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Here's what you may be doing in, a few years-looking at the person at the other end of the wire. It's the latest thing in The view~ television, the "televisionphone," shown in London. ing screen ly where the mouthpiece ordinarily would be. compact set can be used in a lighted roum,

The

Partisan Blindness

IFFERENT pundits

By "An Old Stager"

various came to the rescue of the humanities Dfis pure scribed the world's in Spain when Red Bolshevism wes troubles to all sorts of human weak creating revolutionary anarchy be-

Last of

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

been the root philosophers

nesses.

session-many have

evils denounced by Through the centuries.

The conviction begins to deepen in iny mind, however, that the must baleful of the lot is just sheer ignorance.

Neither side is willing to listen to any statement of facts or arguments advanced, even by apparently un- outsiders, in favour or in blased partial vindication of the other. never occurs to them that there may

truth be some degree of

011 both siden.

It

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938.

An Old Soldier looks at the Army Changes & says CANADIAN PACIFIC

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

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

when I was sixteen.

I

Then I went to a crummer's. Two

years of intensive stuffing with text-

books hatched me out as a Sandhurst

cadet passable as a dancing partner ++++++

to the girls, good-mannered, I hope,

who'recently retired after nearly 40 years in the Army, including servico in alx campaigns.

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 05 for mathematies, law, economics, history-apart from the Posals go further in one respeel. old general who was sitting in his Why not send the budding officers club in Pall Mall, the hero of three

three campaigns? milltary verslon-geography, or any

Timidly 11 young of the ordinary accomplishments of to a university for two or the ordinary boywell, it all stopped years? That is what happens to subaltern approached him,

sappers-which presumably accounts dead at sixteen.

asked. for the superior smirk on the face of "Tell me, general," he

the "what did you think of

Inst the sapper. Higher Standards

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 Chatham for a will agree. Imited and it stulli-itle high-pressure military educa fied. It produced hidebound soldiers tion. The result is Arst-class who lacked not only worldly know- officer. ledge but everyday knowledge.

Conditions have, of course, im- The Best Officers

since considerably proved Educational standards are very much

then,

CX,

for

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

CAN honestly say that of all soldier.

the hundreda of young

the

I am glad to see that the rates of higher than they were and breaches ofleers who have passed through pay have gone up. Life in the Ariny have been made in the narrow my hands both in this country and in my day had u marvellously gay clusiveness of traditional training in India I have frequently found and social aide-but you paid for it. The system, which has hitherto pre- vided the overwhelming majority of that those who came into the Army If the bank balance was thin, fun ofteers, while retaining its best intest in life and with most civil was thin too. It was not quite fair

education belint them made the on us.

Mr. Hore-Belisha has altered features, is now to be put on a much best and most intelligent officers. that. wider basis.

To-day we live in an Army world Further, by making promotion

rapid, by wlping out When I read that in one day near- of nuts and belts, petrol cans and more ly a quarter of the subalterns and chemistry. It is no longer a gentle iniquitous half-pay system, and by I has become a busi assuring reasonably long periods of captains of the British Army will be man's war.

nesslike business, So must service, he has made the Army what automatically promoted, that pro make a business of it and train our it always ought to have been a motion in future will be

worth-while profession for worth- that there will be direct commission young offlcers accordingly.

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

a reward. will be increased, that Army educa- up to.

So that eyebrow of mine I sit back and watch. My Army tion will be expanded and intensified, 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 a back street, say, in Manchester, stands a reasonable chance of going, via a secondary school, Into Sandhurst or Woolwich free of all charge to his

10 raise my hat parents, I Minister for War.

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

The astounding thing is what passionate fervour many people will

The cross-bench mind simply In- found on a basis of complete immor- furiates their fanaticism. If you are ance. They will get red-hot over tot wholeheartedly with them, then one side of a question us 10 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

all even make any attempt to gain en excuse has absolutely no foot Hightenment.

held in this kind of mentality.

And At ew, Mr. Chomberbin is be- Admittedly there are certain ques- his assalled tooth and nail because tions that are inherently beyond he refuses to order the British fleet

one bombard, or at least to blockade to denounce, for instance, all the Cadiz or some other Spanishı eardinal sins catalogued under the We have the absurd position of ex- Ten Commandments. Nobody In his treme Left Wing, detesters of the leader in 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 nurdur, arson, black- cent elvillans, in reprisal for some mall, or even welshing.

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

But lots of people to-day are get-

considered that

ting extremely indignant about The situation is all the more gro- things far more delicately complex than the outstanding human erimes, tesque when it is and without actually trying to these Jingo advocates of naval bom- bardment or blockade which is fathom any of the complexitles,

only one degree less drastic, and hits It is of. this disposition and the, innocent just as surely as bom- tendency-sheer morance backed bardment would are mostly La- by abjeet mentul laziness that our bour people.

frequently Abnormal Profits

partisans

are

extreme mode.

Negation of Democracy

There is no doubt about it that merchant ships, trading in essential supplies to Spanish ports, are doing No doubt there have always been so not for one moment in any al- violent and purblind partisans, but I trulstie spirit of bringing susten- truly believe the world has seldom ance to a hard-pressed Spanish been more cursed with them, not people, but simply because they are even the days of the Spanish In- able to command exorbitant freights quisition, than we are to-day.

and abnormally high wages for their crews. There are seemingly sensate people who will swallow anything that Spanish Government ports is about The coal freight per ton to these happens in Russia, but go berserk four times the rate to other places over even the mildest alor hop in the vicinity. And, on top of all penings in either Italy or Germany, this, at least half these

ensign merely

are in sympathy with the pollent our national regime in one instance, and out of camouflage. sympathy in the others, warp their

The only way in which Franco's judgment thus?

bombing of these ships, within the three-mile territorial water limit,

rose

the

Field-Marshal Sir William Robert-

san rose from the ranks to be one

of the best-loved and most emcient officers in the British Army."

POLICE

COURTS

-And The Poor

SUN

may

on

In for

*

Good though the new system looks NEW things are more creditable to Wales. The maximum allowed on a cn paper it has one potential defect the English system of criminni legal aid certificate in the summary the promotion of the exaraino justice than the Poor Prisoners' De- courts is £2 10s. A more usual tion" type at the expense of the mun fence Act of 1930. So far as offences allowance is £1 Bs. and this is as who has character but lacks neade- tried at Assizes and Quarter Sessions much as I have ever received. mic distinction

are concerned the Aci works well But, even assuming the maximum Distinction as a scholar not enough in a soldier. An officer who and not many poor persons go un- grant in every case, the expenditure defended. Bul few people know on Poor Persons Defence since the is to command the respect and that the powers which Parliament Act was passed works out at an affection of jils men must be intended to be used for the benefit average of about 148. 44. per cent. definable spirit possesses that, as of all poor persons accused of crime per annum. Surely the country can which we know as have been and are, so far as the afford more than this. If it cannot "character. The Grecks had "Police" Courts are concerned, prae- would it not be better to do away word for it, but as I have no educatiently a dead letter.

with the pretence that no poor per

need go undefended tion I forget the word.

criminal charge?

The need for legal ad The Criminal Statistics for 1936. greater in the "Police" Court than test published, show that the magis- before Judge. There is seldom A ranker also was that gallant trates in that year found 217.873 any presumption of innocence in but tragle soldier the late Major-persons guilty of varie as offences. eases tried by the lay magistrates. General

o charge has Hector Macdonald, That is, they dealt finally with over The mere fact that pillar dominates the 99 per cent. of all offences. To these been brought by the police is enough whose memorial grey harbour and grey houses of 817,873 persons and to those who for the average J.P. The accused

acquitted the Dingwall, the east coast Scottish were

magistrates hos to prove his, or her, Innocence. geta from the town which is proud of having once ranted 363 certificates for free legal The only help he owned him as a shy young draper's aid.

court, as a rule, is to be told harshly assistant.

Under the Act of 1930 two condi- that he must ask questions and not During the war I remember heur-tions must be fulfilled before legol make a statement. ing of a very efficient brigadier who aid is granted to a defendant in the "Police Court. His means must be began fe is Mr. Godfrey Jones, a miner working in the coal thee in instiffcient to obtain it for liimself,

There are few more pitiful sights Ebbw Vale He was only one of and by reason of the gravity of the

a poverty-stricken man' some 20 or more miners who rose to chargo or of exceptional circum- than high rank, and give 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 have professional help in his defence, unfamiliar surroundings and shrink- University Training

It is true that many of the offences ing from the ridicule which is for tried in the "Police" Courts are of too often poured out by the Bench THEN there

another a

trifling nature, and that a large and their clerk.

Legal aid is actually more neces- brigadier who in civil life number of persons plead

of them sary before lay magistrates than be-

Sir

WDS

or

Any other country, and as evil deed is a contention which, in the palpa staff. Chief of the Imperial General prison after trial in the "Pollo accused of wasting time. No ad- is just as reprehensible in Moscow ble circumstances of to-day, Staff, G.O.C; Great Britain, and Courts. And 303 persons only, out for him time is money. I have had.

ng it would be in Berlin or Home or just an absurdity. Timbuctoo. Until we can find means

Everybody with any sense deplores

wounds of

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1 Fish vessel that accommodates

vehicles (two words-3, 4).

8 Scientist who was not rear a

familiar period (7). 9 This is for

the sale

colloquial

In

severe result of Introducing skill in the distance (7)

29 Rigorously

merchant had been a cab driver. A few years the magistrates," nearly allBut Why should the mere fact that they silps are foreign-owned, in tore a judge. A judge is always at Barry Dock who had commanded 1930 dealt with 38,504 indictable on the watch for irregularities. The

attention of a battalion during the war.

entrants (7) offences, mainly cases of theft, by only thing that magistrates can be Before the war, when I

ock 10 One of these may be the ap- was a persons over 17, and sent nearly a relied upon to watch is the clock. young man, there was that grand quarter of these persons to prison. The justices dislike defended cases

pendix, of course (7). To an Intelligent person

old soldier Major-General Sir Luke In 1930, 10,443

11 One may have dim recollections smells just as sweet in Russia as in that there is no war in Spain. That of them all" before "Wullie" Robert Indictabin

magistrates for non- It is significant that it is always

of such a heavenly event (7). can be condemned by contending | U'Cohnbr, V.C., "the greatest ranker to prison by the persons were sent because they take more time.

offences.

Altogether advocates for the defence who are

14 Put the start of 10 across in son became Chief of the General ncurly 20,000 persons were sent to

humans to Infuriate (8). vacate wastes time intentionally, as 10 This day is usually a festive

ond (5). to extirpate this partisan madness, the fact that the Spaniards have not

of well over three-quarters of a 30 years experience of the courts 20 Engineers often take this in whether by an improved education been left to fight thele quarrel out which come from the last European

million tried, had the privilege of n of summary jurisdiction, and I have hand (6). Poor Persons Defence. or some other expedient, I fear amongst themselves. We have dene

never seen a defendant who could 22 A little tug on the line? (6). It may be, of course, as I have afford it without profèssidnai repre-123 Polsonous horse artist (5). there may be grave danger for our our utmost to secure such a situation,

War is already being forgotten. The beard ironically suggested, that the sentation. deinocracy.

1914-18 are not yot

25 Popular game and if our efforts have not been suc-healed. They are gaping hideously explanation is that crime is practi-

xulse {Ũ). The Imbecile glainclination

Dessful,

cally confined to the fault certainly does not to

in a general disintegration of civi- classes. But this disquieting theory the wealthier

20 Town (7). consider, or even to hear a word ile with us, but with overmastering fised traditions and aspirations.

offences other

than is regaived by the fact that 1,765 about, the other alde of the case la circumstance,

Surely it was wise Drillsh polley, legal aid certificates were tranted those of a trivial nature the drives In Itself a positive negative of de- No one defends the Intervention when the fires of civil war started in mocratic theory. Yet we find it lo- by Germany and Italy. But ever so Spain, and various International fire in respect of the 7,078 cases tried of private cars are as a rule repre-

sented. Lorry drivers, unless they 32 There are two graduates epy- at Assizes and Quarter Sessions. day developing into something sus many partisans Ignore the equally brigades came rushing in

belong to a union, usually are not. cendiary coulpment to

how, In this part of Amerlen plelously like af advanced democrn- strenuous intervention by Russia and

Kleptomaniacs with means who help

(7). ile practice.

France. If the latter has been less flames, to use the utmost endeavour

themselves at expensive shops al-133 With so few at a position might effective than the former, does that It has been peculiarly in evidence, affect the ethical values of the ac

-even at the necessity of sometimes Some benchies have, peculiar ideas most invariably have advocates to not be this (7). from the very first moment, over tion?

turning a diplomatic Nelsonic telesas to what constitutes "Insumclent explain the matter. Poor women 34 Our belt gives a spot of bother! the troubles In Spain, Broadly

cape to the blind eye--to keep on means." I have myself heard a man who steal

stores from sixpenny

(7). Spain might enslly have become, speaking there are but two schools ns it has been in post history, the

originally purely Peninsular quarrel whose sole means were 10s. 3d. per have to do the best they can for of political thought about Spain in cockpit of another European war,

from extending to the whole of week unemployment pay refused themselves. armed Europe? this country.

Would the Spanish Government's

legal aid on the ground that he could These things breed discontent, and Ten years hence, I fancy, we shall afford to pay for it.

Justifiably so. No alteration in the Call for Reprizais

partisans In this country have re- congratulate ourselves that in 1938 Another explanation, and to some law is required. All that is needed ished that prospect? In the long

we were far-seeing enough_not_to)extent true one, is that the justices is that the existing inw should be One firmly persuaded that tun, would even those Spaniards make a quarrel between Spanish are afraid of the expense involved, put into effect by those whose duty Franco jumped in, without te who are on the side of the Madrid partisans the excuse for stoging a They have been very successful in it is to`administer it.. slightest justification or provocation, Government have appreciated it? .

Recond edition of Armageddon. keeping down the cost, for during The Home Omes is fond enough. One Great War in a century is just the six years for which statistics of clrculars to the justices. . They about enough. It is certainly os have been published 1,005 certificates might try the effect of a circular on much as Western civilization can in all have been granted by the 1,044 this point.

"Police" Courts in England and

to sabotage a Popular Front Cavern- Keeping Out of It ment, in order to assert a' militory Fascist control. The other is just ns

It surely cannot be the case that

firmly certain that Franco merely the appalling disaster to the world stand.

the

--A Bollettor

DOWN not giving the Im 1 Certainty

pression of a live body (10). · 2 is home may easily be twig-

ged (4).

3 Wherein there is a private ma

jority (4)

4 Ono might cook the final bird",

In It (7).

5 A useful fellow, but no

specialist (8).

6 Weary finish for a remnant

·(6).

7 It might be lanced but one can

make light of it (6).

12 Flower (5).

13 will be found in Europe a

century hence (5),

15 A good defence (5).

10 It's a safe bet that this ante is

fair (8).

27 It may contain many points of interest to the seamstress (10).

10 This may create a mustent at-

mosphere (3).

21 No marine helper, In the or-

dinary

way. 48)

24 What the rummers were in the

dead heat (7).

20 Bird that chases its tail (8).

27 A caitle pen (8).

30 A card game (4).

31 He la Hable, later on, to lose

his wool (4).

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