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thers will be some repetition of the FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE incident that occurred at a similar func tion when a gentleman asked the pric

Mr. F. P. Porkins of. Holt's Wharf, of a cup of tea The dame in charge Shanghai, (Messrs, Butterfeld & Swire) replied that it was a shilling a cup, has been given a commission as 1st "but," she added, as she took a sip, toutenant in the Army Ordnance Depart

ment. He is stationed at Newhaven is now half a crown." "Thanks," said

Sorgeant-Major Taylor, of the Shang- the gentleman as he paid, the money, bai Volunteers, has arrived in Yorkshire and now he put down another shil from Shanghai, travelling at his own

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, October 13th. THE RECRUITING QUESTION, There is no room for any pessimism. Give me the men and the war munitions I want, and I will guarantee my personal reputation, that we have the war in the ling-" will you kindly give me a eran expense, to re-enlist in his old regiment.

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WOMEN WORKERS,

This subject reminds me that the wonen are extending their activities enormously Just outside my window a few minutes ago I saw women running fruit barrows and a woman gaily calling for "chairs to mond." Their men are away at the front, no doubt. It is hard to say where it is going to stop. Girls who have been in factories and in domestic service declare they like open-air beupations that enable them to "see things,” even if the work is harder-such as serving milk rounds.

the West Yorkshires, in which be served for sixteen years, retiring with the rank of sorgenat. He holds the South African and Indian medals.

hollow of our hands, I know how many men I want for munitions. I have their names and the numbers of their doors,

Of the last Shanghai contingent, Mr. S. and if they do not come 1 will feteli

G. Berry is a Lieutenant in the Somerset them."

That, according to Я Labour

shire Light Infantry while Mr. E. R. leader, was how Lord Kitchener talkod

Wedemeyer, Mr. A. H. Bontor, and Mr. G. W. Bonnett are waiting to be gazetted. to the representatives of Labour at a

Mr. A. E. Clayton is a private in the private conference on what was to be

London Rifle Brigade; Mr. Andrew J. done, and it was on that that the Labour

Clark and Mr. H. E. Jones are privates in the Sportsmen's Battalion; Mr. R. M. men decided on a specifically Labour

J. Martin has joined the Artillery, with recruiting campaign to bring men to the

a commission. Mr. J. W. Poulter has not colours and prevent the abandonment of

been able, however, to obtain a commis the voluntary system. Compulsory

sion in the Artillery, as, owing to what is rather a War Office fetish, he had sorved service still looms in the air, however, In

in the ranks before and is, therefore, not some form or another, and it is quite

eligible. Mr. E. A. Roberts is in the likely that it will be with us before the Middle class women are helping in Hackney Brigade of the R.F.A as a year is out. Lord Derby, the new Direc-many ways, but a weird section of them gunner, while Mr. N. C. Mateer is join so to like best to join some strange curpsing the Motor Transport Service of the or other and to don khaki, in ds nor A.S.C., to which fores Mr. R. C. Hillstond an approach to breeches and waistcoat ds. also expects to belong. possible. In Regent's Park the other Mr. A. J. Castle, formerly in the Muns day I saw them drilling and was amusedcipal Health Department, has been wound- to note that the officers were addressed as

ed by a bullet in the right knee, but, no. and it is amusing to note the women who

Sir.

They are mostly suffragettes, permanent damage is done. most profess to despise men aro so ami- ous to ape his dress and speech. These are, however, but the extreme wing of the sex, and do not represent the great mass of women folk, who are doing their

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his work with a declaration that he is by no means sure of the success of the system for the future, and if he finds he cannot get the men he will take steps make it clear that compulsion must follow. Meanwhile, the numbers on our doors and the pink forms that were filled up by the authorities after we gave them full particulars in the national registrabit as surely as Tomy Aticing himself, tion are being used to rout us all out and with the extra hardship that to them falls the entire responsibility for the fami- make us convince the voluntary recruiters fies at home and the anxiety for the men to undertake munitions work who have that we have valid excuses for not being who are absent. Some have really tried in training for the front or the munition been quite unfitted for it. They have shop. Even those most wedded to the soon given up the strenuous tasks and "returned to civilization,' 29 - of voluntary system have to admit that the

thom express it. Training and adapt issue hangs in the balance, and if ability are counting more to-day than do not come forward quickly they will ever before, and many a professional man.

satisfied with his (or her) positiva i the world up to how. to-day begins to have be called upon in the peremptory tones as well as woman, who has felt quite qualms fest, after all, they may be classed among the useless in the country's hour of need.

of official authority.

It is understood that Lord Kitchener himself desires to continue without con- scription if it can be done, but he is not going to run any risks of a shortage of reserves to Bll the gaps that will be created in the forward movement that is contemplated. It is not likely that the army on active service will be increased to any extent, but the need for more men is to make good the inevitable shrinkage, and so before long all of us who are under forty and able-bodied may be made to murch. Apart from the economic hard ship on many married men with families and household responsibilitics far beyond the soldiers' allowances, I do not think any of us will be disposed to cavil at the decision, if it comes from the most responsible quarters as the declaration of their conviction that conscription is necessary to save the Empire in this hour of crisis. At the same time, the splendid news from the West front, and the signs of successful activity on the part of our Russian allies, have spurred the jungia tion of the youth of the country and the Manufacturers, recruiters are not finding it too hard a bask to secure daily volunteers. Many a man like myself, this week, has arrived at his office to find that his clerk or even his office boy has enlisted and been" ecat away to camp without any allowance of time for notice to the office.

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THE CENSOR VADARIES.

The Censor has been excelling himself. for he has carefully cut the name Loo out of several descriptive accounts of the Last battle, although the official accounts had given all the details and names that Also he has anybody could require. taken to cutting out any reference to the King under most laughably innocent conditions. Some order has been given, apparently, to suppress any mention of the King's movements, and the censorial efforts to meet that order have been pro ductive of some of the greatest feats of Photographic Goods of Brary Descriptirasininity over displayed to a long-suffer ing people. It is as bad as the Japanese Censor who refused to pass the words "general desire" under the plea that there was no General of that name in the army. The Daily News suggests thai when peace is declared, if the Censor con- tinues to exist he will insist that news- payers concludo zoparis with some such

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DRIVEN OUT.

Whenever LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM enters a home the headaches are driven out, By simply rubbing in a little of this sure-acting remedy the stubborn ache or pain is soon brought to terms. When you apply.

LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM

most

line, as the proceedings terminated with the singing of "God save the

A BIG CHARITY BAZÁR.

Mr. P. M. Bendall, of Jalan Acob Estate, is a private in the Inns of Court E. S. Officers Training Corps: Mr. Hector, of Sandycroft Estate, Taiping, is in France with the 108th Battery. Royal Field Artillery; Mr. W. K. Whebe, of Sungei Way Estate, is now 2nd-lieu- tenant in the 4th Scottish Rifles; and Mr. 4. B. Hendy, of Sungei Way Estate. who enlisted in the Coldstream Guards and served four months at the front, has been given a commission as 2nd-lieu- tenant in the Leicestershire Regiment. and is now in training in England.

Licut-Colonel Angus Falconer Douglas 6th Cameron Hamilton, commanding Highlanders, killed in France between September 26th and 27th, was the young

Octaviux of Major-General B011 Douglas-Hamilton. He served with the China. On the outbreak of war he was 2nd Cameron Highlanders, in North appointed transport officer on the Embar kation Staff at Southampton and in October last was appointed Lieut. Coline! of the 6th Cameron Highlanders.

2nd Lieut. Cyril Newcomb, 12th Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in France on September 26th, was the only son of Captain F. Newcomb, of the China He was known on the Yangtsze run. out. All the busy housewives are thrown Navigation Company, Shanghai, and well into the list of unoccupied," much to their amazement. They rank beneath born in 1891 and was educated in China and at Dean Close School, Cheltenham.. charwomen, domestic servants and attend- ants in lunatic asylums. As for retired After a few years in the City, he went out to the Bukit Mertajam. Rubber colonels and professional men who-it may be-are working day and night on Estate, in Kedah, Malay Peninsula, but recruiting platforms, they are simply in December last returned to this enuntry dumped along with the retired passii- to offer his servies, and received his Major Joha Gilderdale Jennings, 65th brokers and pensioned policemen under commission a few months later. the still more slighting fit of cus Punjabis, attached 6th Battalion Raval pied persons.". The time Robbie Burns spoke of has come. The power has get us Dublin Fusiliers, died of wounds on the battlefield on August 10th at the Dar- down, remorselessly as ithers see us,

wish that the danelles. Before the present way he had and lots of as have

seen a good deal of service, including dezeription may see the light.

China in 1900.

AS ITHERS BER US.!' Very little has been allowed to trans- pire as to the meaning of the classidet. tion numbers on the certificates of regis- tration with which we have all been But a few hints have come furnished.

NIGHT CLUBS. At last the police have begun to act clubs that are the base of the West End with vigour in the suppression of night in these dull times, and where liquor can he obtained at all hours, in spite of the restrictive regulations.

The police ars hampered by the fact that many of their smartest officers have joined the Army, and the harpies who ren dens of infamy under cover of the law relating to clubs no longer confine themselves to a group of streets in the purliens of the West End, but go further afield.

DARKENED LONDON.

Within the past wook or so we have reduced the light of London still further, and now we are about as in 1815. The little village of our youth affords some reminiscent moments as

wander

We

abroad at night, and the star-lit sky attracts the gaze of Londoners with un- wonted brilliance by reason of the un- usual darkness that affects the earth

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

CORPS ORDER BY LIBIT.-DOL DHAPMAN, V.

PARADES.

2. Parades for Monday, 15th inst., il.

DRESS.

3.-Caps, instead of helmets, will be worn at all parades and guards on and after 15th inst. until further orders..

DETAIL.

4- Gun Club Hill, Kowloon →

On duty until 17th inst.: H.K.V.R. P. of W. Camp. Kowloan:-.

On duty until 17th inst.: H.K.V.R.

G. E. STEWART, Capt., Adjutant, H.K.V.C. HONGKONG. VOLUNTEER RESERVES.

ORDERS DY MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0.0., 11, K.VM.

PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP AND OUN CLUB HILL. DETACHMENT. The H.K.V.O. will relieve the H.KN,R, on Wednesday, the 17th inst.

NEXT FOR DUTY.

Prisoners of War Camp:----

Wednesday, 24th inst.--Secs. I ad Zof

"A" Ca.

Thursday, 25th inst.-Secs 1 and 2 of

B. Co

Friday 26th inst,Sees, 1 of "C" Co. Saturday, 27th inst.-Secs, 3 and 4 uf

"A" Co.

Sunday, 28th inst. Sers. 3 and 4 of

B Co.

Monday, 29th inst-Sec, 2, 3 and 4 of

Gun Club Hill:-

Wednesday, 24th inst.-Sos. 3 and 4

of "X" Co.

Thursday, 28th inst.-See-, 3 and 4 of

"B" Co.

Friday, 20th inst. Secs. 2. 3 and 4 of *C* Co.

Saturday, 27th inst. Sees. 1 and 2 of

A Co.

Sunday 28th inst.-Sees, 1 and 2 of

"B" Co.

Monday, 29th inst-See, 1 of C Co.

L'ABADES.

Recruits will parade on the Cricket

17th inst..

Ground at 5.15 p.m. on Monday, the 15th

inst..

and

Wednesday, Thursday, 18th inst, under Sergt. Major

Bond, Dress: Drill order.

"C" Co. will parade at Volunteer Head- quarters at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, the 17th inst., under Sgt.-Major Cooke. Dress: Drill order, All non-commisioned officers wil parade on the Cricket Ground at 5.15 Drogs: struction in bayonet fighting. Officers will attend. pm, on Thursday, the 18th inst.. for in- Drill order.

"A" "B" and "C" Companies will parade on the Cricket Ground at 5.15 p.m Dress: Drill on Friday, the 19th inst.

order.

BIGNALLING SECTION. Parades will be held at Volunteer Hond-

MUSKETRY.

day, the lith fast, and Friday, the 19th, quarters on Monday, the 15th inst. Wednes inst.. at 5.15 p.m. Uniform must be worn.

As ordered by Corps Order No. 81. Members of "A" Co. with the exceptions: the hereunder mentioned will parade on Cricket Ground at 7.20 am, on Sunday, Ast inst, Dress: Drill order, with tapees, haver- sacks and water-bottles filled (no pouches); and proceed by launch to Kowloon City. Fund will is taken in haversneks. exempted, nombers must parade onless em-

· All

played on Government or Military duties be tween 7 alin. and 7 p.m.. on the 21st inst,

which case a certificate to that effect must be sent to the O.C. "A" Co, three days in Capt. Archibald Thomas Bostock. 14th advance. A special tram will leave the Peak. •

at 7.15. a.m. The following members will® September 30th in France from wounds Northumberland Fusiliers, who died on

not attend-Ptes, W. Nicholson, W. J received in action, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs, E. 1, Bostock, of the Pringle, G. M. Young, A. C. Diss. J. A. Carter, V..C Part, E. Ralphs, A. E. Crap- Causeway, Horsham, and was 35 years of Cossart. W. J. Woodman, W. Hill, A. J.

When war broke out he was in age. China, holding a past as engineer on the nell. A. Derby, H. G. Farie. W. J. Hodge D. Clark, J. W. White and D. W. Tratmठ̧ This post he

the Cricket "C" Co. will parade on Canton-Hankow Railway. resigned, and travelling through Siberis, returned to this country and obtained his Ground on Sunday, 28th inst., ut 7.30 a.m. He had previously served Dress: Drill order with haversneks ant commission. in the Boer War with the Suffolk waterbottles (no pouches). Yeomanry.

Of Mr. and Mrs. Bostock's five remaining sons four are serving with the Colours

TRADE WITH THE ENEMY. HIGHER TARIFFS SUGGESTED

IN AUSTRALASIA.

The Australasian trade section of the

London Chamber of Commerce has passed

a resolution urging the Commonwealth and the Dominion Governments to impose new duties, largely increase the existing tariff against Austro-German-Turkish goods, and otherwise prevent their importation.

The resolution also recommends members to discourage and refrain from trading with our enemies after the war.

The members also endorsed the resolu

to tion

the Government. urging grant a bonus for not less than 20 years on spelter produced at work, in

curious result is that the use or greater. The reduction of the minor sounds of the trafe has accentuated the more strident notes of the motors and buses, and the greater darkness now in tensihes it. If a ray of light pierces the gloots from any crevice not covered by Your window-blind at night, the round rat-tat-tat on the door makes you aware that watchful policeman has called to insist that you show no light to the exterior world at all, or, in default, you will be liable to a fine not exceeding 2100 There is a great run on dark blue and dark green curtains. especially on the Great Britain, from ors produced in the art of those who have hitherto contented Empire, and to increase the price to £20 themselves with the light easement a ton when the monthly average falls

covered only materials

below £23, or, as an alternative, to guar- the windows. All lower half of this, nu doubt, is in accordance antea the capital invested. with

plans to defend Lov- don from fresh Zeppelin raids. I fancy there will be warm reception for the next aerial visitor, and weantime the Laidoner is grumbling over the necessity for hiding his light under

the

that

the

bushel:

MURDER OF A CHINESE GENERAL,

YOSTINGS.

Pte. W. G. Browell having joined allotted Corps No. 555, and posted to Co. "O" Section 1.

Pte. C. D. Sullivan having joined is allotted Corps No. 350 and posted to Co. "B" Section 2.

Pte. D. W. Trotman having joined i allotted Corps No. 557 and posted to Co. "A" Section 1.

HERBA.

Af all parades of guards and detachments greatcoats will in fine weather be carried as Bandoliers over the right shoulder, and in ret weather will be worn with equipment outside..

G. K. H. BBUTTON, Capt..

Adjutant, HK.V.R.. HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

RECRUITS. The Hon. CS.P. has sauctioned the pro- motion of Musketry Sergeant Chinchen t the rank of Musketry Inspector,

JOINED,

Chan Sui Yuk, Lee Shui Cheong, Mok Lai Sang to No. 3 Company, J. R. Castilho, A. F. Castilho, M. Ligores to No. 2 Company. Loung Kaur Toag, Lo Kun Ying to Ambu- lanco Company.

NO. I COMPANY, Keeraits of No. 1 Company are posted as follows:

No. 1 Platoon-Pearson, E. H. Banje. Penning. Thornton, Gittins, Faithfull, Al- In a house in an alleyway Tramed Hong-len, Alarakia, Ellis, Osborne, Balean, Kew,

Causland, Meibyo. Moreover, now and then some meditative bi-lee, off Avenue Joftrs, Shanghai,

erson is creasing the road in the gloamex-Major-General of the Chinese army

No. 2 Platoon-Fisher, ing and is run down by a motor-cer or

F

REVIVING MEMORIES OF THE RUSSO- JAPANESE WAR,

Macdonald.

RQUIPMENT: taxi, the driver of which cannot say any-Lanned Chai Tzu-chi was done to death Moore, Fyfe, Ford, Toppin.

The de. on the night of the 7th inst. thing more than a yard or so, before him.

The attention of all ranks is directed to What with charities and flag days, bad for his lights also have had to be lowered ceased, who was at one time instructor

in charge of the Military Academy of the orders of November 12th-13th concern- Kiangst, had been conversing with a ing the issue, etc. of kit.. new income-taxes, and additional domesto a minimum

member of his household and was seated

PARADES, CENTRAL, 5.80 e.. tie injusts, and a hundred other tanes

in a chair when some person, at present Monday, November 15th-No. 2 Company, contributory to the higher cost of living,

unknown, went up to him from behind The reentry of General Kuropatkin, as one wonders where we shall be by the you can feel the pain going away. Think time the war onda. Women of leisure commander of the crack Grenadiers of and stabbed him in the neck with a short Russia, has rouse memories of the Russo knife. The General died shortly after- It recalls also the spad wards, his assailant making good his of it-from maddening sleepless nights they are not so very numerous in these Japanese var and tortured days you can enter & land

presed his memoirs a few years 276, was made a short time ago to assassinato of absoluto relief. Clear-headed, upright time are getting up any number of with which the Russian Government sup-escape. It is reported that an attempt and tingling with health in every limb, bazaars and such like means for extract.

certain Russian officers. The revolu you can once more face the world withouting coin of the realm from the poetry of cause of the startling attacks he bras the dread of throbbing temples or twitch the public. A very big bazaar is planned tiary party, however, made the serais ing nerves. You become yourself agaio-

for December at the Albert Hall on behalf they could get hold of go a long woy. British officers have a great respect for the self you would like to be.

of the fund for the professione! class Fropskin and consider he was the Sold at 18, 4d, per bottle.

All victim of circumstances. They recall that who are sutiering through the war. the Socisty liousses are in it, and doubt. his men never lost faith in him, and they look to him to emerge with credit from oss the charges will be lofty. May be this present turmoil.

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