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Officialdom

ACH year the number of Civil Servants in Hongkong in- crenses, and according to published Agures the total is now about 11,000; BO that

I've done my time in the

army-

-and liked it: Report by a Frenchman on how conscription affected him

RITU

AM

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Frenchman, 1.

Those not fit enough for full-

thirty-one years old time service are given jobs as officers' servants, cooks, canteen married, with three

belps. Tupac physically unfit children.

are excused.

Like all Frenchmen, I have If you enlist before you are been "conscripted," or, as we twenty you can pick your own

prefer to say, I have done my regiment. If you go into the military service.

colonial service you got better

to

Like almost all my fellow pay.

I went into the 157th Artil- countrymen, if war were

Regiment. After six break out to-morrow I would lery have to go at once to join my months' special training and regiment "somewhere In several examinations I became a brigadier-an artillery cor- France."

poral-in an anti-aircraft bat- We have had compulsory mili- tory. The bugle gol us out of tary service in France ever since bed every morning at 6.' We the Franco-Prussian war, when had breakfast, coffee and bread, the Prussian Army-the Prus- then drill, gun instruction and sians had been conscripted since other courses. 1807-overthrew our troops and At 11-lunch. Army food has marched along the Champs become much better lately. Elysees and under the Arc de lors d'oeuvres, & substantial Triomphe.

fruit Most of us have often won- plate of meat and vegetables, a are dered why there was such an. quart of wine, and

now on the menu at all bar- tagonism by British people racks. against

compulsory, military.

service.

Drill again from one till fiye, When I was nine-in 1916 when all men except those on I used to watch the Tommies special duty were allowed out in marching towards the Somme, the town till lights out at 10. praised them as soldiers.

I remember how ow Poilus A MAN'S Job is kept

;;

open for him while was he is undergoing service in AT twenty-five 1 called up for

one France, The If his boss doesn't offer bla year's military training. roughly one term has now been extended to work on his return to civilian out of every hundred persons is two. The usual age for calling life the soldier may take the an official. Naturally, although no men up is twenty, but in special case before a labour court, where Lone envisages n time when, as circumstances-if one is already he receives-on proving his Gilbert put it, "everyone is some-married, for instance-service claim-an indemnity the amount

of which depends on the bodee" in an official sense, and can be postponed.

into

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"And I suppose I'll have to send an invitation to Mrs. Gadby, but how can I write it so she won't come?"

Conscription

In Germany

WE have grown so used to thinking of the German Army as the most powerful force in Western Europe that few people realise how short a time it has been in existence. Five years ago the German Reichswehr was only half the size of the British Re- gular Army to-day.

By the Peace Treaty it had been limited to 100,000 men, organised in acven infantry and three cavalry divisions. This small force had no military value except for the purpose of main- taining internal order, for it possessed no tanks, no teroplanes, and no artillery of larger calibre than 4-in. guns.

The treaty had also laid down that time, all young Germans had to do a the term of service was to be twelve full year in Labour Service, where, years, so as to prevent the Germans rince digging and entrenching form from repeating the process that they a great part of the activities of the had practised after their defeat by modern soldier, they acquired useful Napoleon of passing ત constant knowledge.

These "Labour Volunteers" wore succession of men through the ranks so as to build up the maximum military uniform and underwent a impossible of trained reserves.

process of physical development and Even before Hitler came to power, hardening which was excellent pre- when Hongkong rather like the At twenty-five I WAS the portance of the lost job.

the German Government had set it-paration for military service.

one I remember

bitterly cold fabulous islanders who lived by father of two children.. My If a young soldier has

no self to overcome these limitations.

for taking in one another's washing, wife received £1 13s a month for job when he goes

camp General Seeckt.

many years winter mornitig. in Upper Bavaria he may, if he one the family's upkeep. will exist by looking after

wishes, join Commander-in-Chief, regarded the being awakened about dawn by the Reichswehr "as seed-bed from tramp of feet and the sound of men's another's affairs, there are some That, in 1933, was not enough the army for a five-year period, which it some future date a great voices singing a marching tune. It people who look upon this ten-to pay the rent. I was lucky and then sign up for another national service Anny would be went on so long that I got up to look planted out. Its discipline and in- out of the window, and there, with: disfavour. 13 dency with

an enough to receive permission to five if he likes the life.

of struction were

the highest spades stoped over their ahoulder Since my regular training I standard.

and carrying packs arranged with the approach to bureaucracy,

do some work "on" the side" as

neatness of the. Guards Brigade, was The point in a dmcult one, a newspaper correspondent. My have been called up for short since it is purely a question of army pay was only 25 centimes training periods to keep in touch Papier Macho Armour a long column of sturdy Labour Ser of the Vice men tramping through the half- degree. For a Government in] (about d.) a day.

with the new material and the THE milltary education

private soldiers was carried to light over the frozen snow on their How do wives who have to latest methods of modern war-the level laid down in other armies way to the day's work. these days-that-acts--out-to-be

There are both-advantages and diam allowance get fare.

for non-commissioned officers, which piternni and progressive inevit exist on this

Well, either they are I was one of the two million ably releases a blood of com-along? plicated legislation, which can helped by relatives or they have called up last September-and went to join my battery "some- only be administered by making to look for jobs.

where in France." use of departmental control-of a measure of bureaucracy. In this particular instance, however, these

who have mingivings might remem- ber Pope's advice:

For forms of government let fopis

The general rule in the French Army is to send a recruit as far away as possible from his home town or village.

or

When a man is called up for a

"refresher course his employer continues to pay his salary or A Parisian will be sent to the wage. And, again, there is that Northern d. a day. South of France Africa, while a man from Nice Whate'er is best administer'd ja beat, or Marseilles will be sent to the THE strangest argu- Too sweeping a statement, Do Maginot Line or doubt; but if there be, as surely France.

contest;

there is, a modicum of good senser

in it, we should gain some comfort thereby. For the reputation of

Northern

Was

was the function they were intended advantages in suddenly setting up a organised on the most modern scale, pansion ultimately came about. to full when the contemplated ex-conscript Army. Everything can be Although Germany possessed no unhampered by long-standing prac- tanks ar heavy artillery, the tice or vested interests, and a new Reichswehr carried out Its Army naturally receives the most up- manoeuvres as if it had them.

to-date equipment.

On the other hand. Germany found I saw troops at exercise in those dimeulty in providing officers of the days with dummy tanks, consisting middle ranks, such captain and of ordinary motor-cars covered with major. Senior commanders could be Imitation armour of papier mache to

drawn from the veterans of the Great make them recognisable for what war, and the subaltern grades were they were supposed to represent. filled by intelligent young Nazis, or Most significant of all was the fact by officers promoted from the ranks that the German General Staff was ment against con- maintained on a basis out of all proof the professional Reichswehr

great lack of acription to French cars is that portion to the comparative insigni- There was also it is undemocratic. The French-ficance of the troops at lis disposition. I trained reserves, which the Govern

that in his mill- THIS gives young pea- man feels

Many officers held camouflaged ment to some extent remedied by finds sants a chance to see tary service 'he

ronk by being nominally attached to calling up for short periods of re- real civillen transport or supply organisa- fresher-training the younger of the the Civil Service is second to none.the world. For recruits who are democracy.

Llons, so that when the time for re- men who had seen service in the war.

The

Army new

became the pudlating the military limitations of It exacts from its members an already married or have a family Premier Daladier did his ser-the Pence Trenly arrived they needed favourite child of the Nazi GovernI- incorruptible devotion to duty, to support the case is different. vice as n Bergeant in the in- only to put on uniform to take their ment. Whatever other branch of the and, what is less generally recog- I was allowed to serve at Nice, fantry, Maginot, who built the places of fully qualified Staff Officers national life had to go short, if was not the Wehrmacht, as it was called nised, much self-sacrifico from its where I was living, and, like all famous steel belt along the

Hidden Arms

thenceforward, and the keenness of abilities other married men in the bar Rhine, was also a sergeant highest officers, whose

the war.

Aristide Asoon as Hiller came to power in the officers and men justifled the pre-

ferential treatment given them. would obtain a dar greater monet-racks, allowed to sleep at home during

January 1933, he began to expand Though the "traditions" of the Briand, maker of the Pence the Reichswehr, though still keeping earlier regintenta were solemnly ary reward in the business world. one night out of two.

The young Frenchman's first Fact, served as a private, and it on a professional service basis. By handed on to the now formations So long as such a tradition is up-

Poincare

the end of 1934 11 had been raised to called into existence, the resuscitated held by the servants of the State, contact with the army is a call President

In lieutenant, in his young days, in 300,000 men. New skeleton divisions German, Army differs in

were formed, into which the 100 respecta from its pre-war predecessor. there is the less reason to fear the for medical examination. result even though there were "in each town district and in every the Blue Devils--the French service men of the Reichswehr were Class-spirit has disappeared,

village the medical examining Alpine troops.

drafted to act as Instructors. Stocks every German soldler knows that board-composed of the mayor, When I first went to the bar of arms and equipment, including the ability is the only basis of promotion.

weapons until then forbidden, were the municipal councillors, and racks I met among my fellow-manufactured and hidden away. No Weary Marches several military doctors-sit recruits a young ascetic-looking Then suddenly, on March 18, 1935,

came the proclamation of conscrip- the end of 2036 the period of military service was increased to tlon, with one year's military service

raising the German Arst-line troops begin in the autumn of that year.

Behind At one stroke, a national cervice to close on 1,000,000 men. Ile was the butt for a lot of Army of 500,000 men was thus these 80 divisions Germany now bes The Army has once more become sarcastic jokes for the first few brought into existence, and the num- 2,000,000 trained soldiers as reserves. days, but he sang such good ber of divisions was increased from the most conspicuous feature of songs in the dormitory at night 10 to 39.

German national life. Its grey be seen all over the that he soon won respect.

Open-Country Exercise uniform is to In my battery we had, also, a

Whereas in pre-war days military stout round-faced boy whose achieving this, Germany had country.

certain advantages which are not

For years the service was regarded the appointment to a Cambridge Pro-to far appointed no women pro- father was a wealthy banker at shared by Britain.

younger men of the Nazi Party had pleasant duty, the modern young fessorship of a distinguished woman fessors, may feel itself, stirred to Marseilles.

been organised in two semi-military German shows no unwillingness to do archaeologist à curious logical post-emulate this forward step, and Cam- Of the others in the battery corps, known as the Storm Troopers is two years with the Colours. The And the S.S. Guards. There were tedium of barrock-tquare drill and Garrod, the Pro-ranging itself beside the "modern" one was a locksmith, another a

farmat that ilme about 1,000,000 Storm the weariness of long route morches fessor-designate, has on full a fone universities. But the curious in both taxi-driver,

Troopers and nearly 200,000 of the have given place in modern armies to mechanical Instruction and motorised as an excavator no was corned in Universlites-and outside them will hands.

Black Guards. another branch of archaeology by continue to wonder why, when the

These formations did not carry transport in which the youth of the that learned Cambridge lady, the late monastic traditions of Cambridge are

arras, but they were accustomed to present day finds real interest Miss Jane Harrison. Yet, though the so wisely ubandoned in practice, their I would serve if war came.

march-discipline and received ina- future head of her faculty, Miss anti-feminist ghost should haunt the Garrod remains as much exterior to Cam, and wonen still remain not the university as a whole as was Miss undergraduates and graduates but Harrison herself. Oxford, which has theareilcally external students.

point of fact too many"

Cambridge Steps Forward

priest, whose black cassock was the rest of us wore.

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many

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It is 19 years since the University twice a year. of Oxford first admitted women to The recruits, supervised by in contrast to the civilian clothes for all young men, of 20 and 21 to two years. which had the effect of full membership, bestowing on themi a peculiar cap as well as the normal gendarmes, strip off their cloth types of gown. Cambridge, thoughing and arc, examined,

Onco passed as "good for equally generous in the matter of admission to lectures and to "titular" armed service" the future sol- degrees, still keeps its wamen dier, still naked and blushing, university. Capless and gownless do turns to the councillors and in they tread the path of learning and congratulated by the mayor. the government of the university pro- By coeds without feminine voles,

atudents constitutionally outside the

tlon is now created.

Miss Dorothy

bridge meanwhile has the honour of

two were

These are the men with whom

Robert Chasseuil fruction in skirmisiting under the

name of "Gelandeubung," or "open- country exercise." Moreover, at that

I an un-

G. W. P.