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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1919.

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THE CHINA STATION.

THE ANGOSTURA HUNT,

Following the allegations of brutality practised in the Army come details of the state of affairs in the Nars. They are contained in Mir. Charles Lacgbridge; Morgan's new book. "The Gun-

room.

"The Service does its training young," he says "on the principle of fog a dog while it is a puppy. And if you get- through that stage, well, you're probably shaped to the mouldi like the Chinese women's feet, and you forget. ..But if you break while the pressure is being applied, you break-that's all."

Horrible details of the breaking process are given in a description of gunroom evolutions. The new midshipmen are blindfolded, and forced to follow a trail of Angostura Bitters until they find a hidden piece of bread.

"John began to crawl.. cane sang through the air and fell upon John's legs, sang and fell again.

The smell of corticise and dust sickened him. The blows were falling rapidly now... He saw the reason for this creeping position-the excellence of the target provided. . A momenti later his band touched something wet-perhaps the blood from his crushed fingernail, perhaps no more than Driss's ink,

. His temples and his eyes were throbb- ing as if they would burst. He paused bewildered and instantly sticks fell on him again."

Such is the Angosturs Hunt.j The general picture painted of a middy's" life under a sub- leutecant is one of hard work, coarse language, and brutal treat. ment. The China stations come: in for especial mention. Owing to the idlenees and confinement |

conversation became incredibly filthy, even the elements of wit disappeared from its indeceny. The intelligence of the midship-| men was applied to the invention of new blasphemies, the foulness of which was the measure of the audience's applause.

Although Mr. Murgan's book is a covel, and the events described are pre-war, these are serious statements. A prominent neval officer, who spent five years in the China stations, discussed the subject with the Daily News.

"I know the China stations well," he said, "and those state- ments are frankly ret. In every port where a midshipman is seat there are games-football and cricket, shooting, riding.

"As for the gunroom evolutions, they are more or less on a line with the subaltern's court martial☀ in the Army, with the difference that the average midshipman thinks he owns the ship, and comes abcard with fantastic ideas as to his own importance. Before he becomes a seaman, that's got to be cured, and the sub-lieutenant usesthe cane,or Little Benjamin,” as we call it, to cure it. I've known dddies' caned for not speaking properly to the men, or for carelessness in bringing a boat alongside. I've been beaten my- self. It's got to be, and most if. not all middies prefer being beaten to having their misdeeds reported to the commander.

As for the Angostura hunt, I was highly amused when I read it, and only wished the ides bad occurred to me, shorn of some of its unnecessary brutality, of Course. In any case, all that sort of thing is very much on the decrease these days but I think! the power of the sub-lieutenant to deal out six strokes is a whole- some one."

THE CURIOSTY OF ANIMALS.

SOME PERRINISCENCES. Jessie Forsyth Andrews writes to the Daily News

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me, silent, fascinated; curious luxury they can indulge in to any The steers were for leaving it at artent. Yet I have seen little that, with a yard of neutral rabbits spellbound with interestin ground between us, and the something unknown. I had wan- slightest movement startled them, dered across a moor and come But the heifers were real seekers upon one of those ghylls which after knowledge. Their broad appear so unexpectedly in the pink tongues curled about the too, Fell country ravines cut in the of my boot, and the polish seemed; rock by flood torrents.. At the to give them much satisfaction:top on either side was a turf-slope they mumbled the tweed of my with pines and rowane clinging coat, slobbering freely, and were to it; then a sheer precipice of a little disconcerted by the iron rock, and at its foot a mass of point of my stick. All this their boulders, over which a beck brothers missed. And yet I have tumbled noisily. On the wargı picture in my memory of a patches of the turf-slope between

and bolted into their holes. But tranced by the beautiful little bull calf, pure the trees a colony of abbits were white, silhouetted against a dark sunning themselver, so happy the little ones only jumped round something new, and bankground of trees and under- and care free that they sprawled to a posture in which they could ibly replied the growth, he was standing on his at full length.

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