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Inf

3.30 p.m.

PARADES.

Infantry Battalion, Jess Reserve Platoon and Archine-gunnery will Parade on Monday, November 1st, ai

Dress Drill order." Attendance. Strong as possible. Mounted Infantry Section will parade. From November 1st the following weekly (progruzume' of 'work, will be carried

out on days as stated :— Company Parades, at Fretilquart ca Monday, 3.30 p.m. -

Infantry and Musketry Drills. Lowi

Gon and Signalling Classes will also be held at the same time, •. Machine-gua Detachment Parade at

same time, Dress for Infantry and Machine-gunners Plain clothes... Cadet Company Band practice. Dreast,

Drill order.

Tuesdays, 5.30 p.m. :---

Artillery drill.

Cadet Company drill. Dresa: Drill order Friday, 3,30 p.m.

"Artillery drill.

Any other course was unthinkable. None THE TRAGEDY ON THE

SOME CAUSES OF UNREST

the less, the new rigime must-have per-

RAILWAY IN KOBE. pleted many even of one friends. Simul:- A correspondent writes to the Tim taneously ill-advised articles in the home HOW MR. GREGORY WAS KILLED It is impossible to appreciate the causes Press went far to persuade them that we From further particulars of the shocking of the present outbreak, in Mesopotamia were unlikely to stand by them in an accident at Shioys, near Kobe, by which without some understanding of the went emergency Doube became suspiciun, and Mr. Gregory, of Mrs. Jardine,

The snowball of anti aratheson, & Co., long his life, is apmars, The history at the area and the mentality of suspicion distruse, its inhabitants,

British feeling once started, quickly says the Japan Chronicle, that Mr. A. The Menopatania" of today con gathered volume.

Gregorywand Mr. Elton were not walking | sists of the three Turkish vilayets: of Political meetings were held in the along the railway, as first stated, but were Mosul, Baghdad, and Barn. Of thestoques, and the season being that of crossing, the railway at a point where Majul along was considered an integral Ramadhan, diatribes of dissatisfaction path leads up to Mr. Elton's house. The Part of Turkey; but even there the Karound a sympathetic hearing with fast- Shioya residents dad been entertaining the with the Light Infantry Flation. dish population frequently rose and nor weary congregations. The anti-European sailors from H.M.S. Titania" at Captain dered the Turkishe officials, and many of arguments that are the stock-in-trade of Watson's and all accompanied the sailors to the local chiets were able to maintain them every Oriental agitator were freely the Station to see them off. It was quite The English are dogs of dark at the time. A train had just passed selves in semi-independence. Baghdad bandied. and Basry were admittedly treated as a knära (unbelievers); the bleed the conan the down line and a tram coming wong conquered prosince belonging to the En" try to fill their own pockets; they are the road with its dazzling bend-light blotted pire, as distinct from the State, of Turkeytyrannical and austere, respect was due to out everything else for the moment. The The population of the whole area may their military prowess, but their troops are line appeared clear, and it was not ob be classified as consisting of(1) lowes | departing. Up, in the name of the Faith served that another train was approaching folk; (2) village folk; (3) settled and

The Shiah priesthood in the ap line, which it does comparatively. arini etted tribeugen (4) homadic tribes Up nad lost!!! inen. These four elements have never been pient its support to the agitation, and at noxelessly, owing to steam being shut off simaltaneously and continuously under last the active hostility of the few succeeded became of a slight decline, afr. Elton complete centrol, and the years preceding in perverting the many. the eceupation were particularly tarbaleaz

uttered a word of caution to Mr. Gregory In 1913 the machinations of Saiyed Talib

The motives of these few are less easily as a stranger, buy the line being apparvut.. threw the town, and indeed the vilayet of explained. Among then is a sutall body clear, for the local trains bave a miser Basra into disorder. In 1913-16 the towns of devont · Moslems who object very of Kerbela Nejet and Hillah were in open geaninely to say non-Moslem intrusion inable headlight, be crossed the line, revolt. While the semi-settled tribes fated the government of their lands; there is ghoiregory being just behind him. No in the war, an occasion to throw off the section of the community who genuinely wind caused by a train, and found that it sooner had he crossed. than he felt the voké of landlordism and to defy the Got-prefer, the cheery roguery of the Turk to ernaient tax collector, the nomadic tribe the austere honesty of the British. There had mised him by the narrowest shave. ever claimed the freedom of the desert

is small, a very small, body of genuine Not seeing Mr. Gregory he thought his their own.. Only in the villages where nationalists: men who wish to see a pro friend had waited, but when the train had Turkish gendarmerie were all-powerful was gressive ropotamia under Arab rule, Pussed and 31r. Gregory was no to be anxious for British assistance but fearful en he feared the worst, and, searching.. of British domination. These were led to found him slag come yards away, the The disorders of today are, therefore, dincrust the genuineness of British pro engine having apparently caught Mr. but a repetition of the disorders of yester testations, and threw their weight against Gregory by the shoulder and hurled him year, and may be considered the natural jus. More dangerous than any is the cine against wall. reflex of the mentality of the people. of disappointed place-hunters. Many of that the dazzling head-light of the tram Lang subjection to Turkish rule bas renthese came from Syria. There, while the car on the adjoining road contributed to dered the Arab extremely suspicious of all war was in progress, British gold was the accident by dazzling them when about authority. He is accustomed to fair words lavished upon Feisal's army; and his of cross the line. It is a danger that has The Company will parade at Headquarters. on Tuesday November 2nd, at 3.30 and evil actions. Ha trusts nobody, buteers, ignorant of all bus the art of giers often been pointed at as likely at this. weeks his best immediate advantage.rilla warfare, expected easy maintenance

place. His brains" as his adage ruas, are by Government in peace. Tried as off

This is the second foreigner killed within Dress Drill order. in his eyes

Thus throughout the war,cials, they were found to lack either cups a few weeks at this point on the railway so long as the balance hung even, he assist city or honesty. Disappointed, they filled At Shioys, which is known to local residents The Band will, parade at Headquarters oa,

Monday, November 1st, at 8:50 pm. ed neither the Turks nor the British, but the coffee shops with their grumbles and as a most dangerous place. was always ready to harass and joor the their correspondence with intrigue.

Mr. Gregory, who was only thirty-three, Dress: Drill order (with instruments). By defeated side. He is impatiens. The test their false accusations they inflamed their still reside, his father being a Colonel in The Company will go into Camp on the lasă

was born in England, where his parents most frequently on the lips of his clergy compatriot, in Syria, and in their search the Royal Engineers, having served on the is Patience is of Allah, Haste of for support have lent a ready car to die Shaitan. Naturally a keen man of basi Turkish Nationalists and the Bolshevista staff up to the end of the war. The young ness, he had before him the lesson of un- No agitation is worked save by gold; and man was with the firm of Jardine's at scrupulousacs which the Turkish regime they are the channels through which the Hankow when the war broke out in 1914, bad ught. The history of the Committee sinews of war have been passed.

and inmediately proceeded home to offer his services. After the usual training be af Union and Progress, proved that a modicum of ability backed by a maximum. of effronters could sure the humblest into the mose powerful in the States and the Dioral was not lost upon the Young

mblance of order maintained.

Arab."

THE ARAB WETLOOKA

To inclination was added opportunity. The wreckage of the battlefields of Mean potamid and Syria offered to the mataud ing hordes vast quantities of artas. The Turkish Government validhed with the retreating armies and it was left for the temporary British Administration to com trol a' people easily inflamed, accustomed to disorder, reckless of it, god armed to

aum

FOCUS CY THE OUTBREAK.

place to enter,

There can be no doubt

It is reasonable to believe that the stormvbtained his cominission, and was posted focus, thus formed attracted to itself alt to the Sherwood Foresters, later getting' the elements which, spasmodically

He was on drafted tu his company. OF habitually, opposs the policy of Great Bri France and there saw considerable service tain. A new spot had been found where and, when beverely wounded was invalided pressure

might be applied. Hence the home. When he had suficiently recovered provision of funds. Into the question of he was appointed instructor of machine. the soures of the fands, this is not the Ho applied for permis

applied for permission to retura to' With

events matching thus, the danger of a conflagration was France, but the Medical Board would not admittedly great; and the first outbreak pass him. Later he applied for and ub. occurred, as was to be expected, on the tained leave to proceed to German East. Euphrates. Nejef and Kerbela are the Africa, and for seventeen months lie served cathedral cities of the Shith faith, with the forces operating against Von doctrine which is essentially theocratic and Lizon's column: Mr. Gregory remained Though the material for a conflagration against all forms of civil government. The on active service until the end of the war was always present, yet for many months hold of the Turks, there was always pre to China. He was for a short time in the when he was demobilized and repatriated Mesopotamia under British control pro cartons, and even during the war they wore

Jardine. sented a spectacle of peace and unprofarced undertake operations against Hongkong office of Messrs. cedented prosperity. The change seems them, in the course of which the sacred Matheson & Co., whence he was transferred sudden; but the immediate causes which led shrines were bombarded The area borders to the Yokohama office, where he had been the outbreak were gradual and cumula the desert, and the free warfare of the about fourteen months, being in charge of [tive, gene

nomad tribes is more famillag than the the shipping and insurance departments of the office He was on a brief business peace of cities. More important still, it In every body politic there is a dissatis was the area in which British troops had trip Kobe K fed element, and Mesopotamia was no never operated. The tribes of the Tigris who knew him exception. Those who welcomed us were túl geen and believed, but the tribes of the great majority, but a hostile minority the Euphrates had only heard, and they was inevitably there. The outbreak is doubted, the result of the perversion of the many In July they rose and rescued an arrest- by these few, The most important factored Sheikh, the forces went against them has been the delay in the final settlement, were driven back; presently there followed To each and every suggestion that was a real military disaster to the British- made about the future of ten Nothing erable booty. This was excuse, enough for the the loss of some 300 prisoners and consid. stereotyped reply was given,

REASONS FOR DISSAFACTION.

can be done until the future political any Arab rising. The extremiste- came status of the country has been determined, into their own; and the rising spread. It and this awaits the decision of the Peace was the inevitable result of the early Conference. The decision of the Peace disaster. N GAAT Conference waited on America, and a whole year was lost." The Western mind

is accustomed to the slow working of diplo. macy; the Oriental looks for action, and⠀⠀

NATIONAL INSURANCE,

SOLDIERS.

Mr. Gregory was highly respected by all He had been married

about two years, and leaves a young widow and an infant about four months old.

SHANGHAI HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT SCHEME.

WHAT IS PROPOSED.

Its will be remembered "that about: wo years ago a report was presented to the Inernational Commission for river work at Shanghai jointly by Capt. Hugo von Heidentam, who is a Swede, and the hydraulic department.

his patience is limited. The first disorder. WHAT THE DEPARTMENT DID FOR which has apparently been informed by th

According to the Svenska Dagbladet. to occur provided an apt illustration of

Swedish engineer in question, says the this. In the summer of 1919 it was agreed between the British and French GovernA general review of the work done in op nion that it was necessary to increase L. & C." Express, the report expressed the ments that the north-west boundary of Mesopotamis should be below Deir ez-Zor; the administration of National Health the depth of the water at the port from but the full details of our withdrawal were Insurance is contained in Part IV. of the 201ft to 30ft, to a depth of from 33ft to still under discussion when the impatient est annual report of the Ministry of commended in order to provide the res 43ft, and certain investigations were re representatives of the Arab Government at Damascus advanced in force, attacked Health, from 1917 to March 31st, 1920." quisite technical basis for the preparation our officers, and violently seized power. The number of approved sociaties in of a definite scheme. The choice stands be We accepted the new condition, but our England and Wales on December 31st twoen an improvement of the entrance acceptance was attributed to weakness and 1919, was 1,258, with a membership of through the mouth of the Yangtze River from that day forward the Upper 10,100,607

? | on the one‘hand and of the other the con- Euptras has been disturbed. The in- All man who served in the war and on struction of a new diep harbour in connec cident was paralleled by the acclamation discharge were certihed by the Admiralty tion with Shanghai farther to the south, by the Syrian Congress of Feisal as king or Army Council as unfit, if they were

The International Commission approved

Machinegun Detachment dril. Dress: Drill order.

Drew: Plain clothes,

Moralay, November 1st-

ORDERS FOR MOUNTED INFANTRY SECTION.

Parade with Light Infantry Platoon at

Headquarters,

Dress Drill order. (Shorts) will be,

-worn-instead of breeches,

November 5th:-

Wednesday, November rd, and Friday, Parade at Riding, School, Polo ground, Causeway Bay at 3.13 p.m. Uni- form optional.

ORDERS FOR CADET COMPANY BY LIKET. X. 3. M.

p.m.

WEYMAN.

BAND..

CAMP 4

week end in November and the first Dwo week ends in December. All Cadets wishing to attend will give their names to their Section Com manders, before November Sib, 1920-

G. F. E. RAPSON, BL-Major.

Adjutant, H.D.C.

NOTICES

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Members are notified that in future all Orders for ensuing week will be published in local Papers on Friday nights and Saturday mornings, Copies will also be sent to all Clubs in the Colony and members are re gasted to make themselas acquaint ed with the Orders.. -All members of the Infantry Bat talion must notify their Platoon Commanders before November 3th of the dates when they are proceeding to Camp. This is needed owing to arrangements hiring to be made for Accommodation, messing, etc. Camp is being held at Lows on the last week-end in November (27th and 8th) and at week-end (4th, 5th, and 6th bank holiday), and 2nd weekend (11th and 12th) in Decem ber, 1990. Attendance at Camp for three days (3) is required. Satur des count as half days. 3.31usketry will commence for the In- fantry on Saturday, November 6th.. and course will be fired on Satay afternoons and Sunday mornings. until completed, except the three. week-ends when Camp is being held. Artillery Company will fire course on Saturday and Sunday, 4th and 5th December, also Saturday and Sun- day, 11th and 12th December, Dummy Charges for practice is loading: may be obtained from Storeman at Headquarters. The Territorial Course to be fired this Training Season is a abort one, and it is hoped tha as many as possible will endeavour to, attend before Camp There will be a Practice Shoot or King'a

Park Range on Saturday and Sun day, 30th and 31st October, at 2.30

Ammunition may be obtained from Head

quarters

There will be a meeting of the Corps.

Shooting Commities at Headquar ters on Tuesday, November 2nd, at 6.p.m

CHINA'S IRON OREL

RESOURCES

A summary of the iron ore resources of

at a time when the definition of bis future not members of approved societies, were the proposal in the report concerning fur atafus was under consideration in Europe. entitled after discharge to benefits pay then investigation, and voted a sum of DOTUTE OF BRITISH CAPACITY able out of the Navy and Army Innance Tls. 350,000 for the undertaking of a special Incidents Ruch as, these emboldened our, enemics and bred doubt in the minds of Fund. The number of discharged men examination of the technical possibilities our friends. These latter marked the pro. entitled to benefits out of the fund on July of developing the port into a world port Chias given in commercial hand-took gress of demobilization and the reduction 1st, 1915, and 1919, were 35,000 and 09.319 The investigation is now being carried of China, just issued lathe U.S. Bureau of our forces. They began to wonder whe respectively. By March 31st, 1920, the out by a special department which, after of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Dr. ther we had the strength to effect the ad number had increased to 93,060 The Coppultation with harbour experts in Foster Bain, of the US. Bureau of ministrative reforms on which we had membership immediately preceding the out- London and New York on certain questions, Mines, who spent some time in China in embarked. Justice was being evenly ad break of war was 56

is to present z scheme for alternative solu Yestigating its mineral resources, estimates ministered, corruption was severely visited

With the rapid demobilisation of the tions, while the hydraulic department will that China has 400,000,000, tons of iron ore measures for the more even distribution forces many difficulties Confronted the also submit a separate scheme. A final available and suitable for modern furnace. of the burden of taxation were initiated Department. The pressure of more decision on the question is to be reached practice, and an additional 300,000.000 tons To a country accustomed to mal-admin-mediate and exciting events bad in many in the autumn of 1921, when a technical that might be treated by native methods. istration auch adjustments must place a case, blurred the memory of the incidente commission composed of one representative The iron ore deposits are now controlled by burden on shoulders which had litterio of pre-war pristence. The majority of the of China and one each in the case of the Chinese or Jap jew interests, the Chinese escaped

no direct their five groat Powers interested in Chinese Government minding to control those that While those who were relieved felt gration had had the contact with the shipping will meet at Shanghai for this are not already mortgaged be the Japanese, tide the debtor who was called on to pay forces. Many knew that they had been purpos bi, creditor, and the unassessed who found members of societies before enlistment, but himself, assessed, believed they bad a griey that was the extent of their knowledge. The following is culled from a Home And yet, what alternative was pos. The name of the society was completely paper: The sale of aeroplanes and equip. where the fukin system of governmat forgotten. In approximately 30,000 cam meat as Hardwick Aerodrome-ator The Han Yeb-Ring farnaces are probably was excellent theory, execrable in tice; but the Türk could always point to the Department succeeded in putting the suggests quite a lot. A two-seater Avro, his constitutional framework, his criminal man in touch with his society ready to dy was sold for £50, and another codes, his mauicipal law, and his technical During the three years covered by the A.D. 28, two-seater, which was damaged schools, na evidence of his good intentions report upwards of 444,000 insured persons went for 45 It certainly looks to We were bound to give the country an beame deposit contributors, while the quiries ought to be made about licences administration at least as good as that of number of open accounts, which in 1916 for flying and so on, when an aeroplane ho Turks taken at its highest face value was 272,000, reached 418.000 last Decembers can be bought so cheaply.

ance

The Ponchibu furnacer were producing in 1918 about 75,000 tons of pig-iron, The operated by the South Manchuria Balluny Aashanchau Iron Works in fanchuria, have an annual output of 150,000 to producing an equal amount, which will be increased when the company's furnaces ar in operation at my fuc retinate of China's production of pig-iron (1918) would seem to be about 500,000

& year.