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DEMORALISING EFFECT OF WAR.

THE terrific struggle round Verdua where we read of whole regiments melt ing away in a few minutes, only to repinced by others; of men fighting on regardless of wounds, regardless of pain regardless of everything site the desire

seems to be that the barbarisation resided. It was alleged by a Chinese constable, To those who had made war their life who also answered the whistle, that the. study. By long contemplation-perhaps first witness had a pistol in one hand and aided by inheritance, for the inheritanes money in the other, when he arrived on: of acquired faculties is not so impossible the scene. He also said that the Indian es WEISHMANN would have us believe of ran away. the possibilities of war, of the methods

Recalled, the first witness said that he of waging it, of the instruments of de- had a rifle, not a pistol.

He again: struction to be used, these men became stated, in reply to a questión, by. Mr. imbued with the dye in which they work. Wood, that when arrested the defendant

War was eract, and they became put noney into his band. cruel; war was relentless, and they became An Indian Polier Sergeant spoko--for relentless The finer feelings were overseeing the first witness between the grown by the mass of words. It was there sunrchlights. At the time he say that men who conceived the war, drew up the he had money in one hand. war plan, and finally brought about the struggle. To dalude the German prople was easy. They had already been through the iron discipline of the army ; they saw Germany; or thought they saw Germany, attacked from two sides, There was kärdly need to tell them that there was a conspirney to destroy Germany, a jeal ous, attempt to stay her progress. The war was already to thein a struggle for independence. There was thus every in

War

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Defendant gave evidence and said that as he was walking along the praya he heard one of the sentry's way"" masker."- Subsequently the first Indian witness. ran out from under one of the search- lights and arrested him. : He denied that he knew it was wrong to pass in front of the light, saying that on e occasions people were allowed to prne. | and at another time they were not. When the Indian seized him the latter, he alleged, pulled him into the dark and went through his purse and pockets. The Indian sentry, he also alleged, grå hold of his money and ther struck hina with the butt end of his rifle. The sentry kept him in a dark place for half an hour, continuing to search him only when people were not about. He was held all the time, and when he com menced to shout the sentry struck hir and told him to be quicl. The sentry

When the scuitry took the money out of also sent all the other people away. his pocket he (defendant) asked for its re- turn, but was again struck with the butt. of the rifle and subsequently the Indian run away, to be eventually stopped by an Indian constable.

to kill this scene of slaughter, perhaps | elucement for them to obey the instrae TONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS the most terrible in the history of the tions of those whom they regarded, as the

the MEETINGS of he EGISLATIVE

world, must give puuse to those who defenders of their Fatherland.. COUNCIL For tor Bession, 1915.

claim that, with the civilisation of man-

doubt, at first they accepted the task REVISED BY THE MEMBERS.

kind, war itself has become civilised and with some feeling of aversion. There are that the fuller enjoyment of life brought indications that they took no delight is PRICE

by civilisation must inevitably assunge the display of "frightfulness" which the primal passions. There is only to their leaders thought a necessary part of much evidence that war has not--at any

But almost two years have now rate in German hands been influenced elapsed since the downward path was by those feelings which are classed as taken, and it is inevitable that the moral humanitarian--the feelings which have contamination of the leaders should have led us to improve our prisons, aholist spread to the rank and file, with the torture, treat the poor less as criminals, result that Germany will emerge from the acknowledge that a married woman has war not a purer, fresher Germany, but is right to her own property, that

degraded, and impoverished both in tuind. children are not the slaves of their par and body. Nor can the Allies hope on- ente, and that public executions are tirely to escape the infection. A high brutal, to select at random a few of dignitary of the English Church once the injustices that we have remedied wrote of war as a glorious thing. He within the last century War-again we had never participated in it save through repeat from the German point of view the medium of the war correspondent; sir.. has not been affected at all dy this up-and the high virtue of self-sacrifice which lifting of the moral code, and there it demands was his sole criterion Wars, a danger that the German view may however, are not won merely by self-sacri forced upon the Allies in self-defen, fice; self-assertion over the tacity plays with a resulting general re-barbarisation a no less important part, and this self of the world. Germany made up her assertion Carries with it much of the mind from the beginning that if she horror and misery of war. The civilisa could not win by fair means she would tion of war, which meant the lessening win by foul; or, rather, she decided that of the horrors of war, and ultimately the in war nothing is either fair or foul. It extinction of war, has received a check, must be admitted that this is a logical and from this check there arise results conclusion; but a strictly logical world which cannot fail adversely to affect all

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Mr. Wood-There is something in this case which has not come out, Inspector: O'Sullivan.

Inspector O'Sullivan-I think so, too,

Mr. Wood-I do not believe what has been said by the two Indian soldiers, the defendant, nor the Chinese constable, who said he saw the first Indian soldier running away.

Inspector O'Sullivan-I do not think an Indian armed with a riffe would run away from, a Chinese, your worship.

The two Indian soldiers were then recalled and, addressing them, Mr. Wood remarked I do not believe what you have said and I cannot accept it.

The defendant was accordingly dis charged.