BERLIN AS IT IS TO-DAY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27TH, 1915
Though ignorant people seemed to believe in a probable German invasion of one or another part of England, in
WEATHER REPORT.
EAST COAST BAID DISCUSSED IN military circles in Germany it is realised has moved eastwards and now covers Japan,
GERMANY;
that it is absolutely impossible, and the raids which will take place on the British ENEMY'S WONDERFUL SPY SYSTEM. coast aro only meant to plunge the popula- tion into panic and to force the British Government to keep troops in England. The author of the fascinating tories of instead of sending them to the Continent. articles entitled "What I saw in Berlin," published in The Events Now HATE HATE HATE.!
On the 26th at 11.09 m. The suli-cystone where pressure has increased moderately Slightly to moderate decreases have occurred at most other stations. A depression is indicated over the Lower Yangias Valley,
Moderata to light easterly winde will prevail ores the north part of the China Ses..
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noen
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August and September, returned to Lon- I can confirm everything that has hoon | 10 mm, to-day, 0.00 Inches, don on December 21st after revisiting the written about the hate of England. German capital. On this occasion he England is called the jealous, cowardly today is as follows extended his journoy to Vienna, where he country, and all sorts of insulting spent some days, and espertained exactly names, unjustified either by historical or the position of affairs there. In explana-political precedent. What is absolutely tion of the ease with which this representa certain is that Russia and France are not tive made the journey and the facilities hated half as much as the English are, placed at his disposal, it should be stated that he is a neutral subject.
He wrote as follows:→→
I am just back from my second war-time trip to Berlin. It is ten weeks exactly since I was last in the German capital, and during the interval a charge has come over the city. Of course, the Berliners still tell you that overything is going on all right; the papers are still very optimistic, the short official bulletins keep very dark any bad news and magnify what is good. But the atmosphere is different; one feels the change in almost everything. A great number of shaps have closed. Foodstuffs and drinks, especially beer, are getting dearer and scarces.
In the streets and the cafés there is les cheering, less flag-wearing, and less. eathusiasm.
Still, this is not to say that Germany is tire of the war. Far from that, and whilst I will tato plainly the facts of the situation, no one here in London must run away with the idea that there are any signs of the end. One thing strikes me while Paris is returning little by little to! her normal life, Berlin is growing duller overy day,
DARKENED BERLIN.
Hongkong & Neighbourhood-
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(E. & SE. winds, moderate to light; fair to cloudy.
(NE. wind, fresh, moderat ling.
"We have been very human up to now; wo have not killed half the men we could; wo have not destroyed half the towns it would have been easy to destroy, said a German officer to me, but if wo ever manage to reach England in force we South coast of China between The rame s shall respect nothing. We shall fully Hongkong and Lamocks. justify that name of Hun which British papers seem so fond of giving us."
This officer, who belongs to a class of people who should really know how things are, is so blinded by hate for England that he cannot even detect the untruthfulness of his own statement.
I always thought he spy mania in England exaggerated, but now I am absolutely persuaded that even those Englishmen who recognise this peril do not realise the lengths to which it goes.. They have been suspecting waiters and servants, while the spies are in high social positions; they have contented themselves with searching the houses of German barbers and grocers whilst neglecting the hands which collect and forward to Berlin the information gathored by inore humble satellites.
DANGEROUS SPIES
No. 1.
South coast of China between (The same as Hongkong and Hainan... No. 1
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It is very sad to have to say such things, Nemuro but I think the most dangerous spies still Hakodate in Eugland are not Germans, whether Tokie The first night I was in Berlin I was naturalised or not, but are people belong Kood struck by the fact that the city was al nosting to neutral countries-even to countries Nagasaki as dark as London. The reason is not that actually fighting Germans and sabjects Kagoshima they fear an air attack, but that they are of Great Britain herself.g obwrving a strict economy of coal, which I would not have written this if I was Nah menerti is becoming more precious every day. As not sure of it; the diplomat from whom I shims for the feelings of Berlin, these are very got the information assured me tha thore complex; disillusion caused by the camare son English and French of both paign in France Insting so long without sexes who come regularly to Berlin or to any apparent progress, sorrow for the frontier towns through neutral countries enormous number of lives lost, hato for and have conversations with efficials and every nation on earth save Germany and then return. The restrictions as to especially for Groat Britain.
Tuggage and passports, both in France and in England, are not half as severe as Guisall they should be they are even slacker than Sharp Peak at the beginning of the war. I know Amoy personally of a number of stolen American Swatow passports under the shelter of which Talhoka German spies afe now travelling, and an Taichu......... Italian Consul with whom I happened to TainAD M travel a few days ago said he had dis- Koshan covered two fellows with falso Italian Pescadores passports almost perfectly imitated. Canton
In Berlin I heard people, well-informed people, saying that in every English town of importance, on every spot of strategical value on the British codet, Germany bas got a few friends keeping their eyes open and ready to receive an eventual German raid and to give their friends as strong a hand as possible.
At first everybody was absolutely certain that the German army would take all things by storm, that its superiority was sufficient to smash any resistance in a few weeks. Now, however, the Berlin people are beginning to realise that they have been deceived in this respect,
I don't mean to say that Berlin's people, at least the people in the street, realise that things are going badly nor that they are giving up hope that would not be true. They still believe in a final victory for Germany, but they don't seem to bo as certain as they were before. They are getting rather tired of the length of the
War.
THE FALKLAND LANDE FIGHT
I arrived in Berlin on the day the German Pacific Squadron was sunk by British ships. Since the sinking of the Emden nobody in Germany dared hope For any better destiny for their other ships on the high seas. They realised that all they could expect was to cause as large a loss of life as possible on the English vessels before going to their fate. The news of the affair off the Falkland Islands greatly impressed Borlin,
It had not been expected that the British naval authorities would act so quickly and at one blow demolish a forco whose destructiveness had given the people to hope that a longer life was in store for it, A remarkable thing is that, though Berlin got to know of the destruction of the four ships only through English sources, the Berlin papers printed. It before it was published in London.
The Lokal-Anzeiger gave the news in a few lines as sent by a special correspon
RUSSIANS CHOOSE DEATH.
SUPPLY SHIP BLOWN UP TO
PREVENT CAPTURE.”
Writing from Petrograd a special cor- respondent of The Standard says:-
Russian sailors, who have often been ac cused of not knowing how to live, certain- ly know how to die. No finer story of heroio death has been written during this war than that of the officers and men of the transport Pruth, sunk just outside the port of Sevastopol by the Goeben, the Turkish cruiser, manned and commanded. almost exclusively by Germans.
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dont in London. It was only last Tuesdayed the seaport of Sevastopol when I saw the English papers in Switzerland, that I realised that the Lokal-Anzeiger had been able to print the news in Berlin Lefore the Press Bureau had given it out in London.
Turkey, it may be recalled, sent her gotten man-of-war out into the Black Sea to make a raid on the Russian ports, After shelling Odessa and Theodosia, Not two without much effect, the Gochen approach- miles from the short the transport Pruth, of all sorts of supplies and armnarents for without troops, but with a valuable cargo the Russian Black Sea fleet, was making across her bows and a wireless signal to its way to the shore when a shot whizzed halt was received by the operator.
In this caso the fact has no importance, but does it not show that Germany has still a wonderful information service and telegraph wire or wireless communication with Loridun?
THE EAST COAST RAID: OTHER VISITS TO FOLLOW,
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, January 26th.
Relying upon some support by the forts, the Prulli ran up the Russian war flag with the St Andrew's Cross, and pushed on full steam ahead. Another shell ex- ploded just above her fore end, tearing a
Barometer hole in her deck, and a third carried away Temperature Since last Sunday it was known in part of a mast and the wireless installa- Humidity. Berlin that some sort of raid was to be tion. By this time the Goeben had come Wind Direction ... attempted on the eastern shores of close enough to take sure aim, and again
Forde Britain, and that this first appearance of demanded the surrender of the ruth, but Weather the German fleet would be followed by the commander, Lieutenant Ragusaks Rain...... numerous other visits in different parts informed his men that sooner than have of the English, Scotch, and Irish coasts. the useful cargo fall into the hands of the Then one. fino day Germany might enemy, he would sink the ship with his attempt to disembark a few thousand men, own hands. Hurrah for our Com who, of course, would be killed or taken mander" was the only reply he got. He prisoners. It is thought in Berlin that then suggested to his men that whoever such a landing will stop England sendingwished to leave the boat there and ther in troops to the Continent and probably the lifeboats or by jumping into the water force her to recall some of the troops she had permission to do so, but not a man
moved,AN to do so, but not a has already sent there
My informant said that the Germans would probably make their first appear ance on the Irish coast very soon,
Lieutenant Ragussky than went below, mined the bold and returned on deck. ''I shall blow up the ship in two minutes, lads, he announced,
snow is your chance, jump for it!" moved, and blow up the ship he did. On Agiin nos a man deck stood the ship's chaplain, Hiero- monach Anthony, his breast cross held
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I am sorry. I was not in Berlin when the news of the bombardment of Scarborough was served out to the good Berlin people. The papers will no doubt have magnified its effects to cheer up the population, high in both hands, giving absolution to which seems to need it badly. Most people the assembled ship's crew and bestowing there reem very keen on bringing the war upon them his last blessing. To a man to English territory, and if this was not they knelt, crossed themselves, and then Wed. dons before it was only because it was came the terenant Ragussky hat alles Thure. feared that such a raid would act as a mine. tonic on recruiting, or even give the last the fuss and was blown to aforas. Of the blow to England's traditional form of crew some forty, including the priest, voluntary recruiting.
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THE ENGLISH MAIL
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MERCHANT STEAMERS.
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Now, however, the desire to attack British shores has become more and more
perished, while 37 were saved, most of Satur. them more or less seriously wounded, by
loops and schooners near the shore..
pronounced, as the continuously increas of the occurrence who while on shore dis- tion.
Such is the story told by an eye-witness ing figures of Lord Kitchener's Army, tinctly heard the last Hurrah of the regularly rent to Germany by her sailors, only a few seconds before the Tus Informers, have dispelled the illusion noise of the explosion and a column of that the mass of British people were water rising high in the air told of the indifferent to the war.
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