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OUR NEW WAR WEAPON, WAYAL DEFENCE OF THE DUTCH
"ABRIAL · TORPEDOES "SMASH
ENEMY TRENCHES.
VINDINA
IMPORTANT PROPOSALS LAIDAT
BEFORE CHAMBER,
a bill that has just touched the Second Karl von Weigand, the Berlin our Chamber proposes toincrease the Nether respondent of the New York Worldlands Indian feet by endiser and three
submarines,
The Minister for the ever continuing his trank messages giving.
Navy point out the Gernun feeling regarding the British in the explanatory memorandum attach push in France, cables his paper theed therode that an amount of t. 6,000,000 was voted last year as a fest instalment impressions of a German heutenant of for the building of two ortisers and four what the officer calls an "serial torpedo submarines for the service in Nether fired by the British which wreeked the lands India, the total cost of which was estimated at about 28,000,000 another strocytat fortified positious in the Cersum of it. 8,000,000 has been voted as this year's instalment. The Government however; that further stora must be taken reinforcement of
man lind
deet in etherlands
the India, and is therefore now.re
money quested for the placing an Egistocks of third fast cruiser of the same type and of three-subasarines, viz,'ani amcant of . 1,000,000 for the craiser and d. 1,000,000 for the submarines, ana
FUTURE STRENGTH."
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The "Torpedo" is probably the sort of is CE OPEN without lay for the thing that lovelled the Leipzig redoubt, and enabled it to be captured by the British infantry, for the heutenant says that the new shell was of greater calibre than anything they were used to, and that nothing could seem to withstand und that it struck terror into all hig men in the bombproof fortification.
After one of them explosions, said 7the officer, "I saw the earth" rise three hundred feet, resembling. Fit miniature Vesuvius eruption, and on its descent Acommedation in the connecting Stammer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in raining rocks, bricks, and earth. Follow
Hongkong as the time of Booking.
ing this they came at regular short intervals seemingly without eml.
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A BAIN OF ROCKS,
'OFFICIAL NIGHTS IN AUGUST.
The following Table shows the Stan- dard Timest which Official Night and and begins during the month of August, 1910
Date Aug, 26th, AAS SIE 28th 5.53
End
Begins. 8.38 pm 8.37.
6.36
5.34
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VISITORS AT THE HOTELS
HONGKONG HOTEL.
Mr Atholl Anderson Mr A. Hicks Mr G. E. Anderson Mr A. P. Hill Me R. L. Atkinson Mr W. B. Hind Mr H. Murray Bain Me W. J. Hodge Mr J. B. Baring
Mr G. Holman Barker Mr A Shelton Hoopes Mr W Mra. E. R. Belli Me F. He Howard
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SETARA DATE
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Mr LarsID
If these supplementary credits are approved, a total charge of 8. 800x3000 will fall on the financial year 1916 for now construction for the deer in When such ships ara rendy. three cruiser
chill and 10 submarines will be viable India. This will render it possible, Capt. B
Branch attach three submarines each cruiser, Ar& Mrs H. Bridges
Burbanan whilst it will be further possible by Mrs. D. Busan Dr. O, Marriots sending to India the hig torpedo-boatian M.
and
Mfrs C. Laurti
M&Lonzfeld Midjor D. Macdonald
"In the bombproof we at counting There tactical to cach craiser Mr HR Conant Me B.K. Mehta
for the constitute an
Mr.J. J. Cannell
Mrs C. S..Puget
of user 300 tons po poder construction, Mr&Mrs Colemmur J. Matthiasen
Mr D. Mo. Marry' to Add two torpedo stroyers and two Miss R. Coleman dea-going tr
torpedo-bonts to e
Mr & Mrs Mentzer will be hereby formed, that will
import 3.
Ers Cornelissen & Mr.J. Merecki child Mr G. I Courtney Mr J.W.C MPN. Croucher Mrs P. E. Davis Capt. J. DawaY
With
the intervals, twenty of thirty seconds Capurs, and wondering whether the next
torpedo would fall on the thirteen feet to cracking the subma carila roof, which is no protection against ines to remain on the scene of action 150 pounds of dynamite. Then a crash and concussion, and thirty seconds inter for a prolonged period, it will be neces a rain of rocks, and debris filled the sary to provide one or two depot ships furnishing gfellities for newing stocks trenches and entrances to the bomb-
carrying out repairs, and giving the proofs
crows periods of west.
the room.
"The next torpede threw my observer down airteen steps into the trench while the door of the bombproof was torn away and hurled into the middle of We learned that the next two bombproots were crushed in and made untenable. From my post of observation, us far as I can see, mine- craters adjoin each other, such seven feet deep Boarda, braces, and reinforce ments of the trenches, together with backed wire entanglements, are all torn of nine months destroyed in a few
and
scattered, everywhere our work
out
minutes.
The air full of crash,
The cruiser will be, like the two first cruisers. This ship will also be built in Holland, tenders again being invited from the shipbuilding yards which came under consideratioa for the building of the cruisers last year. fg.
SURMARINE. TYPES.
Courtney
Mr J.-P. Pollock
Mr and Mrs C. J.
Mr and Mrs.
Price ME H
Ray
Desar Mr FC Dennison Mr J. H. Scott Me W. E. Dougins Mr C. H. Shields Mr FS Tourglass. Mr Miss M. E. Dully
Mr Mr G. Depuy Mrs M. Slade Mr J. E. Riwards Me A. B. Sorensen Mr A. W. Eastman Air V. Sorby
Mr P. J. Mra Calconer Finlayson In selecting the type of submarinac, an Mr & Mrs J. Fisher Mas G. V. Stubbings endeavour will be made, in so far as Mr J. Gibb. reliable data can be obtained, to profit Mr. Genlbourn as much as possible from the experience war Probe more considerable than obtained with these craft in the present Probably. displacement will on
the that account
and Mrs P. J. Mr A. L Todt
Mr A Gray
Mr S. M.S. Gubbay Mr and Mrs C MJ. H. Green
cussion, and fountains of eat and con-in previous basts of the kind. so that Mr and Mrs W. A
ing into the air from the torpedoes and heavy calibre abells Communications and connections between trenches are destroyed, and is is imposible to estab- lish contact, and platoons are constantly busy digging mez out from the crushed bombproofs and ruined trenches.
Hannibal Mr G. Harper
are shoot the cost will rise accordingly. The con
siderable rise in the prices of all materials: and accessories has also influenced the cost of the ships now building. Whitt last year the price of a fully armed and equipped cruiser was estimated at 10,000,000, the price must now be calculated at about f. 19:500,000, taking into account the additions to be made, according to contract, in consequencer of the rise in the prites of buildings materials, so far as sech additions are known.
BURIED IN BOMBEROOFS. "The left flank of my company's tranch was so oblitered that it was difficult to follow its trace, and the only means of progrew was to dash from crater to crater fully exposed to the enemy's fire
For the same reason the price of the submarines K TV-VII which was former
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In conie the corapany in the same condition as new EILE the right platoon
number of the men were still buried in demolished bombproofs, and their comrades worked for hours excavat ing them During this work our intrepid battalion surgeon arrived with an oxygen apparatus and stood for hours under heary
Artillery fire administering the gas to the half buried men and attempt ing to revive those who had been asphyxiater.
bombardment continned without The being hurled at
Press Camps, France-A characteristic ranges such as have never before been little story was told me by an officer who Mr Denman Fallory heard of for mine-throwers, while the had just returned from Montauban.
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a bre
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details in
in the Berlin official statements mouth of one of the biggest said deepest Mrs E. Gaudiot regarding the battle of the Sonime. He dug-outs recently vacated by his country- Mrs C. Gaudiot says the German General Staff has men
shows no disposition to lift the evil, and
is evidently Ifferent to-Opinion out-string to enter, however, he was
Me P. C. Gibson
M-C. Skott MPL Mra A. Findlay
Smith Mr & Mrs V.Findas medical officer, who told Bev. E.G.H. Grifitt Smith
dedicated Mr and Mrs G. W. Mes Staple Smith of Germany regarding the Allied him that this shelter wa side of advance."
Mr&Mrs L Grant He declares novertheless, entirely to the wounded and that he that there
Smith and child appears to be every confidence would see to it that an unsathed derro
MYL Gull of Germany's ability to checkinate the man officer got in thert Allied plans.
Astonishment blended with the flan Mr and Mrs B. & Mr & Mrs Sundstrom
Hale Roy, Tope The correspondent also foreshadows colonels Indignation at the idea that
cannon fodder should Mr E. A. Hareland Major-Geo. Yentrie
the resumption of a vigorous subman be be
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regarded as having preference over his own kaltered and perfect
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