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THURSDAY, FEDRUAR 26, 1932.
THE DISARMAMENT OUTLOOK.
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932.
DAY BY DAY
Moditerranean, or (b) could ob tain from the members of the Lea-] gus a definite Interpretation of Article 10 of the Covenant which would morg certainly commit members of the League to parti- cipato in
a League war against on aggressor. In Mr. Alexander's vlow, to adopt the former policy EPACITY FOR LYING-TVotely. would be wrong. Our responsi-
billilea under the existing Locar-
THE THING THAT AMAZES NE ON
ocCASIONS. WHEN PUBLIC OPINION 18 TOUCHED TO THE QUICK IS MAN'S
The Ben Line . . Bendoran, from
no Pact are already great enough. Home via Straits and Manila, in dyo
Entries close to stay for the Hong- kong Horticultural Society Flower Show which la to take place on March 3. Intending exhibitors should send their entries at once to the Secretary's flee at No. 11 Queen's Road Cen- tral.
It Rooms, therefore, that the Cun-here on March 1st. forence, if it is to make rent pro- gress in disarmament, will either have to find some form of words in connexion with Article 10 which will satisfy France and apread over the whole of the mem- bers of the Lengue nay contingent Hability therefrom, or must per aunde France that If countries like Grent Britain are prepared, if (other countries will do the same, to take the risks of peace. In the light of the existing covennata to do the and pacts, she ought Kane.
A University Union debate on "Tist In the opinion of the House, the time for sex equality has come" will take place to-night at 8 p.m., in the Union Assembly Jinll. Proponer. Raymond II. S. Lec; opposer, Mr. Wang Slew-Leng. Ten will be served after the debate.
sive
Mr.
BEAU ATKINS
Fickle Fashion's Way With the British Army.
By R. J. T. HILLS.
In the "Report on the Health of the Army" for 1930, which appeared recently, Ser- vice dress was a subject of special Investigation. Sug 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 a tie, trousers In the nature of "plus fours," and gaiters of either canVAS or soft leather. In this aril- cle Squadron Quartermaster- Corporal Hills, whose articles on the modern soldier are well-known, shows that, re- volutionary though Aug- gestions may Beem, they keeping with n tradition of changing fashion In the British Army.
nre
com-
We specialise
milltary millinery. It took decades of dis comfort to rid us of the three.. cornered hat. Grenadier panies escaped earliest owing to the difficulty of slinging a rifle over the broad brim. The tall grenadier caps received a trimming of fur. The fur grow into the racoon or bear skin.
The shako reigned for nonrly a century, giving place to the Line Infantry headdress, which served until 1014. Ultra-Englishmen de- nounced this latter as a "pickel- hoube," and pleaded for a return to the real old English shako. Shako chako or even Lachako? Can it bu 50 very English? It has gone over the Border to the H.L.I. and the Cameronians. Of all our military hat-fanciers the palm must be awarded to General Picton, who rode through the Battle of Victoria In a top hat.
ano we are to change the fashion
of our Army clothing. Newa- changes in British uniform
At no time were there so manyTM Zeninnd." The
ΠΗ
There are, of course, minor mat- ters on which some progress could
A meeting of the Theosophical! be made, such as the reduction of Society will be held at No. 17. the size of capital ships, but ob- | Queen's Road Central, this evening. viously these are minor questions, when Mr. M. Manak will
the Maoris of New The rent issue is have the nn. address on "The Religious Bellefs of tions now provided themselves meeting, which is open to the general papers declare that in 1932 the under George IV. Change follow- with nuclent alternative menna | publle, will commence at six o'clock. infantry man shall wear a collared change with such bewildering of the settlement of disputes other
and tle, that he is to wind up his rapidity that one journalist was puttees for the Inst time, and moved to ask cuch morning what than by appeal to the arbitrament
particular regiment was mounting of war? If so, there is no cure
march galtered to battle.
Whitehall Guard, as the Life gainst substantial progress being
Little is new in an old
army Guards
new-rigged every made in disarmament, but until
like our Collars and ties? Well, day. all the Great Powers are persund- ed of this no auch real progrear in disarmament will be made.
Industry and Human Progress.
SHANGHAI'S HOUR OF NEED.
SURGEONS AND NURSES URGENTLY REQUIRED.
1
were
we've had stocks and lace frilla. George IV. re-introduced the Gaiters? Our men got varicose cuirass,
да not,
sometimes Veins and the rheumatics claimed, in honour of the over- throw of the Curinsslers at Water- hundred and fifty years Rgo
Carlton House Ball. The single- loo, but as an adornment to
Acting on cabled instructions through wearing their spatter- from the Headquarters of the St. dashes too tight, and with John Ambulance Brigade, Lon pipeclay wet on them.
Is the industrial machine a bene-don, the local Assistant Commis
the breasted tunic Was taken into wear to allow the Waterloo modal This is was the first general lasue to hang with greater distinction.
At or o detriment to the civiliza-aloner is making arrangements to Scottish regiments by tradition tion of the world? Such I the despatch nursing assistance to wear their white spats in memory of a war medal to all ranks. The fandamental question rained by Shanghal, where such assistans of the Highlanders who marched Peninsular Medal was an after-
is urgently needed in the hon- the economic bilzzard through pitale.
to Corunna with their shoeless thought, Nurses who wish to volunteer feet white-bandaged. Yet it is are kindly invited to communicate muro feasible that the spats
Some regimental drean 'distine- tions are granta of honour. The with the Assistant Commissioner but abbreviated spatterdashes.
bearskins of the Foot Guarda- at King's College.
The old red jacket is the hall-never to be called busbies are not Cables from Shanghai state mark of the British Line. Al- an evolution of the grenadier caps gently required.
which the world is still battling hazlly to an uncertain end. Refer With real warfare proceeding in ence has been made to the fact and around Shanghai, the General that the conquest of the physical Committee of the Dlaarmament universe and the development of
are
Conference is at present sitting power and skili through the ma. that surgeons and nurses are ur- though it is the Royal livorty, it as such. They commemorate the
of many
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DISCLOSURE.
Mari-
was the colour adopted by Crom-gallantry of the Foot Guards and in Geneva, in an endeavour to at-chine have made available to the
well for his New Model. Strange the rout of Napoleon's Old Guard tain some buais uf agreement for present generation an abundance
that the only remaining regiment at Waterloo, where th: Grenadiers arms limitation which shall be ac-of things undreamed of by preced-
of his Ironsides is to-day "The themselves also won their proud The machine
Blues." ceptable to all the Powers. Iming generations.
title. The Greys owe their eagle portant issues are due for discar-has created wealth. It has be
cap-badge to the same battle, in sion, notably on the security, ques- queathed to the average citizen
Continental armies have been which Sergeant Ewart carried off our great models. Frederick the Somerset sergeants
an eagle from the French Foot. tion, raised by France. So far as long succession of creature com.
Great first evolved the theory that sashes over the left shoulder,
wear their Britain is concerned, the view ex forts. It is a fair question, how-
a man must be tight-inced to fight.officers used to do. On Culloden in pressed recently by a former First ever, whether this increase Another insurance society-the There is an oft-told tale of how Moor all their officers fell"Carry Lord of the Admiralty will pro-wealth has been of equal benet Royal Liver Friendly Society is William the Conqueror. bably find wide acceptance, name to all sections of society. It is criticised in a report issued from borough, Wellington or the Prince. Sergeant."
The Red Hacklo of the ly that unless there is general and the conviction
people the ofice of the Industrial Assur-Consort had in front of him a
Black soldier of the Life Guards, Foot Watch is a white feather-dipped complete, disarmament, of which that, whereas the industrial ma-ance Commissioner.
When a policy owner agrees to
Guards, Balloon Section or Royal in enemy blood. The hiding of there is no hope, Britain requires chine han overcome certain limi- An absolute minimum naval tations in modern aceial life, it accept a new policy in substitu- Marines, and asked him how he King Charles II. in the Boscobel oak. strength, but that absolute mint has accentuated others. In the tlon for an old policy an insur would wish to be dressed if he Oak is remembered in the
had to fight again at Hastings, lenf motif of Life Guards' officers" company (according to mum is, of course, always quali- opinion of these people the high Section 25 of the Industrial As-The answer alone is constant, "In Royal Welch Fustiers was once Blenheim, Waterloo or Inkerman. Inco. The black "flash" of the fied by the relative strengths of productive capacity of modern insurance Act, 1923) must in most
used to keep-hair grense -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 tunica. ratios 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 German Jagers. Like them they when the rest of the Army shear- cerned could be reached, there is wealth in accordance with the re-up policy of equivalent value. no reason why a move should not ligious principles of justice and overlooked. The society has now un early attempt at protective closed-cropped to Vimeiro,
It is this section that has been wore the huntsman's green jacket, ed off ita pigtails and marched be made by general percentage love. It has been too often true reviewed the whole of a new colouring. They even adapted the cuts. But the question is, "Will that the wealth created by the in- business since January, 1924, and huntsman's horn to military
Red tunfes have always been. France agree to limit her naval quatrin! machine has flowed back as a result has authorised the Poniatowski's lancers brought their carefully kept. The soldier must lesser paid-up own uniform to La Grande Armee. come clean to battle. On strength to figures which are ren-again into the hands of those own issue of 95,695 free
policies assuring $131,357,
British Lancers in full dress have occasions he often wore his coat sonable in relation to the figuresing the machine. By the. яame The inspector agrees that the the same Polish akull-cap and inside out. An English troopship adopted by the United States, token not a sufficient amount of society made no attempt to con-plastronned jacket. Certain of our bellion was fired on by a British crossing to America for the Re- Japon, and Britain in London?" the surplus of the profits accruing ceal anything from him and had Light Dragoone became Hussars,
The French attitude on dianema- to these individuals has been de spared no pains to remedy the re- The dolman, frogged jacket and Man of War. The soldiers white voted to the task of guaranteeing sults of their past action or in- busby of the Hungarian feudatories cont-linings were taken for the
Bourbon livery of Franco. ment is, vocally, strongly in fa
were theirs as well. vour, but in practice it is govern- the workers of the world against Action, ed by the magic word "security." the economic evils of overproduç- She refuses to make any really tion and unemployment. Society substantial reduction of arms un-should not become so enamoured til the other signatories to the with the economic benefits result- Covenant have given auch inter-Ing from the functioning of the pretations of Articles 8 and 16 of machine as to become indifferent the Covenant as would, in her to the resulting problems of social judgment, make her absolutely im-justice. While developing horse- mune from attack. It was in en- power it must not overlook the deavouring to satisfy that spirit need of developing the moral that Italy and Britain entered into power sufficient to meet the social the commitments of Locarne, requirements of a righteous world which, in spite of the Briand-community. Religion and educa- Kellogg pact on the outlawry of tion must come to the ald of ccone- war, could, nevertheless, and mics If this maral power is to be them into a legal war. The point forthcoming. Justice to all must which needs to be stressed and be the watch-word of the com- fought out if real progress in dis munity that makes use of the ma- to Capital, to La- armament is to be made is that chlae-justice Great Britain and certain other bour and to the consuming pub- countries, having put their signale. The economic world stands Crossroad. The direction turon to the League Covenant, tot a
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- tlonn 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 social justice necessary to the nants, pacts and understandings. prosperity and happiness of the France, up to the present, is not entire community. prepared to take that risk, and, as
Mr. A. V. Alexander recently
pointed out, the fnct has to be A young shop foki, Ng Hung-kong, faced. As far as one can 300, of 425, Hennessy Road, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital France would be propared to move
a stab If other (a) she could obtain an- last night suffering from
wound to the lower part of his other pact of the Locarno type abdomen which was inflicted whilst which would give her what she he was asleep. He suspects a ̃ful- considers to be security in the low-toki, who has since absconded.
"Shay. Phil, I shpose the Colonel yot mad and went home. He's nowhore on board."
The almost universal scarlet of the Line caused the distinctive regimental facings to be fiercely valued. ➡, "Royal" regiments had facings of blue. Colonels of other regiments often adopted their own colours. The "Buifa" and
Howards" are
honoured
In the Army List to-day. Onu old regiment, the 56th. had no
auch 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" to this day;
The year 1881 was a ruthless une In the Army-the year of the Cordwell reforms. "Away" Bald Mr. Cardwell in effect, "with all these fancy trimmings," Royal ro- giments, he decreed, were to keep to blue, English regiments to white, the Scots to yellow, and the Irish to green. Ha reckoned
without the Army. Regiment by regiment they wheedled back thair, own facings.
With the disappearance of the Connaught Rangers, not an Irish regiment excluding Rifles--has green facings Yot eight English regimants are bedocked in careful- ly graded shades of that. colour. Out of alght regiments wearing yellow, only two are Scots. Several regiments have buff, one, the West Kent, wears black, and one, the Duke of Wellington's scarlet. A
The British Army appeared in a new role in the Front War. ::: Having followed meekly after Gon-“ tinental fashionsväll its long life. It suddenly boćama, the arbiter of. pleganco in n' world at" war. The
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