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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938.
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Here's what you may be doing in a few years-looking at the person at the other end of the wire. It's the latest thing lu television, the "televisionphone,“ zhown in London. The view- ing screen is where the mouthp'ere ordinarily would be. compact set can be used in a lighted room.
The
Partisan Blindness
Li
of
By "An Old Stager"
various came to the rescue of the humanities IFFERENT pundits at
times have ascribed the world's in Spain when Red Bolshevism was troubles to all sorts of human wenk- ereating revolutionary anarchy be- personal "hind the impotent or tolerant hunds power, greed, religious bigotry, sexual ob- or that Popular Front regime. Lesson-many have been the root
denounced evlis
by philosophers through the centuries.
Desses.
The conviction begls to deepen in my mind, however, that the most bateful of the lot Is Just sheer ignorance,
Neither side is willing to listen to any statement of facts or arguments advanced, even by apparently un- blasoti outsiders, in favour or In partiot vindication of the other, never occurs to them that there may be some degree of truth
DIF both sides.
The astounding thing is what passionate fervour many people will The cross-bench mind simply in- found on a basis of complete ignor- furiates their fanaticism. If you are
ance.
An Old Soldier looks at the Army Changes & says CANADIAN PACIFIC IT'S EASIER TO BE
A GENERAL NOW
I
APOLOGISE for not be
ing properly educated.
Blame the Army, not my
parents. My education, in
By
the scholastic sense, ceased Brigadier Alan G. C. Hutchinson,
when I was sixteen.
who recently retired after nearly 40 years in the Army, including service in six campaigns.
Then I went to a crammer's. Two years of intensive stuffing with text- books hatched me out as a Sundhurst carlet-possible us a ́dancing pariner to the girls, good-mannered, I hope. and primed with military knowledge G.O.C. the Rhine Army, and so took Tanks and machine-guns have taken -ul a sort.
the title for all time.
their place.
I would like to see these new pro- But 7: for mathematles, law,
Do you remember the story of the In one economics, story-apart from the Pals go further
respect. old general who was sitting in his military version-geography, or any Why not send the budding officers etul in Pall Mall, the hero of three
to a university for two or of the ordinary 'accomplishments of
three campaigns? Timidly ភ young sappers-which presumably accounts for the superior smirk on the face of the sapper.
the ordinary boy-welf, it all stopped ears? That is what happens to subaltern approached him.
cleud ni sixteen.
Higher Standards
"Tell me, general," lic asked, "what did you think of the last He goes up to Cambridge for two the general drawled. "The notae
war?" "Dreadful, my boy, dreadful," WHAT I have learned since 1
have had to pick up off my learn all that it can touch and the people! Too terrible."
blin, During Just a matter of nous, as other undergraduntes
the vacations, when they say. Not a good system, you the sapper
are at play, A Scientist Too will agree. It united and it stult! little high-pressure military educa- goes to Chatham for a fled. It produced hidebound soldiers tion. The
result Js a who lacked not only worldly know fleer.
first-class ledge but everyday knowledge.
own bat.
vlcera, while retaining its best
wider basis.
The Best Officers
THAT sort of story and that sort of general have gone for good. The officer of to-day must be a bit of a chemist, some- thing of a seientist, a little of a lot of other things-apart from being a
Further,
Conditions love, of course, im- proved considerably since then.
CAN honestly say that of all soldier. Educational standards are very much higher then they were and breaches
the hundreds of young I am glad to see that the rates of have been made in the narrow exers who have passed through pay have gone up. Life in the Army clusiveness of traditional training. By hands both in this country and in my day and a marvellously gay
in India I have The system, which has hitherto pro-
frequently found a social side but you paid for it. vided the overwhelming majority of that those who came into the Army if the bank balance was thin, fun latest in life and with most civil was thin too. It was not quite fair fentures, is now to be put on much couention behind them made the on.us. Mr. Ilore-Bellaha has altered
best and most intelligent offlcers.
that To-day we live in im Army work! When I read that in one day near- of nuts and bolts, petrol cans and more
moking by
promotion rapid, by wiping out y quarter of the subalterns and chemistry. It is no longer a gentle- iniquitous half-pay system, and by the captakis of the British Army will be man's war. automatically promoted, that pro make a business of it and train our it always ought to
It has become a bust assuring reasonably long periods of nossilke business. So we motion in future will be speeded
must service, he has made the Army what up
have been a that there will be direct commission- young officers accordingly.
worth-while profession for worth- ing from the ranks, that rates
That Is what Me. Hore-Betsha is while men with worth-while pay as pay will be increased, that Army educa- up to.
a reward, tion will be expanded and intensified, I sit back and watch. My Army So that eyebrow of mine and, Anally, that in future any boy days of horses and guns have gone, come down with a run in the end. from an elementary school in stréel, say, in Manchester, stankis a reasonable chance of going, via a secondary school, Into Sandhurst or Woolwich free of all charge to his parents, I raise my hat to the Minister for War.
1
also cocked. They will get red-hot over whole-hearledty with them, then
one side of a question
about
things far more delicately complex The situation is all the more gro- then the outstanding human crimes, tesque when it is considered that thet without actually trying to these Jingo advocates of naval bom- fathom any of the complexitles. bardment or blockade which is only one degree less drastic, and hills disposition and the innocent just as surely as bom- Ignorance backed bardment would are mostly La- by abject mental laziness-that our bour people.
frequently Abnormal Profits
It
L
this
tendency-sheer
partisans
are
extreme
made.
Neputian of Deinocracy
DVCI
was
back
But raised it with une eyebrow
There
Eint doubt behind my unspoken elver. It was this:
e asunn
DH
Robert-1 Wlllla
n rose from the ranks to be one
of the best-loved and most efficient officers in the British Army
A
DUL
Sir
east
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another n
COURTS
Poor
POLICE
And The
year
that
on
tay
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na to the you are inferentially whole-heartedly ather side of which they not only with the other fellows. The admir- know absolutely nothing, but do not able axiom that to know all is to
Good though the new system looks NEW things are more creditable to Wales. The maximum allowed on a even make any attempt to gain en- excuse ali has absolutely no foot--the promotion of the "examlun- justice than the Poor Prisoners De- courts is £2 16s. A
en paper it has one potential defect the English system of criminal legal aid certificate in the summary lightenment.
in this kind of mentality.
tion" type at the expense of the man
more usual Admittedly there are certain ques i assailed tooth and nail because
And now, Mr. Chamberlain is be- who has character but lacks seade fence Act of 1930. So far as offences allowance is £1 Os. and this is as tions that are inherently beyond he refuses to order the British fleet
mic
Įtried at Assizes and Quarter Sessions much as I have ever received. controversy.
concerned the Act works well are One does not hesitate to bombard, or at least to blockade,
But, even assuming the maximum scholar is not and not many poor persons go uns grant A tu denounce, for instance, all the Cadiz or some other Spanish port!
enough In soldier. An officer who
In every case, the expenditure cardinal sins catalogued under the we have the absurd position of ex-.
is to command the respect
defended. But few people know on Poor Persons Defence since the Ten Commandments. Nobody in his treme
and that the powers which Parliament Act affection of his men must be intended to be used for the benefit average of about 14s. 4d. per cent. was passed works out at an right mind, except In the most ab- German Nazis and all their works
Left Wing detesters of the leader in that he possesses that in of all poor persons accused of crime per annum. normally exceptional circumstances, citing the German shelling of Inno-
definable spirit which we know as have
Surely the country can tries to defend murder, arson, black- cent civilians, in reprisal for some
character." The Creeks had
been and are, so far as the afford more than this. If it cannot mail, or even welshing.
Word military or naval affront; as a shto-
for it, but as I have no educatically dend letter.
"Police" Courts are concerned, prae- would it not be better to do away lion I forget the word.
with the pretence that no poor per- But lots of people lo-day are get. Ing example of strong statesman- Field-Marshal Sir ting extremely
to need go undefendext ship. indignant
criminal charge? The Criminal Statisties for 1036,
The need for legol aid is for Court than test published, show that the inngis- greater in the "Police" Canker also was that gallant rates in that
before a judge. There is seldom found 817,873 tragic soldier the late Major persons. Ruilty of various offences. Presumption of Innocence in Generni
cases tried by the lay magistrates. Hector
Macdonald, That is, they dealt finally with over The mere whose
fact memorial pillar dominates the DO
n charge has per cent, of all offences. To these been brought by the police is grey harbour
and grey houses of 817,873 persons and to those who for the average J.P. The accused enough Dingwall. the
acquilted the, coust. Scottisli | were town which is proud of having once granted 303 certificates for free legal The only help he gets from the mugistrates has to prove his, or her, Innocence. There is no doubt about it that
owned him as a shy young draper's ald merchant ships, trading in essential
assistant
court, as a rule, is to be told harshly Under the Act of 1930 two condi- that he must ask questions and not supplies to Spanish ports, are doinging of a very efflctent brigadier who aid is granted to a defendant in the
During the war I remember hear-tions No doubt there have always been so not for one moment in any al-
must be fulfilled before legal make a statement. violent and purblind partisans, but I truistic spirit of bringing susten-
began life as Mr. Godfrey Jones, insuficient to obtain it for himself, "Police Court.ills means must be truly believe Ute world has seldom ance
miner working at the coal face in to 11 been more cursed with them, not people, but simply because they are
hard-pressed Spanish Ebbw Vale: He was only one of
and
of the gravity of the even in the days of the Spanish fa- able to command exorbitant freights high rank, and gave a first class ne-
There are few more pitiful rights some 20 or more miners who uses stances it must be desirable in the woman trying vainly to think what
charge" reason
or of exceptional circum- than a poverty-stricken man quisition, than we are to-day.
and abnormally high wages for their count of himself.
interests of justice that he should to say in court, confused by the There are seemingly sensate people
crews. will swallow anything that Spanish Government ports in about who
The coal freight per ton to these | University Training
have professional help in his defence. unfamiliar surroundings and shrink-
It le true tast happens in Russin, bul go berserk four times the rate to other places
tried in the many of the offences ing from the ridicule which is ar
Courts even the mildest similar hap in the vicinity. And, on top of all
there THEN penings in either Italy or Germany. this, at least half these
large and their clerk. Why should the mere fact that they ships are foreign-owned, and using
merchant had been a cab driver. A few years the magistrates, nearly all of them sary before lay magistrates than be- brigadier who in civil.life. nture, and that are of too often poured out by the Bench of persons plead guilty. But
Legul pict is nefually more neeca- are in sympathy with
egime in one instance, and out of camouflage.
the polical our national
ago there was a policemon on duty ny justices and not stipendiaries. In fore a judge. A judge Is always ensign merely Aympathy la the others, warp their
at Barry Dock who had commanded 1830 dealt with 30,594 indictable on the watch for irregularities. The Judgment thus?
battalion during the war. The only way in which Fronco's
offences, mainly cases of theft, by only thing that magistrates can be bombing of these ships, within the
Before the war, when I was a persons over To an intelligent person
three-mile territorial
young man, there smells just as sweet in Russia as in that there is no war in Spain.
n rose can be condemned
water limit,
persons to prison. The Juillées dislike defended cases by contending
In 1939, 10,443 persons were sent because they take more time. any other country, and an evil deed is a contention which, in the palpa in just as reprehensible in Moscow Lle elrcumstances of to-day, stems
That of them all" before "Wullle" Robert-indletable as it would be in Berlin or Rome or just an absurdity.
sun became Chief of the
offences.
Altogether advocates for the defence who are
of such a heavenly event (7). General nearly 20,000 persons were sent to accused of wasting time. No ad- Staff, Chief of the Imperial General prison after trial in the "Police" vocate wastes time intentionally, 05 18 This day is
Put the start of 10 across In Timbuctoo. Until we can find means to extirpate this partison madness, the fact that the Spaniards have not
humans to infuriate (0). Everybody with any sense deplores
Great Britain, and Courts. And 363 persons only, out for hun time is money. whether by an improved education been left to fight their quarrel out
usually a festive of well
I have had. over
three-quarters of a 30 years' experience of the courts some other expedient, I lear
one (5). nillion tried, had the privilege of n of summary jurisdiction,, and I have there may be grave danger for our nur utmost to secure such a situation,
20 Engineers often take this in aniongst themselves. We have done
which came from the last European Poor Persons Defence.
hand (0). democracy.
never seen a defendant who could za A little tug on the line? (0). already being forgotten. The heard ironically suggested, that the sentation. It may be, of
as I have afford it without professional repre-23 Poisonous horse artist (5). and if our efforts have not been sue-
wounds of 1014-18 Arc not yet The Imbecile disinclination to cessful, the fault certainly does not
healed. They are gaping hideously explanation is that crime is practi consider, or even to hear a wordle with us, but with overmastering in a general disintegration of civically confined
25 Popular game about, the other side of the case is circumstance.
wealthter Jised traditions and aspirations.
classes. But this disquieting theory
gular (8). in Itself a positive negative of de- No one defends the intervention
28 Town (7). smocratic theory. Yet we find it to- by Germany and Italy. But ever so
28 Rigorously severe result of day developing into something sus many partisans ignore the equally piciously like an advanced demoora- strenuous Intervention by Russia and
Introducing skill in tre distance ile practice.
sented. Lorry drivers, unless they 32 There are two graduates any France. If the latter has been less
belong to a union, usually are not. It has been peculiarly, in evidence, affect the ethical values of the ac- effective than the former, does that
flames, to use the utmost endeavour
Kleptomanines with means who help
how,
In this part of America -even at the necessity of sometimes from the very first moment, over tion?.
Some benches have peculiar idens most invariably
(7). turning a diplomatic Nelsonte teles- as to what constitutes "insufficient explain the matter. Poor women 34 Our belt gives a spot of bother! themselves at expensive shops al 33 With so few at a position might' the troubles In Spain. Broadly speaking there are but two schools as it has been in past history, the Spain might easily have become,
cope to the blind eye-to keep an means"
not be this (7). of politlent thought about Spat la cockpit of another European war.
originally purely Peninsular quarrel whose sole means were 10s, 3d,. per have to do the best they can for
I have myself heard a man wlin kient from sixpenny from flls country,
stres extending to the whole Would the Spanish Government's
armed Europe?
of week unemployment, pay refused themselves. Call for Reprisals
partisans in this country have re-
Ten years hence. I feney, we shall afford to pay for it.
legal ald on the ground that he could These things breed discontent, and ished that prospect? In
congratulate ourselves that in 1938
justinably so. No alteration in the the long
Another explanation, and to some Inw in required. All that is needed we were far-seeing enough not to extent a true one, is that the justices is that the existing law should be that run would even those Spalards make in, without the who are on the side of the Madrid
JI quarrel between Spaalah are afraid of the expense involved, put into effect, by those whose duly
excuse for staging a They have been very successful in it is to administer it. second edition of Armageddon,
One Great War in a century is just the six years for which statistics of circutiara to the justices. They keeping down the cost. for during The Home Office is fond enough about enough. It is certainly us have been published 1,605 certificates might try the effect of a circular on
as Western civilisation can in all have been granted by the 1,044 this point.
"Police" Courts in England and
One is firmly persuaded Franco jumped
ng
was that grand quarter of tin and sent nearly a relied upon to watch is the clock.
old soldier Major-General Sir Luke O'Connor, V.C.,
Staff. G.O.C.
War
6 Selentist who was not near a
familiar period (7).
This is for the sole attention of - entrants (7).
10 One of course (7).
of these may be the ap pendix, of cou
the greatest ranker to prison by the magistrates for non- It is significant that it is always 11 One may have dim recollections
course,
to the
Surely it was wise British policy, is negatived by the fact that 1,705 In trame offences other than Spain, and various international fire in respect of the 7.078 cases tried of private cars are as a rule repre- when the fires of civil war started in enat aid certinentes were granted those of a trivial nature the drivers brigades came rushing in with in- at Assizes and Quarter Sessions. cendiary equipment to spread the
slightest justification or provocation, Government have appreciated it? partisans the
to sabotage a Popular Front Govern- Keeping Out of it tent. In order to asser litary
Fascist control. The other is just as firmly certain that Franco
It surely cannot be the case that inerely the appalling disaster to the world
much
stand.
have advocates to
A Bollettor
14
(7).
In colloquial
DOWN
1 Certainly
not giving the im- pression of a live body (10), His home may easily be twig- Hed (4).
3 Wherein there is a private ma-
Jarity (4).
4 One might cook the final bird'
in It (7).
SA useful fellow, but-
specialist (8),
No
6 Weary finish for. a. remnant
(0).
7 It might be lanced but one con
make light of it (0).
12 Flower (5).
13 It will be found in Europe, a
century henco (5).
15 A good defence (5).
16 It's a safe bet that this ante is
fair (5).
17 It may contain many points of interest to the seamstress (10),
10 Tile may create a musical at-
mosphera (3).
21 No marine helper, in the or
dinary way (8).
24 What the runners were in the
lead heat (7)..
20 Bird that chases its tail (0). 27 A cattle pen (0),
30 A card game (4).
31 He is liable, later on, to lose
his wool (4).
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