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THR. HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25ED. 1915.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND "EXCESS OF DRINKING". BEFUSAL TO RECEIVE MEMORIAL.-

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ENGLISHMAN WHO BECAME},

MOORISH SHEIKH

BUGBY BOY'S CROWDED LIFE OF ADVENTURE..

The following memorial, to which upwards of 700 signatures were attached, Tias romance is not dead in the twen- was recently forwarded to the Vice-Chantieth century. Alfred. Hawkyard Hinde coller, Proctors, and governing bodies of has proved, for he has had more than the colleges of the University of Ox-one crowded hour of glorious. life", in ford (-

his thirty-six years on this planet. His "As the colleges at Oxford are now days, indeed, seem to have been "crowd", nearly empty of undergraduates, and rol- -ed" all the time. In Morocco, joining lego life is interrupted, the present time) a wild tribe of Moors, he became a Moorish affords an unique opportunity of getting sheikh, and married a sheikh's daughter. rid of the drunkenness among some of the Universities which has done so much mischief, and for abandoning those college customs which not infrequently have led to excessive drinking Many who are anxious for the welfare of the nation feel that in the reaction after the war there will be greater danger of excess in drink ing.

And on the top of it all, as well as of a hundred other things, he came to the there prose of six months' hard labour at Bow Street because he failed to obey an order, made by the competent military authority, ander the Defence of the Realm Act, in October, 1913. requiring him to live in Bath

Why he did not obey is shown in this Under these circumstances, and hav-story, told by Mr. Muskett, who pro- secuted him on behalf of the police. ing regard to the enormous influence Hinde is a man of great ability, with which the Universities have upon the ng special gift of languages. In 1915, while tion and Empire, we respectfully passing as Major Gaurrett, he was de you:

(1.-To use every effort to ansure that ported by order of the General Com

manding Officer at Malta. the influence of the University as a place of the same year he was arrested on his In August of religion and learning shall be used in way to Dedeazatch, in Bulgaria, was put favour of temperance and against drun on board a ship as an undesirable, to be tenness and all excess in the use of in-sent back to England, and was landed toxicating liquors in the University,

at Liverpool, in September

(Not to permit Freshers, wines to recur after the war.

HOUSEBREAKING AND SHOOTING. (3.)To prohibit the sale out of any

Brought to London, he was questioned college or common-room stores to дау undergraduate or other person in educated at Rugby, he said, and had by the Commissioner of Police. He was pupillari of any whisky or other spirits or of any wine or beer, except light wine

or beer.

travelled a great deal in Africa and other countries. While in Zanzibar be studied (To prohibit the introduction of Arabic, which he mastered. Ee denied any intoxicant into any college by or for being convicted of deserting from the any undergraduate or person in stated that he had escaped from prison while South African Constabulary, bat admit- pupillar, without the written order of the Dean Censor, or other like officer of the college..

In the hope that these suggestions may strengthen your hands in removing the abuse of alcohol from the University, we remain," etene

serving a term for housebreaking at Nairobi. He had also been sentenced at Tangier for maliciously shooting a man.

Then came his forocco adventures. Be coming, & convert to Islam, he travelled in Mohammedan countries, and was ad-

The memorial is signed by 731 persons,mitted into secret societies. Next, he of whom 560 are graduates of the Univer went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. sity of Oxford. Among the signatories are a bishops (including two Roman Catholics), nine peers, 13 members. Parliament, also a number of scientific men, many of each of these classes being Oxford graduates.

"UNWARRANTAULE AND INSULTING.” The University authorities have.

sent the following reply-

The Vice-Chancellor and Proctors must, with all due respect for the good intentions of the various signatories, de cline to receive or discuKI memorial which assumes that there will be great danger of excess of drinking among the young offers who resume or commence residenco as undergraduates after the War, and which implies that drunkenness has Leen prevalent at Oxford of late, and that the influence of the University not been used in favour of temperance. Such insinuations are unwarrantable and insulting, and the recommendations based on them, whether practicable or not, would be discredited in advance even if put forward by a still more numerous and distinguished body, and even if a large, instead of a very small percentage, of the signatories were closely connected with the administration of the colleges, or otherwise familiar with undergraduate life in recent years."

BLOWN UP.

Finally, he suggested that if the English authorities would allow him to go to Ame.. But the Commissioner told him that he rica he could obtain valable information. would not be allowed to leave the coun- try during the war. Hence came about his agreement to live in Bath, and the order accordingly.

Within three weeks he disappeared, and the next heard of him was in December, 1916, when Inspector McNamara, C.LD.. received a Texas postcard from him wish- ing him a merry Christmas, Notification afterwards reached the Foreign Office from the United States Government that be wha detnined in Mexico, and was about to be deported to the United States. Later, he was put on board a whip for gland, and was landed at Liverpool on July 17th.

In passing sentence, Mr. Garrett said: a view of his record, he regarded him as a source of danger to the country.

MY FIRST SENTRY-GO.

[BY JAMES HODSON.]

I nodded. I took his hand, leaned my Are ye comin' up?" asked Robin. rifle and bayonet in the corner of the fire step, and scrambled up. I was facing the enemy for the first time.

The night was dark. Lcould just mako out dim things, sticks or trees. or, men impossible to tell which-ten yards away. There were the same popping Vérey lights making the same arcs of gold, the same! venomous cracks of snipers' rifles, the same rattle of machine guns that have n," said Robin, "but y're tall.” 44. The taller down at his face.

To be blown up by a shell is a quaint experience, but, devoid of excitement. Things happen so quickly that there is no time for psychological gymnastics, The events of your early life refrain from fashing across your brain in a second-at been described so often.

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Fop across and take over No. 10 Platoon, said the adjutant. Magrath's & casualty. Will you go now or waits wee while?"!

pursued Robin the more chance

least mine did and there is no preliminary zgony of mind: at the moment, too, no physical pain. You simply get what is ye are coming to you, and invariably you get ye hao bein bit. I almost smiled. A despatch bullet cracked near us and bits of dirt

stung our faces That's a richt.. of Blighty

laddie," said Robin. As Baden-Powell once said to me,If ye hear 'em y're a right: If ye don't hear em then se maun begin to feel where y're hit. .. Do yon ever think of

The Hun had just put down a barrage on

*** If you hear the crack of the bullet, Blighty and all the us. Between me and the Tenth Legion you mean, you are safe?" I said." Just shells were dropping with disgusting fra 50," said Robin; se'll ne'er bear the one suffering that this

And Sergeant MeEachern-my that kills ye." quency,

We were quiet for a long time. Then, war has brought? If sergeantwas watching me understand-

“As I was sayin',” continued Robin, you do you will buy go now," I said, ""

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I could have got there more quickly understand that. Though, mind if I had trotted sooner still if I had rum.ye," added Robin, thoughtfully, we ha But I was sure that sergeant of mine a chance of bein' hit through the shoulder. UGR diver wis non was still watching me, still smiling grim-A little devil like me whose head just

ribbons on his breast and a twinkle in the head, and wounds i the head

I didn't have any ribbons.lt he wagged his head" mean

A poo- fini may be that I had a twinkle, perhaps ni even a smile. I hope so. Anyway, I would show him.

Año Bullet or two cracked past We could see the flash of the rifle. I walked Abous 50 yards was the distanco F had bundred yards away it was, Bobin accomplished. The crescendo scream,ofpered Have's go back," said the hell told me it was going to land and taking sim on the spot where the Robin, laying his rifle along the parapet

behind me. I glanced back and saw the fizah came from. » aid Robin, and then somewhere near,” It dropped 50. yards

I followed suit"Wait till he fires rapid. We did. cloud of black smoke drifting with theie hina five

Poor old McEachern!" I said ng ceased for a time. The amp-

anybody ever get hit?"

and

Not so many on sentry-go. then, All the way from the zen to Switzerland. This time the shell-scream sounded our lads are standin' up to be shot at little shriller. I wondered if it would so is Fritz It's just luck, laddie drop in front of me or in rear. I won And then, as if to mock us, came the Stretcher-bearers! Stretcher- dered if it had my name on it. It had

*5* Swing bearers from the right. No cry of pain though We passed the message on, and soon shadowy: ägures, hurried past.

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and Queen's South African 1814 Ubat a joke1" asked Robin,

A week later I woke up. "A nurse was standing at my bed.

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