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Mediterranean, or (b) could ob- iain from the members of the Lea- guca definite interpretation of Article 18 of the Covenant which wouk! more certainly, commit members of the League to parti- cipate in a League war against on aggressor. In Mr. Alexander's view, to adopt the former polley would be wrong. Our respons
bilities under the existing Loeur- no Pact are already great enough.
DAY BY DAY
THE THING THAT AMAZES ME ON OCCASIONS WHEN PUBLIC OPINION) IS TOUCHED TO THE QUICK IS MAND) CAPACITY FOR LYING-Trutal.
The Ben Llue s . Bendoran, from
here on March 14t.
It seems, therefore, that the Con-Home viu Straits and Manila, is due ference, if I is to make real pro- gress in disarmament, will either have to And some form of words. in connexion with Article 16 which will satisfy France and Intending exhibitors should send
Entries clore to-day for the Hong- kong Horticultural Society Flower Show which in to take place on Märch
spread over the whole of the mem- their entries at see to the Secretary's bers of the League any contingente at No. 11 Queen's Road Cen
trol. liability therefrom, or musi !} - suade Francy that countries | like Great Britain are prepared, if (other countries will do the same. to take the risks of prace, in the light of the existing covenants nud parts, she ought to do the
name,
There are, of course, minor mat- ters on which some progress could be made, such as the reduction of the size of capital ships, but sie viously these are minor questions THE HONGKONG HOTEL【The real issue is have the nu tions now provided themselves with subelent alternative means of the settlement of disputes ather Than hy appeal to the arbitrament of war If so, there is no ens
pist substantin progress being made in disarmament, but until all the Great Powers are persuade i ed of this no such real progress in disarmament will be made.
The Hongkong Shanghal Toule L. Incrmitated in Hongkong, Hubby tom!
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THURSDAY, PEDruan? 25, 1982,
THE DISARMAMENT OUTLOOK.
With real warfare prereding in and around Shanghai, the General Committee tite Disarmament Conference is at present sitting
Im-
A University Union debate on "That at the opinion of the House, the time for sex, equality has come" will take ptace to-night at 8 pm., in the Union Assembly
Proposer, Mr. Raymond 11. S. Lee; oppuser. Mr. Wang Slow-Long. Tea will be served i after the debate,
Ini
A meeting of the Theosophical Society wifi be held at No. 17. Queen's Road Central, this evening. When Mr. M. Manuk will give an address on "The Religious Beliefs of the Mauris New Zealand." The meeting, which is open to the general public, will comance at six o'clock.
SHANGHAI'S HOUR
OF NEED.
BEAU ATKINS
Fickle Fashion's Way With the British Army.
By R. J. T. HILLS.
We specialise In military millinery. It took decades of dis- comfort to rid us of the three- cornered, hat, Grenadier com- panies escaped carllest owing to the dimeulty of slinging Sug-
a rifle over the broad brim. The tall grenadier cups received a trimming. of fur. The fur grow into the racoon or bear skin,
"Report In the
on the Health of the Army" for 1930,
which appeared recently, Ser- vice dress was a subject of special investigation. gestions put forward included a new Jacket with a turned- down collar, open at the neck in front, a drab Angora shirt to be worn with 'n tie, trousers in the nature of "plus feurs," and gaiters of either caRVÁS or soft leather. In this arti. cie Squadron Quartermaster- Corporal Hill, whose articles on the modern soldier are well-known, shows that, re- volutionary though gestions may Herm, they Kre in keeping with tradition of changing fashion in the British Army.
a
The shako reigned for nearly a century, giving place to the Lino Infantry headdress, which served until 1914. Ultra-Englishmen de- nounced this latter an pickel- hoube," and pleaded for a return to the real old English shako. Shako chako--or even tachuko 7 Can it be Bo very English? It has gone over the Border to the 1.1.1.
the Cameronim. Of all our military hat-fanciers the palmi must be awarded to General Pleton, who rode through the Battle of Victoria in a top hat.
At no time were there so many British uniform as
0 we are, to change the fashion'
of our Army clothing. News-Ann tin
papers declare that in 1932 the under George IV. Change follow- infantry man shall wear a collared change with such bewildering and tie, that he is to wind up his rapidity that one journalist Was Butters for the last time. and moved to ask each morning what i march gaitered to battle.
particular regiment was mounting Whitehall Guard, us the Life Little in new in an old army Guards were new-rigged every like ours. Collars and ties? Well, | day. we've had stucks and lace frills.
George TV. re-introduced the Gaiters? Our men got varicose į eutensa, nót,
sometimes the rheumatics velas anti
claimed, in honour of the over- throw of the Curinssiers at Water- hundred and ty years nko low, but as an adornment to Acting on cabled Instructions | through wearing their spatter-
Carlton House Ball. The single- from the Headquarters of the St. dashes too tight, and with the breasted tunic
IVIN taken Into Jolan Ambulance Brigade, Lon-
pipeclay wet on them,
wear to allow the Waterloo medal don, the local Assistant Commnia-
Scottish regiments by tradition This is was the first general issue to hang with greater distinction.
SURGEONS AND NURSES URGENTLY REQUIRED.
in
after-
Industry and Human Progress,
Is the industrial machine a bene- fit or a detriment to the civiliza-Rioner is making arrangements to tien of the world? Such the despatch nursing assistance to wear their white spats in memory of a war medal to all ranks. The
Shanghai, where such assistanes of the flighlanders who marched Peningatar Medal was an fundamental question raised by
Is urgently needed in the hon- the economie blizzard through
to Corunna with their shoeless thought. pitals. which the world is still battling
feel white-bandaged. Yet it is Nurses who wish to volunteer hazily to an uncertain end, Refer-are kindly invited to communicate more feasible that the spats are Some regimental dress disting- tions are grants of honour. The ence has been made to the fact with the Assistant. Commissioner but abbreviated spatterdashes.
bearskins of the Foot Guarda- that the conquest of the physient at King's College.
The old red jacket is the hall never to be called busbies are not Cables from Shanghai state matk of universe and the development of
the British Line. Al-an evolution of the grenadier enps that surgeons and nurses are ur- though it is the Royal liverty, It power and skill through the ma
as such. They commemorate the rently requirent.
was the colour adopted by Crom-gallantry of the Foot Guards and well for his New Model. Strange the rout of Napoleon's Old Guard that the only remaining regiment at Waterloo, where the Grenadiers of his Ironsides is to-day "The themselves also won their proud title. The Greys owe their cagle eap-badge to the same battle. in which Sergeant Ewart carried off Foot. their over the left shoulder, DA
LAW OVERLOOKED.
INSURANCE COMPANY
Blues."
wear
Continental armies have been our great models. Frederick the eagle from the French Great first evolved the theory that Somerset sergeants a man must be tight-inced to fight.officers used to do. On Culloden Moor all their officers fell-"Carry
Black
in Geneva, in an endeavour to at-ehine have made available to the fain some basis of agreement for present generation an abundance arms Bmitation which shall be ac ot things undreamed of by preed- reptable to all the Powers,
Trug generations. The machin parlant Issues are due for discus-has created wealth. It has he sion, notably on the security quesqueathed to the average citizen a tion, raised by France. So far as long succession of creature cum
DISCLOSURE. Britain is concerned, the view ex- furia. It is a faje question, howe pressed recently by a former First ever, whether this increase in
Another insurance society the There is an oft-told tale of how Lord of the Admiralty will pre-wealth has been of equal benefit Royal Liver Friendly Society-pis Willium the Conqueror, Mark bably find wide acceptance, name- to all sortions of society. It is criticised in a report issued fromborough, Wellington or the Prince, Sergeant."
The Red Hackle of the of many people the office of the Industrial Asur-Consort had in front of him a le that unless there is general and | the conviction.
ance Commissioner.
soldier of the Life Guards, Fost Watch is a white feather-dipped complete disarmament, of which that, whereas the industrial ma there is no hope. Britain requires chine has overcome certain limi- When a policy owner agrees to Guards, Balloon Section or Royal in enemy blood. The hiding of how he King Charles I. in the Boscobel i lg absulate
new policy in substitu- Marines, and asked him minimum tavaltations in modern social life, it accept a
would wish to be dressed if he Oak is remembered in the sik tion for an old policy an insu had to fight again at Hastings, leaf motif of Life Guards' officers' strength, but that absolute mini-has accentualul others. In the
ance company (according 10
"flash" of the mum is, of course, always quali-opinion, of these people the high Section 2 of the lacustrial Asenheim, Waterloo or Inkerman.lace. The black fied by the relative strengths of proactive capacity of modern insurance Act, 1921) must in most The Ruswer alone is constant Royal Welch Fusiliers was once used to keep hair grease and other Powers If, therefore agreed dustry has given no answer to the cases pay the surrender value of my shirt-sleeves, sir."
powder from clean red tunlca. rating between all the Powers con- | problem of the distribution of the old policy or issue a free paid- Our rifle battalions followed the The regiment was on the high seas cerned could be reached, there is wealth in acreedance with the res
up policy of equivalent value. German Jagers. Like them they when the rest of the Army shear-
It is this section that has been wore the huntsman's green fucket, nn Frash why a move should not ligimas principles of justive and overlooked. The society has now an early attempt at protected off its pigtails and. marched
closed-cropped to Vimeiro. Le made by general percentage; love. It has been too often true reviewed the whole of its new entouring. They even adapted the ruts. But the question is, "Will that the wealth created by the in-siness since January, 1924, and huntsman's horn to military use-carefully kept. The soldier must Red tunics have always been France agree to limit her naval dustrial machine has flowed backs a result hus, authorised the 'onlatowski's lancers brought their
issue of 56,695 free secugth to figures which are rea-again into the hands of those ow'IES
paid-up own uniform to La Grande Armee.come rican to battle. On lesser sonable in relation to the figures ing the maching. By the
policies assuring £131,367.
British Lancers in full dress have occasions he often word his cont same The inspector agrees that thuf the same Polish skull-cap und inside out. An English troopship adopted by the United States. token not a suficient amount of society mile an attempt to con- plastroused jucket. Certain of our crossing to Atherien for the Re- Japan, and Britain in London ?" the surplus of the profits accruing coal angthing from him and had Light Dragoons became Hussars.bellion was fred on by
to these individuals has been despared no pains to remedy the re- The dolman, frogged jacket and Man of War. The soldiers' white coat-linings were taken for the Bourbon very of France. ment is, vocally, strongly lu fa-voted to the task of guaranteeingsults of their past netion or in bushy of the Hungarian feurlatories
were theirs as well. vour, but in practice it is govern-The workers of the world against action. fed by the magie word "security." the economic evils of overprodure- She refuses to make any really tion and unemployment. Society substantial reduction of arms ans should not became so entimentred til the other signatories to the with the reoneanic benefits result- Covenant have given such intering from the functioning of the pretations of Articles 8 and 16 of machine as 1a become indifferent the Covenant as would, in her to the resulting problemus of social juufgment, make her absolutely im-Justice. While developing horse- mane from attack. It was in en- power it T140 not overlook the dorouring to satisfy that spirit need of developing the moral Chat Italy and Britain entered into power sufficient to meet the social the commitments of Learn, requirements of a righteous world which, in spite of the Briand-community. Religion and educa- Kellogg pact on the outlawry oftion must come to the ald of econo- war, could, nevertheless, and mics if this moral power is to be them into a legal war. The point forthcoming. Justice to all must which oceds to be stressed and be the watch-word of the com fought aut if real progress in dis-munity that makes use of the ma- to Capitul, to La- armament is to be made is that chine-justice Great Britain and certain ather our and to the consuming pub- countries, having put their signale. The economic world stunda crossroad. The direction tures to the Lengue Covenant, to at a
The French attitude on disarma-
the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and to should be decided not with the The Optional Clause, are prepared thought of emphasising the condi- to take the risks involved in re-tions of particular classes but ducing armaments, relying upon with the thought of bringing to the additional margin of safety mankind as a whole that measure secured by the various cove of soclal justice necessary to the nants, parts and anderstandings. prosperity and happiness of the France, up to the present, is not entire community. prepared to take that risk, und, us Mr. A. V. Alexander recently pointed out, the fact is to be faced.
As far as one can see, France would be prepared to move
A young shop foki, Ng Hung-kong, of 426, Hennessy Rond, was removed in the Government Civil Hospital Inst night suffering from
a stab if either (n) she could obtain an wound to the lower part uf e other pact of the Locarno type abdomen which was infleted whilst
which would give her what she considers to be security
he was asleep. He suspecta u fol- in the low-fokl, who has since absconded.
"Shay, Phil, I shpose the Colonel got mad and went home. He's nowhere, on board."
British
The almost universul scarlet of the Line caused the distinctive regimental facingsy to be flereely valtted. "Royal"/regiments had facings of blue. Lotonela of other regiments often Adopted their own livery colours. The "Buffs" and "Green Howards"
honoured
in the Army List to-day. One old
regiment, the 56th, had no Buch distinction. With a sarcasm truly English it took for Itself the puce livery of the King of France's mistress.
The 2nd Battalion Essex are the "Pompadours" this day.
to
The year 1881 was a ruthless one in the Army--the year of the Cardwell reforms. “Awny," Bald Mr. Cardwell in effect, "with all these faney trimmings." Royal re- giments, he decreed, were to keep
o blue, English regiments, white, the Scots to yellow; and the Irish to green. Ile reckoned without the Army. Regiment by regiment they wheedled back their own facings.
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to
With the disappearance of the Connaught Rangers, not an Irish regiment-excluding Riftes-has green facings. Yet eight English regiments are bedecked in careful- ly graded shades of that colour. Out of eight regiments wearing Several yellow, only two are Scote. regiments have buff, one, the West Kont, wears black, and one, the Duke of Wellington's scarlet.
The British Army appeared in a new role in the Freat, War. Having followed meekly after Con- tinental fashions all its long life, it suddenly became the arbiter of plegance in a world at war. The (Continued on Page 8)