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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

WEDNESDAY,~~ OCTOBER 12,

An Old Soldier looks at the Army Changes & says

Here's what you may be do'ng in a fow yearn-looking at the person at the other end of the wire. It's the latest thing in television, the "televisionphone," chown in London. The view- ing screen is where the mouthpiece ordinarily would be. compact sel can be used in a lighted room.

The

Partisan Blindness

By "An Old Stager"

DIFFERENT pundits at

various cume to the reseve of the humanitles times have ascribed the world's in Spain when Red Bolshevism was troubles to all sorts of human weak- creating revolutionary anarchy be- Tesses, Lust of

personal hind the Impotent or tolerant hands power, greed, religious bigotry, sexual ob- of that Popular Front reginic.

been session-many have

the rool evils

by philosophera denounced through the centuries.

Neither side is willing to listen to any statement of facts or arguments advanced, even by apparently un- The conviction begins to deepen in blased outsiders, in favour or in my mind, however, that the most partial vindication of the other. It bateful of the lot is just sheer never occurs to them that there may Ignorance.

be some degree of truth on both sides.

The astounding thing is what passionate fervour many people will The cross-bench mind simply in- found on a basis of complete Ignor- furiates their fanaticism. If you are ance. They will get red-hot ver wet whole-heartedly with them, then one side of a question as to the you are inferentially whole-heartedly other side of which they not only with the other fellows. The admir- know absolutely nothing, but do not able axiom that to know all is to even make any attempt to gain en- excune all has absolutely no foot- lightenment.

hold in this kind of mentally.

and now, Mr. Chamberian is be- Admittedly there are certain qites ing assailed tooth and all beenuse tions that are inherently beyond he refuses to order the British fleet controversy. One does not hesitate to bombard, or at least to blockade, lo denounce, for instance, all the Cadiz

Spanish port! some other cardinal sins catalogued under the We have the absurd position of ex- Ton Commandments. Nobody in his treme Left Wing detesters

of the right mind, except in the most ab- German Nazis and all their works normally exceptional circumstances, citing the German shelling of inno- tries to defend murder, arson, black- cent civilians, in reprint for some mail, or even welshing.

milltary or naval affront, as a shin- ing example of strong statesman-

about ship.

or

The situation is all the more gro- lesque when it is considered that

But lots of people to-day are get- Ling extremely Indignant things for more delicately complex than the outstanding human crimes, and without actually trying to these Jingo advocates of naval 'bom- fathom any of the complexities.

bardment-or blockade which 15 only one degree less drastic, and hits IL Js of this disposition and the Innocent just as surely as bom- tendency-sheer Ignorance backed bardment would-are mostly, La- by abject mental laziness-that our bour people. extreme partisans UTE frequently Abnormal Profits

innde.

Negation of Democracy

crews.

1938.

IT'S EASIER TO BE

A GENERAL NOW

I

APOLOGISE for not be

ing properly educated.

Blame the Army, not my

parents. My education, in

By

Now

the scholastic sense, ceased Brigadier Alan G. C. Hutchinson,

when I was sixteen.

Two

who recently ratized after nearly 40 years in the Army, including service in six campaigns,

Then I went to a crammer's. years of intensive stuffing with text- books hatched me out as a Sondhurst endet passable as a dancing partner to the girls, good-mannered, I hope, and primed with military knowledge G.O.C. the Rhine Army, and so took Tanks and machine-guns have taken -of a sort.

the title for all time.

their place.

I would like to see these new pro- Do you remember the story of the But 18 for mathematics, law,

respect. old general who was sitting in his economics, history apart from the posals go further in one military verslon-geography, or any Why not send the budding oficers club in Pall Mall, the hero of three for two or three campaigns? Timidly A young of the ordinary accomplishments of to a university the ordinary boy-well, it all stopped years? That is what happens to subaltern approached him."

sappers-which presumably accounts for the superlor kmlek on the face of the supper.

dead at sixteen.

Highor Standards

"Tell me, general," he naked. "what did you think of the last war?" "Dreadful, my boy, dreadful," He goes up to Cambridge for two the general drawled. "The noise- WHAT I have learned since I

have had to pick up off my years to learn all that it can teach and the people! Too terrible."

him. During the vacations, when own bat. Just a matter of nous, as other undergraduates are at play, A Scientist Too they say. Not a good system, you the sapper goes to Chathum for a will agree. It limited and it stulti- fed. It produced hidebound soldiers le high-pressure military educa

tion. The result is who lacked not only worldly know eflcer, ledge but everyday knowledge.

Conditions have, of course, im. since then. proved considerably

The Best Officers

first-class

-

THAT

CAN honestly say that of all soldier.

Educational standards are very much I the hundreds of young

ex-

I

THAT sort of story and that sort of general have gone for good. The officer of to-day must be a bit of a chemist, some- thing of a scientist, a little of a lot of other things-apart from being a

higher than they were and breaches ofteors who have passed through pay have gone up, Life in the Army am glad to see that the rates of have been made in the narrow my hands both in this country and in my day had a marvellously gay clusiveness of traditional training in India I have frequently found and sociol side—but you paid for it. The system, which has hitherto pro- vided the overwhelming majority of that those who came into the Army If the bank balance was thin, fun officers, while retaining its best latest in life and with most civil was thin too. It was not quite fair features, is now to be put on a much education behind them made the on us. Mr. Hore-Bellsha has altered

best and most intelligent officers. Litt wider basis.

To-day we live in an Army world Further, by making promotion When I read that in one day near- of nuts and bolts, petrol cans and more rapid, by wiping out

quarter of the subalterns and chemistry. It is no longer a gentle- iniquitous half-pay system, and by captains of the British Army will be man's war. It has become a busi- assuring reasonably long periods of automatically promoted, that pro- nesallke

must service, he has made the Army what motion in future will be speeded up, make a business of it and train our it always ought to have been-a worth-while profession for worth- that there will be direct commission- young officers accordingly.

That is what Mr. Hore-Belsha is while men with worth-while pay of ing from the ranks, that rates of pay

rownrd.

ly

A

business. So Wo

I sit back and watch. My Army

the

will be increased, that Army educa- up to. tion will be expanded and intensified,

So that eyebrow of mine may and, finally, that in future any boy days of horses and guns have gone. come down with a run in the end. from an elementary school in buck street, say, in Manchester, stands a reasonable chance of going, via a secondary school, into Sandhurst or Woolwich free of all charge to his parents, I raise my hat to the Minister for War.

But I raised it with one eyebrow ulso cocked. There WIR 17 faint doubt behind my unspoken cheer. It was this:

COURTS The Poor-

POLICE - And

Good though the new system looks new things are more creditable to Wales. The maximum allowed on,a on paper it has one potential defect the English system of criminal legal aid certificate in the summary --the promotion of the "exumina justice than the Poor Prisoners' De- courts is £2 165. A more usual tion" type at the expense of the mun fence Act of 1930. So far na offences allowance is £1 Bs. and this is as who has character but lacks nende tried ut Assizes and Quarter Sessions much as I have ever received. mle distinction

are concerned the Act works well But, even assuming the maximum Distinction as a scholar is not enough in soldier. An officer who and not many poor persons go un- grant in every case, the expenditure

defended. But

few

on Poor Persons Defence since the people know to command the respect and that the powers which Parliament Act was passed works out at an affection of his men must be a intended to be used for the benefit average of about 14s. 4d. per cent. definable spirit which leader in that he possesses that In-of all poor persons accused of crime per annum. Surely the country can

we know' as

have been and are, so far as the afford more than this. If it cannot "character, The Greeks and "Police" Courts are concerned, prac would it not be better to do away word for It, but as I have no eluca-tleally a dead letter.

that no poor per tion I forget the word

pretence son need go undefended од .A Field-Marshal Sir William Robert-

criminal charge?

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son rose from the ranks to be one

began life as Mr. Godfrey Jones, "Palicated to a defendant in the

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with the

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of the best-loved and most emelent The Criminal Statisties for 1038, greater in the "Pallco" Court than officers in the British Army.

test published, show that the magia- before judge. There is seldom A ranker also was gallant trates in that year found 817,873 any presumption of Innocence in but tragic soldier the late Major-persons guilty of various

offences. cases tried by the lay magistrates, General 6Ir Hector Macdonald, That is, they dealt finally with over The mere fact that a charge has whose

memorial pillar dominates e per cent, of all offences. To these been brought by the police is enough grey harbour and grey houses of 817,873 persons and to those who for the average J.P. The accused Dingwall, the east coast Scottish were acquitted the magistrates has to prove his, or her, Innocence, town which is proud of having once granted 363 certificates for free legul The only help he gets from the owned him as a shy young draper's ald

court, as a rule, is to be told harshly There is no doubt about it that

assistant.

Under the Act of 1930 two condi- that he must' asit questions and not merchant ships, trading In essential During the war I remember hear- tions must be fulfilled before legal make a statement. supplies to Spanish ports, are doing ing of a very efficient brigadier who ad is No doubt there have always been so not for one moment in any al-

Court. His means must be violent and purblind partisans, but I truistic spirit of bringing austen- truly believe the world has seldom ance

miner working at the coal face in Insumelent to obtain it for himself. to ra hard-pressed Spanish Ebbw Vale. Ho been more cursed with them, not people, but simply because they are

There are few more pilful sigtits was only one of land by reason of the gravity of the

a poverty-stricken man or even in the days of the Spanish In- able to command exorbitant freights

some 20 or more miners who rose to charge or of exceptional circum- than quisition, than we are to-day.

and abnormally high wages for their

high rank, and gave a first class ne-stances it must be desirable in the woman trying vainly to think what count of himself.

interests of

justice that he should to say in court, confused by the There are seemingly sensate people

have professional help in his defence, unfamiliar surroundings and shrink- will swallow anything that Spanish Government ports is about The coal freight per ton to these

It is true that many of the offences ing from the ridicule which is far happens in Russia, but go berserk four times the rate to other places

tried in the "Police Courts are of too often poured out by the Bench over even the mildest similar hap- in the vicinity. And, on top of all

THEN there

was another a trifling nature, and that a large and their clerk. penings in either Italy or Germany. this, at least hall these

brigadier who in clyli life number of persons plead Why should the mere fact that they ships are foreign-owned, and using

Legal aid is actually more nece8- guilty. But merchant had been a cab driver. A few years the magistrates, nearly all of them sary before lay magistrates than be are sympathy with the palleal our national

ago there was a policeman on duty lay justices and not stipendiaries, in tore a judge. A judge is always regime in one instance, sad out of camouflage,

merely

at Barry Dock who had commanded 1030 dealt with 38,594 indictable on the watch for irregularities. The sympathy in the others, warp their

a battalion during the war judgment thus?

The only way in which Franco's

offences, mainly cases of theft, by only thing that magistrates can be Before the war, when I was a bombing of these ships, within the

persons over 17, and sent nearly a relied upon to watch is the clock. young' man; To an intelligent person a

three-mile territorial

there was that grand quarter of these persons to prison. The justices disilke defended cases water limit, old soldier Major-General Sir Luke TOGE can be condemned smells just as sweet in Rusala as in that there is no war in Spain. That

In 1930, 10,443 persons were sent because they take more time.

11. One may have dim recollections by contending O'Connor, V.C., "the greatest ranker to prison by the magistrates for non- any other country, and as evil deed is a contention which, in the palpa-

of them all" before "Wullic" Robert-Indictable

It is significant that it la always

of such a heavenly event (7). offences. is just as reprehensible in Moscow bie circumstances of to-day, acoms

Altogether advocates for the defence who are 14 Put the start of 10 across in as it would be In Berlin or Rome or just an absurdity.

son became Chief of the General nearly 20,000 persons were sent to accused of wasting time. No ad- Staff, Chief of the Imperial General prison after trial in the "Police" vacate wastes time Intentionally, as 18 This day is

humans to infuriato (0). Timbuctoo. Until we can find means

Staff, GOC. Great Britain,

usunilyn festive to extirpate this partisan madness, the fact that the Spaniards have not Everybody with any sense deplores

and Courts.

And 303 persons only, out for him time is money. I have had Jof well over whether by an improved education been left to aght their quarrel out

three-quarters of a 30 years experience of the courts 20 Engineers often take this in

one (8) some other expedient, I fear amongst themselves. We have done

millon tried, had the privilege of a of summary jurisdiction, and I have there may be grave danger for our

hand (8),

democracy.

our utmost to secure such a situation,

afford it without professional repre- 23 Poisonous horse artist (5). and if our efforts have not been suc

who

or

ensign

Da

The Imbecile disinclination to cessful, the fault certainly does not consider, or evan to hear a word le with us, but with overmastering about, the other side of the case is circumstance, in itself a positive negative of de-

No one defends the Intervention mocratic theory. Yet we find it lo- by Germany and Italy. But ever so day developing into to many partisans more the equally

..

ACROSS

1 Fish vessel that accommodates

vehicles (two words-3, 4).

8 Scientist who was not near a

familiar period (7).

This Is for the sole attention of entrants (7).

10 One of these may be the ap-

pendix, of course (7).

which came from the last European Poor Persons Defence. War is already being forgotten. The heart Ironically suggested, that the sentation, wounds of 1914-18 Are not yet healed. They are gaping hideously explanation is that crime is practi-

ised traditions and aspirations. in a general disintegration of, civically confined to the wealthier classes. But this disquieting theory is negatived by the fact that 1,705

it may be, of course, as I have never seen a dolendant who could ƒ 22 A little tug.on the line? (0)

came

plclously like an advanced democra- strenuous Intervention by Russia and cendiary equipm in with Int Assizes and Quarter Sessions.

tic practice.

France. If the Intter has been less effective than the former, does that

It has been peculiarly in evidence, affect the ethical values of the ac- from the very first moment, over tion?

the troubles in Spain, Broadly Spole might easily have become. speaking there are but two schools as it has been in past history, tho of political thought about Spoln in cockpit of another European war. Iltis country.

Would the Spanish Government's Call for Reprisais

partisans in this country have re- Ushed that prospect? In the long One Is Armly persuaded that run would even those Spaniards Franco jumped in, without the wha are on the side of the Madrid alightest Jualification or provocation, Government have: appreciated It? to subotage a Popular Front Govern- ment, in order to assort a military Keeping Out of It

Fascist control. The other is just as firmly certain that Franco merely the appalling disaster to the world It surely cannot be the caso that

to spread the flames, to use the utmost endeavour even at the necessity of sometimes

to

the

+

stores

In

colloquial

25. Popular game -

guise (6). 28 Town (7). Surely it was wise British policy; legal aid certificates were granted those of a trivial nature the drivers

In traffic offences other than 20 Rigorously

severe result of when the fires of civil war started in in respect of the 7,070 cases tried of private cars are as a rule repre

introducing skill in the distance Spain ca and various international fire

(7). sented, Lorry drivers, unless they 32 There are two graduates any belong to a union, usually are not.. Kleptomaniacs with means who help

how, in this part of America themselves at expensive shops al- turning diplomatic Nelsonie teles-as to what constitutes "Insuficient explain the matter, Poor women 34 Our belt gives a spot of bather!, Some benches have peculiar ideas most invariably have advocates lo 33 With so few fit a position might

not be this (7). blind eye to keep an means." I have myself heard a man who originally purely Peninsular quarrel whose sole means were 10s. 30. per have to do the best they can for

steal from sixpenny

. (7). from, extending to the whole of week uneinployment pay refused themselves. armed

These things breed discontent, "and") Ten years hence, I fancy, we shall legal aid on the ground that he could

afford to pay for it. congratulate ourselves that in 1038

Justifiably so. No alteration In the we were far-seeing enough not to extent a true one, is that the justices 'le that the existing law should be Another explanation, and to some law is required. All that is needed a quarrel between Spanish are afraid of the expense involved, put into effect by those whose duty partisans the excuse for staging a They have been very successful in it second edition of Armageddon.

to administer: it, Roeping down the cost, for during The Home Once is fond enough. One Great War in a century is just the six years for which statisties of circulars to tile justices Why about enough. It is certainly as have been published 1,005 certificates might try the effect of a circular on stand. much

as Western civilisation: can in all have been granted by the 1,044 this point.

"Police" Courts in England and

-A Solicitor

make

..

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A useful fellow, In it (7).

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make light of it (0).

12 Flower (5).

13 It will be found in Europe

century hence (B).

15 A good defence (6), **

16 It's a safe bat that this ante fa

Lair (6).

17 It may contain many points of interest to the seamstress (10),

10 This may create a musical ́at.

mosphere (3).

21 No marine. helper, in the, or-

dinary way (8).

24

What the runners were in the

dead hent (7).

26 Bird that chases its tall (6).

27 A cattle pen (0).

30 A card game. (4)...

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his wool (4).

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