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WEATHER REPORT.
On the 19th at 1L45 am-Pressure has glyon way quickly over the Loochoos, 8; Japan; elight increases are general over the remainder of the area with the exception of N. Japan, where they are considerable pre
The depression over Indo-Chins remains stationary and a further depression is indicated to the South of the Loochoon. An area of moderately high prorsum delinced the northeren de rossion, which las acted to the Sea of Japan.
SIXTEEN-INCH GUNS.
BRITISH PREPARING FOR GREAT
NAVAL ENTERPRISES..
British Ministers Have made no secret of the fact that whatever additions, Admira. von Tirpitz may be able to make to the strength of the German Fleet, the longer a great naval battle is postponed the better shall we be fitted to engage the cuemy Early this year we were allowed to form some idea of the rapidity and importance of British naval construction since the outbreak of hostilities; more The forecast for the 24 hours ending at poor content with rumours. But some of these recently the British public has had to be to-day is as follows:-
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 9.00 inches,
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29.81
20.70-
29.78
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29.69
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rumours are not without considerable foundation in fact.
For instance on February 23rd a Onnard linor left New York for Belfast and Liverpool with two 10.12-in. gans lashed to her forward deck, with a man of-war turret abaft the guns.
American newspapers have reported the shipment of other guns, and it is stated in England that six now battle cruisers, with a speed of thirty-two knots and mounted with a new sixteen-inch gun, will be available for acrvice in the not very distant future..
A New York telegram goes so far as to etate that these ships will be launched before-August-and-that so great has boeTH, the acceleration of construction that the period of building will be reduced by nearly one-half.
As to the new gans there is no insurmountable practical difficulty to the introduction of modern sixteen-inch guns on men-of-war. Our fifteen-inch gun is the best in the world; It is not impossible to improve upon it in power and range as the result of experience
Another factor that must not be lost sight of is that in the past few months the Russian Fleet has been sufficiently power ful in the Baltic to prevent trermany transporting troops. But Russia's in fluence on the sea will become more apparent in the near future, inasmuch as four very powerful battle-cruisers ar almost completed. When these ships enter the Baltic the German Fleet will have to move back to the grouter sechs sion of the Kiel Canal or give battle. It may be that the German Admiral will withdraw to the canal so as to be ready to develop his strength at either end of this waterway as circumstances suggest But when the Dardanelles have been forced, we may hear of even more daring enterprises noarer homo,
DESERT.
A SPORTS MEETING IN THE a number of casualties on our alda. As for the Turks, they have suffered severely, leaving hundreds of dead and wounded behind, besides a large number of prisoners. The latter seem only too pleased to be safely out of it, and there is little doubt that the baggare realjes they are up against it" with a venger ance.
BY A MEMBER OF THE NEW ZEALAND FORCE IN EGYPT. Things have been moving a bit lately. The Turks seem to have taken it into their ends at lost to attempt on offensive hard att has been a kind of half-liearted attack on the Canal--a series of attacks, rathor-ending in a nasty shake-up for the onomy. They were per anmolested, then they got as hot a fire mitted to come up to the tranches as any man could wish for.
not love their officers. As for our own
15
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The whole venture seems to be
madness personified, it is quite plain that the Turka are being driven to the fight. As for our fellows, they lot them coms well up; then the artillery, manhino guns, and rifles do the trick. I believe would surrender if they could only-get that hundrede perhaps thousands more the chance. I am inclined to think that ono or two big fights would about finish. the business out here. I hope so anyway.
GERMAN SINLESSNESS.
They ran like mon, of course, leaving a lot of gear and baggago behind (the fatter including a pontoon bridge in As regards our future movements wo sections ready to swing out). They cer- know nothing. Rumours, of courge, are tainly expended a lot of ammunition as thick as ever, but we are about sur both ride and gun, but their shooting aited with rumours, However, it sees was about as bad as one could imagine.to me that we shall be on the Contineof I forget their actual losace, but there before very long the Tarks and the were certainly a biggisk lot of killed and powers-that-be permitting, of course! In wounded left behind, besides several the ratantimo we have little to complain hundred prisoners. I don't think their of; we are being well fed and well looked hearts are in the work-I know that was after, the New Zealand Government the impression one received on talking stoning bent on keeping its fighting men to the prisoners--and they certainly did a fit and healthy as possible. losses, they just totted up to wounded.
** RATHER A FIELD DAY. We had rather a field day last Satur- The Grand Master of the Freemasons' day, a most interesting sports meeting Lodge at Liégs has written to the Lodge taking place closs to the artillery lines. at Darmstadt suggesting that an appeal The day was a hot one real tropical should be made to all the Armies in the
searcher and the ground was the field, and also to the civil populations, desert, minna both grass and spring in favour of bumano-condet-of-the-war, yet the various events were contested and that a commission of noutral Froe with a nerve and spirit reminiscent of masone, with one German and one Bel. Stamford Bridge or the Crystal Palace. gian representative, should inquire into There were certainly ao slackers among the manner in which the war has hitherto the competitora roping" con been conducted. The German reply tɔ spicuous by its absence and that their this suggestion is interesting. An ap efforts were appreciated goes without peal for humanity to German generals- saying. The field events comprised the and soldiers, it says, is unnecessary, be hundred, two hundred, two-hundred and cause they are Germans; and Germans, twenty, and quarter-mile sprints-all run even in the hardest fight, are humme on a stmight track; a sack race, three ings. The German soldiers are not to: legged race, and the time-honoured be insulted by the suggestion that there obstacle race. Variety was furnished by is any doubt about their humanity. The wrestling on donkeys, an ovent that was German Freemasons have absolute con- thoroughly enjoyed by all except the fidence in it, and they are sure that Ger donkeys! On several occasions the latter man officials will be humane in restoring participated in the falls" so the dis to order the occupied countries. taste they so plainly showed towards the ply is interesting as being another in sport may be forgiven.
stance of the German resolution to with- Then there was a polo match, with draw Germany from the judgment of the donkeys for ponies. Her again, the civilized world. mounts ovinced a decided aversion to the the war, as a matter of policy, they made At the beginning of Western innovation. Driven they would eager appeals to neutral nations; but not be and coaxing was lost on them when judgment went against thom, as it The umpires are still considering the usually did, they said that Germany wes result of this match, no decision having her own judge Now they go further. so far been given. The offears, imbued They will listen to no accusations against with the spirit of cumulation perhaps, now Germans, because, being Germans, they introduced real polo ponies and pro- are incapable of wrong. If it were point The continued difficulty which ship efforts met with a chilly acception--they have ever been incapable of wrong or have ceeded to play the game; however, their ed out to them that no human beings. owners are experiencing in finding the had not been asked to provide the ever been above suspicion in war time, necessary officers and crews for their messels is one of the signs of the strong turn, and were told so in most on-they would probably reply that Germans support which the British Mercantile phatic language. Bat their turn came are not as ether human beings. This Marine has given to the Royal Navy dur-later in the form of an offices versus men belief it is which makes it possible for the ing the past few months,
donkey wrestling contest, which ended in Germanns to be deceived, as they are de In some companies employing
a large an overwhelming victory for the nien. A
ceived by their Governmeirt. No doubt proportion of Royal Naval Reserva mea hotly fought out Rugby football match these Freemasons, to do them just fee, so many officers have joined the Fleet or closed the proeedings, and from what have heard nothing from other. Germans Fleet auxiliaries that it is impossible for could be seen of the game through thu about the misconduct it their armies in the usual complement of officers to be blinding clouds of dust the players Belgium and France. What they have allotted to hoers engaged in commerce.seemed to be enjoying themselves."** lieard from foreigners causes them no Some large mail liners which in ponco carried five or six officers besides the cap-
misgivings whatever, for foreigners gen- The troops are all in the pink of corally are liars, and Germans, including tain now carry, four, and the slower boats, dition now, as hard as nails, and surpris the German Government, speak the truth. which were allotted four, now only carryingly free from serious disease. Enteric So their refusal to consent to an inquiry, three the demands for transport
on the grounds that it would be an insult to the German Army, is not merely a dis- honest vision. They do sincerely believe that the German Army is above all suss picion because Germans do not suspect it, They believe in ita virtue; as in the car tainty of its victory; and, the beliefs of the rest of the world are no concern of theirs.
FEWER OFFICERS
FOR
MERCHANT SHIPS.
UTILITY OF LASCAR CREWS.
LOCUST STALKINU.”
work continue some of the liner companies seans ta be practically non existent, a may have to reduce the number of officers state of affairs which speaks volumes for to the Board of Trade minimum of two, the healthy nature of the Egyptian Upon the men who are left to navigate climate and, of course, for the efficacy the merchant ships in war time is thrown of the inoculation treatment to which the burden of the added importance of overy man has been subjected. We have extreme vigilance. Yet all inquiries go been inculated and vaccinated to a man to show that the attitude of the officers and, speaking personally, I do not know towards the "submarine peril is one of a single cas of either typhoid or of cheerful complacency,
small-pox. So far we have ot made Second only to the short supply of off-acquaintance with any of the plagues of 2 TEMPERATURE, in the shade, in derers is the difficulty of securing the neces-Egypt. True, a few belated locusts have sary orews. The supply has been paid as a visit, but, as the desert is entire diminished by the withdrawal of Naval jy innocent of grass and trees are Reserve man, the exit of Germans, the
C. W. JEFFRIES, Hrestor.
I FADOMETE, reduced to 12 degreas Fabretti
an the level of the sea it inclion, textka arc hundredths.
Fahrenheit.
3' HUMIDITY, in peronninge of naturallon, is bucsdity of mir usturated with zaaieture being 100.
• DinaOTION OF WIND, to tas pelata.
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* Bain in inches, & tenths and hundredthr,
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
1.
The natives here are extremely partial to locust flesh. They pound the beggars up into a kind of cake, cook, and cat them. Sometimes, however, they dispense with the trimmings, and just bolt the leathery insects in the raw," Perhaps we are over-fastidious, but I cannot say that the dish, no matter in what form it is served appeals to the Western
retirement of many Scandinavians, and rarity, their advent has not caused us the onlistment in the Army of large numany uneasiness. It is very amusing to the aforesaid bers of firiman. Incidentally, the boyist watch the men "stalking stewards of the liners have gone almest locusts when they come to earth; judging in whole companies into the Army. For by the bag, how ver, I should be inclined the linera engaged in the Eastern trades to think that the fun is all on the side the lasgar crews have saved the situa of the “game."' tion. There has been no lack of these, for they are often engaged for 12 months, and it has mot been thought fair to them to employ them in merchant cruisers or ship accompanying the Flet Consequently lascar crows have been released. From as sels which have been requisitioned for Government service and have become available for the other liners.
At the time when the Emden was das ing about in the Indian Ceran there was somo little uneasiness among
FRLTI-GROWING POSSIBILITIES. lascar crews, but after-the-cruiser-met her fute But, then, there is a strong line of ica life became just as attractive as evor. dequnrtation between Fuzzy-wazzy and The lasers are paid a war bonus, and Thomas Atkins; Kipling was right when has this in common with the British sailor the pruned these lines about East is that they are prepared to face additional East, and West is West, and never the isk if they consider that the existance of | twain shall weet," etc. "All the same, the risk has not been completely over | Egypt, and the Egyptians are intensely lepked in the rate of pay.
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Hongkong Observatory, May 19th,
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But a nation only hears the truth about itself from other nations; and it cannos remain indifferent to the opinion of other nations any more than a man can remain indifferent to the opinion of other men. Besides, this belief that Gor-· mans, in their relations with other peoples, can do no wrong is obviously inconsistent with the conduct of Germans to each other. No German believes that it is impossible for ons German to do wrong to another. He knows perfectly well that his countrymen are not suints as private individuals. He will take the ordinary precautions of a man of the world against them without thinking that he is insulting the German people by do. ing so. But the German nation for him does not consist of Germans, especially when it is at war. He conceives of it as a saintly abstraction which must hereZ be insulted by doubt or criticism, Wo know, as, a matter of fact, that every army. consisting of human beings is liable- to commit excesses in war; yet, because fierians are human beings, those Ger man Freemasons" refuse to inquire whe- ther they have cominitted excesses. Tho implication is that human beings nevar commit excesses, whereas we all know interesting: the country (except where that they do So this attitude of the the white man has set his mark) is just German prople as the very cause of the as God made it, and the native skill lives | enormity of the German excessos. Because in the days of the Pharaohs. The women they believe that they can do no wrong, still trudge along. Jaden with water-skins they have horrified the world with the -followed by a miscellaneous colletion wrongs that they have done; and when of goats, sheep, dogs, and children-while the world remonstrates with them, their their lords and muters take their case answer is that they are satisfied with their on camils and donkeya; the ox still own opinion of themselves. For trendeth our the corsi" (and although a nation, as for a man, which has freed he is not muzzled he gets precious little itself frem, self-criticism, there can only chance of helping himself), and the water be one possible fate. Sooner or later. it is still raised by the same contrivances will come to disaster, and will learn from that Rameses employed. And the soil is disaster that it is not a law to itself so productive, ted; barren and landy as The Garman view of Germany is directly the desert is, give it water in the form of contrary to the facts, both particular, and
Sir John Jackson, speaking at the School of Praction Engineering last menth, said that after he war there would be a great deal of work to be done come day in connection with a bridge or tunnel from Dover to Calais. Twenty- b. m.in. one years ago there was a propal for airrigation and it will grow magnificent general. Germans are capable of mix zor low water bridge between the two ports. That was crops. I have heard of seventy and behaving themselves, and they have mis- a great work, and he had the drawings in eighty ton yields of sugar-caus per acre beliard themselves, Al the world or low-water his office; but there was considered to here, and from what I have seen of the knows that, and in time they will know it
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small irrigated patches, mound about too, be so great that it could not be financed. 22 No infer. high- nor low-water
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After the war there would be great work to do for engin ers, though perhaps not so much in this country.
Since writing the foregcing there has been further fighting on the Canal, and
Admiral Sir George King Hall pre- siding at the annual meeting of the Religious Tract Society at the Queen's
Hall, mentioned. that in the Bight of Heligoland fight a young officer in the conning tower called his men together and they had prayer just before they fired the shot.