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FRIDAY AUGUST 3, 1923

INTIMATIONS.

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THE PROSPECT OF SCIENTIFIC HORRORS,

Sir. Herbert Russell has con- tributed the following to a home "As far back as I can rememberit has been a commonplace remark that war was getting such a horrible business as to be almost impos sible. We have not found this idea

paper:-

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND

.NEAR

The Prince of Wales has sont £50 to the British Red Cross Society, 19, Berkeley-street, W., for the British Empire Cancer Campaig

For throwing a kitten across the road, where it struck some railing and was so badly injured that it had to be destroyed, William Jacksonte of Gordon-road, Hornsey, N., was at Highgate fined 30s, and ordered to pay two guineas costs. David Ridler was fined £4 at Bristol for beating a cat with an iron bar.

‡that those who realize do not talk Things are moving to fast that it much. A warship is such a con- ishard to realize them. Even the crete target that popular imagina, fact that, in a military spuso, wa tion easily grasps the idea of her have lost our long-vaunted in- being battered out of existence | sufurity has not generally 'soaked from the sky. But battering-out, info the national mind. Yet we which we have always had since now have to realize that London is war became civilized affair, the biggest, and probably the most whether in the form of horizontal vulnerable, target. in the world. or vertical fire, is not going to be Trie, we have learnt that it can be the worst ordeal of an Army in the pretty adequately defended by the next great struggle.

curtain fire against air attack. But A diamond of a rich brandy all the defensive batteries have shade, weighing 20% carats and dians have accepted a tender for and mar, them with trained gun which is described as the largest of at gd, a pound and "best English disappeared, end replace them, estimated to be worth £10,000, the supply of" best English boof" poisonners, would be the work of a long, its kind over found, has Consuet" at 6d. The chairman of the It is giving, a generous recovered by the De Beers Com-board said that the figures were

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The great aim of a genera lissimo ,in the future will be effectually

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never really changes one hesitates the whole of the zone in which to accept the desirable belief that an enemy army lies. Gas tanks hostage to optimism to suppose pany from their Wesselton Mine, remarkable. For meat for thei we ever shall: But within the pastgas shells, gas bombs, and good that the next great war would give on the Rand. few years the horrible aspects of ness knows what other devices will time for such preparations,

More than ever, indeed, 'are the "beastly game" have developed all he pressed into the work. It

The Paviors Company entertain- pay Is. 6d, and how the outcher to such a degree that the prospect has proved true in warfare thus far stilities in the future likely, to ed the Lord Mayor and Sheriff's of could supply beef ar gd. he did not of the conditions under which the that the menace has always been and burning of a large portion of Hall, EC. In 1302 four paviors of he swift, if not short. The gassing London at dinner at Carpenters' next great struggle will take place last war men succeeded in getting of the British Empire, but it would pavement throughout the streets to appear before the Lowestoft

followed by the antidote. In the London would not mean the defeat London is an appalling one indeed.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Thursday, 26th July, to Wednesday, Sh August, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

fty Order of the Board of Directors.

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Hongkong, July 10, 1923.

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Twelve parents are summoned

Men were formerly attracted into stageof development gas is bidding assuredly be a very nasty begin- and places of the city only in the Bench for failing to send their the fighting services by a romantic fair to get the better of men.. Itning. No serrled ranks of infantry manner most commodious for the children to school. The children have been attending unofficial glamour which is flickering out. will assuredly be the most deadly and splendid cohorts of cavalry public." The Army appealed to them with enemy they will have to face. And such a possibility. Nor would there a At a Unionist demonstration at teachers who were dismissed be achools staffed by some of the 163 its briljant uniforms, its martial how are they to fight it? The rifle, music, its open life. The Navy, the grenade, the bayonet, the be any great comfort in the an-Hitchin, Herts, Lord Robert Cecil, cause of their refusal to accept which has changed infinitely less, machine-gun-all the conventional nouncement that, simultaneously, the Lord Privy Seal, sald he be salary reductions.

Sitting in is still a calling of spacious fancies, equipment of slaughter becomes we had even more effectually lieved he and the Prime Minister cunera Leyton, Essex, Education Asus Calling of spacious for los impotent and a mere encumbrance gassed and burnt the capital of were agreed on political matters as: Committee agreed to a seulement

the enemy country.

nearly as any two men could be. Mr. with the teachers over the question century war remained a pictures against gas.

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Eng-pald in excess of the amounts before this comes electricity will my political experience." who use gas. But this contention be barnessed to the purpose of

cation. is only legitimate within given wholesale destruction. There ist conditions. A battery firing gas nothing chivalrous about science. business of shells may be suppressed by In the olden days, when man-power material, incidentally demanding counter-battery work with shrapnel. was the decisive factor, the best more bravery than ever. Napoleon! Here we get the inevitable instance won. Now the most informal; was the greatest soldier in history of thinking of the next war in the minded seems likely to be, the

in his own time and environ- terms of the fast. It is the factor victor. ment. What could he have done, which will determine the course of on the Western Front? A solitary the next campaigo. aeroplane could have neutralized

August 1993, at p.m., at the Officon of siege operations, of fort storm- of the Public Works Department, by Ordering, and of cavalry charges. of Hi-Excelloney the Governor of Three In fact, it was essentially a man's

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any effort at a masterly coup. His Old Guard would have been just about as much good as a Bantam Division against barbed-wire, machine-guns, and gas. They would probably have been wiped out sooner as the price of theirelan, but without achieving any more result.

Marshal Foch complains that it is the habit of the military mind to think of the next war in the terms of the last war. But frankly I can not see how this is to be avoided, { We still maintain an Army of horse, foot, and guns We con- tinue to train them in the light of the lessons learnt during the last great struggle. How can it be otherwise? Yet who shall say how this Army is to be employed when

It is a bold thing to say, but I

The bonce of many people buried gravely question whether great in the graveyard of St. George's armics will ever again confront Church, Gravesend, have been dis- one another in the field. It appears turbed in a search for the remaine to me that the whole trend of of Princess Pocahontas, the Red science is to resolve war into much Indian beauty from Virginia who more of a guerilla business. died more than 300 years ago while Concentration of force seems ou a visit to London and is believed; antithetical to the principles of to have been buried in the church aerial fighting. You can put 50,000 yard. The idea of the search, men into a few miles of ground, but which has aroused considerable in put them into the same area of sky, dignation Incally originated with travelling at nothing less than Mr. J. Page Gaston. eighty miles an hour, and there is going to be a ghastly mess.

Cries for help attracted several Yes, the trade of war is degener- husiness to a young man's fancy, found in the water, and later the ating into a less and less attractive people to a floating bridge at Portsmouth, where a bicycle was and herein I think lies one of the body of a man was recovered from greatest assets of the League of the water near the bridge. In one Nations. Patriotism has a great of his pockets was a military pass spectacular side. Marching bat- next it takes the field? Gunners talions, blaring bands, and skirling for Rifleman J. Farthing to proceed.

cavalry?

will always fill their role. But what about the infantry and the We hear a very great deal about aerial warfare in its probable effect upon the Navy. We hear very much less about the corresponding_re- |sults in the case of the Army. Pro- bably this may be due to the fact

was

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that Rifleman Farthing, appeal a bit. Personally I hope I shall not be commissioned as a war Norfolk, exclaimed to his comrades

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