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TERRIFIC FIGHT FOR THE HOME FERRYMAN'S HOUSE:
A graphic account of the fight for the
The impossibility of maintaining the same troops in the trenches with unbroken morale, as do the Allies, says a Daily Ferryman's Hous-mentioned in the Express correspondent on the Belgian French official reports a month ago and Frontier who has received denile also a night attack by Germans on rast, information from neutral observer who is given by Mr. Basil Clarke in the Daily has spent ten days in the invaded Mail The latter was, he says, one of the territory of Flandore, necessitated the most bloodthirsty encounters that have incestant shifting of battalions and gun taken place ip the cathedral town of For- ners between Flanders and Prussia. vyse, the scene of many fights.
"
Behind the town, writes Mr. Clarke, are the floods. Tb Gormans had built rafts. They lesheu together great foga and baulks of timber, covered the frames with lighter timbers, and buoyed up the whole structure with empty petrol cans. On these rafts they mounted machine guns, making the craft a really quite ser- viceable water arm
AN ATTACE BY BAFTA
A large force, believed to be at least two Prussian reservo corps, is now lying round Bruges and thence northward to the frontier, thus forming an impene frable barrier against Holland, intended to prevent the German troops who are subjected to the Allies Boxt onslaughts from gaining neutral territory with the deliberate intention of securing inters ment in the event of a crushing defeat.
· · It is clear that the Germans · first | intended to resume the offensive on theIt was blowing and raining forcely. Ysor a week ago, but the plans of the The rafts were manned by men for the General Staff were thwarted by the con machine gans and by men with poles, dition of the troops themselves, who poled the rafts cautiously along in The mce, however, are physically and the darkness Behind the rafts came Ger- morally unable to endure the strain and man infantren. They waded in the hardships of the new sledge hammer water, which in places came up to their necks. Their rifles they carried dry above their heads.
offensive of the Allies or understand their cunning methods of attack or their imperviousness to the shock tactics".
The French sentry standing on the bank with which they are familiar fired his rifle for an alarm almost at the The Staff is willing, and even eager, second the German machine guns opened to lose two or three army corps in West. Bre. For a ti e there was the grimmest era Flanders to break the Allies' line and fighting on the dyko side. It was almost gain the road to Calais. No sacrifice, entirely bayonet work. The French indeed, would be too great, but tlicy fought like demons, and the Germans, wet know that the troops hitherto there are and cold with their bath, could not with- undependable, hence transfers and altern stand them. tions on a gigantic scale which have taxed the railways of Germany and Belgium to the utmost for nearly a fortnight.
HEAVY SLAUGHTER. A
Simultaneously with this fight another action of the fiercest kind was taking place at Merokam, on the southern bank which had been occupied by the Germans of the Yser, for the Ferryman's House, for a month and turned into a miniature forts and turn
They were pushed back foot by foot to The present purpose of the German words the water. Man fell upon man Staff is to dig the troops into such strong The slaughter in this confined space v
and pushed one another down the bank positions south and east of Bruges that
dreadful. A hundred Germans were kill they cannot be dislodged without exhausted outright, a hundred drowned, over ing efforts on the part of the Allies.
Their hopes of clinging to Zeebrugge hundred taken prisoners, and many were wounded. The number of Germans who as an anti-British base appear to be doomed to disappointment. Owing to the got back through the water to their lines destruction of their large dredgers, the was fewer than fifty, German chgineers are unable to keep the The outer harbour at a proper depth constant silt is of such strength that their efforts are soon readered useless. They are employing troops of civilians in primitivo attempts at dredging, but by the time the lock gates, are repaired, releasing the craft now imprisoned, the maritime canal harbour may be useless. Even if it is made navigable the eneity admit that they must first clear away new minefield that was laid with great success last week under cover of the Allies Channel patrol, despite the frequent rifle and machine gun fire from the dunes, which did no damage;
The enemy's airmen now take less active part in the operations than those of their opponents. While they are good scouts, the majority, according to definite statements made to me by one of the neutrals already quoted above, are not keen to engage in perial ducls
GERMANS'
A
far
"INTELLIGENT
BRUTALITY.'
79
A NATURAL" "CULT.
Whence comes the brutality shown by Germany in the prosent war? A vein of ferocity, insensibility, lack of imaginative sympathy-call it what you will has always been a part of the German nature, But there is something peculiar in the civilised Hunnishness of the modern Gering that needs explanation. Austin Barrison in The Kaiser's War"! seeks to explain it. Bing sea
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING.
The French colonel in charge of troops near by decided that the Germans in the Ferryman's House were a nuisance, and he resolved to move them.
The request for volunteers was made in Four hundred due form at midnight. men were chosen, of whom 100 were men of the African troops of the French.
The German machine guns opened fra as the Frenchmen were on the end of the bridge. They went through the hail of shot at a dash, and though a score of them fell in the first minute or two, as many more crossed the bridge, and two minutes run brought them to the house
The Germans fought first from the covering wall outside, but were shot down, bayoneted, or slashed with knives. The fighting was ferocious.
WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT. AUBTRO-GERMAN QUARREL NEARING A ORISIS
THE HAGUE.
*The Kaiser a command is that every body should be optimistic.
This was the mandate which a special delegate from the Kaiser, who wont from the Imperial Headquarters in Franco to Berlin, to confer with the Germ in journalists, delivered in the course of a conferonce which took place in one of the roems of the Kaiserhof Hotel a few days ago.
WEATHER REPORT.
VISITORS AT HOTELS.
Honakena Hore.
Mr L. A. Adso
On the 19th at 11.15 Prostire has given way quickly over Western Japan and Increased at all other stations, especially in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, whers, the in- orenem has exceeded 0.5 in. day bars remained practically stationary, bat Mr & Mrs Athel L.
The anti-opalone and depression noted yeater. E. 8. Abraham the intensity of each has increased, that of the former to an abnormal degree. Gradients are Mr J. H. Backhouse
Anderson and maid steep throughout the area, and strong monsoon Mr & Mrs S. W. will prevall over the whole China Coast and the north part of the China Sea..
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10am. to-day, 0.00 inches.
today is as follows —
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at nos
DISTBIOL.
FORECAST.
The Kaiser has been very much annoyed by the feeling of uneasiness and dissatis faction which during the last few weeks has spread all over Germany and he wants his patriotic journaliste " to counteract that feeling, for it appears that even the Wolff Agency bulletins are not sufficient to keep up the spirits of the Hongkong & Neighbourhood to strong cloudy Germaans to that pitch of enthusiasm and warlike forvour which the Kaiser needs. New devicer must, therefore, be found be- fore the whole of the empire is seized with panic
THE BOAPEGOATS. becoming more and more general, and, Meanwhile the spirit of pessimism is since it must have an outlet somewhere, it is taking the form of undisguised man- festations, of anger at the work of the Austrians, who, it seems, are to be made the scapegoats for the German defeats in Poland. On the other hand, the Aus trians will not allow themselves to be treated as children by the Kaiser, and are preparing a general protest, so that it is quite possible that before very long there will be open friction between the two monarchs,
GERMANS SURRENDEN. Then the and in the outbuildings, all of which had been loopholed ready to withstand an attack. The door was bashed in with an nxc. From that point onwards the French troops made their way with the bayeret On the ground floor and upstairs the fight waged hand to hand all the time.
According to reports which havo just
reached me from Berlin, the German Pross is anxious to ascribe the German
Formoen Channel
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COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
13TH JANUAEI, 1915, 4;m.
109
rout before Warsaw not to Germany's in- ability to defeat the Russian armies, but Viadrostook
Dankl. He is the real culprit." to the absolute military unfitness of the Namer Austrian - Commander-in-Chief, General Hakodate on
He Toktok is the man who "left General von Hinden
Kochi burg in the lurch. He is the man who Nagaki
Kegchicas. forced the Germans to retreat."
Oshima OTA12T General Dank has naturally not ac cepted this drastic judgment, and has hima
Na answered in an order of the day that ho and bis men had waited three days for om 18. ...... Chefoc s General von Hindenburg's armies before
Walliniwed on the scene when the day was lost for Ivangorod, and that they only appeared
Hankow Ichang the imperial troops.
Kitkdang ******* This quarrel is naturally extending to. the Viennese and Berlin papers, and has
Changala Shanghai caused no little uneasiness in both capi Catalana tals, as well as in the two allied empires. It has already had the effect of shatter: Sharp Peak ing the belief of the Austrian army in the Swatow
Invincibility "of the Germans, and it Tribeku.................. has caused certain misgiving in Berlin alaku as to the efficiency of the Austrian sol Tar diers, which had been strangely overrated Roshan there
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In Berlin the statement has been cur Hongkong rent for some time that the Austrians, Gap Rook who have been manoeuvring about the o Servian frontier for three months, have Wachow made no progress, and have not even Haihow.**** been able to inflict one serious defeat on pathon the little army of King Peter, though Phalien there are about ten Austriau soldiers the field to overy Servian.
Топане....... Cape St. James
This distrust of Austria is causing a Aparri general increase of uneasinem in Berlin, · Mala
heen of no help whatever so far in the war, and that the work of crushing Rus sia, France, and Britain, not to speak of Belgium and Servia, must now rest on the shoulders of Germany.
The Kniger and his political advisers have been keen to appreciate the danger
of letting this uneasiness increase, since it would deprive Germany of her favour
The defence was beaten down. Germans who get in the topmost room at the top of an upright ladder alone escaped the ito excuse for bringing about the war, for blades of the French, and when all resistit will be remembered that the German Mrance but theirs had been overcome they official statements of August stoutly
surrendered,
asserted that Germany had gone to war because Austria had been attacked by Russia, and it was Germany's plain
In every army there are brutes. War is a brutal business altogether, teen at close quarters. But German war is systemati- cally and unnecesarily brutal. The idea of being frightful and of striking terror" is recognised as a military weapon. And this spirit of German militarism has,. through the army, permeated into all civil life. The grades of German- individual German, says Mr. Harrison, is not cruel, but he is brutal, if cruelty may be defined as a passion and brutality as a method. He would take no sensuous delight in a bullaght; but he would flog his horse without mercy if it opposed its
Will to his own,
It was a brilliant feat of arms-quite after the old-world style of fighting, and the lieutenant who had charge of it-duty to help her ally.' quite a young man, too was most warmly commended for his work.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
EXCHANGE.
The official campaign, therefore, takes the form of belauding Austris. General von Moltke, whose illness
vài cam Bộ. surprisingly soon after the collapse of bis plan of campaign, has, in an inter- view, paid a warm tribute to the effi ciency of the Austrian artillery before Antwerp; and General von Hindenburg -how nickname is now" Prince Tan- With a view to enabling the Liverpool menberg"has been ordered to tell Herr Cotton Exchange to be reopened, the Coldmann, the Berlin correspondent of Board of Trade, with the authority of the the Neue Free Press, & number of Treasury, savo, arranged a scheme, says nice things about the Austrian army ;- the Board of Trade Journal in consulta. while the Kaiser has invited Count Tisza, tion with the Directors of the Liverpool the Hungarian, Premier, to visit him at The German people has educated itself Cotton Association and with representa his beadquarters to talk matters over up to the military standard of ruthless provides for the guarantee by HM has so far been insufficient to roasure the tives of the Liverpool banks, which All this clamey amiability, however, attainment" of the object aimed at The Government, the Liverpool Cotton Asso- Germans and to increase their regard for ides of camaraderie is quite foreign teintion, and the Liverpool banks, jointly, their allies, who have been conspicuous in the army, and is scarcely known in evil of advances made to merchants by those this war only for their failures and for life, Everybody who сая enforce tanks
Persona desiring advances shall their disorderly retreat from Lemberg and respect enforces it.
It is not merely make to the bank, and to the directors of Przemyalam take permitted to enforce respect" public the Liverpool Cotton Association, or a opinion demands it. Thas an officer must committee appointed by that Association, not accept an apology in case of a techni- such disclosure of their affairs and their cal assault. If a man brushes against books as may be required by the bank and him in leaving a cafe it is the officer's duty the directors of the Association. If the to avenge the "insult" with a sword. bank and the directore approve, advances wasted the lives of his men so recklessly Cases of this kind are of constant may be made upon terms similar to those that the Kaiser telegraphed an order to occurrence. A year or so back there was a teranged in the scheme for relief to him to return the Iron Cross which had notorious case of a midshipman running British tradors in respect of debts abroad. been bestowed on him on a previous orca- his dirk into a soldier who lurched against Repayment of the advance, and of the
sion f him in the street. Only a short while back interest thereon, is to be guaranteed asOn the other hand, two Vienna wine- an officer shot a man in a big Berlin cufs 50 per cent, by HM. Government, and who had stumbled over his fact. As insult as to 25 per cent. by the Liverpool Cotton shops have been closed by the police be- cause songs in which the Germans had been held up to scorn and their alleged
INSULTED ARCHDUKE.
One of the many stories of Austrian blunders widely circulated in Germany is to the effect that an archduke who was in charge of an army corps before Lemberg
to the uniform is pazishable by death. Association, leaving a risk of 25 per cent. code of this kind is obviously calculated 10be assumed by the bank victories ridiculed had teen sung gleefully
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REGISTER.
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FRANCE
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE,
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DAYE
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by their customers. It has also ben universally noticed that, while the Kaiser Thara 14 9 51 412 54 06 has failed to invite any member of the Austrina imperial family to his head-Fr
10 10 39 41 quarters, no member of the Kaiser'
to brutalise-harden, Germans say the
The Form of Agreement provides for spirit of a ustion. Hence the excessive the periodical investigation of the bor
lower's affairs and for repayment in the formality of German manners. The event of the borrower becoming bankrupt brutalities committed by the Germanor committing any act of bankruptcy or soldiers in the field are the logical result making any arrangement with his eresi family has been asked
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of the German military system. If tors. In the event of the Government, the trian firing linawit the Aus- Satur. 16 m 11 16:42 m241602
nation trained for war is also educated to directors of the Association, and the bank There is yet another source of grave Sun regard brutality as the necessary attribute at any date so deciding, any advance then friction. Austria is already rippied of success, it is not to be wondered at foutstanding, together
with interes financially by the burden of the war, and Hon in civil life similar ustions prevail, nar, thereon, shall be immediately repayable, is desirous of issuing a lean through when they do prevail, that they inevitably and upon failure of the borrower to repay German hankers to secure funds with lead to a roughunss and coarseness of he in whole or part then any amount for which to pay her soldiers, who have liaviour of a very unpleasant character. which H.M. Government may be liable on half-pay since August 19th. Ono brutality long to another, So Gerunder the guarantee shall be paid to the mans have annied it as the distinctive tank by the Government on demand. financial troubles, and are not only indis- virtue of the nation." The guarantee is to apply only to The truth says Mr. Harrison, is that advances required by the borrower to for fifteen years the Germans have been met market differences from 5d. per lb. downwards which be may has paid or going pathologically mad. The Emperor's Germany will stand es a warning for all may still have to pay in respect of Cotton
Future Contracts. time to rulers and men as an example of - All advances under the scheme are to magnificent national heritage degraded be repaid not inter than one year after and dissipated in the pursuits of vanity termination of the war, and and materialistic ends, fly-blown in the The Exchange was opened ou November trail of a religious madman.”
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The Germans, however, have their own posed but wholly unable to help Austria. In earlier days Austria could always rely on France or Britain for assistance in her financial needs. Now that she has thrown in her lot with Germany, and DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG Germany wants for her own purposes all B WEEKLY PEESE, JANUARY to JUEN, THE
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the money she can get, Austria literally 1914, With INDEX. Price $7,50, OMAST does not know where to turn in order to On Bate at the "Henaxone Daily Frie” obtain relief for her pressing financial Offes. necessities.-Landon Daily Express Cor respondent,
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