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GREAT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN

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**MECHANIZATION" EXISTS ON HIGHLY-DEVELOPED SCALE BUT RESOURCES SCANTY UNDER TREATY.

BRITISH MODEL AS GUIDANCE.

HONG KONG POLICE, RESERVE.

(ORDENS BY THE HON. ME. E. D. C. WOLFE, CAPTAIN SUPERINTEN“..

*DENT OF POLICE.]

INDIAN COMPANY. Training.

The following is the result of the examination in Fart II. (knowledge of Police duties and Regulations) held on Monday, November 15th:--

Fussed: R.913 Bhagat Singh.

FLYING SQUAD,

The weekly instructional patrol day, November ith, will start from of the Hong Kong Section on Thurs Central Police Station as usual at 5.15 p.. sharp.

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· GENERAL

Since the Revolution the army of military, naval, and air clauses the German Republic has changed which follow!" Thus the treaty, by its charneter three times. At first reducing German armaments, im- it was a volunteer force, raised to poses a moral obligation on the maintain order at home and to de former Allies to promote universal fend the eastern frontiers against disarmament. But the treaty docs the incursions of Polish irregulars, more than this-it sets a definite enine to standard. German disarmament is Maintaining order" mean suppressing the radical re-the standard of what disarmament volutionary movement. This work should be in all countries, and it of suppression was carried out is on the universal application off

Socialist, this standard that the German Gov ruthlessly under tho

(whatever its party Minister of War, Noske. army, which had acquired the name colouring may be) is bound to in-under Inspector H. J. Paterson- of Reichswehr, was largely made up sist with all the weight of its grow.

The orgmest

of ex-officers attached to the old reing influence and authority, gime. It developed into a kind of Pretorian Guard. Having crush-

crament.

Effect of Mechanization."

deprives The treaty

the

Part III. Muskotry.

The following Police Reservists Revolver Range in multi on Sunday, will attend at the Kennedy Rand November 27th, at 10 am, sharp for for instruction in revolver shooting

15 men to be detailed by 0.0. Chinese Company.

1 men to be detailed by 0.C. Indian Company.

15 men to be detailed by 0.C. Flying Squad.

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ed the more radical revolutionary, Reichswehr of aeroplanes, of tanks, moveinent (which in many ways re- of gas, of heavy artillery, and of essential weapons and sembled the Paris commune), it other

Thus the present turned against the Republican Gov: material.

greater un- In March, 1920, the manœuvres have a army occupied Berlin and attempt-reality that maneuvres in France arty (with the ship. But i was swiftly defeated! million" by a general strike. Thus the first Reichswehr as its nucleus) is no stage in the existence of the longer assumed, it is necessary to the existence of an Reichswehr came to an ignomini- assume ons ond, writes the Berlin corres-imaginary enemy equipped with pondent of the Manchester Guar-seroplanes, tanks, and all the other dian.

equipment denied the Germans by the treaty. In the maneuvres the German troops have, to take cover when the presence of imaginarý hostile aeroplanes is signalled. They must also operate against imaginary tanks and heavy artil- Iery. Thus their intelligence and imagination are taxed to an ex- treme degree.

Police Training School. Classes for instruction in Part II. of training course will be held at the Police Training School under -Inspector H J. Paterson on Thurs day, 24th, and Tuesday, November 29th, commencing both evenings at

Training Part I. (Squad Drill). All members of the Police Reserve who have not yet passed out as efficient in Part I. will parade in mufti at the Central Police Station for Squad Drill and Rifle Exercises under Sergeant R. J.

Huntas.

follows:-

Chinese and Indian Companies on Thursday, November 24th, and Tuesday, November. 29th.

Flying Squad on Wednesday, November 23rd.

Fall in on each evening at 3.30 p.m. sharp.

(Sgd.) G. B. FARTYORD,

D.S.P. (R), Adjutant. Hong Kong, Nov. 2nd, 1997.

In its second stage it was osten- sibly a professional non-political force reduced to the dimensions and functions laid down in the Treaty of Versailles and to the loyal service of the Republic. Secretly it was something different. Supporters of the old regime look ed upon it as the aucleus of a potential million army, and its own

The so-called "mechanization" outlook and training wore largely and

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Do London...£120 dom. Chartered Bank £203 buy. Mercantile Bank, A. &B...£90 now.

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ganization known later on as the lows. In applying mechaniza Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been Black Reichswehr," which plotted tion" und "motorization" to the advised of the following dividends the overthrow of the Republic and solution of strategic and tactical and quotations or rubber and the repudiation of the Peace problems the German conception mining shares:-

But the Republic with resembles the British rather than Treaty. stood all attacks and conspiracies the French. The Reichswehr is be and pursued its “policy of fulfil ginning to look upon huge num- ment undeterred by nationalist Lers as an encumbrance rather than sentiment, The Black Neich- swehr, unable to fulfil its own purpose and discredited by the base and inhuman methods it employed, gradually fell to pieces. Its con- nection with the Reichswehr was exposed, and broke under pressure of public opinion. The Reichswehr entered the third stage of its his tory and became what it is now a professional army, conservative like most armies, bus chiefly con- cerned with pay, promotion, and its own professional duties, and with ambitious political not

schemes.

Changed Principle Of Manoeuvres.

As late as last year the annual mameuvres of the Reichswehr were conducted on the assumption that reinforcements of great numercial strength would be available in a This assumption has Juture war. been abandoned, and in this year's manoeuvres the best is being made of the defective instrument left to Germany by the Treaty of Ver- sailes.

a source of immediate strength. Its every effort is being concentrated on extreme rapidity of movement along roads and across country, on lightning attack and swift evasion. Tue rigidity of the older German tactics (of which a remnant still prevailed in last year's manoeuvres) has been completely abandoned in favour of the utmost elasticity.

Extreme Mobility.

The Peace Treaty places the Reichswehr at the mercy of a British or a French army in case of actual hostilities, but it is per hapa not quite so paralysing as its authors imagined. It is not likely that they believed a force of 10,000 men would be adequate for a Great Power Eke Germany. They probably did not foresee that the

mctorization" of modern armies and their diminishing mumerical strength would reduce the impor- tance of strategic a railways and enormously increase the importance of good roads for motoring, of This change, due mainly to poli- which Germany can build as many Lical realism, has been hastened by as she pleases and wherever she the evolution of military science

hance the end of the Great War, Pleases. Article 178 of the treaty Ten years ago, when million armies forbids all measures of mobiliza- were still facing each other, an tion," but the possibility of con- army of 100,000 men would have centrating an adequate force of seemed an absurdity for a country Great striking and penetrating with more than 60,000,000 inhabi: Power, both when hostilities seem imminent and when they have be tante. To-day such an army seems much less absurd. Dr. Gessler, the gun, is now much greater than it German Minister of War, told me an have seemed a few years ago.

"From in a recent conversation:

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the the

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Eastern Emelting Orda 3/- per share final, making 15 per cent. Eastern Smelting Prefs.: 2/- per share final, making 15 per cent.

Klang River: 121 per cent. in

terim.

Kuala Lumpur: 1/- per share. Malim Nawar South: 1/- per

share.

Mambau: 5 per cent. ad interim. Rawang: 1 per share interim.

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Paris

Lucy, November 21st.

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New York Brussels Geneva Amsterdam Milan .... Berlin ..... Stockholm Copenhagen

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P. & O. Bank. East Asia Bank....... Canton InsurancO Vaion Inlramos North China Ins......... 143 nom. Yangtaza Insurance......M. $46) buy. China Underwriters....31.20 sel Chine Fire Lustrance....216 por... Hong Kong. Fire ina.......$590 buy. 334. bay. Douglasen...NAKKER DO Steamboats so

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Mining Ad... 83/- num. Langkats (combined)......Tis. 177 boy, Do. (single)..... Tia. 9 buy. S'hat Explorations ......Th. 8 war.

..Tla. 5 bug. Shanghai Leang

$ boy. ..19/3 nom. Tronch Minster H.K. & K. Wharts ......$120) om. B.K. & W. Dock.........$35 sei. China Providents.......................

Tla. 163 buy. Hongkaw! .ne New Engineerings... Tla. 5 sai,

...776. 95 buy, Shanghai Docks Ewo Cations....... Tle. 7.23 buy.

7.45 vel. 2 BOOK Orientals Shanghai Cottons (old)...Tls, 4 buy- Do. (new)......Th. 23 buy. H.K.&. Hotels.........36 sel.

850 sel. Ts. 120 buy. K. Lands Shanghai Lands Humphreys Estates.....$121 boy.

Realtio.......$63 buy, Hong, H.K. Territorials .......................Sif sei..

***$20.10 buy. Prince's Building3120 bay. H.K. Tramway

sel.

Peak Trams (öld)

Star Ferrie........$541 buy. Ühin

Do.

Lights (combi)....."

Do

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FLK. Electrica

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(old)....$91 nom. (18)....86 nom

Macag Flockrice$1 bay.

170 boy.

Bingapore Tractions..

Malabon Sugars

Cements (combined)....

„35 BDEL, NO

$6.60 nom.

4.87 25/32

Telephones u Chins Bases

31.94

25.28

China Sugars...

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12.07

Cauton Icos

BB

20.43

Do

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18.10

Do. (new)

BOL

18.39

H.K. Ropes (old)

$10 nom.

Oslo

18.36

Do, (RGS)

$5 nom

Vienna Prague

34.56

184

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Helsingfors Madrid Lisbon Athens

193

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28.81

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SŐ now. ..$6 aol.

367

2? sul.

Bucharest Rio

700

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Buenos Aires

474

Bombay

1/3 15/16 2/62

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a purely military and technical large and powerful engines would standpoint. we can see no purpose, be necessary for the most efficient ia rising vast masses of men. We type of military aeroplane. are convinced that we must take the big engine has not prevailed. The relatively small engine, such overwhelming into account

modern wares Germany has been able to de- potency of machine. This machine is difficult velop for her unsurpassed civilian to handle in my case, and it re-aviation, would seem to be as good quires a specialized force of tech- for war as it is for peace. Civilian nical experte rather than a million and military aviation are not quite Germany is not striving to the same, but they do not differ

so widely as was once believed. increase ber armaments. Her at

In the ace of the machine-gun

INDIAN CANAL SYSTEM. titude in that other nations are

Reichswehr has developed under an obligation reduce their the armaments. If they do so in ae- tactics of great potency. Indeed,

30,000,000 AGRĖS IRRIGATED. cordance with President Wilson's the machine-gun has become the proposals, then an army of 100,000 essential German weapon. It is

FEROZEPORE, Oct. 31st, men will be enough for Germany's also claimed that signalling is more highly developed in the

of Naples Ronia

Before a distinguished assem There can be little doubt that Reichswehr than in any other

An improted ersten of lamenting loudly in its columne blage, including the Governor of if general disarmament continues army. to make no progress, then the time signalling, and communicatioarsely haters fashion with enthusiasm, the Punjab, Lady Hailey, and high.

Germany will tween thinly held want to arm. In that case she scattered and exposed positions, and that owing to its mild climate, Punjab civil and military oficials,

Ferozepore beadworks.

His Excellency pointed out that would probably nak for greater intensified training that lends great Naples is one of the first to suffer the Viceroy opened to-day the freedom in developing and expand resourcefulness and responsilality from the new craze. The average ing her technical equipment rather to every soldier, and an elaborate yearly output of hate in Italy is

technique by which moving troops six million, of which over four the perennial canals of India now than for a bigger army,

Part V of the Treaty of Ver are made invisible to hostile obser million are exported; and it is irrigate nearly thirty million acres, OF sailles opens with the words In vers whether on land or in the air calculated that the new fashion an area three times the size of ON SAGO,On demand

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BAR BILVEF, per oz, tion of a general limitation of the make up that extreme mahility eight million lire.

than girdle the earth twice over. of all. armaments of all nations Germany which is the chief characteristic of manufacturers are the hardest hit waters to the lands would more Gorn L47, 100 fine, per teel... undertakes strictly to observe the the German army to-day.

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