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No. 18682

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER. 23, 1920.

SIR ~ HARRY LAUDER.

OIL FROM COAL:

GERMAN EXPERIMENTS. MEMORIALS ON THE FIELD. NO TALK OF RETIREMENT,

Details of Germany's axpari- Sir Harry Lauder arrived in The Battle Exploi: Memorials

tourments in developing liquid fuel to Committee has issued a return of London from his world claims for the erection of battle recently and left in the evening preserve existing industries and field memorials, This return for his home on the Clyde. Except to maintain railway transport sbows in tabulated form the unit for a fortnight on his way from facilities, are contained in a by which the claim is made, the Americs to South Africa he has United States Consular Commerce proposed site for the memorial, not been in England since Nov-report.

In the opinion of some leading with its WED reference, thejember 1913

His chooks bave filled out and enginears, states the report, this of money

guaranteed the Van Epps Trio

erection of the he has grown verr bald. To a can be best accomplished by So Long Do-Long Fox Trot

memorial, and whether a design Daily Mail reporter who found jsubmitting the bulk of the coal to But it him at his hotel studying some a special process of low tempera- Lovely Summertime-Waltz Smith's Orchestra has been submitted.

is in the columns, numbered 5, 8, photographs of the farm stock on ture distillation, and then using the and 9 that the most interesting his estate at Glenbranter he turn-liquid fuel so obtained in Diesel! features of the document lie, fared the benevalent gaze of a pair engines to secure the bulk of the in them ara enumerated the of spectacles and said "Sit down power required. This method, it is contended, would have the action or explait it is sought to and look here.”

The knight of mish was the additional advantage of yielding commemorate, the remarks of the

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As a result of a great deal of work conducted same general observations; solaitd. “Look here," said he "this that these three columns, apart is my firs: prize Clydesdale illy jexperimental

There are my during the blockade Garmany is considerable from their general signiäcancelat Dunoon show. in relation to the remainder of second prize Highland cattle, and now producing & the return. contain in little this is my champion black-faced{quantity of liquid fuel and allied narrative of some of the most ram. I am putting every penny products by this method. It gives I earn into the estate to grow a tar of essentially different com glorious episodes in the war.

and wool and good position and properties from the The first claim. listed under the mutton general heading " Belgium "--the Scottish beef, and there's nothing coal tar obtained in the ordinary list is arranged according to bat-better."

afields refers to the First Battle

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and with "What of the tour, Sir Harry ? ", manufacture. "A grand tour, but I am very distillation conducted at a tem of Ypres, 1914. The 2nd Divisjon claim a monument at Ghelovali,pleased to be back, for I have parature of 800 degrees F.. in- and the cost of it had been guar-never been so long away from there of 1500 degrees F., ther In much greater yield of tar anteed. The claim, it is stated,home refore.

"Sameone has said you are although the yield of gas is less. may be accepted without hesita

The "coalite" or half coke tion."

The design submitted for going to retire?"

Here Sir Harry took off his thus produced is intermediate in the memorial is, that of a stone monument surmounted by a cross spectacles and spoke with great quality between coal and coke. It is suitable for use in stear and arrangements are now being, emphasis: "Now all this talk of made by the Haut Commission-my retiring is a lo: of ros, It engines and for household pur- aire, for its erection. The site is mus: have been started by poses. The tar produred by this Bolsheviks. They never speak process is fractionally distilled on a concrete observation post, and the owner of the village con about working. only sinking.in the ordinary way. Fielding oils, and! curs in the proposals. The Divi- How could I lease a public whose benzines, lighting sion, it is stated, does not wish to loving arms are always held out various grades of lubricating oils. join with other claimants for to receive me?"

Sir Harry told a story of an Gheluvel, and has also claimed Graincourt. This is a reference American cinema: to the Battle of Cambrai, which Somebody asked him 'Why was fought in November, 191 don't you put Pickwick on the

So be called up one off Here again the cost is guarante-screen?" ed, and a cross on a pedestal is his supermen and said 'See here. the design. The eomment of the I want you to go over to London Historical Section, C.LD. Jand sif; out this chap Pickwick "May be accepted without besi. and ask him what he'll take to A decent tation. The Sight put up is as fines play. I believe he's thing as any unit has done." The fellow."" owner of the land has offered at site for 1,500

General thi

Oficer division

Com-

thari

VALUE OF WOMEN POLICE.

COMMITTEE'S SCALE OF PAY.

The report of the Committee oa the Employment of Women on Police Duties has just been published as a. White Paper. In their concluding remarks the Committee state:--We consider

A WINDMILL AT WYTSCHAETE.

with the names of the 29th and that the experience of the war The changing fortunes of war 54th Divisions, the New Zealand proved that women can be em- are reflected in a claim made by Forces, the Indian Army, and Plosed with advantage to the the 7th Division for a memorial others. The 60th Division has community in the performance of certain police duties which, site Ridge claim chosen a at Broodatinde

at Jerusalem, substantiated. run the remarks and tras secured £1000 for the before the war, were exclusively

ne defence in 1914 and succes-erection of a ceaptaph there, discharged by men.

For the efficient performance ful attack in 1917"--and again by The claim, it is stated is well. the 35th Division's claim for a justified: the disison was hesvilot these duties, the Committee add, it is essential that the women memorial at Pilkem Ridze--"the engaged in the spack op te should be specially qualified. 35th Division took part in the Jerusalem defences on December third Battle of Ypres and greats, 1917, and was fighting north highly trained, and well paid, and that they should form an integral ly distinguished well on 31st of the town on the 9th; it was

part of the police force. While July, 1917. The place named to the

acknowledging the good work -Messines" appears in a claim manding

done during the war by unofficial made by the 1st Battalion. Lon-Jerusalem surrendered. don Stortish. and the event of A memorial has already been bodies of women who undertook police duties in munition works October 31-November 1, 1911, or erected to the 6th Infant and in thickly-populated areas,

Daldzeli. the commemoration of which Brigade a:

the Committee are convinced that ther have chosen a site pear the Salonika front. in the form such work must, in normal times. remains of

windmill of a caim surmounted by be entrusted solely to women Wetscharte, is thus recorded:-Lewis gun, and arrangements under the direc: orders of the

First occasion in which a have been made with the Serbian

police authorities. In industriel Territorial Force infantry unit Government for its permanence areas, where offences against the

to general mersarial the went into action. The battalion A

Jaw relating to women and was attacked by very superior Salonika force near the city will children are not infrequent, the numbers, and the resistance of probably te in the form of a the Cavalry Corps (to which the cenotaph. and its erection has report continues, there is not only battalion was temporarily attach-been approved. The name of the scope, but urgent need. for the employment of policewomen. ed) was a very fine achievement." Indian Army recurs with those They should not be required to To a claim by the King's Ropal of Mespotamia and East Aftig perform duties which would Rife Corps for a memorial at and the part played by the thinvolve the exercise of physical Hooge is attached the bare com- Division in the final defeat of the force and consequent exposure to meni. "The 69th were frequently Austrian Army it is desired to

physical danger.

Je

sbe

in this sector." Those who know commemorate on the island of The standard scale, of pay Hooge will appreciate the signi-Papadopli. Tanga is the site in ficance of the: fact.

East Africa chosen by the East recommended is as follows:- Women constables.--60s. Ypres reappears coupled with Africa chosen by the East Ex-week on appointment on pro- the name of the 2nd Battalionpeditionary Force.

bation, rising by annual incrs- Seaforth Highlanders. a battalion MONEMENTS IN NINE COUNTRIES, ments of 25. to 80s. a week after that "did splendidly in an attempt to retake St. Julien, April 25, 1915.

Throughout the return

the10 years, the period of probation

and resisting gas attacks in May.familiar names follow each other to be the same as for male com It was again beavily engaged in like signposts along the difficult stables. Women should also be 1917. A memorial north-east of road to victory-Mons, St Julien, eligible for long-service incre-

Trones Wood, ments. Passchendaele, Ypres would be appropriate.TM

Sergeants-90a. weekly, rising The name of Mous occurs in these Flers, Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60. packed columms time and again. Gaza. Doiran, and the rest, and no in five years to 102s. 6d.

familiar than the place, Inspectors-£250 a year, rising and when the 2nd Battalion of the less Royal Irish Regiment claim a cames are the titles of the re-in four years to £300.

Superintendents.-£320 to £350 memorial at Mons it is stated of giments whose valour is to be them, the battalion began and recorded in a chain of monuments 7ear, rising in four years to ended the war... on practically stretching into three continents. £380 or £410.

The committee raport that 140| Witnesses called before the the same spos, at Mons."

almost claims have been registered in Committee were

Un-

A BATTALION'S SPECIAL HONOUR. nine different countries. A few animous in advising that very "The claim is as strong as the of the claims have been with-young women should not be committee is likely to meet," is drawn, and in some cases bat-recruited, and the Committee said of that put forward by the talions, brigades, and divisions recommend that the age of entry 2nd Devons for a memorial at Boi have decided to combine in abe 25 to 30 years. While it is des Batten for an action fought on general memorial A great deal desirable that a certain propor- May 27, 1918. The battalion was of the money required has been tion of policewomen should be of cited in the Order of the Day" collected. and apparently much good education, women whose ja of elementary of the Fifth French Army, în care has been taken to examine education

should' which it was serving, and is "like claime and to decide cases in standard

war:

not

be

DENTRO M

13 to go down to history as one of which there was a clash of inter-axcluded. Married women are the special achievements of the eats. In several instances the not precluded from joining the

The battalion was Imperial War Graves Commis Metropolitan Police entirely destroyed on the date of sion is negotiating with the patrols, provided that they have this exploit, and as a special French Government for their no young children dependent on honour the, French Croir de approval in the selection of sites;them, for whose care they are Guerre was conferred on it by the in others sites have been gener-not able to make satisfactory French GoveTAM GDÍ.”

ously given by French or Belgian arrangements.

Another recommendation is A page and a half is devoted to owners. An obelisk or a cross is the claims of Dominion and the form of memorial most gen- that a policewoman should not⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ladian units for memorials in erally favoured, but that to the be required to perform more than France, and immediately after 42nd Division at Buocquoy will seven hours patrol duty a day, these comes the story of Gallipoli, be the reduikling of the crucifix, (divided into two shifts.

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