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BATTLE OF ARRAS. KEY OF THE SITUATION

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH " MILITARY

·CORRESPONDENT.

THE HONGKONG DATEY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 20en, 1917.

THE MAKING OF A HUN.

SCHOOLBOYS TAUGHT TO BE

BULLIES.

THE SILENT NAVY. SOME OF ITS GRIEVANCES:

{BY 13,N, HOUGE, M.P,, THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHORITY ON PENSIONS AND "ALLOWANCES.]

The Navy has done grønt deeds during the war even if we have not heard what they are.

The "A Bia numerically many fewer

BONDS OF EMPIRE.

UNITY AND LIBERTY."

The freedom of the city of Edinburgh was conferred last month on Sir Robert L

Borden (the Prime Minister of Conado), Lieut General Jan Christian. Smuts, KC (Minister of Defence of the

Union of South Africa), and Colonel his Highness Bir Gunga Singh Bahadur, G.C.LE (Maharaja of Bikaner). Each ticket in a casket, the Chief Magistrate acting as public orator in settling forth

This is made clear in an article by Ethan Tommy. That inny explain why we be the now freemen received the burgess

I confess myself

artillery fire and stormed by our infantry families are generally selected pri have given much attention to the their claims to distinction. H

Army It is time I said a little about into the groups. the grievances of the Navy. These fall

First, there are the grievances Service pensions.

about

A man in the Navy is entitled to pension when he has served 22 years. This pension is really deferred pay, but if he dies before his time has expired,

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Sir Robert Borden said he was ging springing to arms in the great cause. indeed that the manhood of Canada is Coming from ordinary avocations of life. without milimry experience or training, the Canadians had proved themselves more than a match for the enemy. They had shown themselves worthy to fight side by side with the men of the British islands. They would agree with him that perhaps the most, convincing proot widows and children of commissioned the spirit of military aggression which officers receive pensions. The widows of seemed to have possessed Germany was warrant officers also do, but their child inbuman and devilish, and must be cast ren do not. The widows and children of put. (Cheers.) He hoped the Germans petty officers and men get nothing. The Lower Deck is not high enough to reach the Accountant-General of the Admiralty: Again, an officer wounded in action but not discharged receives a special pension

Paralimentare The ordinary sailor carries on without any*****

The inculcation of the whole essence of As further accounts of the great battle the Prussian military spirit is the work reach London, the first impressions of the of a lifetime, the lifetime of every Frus- victory fa'l short of its real magnituda u boy. His tuition from the time he In twelve houm lighting the elaborately as ten is preparatory for a military life, Mortified lines of the Germans, stretching and for the military point of view, across the front of a whole British Aror from the Vimy Ridge to Henin in the Countess von Krockow in the New York hear leva about him, plata S.E. of Arras, were smashed up by Independent. The tutors of boys in coun-cne of the delinquents.

rily for the soundness of their try. The feat was only possible because views, which is to say, for their subser, the properation by artillery had heenency to the views of the ruling caste.

When the preparation at home comes to and methodically

amond in the boys,fficenth year, he goes skilfully planned

Previous experiences of our to a college to be fitted for the university, necated.

or to a Government military school if his other armies had demonstrated that father can obtain a nomination from the great concentration of guns with unlimit. Emperor on the strength of the family Cu supply of ammunition are ineffective elims to recognition. Then the boy goes anless the fire of the artillery is directed to the cadat school at Grove Lichterfelder, neither his wife por his next-of-kin gets the entry of Amerien was the last, and by tacticians who are capable of closely where ho undergoes a physical examina combining the efforts of the gunners with, and if he is accepted his father has penny of this deferred pay. The the satisfaction of knowing that the boy's the advance of the infantry, and who education will be paid for by the tur thoroughly understand the nature of a

payers, and that at the end of his school contemporary battle

time he will be in the profession that The first onslaught in the type of hattle enjoys the most prestige throughout the which has become familiar to our troupe empires uniform and loosens all since the trench warfare supervened has generally achieved an initiel sucess, and been followed by setbacks and easy hour of his day, lessons from books The British commander is the lessons from drill instructors. He battle of Arra, has obtained a far greater se än military surroundings, with dis- success in one day's fighting than any iplinary regulations minute and number ther lender of the Franco-British Forces principal visitors to the bool "There are 4,000 petty oficers and men turning back and a reversion by Ger since August, 1914, but his most seriote are persons with shining helmets, flashing serving afloat who have completed many to the ordinary standards and

decorations and swords.

year service. They are receiving 2d, a parnoses of civilisation as we had under- difficulties will now begin. By sagacious

day in lieu of pension. They are entitled stood them, and to a more decent respect arrangements and skilful directions the events of the first day's battle could be

From his instructors and the elders hoys to annuities varying fr £18 to 260. for the conventions of publie law, of law mainly forecasted and secured, but, the imbibes a sentiment of contempt 0 The Admiralty saves £10,000 annually between the antions, as they had been ob ing advanced on to the fresh position sanatched from the enemy, the counter all men who have not the privilege of by this expedient. In other words, they served in the past. Our eyes were turned wearing uniform, His kerocs among the save it at the expense of the women and to the possibilities of Empire, and there attacks of German infantry and artillery boys are those who have succed, opportant children. Men who had their pension were questions awaiting us of the gravest are to be expreted while the initial ad- vantages secured by preparation have les to stand and affront such men. He but who are now serving draw both pay import the production of an adequate communication, and the utilisation of either vanished or passed to the adver-urses a pet ambition, the chance of and pension. The others watch them food supply, means of transport and dirt like doing it.

raw materials, We must take stock of enry for our troops have Low penetrated dressing down some civilian

railway guard for failing to salute him, A Metropolitan policeman when per all our resources, and he believed the into the zone which he has long occupied, prepared for defence in saccessive lines, ubbing brutally and drastically sionable receives 108, a week detained destiny of our Empire would be largely and where tha artillery ranges ar re some clerk or professor daring to address pay. The policeman of the North Sea worked oat in our great Dominions

A po 20 a day. Despite Sie W8. gistered and known by him, while we have tu and the ranges and counter-entrench Liter he will rise to the heights of Gilbert, the policeman's life is somewhat under his fire. Moreover, our young speaking generically of the men in the happier than the man afloat leaders and rapidly trained regiments are ranks as fellows," and individually naturally at a disadvantage when called numskulls, pig-dogs, and "devil's churls,

opposing. At the end of the course in the cadet upon to manœuvre against troops which are well protected by en school he enters the war school as a candi trenchments: For all these reasons the date for commission, and he passes out Josses in later periods of these offensive with the rank of second lieutenant and a operations usually exceed the losses aus handsome coat. He is a fully-fledged

militarist tained in the first day's rush, if it sucHardship in to be borne from earliest

losses:

guds

EFTECT IN GERMANY

Ha dons a

CIVILIAN DIET

him informally.

Second, there are the grievances separation allowances and hospital stop pages,

Separation allowances are paid on a lower rate in the Navy than in the my The alleged reason is the higher pay. Scarcely a sailor admits this, as he youth Little boys of ter have to practise has to maintain his kit, whereas the standing absolutely motionless for at least Army kit is provided, and maintained at Bron as matters stand, the stunning two hours at a time. At Court functions publie expense. We ought to have an dlow, delivered by the British Commander the countess says she wlads, very official statement of explanation of the has bad far-reaching effects. In spite of picturesque in their page's Counses, difference. The now scales, so far as they all the efforts of the German censorship Boon away

chairs trated Uniqugh Germany. On the top of on whom they were in attendances briller's wife in the lower ratings up to it the news has widely peneless head while standing thus motion have been announce certainly do not prinessses the separation allowance of the the general war weariness and the misery have to stand all through the long Courts

ong Courts, the level of the soldier's wife, induced by Want of every kind of

com State concerts, and other functions. modity, and especially by the want of they frint they are carried away swiftly fuel and food, during the long months of and noiselessly by lackeys who are on the this severn winter, the blow is a stagger look-out for such incidents, and another

to the nation, which hugged lange takes the belief that it, army, at any rate, wou Meanwhile, sont place. Countess von invincible. The retreat front the Somme Krokow," the thing has been done the Was bore E gar leas accepted as a device of souls of all youth have been saturated the same nature as some of the Hinden-with the same class ideas and ideals. If burg retreats on the Russian frontier in they marry, these ideas and ideals and the first winter of the war. But the cap their identical, if softer, copy in the souls sure of strongly fortified lines, the aur of their mates. A new family is created, render of over 19,000 unwounded prison and is put through the same stamping ra, and the loss of as many more from processes; and so on from generation to our steel and arc, constitutes a most dis generation.

whose quicing argument for a nerves are beginning to be i

surprise.

The German Government

WORSE THAN GRIME

ment proclaims that Any variant from the type, any youth

the submarine warfare is succeeding ac-or giri whose spirit is resistant to the cast

DO

ECCENTRIC STOPPADES,

There are other irritating differences.

or example, the wife of a warrant officer, Royal Marines receives week; the wife of a warrant officer, R.N Rets 85. Yet the warrant officer RN is senior to the Marine,

Hospital stoppages are very eccentric Men and boys below the rank of warrant officer when sent to a home hospital have stopped out of their pay after 30 days:

(1) In this case of men, 108. a day if their pay is not less than 18, 7d. a day, and 8d. if it is

(2) In the case of boys, id a day. (3) In the case of Marines, 7d. a day.

Certificate.

would realise that it was madness for any nation of the world to undertake a they had undertaken, to revert to methods of pure barbarism and to seck to impose upon the conscience of the world the great, hope indeed that there would be creed of the jungle. But he had very

(Cheers.)

Lieut. General Smuts said the Union was inevitable in South Africa, and he had striven for yours that it should be

union as between England and Scot land, and not the sort of union we had had between England Ireland (Cheers.) They had had in South Africa all the makings of an insoluble political prob- lem, but, by God's providence as that between England and Scotland had been achieved. You have been reminded by the Lord Provost," continued General Smuts, that I was fighting against the British Empire fifteen years ago. Ladies and

fought for fifteen years ago is the cause gentlemen, there has been no change in me. (Cheers and laughter.) The canse for which I am fighting to day (More chepr.) I fought for freedom and for Biberty then, and I am fighting for it now, You are a large-hearted people,

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and you will forgive me for an expres con of my view that Rften or eighteen laughter.) I am sometimes proud to

years ago you were wrong. (Much

think that since then we have, according to old apostolic injunction, heaped coals. of fire on your heads You came back to wiser counsels in handing back to us the liberty which we had thought would be jeopardised under the British flag. You made us free, and in that way you laid the foundations of a large State (Loun cheers.) Touching on a visit to the front, General Samuis said that, apart from the fine of our men, our organisation left

evening that the amount of our shells had actually increased

Pording to their calculations. The Germould, is married into or that If they remain in hospital 91 days their nothing to be desired. The Gernian or man people can only judge of this by the resource failing, is perforce allowed to pay is entirely stopped. If then they ranisation had been overtaken, and not- result Hur Arziies and the armies of stip down to another social plane, while return to civil life they must pay up withstanding the heaviest bombardment our Alikes continue to deal deadly blows any man who liberates himself mentally arrears of Health Insurance to become in the world's history, he found in the nt their lang, and, far from showing any which is to say, becomes modern and inclination

economise their men and tieniocratic in his opinions, is ostracised entitled to benefit. The only exception unstions, intensify the fury of their at

Countess zu D-came visiting old to this practice is in the case of a man tack the pessimists in the Fatherland, of family friends by herself. Of course, who receives what is known as a Hurt whom there are now very many, not un-I we can't but receive her, poor

creature naturally conclude that submarines or I heard the friends remark. For a long So much for the Lower Deck. Officers, no submarines, the British are able to fine T asked no questions, taking for R.N., are not subjected from free for keep their armies in the field and wear granted that a crime heen committed reserve or temporary offer is war with all the energy and determina- down the straitened forces of the German by the Count zu D, whose state, with six weeks. The sailor does not object to Empire Se

its splendid old castle was among thu this. He objects to the distinction mp_THE DECIDING FACTION.

great ons of the province. One day it Moreover, he objects strongly to the fact what the crime had been of my husband that stoppages in his case reduen the

allotment to his wife claimed to be the deciding factor-in war. Innumerable eloquent writers have vaunt head that is a criminal?' he exclaim- What the heavens put it into your ed these indirect methods of conquering Why, nobody scerns, to receive him: a hostile nation, and unquestionably act and the ladies are always expressing pity nur handy man Resource is one of his that one result would be the permanent one of them plays a vital part in the great drama of war. There has been a tendency for the countess. Well they may, said do disregard and neglect the direct in-he, sternly, for the count is worse than

is n Literal. fluence of victory on the battlefeld, which criminal. He is

But he goes to the Golden Star in

Ships, money, policy have all been pro

Thirdly, there are the grievances of promotions and awards. The sailor is distinguishing qualities. There must be many efficient men in the Navy, yet not a single petty officer and only seventeen warrant officers have been promoted to

the roll the great assemblage rose and When the Maharaja of Bikaner signed cheered lustily. His Highness said all the countries of the Empire were of one mind in their resolve to prostute this tion at their command for the freedom of the world, the right of nations to live their own lives, and for the overthrow of militarism and aggression. (Cheers:) Whatever political and economic deci- sions might be arrived at by the present Imperial gathering, he was convinced strengthening of the ties of the Empire.

Look now at Interpreters Naval and Marine officers who qualify get gratuities ranging from £25 to £200 and Is. 6d to 26d a day extra pay on appointment. Men are not eligible. One would have thought that the war would have removed the embargo, for there are many linguists among the men

Finally, consider the award of the Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry, It ranks next to the Victoria, Cross, and is awarded to petty officers and seamen,

fact that there are over 200 warrant, and after all, is the surest, as it is the I persisted, after a moment of commissioned rank for 2014 BETVICE, chief writers with from seventeen to quickest, means of bringing the foe to kwers Especially is this the case in the silence needed to recover from my sur- would like to know whether this means thirty years service, on the recommended

pris, British Empire where military prep count alight at that weekly rendezvous of themselves at sea or whether the training

and recalling that I had seen the that only this number have distinguished list tions were neglected for so many years the country squirearchy. before the war, and where skill in strategy. The Star, yes, a man can't be pro- unfits a man for promotion. and tactics were not held in honour. In-

Again, in many of our merchant ships direct means, or the arms of our Ameri bibited access to a public tavern. And can Allies, may in the long run compel some of the gentlemon there are wont to which have been armed and commissioued dispute and drink with him. But they as HM. ships a lieutenant, R.N.R is the Central Empires to accept martes are not the men, I can tell you, who are gunnery officer. There is usually also a but delay which there means require to dependent on the grace of Berlin. What gunner or chief gunner, RN. The latter make themselves felt spell bitter loss of sart of a man is it, he went on in a tone has served in the Navy from boyhood life to us, besides loss of ships and an of indignant reflexion, that will risk the The former has only been through a short palling expenditure of breasure."

future careers of his sons for the satis gunnery course The Lower Deck man A series of victories like the battle of faction of airing a batch of doctrines is the man behind the gun. The other Arras, however, would solve the question picked up travelling in England, the land has the gold braid and the pay far more satisfactorily, because far more of Parliamentary Government

and swiftly. If each commander of an army

Such is the Prussian of unblesse oblige. British and French, could win one such

Or take the lower ranks of the victory as crowned the efforts of the Bri 'tish commender in battle

this

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Golf, since it became so populur in rank is not open to them. The war made Northern France, and would on fortunate if it could rally for the Hin England (says a Homs paper), has been necessary many additional accountant denburg line. or any other line west of called by its enemies an old man's game officers for the newly commissioned the Rhine.

which is And an old man's game it is in these ships Instead of promoting inng Therefore, strategy, the skill of the commanding general, and days Young fares, even those of service, highly trained, and experienced tactics, which is r

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his subordinate ofreally the skill of maidens, are seen no longer on the links; men, the Admiralty entered civilians Of the fifty-two awards since war broke

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One thousand commissime in the decountants Brunch hove hen given fo alders, and to this can not one com iron has been conferred on merilor rank or ratings, This in spite of the Continued at font ni next column.)

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out twenty-four have been won by meri ineligible for the money award,

The above is an abbreviated catalogue of some of the grievances of the Lower Deck Dr. Macnamara has described My Lords of the Admiralty as the Little Fathern of the Fleet I am not quite

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