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MR. LANSING ON THE DANGER OF ANARCHY.
CRIMES. GERMANY'S
NEW COMPULSION BILL
LABOUR OPPOSITION.
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Government majority
HONGKONG DEFENCE CORPS.
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS BY MAJOR GR. WARKMAN, V.D.. OFFICER, COMMANDING.
STRENGTE.
112 Spe. W. Blythe, Engineer Co., is permitted to resign, on leaving the L'olony, dated May 1st, 1919. 70 Pte. 5. G. Newall, A new
Co., in permitted to resign, on leaving the Colony to date. from May Esch,
No.
1910.
PROMOTION, 98. Spr. E. W. Gardiner Chate Sergt. Major, 4th K.S.LL), is promoted to the "noting rank of Sergeant in the Engineer o dated May 6th, 1910.
POSTING.
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perusing other private communications ple. Violence and murder stalk through taking their cue from Mr, FA. Shaw, Copies of a statement shewing the aver
the streets of their great cities. Political account the lady stitutions, industrial enterprises, the said that they were voting against the discomtari toy structures of society are tottering. Government in defence of untarnished.
read the appallible
for
WHIT THE BILL DOIN,
• Con- But what is this terrible new
The Military Service, Acts expire on the day that peace is ratified.
If the new Bill, which extends in part-the obligations of those Acta until April 30th, 1990, is not passed the British military machine dies into a thousand pieces. The whole Army could claim its discharge on the same
day."
ages obtained in the 1879-0 Course have been issued to all Platoon, etc., Commanders for distribution to N.CO and men. Additional copies may be had on application nt the Orderly Room;
LEAVE
Sergt. J. M. McHutebon, "A" Ca, ia
Pte.
granted . months leave, to date trom day of departure.
K. E. Greig, B Ca, is granted $ months leave from May 29th.
1010.
KXAMINATION FOR PROMOTION.
Reference Corps Order No. 3, dated."
January 10th, 1919, a lecture will be given by the Adjutant at Head. quarters, on Wednesday, May 14th, at & p.m.
A NECESSARY MEASURE. Mr. Robert Lansing. United States After a somewhat acrimonious debate--- Scoretary of State, speaking at Paris though the nerimony was all on one side on March 11th, at a reception to the the House of Commons on Marcie, 3th' American Peace Mission, referred to the gave a second mading to the No. traditional friendship of France and National Service Hill, which is oficially in Penang from passengers aboard the the United States, and to the great vic-known by the cubrous title of the Naval,
over the Central Military, and Air Fores Service Bill hour and it would appear that the worst tory of the Allies anticipations of those who condemned the Powars, whose armies had returned to There voted. uverèruwding and dearth of deceat sleep their homes, where hunger and priva- For the Second Reading.
Against ing, sanitar, and other arrangements for tion awaited them. He continued
Germany has suffered bitterly, is suf such a large number of passengers, mostlyering bitterly, and Germany is entitled women and children, have been realist sulter for what she has done. She ha by these untortonate saoggh to travel by paid a tearful penalty for the crime of The opposition came from the Labour Liens J. Owen Hughes is posted to Nur the converted hospital ship.
pfunking the world into four years of
6 Platoon, in. command, dated We publish below extracts from one
alood and Sre. To-day starvation and party. (en bloc), the Liberais" (also en
May 5th, 1910. letter and have had an opportunity of Want are the portion of the German peo- blur), and a few Coalition Liberals, who,
ANNUAL GENERAL MUSKETRY COCISE. unly the given below hut add details that trans Write af be which the passengers have been subjected it is the price of their own evi-doing public faith.”
NYA If any ameliorative measures, such as just retribution for their crimes. i currespondent suggests, can be adopted, may be disposed to pity those innocent Be hope the authorities at Singapore, who mung the Germans, for, ob course, there
must be many innocent of the wrongs scription Bill." which led Mr. Adamson must now be fully aware of what bas happened, will imediately table instruc which have been, perpetrated against tions to assure Ceir being promptly car humanity, but our pity is almost dried and Mr. Thomas to threaten that they ried cut regardless of trouble or expenes when we consider what France and other would oppose it tooth and nail at every Moreover we trust steps will be taken to nations have had to suffer from the in- publish at once the names of those indirading armies of the Teutons.
stage, and go down into the constituen. vidualy, who, under the terra Passage
And now that the mighty condict icies and stir up the people? Mr. Chur- Control "are actually responsible
ended and What seems to be a seandalous and callous Prussin is crushed, we have new prob
the great war-engine of chill explained most effectively piece of mismanagement, which has not ems to solve, new dangers to overcome: ly entailed appalling discomforts and East of the Rhine there are famine and unecessary suffering" but would ·Appenz
to a loss of life that idleness want and misery, political chaos to have contributed
little
and common-sens might and outlawry has supplanted the highly. humanity easily have prevented.
organised Government of Imperial Ger To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette. many. Social order is breaking down Sir-The following extracts from a let, under the bitterness of defeat and the ter I have just received from my wife hopeles mess of the Future Like the written on board the Farama, speak for anarchy which for years has made the themselves.
inferno of Russin, the fires of terrorism are ablaze in the States of Germany. We are after all calling at Colombo Through the ruins of this once great em we had to, as Perything seems to have pire the flames are sweeping westward, gone wrong. How any of us is alive only It is no time to allow sentiments of ven- the good led - knows, We have gone geance nad of hatred to stand in the way through ....... There have been two of checking the advance of this confag That is the position. It was stated deaths already
ready (children) the wards are ration which will soon he at the border. perfectly clearly by Captain Guest. so frightfully packed and the port holes of Germany, threatening other lands could not be opened.. The heat has been We must change the conditions on which And yet Mr. Adamson rumbled and DL
Everybody in the House understood it. frightful, I wil!
I will not say too much about social unrest feeds and strive to restore grumbled, and Mr. Thomas ramats and Recruits will attend for D.E.L. Instruc thing
only worry you, Germany to a normal though it be. A stamped, as though they actually be Thank goodness I am strong and can stand weakened, social order. Two words telllieved as they pretended that the a good deal. The food has not been to the story-food and peace. To make Government were bent on making con. had if we could only get served. "The Germany capable of resisting anarchism seription part of the permanent. military Officer dining saloon is like a mad-house and and the hideous. despotism of the Red system. And Sir Donald Maclean and the children's worse.. We have been travelling very slowly as I hear the fire. Terror, Germany must be allowed to pur his Liberals were no better, though they men are on strike. Really it is a down-chise food and to earn that food. In based themselves on the more respectable, No. right disgrace that this boat should dustial conditions Dust be restored by but futile, argument that the Govern Geen allowed to sail like this. We have treaty of paced. It not out of pityment had not thoroughly tried to work been treated like cattle. Yesterday was for the German people that this must be the plan of the Army of Occupation by the first time the ship has been done, and done without delay, but be: voluntary methods. This argument was! ciraned since it left Singapore. •The case we the victors in this war, will also demolished by Mr. Churchill.
the bathrooms been almost be the chief sufferers if it is not done,
are thinking serious. You may demand reparation as machisting of 45.000 men, could not be ra:s-ORDERS They down 203, people her do I
at thlonder as you please and as insistently as you Government expense shall certainly try and be one of them please, but unless the German people are furnished with material for their Contrast the above with the fear the industries and the commercial opportu wretched Huns were treated I can only nities to seli the products of their say, as the Editor al John Bull sometimes labours in foreign markets, and unless saya, "Who is going to swing for it the labourers have food Germany can Your ele.,
The Labour and Liberal answer FURIOUS.
never pay even in part for the evil she that the men could be got, if the terms has done. Furtherrore, if the" present were made attractive enough. Take the state at chaos continues to grow there average industrial wage," said Mr will be no responsible German Govern Adamson, and offer that!" The ques ment with which to make peace, notion of cost did not concern.sither him Government strong canush to carry out or Sir Donald, though only the day before the provisions of the treaty.
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The result of that would be to plunge the military system into anarchy, and rob the country of the fruits of vic tory, Germany would ratify the treaty. with joy, and then refuse to carry it
out.
A PHYSICAL POSSIBILITY,
The new voluntary army, now COR.
ed to 900,000 in a few weeks or months. He might have added years
It would be physical impos sibility to replace the overseas gar risons by the date when it is hoped that peace will be ratified.
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ORDERS FOR ARTILLERY COMPANY BY MAJOR J... W. ARMSTRONG, V.D...
Monday, May 12th
5.30 p.m. Left Half Co. Parade at Hendquarters with Rifle, belt and sidearms.
Tuesday, May 13th:
7.30 am. Right Half Co. Parade at Headquarters with Rifle, helt and sidearms.
ORDERS FOR ENGINEER COMPANY SY CAPTAIN K. HALL
INSTRUCTIONAL CLASS FOR RECRUITS
tion under R. E. Staff Sergts. at Beleber's at a p.m., on Wednesday, May 14th.
on duty 2nd-Lieut. Blackburn.
INFANTRY INSTRUCTION.
1, and Sections will parade at Murray Parade. Ground (instead of Wellington Barracks) and No. 3 Section at Taikoo Dockyard for
Infant Instruction at 5.30 p.m.,
on Friday, May 10th Dress, drill order (short and putties).
FOR INFANTRY BATTALION" BY MAJOR
6. WAKEMAN, V.D..
Monday, May 12th-
"A" Co., No. 4 Platoon, .5.15 p.m.
at Headquarters, T.E.T. Rifle, belt, pouches and dummy cartrid. ges to be carried,
Tuesday, May 13th:-
6.15 p.m. A Co.. No. 9 Platoon, at Headquarters. T.E.T. Sidearms, pouches and dummies to be car ried. The following will attend: -All N.C.Os. and Privates Car- penter, Sutherland, Edgeumbe, Kent, Falconer, Hayward, Law. son Donnelly, Earle, Griffin and Williams.
Wednesday, May 14th:
5.15 p.m. "A" Co., No. 3 Platoon, at Headquarters. T.E.T. Rifle belt. pouches and dummy cartridges to be carried."
SIGNALLING. AFCTION.
Tuesday, May 13th:---
8.30 p.m. At Headquarters. T.ET
Rifle, belt," pouches and dummy Cartridges to bo carried." The following will attend to complete. their testa: Privates Jennings, Lammert, Mattingley, Ogley, P. A Reis, Templeton, P. Tangap," and Mugford.
the latter was taking of national bank THE CASE FOR THE OFFICERS. ·
raptcy. Mr. Thomas suggested that the I say to you, men of France and men | soldier was being sweated, and said: The following particulars of the events Powers, that there is no time to be lost unemployment
of America, to you, men of the Allied the single man was getting less than the which led up to the shipping crisis at it we are to save the world from the des- which was promptly exposed as untrue. donation statement Singapore will be read with interest by
For ho gets his board and lodging and shipping people in Hongkong. It will potiem of anarchy even as we have saved be remembered that a strike was averted from the despotism of autocracy. We clothes and a guinea a week pocket-money- by the Shipping Companies conceding the ought to make, we must make Peace Churchill," when we were boys of 18." more then many of us get," said Mr. denands made in anticipation of the upwithout delay, and ships laden with food pointment of a Government Commission, mast enter the harbours of Germany. The yeddiers who were being kept for the
The for ships
and We have reached the crisis in the affairs Army of Occupation were being paid well. engineers in local waters was outlined of the world. We must meet it without and the increase of their pay had given To 器 representative of the Pleng passion and without permitting our widespread satisfaction. Gaselte. It was stated that the defend udgment to be warped by the natural
DCT TO MAKE TROUBLE. was for an all-round rise of 50 per cent, and unavoidable desire for vengeance on But the Labour members were all out and
standard wage
of $500 for Ship nation which has committed such at to make trouble. Mr. Thomas wanted sible. It was urged that the companies committed. There cannot be any doubt should not be employed for industrial are making enormous profits, and that in the minds of thinking men au to the purposes., for strike-breaking. He even allows to reducetained at
that the companies were reality of the danger which faces the morally
was assured that the new Bill' did unfair that this should be
it was nations. We are victorious, and yet vie not prolong the liability of
the expense of those who had enabled the com tory on the battlefields is not all. We demobilised · soldier. Boldiers already
dust use our victory wisely or we will demobilised and panies to pay high dividends during the tase even more than we have gained. "It old National Bervice Acts, but those ob- war. The officers and engineers hold that is no time to permit selfishness to con-
under the obligations of the Corp. RC. Cegg and Lee-Corp. A.. they
are underpaid, and that the increases trek our nation or to permit an immed-ligations will cease the day peace demanded would not necessitate a rise in fate advantage to blind our eyes to the fed. So there was nothing in that bogey freights unless the
owner desired. to
As for the general military policy of maintain the margin sent high level 1-profits at the pre- greater food which lies in the future, the Government, Mr. Churchill revealed
a generosity wages paid to officers and engineers on demanda peace and which cries out that coasting boste do not compare favour the German people must be fed. It is uphill battle the British Government
aro ably with
with that of the officers and engine-commonsense that demande it, and that
fighting at Paris against Conscription: how they are in a ers on ships in the China coastal trade points out the perils before us
a small minority ia The members of the local guilds were re not listen to the voice of reason. we do pressing that Conscription shall be abo- ceiving higher pay than they were
ished in Germany as part France shows her greatacas in the dar terms; how it is quite probable that of the peace
crease in their wages was a long way, who gave her unstinted praise, trust her 1 thepulsory system Italy! that ad- The D.S.P.B. records, with regret, the receipt of few years ago, but the in-hours of adversity, and we of America, the
will survive after war ja Japan,'
and even and how
Trotsky is also
And the ring
will
triumph. It is a true philosophy which vanced Dem
.in the
any
Réserve
rati-
bohind the increased profits made by the to show the same spirit in those of in the shipping companies.
the past few years.
and engineers aches a man or a nation to beat success an eager Conscriptionist. Great Britain, have had to demand each and every rise they have had during these years, which well, an defeat together. France, on the other hand, is already pledged have not been lean ages for the companies.ed with them in this great war must go build up an Army on that principle," and America, and the Allied Powers associat to a voluntary Army, and has started to
It.
before the war.
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ORDERA FOR CADET COMPANY BT LIEUT, A. O. BRAWN, STRENGTH.
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M. Thornhill are permitted to re- sign, on leaving the Colony, with
effect from May 3rd, 1819.
G. E. STEWART, Capt.
Adjutant, H.K.D.O. Hongkong, May 9th, 1919-
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
(ORDERS 188VED BY ME. FRANKE, D.A.P. (.)]
DEATIL
death of P.-c. 838 Y. Maliomed. May 9th, 1819.
who raised the Conscription
and
was suggested by the interviewer that forward to the completion of the tank yet the Government are assuiled sa Con- its obvious spirit. It was Mr. Thomas thi: members of the British Mercantile which they set out to perform to make scriptionists when, for a purely limited himself marine were now much better paid than the world safe for democracy. The valour period and a distinct and definite purbogey at the election, as Mr. Churchill
The reply was that the British Merind glory of France and of her children Pose, and under a compulsion which they reminded the House; was it not allo cantile Marine at Home was curtainly are written in letter of eternal light cannot escape, they extend the obliga Thomas who, in 1916, said that all the well paid, but not these in service out cross the heavens vivre there dawns a ton of service for a rear to one man in trainx in the country would stop running here. The increase in wages of the of new era and a new hope for humanity.
four, and offer double pay to make up if a single railway man was taken by cers and engineers of the British Mer
for the hardship.
Conscription? And yet they moved. cantile Marine had been over 200 per
NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA.
Colonel Buckley made a very acceptable cent, which was not the case of officers
maiden speech, in which he suggested that and engineers serving in local waters.
SOCIETY'S "UGLY CONDUCT.".
Bome speakers hinted that the Bill was tribunals might be set up to release med, The increased cost
being brought in with a view to the needs whose cases were specially hard, on them as ost of living fell a heavily
elser
Bir Dyce Duckworth, BL, presiding at of the British expeditions in Russin. urged the House, to make it impossible he them were married and had wives and an exhibition of photographs Russia had nothing to do with the Bill, don, claiming that be spoke for Labour, Nothing of the sort, zaid the Minister for the war to flare up again: Mr. Sed- childres ahora, to
house and to feed on with Church Army work in Men and the Bili nothing to do with Russia warmly supported the Bill, as did Bir and the unmarried men could not marry totumia, held at. the Folian Hall, New on the present scale of wages. The own Bond-street, said in high society there It was also objected that there was no Edward Carson, who implored the four ers had offered a scale "of wages were many signs of carelessness, silliness,
now
p need for an Army Occupation of Master
of Commong not to risk anything, and but the officers were and ugly conduct. When they heard of 100,000:1
men if the
the military power of Ger- Holding
out for standard wage, for those wild dances that went on among many was crushed. But the Americans during that the country had suffered the war by not taking setion in and in regard to the demand for an to musis good enough only for West A Ping as many, and the French sti) time. Soo, too, M2 Lyle Samuel, speak Masters of 8500 per month. On this point- people who ought to low better danga
more. The Allies are taking no riska, Ing as a life-long opponent of Conscrip all round increase, with Home leave, the day savages when they saw that in Lon-But Labour and Liberal statesmen in the tion, told mit Thomas that he wen sted officers' and the engineers societies were don drawing rooms it showed great de Louse of Commons did not mind what of hearing the sectional threats of the sticking to their demands, and it was gradation and demoralisation. He hoped risks were run, so long as the strict letter leaders of the Labour party. Honor their intention to enforce the granting of such exbibitions of that taste and charac of an election plodge was kept, and not Law wound up the debate with a brief these demanda, if necessary, by a strike. fer would he stopped,
(Continued at foot of next column.) but strong appeal.-Daily Telegraph.
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