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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1932,

BRITAIN IN PERIL

ARMY HOPELESSLY

OUT OF DATE

WARNING LEST TRAGIC ERROR

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YOU GETE

(By A Landon Correspondent.)

A Study In Trousers!$---}| It was Jack Halbert who dennod trousers as plurál when you wear them; singular when you don't.”

Trousers, in Rubald are always singular. In the Soviet Paradise men's clothes are made by State factories in stock sizes and num- Here is a frank and disquieting bered. Russians who require a exposure of the perilous state of the new suit first receive a permit British Army to-day. The Military proving that the old one is worn Correspondent who wrote t out, and then proceed to the f a world-famous 'Authority general store.

on military affairs, and his survey Here they are measured and then is based on the recent Army told their size. Invariably, if the maneuvres. I! ་་ ་".

But the moustaches of 1914 were not as grey as those of 1952, So it is not altogether surprising that on the battlefields" of this year's maneuvres our infantry have been sent time after time to make attacks that had far less chance of success than those of coat fits, the trousers do not. Then Britain want's penco Britain

1914. begins the

strenuous game of wants disarmament. But can Bri-

The Guards Failed wopping", garments...

tain afford to sit beside a smoulder- A famous military critic recently. That is why the appearance of ing Europe with an Arany that is called attention in studiously, moder- men in Moscow is so comic to-day. hopelessly out of date?

fately terms to one alich example. Either they wear salts that do not Hundreds of thousands of young His description was mild, compared

Your Daily Smile.

*EXPLAINING XT, .. Rome wasn't built in a day-but, of course, they didn't have Mussolini then,

ff or else the coat and the trousers lives were noedlessly sacrificed by with what soldiers have been saying are or dife colour and the "Grey Whiskers" In the years among themselves. material

of the Great War. If the nation is Although supported by the whole not careful, the same thing will artillery of an Aldershot division, in happen again. "Grey Whiskers" splendid battalion of Guardsmen was. live in the past, never in the future. unable to do anything against a Does the British public realise position whose occupants had on this that the British Army is hopelessly occasion actually dug in and co- out of date?-that to send our cealed their machine guns. soldiers to a modern war would "Then another battalion made the mean sending them to be slaughter-attempt, and failed similarly. ed helplessly and hopelessly?

"Those who saw these attempta EASILY BEATEN,

When the call came in August said that it was the only possible A motoring, correspondent, re- 1914 we were able to despatch four verdict, and that if real bullets had viewing new motor-car, says its divisions over a hundred thousand been lying the Guards would have one fault is that it rattles, no mat- men, across the Channel to play been massacred. LUK JAN ter what speed you drive it at their important part in the opening It is the younger officers, the men Hah that's nothing! My car battles. For if, that Army. was who were front-line soldiers in the Fattles when it's standing still.. small beside the Continental hordes, war, not gilded chateau-dwellers,

Winter is Early This Year,

Several blue-nosed-sharks have

The China Mail from experts. This was not sur-been caught recently.

Hong-Kong. Thursday, Dec 8, 1932.

Speech.

The late Alfred Austin,

prising, because in Britain the standard of pronunciation isṣthat

A RELIEF.

Its divisions were as well trained who are most alive to the dangerous

One Division

state of our Army. To-day we have almost as many Unfortunately, while they are still troops at home 45, in 1914. But if serving and their prospects depen s fresh emergency came, now we dant on their submissiveness, their could only so it is said-send a mouths are gagged. But, when the of the individual himself. In

single division overseas during the gag is slipped they speak with no A statistician says we will have first few months.... the original inquiry Mr Bér- another depression in 1963. I was

uncertain voice......... Worse still, that division would nard Shaw asserted that there afraid it was going to be the same he unfit to fight on a present-day The "Army, Navy and Air Force

Incredible." are 47,000,000 ways of pronounc-one. ing English in the United King- one-dom. That statement, although Prize Misprint,

Know.

returned

to

battlefield. If it was ordered to Gazette," a widely read service make an attack against a modern paper, edited by a Staff College time Laureate, was not a great not very helpful to those de "Lord and Lady

mincemeat by machine guns. Per-spoken outright about "the Inadvis enemy it would be massacred-made graduate recently retired, has just poet; but he was a shrewd and sirous of guidance is probably London from the country decently," haps it would be as well in the cir-ability of retaining an organisation discriminating judge of litera- allowance made for Mr. Shaw's not far from the truth, with

cumstances If we could only send incapable of attacking an enemy ture, and had a keen sense of disposition to hyperbole.

Facts You Did Not

one division The

armed with machine guns and wire." values in matters of taste. He number will be greater now be-

These revelations may sound It" has declared that "when astonishing in the ears of the Bri-examined in further detatis our refused to subscribe- to the cause since then the population

tish public. The 'grim facts, how divisional organisation seems even theory that language is intended has increased. It is possible that physiological factors may

To raise sunken, ships an Italian ever, are common talk in the mill-more incredible. to conceal thought. His doc explain the variations.

has invented pontoons hinged at the tary messes and clubs.

The infantry, that magnificent trine is that language is intend-mit an extreme case, people with centre, which would be lowered to The regimental officers, who and long-auffering arm, ed to communicate thought, hare-lipe or cleft palates do not grasp the bulls of vessels, after know they may have to pay with being deprived of adequate artillery "When you speak," he wrote, Vocal chords differently attuned

which water would be pumped from their own and their men's lives support, without which they cannot articulate according to the norm.

the pontoons and they would rise to for this sorry, state of affairs, are hope to, and certainly ought never "speak clearly and naturally. may account for differences in

the surface of the water.

growing anxious.

to be ordered to attack, are not even why Whitehall does supplied with weapons of the type Say what you mean and mean intonation.

They wonder Our receivers, the

A California aviator who carried nothing to remedy it, although, die which might increase their offensive ears, may record sounds with a

To sub-

besides

what you say; be brief and sen- timbre dissimilar to that which "ghts strapped to his body so that cipline restrains their murmurs. power. Of attacking weapons

live in glass-hopses we cannot

sible. Words should drop from they would convey to our neigh

he could be watched, with telescopes But they cannot help wondering if the Infantry have none in their own the lips as beautiful coins newly bour. It seems to be a question before his parachute opened when anything will ever be done as long hands, and very few behind. "That we should be prepared to issued from the mint, deeply of idiosyncrasy and since we all he leaped from a plane apparently as War Office policy is governed by

verified the theory that objecta fall "grey moustaches." For they ob offer our infantry as a sacrifice be and accurately impressed, per- accord to throw stones, faster at night than in daytime. serve that while the armament of cause of an inadequate artillery is the Army remains unchanged the bad enough, but that it should Imitation opals of large size and age of generals, grows older and be further handicapped by unsalt great beauty are being made by older. K able weapons is well-nigh, inexcus- glass ballalled with glycerine, the venerable Duke of Welington sealing chips of genuine gems In It was with similar placidity that able. which reflects light to add to the watched the post-Waterloo Army H.E. THE GOVERNOR play of colours.

sink into the decay which the dia lasters of the Crimes exposed. * PASTE TERRORING THAT

LATA.D.C. PLAY.

News In Brief.

"Payment Deferred"

Star Theatre.

fectly finished, neatly struck by Frank H. Vizetelly, however, the proper organs, distinct, doer throw stones, aharp, in due succession and of Vizetelly İs

expatriated due weight." This is excellent Englishman and an adopted on advice, but unfortunately it of America, and, in a recent embodies: a plous aspiration for published pamphlet, Tike most of us, who are content to Dantel come to judgment, take the short and easy way of tacks the English, as compared making ourselves, beard by with the

The importance of the present American, *pronuncia locutions which come readily to tion of English. He attributes

Army is not only matter of the tongue. The style is the the debasement to the induence

general opinion,; but an elementary man," declared Buffon. That of the "Oxford accent," and there-fed to the Health Authorities on There are five divisions of in

One case pf, diphtheria was noti-mathematical fact. is not always true. Often per-by prejudices himself es a critic, Tuesday.

His Excellency the Governor, Shr fantry In the Army at home, fotal because the alleged Oxford acob

ing 60 lafantry Battallone There William Peel and Lady, Peel were quite cent is not heard in the pre- The generous benefactors and is only enough artillery, to fire ar present at the Star Theatre last "real cincts of Oxford > He is annoy-friends of St. Francis Convent, are adequate barrage in front of one night to see the A.D.C. drama, “Pay-

alled because a famous street in kindly reminded that London, whose

bont their tickets battalion in each division! There ment Deferred."" sspelled the Fair which Vil

- enought up-to-date, tanks to

"Another excellent performance ion: 0. Pall.

cember 11 at 10 am.. form (one ttallon of fifty light is again given, J Roberts and two

Margaret Birts playing their diff- 1924 Tanks ***1dult roles with great skill

skill while Hilda Arnold was very convincing which the

have Mme. Collins, the French lady

who is not much good," slice 1924)|

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linguistic style whi

qut of keeping with temperament, though entirely

they are guilty of affect Henry has story)

men, One in his conversation banka Was verbose and pretentious, banks" given to grandiloquent phra-terton seology and florid periods. The wildern other never wasted a syllable; These modest, he was brief and laconid to the long usage, and if point of taciturnity. They London taxi-driver happened to be in each other's Mal, the form whi company when news tragic toy deems to be corre both arrived. The sesquipeda would not understan lian emitted an expletive of four Vizetelly also comp letters and refrained from! fur- the English phoneticall theruttorence, The strong, the letter "Pee Whats Bilent man rante the best do

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com and are no longer at to be used in There was a good crowd present for the show, which will be present- 4 proper campaign.

But during this time machine ed again to-morrow and Saturday guns have been growing more nights at 9.15.p.2GNUALERTA numerous în-ell the armies, of...” the

Eyan öur own – Army:" "Eas wice the strength in these deadly weapons that it had a few

trenches!

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revelations In-

drove

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