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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1947.

Is our defence

date

be?

as up to as it should

BY....BRIGADIER J. G. SMYTH, V.C., M.C.

only

THE recent conscription unchanged. The men work

controversy shows that it four hours out of the 24, and after is now a matter of the time idleness is a terrible strain. "The result is that 50 percent of utmost urgency that the men, our occupying army is becoming money and material allotted to useless, Britain's postwar defence forces should be more closely related to our acute manpower prob

lem.

In the past it has never been possible for Britain to keep up a large Navy and a large Army in peacetime.

But as our existence depend- ed on secure sea communica- tions, our defence problem up to 1914.

comparatively. simple.

was

We had to be supreme at sea. That supremacy not only kept the sea life-lines. secure for our food supply, but it gave us time to raise and train an army after war had actually started.

After World War I.

our pencetime defence problem was complicated by the advent of air power,

which entailed third Service for which men. material and money were re- quired.

Money-starved

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We tried to solve this new problem in a characteristic way, by simply withholding money from all three Services. As a consequence the Navy gradually lost its premier position among the navies of the world, the Air Force became dangerously re- duced in size and the Ariny al- most ceased to exist.

Even when Germany and Japan were plainly bent on world conquest, the total num- ber of men in our three Ser- vices numbered less than half a million.

At that time most of our troubles in industry and in the Services could have been solved by the introduction of conscrip- tion because, between the wars,

our greatest national problem

could have

"We urge flooded with applications lo marry German from the men girls, and refusals to go home an

leave are increasing.

"Many of these things could be avoided by having the occupying army centred in 21 few areas.

"This situation in Germany and enable would case the

housing

to end down over troops," One of the keys to the saving of manpower is

is in the mobility con- ferred by the air.

If we have war, what then? If any nation starts an aggressive war in the future. It will do so without, warning

and the

whole weight of the attack will be direct- ed against the civil population.

Most vulnorable

And, as regards sudden atomic attack, Britain has now become the T the most vulnerable country world.

Defence against atomic attack by aircraft or rocket should be a Brat priority.

And of all the Army Commands, Anti-Aircraft Command should have the first pick of men material and attention,

But have they? Not so Jar as anyone can see.

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THE SKELETON IN THE CAVE

skeleton in a cave at Ingle. borough, on the Yorkshire

to the best of our ability

Having secured the British Isles agains! the most Hicely form of attack, weHE finding of a man's should organise our postwar defence force with one main object to try to ensure, in co-operation with the fells, recalls the discovery many. Dominions,

nions, that the war of the fa- years ago of another skeleton ture never happens.

and a murder-in a Yorkshire caveat Knaresborough.

Britain alone can no longer bear the whole burden of Empire defence, an Empire force, so we must have

The Knaresborough skeleton operating from Empire hases.

be mobile, It must

air-trans-was found in St Robert's cave- ported, hard-hitting," long-service, a hermit's cave-in 1758. It well equipped and super-efficient, had lain there 14 years.

Less integrated

Integrated today than they were in The three Services are far less

the war.

They run their own recruiting campaigns in competition with ore another and put up separate finan- eint Estimates to Parliament.

When their voluntary recruiting

ed the only answer.

The sequel to the finding was a schoolmaster, gentlemannered, the hanging of Eugene Aram, studious. and erudite, for mur- der committed on February 8, 1744.

by

JAMES CRITCHLEY

He had a prodigious memory and an extraordinary craving for knowledge.

At 16 he was taken to London by his father's employer and given a job at bookkeeping.

After two years he'contracted smallpox and was sent home.

Clark's disappearance caused sensation. Ruinours spread and Aram and Houseman were suspected, especially ns part of the goods obtained by fraud were found burled in Aram's garden and in Houseman's warehouse,

Aram was arrested for debt, and to the surprise of all promptly paid a fairly large sum. He also pold off a mortgage on a house. In Ripon.

He then disappeared and left his wife and children to their own re Rouress.

He was not heard of again for 11.. years. He apparently went to Lon-

dan, where he acted as tutor and law welter for some years. He was also in other parts of England.

The arrest EARLY in 1758 Aram was appola-

ted assistant master, or usher she was called, at the Grammar School at Lynn, Norfolk, now

The tragedy and the man While convalescing he studied campaigns failed, conscription scen-have inspired books, pamphlets. poetry, history, and antiquities.

ballads, plays, and actors.

Betrayed by wife THEN he got a job as a school- King's Lynn.

mna master in Netherdale. married.

was unemployment.

But the present system of military Bat no party

There is Bulwer Lytton's Tom Hood's poem. brought in conscription between conscription will get us nowhere.

As Mr. Attlee so truly said in the novel, the

and remained in defence wars

debate in the

House of Henry Irving and Martin Ilar- A Commons In March of last year:-- vey played the part of Eugene power. Even in 1999, with

"Modern war is by no means

to-Aram.

Aram's skull was given world war obviously impending. and our

Services lamentably day just the responsibility of the

Fighting Services. Modern war into the Royal College of Sur- weak, the Socialist Party bit volves all the Services, and modern geons. terly opposed the introduction means of defence involve the whole Eugene Aram was born in of the very modified form of nation."

Mr

It is high, time these words were 1704, the son of a gardener and conscription proposed by

botanist. put into practice. Chamberlain's Government,

They opposed it both on prin- ciple and on the ground that "It will gravely imperil the national effort."--

Heavy handicap

Yet today, with a far greater no- tional effort required, with the Axis countries under Allled occupailon, with our troops withdrawing from Egypt, India and Burma, and with a Nations Organisation forming this time" "with teeth": we have armed forces of three times the pre-war strength in men-and

on into the bargain. conscription

new United

there

It does not seem to make sense. From the industrial standpoint can be no doubt that con- acription and the present size of the armed forces form a heavy handicap to our recovery.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

N the little town of Fairbanks. The shock was IN

but also in the 7,118 dialents which they have disintegrated.

Ile has sold six refrigerators

We need to ask ourselves afresh just what is our defence problem

does conscription the Eskimos. today and how come to

to be conaldered an essential part of it?

He

fie

recently

or

in

im

ten

He treated his wife hudly, and it was she who eventually betrayed him and brought him to the gallows.

He took up Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, and the classics, while he

neted as tutor to the children of the gentry his spare time.

He had six children, and in 1734 became a teacher In the coltage Frivol at Knaresborough. But ins Carnings, £20 a year, even in those days, meant nothing-but-penury,-mna. did little ta assist his esthetic pose.

He got to know'n shoemaker. Daniel Clark, and a lax dresser, Richard Houseman.

Here ho lived the same studious and scholastic life, honoured and aven revered by all. When, without any warning, in August 1758.

Two stern-faced men sot

from Lynn, Through the cold and heavy

mist:

out

And Eugene Aram walked be-

livren

With guves tipon his wrist.

He was taken, to York to await his trial.

Aworitmon-digging in a plt-had- discovered 3 male skeleton. At once it was assumeil that this was Clark's

Au inquest was held. Houseman Have evidence and denied any knowledge of it.

Spied on them

Clark had married a woman UL some means, and it was this that led directly to all the trouble.

Aram. Clark and Houseman began THEN Eugene Aram's wife came

a series of long-firm frauds,

Disliked sharing

life Houshum and Aram tock posse

too much for pont he became quito Alaska, is a salesman who Rowbottham and

for a place which we used to call, should be feeling downright unbalanced. We sent him away to ashamed of himself.

want of a better name, a Madhouse. He has deprived the 141.362 pro- fessional evinodians who waik she Life's seamier side earth of a gag which each of them

appeared good tendly imagined was

for THERE

other un laugh until the end of time.

something Hay

deliberately robbed them of a passioned appeal to stocking manu

In view joke which has been delivered since facturers, of all people.

Clark, u man of substance, could early Roman times, nut only in the of the fact that nine out of 22 mother-tongues of the world. women wear their stockings inside get credit, and as part of the were being scheme he got quantities of goods, into out, the manufacturers

And asked to reverse the seains.

silver, plate, jewellery, cloth, books. to why not?

ja This

the Kort at etc. which, for

on and off progress have been crusading halt time. Mind you, personally, would fur rather see stockings mude

As to often happens, they disliked then commitments, such as the occupation WE won't easily forget the ex with no scams at all beenuso the dos of sing the looi betworn On the face of the women would never know whether to thrte. Belween two would not we We must also defend Britain. We Indian kir we used to visit in wene them Inside out, or outside in, so bad. must defend our Empire and keep Delhi when the mischievous nautch or one the right way and the other would Well, open the sea and air routes, which girl put a soft, cushion on his chule reversed, and so on, are just as vital to our existence as when he wasn't looking. How he they? ever; and we must be prepared to jumped! Our old ribs still ache. play our part in the plans of the

Bang, bang, bang, bang United Nations for world security. It's in the family

a certain

NCE you take thene blunderbuss For occupational tasks a number of men on the ground are don't often tell this story, but

and shoot them off using the W' are we

you seem to have caught us in Into the air, the slugs are liable to

land in the punts of those for whom a girlish confidential mood. by which whole divisions were It's about n. nephew of ours they were not intended."—Mr Oliver moved and fed by air in the war, tol called Rowbottham. For years poor Lyttelton, ceonomise in manpower?

Row (we used to culi him Rave) thought he was a sundial and stood

of

We have certain United Nations

Germany.

essential. But

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I heard recently from a regimental rain or shine. turning slowly round officer in Germany, who said, "you and round. After he had been at "WE'VE been tossing and turning can't leave ou army sprawled over it some years an uncle of ours looked. all-night," us the lathe hand and a foreign country and expect them up "sunda" in the dictionary and the pancake manufacturer said when to emerge at, the end of two 'years | discovered it didn't turn round. they came off the night shift.

NANCY

Safety First

ERNIE ZHUTANOILLEIR

ston of this wealth.

So Aram and ousewan planes the destruction and robbery of Checks,

Clark was Induced 10 come tú Aram's

ut house

midnight on with lim about £2200 in munty and Febraney 7, 1744, and he brought

(a sack of plate.

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At 3 am, they set out for destination, a journey which tonic them to a cave on the banks of the Nidd, where they could hide the stuff.

On arrival Aram or Houseman set upan Clark with, a stave and killed him.

They stripped the body of anything that could lend to identification and left it in the cave..

By Ernic. Bushmiller

THE

forward and accused her hus- band and Houseman of the murder of

Clark,

She described in great detail what happened at her home on the night of February 7, 1744.

She told how Clark, Aram and had loft about three Housemad o'clock; how Aram and Houseman returned alona About Avo o'clock and had made a fire and Lurned some clothing; and how she had shled on them, as she suspected foul

work. Houseman's courage failed him and he turned King's evidence, con- fossed the whole thing, and accused Aram of murdering Clark and of threatening him he ever disclosed the crime.

explained that this skeleton was not Clark's, but that Clark's skeleton would be found in

St. Robert's cave.

And it was, The game was up. Arum made a leamed address to the court, principally upon the existence of skeletons in all sorts of places, of people living and dying in caves, of people buried after battles, and of people supposed to have

been murdered

who after-

wards returned home.

All in vain., Eugene Aram was convicted and condemned to death and hanged on the 0th August, 1750...

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