The Correspondent, November - December 1983

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No alternative to pr¡ce lnGreases Our vocal membership has once again expressed varing degress of amazement, and

acceptance of the increases in monthly subscriptions announced by FCC secretary Donald Wise in his recent lelter.

Briefly put, when the revenues from the bâr, restaurant and oiher sources are compared 1o expenses, and depreciat¡on.allowances are offset against the development fund, a net operating deficit of approximately HK$4O.OO0 a month in real terms is the result.

As most of the older members know, in the past, the Club constantly followed a policy of subsidizing the cost of food and drink. This bar and restaurant subsidy was covered by members' subscriptions and fees. so that at the end of the month we used to run a HK$2O,OOO to HK$3O.OO0 credit.

Since the move to new premises last year several forseen, and some unforseen changes have taken place in the financial s¡tuation of the Club.

The members bad debts dramatically increased from roughly HK$1O0,OOO per month 1o nearly neafry rly HK$35O,0OO r-rKÞJ5u,uuu per monln premises month staÍ Staff satanes saláries tncreased increased lrom from t-tK$tbu,uuu H-K$160,000 Þerore H-K$1 before tne the premrses thi¡ Þremises move to over $260,0O0 now, reflecting an increase in approx 3O staff, and wage increases of approx. 25Vo. Food and beverage app¡ox.2596. beveraqe costs Honq costa escalated ove¡ 2O/o due to the weakness of the Hong Kong dollar, to the strength of the US$, and to various natural disasters in countries from which wé ¡mport meât and vegetables. Antic¡pated overhead expense increases continue to be a drain on cashflow. The dramatic increase in util¡ty utility charges is but one example The Board and Club Mahager have responded to these problems by implement¡ng a series of measures desigried e¡ther to decrease costs, or increase revenue margins.

A trght syslem ot stock control has been implemented, and a seéurity company was hired.

Several new policies were implemented to bring the member debtor problem under control. Our bad debtor list has dropped ro HK$ 160,000 foñhe current month.

Qlassing in the Verandah will help in three ways.

We can now service more members during peak periods, thus increasing volume, and our purehasing economies of scale.

We now serve breakfast on the Verandah which uses its own air condition¡ng system.

Therefore, the ma¡n air conditionrng plant need nol be turned on until late morning, substant¡ally reducing our utilities bill.

We are now able to greatly increase the revenues generated by premises space that was previously unf,er-utilized. Not only will we be able to use the Verandah for the normal three

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The Club's rnost farnous member

filed his final copy at the beginning

of the New Year. At 77, Richard Hugþes, CBE, was dead. He is mourned by us all.

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Members wilt have noticed the skillfully-etched artwork featuring the p¡cture of the old Clubhouse in the Midlevels. The watercolour, painted in 1926 by Alfred Lane, was présented to the Club by the chairman of the Urban Council, Mt. Hilton Cheong-Leen.

(Ray Cranbourne: Pix.)

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Farewell, Eminence Richard Hughes Reporter, 19O6- 1984 The world of journalism mourned Richard Hughes when The Doyen passed away at the start of 1984. lt was a year to which he was keenly looking forward; he wanted to take his

incisive pen to any Orwellian tendencies he spotted in the region. Alas, it was not to be.

The Club's most famous member and probably one of the best-loved reporters ever to thump a typewriter died two months before his 78th birthday. To the end, before he lapsed into a final coma, his wit was as ready and pungent as ever. When his god-daughter Sarah Monks and old buddy Charlie Smith were taking a reluctant Dicko to hospital, they had to pass a doorway marking the entry to the psychiatric ward "Maybe I should be in there, mug," Dick said to Charlie.

Right up to the end, he was in good form.

The Saturday before he went into hospital, he lunched well and liquidly with his old friend and former boss, Frank Giles, editor emeritus of The Times of London, a journal as venerable (well, almost) as Dicko himself.

It was, as Richard Hughes may well have remarked to himself in his role as a lapsed Catholic, a fitting Last Luncheon. He went, as usual, to h¡s Saturday morning meeting of the "cultural association" of Alcoholics Synonymous on the mezzanine floor where, despite urgings by other members of the semi-secret club, he indulged enthusiastically in Russian water. Vodka didn't make you t¡psy, he used to insist, as long as you drank it straight. He drank it in triple measures, then had a few glasses of wine over lunch.

It was the last of his legendary luncheons, gastronomic excesses which featured Hughes sitting in imperial stature at the head of the table and defying others to pay the bill. His major fault, his friends would complain, was his compulsive generosity.

But it was not only in financial terms that he was generous; he gave freely of his wealth of knowledge of Asia gained in the 43 years since he arrived in pre-war Shanghai from his native Australia. He was always available to talk to young newsmen. "Our job is a craft, a trade," he used to admonish them. His letters of introduction were invaluable.

Dicko's ecclesiastical jargon was one of his most memorable traits, a habit picked up during World War ll when rambuctious reporters rubbed shoulders uneasly with British staff officers in Cairo's toffy Shepheard's Hotel.

"Who is the old priest?" a visitor to the Club asked me one day as Dicko gave his customary

BOB SHAPIEN, Yorker

The New

Dick Hughes, the old Australian pug turned journalist, the Asian Far Wanderer, the keeper of memorabilia, the man who knew more about most things than the rest of us put together, for whom every fact and personal experience or recollection begrindcame grist for his ever - justiing creative mill ... He was fiably a legend in his own time

who shared his

apostolic blessing to a wayward member of his flock suffering from the excesses of the previous night. "He's our cardinal," I replied.

And so he was, the Lord High Protector of the Press. His friends were "Your Grace" or "Your Eminence" or "Monsignor" depending on his mood. Clare Hollingworth was "Our blessed Mother Superior." Up to the last, he played his priestly role with gusto.

"The customary indulgences, Your Grace," he mumbled as he weakly made the sign of the Cross to v¡s¡tors who trooped to Oueen Mary Hospital. lf Dick was His Eminence, Ann was his own private angel, deeply beloved, reverred, respected. He used to joke about how Annie

ruled him with a rod of iron disguised with flowers. lt was a tyranny he enjoyed immensely.

Richard Hughes met his final deadline at 2pm, January 4, 1984. He was aged77.

During his mammoth luncheon sessions, his favourite toast was "Absent fr¡ends."

All over the world, his legions of friends arè now raising their glasses and making the same toast to a man whose absence will be sorely missed but whose presence in our lives made us immeasurably richer.

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voluminous

knowledge openly and willingly and gathered his drsciples from every corner of the world ...

I first knew Dick in Tokyo, at the end of the Pacific War, when we all thought a brave new world was being born. lf he became cynical through the years, he never let this curb his enthusiasm

or his zest for life, nor did ¡t damage his integrity or impede his ardent pursuit of truth.

These were the hallmarks of his character. He was always the

first person one sought out in Hong Kong. I remember my return there in the early sixties, after an absence of a decade.

The colony, along with the rest

of Asia, was in the throes

of change, but Dick was still the same: He fixed me with that familiar mock-angry eye and proceeded with the lesson of the day, which ran the gamut from what was wrong with Hong Kong and what ought to be done about it to why it was still a wonderful place to live.

At the end of lunch, over our brandies. he shifted to the tender eye and said "listen, Bucko, if you really want to get to know this place, find yourself a good

lt was a bit of advice he followed himself, of course, to his lasting happiness and joy. Over the next twenty Chinese woman."

years, when Hong Kong was also

my base, we became faster friends and shared countless bits of lore and information and gossip. He was a walking encyclopaedia. He was, above all, a vibrant and loyal companion in arms, a monument of a man ...

TONY PAUL, Readers Digest

It's impossible to be somber when I write about his Eminence, so I won't try.

The first time lmet Dick Hughes was at a lunch in Sydney.

when he arrived at a club with John Gunther, the Great lnsider, Richard was never a notable Beau

Brummel but on that day (about 1969) he was wearing a tie-less, Mac-collar shirt, fashionable because of the Cultural Revolution.

(Two things he most liked about the Cultural Revolution: (1) it introduced him to a shirt you could wear in all Asian clubs, even in winter, without a tie; (2) the ill-considered, for the time, motto of the Hong Kong Club: Bonum commune.l When I came to HK two or three years later as a relatively young Australian journalist with no Asian experience, Dick went out of his way to find contacts for me. He was then about 65, long a Hong Kong institution. So many people telephoned as they came through the colony that he had developed a range of ploys to take care of the problem. One, recall, was to answer a phone call with a highly tentative " WeiT' lf the visitor penetrated the subterI

and it has to be said, - his Cantonese, even for alas, that

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a single syllable, never lost its traces of the Victorian Railways debating team he would de- 10 minutes late clare that he was for a plane to Taipei. , But because I was Australian and needed help. he took me to dinner at the old Jimmy's Kitchen in Theatre Lane. The head waiter there obviously was aware of Dick's only remaining interest in fashion that I know of. He led us to what he said was "Mr. Hoojis's favourite table" under the stairs, where we could watch 1972-vintage miniskirts coming & going.

Dick liked to toasr "absenr friends". At the risk of offending his sense of the fitness of things, l'd say " Bonum commune" which, the HK Club's management office has just informed me, means "Good companyl"

TIMOTHY BIRCH, Radio New Zealand

My strongest recollection of Dick Hughes is of a long ferry trip on the old S.S. 'Fatshan' bound for Macao on a hopeless mission to discover what the authorities there were going to do next after Peking had refused to accept

Portugals offer

of

Macao on

a

plate.

I remember we stood at the rail watching the muddy waters of the Pearl River swirl by, waters no more turbulent and opaque than the politics of Macao. but so good were Dick's contacts and so good his insight that he soon put me right on what would happen under the benign dictatorship of the 'fat cat commie dog Ho

Yin'. And he was

CYNTHIA HYDES, Hong-

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kong Philharmonic

right.

For a journalist at the top of his profession Dick's most outstanding virtue was his benign generosity to others in his craft Journalism is not the most charitable of worlds, but if Dick could do either a youngster or an old hand

a favour he would do it, and never heard him make a malign I

observation except when grossly provoked.

It was an index of his benign tolerance that on that long ferry ride when we argued over many beers over the intentions of the regime in Peking he would listen with care to one's own banale observations and only with the greatest courtesy would then set about demolishing your well kept theories.

D ic k's outstanding qualities were kindness and generosity of spirit mixed with an uncompro-

mising disgust for people and governments who disregarded

these virtues.

He lent status and honour to

a

profession n ot always rich in these endowments. and he will continue to be the standard by which the journalists of the future can measure themselves.

He never sat alone. He felt like a twit if he was seen sitting alone.

Nobody would let him sit alone; how could they? He restored your soul in five minutes. He never let a lady buy him a drink. A couple of months ago I found him sitting alone on his stool old one from the old FCC in Sutherland House.

I tried

for the millionth time to

buy him a vodka and he so gently refused. He said: "You know darling, I never eat dinner

Annie only lets me have lunch.

But today I don't feel like even having lunch. Doesn't that mean there's something wrong?"

I said, "Dickie, there can never be anything wrong with you."

Dick's splendid blue eyes glittered and he gave me a nudge.

"Maybe a banana split would perk up my apettite. What do you think darling?"

I said I thought "it would

be

very nourishing." Dick said: "Do you think that's fattening?" Of course not, "l said, as I licked the whipped cream he so gallantly offered me from his spoon.

DAVID BONAVIA, FEER, ThE Times

I

became closely acquainted with Dick Hughes in 1973 when we were both covering chinese affairs he from Hongkong and I from -Peking for the foreign pages of The Times.

He was one

of the most

generous-spirited

men I ever met, and socialising with him at the F.C.C. was a constant battle to prevent him from picking up all the tabs.

When Dick visited China for a British industrial exhibition, he treated a banquet party to one of his favourite toasts: "Down with all commie dogs!" But his Chinese hosts were sufficiently taken with his normal humour and humility that they let it go as a joke, and specifically passed their regards to him after he returned to Hongkong.

Dick treated younger journalists with unfailing concern and warm encouragement, belittling his own achievements, though he took legitimate pride in the wide range of interesting people he had met in his career from the - and MaBritish spies Burgess clean to the nomadic horsemen of Chinese Central Asia.

ln his youth Dick was a noted prankster, and even when weak and in pain in his old age he never lost his sense of humour. Charac-

teristic in his middle years was the telegram he sent. to Sir Frank Packer when he left the latter's newspaper empire because of a dispute about his salary. Packer

him: "On your way, to which Hughes replied: "lf I am to play Judas to cabled

Judas"

your Jesus I don't know where Judas kissed Jesus but you know where you can kiss me." Packer

was amused despite his anger.

All who knew Dick in his later

years appreciate how much he owed to his wife Annie. daughter of a Kuomintang general, whose devotion to him was a byword for love and loyalty. Losing "my Dickie" is a terrible blow to Annie, but she can count on the enduring support and affection of scores of their fríends.

Dick and Ann, a truly loving couple, on This ls Your Life show. "Well, bugger me," was Richard Hughes'response when the camers suddenly appeared.

KEVIN SlNCtAlR, SCM Post.

to keep me in hysterics. One of the things I loved He used

LAST LUNCHEON

about him was his ability to shock strangers. "Sit down and have a

drink, you

tattoo-bummed Maori," he would say to me and people who were not familiar with his lively way with friendly abuse to his friends would be sta rtled.

My favourite story? I suppose it would have to be the time we were eating at his corner in the Hilton grill and he nodded off after lunch.

He woke with a start.

"Where are we?" he demand-

ed.

" l know that, you damned fool, what bloody country.': and a Now Dicko has gone lot of the laughter in life -has gone with him.

JAMES SUN, SGM Post.

Old Dick always told me

to

Richard had his last, memorable, lunch in the club with old friend and

editor, Frank Giles of The Times.

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be

a good boy. "Be like me." he urged after drinks and lunch.

"Now I've got to go home and work," he would say, signalling the waiter for another round.

"Don't tell Annie you saw me drinking. She only let's me have one drink a day." That drink was usually vodka and the minimum size was a triple.

Dick always had time to give advice

to

young reporters like

me. I used to love listening to his stories of long-age wars a n d drinking sessions in places like Vientianne. lt is a sad day for all

us

no

w the old storyteller

is

gone.

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As Richard Hughes Snr lay ill in hospital, his son was playing in his honour at a special concert in the FCC. The evening was judged a huge success by the hundreds who attended and although he was physically several miles away in Oueen Mary Hospital, Dick Hughes was there in spirit.

Son Richard (a sub-editor on the Daily Mirror, Sydney) flew to

Hongkong when he was told his father was ailing. lt had happened all too suddenly.

Hundreds of FCC members and other friends attended a benefit concert at which Young Richard performed.

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Then there was John Stackhouse, deputy editor of The Bulletin of Sydney who was on the way home from the Japanese elections. Who should he meet in the bar but Media magazine's Sue Girdwood.

Jo'

Robert Adley, MP, said in the House of Commons he had been told he was the most unpopular politician in Hongkong "after Ted Heath."

Both Tories have spoken at the Club in recent weeks and there did not

seem to be any indication that they were unpopular. Mr Adley, however, did ruffle a few feathers among journalists with his descripand some FCC tion of some parts of the Hongkong press members. He indicated privately [not openly at -the Club lunch] that elements of the press in Hongkong were less than desirable. Mr Adley was in Hongkong to examine the local situation and to promote his book on steam trains in China. He answered questions after his speech and demonstrated that he was. at least, an expert on the age of steam locomotives.

Bottle of wine

ln town from Jakarta was old Saigon, Singapore and Hongkong

Hand and veteran of just about everywhere else in Southeast Asia Kate Webb. One of - friends she ran into the many old round the bar was Charles Smith, her old boss during the years she worked for UPI where, among other things, she was one of the journalists captured by the Vietcong and subsequently fortunately freed.

Kate- has been freelancing out of Jakarta for the past several years and says she may have been there too long because now she is the oldest foreign correspondent in lndonesia.

lnternational -Asia/Pacif ic

A year ago, Rhine winemaster Heinrich Breuer entertained a collection of FCC members at his spectacular restaurant, the Rudesheimer Schloss, in the town of Rudesheim not far down river from Weisbaden. ln appreciation, Neville Chesney of The Tatler (left) and Jim Shaw of Off Duty entertained the wine man at lunch during a recent visit he made to Hongkong. "Some of my best customers in the world are in Hongkong," he said. Judging by the amount of the stuff FCC members order off the wine list, that is not surprising.

This claim was greeted with downright scepticism by some of her more jaded and bloated

friends who commented that war, famine, revolution and toil must suit the fresh-faced New Zealander because she didn't look a day older than when she first stepped foot in Asia 15 years ago.

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Ïne CluO took the laurels in the annual race to get the Beaujolais Nouveau first to Hongkong. David Bell of Cathay Pacific, which flew the wine to the Colony, had the first sample tasting poured into his glass at a special breakfast gathering on the Verandah at 8am on November 1 5.

At the same time, Parisians were getting their first sip of the fruity new wine on the boulevardes of Paris. Manager Heinz Grabner, and former President Hugh van Es were also present for the initial sampling of the ruby wine. So was Michael Parry of Parry Pacific Ltd who supplies the Club with Beaujolais.

"Eight o'clock in the morning is a bit of an early start," David Bell conceded and with great restraint the morning tipplers contented themselves with a mere gentle tasting of the wine.

The real action did not begin until later in the day

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when the Main Bar was filled with enthusiastic drinkers. Most members noted for their keeness to taste exot¡c drinks originating from grapes, hops, rye or barley admitted that they did not consider this year's crop from Beaujolais measured up to previous harvests.

But there was little apparent reluctance to empty

the kegs of wine opened on the Main Bar, nor to tuck into the splendid spread of cheeses, farm sausages. breads and dips that the staff laid on.

There are those who criticise the annual enthusiasm for the new Beaujolais ... but nobody can deny it's a lot of fun.

Academic dentist Thomas Moles displays

a two-handed method of disposing of the new wine. Geoff Somers of GIS towers over

the BBC's Susannah Fung at the tasting. Bar Manager Sammy Cheung proudly taps the barrel as the Beaujolais starts running. lt was the start of a hectic session - even by FCC standards.

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lThroughout the Greek war, as there were no horses to be had for love or

Richard Harding Davis was one of the great trail-blazers for war correspondents at th€ sJárt of the rnodern era. He covered conflicts all over rñe world for rhe New York Journal and Harpers magazine and is widely credited with personafly helping !o gfrt the Spanish-American war. Davis was an extroverted eccent;ic who laughed in the face of danger and in his book Notes of a War Correipondent published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York in 1897 he gave advice to those who followed in his footsteps'

money, we walked, and I learned then that when one has to carry his own kit the

number of things he can do without is extraordinary. While I marched with the army, offering my kingdom for a horse, I carried my outfil in saddle-bags thrown over my shoulder. And I rhink it must have been a good outfit, for I never bought anything to add to iÎ or threw anything away I submil that as a fair test of a kiÎ.

Further on, should any reader care to know how for several months one may keep going w¡th an outfit he can pack in two saddle-bags, I will give a list of the art¡cles which in three campaigns I carried

Setting off to war

rn mtne.

I am

going to try to describe some kits

and outfits I have seen used in different parts of the world by travellers and explorers, and in different campaigns by

army officers and war correspondents.

Among the articles, the reader may learn of some new thing which, when next he goes hunting, fishing, or exploring, he can adapt to his own uses That is my hope, but I am sceplical. I have seldom met the man who would allow any one else to select his kit, or who would amit that any

other k¡t was better than lhe one

he

himself had packed. lt is a very delicate question The same art¡cle that one declares is the most essential to his comfort, is the very first thing that another will throw into the trail A man's outfit ¡s a matter which seems to touch his private honor lhave heard veterans sitting around a camp-fire proclaim the superiority of their kits with a jealousy, loyalty, and enthusiasm they would not exhibit for rhe flesh of their flesh and the bone of the¡r bone. On a campaign, you may

a man's courage, the flag he serves, the newspaper for which he works, his intelligence, or his camp manners, and he will ignore you; but if you attack

criticise his patent water-bottle he will fall upon you with borh fists So, in recommending any article for an outf it, one needs to be careful. An outfit lends itself to dispute, because the selection of its component parts is not an exact science It should be, but ¡1 is not. A doctor on his daily rounds can carry in a compact little

satchel almost everything he is liable to need; a carpenter can stow away in one box all the tools of his trade But an outfit is not selected on any recognized principles. lt seems to be a quest¡on ent¡rely of temperament As the man said when his friends asked him how he made his fa-

mous cocktail, " lt depends on my mood." The truth is that each man in

selecting his outfit generally follows the lines of least resistance. With one, the pleasure he derives from his morning bath outweighs the fact that for the rest of the

day he must carry

a

rubber bathtub

Another man is hearty, tough, and inured to an out-of-door life. He can sleep on a pile of coal or standing on his head, and he naturally scorns to carry a bed. But another man, should be sleep all night on the ground, the next day would be of no use to himself, his regiment, or his news-

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had occasion to open; while on other tr¡ps in countries that promised 1o be more or

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less settled, I had

to always live under

canvas, and sometlmes broke camp twice a day.

needed to cover conflicts in 1897 paper So he carries a folding cot and the more fortunate one of tougher fibre laughs at him. Another man says that the only way to campaign is to travel "light,"

and sets forth w¡th ra¡n-coat and fieldglass. He honestly thinks that he travels light because his intelligence tells him it is the better way; but, as a matter of fact, he does so because he is lazy. Throughout the entire campaign he borrows from his friends, and with lhaT camaraderie and unselfishness that never comes to the surface so sTrongly as when men are thrown together in camp, they lend him

whatever he needs. When the war is over, he is the man who goes about saying: "Some of those fellows carried enough stuff to fill a moving van. Now, look what I did. I made the entire campaign on a tooth-brush."

As a matter of fact, I have a sneaking admiration for the man who dares to borrow. His really is the part of wisdom.

But at times he may lose himself in places

where he can neither a borrower nor

a

lender be, and there are men so tenderly consl¡tuted that they cannot keep another man hungry while they use his coffee-pot.

So it is well to take a few things w¡th you

only

to lendthem to the men who

-if travel "light."

On hunting and campaigning trips the climate, the means of transport, and the chance along the road of obtaining food and fodder vary so greatly that ¡t ¡s not possible to map out an outfit which would serve equally well for each of them. What on one journey was your most precious possession on the next is a useless nuisance. On lwo tr¡ps I have packed a tent weighing, with the stakes, fifty pounds, which, as we slept in huts, I never once

ln one war, in which I worked for an English paper, we travelled like majorgenrals. When that wa r started f ew thought it would last over six weeks, and many of the officers regarded ¡t in the light consequence, they mobilized as they never would have done had they foreseen what was to come, and the mess contractor grew rich furnishing, not

of a picnic. ln

only champagne, which in campaigns

in

fever countries has saved the life of many a good man, but cases of even port and burgundy, which never greatly helped any one. Later these mess supplies were turned over to the field-hospials, but at the staÍ ever one travelled with more than he needed and more than the regulations allowed, and each correspondent was advised that if he represented a first-class paper and wished to "save his face" he had better travel in state. Those who did not, found the staff and censor less easy of access, and the means of obtaining information more difficult

"Doing it on the cheap"

But it was a nuisance lf, when a man halted at your tent, you could not stand him whiskey and sparklet soda, Egyptian

cigarettes, compressed soup, canned meats, and marmalade, your paper was suspected of trying to do it "on the cheap," and not only of being mean, but, as this was a popular war, unpatriotic.

When the army stripped down to work all this was discontinued, but at the start I believe there were carried with that column as many tins of tan-leather dressing as there were rifles On that march my own outfit was as unwidely as a gypsy's ca[avan. lt consisted of an enormous cart, two oxen, three Basuto ponies, one Aus-

tralian horse, three servants, and four hundred pounds of supplies and baggage When it moved across the plain it looked as large as a Fall River boal. Later, when I joined the opposing army, and was not expected to maintain the dignily of a great London daily, I carried all my belongings strapped ro my back, or to the back of my one pony, and I was quite as comfortable, clean, and content as I had been with the private car and the circus tent.

Personally, I am for travelling "light," but at the very start one is confronted

with the fact that what one man calls light another savors of luxury I call fifty

to

pounds light; in Japan we each were allowed the officer's allowance of sixty-

six pounds. Lord Wolseley, in his "Pockelbook," cuts down the officer's kit to forty pounds, while "Nessmul," of the Forest and Stream, claims that for a hunt-

ing trip, all one wanls does not weigh

over twenty-six pounds. lt is very largely a question of compromise You cannot eat your cake and have it. You cannot, under a tropical sun, throw away your blanket and when the night dew falls wrap it around you And if, after a day of hard climbing or riding, you want to drop into a folding chair, to make room for it in your carry-all you must give up many other lesser things.

By travell¡ng light I do not mean any lighrer than the necessary demands lf rhere is transport at hand, a man is foolish not to avail himself of it He is always foolish if he does not make things as easy for himself as possible The tenderfoot will not agree with this. With him there is no idea so fixed, and no idea so absurd, as that to be comfortable is to be effeminate. He believes that "roughing it" is synonymous with hardship, and in season and out of season he plays the Spartan Any man who suffers discomforts he can avoid because he fears his comrades will think he cannot suffer hardships is an idiot. You often hear it said of a man that "he can rough it with the best of them."

Any one can do rhat. The man I want for a "bunkie" is the one who can be comforlable while the best of them are roughing it. The old soldier knows thal il ¡s his duty to keep himself fit, so that he can perform his work, whether his work is scouling for forage or scout¡ng for men, but you will

often hear the volunteer captain

say:

"Now, boys, don't forget we're roughing it; and don't expect Ìo be comfortable."

As a rule, the only reason his men are

is because he does

not

ln the Cuban campaign the day

the

uncomfortable

know how to make them otherwise; or because he thinks, on a campaign, to endure unnecessary hardship is the mark of a soldier.

American forces landed

at

Siboney a major-general of volunteers took up his head-quarters in the house from which the Spanish commandant had just fled, and

on the veranda of which Caspar Whitney and myself had found two hammocks and

made ourselves at home. The Spaniard

who had been left to guard the house courteously offered the major-general his choice of three bed-rooms ïhey all were on the first floor and opened upon the veranda, and to the general's staff a tenl

could have been no easier of access.

Obviously, it was the duty of the general 1o keep himself in good physical condi-

tion, to oblain as much sleep as possible, and to rest his great brain and his limbs cramped with ten days on shipboard

Giving up the luxuries But in a tone of stern reproof he said, "No; I am campaigning now, and I have given up all luxuries " And wirh that he stretched a poncho on the hard boards of the veranda, where, while just a few feet from him the three beds and white mosquito nets gleamed invitingly, he tossed and turned Besides being a silly spectacle, the sight of an old gentleman lying wide awake on his shoulder-blades was

disturbing, and as the hours dragged on we repeatedly offered him our hammocks But he fretfully persisted in his delermination to be uncomfortable. And he was The feelings of his unhappy staff, several of whom were officers of the

regular army, who had to follow the example of their chief , were toward morning hardly loyal. Later, at the very moment

the army moved up to the battle of San Juan this same major-general was relieved of his command on account of illness Had he sensibly taken care of himself, when the moment came when he was needed, he would have been able to better serve his brigade and his country. ln contrast to this pose is the conduct of the veÌeran hunter, or old soldier. When he gets inlo camp his first thought, after he has cared for his horse, is for his own comfort. He does not wolf down a cold supper and then spread his blanket wher-

ever he happens to be standing.

He

knows that, especially at nighr, it is unfair to ask his slomach to digest cold rations He knows that the warmth

of his body is

needed to help him to sleep soundly, not to fight chunks of canned meat. So, no

matter how sleepy he may be, he takes the time to build a fire and boil a cup of tea

or coffee lts warmlh aids digestion and saves his stomach from working overtime. Nor will he act on the theory that he is "so tired he can sleep anywhere " For a few hours the man who does that may sleep the sleep of exhaustion. But before day breaks he willfeel under him the roots and stones, and when he awakes he is stiff, sore, and unrefreshed. Ten minutes spent in digging holes for hips and shoulder-blades, in collecting grass and branches 1o spread benear.h his blanket, and leaves 1o stuff in his boots for a pillow, will give him a whole night of comfort and start him well and fit on the next day's tramp lf you have waÌched an old sergeant, one of the lndian fighters, ol which there are now too few left in the army, when he goes into camp, you will

see him build a bunk and possibly a shelter of boughs jusl as though for the

rest of his life he intended to dwell in that particular spot. Down in the Garcia campaign along the Rio Grande I said to one of them: "Why do you go to all that trouble?

We break camp at daybreak." He said: "Do we? Well, maybe you know that, and maybe the captain knows that, but /don't know it And so long as I don't know it, I am going to be just as snug as though I was halted here for a month " ln camping, that was one of my first and best lessons to make your surroundings healthy and -comfortable. The temptat¡on always is to say, "Oh, it is for only one night, and I am too t¡red " The next day you say the same

thing, "We'll move to-morrow Whal's the use?" But the fishing or shooting around the camp proves good, or it comes on to storm, and for maybe a week you do not move, and for a week you suffer discomforts. An hour of work put in at rhe beginning would have turned it into a week of ease

When there is lransport of even one pack-horse, one of the best helps toward making camp quickly is a combination of panniers and bed used for many years by E F. Knight, the Times war correspondent, who lost an arm at Gras Pan. lt consists of two leather trunks, which by day carry your belongings slung on either side of the pack-animal, and by night act as uprights for your bed. The bed is made of canvas stretched on two poles which

rest on the two trunks. For travelling

in

upper lndia this arrangement is used almost universally. Mr. Knight obtained his during the Chitral campaign, and since then has used it in every war He had it with Kuroki's army during this last campaign in Manchuria.r

A more compact form of valise

and

bed combined is the "carry-all," or any of the many makes of sleeping-bags, which during the day carry the kit and at night when spread upon the ground serve for s bed.

"At the mercy of tarantulas"

The one once most used by Englishmen was Lord Wolseley's "valise and

" lt was complicated by a number of strings, and required as much lacing as a dozen pairs of boots. lt has been greatly improved by a new sleepingbag with straps, and flaps rhat tuck in at the ends. But the obvious disadvantage of all sleeping-bags is that in rain and mud you are virtually lying on the hard ground, sleeping-bag

at the mercy of tarantula and fever.

The carry-all is, nevertheless, to my mind, the most nearly perfect waY in which to pack a kit. I have tried the trunk,

valise, and sleeping-bag, and vastly prefer it to them all My carry-all differs only from the sleeping-bag in that, instead of lining it so that it may be used as a bed, I carry in its pocket a folding cot. By omitting the extra l¡ning for the bed, I save almost the weight of the cot. The folding cot I pack is the Gold Medal Bed, made in this country, but which you can purchase almost anywhere. I once carried one from Chicago to Cape Town to find on arriving could buy the bed there at exactly the same price I had paid for it in America. I I

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saddle to offset their weight on the other I use the carry-all when I am travelling "heavy". By that I mean when it is possible to obtain a pack-animal or cart. When travelling light and bivouacking by night without a pack-horse, bed, or tent, I use the saddle-bags, already described.

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a tent ¡s a pocket sewn inside of each wall, for boots, books, and such small art¡cles. The pocket should not be filled

with anything so heavy as to cause the walls to sag. Another convenience with a

are

better than those of ash. Also, if you can afford the weight, it is well to carry a strip of water-proof or oilcloth for the floor of the tent to keep out dampness All these things appertaining to the tent should be rolled up in it, and the tent itself carried in a light-weight receptacle, with a running noose [ike a sailor's kit-bag.

The carry-all has already been described. Of its contents, I consider first in importance the folding bed.

And second in importance I would place a folding chair. Many men scoff at a chair as a cumbersome luxury But after a hard day on foot or in the saddle, when you sit on the ground with your back to a rock and your hands locked across your knees 1o keep yourself from sliding, or on a box with no rest for your spinal column, you begin to think a chair is not a luxury, but a necessity. During the Cuban campaign, for a time I was a member of General Summer's mess. The general owned a folding chair, and whenever his back was turned every one would make a rush 1o get ¡nto it. One time we were discussing what, in the l¡ght of our experience of that campaign, we would take

with us on our next, and all

agreed,

Colonel Howze, Captain Andrews, and Major Harmon, that if one could only take one article it would be a chair. I carried one in Manchuria, but it was of no use to me, as the other correspondents occupied it, relieving each other like sentries on guard duty I had to pin a sign on it, reading, "Don't s¡t on me," but no one

in

1897.

ever saw the sign Once, in order 1o rest in my own chair, I weakly established a precedent by giving Geor{e Lynch a cigar to allow me to sit down (on that march

there was a mess contractor who supplied us even with cigars, and occasional-

ly wirh food), and after that, whenever a man wanted to smoke, he would commandeer my chair, and unless bribed refuse to budge This seems to argue the popularity ofthe contractor's cigars rather than that of the chair, but, nevertheless, submit that on a campaign the article second in importance for rest, comfort, and content is a chair The best I know is one invented by Major Elliott of the British army I have an Elliott chair that I have used four years, not only when camping out, but in my writing-room at home. lt is an arm-chair, and is as comfortable as any made The objections to it are its weight, that it packes bulkily, and takes down into too many pieces. Even with these disadvantages it is the best chair. lt can be purchased at the Army and Navy and Anglo-lndian stores ¡n London. A chair of lighter weight and one-fourth the bulk is the Willisden chair, of green canvas and thin iron supports. lt breaks in only two pieces, and is very comfortable.

Sir Harry Johnson, in his advice to explorers, makes a great point of their packing a chair. But he recommends one I

known as the "Well¡ngton," which

is

cane-bottomed affair, heavy and cumbersome. Dr. Harford, the ¡nstructor in outfit for the Royal Geographical Society, recommends a steamer-chair, because it can be used on shipboard and "can be easily carried afterward." lf there be anything less easy to carry than a deck-chair have not met ¡t. One might as soon think of packing a folding step-ladder. But if he has the transport, the man who packs any reasonably light folding chair will not reI

gret rt.

As a rule, a cooking kit is bu¡lt

like

every other cooking kit in that the utensils

for cooking are carried in the same pot that is used for boiling the water, and the top of the pot turns itself into a fryingpan. For eight years I always have used the same kind of cooking kit, so I cannot speak of others w¡th knowledge; but I

17

f

have always looked with envious eyes at rhe Preston cooking kit and water bottle.

Why it has not already been adopted by every army I do not understand, for in no army have I seen a kil as compact or as light, or one that combines as many useful artยกcles and takes up as little room. lt is the invention of Captain Guy H Preston, Thirteenth Cavalry, and can be purchased at any military outfitter's.

The cooking kit I carry is, or was, in use in the German army. lt is made of aluminum, weighs about as much as a cigarette-case, and takes up as little room as would a high hat. lt is a frying-pan and coffee-pot combined From the Germans it has been borrowed by the Japanese, and one smaller than mine, but of the same pattern, ยกs part of the equipment of each Japanese soldier. On a day's march there are three things a man must carry: his water-bottle, his food, which, with the soldier, is generally carried in a haversack, and his cooking kit. Preston has succeeded most ingeniously in combining the

water-bottle and the cooking kit, and

I

believe by cutting his water-bottle in half,

he can make room in his coffee-pot for the food. lf he will do this, he will solve the problem of carrying water, food, and the utensils for cooking the food and for boiling the water in one receptacle, which can be carried from the shoulder by a single strap The alteration I have made

for my own use in Captain Preston's of

bacon,

coffee, and biscuit.

ln Tokio, before leaving for Manchuria, General Fukushima asked me to bring my

entire outfยกt to the office of the General Staff. I spread it out on the floor, and with

unerring accuracy he selected from it the three articles of greatest value They were

the Gold Medal cot, the Elliott chair, and

Preston's water-bottle. He asked if he could borrow these, and, understanding that he wanted to copy them for his own use, and supposing thar if he used them, he would, of course, make some restitution to the off icers who had invented them, I foolishly loaned them to him.

Later, he issued them in numbers to the

General Staff. As I felt, in a manner, responsible, I wrote to the Secretary of

War, saying I was sure the Japanese army did not wish to benefit by these

inventions wยกthout making some acknowledgment or return to the inventors.

But the Japanese War Office could not see the point I tried to make, and the General Staff wrote a letter in reply asking why I had not directed my communication to General Fukushima, as it was not ร he Secretary of War, but he, who had taken the articles. The fact that they were being issued without any return being made, did not interest them. They passed cheerfulfy over the fact that the articles had been stolen, and were indignant, not because I

had accused a Japanese general of pilfering, but because I had accused the wrong general. The letter was so insolent that

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to the

and in England

ln importance after the bed, cooking kit, and chair, I would place these articles: Two collapsible water-buckets of rubber or

canvas

Two collapsible brass lanterns, with extra

isinglass sides Two boxes of sick-room candles One dozen boxes of safety mรขtches One axe The best I have seen is the Marble Safety Axe, made at Gladsotne, Mich you can carry it in your hip-pocket, and you can cut down a tree with it One medicine case containing quinine, calomel, and Sun Cholera Mixture in tablets Toilet-case for razors, tooth powder, brushes, and paper.

Folding bath-tub of rubber in rubber case These are manufactured to fold into a space little larger than a cigar-box.

Two towels old, and soft Three cakes of soap One Jaeger blanket One mosquito head-bag One extra pair of shoes, old and comfort-

able One extra pair of riding-breeches One extra pair of gaiters The former regulasmall compass and weighs but lยกttle One flannel shirt Gray least shows the dust

Two pairs of drawers. For riding, the best

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Two undershirts, balbriggan or woollen Three pairs of woollen socks Two linen handkerchiefs, large enough, if needed, to tie around the throat and protecl the back of the neck One pair of pajamas, woollen, not linen One housewife Two briarwood pipes Six bags of smoking tobacco; Durham or Seal of North Carolina pack easily One pad of writing paper

The component parts of the

Preston

cooking kit

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Lanterns essentยกaยก A lantern is an absolute necessity When before daylight you break camp, or hurry out in a wind storm to struggle with

flying tenr-pegs, or when at night you

wish to read or play cards, a lantern with a stout frame and steady light is indispensable The original cost of the sick-room candles is more than that of ordinary candles, but they burn longer, are brighter, and take up much less room. To

protect them and

Melbourne lalk back man Derryn Hinch operates a controversยกal phone-in show back home Down Under but recently he made history by takยกng the programme

the

matches from dampness, or the sun, it is well to carry them in a rubber sponge-bag. Any one who has forgotten to pack a towel will not need to be advised 1o take two An old sergeant of Troop G, Third Cavalry, once told me that if he had to throw away everything he carried in his roll but one arlicle, he would save his towel. And he was not a particularly fastidious sergeant either, but he preferred a damp towel in his roll to damp clothes on his back Every man knows the dreary halts in camp when

the rain pours outside, or the regiment is held in reserve For times like these a pack of cards or a book is worth carrying, even if it weighs as much as the plates from which ir was printed At present it is easy to obtain all of the modern classics in

campatgns top, held tight

by a spring.

One dozen linen envelopes

Stamps, wrapped in oil-silk with mucยกlage side next to the silk One stick sealing-wax ln tropical countries mucilage on the flap of envelopes stยกcks to everythยกng except the envelope.

One dozen elastic bands of the largest size ln packing they help to compress articles like clothing into the smallest possible compass and in many other ways will be found very useful One pack of playing-cards Books One revolver and six cartridges.

The reason for most of these articles is obvious Some of them may need a

word of recommendation. I place the water-buckets first ยกn the list for the reason that I have found them one of my most valuable assets. With one, as soon as you halt, instead of waiting for your lurn at the well or water-hole, you can carry water to your horse, and one of

on the road and doยกng a direct ยกntercontยกnental dยกscus-

A touch of culture lf

sยกon frcm Peking There was, he admils, a slight communications gap

when the direct phone lines were opened between his Melbourne statยกon and the studยกo he was using in Peking.

you should have spotted an athletic-looking fellow recently

stretched out over the pool table in the sports room, the chances are that it was a vยกsitor called Max. Or, to give him his full name, Maxim Shostokovich. The famous conductor. who defected from the Soviet Union several years ago while on tour in West Germany, brought a touch of culture to the Club recently while in Hongkong to perform wยกth the Philharmonic.

The musician, son of the famous Russian composer, has been seen about the Club with Phยกlharmonic PR Cynthia Hydes and Manchurianborn Michael Fleischmann whose Russian is still fluent after many decades away from his birthplace.

How did he know what questยกons people were querยกed. - , en ยกf p{oรพle asked embarrassing

How could he control who telephoned?

"They found ยกt dยกffยกcult to grasp the concept that anyone of our listeners in Australia could call up and talk about anythยกng they wanted to discuss," Hinch saยกd when he passed through Hongkong on the way home.

But the programme went off well wยกth Austalians asking questยกons about many facets of lยกfe ยกn Chยกna, some of them demonstrating a high degree of sophยกstยกcation of their knowledge of current Chinese affaยกrc.

Hinch was so pleased wยกth the programme that he has vowed to return- Or, even better, do a reverse show ยกn whยกch poeple ยกn Chยกna wยกll be able to call a local number ยกn China and speak over a dยกrect lยกne to Australยกan lยกsteners to the Hยกnch programme being broadcast ยกn Melbourne. ''We will not ask them ยกn advance what questions they want to ask, either," he saยกd

volumes small enough lo go into the coat-

pocket. ln Japan, before starting for China, we divided up among The corre-

spondents Thomas Nelson & Sons' and Doubleday, Page & Co.'s pocket edilions

of Dickens, Thackeray, and Lever, and as most of our tยกme in Manchuria was spent locked up in compounds, they proved a great blessing

ln the list I have included a revolver, following out the old saying that "You

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may not need it for a long time, but when

German Army cooking kit after use in five One fountain pen, self-filling One bottle of ink, with screw

them once filled and set ยกn the shelter of the tent, later saves you many steps. lt also can be used as a nose-bag, and to carry fodder. I recommend the brass folding lantern, because those I have tried of tin or aluminum have invariably broken.

the

letter which was withdrawn, to the chief of the General Staff in the Unยกted States

are those of silk

Three items of value

went

in the case, with the exception of

tion army gaยกter of canvas, laced, rollls up in a

water-bottle enables me 1o carry in the

coffee-pot one day's rations

explained that the officer who wrote it, must withdraw it, and apologize for it.

Both of which things he did ln case the gentlemen whose inventions were "borrowed" might, ยกf they wished, take further steps in the matter, I sent the documents

you do need it, you want it damned quick." Except to impress guides and

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mule-drivers, it is not an essential artยกcle. ln six campaigns I have carried one, and never used it, nor needed it but once, and

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behind the

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This, I think, completes the list of articles that on different expeditions either have found of use, or have seen render good service 1o some one else.

But the really wise man will pack none of the things enumerated in this article. For the larger hยกs kit, the less benefit he will have of it. lt will all be taken from him.

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when they unexpectedly bumped ¡nto each other in the FCC. Jim, former v¡ce-pres¡dent of the Club and exnewsman for ABC and PR for Chase Manhattan Bank, is now l¡ving in Spokane, Wash, USA. but threatens to come back to Asia Bob Elegant, now a best-sell¡ng novel¡st l¡v¡ng outside London, was ¡n town to promote his latest book, Manchu Also back for a v¡sit was the AP's Ed¡th Lederer, now based in London but hop¡ng for an As¡an ass¡gnment when her next move becomes due David Porter ofthe New zealand Press Assoc¡at¡on enjoyed a drink w¡th lan Marrow and Andy Nott mak¡ng the¡r first v¡s¡t to Asia from the Manchestet Even¡ng News Derek Davies, ed¡tor of the Far Eastern Econom¡c nev¡ew, had a few regrctful farewell words and a dr¡nk w¡th depart¡ng staffer Jonathan Sharp who ¡s go¡ng back to h¡s old Reuters'fold but th¡s time ¡n fields new, San Franc¡sco, wherc he hopes to continue to keep an eye on Asia James Sun of the South China Morning Post met a predecessot, Adam W¡lliams, now Londonbased and workÌng for the S¡no-Brit¡sh Trade Assoc¡at¡on Will¡ams, who says he regrets leav¡ng jounal¡sm for the world of business, aims to come back to As¡a where he has spent most of h¡s life H¡s father. the latet P G Wiiliams Itaipan of lnchcapel was a Club membet for many years

Associate Peter Lo Foo Hang Jewellery Ltd. Rachel Louise Addison Reuters Ltd. Gary P. Eidam First National Bank of Chicago Patricia Anne Meredith Smugglers lnn (Stanley)

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