NEW CORPS.
ONE-MAN BUSINESSES.
Our Strength in Machine Guns.
A Legal Right to Exemption.
We have heard a great deals, Mr. A. Richardson, MP. about artillery and shells, and chairman of the Law Society have periodically been furnished Tribunal, referred recently "to
the confirmation by the Central | with statistion to illustrate our steady progress towarde alti Tribunal of their decision to caste superiority in heavy arms. grant conditional exemption to a retail grocer, aged 39, married, ment. Very little has been said about machine guns, So far as with one child, and fit for gener- al service. The appellant was the general public knows, we are still as bop-le-sly cotnumber. given three months exemption by ed as WO were in the early the Holborn Tribunal, who, bow- days of the war, and have ever, refused a renewal. The Law Society granted, on appeal, a far- the original eetablishment of two or three ther three months, deciding that gans to a battalion, sa against appellant was unable to get any the enemy's strength of one gun that if he were called up the one to manage his business, and to every twenty men.
goodwill would be wholly and irrevocably destroyed.
Do
more
than
-
Nothing could be farther from the truth. The machine gane, The case was of far-reaching like the shells and the men, have
importancs, added the Chairman. come, and counter-attacking Germans are now faced with the The decision did not alter the law unpleasant fact that the most give anyone the right to exemp deadly thing about the B-itish tion who was not before entitled infantry is not their skill in to it." The only effect would be bandling a rifle, but their ability to remind tribunals that, however to man innumerable machine Brest the pressure brought on them to refuse exemption, sp- guas firing hundreds of rounda
plicate were entitled, not as a minute.
privilege or 48 1 matter of Towards the end of 1915 it was diseretion bat as a legal right, found desirable to organise to receive exemption when machine gunnera on a new basie. they had established to the Their proportion to the ordinary satisfaction of the tribunal that infantryman bad so greatly in serious hardship would ensure creased, that the old system of owing to exceptional business battalion sections was no longer obligations if they were called up. suitable. The Machine Gun Corps
A
The tribunal way cot entitled
was formed. Two extensive camps to refuas exemption beesuse the were laid out in England, one to applicant was a young man fis for
"The supply of the latter types will, of course, be limited ?" I suggested.
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of the Steamer-"fer Hul, Tackle Apparel, Furniture, M-chinery, Boilers and every- thing connected therewith, an they may lie at Pratas Reef of Hongkong.
CONDITIONS OF TENDER
(1) Tenders are "invited for the rock. The wreck is sold as it lies, and no responsibility is taken by vendors for any dam- age or defect whatsoever that may now or may hereafter exist.
must
(9) Intending tenderers
deposit at Shanghai, or Hons. kong the sum of Mex. $5,000, with Meeste. M isui Bussan Kaisha. Ltd. agents of the "okio Ma ine Insurance Co... Ltd., Tokio, who will issue deposit receipta.
"All tenders should reach the office of Messrs. the Mitsui Bussan Keisha, Ltd., Shangbai or Hongkong, not later than the 24th July, 1917, or the Tokjo Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Tokio, not later than the 25th July, 1917.
|(4) Tenders will be opened at the fice of the Tokio Marina Marine Insurance Co., Ltd. Tokio, at 3 PM 27th July, be 19*7. Buyers will not admitted.
|(5) The vendors are unt bound to accept the highest or any tender but have the liberty to 'call for entirely fresh tenders, or to sell the reck in any other way they may think fir. In the event of dentical ten- ders, vendors reserve their rights, of acceptance or re- jection.
(6) Should the company notify the acceptance of any tender. the sale is thereby concluded on the conditions set forth here- in and such buyers' deposit is appropriated as bargain money and in
of part. payment purchase.
testimony to the antrath of the From EUROPE USA JAPAN (71.The balance of the purchase
nentral Socialiate' sesertion that
& SINGAPORE
“FALSTRIA,"
be used as 's training centre general service. and the other sa a depot for the organisation of the peg machins gun battalione. I was privileged. recently to visit the training centre. I found the town of once a sleepy market place in
"We have as many se we re an agricoltoral district, trane- formed into a hive of military quire of every type," the Captain activity. The whole countryside aseured ine. "The resi work at to the north of the town seemed present is not in fading the to be scvered with batmente, and gans but in training the men to the rattle of machine gune was work them. When that is com beard from rangee
Dear and pleted-which will be in a very short space of time—I can guar- distent.
antee that we eball at last be on I introduced myself at the Headquarters of what is officially mad Army. We are drawing en qaal footing with the Ger-
known be
the Machine Gofficers from every branch of the Training Centre, and a captain Infantry and Cavalry from all placed himself at my disposel. over the British world in order to German Scialists are prepared
"Did you belong to the original for fal the increased complemento consider arrangements of the HE Motorship Expeditionary Force?" I asked.
of machine gun sections, now Alsace Lorraine problem by made possible by the immense friendly Franco-German negotie having arrived from the above (8) On a tender being accepted "You will and that the majority of output of machine guns from the tions, i furnished by an article ports, Consignees of Cargo by the instructore here are Regular armament factories in our own in the International Correspond ber are hereby informed that all Army men. Few of them bare less and neatral countries. than seven years' eervice, and
ence, the accepted organ of the Goods are being landed at their We adjursed to one of the German Socialist majtity. This risk into the hazardous and/or consequently the instraction given is expert in every direcmerous lecture balls in the article declares as Socialist doc extra hazardous Godowns of the tion. I will show you round the Training Centre, and heard a trine that Ais-ce-Lorraine is Gat Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf lieutenant of the Instructional man, and must remain so. and Godown Co., Ltd., whence training grounds, and you may see for year-elf our system for Staff talk to an attentive audience quotes the late August Bebel, and/or from the wharves delivery the production of efficient machine of young officers on indirect fire who was Socialist leader in the by means of map and compass. Reichstag, and the late William gan officers and N.0.0"
was mystified at the amount of Liebknecht, Socialist leader and All broken, chafed and dam-Hongkong, 21st July, 1917. "You do not train privates in minate calcalation required, and father of Dr. Karl Liebknecht, as aged packages are to be left in
THE MITSUI thie camp? "
at the close of the lecture remark exponents of the thesis that the the Godowns, where they will be
BUSSAN KAISHA, LIMITED, "Only in exceptional careeed to my friend that apparently a provinces must be regarded and examined at 10 am. 26th inst.
Claims against the steamer There is as time for that, especi- machine gun officer, besides being defended at an inalienable part
Agents, ally when we have to train officer a skilled engineer, must also be a of the German. Empire. It is must be presented within 10 days
The Tokio Marine Insurance by the thousand. Toe privates mathematician.
stated that nine-tenths of the of arrival, otherwise they will
Co., Ltd. No Fire Insurance" will be camp, to be trained by the officers said the Captain smiling, "for mother tongue, and that the effected by us in any case what- who have already qualified here. the syllabus includes courses in sentiments of e majority are Get-ever." Naturally we allow do officer Bombing, Topography, Ehysical man to the core.
I had that bonour" he replied;
་་
1
may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 27th inst. will be subject to rent.
are sent immediately to the depot ** That, sad a good deal more," population speak German se the not be recognised a
to pass
:
Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by
THORESEN & CO.. Agents. Hongkong, 20th July, 1917.
out of our hande Training, and several minor On the other hand, Professor until he is able to impart every-[aubjects.”
Laband, of Strassburg, a leading thing from A to Z in machine
Leaving the lecture hall by a German expert on constitutional gunnery. The final test is side door, we came on to a large law, who from forty years' resid. severe one, and the officers who do not succeed in passing their parade ground where several ence in Alasce sad Lorraine bar first examination are kept for platoons both of officers and gained some qualification to speak N. C. O's, were being drilled by authoritatively, maintains in. an further instruction. The In- #tructional Steff consider it sergeant instructors who need article in the German Review nothing short of criminal to over-weird, oat effective, words of that the population in senument
is still largely, French. He sayeva look incompetence in the officers
"One of the preliminaries to the influential and educated els ander their charge. The standard
inetraction in the school' myments are as sati-German to-day excepted from N.0.0s. is scarcely
companion explained, “is a three as in 1871, and do not associate less high."
command.
11.
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TOYO KISEN KAISHA. 3.5. SIBERIA MARU.“ From SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS & MANILA. The above named staamer wee ka' conres on the drill square. or intermarry with Germans, having arrited, consignees of First we visited a large hall, Discipline being so absolutely The sentiment of the poorer cargo are hereby notified to devoted to instraction in me essential for the co-operation classes is shown by the common send in their Bills of Lading for |counter-signsture, and to take chanism. There were about required by machine gunnera, ase of German appellations as immediate delivery of cargo from
Anti-Germaan alongside. twenty mail squads of officers, the Gaarde' system has been terms of abuse. each squad gathered roanda adopted by the Corpe. The drill feeling, he states, has not dis- Cargo remaining undelivered machine gun and listened to a instructors are all Guardsmen," appeared, but has increased dar on 23rd July, at 5 PE will description by a sergeant insträc
As the weather was excessively ing the war. Professor Labsad, be landed at consignees risk and tor, of the various parts of the hot, I could not refrain from therefore, believes that the ersc-expense, and delivery must then mechanism.
expressing sympathy with the tion of the provinces into a be taken from the Company's squads, whose exertions were in federal state, removed from Im- Godown
"This work would appear to require the skill of a trained engineer" I remarked as we wat ched a sergeant strip his gun.
"That may be so, but whether
no way allowed to relax on account perial control, as advocated by ed on all cargo remaining un- Socialists, would be a dangerous of the temperature,
experiment.
"Better than the trenches in the same westher" was the laconic ar no the officers who come here reply. "We pride ourselves on
Hongkong Theatre."
have a knowledge of mechanics, the fact that a course at the The new change of programme they must certainly be skilled Machine Gun Training Centre is at the Hongkong Theatre to-night engineers so far as this gun is the most atrennons to be had will be most attraptive. It in concerned, before they leave." anywhere.
Storage charges will be, assess- delivered on 27th July, at 5 PM
No Fire Insurance whatever will be affected.
-No Claims will be recognised after the goods have left the Steamer ortodown.
money shall be paid to vendors not later than 28th July 1917,÷| in default of which the contract] is considered cancelled and the bargain money is forfeited.
the delivery of the wreck is effected and, thereupon, it is at the risk and expense of the buyers.
on tenderers' deposits, which (9) No interest will be allowed
will be refunded to unsuccess- ful tenderess on or before the. 28th July 1917 and only in ex- change for the original depo eit receipt.
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All chafed and damaged cargo The officers have cludes two dramas." The Passing will be landed into the Company's *They have to qualify only in practically no time to themselves. of Disasin two reels) and Godown, where they will be examined on 31st July, at 10 AM. this particular gun?”.
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