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ASUGUT 2576, 1917.

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A small piece of metal in a cardboard box lies before me. It came to me que of the unknown and diverted the entire course of my life. It brought me pleasure and pain: it took me to many new places I had not seen before; it brought me hosts of friends

Although it was made in Germany 1 have a kindly feeling towards it,

Well do I remember the night I got It was moonlight; the country was in grip of ice and snow as we crawled he bind the barrage to raid the Hun lines. We got there safely, accomplished our task, and were on the return journey with a few dug-out specimens before the enemy turned bis guns, upon us.

HOSPITALI

BY LOUIS GOLDING.

Each day lasts so long that we grow tired of hoping for night night and its chance of sweet sleep; so that when night comes at last, we are not ready for it. and sleep is on us before we can taste the drowsy joys of its anticipation. When morning comes and another day follows, it is so like yesterday that we Icel-surely there has been no night at all. It is one with this one deathless day of which we can hardly remember the beginning and of which we cannot foresee the end.

At last the black profundity contracts into an earthly thing., Is it many hours that I have watched the lightless canvas star overhead, vainly boping that a should strike through? Is it only ten minutes since Sister cane silently along on pton with the cheap tin lantern swinging before and behind her, making portentous shadows on the walls of the tent?

Hodge's watch, two lockers from mine, is ticking loudly. It begins to tell me with more and more assurance that it could answer, me easily if it liked-hours or ten minutes, hours or ten minutes hours or ten minutes. The sound of the breathing and sighing and snoring of the patients is not equal to the tick of the watch. It grows louder and louder tilf it overberates through the night, like a drum beaten in spacious and empty building.

A cold grey light creeps slowly upward along the sloping side of the canvas roof, hovers at the apex, then slides down the other side, Day is here, Hodge's watch is ticking peacefully, two lockers fram mine.

A blinding flash amote across wy vision. A black I felt a sensation of falling. cloud enveloped me. An unknowa -hand out of the bowels of the earth seemed to bo drawing me towards it and pressing a huge iron bowl over my head; the hot tom of the bowl revolved fiercely and emitted lurid dames. I wondered vague ly if I would ever rise again. Evente my life rushed before my mind. Would I be left inanimato 1 Would my body freeze in the ugly hieroglyphic of depth and heedless feet tramp over it? These That were my last conscious thoughts. is how I got my little bit of metal.

I heard a voice which seemed a long way off. Out of the mist which, dimmed my brain things began to emerge clearly. I reached a subconscious stage. My brain was setutely active; my body dormant. Without the power to help ayself, I felt someone raising my head

After breakfast, the orderlies for the Involuntarily I stretched out my hand for support on the arm of a figure which day retire, and the sound of basins swim- kreit, by my side as though praying forming in a tab is heard, and the wiped spoons clattering into a box. The bed is ade, the case-sheets are distributed, and “He's dead,” said a voice. My hand the doctor comes on his daily round, ac seamed to draw buck of its own accord.companied by the day sister. My fingers groping for support closed in the leg of a man who sat on the other side of ae. His eyes stared into mine.

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Leave go. It's broken,” he said.

1 lurched dizzily to my feet, feeling someute supporting me.

Day grows. The orderly comes up the wards to pull aside the connecting flaps A cool air enters uncertainly and goes: from bed to bed, wakening the sleepers Now Sister comes in with a cheerful smile for the opened eyes and a brisk "Good morning ! "

Comes dinnor. Now is the high heat of the Macedonian day. We take Red Cross deck chairs into the meadow outside the tent, and Sister plants a great parasol over our heads. There is a clatter of hoofs as a doctor and a sister canter by on two fiue horses to spend their free hours among the cooler hills, where the blue thistles bring glimpses of bluebell spring in a Cheshire wood, and where the eagles stand inviolable on the rocks.

We are on the plain by the Kalamarian Half dragged, half walking, I followed. seashore, which sweeps east from Salonika I tried to speak, but could not. I was To the northeast, Hortiac lifts its thon conscious of a huge red smear which cands of feet, Behind the hills, to face stained my trench-coat. I felt the warm of us, lies Lake Langhazu, where the blood coursing down my face. 1 felt no

"Come this way," the voice continued.

AWE OF THE WOUNDED

pain. Beyond that it was somewhere in the head I did not know where I had been hit.

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aeroplaner squabble and sink faming into the water to hiss and drown. The whole compact ascent of Balonika from the I stumbled into a trench lined with harbourmeets my head half-turned. The

They gazed at me curionsly. I was old Turkish walls stagger up

Seven Towers. conscious of the minutest detail of each | Citadel of expression. Curiosity, awe, and horror minarets rise through the baze and the marked my passage down the trench. A stout White Tower stands among its may may be wounded ever so slightly, but if there is a lot of blood about him it never fails to awaken a sense of awe in even the most burdened spectator.

The first field dressing... I was prop pad against the side of a dug-out. My steel helmet, blood-soaked cap comforter and muffler were removed. Iodine stung By raw flesh and gave me a hint of the locality of the wound. A field dressing was bound round my head. And so I set out to the dressing-station.

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drinking gardens. Shipping comes slowly into the harbour, misty-bluc. and goes slowly out again. The great cruisers, lying lean along the water, remain. The hospital ships wait patiently for the red The sails harvest they are to gather in. of the amall Greek pinnaces flash with pearl and scarlet, where they ride at anchor. fishing out in the dustless sea. The small butterflies Butter round us, blue white; brown-red, golden. golden! A A night of restdeas agony on a stretcher humming-bird hawk zizzes by. Boeties an underground shelter, it smooth with great shells totter over the baked journey by motor ambulance to an ice-cold grounds. A worn glitters like a tortured clearing station. Red, white sheets, and streak of quicksilver as rest only to be disturbed by a visit Tommy mechanically flings clods of cartbi to the X-rays but i can hear the crackle in it. The brown lizards with the amaz- of electricity and see the intent faces liting streak of green dart under the sun. by the flashes of light, peering at the--And a tortoise craws sulkily along. peering into my bones through bandages, By now they are coming down the hill Fotton wool, flesh and blood.

with tea. Ten follows (or dilution of Nestle), and bread with butter or bread with apricot jam. As evening gathers. the sheep bells are heard over the meadows and along the low hills. The old Bence denian shepherds are folding in their flocks. The little shepherd boys plud along wearily, thinking of the time when they shall be men and abandon sheep for

The operating theatre... Awaiting my turn inside the room, I witnessed, through a crack in a screen, the play of the surgeon's knife on a stricken figure. I could hear the patient talk under the influence of the anesthetic. He groaned an unprotesting, perfunctory way, He was feeling no pain, but his dulled senses reflected what he might have fel

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I wondered if I should act likewise. My man's game, rifley and knives among

the mountains. He was a cheerful melies and wilked about mandane mutters, Breathe away," he said.

me.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS. ORDERS BY CAPTAIN J, H. W. ARMSTRONG, V.D.

Sapper J. F. Anderson joined the Corps on 2.5.17., 18 allotted Corps No. 2105 and posted to Engineer Company.

LEAVE.

No. 1372 Borg, H. Henderson is granted

If months' leave from 29.8.17.

months' icave from 1.9:17. No. 1008 Spr. J. H. Gordon is granted axtension of leave while employed on the 88. Hatching from 22.8.17.

No. 1476 Corpl. . S. Setnu is granted

PARĀDES.

Monday, 27th inst. ---

5.10 p.m. Centre Section M.G. Coy drill at Kowloon Dock fongkong residents proceed by launch from Blatue Wharf at 4.30 p.m. 3:30

p. Artillery Battery Belchers Battery.

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6.30 p.m. Right Section M.G, Co. and Scouts Company on Murray Parade Ground. Testa of Ele mentary Training,

5.30 p.m. Mounted Section at Jockey

Club Stables.

3.30 Recruits of all units on Murray Parade Ground under Corporals Grimes, Edgcumbe and Edmonds and Lee Corpl. Mende.

Tuesday, 28th inst

7.10 sm. Scouts Company M.G. De

tachment at Headquarters. 7.30 am. Belchers 6" Section ai

Belchera Battery,

6.30 p.m. Artillery Battery (Range Takers only) at Belchers Battery. 5.30 p.m. Left Section M.G. Co. und Civil Service Company at Head- quarters under unit Commander, Section drill and Visual Training. 5.20 p.m. Stretcher Bearer Section at

Headquarters.

5.30 p.. Signalling Section, "A" acd "B" classes, at Happy Valley (Heliograph and Flag Station work).

5.30 p.m. Right Section M.G. Cu and Scouts Company at Headquar ters under unit Comunanders. Tests of Elementary Training. Thursday, 30th just.:-

Wednesday, 29th inst.:--

7.10. Scouts Company M.G. De

tachment ut Headquarters. 7.30 a.. Belchers 8 Section (Layers' class only) at Belchers Battery. 5.10 p.m, Right Section M.G. Co, and Scouts Company (N.C.Os, and meri who failed in the Judging Distance Test on 15.8.17.) outside Courts of Justice and proceed by car Happy Valley Tests of Elementary Training (S.T. Nos. 1 and 3). 5.30 p.m. Artillery Battery (Layers. and Betters only) at Belchers Bat tory.

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5.30 p.m. Artillery Section at Jockey

Chub Stables..

Friday, 31st inst.:-- *

HONGKONG RESERVES. ORDERS DY MAJOR WATEMAN, DC, B.Z. Y..

DETAIL.

On duty from the morning of Sunday, 28th August, to the morning of Co. Sunday, 2nd September-"A.

Orderly Oos-Licut. E. Exan Jones.

H.K.V.h. Next for duty-H.K.V.C.

PARADES FOR WEEK" ENDING 15 SEPTEMBEX. Monday, 27th inst

Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 6.15 p.m. under Instructor Sergt Oxborry. Dress: Drill order. Machine-gun, Scotion. at Wellington Barracks at 6.18 p.m. Dreas: Clean fatigue.

Mounted Section at Polo Ground at

5.30 p.m. Dress: Drill order. Signalling Section: The following will attend Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 pm Dress, Clean. fatigue: For Helograph Instruction: Los Cpls. Guldsmith and Mayes, Ptes. Higginbotham and Cossart; for Flag Drill Ptes. Mattingley, Wilson and Gompertz. Remainder will parade at Happy Valley for Station Work under Loe.-Sergt. Crawford. Fall in at Monument, 3.30. p.m. Dress: Clean fatigue. Tunday, 28th inst. :-

A and B Cos, Recruits and Machine-gun Bection on the road outside the Orderly Room at 6.15 Kowloon Dock Station at p.m. Kowloon Docks at: 5.10 p.m. for Teste of Elementary Training Musketry Dress Drill order except Kowloon Dock Section, which may parade in plain clothes, Officers and N 0.0s will continuo conducting the tests laid down in paras 297-209, Chan. IV., Musketry Regulations, Fart 1, 1909 (Reprint 1914). Copies of the paras. referred to may be obtained on application at the Orderly Room,, *** Every man, including exempted members, mast attend this paradie. Wednesday, 99th inst, mil. Thursday, 30th inst.

Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 5.15 p.m. under Instructor Sergt. Oxberry. Dress: Drill order. Mounted Section at Polo Ground at

5.30 p.m. Dress: Drill order. Signalling Section: The following

will attend Volunteer Headquarters - at 5.30 p.m. Dress: Clean fatigue: For Heliograph Instruction: Lee. Cpls. Goldsmith and Mayes, Pien Higginbotham and Cossart; for

Ptes. Flag drill:

Muttingley, Wilson and Gompertz. Remainder will parade at Happy Valley for Station Work under Lee..Sergt. Crawford. Fall in a Monument, 5.30 p.m.

Dress: Clean fatigue.

31st just.-

7:30 am. Belchers 6" Section (Range Friday, Cos, and Recruits.

Takors' class and Gun Numbers as detailed only) at Belchers Battery. 5.30 pm. Artillery Battery (Gun Numbers other than specialists) at Belchers Battery.

5.30 Recruits of all unite on Murray Parade Ground under Corporals Grimes, Edmonds and Edgcumbe and Lance-Corpl. Mrače. 5.20 p.m. Signalling Section. "A

and classes, at Happy Valley [Heliograph and Flag Station work).

Saturday, ist Sept. -

7.30 a.m. Scouts Company (nem de tailed by Sergt. Major Ramany) at Headquarters, Musketry instruction and T.E.T.

4.30 p.m. Special Parade at Head quarters for members of the Corps (Infantry) unable to attend drills ordered on 27th, 28th, 29th and 3184 August One N.C.O, from each unit sending men will attend

DETAIL

On duty 2nd Sept. -Scouts Co. On duty 3rd Sept. Scouts Co.

On duty 4th Sept. Right Sec. M.G, Co. On duty 5th Sept.Left. Seo, M.G. Co.

and Civil Service Co.

On duty 6th Sept.-Centre Sec. M.G. Co. On duty 7th Sept.--Scouts Co. On duty 8th Sept Scouts Co. Orderly Officer from 2nd to 8th Sept. -

Lieut. R. E Lindsell.

G. N. STEWART, Capt.,

Aujutant, H.K.V.C. Hongkong, 24th August, 1917.

Sume Tommy from depart; the coeda-bowls are collected; the Tyneside or Swansea will take a slender night sister bus gane the length of the shepherd's crook and feed the sheep with ward, and the orderly takes away the Total darkness; but somewhere Au orchestra of sound broke upon my crumbs of the sanu brown lead as they lap. eara. It first claved and then oppressed were fed with in the idyllic days in down the tent. an old solder is telling of It beat heavily upon my brain before Macedon or Sicily, till Tommy, standing South Africa and how that was worth The Kitchener men sing I was lulled into an exquisite state of against the flushed sky, looks like the calling a war.

peasant sung in some happy song of in ironical comment, "Old soldiers never $ discussion on stupor.

I awoke as though our of a sweet sleep. Theocritus. All day Olympus has flashed die." Somewhere else is

grow sleepier and, with The room was bathed in a subdued red hard

# white, andying fire. Atheism, which light. A white-capped figure tip-toed Olympus now softens into indeterminate sleepier. A man is talking of the merits. though a lead weight was dragging does banks of rose-red and purple, as if the down Great Gods who live there were turning one side of my head.

My flesh ached. from the day-time task of ruling the And underneath my pillow, in a neat fittle package, was the little bit of metal world to a night-time banquet with soft frote Germany -DAYSDALE SMITH in the music and flowers. The sun is almost set, and there are green rifts between layers Daily Meil

of thin heffable gold, and against these rifts the rigging of ships shows marvel. lonsly delicata

WAR NEWS: WOMEN DOCTORS FOR HOSPITAL SERVICE IN INDIA

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on the road outside the Orderly Room at 5.15 p.m. Kowloon Dock Section: Kowloon Docks at 5.17 J.13. for Tests of Elementary: Dress: Drill: Training Musketry order, except Kowloon Dock See- tion, which may parade in plain clothes

Every man, including exempted morn

Jars, must fitend this parade”. Baturday, 1st Sept., nil.

STRENGTH.

No. 041 Pte. B. G. Herbert is permittamă to resign on joining the Hongkong Police Reserve.

No. 547 Pie. W. J. Hodge is permitted to

resign on leaving the Colony.

NOTICE,

Men warned for guard are strictly for bidden to send substitutes without permission of the Oficer Command. ing, which will be granted vitly in cases of sickness. Applications for exemption accompanied by medical certificate must be sent to the Adjut. ant by noon of the previous day.

C. CHAMPKIN,. Capt.,

Adjutant, H.E.V.R.

Hongkong, 24th August, 1917. HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

INSPECTION..

All ranks will parade at Central Station at 5.45 p.m. sharp on Thursday, August 30th, Uniform, helmets, and rifles. No exemption will be granted on business or any other ground than that of Medical unfitness. Recruits will not parade. The parade will March Fast in Column.

of Fourk in Queen's Statue Square. Mounted Palice will fall in at Stables

at 5.15 pm. Carriages and Stretchers,

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(8d.) T. F. HoUGH

A.S.P. (Reserve), Hongkong, 24th August, 1917. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE. HONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT

Y.M.C.A. DIVISION. Tuesday, August 28th-

8 p.m., Squad and Stretcher Drill. Thursday, August 30th:-

8. p.m. Squad and Stretcher Drill. Tuesday, August 28th:-

hearers are now all fuddy Anderson in the centre-forward. Ambulatios Platoon ricade without Juddy is forgotten, and his champion fol lown. There is not a voice talking in the night At Inet sleep comes to me ton. Boom! Boom! What's that? I sit up They's here What's that? from bed. again. I know that sound well enough. Another air-raid! How soon will. they be here? Pretty soon. Not a sound fol lows. Have they been driven off? That was good work: Tick-tick! tick-tick! I I'm drift down into sleep again. awakened again-boom! boom! No one else is

awake.

Bowen they sleep They'll wake soon enough. through itf The aerodrome yonder. A glint of light op pears and jumps fantastically about the bods as Sister tip toes along the ward.

"Sister, what's that? Another air- raid?!!

The voice of the orderly calls us away from the crescent moon: "Now you fel lers, fold up them there chairs and bring 'em in quick. The lamps are lit, one on a hook which suspends from the cross- The Association of University Women pole Under every lamp a group gathers in ludia has been asked to furnish to play nap on a hospital reading-stand Boom They are certain to make for the Unit of ten women medical practitioners connecting the feet of two beds. having British or American qualifications to take the place of men Doctor's em played in the Bombay Hospitals and wanted for military service.

GERMAN WOMEN FIGHTING.

throws grotesque distortions of their bodies ever the tent; the cigarette smoke hovers impalpably over their heads, so that they look like supernatural men from the mountains brewing mischief to human kind.

***Sb, sh no, no, my boy? It's what they call Ramazan the Turkish Lent, you. The night orderly comes in with coena know. They've been fasting all day, and

How's

SAIYINGTON DIVISION.

4 p.m., Squad and Stretcher Drill Friday, August 31st:

4 p.m., Squad and Stretcher Drill. --- QUEEN'S COLLEGE DIVISJON.

Monday, August 27th

2.30 p.m., First Aid Class.

Kong in charge,

Corpl,

4 p.m., Squad and Stretcher Drill.

4 Russian women's battalion, after par. A few poilus from the chumps d'aciation they're firing guns because they can feast ticipating in fighting near Smorgon on come in and sit on the beds and hold all night. The town looks very beautiful Thursday, August 30th July 25th in which they were badly cut intimate conversation with us through the with rings of light round all the minarets. Shall I bring you up, took many German prisoners (says medium of a dozen words per side. Tom-No, not an air-raid, this time. the Kokusai Direct Service") Amories and nous laugh aproariously over your throat now?"

each others jokes or talk quietly of anything! See if you can't get to sleep the German prisoners. were Several

The pailus

Hodge's watch ticks on, on till morn women This is the first proof that Ger. friends dead. Here and there a man can again. Good night."

inganchester (inardian. man women are also fighting on the Rushe heard already sleeping.

(Continued at foot of nest column.) sian front..

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Corpl

2.30 p.m., First Aid Class..

Kong in chargesher 4.p.m., Squad and Stretcher Drill

(Bd.) E RALPES, Officer in Charge of District, Hongkong, August 25th. 1917,