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OUR NEW ARMIES.

HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

RUDYARD KIPLING DESCRIBES THE GUNS AND

SUPPLIES.

A Visit to a Training Camp.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1915,

mistakablo half-gromble, half Missed Howitzers. grunt, of guns on the move. I left them taking their dinner. The picketed horses heard it first in mens-tins to their tepty, with a and one of them neighed long and strenuous afternoon's cleaning up loud, which proved that he had ahead of them, and a detail nader abandoned civilian habits. Horses orders to take over some more Tastablesand mewa seldom do more horses from the railway stations than snicker, even when they are The big park held already nearly halves of separated pairs. But three thousand men. I had seen

One had known the place for youre as a piotaresque old house standing in a peaceful park; had walohed the growth of certain young cake along a new laid Avenue, and applauded the owner's enterprise in turning a stretch of pasture to plough. scores of aach estates in England

Scattered among the tents were which the motorist, through pass-rows of half-built tin abeds, the ing so often, comes to look upon ready prepared lumber and the

corrugated iron lying haside delivery almost as his own.

In a single day the brackened them, ready to be pieced together turf between the oaks and the like children's toys. But thore iron road fenco blossomed into were do workmen. I was told fonts, and the drives were all cut that they came at morning, but up with hoofs and wheels. A had knocked off. because it was Jittle later ono's car sweeping | wet, home of warm autumn nights was stopped by sentries who asked her name and business; for the owner of that retired house and discreetly wooded park bad gone elsewhere in haste, and bis house and lands were taken over by the military.

which he had contributed to the GERMANY'S STATE FOOD' "common stock,

"And what sort of men have you get in the unit?" I asked.

Every sort you can think of. Grain Cargo that May not NowTM There isn't a thing you couldn's

bo Delivered; / have made here if you wanted to. Bat"the corporal who had been filter spoke with fervour "you

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New York, January 26. The order of the German

Government in regard the

THE INCURABLES.

No Pro-German Pence Talk Wanted.

Mr. Cecil Chesterton in his

garded by the tfficials at Wash always with us in the shape of ington as likely to deprive the curable Pacifists ready at the owners of the American steamer first chance to try to patch up a Wilhelmins, which has cleared P-German peace. He reminde for Hamburg with a curge of foods, Says Mr. Blatchford, writing in Germany, of the right they the beginning of the war and consigned to an American citizen in the Weekly Despatch, of the sinister Giroulary issued almost at claim to land the food supplies bearing the signature of Mr. J.

at Rotterdam.

The basis of their claim was the.

R. MacDonald, Mr. Norman

Angell, Mr. E. D. Moral, and Mr. Charles Trevelyat, the object of the circular being "to aim at securing such terme that this war will not, ither through the humiliation of the defeated nation or an artificial arrangement of frontiers, merely become the starting point for new national antagonisms and fatüre wars,"

The oironlar stated that "when

life of their own now, and, knew and missed the howitzer batteries can you. That five-ton Bulford | trol of all the msize, wheat, and in His Heart," asyn noma pluin what pulling together" monst. after all."

Battery Parks" in Sileres. A cock-pheasant chaperoned wet-

military motor truck] out in the our supplies in Germany in re. / words about the danger that is When a battery comes into me down the drive, complaining. "And she isn't the worst, [Mr. Rudyard Kipling co-er us on service. The officers' catap, it "parks" all six guns at loudly that where he was uaid to said the master-builder. But tributes the following article mass was a thin, soaked marque. the appointed place, side by side walk with his ladies under the it's all part of the job; And so to the Philadelphia Public Less than 100 yards away were in ono mathematically straight beech trees, some unsporting fanay, when you come to think Ledger -]

dozens of vacant, well-furnished line, and the accuracy of the people had built a miniature of it. Me painting oarte, and London, Doc. 18.

roons in the big brick house of faligament is, like ceremonial drill landscape, with tiny villages, certificated

plumbers loading which the staff furtively ocoupled with the Foot, a fair test of its at churches and faotorise, and came boel!"

What about the discipline?" one corner. There was accom-tainments. The ground was no there daily to point cannon at it.

"Keep away from that ploos,” I asked. modation for very many of the treat for parking. Specimen treen men in its stables and outhouses and draining ditches had to be said I "or you will find yourself

The corporal tarned a fitters declaration that the grain was not eye on me. "The mechanism is alone, or the whole building might avoided and circumvented. The in a field kitchen.".

Not me!" he crowed. I'm the discipline," he said with most intended for the German Govern have been gutted and rearranged gunners, their reins, the guns, the for barracks twice over in the last ground were equally wet, and the as sacred as golf-courses!"

ment, but for non-combatants, profound truth. "Jockeyin aand was therefore exempt from There was a little town a couple sick car on the road is discipline, seizure ander The Hague Con There are three months,

slob dropped away like gruel from the brake shoes. And they of miles down the road where one too. What about the dissipline?vention. Suspicion is expressed in me-used to lunch in the old days and He turned to the sergeant with the New York, papers that the were Londonere olerke,

and have the hotel to oneself. Now the carpenter's chest. There was Wilhelmina is being backed by ouanios, shop nasistants

are eix ever-changing one sergeant of regulars, with men-anything and there what you please. But they were officers in billet there, and the twenty years' service behind him German financial intereate in her all home and at home in their astonished houses quiver all day and a knowledge of human nature, vayage norose the Atlaatio. saddles and seals. They said to traction engines and high-piled

Mr. W. T. Brookins, of S "You ought to know. You've nothing; their officers said little lorries. A unit of the Army Serv. just been made corporal," said Louis, who has sailed by the the time te ripe for it, but not before the country is secars from ica Corps and some Mechanical that sergeant of regulars.

steamer Potsdam for Rotterdam, enough to them.

They came in across what onos Transport lived near the station."Well, there's so much which bas, however, expressed his con- danger, meetings will be or had been turf; wheeled with tight "Are they easy to find?" I everybody knows has got to be fidence that the Wilhelmina will sanisad and speakers provided." wise teams stamped off to their with the hands of a sweep and in and do it," quoth the corpora annonsood his intention of going ty Germany meets with serious traces; halted; unhooked, the asked of a wandering private done that-that-why, we all turn be permitted to go to Hamburga se those meetings now and hear those speskore. They will withoat molestation, and he has

begin to bleat about peade directe. piekete, and behold, the six gains the band of a Christian among "Yes, that's just about how the were left precisely where they the lions.

"Well, the A. S. O. are in the regalars. "Corps and see our

case stands," said the sergeant of to that port to meet her.Reuter. should have been left, to the

Washington, January 26.

roverses, and they will call upon fraction of an inch. You could. Territorial Drill Hall for one stores.*

The German Ambassador has the constellations to come down from the heavens and prevent the see the wind blowing the last few thing; and for another you're They were beautifully arranged notified the State Department British and the Belgians and the drops of wet from encha leather likely to her US Thore's some in a shod which felt like a monasthat his Government has given Russiang and the French from

an official E¤T3DC) that no muzzle cover at exactly the same motors come in from Balford angle. It was all old known Be snorted and passed on, shell world without; and the you ited States to Germany will be bombarded Sasrborough, and tery after the winds, clashing foodstuffs shipped from the U-being rule to this poor dear Germans who burat Lourain, Batteries look after their own evolutions, taken anconsciously ing of patrol,

private who acted as checker stomachs, and are not catered for in the course of the day's work. Tue drill-sbed was peace and he came from some railway office seized for military or other use.

have just murdered a lot of wo- by contractors. The cockhouse Our man have one advantage," comfort. The A.8.0. were getting had the thin, keen face of the

men and children by dropping was a wagon tilt. The wood, being said a voice. "As Territorials roudy for pay-day and for a con- clerio.

bomba on Daukirk. "We're in billets in the damp, smoked a good deal. One they were introduced to asmade cert that evening. Outside, in thought of the wide adequate kit horses once a year at Iraiding. So the wind and the occasional rain- town," said the sergeant who had UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. always display such solicitude for chen ranges and the concrete they've never been accustomed to spurts lifa was differen". The been a carpenter. "But I'm a

Balford motors and some other married man. passages of the service quarters made horses."

I shouldn't care in the big house just bebind.

crocks ant on a side road between to have men billeted on us, an' I One even dared to think Tou

what had been the local garage don't want to inconvenience other tonically of the perfectly good

and a newly erected work-shop of people. So I've kncoked up a panelling and the thick hardwood

oreaking scaffold-polea and belly-bunk for myself on the premises. floors that could

128, slatting rick-cloths, whore a 'It's handier to the stores." forge glowed and general repaire were being effected. Beneath the motors men lay on their backs and

The one met men and horses arguing with each other for miles about that countryside; or the dar would be flung on her brakes by artillery issuing from ersas lanes clean batteries jingling off to their work on the downs, and hungry ones coming back to meals. Every day brought the men and the horees and the weights behind them to a better understanding till in a little while the car could pass a quarter of mile of them without having to

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"I see. And where are the bitterios?" I demanded.

course. "Out at work, of They've been out since 7."

this

How shocking! In dreadful weather, too."

"They took some bread and cheese with them. They'll be back about dinner time if you care to wait. Ilere's one of our field kitchens."

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"And what do the horses say about it all?" I asked, remember ing what I had seen on the road in the early days.

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hoot more than once.

"Why are you' so virtuous?"

"They said a good deal at first, she asked of a section encounter- "Service conditions, you 800," but our chaps could make allow ed at a blind and brambly corner. said my guide as the cook inspectances for 'em, Taey know now." Why do you obtrade your per-ed the baked meats and the men Allah never intended. the

sonality less than an average tax

cart?

Because," said a driver, bis. arm flung up to keep the untrim- med hedge from sweeping his cap off because those are our blessed orders. We don't do it for love."

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No one aconses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beata and hig weapons. He hasn't the time.

inside the wagon tilt grated the carrots and prepared the onions, It was old work to them after all thees months-done swiftly with the clean economy of effort that life teaches..

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Crazy Mixture in the Rain, It was a wettish, windy day when I visited the so-long-known house and park. Cook pheasants ducked in and out of trim zhodc- "little."- dendron clumps; neat gates open- "And have they got plenty of

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Warning Not Needed. We entered what had been the

local garage. The Mechanical Transport were in fall possession, tinkering the gizzards of more

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We discussed chewed-up goare (emples at hand) and the divil population's views of the military. The corporal told a tale of a clergyman in a midland' town, who, only a year ag, on the occasion of some manoeuvres, preached a sermba warning his

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Alex, M. Darwin.

Perth.

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These peculiar persons who

the enemies of their country must be sat upon promptly. The only acceptable basis of peace is the absolute destruction of the Prus↓ Bisa power. Fortunately this is stood by the people of British ond generally and thoroughly under-

the allied cocatrice, but it is wise to keep an open sye upon good- Shang-for-evil gentlemen not only in our own, but also in neutral countries.

Confuey 97 Connaught Road,

Fernandes Aberdeen Road No. 7 Top Floor, Macao,

Henry Victoria Theatre, Kwang Hing Lung, Nogalesaz. Leverad (9), Liverpool. Liechongloong, Bindjel Manwild, New York. Reivax, Taipeh.. Sarifa 12 Bridges St. Second Floor, Macgo. 2

Senghean, Rangoon, Hotel, Macao.

Silva Francisco Hongkong

No. 9

Shanghal,

doctor said: "No annexation of territory international com puleory' disarmament, and the opening of all colonies to all countries. That ie the kind of drivel we are going to have serv ed out to us directly a favour

These

able moment Bike generous if

gunners to talk. His own arm called their friends to pass them does that for him. The batterien panners, or for pity's sake to

I see there is to be a cifrenos off-saddled in silence, though one shave another sack under their

this month, at which the Socialista. noticed on all sides little quiet mud-plastered heats.

of Denmark, Holland Norway and caresses between men and beast Volces la Gear-Boxes,

Sweden will talk about the wAT, -affectionate nuzzlings apd A corporal who had been nine

and Dr. P. J. Troelstra, of Holland, What are these lade when nose-elappings. Surely the gun-years a fitter and seven in a city

says that the conference will be ner's relation to his horse is more garage briefly outlined the more they're at home?" I inquired.

sated attention that the Londonere obiefly all sorts intimato oven than the cavalry virulent diseases that develop in and conditions."

man's; for a lost herse only turns Government rolling stock (I heard

Governments of Holland, Don- mark, Sweden, and Norway Battery Gets Hungry"

cavalry into infantry, but trouble quite a lot about Bulford),

W. B. ELWES, "should hold themselves in readi The cook, in his shirt-sleeves, in a gun-team may mein death all Hollow voices from beneath flock to guard their womenfolk

Superintendent,ness to intervene in favour of He serves at least three jealous made another investigation and round. And this is a Gunners" evisceratei goar-horse-confirmed ugn nst the soldiers.

Hongkong, Feb. 25th, 1915, peace when a favourable moment gods-his horse and all ite sad-sniffed judicially. He might have war. The young, wat officers him. We withdrew to the "And when you think-when

Oreat Northern Telegraph arrives. The neutral countries, dlery and harness; his gun, whose hesa cooking aihee the Peninsular. said eo, joyously, as they passed shelter of the rick-cloth workshop you know" said the Corporal,

Company, Ltd.

the doctor says, are the proper least detail of efficiency is more He looked at his watch and across to and fro, picking up scandal-heorporal, the sergeant who

what life in those little towns Yingkat Street, Amoy, Kowmoon Tiongho

persona to prepare the way for important than men's lives; and, toward the park gates. He was about breast-straps and breech had been a carpenter with a bust-really is!" He whistled. "Now

peace. And, when asked for his when these have been attended to, responsible for 100 rationa anda inge; examining the collars of ness of his own and, toidentally, come and see as paid in the drill-Shelliangmohionchuntong own ideas as to peace terms, the the never-ending mystery of his battery has the habit of saying all ammunition wagon teams, and had carved through the Ber shed."

Canton St., Shanghai. art conamanda bim.

that it thinks of its food.

listening to remarks about shoes. War; another sergeint who was The first man I ran scross there Yeohing, Moji "How often do the batteries go Local blacksmiths, assisted by member of the Master-Builders' was a corgeant who had served. Nestaichun, Shanghai. out?" I continued. "

the battery itself, do the Association, and a private who in the M. I. in the picnic we used Fukuimaru, Kobe, Ma "'Bout five days a week. You shoeing. There are master bad also been a fitter, chauffear to call a war. He had been a Cheongwo Woshui, Yokohama. 949, we're being worked up a smiths and important far- and a few other things. The sor- private chauffeur for some years Gretchaninoff, Petrograd.

riers, who bave cheerfully geant, who kept a poultry farm in long enough to catch the pro-

R. BLACK, Superintendent, thrown up good anges to help Surrey, had some duty elsewhero. fessional look-but was joyously Hongkong, Feb. 25th, 1915. ed into anoredly preserved veget ground to work over ?"

the game; and their horses reward A man at a carpenter's bench reverting to Service type again, able gardens: the many-coloured

"Oh-yes-

them by keeping fit. A fair pro was finishing a spoke for a newly The men lined up, were called leaves of specimen treee peated "What's the difficulty this portion of the horace ara aged-painted cart. Hosquinted along it out, salated emphatically at the themselvesstickily against sedden time? Birds?"?

there was never a Guaner yet "That's foun" said the pay-table, and fell back with their tracks any more to-day. tent walls; and there was a mix!

No. But we got orders the satisfied with his team or its master builder. Of course, in emoluments. They smile But it was not too dark hulf snof their neighbour's business they

at get ready for the concert. ture of circus smells from the other day, not to go over a golf. rations till he had left the battery his own business he'd chuck his each other. horso lines, and the faint civilised course. That rather knocks the but they do their work as sted- jab sooner than do woodwork."An' it's all so funny," mor- hour later for my car to meet a will have some exceedingly breath of chrysanthemums in the bottom cat of tactical schemes." fastly and wholeheartedly as the But it's all fanny."

murad the master-builder in my big lorry storming back in the rade descriptions of their condnot potting sheds. The main drive Perfect shamelessness, like per-men.

"What I grudge a sergeant ear. About a quarter-o-less wind and wet from the Northern offered to them. As I am myself was being relaid with a foot of feat virtue, is impregnable; and, I am persuaded they also like struck in, "is havin' to put two than a quarter-of what one 'ud camps. She gave me London always politeful I will simply fint, the other approacter were after all, the lightnings of this being in society and working out and three guinea a week men to be making on one's own!" allowance half one inch between observe that the real business of churned and pitted under the war, which have brought out so their daily problems at draught loading and, aaloading beef. Two-ten week and hub and hubswung her corner. neutral countries is to remain gan wheels and heavy supply much resolve, passion and self- and direction. The English, tos, That's where a modified all found, I was. An only two like a Brooklands belle, changed neutral. Mild and benevolent wagons. Great breadths of what sacrifice, must show up equally and Londoners particularly, are conscription for the man that earn to look after," said a voice gear for the uphill with a sweet preachers of peace and brotherly had been well-kept turf between certain soule and institutions that the kindest and most reasonable wont's roll up'd be useful to us! behind. "Au' if I'd been asked click and charged away. For love who get into the European unbrowsed trees were blanks of are irredeemable.

of folk with animals. If it were We want hewers of wood, we do!"-only asked-to lie down in the aught I know, aho was driven by ring during the last rounds of slippery brown wetness, dotted The weather took off a little not our business strictly to under- I want that file." This was mud all the afternoon" The an ex-to-and-ten--week-and- this heavy-weight contest may with picketed horses and field before noon. The carpentere could rate ourselves for the next few s privato in a hurry, come from speaker looked at his soldier wage all found" or who next month experience a subsequent difficulty Litchens. It was all a crazy mir have put in a good half day's years, one would say that the beneath an unspeakable Bulford, of 22-10 a week and half bandful might be dodging shells with her ture of stark necessity and mani- work on the sheds, and even if Territoriale' batteries had already Some one asked him musically if of silver. Some one wanted to and thinking it all so funny... of their featorar. When the time carad laxury, cheek by jowl in they had beat rained-upon they done, wonders, but perhaps it is he would tell his wife in the know colto vode if that was Horse, Foot, even the guns may comes to diali pesce terms the

bad roofs with fires awaiting their totter to let it all go with morning, who he was wit

he was with to union rated, and the grin spread sometimes get a little rest, but to Allies will attend to that business. rotarn. The batteries had none the grudging admission wrung night."

among the uniformed experts. long as men eat thrice a day there If the neutrale get nothing the of these things.

out of a wringing wat bomb- You'll find it in the tool Thank heaven!" said one of 18 no rest for the A. 8. O. They may think themselves uncommon- They came in at last, far down ardier, "Well, it isn't so dam lohest," said the sergeant. It was them at last, "It's too dark to carry the campaign on their over 15 lapky Robert latchford in the park, heralded by that un-I bad, consideria"

his own tool-sheet and a beauty, work on those blessed motor enduring back,

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the undiscriminating rein.

*** The cookhouses, - storeroome, forges and workshops were col lestions of tilts, roles, rickcloths End odd lumber, beavered togeth

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We'll

neutrala intend to be a

they give away the last shilling the other chaps have got.

Tm afraid if they don't keep their impertinent nores out

in discovering the exact locality