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A GREAT TRIP.
DR. ALISON'S EXPERIENCES
IN THE EAST.
"The great trip has gone on at
IRISH UNREST.
"BRUSH" WITH ARMED AND
MASKED MEN,
Free State troops had an excit→ such a pace, one might about asing encounter near Dublin recente reasonably ask a spectator to writely with a party of armed and a description of a film while it is passing before his eyes."
In these terms, Dr. Alison, late headmaster of George Watson's College, offers the editor of The Watsonian his apology for not be- ing able to more fully describe his world tour to date. His letter is dated from Cawnpore.
You have heard something of our visit to the American contin ent, where Watsonians cem 'to be spread very thickly from New York to Vancouver, but nothing of what happened afterwards. writes Dr. Alison.
masked men.
A semi-official statement gives the following account of the
affair:
A relief guard, consisting of n sergeant, corperal, and nine men, returning to its quartera from Tal- laght Camp, which is at present unoccupied, was ambushed about 10,30 am. by about 26 armed and masked men.
The road at Kimmage, where the ambush occurred, is a winding one, bounded by high stone walls. When the leading file of the re- lieved guard, numbering four men. rounded a bend they were pushed off their bicycles and disarmed. The remainder of the guard were covered from the top of the wall by the attackers.
Well, our ship's first trans- Pacific port of call was Yokohama, where there was re Watsonian. Before we reached that port I re- ceived a wireless mesage inviting us lo dine in the Yokohama Club The last file of the guard, sce- with six Edinburgh school. boys, ing what happened in front, open- an invitation which we most glad-ed fire. The troops had some ly accepted. The schools repre- difficulty In dismounting and tak sented were Fettes, Heriot's, the Ing their rifles from the carriers, Institution, Royal High School, and but they managed to bring fire to Gillespie's, and it touched me to bear on the attackers and caused find myself adopted by this genial them to decamp. Private Thomas band of exiles as their own old O'Shaughnessy was alightly headmasters would have been. wounded in the ankle. He is pro-
gressing, favourably in hospital.
It was a fine example of the spirit of good comradeship and good sportsmanship that exists among the Edinburgh schools.
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One of the attackers in position on the wall was hit. Most of the attackers get away in Waiting cars Next morning we had a view by during the exchange of fire. The daylight of the city of ruins cause 1 attack was apparently organised hy the earthquake two or three op a fairly large scale with a view years.ago. After a day's railway to danrming the entire guard. journey we reached Kynto, the an- Al 11.10 nm. Commandant Wed- cient capital. and visited its pala-dick, Portobello Barracks, proceed- ces and temples. Here we hearded to Kimmage Upper Road and Ja Japanese play.
put out, search patrols. A car was held up and searched by C.I.D. men who found a revolver and ammunition under the seat., The In Kobe, where we rejoined our four occupants of the ear were ar- ship, we dined with three Wat-rested and taken to the Bridewall sonians and three other Edinburgh in Dublin. boys.
It was a tragedy, for at the end ef the last act the stage was fairly littered with corpses.
In Shanghai and Hongkong we met hosts of friends and had u most royal reception. There was a somewhat nervous atmosphere about Shanghai, but that did not prevent our hosts from showing us all that was to be seen both in the city and beyond it.
In Hongkong.
Motor Cars Across Road. According to the Westminster Gazette the soldiers when they reached Kimmage,
found two motor ears drawn across the road. After firing a number of shots the ambushers jumped from their hid- ing places and disarmed four of the soldiers. Another soldier fol- lowing as a connecting file be- tween the advance section and those who came after turned about in the road and was fired at by the masked men.
Although hit in the leg he jump-
From Hongkong we made a very interesting trip to Canton, where we apent a day and a night with W. Stratton, the manager of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, The Chinese soldiers, who had beened off his bicycle and kept up
stendy fire against the attackers earlier a grave danger to every- until his comrades came up. body because of their lack of dis- eipline and their looting propen- sities, were apparently well in hand, and marched, about in a quite orderly fashion
In Malaya we saw rubber and tea estates and tin mines, and met a large number of enthusiastic Watsonians in Singapors, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Penang.
Our next visit was to Ceylon and its rubber and tea and cocoa
Then a pitched, battle ensued, the ambushers getting the worst of it. They retired over the grounds of a college, leaving bloodstains on the grass. They were harassed by a heavy fire from the soldiers.
Dr.Murphy, of Dublin, who was motoring to the Wicklow Hills for a day's fishing, was, with three companions, held up the gunmen and put against a wall.
They
When the shooting began all four managed to get away to a house near by.
nut plantations. After an inter-were told if they moved they would esting dinner in Colombo we visit- bq shot. ed the ruins of Anamadapura, and the Peradimin Gardens and the temple of Buddha's tooth at Kandy. A railway journey of thirty-six hours took us to Madras, where we spent one day and saw Fort St. George, which contains the oldest English church in India,
and visited the Aquarium, and dined with five Watsonians.
Exciting Scenes in Tipperary.
the Free State Land Commission
A serious revival of agrariaa disturbances is reported from Co. Tipperary, says the Times Dablin correspondent, where exciting The voyage to Rangoon, tock scenes were witnessed. Recently Three pleasant days, and then be acquired 3000 acres of the Loran Kan a most interesting tour
estates, midway between Roseres through Burmah; to Manadalay by and Templemore, and decided to rail and back by steamer down the distribute the land among land- Irrawady, visiting the Burmah Oil less men. It allotted certain hold- Comvany's field at Yenang Young.ings to families from other parts. and being shown over it by two of the country, to the intense an- Watsonins. On our return to Rangeon we visited the B.O.C. re, finery again under the guidance of Watsonians-und the Arracan Rice Mill.
noyance of the local inhabitants, who demanded that they "alone should share the distributed land.
When the new tenants arrived, the local people organised a big Since coming to India we have demonstration. Having mobilised seen tiger and crocodile shooting, all the available young men, they native tribal dance, acrobats, marched with several bands to jugglers, and snake charmers. We the Loran estate, where they pro- visited the homes at Kalimpong, ceeded to maltreat the so-called and saw the Himalayas from Dar-usurpers. At first they confined jeeling.
their activities to booing and in- We had a great dinner at Cal-sulting remarks, but afterwards culta, and now that we have seentheid indignation broke all bounds the historic places in Benares, and they drove the unfortunate Cawnpore, and Lucknow we go on people from their farms, handling to-morrow to Agra.
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My friend, Mr. J. B. Clark of Herriot's, is here with his family and we have explored Cawnpore and Lucknow together.
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While these disturbances were in progress, newa was conveyed to the Civic Guards at one of the neighbouring towns, with the ro- sult that a substantial force of police was hurried to the scene in motor lorries. Their arrival put
after a short struggle, sixteen of the rioters were arrested. They were taken by motor lorry to Lim-
in Tientsin, such as underwear, a stop to the demonstration, and sweaters, stockings, hats, gloves and scarves, not only supply the local demand, but also find mar- kets in the cutports. On account rick, where they will be placed on
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GERMAN DISCIPLINE.naval mutiny in the year 1917. stag Committee into the causes of
EXECUTIONS THAT HELPED MUTINY,
This mutiny, although greatly ex- the naval mutiny of 1917 (the two aggerated by the Press and not men whose sentences werɑ com- In the least inspired by seditious muted gave very impressive evid- or traitorous motives, was a seri- once last Friday) has shown be ons aymptom. Four sailors were yond doubt that the two executions sentenced to death, but under the were a blunder.
In view of the debate in the pressure of liberal opinion two
As for the German Army, as far House of Commons on the death sentences were commuted to im-
as is known, no German soldier penalty in the British Army it is prisonment.
was shot for "cowardice and desor market, displacing all imported ed by the Industrial Bureau of of interest to note. (says the Berlin
Two of the sentences were car- tion in face of the enemy," al- correspondent of the Manchester articles, with the exception of some Tientsin district showed 21 knit- Guardian) that during the Great ried out. The sailors Kocbes and though cases of cowardice and de- of high manufacture. Accurate ting factories in the autumn of War the death penalty was not in- Reichpletsch were shot, and are sertion were probably neither more statistics about these knitting 1926, employing a total of 426 work-meted in the German Army, or, if now looked upon as martyrs by the or less frequent in the German inctaries are not available, but men. The knitting industry of
promoted rather than not until the final disintegration according to a report of the Chihli Tientsin is still in the household it was, was kept an absolute secret German Labour movement. Their Army than in the British (at least Commercial Bazaar there were 27 stage; even the so-called factories not only from the troops but ever deaths
checked the movement which more of the German forces, beneath the are equipped with no more than a knitting factories in Tientsin in
than a year later became revolu- double stress of starvation and 1923, employing a total of 845 faw machines and employ merely Death sentences were passed on tionary. The inquiry which is obviously irrevocable and total de- workmen. A later report compil. afew apprentices.
German sailors after the so-called now being conducted by Reich-font.)
alace.