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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937,

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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937.

ATTRACTING MEN

TO THE ARMY In the recently-issued White Paper dealing with the British Government's re-armament pro- gramme it was disclosed that it is intended to adopt measures designed to improve conditions

in the Army and to make ser- vice therein more attractive. Details of the scheme are to be announced shortly. These men- sures will bring about a con- siderable increase in normal

maintenance costs as a result of the increased number of men expected to be borne on the strength and the additional ex- pense arising from plans to stimulate recruiting. There is another aspect of this question, apart from pay and service con- ditions, and that is the employ ment of men, after they leave the Army. As the British Army is recruited on a purely voluntary basis, with no prospect of con- scription being introduced, the authorities have to see that con- ditions in the Service are such as to attract the right type of men, and also to design men- sures affecting the future of the men when they return to civilian] life. In this lattor respect, the British soldier differs from the conscript soldier of other coun- tries, for his period of service, with the colours necessarily separates him from the main stream of life of his contem- poraries and diminishes his chances in the labour market.

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AMATEUR SOLDIERS

The "Telegraph" does not take sides in the Spanish

civil

war,

but

we give a platform to Professor

J. B. S. HALDANE

F. R. S., famous scientist

who has returned to England from Madrid, where he

he went to advise

the Government on gas warfare

HAVE just passed a month in Spain, advis- ing the authorities, on defence against gas.

Much of my time was spent with the International Columųų that surprising boily of volun- teers which on at least one ocea- sion saved Madrid. For some days I lived the life of an ordi- mary soldier in the column.

I remember a dinner with some hundreds of us sitting at long benches. I found myself acting as interpreter between an Italian who spoke French and a Hungarian who spoke German. A draft had just come in from .England. The food and wine were excellent; but the English boys demanded beer, which is something of a luxury in Spain, and I managed to scrounge -triple wine ration.

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LATER, I spent day English- speaking battalion. Their clothes were variegated. Some wore khaki trousers, some corduroy. Some wore forage caps, others blue berets. Their close order drill was comic, but their open order work was impressively good.

made from macaroni wheat, not: bread wheat. Butier is rare.. The bulk of most of my meats consisted of beans and lentils, with a few scraps of meat, or small dried fish. Most provi....... dentially I like beans, but I think I detected some signs of malnutrition in middle-aged civilians. Nevertheless, I be lieve that Madrid is botter fed. than Merthyr.

VERY few

Catholic

churches in Madrid. are used for religious purposes.. Likewise, very few have been destroyed. I saw only two such; one had been wrecked by a large air bomb, the other had clearly been sot alight deliber- ately. Certainly the damage is. fur less than was done in Eng. land, let alone Scotland, during the Reformation,

Some churches aro ahut, others are used for a variety of purposes. When the anarchists occupy a church they usually, decorate the images of the Virgin Mary with their colours, and the anarchists of Aragon have a song according to which the Virgin of the Pillar of Sara- gossa is their captain. They 'claim that her words about put- ting down the mighty from their seat and exalting the humble are sound anarchism..

To my great surprise. I en- countered no anti-religious pro- paganda whatever, either in the newspapers or posters, though plenty of anti-clerical. A typi- cal remark, in an anarchist comic column, was that Jesus had rebelled against the rich, but His alleged servants to-day showed their humility by only rebelling against the poor.

I believe there would be a tremendous opportunity in Spain for a real live Protestan- tism, though I saw no sign that this opportunity was being taken.

I SPENT some time in tho, trenches near Madrid, though I was not in- volved in any actual fighting. As I was bombing officer to the 1st (Guards) Brigade of the B.E.F. in 1915 I am rather a

“Women in Madrid do not wear hats, and most of the-blondes-are-undergoing-a-transformation:-snob Madrid has run out of peroxide."

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There is a tremendous opportunity in Spain for a real live Protestantism."

.. I am something of a snob about trench war- fare, but I confined my criticism to a personal demonstration of cowardice."-

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were

A

D

com-

"about "trench","warfare. There was plenty to criticise.

Parapets were too flimsy, traverses too far apart, munication trenches not deep enough, and so on. But then 1 reflected. Here were' a thoi- sand Spanish militiamen with- out a single professional officer. Their trenches were not perfect. They would suffer needless casualties in a bombardment.

keen

WENT up-to Madrid I am told that until December They seemed to be wasting small- on a very cold night, Madrid was a rowdy place, and arms ammunition. But obvious- on the outside of a lorry driven murders occurred every night. ly enough they were

soldiers, and would put up a very As regards deference to offi- most alarmingly by a French- By Christmas it was far more good fight if attacked. cers they do not quite reach the man called Comrade Marius. I orderly than when I was last So I confined my criticisma to

personal demonstration standard set by the Brigade of was packed most precariously there in 1938. In three weeks a

of between two cases of ammuni-

I never saw a drunken man, a cowardice. The militiamen were Guards. Indeed, it would be tion.

beggar, or a crime of any kind, still at that early stage of rather difficult to do so when The lorry broke down so fre- although there are no police valour where one risks one's life officer and private address one quently that the journey took patrolling the streets, and I was unnecessarily. Whenever

my another as "comrade."

ten hours, and I acquired a often out late at night.

companions started an animated cough so violent as to give rise

I naturally looked for signs of conversation in full view of the But when it comes to keen to a rumour that I had been starvation or disease in the enemy I lay down. Fortunately people. I soon noticed a start- the enemy were Spanish Fas- ness the story is rather differ, severely gassed,

Madrid has been mildly ing phenomenon. Women in clats, who are very bad shots, so ent. When I suggested to a

shelled and heavily bombed. I Madrid do not wear hats, and no harm was done. squad which I was instructing was prepared to find a city of it was clear that most of the

undergoing

A LAST scene, in. u. that they might like to break desolation. I found nothing of blondes

school converted into the sort. In the majority of transformation. uff for lunch I was greeted with streets not a single house has

feld hospital. A Canadian: Their hair Was becoming surgeon attached to the Inter- The Secretary of War has just highly improper language. You been damaged. If one has.ceen brown at the roots, producing national Red Aid is giving blood may think that those boys Ypres, or even Arras, in the a remarkable plebaldness. transfusions. The blood is col- announced that he hopes to make

have no business in Spain. Still, great war, Madrid seems hardly Madrid has run out of hydrogen lected in Madrid from volun arrangements whereby every sol-

peroxide, and the brutal Red teers, mostly women, kept on ice Nevertheless, some thousands Government does not regard it till wanted, and then warmed dier with a good record will have they do represent the honour of

Britain in the eyes of the of 'civiliana 'have been killed and as a necessity, and will not up. a civilian job awaiting him when

Here is a Spanlard with a blg his term as a soldier is finished. Spanish people. And they are wounded, besides a few soldiers, allow any more to be sent up

shoulder wound. Ho is white. not going to let their country If a soldier is killed by an air except for use in hospitals.

bomb that is news, whereas the

can: There are now in existence three

The other great shortage is af from loss of blood,, and death of a dozen children is not fuel. Food is rationed, and move nothing but his eyes. But Army Vocational Training Cen-

news any more. The bombers there are. queues outside the you can see that he accepts his tres, where serving soldiers obtained employment. The pro- now concentrate their attacks shops. But the coal queues are logical attitude. He could pass learn to be artisans and crafts- [blem now is to extend the voca quaters of Madrid, and do a good some than the bread queues. the great Spanish painters.

on the poorest and most crowded much longer and more quarrel for a San Sebastian by one of men. At the Aldershot centre tlonal training system and link deal of killing there.

There is just enough fuel for For about twenty minutes. £. alone twenty different trades and it up with industry in the widest

hold up a bottle of blood which crafts are taught. That they sense.

THIS may have some cooking, and no more. I got a This is one of the aims

military justification,

hot bath about December 28, runs slowly down a rubber tube

into a vein in his arm. His ·· are well taught is attested which the Government has in since it is forcing the Govern and that was my only bath in by the fact

Spain. But there is food for colour returns: To judge from ment to evacuate the women men view, and if it is accomplished it and children; and thus to put every one; in fact I think one is his face he is suffering rathor are readily found jobs on will have most desirable con- a big strain on its communica much surer of getting food in drawn from his arm he tries to more. Ag, the needlo la with- their discharge from the sequence and be a factor in at- tions. On the other hand, it Madrid to-day than six months speak. He is still too weak, but Army; of the 1,184 who left one tracting men of the right type against Franco, and persuaded

has united the people of Madrid go.

he raises his clenched fist to hig GROUND FLOOR centre last year, 1,018 promptly for service with the colours.

The quality is, however, bad, forehead and gives the Red them to obey orders.

The bread is a hard, brittle stuff Front aulute.

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