No one in Germany sighs more fervently for "the good old days" of the haiser than the former army elficer. Forced off the Government payroll by the reduction of the army, untrained for work other than soldiering, and so generally disliked by the population that he has difficulty in finding any kind of employment, the oificer's lot in democratic Germany is a hard one. His pre-war world, i which he strutted about as the privileged pet of his Emperor, has been utterly destroyed.
Many officers have been reduced to extreme financial straits. The middle-aged ex-officer gets a pension of Mks. 3,800 a year, but that is only about a fifth of the amount required to maintain a family. So urgent is their need that a movement has been sct on foot to form an ex-officers' association for the purpose of inducing the Government to provide them with land and subsidies.
A former officer, dolefully _discussing the plight of himself and his fellows, remarked that the express sion once current in the ited States, "There's no good Indian but a dead Indian," applied precisely nowadays to the German public's attitude toward the officer class.
After the first revolution it was a risky thing for officers to appear in the streets in uniform. They were emboldened by the Kapp coop Inst March, and since then have been showing themselves in increasing numbers, especially student reserve officers, who are easily identified by their pale faces slashed ith fresh sword cuts received in duels.
News has been received of the death, at_a nursing home in London, on August 5, of Mr. George Home-Cook, son of the late Mr. R_- Home-Cook, at one time manager of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank branches at Yo!shama and in Kove. Mr. Home-Cook, who was 32 years of age, had been ill for six months, the cause of death being blood-poisoning. He had been married about three years, and leaves, beside his young wife. two children.
Is the fear that the family of Geddes will some day run the Empire again taking shape once more? The "Morning Post" announces that it has received the fol-g brief letter from a famous mage Sir—Having carefully studied the leading articles in the "Morning Post" for the past week, Mrs. Malanrop is of opinion that unless we rid ourselves of our Cosmopoliticlans we may have to face another Armageddes in the near future. evil which, I believe, you also suffer from in this country, of having a chain of newsnaners under the control of ong man."
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