quar-
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The scales suggested by the Jerram Committee both for substantive and non- substantive pay were adopted as they stood, and as a result we get the follow- ing comparison of pre-war and new rates of weekly emolument for single men under these two headings and those of food and clothing: --
Pre-war Rates
New Rates.
02 4 114 49 13
ter of the globe, only awaiting the right conditions-moral, political, and reoncinic A. B. (under 3 years) ...LO 19' 8 --to burst
more into, activity. B. (over 6 years)...21 51 and cover the fields with harvests of aria.. (under 3 years) 1 2 ed meg. The unequal standards of living CPO (under 3 years) 2 39 £411 01 | P.O. (over y years)................£1 169 £411} and wide difference of civilisation exist-C.PO. (over 8 yearrs) £25 25 1: ing to-day in different parts of the globe. These emoluments are in addition to the economical pressure which must result free medical treatment and service accom« therefrom, and the racial and colour anti-modation, and in the case of married men pathies. likely to accompany the develop are, of course, increased by the amount ment of the latter, all forced him to the of separation and dependents' allow conclusion that struggles still more tex-unces, rible were in store for this earth unless wise and decisive action were taken to remove the causes. Hi would mention few, and those the more obvious, of the existing possibilities of strife. There was, in the first place, what newspapers
The effect of the changes will be, rough- and novel writers had made known to
public under the name fly, to increase the average pension from the allow the
Peril.
and thereby, in thr about £40 to is, and the maximum from interest of
of sensationalism, had robbed it to about £100, exclusive of the age in the minds of many of its ver
Pension.. real
Every life pensioner of good character' claims to serious consideration
and of the qualifying age is to receive the age pension.
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needed only a little reflection to under- stand that this problem was in fact F matter of the utmost seriousness, deserv ing all the thought that could be given to its solucion. He spoke of the work of the Chinese who hati heen brought to France, and said the Chinese must even Lually demand place in the European labour market, competing with our high- ly-paid labour and our infinitely higher standards of living. Again, India, with a population of over 300,000,000 sauls, was already beginning to turn towards social, industrial, and political develop ment. Such a policy as that advocateed by the ex-Kaiser could only result in almost amending strife between the West and the East..
OUR MISSION TO THE WORLD.
In a
But the report, goes a good deal für ther than this, and on the questions of pensions and allowances there are many important recommendations For in stange
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The basic rate of pensions is increased, from id, to lid.
Allowances for long service and good conduct medals and badges to be increas ad and the to be £90. Ent on receiving the medal
Separation, ete, allowances to continue. until December 31st, when the subject will
be further considered
to
Kit upkeep and leave allowances made permanent, and bospital stoppages not to be reintroduced.
Admiralty
National Insurance pay contributions, the town of his employment within one A man's establishment to be moved to month of his leaving the Service.
Royal Marines to be placed on Naval pay basis instead of Army rates.
The persions copocsaions apply to men
ESTIMATE OF THE COST,
cửa to the cost, the following is the offi cial estimate:-
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The solutions which he (Sir Douglas) | now serving and, thous who have served would offer for this and other problems in the war. which must, unsolved, give rise to mighty |.. Wars was very different from that pro pounded by the ex-Kaiser. It was differ ent because ideals were different, and
The increases in pay herewith aroune- for this reason it was that he believed. as thousands of his countrymen believed ed, based on the numbers of permanent with him, that the solution of the prob- men "show in the Fleet, will cost annual- ...*. £2,830,000. lem was part of the great mission of the ly, British Empire in the world.
The increases in, allowances (increased sentence, he held that this tremendous pay for good conduct badges, increased problem was only capable of solution by rate of good conduct gratuity, early giving to all races, however insignificats crease in grog money," increase in non- allowance for good conduct gratuity, H- what we proudly regarded as British
in substantive pay, increase freedom and justice, and thereby, in the
engine-room artificers special allowance,. years, levelling them up to tional Health Insurance of
cost of Course
many our own standard of life. Only in this way
contribution, could international rivalry be brought discharge to pension or on being
conveyance of families and furniture on confined within limits of peace; noted), less certain existing allowances to and
invalid. thus could the terrible pressure of economic competition be prevented from I merged
engaged pay to sea- driving whole continents into war. It mun class, store allowance to Victualling was, he imagined, with something of this Branch ratings, certain allowances to the idea.that
been woven into the fabric of the pay) will cost annually £658,000. an economic and industrial sida Royal Marines now merged in bi
in higher. League of Nations, It so, be welcomed
The increase in the basis rate for pen it as a step in the right direction, but
including increase for badges, the League of Nations sure above the c
of all leading seaman time, us from the mission that was laid upon together with the application of these im us, as members of the British Empire, provements to pensioners on the roll who to use for the betterment of mankind the have served during the war, will cost:- unequalled opportunity that God had In the first instance
873,000 "Eventually** given us. As a necessary preliminary to
£2,246,000 The addition of sd, a day age the great crusade which he had indicated,
pension we needed the active assistance of a aat 55 and 9d. a day at 65 to all life pen- united Church. It was highly necessary signers as trom April 1st will cost, over that all teachers of every shade of Chris and above the amounts already dispersed tian opinion should enrol themselves as by Greenwich Hospital on age and in- active members of a great national and creased age. pensions:- Imperial Church
and
mind, the Churches had a great unequalled opportunity, and upon
how they used it would depend not mere-
of
ly the fature of our race, but the con tinual existence of that noble civilisation wh
which we and our for
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In the first instance.... Eventually Total annual initial cost,
pay, pensions, and allowa ances, of the present deci-, sions
£ 79,000
407,000
--------£4,447,000 Total annual eventual cost, pay, pensions and allow-
tees, of the present, deci xions
£8,148,000
had laboriously built up. Education, doubtless, had also a large part to per form, but in addition to lay education there must be that idealism which this
The additional immediate cost of the" Church alone could give. Ours was 20 If our Empire founded on idealism.
increases of pay, etc., for the demobilis- must perish withable man still in the Navy and for ante ideals died, our Empire much recent dating the new sondes for all concerned
We had
to February 1st, is
£1,040,000. the need of levelling up our own
It was still proceeding, and, It will be remembered that earlier in
them.
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Years
of
peoples.
he hoped, would never cease; but to ex- the year the Board of Admiralty autho tend that process to the children of rised ad interim increases of pay for other civilisations was a far more
officers and men pending the conclusion stupendous task, and
to accomplish it!
* of the Committee's investigations. These must take some hundreds of
dur. came into force as from February 1st ing which, be trusted, our own people last. would not be standing still. Yet it wa were to strike at the roots of the cancer that made for war, if the great ideal of world peace was ever to be attained, we must take up that task. We must persist in it, thinking not merely for ourselves, but for generations and generations to come. He who thought only for his own time was only half a statesman and bus a poor patriot
MILITARY PRECAUTIONE
In tribute to the officers and men of the Army, Sir Douglas said the Regular Officer as a class had made good in the war. He had shown that he was master
this war rests in any degree upon Creat Britain it is because the state of her mili tary preparations made it seem to the foreign observer improbable, if not im possible, that she would venture to take up the challenge which her enemies cast at her feet All available resources must be prepared and organised in time of peace with the view to their being used was the challenge of one Imperial idea if and when occasion requires. The ar
fought to secure the triumph of the, iden to another, and all parts of our Empire'
which they lived. We have won, Hanauld lend men and was a lot 12 209" "regding of judge of men. He hoped that one of the current events is correct, we have won post history and good results of the war would be higher regard for the Army among all Let us do our utmost to keep, it so and because our national character is sound, classes of the community. We cannot
So long on to our children. afford to neglect military precautions,"
Our national character remains an his continued, for to do so would be to invite warf the responsibility for (Continued at foot of next column.)
of his trade and was no mere society idler.
band
charged we shall always win in all we undertake. It is the sword and buckler of our Empire.' 17
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