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THE HONGKONG--DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1925

THE WORLD. RENOWNED COCKTAIL

BACARDI

SOME RECIPES

BACARDI COCKTAIL

A small wine-glass of BAQARDI

The juice of half Lime

One or two teaspoonfuls of sugar

In a glass filled with les

Shaks well, strain and serva,

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BACARDI GRENADINE COCKTAIL

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One Jigger BACARDI

One tablespoonful of Grenadine Syrup

Juice of half a Lime

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Blake well and serve in cocktail glass.

BACARDI DUBONNET COCKTAIL One half jigger BACARDI One half figger DUBONNET Juice of hall & Lime

One teaspoonful of Grenadine Syrup, In a glass filled with Ice- Shake wall and serva.

MARRIAGE IN THE NAVY.

[By Lieut Commander the Hog. J.M. KENWORTHY, R.N., M.P.]

ment their rations out of their own pockets. The Admiralty could not resist the demand for equal treatment, and marriage allowance was arranged for the petty officers and men of the Royal Navy on the same scale as the Army and Air Force, and it has been maintained up to the present time.

My Lords Commissioners of the Ad- miralty and their permanent civilian as sistants have been opposed to marriage in the Navy ever since the Navy Office was established.

Senior officers of the old school were equally tostile to matrimony in all sanks and ratings of the service. With the in creased stationing of ships in home watera to meet the German menace and the with- BACARDI VERMOUTH COCKTAIL (DRY) || drawal of the foreign squadrons, this feel

Hall wind-glass BAUARDI

ing

died

away to a certain extent as re. Half wine-giam French Varmoath

gards the sog-going captains and ad- Cracked Ice, stir and serve,

mirals. But in the first years of my own service in the Navy, and up to about 1910, it was tradition in the Service that an officer who married before being promoted to post-captain was ruined so far as his career was concerned.

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THE SAILOR'S WIFE, HIS SHIP. The idea was that a naval officer should be married to his ship, and that bigamy was to be discouraged.

The one exception was that of the Flag-lieutenant, personal aide-de-camp to an admiral, who, by tradition, was ex- pected to marry the admiral's youngest daughter. Thereafter his father in law looked after his promotion. Other officers who were rash enough to marry while comparatively young tried to get guuboats and other small commands where pro- motion was not good but the pay for an officer in command better, or retired into the coastguard service.

Some change took place on the introdus tion of torpedo-boat destroyers and sub marines into the payal service. These provided more separate commands for junior officers, and also higher pay on account of the arduous and specialised nature of the service.

Thus the allowance to seamen, marines, and reservists of the Royal Navy is-Ta for a wife, 133, ed. for a wife and one child, and so on up to 288 for a wilo and seven children, with is for each additional child. There is also an allow ance for motherless children of 6. ed. for the first child, 48, 6d. for the second, and so on down to 15. for the seventh child and 18 for every child afterwards This is the same seale in the three fight- ing services.

The position to-day is that married officers and all ranks of the Army and Air Force, receive marriage allowances. The petty officers and men of the Royal Navy receive marriage allowances. But the commissioned ranks of the Royal Navy are still exempt.

This has naturally led to very orderly and constitutional protests by the officers of the Royal Navy, in which, happily. they are supported, also in a most orderly and constitutional manner, by the men of the lower deck through their duty cor stituted societies. A good deal of pres sure has been brought to bear upon the Admiralty and the Treasury in the matter It must be remembered that, generally speaking, the Royal Navy is a poor man's service. It is the service of the younger ACES, or the sons of professional men;

hut, above all, many of the officers come from traditionally naval families, and re- present the third and fourth generations of naval officers in the service of the country..

THE SALT OF THE SERVICE, These latter are the very salt of the Aware of matrimony spread through service, as they are imbued in its tradi the destroyer and submarine services, totions and devoted to its interesta the horror of the old-fashioned sen officers Most of them are poor men. By the and the distress of the Admiralty. But very nature of their service they have, the spell was broken, and by the out- to keep up two homes. The married break of the Great War the old tradition officer on board ship has to pay his meas as regards the Navy at sea had been im-allowance as he is only provided with paired.

hare Navy, rations by the Admiralty, and

It was the same with the bluejackets. does not even get the rum allowance of Marriage, was not recognised by the Admi-the seaman; in addition he has to pay ralty except that seamen is a special con- for his servant and to provide his own eession were allowed to allot from their immiforin Ho must then keep up pay by arrangement with the paymasters.separate establishment, ashore,

The widow of a seaman killed on duty Whereas the married military officer in peace time was not, and is not now, may expect to live at home and dine entitled to any pension. Grants could be every night in his own house, the married made as indulgence allowances. The naval officer must face long separations widows' pensions for officers were miser and no financial benefit from the upkeep ably stall, and were in the nature of in of his house on ahore, dulgence allowances alan

BARRACKS FOR BACHELORS. Whereas all barracks built for the use of his Majesty's Army have married quarters, and soldiers and non-commis sioned officers married "on the strength" are suitably housed with their wives and families, no such provision is made for the Navy,

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The distress in a great number of enses is really acute. Many officers of careful! and prudent habits are heavily in debt to their naval outfitters, aud in some cases have to withdraw their children from school. All this might be faced with fortitude if there were equality of treat- ment But the officer of the Army and the Royal Air Force has nothing like the same expenses as the married officer in At the three chief dockyard ports of the Navy, and yet he receives allowances, Portsmouth, Chatban, and Devonport and, in many cases, an official residence. excellent modern barracks have been.

Thus, a lieutenant in the Army receives provided for naval ratings entering, train-£450 per annum if married, £387 if nu- ing on shore, or awaiting ships, and married; a captain 2013 per annum if generally speaking these are far, superior in acvemmodation and modern equipment to those provided for the Army

They were completed only a few years before the war, and are excellently de-a leutenant in the Army, is £173 a-yezz signed for a bachelor service. There are no married quarters, and rules as to the men housed in them sleeping out are strict.

married, and 2490 if unmarried; a major £753 a year if married, and Poss if unmar- ried. The corresponding rates of pay for naval sub-lieutenant, who ranks with

married or single; for a lieutenant, who ranks with captain in the Army, £292; for a lieutenant commander, who ranks with a major, £517 per annam-married

There are no indulgence passages for or single. the wives and families of officers or men,

as in the case of the Army and the Air: Force-

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men are able to bring their wives abroad, opposition by Parliament Not only was although they may he away for a three, four, or five years foreign commission

This has meant, and means to-day, years of separation. I have known married naval officers returning home after service But the old tradition reasserted itself. abroad complete strangers to their own Long delays took place, for which the children, who were actually afraid of their First Lord was unable to give adequate fathers. It is a fact that the great reasons, except that the matter lay with majority of naval marriages turned out, the Treasury. If he fought for the naval and turn out to-day, very happily This officers marriage allowance he was not is probably due to the fact that, in view successful, and it has been the first of these dimbilities and discouragements, economy effected towards paying for the young people have to be very much in new ships. The result is to dishearten

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