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TRIBUNALS AND ARMY DOCTORS.

CIVILIANS IN KHAKI WHO LOSE THEIR HEADS.

Giving evidence before the Specia! Com. tess inquiring into Army inedical re- aminations,

Mr. Ernest Watter Hart, one of the joint servtaries of the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal which has dealt with about 8,000 apuals, said the following the 6s from Mill Hill were brought by bis tribunal to the notice of the War Offer:-

A man men all deficient passed for general service.

A man who suffered from rheumatic

ICH Eh ft, and a displaced kne entibuze passed for gourral servien

A: man pigeon breasted, with defective valvular action assed for field servien 21 hom

The witness Ra particulars of 262 bases of men mattised more than om Te the majoriti hese the second es. amination kun taken place at the instance of his tribut

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TAKEN 19OAL SEROPLANEKS.

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#ite Rejected, and a third from in Rejected. Within two months one was reduced from A to Rejected, une from 46 Rejsered, at three from A to 1. They were decisions of either M Riff or Hourlow Mediead Board.

The impas les gave examples of n- ductions and raising in cabgory -

lass A uses priveted: 1 arjerted: 3 C1 enses rejected.

His rejected may raised to Class 3; rejected men made B 1:1 discharged man

3116 man aade B 12 4,

neminde B 1; et man passed Class A

under the Review of Exception Art:

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TES HONGKONG DAILY PRENS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 918, 1917.

BISHOPS SUPPORT FOR NEW

EDUCATION MINISTER.

SEED DE RELIGION.

In the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury recently,

the

This House welcomes the silues.

DEFENCE OF LONDON.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE ON THE

PROBLEM

A CABINET. INQUIRY,

The Bishop of Winchester, in A deputation ‘of members of Parlia absence of the Bishop of Salisbury,

representing constituencies b moved, and the Bishop of Southwellent serundled, the following resolution: Lonxior waited apou the Prime Minister tional ideals and proposals onlined by recently, and placed before him their views the President of the Board of Educations in the need for the improvement of the in the House of Commons on April tub. and is prepared to further them by every | defence of Lanska against air raids. mears, but resolves cint so soon as SVET

Mr. Loyal Gevoge, lu his reply, said: action can he taken without hindraner

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A LISHER'S SCHEME SOT ALL.

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And

"SHOCK UNITS”

IDENTIFIED.

UNMARRIED OR BEFRACTORY,

SOLDIERS

Full and interesting - details of the

known as “Stuextruppen." ar “shock, units," indiente, that the German army at the front is now disided into superior and inferior grades of soldiers,

organization of the German formations

The plurk units," specially foxandLfor difficult operations which the ordinary regiments. vidently me regarded as un- qualified to undertake, are fortud from among the young, vigorias men of the

sent into the puks of these «perial units. destined to sterifier themselves in attacks on specially important, positions or in aliompts, chich hitherto have generally proved vain, to recapture positions such is the Chotta des Daines from the French

Until nos ach German army has had!

battalion

The composition of such a battalion varies. In that of the second* shuck of the Third German Army may given as an example. It was con manded by a Captain with a Lieutenant as Adjutant, and it consisted of four con

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three officers. There was besides a mustering one hundred men Company of warhion gunner, with six pieces, also a mixed company with crench inertars and grenade throwers, as well as company of men armed with implements for dispersing liquid fre. Added bose | WAS B shock

battery of small Geld

Kuan.

These shock units are never useḥ for

fever, varicose „ins in both legs, hammers to those proposals i unired effort should I do not with you to go away with any vegular battalions. They are nearly alli made sure that adequate religious idea that we do not realize the importare unmarried men, or if married are child- instruction be an essentint part of the of defending Loudon, int merely defendless, and this regulations has been drafted inta mution they encounter overwhelming education given."

The fishop of Wincheslag called atten- ing Jandon because it euntaing millions for the reason that whatever they are sent sim to the order of the resolution pn. of people, but because it is the capital of chances of losing air lives. They, i

a special case for defending | old-time wars except that they are nat The War Office repiest that the houding the ward of supporting Mr. Fisher's the Empire. (Hem, wear.) I realize that Eet, resemble forlorn hopes at Mill fill ansisted of doctors special proposals first and the united effort or there is

religious induction second. We ought London even in comparison with other volunteers.

German prisoners assert than subliers iy chosen for the work and presided over by an officer of the Royal Army Medical Follow Mr. Pisher's lead and do more towns, for the simple season that it gives

and letter for our teachers. The pro special satisfaction, undoubtedly, the who are insubordinate or who do not take Carpe

The later added: It is con

to pay them better are to be co-Germants to le nhle to bani, the capital | kindly to the discipline of the army an sidered that their decisions, may be a

Mr. Fishers. Urepor also of their most hated energy. And we are pled with confidener."

with regard to the taught,

acting upon that assumption, Bur before perser ni nge

I tell you anything about what we are ing the interval begin th of leaving school and reaching adult life. are worthy of general support. To making slaid like very faithfully

examine the propositions upon which the suggestions as to religious education at

I still Government must agessarily act. this moment work! big effect obstruc Live, but as The Minister of Education'say on behalf of the Government that we

these "shock, units." Heusforth, accord- proposals come more and more into effettist my the safety of the soldiers at thatched in it one or two battlions of front first (hear, hens), and I say NO

fing to the newest regulations each Geratin) the need for religion as the basis of our A man passed 9 Fas Henslow lind ein

this tificates saying he suffered from chronic educational system will be more and more without any lusitation. If anyon

arany corps is to organize a shock unit was country "ays & Quelves frd, and our of its own. Ordees have been issued by Brigh's disease and valvular disease of

clear. The Tear of srealarization. The heart The Sint Medteal Road increasing in the whole nation Non-consuldiers afterwards," well, dem, they had the German High command that in gertain

Now

casos each lifng:ry brigade is to have a When abong to formists and Rutsan Catholics Felt this wter find another Government. confirmed him as 4. leave for France he was further examinas well as members of the Church of Eng that is my view fhear, hear), because we shack unit consisting of a company and was ma classified C. 2. Had the land. The dificulties in the face of some shaft certainly not act upon that principle, and the companies may be untad, should cribanal kwa be was only 2 they wide scheme of religions eduction could What it in the House of Commotis circumstances call for it, into a Imtinlion would have given, hím + xetuption in viole be vergone by de torge of religious life short time I say in this meeting in re, to be at the servies of us army corps of the work he was doing on aeroplane which was so compiruusly reveading ference to this point. Do not let us use or comunid

if t the present time. Hr ***28

sense of prunertion. I am the last man He called attention the short in

ptimistic enough to hope that we might in the world to think tightly of the deaths EXO 4N- but setti terval in many

open a new chapter in this matter, minutes. Within me month on the

The Bishop of Southwell called atten of the poor people on Saturday or on was redued from A to B 2. another from

in particularly to the proponts for the any day; but if you took the whole of the education of young people up to the age candies that have occurred from the of 18, and noticed that the education eginning of the war from bestile aircraft, ries was not simply technical but liberal during the whole of these three years, they in the host sense of the term. Everything are not as rent as the casualties suffered depended on the union of all Christian by our soldiers in a small battle forces in the country, door is at the Fratice, present intent opening very wide to A single counter-act in France by the

Interdenominational Germis

small scale produces Eleven Class A cuses Inwered to ('3:3 childrga's misjon conferences were nonCasualties greater than the whole of the cus being held all over his diperse, and there casualties sustained by the civilian, pu- was a ken desire for union with regard palation, not merely in London, but in to Christian education for the people, every town in Great Britain during the the holding of a setor of the lent thes

definitely offered Nonconformists the

into action only when a diffenkt opera- right of entry late Church school to teach whole of the tree years of the war, Dotion is to an expeated. The battalion s

not, therefore, let us exaggernie. inconformist children. The next step

placed directly under the orders of the after the conferences was to approach the when it is a question between giving the officer in command of the operation. local education authority together.

soldier a chance who is fighting in France When possible the men are all provided and of protecting the civilian population will brycles, bat usually they are trans The Bishop of Oxford spoke strongly at home, I say thu the risks taken by usferred in fast motor cars to the pluer us favour of the resolution, and in partiers are not comparable in the least where their services are required. cular of the need of supporting Me degree to the risks taken every day in their | Often part of the men of such a batta || Fisher's proposals. He called attention to lives by ther galiant fellow, in France-lien are distributed in small units amun

Lord Crawford's statement in the House and we must consider, them first. I am the of Lords to the effect that Mr. Fisher's only putting that on the hypothesis that presens scheme did not give the whole of you may have to decide one day, as we had the educational programme planged by te decide, if risks were to be Lake, whethe the invernmentlle also spoke very ther they were to be taken by the soldiers only Rowan Catholics and Noncur formists. but also the teachers teaching profession was highly organized and we mu be very careful to take the into consultation and show our apprecia dou; weak heart,

Passed A. Mill Hill, afterwards Btion of luar right to speak.

The Bishop of Bath and Welts asked for Mit 1: diased ankle joints.

SOLDIERS' SAFETY MUST COME FIRST. Pased B 1 a S Panerus, á by thela conférence with a view to concordat.

The Bishop of Southwark spoke as spe I will tell you at once 1 kaow how very Special Medical Board; reported to bayr duodenal ulcer and chronic appendicitis. I who had loven a tencher for 24 years. The wrious it is to have imperfect observa- The tribunal gave him exemption, ugreat inwardnes and kernel of Mr. tion a the Front, and I could give you withstanding the decision of the Sperial Fister's ponosals was the raising of the the ease of a battle which was fought, not sense of dignity and voention in teachers, this year, but which was certainly fought Board.

This was the first time in the history of within the last two years, where our inen, the nurmoal system of clucation in Engmaking an advance, came up against land that his had been recognized bidden position which was not discovered, Everything hinged on the status of the had the slaughter was perfectly horrible teachers. All the great ideas and reforms did not take more than about

A FINANCIAL ABYSS. have come from them and will always ere minutes and the ground was littered with

PLIGHT OF AUSTROGERMANS. The Bishop of Norwich spoke also as

fallen men. That shows the vital import schoolmaster, and

ance of having a swarm of aeroplanes insisted

there to scrutinize every square yard of

it is the opinion of American financial ut dators produced as the tribunal. perial aspect, and the duty to send out

1 Canadà and thathir ground before the advance is rugge, experts that Austria confesses to virtual He gave sixteen cases of men found suffer good mehers

and the risks which are run by those poor gold-bearing bonds in paper kronen at a bankruptcy by paying interest on its ng from tuberculosis who had been pass-

The Abhishop of Canterbary rejoiced fellow, are infinitely greater than discount of 60 per cent.. and that Ger and for service five ju Chas A, B #1

B2, two B 3. setan- 1, and two in the order or the wording of the resoh which are run by civilians in this country.

many was also inttering on the edge of | at Mill Hill lasten, and strongly supported the general therfore put that first. If anybody this financial abyss when the Reichsbank A man passed B April produced 15 medical certificate lines of Me. Fisher's proposals. It was. ways to us that our policy should be, Our decided to release $10,000,000 in gold in before the tribunal to say he was suffering mistake Se separate eduration and safety first, and the safety of the an effort to restore its highly disorganis

religion. From epilepsy.

best quotiore. They were really soldiers afterwards, then I say at oneofed exchanges in neutral countries. One 3 man previously rejected wax passed inseparable. If this was the case the need that we certainly shall not listen to that. year has been occupied by the German 1 at Hounslow this year. A specialist of training teachers to teach religion us

whatever the panic may be,

banks to increase gold reserves by this wrote: I have already written three essential part of their equipment was full certificates for this patient. In every education as a whole; on religious educa

plain. We must remember to

Now, having stated that quite explicity amount, which constitutes but a drop in look upon

to begin with, I will go on to the next the bucket of needs to be dealt with. Aus- the recruiting body has lost them.ion as a part of it, and denominational thing. Another statement has been inadeftri, it is emphasised, has practically noj This can only me they are definitely de-

teaching as the bra way of giving stroyed.

religious forces in the united effort to put the eduintion of the country on its true A man was passed B 1 in June 1910 resolution was carried unanimously.

The and B3 in November, both at Hounslow. and, said Mr. Hart, he suffered from a "He would culiar servous affection. give his head a jerk until it practically 361 reversed. He had to take his head forcibly in

Our discharged, 1 mejorsed, a twice jected, the vines rejected, and 1 for Tines rejected raised to Class A an jected and 2 twice rejectes made 11: four times rejecwd made B 1.

SARL 2100 COMPLAINUS,

Mr. Hack, gave specimen enses of men reported to be suffering from speciße com plaints. They included: Special Medioni Bard; suffered from locamentor alaxy,

the

ordinary battalions engaged. They pivially distracted beforehand as to must important points aimed at u attack and they act as puids to their less specialized comrades. Their work is to make breaches in the enemy line, to

Classified B 1 MB Ni, :režérted by thegy as to the need of consulting not the front or by the civilian population lead the way to the Allies' cebelro, 19.

Passed A. Min Hill, rejected as Hen

"Passed A. MP: Hill, hanem € 2 at Mil Hill: blind in the right gyv.

Passed B 14 Mill Hill, afterwards discharged at Mill Hill; epilepay.

MISSING CERTIFICATES,

Replying Mr. Caradoc Rees, Me.from them. were mainly from the certificates of pri-

art said the descriptions of the diseases | a

3.

MAN WITH KEVERSIBLE BEND,

Dominions.

on

The

the

in this country. We had absolutely destroy machine gun emplacements and hesitation in supporting the claim of our military advisers that the syldiers at the frat minst have the first demand upon sur

TINOU POV.

field fortresses with the help of the special cannon and other weapons at their dis prsal, and eventually to aid in the re organization for defenes against counter attack of any position, which holly hit captured.

As soon as the heavy fighting is over the men of the shock unit still remaining alive withdraw to the rear and rejoin the rest of the battalion in readings to be hurried off to any other part of the_line where hot work is in progress-Ve York

Times.

round He is two hands and bring in the Army. Of the balance of 5,000 they down, because, if you did, what about our methods against neutral neighbours, and

Mr. Sutton: He may be in the Army now? He probably is, but we have not heard of him again, -

The London Appeal Tribunal bad dealt with over 30,000 case, and fully 31,000 were

were keeping 3,000 and sifting them bar.

We are approaching the necessary preparations for another winter's can. aign. The sickness enanalties it the Army ou active servies in mon between 3 and 40 are very much greater than with men hetween 36 and 35.

to the effect of London being hare of gold to give up, and Germany cannot fighting aircraft. Well, now, whose state. hope to make any real impression on the value of the mark abroad unless it pours ment is that? The actual fact is that out thousands of millions from a gold craft went up into the air on our sidequate to cover the Reichsbank's immense greater number of first-class fighting air- reserve which is already totally inade than the number of the hostile aeroplanes paper eircalation, Germany's only hope which came over. But you cannot always, shart of peace of arresting its slide to in a fight, guarantee that when you attack the bottom of the slope, it is declared. hostile aeroplanes you will bring them must lie in the resumption of mailed fist sirmen that are constantly crossing the questioning subjects alike who dare place termin lines and coming back alive? doubts how German solvency-Darly They are attacked often by two, three, Telegraph. and four to one, and yet they come back, the majority of them. You may riddle a machine and yet never hit a vital apot: aviators, who did their best. I romumber seeing a machine in France; with war on a great scale is gore or less yet the aviator was barely scratched and machines out of 84 brought down by the Every branch of the Army for dealing there were about 300 hits on that machine, hear. This is not a bad achievement, expecially when compared with the two scratch organisation. Looking there was no vital spot in the machine Germans the day previously, although the things as impartially

il, and he came back. And I have not driven to the conclusion that there has the faintest doubt myself that these Ger. French machines actually crossed the in which men were treated.

been and still is going on an immens man machines were probably riddled with Landon was bare of fighting aircraft has German lines. Therefore to my that Destruction of previous certificates of amount of hasty and ill-considered classi rejection and retention of original çertification of men for the Army.”

villets from our aircraft, and that many

not the remotes; approximation to the feates of private practitioners,

of them are absolutely unfit to go up truth. Whether better use could be made again without being completely over- Private certificate, ignored and men pro-

of these aireralt, whether the new. ducing them regarded as endeavouring to

euled and made good. That is what happens to a good many of the machines which came back in France-they are no Kood afterwards and I have no doubt

Dealing generally with complaints made to the tribunal against the medical boards. he said these were:--

The perfunctory nature of the examina- tion.

Alteration of classification by the presi dent without any examination.

Lick of courtesy and off-hand manarr

erade service.

SCRATCH ORGANISATION..

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all,

COMMON SENSE AND SYMPATHY,

"I have come to the conclusion," said Mr. Maclean, that you can grapple with this problem by having, say, 100 special medien! boards over the country, and you

OUR AIRMAN'S ACHIEVEMENT.

that came over, four were brought down. But, after all, out of the 22 machina

(Hear,

Tachines which are coming in at a very considerable rate can be immediately utilized is another matter.

Now let me tell you what we are doing. General Smuts and I went to see the vicinity of the raid on Saturday, and the

Chhinet lave deniffed that General Smuts Cabinet has been considering further the question of the defence of London. The

Mr. Donald Maclean, M.P., chairman could find quite easily a large number that is what happened here. of the London Appeal Tribunal and the of fair-minded men who command th-ein- House of Commons section of that body, fidence of all sections who could forms was the next witness. He said: The these boards, and, while not being great experience of the committees of the tri-specialists of world-wide eminence, would bunal fully corroborates the statement of have all the necessary qualifications and, That is a pretty high percentage. It is should undertake a general investi Mr. Barnes, the Pensions Minister, wh above all, common sense

and

sympathy. he said that he had dealt with, roughly In his opinion the attested men had brought down of the French machines it. Every reasonable precaution has been a much higher percentage thán Wigation into the matter, and we are doing speaking, 100,000 cases of men who aught been unfairly dealth with.

which crossed over the German lines just taken, and whatever practicable steps can never to have been in the Army.

The greater part of all this friction recently. In that case there were only two be taken along the lines of improving the and bother." he said, has been caused out of 6s brought down by the Germans de fenes of London are being taken. I not by the Regelar Army man but by cis-while we brought down four out of think, on the whole that is ar rauch as it lians for the time being in khaki. They Do let us be fair to these very gallant is wise for me to say at the present get into uniform and completely lose their i heads."

(Continued at foot of next column,

It is

quite obvious there must us many thou sands still left in the Army who never ought to have been there."

(Continued ut foot of next column.)

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