FUN IN THE TRENCHES "CORMORANT'S HOME:
BCBALTEEN'S IMPRESSIONS.
GERMAN ESPIONAGE. HOW IT WAS WORKED IN SINGAPORE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 1915,
HAVOC AT ECARBOROUGH, VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE BOMBARDMENT.
THE HAPPY WARRIOR.
IT IS HEAVENLY.” We quote the following passages from An Ipswich lady, Miss Madeline Had-Picturo to yourself a small three-room-
an officer's letter from the front: A contributor to the Malay Mail in the graft, sends to a home paper the following ed cottage with a hole made by a shrapnel from a subaltern at the front describe ourse of an article on German espionage extracts from a lottor received by hershell through its tiled roof. The match
The following very interesting letter
experiences in flooded trenches and his adventures in scouting expeditions:-
Deconibor 12th, Midnight.
Bays :--
The preparations which our enemies made for the struggle in which we are now I have been flooded out of my bed, and engaged are such as to make one thankful a this little spot on the table seems to be that we have not suffered more up to the the only one where no muddy drops are present than we have, great as our suffer- falling from the roof of the dug-out, I ings have been. The system of epics, for might as well seize the opportunity, to example, was so elaborate and so wide- write between now and daylight. spread that it was impossible for the most When I wrote last we were frost-bound. insignificant individual living in the most It soon thawed and for the last fortnight across some evidence of their maleficent out-of-the-way corner to esoupe coming wo have been the victims of rain.. To activity. make things pleasanter wo have the pros-
wo get back to billets. It is difficult to pect of 18 days (over Christmas) before give you an idea of what steady rain here
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boarded coiling below is By the time this reaches you you will bullets, and some of the rafters are broken. pitted with
morning we heard a tremendous crash. and just across the road the ground is have heard the news. About eight this It stands on the edge of a large frwood, Thunder everyone said. But before honeycombed with canningly contrived very long we all knew, some to our cast, little holes covered over with earth. There Nature's. My dear, you cannot have the entirely collapsed, and in the ground that it was the devil's thunder, notre other similar cottages near by, some slightest idea of war until it reaches you round are numerous holes made by the itself. I've ached for the poor Belgians, fall of the German shells. The door of but now I feel simply heart-sick. If in the cottage bears the legend, Coy, our own little town, with the sea keeping RE. Oficers Mess, and on the hearth what must it be to be entirely crushed ombers, which makes up for the windows off the enemy, we learn the horror of war, is a perforated bucket containing glowing under him? I lay in bed a few minutes, having no plass in them, and makes the Some years ago I was myself sharing a listening, hardly realising what it meant, room a palace There is a constant sound Secretariat and I remember his exsually ing, but not, alast of the water that comes at least during most hours of the day. mess with a junior officex attached to the when there came the rumbling and tumb of gun firing on our side, and shells explod- telling me of the loss of some official down from Lodore. Directly after came
ling, the clattering, battering and shattering from the other, one every half-minute
What makes me so wild is that. I was for the joint action of the military and mingled sounds of motors, cabs, lorries, when that is over the sappers 'creep out
documents relating to the measures taken the tramping of feet, the hurrying, inter-soon as it is dark we shall creep into the $0-Tont Hydralie TESTING MACHINE for Chain, Wire Repes, Rivets, etc,
"Soon we shall have tea, and then as just glorying in a brand new dug-nut
before mentioned burrows to wait. with another sub. The night after I moved in my old one collapsed altogether. The sapper who appears every night to do odd jobs about our lines swore this one would be watertight. He carie in just now and sat on the doorstep with mud Bowing down his neck and to is such a cheery soul that we forgave him. He brings us nightly all the humerous gossip Indian division and the Germans were so close to each other last week that they used the same parapet to their trenches Loopholes.
menus,
of the staff, to wit: Item.
That the
naval forces for the defence of the Colony Now I have come across a book, a copy of which should be in every Government office, not excepting Government House, explaining exactly how this theft, or one like it, was carried out.
War Office" and is written by a man who It is entitled Secrets of the German
endeavouring to procure information we detected about eighteen months ago about our naval defences in Scotland. ow he was detected and why, after being sentenced; he was set at liberty I will leave What I am here concerned about is his brief account of his doings in Singapore.
and wheel-barrows,
the window on Scalby Road, and at that and generally make themselves useful,
I jumped out of bed to look through dig and jurprove trenches for the moment a piece of shell shattered the returning when they have completed their infantry and put them up barbed wire, other window just by my bed. I don't task to their little burrows. I may be clever to doubt Him (1), but know when I felt more grateful to God.
avert danger it would be a German trick when He distinctly puts out His hand to Just to regard it as lucky. Others were not spared, but I was, and I hope that I this Division shall be able to do well whatever it was
don't let K. know (his wife).
"It is heavenly, but for goodness sake.
thing less than a mile away in the th "B. (his nephew) is doing the same Coy, which is the other one belonging to
and took it in turns to fire through the my readers to discover from his own pages that my life was left for. Well, I amusement' and about to retire to my`
STEALING DOCUMENTS IN SINGAPORE.
JAM TIN BOMBS.. This week they have got closer and are separated only by sandbags. The Indians
It appears that it was to Singapore that seem to pass the weary winter eating jam: he was sent about ten years ago to try his not only because it is pleasant and nutri-prentice hand at atesling confidential tious, but alay so that they can have a documents about the state of the fortifica- plentiful supply of jam-tin bombs, which tions. are all the fashion at close trench parties. story of how he came to Singapore pre- Well, be frankly tells the whole Our own Germans are getting closer, tending to be a scientist interested in 100. Two hundred yards is about our average and we are both pushing ahead with saps, so I suppoes jam-tine will no longer be thrown away here in a week or I amused myself to day by pinking one of their periscopes, which both sides nse freely, so as not to let them get too accustomed to the sight of our dirty und stubbly faces. Our mon are very keen at the loop-holes, and no sooner does bit of German skin show itself than it is perforated, (Don't be alarmed at the stains on this paper. It isn't blood, but the roof is boginning to ooze mud instead of water.)
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The communication trenches I told you of ane a dream now.To-night they are simply a river, but when we came in a few nights ago they were knee-deep in paste of the consistency of wet dough.
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Just back from evening's rambled into my clothes, and did my bunny-hole. Of course the shells and hair (no wash) in time that beat all things sound much more dangerous than College records. I heard our telephone they really are. The Company THE geing continually, as numbers called in actually had 20 per cent. casualties to to use it, so I went off and made the ser- date, including earlier operations." vant get her warm clothes on in case we had to move out. Then I thought. If Engineers, was killed in action the next the cars get here they shan't fancy they've day, November 11th, in the great battle. The writer, Major Tyler, Rogal
beds and tidied all round. Mother was Lieut, Albert Tyler, RE, was killed on scared us and made us run; so I made the of Ypres, and the nephew he mentions, serving out tea and coffee and stuff to poor the following day, November 12th. Major botany and put up at the De la Paix. He panic-stricken folk who had racer right Tyler was one of the nine sons of the late found it quite easy to be introduced to up from the old town on the beach, with Sir Henry Tyler, three of whom were in different naval and military officers and no food, few clothes, and many without the Royal Engineers, three in the Royal get put up as a member of the differant shoes or stockings. Several round us gave Artillery, and one in the Indian Civil clubs. Finally he found the best way of them clothes, but these opposite got a Service. Five are serving their country effecting his object was to suborno mem-hamper, stuffed it with food, got into fur bers of the clerical service. So he cul- coats, and motored off
at the present moment. tivated the acquaintance of a young All this time the roaring, booming, Malay Raja. Through this man's influence and smashing continued, and we finally with various subordinates in the Govern get our big boots on, secured our most ment service he soon procured what he valuablo jewellery, and got our wanted. Then having obtained the neces-ready. Then came a lull. Meanwhile sary documents he forwarded them to George had ridden down through it to Borlin and went off to stay with a planter, business. A shell burst in a hotel just a whose name he gives, in Ceylon,
short distance ahead of him and he rode he arrived he went into the works and Baromstar through the clouds of dust it made. When just saw a chimney stack at the back swept Temperature
way, and heard a splintering and a thud Bumidity.......... had happened, but it was nothing worso in the room above. He went to see what Wind Direction than about eight windows smashed and
Force half the roof unslated. Bain
"When all was quiet Dad and I got on
Now this is a most interesting narrative and one which clearly shows what me bers of the German community in a British colony have been prepared to do and what both the Government and the British cam manity must see that they do not repeat in the future.
This is a question which should especially interest Straits people, because it is in Singapore and Penang more than in any other colony, except Hongkong, where the Germans have been allowed to obtain a position of peculiar influence and importance.
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horror. I discovered that my nose was two minds of all of them have become infected yards from an unburied German corps, by the system under which they have been that had lain out there since our last un brought up. successful infantry attack six weeks ago: Another and another rocket went up, and it was ten minutes before I could get up and leave that grisly object. However, that in the course of it he succeeded in To those who paused to think of ity it was brought back a helmet and rifle as mementoes of the event.
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What I object to principally about our Gormans is their lack of appreciation of humour or sport. They are so dovilishly
I do not think that anyone can road. business-like. A lamentable instance the book I have mentioned and can con-our things and went down to so if George occurred to-day. One of our men was aider what the Germans have done at was quite safe. He had rung up, and up in a willow-tree in the rear cutting Scarborough, for example, without coming Mother was sure there was a note of pain withies. A shot passed him, and he Big- to the conclusion that it is his duty as in his voice, so we went to see. We called mailed, "A miss, left." Then he sig far as lies in his power to sea that no
alled another, Right"
The third German in future is admitted to any cheered up those whose homes were more at everyone's we knew to inquire, and took him through the hoad: There are English club. the strictest orders about the mon expos-
or less wrecked. An old friend had his chimneys struck, so that every room was ing themselves, but you see some astonish- ing things. I watched a man yesterday
black with soot and the air reeking with walking slowly along the side of the com-
its choking grittiness. He said my smile munication trench right up to the line
cheered him, but oh you cannot reallec He had a sack of coke, and was bothered
what absolute despair is written on so if he was going to stick in the mud with
many faces, Scarborough is a defenceless it. A hail of bullets missed him, and he
town, but evidently we are not safe from Mon, stopped to light a pipe behind an 18-in. willow before he very deliberately got does not seem to me to be an imaginary is wrecked, our largest hotels have suffered Tu
The danger of allowing them to do this these disciples of kultur. Our school down with his load.
phone when one considers the gigantic edifice tremendously. A house at the bottom of Two nights ago, scouting out on my of treachery and lying which they have the small street off our road has been Wed own, on the other side of the sap, I had built up for the purposes of the Secret entirely shattered, and the mother and a most horrid experience. turnip field, advancing cautiously because its head and he is not ashamed to invoke was such a faithful little chap to me at p
I was in Bervice. This service has the Emperor at two laddies killed. The younger boy, who Thurs, they crackle so internally underfoot. Suddenly up went one of their star upon his policy the blessings of Almighty school, had his head blown off. Oh for
None of his subjects seem to see a man's make up! But I can understand datar. rockets, which make the neighbourhood anything extraordinary in the attitude of others and men deliberately cursing such light as day for a mile round. I hopped their Ruler and this goes to show that the creatures of blood. There are other fright Jan. down at once on my anterior: To my
ful ends of people whom we know, but you would grow cold if I related them. Pray that you may never know such an experi- ence.
"In less than half-an-hour everyone in Scarborough received a life-impression. inducing a British naval officer to agree had too much to do to think of the damage Hell in capital letters. But many of us in return for a fee of £100 a month to either to property or people at the time- destroy certain fortifications on the out Their hearts wanted comfort and their break of war, In the first flush of pride in our new
bodies food, and we have much to be dug-out H. and I clíristened it" The Cor- morants, No. 1, Park-lane. We chose
thankful for that we were able to supply the namo as descriptive of the inhabit- In the German Service there does not them, and were not reduced to the same ants.
That is to say, we are both con- appear even to be honour amongst thieves, plight. We heard the heavy booms as the cerned to find that, though formerly and his own chiefs arranged that a message Buns turned on Hartlepool. I hope the people of moderate appetites, life out directed to him should fall into the hands poor things there have suffered little. here has converted us, like most people, of the British authorities and thus lead into appalling gourmands. Every prob to his detection and imprisonment. He lem resolves itself into food values.
was becoming dangerous and they wanted. The great panic at present is that the him quietly put out of the way, When Christmas offerings of good folk at hone he was serving the torm of his imprison- will by some mischance not reach us in ment the British Government caused the
Some days ago a benevolent cap-proofs of his betrayal by his own govern time. tain presented us with a box of short- ment to be shown to him and he seems in course of a lecture at the Conservatoire The Paris Journal says that in the broad, which disappeared as by magic consequence to have agreed to sell his own des Arts et Motiers, Professor Violle stated We halved the crumbs with wistful care, masters. At any rate, he was set at liberty thes, the Hughes Balance was now being and promptly wrote postcards to every- one we could think of clamonring for and afforded the opportunity of an inter used to locate bullets in wounds. It was stacks of it. I can't expect you to look view with Sir Edward Grey.
enough, he declared, to pass one of the apon this as anything but gluttony, but His account of this episode gives a most bobbins over the body of the wounded pan course of ration bread and bully beof, interesting insight into his mind. He and to listen at the telephone to find the and necessity of keeping out continual complains that he found the British states- exact spot in which was the ballat or colds and damp would, I think, bring it man far from cordial; he was, as he terms splinter of shell. The system was very home. We are quite put out at present it, an "icicle," and in consequence the simple and very certain, and would be of eoruse the latest arival in the company, interview proved a failure. He is inestimable value where radiographic who is straight from Sandhurst, is obviously quite unable to imagine that to apparatus was not available. super-cormorant and can give either of ua Sir Edward a man who made his living by Balf a loaf start and win hands down,
The Hughes' Balance is composed of two lying and treachery might be positively bobbhus connected so as to make a balance Well, our cheery sapper newsmonger unpleasant. na just warmed our frozen gloom with attitude on the occasion is exactly what When the balance is established, the tele- Yet Sir Edward Grey's between their primaries and secondaries the tale of the naval victory off South every Englishman would most admire in phone apparatus, which is fixed between America, a victory is Galicia, and the him. positively authentic information (for the
His feeling of repulsion at the them makes no sound, but when one of the twentieth time) that the Kaiser is sick are before him at once so evil and bobbins comes near e metallic body the aunto death. When his Majesty even- so efficient was so great that ho could not equilibrium is destroyed and the telephone tually gets to the Shades I can only hope suppress it. And this is an attitude which Pluto will put him on a fatigue party 1 think Englishmen in general will find, it under Lance-Corporal Sisyphus, to carry advisable to adopt towards German hool of bully beef mightly through strangers as a general rule. Certainly it Fen-mile communication trench, 2 ft. deep an mud, only to find when he gets to the other end that he has no tin-opener and no knife or bayonet for substitute.
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