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BALACLAVA CHARGE

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AUSTRALIANS

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER ON THE FIGHT FOR LIBERTY,

THE NEW GENERATION.

WHERE OUR DEMOCRATIC ARMY COMES FROM.

[BY EDWIN PUGH, THE WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST,

"The Battle of Waterloo-wan-won on the Mr. W. M. Hughes the Premier of Aus-playing-folds of Eton." tralia addressing the Pilgrims' Club at the Before this present war brokas "out" Savoy Hotel London, said

would have been ineliuxi to quarrel with Many members of this society are Ameri-that saying Now, I am not so sure ban I do not think this is the time to The public school boy of to-day remain Judge America'y attitude towards this war, very much what he has always been any

WYR LONGKONG DAILY PRESB, SATURDAY, APRIL 29TH 1910.

WHAT THE SHAMROCK SIGNIFIES,

"LOYALTY. COURAGE AND ENDUR ANCE IN ADVERSITY."

WHY TIRPITZ FELL.

HERR BALLIN WINS THE DAY.

[FROM CHARLES' TOWEL.] Admiral Tirpitz'g, resignation was finally brought about according to the Bows- papers, by Hers Billin, the director of

THE KING'S STIRRING SPEECH TO THE the Hamburg-American Line, who opposed inny features of his ashniarine policy.

IRISH GUARDS.

Here Ballin stil has the Kaiver's var.

Ho is said to have warned the Emperor The King and Queen celebrated St. Pat and Chancellor that the result of the uso. rick's Day by a visit to the 3rd Battalion less destruction of merchant ship would to the seizure of German vessel not only by Portugal but also by other neutral. (reserve) of the Irish Guards,

The men were drawn up on their parade to warned them that Germany's inst ground, and, after His Majesty haderein she anchor after the war- inspected them, the non-commissioned off North and South America-10 cers advanced to the Queen and wore pre with the United States on the subject of

breaking away, and that a further conflic Metod by her with boxes of shamrock for the defensive arming of merchanen would wag an animated scene of enthusiasm the boxes passed down the lines and the men were supported by the votes of the Ameri

can Congress and the rapid fall in the rate- pinued the shamrock on their caps of exchange of the marke tunics The Queen opened a box of wham-Tirpitz's supporters have been pressing "Our common soldiery, however, are main.

rock and, after presenting sprays to the ly recruited from the County Council or

King and to the Secretary for War, the for an anti-Bethun campaign on the resssembling" of the Reichstag Buch ine Board schools, and they are not at all the handed them to all the officers of the bat Fische Zeitung and Vortrts indicatest talion individually when they stepped for Lind of mon they were, even fifty years 480 word to shake hands with the King. While at the beginning of the week that a break- for the sufficient reason that fifty years the presentations were made the band play Pp of the pur iamentary truce appeared ago there were no County Council or Boarded The Doar Little Shamrock and Let ingvitable The Bailer Nachrichten

For the help that has been given we are, of time during the last century and it is immediate distribution in the ranks. There anallyjscinte Germany. His arguments

from the public schools that our offers are mainly recruited,

course, distinctly grateful. To the Aeri- ean members of this society I should say chly two things. The first is that we in Australia face the United States herow the Pacific, and we in the past have liked her well and longed for closer friendships.

The second thing I wish to say to Ameri- cans here is that we are winning; we shall wie, I speak as one from the frontier of schools, and consequently the majority of Anglo-Saxonism when I say that to those the rank and file were more or loss illiterate who know the British Empire and the red coarse-minded, Thog were, as they exlute men and wouson who inhabit it, there always have been and still are p

*pornupsTM is not a shadow of doubt that the vast night the boot and bravest soldiers in the world. of our Empire and of our race, as it will and can be organised, will be invincible and completely victorious.

Erin Remember."

Mr. John Redmond stood with the royal party, and was presented by the Queen with a special sprig of shamrock

The King awarded decorations to officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Battalious of

selven for gallantry.

The threatened trade war after the war 6, the curity of Germany's remaining markets ir such a ser our prospect that the maintenance of the last over-red market.

America is sufficiently portant to out- weigh advantages of a ruthless

The connection of Tirpitz's

That is not the point I would emphasise the regiment who had distinguished them-ance of the tubine campaign str The point is that our modern soldiers ars men of a widely different type. The fact that so many of them have recently won such quick promotion from the ranks proves this, I think

This war will leave the world very dif- ferent from what it found it. There were many of us drifting along picasant, profit- able channels, Tha call of duty fell dully

A hundred fifty-years ago, the odds on our ears. We turned our bucks on the against a private obtaining a commission purifying waters of self-sacrifice, wo warn so tremendous as to be incalculable, thought only of pleasures or at best of Now, as in the French Army, there is not privileges rather than duties. This war una raw recruit who may not carry is has come at once as mighty spur, edknapsack a feld-marshal's baton tive, a correctivo, I have come here as Privilege and caste and walth and great the chosen representative of-the-most-de-good wick are not nowadays the only pass

gratis Government in the world, I stad ports to military preferment, as they were borg as a representative of Labour and all then, Qur Army és become vastly more. the ideals that you and I jointly cherish, democratic than it was, and all these, I say, rest upon the founda- jons of Liberty and must fall if we lose this battle.

ALL FOR ONE.

In Australia what the people say goes: whatever they choose to make, that they can make. But in the country against which we are fighting to-day the will of the Garmin proletariat, though ten millions, though fifty millions, stand behind it, in as nothing beside the ukaso of the Kaiser

We fight in this war for liberty.If we Ead but abased ourselves before this mighty Moloch, all would here been well. They

THE SPIRIT OF SPORTSMANSHIP. And I think that the primary cause of this difference may be traced back to the Education Bill of 1870, which inaugurated the Board school and so opened the gates of knowledge to the children of the poor.

I was among the first to enter by those gate into the new kingdom It is true. the I never went to a Board school; they hat hardly been established then; but I did go to what was known as a National school, and it was upon the basis of the National sobools that the first Board schools were founded and modelled

The teaching in these schools wag grossly haphazard and inefficent; but if you were fairly intelligent and enterprising you

ESPLENDID RECORDI

His Majesty then advanced into the hollow square made by the battalion and in a strong and ringing voice, marle this stirring speech

with Ger a foreign policy is shown by the fact that Bethmann Hollweg refused to meet the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federal Council until he had finally secur ed the Kaiser's decision. The South Ger Dian newspaper explain that no comment is permitted, but they do not disguise the On St. Patrick's Day, when Irishmen gravity of the crisis. It is reported that the world over unite to celebrate the memory the first intimation that Admiral Tirpitz gît of their Patron Saint, it gives me great that he had lost his due with Bothmann pleasure to inspect the leverve Battalion was the Wolff Bureau announcement that of my Irish Guarda, and to testify my aphe (Tirpitz) was it. The papers think the preciation of the services rendered by the the effects of the resignation wil not be regiment in this war.

apparent all at once, as every effort will The regiment was created by Queen Vic-be made not only to conceal the actual toria in 1900 to commemorate the heroism decisions but do to pacify as far as pos of Irish regiments in the South Africans sible the strong Tirpitz party in the Reich- War. By the splendid achievements in sing and the country. your first campaign you have proved your- elves worthy of this proud tribute to Irish velour and havo fully maintained tho. high traditions of my Brigade of Guards.

1 gratefully remember the heroic endur- ance of the 1st Battalion in the arduous retreat from Mons-again at Ypres on that critical November 1st, when, as Lord Cavan, your Brigadier, wrote, "those who were left showed the enemy that Irish Guards ist be reckoned with, however

hit t

THE BIAS IN FAVOUR OF

THE PROFESSIONS.⠀ LORD RHONDDA ON THE ATTRAC TIONS OF A COMMERCIAL CAREER

A plea for better educated and more highly trained men at the head of business affairs is made by Lord hondda in an article on

"The National Need for Modern

Business Equipment which appears in the March issue of System.

Lord Rhondda recollects that whon he

were prepared to treat Canada and South Africa as aparate nations; they were pre pared to hold out the hand of friendship to could acquite enough learning to enablo strong, with only four officers glorious having lost several years at Cambridge, but

you to get a great deal more,

Australia; they were prepared to deal with us as the inan-cating tiger deals with each

The only thing, the one inestimably pre victim in turn, But to-day, whatever Ger many may not know she does know that cious thing that you did not and could not when she fights England she fights not acquire was a spirit of sportsmanship.

But now, for the first time in their his Took to Britain as the cradle of their race spirit. And it is not what they have merely England but also the free men who tory, the children of the poor do acquire I feel I stand here to-day in the reflected learned in the playground that has worked glory of the Australian soldier.) I never speak. I cannot speak, of their bravers but this miraculous change in them. So that, what I chok, with emotion. You speak of said that Armageddon was won exclusively

when this war is over, it may no longer the Charge of Balaclava. There men went. on the playing-fieds of the public schools mt in the broad fight of day with all the but in the playgrounds of the County Impetus, and stimulus has a know-to-Dee Coursil schools aire,

charge on the gallop gives to men, But the story of the 8th Light Horse of Aus tralia is one before which the Charge of the Brigade must palets ineffectan fire,

COLD BLOOD BRAVERY.

In the school that I went to, there was practically no code of honour among the boys, such as there has always been in the public schools.

The big boys bullied the little boys, nobody interfering; and, big or little wo

of your gallant comrades will ever remain

monument of your rexiang

After twenty-eight day of incessant aghting against heavy odds the battalion went into business many of his friends heil site out of the line less than a company that he laboured under a disadvantage in tribute to Irish loyalty and resting-place his experience was he sits cols to his cons

of inestimables The graves that mark the last

service mercial career.

The great error le com- fitted was in entering political life, and be looked nick with profound regret on the

sted in Parliament. years been carried to extremes

in glorious years wasted Guardman to vin The party system is politics had in late and sil inde- by the

party machine. punience of thought and action had been- Business was far cleaner than politics, The ruthlessly suppressed hy business man had the satisfaction of feel- ing that he was engagedi on constructive work, while the average politician: guged, for the most part in creating and

**In conferring the Victoria Cross on O'Leary, the fabbris was proud to home Lance-Corporal now Lieutenant, Michael

our a deed that in its fearless contempt of death ilustrated the spirit of my Irish Guards.

of

wassen-

These mon-there were some five hundred all snødred. It was thought no disgraceable, Pirit of the Irish is unquench-law, medicine, and the Civil Servio in da

of them-were to attack in three waves. They were given these orders six, eight, to pench on another fellow or even at å ten hours before. Every man knew when ping to lie like a Cretan to save yourself ho got that order that it was cer in death, from a hiding, They went. They made their preparation They handed to those who were to remain

Wave,

-"! CHERRY-BONS” AND “CONTER.' There was a good deal of fighting of a in the trench their poor brief messages of rough-and-tumble sort in which feet as farewell and they went out, wave after wel as hunds were often used. But the At the whistle the first wave leaped from you were rally hurt you gave in, as a rule; and there was nothing to be the trench. Most of them fell back dead | ashamed of in blubbering at the sight of upon their fellows who were waiting their 1lood, furn in the trench, In the face of this. There was also ano her kind of fighting on awful ight the second line kapod out to a rather grander scale, in which the boys meet what they know was certain death. ¦ of one school deg ared war on the boys of a Of these only five or six remained on their rival school, and at a safe distance ung fust after they had gone ten or twelve stones of them; but any determined assault yards.

on the part of either sidd meant inevitably the ignom nious fight of the other,

Al the wounded lay exposed to the piti Icas machine-gun fire of the Turki, which poured a veritable hail of death into their four bleeding bodies. The man who got farthest was the colonel; he got fifty yards, Out of those who went there were 18 off cers 2 officers only go back, and of the then only the terest handful survived. We must look back in the grey dawn of history before we and a dod parallel with that.

The Spartans at Thornorske have left name imperishable which shall remain when the Pyramids shall crumble to dust It surely what these men did that day

these citizen boldics of a new tion, the last but one in the family of the great Eritish Empire will never die.

We have fought and we are fighting this Ittle as if it were a battle of life and death It is a battle of life and death. We did not enter it lightly nor shall we quit it while life remaing in.us.

I doubt if any of my schoolfe lows had ever put on the goves: being was an un- known art among us. Those were the last disgraceful days of the pr.zering: I have been an unseen witness of more than one prizefight on Parliament Hill in the days when it was the private property of Lord Mansfield and the filthy powerly me kods praeased in these bruta! contests were our methods, and

We played many games mostly garbing

D.

been a great pleasure to

the

At Loos the 2nd Battalion received its baptism of fire and confirmed the high ro pulation already won by the It Bastalion

deeply deplore the of so many grievances in order that he

might cers and men, including, alas three com fil employment in their removal.

Our whole idens manding officers. But the splendid appear

social distinctions ance of the torn on parada La-da, among were coloured by the old-fashioned bing in whom I am glad to see many who have favour of the professions, with the result recovered from wounds and sickness, teils that must of our best bruins went into the me that the

stead of into business w they did in It has

Queen America. Too often the young English- to hand you the shamrock, the naval gift man was influenced by a desire to secure

his of Queen Alexandra. It is the badge just a competency to keep up posi- which unites all Irishmen, and you have pn and there ambition ended. Many shown that it stands for loyalty, courage small-minded people failed to understand. and endurance in adversity. May it carry that it was the work and not the money you to victory! Be sured that in all that mattered. trials to come my thoughts and prayers wil ever be with you, and I wish you all good luck.

On behalf of the Irish Guards at home. St. John's CATHEDRAL Horgkong. Jet and abroad the War Becretary replied Sunday aft r Ester, 30th April, 016. Holy To the thrilling melodies of haunting and Communion (8,5 m.) Matias (11 m.) Live jaunting Irish airs the battalion, headed poures, Ferial: Vraite, Hiude; Palms, Wood- by a little drummer boy landing the regard and Crot. Deum, final, Jones

Jubiine, FIATOS:

Hymer (fort mental mascot, a great wolfhound, then nad Proj marched past their Majesties. Another 2 T. 12) 140 God Save the Kog" Holy Communio (32 Noop) Eventon, 6.45 Ho- rare ray of sunshine lit up the great scar Com let splash of colour of the uniforms of the forle and Humphreys, Maguificat. Bunhy (13th sponses, Forial; Pins, Baltiskill, hatishill. band. Before dispersing the battalion guve rousing cheers, their cups waved high on Trning) Nuns Dimitt, Werl y Anthem. "Woodwod; Hymn 13 their bayonets, for the King, the Quad 121; Voluntary, Offerful e on ma 18.. and another great cheer for the giver of Batiste, 8-Psalmo 147, verses 1, 7, 12 and thoir

shamrock, Queen Alexandre,

Nowadays the boys in our County Coun- cil rehools are drilled and trained in

physical culture and instructed net on y in the lore of books, but in the lore of life. They are taught to box and swim to play n straight bat and tackle their men though

CHURCH SERVICES.

rodinst

18 in nufson; Psalm 148 verses 1, 1, at 12 in unison; Psalm, 148, verses 1 and 5.G. f. in nison; Palm 158, verses 1, 2 and 6 in unison, BT. ANDREW'S CHURCH, Kowloam, 30th payer. Besponses, Ferial; Venite, Savagu April 192 Bunday afer Essie Morning

29th mo

CHATTE A Sot; Te Deum,

per aing ?

Respons Forial Punima, Au Bet; Palm 167

That was in the bad-old days of thirty, fre or forty years ago. The modern County Council schools are as different from those ancient hotbeds of ignoranca d'sease, and vice is the modern English sold er, sy enti

And Jutilate, Opeeley (20th do nier); Hymns, 208-218 and 461; Kyris, or gutter games: with buttons and per-tops fically armed and equipped, is different

Fauz der National Autben. Evening Prayer, and marble, tp-cats and sucker from the rough-and-ready veterans of the

cherrytrbs and conkers"; but | Crimea, de

Visa 1,97 and 19 in aron; Psalm 148 vo sis 1, 2, 7 and 11 in unison; Frain 140, verso cricket and footbal we played only in the striota, hader rules of our own framing,

1 and 3.13 maison ; Pasim 152, vašaraly 2sad 6 with makeshift bats and mal hard rubber

n Roison; Palm 150 to be a g to Humparey's balls, the lamp-posts our wickets or♥ zubi-

Chant, 31 trening Magaleat, Henley posts as the ca e m'ght be, our umpite of

mo ning: None Diuit, of 10th evening); referee the biggest, strongest toy strong us,

Hymns, 215 (ture 15 nd 2nd taie), 217 501 who was also more of en than not, he can be big boss. They are encruingel 221; Visper vizion. National Anthem Holy tain of to b teams as well. And never a wicker fell or a goal was scored but the hidds as well as scholarships

to get runs as well as marks and caps and Umanown at Le

ST. PETER'S CHURCH, West Point, TRAINING FOR ALL,

| was always a long, noisy argument lurid Australia has been able to do what she with profanities and blasphemis

Above all they have instilled into them. 30th April: Holy Communion, ng well by example as by precept, the prinreacher, R. Hay, tar Babip 1 Victoria

Morning Prayer and Sermon, has done because we adopted as the corners Whenever our. referee umpirscaptain

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road, Sanday, stone of our democratic edifices the system grew tired of bapting he always insisted oneiphs of fair play and that shining cult of

Morting Servic of compulsory military training. We hetosling, and when he was tired of both sportsmanship which is unruffled and diu-3 th April.

#Hearken Enovine Sallivan lieve that there is but one way by which a batting and bowling he sly retired from med in defeat as well as magnanimous in

victory

Hymns, 244, 579, 237, ad $94. Eseaing nation, being free can remain so, and that the came very likely with the ball...

--------It is to this better education of the chi sarvice at 6. Bymer, 349, 111, 201 shi 207, is that every man shall not only be willing There is not much fan or ereit met indren of the poor that we owe our great sex. Froscher: Ber J. Kirk la cunch a to defend his country but shall be able to n game in which you never have the phones army. I am afraid I am pretty sure thas

GOSPEL HALL. do so. We think that the State should of an innings and are never allowed to play. this war had bren forced on ns #q? train the citizen so that he may be able to defend his country, his home, and ki liber.

wenty or twenty-five years ago there would

Weekly Services: B not have been the same instang 'ral'y of bies The defence of one's country is the primary dutyf of citizenship, the first duty

volunteers, esger to fight and if aeds be Sunday Breaking of Bread for Believers

only, 11 am. lie in the defence of the country. In hos Sunday Children's Sunday School. 5 had old days the common pople hardly p No Briton or Australian has any doubt me first to to a church choir and then to realised that they had a country to defend Sunday-Gospel Meeting, 8p... of what the result of this fight will be We get into the choir eleven-managed nod The young men of my neration knew Monday Gospel Meeting for Chinese, rhall win. We have encircled this tremen-controlled by a young sporting curate I dous and frocious fee with a wall of stel doubt if I should ever aga har felt anything of that higher tradition of honour 7.30 p.m.

and duty service and devotion which en Tuesday-Erposition of Scripture, 8 p.m. which, despite her most frantie efforts, she least desire to take part in or even to loos lehtens the strit, and irradiate, the coat Thursday :-Bible Class, 8 p.m.

on at any game of cricket or footbal cannot break

of the youth of to-day.

Saturday--Prayer Meeting, § p.m.

of free men

THE BAD OLD DAYS, Speaking for nyse'f, if I had not had the happy fortuns to be born with a good ear for music and a far vero, which, helped

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