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On the 8th at 11.10 am-A depression formed yesterday over the Lower Yangtss Valley and moved eastward. It is now central Over the Loochoose?
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Areas of high pressure le crer 8.F. Mongolia
districts,
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 mm. to-day, 0.03 inahes.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at nom
to-day is as follows:
DISTRICT
HUMAN SIDE OF WAR.
SOME STIRRING TALES
TREMENDOUS NERVL-STRAIN.
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ing of the wounded. Dealing with the Pressure is nearly stationary in southernmoment when the train was moved into a station, he says: Hore it would requiro a Zola to describe the scene, Very little light, all the platforms crowd od with refugees, shelle falling with terrific noise in a distant part of the FonzA67
town. All the entrances and waiting rooms full of strotchers with wounded in Bengkong & Neighbourhood darate; overcast, with wounded that could walk. The air 18.E, winds, mo them, and every available corner crowded Itog
was quivering under the shock of heavy guns bring about half a mile from us Variable winds,o much so that I had to have all the freshening from IN.E
carriage windows opened to present the glass being broken. My train is a quar South coast of China between 'The came
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CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
Station
REGISTER
8TH FEBRUARY, 1915, a‚n.
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Hour.
Barometer
Temperatura,
Humidity.
Direction.
Force,
Waribor,
730.10 5 0 Ob
29.50
4:
629,87
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30.10
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30.05
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30.01
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Hongkong Observatory, February 8tb.
Date
2pm
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE,
From 9th to 15th February, 1915
Days
Month
Height
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HIGH WATE.
Bong
Mean
Timo
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ft in.
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THE DANGER HOUR. PREMATURE PEACE A VAST FUTILITY
Reasoned optimism is the keynote of a characteristic article on the war which Daily News and Leader Mr. Amold Bennett contributes to the
But when one gets individuals alone, serious and sincere, one is apt to find a been anticipated especially in London, less absolute confidence than might have where among the arts and the "luxury trades" the careers of so many middle aged mon have been completely suspended, and they stand seemingly helpless, like tramcars in an electric breakdown, asking themselves whether they have any right to exist amid the massive events which have rendered them futilo,
THE SPY PROBLEM.
HOW FRANCE HANDLES IT.
WHAT AN ENGLISHMAN SAW IN FRANCE.
The more I realise what war is, he says, the more confident I am of the result of of us who have travelled to any extent in It is an astonishing thing to those of confident of the result of this war. I do know it is possible for people, no matter this war. But, you say, all Britons are France or Belgian during the war to not think they are, whom, to walk, moter, and otherwise roam They may appear to be so when they are about on the roads along the east coast talking superficially; or when they are and other places where there are peculiar reading (or writing) headlines in news facilities for gathering and sending to ing-rooms or music halls,
our naval and other defence forces. It papers, or when they are massed in draw the enemy vital information regarding was hard to believe, used as we are here to a most thorough and minute system of not been cleared vell away from the anti-spy policing, that every Alien had neighbourhood of these, to them, interest ing parts until a few days ago, Егед now, in spite of this extraordinarily eff ciont system, a certain amount of dan gerous spying is going on here in France; but what must it be like in England?
The principle of the system which the French police have catablished is the most rigid control over the comings and goings of every person, no matter what his nationality, no matter whether he has been naturalised or not, in those parts of the country, whether neut or far from the firing line, where the presence of an Alien enemy right bo dangerous, and even in towns and districts which might be spproaches to such districts. Is does not matter whether you intend to walk, motor oycle, or drive, you must do so with the knowledge and permission of the speciall police, that is to say, you must have laisser-passer, a pass.
CONFIDENCE OF THIS LEADERS. At any rate, I know that in the circles where I am most at home, I have, in spito of myself, acquired the reputation of a determined optimist. And yet, if I am an optimist, I am not more an optimist than military and naval leaders, who are thousand times better able to judge the situation than Les
And my experience is that the higher one penetrates into the areans of leader ship, the more serenely complete is the confidence therein displayed
By 10 p.m. we had completely filled the and evacuated nearly 400 one third of which were suretcher cases, Off we moved for our destination and began the work of washing, reclothing dressing wounds, resetting fractures, and last but not least, feeding our patients Twelve hours later, by the time we had It may be urged that the Germans are roached our base, every wound was equally confident. They are not. The dressed and a tominal rolk of patients russians may be, but the Teutonic races, was ready, while every patient was evitably as a whole, are not. Austria is the clothed and clean Detraining took some roverse of confident. six hours, and in another 10 hours all certain in the fog of war, it is certain that If anything is suitable cases were in England, the Austria is in a blue funk to circumstances. La certain parts of the slightly wounded and those unfit for ship. And such optimism as exists even in having been sent to hospitals at the base. Prussia is vitiated by two enfeebling ele A fresh supply of stores had been obments--ignorance and swagger. The tained, food, medical comforts and Gorman official, wireless news is a terrible we were on our way up to the front again, confession of weakness. We in Britain, This is a very condensed description of perhaps, do not get all the truth, but we what occurs to us every 30 hours.?
do get the main contours of the situation. GERMANY'S MORORANCE
This pass will contain, of course, tha bearer's name, also his age, profession, domicile, nationality, and photograph, or available for one or more days according olse a careful description. It will be monde
country, particularly in the easer of automobiles, the bearer will he required to have the pass visid either by the military commandant or the chief of police of certain places, including all fortified places through which he has to pass on his way to his destination, where he has to inscribe himself, if he stays at an hotel, in the register of the establishment, giving full particulars of his name, age, pro- fession, etc., with the name of the place ho has come from, and before. hot leaves he will be required to state the place to which he intends to go. In any case, In those parts of the country described above he will have to chtain a fresh pass.
A major in a Highland Regiment, in How many Frussians are aware that the letter to his father, speaks highly of French Government is back in Paris. It the bravery of the German soldiers. He is amusing, and also enheartening, to Enys that he blames the home papers observe that, after all ite protestations tromendously for publishing articles, about a united nation utterly sure of saying that the Germans cannot shoot victory, the German General Staff simply straight, that they run away that their dare not inform its public that the French armies are now composed of old men and Government is back in Paris boys, etc. such things are not true, or As for the Prussian swagger, it is piti- If they are, their old men and boya fight able. We may be a race of hypocrites, but, wonderfully well. The Dervishes at we do not boast. The modesty of our
The Athara" vero orodited to be brave despatches, and of our demeanour, both branch charged with the regulation of beyond the bravery of civilization; the military and civil, is notable; and, with comings and goings-regards the strictest Cermans are harder to put out of the startling patriotism of our recruiting control over motor traffic as being of the trenches than they were We are up aguanet a thundering good army," he con cludes, and it will take us all our time to break 'em.”
CONTROL OF MOTORISTS. French police-that is, the special
very first importance, traffic which in England is under no control whatsoever. For instance, I made a journey recently in a motor-car from Boulogne-sur-Mer to special Amiens, I had to provide myself with a automobile." Besides giving full por sonal particulars of myself it stated my
Permit to
circulata in
(which has far surpassed the most sanguine prophecies), it constitutes the final proof that the period of our national greatness is not yet clused,EQGAN ME Marquis, the regimental despatch dogfidence, mon, ekipe, guns, and money, War is an affair of leadership, con of the French twenty-third Infantry, hae The Allies have more men, ships, guns, been mentioned as having fallen on duty and money than the Germans, and their at the battle of Sarrebourg, on the leadership and confidence are at least destination, the route by which I was to Belgian frontier. At a time when it
THE END OF THE END,
bearme neccesary for an officer to send a squal to those of Germany, (According message to his superior the German fire to Germany's own admission, the German was so hot that it would have been war loan will be exhausted before the end impossible for a man to cross the fire of next week!) nurod zone. Marquis was went on the mission: Off he ran, and had gotten but half way The result is as inevitable as the result when a German akrapul ahattered his of arithmetical addition and subtraction side. In spite of his wounds he dragged even were the enemy united. And the himself to the position where the officer onemy is not united. The curling up of be sought was directing a section of the Austria will be the beginning of the end, machine guns. He dropped the message and the British Fleet will be the end of and died at the officer's feet.
the end. D
It is not only our right, it is our duty,
travel, and bore the intimation that it I was found anywhere off this route I was to be arrested and handed over to the nearest military authority. All the other permit so had the driver. This was passengers in the car had to have similar necessary to obtain permission to starf. Thon at the town boundary was a sentry, to whom every occupant of the car bed to produce his pass. At various points. along the route a patrol of two or three. and examine our papers, and so all the gendarmes (country police) would stop us. I have the bottom of a shell that to be confident and to cultivate confidence. way to our destination, where a further nearly blow me to stoms, and I mean to For the hour is approaching when con examination was necessary before we could keep it," writes a 2nd heutenant."How Adence will be needed. That hour, will enter the city. On the way back we I was not hurt by it I do not know, I occur between the beginning of the end decided to return by Dunkirk and Calais, had just been drinking from my water- and the end of the end
so at the first town of any size we went to bottle, and was standing on top of my tronch putting it in the case, when this obviously safe, when some kind of not for the new route. I forgot to mention that When the Allies are deânitely and the chief of polion and procured a PASE trenches, struck the ground about threw tremendous influences in America, in as they would be called in England, stop shell swept along the whole of the unsatisfactory penco can be had, then at every village two special constables, fort left in front of me, and burst, The Britain, in France, and everywhere else, ped us to examine our papers A few only thing I remember happening was will be brought to bear in favour of an miles before Calais we came to the smalt being knocked head over heels back into immediate truce--that is to say, in favour fortifed town of Bergues, where the sentry the trench, It fairly gave me a fright, of Germany and against a fight to a for the next report was from one of our finish. own guns, but you should have seen me dive into that tronch, much to the amuse- wont of the other fellows."
Many of the Allied soldiers are in the hospitals wounded, without wounds? They have been so dazed by the shock of exploding shells that it was deemed best to invalid them for a while to Rome cases the shells destroy & man's memory. One corporal-was brought in who remembered his name and the events preceding the war, but has utterly for gotten
anything subsequent to the mobilisation. He even refused to believe a story of his own heroism.
A ghoulish episode of the war was the fighting in a cemetery near Arras between the Germans and French. It soomed that the engineers of the two armies hit upon the same plan of boring a tunnel beneath the torbe in order to reach the energy. The diggers came face to face in the centre of the cemetery and sanguinary combat casued with pickaxes amid shattered coffins The combatants raised the coffins to the aur face, using them as a shield against rifle
fire.
The famous composer and pianist, Eugen d'Albert, has authorized the publication of
at the gate sont us to the commandant's office to have our passes vised. The same THE BUPREME DANGER, All the secret fears which harass us had to get a special pass to leave the town thing happened at Calais, and there we beneath our optimism will leap at the at all, which was only granted after a strained norres will cry out for repose,pondents' cards, and other papers. It was chance of any sort of safety; all our over rigorous sorutiny of our passports, corres And nothing but absolute confidence, impossible to more about the town without carefully and logically cultivated advance, will save the world from a vast futility
in
The supreme danger will not be in front of Ypres, in front of Warsaw, or in the North Sea-it will arrive when the danger of any defect is past. We had better think very steadily about this in the New Year.
LORD LEVEN DISGUISED AS A
BELGIANRA
The Earl of Leven and Melville, who was a prisoner in the handle of the Germans, has made a wonderful escape. lisguised as a Belgian, and is now in London,
to stop any person and demand his papers, as any policeman was authorized
the acensed that the burden of proof rests papers, and in these cases it is always on
practically every yard of the journey, Thus we were under surveillance for from the moment we left Boulogne to the moment we returned, and, eo thoroughly is every contingency foreseen, we had fo give up the pass for Arrione before we could obtain one to go to another place on the following day.
AMERICAN
IMMIGRATION
BILL.
THE PRESIDENTS VETO.
Lord Laven, who is lieutenant in the Scots Greys, went to the front with his regiment at the beginning of the war. He was wounded on August 22nd-his name was the first to appear in the
WASHINGTON, January 29th, casunity list was left behind when his
President Wilson has vetoed the Bill to regiment retreated, and was taken to restrict immigration into the United On Wednesday, December 9th, disguised expressed himself as not in sympathy hospital with a bullet wound in the thigh. States. President Wilson had previously
a letter which he wrote in 1884 from as a Belgian, he travelled across Belgium with the Bill Munich protesting against being called the German lines, and crossed the Dutch- in a northerly direction, broke through
*an English pianist" because he was born Belgian frontier without a passport. I
in England. He said: Unfortunately Lord Leven is very lame, but he hopes THE ODDFELLOWS' SOCIETY.
I studied for a time in that land of fog,
soon to be in the fighting line again.
Four German prisoners-of-war who es-
but during this period I learnt absolutely nothing, and if I had stayed longer in England I should have been ruined. It
The Hev FC Davies, vicar of Reigate, the Grand Master of the Manchester
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is my arm conviction that the system of caped from the Detention Camp at Unity of Oddfellows, speaking to mera- 168 32 music teaching in England is such that Kumamoto, early on the morning of the bore of the Southport dist-id recently, 4m 344 06 every talent based upon, it must be 24th ult, were arrested while on their said that up to the present 60, members 75 244 28
destroyed. I only began to live when I way to Nagasaki The Churai Shogyo and the Unity had decided that while they Mon 15 10 45 4-6 m 4350-9 leit that horrible country, and I still live says 76 prisoners of war, including an
of the Order were serving in the forces, 10-11 328 8 6 only for the true and glorious German from Tsingtao on the 10th inst be be paid out of the reserve fund of the officer, will be forwarded to Hongkong were sorving their contributions should the British steamer Basilan,
Bociety.
Bator, 13
Hoogkong, 4th February, 1915.
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