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TERDIC JOKES. THE BRITISH SOLDIER'S SENSE

ODHUMOUR./

FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR. MAJOR FW. THICKNESSE, RA,

D.8.0.

1917

CORRESPONDENCE

CO-OPERATION COMPETI=

Y

TION.

HONGKONG

the affairs of men, at exercises a very large- influence on them. Want is war but the tow of tooth and claw! What else is fraud, theft and extortion? What else. 118 class Ibgislation that enriches some and impoverishes others 1 What else is every form of privilege and monopoly.buns operation of this law of tooth, and claw?

Even after two years of war the British

TV THE EDITOR OF THE soldier remains very baffling to all but bis

We regret to learn from a recent Home.

DAILY PRESENTIS own countrymen. Those very tale that mail that Mayor F. W. Thicknesse, RA, D.S.0. died of wounds on October 10th vo tell of him with most proles and in When the war broke out Major Thick BiIn your article Co-operation particular those tales of Cockney hotspurness, then a Lieutenant, was stationed that perpetual eifish humour which make in Hongkong and was attached to the e. Competition, which appeated in your Bill the two men, who first realized that General Staff, in which capacity he acted issue of Baturday last, some ideas are

they were not necessarily onemies and, for some time as a censor of the Press advanced which, I think, will not be instead of trying to rob or kill onch He was promoted to the rank of Captain which he reached in May, 1015 He had commended his battery of heavy guns for about 10 months. He was twice mention ed in dispatches and was awarded the

fun of war, which is always ready to be reminded bysit

it of something comsmen place, are those tales which other peonlab fore he left Hongkong for the Front generally accepted. For instance it in other made to their mutual benefit, the

find most bathing, ek

A foreigner from a sentral country told the writer that he could not understand battalions kicking footballs as they went forward to the attack, still lees could be understand our admiration for it, or the ceremony with, which one of those fog balls had been preserve He was not a

stupid man. He knew a little of Eng. land, but he could not get it out of his head that the incident had something to

D.80 last May

asserted that it is becoming more and

OZSA more evident that in modern industry it is necessary to create a demand for goods.”

It would be interesting to learn what arguments can be found to support, this peculiar idea. For many years it. bes been my constant desire to demand more goods, but my great difficulty has been I find from

Major Thicknesse was the elder son of Pr.bondary Thicknesse, rector of St. George's, Hanover Square, was a scholar of Winchester and passed second into Woolwich He was 31 years of ago, try to he

OH. L. SYMONS. 2ND LIEUT

regret to report, says the to obtain an increased supply. dreply We don

Daily News, that information has

fret exchange, rose superior to the la of tooth and claw, changed the form of competition from fighting to trading, and:

the effect of competition from injurious.

to beneficink. This was the first step from The barbarism: towards civilization, competition of the lower animals is the action of each scrying itself by reducing: the natural supply of food, leaving less for others, and making it more difficult!

do with an il-bited and antha røver been resived that 2nd Lieut C. H. Lexperience that my supply is limited to for others to live. But the industrial::

in action on November 20th my income which is also the pleasure of competition of men is the action of each

well

serving himself by serving others in trying to produce for the market, the best and cheapest supply of such goods. as they desire, thus increasing the supply, reducing toil, and making it more easy or others to live. By trade, i.c., by

competition, the efforts of men on the

Symons, ath Royal Familiers, and

my demand, and it appears to the that ence for the game of football. He could

who was the elder son

of Shanghai, this is a difficulty common to the great the Rev. G. J. F. P nearly two years not see that, in fact, it had nothing to Mr. Symons do with football at all, but was the very

rent Home for service key to everything that be could not undergo having previously served in the ass of men. Very few men are be stand about the Rukhiab character in war Machine Gun Co. 8. C. and carred a supplied with the good things of life as

soon and ability. He name for koenness But if the neutral was content a year ago, to act aside ne isexplicable such nets gained a commlesion in the Royal Fugi they would like to be. There appears to as these, he has sins the firk of lyfiers and was sent to France where in be no limit to the desire for goods. What he was

ns wounded. After people require is a larger and cheaper come to realise that there is something October last Behind them which is worth understand

in hospital, Mr. Symons what supply, and a more- spell

more equitable distribu- ing, some genuine and spiritual

front and he gave up the Again to

victory he could come at what it tafe in the rope is on the tion. What the manufacturers requires. opposite sides of the earth are uncon

officer, who was born in to do is not to try to create a demand sciously directed to supplying each other's never be misunderstødd like the English,The cont

sciously directed towards organized co- just because of that touch of Cyrans which Ningpo in 1898 and educated at Trent for goods but to study the nature of the wants. But such efforts as might be con It has in its great moments, aut magni College, was much esteemed in Shanghai demand that exists and produce as

rting circles. He cence, that consciousness of its great both in busines and sporting Jardine, quickly and cheaply as possible a cor operation by either private associations.

was in the employ Of Matheson & Co. for about twelve years, responding supply. In the past it was and beside being a volunteer was a mem Bar of the Victoria Fire Company. Much complained that rome British manu-

be extended to his parents, sympathy will who have now lost both their sons in the facturers tried in the foreign market war 2nd Lieut. F. C. Symons, of the create a demand for goods that were not Corps, having diel of wanted, while German manufacturers

only

The French character in war

moments. All the world understands and loves the beat geste in war, and there are many in our own records of this war All the world thrilled by the story of the piper who mounted on the t breach parapet to play his pipes to his chaken

deceased

in

or by the State would be so limited in

their scope and ection that without trade

would collapse. Competition and Co-ope

that is without competition-they ration are not conflicting ideas. Free com

But all the world does not see the beau- wounds received in action and considered the demand, that existed and petition is simply free productions and

in kicking a football

beau

A

produced a supply for it, with the result free exchange. It is the voluntary action that the German goods were sold while of free men seeking to satisfy their desires the British goods remained unsold. The with the least exertion. It is each for

been revived in Shah cable has

in Shanghai ELFISH HUMOUR.

the deliberate A this

humbur, the elfish

that Capty G. A Turner 10th delight, as the foreigner takes it to be of Y Yorks, formerly of Messrs. Ilbert & Co what he could consider the opposite of toe was badly wounded on October 4th, and geste, which puzzle him. He does was, in the Red Cross Hospital at Rouen, not understand excellent, the

pure with his right arm badly broken, three only possible method of increasing the Cockney humour of the soldier who, as wounds in his left arm, one toe gone and demand for goods in to increase the his platoon pushed up through the com- his head wounded. The doctor gave munication trench just before an atinek hope of his final recovery, but said that ability to give something in exchange for called

mart be many weeks before he could them, to increase the supply. With It is easy

to miss what is admirable in b jokes of the billet and the camp greasy from t the War Office

every

all and all for each. Instead of being

relic of barbariem, rightly understood

it is the most efficient form of coopera tion, and the absolutely essential condi-

Youth The way to the early door.?. it wil to England.ceived increased incomes the demand increases tion to a higher civilization? But com

now

that and in a hundred stories like it. The Information on London with red automatically. Put to the test of either Petition is not yet free, and untilkit is.... had Mavonaco feel frence to My A. Graham, son of Mrs

free we cannot realize the full benefits

to

te jokes round the biyonac fires. It Grabum of Yokohama, who was for some experience or reason, I think the old idea on the western front and of the Manchester school would stand balling

nghoy delight us of whom

nothing crisis that, as a scans Restis of war. July of last year The Japan Gazette

is

Telephone 29.

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LA MINERVA

CIGAR FACTORY. ESTABLISHED 1683,

on others

theatre crush at one goes up to the attacked Regret inform you death of Act the kicking off a football

No Man' ing Sergeant FA Ginham, Micklesex Land under machine.

calling Regticent, presumed to have taken place

I

of a

a battle a "show" han mo shinek on or since July 1st, 1914War Office 2 ty argues an item auch

ing effect as i

in

man, something

which the gously showed The highest tender was that of Foc-harbours,

Jand otherwise

removing

of it. Competition cannot be really free.

mem

of our freedom but of privilege and monopoly, which enable sOIDE

service thon they toclains more render and to demand

wealth than they produce, thus competing other men to render more servics than they receive and to produce more wealth than

159: Joges at the very moments i months fighting art boen beard BIDCC better than this new idea of the necessity until trade is really free and all prisilege Svenne reminiscezes of a says the following cable has been receive for creating a demand for goods. State and monopoly abolished, and all men interference iz the days of Cobden and have equal freedom in prodizing and Bright meant restriction on the produc-exchanging goods. Veriona, „„fords or tion and exchange of goods, but no free privilege and monopoly have been greited trader would deny that the State could on to our social system, restricting com-

The ceman mind the THE MACAO OPIUM FARN. assist production and exchange by petition and operating against it is why to the German mind, That is

evils which society are the effect British soldier appears as either much.

ich affict We have received the following further promoting education, improving roads, s or much more than a man, when what less o it does mean

An is simply that he bad particulars from our Macao correspon widening cimals, dredging rivers, and not of competition, which is the measure

dent- suosjed in

their Arst

triumph and are beginning ch'ün, Mekong and Bio-fat, managers now to show in their defents, that they the firm Tai Sang & Co. Under the stacles, whether natural or State-made mone remain. That is the key to these terms of the new contract the farmer fiat cbstruct or restrict the free play of he stories of

of the British soldier allowed to import only 500 chests of individual effort. The contention of the and the inexplicable value that we set on opium per annum, divided as follows Free-trade is that whether State inter thein. Each one of them d

delights so chests for local consumption and 210 because it is so much evidence of that chests for re-export to places where the ference is desirable undesirable de is his great moral strength in his trade is legal. The full list of tenders pends on whether it extends on stricts

they can demand. The effect of competi his obstinate determination was as follows:-

individual liberty, and I submit: that no LA MINERVA OIGARS REINA VICTORIA CIGARS through its horrors, its fears, its excite Chan Caow-in

$1,322,100) ment and even its glories, to remain in Tam Cheng-kai adminutit,600,000 new science of economics, Do Becumulation is to prevent extortion and to bring equal reward for equal labeur. I in sell, to be what he was in the streets of

3,200,000 fion of statistics, no, German caperiones,uency is towards equality but the effect. have that purity and fragrance that appeal to all smokers, and with all the experience

ALWAYS HINSKIY

6,760,000 no new trade theories, no war experience of monopoly is to reward idleness at the and wisdom gaived in the manufacture of

2,444,400 can furmah arguments to refuta that con-

Is mfluence is to expense of labour. 4,900,000 cigars for over thirty years, it is not to

tention Individuals, without any in

Our land Bystem in- werde inequality. 3,001,000 4860,000 durement or encouragement from the ales some men bat only to levy a tribute 4,051,100 State, if they have liberty, trade of their on other men, but to exclude them from 4,580,000

own free will es far as trade aide them

the source of productica, and, as the dis 3,750,000 3,855,000 to obtain a better supply for their wants inherited cannot all live, the law of tooth 4,299,040

And this is to far as it is, desirable to and claw comes into operation and the 5.376, 600

struggle to survive becomes keen and 3,266,060 trada 6,250,000 There are some things that the State bitter and there is a glaring waste of can, do better than the individual or than effort, not as the effect of competition, bat

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On MONDAY, 10th December, Commencing 9 15 p.m. sharp.

UNDER the Distinguished Patronage of 8. H. Veski,

** (Officer: Administering the Government), IE Major General VENTRE, G.O.C Commodore H. G. G. SANDEMAN, RN, H.H. the Chief Justice (Sir WILLIAM RESS DAVIES, KC) and HH the Paisne Julge (Mr. GoMPERTZ).

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own town.

Ip Sentr La Un And 50

so he sings the same song Kung Sang & Co.

Yeng Ki makes the same jokes,"

and he kicks the same football as in his own towing and he Ke Fai and Lapio does these things in the very heat of war. Lai Sio He delights in them thought to others they in Tang seem unworthy of war, because he delights Chan Cheung-Pong in being always himself. In war to insist Lui Chaw on that and to succeed is in itself herbie. Un Beng and that poor joke of the early door, Ti Kan which every Cockney has made whenever Liu Lam he has been in a crowd, becomes in the Choong Fee Cheong-cheng circumstances of the

an, heroic Chao Beng and Bin Un joere is a

Ung tiếng sau

is a soldier in a certain lineFoe Ch ún, Ms Kong and Bio fat 6,076,106 regiment, long since invalida Ehone, who

in the earlier days of the war was known

in his company for always having a ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE,

piece

of extravagance songs drollery

a voluntary organization of individuals, as the effect of monopoly restricting cora

but in the vast majority of case the in- petition Competition keeps waste at the

ready for those times of strain, that HONGKLA AND CHINA DISTRICT | dividual or a voluntary naseviation of minimum. sudden infection of

of nervousness which will

Y.M.C.A. DIVISION,

run suddenly along a trench. He could always catch the attention of his com Friday. 14th inst rades for that moment which was enough commander sardel airs

to ease the stretched nerves. Kia platoon

afterwards that he many time as such

***307 $15LWys found him

EZETHODS: HIKESE Wore beau gestes,"

they will never find a place among

tales of the heroic, and were only

8 pm Parade for inspection; fail marching order. Raggage for Camp to be sent to Divisional Header Le not later than 8 p., a kada Saturday, 15th inst

10.30 am. Fell in at Headquarters for

Camp; full marching order. _______________ SALYINGFUK DIVISIÓN.

Blood by those who laughed at a Monday, 10th instap way

It has been said by both sides, and truly, that, this war is war of herves

Ger

430 pm, Recruit drill, Wednesday, 12th inst. --

We have seen in a hundred captae have 230 pin. Band practice:

man letters how men write when

Ther lost the power to raise their heads under the weight of circumstances. And we see 12 a hundred stories of our own troops how men with a joke can drive the power of circumstances away. In a war that is B war of Berves those: Bier ill endure who have the secret

fastly themselves stances. That is early door k

R.Ethos is

German: you. that he had not

couldnat inspire him. SEAMAN DAVIS. ht it means that

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Thursday, 13th inst, -—---

490 p.m. Recruit drill, Saturday, 15th inst

9.30 pin Band practice.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE DIVISION.

A Bection. Thursday, 13th inst

1.20 p.m. Band practice. Friday, 14th inst. (m

4.50 p.m. Bquad and stretcher drill,

"B" Bection.

Monday, 10th inst. :-ve

4.30 p.m. First Aid Clas kziow battle: Tuesday, 11th inst. ---

1.80 Bquad drill.

and Thursday, 13th inst

230pm First Aid Class Friday, 14th inst

1.20 Squad drill.

VICTORIA DIVATONY dealers. Un-duty at the HR DG. Camp,

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Hongkong, December 8th, 1917.

low to-day than it was

individuals can do better without State interference As for the changes due to the war increasing State regulation and control of production and trade in Britain all sections of the people are esenly disappointed and dissatisfied with

the results,

In so far as social legislation in Great Britain has been in the direction of assist ing the victims of monopoly rather than in attacking monopoly itself, it cannot he countered successful. While it has relieved distress it has not reduced it,

nor removed the cause of it. And aa ever-increasing army of officials is re

PERSERTA yljego er mono- -

The arguments for competition, which ired to administer the many relief dots. are the arguments for free trade, were But if the legislation had been in the stated in Adam Smith's Wealth of direction of justice, instead of charity, neither the cffcials nor their relief would Nationt long before Darwin, Huxley be needed. Is this pot groes waste? But. and Spencer were heard of. And com, State Interference and control generally

KAIMASSETS mean wate

combinations petition as a policy, was not made more without any element of popular by the discoveries of Darwin noly grow with the growth of knowledge. In fact, many meu of wide sympathies, Such combinations economise labour and increase the scale of production, and so not understanding the effect of competi- not in conflict with competition. Com

only for petition promotes them, and they tion, associated it with the struggle for mean competition on a larger sole and subsistence that obtains among the lower are really beneficial. But the benefits of forms of life, and looked upon it as a such combination and of all progres

swallowed

the monopoly of up in the substitati

Jand everyone for himself and the other monopole je sum

the

devil take the hindmoet" The law of of combination for

10 or competition means the elemination

of competition and the tooth and claw, which is the law of self-lishment of monopoly, which is a reve

sion to the law of tooth and claw under conditions where the great mase have less change of holding their own sesiret the privilceed few this if we returned to

atablishment of com mation and

PRY to universal, destruct

preservation under conditions where all can pot does not apply to the non trading animals in the wild state, and, before the era of trade, applied to man

Bow, although it does not control

resp

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