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SHIPPING-LAW-FIGHT
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- BIG AIK MAIL: PROFITS.
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-OF-AMBRIDANS CE Sponsored by Member Bleave. Major (1,C. Türnèr - writes in aldo Tan of the municipal Board | the Observer -
There must have baan many, and other prominent Filipinos AT The first year of civil aviation both military man and civilian organization is being formed (says has not been wasted by any especially among those pad the Manila Bulletin) that has for means, for it has at Isaat pro- middle age, who had wearchings one of its objects the boycott of vided the frapressive record of of heart as to the future dress of Amarican firms which are work- the London-Paris air mail, a the British Army. Ualformity of ing for the retention on the wonderful recard in spite of the lothing-for-soldiers is a comfederal statute books of the provi- fact that it has bean run with paratively mode. thing, having tions-of-the-Jones-merchant handicapa comparable to running been first adopted by the militis marine law extending the coast-a railway service without signals, of some of the Flemish towns ir vise shipping laws of the United without aidings, without coaling the thirteenth century; and th 3atas to the Philingine-islands, and watering stops, without ralaya earliest indication ofit in England In an interview given to the of engines and drivers, compelled is to be found in the phrase" coat "ilipino press by Mr. Tan, the to employ complete traina with 90 and conduct money,” signifyin,ormation of such an organization per cent of the seating capacity the fee paid to the recruit for th was confirmed, and it is stated and the goods trucks empty.
The aeroplane expert is pre expense of providing himself with that prominent political and a coat and of making his way to wsiness interests among the occupied with the air vehicle, its the place of muster. That coa.Filipino people in Manila are excellences and its drawbacks. was of white, with the red cros- dentified with it..
The traffic superintendent knows of St. George stretched from neck
The Vanguardia quotes Mr. that organisation is all-important. to skirt and from side to side o fan as having said:
Organisation calls for capital A well-considered the front. Hence the technica']"The men who make up this outlay and name for English soldiers through organization cannot in any sanse policy. It means preparation out the sixteenth century wa- ba considered a disloyal to the againt all possible contingencies. "white coats.” The hue was, sovereignty of the United States. On the London-Paris service this perhaps, the more acceptable it As it has been and as it will con-has been almost entirely neglect- high quarters, since the Tudor tinue to be, we continue to be abled. The aeroplane expert thinks) colours were white and green. Iolutely loyal to the sovereignty in terms of the cost of machines the well-known picture of the of the United States in the Phil-and piloting; the traffic-super- a minor Field of Cloth Hampton
of Gold at ippine islands. We initiate and intendent puts these in Coart, the King's five life to this movement solely place, and thinks in terms of the attendants may be seen in white to how that we have a real pai-completa organisation required and green uniforms. Neverthe riotism bere, and that we Filipinos and lougnatiod running. less, the historic scarlet banjare always ready to sustain and already made its appearance in tefend our rights within the limits
The United States Postmaster- 1485, when Henry VII. selected of the laws."
General declares that the air; it for the dr. sa of his new per- Native press comment predicts mails in America have been a manent body-guard-that which that the formation of this organcreas success and that the pra still lives among us 29 the Yeo ization presages the most serious clicability of commercial men of the Guard. Why the first commercial conflict that has OC-transvort is proved.
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of the Tudor kings should have curred in the Philippines since the Examining a large number of made scarlet his peculiarly royal implantation of American sover-the monthly American reports. Watson's colour it is impossible certainls|eignty."
to say, but I strongly suspect that he borrowed it from the Red Dragon of Wales.
whichshow the costs worked out!
in detail under such beads as Pet-
per hour is about £16 on the average, and the cost per mile about 3s. 2d. It is difficult to get at the ton-mile basis, but it is evidently in the neighbourhood of
14.63.
and Ireland, "shocked" some of rol, Orice personnel, Rent, Light, Telephone. Pilpts, repairs and ac- FIRST GLIMPSE OF KHAKI. the finest of the Spanish infantry cessories, Departmental charges, We find little more detail of the off its ground at Dunkirk Dunes, Oil, Motor-cycles, Interest on dress of soldiers until the Civil gained immortal fams by the investment, we find that the cost War. The English military ad-storm of Ypres, and made the venturers of Elizabethan times, name of Oliver Cromwell the who bad studied their profession terror of Europe. under the German Landskechte,
REDS AND BLUES. swaggered about in handsome One regiment, the foldstream doublets and extravagant hose. Guards, alone was saved when according to the model of their this famous army was disbanded;
Let it at once be said, this is teachers. The Landsknechte were but the scarlet was perpetuated lower than it would be safe to celebrated for their gorgeous at by the new standing army of assume; the more conservative: tire, which indeed was one of the
harles II.. the Blues being the British expert puts total costs at Kreatest attractions to their ser- only exception. William III. somewhere boiwern 25s, and 35 vice. One old leader wasonce re-dressed a few new English regler ton per mile. For the proached by a respectful subments in blue; but this.calour
this article the ordinate with the outrageous pink-gare place to gracies before absolutely safe figure, of 2 per ling and pafɔ̃ng and slashing and Marlborough bagan bis famous!
cereal flamboyant appearance of campains, and orporal Johnto per mile will be taken.
Of the fee charged for letters) his men's dress. "Bah," said the raised the red coat to as high at by air from London to Paris shrewd old fellow, this is the pinnacle of glory as had Crom about goes to the air-carriers cheese which tempts our mice well. The East India Company The machines can carry as much into the trap." Nevertheless, it is native troops seem from the first 1,000 lb. of mail. Bat, patting in these same Elizabethan times hav
The Brst
the loads 2: only 600 lb. curiously enough, that we catch colonial regiment, the Rogal 9,609 dances, and latters nor first glimpse of kraki. White Americans,
the "King's
One Ounce Pach. & load is worth casts were found far too con Royal Rifle Corps, was clothed 30. The distance of 200 miles. spicu us for the difficult work of in scarist, and so als wer A £2 per ten-mile the cost of hunting down Irish rebels; and it tire: DIETU
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was recomended thithe troopshortly before 1800 in the We in the sister-island should be clal In lies. The red coat was the in russes or other sad colour, common heritage of all soldiers which would make them les- easy ¦ of the King.
to be seen. This is the first Nevertheless. during the instance known to me of an eighteenth century there was
encroachment attempt to adapt the soldier's some
the
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dress to the general background domain of the scarlet. The All this is amply supported by of the theatre of war. Invisibility, Rogat Begiment of Artillery, the American figures, which! in a general way, was shunned founded in 1727, has always worn show that it chats (all overbead rather than courted. In a night blus. A corps of Rangers, formed charges included) £163 to fly an attack, for instance. the assail-for service in the Canadian forests aeroplane from New York to Tel. ants covered their clothes with alin 1759, was clad in brown, Chicago, a distance of 740 miles. white shirt so as to recognise The light cavalry in 1784 was all Taking the extremely low-aver- each other the more readily, and clothed in blue, a change con-age of 500 lb. (8,099 oz) of mail hence night attacks were called stantly condemned by Wellington matter per trip, and charging) by the name of ramirades.
as leading to confusion between only 6d. per ounce letter, the CROMWELL'S REDCOATS. our own troops and the French. yield for each journey would be In the early sears of the Civil The first Wagon Train (ancestor £200, a clear profit of £35. War commanders clothed their of the Army Service Corps) was in all post office business, troops as best they could, thongb koown as the "Newgate Blues. som air mail-carrying, it is not without some attempt at Lastly, the two Kifs regiments, necessary to ensure ample public uniform. Thus on the Royalist the Sixtieth and the Ninety-fifth, use to bring down the fees to s side we hear of Byron's Blacks were clad in green, in deference reasonable figure. That is pre- and Newcastle's Whitecoats while to the received tradition that cisely what the policy of the on the Parliamentary side the riflemen must be like Jager, or British Post Office fails to secure. favourite colour seems to bave gatoe eepers, wearing the colour It only remains to state briady{ bean *taway.' Bat when the of the forest in which they worked. the important developments now Parliament set itself to organise
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a regular and professional semy Still, upon the whole, scarlet course of the next twelve months,
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This is the
i dressed the men in red, for what easily held its ground. William make the serial mail as much p'ant you have reason, unless red cloth were 1, indeed, put all the light part and parcel of the national cheap, I cannot discover. Nearly cavalry again into scarlet, though life as is the Central LocaoD thirty years ago, while rummag this was rversed by Queen Railway. One of the important been looking for. ing among the King's Pamphlets Victoria, so that the Hussars and cos'a of air services is deprecia
machines (at}. in the British Mossum, I happily all but one regiment of Lancers tion: all-metal chanced upon a newspaper, dated are still in blae. Khaki, of present the exclusive property of Works smoothly April 30, 1645, which con ained course, was borrowed from India, Germany) increased the "life" of the following precions passage and I think was first worn by a the machine 400 per cent. The from its special correspondeat British regiment during the fuel is at present expensive and no need of with the "New Model" at Afghan War of 1872 The late alcohol fuels and semi-Dissel Windsor. "The men, are ret-Great War ban wade it famous; engines are in the programme, coats all, the whole army, only and yet it was the redcosts that and they will enormousisy reduce
the foundations. Landing are distinguished by the several conquered and consolidated the costs.
speed: facings of their costs. The fire British Empire. Even in Egypt Handley-Page wing and develop- locks (escort for the artillers) in 1882 the expeditionary force mente in half-a-dozen other only are some of them taway took the field not, indeed, in its directions are going to completely costs. Fifteen thousand such best sarlet tunic, but in jackets after the situation during the coats "Vanice-red colour, shrunk of red serge. We should not next few months; it is easy dow, in water," were provided at a lightly part with that which was it will be childishly simple then. Stocks arrived.
The British Post Office have cost of seventeen shillings apiece. worn by Marlborough, Ambers, and fifteen thousand pair of Cilve, Eyre Coote, Riph Abr done me good thing in inviting breches "of gray of other good crumby, Joan Modia, Garali tenders for the air mail to colour". This army, by a strang" Lake, W-Hagtón, Hill, Lvn-Holland. It is up to British irony, was concentrated at ruija (odvs. Mors, Berry Smun, firms to make a straight cut för Windsor, and its senior regiment. Charles Napier, and Gara«, sbsolute publicity. "There" muist that of Lieutenant-General Fair Wols y among soldiers, by the be no price-cutting. The service fax, had blu facigs-what are id Pitt as Cornet in the King's could be established, and reliabi- now the Royal colours. And this Distoon Guards, and by the lity ensured, at a price that would little holy of ricuaca con inersi youngers Colonel of the inque show ample profit at 6d. "per in succession England, Scotland Porta Valaatjam
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