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Brava Women of the War.
The sapoundsment in the Lan- don Gosette, referred to in one of to-dry's "telegrams, to the effect that military medals have been swarded to five women nurses for bravery and devotion to duty will be received with universal ap proval. We read of the brutal attacks of the enemy on Our
DAY BY DAY.
WHEN A WOMAN REALLY HAS MORE GRNAE. THAN A MAN SHE USES SOME OF IT TO CONCEAL THE EFFECT FROM BIK.
41
To-morrow's Anniversary. To-morrow's snuiverssy in that
in 1917.
The Dollar.
The opening rate of the dollar on demand today was 38, 21d.
1918.
MODERN GUNNERY METHODS.
VOLUNTEER
The Line of Fire.
MANOEUVRES.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The publication by the Man- Humorous Singapore Comment. shester Guardian of the evidenie given before the sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee. of the French Government is inkuri s exception to, we notion (enys the of the gallant Singapore Volan Daily News, which says that the
Major O. J. C. Stroet, RG.A.The semi-annual stunt which
writes sa followe
whole unit of the opposition
It will be remembered that the-
essualty clearing stations and of the capture of Messines Ridge Author of "With the Guns") figures sa the grand manoeuvres Japan Chrenise) by the N, C. In the old days, when guns teers daly came off on Monday interest attaching to the story is hospitals and, in our detǝsts
mams into action in the open, (saya & Singapore Free Press wholly negatived by the indigna- price.tion of the Hunnish barbarity employed, are apt to overlook the splendid and courageous work
they were directed on to their correspondent on May 25) and target by the simple process of provided the customary humor which all patriotic Britons of the many women engaged in
aligning their sights upon it, in (008 incidents, including that in mot feel at the manner in which
it has bean made public. the same way that a rifle is simed. which the Commander of one and the anderband stab contain them. It is therefore good to be!
While there have been many side, -unable to shake of the d at Mr. Lloyd George.” reminded as we are now by the The Colony's Health. awards just made of deeds done During the twenty-four hours occasions in this war when such babits of his every day svocation by our women that will bear ended June 5, two fatal cases of methods have been possible, son of arresting, all and sundry to the comparison with many of the bubonic plague were notified. ritions are usually such that the who look inimical bravest dreds of the war. That Three cassee of enteric fever, one problem of laying the gang upon Realm, succeeded in arresting these women, many of whom have of which proved fatal, and a non- their target becomes far more
and in the general grief of all, report of the evidence was given been very gently reared and fatal ose of spotted fever bave complicated presions so the war, led abeltered also been reported. The suffarars
Under modern conditions of Inolading the arrowed, who look by the Faria correspondent of the Manshaiter: Guardian. ·· Prosum- lives of comparative solitude and in all cases were Chinese, Artillery science, if a Battery forward to a quist morning in inaction, should have proved to A.Kowloon Annoyance. were to come into action in the sequence had to restore them ably the proceedings before and therefore be 'aa Bolire, ready. “ and lo she case of a hawker charged open, in view of the enemy's line to obstaney This is one of Committee were not open to willing for the many before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, at the and within range of his gass, it de minor horrors of imitation the public and varied teake that their new Palice Court this morning, with would probably be destroyed be war that even when Chance the correspondensi indome war-calling brought them, was crying his wares in a prohibited fars it had time to fire a single aile on you by cresting situs private means of getting införma- not so surprising, but that, when ares, Inspector Gardon said that round. Batteries are therefors tions in which you are out of tion.lu: common parlance: he emergency should arise, they this olaes of cash wa a great allotted positions, concealed from action at an early stage, a brutal schieved a journalistio “sodep.
may or may not "mean Ɛha - should be willing (as the telegram naisence at Kowloos, The Palice hostile observation both by air and ocares minded High Staff which states) to cross open and bomb were contingully receiving com- and ground. This means that immediately restores you to conferred a beneft on the public. upon the sccuracy of the informa». swept ground in each of help, is plaints from people living in from the position itself ac part of energetic sction by ruling you in course a good deel depende which evidence of a courage and nobility Hampbrer's Buildings. Bis the enemy'a territority is visible, again. requested to observe Correspondents are
At another time and place a tin, but presumably the Paris names and addresses with of mind and contempt for death, Worship infleted a fine of $1. and therefore that cone of the Iequires them forward their
detachment of the force which correspondent of the Mancherter: manications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for for which few would have given Students' Alleged, Kidnapping. Battery's targets can be sead.
was pushing along the Cold Guardian-ose of the most sober them credit. Bight nobly have the At the Police Court this morn. shilsation, but as an evidence of their bona fides.
The Battery Commander le thus Storage beef and F. and N. ad trustworthy journale in Log- All communications intended for publication should be addressed British women of all clseses coming Chinees student was faced with the problem of direct came up so far behind land is a journalist who reslices parted themselves. All cannot charged on remand before Mr. ing his guns upon an invisible the rear guard that it was mis- his responsibilities and in alive to receive awards, but all can and J. Wood, with kidnapping a objective. His first step is to get taken for the essay in pareuit the reputation of the journal with do received, the homage and the little boy from his home iu s is rough idea of the direction in and was promptly and irrevocs which he is connected. A 10 gratitude that they have so well vilirge, near Canton. The story which his emplacements must bly wiped out. As it happened, the alleged stab in the back to merited.
for the prosecution was that isce, in order that the guns in this was the same lot that Mr. Lloyd George, the correspond defendant was a student at them shall be able to cover that had been detained at an earlier eat having pablished one part of
o evidence had certainly no, Canton College, and one day disappeared taking the child with /Portion of the enemy's territory stage, or so it is mid, but even The interesting little article
or which he will be expected right to suppress other parts, and At the Post Office Building, Hongkong, on the 6th inst., to Mr. which we received yesterday from to su unoccupied house at Yaame bring are to bear. For this machine gan fire proved in in any case the statement that is an Old Cliftonian in Hongkong, ti where he had hidden the child purpose he finds kom hie may sufficient to destroy the fighting was only with reluctance that the the compass bearing of the centre and which we had pleasure in His Worthip committed him for of this wone from the Battery/capacity of this fine body of British Premier conserted to į Austria's offers being rejected- troopë, and though deed many pablishing in yesterday's issus, trial.
position, and then, with the aid times over they marched forward flots more honour than shame recalls to mind how truly
of bis instruments, plane out his defiantly and took their place in on him. great a part have the universities Before Mr. J. B. Wood, at the emplacements with their centre the scheme of things. and public schools of the dear Police Court, this morning, alines pointing on this bearing. It was in another part of the
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918.
THE OFFER TO IRELAND.
Public Schools and the War.
Oblivion !
As soon as the emplacements fald of action that the officer
The first presupposes the eI-| istence of an accurate large-scale
Such colution, however, was not forthcoming, and therefore because borough, Wellington, and the Defendant denied the theft, say-tary Commander marks with a
made.
a
section of his forcaa.
the
Maschiater
Britain entered the war for, and would have left her with as trae s victory as ever esa be attained. on the battlefield without the
Motherland played in the Norwegiannsmed Hans Tollessen, stupendous struggle upon which was charged with being draak.
Mr. Lloyd George, whether by we are still engaged. Oxford sad and incapable. in Pedder are completed, the guns are run instranted the soont to climb s Cambridge and, indeed, every Street, leet night. Sergeant into them. The Battery Com-tree to sepy the movements of the big speeches or his actions, he university and public school in Blackman mid defendant war munder then salsols any point in enemy. The scout, was one of created the impression that he is the United Kingdom have been found by an Indian Constable his sons, and proceeds to lay all those people who are practically bitter-ander, that he still Whatever else may be said of the offer to Ireland which Vis- denuded of practically every male lying in the road truck. He had his guns on this point, which will interested in rabber and when he bankers after the knockout count French, in bis capacity of Lord Lieutenant, se jast made it studant-undergraduates, young to be carried to the charge toom.in future be bie standard point dreconded to the earth his report blow sad is inclined to sparas must be said that it breathes a spirit of magnanimity and concilia and old, rushing impetuously to He was so drank, that it was And it is just upon the exsclitude was to the tent that there was all peace difere even before they tion a spirit in which it is transparent that England wishee for the call of the Motherland in die difficult to get anything out of with which he performs this no die back within sight but are made. The nothing more ardently in regard to Ireland than that amity and tress. To noue is the call more him whatever. Defendant said he operation that the accuracy of his a good deal of brown bast was Guardian's Paris correspondent showing up." The officer, know-hows that he has another side, concord should exist between the two countries. All along each has clarion-sounding than to those was oblivions at the time. A fine future ebooting dependa.
stter unfortunately only for private been England's attitude towards Ireland, notwithstanding the sori-high-spirited yeathe, the best of 83 was inflicted.
There are many ways in whiching something of the monions and hostile spirit which the Irish political agitators have blood and the beet bred of our
Tribute to Civil Servants, it can be doce. Without entering himself, mattered a few remarks so. That he should hesitate shown towards Ecgland. Happily, it has always been plain that land. In them isenshrined the sacr-
At the Palice Court this morn too deeply into technical details, about pick eye and made a mental to throw over Austria's pence. but for these agitatore, who have been a curse to their country and ed font of our noblest traditions, ing, before Mr. J. B. Wood, a the main principles underlying note to bar all planting en bust-term is natural and creditable; the chief cause why it has not prospered as it might bave done, the for they are the worthy sons of Chinese was charged with enatch-two of them can be described, as aste in fatare from the scoating they practically granted all that Irish question would long since have been settled.. Time and worthy aires, bearing names that inga gold ear-pick from a woman being typical of the rest, time again messures have been introduced in the House of Commons stand high in our realm for great Complainant said while she was which had as their object the praiseworthy desire of removing the and noble actione. To record walking in Tai Wong Street de incubus that lay so heavily upon Ireland, and time and time again the deeds done by those splendid fendant came up from behind and
map, and the possibility of seeing, The second method must be bitter feeling following anch a have these conciliatory steps been atterly nullified by the recale: youths is not yet possible: suffice snatching the article, ran away from some point in of near the employed when no map is avail victory. Only one counter stood trant attitude of Ireland'e paid agitators, who have for so long daped it therefore to say that what the The alarm was raised, and Battery position, an object of any able and from no point near the in the way of the conclusion of their fellow countrymen by deluding them as to the real feeling that men of Oxford and Cambridge Folios Reservist named Thomaa kind, such as a spira ΟΙ
has no connection with the initial existed in England for them. It was hoped that the Convention have done has likewise been gave obsse and succeeded in chimney, that can be 'identified. Battery can a conspiónous point pesce, and this for a reason which
be seen. In this case the B stery which recently met in Dublin and discarned the situation 60 sccomplished by the Isds of Eon, arresting defendant. The ear upon the map. IE these Commander takes a director to causes of the war. thoroughly would be able to afford solution to the difficulties Harrow, Rugby, Clifton, Marl pick was fond in his pocket conditions obtain, the Bat- some place (0) from which a point of that and for other reasons, it became imperative that such sa cher many other noble schools of deating he was in the employ of the pin-point upon his map (i) the near the Battery (B) and a point!
An for the reasons leading the ss that now made by Ireland's new Lord Liententent should be old England.
Government and Government standard point in the enemy's in the enemy's line (T) csn both
be seen. He then messures. the Manchester Guardian to publish Servants did not committ laroen territority, (ii) the conspionons distance from 0 to B. sad the the report, we take it that they As already stated, it breathes the spirit of sweet conciliation Merit Recognised.
ios. Elis. Worship put the case object and (ii) the point in the angle between the linee from are in connection with ther and makes a bid for an end being brought to a equabbla which has
lover until to-morrow.
Battery position from which theo to B and 0 to T with campaign · against already lasted far too long. Viscount French's chief ples is to The announcementcontained in Magistrate's Advice. latter can be seen, He then his director. By means of diplomacy which somehow seams Ireland se an integral part of the British Empire. In this hour of
recent telegram that His Majesty A little country boy, charged drama two lines, joining the third supreme crisis, he calls upon the Irish se belonging to the United the King has instituted two before Mr. E. D. U. Wolfe at the pin-point to the first and second rangefinder, he finds the dis- to have lately lost its faroe, Kingdom and to the Empire to do their duty as have other parts of new decorations in the Royal Air Police Court this morning, with respectively, and mesenres the ance from 0 to the how though at one time promising to the Empire. Those in Ireland still eligible for service are Service will give universal plea- being in unlawful possession of angle that these two lines, make enough dats to solve the triangle puz diplomscy on & Bounder foot- trigonometrically, and can fading. The Russian Government reminded of their duty to assist the many thousands of loyal sons
the angle between the lines from did a great deal of good by pub of Ireland who have been and still are fighting, and whose ranks it sure. The gallant part our airmen two saw from a carpenter's shop, with one another
have played in this wer has which had been more or less He next arms himself with a B to O and B to T, as well as the fishing a large number of the ie the duty of their fellow countrymen to strengthen when necessary. demanded that there should be spoilt by fire, was soundly rated Viscount Franch in his Proolimation puts into the form of an offer
Elia for measuring horizontal angles, to the Battery, he then proceeds archives. They proved that, what might easily have been put in the form of a demand had some distinctive recognition of by the Magistrate for referring to director, which is an instrument range from B to T. Going back secret documents in the Russian
their services, and that they are foreigners as "Fan Kwai." prudence, doubtless sided by & clear comprehension of the to have these special decorations Worship told the boy that he and and consists of a telescope capes in the first case, using the however much control the people Irish character, not deemed the former course the best will be heartily welcomed, not others came to live here and make sble of movement in a horisontal paint O as his conspicuous point. of Europe have over their domestic Onde his guns are laid upon affaire, they have no control over The successful consummation of the offer, it is rightly only by the men themselves money, and then abused the red plane, and fitted with a scale
in degrees and this stanard point, he can switch the country's foreign policy, sad stated, will ensure that Ireland will play her part fally sad freely in but by every other branch of the ple, who enabled them to make graduated the world's struggle for liberty. Ireland is asked, voluntarily 10 Service and by non-combatants the money. The young defendent minutes, by which such movement them on to say other point in his they seem to show that there will furnish a number of men required to establish an equitable ratio who have appreciated to the did not appear to sppreciate the can be accurately measured, one by the simple process of be very little chance of attaining a world pesce until the poison of required when compared with all the other parts of the Empire. Surely this fall their splendidly contage little lecture, probably his years the whole being mounted on measuring the angle between point. and is not asking too much of Irishmen, for, after all, they are but required ons work in France and in the were too tender.
secret diplomacy is eliminated. He was fined a tripod. He sets this instrument the What car 85 for his offence:
ap at the point in the Battery the standard point, and traver- to fall into line with Englishman, Scotemen, Welshmen and the other theatres of war.
position from which he can see sing his guns through this men from Overseas, all of whom have come forward in a manner airmen have accomplished in
the conspicuous object, and pro-fangle: For this purpose worthy of the sons of the greatest Empire the world has ever know this war cannot be rated too
It is not generally known that ceeds to lay off the angle he has the guns are fitted with a sight Ireland is now given an opportunity to prove that she also realises highly. When
бла caneiders her responsibilities to the Empire by farnishing fifty thousand ander what d.foulties they have
already measured from the map, exactly similar in principle to the so far back as the beginning of the last century an American, by Suppose, for example, that he had director. recruits by next October.
laboured, it is astounding what a
found that
can be name Fulton, invented a emb the ossapicnoua The sccuracy that It is a task that Irishmen if they would prove themselves worthy tremendous valus they have of the name of Britons and, rising superior to the political differences proved themselves to our armies The Japanese Government has object lay sixty-seven degrees obtained by these methods is very marine, which the British Govern that have for far too long a time existed between themselves andEng in the field, and there is no doubt issued regulations for the creation thirty minutes to the right grest, An experienced Battery ment tried to suppress. This land-diferences, indeed, largely fanciful-can easily accomplish. that so long as the war lasts they of a new office in the Department of the line joining the Commander, from a carefully action was perfectly logical, for There recruits are but wanted to replenish the Irish Divisions in the will continue to distinguish them of Agriculture and Commerce to Battery to the standard point. hidden position in the middle of the submarine since its inception field, ene and all of whom have done work, splendid in its loyalty selves. The British Air Service cake investigations as to waya He looks through the telescopes thick shrubbery, from which has always been regarded as the to the Empire and worthy of Ireland's position as en integral part is acknowledged to be the best in and mesne of preventing accidents and manipulates it until the coa practically nothing can be seen, weapon of the weaker Powers. of that Empire. To-day Ireland is seked to continue hir as achieve the world, and the men who com- et factories and also in order to spicuous point is in the centre of can lay out his line of ire, To have encouraged its develop ment by adding an additical filly thousand recruits by a certaia prise it have demonstrated clearly improve sciary conditions. For its field. If now he swings it within a small fraction of a ment and use, therefor, would etipalated time and of supplementing that number by raising two thas no work required of them is the purpose of the new office an again in a left-handed direction, degree. One of the greatest have placed every maritime State to three thousand monthly in order to maintain the Irish Daitions. too dangerous or arduous for ordinary expenditure of Y35,000 through sixty seven degrees thirty satisfactione of a gunner's life is on a navalequality without wolves, The age on the present appeal is fixed at 18 to 27 years, and should, them to undertake, We may and an extraordinary expenditure minutes, the direction will be laid to go up to an Observation Post Nevertheless, we did later on therefore, accomplish its object without unduly hampering the therefore be sure that s large of Y22,000 are assigned. Mem on the standard point. A sub for the purpose of verifying his haild a few submersible vesele. industries of the country. Land will be available for those who number of the members of the bers of the staff of the office will sequent simple operation is, all line of fire by actual shooting, They are considered as useful, serve and the recruiting will be in civilian bands. It is an emio Force will earn for themselves the be appointed from among that is necessary to point the guns and to see the first found fired only for harbous defanon work, mently fair offer and Irishmen, as a body; sinking their political dife distinction which His Majesty the industrial experte, physicians in the same direction as the from new position fall within that releasing ships built for that
few yards of the selected farget, special parpose. ferencee, will, it is devoutly to be hoped, prove themselves worthy of King has now soon as to institute, and arohitects. it as trae Some of the Empire.
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