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MANNING THE FLEET.
"Boom" in Recruiting for
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1913,
alight character a further 30 par cent, or so of those who come before them.
shows that the country is still producing good recruits, and the system of physical training in the ships at sea introduced several years ago has been found to produce admirable results.
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The recruite are very promising in physique and intelligence.. The Navy takea, as a rule, no boy The London County Council
Inquiries at the various recruit of 15 years who is under 5ft, in bae unonimously decided to seek
centres, by the Daily height and who cannot boast of's parliamentary powers to register ing premises usod for massage or Telegraph, indicate that the Ad- chest measurement of at least experiencing a 30in. Apart from the bays, the manicure, treatment by light, miralty
"bonta "in recruiting for the Navy needs a large number of electricity or baths, and nursing homes where not exempted under Navy. In the words of one young skilled artisans and Royal newly painted and colourwashed. ventilated, contral
officer, "Boya and men for both Marines, and in meeting these the Bill.
are required for the Fleet as requirements the recruiting Through a motor omnibus col-seamen and artisans are tum-officers are also able to insist on liding with it, the statue of the bling over each other to enter the a very high standard of physique. Into Duke of Cambridge outside Fleet. The result of this move- Generally the type of boy and the War Office in Whitehall nad ment will be that the present man coming forward for the Firet its aide bably scratched and two year will, probably, be notable in of the grouile pillars at the base naval annale for the fact that a The omnibu wae larger number of recruits will dislodged.
ave been accepted thon. in any Boriously damaged..
ear sinca a long servico system "Baby's Ulft from the Queen.
The Queen has sent a petticoat, of volantery recrning was in
There are two defects at pre- made by herself, to Mrs. Russell,troduced, now over half a contary
This despite the prosperity sent, and with reference to these wife of the Rev. C. W. Russell, 400.
committees of in inquiry have vicar of All Saints, Tosting, for of trade!
The experience of the past few been appointed by the Admiralty. the youngest baby at the mothers' meetings, and it has been pro-monthe bas amply confirmed the The Gret is, the stagnation in sented to the child's mother, Mra, wisdom of the naval authorities promotion to petty and chief in increasing the pay of the lower patty officer. This ie, no doubt,; Jeffrey,
deck and in offering promotion to due to the transition stage in About £90,000 has been left to the rank of commissioned officer which the naval service is at the Salvation Army by Miss Mary to the most deserving and pro- present, owing to the growth of Jane Fowler, of St. Anne's, Crox-mising men. These concessions the establishment in the past few teth-drive, Liverpool, a prominent have served to advertise far and years, and the absence at any worker among the poor in Liver-wide the advantages which the aitable and equitablo scheme Navy offers, since an ordinary boy for promotion, applied generally pool and an intimale friend of of good character and average at the ports and at son. This is ability may, under the now regula-merely a matter of arrangement tions, look forward of promotion and adjustment with a view 10 to the rank of lieutenant, with pay securing a more rapid flow up- The Rev. T. Sinipson, of Bro- ranging from £237 to £237 a year, wards at a reasonable age, so as The Having the meeting of besides allowances, which may to give the Navy more young the Central Wales Federation of amount to as much se 268 an-and active potty and chief petty Free Church Council, suggested nually, with a pension on retire cera. that ministers should witness auent of £200 a year. A pro- football match on Saturday after noon. It would, he said, cure their mental disease and perhaps enable them to preach better,.
Woman's £90,000 Bequest.
Her
the late General Booth. estate has been valued at $107,
018.
Football for Sermons
portion of these officers may rank of commander. In other anticipate reaobing the bigher than the seaman branch of the service careers of honour and good emolument are also open.
From Lower Deck to. Ward-
.Room,"
£5,000 Performance, The King bae sent a letter to Mr. Oswald Stoll expressing his pleasure that £5,000 was raised 08 B result of the "Good Samari
The promise which the Navy tan" performance attended by now offers is indicatod by the fact
Since
Decline of Seamanship. A more serious problem is the boys of the seamen class. system of training youths and thonbolition of the masted training squadron the charactor of the seamanship of the Navy has de teriorated. Among naval officers There appears to be a wide- spread opinion in support of this view. The younger seamen, while
his Majesty at the London Coli-that since October of last year they are of good. physique, re- seum on Saturday, October 11, in nearly sixty patty officers and vesl quickners at ordinary drills, aid of the funds of the Charing warrant officers all of then ex-and are probably, on the average, Cross Hospital and the French tered as ordinary boya-bave been of even a better charaute than Hospital in Londos.
selected to qualify as acting mateshoir. predecessors, are not as Writer of "Hichy-koo." with a view to being raised to good sailors. The want of some Mr. Lewis F. Muir, who, in col- the rank of commissioned officer.system of training which can laboration with Mr.L. Wolfe wrote when it is added that the over-produce the results obtained by "Hitoby-koo," "Waiting for the
age age of these new ward-service for a short period in the Robert E. Lee," "You Did" and ΤΡΟΦΟΣ officers is only about 1d training brigs is admisted by other successful ragtime pieces, 28 or 29, the lure of the many officers and warrant officers). made his first public appearance Navy to boys with a sea instinct who have had exceptional op on a stage at the London Hippod-can be readily understood." This: ortunities of watching the youn rome recently. He sang his own week eleven officers who have ger men of the Fleet under Bouge in a pleasant, unpretentious already been given the substan-ervice conditions.
The question is now being in. manner, which brought him on tive rank of mate, with pay at friendly terms with his audience the rate of 8s a day and a mes vestigated by a strong naval sing allowance of 2., have been committe, and, while it is im Legal Defence by Wife.
appointelf, after studying at the probable that they will suggest Mrr H. E. Stevenson, wife of allosal Nayal College, Greenwick, he introduction of masts and Burto-upon-Trent architect, ap to sea-going ships of the fleet as yards again for training purposes, peared at Barton County Court watch keepers, and from there it is felt generally that some and asked if she could represent the fieutenants list will eventual-alterations will be recommended. These, however, are temporary her husband. See was told that be fed.
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it was unusual, but permission The boom" in recruiting has troubles, and the broad fact re- was granted, and she called upon combatan opportune moment, semaine that the Navy is experienc her husband's opponent to stand the need of the Admiralty for iug a "boom" in recruiting, that up and put aside his papere men and boys is more urgent the officers and their staff in Lon- though the cross-examined him than ever. The result of this don and other cities, and at the skilfully, she lost ber case.
active movement to enter the porte, are in a position to pick and Women Crazed by Solitude. Navy is revealed in a few facts. choose; and that the country is Opposing the emigration of Four years ago the total number obtaining thoroughly good types educated women, Mrs. Leathes, who wore accepted were just over of boys, youths, and men for the wife of a Toronto profesor, do-
This experience is a' gratifying clared in a debate at the Women's 11,000; in subsequent years the ea service.
numbers have steadily risen, and Constitutional Ula, Court-field-last year-the-aggregato was about commentary on the frequent gardens, W., that ranch life was 18,000. It is anticipated that in criticism heard abroad, to the so terrible that Canadian girls the current twelve months the effect that though we can, and would not marry a rancher. latter figure will be exceeded by may, build the ships the country "There are women brought into
is not in a position to man them. at least 2,000. our insane asylums of whom the
The exact contrary is the truth. vast majority come from the coun-
In the new Navy Estimates The Navy is obtaining as many try districts and have gone insane
provision, it is understood, will recruits as Parliament votes; they through solitude."
be made to increase the numbers are of a splendid character, phy- sically and intellectually; and: The Education and Parks Juint borne once mora-by no fewer the problem of the future is to Committees of the London Coun- than 4,000, following upon this ty Council have completed negot- year's increase of 5,000-and to cure for them sufficient modern iation for the purchase of seven- supply this increase and make ships. As the First Lord Bug Every Watch sold by us is guaranteed
gested in a recent speech on this teen acres of land at Cubitt Town, good the losses due to age and malter, the nation owes a duty to Poplar, formerly known as the death the authorities will con- the Navy, and should provide it Millwall football ground. The sequently have to obtain even a with the host men-of-war that committee propose to use three larger number of entries than coience can devise and money acres of the land as a playing 20,000. There is, fortunately, can buy, since officers and men field for the George Green School, every confidence that every va risk their all in the service of the East Indio Dock-road, and to lay cancy will be filled, and filled out the remaining fourteen nores with recruits of the right type." By the end of March, 1915, there- as a public park for Poplar.
fore, no fewer than 150,000
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Revival of L.C.C. Tramways.
The tramway-care of London officers and men will be borne are reasserting themselves in the in the Fleet. This is twice as
country
"282-Year-Old Book. Arthur Bragg, a econd-hand dealer, was charged at Bow-strest.
"Whimsies," dated 1831. He possession of a book entitled
race for traffic against the motor-large a personnel as we had with being in the unlawfu omnibus. Towards the end of twenty years ago. ↑ September 10,000,000 passengers
It is a happy circumstance that
him to Dawn. He was remanded
a week were carried, and the the stresin-of-would-be-recruits ad the book had been given to traffic has since been maintained is at present large, but only above that bigh mark. Daring proportion of the applications on £100 bail for inquiries. the eleven weeks ending October received at the various centres 1 the tramways carried 107,501-are successful. The officers are 520 passengers, as compared with able to pick and choosa, and 104,403,817 in the correspon- nearly half those who desire ding weeks of last year. Thie to join the service are rejected at
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