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THE ONLY WAY TO *PEACE.

SIR EDWARD GREY'S DECLARATION.

In the House of Commous on May 24th Sir Edward Grey sent a rotsing message of encouragement and hope to the Allies.

WITH THE RUSSIANS IN GALICIA.

THE FIGHTING FRONT.

HOLLAND'S FORCES.

JUVENILE CRIME.

“If Holland's army is forced by inva- AND OUR METHODS FOR DEALING

WITH IT. sion of her soil or any other cause to enter the great war, it will give a

Mr. Arthur Ransome writes in the splendid account of itself." This is the Daily Fees and Lender:-

I have seen only one hostile demonstra tion against the Russian conquerors by a member of the Galician population, and that was made by a big grey goose, who advanced into the road, eraning his neck and hissing as the motor passed, and receiving a splashing of his natives mad in return for his discourtesy. In these last few days, splashing westwards from headquarters, I have passed through village fairs, and on the long roads rutted axle deep have not thousands of carts peasants in their four-wheeled drawn by a pair of diminutive, wild horses, which, accustomed absolutely to the long strings of horse-drawn kitchens, ammunition waggons, and stores,

rarer still terrified by the infinitely

motor-cur.

are

verdict of a distinguished American who has had exceptional opportunities to faniiage himself with the morale of the organization, and after a study of all branches of the service during a tour of the cities and villages of the country. I heartily concur.

[BY CHARLES MCEVOY.]

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

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will be issued once aweek, every Friday

Parades for this week will be found in orders of Friday, 23rd inst.

DETAIL.

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will be issued once a week, everý: Friday,

DETAIL FOR THIS WEEK. 3-On duty to-night: Scouts Co.

On duty to-morrow night. Scouts.

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An increase in so-called "juvenile crime" is recorded from all countries." Some of the causes of the increase," says the Home Secretary, such as the absence of parents, and the weakening of home authority, are the inevitable results of the war. It seems certain, indeed, that Many of the charges really matters. this is 80; but it is not the increase that against children are trivial and cruel, great extent an increase of triviality and and this recorded increase is to a very

"in children. If crime an increase of cruelty on the part of adults, rather than two little girls of school age are charged. with stealing" a bunch of flowers from a grave, instead of one, it really means that there are two prosecutors whose view. of life the war has warped, where it wasp. Ba Chan Yuk Shu is coramenderi

previously pitiable enough that there

was one.

On duty 29th inst.: Scouts Co.

A. F. CHURCHILL. Capt.,

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COMMENDATION.

by the Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police for his smart capture of a snatcher in Des Voeux Road West, at 10.45 p.m. on June 16th.

CONCERT.

His Excellency the Governor Hins, stated his pleasure to attend. the Benefit Concert to Sapper Dyson, R.E., on Wednesday, June 28th.

HOUTE MARCH.

June 30th, is cancelled, that date The toute March ordered for Friday,

being generally inconvenient,

Not only is Holland's army of 400,000 nen-bright-looking, well-set-up soldiers of the American type, nearly all clad in West Point gray--an inspiring, con fidence-compelling organization, but the navy, though weak in gun-power, never- theless, seems to be marvellously efficient. I got my first glimpse of a lotilla of this pavy when, after a voyage through the nine-sown North Sea-during which the vessel upon which I was a passenger was forced to anchor for nineteen hours about thirty miles off Gravesend in order to give British mine-sweepers a chance to

Allerime "is not to be accounted for clear the way for us, so that we might

Perhaps more children are not share the fate of two little steamships which, with masts and funnels still pro-in this way. truding from the murky, waters a few doing more intolerable things than they but it must not be forgotten that there miles from our anchorage, had been aunk would have done in the pre-war period, the previous day--we were landed at

our vessel has gone with it an extraordinary in- Flushing, there to see, as

and steamed up the Scheldt, smart-looking crease of legalised erimes against child-

condemnations to industrial light ernisers, small but swift torpedoren, is the way of barbarous floggings, "reformatory institutions, without any boats, up-to-date submarines and some mine-layers laden with engines of destruc

the reformatories, or be merciful with che tion that will be employed against the tendency on the part of adulte to reform barbaric privileges in the way of punish ships of any nation that attempt to

ments which have been handed down to violate the neutrality of the Dutch coast

magistrates from another age. Of course for waterways.

this will be called sickly sentiment,The but the birch is the child's cat-o'-nine tails, with fifty tails substituted for nine, and man's strength pitted against a child's endurance, instead of a man's. strength against a man's endurance. Those who boast that they were logged. at Eton forget that they were not flogged there at eight or nine or ten years of The age, nor Hogged by a policeman. best cure for this particular form of anti- sentiment towards children is to stand in

children's court and hear coming from, a considerable distance, or to read the horrible evidence given befq the Departmental Committee which in 1913 inquired into the conduct of indus

It will trial and reformatory schools, not always be a cure, but it will have an are prepared to regard children, not unforgettable effect upon all those who

see in them, and respect in them, the sentimentally but scientifically, and who qualities of potentiality.

HOLLAND HAS HOPES OF NAVY.

Of course Holland does not expect that her navy will ever repeat the feats of Van Tromp's famous fleet, but she does expect, and she is apparently justified in the expectation, that her martial sons by sen and land will make any foe pay dearly for any attempt to degrade her as an independent nation.

,

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

following donations, amounting to $9,350, have been made at various tines since the formation of the Police Reserve for the equipment of Nos. 3, and Ambulance. Com--" panies:--

Mr. Un Kau Wa. $3,000: Mr. Tong Lai Chuen, g100; An. Châu ( Từ, $1,000; Mr. Tan Yik Cheuk, $1,000 Mr. Au Chak Man, $600; Mr. Li Po Chun, 8400; Mr. Tse Yam Chi, 9200 : Mr Fung Ping Shan, $200; Mr. She Shin. Tat, $200; Ats. Mok Kon 15. $200; Mr. Wong Lan Sang, $200; Kwok Siu Lai, $200; Mr. Chow Siv Ki. 8100; Mr. Your Sai Chi, $100 Mr Cheng Gui Po, 500, My Lam

The men good temperedly hold the hearts of the frightened little animals, while the women sitting in the carts stare out through the rain from under their umbrellas with a curiosity quite anhostile. The peasants are like peasants of comic apeia, with keond, low-crowned straw hats, with brilliant coloured rib- hous flying, short striped jackets de corated with Ruffy pompom buttons of scarlet wool as big as oranges, and accordion pleated Lunes hanging down over loose trousers of Galician cut.

Every Galician is happy to do any thing that he is asked if he is addressed as Pan, a title of honour once reserved for the nobility but now applied indis criminately by the Russians to every gly ragamuffa from whom it happens to be necessary to ask the way. Many of the peasants understand Russian, and the differences between Russian and the local Slovak language are so slight that the soldiers have no difficulty whatever in general air of friendliness. Even when a talking with the population. There is peasant woman leaps the ditch and more lifts them above her top-boots to save Careful of her skirts than of all else, them from the flying Galician mud, she Reproached by Mr. Ponsonby and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald for clinging to diplo forgives us with a smile as we plough by.

Little girls braving the mud throw matic etiquette when he might have been entering into peace negotiations, Sir Ed bunches of spring flowers into the ear. Little, fam ward Grey replied with unusal force and and scramble for the kopecks that we

throw to theen in return. animation. He asked why the Govern ment of the enemy could not be allowed tastically-costumed boys, some of them in te speak-for-itsrif. in time of war, tore to blue caps that once belonged to Austrian shreds the flimsy material of the Germandiers, draw themselves up to their Chancellor's latest interview, and afro-three or four feet of height and salute ed, amid the cheers of the House, that the in comic, grave imitation of the Hus- first duty of diplomney now was to main tain the solidarity of the Allies and to

It is impossible to realize that we are give the utmost support it could to the military and naval measures which they passing through conquered country. It is country resented, must conquered. This were taking in conion.

The House was patient, but cold and is net Belgium, but a country of peasants who had been oppressed by the. Austrian all: silent, as Mr. Ponsonby developed his up

landlard and are not oppressed at

ont. pral for peace negotiations. He argued by the Russians who have driven hini that, if the diplomatic trimmings werMany of the pensants are at work on the taken away, the was no substantial dif- ronds, and at evening we pass cottages ferences between the German Chancellor where crowds of men and women alike are the pay for their day's and the British Foreign Secretary which receiving

labour. In the held hospitals I have EVERYWHERE would justify the continuance of the war.

Both he and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald seen peasant children sharing attemic hinted that the hands of the British and care that the Red Cross gives to the Dutch King, the newly crowned Emperor ment is inflicted-of a kind which would Waming officers are requested in send.al!

SOLE AGENT::

MITSU BUSSAN

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Government were tied in some way by cer tain obligations which we had under- taken to our Allies.

Sir Edward Grey, who spoke without ICE HOUSE STREET. TEL. 230-155, preparation a rare experience for him

and amid a constant roll of approving cheers, quickly disposed of these sugges tions. He reminded the House that the Allis bad bound themselves not to put forward any terms of peace except in coin mon and in agreement that precluded any separate discussion of particular

UNHAPPY THIN FOLK.

One of the readers of a popular health 30 was peevish, blue and discontented, Journal wrote to the editor, asking why at his answer will interest all thin people

conditions of pract

sino soldier..

RESCUED, NOT CONQUERED.

soldiers of the Russian Army.

I have seen many other contingents of Duten soldiers since that day in Rotter- dan, Ansterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Haarlem, and in the towns and villages that nestle along the banks of the wide reaching and serpentine Maas river, and have had no cause to revise my first judy

ment.

DETCH ARMY NOT PERFECT, MACHINE.!! True, the Dutch army is not the per feet military machine that has made the goose-sten famous or otherwise-one could

cratic kingdom where brains command expect anything like that in a demo respect and where even the lowliest have the gift of tongues--but I feel that if forced to fight it will prove worthy of the traditions of a race that has sacrificed much for freedom and that has contri- buted great names to the history of the

United States.

W

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the Dutch, no matter how great the all invaders, for the spirit of the army odds may be, will not oppose any and to lay was voiced by the third William of the Netherlands to the first William of Germany, when, after the latter har presented one of the Rothschilds, to the advised his brother monarch to placate the This is no Belgium, but though there banker because he could advance money

to the Netherlands. are no signs of conquest, there are more

We don't need Rothschild's money money, and more signs of the presence of said the stiff-necked Dutch King, as we go westward from the frontier.

have plenty of it in Amsterdam.! The Frontier, almost undefended, was

“Oh, you have, have you?" the Em Well, if that is the case takes swiftly, but where I am writing peror replied. the ground has been won and lost and I think I will take those gentlemen out won again. Now we pass through village that has been scarcely touched side, all of whom you will notice are as a village of queer little cottages out of least six feet high, and will visit that a fairy tale, each little while-washed cot- city." tage blinking out at us with two dark windows under a roof of claborate de corative thatching, such a village as Cindella must have lived in, A wile or hit-a-mile further on we come upon ander village in which there is not a staring gaps, broken walls, and trees combed bare by gunfire. The war, im

elled by the capricious, complex needs of strategy, is a fickle as a storm, spar- ing here, only knocking off a chioner or two with a careless finger, and there. stamping to dust and ashes a village or

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Come, if you will the Dutch King retorted, but when your Grenadiers cross they will have to advance through seven fret of water?

screams

All

METHODS OF DEALING WITH CHILDREN. Granted that children are imitative and impressionable, and granted most of training and discipline, the whole certainly that their conduct is a natter method of dealing with children who are charged with critice stands con- and discipline the State is a party until demued at once. To the lack of training the day comes when the juvenile delin gren goes a step too far url then, sui- denly and resurably, the law is

pro- fores. Gedersi vither brutal punish- open any parent to prosecution, and perly condemn it to prison-or the child is committed to one of those refor matory" institutions which offer only a fatal injustice to the culprit. No one All with the faintest respect of childhood can regard the average reformatory as any- thing bnt an institution for blighting the lives of those who enter it. There are as they should all be excellent reforma tories, and there are indestructible children, but it quite certain that a child. who could preserve himself in a reforma tory would have preserved himself out of it.

If

Shiu

Chus, y. Mr. Chung Shum Wo, 850: Mr. Lan Woo, 850; Mr. Siu Ub, 850: Mr. Chan Tsu Pong, $50: Mr. Cheug Tin Shan, 50 Mr. Kwok Sat Ting, $50; Mr. Wong Shui Tong, $50; Mr. Chan Shek Bhan 50; Mr. Chan King Wan, $50; Mr. Sun Kwong Wo, #0; M. Kwan Yik Chi, 850: Mr. Su Pak Hang. 50: Mr. Sun Fong Hin. 850: Mr. Sun Yuk Yuen Tong, 50: Mr. Chan Cheuk Hing, 950. Mr. Chan Sik To, $50; Mr. Wong Kum Cho 50.

PATROL EXPENSES, TA

sent to the D.S.P.. many of which have not been attended to by the lat claims for Patral expenses already

ter, have been handed to Sergeant-- Accountant Baleny. H.K. and Shang- hai Bank, who will pay same in, due

course.

future claims direct to Sergeant Balean

N.C. OFFICERS.

Company, Platoon, Section and Squad Commanders will attend a drill *powwow ”, at this office, at 5.30 p.m., on Thursday, June 29th Uni- form optional.

F. C. JENKIN.

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As to the causes of the war to which the German Chancellor returned in his latest interview, Sir Edward Grey again insisted that the war might have been roc? left, every coltage smashed to pieces, would mean almost irreparable ruin, but blood is spilled, and real policemen and judgment to judge anybody for any

avoided if his suggestion of a conference had been accepted. It was not accepted. because there was not good will; the fail He could not agree ure was not ours. that the interview or the German Chan- cellor's speech last month showed the dis- position for peace which had been claimed for it. The only new point in the inter- view was the statement about the bellicus attitude of the British Government at the time of the Bosnian difficulty, and that was a first-class lic supplied presumably out of the familiar German laboratory The Hous: laughed and cheered at this straight hitting Sir Edward Grig went on to say that be read the interview to mean that those who were not willing te accept the Gornton terms were responsible for the continuance of the war

a towa

THE ENDLESS PLAINS

Holland to-day does not want to be forced to join in the war, because to fight the enemy by flooding the land if compelled to enter the conflict to main tain it no matter what price she is cam pelled to pay to vindicate her national honour.

special

not merely being committed to a rive are really de-alory, but severely birched as an addi- picture palaces

tion to the seittence-a kind of sentence that makes one reasounbly doubt the praving to the child-mind, still more

fitness of the Court which pronounced depraving are the same sorts of heroes" made in the children's courts, where real

thing. As additional proof that real injustices arouse the worst of pas severity is not deterrent, one has only to look at the shall proportion of girls. sions in substitute for imaginary enca Nevertheless, it is only a part of the to boys who get into trouble, though it nationalation of juvenile crime to recognise

is inadmissible for magistrates to beat WILL OPEN FLOODGATES AGAINST EEST that there is a great deal of adult recip them. So great a differenes as that That is why the floodgates of the land rocity, and that the war has deteriorated which exists could not wholly be account are ready to be opened, that is why on men as well as children. If children are

ed for by the theory that girls are less the approaches to her bridges one sees indeed, from a variety of circumstances, troublesome than boys. Given the sam barbed wire stockades which can be making themselves just now an intoler powers of court floggings, and it is at

to say we would soon have a type of If the country west of Salisbury were placed in position as harriers at a able nuisance, and opening themselves to

It must be recorded, however, that the black earth instead of white chalk, if its moment's notice, and that is why the prosecution and its consequences, it is of girl hooligan not yet in existence. scale were infinitely enlarged, it would bridges over her northern and southern vital importance that a sensible method.

Department not be wholly unlike this country be waterways, with dynamite at hand if of dealing with them shall be forthwith Majority Report of the

needed, will be blown up to coinpel the promulgated. It is, in fact, the hour and Commitice deprecated the placing of a the opportunity for a change of attitude.child or young person a second time pri tween the Seret and the Strypa.

It is a country of long, rolling downs, foe, if foe there is to be, to swim to vic

The methods in vogue have failed, probation, except for very ***My dear reader,” he said, when

infinite spaces of hedgeless fields, here tory or defeat and there villages in the open, and, in But Holland's army will not continue palpably Floggings, and reformatories reasons, apparently from a fear that you write that you are thin and do not eigh what you should, you have given

the river valleys small provincial towns, to retire indefinitely as, when the enemy have not decreased juvenile crime" probation is used by justices as a means. with chateaux belonging to the ejected reaches Amsterdam, in the north, or they have gone hand in hand with an of saving the rates. What seems to be Children me the real cause of your untappy feel

landfords occupying the most desirable Utrecht, in the south, he will face de increase of it. Those who believe in the overlooked is the child itself.

must not be sent to industrial or refor ings. If you only had a reserve of fat

With increasing warmth Sir Edward places. The motor ploughs its way axle fences that designed as a result of the one and the other should give way to

schools merely because such in tutions mist, though that is what the this would give a quieting and reassuring

That the Home Secretary himself is an zonnence to the vital forces, and you Grey insisted that the real thing which deep through the black Galician mud, lessors taught by this war, may tax all those who believe in neither.

over roads which only a fortnight ago his offensive powers wa be happy,

contented

and was responsible for prolonging the war would then

I am told that Holland's big guns are the side of the angels in this matter is signatories of the report seemed to imply.. more than anything else was that the Ger-

were quite impassable. On either side optimistion

Report to suggest anything. Thein, too, you realize that the pro-man Grevernment were telling the peopl: are the prie-Dieus of the Catholics, atone modern, and that her artillerymen are clear from his own recommendation, for There is deplorably little in this same

soixante quinze." I feel certain that her result if greater use were made of the Timbs makes all the difference between Allies were beaten. But the Allies werold, some of them extraordinarily beau- beauty and ugliness, and you envy your not beaten, and the first step towards tiful. In the graveyards, beside the old infantrymen, now thoroughly familiar Probation of Offenders Act," and that a child's rights, when taken away front stone crosses, ar groups of wooden with present-day trench warfare, are as women might with advantage be emits home, to be provided with a sub- As a liberal allowance peace would be when the German Govern

crosses in the characteristic Russian form brave and as well drilled as any soldier ployed more frequently than at present stituted home as good in every way as

home should be. Apart from the amaz- plutup friends. of fat is one of nature's wise precautions ment began to recognize that fact. To to enable us to bear some of the trials of wards the end of the speech came a fi marking the graves of Russian soldiers in Europe the whole world knows that as probation officers.

What one has to recognise bere and ating frequency of the severest punish- The further west we go the more of these

one of her aviators, Fokker, designed life, you should do all in your power to tribute to the prowess of the French Arm

crosses we meet, with the names of the machine that has enabled Germany to once is that a great pse has not been ments, one reads in the minutes of got fat. I know nothing so valuable to at Verdun, which was saving France and

dead written on them in pencil recover to a degree her prestige in the made of the Probation of Offenders Act, overcrowding, overworking, under-feed- make people fat as a preparation of her Allies Was this, he asked, a moment

The spring showing itself in fields of war in the air. Her machine gun college but that magistrates, both stipendiary ing, coarse clothing, degrading hygienic Sargol, prepared by The Bargol Co. of for us to do anything but concentrate England.

tent which is appalling. There seems. From-the standpoint, of health, fat upon expressing our determination of clover and young corn, in the little buck is steadily turning out expert marksmen, and in the shape of local justices of the arrangements, prison-like confinement, give the fullest support in our power to of the trees, in catkins and palin willow, and I have seen Holland's crack cavalry peace, have relied upon other and more and mind and soul starvation to an ex

men at work and their work was good. drastic powers of punishment vested in and in the ceaseless songs of the birds. Therefore, I venture the prediction, them. It is an actual indictment of those through the length and breadth of the is essential, as it has great value, as a use Allics The Times,

For a moment I forget the war, and though, I fear to nose as a prophet, that methods that to day, in the face of the book no conception of the primary right reserve force, and saves the other tissues

think only of summer, with the eager from destruction. So, by all means try

hunger for green things that is given by if the army of Holland is put to the grim marked increase in crime among of a child to a bright existence. The the six months Russian winter of ice test of modern war, that, thrice armed juveniles, the Home Secretary himself Committee even recommended and insti- and snow. We are passing down a valley because its cause will be just, it will not should be asking for an extension of tuted corporal punishment in girls

leniency, and not for an extension of schools, not previously permitted, and on committals and birchinge. If in the face the whole seem to have left the institu beside a river, its banks dotted with be found wanting,

of this official recommendation the harsh tions rather worse for their interference. white cottages, a woman washing clothes under a green willow, a boy fishing, and --------

er measure still prevail there is no than they were before

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per distribution of fat on the body and that they had won the war and that the statues of the saints, many of them very as proficient as the men behind France's Mr. Samuel thinks that good would a wholesome conception of

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IS DUD A WAR BABY."

Is the word "dud a philological war it has only become baby Certainly familiar during the last few months, aeroplanes When references to "dud occurrence. The Oxford Dictionary men- tions dud as a somewhat, rare term

...

the

and dud shells have been of everyday two tall storks, black and white, stand as we pars. On either side of the viaduct, other concision to come to thau that The best argument for the extension of

im in the shallow water by some reens.

And then suddenly, the road, swerves under a railway viaduct of heterogenous construction. There are stone arches at either end and amass of fallen masonry where the intervening arches were

applied contemptuously to a person, and 4p.m-Election of a Justice of the Fesce gives a quotation dated 1825. But for a perfect definition of the word, as used for the Licensing Board

in the present year of grace, reference blown up by the retreating Austrians, in the advance. A history of best parimental Committee already mentioned be only a matter of conjecture. It is not must be made to Shakespeare. Do not In the middle the Russian engineers have gle is written in earthworks, and shell-one can find the very strongest arguments Steamship Co., all things dud wear more perfor raised new piers, 150 feet high; of logs bits, and broken buildings marking the Ltd., Final, Winding-up Meeting at the mance than they are able, and yet reserve laid in pairs crosswise above each other sudden rage of war, which has left the

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unharmed as if these last two years had 12.15 pm The "Fransug Steamship Going more than the perfection of ten, and Red Cross train rumbles slowly overhead upper part of the valley, as peaceful and

never been. Ltd, Flanl Winding-up Meeting at the discharging less than the tenth part of

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on the slopes of the valley, are trenches there is a preponderance of unft officials probation remains the fact that it has, facing eastwards, the ruined trenches

PA has advanced in seriousness; but how ren." these are trenches facing westwards.

much the increase is due to an additional BEVERITY NOT A DEBILLENT, abandoned by the Austrians. Beyond who like beating and shape tog child been under-used, while juvenile crime Russian trenches marking a resting point

In the evidence given before the De- liveliness on the part of the police can And thence onwards

the point. The point is that pressure should now be placed on justices of all

which have failed should be abandoned. kinds to carry out the Home Secretary's

Daily Chronicle. recommendation, and that the measures

Noon-TheDerawangie

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for a full recourse to the probationary alternative to committals, yep in actual

(Continued on next Column.) practice one finds such cases as a boy