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CHINA'S SONS AT THE

FRONT.

Happy Picture of the C. L. C. It is an open secret that there is. large army of Chinese. NOW Labourses in France. -

And on these men was thrown

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1918,

GUNS ON FROZEN CLOUDS.

A LEPER MILLIÓNA IRE.

THE CENSORSHIP A

PROTEST

MADE.

stanon of his regard for his HOW NAPOLEONS AER patients he has preesated 088- arine to all the wurdy, for the Chinees are passionately fond of the song of birds.

two

At the base also era the ex-

senior British offiser;

Oriental View of Craft.

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By Captain Lord Dunsany,

Some Wolrd inventions.

Life on Calion Island,

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By Sir Arthur, Quiller-Coach

12 BIRMINGHANSEATS.

Labour to Contest

Political parting in Birmingham sorship of the Press to be wrong

We who hold the present oen-are pushing forward ⠀⠀ their

back

The chicer in charge of the finger print department is ons of It was a great and daring ex. grestest experts in the world. The name of the office was made by msay nouns strung

Dr. William P. Burus, who ha periment to bring 100,000 Chinese By his magic art he can tagather into one angainly word.

Very wonderful see the invent, had charge of research work in thousands of miles scross the identify any soolie in

The furniture of it was in the ions which the war has produced, the lapar colony on Culion Island, world and graft them on to the miles, so that substitution, of forid style. The work of it was but they are as nothing to those the Philippines largest le par com in principle and disastrous in arrangements for a final election

sniegos the extremely complex organisation which delicate.

to tell the people that it was all others, legion in number, munity in the world, with practice, may take for parable the under the new Act: The sity will which already existed. “It was ZE

Chinese are past wasters, can be quite well worth it, everything; ingenious in conception, and population of 6,000 Ispers, arrived retailing muddle of 1914; for have twelve representatives infallibly detented. non organisation of men who were

and to see that they believed it. fantastic in design, which bave in San Francisco recently and is the same mischief lice at the root instead of seven. With the ar- leading lives of consistent and in-

Two officers were talking been submitted to the Inventions at the Palace Hotal.

of both. svitable overtime, working con perta who censor the beautifully together in an important room, Department of the Ministry of

omption of the Duddleston Divi- Dr. Burne states that very good tinually at the highest pressure, painted letters from the coolis talking with dissatisfed voices, Munitions and rejected. Only results in the treatment of leprosy country called Lord Kitchener or provisionally selected candi- When the war broke out, the sion, the Unionists have offcially A Chinese labout company and the gist of it all was that one suggestion in tan is novel and have been effected by the use of so the War Office the additional responsibility of coasta of five officers, 19 other Boomer's staff was not quite what possible.

"ma, our dates, for all the seata.. Mr. Janse a drug known as “basic fuchsin." best military organiser. Neither Collings, Sir Edward Parkes, and making a success of Chinese white ranks and 475 coolies, of

was wanted. Poor little Roemer The motive behind the invent Though Dr. Baras does not astion nor labour. They bad to squees whom thirty-two are gangers, worked in an attic upstairs. ions is invariably good-an claim it ses sure for leprosy, he foresaw that this was to he seek re-election.

Government yet Mr. J. T. Middlemore will not some previous minutes out of Companies are merged in group Boaner was sent for. He knew attempt to end.the war quickly states that some of the phases of a struggle calling their crowded hours in which to of three or more companies under at once something was wrong, by making our weapons more leprosy, such as night blind- whole aivil population. If Lord be the Unionist candidate, for on the Mr. Neville Chamberlain will sope with this new problem.

and he came in trepidation into efficient and deadly, and by neas," have been cured by the Kitchener forssaw it, he was Ladywood, and the other new In one sense this experiment

the big room.

destroying the enemy end his drag, `wan dertain of success. No ode] Chinese compounds are mo

still a professional soldier, admir- comers will be Mr. F. L. Harris They came at once to the point, machinery of war, Nor have the "The leper population who had experience of the Chinese delled, so far as possible, on the without circumlocation or fort inventors poured st obetacles Calion Island constitutes a model machine, but by his professional Thompson for Handsworth, Mir on ably soquainted with the Army for Moseley, Mr. E. C. Meysay coolie had any doubt that he loss of a British ba: camp. If to spare his feelings; Bosner's or observed dificulties. They state." Dr. Baras aid "The knowledge tied to the Army. W. Dennis for Deritend, Sir would work, tirelessly, ingenious-left to themselves the coolies Kaiser stories were not satis have frozen the clouds and lepers govern themselves. They active ly and with a fine natural ver- would undoubtedly arrange them factory. Roemer protested lament-mounted artillery thereon. They elect their own seembly, have helper. He knew that he needed and Alderman Jephcott for Lard and retired for his Herbert Austin for Kings Norton, aatility, provided that, and this on principles of picturesque but ably his devotion to the Father have trained cormorants to fly to their own judges, court and dis some hundreds of thousands of ley. Mr. Evelyn Cecil will re- is the point, be scald be made insanitary cha. But here the land, his wish to serve the office Laen and pick the mortar from trict attorney and their own volunteers, sad he did wonders in main at Aston. The Liberala happy and contented, that he British passion for order and soap with the long ungainly name. Kruppe walle 80 that they police force, all lepers. could be made to feel certain that and water intrades, with the His protestations wer

arranging to train them. But he have candidates for eight divis- not crumbled in dust, they have trail.

did not know what the Govern-ion, including Sir John Barnalay, his family would be provided for, result that for spick and span, listened to. They merely repeated ed fram balloons monster magnete that his food and housing cams will forabbed bestrees the aver cartly that his Kaiser stories were that snatched rise from men's But we also have a few white man there existed throughout the con for Edgbaston; Me. Wilfrid Hill "Most of the lepers are ratives.ment know perfectly well-that who will oppese Sir Francis Lawa up to his expectations and that age Chinees compeand would not satisfactory; the senior oficer hands, they have perched on be was sufficiently amused in his satisfy the soal of the strictest said it, and the other one shelle men to steer them at their there, including two Americans try system of oivilian govern for Moseley, Kr. J. G. Hurst for

of camp disciplins. The offisare looked it. Miserably poor Bosner targeta.

and one Englishman. One of ment administered by faithful Sparkbrook, in opposition to Mr. It must always be remembered of some of the camps cffer prizes awore he had doze his beat and Aeronautica have been specially huge fortase during his stay on

these Americans has amassed a man who had given a great part Amery; and Mr. Arthur Brampton that the Chinese has the thinnest for the best kept hats and the would

of their lives to it; man whose for Deritand, It is expected that. be "much batter in favoured by the inventors. Many Calion Island and in of skulls and the quickest of coolies enter thoroughly into the future. "Did his best!" they said. seem to have thought that the millionaire. He found that he and commities work in a score of in all 12 divisions.

acquaintance, through magisterial the Liberals will have candidates brains, that he is a magnificent epirit of the ingenious and And with scornful emphasis they lifting power of hydrogen is could contract with the guvern. ways, reached every street and The Labour party will ran ten judge of character, that his mental tiring welfare campaign of which shot their comments at him. Why, unlimited, for they have suggest ment for the sale of fish and hamlet in the land; who under candidates, including Mr. W. processes are profoundly logical they are the objecte

he never brought the Kaiser ed armsar-plated balloons, the bought a lsanch. His business stood their neighbourhood and Banfield (Bakers' Union) and Mr. Dând that a lighting sense of ham. Every compound has its own within five miles of the front line, transport of artillery by aeroplane, increased and he now owns a their neighbours who could E. Charles (National Union of

our pervades bis being. Since washing but, with hot and cold and, when he did bring him on and of troops by balloon. Paddle large fleet of launches manned by collectively within a week have so Bai'waymen). they have been in France the water; drying room; ite recres to battlefield once, he made him wheels bare often been put other members of the colony. Ühinese, labour companies have tion hut, sometimes fitted up as pick violets on it. But so ham-forward as an alternative means

organised the prevailing anthu- worked magnificently, and this tiny gymussium, sometimes ane", whimpered poor Bosner "to of propaleion for aeroplanes, the Culion Island are a happy, con- were enlisted, billeted well-

****As a whole, the lepers on must be attributed very largely with a little stage, always made love the dumb flowers, so affect fast being quite overlooked that tented lot. The government litary found themselves able to Individualism has been, at any

Bisam that every fit volunteer as inviting and comfortable as ing" "Sheep!" they said. "Ass marine paddle wheel revolves feeds, houses and clothes" tham, take him over. As it was, the rate a school for teaching men to

osred-for, antil

the miz Let us see how this has been war sonditions permit, and a car though one picked violets on a in two distinct media, sopomplished.

teen fully stocked with every battlefield!" And that was doing On arrival in France the coolies thing to rejoice the coolie's hears, ie beat, they scornfully added,

Covering Up the Moon; bay the little lazarise of life, each Government ignored this slastic know their own business. Farmers are at once seat to the Chinese from a handsome and reliable And Bosner swore he should do heavy guns are to be easpended comforts of civilisation, which War Office having used up its about meat, nephews know about For desing with hostile aircraft us tabacco, and they have all the and working machinery, and the and batchers, for example, know labour base and depot, which is timepiece at 5 france 15 centimes better in future. ander the control of two officers, to tinted spaghetti and tomato.

Late that evening a timid knock are to be armed with coytbra like Once a year their relatives. STO

from captive balloons, sroplanes they lack in their own villages, fresh and intelligent officers, fell uncles, and so on, and one gets to both of whom have a lifelong Though a British soldier is in sa beard on the door of the big Bosdices's chariot, heat reys are permitted to visit them and then bim with indefinits power, and roseberry, or Caterpillar- on the "dug-out," armed wonder if the recent Great- knowledge of Chins and the charge of these canteens, he room, and a harah order to enter to be projected for Fatting we take due precautions for scattered him over the country- Endowment, order, be the indeed Chinese. It goes without saying ally has a Chinese assistant. It was Herr Carl Romer again. Zeppelines on fire; and the disinfecting them, though we do eide, ignorant, cursing, elbowing, last word of the bright young that they are Bccomplished The writer visited one azob Would this do? Was this better? Chiness scholars. Here the which had just taken on a very and diffidently he shoved forward moon is to be covered with a not believe that infection is heotoring; a very good fellow, ameteur. woolise go through all the pre- tell and coin coolie as canteen this little contribution. "The popular suggestion is to attsch

big black balican. A most spread by sotual contact,

no doubt, at s'ups or in a golf house verandah, but in this liminarisa to starting work. They Bemetant. He had only bean Kaisar

Two College Graduates. it read, who desired to

Bat, to return to the censor- are, medically examined; fitted there a few days, but he got full participate in the battle from its craft gun, project the light on the small society of its own. Some of capacity to improvise. "As & in practice. In practice it has |s searchlight 10 an "anti-air-

basinees lacking at once the ship. We contend that has been out with their kit, they have their marks in a severe cigos ex very beginning in the midst of object, and shoot along the team the lepers are quite wealthy and regalt thousands of Volunteers been

"The Calion leper colony is humility to learn and the wrong in principle and disastrous finger prints taken, officers are smination sonducted by the his fighting troops, went on the To prevent polished railway line among them are two university were turned back, dispirited, from editors have been at once told too allotted to ther, and then they 0.0. on the names and prices night of July 14 to the region of shining at night the last coach graduates, one from Yale and the recruiting offices unable to cope little end too much, told, under s

disastrous because as formed into companies and of his stock in trade. Yet the impeding ighting, and spent the last train is to drip blacking other from Cornell, both Filipinos with them; while this accepted privileged secrecy, things which

"tioned asimon" and "three the night in an advanced observa At the base live certain tech-fity" and so on were the only tion post,

on to them.

"The inland is fifteen miles recruits often enffered hardships their conscience warned them nical officers specially chosen for English worlds be know. He

"There he listened to the received not a little attention

Shells and projectiles have long and and seven miles wide incredible: being fed like wild they ought as honest men and for their knowledge of the Chinese pronounced their names as if torrible music of our surprise fire frora inventors, many of whom and it is five miles from the beasts, and bedded on the stones the public good to disclose and race and the Chinese tongue. A thay were

iacsatations Heatmack, and watched the unpathefray no knowledge that woob who has charge of the health where a telegram putting the their true fanetion of reporting nearest island. Dr. O. E. Danney, in sodden "eivvies," in towns thus have been diverted from large percentage of these were maintained throughout a ma-alleled picture of projectiles science as ballistics exists. By on cervica, is at the same time Mayor in charge would have genuine news to fales function formerly missionaries. They give jestic possession.". the coolies little lectures on the Chinam kitchens are faccipet A fon minutes after our bombard-simultaneously, the shot being raging over the enemy position. scheme two guns are to be fired

governor of the island.” habits and custome of France, ing temples of plenty. Allaring ment, which barst forth, at 450

ensured good quarters, bedding, of running campaigns, in the Mrs Barns scoompanied her bus instil into them the rudiments of aromas arise from the huge.,, he had in his hande the connected by s chain, to which bend to Calion Island and was the with plates, knives, ferks, and an hidder from the readar, sənə

& generons meal well cooked; security that the essential fact in military discipline-no salute boilers where the rice sad stew first reports of the good progress etc., are to be attached.

bombs and incendiary devices, only white woman on the island. eager service of waiters and squale in impressiveness that of is simmering, and on the long made.

Dr. Barns returned, as he wishes Waitre ses

The censorship, farther, is

■ Chinese. policemen--and tell tables are rows and rows of thora "From then on till nightfall, mechanically unsound, is the

Another favourite subject, to join the American army. He is

wrong in practice, being worked them anything which is calculated glistening and highly sustaining denying himself eron a moment's "relay shell," a shell acting as of Medicine. to make smooth their life in the esemed rolle which a perepiring reat, he remained with his troops small gan discharged in mid-air

by men who, spart from the a graduate" of the Chicago School

new and strange sphere.

and incredibly deft fingered and all day to-day he stopped on and expelling a small inner shell,

incompetence I have mentioned, standards of morality in are szemingly untrained to civil. These officers have also the expert taras out at the rate of the battlefield facing the contest the object being to obtain en daty of making periodical visits well over a thousand per diam. to the different oampe and settling Chinese cooks are masters of of the fresh and fine successes on that shell in flight does ing falling bombs.

ed ground, and received the news increased range. The fact is or repelling them-and for divert-news, and, within right limits, mere sxcision of a line of two of reporting matters of fact. The any little difficulties by their their art and some of the officers the Marne and to the south-west not point directly

only to emasculate a doonment manuscript is often enough not knowledge and tact. There has masse employ them. Out of the of Bhaim

or a letter, but to falsify it. Sach been marvellously little trouble somewhat placid ingredients of "Hmph,” they said, “Perhaps, certain angle with it, so that searchlights, but colour cannot being this war and concerned in in editing a manuscript, would its trajectory, but makes an un-ceived in connection with coloured the nation responsible for acospt excision, if practised by a scholar since the Chinese arrived, and army rations they sa acob as there has been could creations worthy of the chief of that, or the Kaiser will get tosible. Incidentally it may be dasing its intrinisio brilliancy that the limits of that power little less than a sin against the COEX Bat we shall want better than accuracy of aim would be impos imparted to a beam without re prosecuting it, and this mesus be reckoned by fellow-scholars se always be attributed to misunder-tranestisatio Rita Carlton. As bear of it? standing, never to ill will. As bargainera they are supreme and

remarked that the theory of the The most wonderful proposition abould be clearly understood can readily be realised, it has the despair of French market

“relay shell” was one of the of all in this connection is that between those who delegate

Holy Ghost.

I speak here only of the censok- demand for Chinese speaking eye for the carefully camouflaged to re poem which suggenta tha

German long range bombardment the moon, officers, and it has been found defects of a osuliflower and their angled strains of a margarine before the possibilities of Big

of Paris put forward by "experts" }

So, and not otherwise, can § Snake-werfers.” it operate justly, wisely, isctfully tendency to ceneor opinion

about facts. Of the growing that this system of itinerant patience is simply demoralising scramble, war dance, domestic

"Among the more miscellaneous The rough limit is that anything hardly see how an Englishman arbitrators, and advisere best The great festival of the altercation sad sir raid; but the Bertha were fully realised, meets the difficulty.

Chinese in New Year's Day, when opolies were entranced.

projects are one to cool' machine- may be reported which does not 13th Century Ideas,” they are accustomed to give At another camp the group

guns by placing them in a give away information useful to can trust himself to speak, In the group of inventions raonum, jasket-the inventor for the enemy. Now we do not deny It is necessary to put consider themselves up to rejoicing, which commander was trying to arrange coming under the head of motive getting that thermos asks keep that this is a delicate business: Bat the practice is wrong ments of the coolias in such places the fact that it is also settling ed with all the exciting thrills overbalancing wheel type, second to petrify the German matter of news," the

the mainly because the principle is as base porte. Consequently they day for all debts contracted dur- connected with fabing from the which dates from the 13th soldiers by squirting cement military intelligence summoned the censor's tothos, accepted this are fined small amonate if they ing the previous year. No work and of the local pier.

century, Power is to be obtained over them; a third to throw to it had either the in-war, is intent on this war; is break bounde. This they quite was done by the coolise in France There is no space here to deal in other schemes from people snakes by pneumatic propulsion telligence or the taot. It knew suffering *Sanderstand, but since, looking at on that day. This meant a con- with the work of the coolise walking about Moors and into the enemy trenches and nothing of so editor's bun-{ta - suffer,

and in rasdy, the matter from their Oriental siderable amount of extra work Sadon it to say, that they well up and down stairs, paayet a fourth to throw live wire ness of the sitting arrange on victory. To whom has it ever being resolved standpoint, - they Armly believe for other people, but the burden sara all the“ i and good will songer lifts are to be used sa cables among the enemy by ment and presentation of isened a licence to hide the truth that all such fines go as a matter was cheerfully shouldered. Every which they ressive.

power-hammers, and power is to means of rockets. Germany itself news; while se for censoring from it, even by a tittle? When, of legitimate squeess into their effort was made that the coalies Any man of British birth who be generated from the Low of is to be reached and atteoked by opinion, it might just as well have and by whom, sad to what censor O. O pooket, they cannot quite might enjoy their holiday. was inclined to feel pessimistic rain water from the roofs of making inbe" from England been put to scaduct an orchestra, has it ever surrendered see why, once they have com in ons camp the writer visited about the capacity of his raca houses.

"all the way. tributed to his income, they they had constructed a vaut would derive a miraculone tonic All kinds of substances have Inventions relating to the pro- band, of free public opinion, pat out Barron's eyes, with a It knew nothing, on the other courage? Who is this that would should not walk when they please, dragon, sustained and propelled from gasing what a genius for been proposed as fael: One gentle duction of munitions have been which it hated with the hate, purpose more istuous than any That in just one little instance by twenty worshippers and improvisation, what a happy mán had a power, he said, which, far more protienble than any scorned with the mom, where a technical officer can do illuminated by many lanterns, aspsoity for understanding and mixed with water, turned it into other. Mostly they have been all, feared with the fear, of ignor Milton, the incredible low and sbays Philistine's ""There is yet,” wrote much to reconsils two perfectly The rents in bis armbar were satisfying the bodies and minds motor spirit but he declined to put forward by those actually snoe. It butted in with its fixed detriment that this plot of lion- sound but alightly divergent being repaired, and doubtless he of men of a race profoundly alien dicolose the powder's composition: angaged in production, who in idea Stand said people. sing puts na to, Morethan views of discipline:

msde a triumphant progress to their own his coyatramen had Electricity, many folk belists, many cases have themselves put This is our war, not you „At the base niso is the homita), round the coupeurde the brought to the solution of the can sehieve anything. Its pro their ideas into prsa ander the obarge of a dostot with aggstas of the two stringed fiddie problems of coolis Istog in posed to electrocute the enemy; number of these

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Apply this parable, and you get the story of the censorship. Everyone knows that in war-time there must be a censorship of firma osasorahip. But it is along Suggestions are frequently re- delegated power-delegated by

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been impossible to meet fally the women. They have an eagle The writer listened to one rich favourite explanations of the of a black beam" for absouring and those who exercies hip of news, of information.

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