THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939.
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I've done my time in the
army-
-and liked it: Report by a Frenchman on how conscription affected him
AM
years
Those not fit enough for full- ! Frenchman,
old time service are given jobs as thirty-one in this
officers' servants, cooks, canteen married, with three helps.
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Like all Frenchmen, I have If you enlist before you are been "conscripted," or, as we twenty you can pick your own If you go into the prefer to say, I have done my regiment. military service.
colonial service you get better
Like almost all my
fellow pay.
I went into the 157th Artil countrymen, iL war were to
After ніх break out to-morrow I would lery Regiment. have to go at oner to join my monti special training and regiment
in several examinations I became brigadieran artillery cor- France."
poral-in an anti-aircraft hat- We have had compulsory military, The bugle gol us out of tary service in France over since bed every morning at 5. the Franco-Prussian war, when had breakfast, coffee and bread, HENG.--On July 10, 1930, at her the Prussian Army-the Prus- then drill, gun instruction
residence, 736. Nathan Road, Wilhelmina (Alino) Erna Danen-sians had been conscripted since other courses.. berg, beloved wife of A. Heng. 1807-overthrew our troops and
At 11-lunch. Army food hus Funeral will pass the Monument marched along the Champs become much better lately. at 5.45 pm. to-day, July 17. Elysees and under the Are de Hors d'oeuvres, substantial plate of meat and vegetables, a
DEATH
The
Triomphe.
Thongkong Telegraph.dered why there were on quart of wine, and fruit
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Officialdom
FACH year the number of Civil
of us have often won-
tagonism by British people racks. against compulsory military
service.
We
and
Are
now on the menu at all bar-
Drill again from one till five, When I was nine-in 1916 when all men except those on I used to watch the Tommies special duty were allowed out in marching towards the Summe. the town till lights out at 10. I remember how our Poilus praised them as soldiers.
France.
kept MAN'S job is A
open for him white
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
2-1931
"And I suppose I'll have to send an invitation to Mrs. Gadby, but how can I write it so sho won't come?”
Conscription
In Germany
WE have grown so used to thinking of the German Army as the most powerful force in Western Europe that few people realise how short a time it has been in existence. Five years ago
gular Army to-day, the German Reichswehr was only half the size of the British Re-
I
By the Peace Treaty it had been limited to 100,000 men, organised in seven infantry and three cavalry divisions. This small force had no military value except for the purpose of main-
Servants in Hongkong in-
and no artillery of larger calibre than 4-in. guns. AT twenty-five I was be is undergoing service intaining internal order, for it possessed no tanks, no aeroplanes, crenses, and according to published
called up for one
The treaty had also laid down that time, all young Germans had to do a The figures the total is now about year's military training,
If his boss doesn't offer him the term of service was to be twelve full year in Labour Service, where, 11,000; RO that roughly oneterm has now been extended to work on his return to civilian years, so as to prevent the Germans since digging and entrenching form Lake thefrom repeating the process that they a great part of the activities of the unt of every hundred persons is two. The usual age for calling life the soldier may
passing 13 Napoleon of
constant knowledge. an official Naturally, although no
men up is twenty, but in special case before a labour court; where had practised after their defeat by modern soldier, they acquired useful These "Labour Volunteers wore his succession of men through the ranks one envisages a time when, na circumstances--if one is already he receives on proving
process of physicst development and Gilbert pat it, "everyone is some married, for instance-service claim-an indemnity the amount so as to build up the maximum milltary uniform and underwent a
of which depends on the impossible of trained reserves. badee" in an official sense, and jean be postponed.
Even befort Hitler came to power, hardening which was excellent pre- was the portance of the lost job. At twenty-five I
the German Government had set it-paration for military service.
cold remember one bitterly when Hongkong rather like the
no self to overcome these mutations, fabulous islanders who lived by father of two children. My If a young soldier has
years winter morning in Upper Bavaria into camp General Seeckt, for many taking in one another's washing, wife received £1 13s a month for job when he goes
he may,
if he wishes, join Commander-in-Chief, regarded the being awakened about dawn by the Relchswehr as 3 seed-bed from tramp of feet and the sound of men's will exist by looking after one the family's upkeep.
be went on so long that I got up to look another's affairs, there are some That, in 1933, was not enough the army for a five-year period, which at some future date a great voices singing a marching tune. It people who look upon this ten-to pay the rent. I was lucky and then sign up for another national service Army would
planted out. Its discipline and in- out of the window, and there, with highest spades sloped over their shoulders dency
AS with disfavour, an enough to receive permission to five if he likes the life.
and carrying packs arranged. with the do some work "on the side" as Since my regular training standard.
neatness of the Guards Brigade, was approach to bureaucracy.
The point is difficult. one, a newspaper correspondent. My have been called up for short
education of the vice men tromping irough the half- since it is purely a question of army phy was only 25 centimes training periods to keep in touch Papior Mache Armour a long coluinn of sturdy Labour Ser
with the new material and the military
private soldiers was carried to light over the frozen snow on their degree.__For__R_Government in (about 4d.) a day. these days that sets out to be How do wives who-have-to-latest methods of modern war- the level laid down in other armies way to the day's work.
allowance get fare. paternal and progressive inevit exist on this
along? Well, either they are I was one of the two million ably releases a blood of com- plicated legislation, which can helped by relatives or they have called up last September and went to join my battery "some- only be administered by making to look for jobs.
where in France." use of departmental control-af a measure of bureaucracy. In this particular instance, however, those who have misgivings might remem her Pope's advice:
contest;
The general rule in the French Army is to send a recruit as far away as possible from his home town or village,
A Parisian will be sent to the South of France or Northern For forms of government tet foolfrien, while at man from Nice Whate'er is best administer'd lobes. for Marseilles will be sent to the Too sweeping a statement. no Maginot Line or Northern doubt; but if there be, as surely France.
there is, a modicum of good sense
When a man is called up for a "refresher" course his employer continues to pay his salary or wage. And, again, there is that
4d, a day.
struction were
of the
out
fer nun-commissioned officers, which-There-are-bath-advantages, and,die- was the function they were intended advantages in suddenly setting up a organised on the most modern scale, pansion ultimately came about.
no unhampered by long-standing prac- to full when the contemplated ex- conscript Army. Everything call be
Although Germany possessed tanks
the ice or vested Interests, and a new artillery, heavy or Reichswehr carried
its Army naturally receives the most up-
to-date equipment. manoeuvres as if it had them.
On the other hand, Germany found. I saw troops at exercise in these aimeulty in providing officers of the days with dummy tanks, consisting middle ranks, such as captain and of ordinary motor-cars covered with major. Senior commanders could be Innifation armour of papier mache to drawn from the veterans of the Great Bake them recognisable for what War, and the subaltern grades were they were supposed to represent.
Hidden Arms
not the Wehrmacht, as it was called Thenceforward, and the keenness of AS soon as Hitler came to power in the officers and men justified the pre-
January 1833. he began to expand ferential treatment given them.
Though the "raditions" of the the Reichswehr, though still keeping| carller regiments were solemnly on a professional service basis. By banded on to the new formations the end of 1934 it had been raised to called into existence, the resuscitated differs in many 300,000 men. New skeleton divisions German Army were formed, into which the long respects from lis pre-war predecessor. service men of the Reichswehr were Class-spirit has disappeared, and drafted to act as instructors. Stocks every Germon soldier knows of arms and equipment, including the
Most significant of all was the feet filled by intelligent young Nazis, or THE strangest argu-
ment against con- that the German General Staff was officers promoted from the ranks There was also a great lack of scription to French cars is that maintained on a basis out of all pro- the professional Reichswehr.
portion to the comparative inslimi- it is undemocratic. The French-Beance of the troops at its disposition, trained reserves, which the Govern- in it, we should gain some comfort
Many affecra held camouflaged ment to some extent remedied by THIS gives young pea- man feels that, in his mili-
sants a chance to see tary
ratik by being nominally attached to Calling up for short periods of re- service he finds thereby. For the reputation of
real civilian transport or supply organise fresher-training the younger of the tions, so that when the time for re- men who had scen service in the war. the the Civil Service is second to none.the world. For recruits who are democracy..
became The new Army members It exacts from its
an already married or have a family Premier Daladier did his ser- palating the military limitations of
the Peace Treaty arrived they needed yourte child of the Nazi Govem- ment. Whatever other branch of the incorruptible devotion to duty, to support the case is different. vice as a sergeant in the in-only to put on uniform to take their and, what is less generally reeng-I was allowed to serve at Nice, fantry. Maginot, who built the places as faily qualified Staff Omeers, national life had to go short, it was nised, much self-sacrifice from its where I was living, and, like all famous steel belt along the abilities other married men in the bar- Rhine, was also a sergeant highest oflicers, whose
the war. Aristide would obtain a far greater monet- racks, allowed to sleep at home during
Briand, maker of the Peace ary reward in the business world. one night out of two.
The young Frenchman's first Pact, served as a private, and So long as such a tradition is up-
Poincare What held by the servants of the Sinte, contact with the army is à call President
for medical examination, In lieutenant, in his young days, in there is the less reason to fear the each town district and in every the Blue Devils the French result even though there were "invillage the medical examining Alpine troops. paint of fact too many,"
board-composed of the mayor, When I first went to the bar-weapons until then forbidden, were ability is the only basis of promotion. the municipal councillors, and racks I met among my fellow-manufactured and hidden away, Cambridge Steps Forward
several military doctors-sit recruits a young ascetic-looking Then suddenly, on March 10, 1935,
T the end. of 1936 the period of twice a year.
came the proclamation of conscrip priest, whose black cassock was tion, with one year's military service military service was increased to The recruits, supervised by in contrast to the civilian clothes for all young men of 20 and 21 to two years, which had the effect of ralaing the German Brst-line troops begin in the nutumn of that year. -
Behind a peculiar cap as well on the normal gendarmes, strip off their cloth- the rest of us wore.
ing and are examined.
He was the butt for a lot of Army of 500,000 men
At one stroke, a national service to close on 1,000,000 "men.
was thus, these 60 divisions Germany now has types of gown. Cambridge, though Once passed as "good for sarcastic jokes for the first few brought into existence, and the num- 2,000,000 trained soldiers as reserves. The Army has once more become admission to lectures and to "tular" armed service" the future sol days, but he sang such goodber of diyisions was increased from the most conspicuous feature of
life. German national students constitutionally outside the turns to the councillors and is that he soon won respect. Open-Country Exercise uniform is to be seen all over the
It is 18 years since the University of Oxford Arst admitted womch to full membership, bestowing on them
equally generous in the matter of
women dier, still naked and blushing, songs in the dormitory at night 10 to 30. degrees, still keepy Ita university. Copless and gownless do they tread the path of learning, and congratulated by the mayor.
the government of the university pro- ceeds without feminine votes.
By
bridge meanwhile has the honour of
No Weary Marches
that
Its grey
In my battery we had, also, IN achieving this, Germany had country.
Whereas in pre-war days milltary stout round-faced boy whose certain advantages which are not
For years the service was regarded as an un- the appointment to a Cambridge Pro-so far appointed no women pro- father was a wealthy banker at shared by Britain.
younger men of the Nazi Party had pleasant duty, the modern young fessorship of a distinguished woman fessors, may feel self stirred to Marseilles.
Leen organised in two semi-military German shows no unwillingness to do archaeologist a curious logical post-emulate this forward step, and Cam- Of the others in the battery corps, known as the Storm Troopers als two years with the Colours. The tion is now created.
Miss Dorothy Garrod, the Pro-ranging itself beside the "modern" one was a locksmith, another and the SS. Guards. There were tedium of barrack-square drill and farm-ut that Ume about 1,000,000 Storm the weariness of long route marches fensor-designate, has a full a fame universities. But the curious in both, taxi-driver, two
Troopers und nearly 200,000 of the fave given place in modern armies to mechanical instruction and motorised Dick Guards, These are the men with whom
These formations did not carry transport in which the youth of the real interest.-. arms, but they were accustomed to present day finds march-discipline and received ins-
were
n an excavator as was earned in Universities-and outside them-witi hands. another. branch of archaeology by continue to wonder why, when the that learned Cambridge lady, the late monastic traditions of Cambridge pre Miss Jane Harrison. Yet, though the so wisely abandoned in practice, their I would serve if war came. future head of her faculty, Miss anti-feminist ghost should haunt the Garred remains as much exterior to Cure, and women still remain not the university as a whole as was Miss undergraduates, and graduates but Harrison herself, Oxford, which has theoretically external students,
Robert Chasseuil truction in skirmishing under the
rame of "Gelandeubung," or "open- country exercise." Moreover, at that
G. W. P.