WAR NEWS.
GERMAN THREATS TO SWISS.
A German threat to boycott the French- -speaking Cantons of Switzerland because of their outspoken sympathy for the Allies has occasioned considerable offence. Cir culars from Germany have reached Geneva and other Swiss towns in large numbers to the effect that unless a change in public opinion is speedily forthcoming German schoolgirls will be withdrawn from the boarding schools, German tourists will no longer visit the health and other holiday resorts, and the goods of the offending Cantons will not find a ready market in Germany.
The throat, which has been received with scorn, will merely sorve to increase
antagonism towards the Exchange..
LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.
THE GROUSING" TOMMY.
An Qeer at the front writes:- One thing that emerges from this life of filth, mud, and exertion is the wonder ful and marvellous adaptability of the ordinary soldier. Wet and tired he goes on growing, of course, but in reality quite cheerful, and the way in winch he does things that seem almost humanly impossible is something to make one stand and wonder. Of course the discipline is everything, and I don't suppose for one moment that regiments, with a lessor reputation for discipline could do what the's do and are always expected to be ready to do. Really it is a pleasure to do one's little bit with them. I have Germans learnt this morning that the average rainfall here is 90 inches, and that to reach the normal 2)ft, more are to come Awful prospect. The ordinary fall in England is, I believe, 28, inches, so the difference is considerable,
GERMAN FIRE-BOATS.
A French official communiqué atates that the Germans sent fire-boats down tho Ancre, a small river of Northern France, on which the town of Albert is built,
It matters little, however, what the German purpose was, for the fire-boats were stopped by the French before they exploded.
GIANT SUBMARINE.
L'NIQUE CRAFT TO BE BUILT BY THE UNITED STATES.
Contracts have been awarded by the Navy Department to the Electric Boat Company for a seagoing submarine, to be bullt at Quincy (Mass.), at a cost of 1,350,000 dollars, and for three coast defence submarines, to be built at Seattle, at a cost of 450,000 dollars each.
Contracts have also been closed with the Lake Torpedo-boat Company for four coast defence submarines, to be built at Bridgeport (Com.) for. 497,000 dollars
each.
A CONVALESCENT HOME
A major of the E.A.M.C, sends the following description of the convalescent home, ab General Headquarters
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 9TH, 1915.
place up like daylight, and they can see if anyone is moving shout. They also have searchlights which have boon going the last two nights. I haven't seen them before. Of course, we have those things, too, and use them as well, though for some reason or other we don't seem to use them as much as they do. They are always having "firework displays," as the men call them.
A VISIT TO THE KAISER.
"GERMANE MISJUDGED."
The Neueste Nachrichten has published an interview with Dr. Ludwig Ganghofer, the German author, in which is given a further account of the writer's visit to Emperor William at the imperial field headquarters. Dr. Ganghofer says
I heard and saw an example of the Emperor's quiet pationce with slanderous statements which should be instructive for us all. Remarks of such a nature embitter him, bu oven in his greatest excitement, he never loses the mastery of his tongue, I heard him say in such a case; That
Te is strong, but it is silly, also. fortunate that truth always is wiser in the long ran, and that it has longer legs."
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GERMANS MISJUDGED."
The man questioned shook his head. The Emperor continued: Why does England strike at us? Why does she not rather strike at her own weakening horse Yet other words of the Emperor must be remembered, the Neueste Nachrichten quotes Dr. Ganghofer as saying. "On
one occasion he made this remark:-
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This is the first time in the present war in which such weapons have been employ el, for they are very unusual features in any land war. It is probable that they The account by Eye-witness" dated wero barges Alled with inflammable and the 8th ult. mentions a convalescent home
DOES NOT MALIGN-FOES. explosive materials. It is not easy to see established in a jute factory at General the precise object of the Germans in Headquarters. Some additional details.
"The knightly conduct of individual. despatching their fire-boats. A reasonable of the mies to which this building is being solution of the problem might be the fact put might be interesting. It has bedded opponents in the field gladdens Emperor that there is a waterfall on the Ancre accommodation for 800 to 1,000 patients, William," continues Dr. Ganghofer, "and where it passes through Albert, and that who are received from train and motor have never heard any man speak so the idea was that the barges would be ambalance convoys from olearing hos justly of individualities and the courage blown up as they dropped over the water pitals nearer the front or direct from the and the accomplishments for the nation's fall and scatter combustibles and shell in units in the trenches. The majority of enemies. Even against England I beard patients treated in this hospital suffer from the Emperor no unmeasured word the picturesque little town of Albert.
from one or other of the various ailments spoken in anger. Every verdict he pro inseparable from life in the trenches, under nouncps, severe as it sometimes 15, is the unfavourable weather conditions. The always within the bounds of supreme daya spent here in comparative quietness reserve. Nevertheless, there is a slight with comfortable beds, hot baths, clean but hardly noticeable vibration in his clothes, good food, combined with a Majesty's voice when the subject in our certain amount of amusement is sufficient Germanic cousins across the channel. in the majority of cases to restore the In a conversation with the representa bodily condition to normal. After a bath, tive of a neutral Stato, the Emperor once shave, and hair-cut they are completely said: You are a sportsman When, in Etted oat with new underlinen and blue a horse race, the weaker animals hospital clothing. The service dress and gradually drop out and only the two underclothing in which they arrive is strongest are lets have you ever seen the removed to be first passed through the jockey of the horse which threatens to fall ateam disinfectors on the pre mises, the former is brushed and labelled, the latter is sent to the laundry to be washed, both are returned to the store for reissue. Before discharge from hospital, therefore, every man is provided with clean service dress, boots, etc., com plete. He also receives a glass tube com The big seagoing submarine will be of taining tincture of iodine to be used in he is wounded, with his first 1,100 tons not displacement, and will be case far larger than any foreign submarine. field dressing, chocolate, tobacco or It will have a radius of action of about cigarettes, biscuits, mufflers, mitte, or 3,000 miles, a surface speed of 20 knots, other of the many comforts provided by Many people judge us Germans solely To British str., 2,097. P. Stewart, ad and a submerged speed of 18 knots. By the generosity of people at home, or by by outward polish and term us barbarians, seem not to know that there is a great using storage batteries she will be able to the Government,
The building in addition contains difference between civilization and travel completely submerged for more than a day On her deck will be carried chapel, whore frequent services are held, kaltur England certainly is a highly rapid-firing guns. A valuable feature there being a resident chaplain, a recrea-civilized nation. One notices this always will be dirigible torpedo tubes, adding tion room well supplied with tables, in the drawing room, but to have "kultur" enormously to the craft's offensive power, papers, books, magazines, games, and means to possess deep conscience and high
piano. Here the sing-songs or gaga -Central News and many
so dearly loved by the soldier are fre morale, My Germans have conscience
and morale: quently bold. There is no lack of musical talent, one of the hospital staff, a non it was my intention to found a world When they say in other lands that commissioned officer, well-known as a writer and composer of popular songs, empire, that is the funniest mongouse ever assists in this department, There is also said about me. But in the morale, a barber's shop, where the click of the industry and conscience of the Gotmaan scissors may be heard all day, a tailor's people is to be found a conquering power shop, where clothes may be mended and that will open the world for them.
There is also a buttons well sewn on special place for chiropody. The feeding of the soldier, which is of so much import- anos, has received special attention. A large kitoben has been built outside and fitted with ranges, boilers, ate, for the preparation of all kinds of comforts for A specially qualified The new troops which have passed the "inner man." through Brussels from Germany are in superintending cook is in charge of this
For the first time in the history of that no way comparable with those who did the department, and meals are served on the parade stops in August last. They are restaurant system in a large dining-room, famous publication, the compiling and very badly equipped many of them, arranged and fitted in the centre of the distribution of the Almanach de Gotha indeed, being dothed in civilian dress, building, where 400 can be seated at mosses have bean seriously interfered with with the exception of their caps. Ger at one time. The time spent in this hos Containing as it does a complete list of man officers seem to have lost their arropital is on the average about seven days, all the royal and great toble families of gance, and avoid contact with the and during his stay modical and surgical Europe and of all the principal Court and Government officials of the different population as much as possible. In some treatment is not forgotten. districts Germans are seldom to be seen, serious illness developing are set to other States of the world, the effect the great Life has become almost normal, and on hospitals in the vicinity by motor ambu-war might have upon its publication was Bundays there are the usual crowds on the lance Finally, before being passed fit seriously apprehended, as the almanach boulevards and in the cafés. The few to rejoin his unit at the front, the con- is published by the old-established Ger- troops that remain behave well, and pay valescent soldier is exercised in route man firm of Perthes of Goths; but not- regularly for everything they buy marching on fine days, to completo his withstanding the difficulties of the times the 1915 edition (152nd year) has duly cure.
appeared.
GERMANY'S NEW LEVIES,
BADLY EQUIPPED AND MANY IN CIVILIAN DRESS.
A subject of a neutral State who has arrived from Brussels gives some interest ing details of the change which has come over life, there since the first German armies, fashed with their success, filled the city with their somewhat noisy re joicings. Now there only remain in Brussels three or four thousand men, most of whom have been sent back from the
ser to rest,
Liége has been turned again into a first blass fortress. There, too, more or less normal conditions of life prevail.
men:
THE HATED BRITISH,
"
Cases of
GUNS AND SNIPERS,
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REGISTER OF NOBILITY,
ALMANACH DE GOTHA” NOT UP
TO DATE FOR FIRST TIME.
In the preface errors in the diplomatic and statistical portion are excused on the grounds that the countries with which Germany is at present at war have failed to send in the usual lists.
A Transport Officer writes:- We are leaving the trenches tomorrow The intense hatred entertained for us and coming down for a rest, thank good
The war has wrought many changes betrays itself in many of the letters sont ness; but where we are going to rest wo
Here are a few have no idea. Nor have we any idea how among the Royal Families of Europe se to soldiers in the field. extracts from letters found on dead long we will be resting. We certainly far as honorary appointments in foreign deserve a rest; 17 days in the trenches. Arties and Navies and foreign decora Mülheim, 4.11.14 Dozens of men have gone to hospital in tions are concerned. King George is no "Here in Mulheim everybody has been the last few days suffering from exposure. longer & Prussian field-marshal, or called out right up to the Landsturm and There has been very heavy cannonading honorary colonel of the 8th Fruscian the boys of eighteen. It is most interest here. Sometimes it is awful. It goes Cuirassiers, the 1st Dragoon Regiment of ing to visit Friedrichsfeld and see the on for a day and night continuously. the Guards, and the 12th Regiment of prisoners. There are said to be 20,000 Last week it was very had. Going up at Austrian Field Howitzers, or an admira! there, Zouaves Turcos, French, and then night with the rations was quite exciting. of the German Navy. The Austrian the long-legged Englishmen this damned We had our guns, big and email, in fields Order of the Golden Fleece is still attri pack is to blame for everything on the side of the road, dozens and dozens buted to him, but not the Prussian Order When they are transported they are of them without exaggeration; and to of the Black Englen
On the other hand, the German Emperor put in closed cattle wagona The way hear four or five of them letting off they are treated is much too good. They together was enough to frighten the wits is still mentioned as Knight of the Garter, should be put against a wall. You write out of one, although, of course, there was though he no longer figures as a British field-marshal or admiral or Honorary that you are only Eghting against the no danger to us from them. I SBW English and have made 600 prizoners. rather exciting sight this morning. Ous Colonel of the 1st. (British) Dragoon Make them all into minced meat. They of our acroplanes was up reconooitring, Guards. The Crown Prince, however, s and the Germans started to shell it. Four still set down as honorary colonels of the have earned nothing better...
Malheim, 23.11.14. or five shells burst underneath it, but no 11th Hussars, but the Garter no longer Everything is fearfully dear here damage. The shots were very low. The figures among his foreign decorations.
The Emperor of Austria, whi's retain- We should be glad to finish it only an nobby airman didn't seem to caro a hang! honourable pouce comes with it. A fear. He stayed there for a long time I was up ing the Garter, is shown to be no longer ful lot of us must be falling, as everyong this evening, as usual, with ratione, & Eritish field marshal or honorary & lonel as being called out. Everything is all things were rather quiet. A lot of snipers of the King's Dragoon Guards. The right, only God protect you from Russia; have been caught the last few days Duke of Cumberland (a Prines of Great the poor soldiers don't know what to do fellows in plain clothes who get behind Britain and Ireland), father in law of the for the cold, and the Landsturm must go our lives and shoot at people from the tops Duchess of Brunswick, the Kaiser's only of tress and houses. Twelve have been daughter, has renounced his rank as to Russia
The damned English! What are they caught in the last week-some of them general in the British Army, while the doing with our prisoners? And we treat right behind our trenches. Their sniping Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, also a the swino dogs so well! But soon it will days are over. Two Germans in uniform British Prince, has abandoned the be different. A train arrived. The com
were caught yesterday; they were only honorary colonelcy of the Seaforth High- mander brought out 40 English. When he made prisoners as they were in uniform. yas asked where the 200 were, he didn't know where they had remained. I know
etter. That is what all should do”
The Germans have a sort of rocket which they shoot up in the air at night, and when it burs's high up it light the whole
landers. W
The almanach shows that seven German princes have been killed in the war and one Russian, Prince Oleg.
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