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CROWN PRINCES AND FRENCH SAPPERS.
The German Crown Prince issued the following from his headquarters on
December 21:-
Numerous reports which have been made to me recently regarding the bril- liant performances of the engineers. of all the army corps give me the oppor tunity that I desired to express my recognition of these splendid troops. The constant appeal for sappers which comes from all the sister arms best indi- cates their decisive importance in our present position and in fortress warfare against our opponents, who, in the technical branch, are extremely worthy of respect,"
GERMAN COMMENT ON BRITAIN'S NEW ARMIES.
The Frankfurter Zeilung publishes a
·contemptuous note on the announcement
BECAUSE THEY WERE BRITISH GERMAN REIGN OF TERROR.
In a letter from Bombardier TH Holmes, of the 108th Battery B.FA, who has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous galian- try in assisting to serve a single gun until and after all but one of the subsection had been killed or wounded" he says; --
I have been through the hottest of the fighting in the biggest battle ever yes known Ypres. The name of this town translated is the city of sacrifice," and a very appropriate name, as England gave the flower of her nation as a sacrifice to uphold her honour in this battle. Our division started the battle, and for 33 days we endured continual sholling, besides being made target of by the German sniper It was terrible. How our infantry faced it God only knows. I expect it was because they were British, The artillery endured as much boovy alic fire, but the guns were concealed and the enemy had to search for us.
HORRORS OF WAR IN FRANCE.
OFFICIAL REPORT.
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PALIS, January 7th. The Commission appointed to inquire into the Gorman atrocities, consisting of M. Payelle, Fresident of the Cour des Comptes; M. Mollard, ex-Minister to Luxemburg; M. Maringer, Councillor of Slate; and M. Paillot, Councillor of the Appeal Court, has presented a pre- liminary report to the Prime Minister, which will be published in the Journal IMPERIAL MINEBAL WAathe Com Oficial to-morrow. The evidence on which the roport is based has been tested rigorously. It was taken on cath, and supported by photographs Whorever it has been possible to give the Germans the bareft of the doubt they have received it.
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ores y side," says the report, the One day the enemy located the two eyes rest upon the ruins of entire villages of Japan, Offcially Recommended by the of the composition of the new Britian RUB, one of which I was serving. They destroyed by bombardment and fire Medical Colleges of The Imperial Universitie sholed us unmercifully. Three gunners Towns formorly busting with life are my gun were wounded and two killed. nothing but deserts filled with ruins And Wo remaining men entered the splinter when these desolate places whore of Tokyo and Kyoto, proof shelter, but no sooner were we in invaders torch has done ite workaro
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feld armies. The journal says that it is no new that Lord Kitchener and the British Government count up armies by there are enough names on the lists to compose 18 army corps Nobody, how ever, knows how large these six armies will be as long as the strength of an anty corps is not announced. It is added!---
Anyway, the world is to be led to sup pose that England is producing new troops to the number of a half or irce
But producing quarters of a million. them is not the whole business. It may be possible to find six generals, but it would be more important to order th
necessary number of other officers and
non-commissioned officers. And, hew many of the 18 army corps will they be able to send or even wish to send France? The announcement is, no doubt, New Year's comfort for the growing im- patienos of France, Whether it will fulfil its purpose may be doubted."
GERMAN HATRED OF ENGLAND.
that a shell came and took the roof clean
Away and nearly choked us with the fumes, though not one of us was hurt We returned to the gun, but the German shell firo was so terrific and accurate that we had to leave the gun, which we took out of action under cover of dark.
FROM A BROOKLYN PULFIT.
A PASTOR'S APPEAL TO GERMAN-AMERICANS,
Dr.
Recent Americas newspapers contain reports of a remarkable sermon delivered by Dr. Nowell Dwight Hillis, the pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. Hillis occupies the pulpit formerly used by Henry Ward Beecher, and the sermon Barries special weight in that his congre gation of 3,000 includes a number of wealthy German-Americans, who after The merchants of Bremen, like the wards objected to the tone of his address, in which he appealed to: German- merchants of Hamburg, enjoyed an Anglophobe demonstration on Christmis Americans to use their influonos with Eve, and listened to a long speech by Germany, Dr. Hillis confesses that five Herr Alred Lohmann, Like his months ago, he was for Germany, but he colleagues at Hamburg, he mentioned no had since realized his mistake. According enemy but England, and accused the to an interview which appears in the British of every sort of crime. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, he realized in the following passage will suffice-
middle of September what a German England holds up hospitals ships, sinks success would mean to the world" how Gorman, vessels in neutral waters, trans there could be nothing to but a world of ports hundreds of German women and armed camps, how, we, in this country, children from the West African colonies too, would have to adopt militarism in in freight chips under the most disgrace order to live? ful conditions and with niggers set over them England uses dum-dum bullets, drops bombe cu unprotected towns like Freiburg, Düsseldrof, and the entirely unprotected Langeoog, seizes the money and property of Germans, and tries to steal intellectual property by suspending the patent laws. All these arbitrary acts must be punished.” ANOTHER OF GERMANY'S "LITTLE DODGES.”
sermon to an exhaustive review of the After devoting the first part of his events that have led up to the present position, Dr. Hillis continued
The little are of last August has become a world conflagration. The nation that first sent out her armies was Germany, There is a high water mark of battle in every war, and after that the invading Waves begin their retreat. The high-water mark of Napoleon's was Austerlitz, and the waves ebbed away at Waterloo The high water mark of the Civil War was There would appear to be no end to Gettysburg, and the tide ebbed out at Germany's little dudges" for magnify Apponmattox. Belgium's defence cost ing herself and poisoning public opinion Germany the three most important weeks A. 8. WATSON & Co., LTD, Hongkong and Kowloon. against her enemies. The latest of which of the war, and her high-water mark was we have heard is the journal called the when she was within 20 miles of Paris LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
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THE CAPTURE OF THE "KOMET."
When the Australian Expeditionary Forces were seizing the German posses sions in New Guines they secured a prize in the German Government yacht Komet, which has since been put to use in con nection with the Australian Navy and renamed Una.
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STORY OF THE BOTTLING UP”.
South Shields men, members of the crew of the steamer Newbridge, which Just before the departure of the Berrima played an important part in the bottling from Rabaul with Australian troops on up of the commerce raider Konigsberg October 4th, the wireless station at Nama in the Huigi River, German East Africa, nula intercepted a message from an had interesting experiences to relate anlocated wireless station, containing when they roached home. When the Konigsberg was located by the British apparently for the benefit of the Scharn squadron shells were rained upon her, harit and Greisenau-details as to the The Newbridge was utilised to block the disposition of the Australian ships, and entrance to the river, and the Shields men the number of troops in New Britain. It were ordered ashore, the Newbridge being was at once surmised that the information manned by navad men. The vessel, which proveeded from the Komet, of whose loca had coal aboard, was sunk by thraction the authorities were uncertais. charges of gun cotton placed in the hold. Two other vessels were sunk besides the Newbridge, blocking the navigable channel and imprisoning the Konigsberg, While the naval men were returning to their ships the Konigsberg crew opened fire upon them, and the coxswain of a stone launch was struck by a dum-dum wallet, passing right through his body killing him instantly. Another coxswain was instantly killed by a bullet piercingen the island that the Komet was lying in his temple.
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Acting on information brought in by natives, a small force started southwards on October 8th to a spot about 190 miles distant from Rabaul, On the night of the 10th one of the prizes captured at Rabaul, which was conveying the expedition, arrived off a small island which partially concealed the mouth of a little harbour near Cape Wilson. Hearing from natives
visited there is the illusion that there are
the vestiges of great cities of antiquity destroyed by a great natural cataclysm. Pilage, rape, incendiarism, and murder are our enemies' common custom. The facts revealed show ELT astounding retrogression of German mentality sincs 1870."
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The preface hills 24 columns. I cannot do more than attempt to indicate the terrible impression of frightfulness acquired from it Rape with every imaginable refinement of cruelty and bestiality marked the passage of the If uns with ghastly frequency. evidence has been collected as regards a great many cases, but owing to the natural reluctance of the victims to speak of the odious crimes of which they have been the subject the cases contained in the report
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The massacres at Lunéville, Gerbéviller. Nomény, and Soulis afford terrible proof of this assertion. Villagers have been torn from their homes and marched off into captivity in Germany. Those who by their age or infirmities fell by the roadside NEW MACAO HOTEL. were bayoneted or kicked to death. In many instances women and children have been placed as a screen in front of German troops during the fighting or a bombard ment. The stories of rape are so herrible TAKE NOTICE that on and after the let in detail that their publication would of the above Hotel will be carried on by seem almost impossible were it not for the 1. W. MAK in plass of O. C. Moos, and necessity of showing to the fullest extent all fature Correspondence, and Orders must be the nature of the wild beasts fighting signed by the said L. W. MAK, under the Gorman Flag for German ideals and civilization C
BESTIAL CRIMES.
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ad mother. They saw their son stretched on the ground. As the body still moved the Germans poured petrol upon it and set it alight in the presence of the terrified mother.
At the same time the soldiers knocked at the house occupied by a man and his mother-in-law, aged 78. The latter opened the door, and was immediately
shot. She fell back in the arms of her son-in-law, who carried her into the garden. where he covered the corpse, placing a handkerchief over her face. The man was taken and shot, while his wife was sent to join some 40 women and children, who were threatened with death by the officer-a throat not executed. At Gorbéviller a woman was murdered and The stomach ripped open. Here, again, the Bavarians were responsible
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the little harbour, Marsden and Jackson with a few men proceeded to a point over looking the harbour. The Komet was just visible, a dark shadow on the water, with a single light burning. Hastily return ing, Commander Jackson brought the Amsterdim. The Sofa correspondent steamer quietly round the island till she of the Berliner Tageblatt sends an lay right across the month, her 18-pounder account of an interview with Field gur levelled at the Komet's water-line, Marshal von der Goltz, who is represented while the machine guys threatened to
in the Chateau de Beaumont, whern to have said In the western theatre of sweep the decks at the first sign of their "Excellencies" Major Lobedur and Hongkong, 9th February, 1915.
ANTANA Count Waldersee were lodged, desks, war enormous masses of men are fighting resistance, on both sides, and the area of operations Up to this point there had been no signs being very restricted, it is not possible to that the vessel had been observed. Lower do much maneuvring,
ing about the officers and a party of men The French and British are fighting with first streaks of dawn appeared. At every We do not underestimate our enemies.roved stealthily up to the Komet, as the desperate courage, but we are gradually moment they expected an unseen sentry to gaining ground, and I am convinced that give the alarm, but nothing of the kind one day the enemy's resistance will be occurred, and they climbed quietly on broken.
board, to find that every man of her crew, Germany is prepared for a campaign save the captain, was sound asleep. of one year. Victory will lie with the Captain Moeller, the commander, had soldiers who are best disciplined and most just awakened, and was beginning to capable of resistance. The unbrokon war shave Suddenly the door of his cabin spirit, the moral, the excellent provision opened. He turned and found himself ing of our troops, and their daring in staring down the barrel of a large sad attack leave no doubt but that. Germany very black looking revolver. The ship was will win."Reuter:
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