WOUNDED INDIANS.
A VISIT TO BRIGHTON PAVILION.
Should anyone be disposed to rogard a visit to our Indian sick and wounded as something sad and unpleasant to be facod for duty's sake it would be well to assure him at once that in the Brighton Pavi- lion at lease will be most ngreeably surprised, says The Times. Pain, of and ine young men reduced to crawling course, is to be seen and ugly wounds, cripples; but still the general note is cheerfulness and hope, and a full measure of that brave, quict patience which is the crowning virtue of the East.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 1915. -
THE "SLEEPY GIANT"
AWAKE.
CAUSE OF THE DISTURBED CONDITION OF CHINA.
INTERESTING REMARKS BY A
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UBE OF OLD AMMUNITION.
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Though Germany has hitherto only used the best new copper procurable for the manufacture of anununition, it is possible to remanufacture old ammunition. Allowing that 80 per cont of the ammuni tion mado is recovered and finds its way back to the melting pot, and that 80 per cent of this can be re-made into Amounition, there should be at the end of March a sufficient reserve to cLITY OU Speaking recully at the College of for another four monthis until the end of Law of the University of the Philippines, July, by which time recoveries will pro- Mr. C. T. Wang, National Secretary for ducen sufficient stock to carry on into China of the Y.31.C.A. declared that the October, after which the total reserve will disturbed condition of China during the be in process of collection, remanufacture past few years Was due ..to the and redistribution, and thoro will be no the awakening of the country from ammunition in the firing line, when the its centuries of lethargy The East, wat must ocas unless stocks are supple
was known as sicopy, mented from outside sources. The above and Ching as the sleepy giant, but that is a very sketchy estimate, but simplo giant was now fully awake. During the calculation will show that oven a very
From Persian Gulf, er ss. B. L. 8. N past ten years it had undergone a change large error in the assumed figures only
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When I was in the United States, he or two. It
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instructions are estimate the amount of
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how much. American copper is allowed to slip by the British Ficot
Superintendent.
E. A. HEWETT,
Hongkong, 13th February, 1915.
To anyone who speaks easily language of Northern India such a visit cannot fail to be happy and helpful, both he said,
Our for him and the Indian soldiers. King, Sahib, is very satisfied with its people, quictly remarks a poor fellow helpless from frost-bite in the trenches "I in true saying, is the obvious answer, more especially as one looks round at the marvellous and elaborate care with which every detail for their comfort has been thought ont. Another, whose right leg was cut off twice-once and again above the knee eagerly below lines of the fat cuverket, where the missing leg should be, to illustrate the positions of the trendue where he fought
Does your leg hurt much?" one asks. Honen, the No, Sahibi," he answers quietly. "We ization, people are quite roady to die for the Sir: old that no nocord now exists of their kar (English Government). "What antiquity, some of them being 3,000 to work are you doing, Sabib ?" asks a third. 4,000 years old. When a people got old "I have been a pensioner for seven years they become sleepy; they got satisfied with and came back to help the Sirkar. My their past; their students get into the father is a pensioner too, and he came way of thinking backward. They talk of is the rather humiliat heroes of a 1,000 years ago, and progress back without
English people put oil is thus at a standstill and the people ing reply
their present and less of on their hair?" asks a handsome youth think little from the Northerr Frontier I greatly their future. To them now thought is The fossilization of the people wish for oil for mine." The question is heresy: passed on to the powers that he and resulting from this condition means fost When I heard the Constabulary the clean white pillow-cases are thought arts. of-but it ends, as most of their wishce do band in Shanghai I thought of tho wou in oil to make him of a cheerful counten derful musical instruments we have in ance, even though the regulations make no many of our old temples, instruments no one knows how to use now because music such concession to vanity,
is a lost art to us. The preservation of wood is another lost art. Investigators into the condition of the great wall of China have found wooden piles 2,000 years old in a perfect state of preservation and bricks as good as though they were made yesterday. We are, as a result, 300 ism. The author, who describes himself as years behind the times in everything. Yet while we are 300 years behind it will a socialist"one not altogether negligiblo not take us 200 years to catch up. We both as a poet and as a practical wan of shall be a new China in a generation. China is like a fat man; he cannot move his hands-dedicates his work to his remaining undelivered on the 23rd fast., quick, but when he moves his momentum mother. He describes it as a socialist's at 5 r., will be subject to rent and landing is tremendous.
study of the ideals and lives of, for the charges. China_ is grappling with great prob lems. Its people are conservative, and most part, middle-class people, and he left on board or Godown, and Bramination of that is a great virtua You will not admits it may offend the susceptibilities same to be hold on the 24th inst., at 10 AM.. "Do our wounded offcors, expect me to say this as I have always of some." It is not written for children, March, otherwise they will not be recognised.
been taken for a Radical Conservative people always take what is good and but for thinking men and women.
Practically we regard them somewhat as spoilt children just now-perhaps we are right to do so, especially when we come to Sepoy Govind Sing, Y. C. desig nate to whom all sorts and conditions of men bring congratulations and greetings, Here and there and and little gifts. everywhere the old Moslem formula, "Are you happy, are you content?" etc., meets with a ready essent. One man got quite Sahib tell the mems one to learn. Hindustani just like child who expects to be amused and re sents conversation which he cannot under stand
confidential
"
Many, very many, of the questions and answers have reference to the wounded
officers. Sahib, stay in a king's house like this 7,
Where is Captain ishmit Sahib of our regiment? Please write and tell him that 1, Sepoy Fazl Elahi Khan, was wounded two days after he was, and what a grand fight we had how we killed 20 Germans and lost only three mey, Another asks, Shall I get a pension, Sahib ? You see, I can't work any more [both his foot were gone. I sorved only seven years, but I ould live on two rapces a month. Two rupees a month--12 pence for 31 days What should we think of life without feet on auch an income as that?!
A BIGHT OF THE KING,
REVIEWS.
"Thracian Sea A Novel By Joes HELSTON. London: Eveleigh Nash.
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This book is saturated with sex and social-instat N Baldock at t
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do not make many breaks, because they was a time when a novel of this description naturally go slow. They are not educated would have been taboo; but nowadays people enough to grasp the fundamental ideals. A nation to count as a factor must be are broader minded in regard to the realities constructive. You cannot change the life of life, and many will read this novel as much for the massage it has to convey as of a nation in a day."
for its story. Its earnestness cannot be gainsaid, neither can the highmindedness of its author, The story traces the metamor phosis of the son of a City wholesale draper from a thoughtless sensualist into a hastened and devoted husband. He has been to Cambridge and accomplished nothing A visit to a northern squire gives
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Mr. Wang went on to BAY that the Chinese were eager for education, and that was well demonstrated in the YM.C. As of the country. "You ask an American why he likes the Y. and he will tell you because of the gymnastic facilities, but At the end of a long row of beds, it go to China and ask a Chinese member and though guiding a squadron from the right, he will tell you he likes it because of the thoughts officer of cavalry a person of educational facilities it offers him
The Germans," mys Next to education came industry. much dignity,
He marries, however, a young he, are not good soldiers; they are not China there were four classes: first the 300.
racing men of faith, surely God will not give students, second the farmers, third the woman of his own class; sets up
This stable; bets on racecourses and gambles on victory to them; they have good big gune, coolice, and fourth the merchant. Bahib, but when we get near they kncol was because the merchant in China had the Stock Exchange, and quickly drifts Limited, Koploon, and stored at Com
been considered n parasite apart from a wife who has other and higher and fold their hands and the sahibs always told us to spar a low," he added, who did not work but lived on the ideals. She falls in love with a curate, who needs of others. This, he said, was all is himself converted to socialism by a man thoughtfully, with manifest regret...
erroneous idea that was fast losing who is represented as having written books "I saw cur King at the war, says one ground. He said that China had enough on the subject but speaks in the language "I saw him twice," says another. At coal in the soil to pay all the debts of the of Seven Dials (surely an inartistic lapse on Delhi he looked stout and cheerful, but in nation two thousand times over, but until the part of the author). France he locked deobla: Now the that coal was brought to the surface and Burkett is killed while hunting "Thracian word docbla" may to rendered out used in trade it was of no value. Speak Sea is the name of the borse she rides of condition," but to the Anglo-Indian ing of the morals of the people, Mr. Wang and Burkett is on the verge of financial mind it recalls the light-limbed Indian said that the Chinese were a very moral ruin, some sixteen years after his marriage, pony carrying & brave heart under pain. people, due to Confucianism, and he when his son by Margaret Yeomans, the fally protruding ribs, and struggling believed that it would be a bad day for country acquaintance of his earlier years, through the long hot hours with a pre- China when Confucianism was abolished rides a winner in the Cesarewitch and posterous load on a diet of dry chopped and he wanted to sec it hand in hand robabilitates his father's fortunes. An accident to the boy lends to the reunion of straw. Without doubt," he added, with Christianity.
Burkett and Margaret, und the story ends with calm conviction, anxiety for us
in joyful key. The novel is a powerful people has made the King like that.'
one, and is emblematic of the social unrest What could a Briton say to such a state-
of our times. It is well calculated to make men and women think. Politeness and sympathy force ment? one's laughter back, and it remains only to wish that the King himself could be. thero and see this beautiful childlike faith in his fatherly solicitude for his soldiers.
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Between fifty and sixty different classes reduced at the rate of 70 tons por da Hon Ruth Scarlett, Mrs. Schwabe, Mrs. of artificers have been engaged in making The extent of these stocks can only it not individuals, but classes. At estimated, but owing to the high price of Forbes-Williams Miss Frances Dillon (the Elswick works a six-inch naval gun was copper during the few months preceding stress), and others. There are London fired point blank at the outer armour the war, it is unlikely that more than a ghosts and ghosts from the West Indies, plate of a Chubb's treasury door at a six months' working balanco required for Canada and other places abroad, and ghostly Of manifestations from India. They are not short range and while the great 100lbs. industrial purpose was available. shell was splintered to fragments, the door-plate was quite uninjured.
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But there are many more curious. doors to this particular one on exhibition of a three years turnover, at the rate c: Canada, arain hand for the Commonwealth 200 rounds per rifle of the peace establish things recorded herein with commendable Government, but it is only one of many ments plus a year's stock of raw material, brevity, many incidents that are sure to with which banks and Governments, safe we have roughly 800 million pounds, stir the recollections of our readers and to down in their deposits and financiers are equipping which will be exhausted in another four reaall legends handed
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