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LESSONS FROM MESOPOTAMIA THE INDIAN ARMY SYSTEM.

GENERAL STAFF DUTIES.

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH, UL.

luctance which India displayed to druin herself of the means

def feace in the initial stages of the war, we should rather applaud her Govern ment for a proper care for the great in- terests committed to their charge. Where the Government of India failed age quently was in not rising to a great scen sion, and in not exploiting the resources of India so far as they were available for the purses of the war.

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·ALLIES' AIMS PRAISED.. WILY ZUKUNFT" WAS VETOED

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The writer has no desire to traverse the the machinery as his band; but no system severe

passed by the Mese-in the world can prevent a stupid mus potamia Commission upon high officers in from doing stupid things. There is no India, since faults will doubtless he visit reason why a Commander-in-Chief in

In a recent issue of Herr Harden's er upon guilty persons, whether soldiers India should not form, and regularly

But when a system is in- or civilians

**Only a as Lord Derby does now, and as Bir been suppressed, he says: ŽBY "THE TIMES” MILITARY CORRESPONDENT]

pugned then we can uk our minds in consul: and act with, an Army Council, weekly journal Die Zukunft, which bas 12 must be said that the military systems.

is no reason why from these Councils namely, either by Germany crushing her The Regors of the Mesopotamia Con-

in India, o far as timers, the in Charles Alunro does in India; and theio miracle could quickly bring about peaco, administration of the Army, is as nearly either the members or their emissaries enemics or by Germany's effort becoming missioners las demonstrated conclusively

identical with our own at home as cireu should not constantly go wherever their wedded to that of the majority of the It is only this second miracle The members of world. stances permit, and that as ours, on the presence is desirable, that the undiness of the Army in India

The writer "dows at share the belief whole has brilliantly surgeded, and alone Army Council at home are often in that can be attained by human strength. for war with a Great Power in the year expressed in some quarters that the sup-ins early 3,000,000 me in the held France, and the Savoury for Var is The aim of our enemies is democracy, the right of nations to self-goverment, to an 1914 was due to the policy of sucessive Red concentration of all powers in the altogether, there was no good reason why frequently there, tou

The military system at Headquarters in honest and not merely a specions dimina India follows as nearly as possible the tion of armaments, an arbitration court home and in India. Lands of the Commander-in-Chief, and the the system in India should he failed

lines of the Esler Committed, on which to decide who was guilty of starting the Economy was preferred to military effiabolition of the old Military Member of with so much smaller forces involved.

the Governor-General's Council, acsont

Systems, however, whether good or bad, our military systems at home is founded, war, a bond of nations to carry out the decisions of the court, and the creation ciency, and a low standard of preparation in the smallest degree for the initial mis wax enforced in every arm and branch, takes in Mesopotamia. The Comunader depend for success apou the value of the and the faults which have been made in

in-Chief in India has at his disposal men who work them and upon all sur-both cases since the opening of the war which would remove the decision of peace even for the limited forers maintained,inst identien ly the same inchinery as rounding circumstances; and it must in have been due to the misuse of this or war from the will of one mortal, and If Germany secs the greut despite de continuous representations of that which has been at the disposal of our firess be admitted that there were in machinery, complicated in the case of and would place it in the bands of the successive t'ommander-in-Chief and Chief seccessive Secretaries for War during the this case circumstances which, if they may India by the redundant checks and coun- community.

He has a Chief of not be held to extenuate mistakes, at least checks of the Finance Branch, which celestial signs shining over this aim, then present campaign.

The general Mr. Brunyate described to the Mesop peace can be obtainal to-morrow; but, if of the General Stuff in India. To this the General Staff with Directors under explain some of them. short sighted policy was due the inade him for Military Operations, Staff Daties, destitution of the Army in India and the tamia Commission without apparent re- the situation for which milliards of was people yourn appear to her ignominious, There is an Adjutant-vere calls made upon it by the Home cognition of the fact that he

Government had much to do with the fait formulating an indictment of his own Bethen she must continue to fight until one sney of the Army in India for the mis and Training.

Generals Branch responsible for per

ares, and were polities in their characparamani. A private soldier in India group conquers and the other sinks dovu stons confided to it when the premat war

surf and discipline; a Quartermaster

We search also in vain for any eleur cannot get a false tooth without his apowerless. Thus, without the adornment brake out. So saatus of land this tieneral's Branch which deals with Mot, deinition of policy and strategy by the plication biting signed by four officers, in of phrases reality appears to the eyes of administration fuld altered error, which was fundamental and results. Quarterings, Supply, Transport, Removals, and Veterinary Services; &

was first launched when the expedition dading a divisioual commander, and the the man who knows."

and some that each case system of delay and distrust per- ed naturally and massarily in the in

Medical Branch under a Director

as a family physician, but as a commute! ability of India to make an immediate dis-

Medical Srevices: an Ordnance Branch advaner was ordered not in accord with intes everything with which Indian

Finance deals.

te is an inquisition sant, fur October, 1915, but it was emly play of force in ronxóounes with her

Policy made under a Director-General; and a Military & settled plan, but as it were by int

ervated by bath for higher, and it is no

in that same month that Sir Archibald population and resources.

Works Eranch. There is Further, the provisation, leaving neessarily the ar

Murray came to London to resuscitate the hor. and left her. wenk

Royal indian Marine ander a Director, rangements made for au advance to Basra vender that the Army in India was so.

Kuma increasingly inadequate as the deficient in many respects when a Quar-General Staff and to pick up the threads and there was absolutely no reason, so

Antara, Kat, and, termaster-General is unable to get a few which had been allowed to fail to the far as system, as concerned, why all these range extended to

Baghdail 1

not Tadian Army males without going through all the in- Staffs should not have displayed the same

it had no control over the opera pedition, ment at the Government of India which torture which Mr. Brungate describes, consulted in the earlier stages of the es- competence as most of the corresponding leadquarters but the Finance Depart terminable processes of Indian financial ground. The General Staff had tot been Staffs in London.

The duties of inspection are met by the refused, on the score of experie, the rail. This torture is imposed on the Army from | tinns, and could at that time only obtain i

It tires reformers and brow- naked for by Sir John Nixon, and without.

its information at sreend haz

non-existent,. existener of the General Offers Com-kept him waiting three months for beats iniciative. Quinquennial or septen-

and nearly all our strategical fasilitres are The practice manding the Northern and the Southern reply. It was not the system which denial budgets would end it, allowing sol practical purposes it was Armies. The divisional commanders in india have lesated to drew considerale laged the construction of the river trans-diers to combine economy with efficiency: o te waard to this fact,

was for the. port naked for by Sir John Nixon on but though Lord Kitchener, the writer in Mesopotamin affairs Anncial and administrative responsibil July 8th, 1912, and failed to place the believes, suggested this towards the end

Cabinet to consult first the Secretary for Li

All this delegation of respon first orders for it until November 3rd: of his term, the proposal was ruled out, Lardia, who in his turn was advised by xibility and deceatralization of work Der was it Sir John Nixon, or India, but and Mr. Branyate must know the reason his Military Secretary, who was wither relieve the Commander-in-Chief in India had advice given to the Secretary for of many harassing duties with which he India in London, that caused the spi

the machinery toanable him to give pro was formerly burdened, and there is no

so varied that they proved useless. broke Iulia was treated as though need why an Army of 300,000 men should fcations of barges and river craft to be is repesented on the Council by twe

We mus certainly allow that there were Jembers when othe Departments, deal

grave faults made at Army Headquarters in India, and in many Departments, but on leave were impounded to tenis anding with the interests of 300 millions of affer a Xow Armies. Hep pregev s of jample, are represented by a single Men

passed on individuals lose some of their Shy ed an Army Corps to France, my institutions make their appearance in

civilian War! other troops to Besp and East Africa. India. then possibly

is not clear why the Commission condrom it. until at Tas, with Mesopotamis throwe Minister may come with them, but in in, she had placed in the held altogether | piesem conditions the Army is best repre Nothing need prevent a Commander

a the Kitchener | started on the Council by soldier. All in-Chief in India from carrying mit any sehene was designed to maintain there, that the Army in India asks is that there inspection that he considers desirable and and nearly as many as the whole militace shall be only only one authority over the from being absent from Simla or Dell

for a month or twi AL

a time.

If a establishment of India in time of pence, | Army, and not tow as in effect there wore

Commander-in-Chief chooses to become an Her white Regulars, including their artil in the ind old days of the Military De

A return that pernicious office man and to take into his own hands lery, were logrily drawn on is ercate' partient.

Rystem would be the worst blow that could the duties of his General Stuff and ad new division and were replaced by Ter

Far from criticizing the

inflicted upon the Army in Tadia.

ministrative departments, then he misuses,

The Kitchener reforms, after bring, whittled down in the belt that the Agnes with, Russin permitted India A) return her dags effectives of the Army in India expüble of deploying only 150,000 men for a frontier war in addi- tion to the provision for internal security garrisons, and it must or should have been hown at home that the expansion of the fadian Army rapidly was impractical In time of crisis owing to the want of large reserve of white ollicers in hdır, aud owing to the general inferiority

Pourers compared with those of the

Vatted Kingtests.

All the maps, when the present policy had mark her, and had left h

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Hundreds of her white officers

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UNITY OF CONTROL.

KERENSKI AT THE FRONT INVALIDS FROM GERMANY EAGER TO FIGHT. M. Korenaki at the front, urging tho war-warn soldiers to fresh and victorious effort, is one of the most striking figures of modern history (said The Daily Tele- graphic Special, Correspondent recently); He watches the fighting from an artillery observation point, attends the funerals of the dead, distributes orders, promoted brave officers and soldiers, and once dur ing, the baths dismissed the Commander of Division. He is severe on deserters,

and. very severe ou Leninites. One of the chief objects of the Leninite attack is .

Kerenski's army order establishing bo rights of soldiers as citizens, an order which is startlingly Liberal for the wort part,, but which contains one paragraph acting sigorous penalties for deserters,

the front passed as fine resume an Leninite resolution protesting agnina tha - andembenatic ord

This resolution is મ lie," said

What wademocratic orderg Kerenski.

I know wha

has the Government issued ? it is all about, it is about the deserters. The Government muss protect the peopárt again cowards, and traitors."

BATTIONS OF DWTH.

Later in the same day, ceplying to the For Leninites, he said

"People frighten you by saying that 1 au at hoing another Napolron and Alexander IV.

Tell these scourirals, thra, they lie. They andermine confides in mand in the whole democracy whose will I accomplish, and by so doing they une preparing the way for a dicutor who Mill speak in another gone.

The tendency to consult tall-u-doxen

rifles and sunitions were taken from her her If. at some future date, Parliament- the system were faulty then the censures se as that which the writer has drawn tempting to condter war cannot be sug-i

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Our present anxiety to hang culprits

Up and down the line are gathering die stor on the Report from useful lines and different authorities, and to babince their Battalions of death, composed of volt... Beers who have sworn to die in the firs and condemn systems defects the discuser advice, threatens to render our grievous experi opinions, appears again and again in tite

line of battle. Their banners are black and ence sterile in good results. The first and early stages of the Mesopotamian opera-

red, red for freedom and black for death. greatest lesson of Mesopotamia is the ions, and a more hopeless manner of at-

A detachment of women volunteers has just gone to the front to inspire the men from other of our failures during the gosted. The General Staff only came back

A huge meeting was Bamely that the Cabinet, before de- into its own and was permitted at fast to by their example,

well to a detachment of invalids, py he right machinery for giving advice had made a dreadful mess of our strategy, and should deal with that, and that only and it has been largely occupied ever of them escaped from Germany, who were The right machinery, so far as strategy,

since the late autumn of 1915 in trying leaving for the front to fight with what Sono operations, and war organisation are to unravel aft the knots and wages of strength was left them against an Army Hedquarters in London, and no the past. If we are in itture to avoid whose cruelty they bitterly knew.

had lost a leg, some an arm, and all were fother can possess the necessary competence these tangits the Cabinet, mast have only

in wars affecting the whole Empire. The

one responsible military adviser für 1maimed and had need of rest, bus dey

could not rest while Russia General Staff was indeed called in, or operations, and all such operations murst

danger. (Continued at foot of next caluma.) be under his general direction.

PATRIOTIC CALL.

THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

PROSPECTUS

Inviting public subscription for 85,000 shares at par ($10 each), upon an increase of the Capital of the Company.

Tis desired, and a resolution for that purpose has boun passed to increase the Capital of the Company -to $1,400 by the issue of new slurs, for the purpose of extending the business which is firmly believed will, # xo extended, not only prove exceedingly profitable to all , but will also supply a want to Boral concerns.

The Capital of the Company is now $1,900,006, of which only $78,080 has iseen paid up, and on this the Company last year made a net profit of 819,417 and paid a dividend of 19 per cent at the end of the present financial your. It is anticijnted that doubling the Capital will at least treble the protit; and, should this anticipation he realized, the Compang could pay at least a steady Twenty per cent.

Steel Castings are needed for tiumerous purposes by all Railway Contructors, Engineering and Dock Companies every. where in China, and by many soul! manufacturers. At present a large portion of the Steel products which this Company is able to manufacture is obtained from abonad--at probably a great expense in consequence of the very limited capacity of this With increased Company to carry out orders received. Capital, enabling more furnaces to be erected, and more labour position to supply employed, this Campany would then be in a

most of, if not all, the needs for steel castings in this part of the world; for, with the experienes now nequired by the General Managers, and by their presont head workmen, there should be no difficulty whatsoever in must satisfactorily fulfilling such requirements.

It is mach desired that sufficiens additional capital be subscribed, beyond that which is required for the further development of the Steel Casting department, in order to enable a plant to be obtained, and set up, for the purpose of rolling Steet Ingots into material for Engineering, Dock, and Building requirements; for which material there is now a great demand.

It is therefore trusted that many persons in the Colony will be found ready to subscribe towards the increased capital desired, both for their own benefit, and for that of the community generally.

The General Managers are ready and willing to enter into any reasonable agreement desired by the Company to continue their services for a lengthy period. Also, if desired by the Company, they are fully prepared to transfer the control to a Board of Directors, comprised of such persons who are in a position to introduce Business, as the Company thinks advisable.

The minimum subscription fog the new shares now offered

to the public, upon which the Gunsal Managers may proceed to allotment, is $200,000.

Mr. C. BERNARD Brovx, of the firm of Messrs. LINSTEAD

& Davis, Hongkong, is the Auditor of the Company.

A copy of this prospectus has been duly filed for registra

tion with the Registrar of the Companies.

Application for Shares should be made to the Company's Bankers, or the office of the General Managers, where forms will be supplied.

GORDON & CO.,

General Managers.

Dated this 2nd day of August, 1817.

REPORT AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR 1916-17.

Report presented to the Shareholders at the Seventh Ordinary General Meeting held at the Office of

the General Managers, on Wednesday, 15th August, 1917, at 11.30 o'clock

The General Managers have now the pleasure to sabmit their anal port and statement of the Company's accounts male up to 31st May, 1017.

The net profit for the year ended 31st Maz, 1917, niter allowing for interest, Aeditor's Fees and writing off depreciation on Company's Plaut, Machinery, Launches and Stock, is 819,817 This amount together with the sum of $19,54862 undistributed pris taught forward from last year makes an availabic balance of $39,360.55, which it is resolved to appropriate as follows:- To place to Reserve Fund $14,000.00. To pay u dividend of $1.00 per share 87,803.93. To carry forward to credit of next year's account $21.358,55, BALANCE SHEET AT 31 MAY, 1917.

Dr.

LIABILITIES.

SHARE CAPITAL.

Authorised 100,000 shares at

810 ench... Issued 7,808 shares at $10 each MORTGAGE ACCOUNT SUNDRY CREDITORS including General Managers PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.

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Balance as per last account...$10,648.02 Profit for the year 10,817.03

ASSETS.

Machinery, Molting Furnaces, Foundry Plant and Tools including Annealing and

Preheating Chambers, and

also all rights to search pro- 78,080 | 00 cosses as jur last account...383,956.12

5,000!00 | Less sold, &c.

Cr

fets.

311.25

883,046.87

20,755 72

Less Depreciation

4227.72

877,419.15

Additions during the year...

4,836.80

82,336 01

39.308

Value of 2 Launches as per

Jast account

4,500,00

Less Depreciation

450,00

4,050 00

Office Furniture and Fixtures

including valuable draw ings as per last account...

Less Depreciation

10,00 $150

720: 00

Stock in trade......

$27,619.70

Less Depreciation

795,59

26,833 M1

65,000 00 16,874

3+

5.480 10

$12,209 27

A...ounts Receivable

$, 143,902 97

Work in Progress.

Cash at Bauk and in hand

(Bank 7,271,24||

(P;Cash 107-56)

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.

For the rear ending ist May, 1017.

450|00| By Balance Working Account 200 (3

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To Interest Account

14

Auditor's Fee

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Depreciation on Marby, Plant, Stock,

7,554 62

To Writing off old Machinery.

71

Profit on the year..............

10,817 | 93

28,11770

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GORDON & Co.

Generai Manugera.

I report that I have audited the above Balants Sheet with the books and vouchers of the Coaquay and have found it to be in accordance therewith.

I have received all the information and explanations I have required. No depreciation has been written oil Steel Process Patent Rights which appear in the bucks at their original cost, namely, S21,360.56. Subject to the foregoing cbservation, in my opinion sech Palace Sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a tras and correct view of the state of the Company's affairs according to the best of my information and the explanations giren me and as shown by the books of the Company.

C. BERNARD BROWN, A.C.A.,

Hongkong, 6th August, 1917.

Auditor.

To be retained by the Bankers,

This form should be sent eutire, with a cheque for the deposit of 810 on each share to the bankers

of the Company, unnely, the

To be returned to the applicant.

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

The Register for application of JShares will be closed on Thursday, 1st November, 1917, at 3 o'clock.

RAN ་,

HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., LTD.

Form of application for Shares.

To the General Managers of

BONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

Gentlemen,

each

Having paid tothe Company's bankers the sum ofS......... being a deposit of $10 per share for...shares of $10

of the above-named Company I for we) request you to 2 allot to me for us) ...............................................shares on the terms of the Company's Memorandum and Articles of Association and I (or we) agree to accept the same or any less number that you may allot so me (or us) and I (or we) authorise you to register me for us) as the holder (s) of the said shares.

Name in full..

Address.....

Description

Date...........

Nignatore

Receipt for Application Money,

, Received class..

day of

of the Hongkong Steel Foundry Co., Ltd., from.

the saw of S...

$10 per share upeut..............

above-riamed Company.

For the

on account

...being a deposit uf

.....shares of $10 each of the

Chartered Bank of Judia, Australia and China.

Cashier.

be

N.B.This receipt when returned to the applicant preserved, and if accompanied by receipt for the amoczi du en allotment, will be exobanged in due course for a certificatc.

amount Luthed by each subscriber will bebseribe returned without interest,

Should the amount of $200,000 not be subscribed to enable the General Managers to proceed with the allotment,