Disregarding the peradventures of the cables a plain tale had better fuflce on the ubject of Singapore's service and the still' more silent Admiralty are not likely expansive on Sing by a coinciden the meeting place for a number of British warcraft passing eastward oF Westward on their lawful occasions. When this happens it is usually. practice for these vessels to have re termed "exercises". The folk who issue the necessary commands do not pretend to call them manceuvres, They certainly do not attempt to shroud them in erect. The ingenuity of modern Journalism which has chosen the more portentous word and linked it up with some talk of a spy scare", must be allowed to have its little fun, Having been well educated in the writings of Mr. Oppenheim it is fable to make quite a good job of it No one is very much the worse. In a few days' time the various war Vessels will be on the high seas again and Singapore will sing low for 4 Uttle—til) the next merry meeting. to foist on to others any duty he is! not prepared to take upon himself. Doubtless his suggestion will appeal the many men outside the profes sional army who have not yet Teach-fed the age he mentions. 'To some of them the "young feller me lad" attitude of those who have crossed jthe dividing line has sometimes proved irksome. 'The "Life Begins at Forty" mentality argues a superior plane from which' those who fondly cheve that they began to live very much earlier are regarded' with a sort of patronizing indulgence. How-fever, this may be changed if every-tone who reaches the forty-mark for beginning his life has the Damoclean sword hanging over him—that life may, in the event of war, end at
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