There was a hesitancy about add-Ss. out a chance was taken ing a. Chinese Company to the and there has never been the slight est, reason to regret it: indeed, Quite the reverse. The viots of 1905 were directly, responsible for the first idea of Chinese Volunteers, Messrs. Vu Ya-ching, Yuen Hung-kee, Woo Kee-may, and a number other influential merchants de~ in helping to protect, Chinese foreign interests in times of commotion. The idea was enthusiast cally received and the Chinese Phy-
Srouehe into sical [Recreation Association was fame a dill ball with @ gymnasand an" ample course, brings the mind to the definition of the fforent classes The liar, the and the expert As the Into Dan Leno used to say there is the "Fresh Egg, the New-Laid-Egg and the Egg." All of which being iuterpreted means that this is a world where it is easy to be right but impossible to be truthful.
Tnipht, they craftily established the sibilities of China' militar
tetum ghat "no. good man can be folaier tu cou of time "most people believed this, 20 thas, when Bie" Gninese "Volunteer crisis "was ian of thole own people FaldetAs you want to go salon me you cannot be good mon ad furthermore, you axe offering Saves to the foreigner" "On ther" hand, many foreigner SThey "will! ye no. better" than the Bole hands i's hands if we {uly the. enthusiata for public Guty. were "twixt the: devil an the deep tear but they. were determined fine fo rgently Gi'they blend thole To ensure proper control, it was directed that the, Company should be not less than §0, nor more than ig, that its officers should unrantecs should be given for igners only, that the fullest
Every man joining that fe was Feapectable Sharacier and engaged unit ili some "commercial, otcupe tien, without, a cmnection "with official or political farms must be kept Ferkept in the armoury and drawn only for parades, So well has the Company proved itself that all" these restrictions have been withdrawn eave that as to the character of those in the Company and the men themselves would be the most insistent for the retention that, Picked Men cover, the winlom of the re: strictions. "was obvious and "they have meant the recruitment of none but the better class of young Chie nese. In 1909 members were allowed to retain their bayonets, Then, fnotilisation. wax ordered. whilst jHatepayers Meeting was in progress some yeara later, "an emergency atthe old 'Town' Hall, and. the Bronte there were vastly impressed young. Chinese silently and. ewifily the sight of 100" or. #0" eager
re|ip-tocing in' single file round the walls to the armoury and flo Trasted,""was the general impres-Sion and they have since 1913 been Allowed to retain their wifes, 'The Company' made a start, as a unit of the VeC_om March 18, 190%, "when 89 vecruite paraded the town' Hall for. registration, They, were placed under the com: mand of Cape L. J. Cubitt, She, ven at that time, was. a veteran of TT years' service. At the sume Line. he retained command of the Castoms "Company, "For. the dal" Sice was top mach for anyone fan and no, in the same year, he handed the Customs Company over fo another officer end, with, Lieut, G. Grayrigge and Re SI." Saker, set
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