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"Perhaps I'm hard, to please...

When I was younger

I didn't much care what I ate or drank or smoked. But nowadays I take my pleas ures, not sadly but seriously. I suppose you

would call me faddy. I hate to be put off with second- best, no matter what it is. I won't eat a peach unless it is English. If I order caviare it must be Beluga.

You see what I mean about whisky. While I can obtain a whisky as soft

and smooth as a fine liqueur, why on earth should I be put off with anything less than White Horse? I admit that perhaps I am hard to please - but take it from me, it pays.”

WHITE HORSE WHISKY

You can tell it blindfold!

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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 1

POLAND AS TH MILITARY POWER

POLAND'S greatest military strength equipped, and are trained to fight as lies in her remarkable man-power, independent units. Poland's frontiers During the war, apart from ordinary are so vast-3,488 miles-that it is im- casualties, over 1,000,000 Poles died of possible to visualize warfare based on privation. Naturally, most of these continuous lines of trenches; a Polish were old people, so that the normal age Maginot Line is not a practicable pro- balance of population was disturbed. position. According to its station, each Thus to-day 50 per cent. of the people division has its allotment of mechanis- of Poland are under 25 years of age ed and armoured vehicles. Polish 66 per cent. under 301

tanks are of excellent quality and per- These are remarkable figures. They formance, and are now being produced mean that Poland, with a population of in large numbers. only 34,000,000, can mobilise an army Supporting troops include 30 regi- ments of field artillery attached to the They are even more significant when divisions, independent brigades for gen- considered in detail. The conscript eral reserve, 10 regiments of heavy classes being called up to-day are near- artillery, mechanised units, anti-air- ly as large in Poland as in Germany. craft sections and armoured trains. I Consider the situation in the imme- witnessed a shoot at unprepared tar- dinte post-war years-a defeated Ger- gets by a field artillery brigade, and many in the trough of despair, bank- was more than favourably impressed. rupt and without hope, and a résur-

larger than France with 41,000,000.

rected Poland charged with enthusias- ROLE OF MOUNTED TROOPS tie and optimistic virility. Thus in the Yet the outstanding feature of the years 1920-5 the average number of Polish army is its cavalry. I should boys born in Poland was 515,000. In class this as the best in Europe. It is Germany, with double the population, certainly the quietest, More than once as I attended manoeuvres in Eastern it was only 675.000,

BRITIS built for off at Tilbury t guns and ha

More recent figures are even more Galicia I found myself surrounded by striking. Although free from Govern- cavalry who had given no hint of their ment stimulus, the Poles are naturally approach. I much admired their equip- more prolific than the Germans, and in ment and the fashion in which it is the last 10 years the average number mounted-so that a man may ride at a of boys born in Poland was 511,000, canter without the slightest jingle. while in Germany it was 595,000. In Cavalry may be discredited...in the young man-power, therefore, Poland is West, but in the wide expanses of only slightly inferior to Germany. Eastern Europe its role is very impor- WELL-EQUIPPED DIVISIONS tant. In a war of movement, over 8 The Polish army is thus a factor of country with poor communications, the great importance. Poland is actually activities of mechanised forces the fifth military power in the world. limited by considerations of supply, The standing army exceeds 300,000, but in any part of Poland cavalry can including 46,000 regular officers and live on the country.

small groups, the N.C.O.'s, while trained reserves excced Mounted troops consist of three re- and their eye fo 2,000,000 men. In time of war Poland giments of light cavalry, 27 of Uhlans, could mobilise an army of 4,000,000 10 of mounted chasseurs and 10 squa- The Poles havd soldiers without crippling the essential drons of scouts. The divisions of the sive as well as economic life of the country.

cavalry are traditional-all are equip of the machine-g

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The standing army includes 30 divi- ped alike, with the machine-gun as the markable advance sions of infantry, with two of moun- dominant weapon. I found the troops alone, without the tain troops. These divisions are well of excellent quality; trained to fight in artillery or tanks

YOUNG NAVIGATORS.-Future British Naval officers gain practical experience by going on cruises in real men-o-war. H.M.S. Vindictive has been specially fitted out as a cadet training ship and during the voyages the young officers get first hand knowledge of navigation, gunnery and the general routine of a battleship. Photo shows physical training to the marine's band, on the quarter deck of H.M.S. Vindictive.

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up a fierce barrag line advanced ah sent out a venom ∙cess was repeated

Polish arms ar Europe: some are others made in E For example, Pol tures her own pl and Blenheim pro cent aircraft exhil exhibits attracted the other point of to note that the being installed ̋in" is a Polish inventi

Polish first-line 1,250, with a simila There is an ample ers-neighbouring better targets tha Los (Elk) bomber. miles with a load 3,8801b., and a sp hour. The Wilk fighter carries tw one gun, has a ra miles and a speed hour.

Most interesting Mewa (Sea-gull) akin to the British lighter and more All these planes pletely in Poland, a considerable quantit of south-eastern Eu

PROBLEMATICS BY TRN SHAW A CLOCK POSER

THIS HONEYCOMB OF 19 CELLS

HAS 3 IN THE TOP ROW. How MANY CELLS WOULD THERE

BE IN A HONEYCOMB,

OF SIMILAR SHAPE IF THERE WERE 25 IN THE

TOP ROW?

Noo26!

EACH OF THE FOLLOWING CAN BE RE-ARRANGED TO FORM A EUROPEAN TOWN OR CITY

1. Ten marches

2. Mad retort 3. A noble car 4. Sell a miser

5 Said to men

DRAWA SQUARE 3x3 AND DIVIDE IT INTO.9 Sq„INCHES. REMOVE ONE SQUARE AT A TIME UNTIL ONLY 3 REMAIN - KEEPING THE DISTANCE ROUND. THE OUTSIDE ALWAYS 127

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THE MINUTE HAND IS THE EXACT RADIUS OF THE CIRCLE IF THE POINTC 19

9 FROM A AND 8" FROM B HOW LONG IS THE MINUTE HAND? (FROM CLOCK CENTRE

TO POINT)

I AM ASS

TABLE CLO

THE AREA

WHAT IS

METHODO

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4888R CAN YOU CH

INTO PORK ONE LETTE