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SUBMARINES.

The Moral for the Nation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917.

SOBRIETY IN WAR TIME. VICTORIA CROSSES. AMERICAN TROOPS FOR THE BONDage of stiff

Abolition of Treating Has Good Thirty Awarded to Empire's

Results.

Heroes

An enormous reduction in con- London, June 8.-The London viations for drunkenness is ret Gartis announces the award of

an almost intolerable weight of continues to progress. "responsibility, and not 10 weaken them by attacks or partially-in-

weeks. The shorter night, the

After all, these figures relate only to the habitual or occasional

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There is a mass of testimony

bravery on esversi óccasione.

Major George Wheeler, Major George Wheeler, Gurk-

has been welcomed sa ghecking à

FRANCE.

British War Office Reveals

Extent of U.S. Servic

Allies.

LINEN.

A Chance for the Reformer.

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Nothing short of a revolution

FOR GOLFERS.

MEN WHO LONG TO FIGHT.

Princess Alexander of Teck, it

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on the part of the Germane in of the Army have obtained for iter and immediately rushed an and nine regiments of engineers hat are inconceivable without it.!men'with whom he was working the flaga on behalf of the regi

duced thereby are the causes, together, probably, with the in creased skill of their men, and fresh plane, the fruit of experience, Whether they will be able to 'sustain their effort at its present

intensity remains to be seen.

It

to be

can only be said that, in the opio. sabatantial evidence. The trong enemy party with bombere. already serving in the British nathetic. The whole of our they worked hard. To illustra in the fighting line. They can-

balk of the best available testi-

The same conclusion applies to the allegations of ingressed drink- ing smong women.

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three men.

The awards of Victoria Cross announced in the London Gazette incinde eight posthumous zwarda.

The following are among the recipients of the Cross-

Lt. Col. E. D. Henderson

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to

the duty of keeping them, where they are."

Strange Death.

While Grossing Liverpool

Various Methods of Practice.

Last season (says the New Mr. Walter Long on the Spirft in our public appearance is latent Tork Evening Post) a golfer be-

of the Colonies. The Naval Correspondent of

in the Intes: wär economy, saya longing to a alab in the metro the Observer writes on April 29 as

the Manchester Guardian Starch politan district complained to the Hallows:-The work's return" of

London, May 28.-An official is a feature of dress is to go. If professional that he did not forty ships over 1,600 tons and the only evidence adduced in the thirty Victoris Crosses, seventeen statement issued bere to-day says the war lese long enough the understand why his game did not the Colonial Offios on Mar 6, on fifteen onder that figure sunk by report of the Liquor Control Board to British regiments, one to that, counting the Americans stocks of it possessed by the improve. Try as hard as be submarines has opened all eyes se justification for the war-time Indian, one to a Rhodesian, which serving in the British and French laundries will come to an end, could, he was unable to get round behalf of the League of Empire, to the real and abiding gravity of restrictions imposed on the sale is the first time a Rhodesian has arraine and the additional units and limp linen will be the rale under 85; and on certain days presented to six colonial regi the submarine warfare. It is of liquor. This redzotion am-won the Cross, six to Australiene, ordered to Frence, there will soon for man and woman, in blouse, when things did not go well he ments a silken Union Jack and a moment for measured and coat capted in 1916 to 50 per cent, four to Canadians and one to be 100,000 Americans in France. shir, "and collar. Ever since would run above a hundred. He shield, the gift of the women and lous words. It is emphatically on the figures for 1914, and New Zealander.

The statement was issued by the Elisabethan lady first aubat had been playing golf for nearly tribute of their gratitude for children of the British Isles BE A the moment to strengthen the returns for the first three montbe

The official accounts of the the British War Office to-day with tuted starch for wire in her pre five yeare, averaging three after devoted services to the Empire, hands of those who are bearing of 1917 indicate that the decrease super-valour, though related in the object of showing America's | posterque collar and the gallant noons each week and practically The regiments were British West anoolonred language, almost ear complate participation in the had a little of it put in his ruf it every Saturday and Sunday. The Indies Regiment, the King's war, and its ability to give im- has gained an ever increasing professional dismissed the com- African Rifles, the West Africao paas anything imaginable.

Nambers of the recipiente mediate powerful aid. It refers dominance in our costume. Bean plaint in a few words by telling Frontier Force, the Falkland formed criticism, especially criti drunkards, and the Board attach already hold the Distinguished to the Draft bill which will give / Brummel is supposed to have been him that as long as he did not Tolands Volunteer Oorps, the 8t dism which springs from ungvowed

| more importance to the fact that/Service Order and Military Croes, an army of 2,080,000 men, and the first to starch bis stock, and practice he could hardly expeal Helena Volunteers, and the Som- motives. The light hopes to the habit of "soaking" has been some both with bars. In gaining says there are prospects of the the permanance of its set, besides to improve his game. which the reduction in the cam.

aliland Comal Corps. the_highest décoration, practically gresteet suocess for the loan, of osusing a flatter in Bath, set practically suppressed, and a vaƐİ

And if more players would

Princess Alexander expressed of the starched realize this truth, there would be ber of attacks a fortnight agamcust of acuecessary or exoes-all have sborn most conspicuous | which $750,000,000 has already the fashion" gave rise have not only not been

been advanced to the Entente collar which is the common- fewer golfers in the mediocre with those who were paying Hat

her gratitude at being assoaistSĒTU justified, but the total number of sive drinking has been prevented.

place badge of "middle" and alues. The old axiom, "Practice tribute to the loyal deration such attacks chronicled for the

The statement declares that upper" clasa life to-day. To makes perfect," probably is more which had brought the sans of week ended April 22 is double that the probibition of treating has, receives the Croes for most flotillas of destroyers are co-opera.the spirit of the starched collar applicable to the royal and an the Empire from every corner, af the average of the preceding oorvention which had become conspicuous bravery and delering with the Entente Allies in much of the rest of fashion bas cient game than to any other the world to fight beside the

mination. With a Gurkha officer the submarine sone; that one been shaped. The frook cost, sport. her weather, and increased effort onerous. The beneficial effects of and sight man, he crossed the army division, a force of marines, the morning coat, and the tall ductor of a glee club told the

Not long ago the con- Motherland. the prohibition upon the efficiency

Mr. Walter Long, in accepting enemy trench ander heavy bom-have been ordered to France, and Wild people have been known to that the trouble with them was the military authorities. warm and general approval from bing and rifle machine gun and that 10,000 doctors and many wear silk collars and unasarched that they did not practice. He eats, said "In our overens nurses have been ordered to shirts with evening dress, but they made the point that great artists from letters which reach me daily, possessions men are, as I know drinking are found by the Board river bank, he was almost immeing already arrived.

Allegations of ingressed home artillery fire.

Having gained a footing on the England, hundreds of these hav were no more than phenomena, are not geniuses in the seake in the great majority of specific diately counter-attacked by

Taluable for the protest they that their art was a gift, but that eating their hearts out because "Together with the Americans made, bat incongruous and they were great musicians because they are not allowed to take part unsupported

Wheeler immediately led the and French armice," the announce modern official, and festive dress his point he said that when P. not be allowed to go because they - ion of thess best qualified to

"these additional for men, with its morbid search derewski goes on a trip from one

are needed for the government of judge, there is no reason to anti-moor is in the opposite direction, charge with another officer and ment says,

anite will shortly give a total of after sabernees, naiformity, and end of the country to the other, the colony in which they live cipate any change for the better.

although they have begged and He received a severe bayonet 100,000 Americans in France, nestuess at the expense of colour he takes with him a dummy key-implored to be allowed to go. As regards the need for frugality

woand in the head, but managed | squalling five German divisions," and form, demande starch. With-board, and in his room he pro- But necessity imposed upon as in the available supplies, the

waiter and the tices for hours on this. It has been proved that by exto disperse the enemy. His bold Details are given of the increase out it the

Take the case of Chariee Evans, nation knows what it has do tinguishing private interest in the action undoubtedly saved the in the National Guard and the Cabinet Minister alike will look The choice which lies before it is esle of liquor and a strict system situation. Despite his wound, be regular army and the doubling merely disreputable if no other for instance. He started to play gratification of its appetite now of control, excessive drinking can continued to consolidate the of the navy personnel, the state change is made. But the edict when he was a caddie, and the with submission in the fature to be reduced in a marked degree, position,

meat then saying:

against alarch gives a chance that only time he could indulge was | the intolerable yoke which the and that in housee where liquor Posthumous Awards.

"Forty thousand young Ameri- will not come again for a cours after the regular players were success of the iniquitous policy of is sold under conditions of com-

came of the best type are now geons lead in abandoning entirely finished. He would play with the Germans would lay upon the fort and decency there is less

assembled in sixteen camps to the fanereal, animaginative, and the only club he had, and when world, or whole hearted co-opere inclination to drink so excess than

receive intensive training with ugly fashion in men's dress that it got too dark to see he would Street, Loadon, on his way to busi- tion with the Navy in the task of in mere drinking barn.

view to becoming officera in the has gripped civilisation in the put his handkerchief on the ness, Thomas Marsh, 52, of Wood. bringing that policy to none effect.

new army.".

lat half-sentory, and for a ground and use that as a mark to Green, shipping clerk to Mesars. But there is another side to the

The announcement says the return some variant of shoot at. When he entered the Negretti and Zambra, opticians, conferences with the question which is more distinctive

Anglo- the colour and design of the first national tournament in the of Holborn-viaduct, was knocked ly naval, and which should be risk of disaster, either through

Liett Colonel E. Deleral Her. French Commissions have been past. The stiff white collar sad East in 1908, he and a number of down and killed by a van which driven home on the nation in order failors of supplies, or through derson, killed, North Stafford completed, and that comprehen- shirt are the supreme symbol of youngsters from Chicago ato had become detached from a that the pressure of public opinion each a dissipation of the units ebire Regiment. He brought up dustrial mobilization, including saism in dress. Why, as a sex, hundred yards away from a small

eive plans have been made for in the servitude of men to utilitari-nished the others by standing a runaway horse may be brought to bear and the necessary for work in the main the battsbon under very hear the construction of thousands of should they be compelled to tree and playing to it. And time military risks to which the pre- area of naval operations that fire to the front line, incurring miles of railways. The statement abjure a choice of coloure, and to after time Evans would hit the seat crisis is subjecting na may effective superiority there can no very heavy assualties. When so be lessened. The Observer has, longer be counted upon.

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dine, dance, and orate in a prison-tree with his approach; but, în enemy counter-attack had pene- for months past, pointed out that

To bring about each a die-trated the firing line and the

"Arrangements have been made house of black broadcloth and spite of this, there was quite an proper weight is not given to cipation of our strength to foment situation was critical, Benderson, for the construction of 3,500 air- starch? There is little hope that element of surprise in the fact ap the game rather late in life, naval opinion in the war councils an outcry for protection here and although wounded, jumped on to plans and the training of 6,000 they will seize the chance of that he worked his way to the who won not only the of the Allies Plans have been protection there, is the whole the parapet and advanced stone aviatore this year."

escape now offered them. For a semi-finals. And the thing that title, but has been our national arranged which depend entirely naval policy of Germany; there is for some distance ahead of his with a reference to industrial an barban, driven to a silk.collar.

The announcement concludes little while the unexceptionable did it was practice.

amateur champion three times, a ~ for their success on the power of abandsat evidence of that. The battalion under moet intense are. firms effering to do war work and with his swallow-tails, may believes he owes his access to gold medal for low qualifying Another great player who be-semi finalist four times, won the the Admiralty to provide ships Channel raide show it. The at- He was again woanded but for transport and the safeguard-tacks on hospital ships show it. continued to lead the men moet the inventory of the national indistinguishable from the most praction is Francis Quimet. The score in the national six times, ing of the routes by which they The exacerbated warfare against gallantly and finally captured the resources which have been placed decadent customer of the Cefe only place he had to play lay in metropolitan champion travel and the share of the British merchantmen in particu. objective with the bayonet. Heat the disposal of the United Royal. After that, one fears, will a meadow near the links and here times, and won it the last time Admiralty has been restricted to lar shows it. If we look at was again twice wounded and States and her allies."

come peace, and an eager return a bunch of boys gathered to when he was well past the fifty- finding the ships and affording the raide and the attacks on was eventually brought in dying.

to the bondage of stiff linea. Bat practice. There was a ditob, sud year mark. And all these years the necessary protection. The hospital shipe separately. they

now is the time for the reformer. the boys had been trying for he has been playing against Major F. W. Lumsden.

For the Troops. result is that the Navy is overseen purposeless and savage. But

Let him speak or for ever be silent, months to drive a ball over it. younger men and against men Major F. W. Lameden, who

We bare to acknowledge with weighted with the responsibilities if we co-ordinate the whole, we had previously won the Distic thanks a parcel of books for the

Finally one day Ouimet rent his who could hit a ball much farther which have been thrust upon it, see a purpose, and a purpose the guished Service Order, Artillery. irooge from Mrs. Bowdler,"

sphere flying over, and from that than be, yet his superiority with What is the real meaning of the success of which would be deadly. He brought in six enemy gune

U. S. CENSORSHIP,

time on none of the boys had any approach shote and his marvell- German subma.ine successes and The demand for further protection under most intense fire. He was

more trouble with the ditch. Helons work on the patting green of the Channel raide? It is that made by the corner's jary. at personally leading four artillery

Purposes of Formulating Com-spent hours every day trying all often overcame the lead of the the recources at the command of Ramsgate euggest that the teams with the infantry through

Lieut. C. Pope.

mittee Explained.

sorts of shots.

longer players. the Admiralty are. employed all German policy is not without & barrage when some of the teams

Lieutenant O. Pope, Austra-

Jack McDermott used to station Washington, May 28.-Censor-

Some one said years ago that over the world, in the execution effect. Whatever happens, the were pat pat of action, but be liane. Ordered to hold a moes ship regulations prepared by the caddie

one hundred yards Americans went the wrong way: of war plans which the Admiralty power of the Grand Flest to do again traversed the barrage, important post at all costa, Committee on Public Information, away, and with a meskie he would about learning the game, the cor- has had no sbare in forming its work must not be pat is time and again, with teams, and which was beavily attacked by which American newspapers are pitch fifty balla at the lad, and, reat way being to start on the Before the Admiralty is criticised jopardy, or we run the risk of eventually charged the enemy superior forces. He was sur asked to observe in the national as a rule, all the boy had to do greens with the patter," and then for failure to grapple with the U completely losing the command who were endeavouring to rescue rounded, but fought soflinching interest, and in the absence of was to reach out and grab each work back into the drive. The bost campaign, it is necessary to of the sea, and, with it, all. Those the sixth gun, drove them back ly until the ammunition gave cat any actas! Censorship law, be one. Most of the time the young.accepted plan nowadays is to get know if the advice, tendered by who have the direction of the war and secured the last gan..

Then obeying the arder literally.me effective to-day.

ater did not have to mare sa inch, the professional sad sdjourn to its professional members bas been in their handa have allowed them- Lieutensat Dasid MacKintosh, Pope was seen heading a charge In isening the regulations, Walter J. Travis's achievements the practice tee. After the begin accepted and soted upon. Before selves to become loo

mack killed, Seaforth Highlanders, into the superior fores His body George Creel, Chairman of the are an old story, and the fact that ner has learned to hit the bell we grumble as the inability of the saturated with the masins of Cou- Daring an advance he was shot together with those of his men Committee, entirely disclaims the be won the amateur golf chama hundred yarda he use enough Navy to prokees food-ahipe, tineutal warfare. In giving our all through the leg, but he continued a subsequently found surround-object of suppressing any news pionship of Great Britain when of the practice, and away he sele it is peccssary to know with wat stint to the support of to lead the man exptaring the ed by eighty enemy dead. "Sure Whether other and impérative our Allies, we stand in danger of trench. He repulsed s determin. proof of the most gallant resis except that which would be useful he was forty-two years old was out to master gems that bothers to the enemy. The object of the due largely to his wonderful put all of us; takes a lifetime to olaims are not made upon the forgetting the principles

voluntary consorship, it is ex-ting. Strangely enough, he did leara properly. After he Navy for protection which absorb, which the Becarity of our sea wounded and unable to stand,

oned counter-sttack and was again tance which was made."

plained, is to keep news of vaine it with a borrowed patter, and driven, and finde his ball-in a and more than absorb, the resoar power reats, and of forgetting-Nevertheless, he continued to Portape the outstanding record to the enemy from reaching the that type of club, the Scheneste cappy lie, he does not know what Den at ita diepoeal. The facts alec that our ses power is the control the situation and then for conspionom and consistent enemy through publication dy, was responsible ister for its to do, for all the time he has been speak for themselves to anyone corner-etone of the Alliance. sufficently (recovered to proceed individual valour, is an instance The purposes of the committee being barred from British com- practicing his ball has been teed who will take a map of the world I am afraid some people are with fifteen survivors against the of the late Captain Albert Ball, otherwise, it is stated, are to make petitions.

ap. Then be gets into a banker and study our commitmente in sil still looking for a miracle-mon- fual objective, getting out al Royal Flying Corps who had more easy of access to the Ameri- No one is born a good patter, and is hopelessly lost; he become party of it. The matter need not, ger. If so, they are doomed to trench with the greatest difficulty, previously on the Distinguished oan people the news of what their and Travis is no exception to this impatient, and makes up him and cannot be discussed in detail. disappointment. Tae Board of He encouraged the man forward Service Order and the Military Government is doing.

rale. But he soon saw after mind that the game is for fools That everything has been com- Admiralty may be changed when he had been mortally Cross. The Victoris Cross has The committee has divided its taking up the game that putting and old man, and not belonging pliosted by the sleeps optimism again and again; but we wounded, His gallantry and been awarded to him for services specificstions of information is a big element in the sport, and to either olase he quits for a while, of the late Board is not denied. shall experience no relief so devotion are beyond all praise... between April 25th and May 6th, which would be useful" to the that the score mounts more Then, if he has sense, he goes st If the resumption and extension long as more is crammed on -Lieut. F. H. McNamara... abea ke took part in twenty-six enemy into three classifications: quickly after the player has it right, with the professional to of the submarine campaign bad to the back of the Navy than Lieutenant FH. MoNemers, combate destroying elevan hostile General, Naval and Military. It reached the green than at any

ehow him how. been foreseen, and timely mea the Navy is able to carry. The Australian Flying Corps, Daring seroplanes and driving down is explained that no hard and other part of the game. So every

You cannot learn banking BOLTON taken to meet application of this postulate to an aerial raid upon a hostile train, many others.

fast rules can be laid down; bit of time he had that he could by walking into a bank and it, the eitastion would have the circumstances of the time is another pilot was forced to land. On one occasion he fough, that "those which are pro- devote to golf be spent in patting, sitting at the dak of the But the business of the Government. McNamara descended to his single-banded, six seroplanee; on posed shall be subject to amend and one of the first things he did president. The chances are that that does not alter the fact that The nation can do no more than rescue despite approaching two occasions he fought five and ment and that all the European was to learn to patt into a hole the president worked his way up. the present pressure arises from to let it be known that it expects enemy cavalry and heary rifle fire. once four hostile machines. Each consorships have vastly changed much smaller than the emps in from an offies boy, and only after commitments previously under the advice of the responsible Although severely wounded ia time he brought down at least one their character with the progress 556. It was not very long befors long years of hard work. You taken without the advice of the sailors to be heeded, and that if the thigh, he ascended with the machine.

of the war..

he could run his patte dead to have to know how to read music sailors. The question is, whether events should show that it has stranded pilot, when owing to his Several times bis machine was In the absence of any law on the hole from any part of the and to learn, to uss your throat any action is now being taken to vol been heeded, it means to wound, his machine overturned, badly damaged. Neverti.eless, the subject, the committes green. Another thing that strack nd diaphragm and a lot of other reduce these commitments, or know the reason why. It is now Nevertheless, he set his machine when returning in this way he believes that the regulations him was that if he could lay his things before you can sing a solo whether they are not being, more than ever necessary that the on âre, reached the stranded had to be restrained from imme-drawn will loyally be supported approach shots near the rim he properly. Yon osanot play chose either consciously or automatical voice of sailor, speaking with seroplane and despite grest loes diately ascending with another. by the American press. Complete would save much on the putting, unless you know the mover. Tom ly, enlarged? If the latter be fall authority in the supreme of blood, flew home to the sero- Altogether Ball destroyed forty-copies of the regulations bare and he began to devote a lot of must learn to'orawl before you the was, it cannot be denied that councile of the Allies, should be drome, a distance of seventy miles three aeroplanes and one balloon, been sent, by mail to every daily leisure time in cadeavoring to lay on walk, and exotly the sacar we are xansing a moet serious heard.

[ çompleting the reBONE.

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principle applies to golf,

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