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SUBATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 19г.

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

THE CHINA MAIL..

AMPLY SUPPLY OF BRITISH OFFICERS,

NO DANGER OF A SHORTAGE.

The cynic of the battalion invented a now. definition the other day. He looked round the mess, surveyed the Forowded tables, and sighed. “À batta.

MARSEILLES AND LONDON,n," he said, is a small body of troops

TAKING PAMENgans and Cargo 1o,

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CO.. Hongkong Colombo

Noon

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Jan.

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entirely surrounded by officers." was his way of commenting on this fact I that our battalion, which is at prosent Jaboat 700 strong, owns rather more than

80 officers.

station like soldiers of years' standing- That was not as all becadas be cured. with hearty vigour the first time be met us. It was because we felt that be was diferent He knew things which we did not know, and in particular be knew exactly what he wanted And after him there came others,

THE DAY IN THE WOOD

New officers began to arrive. They camo in twos and threes, and they went about their business without fuss and without nervousnesa They had no misunderstanding with their voices when it came to miring words of command. and they knew exactly how every detail of uniform and equipment should go. Some of them, it appeared, were not very strong. There were law who

nover went

on route marches. Two or three were ...Many months ago, when I enlisted, 65 seen for days at a time. Little by officers were scarce, and frequently pecu- httle from the gossip of officers" servants jar Un the rare occasions when that all the way men were Förderlies and the "fast," the battalion

would

| second lieutenant turned up to command from the STOZIK, ARAD VRany of them hea. Tour platoo

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we did not rajoice. The been gassed so terribly that 17 Jan, 38 chances were that he knew less about never be really wall again, the

the work than we did ourselves, and them had suffered in one

that all of Fab, 4

way or another. that he would give us startling orders There

bere cama Feb. 19 which would leste sa under the necessity

difference when {were talkingArgong themselves. Mar. 11 of guessing what he meant to my and Mar 18 dongtat instead of the thing com-some of us will never forget. The bat

was a day which manded.

We understood the position, of course. trained, and the colonel arranged little

talion was a little stalo, a trifle over You cannot improvise officers. When the surprise for us Rations were served war began there was only the compara-rout, and we marched off, as we thought

nly small body of the officers of the to another of the inte

interminable eld hurried off to the front, and the fields of camp we were led into a grest, dim wood France hold most of them in keeping till of high trees, free from ander growth the day when the dead shall rise. After between There we were arranged in them were sent the men who had done hollow square, with the band in the years of patient faithful service as middle. We were told to sit down and officers in the Territorial battalions to eat rations, and we were given to The

was ransacked for men understand that if we smoked cigarettes country with

the right kind of knowledge crime on other occasions no one and experience and they were, sent

would tak of with the

And armien

notice. While we atej then for

the band played all our ret tunes, sad a time the majority of the men who were then the adjutant, made a little speech. available to train the recruiting bat-The colonel thought, he asid, that we talions were themselves in most desperate should like to know something of what need

of training. For a time we, the it was really like at the front, so & few trainers and the mer in training, were of

the foundering together in wonderful.con-fire-minute

officers were gr' to give as fusion, and brigadiers were reduced to a experiences. He won

their own state of apoplectic

dismay.

lead the way Mind,, not one of us who knew them.

We sat there for an hour, listening. has a word to say against those men.

One after the other our new officers Very gallant fellows they were, so many

got up and told us of what they had seen, of them. They had been pitched into and understanding came, even to the an entirely new job and they had it all Bullest to learn. And some of us know how they even as we were

among us. They had served, toiled to earn it, with what relentless had seen and known. We gathered

prepared

Barvo. They self-sacrifice they worked to make them though no que said sa mach-that they selves fit to serve their country's cansion.were on to show us the way to serve And they have served, many of them to our turn. Things were happening in the hearts and minds of ment is we listened laughed, and listaned again, and though I let that battalion know that, in the old, unconquerable woon after, I was with it long enough to phrase, it had been born again on that

11th December..

... SUNDAY,

24th December. " 31st December.

SUNDAY, SUNDAY,

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For all this was many months ago When our cyple invented the defa ition quoted just now, he was ferring to the new order which is in existence to-day. There is no shortage

A small body of troops entirez, sur- of officers now, Dor will there ever be rounded by officers. That is true as. again. No matter how many thousands Present, because the officers are being

who

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you would be, looking at men 75 per cont of whom have been wounded at the front. They joined directly the war A few brief weeks of training. and they were hustled off to France there came the

and endured t

the ahrspel, cr the fragment of

which made pause in their warfare. They came home to be healed, and now they are preparing to command as once they ser- red. And with their hands they will write the doom of the German Empire

I want to insist on that. Some of the maat acute observers.may miss the point altogether, because they have never been

the proper position to note the of these men to be

in the

cffect of the comine anders of the Tasti

platoon

the of to-day. But when they began arve back in the summer, I chanced to arrive. to be in the one place where it was possible to see most plainly what it all! meant. No o one knows better than the platoon sergeant the effect and infidence of the platoon conunder.

and

They began to arrive. One rumour went round -Our battalion was as fine a collection of touch

scoundrels as one Benial could find. It was not one of those merry gangs of milliona

millionaire privates which were formed in the

first days. The men were, most of them, of that good rough atuff of which the army has been made since the beginning. And since it had been in training for some Ave months it had no more use for amateur officers, and it was apt to be restive. Ett the romour came, and the men begsu to grow interested. It appeared that we had indented for a new colonel, a mán who had been wounded and patched together.

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