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PRONOUNCEMENT BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

The following announcement, approved by His Excellency the Governor and Zuigh Commissioner prior to the recent inspection tour of the General Officer Commanding, "which His Excellency the Esteral or consuading under the authority of His Excellency the Governor and High Commissioner ande public to the votanicerk both in the Colony and Federated. Malay States on December Ides 17th, 18th is now published for the Beteral information of the public. The ceritution of the several committees will be announced at au perly date:--

The Government is aware that there is a widespread feeling that some indica tion should be given by the Government as to its views in regard to what further help faman-power contribution to the Empire the Colony and the FM.S. cnn give for active service under the War Offen.

*In the opinion of the Government every man who is it and can be spared should have for active service, and the Government would be willing to render assistance towards the payment of pass ages to any man who in need of assist auce, provided he passes the corssary nedinil examination and satisfies the nilitary authorities that he is otherwise fitted for military service in the field.

There are, however, two points for consideration: first, that there should be sufficient men remaining for defensive purposes in case of local reed, and, secondly, the maintenance of local indus- trics.

The Government, after consulting military authorities, is able to say that for purposes of defence a large num her of men can be spared and notice will be given when Government considers that no further men should leave.

As regards the second point, if any doubt or conflict of opinion exists be tween the employer and the employed, the question whether an employé can be spared or not for active service is one which can be best determined by an ad visory committee,

The Govorament, therefore, proposes to appoint an advisory committee who shall hear such cases as may be brought before it voluntarily and who shall advise both employer and employé as to the course they should adopt.

The advisory committee will be authorised to issue certificates to those man who offer themselves and who are physically fit and otherwise suitable for active service, but who, in the opinion of the committee, are indispensable for the work on which they are employed in Malaya"-Straits Times, December 22nd.

CHINESE NEWS.

YUNNAN REVOLUTION DAY.

On the Yunnan Revolution Day, the President invited about a hundred and sixty high Government officials, includ ing the princes and nobles of Mongolia and Tibet, to a dinner at the Wai Jen Tang. The President delivered a brief speech in which he urged the officials to avoid party strife.

NEW MINISTER OF INTERIOR.

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MUD!

[BY ONE WHO KNOWS IT WELL. -Those at home in England, with their experience of war books and photographs, of Zeppelin raids and crowded. hospitals, are beginning to imagine they know all there is to know about war.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,

OLDERS BY LIEUT-COL, A

JOINE

CHAPMAN, Y.D.

Pu, F. D. Bisseker having joined is allotted Corps No. 2,046 and posted. to Scouts Company.

Gr.

W. H. Stapleton having joined is allotted Corpy No. 2,047 had posted to Belchers G Section.

LEAVE.

The truth is that they still have but little idea of the life in the trenches, and, as far as the mad is concerned, they are delightfully ignorant. They do notient. Hall is granted 10 months' leave know what mud is,

from April Rexh

at

12. months' leave from 1, 1..17.

No. 2,020 Pie C. Hodgson is granted &

They have read of Napoleon's "Fourth | No. 1,831 Sp. N. S. Mones is granted Element," they have listened to descrip 1 month's leave from 31. 12. 16. tins of mud in Flanders and France; No. 1,885 Gr. A. E. Silkstone is granted they have raised increduloas eyebrows stories of men being drowned in the trenches, they have thought of pity for the solecting there" as they have shushed home through the streets On rainy nights; but they have never realised what mud slimy depths, and even the pen of a Zola means, for no photograph can tell its o a Victor Hugo could give no adequate idea of it.

is any

months leave from 3. 1, F.

TRANSFERHEN.

No. 1,899 Spr. J. J. Lysaught is trans. ferred from Engineer Company

·H.K.V.D. from this date. No. 2,008 Gr. J. P. V. Remedios is

transferred from Belchers 6" Bec tion to Engineer Company from this date,

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ENGINEER COMPANY.

HONGKONG RESERVES.

ONDERS: BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0.0, 8.x.V..

APPOINTMENTS,

The following extract from the Hong- kong Gaveramenį. Gautie dated 29th December, 1918, is published for in- formation: His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Dr. H. Balean to be A Surgeon- Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volna- teer Reserve,, for the period of the leave of absence of Surgeon-Captain. G. Montagu Harston, with effect from the 2nd December, 1910.” The following extract from the long- kong Government Gazette, dated sih January, 1917, in published for in- formation: His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Sergt. G. C. Moxon to be 2nd Lieu- tenant in the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve, with effect from 27th Dec- ember, 1910.

DETAIL.

On duty from the morning of Sunday,

7th January, to the morning of Sun day, 14th January—H.K.V.C. Nest for duty" A" Coy, H.K. V.R. Orderly Officer-Lient. J. Owen Hughes. PARADES FOR THE WEEK ENDING 13TH JANUARY

And so, till the end of the war, the old story will be continued--while the soldier flounders, and staggers about in that awful, sucking swamp, the pessimiți at home will lean back in his armchair and To be Corporal from this date. -No. 877 Monday, 8th instant. wonder why we do not advance at the Pte. H. Petley. rate of a mile an hour, why we are not in Berlin, and whether our Aronor. good at all. If such a man why we are not in German territory let him walk, on a dark night, through the village duckpond and then sleep in his wet clothes in the middle of the farm yard. Then perhaps he would wonder no more and he would realise a little what mud and wet are.

Detail of Engineer Company duties at Lyeemun from 2nd to 18th January has been posted at Headquarters.52

SIGNALLING SECTION,

(a)

in the qualifying test for Signallers. held on 29th, by the Com- mand Bignalling Officer, the under mentioned members qualified:- 1st Class, Sergt. Lawrence, J. H. 2nd Class, Pte. Meadows, 4. V. G. Pic. Reis, P.

It is the infantryman who suffers most, for he has to live, eat, sicep, and work in the mud. The plain of dragging slime that stretches from Switzerland to the sea is far worse to face than the firo of machine guns, or the great black trench-(b) mortar bombs which camo twisting down through the air. It is more terrible than the frost and the rain-you cannot even stamp your feet to drive away the insidious chill the mud always brings. Nothing can keep it from your clothes and hands and face: there is no taking off your boots to dry in the treaches you must lie down just as you are, and often you are lucky if you have two uty sandbags to save you from the cold embrace of the swamp.

INCREDIBLY SLIPPERY,

But if the mud stretch is desolate by. day it is shocking by night. Imagine a battalion going up to the trenches to relieve another regiment. The rain comes pitilessly down on the long trail of men who stumble along in the blackness over the pard. All the men are well loaded, for, besides his pack, rifle, and equip ment, each man carries a pick or a bag of sntions or a bundle of firewood; there is no smoking, for they are close to the enemy, and there is the thought of four days and four nights of watchfulness and wetness in the trenches. Presently the. winding line strikes off the road across the mud. This is not mud such as we knew it in England-it is incredibly slippery and impossibly tenacious, and each dragging footstep calls for a tremendous effort. The men straggle, or close up together so that they hardly have room to move; a man trips over a telephone wire which

runs from trenches to the battery when he scrambles to his feet again he is a mass of mud, his rifle barrel is choked with it, it is. in his hair, down his neck, everywhere. He staggers on, thankful that he did

might have been much worse,

the

The nomination of Mr. Chang Kuonot fall into a shell hole, when matters kan as Minister of Interior, which has been approved by the House of Repre sentatives, has been forwarded to the Senate for final confirmation. In poli- tical circles it is said that there is a great deal of uncertainty as to the passage of the nomination, seines the Kuo Min Tang members will certainly vote en bloc againts it,

THE KWANGTUNG LOAN.

With reference to the new Kwangtung loan it is said (says the Prking Gazette) that the foreign agent concerned demands caus the contract must be approved by the Central Government before it comes into effect. While willing to allow Governor Chu of Kwangtung a certain amount of latitude, the Government is said to be unwilling to give consent be cause the security asked for cannot allotted for the purpose. If so, then the loan may fall through after all.

CHINESE IN MEXICO.

At the request of the Chinese Minister at. Washington, the following Mandate has been issued:-The Ministry of For eign Affairs in a memorial states that according to the telegraphic reports of Ku Wei-chun, Chinese Minister at Wash ington, the Chinese residing in Mexico have suffered severely and that imme diate relief should be devised for them etc. It is indeed sorry to learn that these overses Chinese have suffered hunger and affliction in a strange lend far away from their mother country The Ministry of Finance is hereby in- structed immediately. to remit a sum of 20,000 dollars in American currency, to the said Minister for the relief of the sufferers, and that effective protection should be devised for them so that they may not become homeless and destitute.?

" REVOLUTIONARY HEROES.”

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Just when the men are waiting in the open for the leading company to file down into the communication trench a German star shell goes up, and a machine gun opens fire a little farther down the line. As the Dare sinks down behind the British trench it lights up the men, all crouching down in the swamp, while the bullets hiss by above their heads.

This Section will be sub-divided as

follows until further orders :~* Class "A."-Trained Signallers, Bergt. Lawrence, Corpl. Young, Trained Signallers LeCpl. Hurle, Pte. Reis, F., Pte. Reis, P. Class B."-LeCpl. Chaves, Pte. Ribeiro, Pte. Ogley, Pie Wilkinson, Pte. Costa, Pic, Luz, Pte. Abbas, Pte. Cotton, Pte. Rodrigues, Pto. Tangap. Class C. Pte. Ramsey, A. L, Pte.

Gomes, J. V., Pte. Mason.

PARADES.

Monday, 8th instant.

7.30 am. Belchera " Section at Bel-

chers Battery.

5.10 p.m. Centre: Section M. G.. Co. drill at Kowloon Dock Hongkong residents procced by launch from Statue Wharf at 4.30 p.m.

6.15 p.m. Artillery Battery Left Sce- tion M. G. Co. and Civil Service Coy, Company drill on Murray Parade Ground.

5.15 p.m. Right Section M. G. Co, at

Headquarters for Route March. 6.15 p.m. Scouts Company on Cricket |

Ground for Route March. 5.15 p.m. Recruits of all units at Head-

quarters under Corp. Grimes. 5.30 p.m. Signalling Section, Class

Bat R. A. Theatre. Tuesday, 9th instant.

7.30 a.10. Belchers 6" Section at Reli

cher's Battery.

3.15 p.m. Stretcher Bearer Section at

Headquarters,

5.15 p.m. Mounted Section at Jockey

Club Stables,

5.30 p.m. Signalling Section Class

Bat R. A. Theatre. Wednesday, 10th instant.

5.45 p.m. Signalling Section Classes **A" and "C" at Happy Valley

for Field Work.

Thursday, 11th instant,

The following members of “A”.

and "B" Co. will parade at Blake- Pier at 3.30 p.m. for Musketry. Dress; Drill order: Bergt, C. B.. Thomas, L/Cpl. W. S. Brown, Ptes. H. A Walker, J. H. Mead, F. A. Mackintosh, K. McLennan, A. Rit chie, A. R. Lowe, J. A. T. Plummer,. P. H. Rolfe.

Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 5.

p.m. under Instructor Sergt. Oz- berty Dress; Drill order. Signalling Section at Volunteer Head- quarters at 5.15 p.m. undor Signall- ing Instructor L/Cpl. G. Lloyd. Dress; Clean fatigue, Machine Gur. Section at Wellington Barracks at 5. p.m. under Instructor Sergt. Bowles, Dress; Clean fatigue. Tuesday, 9th instant, The following members of

and "B" Cos. will parade at Blake- Pier at 3.30 pm for Musketry, Dress; Drill order-Sergt. A. Charlton, Bergt. W. Mckay, Berg C. E. Thomas, Cpl. V: W. Daniel, Cpl. J. C. Logan, Cpl. W. Hill, 17Cpl. F. C. Goodman, Ptes. H. J. Knight, G. Gibson, N. J. Stabb, H. A. Walker, J. H. Mead, F. A. Mackintosh, K, McLennan, A. Rit. chie, A. R. Lowe, J. A, T. Plummer, P. H. Rolfe,

Mounted Section at Jockey Club Stables, at 4.45 p.m. Dress: Drill order, Semaphore Class at Volunteer Head-

quarters at 5,15 p.m. under Signall-- ing Instructor Cpl. G. Lloyd. Dress: Clean fatigue, Wednesday, 10th instant. Musketry Names of members to parado

will be published later. Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 5. p.m. under Instructor Sergt. Ox- berry, Dress: Drill order. Thursday, 11th instant. Musketry: Names of members to parade.

will be published later, Machine Gun Section + Wellington

Barracks at 5 pm, ander Instructor

Sergt. Bowlts. Dress: Clean

fatigue.

Mounted Section at Jockey Club Stables at 4.45 p.m. Dress: Drill. order. Recruits on the Cricket Ground st 5 p.m.

under Instructor Sergt.. Oxiierry. Dreis: Drill order.

Signalling Section at Volunteer Head- quarters at 5.15 pm. under Signall- ing Instructor L/Cpl. & Lloyd. Dress: Clean fatigue. Friday, 12th instant.

7.30 am. Belchera 6" Section at Bel-B

chers Battery:

5.30 p.m, Signalling Section Class

"B" at R. A. Theatre. Friday, 12th instant."

7.30 p.m. Belchers 8" Section at Bel

chers Battery

5.15 p.m. Recruits of all units at Head- quarters. Corpl. Grimes will st- tend. 5.30 p.m. Signalling Section. Class

B." at R. A. Theatre. Saturday, 13th instant.

7.15 p.m. Signalling Section, Class

"B," on Cricket Ground.

DETAIL

After winding along a quarter of a mile of communication treuch they file into the fire trench. Here the mud is even worse than on the plain they have crossed: All the engineers and all the tresch pumps in the world will not keep a trench decently dry when it rains for nine hours in ten and when the trench is the lowest bit of country for miles around. The men can do nothing but carry onthe parapet must be kept in repair whatever the weather; the sund-On duty 7th inst. Beouts Company, bags must be filled however wet and sticky on duty 8th inst. Civil Service Company. the earth. The mud may nearly drag a

boot off at his every step-indeed. On duty 10th inst. Belchers 6" Section.

On duty 9th inst. Artillery Battery, z it often docs; but the man must go on.

On duty 11th inst, Contre Section M. G. digging, shorelling, lining the trench

Co with logs, bricks, tins, and planks in the enough flooring into the trench to reach On duty 13th inst. Scouts Company.

On duty 12th inst. Right Section M. G. hope that one day he may have put

Co. solid ground beneath the mud.

Orderly Officer from 7th to 13th inst.--

2/Lieut. Hegarty:

mau's

THE DEBAT ENEMY.

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All this, of course, is only the infantry. man's idea of things. From a tactical point of view mud has a far greater importance-it is the most relentless enemy that an army can be called upon to face. Even without mud and without Germans it would be a difficult task to feed and look after a million men on the move; with these two discomforts move- ment becomes almost impossible.

"What has happened to the tanks' 7" people ask. Nothing has happened to them. They have done wonderful work which has been interrupted by bad wea ther. You cannot expect a weapon far heavier than the average steam-roller to move with ease in three or four feet of slippery, clinging mud.

A sensational robbery was committed in a big native bank, Chun-fa-mol, ai It is only when you have seen a battery the Kungpei street of Tientsin on the. of field artillery on the move in bad 23rd instant by five well-dressed Bouth-weather that you can realise at all the erners, and about 88,000 in dollars and enormous difficulties of a winter advance. notes were taken away by them. The You must watch the horsee labouring.and five young men, dressed in fox ful coats, plunging in wud that reaches nearly to with revolvers hid witain their clothes, their girths; you must see the sweat- entered the bank as customers so that ing, half-naked men striving, with out- their presence was not suspected by its standing veins, to force the wheels round; employes. Similar robberies were com- you must hear the sucking ory of the mitted by these "heroes at Shanghai, mud when it slackene its grips and you but this is the first time in North China. must remember that this is only a battery There is no doubt, says a native paper, of light guns which is being moved. this daring robbery was committed by It is the mud, then, af present which ex Tevolutionaries from the South be in the great enemy. If the talk of the canso they have been forced by cold and tanks and the Great Push dies down, hunger to do so. In a recent petition to people in England should not be dis the President, Mr. Tang Hun-lung, heartened. Out there we are facing Speaker of the Lower House, gave the one of the worst of foes, and should the number of unemployed revolutionary advance slacken and stop, the mud will heroes and politicians" in North China be the cause-not the German, guns- at over 10,000!

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A. F. CHURCHILL, Capt., Adjutant, H.K.V. Corps. Hongkong, January 5th, 1917.

NOTICE.

The Commandant acknowledges with thanks the gift to the Cadet Company of a Miniature Rifle by P, Tester, Esq.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE.

HONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT.

SAIVINGPON DIVISION.

Wednesday, January 10th, 2.30 p.m.-

Company Drill.

Saturday, January 13th, 10.30 am- Parade at Sayingpan Headquar tera. Dress, Drill Order."

PROMOTION.

William Walkinshaw Fox, Divisional Secretary, to be Divisional Secretary and Sergeant.

VICTORIA DIVISION. Monday, January 8th, 5.15 p.m.-Com-|

pany Drill, Queen's College Quad rangle,

Tuesday, January 9th, 5.15 p.m.-Firat

Aid Lecture, Queen's College, Friday, January 12th, 5.15 p.m.-First

Aid Lecture, Queen's College.

(Sgd.) E. RALPHA. (Officer in Charge of District.) Hongkong, January 6th, 1917,

Coy, on the road outside the Law Courts at 4.45 p.m. Kowloon and Taikoo Sections

Polo Ground at 5 p.m. Drill order.

GI the Dress:

Semaphore Class at Volunteer Head- quartera at 5.15 p.m. under Signall- ing Instructor L/Cpl. G. Lloyd. Dress: Clean fatigue.

As

(Sgd.) G. K. H. BRUTION, Chpt.

Adjutant, HI.K.V.R. Hongkong, January 5th, 1917.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

DUTIES DEPARTMENT.

from this date Section Commanders of all Companies and the Ambulance Platoon, the Bandmaster, the Orches tra Conductor, the O.C. Mounted Police, Maxim Gunners and Buglers. and Drummers, will each make weekly Report to Staff Inspector Potter stating the Paradee, Lectures, &c., attended or unattended by each man in their respective commands, Patrol duties are not to be so re- ported. For this purpose the week will end at midnight on each Friday, Reports are to be sent in before 4 p.m. on the following Monday Printed Forms have been issued to those concerned.

POLICE SCHOOL

All Crown Sergeants and Sergeants of Classes I, II, and IV will attend at Headquarters' Club for examination at 5.30 p.m. on the following dates:- Monday, January 8th-Class I, (Chief

Inspector Kerr). Wednesday, January 10th. Class. 'II;

(Inspector Gordon). Friday, January 12th-Class IV, (In-

spector P. O'Sullivan).

No. 2 COMPANY AND BAND.

Will parade at Queen's Statue Chater

Road, at 5.15 p.m. sharp on Tues day, January sth. Uniform, caps, rides. The Band will attend. The O.C. Company will take charge. No exemptions are to be granted by the Company officers.

SPORTS NIGHT, JANUARY 6TH The Band will attend at the Theatre Royal at 8.30 p.m., and not at 8.45 p.m. as previously ordered. The Reading Boom will in future Lo HEADQUARTERS CLUB.

open to Ladies

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D.B.P. (B.A Hongkong, January 1st, 1917.