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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1916.
THE
LATEST
WAR.
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
THE STRUGGLE IN RUMANIA.
INTERESTING GERMAN
ADMISSIONS.
TALK OF MASSACRE IN GREECE.
ATHENS, Nov. 273
A Royalist friend has warned Reuters Correspondent that he had soce known address till after December 1st
remove to
THE CHINA MAIL.
SMUGGLING FOOD INTO GERMANŤ.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9
In consequence of the frequent aning- Veling of food for Belgium" into Germany, Belgian Customs officers and civilians searched trains on the frontier and confiscated cartloads of pigs and
bacon.
な
Germans on the other side of the
SHELL MAKING.
the minimum 4.46 inches, ' Thu operation is performed on an ordinary lathe by means of a "format! tached to the lathe bed, which guides the cutting tool along the Proper curve of the shell nose.
entanglements stoned the Belgians, and but in works all over the country; | weighs 9 ounces per one eighth inch of
German centrica intervened. A amuggler was killed and many Belgiana wounded.
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[CONTRIBUTED] This not only in the great centres of the Steel Industry such as Shaf fold. Binningham, Newcastle and the Clyde, that the nation has shown its determination to give our armies A fair chanes of competing with the splendid organization of Germany, -Agricultural implement Hosiery factories, Railway works, works Motor Car works and many others shalls and fuses and other munitions of war are now being turned out in quantities which two years ago were A recass about three sighths of an EFFICIENCY anthought of, and with the help of inch deep has now to be formed in operaters who before the war had the base of the shell, into which never seen a shell or worked a lathala "base plata" is afterwards in their lives. These works con- rivetted; it
BCOS at first sight stitute the three or four thousand rather waste of time to take out
controlled establishments of the this metal and replace it by other metal, Ministry of Munitions, the control but an examination of a few hundred taking the form of preventing stakes shells will soon shaw a reason; the class sive profits on the part of employers sometimes it is an abaclute cavity, some is liable to a defect called "piping,' Besides the controlled establish- times a honeycomb formation, but it RAID ON NORTHERN there are some forty or fifty always occurs in the centre of the bass ritional shell factories. financed by which is from three quarters to one inch COUNTIES.
the Ministry of Munitions, but thick; the forming of the base plate managed by Lodal Cornmittees, or recess discloses any such flaw, and when by drms baving previous munition one is found the shell is scrapped. The experience.
rocess is formed in an automatic lathe in three cuts by tools sat in the turret; and a fourth cut from a tocl on the alle rest reduces the length of the shell by offe eighth inch leaving a bead of metal at the edge of the recess which is base plate in position. afterwards rivetted over to hold the
Apparently the correspondent figures Rauter's Sarvice to the China Mail.,on the part of the workers, and uxcou- } of steel of which these shells are "kandë
in the Royalists' list of undesirables,
It is not seriously believed that thre
better LONDON, Nov. 21. The Times correspondant at Amster. dam reports that a German correspon dent, telegraphing trom General von Falkenhayn's Headquarters, adhits that the Rumanians succeeded in rescuing all their artillery from Crove, includ ing their heavy guna.
The special correspondent of the
will be trouble, but Royalist officers AIR openly talk of a massacre if the Alliga have recourse to force.
Fosnische Zeitung on the Rumanian tront THE FRUSTRATED NAVAL
raparts that the further advance of the Germans beyond the Alt may be delayed. nwing to the condition of the remuls,
THE RUMANIAN RETIREMENT.
A Rumanian communique states: We ratized for the Alt and Topoles a little eastward Violent engagement are taking place in the direction of Smardica.
A
states Russian communiqué Retiring Rumanian detachments are utilising the natural features of the Country in resisting the enemy's advance
in West Wallachia
After erossing the Danube
Zumnitza, the enemy occupier positions on the river Vide between Valent and
Rusundewade.
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GERMAN COMMUNIQUE,
A German official report, says: We have taken Alexandria, fifty miles west
w! Bucharest.
THE BALKAN ZONE.
PARIS, NO 27.
A communiqué statesa p
with sanguinary losses.
There is viclent reciprocal artillery activity north of Monastir.
The Italiana continue to advance in the hilly region of Dihoro on our left wing.
LATER.
An Italian communiqué relating to
RAID.
A DRIFTER'S EXPERIENCE.
LONDON, Nov. 27. The experience of the Arifter mentioned in connection with the attempted raidon Ramsgate by German destroyers makes thrilling, reading.
Was "On
the sea
STORY.
carry
PARIS, Nov. 27.
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LONDON, Nov. 21.
The Press Bureau announces that hostile airships crossed the north. enst court last night..
Bombs, were dropped; at several Iplices in the northern counties.
There are no reports of casualties or damage.
THE CHIT SYSTEM IN MALAYA.
OBJECTIONS TO THE FEDERAL
EXCISE ENACTMENT,
Etals Laurur, mint Enter At the Federal Council meeting at ment, was introduced on a certificate of Enactment, 1915, Amendment. Enact-
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The shells they make are of all sizes, from the three inch or eighteen pounders of the Field guns, to the eighteen inch howitzer shells now reported in use on the Soname front; they are in mang varieties; armour lachrymatory. Different shops adopt band has now to be formed, this groove piercing, high explosive, shrapnel,
The groove for the copper driving different" methods of manufacture, is about one and a quarter inch wide jand it would need many volumes to and one eighth inch deep, and is half describe them all, but it will serve an inch from the base of the shell; the purpose of giving a general ides its sides are underent to Ford of what the business of shell making a dovetail to hold the copper, and thres is like, if a particular shop making a waved ridges formed in the particular shell is taken as a sample The shop in question is one of the forty National Shell Factories the 1.5-inch high explosive howitzer already mentioned and the shell is
THE RIGH EXPLOSIVE HOWITZER STIELL
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ove to prevent the band rotating The work is done on a lathe with revolving tool rest, the groove is first
which is traversed to underent first one roughed but, the undercutting is done
side of the groove and then the ben tert with double cutting edges,
ing, is filled with high explosive and of "form" In an exhaustive explanation the The completed shell, ready for fir: other. The waving is formed by means
Reting Legal Adviser mentioned that the
cutter. which is fed
Cone
objets of the bill were, first, to prohibit has a brass fuse screwed into its nese inwards by hand and receives the necce the sale by retail of intoxicating liquor, to detonate this high explosive; it sary interal movement by means of s beer and weddy upon secondly, to afford further protection to must also have a brass cartridge grooved cam revolving with the shell the public from the sale by licensees of carrying the propelling charge, but and, by means of a
fitting intoridy shops of liquor unfit for consumpthe Factory dealt with makes caly pulling the slide rest along the lathe bed. in the groove, alternately pushing and tion. Further amendments which would the plain shell bodies, and it is he proposed in committee were designed their manufacture
The shell is now polished internally that will be and washed and goes through its pre- to delete the provian in the principal Entactment that the sale of beer for described in this urticle.
Jiminary examination. After it has premises of the vendor should not copa-comes to the works in "äillets consumption elsewhere then on the The raw material-forged steel, been passed and stamped by the ex-
and
hot
out
for
1:2
by
The
of the chief
of aminers, the base plate is rivetted in by
According to Correspondents, the drifter saw a German destroyer loom up in the darkness not 200 yards away) The drifter was about to hail it when's shot whizzed overhead. The little boat was no match for a destroyer. Her only chance was to turn and make for home. This she did, followed by agency. succession of six shells directed toc high. The light at the mizzen afforded the target at which the German fire was aimed." One of the crew of the drifter shewed splendid heroisin. He cited a piece of sacking with the tention of covering the lamp,
his way to this intention when another shot carried the mizzen away entirely. "In store in the ship's boat and tore a hole in the fitute an offence, and to make provision, the shape of an ordinary glass tuma pneumatic rivetter, and turned up cook-t.cuse roof, finally exploding over the retail of beer. It was also pro-five inches diameter, and nearly one formed near the nose of this tho fuse
for the
e issue of beershop licenses for the bler, about fifteen inches long and level in a lathe. A small screw belo is When the light disappeared posed to fix a minimum penalty of $52ch thickness of metal and weigh carry & "grub screw to hold the fuse the enemy "evidently thought he had. The Serbians have repulsed a Bul-sunk the vessel, for the drifter was not to the billen the ground that whening about 50lbs, This is a good in position. The copper band has then
Sir Payne Galiwer objected garian counter-attack on the Cerna frent molested further and returned to port giving & dinner to a party of friends at the operator has to lift more than over the body of the shell and when weight, as in many of the operations to be pressed on it is first forced showing but little sign of the adventure.ush for the drinks, instead of being one hundred shells a day, on to the by being driven in, in two or three
hatel, for instance, he would have to pay
it reaches the groove, is held there able as at present to settle for the whole machine and down again; the 45 AN INTERESTING SUBMARINE
lot afterwards.
shell is the boaviest for which hand then placed vertically in the press places, by hammer. The shell is The
Hop, Mir A. N. Kenian made a similar objection, stating that Europeans power alone is used.
which his six dies actuated by this country' had not been in the The first operation is to cut off hydraulic pressure, which close upon of paying cash within their own the uneven open end of the billet, the band and press it into the groove. making Referring to the proposed this is done in a special parting The shell then goes into the varnish An Adminilty communiqué says amendments as to the sale of beer, one machine, in which a cutter revolves room, where it is steamed and varnished the Macedonis caropaign says: Our the following incident is interesting the wandering traveller, he said, was round the shell and feeds inwards till internally and put into a bot room to
delights
of this country for troops are breaking down the stubas showing what occurs when Gora small Chinese shop where he could
that wherever he went he could find the shell wall is cut through. dry: The copper band is then turned to bern resistance of the enemy and mans depart from their ordinary purchase a bottle of that innocent and machine, and a centre hole is formed it is assumed experienes has found most have captured two heights south practice of sinking, all ships they present proposals were carried hundrels Rough turning is, the next opera-sloping suriaca til, at about the middle The shell then goes to a drilling a somewhat complicated pattern, which refreshing beverage of bear, but if the west of Nizopole.
in the closed end...
suitable. Starting from the surface of the of these would disappear.
shell body, it swells in a finely. serrated? A submarine, on the 13th inst. out, at the committee stage, that the one sixteenth inch of the finished twelfth inch; the remainder of the band H. E. the High Commissioner poiated tion; this is done on a lathe, to about of its width, it projects about one placed a prize crew on board the new provisions as to beer were not diameter; the open end of the shell consists of two grooves with intervening Norwegian steamship Olier, bound
designed to produce revenue, and be Was quite willing to agree that the licence is held by an expanding mandrel on ridges of varying size. from Newport to Gibraltar, and pro-should not be higher than a dollar. the fixed headstock of the latho, the cceded with the usual piracy of other beer was the only absolutely safe drink in the centre hole made in the last in every direction and as to every The Hon. Mr Payna Gallwer held that centre on the loose headstock being the shell has to be measured or "gauged” Then comes the final examination, ships.
for a European travelling on unbeaten "The Older subsequently departed
tracks.
operation, the turning is done in one detail, to see that it agrees with the PARIS, Nov. 27.
for Germany, but was recaptured by soda water.
The acting Legal Adviser suggested cut, sometimes as much as three design within certain prescribed A Serbian official announcement a British worship, despite attempts that even that was not perfectly safe.
eighths of an inch deep.
limits. The variation allowed in The Her Mr Payne-Gallway replied
The cavity has then to be bored, diameter of copper driving band is tates: The Franco-Serbians have made to blow her up.
Eventually the High Commissioner This is done in a turret lathe, two only half a hundredth of an inch; carried by assault Hill 1,050 which brought into a British port and the agreed that the amendments as to beer cutters being used for the bore which it will easily be understood that
be dropped. Unofficials farther pressed their point smooth finish, a third cuttee cham the rifling of the gun barrel, and should
for high explosive must have
this is an important point, as it is as to credit, the Hon. Mr Payne Gallway
this copper band which is forced into saying that Europeans did not usually fers off the open end of the shell to there forni a tight joint and while carry money shout. Indeed, they were a standard length from the end of causing and swing the shell to particularly
rly requested by the Govern, the bore. ment not to do so.
The shell is now cut to a standard the gasses formed by the firing of the revolve should prevent the escape of Eventually it was decided to add a proviso as follows:
length by turning the necessary propelling charge till the shell has left Provided siways that nothing in amount off the closed end, leaving the gun. Nearly a quarter of an inch is LONDON, Nov. 27. this section contained shall extend to the centre hole on a projection of one allowed in the extreme length which is The Times understands that the Prevent any innkeeper from keeping an and a quarter inch diameter. Emporar Charles will shortly be charge for liquor may be included and account with a lodger in which any
abqut thirteen and quarter inches, crowned at Budapest as King of recovery of the amount thereof in court. Hungary and the new Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia, which will be under the control
of the BT. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE Magyar This obviously aims at the forcible conscription of the southem, HONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT. Slave, like Poland.
SERBIAN SUCCESSES..
ELITE OF GERMAN TROOF'S DEFEATED.
encounter.
H "
·
She was
is a most important strategical point. prize crew were made prisoners.
The elite of the Genian troops were defending and had been instructed to hold it at all costs. Several counter-attacks were launched, re- gardless of losses and these were all repulsed.
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THE WESTERN FRONT.
BRITISH ARTILLERY ACTIVE.
LONDON, Nov. 27. General Sir Douglas Raig reports: Our artillery is active at La Bassee,
THE FRENCH FRONT.
Pants, Nov. 27:
AUSTRIA'S AIM.
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20th NOVEMBER.
tion of this additional service, as the tune of charges wil be lower than ordin cabla rate 64 sen par werd lower ther the cable charge for Japan-Hawaú, and 82 en lower for Japan-America. Seeing
Up to this stage the shell kas sad five hundredth in the thickness of retained its plain cylindrical shape: the shell wall, which is just over half it has now to have the conical nose an inch. The shell has to bo weighed, formed; this operation is called body only without the fuse or explosive and it should weigh the faished shall "bottling. The open end of shell is pushed into a gas fired fur-charges an average of 27 s. 8oz. with put under a hydraulic press carrying be sent eventually to the 6lling factory. nace and when sufficiently hot, is this It then goes into bond to an allowance of 3oz. above or below"
a conical coat iron die which quickly squeezes the. red hot metal into the description refers, in one of the forty or The Factory to which the foregoing required shape.net By arrangement with the Officer
more set up by the Ministry of The bottling process leaves the Munitions. A saitable building was
The wireless service between the Naral hab 94,000 cut of the $23,000 inhabitab Commanding the Hongkong Volunteer shell with a rough nose and ad fortunately available, but it had to be Wireless Telegraph Ofice as Funabashi- of Hawal are Japanese (according to liai Reserves, and with the sanction of HF orifice of about one inch diameter, entirely fitted up. A start was made macht, Chibs Prefecture, Japan, and years statistics), it may be reasonably the Officer Administering the Govern and the next operation consists in with old lathes bought or hired in the Honolulu was opened on the 10th inst. expected that the number of talegraphie A communiqué states: There has
ment, the Saisingpun. Division of the drilling and boring this orifice to neighbourhood. When new machinery The properating for this important manages between the two places will been the usual cannonade in the In the House of Commons Mr. Hope Volunteer Toacrves for duty so required. inch screw of the fuse, this
Brigado is slached to the Hongkong form a tapping hole for the two came in most of it bore the stamp War developtrient of the transpacific tela continue to increase. It is an undebted Somme and the Douaumont-Vaux announced that he understood that Ger.
done Finish which meant that too, mich graphic service the Kobe Hornid saya, fact, that the growing intercourse between on a turret lathe, a twist drill first could not be expected of it in those had been nettly completed it July, 1915, Japan and Aminica, commercially sectors. Calm has prevailed clad many has accepted the British proposal Subject to confrmation by General Jroughs out the fuse hole, the times of rush Work was started, in when the Japanese authorities and the otherwise, calls for fast ned assere mean
for the repatriation of the Brithb and C. Dalton, Chief Commissioner, Dr. tool tolder on the turret carries & several months were employed in filing de Telegraph Company, & San Francisco Eswall Ime, in chopemtion wi where,
the Summer of 1915, but of course General hanger of the Marconi Wire of communication of all times, German prisoners of war in Switzerland William Brownlow Asho Moore is up foghing cutter for this hole, and up machinery, and it was not till the If they are totally unft for military pointed Divisional Surgaon in charge of roughing cutter for reducing the shell end of the year that hell were idiary of the Bendia's ofco. That and Vidivostock, give
hsa conforsation through the indor to Taiwan, Hongkong, Dairen, the Sayingpall Division, or carries the finishing tools or these 1916 the production had reached 1007 this important medium of comratini
to standard length, a third holder produced. However by the middle of (SL) E. BALE Oficer in Chirgeal District, operations, the standard langth being day About 300 women and 200 between the
innide of the men are employed on each shift and res. Landacat
all scoop- ten hours shifts worked. Na figuras for public of the inside, can në course be given as to the actual congrat
cost in this fectory, but it is satisfactory
A French Beroplane successfully bombed asrodromes at Guiztucourt and Magny.
THE MALIAN: FRONT.
LONDON, NO. 27. An Italian oficial announceme
in Carmia viol
service.
LONDON, Nov. 27.
SUBMARINE PIRACY.
LONDON, Nov. 27.
Mr. Asquith, replying to a ques tion in the House of Conimony, deaur
the Hough that
APTÖRSTZÉNT.!
The well known and old establicka.
firm of Lanoy Crawford
Yokohane has o
B. MoKinnell and
To sed &intement of the Ministry of
unitions that the cyst of mch shell
know
astors system