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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1927.

1927 Edition

OF THE

DIRECTORY

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The Sixty-fifth Annual Issue of the

Directory & Chronicle

for

HONGKONG, the Treaty Ports

CHINA, JAPAN, QOREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, THE PHILIPPINES, ETC.

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OUR HEALTHY ARMY.

BACK TO 1913 STANDARD.

FEWER FLAT FOOTED .RECRUITS.

During the year 1925 the health of British troops at home and abroad was "antisfactory, and fur- ther reductions in the admission, death, inváliding, and constantly sick ratios were effected. The figares now closely approximate to those for 1913, the last pre-war year. These are the outstanding features of the report on the health of the Army which his Majesty's Sationery Office has issued..

“CUTTING" THE CAVALRY. RUBBER AND TIN SHARES.

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LONG-THREATENED ARM WHICH STILL SURVIVES.

WHERE GREAT WAR EXPERI ENCE MISLEADS.

:

The general character of the Army Estimates had so far become public property some weeks in advance that their actual publication came more by way of confirmation than of revelation.

Our old friend, the irreducible minimum," crops up regularly in the debates upon successive Army Eati ziates. In March 1028 the Secre tary of State for War stated with an air of finality that we had now reached a stage at which we could not possibly spare another single Presumably the Army bayonot. Council agrees with him, for it has now turned its economic axe upor The number of officers admitted to hospital shows a slightly higher the abres. The bulk of the gross ratio ihan in 1924, the principal saving in military expenditure" dur- causes being malaria, inflammationing the next financial year is to be' of arealar tissue, bronchi, or ton- effected by reducing the cavalry. sils, and influenza. The deaths were 4.44 per 1,000 of the strength, as compared with 5.88 in 1921. The average strength of cadets at the Royal Military Academy was 228, of whom 198 were admitted to hos pital. A large proportion of the sickness was due to local injuries incurred during training and or- ganised games; 8 such cases were admitted to hospital, and 652 visits were made by out-patients. At the Royal Military College 370 out of an average strength of 414 worn admitted to hospital, 107 of the cases being due to local injuries,

The question will inevitably arise as to why, instead of merely reduc ing the cavalry, the bold economic stroke has not been made of abolish ing this arm altogether. True, it is a question which is becoming hoary- hended and moss-backed from years of reiteration. Threatened institu tions live long, but it will generally he found that there is a justification for their survival.

To argue that cavalry has com- pletely out-lived ita ctility, and therefore is an anachronism, is to show very limited acquaintance with the conditions of war. Undoubted- ST to influenza, and 7 to "otherly the Great War has left a legacy diseases of the digestive system." majority of local injuries were due of misleading proportions in this to training or organised games, respect. We instinctively think of the stone-walling. ' tactics of the football and riding being at the western Front; of great armies con- top of the list.

fronting each other for years on end, and from this mental pictare naturally comes the coachsion that the day of the horse saldier is past. Cavalry Decisive Factor In Palestine.

10,000 Malaria Casen.

The incidence of sickness among soldiers during the year shows on improvement on that of 1924, the admission ratio being 446.2 per 1,000 of the strength, compared with 484.7

1024. The principal causes of admission were malaria, 10,010; venereal diseases, 8,591; influenza, 3,017. Diseases of the digestive tem showed a slight increase; but there was a reduction in malaria

There

were 454 nad influenza. deaths, or 2.35 per 1,000 of the strength, as compared with 2.80 in 1994. Jadged by the average sick time to each soldier, the commands with the highest ratio of ineficiency were: Malaya, 20.01 days; West Africa, 18.30 days; and South China

17.90 days. The lowest ratios were: Bermuda, 419 days; Mauritius, 479 days; and Malta, 7.28 days

But we must not visualize war. fare in stereotyped pictures. Trench fighting is but one phase of it. In- Froat as the stead of recalling the Western burial ground, of cavalry let us shift the scene to Palestine. Never was cavalry em- ployed to mare telling advantage. Indeed, it is true to say that the magnificent, dogged work of the in- fantry in that campaign has been

faftly overshadowed by the spec- tacular feats of the mounted arm. When hostilities, partake of the character of war of movements, cavalry gets, and always must "get, its opportunity.

DIVIDENDS AND QUOTATIONS.

Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been advised of the following dividends declared on rubber and mining shares

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making 10 per cent, to date. Telok Kruin 10 per cent. inb

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making 40 per cent. to late. Kamusan: 20 per cont. foal, mak-

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making 35 per cent, to daje.. Borrelli Rubber: 15 per cent., final, making 60 per cent to date.

Borelli Rubber: 8 per cent, int. Ula Piah: 5 per cent. final, mak. ing 10 per cent. to date. Tia Bentong NL: 2/- (13th),'

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UNION. INSURANCE

SOCIETY.

DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Subject to audit the Directors of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., will recommend the payment of a final dividend of six- teen shillings per share and a bonus dividend of ive shillings per share for account of the year 1925.

They will further recommend ant interim dividend of twenty-four shillings per share, for account of the year 1928, and a bonus of 20 per cent. on contributory "premium.

BERLIN'S FASCISTS AND COMMUNISTS.

A TYPICAL SUNDAY RIOT.

AND REVOLVERS USED

FOURTEEN CASUALTIES.

BERLIN.

Seldom does Sunday pass without violent collision between Fascista and Communists in the Berlin dis- In the South | triet, but a confict whicä took place African War the cry was for more, last month in the suburban station and yet more, mounted infantry, of East Lichterfelde ainest deserves not to supersede cavalry, but to the name of civil war. supplement them. In India the

the The proposed reduction in

By an unfortunate coincidence,

Then

The number of invalids dis- charged from the Army during the year was 9,152, or 11.12 per 1,000 cavalry must always remain an in-organised bodies of the hostile of the strength, compared with 13

dispensable force.

forces returned from holiday outings, per 1,000 in 1924. The principal |

in the same train, and there was n causes were various kinds of in- fiammation, tuberculosis, and val-home establishment of the cavalry good deal of friction on the journey. vular disease of the heart. Melan- will not appreciably militate against When, however, the train stopped the scope of efficiency. Cavalry at the station named, words were cholia was responsible for 44 cases,

en masse is a very imposing spec auddenly transformed into deeds. Contribution To Research,

tacle in a Long Valley review, but without any too orderly battle

in modern One of the outstanding features quite out of the question

array the opposing forces, each during 1925 was the number of cases warfare. The full strength of a admitted to hospital for some form cavalry regiment is 600 sabres some hundreds strong, clashed with of intestinal disorder. Gastric Relatively this is an unwieldy combusters, and life-preservers.

a shock of sticks, stones, knuckle- ulcer,, duodenal ulcer, dyspepsia mand as compared with infantry due to some chronic form of appen- formations. The loss of a squadron a thoughtless shot gave the signal

them into action, dicitis, and hernia were the subject means reduction by one quarter. for those who had revolvers to bring of special investigation. These Now that serial observation has so

The fusillade set up a panic among researches," says the report," en- Generally superseded cavalry, recon the non-belligerent passengers, who tailed the frequent use of X-rays, naissance, the work of the moutted test meals, and other modern an atmia restricted to mare concrete ed in terror, uttering cries cillary methods of diagnosis and operations. It may be worth ask alarm, both across the platform and down the rails. Fortunately the treatment, which brought into con- ing whether some of the transform sultation the surgeon,

medical ed veomanry regiments might not specialist, radiologist, dental officer, he restored to their original charac and other scientific workers. Suchter. There are still plenty of mea collaboration on the of special on ists ensures definite scientify remalts by the land who own horses and being obtained which may be of in- cost to the country of a yeomanry valuable assistance to medical offi regiment is very small in contrast

cers serving in different parts of the with the maintenance of a regular world, and are, moreover, the con- regiment of cavalry.-Naval and tribution made by the Army medical Tilitary Record. officer to modern research in the elucidation of certain difficult prob

"lems now being investigated."

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of

approaching traffic had been stop- pod outaide the station.

The police on the spot were powerless. Even when they had been reinforced by a couple of

hundreda" brought up in motor orries, a good deal of play with bataas was necessary before the combatants could be parted. Only after a delay of an hour and a half

was the train able to continue on its way.

·

Of the casualties, fourteen were

A smali outbreak of diphtheria at VENOM IN WOMAN'S EYE.iciently serious to require bas-

ATTACK BY A SNAKE.

the Tower of London during Decen- ber, 1923, is stated to have been interesting from an epidemiological and bacteriológical point of view, in

· JOHANNESBURG. that the occurrence of three cases almost simultaneously was traced to An instance, said to be by no carrier of the bacillus diph means pacommon, especially in of G theri, who was treated for diph-Potchefstroom, Transvaal, theris in a Metropolitan Asylums make spitting venom into a human Board hospital in the previous April. being's eyes has occurred on the He returned to duty at the Tower outskirts of the town, the victim in June, contracted a "cold," which being a Mrs. Fleischman

the recurrence was followed by

She discovered a Jaake in her diphtheria baccillus in his tonsila And infection of his comrades. The garden and attacked it with a rake, whereupon it reared itself on its prompt detection and isolation of tail and spat at her. Some of the this carrier" and the men infect

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The Soldiers' feet.

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