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A FIELD DRESSING STATION. HOW THE PATROL COMES IN

THE NIGHTHAWKS."

[BY JACKSTAKE,]:

The return of the Nighthawks,"

In a certain sector in France there is: little village about a mile from the Aring-line. Though the signs of hostile shell-fire are on overy hand in the ruined nonser and disordered paving of the long main street, the village has suffered much as during than many other villages much further removed from the trenches, and what the moon shines an illusive radiance on the place one could almost imagine that a contented population On the edge of evening one may watch slept in these silent homes.

them vanishing seaward. And their go

name by which the Navy patrol is known, usually occurs about seven bells in the forenoon watch (11.30 a.m.),

An oddly assorted lot are these hawks.

CAVALRY PATROL.

[By 2.8.CP.]

In the cavalry lines there was great excitement, for some weeks rumours had been going about concerning the Boche

intentions, and the gunners had been The Swatow Hospital report this year

almost offensively jubilant over their is, if anything, morc Interesting than

daily work. The line had been talking usual The number of patients attended

darkly of the great push and mildly dis to is over nineteen thousand, People will

couraging things had been said about be surprised to learn that diphtheria was

cavalry being an obsolete arm. The In a building a few doors away from an unknown dieepsc in the Swatow region the cures fofty house a dressing-station ing has about it an air of furtiveness, as winter had been a trying time for the some years ago, but that it is now a re-is located, shell came and blew away though they wished to get away as un horses and the frosts had made exerciso gular cold-weather visitant. A very pre-the face of what had been a large shop, obtrusively as possible for their nocturnalficult, but taking it all in all, the men and in the pend so formed British flight, Knowing whither they are bound, soldiers built a dugout of Trench and why one feels that the suggestion and horses were in the height of training iron." True and strong, the big curving of stealth in their movements fits well and the lone course of combined opera iron sections were laid and bulted to with the occasion. While darkness holds, about 70 per cent, or 80 per cent. of the ether, and on the top many layers of the nighthawks are sentinels on the deep. tions in open fighting with the various sandbags were placed, battened down by Hither and thither they fly scouting piles of loose bricks from the ruined, warily for an enemy who is even more nouses close by, and everything was done clusive than themselves. that honest workmanship could do to guard the stricken from further harm; and then the medical staff moved in with all their stores and fittings, and the dressing station had come into being

valent disease in the neighbourhood, especially among the farming classes, is The report states that

hook-worm,

farmers are infected with these parasites, which dram away the patient's blogil and interfere with the absorption of tourish ment. A few cases of leprosy have been submitted to a treatment recommanded by Dr.

Heisser, results have been attained.

The money for an X-ray apparatus here has been subscribed and the installa tion will be offcted some time this year It a

is a pleasure to record that this mom desirable addition to the equipment of the Hospital is due to the efforts of two Chinese gentlemen, Mr. Kee Luan Sun and Mr. T, M; King,

resting and reinforcing brigades had kept up general efficiency to a wonderfully high level.

A hard, exacting duty, full-spiced with danger. Upon the thoroughness with The men were keen-deadly keen--for which the nighthawks perform it largely none of 18 and had a sniff at a Uhlant depends the safety of our soldiers crossing the sen. Though wings way grow weary since 1914, and in the fighting they had of Manila, and good. The inside of the dressing-station re battling with storm, and eyes ache from was a few odd speils in the trenches when

sembles a section of a tube railway intent peering into the darkness there can tunnel. It is long enough to allow three be no casing up," no respite until theting as untry reinforcements, the stretchers to be placed lengthwise along vigil has endod. Break of day manns reports of mounted work in gypt und either side, giring plenty of floor-space only greater watchfulness, for the mists lesopama hua surred up consiUCCEEDO. for the Medical Officer and his assistants and balf lights of that period favour to now about in or for housing extra the steakish, foe. But as the ann climbs envy, malice and uncharitableness, and to move in, business in the heavens the strain, lessens. When every mounted sun held that the modera either side of the big parafin stove, the morning has well advanced their task wir of position was wanmuably unsport- E.A M.C. sergeant and the doctor's ends, and the nighthawks turn their ing attair orderly sleep at night. The end wall hands joyfully testads home, CALL FOR CAVALRY

One after the other they wing back Events moved quickly, and the whole behind the stove is taken up by u broad bench containing basine and bottles and gaily No discernible trace about them of the mounted troops were, wald with medical instrument cuees, while the now of the prowling mood of over night expectation. At last came the order to shelves above are packed with the rele place of it they show in their demann move up nearer to the line, and for the quisites of first-aid dressing and the treat our an evident satisfaction with city.rst time since 1914, large bodies of ment of ordinary trench ailments. At well done. A fine, inspiring picture, too, cavalry were practically in touch with our own fing line. When the order the other end of the dug-out is the their homecoming makes dourway, which leads into the street and

came for two squadrons to turnish patrois is carefully traversed to prevent the entrance of flying splinters, yet wide enough to admit of the easy passage of

Towards the expenses of the Hospital the foreign community have contributed 83,318, and the Chinese $5,233 The total expenditure amounted to $13,843.

THE CENSOR'S

'S HEAVY

HAND The censor has laid his hands heavily On the native Press. As far as possible the people are to be kept in ignorance of

go forward with the infantry, uscite bent reached fever heat and jealousy crystallised to the point of a Hery inter- conge of compliments hotween the lucky troops and those whom fortune had delayed.

The troop rode out across the sheil

what the Government is doing. No news be sick--If there are any--report each proaching the harbour channels the ited fields and across our own trenches

expressive of disaffection amongst the Provinces is allowed to be published. Provinces deciding" for independence must not be announced. This is in order to prevent disturbing rumours of any kind that would tend to create disaffee tion The general and dauyin have both issued the above instructions,

„MILITARY, MOVEMENTS.

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by means of special light transportable bridges. Halfway up they met a pontoon- bridging train of the R.D. bound for Peronuery Make a

That was the first really authentic con- armation of the fall of the town that the men had seen, though a myriad rumours had extended the Boche retreat to towns well off the military maps

The first glimpse one gets of it takes the form an on onward rushing wall of white foam, above which towers a dark object capped by a cloud yet darkey still a stretcher and ite bearers. As it hurries nearer the dark object grad During quiet times up the line life ually reveals itself as a destroyer with in the dressing station is fairly peaceful. smoke pouring from her funnels. Ap morning for medical attention, and alight destroyer turns slightly and a string of casualties come down to stay here under brightly coloured hunting feats out from observation. More serious cases are car her mass, thus announcing her identity ried down from the trenches by the four to the watchers in the forts Right on company stretcher beaters to receive pre she goes, pays her respects to the Port liminary treatment, and at night a big Admiral's flag in passing; then ties up silent motor ambulance will steal up and for a rest after ner night of labour. More curry them off to the casualty clearing destroyers follow in her wake. One after station further down the line. That vary another they leap over the line of the

No-man's-land is a bit of bad going serious cases are sometimes brought in is horizon and come pelting onward, grow- shown by the prescrice of a dug-out--the jug with almost magic rapidity from shell craters, mud, strands of torn barbed mortuary-next door, where the dead are mere specks into full-hulled bulk, make wire, and all the beastly impedimenta of carried to await burial.

their numbers" and disappear into the localised battlefield. But beyond the Boche second line. trenches the going was but when an attack takes place the haven. So the game of "follow my News is current that the military are quict of the dressing station rudely leader continues with fascinating swift better, the holes fewer, and the roads busy moving troops towards the Choton insturbed The floor space is taken up ness until all the fyers have spun clearly distinguishable.

Our shells were passing overhead and Fukien frontier-that Canton is not only by stretchera containing badly wounded by the have spu

A brief interval, then one discerns the far in front of us, Boche shrapnel was Jaen, surrounding shelters are pressed being asked to declare independence but into a like service, while the mortuary oncoming loom of a stumpy projection spraying certain marked points where our

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was pressing forward. Working will be forced to do so. Canton in peace contains many silent forms. The medical with seathe of tumbling water all round and fatigue parties were going Fably inclined and wants to be left a staff never rest: from their task of ren- 2 This soon proves to be the conning wounded coming down. No matter how dering aid, and while the serious cases tower of a submarine. Behind it a line badly hit they were, the sight of cavalry It evidently strongly supports the Pre- receive the utmost attention, the song of similar stumps trails away in seemed to cheer them, and we learned sident, and is therefore hoping that the string of wounded outside, who have perspective until the last one shows only that German cavalry were also out cover designs of the late Prime Minister will be walked or or elected. The field dress-brief tire the submarines, too, are pass. The effect of its news upon the inen

crawled down from the firing us a dut in the distance. But in a very ing, which orery soldier carries, have ing right under one's eyes, each of them was electrical. They had hoped to kill acady been applied to their wounds Buttering out her visiting card as Boches, but the prospect of contact with the Uhlans filled them with joy, for it either by theirselves or by their comrades the glides homes c Conduct worthy only of Bedlamites and the way in which the wounded Quickly other craft follow, some of meant opportunity for sword and laps strangely seeming, work at own particular focs; the to class. Possibly a fussy little motor IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY, launch or so pushes in. Then come the doughpunchors, as Jack calls them those high-prowed, high-pooped, slow moving but indomitable workers, the trawlers, Stolidly and sturdily they trudge by just as stolidy and as sturdily

thwarted.

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ed that some known, but unnamed, per sone belonging to Chhin-hui called in the service of boats to get a sufficient number of stones, wherewith to block the river way behind the town, where the Han river debouches into the sea. The extra

tention, these dressings are untouched,

At last the troop was well beyond the and the men are passed down by ambul-

German third lines and in the open coun ance, or on foot if they are able to walk. Whether in the midst of the storm or

try to the rear beyond the zone of shell during the Jull, the affairs of the dressing

destruction, and amid the abandoned station pursue their predestined course.

bivouacs of the enemy. The sound of In times of stress, there is bustle but no

side and machine gun fire ahead grew confusion and in times of quiet none they have plodded over their beat more noticeable. Another mile farther, on we trotted through a company of infan-

ordinary thing is that the authorities symptoms of slackness creep. In Suffer the very personification of calm, UP try who had deployed in open order and allowed such a thing to be done. It ing. there is in plenty, and the place has flinching courage which no perils knew that before us were only a few of

recognised as law in China that continu, ous right of waterway is permissible in the case of a river that touches your territory at any point, Chhin-hai has evidently forgotten the rule, for certain of her citizeras claim absolute right to do as they please with an important water way which happens to end its course

within their county.

OPIUM PROHIBITION,

The following drastic rules have been issued with regard to tracking in opium--The penalty for stiggling or secretly selling opium is capital punish- ment, anyone under the age of forty years caught taking opium will be ex- pelled the country; anyong over the age of forty guilty of smoking or taking opium is liable to imprisonment for ton years with hard labour.

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BRITISH DOMINIONS YEAR BOOK.

our own patrole-and then the Huns see more of tragedy than any of the

Curving round the side of a hill and ancient homes of England; but it has seen the other side of the picture-a

She crest, we gut our first touch. doctor calmly ministering to the wounded

for half a mile away a farm hous was being held by a few infantry and despite the rear of battle without and the deadly weariness numbing his senses; The British Dominions General Iran machine guns. Our orders were clear, a padre sick with horror quietly com-ance Company, Ltd, have adopted an held posts were to be left to the infantry. forting the stricken and speeding the admirable form of propaganda. In ad- Our job was to push on round up stragglers, cut off retreating parties, and souls of the dying; and, above all, scores dition to a well-printed calendar, which keep in touch with the enemy. The coun- and scores of men, ordinary sort of shows Britannia wetching over rape try was curiously desolate, and except for fellows in ordinary life, bearing untold sentatives from her various Dominion the smoke cloud from burning villages anguish with a fortitude surpassing be in the fighting-line, the Company and the incessant shell fire, it was very list, cracking a feeble joke though the has published The British Domin-like manœuvres. Lincs of Uhlan men lips that frame the words twist with the ions Year Book, an illustrated were deployed across the helde, hore a pain of the effort, whose last thoughts volume containing over three hundred platoon working it way down a stunted are not with themselves and their suffer pages, which bears the impress of careful hedgerow, there a runner coming up with inga but with the loved ones at home. preparation and is a wine of most valu- messages. The air was keen with frost-

able information. The book does not and sound travelled well. One heard fla attempt to supersede Hazell's" or voice of the officers an clearly ng authấy ** Whitakor" but aims rather to supple were close beside one. In front, was a ment them, and, in a distinctive manner, clear space of fields. On the order the combines some of their chief features troop deployed, and increasing pace, An effort is being made by the Man with those found in the Daily Mail Year pricked our way across the open. Away chester Chamber of Commerce to secure Book There are several maps printed in to our right flank ahrapnel was bursting a road, but we extended at wide a regular service of steamers to continue colours which have been specially drawn over as much of the cotton goods trade to the for the Company, one showing the possible intervals and moving across the opsa Far East as the war requirements of the influence of the Panama Canal upon, the seemed to be unperceived. Governinent will permit. The Chamber world's trade, another the chief indus Suddenly there was a cheer from the has issued a circular to shippers inviting trial districts of Europe, and so, on, advanced section, and they broke into them to send particulare of tonnage re while somong the special articles are gallop ahead, half a dozen Uhlans had broken cover from a small orchard, and People are grumbling because of the quired for goods already packed sad Business-like Empire, by gir leo were pelting away down a road as fast na i

goods, due for April shipment; and, Chiazza Money M.P. British Oppor they could go One of our fank, patrols second, tonnage required for goods under tunities in Bussis, by Louis A. Rojensky had seen them too, and rode like hell contract month by month for May and The Economic Outlook for Germany across country to cut them off. From onwards. In order to secure uniformity by Y Ellis Barker: How the British behind us, somewhere on the high ground, in the return shippers were requested Army is Organised for War," by Henry an infantry patrol opened fire with a to bags their calculation on 3 packages Neville; and many others of equal in Lewis gun and bringing down the lead- and for £125 as the average equivalent terest. The book will prove a very useful ing Uhlan bunched the others in con of one ton of 40 cubic feet (say eight

fusion. For & moment they wavered; tons equal £1,000), and returna should

then the gun caught them again and they be made in the following order: Bombay

scattered net as our flank patrol cano and Karachi Calcutta, Madras, Kangoon,

over the crest and down upon them. Che Chine (including Straits Bettlements and

of the dismounted blans dragged his Hongkong), Jepan and Java,

carbine from its bucket under his dead horse, and fired twice before our men were on him. He rolled over like a rabbit Of the others only one got away,

heavy increase of the Salt-tax, which has now gone ap 45 cents a burden," which

now costa 1.25

ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF JAPANESE COAFL

A further advance in the price of coal ete announced the quotations for best quality on the Yokohama and Tokyo markets now rule at 1.20 per ton. In 1915 the price of coal in Yokohama, and Tokyo wasili per ton. At present stocks in Wakamatsu and Moji amount to only 160,000 tons, while in the corre sponding period of 1915 and 1910 the The export of glassware from Japan stocks 900,000 200,000 tons re- during year

THE EXPORT OF GLASS FROM JAPANS

addition to the work of reference which the war has already called forth.

The agents of the British Dominions General Insurance Company in Hong one are Messrs. J.. M da Bocha, who will distribute copies of the year book on application.

hofore the sword thrush were

wounded

EXPORT OF JAPANESE PENCILS.

and prisoners Our Groups came up, and halting at a ruined hamlet, we searched There is a growing demand for Japan for snipers,

message, ecinile the DC wrote a 1914 were only 9,190,000 pieces, valued at Uhlan helmet he sent it be the rear, where Y.48,000, while during last year 168,000,000 it eventually reached the Colonel, pieces were shipped, valued at read At 7.15 8.m. March 10th the Y 1,248,000. The export trade this year Hussars came into contact is expected to show a still further in- enemy's cavalry patrols at Herew

the brush, the first since 1914."

pretively. Sino, the United States has long last, your mounted in value to es pencils abroad. The shipments during entered the war the supply of coal from those of 1912 show an increase of America to Hawaii, the Straits Settle Y7299,400. Since the beginning of the ments and other places in the South Present year the shipments have heen Pacific has been suspended, and Japanese very brisk, and it is generally anticipated exporters anticipate the reeipt of large that this year's trade will show an in orders from those quarters.

crease over last year,

crease.