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WAR'S IMPRINTS.

BY AUGUSTUS MUIR,

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH..

GAYER GOLF.

NOVEL CONTESTS,

It is an interesting question to R. Endersby Howard' writes consider in what way war has from London under date left its imprint on the millions of December 24 as follows:- warriers who left hearth and

home, passed safely through the

They have an attraction al their own in the sense that the receiver has to make up his mind

TUESDAY.

BRITISH IN BASRAH.

MARCH 11, 1919.

when it will be worth his while REFORMS IN LAW COURTS the pioneers of British legal

match

as well

Was

INDIAN CODE OF LAW ADOPTED.

of the

you

COMMERCIAL NEWS

DUTCH EAST INDIES TRADE:

The movement of which men-

an influential

preliminary

GIFTS OF WAR.

THINGS THE SOLDIER HAS GAINED.

There comes the hour the

(Limited); Mr. Fed spendour.

with the difficulties of what was to the Arabe a foreign tongue combined to make the task of administration a dificult pro to take and how many to take at

blem and so it was necessary to a time. The writer once engaged;

The British aministration in adopt a method of procedure as in a match in which he kept six bisques up his sleeve for the last aarah is rapidly developing and suitable as possible to the wants tion was made in the "Morning soldier sits down to then the two holes and lost them all and the following interesting article of the country and with which Post recently for the formation what he has lost art soir of

of a Netherlands East Indies at the which appears in the Basrah the British administrators were Chamber of Commerce in London through the war. Shattered health,

or a broken body may have to go There are people who urge that the

thoroughly acquainted.

for the promotion of British down on one side of the account, trading interests in the Dutch with the years of neglect of the phrase "holiday golf" caun venteenth. The experience of lies, gives soute of the salient be other than an extravagant ex-golfers who have trial bisques features of the changes that have

Colonies has already received fiery furnace, and are 8 again pression of an idea: that the extensively is that the best basis beau introduce in the re-organ-

Consequently from August the support of a large number of chosen occupation of life, and in many cases a definite, calculable to treat the paths of peace, very nature of the game is for arranging the handicaps isaation of the Law Courta in the

lass of money. For a great number For indivinal Tus, of course, stimulate its devotees into a for the liver la lica player to Iraq provizes in which Rasah is 1915, the Indian Code of law was financial, engineering, and trad-

adopted in the Basrah Wilayeting firms, and

it has been in every way an ex: The historio City which forms and put into effect by judges and Committee has been formed to

pensive business to go out to fight- out the beca, Ï ned in a different way spirit of grira aud salongivelalf the number of strokes aitvatel:-

Jendeavour,

for England, and remembrance of which noboy that he wondd obucede on the club

what it has cost may bring a cer- but toe who land else desling sites with days of amas Landicaps if the strokes had to the Capital of the Wilayer has to officials whose experience, in carry

the Committee Was

tain bitterness. But this is not all. in 1911 with the men as they ment All the same, there are come in at prescribed holes. doubt traditional records, handed what might be called the world's arrangements. The meeting at Bagdad has appointed was attended by repre-

Taken from his home and made flowed in m the recruiting office occasions when golf is pursad Thas, if ordinarily he would down from the days of its early model administrative service, which

to move at the bidding of invisible to the training-grand, and whe with a light heart that worries give 6 strokes, he ought to con-importance in the world of Islam, was extensive.

Where the of Justice meted out by the however, always been adminis-sentatives of between twenty and letters were received from

shown the glory which is England. has now equilly close dealings little about foozles, and one of concede 3 bisques.

these occasions is Christmas allowance is large it is usually venerableaurevered amongst her trated under the Turkish Code bir firma, and about a hundred authority, the soldier has been

their inabil-

At the end of his service he has with them as they gather their

after those the conclusion,

three fits to One club has been so irrespon possible for the better player to citizens, but circumstances have sad the authorities have come to others regretting

attend, but expressing seen more of the splendid places sympathy with the If literary and legal associations of years of sifting and sorting out their

of our own land than he has seen belongings together in preparationsible as to promote for Christina give rather more than half the withheld from Baaral

A resolution was

in all the years of pesce.. In the for departure, there are certain Day a competition for a pig, the ordinary number of strokes.

other days it had been necessary clear traits which can be read, prize to be awarded for the worst for instance, be woull concede the Bench and Bor which cet pre-war records in the Barah movement. certain distinct imprints which score of the day! In the great 15 at prescribed, holes, he ought important capitals bast. For Wilayet, that one code of law adopted in the following terms:

more freely than most people, majority of cases, however, there to be able to give 8 or 9 bisqnea, jabout 50 years before the advent embracing the whole of Iraq is "That a Chamber of Commerce for me to move about the country war has left on the mass.

will be no sallying forth with It is where the players are fairly of the British, Ottoman Taw was not only desirable, but that the be formed in London for the And these imprints will affecards and pencils to keep scores evenly matched that

me and lead me to places, more bisques dispersed in the Wilayet in the people of the country will natural furtherance of British interests

and that a Preliminary Committee lovely and more to be desired our nativul life in a manner this Christmastitle.

arrauge their wa matches withfle does not always need the sympathetic tiverament, and, system of law in which they are [be, formed to take whatever steps than many that I had known.

Playera will prove very valuable to the taker. Turkish language, by an unly prefer to litigate under in the Netherlands East Indies et it-remained for war to take which is almest jucalculable.

people acoestored.

may be necessary to attain the

Berond our own shores many Eirst on the fist I would place their old friends and make them stroke to which he is entitled stain that time. the

learned to recognise anil bocoma From January 1, 1919, the objects in view. The following of us have been taken to see the self-fileme. This has ever a novel or as serious as they prescribed hole. When he has a been a national quality. In the Please. Not unnaturally, there; bisque he can use it where he accustomed to the spirit of the courts of the Baarah Wilayet have were appointed as a Committee. beauty of lands that are very far

system, the fact that the letre-adopted the old Turkish Code, with power to add to their num is a tea lency to resort to some of likes. past we have always been the gaper forms of rivalry, which Another "unofficial" form of not inspire them to embrace law concessional it what

ter was in a foreign tongue did with one great improvement or ber: Mr. A. C. Maclachion, of off. We have learnt the way of Messrs. Maclaize and Co., Chair-the sun across the desert, we have seen how Olympus stands in the man of the Dutch Advisory terers.

partake of the nature of "freak" colf which is winning its way as a profession, nor did the factar-tha: Arabic is to be the Committee of the War Trade sky, have come to the ancient

back to favour is a contest known that the litigants were unable to

place of Valetta. We have pictures language But foresee a change. The matches.

court. Department; Mr. N. G. McLean, that will not fade and store of One well-known player, for as the "greensome," Precisely understand the proceedings to This will allow the litigants off of Messrs. Maclaine and Co. mea who rolled up patriotically

world is no longer meaningless to in 1914 lacked the "self-confidant instance, is going to meet a golfer why it bears that title nobody is satisfy the feelings of the most]"Iraq to have an actual knowledge Hon. C. H. Strutt, chairman of Demories, so that the map of the not long back from the war, and sure. I believe that players at fatalistir. Under the Turkish that true justice is being dis the Anglo-Dutch Plantations of glint in the eye, the square tilt as the latter never has been good Brancaster that splendid but rule, the fact that petitions pensed. It will teach them that Java

us, but brings visions of remember- tent the ajay, and the crisp walk at the game and has been out of remote course in Norfolk, situated submitte in Arabic were The who is worthy of redress can Roberts, of Messrs. Begg, Roberts.

Together with the pictures, war which they now have got, touch with it for years, the accum-seven miles from anywhere worth ignoret and even torn up is come openly into court and under- and Co. also on the Nether

knowledge. Much of it, of course, la 1914, taking them as aplished performer «proposes to mentioning-claim to have insignificant. The law was not for and how and why he shouldlands East Indies Committee of has given us a very great deal of has no part in the occupations of mass, they would walk round a give a stroke a hole all the way vented it. It is an eminently the people and

therein obtain it; why and how he who the Rubber Growers Association:

peace. It is not going to help me problem, think about if for a rout. In addition, if he leads companionable and easy-going unsoundly administered.

is in the wrong should suffer. It Mr. W. J. U. Woolcock, general manager. Association of British

very much in the future to under- bit. make up their minds, change at the hall distance he is going kind of contest for a Christmas

EXODES OF TURKISH OFFICIALS. will foster Ipeal interest in Chemical Manufacturers: Mrstand the working of a Lewis gun, them, and start again. Today homeward journey as he stands the foursome and less crowl to give as many bisques on the party of four not so solemn as

Apprehending the arrival of forensic knowledge and will sub- George Croll, director of Har- to be acquainted with the in- the situation is boldly summel

boad of risons and Crosfield (Limited); testines of a Mills grenade, or to hules up at the turn. taken isl up and the action

This looks ed with endeavour than the four- the British in Haarah, the judicial sequently inspire 3

staff attached to the Tarkish Law understanding between the people Mr. EW. Burch, of Messrs. be able to fire with fair accuracy speely, energetic, and conflent.at first sight to be a sound if ball match.

rather frolicsome way of produc-

Courts fled to Bagdad saking and a Government which is work-Francis Poek and Co. (Limited); 15 rounds a minute with a Service Mr. H S. Abrahamson, managing ride. But there are other ing a close contest, but golf is There are two players a side with them the knowledge of ing for their welfare.

director of the Association of things War has opened my full of pitfalls, and if the good: and everybody drives. Then local procedure and leaving very

Quinine Manufacturers in Allied

eyes and taught me how to use Countries; with player happens to hold a substan- each side selects its better drive incomplete documentary evidence

Lieutenant them when looking at towns, at The Turkish code is based Colonel M. Morgan Owen. D.S.O. tial lead at the turn I should not as representing the confederacy's behind them when one considers

spaces of open land, or into the be surprised to see him besten.

effort from the tee, and continues the fact that Turkish was a upon the "Code Napoleon" and as bon. secretary pro tem. It was faces of men. It has taught me

the authoritatively announced at the

to read a map as easily as I can This kind of match is not only with the ball with which the language as little known to the is almost identical with

read this printed page; it has exactly new. I remember. Harry better driva has been made. Taus Occupying administrators as it courts in Egypt, and even more meeting that the movement had

more or less satisfactory start seems to have been to the local modern than that in vogue in the official support of all the Im-taught me how discipline is the Harry Vardon playing such a A man's a man. A 3.C.O. is game at Ganton. He thought at from the teeing ground is ensar-population. Those who occupied Cypros In Basrah, as regards perial Government Departments affirmation and not the negation an N.C.. An officer is an officer. the cutset that he had made aed, since there are two chances.the posts of barristersand pleaders criminal procedure, the indian coucemed in foreign trade, and

be cordial co-operation with the the body, even though it may have And get on with the war." That good handicapping bargain. He and the remainder of the hole in pre-British days were form- Penal and Indian Criminal Pro- that it was proposed to work in

is played as in an old-fashioneded of two classes; those who cedure Codes will still Dutch authorities and the repre-damaged the body. There has has been the rule of thumb. And did particularly well going out

obvious it has bred an amazing sense of and stood seven holes up at the foursome. There are still a great had studied for and obtained maintained, for the social unity. A battalion or a turn. Then it occurred to him many golfers who have not tried diplomas of law at the Schools of reason that, as the Turkish Criterest in the Netherlands East ship without discomfort which ne battery is a little nation by itsell, thatinaddition to giving a stroke this hybrid but interesting form Constantinople and Adans, with minal Code is based, literally, ou Indies. and you can't live long in one hole coming home he would of "team" match, and a number a few who had received the lose the "Code Napoleon before you learn the elements of have to concede seven bisques, who propose to make it the recognised certificate of an older year 1803, many of the sentences unity and brotherhood, and re- while the other fellow would take medium of their Yuletide rivalry. School at Bagdad, and a numare obsolete. Incarceration in a

ber of retired Government officials fortress is one, and we hare no British occupation and has many alise the folly of the old "mass wherever he pleased. This sad-

Chatemax d'if'" in Mesopotamia. years of legal experience in the and class" idea. The new sense den increase in the formidable-

whose knowledge of the law and the Turkish language fitted them At present the Tarkish Penal Guli, Sulaiman Faidhi Efendi the ledger, but each in his fashion of national esprit de corps willness of the task disconcerted just make us better citizens, as weli Vardon, and he only

for the task. The Qadhi of Code in use in Egypt is nader is an inhabitant of Basrah who decides whether he has lost or As as heartier fighters, if fighting be managed to have the match. For the first time, it is believed, Basrah, Ali Wahhabi, was one the consideration of Commisrepresented the City in the Tark- gained. And I for one have to The explained, if he had taken since its institution, a decision of the fugitives, but he dission which will no doubt put ish Parliament. He acted as a write myself down among those Another of sear's imprints is care to be no more than one up of the Court of Criminal Appeal appeared, after arrival at Bag-forward saggestions for its Judge for a time in Turkish days been profitable. By Harold

the instigation of modernisation. In 1912, the B is a well-known fact that he is an amazing belief in luck at the turn he would have had has been overruled by the Hama dad, at

Askari Bey, the Wali of Bas Government of the Young Turks strong advocate of education founder the was care-free confidence in the fature. to give bat one bisque coming Secretary. Some time ago the

According to Mr. Nods, Japan- This has always, to some extent, home, and very likely he would Court substituted for seven years rah, for whom he had officiated Party revised the Turkish Code and been a national quality, in sport have won:

penal servitude, passed by Mr. temporarily, and whose ostensible and instituted many improve of an Arab School in Basrah as well as business: but consider Bisques--the principle of Justice Coleridge on two Cana excuse was that the Qadhi had, ments in its fabric, bat in Basrah This beneficent step did not, ese Minister of Communications, a million men facing death daily, allowing the receiving player to dian soldiers, a sentence of hard in his haste, left behind him, there has been found no trace of however, please the Turks, who who has returned from Ston

objected to the teaching of the after attending ex-Emperor Yi's. What is the mental attitude? It take his stroke wherever he wants labour for 12 months and 20 certain documents which he the amendments.

National language. Consequent funeral, the reported riot st is this To-day I may be killed. them instead of at pre-arranged strokes each with the to-nine should have guarded with his

ly, they acquired the school as a Seoul was not serious. The chief Well, if it's coming, it's coming holes have not been used ex-tails. The charge against the life.

Now, it is a well-known fact The Beach of the Court of medium for the propagation of priest of the Tientas sect, who -meantime, I'm having break-cept on rare occasions in clab two men was one of robbery and

sooner First Instance in Baarah is com- the Turkish language. The was the instigator, is now ander competitions as a means of con-assault at Grays, Essex. A re- that British rule is no There is no philosophy on ducting handicaps, but they have markabis scene followed the instituted in any part of the posed of three Judges, the Pre Court of Appeal will at present arrest and several others were earth that can teach more. To enjoyed a good deal of popularity Court of Appeal. One of the men, world than British justice is ident, Mr. H. F. Forbes, L. C. S. ait at Bagdad. This re-adoption arrested. Mr. Noda declined to system, with answer the question whether or not seize the passing moment and in private games. In these days Frank Cabs, broke down and available to all classes in such a Khan Sabib Mirza Mahamed of the familiar make the most of it, to do your when, after four and a half years wept bitterly. The other, James form as will be amenable to the Khan and Salsimsn Faidhi Arabic as the official medium, is the agitation was political. It is duty and hang the consequences, of other interests, nobody is quite Swanson, said he had been drink people of that part and at the Effendi, Mr. Forbes combines the one of the many steps on the path generally believed that the riot- and to have an implicit faith a sure whether his handicap re-ing and remembered nothing. same time be compatible with experience of a long legal career of progress which has been madeous the future that attitude is aa presents his form, bisques are as Now the Court of Criminal the high standard necessary for in Indis, with study and practical since the advent of the British impriot which has been stamped likely sa the ordinary method of Appeal, after consultation with the greatest good of the greatest knowledge of Turkish Law. The and should be gladly received by in varying degrees on every man giving and receiving strokes to the presiding judge, has ordered number. The exodus of the indi- Khan Sahib is well-known in all thoughtful persons who have He has helped to the general welfare of Iraq at who has borne the tense burden produce a close game. For that the remission of the sentence of geat lawyers of Basrah and the Baarah,

reason they are reviving..

corporal punishment.

of the records, together administer justice since the heart.

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'That is one of war's imprints.

Next, 1 wod place enlarged sense of rational reprit de corps. In the Army there has been an almost plantasmagoric jambling up of social caste. Save in certain hoity-toity messes, vaste simply doesn't exist.

118RKETIN

-fast."

of war.

KO BIRCH FOR SOLDIERS.

state

THE TURKISH COgr.

of the

THE BENCH OF THE COURT.

sentatives of Dutch business in-

-

of freedom.

And there are gifts of war to

come a power of enduring hard-

one will understand who has not learnt how pleasantly MTA B many sleep on the bare ground or how easy it is to go for a day without a meal.

It may not be possible to balance

ize whom ou the balance the war

Läke.

DISTURBANCES IN KORES.

movement, which participated in by many students, including girls, was of a politics religious nature, but was not deeprooted, and there is no cative for serious apprehension."

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