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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1980.

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REMEDIOS.-On August 20, 1939, at 60 Robinson Road, after a short illness, Esther Marin Velra, aged 16 months, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. V. Hemedios, Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

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Advice

An Old

callously Nerritorials and the Militia

TEWS in 1861, the Army, the

violated the Nine-Power Treaty, has been neatly hoisted on her own petard with Germany's violation of the Anti-Comintern Pact.

That Soviet Russia should, in the light of Hitler's contempt for solemn obligations, place its faith in a Non-Aggression Pact with Germany is something that passes all understanding, unless -and it is a distinct possibility -the Russian leaders intend to use Germany as Germany has used Japan.

The importance of the poli- tical upheaval about to take place in Tokyo cannot be too fully stressed. The fight there is certain to be a fight between the extremists, as represented by the militarists, and the con- servatives, as represented by the civil branch.

On the outcome of this crisis may depend British security in Pacific waters.

The conservatives will almost certainly seek British friendship. and seek an early termination of the conflict with China. They have reason to fear the large concentrations of Russian troops now being brought forward to Head Office & Works 57032

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*** hand, have a sublime faith in the omnipotence of Japan's arms, and will continue to obstruct anything incompatible with their aims for a "New Order" in East Asia.

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"Their position, however, has been enormously weakened by Germany's defection from the Anti-Comintern Pact, which they supported and which they desired to see turned into a full military alliance.

Whatever else happens; China's position vis-a-vis Japan has been immeasurably streng. thened as a result of the latest political developments. There is no gainsaying the fact that Japan is now definitely on the défensive.

are "news" to-day; but in 1861 the Territorials were called volunteers and were for home service only, and the Militia were a kind of Army reserve, recruited by voluntary enlist. ment. To-day the Militia are regular soldiers raised by com-. pulsory enlistment.

I am glad the young men called to the Colours for compulsory ser

Militia. called vice are officially There is something: in a name, and I don't like the word conscript. It IS ith

word unpopular islands.

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wide."

From Soldier

by Robert Blatchford

who joined the Army in 1871. In this article he tells militiamen of to-day what he remembers of the Army of his day, and what ideas he has about the discipline and treatment of the new Army of a modern Democracy.

bodies

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pulsory service into the fabric of our democracy.

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Before the war promotion from the ranks was of a negligible quanlity; during the war it was tried, and, I believe, proved satisfactory. And, as bearing on military training as well it must be remembered. promotion,, that the great bulk of our Army in the war was a civilian Army; that

were pro Inany company officers mated from the ranks, and that the general commanding the Anzac forces was a civilian general and generally regarded as one of the ablest generals in the war.

Was

It does not follow from these facts that every private soldier in. Now the men from India, nearly beer and the language

the Army or Militia carries a mor- these all had money. Most of the men chaste; but we were well contented; shal's baton in his knapsack, but it

had ten or twenty pounds and some the men were splendid. Conditions

docs follow that on Intelligent pri- of the sergeants two or three hun- in the Army to-day are, I believe,

vate soldier

may make as good an officer as any young public school 1 am not going to argue about dred. That money had to be sperit materially and morally much better. compulsory service. It has, for the and when 1, a wondering boy of We were young. We grubbed man from Sandhurst. But this is a

joined first time, been adopted here in twenty,

the hilarious and

Theoretically, promotion our thought. hard time of peace, and our people, with beery throng, the regiment was, he along on our dry bread and synthetic subject that needs very careful from the ranks is quite obviously their inborn practical good sense, the old hands expressed it, "going tea. If our beds were

harder, There were have accepted it.

things more vital than apple tarts desirable; the difficulty is in

There may and tender plilows. For instance, practical application. sound health, self-reliance, comradebe technical stiles to climb.

A Every night the guard-room was ship

No regiment has a collective soul. They recognise the fact that packed with prisoners and every day lend the collective spirit. democracy which resents compulsory defaulters to the number of a full man who has never drilled with a service has in its hands the alterna- company did pack-drill on the gravel regiment or marched with a column tive of voluntary erilistment. If the square. We had a sergeant major can Imagine the collective spirit of country is to be defended some form and two drill sergeants sent to us trained troops. To him the idea of of military service is imperative. from the Guards and the stripes flew a corporate mind and soul is un-

goldier "like thinkable; but any non-commissioned arms, And that is that.

Promo- understand. leaves in wintry weather.'

will

In our modern world, where the tion was rapid,

There are two milllary problems entire population of several great

Of Army Ute in my time I shall on which I can only speak with diff- nations are organised, armed and

us dence: I mean the problem of pro- trained for a policy of robbery under say little. The Army treated

We didn't mind. We were motion from the ranks and the pro- arms. we must have an Army, rough.

too much blem of fitting some scheme of com- Much as we hate and despise war not 'ixebles. There was and desire peace, we must have on Army. If we are to remain a free people, we must arm: we must.

Well, then, since we must have an Army, what kind of an Army shall we have and how does the existing Army compare with the armies of the past and how may it be shaped so un best to satisfy the sentiment and needs of a modern democracy?

These are practical questions, and will appeal to our practical people. Is our Army ns democratle as a rea- sonable democracy could expect, or is it still marred by certain out- moded traditions of the past?

In the first place, I'm a back num ber. I joined the Army in 1871 and left in 1878. There is a gặp of 81 years; but I have one advantage. I served with men whin had fought in the Crimea and Indian Mutiny and so had experience of the old long-service Army as well as of the Cardwellian six years men.

Indeed, I met in Cardiff a man who had fought under Nelson at Copenhagen in 1801 and had drawn a pension for 12 years. He was then just the pge I am now, turned 88.

But against that advantage must be put the facts that I am a partial witness, for I was lucky in my ser- vicu. and I liked the service and the men; and that my regiment was in my time hardly a normal example of a British regiment of the Line.

'It was an old John Company time of corps, was raised in the Queen Anne and had never returned to England unul 1871. When it did return it was under strength and took in some three hundred recruits, mostly cockneys, as the gardeners say: "In variety."

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

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As for the raising and training of compulsory armies in a democracy. can envisage certain technical snags in the way. Had we to deal only with infantry regiments the task would be fairly easy; but the- training of mechanised troops, leaves an outakler guessing.

A recruit could be made into a serviceable infantry soldier in six months and kept it by a month's delli in cach

but when year;

We are dealing with bombing plapes and tanks and machine guns and Bren guns and searchlights and anti-air- craft guns

dealing with. things we need to know something practical about, and I know nothing about themn.

we

are

My own idea, when I was in the Army, was the compulsory training of all young men as they reached the age of 18. I recognised that the object would be to keep them away from their work and their homes. for the shortest period that would give effelency.

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I was thinking of Infantry and. being a soldier and having been in the Volunteers, I believed that very short time with the Colours would suffice if the training were practical and sensible. And I think I may claim in support of that opinion that mullons of British sol-- diers who fought in the Great War had no longer or fuller preparation. But with very complex bodies of mechanised troops one must rely upon expert advice and careful ex- periment. The only advice I care to risk is the advice to all,good demo crats to watch jealously

the young men are not held needlessly long and the necessary but

unpolat

ablo work of recruiting and train- ing the New Army is not bumpered. by military or official red tape..

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The Democracy wants as good and big on Army as It can raise; but it cloes not want any of the military swagger which I should describe as goose-steppery. If we are to have a citizen Ariny, let us have an Army, not a circus. Our'idea of a soldier is not a Kaiser">William,, butan. Oliver Crainwell..

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