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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 in television, the "elevisionphone," thown In London. The view- ing screen is where the mouthpiece ordinarily would be.. The compact set can be used in a lighted room,
Partisan Blindness
of
By "An Old Stager"
various came to the rescue of the humanities Described the world's to Spain when Red Bolshevism was
IFFERENT pundits at troubles to all sorts of human weak creating revolutionary anarchy be
power, personal hind the impotent or tolerant hands greed, religious bigotry, sexual ob- of that Popular Front regime. session-many have
the root been evils denounced by philosophers through the centuries.
nesses. Lust
advanced, even by apparently un- hinsed outsiders, favour or in
in
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938.
An Old Soldier looks at the Army Changes & says CANADIAN PACIFIC IT'S EASIER TO BE
A GENERAL NOW
I
APOLOGISE for not be HH
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 rotired after nearly 40 years in the Army, including service in six campaigns.
Then I went to a crummer's. Two years of intensive stuming with text.. books hatched me out as a Sandhurst endet-passuble as a dancing partner to the girls, good-mannered, I hope. and primed with inlillary knowledige G.O.C. the Rhine Army, and to took Tanks and machine-guns have taken
-Of`n sort.
But
the title for all time..
go further
their place.
I would like to see these new pro- Do you remember the story of the for mathematics, law,
In one respect. old general who was sitting in his economics, history-apart from the s
three military version-geography, or any Why not send the budding oficers club in Pall Mall, the hero
three campaigns?.
Timidly 01 young of the ordinary accomplishments of to a university for two ar
what happens to subaltern approached bl. the ordinary boy-well, it all stopped years? That
sappers which presumably accounts lead at sixteen.
for the superior smirk on the face of Tell me, general," he asked. the supper.
"what did you think of ic Inst war?" "Dreadful, my boy, dreadful," He goes up to Cambridge for two the general drawled. "The noise-
Higher Standards
WHAT I have learned since 1
Whave had to pick up off my but the vacations. When
years to learn all that it can teach and the people! Too terrible."
own bat.
Just a matter of nous, as other undergraduates are at play. A Scientist Too they say, Not a good system, you the sapper goes to Chatham for a will agree. 11 limited and it stulti- lttle high-pressure military educa-
ned.
produced hidebound soldiers tion. The result Is who lacked not only worldly know oflcer. ledge but everyday knowledge.
Conditions have, of course, in. The Bost Officers proved considerably
then. since
Educational standards are very much
Arst-class
THAT sart of story and that sort of general have gone for good. The ofleer of to-day must be a bit of a chemist, some- thing of a selentisi, a little of a lot of other things-npurt from being a
CAN honestly say that of all soldier.
I the hundreds of young
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I am glad to see that the rates of higher than they were and breaches ulcers who have passed through pay have gone up. Life in the Army have been made in the narrow ex- clusiveness of traditional training my hands both in this country and in my day had a marvellously gay In India I have frequently found and social side-but you paid for it. The system, which has hitherto pro- vided the overwhelming majority of that those who came into the Army If the bank balance was thin, fun civil was thin_too. It was not quite fair officers, while retalning its best latest in life and with most features, is now to be put on a much education behind them made the en us. Mr. Hore-Eellshii has altered
best and
and most intelligent officers. thal. wider bust.
To-day we live in an Army world Further, by making promotion When I read that in one day near- of nuts and bolts, petrol cans and more rapid. by wiping out ly a quarter of the subalterns and chemistry. It is no longer a gentle- iniquitous half-pay system, and by captains of the British Army will be man's war. It has become a busi- nssuring reasonably long periods of automatically promoted, that pro make a business of it and train our it always ought
neslike business So We must service, he has made the Army what to have been-a motion in future will be speeded up,
worth-while profession for worth- there will be direct commission young officers accordingly.
That is what Mr. Hore-Belsha is while men with worth-while pay as from the ranks, that rates of pay
a reward. will be increased, that Army educa- up to. tion will be expanded and intensified, and,
that the
ing
I sit back and watch. My Army So that eyebrow of mine may
Neither side is willing to listen to any statement of facts or arguments finally, that in future any boy days of horses ant guns have gone, come down with a run in the end.
from an elementary school in a back street, say, in Manchester, stands a reasonable chance of going, via a secondary school, into Sandhurst or Woolwich free of all churge to his parents, I raise my hat to the Minister for Wur,
The conviction begins to deepen in my mind, however, Bint the most partial vindication of the other. It baleful of the
Just sheer never occurs to then that there may 101
be some degree of truth on ignorance.
both aldes,
It is
extreme mode.
know
There is no doubt about it that merchant ships, trading in essential
.
But I raised it with one eyebrow ปร
was cocked. There
4 faint doubt behind my unspoken cheer. It was this:
"che
character.
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114
far
the
The astounding thing is what passionate fervour many people will The cross-bench mind simply in- If you are found on a basis of complete immor- furiates their fanalicium. ance. They will get red-hot over mod whole-heartedly with them, then one side of question ng to the you are inferentially whole-heartedly other side of which they not only with the other fellows. The admir-
Good though the new system looks EW things are more creditable to Wales. The maximum allowed on: a know absolutely nothing, but do not able axion that to all is to
all has absolutely no
nn foot-
on paper it has one potential defect the English system of criminal legal aid certiflente in the summary
the promotion of the "examina-justice than the Four Prisoners' De- courts is £2 10. A more even make any attempt to gain en- excuse
usuni lightenment.
hold in this kind of mentality.
tion" type at the expense of the man fence Act of 1930. So far as offences allowance is £1 0s. and this is an And now, Mr. Chamberlain is be-
who has character but lacks acnde-bried at Assizes and Quarter Sessions much as I have ever received. Admittedly there are certain quen ing assailed tooth and nail because mit distinction
But, even ussuming the maximum tions that are inherently beyond he refuses to order the
the British feet Distinction, as
a scholar. Is, not fare concerned the Act works well controversy. One does not hesitate to bombard, or at least to blockade,
enough in soldier. An officer who and not many poor persons go un- grant in every case, the expenditure defended. Bat few people know un Poor Persons Defence since the to denounce, for instance, all the Curtiz or some other Spanish port is to command the respect and that the powers which Parliament Act was passed works out at an cardluat sins catalogued under the we have the absurd position of ex-affection of men must be a Intended to be used for the benent average of about 14s. 4d. per cent. Ten Commandments. Nobody in his treme Left Wian detesters of the leader in that he possesses that in of all poor persons accused of crime per annum. Surely the country can right mind, except in the most ab- German Nazis and all their works definable spirit which we know as have bren
afford and are, so far as would it not be better to do away more than this. it cannot normally exceptional circumstances, citing the German shelling of innn-
The Grecks had tries to defend murder, arson, black- cent civilians, in reprisal for some
"Police" Courts are concerned, prac- word for it, but as I have no educatically a dead letter.
with the pretence that no poor per- mail, or even welshing.
military or naval affront, as a shin- tion I forget the word."
need
undefended on go ing example of strong statesman- Field-Marshal Sir William Robert-
criminal charge? But lots of people to-day are get-
Kon rose from the ranks to be one
The need for legal old is ting extremely Indignant about slip. things far more delicately complex
The situation in all the more gro- of the best-loved and most of tent The Criminal Statisties for 1030, greater in the "Police" Court than
considered that officers in the British Army.
test published, show that the mugs before a judge. There is seldom than the outstanding human crimes, tesque when it is
A Tanker and
also was that gollent trules in that year found 817,873 any presumption of innocence in without
to these Jingo advocates of naval bom- nettially trying
bardment or blockade which is but tragic soldier. the
the late Major-persons guilty of various offences cases tried by the lay magistrates. fathom any of the complexities.
only one degree less drastle, and hits General Str flector Macdonald, That is, they dealt finally with over The more fact that n charge has whose memorial pillar dominates the 9 per cent, of all offences. To these been brought by the police is enough uf this disposition and the innocent just as surely as bom- tendency-sheer ignorance backed bardment would-are mostly La
Krey
barbour and grey houses of 817,073 persons and to those who for the average J.P. The accused the acquitted by abject mental laziness-that our bour people.
Dingwall, the cast const. Scottish were
magistrates how to prove his, or her, innocence. town which is proud of having once granted 383 certificates for free legal The only help be gets portisans are frequently Abnormal Profits
owned him as a shy young draper's aid. assistant.
Under the Act of 1930 two condi- tur, as a rule, is to be told harshly During the war I remember hear- tions must be fulfilled before legar that he must ask questions and not No doubt there have always been so not for one moment in any al-
supplies to Spanish ports, are doing ing of a very efficient brigadier who laid is granted to a defendant in the make a statement.
began life as Mr. Godfrey Jones, a "Police" Court. His means must be violent and purblind partisans, but I fruistic spirit of bringing susten- miner working at the coni face in
in Insufficient to obtain it for himscit, truly bellevé the world has seldom ance to hard-pressed Spanish
12
Ebbw Vale, He was.
There are few more pitiful sights only one of and by reason of the gravity of the been more cursed with them, not prople, but simply because they are
some 20 or more miners who rose to charge or of
of exceptional circum- than n poverty-stricken man even in the days of the Spanish In- able to command exorbitant freights quisition, than we are to-day.
high rank, and gave a first class ac-stances it must be desirabic in the woman trying vainly to think what and abnormally high wages for their count of himself..
Interests of justice that he should to say la court, confused by the There are seemingly senante people
have professional help in his defence. unfamiliar surroundings and shrink- who
It is true that The con freight per ton to these University Training will swallow anything that Spanish Government parts is abou!
red in the any of the offences ing from the ridicule which is for happens in Russia,
Courts are
of too often poured out by the Bench but go berserk four times the rate to other places over even the mildest similar hap in the vicinity. And, on top of all
there was THEN
another la trifling nature, and that
and their clerk. a lorge penings in either Italy or Germany. this,, at least half these
brigadier who in evil life number of persons plead guilty. But
Legal aid actually more neecs- Why should the mere fact that they ships are foreign-owned, and using
merchant had been a cab driver. A few years the magistrales, nearly all of them sary before lay magistrates than be- are in sympathy with the policul our national
ago there was a policeman on duty lay lustles and spendictable on the watch for irregularities. The in fore a judge. A judge is always egime in one instance, and out of camouflage.
at Barry Dock who had commanded 1030 dealt with $8,504 sympathy in the others, warp
a battalion during the war. their
The only way in which Franco's
offences, mainly cases of theft, by only thing that magistrates can be Judgment thus?
Before the war, when I was a persona over 17, and sent nearly a relfed upon to watch is the clock, bombing of these ships, within the young man, there was that grand quarter of these persons to prison. The justices dislike defended cases To an Intelligent person a rose three-mile territorial water limit, old soldier Major-General Sir Luke In 1036, 10,443 persons were sent because they take more time. smells just as sweet in Russia on in that there is no war in Spain. That
can be condemned any other country, and as evil deed is a contention which, in the palpa- is just as reprehensible in Moscow as it would be in Berlin or Rome or le circumstances of to-day, seems
just an absurdity. Timbuctoo. Until we can and means Everybody with any sense deplores to extirpate this partisan madness. the fact that the Spaniards have not whether by an improved education been left to fight; their quarrel out or some other expedlent, I fear amongst themselves. We have done there may be grave danger for our our utmost to secure such a situation, democracy.
and if our efforts have not been suc- The Imbecile disinellation to cessful, the fault certainly does not to hear a word lie with us, but with overmastering consider, or even about, the other side of the case is circumstance.
Negation of Democracy
crews.
No one
ensign meroly
as
or
ACROSS
1 Fisli vessel that 'accommodates
vehicles (two words-3, 4). Scientist who was not near a familiar period (7).
This is for the sole attention of entrants (7).
B.
10 One of these may be, the ap-
pendix, of course (7)..
by contending ']'O'Connor, V.C., "the greatest ranker to prison by the magistrates for non- It is sinifcunt that it is always11 One may have dim recollections
of them all" before "Wullie" Robert-Indictable
tima, No ad-
Staff, Chief of the Imperial General prison after trial in the "Polic" accused of wolf defence who ere 14 Put the start of 10 across in
of such heavenly event (7). Altogether advocates for offences. Ron became Chief of the General nearly, 20.000 persons were sent to
humans to infuriate (0). vocate wastes time Intentionally, as Staff,
G.O.C. Great Britain,
Usually a festive and Courts. And 303 persons only. out for here is money. I have had 18 This day is
of well over
three-quarters of a 30 years' experience of the courts one (5). which came from the last European
million tried; had the privilege of a of summary jurisdiction, and I have
20 Engineers often take this in Poor Persons Defence,
hand. (0), never seen a defendant who could War is already being forgotten. The heard ironically suggested, that the sentation.
It may be, of course, as I have afford it without professional repres 22 A tule tug on the line? (0), wounds of 1914-10 are
23. Poisonous horse artist (5). not yet caled. They are gaping hideously explanation is that crime is practi-
25 Popular game
In *colloquial a general disintegration of
cally confined
to the wealthier
Hulse (0). lised traditions and aspirations.
classes. But this disquieting theory
civi-
mocratle theory. Yet we find it to by Germanyds the intervention when the fires of civil war alarted in in respect of the 7,078 cases triod of private ears are as a rulo rebre-
in itself a positive' negative of de-
and Italy. But ever so day developing into something sus- many partiens ignore the equally pleiously like an advanced demoera- strenuous Intervention by Russia and France. If the latter has been less He practice.:
It has been peculiarly is evidence, effective than the former, does, that the ethical values of the ac-
moment, over
from the very first the troubles in, Spain. Broudly
Son
Spain might easily have become, speaking there are but two schools as it has been in past history, the of political thought about Spain in cockpit of another this country.
European war. Would the Spaniali Government's Call for Reprisals
partisans. In this country have re- listed that prospect? In the long One
is firmly persuaded that run, would even those Spaniards Franco Jumped in, without the who are on the side of the Madrid ajightest justification or provocation, Government hava appreciated it? to sabotage a Popular Front Govern mont, in order to assert a milltary Keeping Out of It
Fascist control. The other is just as It surely cannot be the case that fleinly certain that Franco merely the appalling disaster to the world
have advocates to
20 Town (7). "
(7).
(7).
DOWN
Surely it was wise British policy; legal aid certificates were granted those of a trivial nature the drivers is negatived by the fact that 1,763 In traffle offences other thon
20 Rigorously severe result or Spain, and various International frent Assizes and Quarter Sessions,
introducing skill in the distance brigades came rushing in with
sented. Lorry drivers, unless they 32 There are two graduates any with in-
belong to a union, usually are not. cendiary equipment to spread the.
Kleptomaniacs will means who help
how, in this part of America flames, to use the utmost endeavour
(7). themselves at expensive shopsal- 133 with so few fit a position might -even at the necessity of sometimes Some benches have peculiar Ideas most invariably turning a
diplomatie Nelsonle teles as to what constitutes "Insufficient explain the matter. Poor women 34 Our belt gives a spot of bother!
not be this (7). cope to the blind eye to keep an means." I have myself heard a man who steal from sixpenny stores originally purely Peninsular quarrel whose nole means were 10s. 3d, per luave to do the beat they can for from extending to the whole of week unemployment pay refused themselves. ormed Europe?
legal aid on the ground that he could These things breed discontent, and Ten years hence, I fancy, we shall afford to pay for it.
Justifiably so. No alteration in the congratulate ourselves tint in 1030. we were far-seeing enough not to extent a true one, is that the justices is that the existing low should be Another explanation, and to some low is required. All that is needed make a partisans the excuse for staging a They have been very successful In it is to administer it.
quarrel between Spanish are afraid of the expense Involved, put into effect by those whose
duty second edition of Armageddon.
keeping down the cost, for One Great War in a century is just the six years for which statistics of circulars to the justices. They. The Home Oflee if fond enough during about enough. It is certainly as have been published 1,605 cartificates might try the effect of a circular on much as Western efvilisation can in all have been granted by the 1,044 this point. stand.
"Police" Courts In England and
1 Cortuinly not giving the lin pression of a live body (10): 2 His home may easily be twig-.
Rod (4),
Wherein there is a private ma-
jbrity (4) One might cook the final bird init (7) A useful fellow, but no specialist (8), --A. Belleller........
T
0. Weary falsh for a remnant
(0).
7 It might be lanced but one can
make light of it (0).
12 Flower (8).
13 It will be found in Europe a
century hence (5);
18 A good defence (5),,
10 It's a safe bet that this anto is
fatr (5).
17 It may contain many points of interest to the seamstress (10).
19 This may create a musical at-
mosphere (3)..
21
No
marine helper, in the or
dinary way (8).
24 What the runners were in the
dead heat (7).
20 Bird that chases its tail (0). 27 A cattle pen (6). 30 A cord game (4).
31 He is liable, later on, to lose
his wool (4).
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