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TODAY MAJESTIC
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1947.
The Territorial Army
is being sabotaged
HE reconstitution of the Terri- torial Army should remind us of our national obligation to a body
of citizen soldiers who fitted them- selves in peace to defend their country in war.
They undertook the sole responsibility for manning the air and coastal defences of Britain, and for this purpose, they were call- ed out in 1938 when the rest of the nation was following its normal avocations, and again in 1939 ahend of General Mobilisation.
Throughout the war they kept their lonely vigil on isolated sites and repelled every attack of the invader. Special list units, composed of radio operators, telephonists, road makers and others, whose skill was in parti- cular demand, were included in the first echelons of the Regular Army which went to France. In every major campaign overseas, units of the Territorial Army took part,
their battle honours testify.
as
At the end of five years three men in every four in the Territorial Army will be conscripts, says
the Rt. Hon.
eide, but the Impressive fact is that about three men in every four in the Territorial Army will by then bo conscripts.
It seems a heavy price to pay for the questionable advantage of giving every citizen so long a period as, 18 months' military instruction that wo should destroy the voluntary basis of the Territorial Army, as we have known it, and as it has fully vindi- cated itself.
LESLIE HORE-BELISHA who was Secretary of State for War, 1937-40 of
Territorial Army to meet so readily and so rapidly every de- mand made upon it.
The Territorial Army has never hitherto been associated with the idea of compulsion. Men drawn to- gether in comradeship from all walks of life gave up their leisure
When danger loomed their winter evenings to drili and
WHEN in March 1939 we were looking for a means of rapidly expanding our forces in the face of the German danger, it was to the Territorial Army that we turned.
We doubled its Field Force, making it 20 divisions strong. This total compares with the 14 Territorial Army divisions which formed Haldane's original force, and the nine contemplated by his Majesty's Government today.
Several famous divisions are being suppressed. The only. new departure is the establish- ment of an airborne division, an indispensable formation in
modern army. It will serve as a bridge between the Territorial Army and the Auxiliary Air Force.
It is, however, neither by the size of the force nor by its com- position that we must judge the Government's plans. These are capable of readjustment.
fundamental test is whether or not they preserve the spirit which has enabled the
more
IDEAS:
their summer holidays to,camp-for Their patriotism a public purpose. was to be measured their divic virtue as by their mili- tary skill.
half
As yet the Government have given no justification of this proposal to Parliament, but assuming that they can make gand their case on grounds national security, how much more important it becomes than ever Jbefore to assure that the voice of the In the Territorial Army is heard highest counsels of the War Office,
When we were calling on the Ter- ritorial Army to discharge Increased responsiblilies in 1038, I decided, os! Secretary of State for War, to Invite torial Army to become a member of the Army Council and confer on an equal footing with the other military
the Director-General of the Ter I
members.
Hear the citizen!
POCKET CARTOON
"Can you direct me to the Thames, picase"
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
SHALL begin to publish shortly the most astounding detective story ever written.
It will introduce once more s the
In so far then, as the structure of the Territorial Army is concerned, to all appearances il remains virtually unaltered. Indeed. It might almost have been lifted bodily out of the prewar mould. But there is an in- trinale change of the utmost signi- Beance. The Territorial Army is henceforward to be charged with ab- sorbing the conscript reservists as they finish their year and a
This was one of a whole series of obligatory service,
reforms inaugurated with the object reader honest, handsome Jack Mal When we introduced conscription of raising the status of the Terrl practice, the livest wire at the Yard, who deduced the before the war the Militia, as we torial Army and
higher
ranks and com murder of a wealthy type-setter in us much by called it, was only made liable to six cess to the Living its onleers ac- and the man
month: continuous service with the mands and the right of entrance to Barbastle from the asts of a cigaretie Bmulted by a beautiful Chilean Colours. The trained men then the Staff College and the Imperial passed into Division B, and remained Defence College. For the first time actress. In the Hotel of the Four Hlable to be called up for 12 days the heading "Major-Generats (TA)" Nations in Belgrade two years later. The voluntary nature of the Ter-
20 drills annually for appeared in the Army List.
Every line, nay, every word, every ritorial Army was emphasised in its training or
coming, one might say, of this new method of government. It was the four years.
explot, will contain
surprise. only army in the world which was
Order your copy now to avoid the nat administered by the central mili- lary authority. County Assockitlons,
kind of disappointment that drives people to drink the now red spark- un which the civic authorities and other local interests were represent- ed, were responsible for recruiting, years in the Reserve, the Regular these hard-won rights and privi-ling brandy from the Gold Coast, Du
Army is apparently unable to absorb leges, which recognised the increas not miss "Murder of an Elephant." accommodating the
of the Territorial clothing
has been decided to convert the Ariny in our military system, are to Literary fun
the units out of capitation grants. The such a cataract of manpower. So it ing importance Regular Army provided the training Territorial Army into a reservoir to be retained. But in any event
£2,000 millions of short-term bor- and the higher command.
demotion, as is now proposed, of the Territorial Army representative at rowings, like wild beuats caught in Director- placier....crying out to be lique- Why on
from considered the War Office necessary to keep ti mon for General to Director and his removal fied. 18 months in the first instance when from the Army Council would seem THIS traditional system is fortu- there are so many demands on our to be against the best interests of the
widened population is by no means nat:ly preserved and
clear, force. In the Government's scheme, What particularly as it ought to be possible is meant, however, by the claim that by an intensive process to teach the the addition of trade union represen- elements of the military art in a far secured by the vesting in the Chief tation is "revolutionary" There is shorter time, really nothing new in the proposal. It was part of Haldane's original plan that both sides of industry should play their part, although only the employers in fact responded.
and
The 'revolution'
The Regular Army war adequate to cope with this flow of Reservists. But now that 18 months are to be IT is by no means plain from the
Government's proposals served with the
receive the food.
earth
Colours
il is
and 5%
A million men
Greater efficiency may well
that
be
(Professor Keith Felling's "The
Life of Neville Chamberlain.") Kinda cute
SCIENTIST having "reproduced the glow of the Aurora Borealis
of the Imperial General Stathe
Quartermas
in a test tube," "there is already talk Adjutant-General, the
and the varlous ter-General
of "noolishing darkness." Could any- bronches
at the War Office of the thing be more abominable than this
responsibilities for executive
However, the experl-
the
AS the scheme now stands, about sonic range of subjects within the mod idea?
200,000 cunscripts will be pass- Territorial Army as they handle in ment took place in Los Angeles, 30 What is revolutionary, and salu- Ing from the Regular Army into the the Regular Army but the Teal Issue, perhaps the discovery will be used tary to boot is that Socialist co-
flood of ght, night Territoria! Army each year, so that particularly during this period of for films. Think of Betty Grable in A operation-the absence of which has at the end of five years the Terri- transformation, is whether the argu-on unceasing
been such a handicap in the way of forial Army, will reach the gigantic ments of the volunter citizen soldier and day, day and night. Oh, boy! recruiting and training the auxiliary figure of 1,000,000 men. Whatever should or should not be heard at the Oh, goody! Aw gee, folks!
stage where policy is moulded.. Final figures for 1946 ci in the post-should at last be adjustment this may need in its or officially forthcoming,
WILLIAM HICKEY
gasallon is for the experts to de-
DARNED GOOD IDEA
run similar contests.
TREASURE: The old could be new.
South-west
Calro, of
excited rchaeologists lay on their backs and were lowered on flat trolleys the 300ft. long, 3ft. high down entrance tunnel beneath the newly opened Pharaoh Pyramid of KING Climbing hdders by SNEFRU.
8011. shaft, they torchlight up an
4,800
Farmworkers and their
SISTERS: A new tale comes out families in Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex had new encouragement about the Queen Elizabeth. It seems for their ideas; organisers of Sussex that when she was a troopship, she County Show announced an inven- passed .M.S. Queen Elizabeth in the tions competition for them... "any- Red Sen. The only signal that passed thing from a gate latch to a combined between them was "SNAP." harvester. Ministry of Agriculture
PHILATELIST: At his Fulham said: This is a darned good idea. They hope other county shows will home, philatelist Dr. F. MUSSON gazed on a possible opening to the
was hoping that the new Postmas- tomb of a king who lived
1,500 350,
years before be the This is good, but not good enough. ter-General would approve his Iden years Why not spare some of the £400,-. of putting some of the outstanding Tutankhamen. It would 800-a-year for "Work-or-Want" features of Britain on our stamps. greatest find of all Egypt's treasures. publicity and run a national contest A little time back Dr. Musson drew But first, Arab workmen must la- of this kind?
up a few designs (they call them boriously clear away fallen masonry. "essays" in the stamp world) and. SURGEONS: New British advances Mr Chur towards o cure for middle-car deaf- sent them to all M.P.4. chill has replied...."I fully appre- ness have so fmpressed Holland's clate your desire for an artistic and medical authorities that the prin- interesting.issue of postage stamos cipal "doctor's universty" at Utrecht was seeking a British surgeon to worthy of the country
demonstrate the ree-hour opera- Bent."
tional technique ("fenestration operation for otosclerosis"),
DUMB-BELLS
ŠĶIGISTERED US CAREERT OPICE (
YOU WRECKED - THAT'S
THE CAR BECAUSE, NOT TRUE,
OF YOUR CARELESS DRIVING!
- I WAS POWDERINGj
MY NOSE
AT THE TIME!
they repre-
WATCHERS: Following their new routine since MADEMOISELLE X planted a bomb on the pretext of in her stocking, mending a ladder Colonial Ofee messengers sat watch- fully, but bored, in huts near all entrances. Hopefully one had put up the notice, "Silk stockings repair ed here."
which
sulable patients-particularly under 23-brings better hearing to
three out of four.
Cautiously, surgeons stress the lts. and-bute so that Britain's 2,000,000 sufferers from middle-ear deafness will not expect too much. But on test cases during the last year or SUBSTITUTE: On the tobacco two "improvement has an occasion front, the search for substitutes had been so great that the noise has at herbalsts smiling, "We've never first distressed the patient." had such a run on coltsfoot," said
the Society of Herbalists. Smokers SCOUT: In the evening, near the of Westminster are mixing his yellow-flowered Great West Door weed fity-fifty with tobacco.. Abbey, a brown blanket which hid "Herbal tobacco is selling at 1s. a new memorial done was takers the name of LORD td. for 1% oz. packets. Sald one away. And experimenter: "It's all right-when BADEN-POWELL Joined the great
there, you get used to do smell!”
NANCY
It Was Animated
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"WHISTLING IN. DIXIE"
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Goorge BANCROFT
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namca
WELL --- YOU CAN HELP ME CLEAN UP THE
PLACE
OKAY --- I'LL GRAB THE MOP AND GET BUSY
The abolition of the office and function of the Director-General of the Territorial Army at this moment looks too much like silencing the victim in order to claim that he has accepted sentence without complaint.
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Fatty holds his own. In passing
A
NEW book about the Matterhorn reminds me that I once heard a lady with a tourist party In Cham- onix say to a member of another takto in the party, "Did your lot Matterhorn? And did I dream it, or did an American in Chartres des- a "Snappy cribe the Cathedral os plece of masonry?"
Rupert & the New Pal-50
Once he is safely in his own garden again. George, the tortoise, *This has been gives a long sigh. the most wonderful day of my life," Thanks to he says contentedly. 'you, I've seen hills and Gelds and the sea, but it's all really too exat ing. I shan't want to go dat of my quiet gardes again for months and **And what months and months..
re you going to do now?" k
"I'm going to sleep and Rupert. sleep," says Georg promptly. That's my home, that straw-filled kenzel."
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