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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 22ND, 1915.
EX DOING CAIRO.
BY A MEMBER OF THE NEW ZEALAND' FORCE IN EGYPT.
The following is an account from a New Zealand soldier of a visit to the ancient Bazaar in Caira:——-
We are still here, and likely to remain for a little bit longer, as the Turks seem to he more or less of an unknown quan- tity.
At the same time I imagine they got a considerably bigger shock than they reckoned on a few days ago, so it is insti on the cards that we may be shipped elsewhere at short notice as is usual in military circumstances.
M
arriving in time to escapo the attention of the pickets, just as the melodious but oftor accursed bugles were sounding the "Lights out"
And even as I pen these lines the self- same bugles are sounding the same call
Lights out it is
--80
BERLIN IN WAR-TIME. BOASTFUL OFFICERS,
SPYING IN ENGLAND...
[Y A NEUTRAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE
*DAILY TELEGRAPH."]
The weather is now splendid; in fact, in fact, we all agree that they don't; but we
“Que diplomats may not count for much : { if it were not for the high winds, accum have our Intelligence Department which, panied by choking dust clouds that blow though it is run on more economical lines, for an hour or two almost every day, it equals, if it does not excel, that of Russia. would be as near perfection as any I ever For Germany surrounded by jealous enemics, run across on this old planet. True, it one good spy is worth half a slozen diplomats." is not in the daytime at least; but I
This statement was made to me on
day diko warm weather, and a bluo say by day during my stay in Berlin by Baron, and sunset and sunrise that glow with whom no doubt a great many Londoners a wealth of tropical colouring foreign to will remember, I have seen him in different grey old Britain more than compensate parts of the world--Londen, on the South for the loss of weight. At least, that is Const, in Solind, Monte Carlo, Nice,
Rome, my opinion, and those of us who have Constantinople, and New York. At present sojournod in England during winter he is Vice Feldwebel" (Vice Sergeant tíme seem to coincide with it. Besides, 1 Major) of one of the cruck Prussian Gauri have always found warm climates to be regnents. He is an kahitue of the "Ameri healthy climates, and if you could only car Headquarters in Berlin,, as the Hotel. see us doing justics to the "tuckog " Adlon and its har hayr been nicknamed, and you would, "I feel sure, be inclined to "Herr Baron" is of quite a cheerful” and agree with me.
spriable disposition, especially after dinner, POLICEMANS ALL REW BIN. We nows Chedon and England to a nicety. I had a big breath of the East yester. He lived over here ostensibly as a director of duy down in Old Cairo Having a few the German Daimler Works of Stuttgart. hours to spare, I ran down to the city in In uality, his mission was quite a different company with three of my tent-mates, one, our objective being the native quarter, "Ah! England," he said one evening in the about which we had wrard quite a lot, hay, with a depreciatory wave of the land, Arriving in the neighbourhood of Shop" is the easiest country to spy in you could heard's Hotel, no secured a guide-a most wish," Perlaps you agree with him, porhags villainous looking gentleman, who re-not. Anyhow, it is policy in this case fatly joiced in the made of Ahmed, and who to contradies him. You want to know why assured us with guttural intensity that England shouki be such an easy mark. The ho was very good mar, not bad man handsome are looks at you, twists his like other guides, mans all knew bind that the police little moustache, winks one eye, and with an
I have little doubt jair of mystery softly poFTS, În
excellent ladies, my they did-and, judging from the careful French: "Cherchez la ferme the
And than he leaves you way in which Ahmed abstained from gat-friend, the hulies." ing to close quarters with the men in blue, a moment to recover from the shock which I have no doubt at all that their mutual your unsuspecting nature has receiver. acquaintance spelt anything but comfort I thought it worth while following this for our guide. Howover, he seemed to matter up. If this were true, it threw & new know his Cairo like the proverbial book,light on German stiv activity in England. It so we pardoned his questionabla look and ordered him to
Lap on, Macduff to the native Bazaar!
We arrived at our destination in the course of a few minutes, and I must say the Bazaar well repaid a visit. Imaging, if you can, a maze of narrow lanes (streets they certainly are not), all jumbled together anyhowa regular labyrinth of ill-paved, dirty, five-foot wide passages bound in by high, many- storied houses of Egyption and Turkish architecture in the last stiges of decrepi- tude; fill every nook and ceanny, with miniature booths open to the twilight of the overshadowing buildings; picture seething, ever-moving panorama of sweat-in ing humanity, kaledoscopic like through its many coloured garb commingling with the rich hues of the silk stuffs exposed in a riotons weath of display, in the booths, throw in a scent-permeated atmosphere vainly struggling to over- power the other (and vanous) sente peculiar to the East--and you have the Cairo native Bazaar.
is called "the inobilisation of the (English) drawing pom, but, from what I have been able to learn, as often as not "backstairs" might be substituted for "drawing-room."
MANA DRUKKEN OFFICERS,
It may surprise many readers in the course of these articles that the German officer should speak so frankly and be so communica tive on many questions which should not form the subject of discussion over coffee or in front of a bar. I have beeri inore this
priset myself at this phenomenon, but it confirmed many opinions expressed to me on Germany's meral decline. Orly once daring ten weeks in Clemmay have seen a dranken soldier, but thenumber of intoxicated officers in public places, both in uniform and mufti, has been legion. This is something which I would not have believed if I had read it in
speaking of what I have seen personally. belligerent paper, but, again, i
In the Adlon bar one ovening a
German officer drew his sword when he heard some Americans and myself speak English. Here not stand it," he shouted. If it had not been nobariy shall speak that-language; we will for some of his friends it might have led to a NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS Following hard in the wake of our because he was going to chop us all into very pleasant international complication, guide we passed through a series of hash. On another occasion, in that same bar arcades (suve the amrk), through the late one night, a German officer was throwing fruit and vegetable markets (where by a small American flag, akout 2ft. long, one of dint of hard bargaining and the expendi- | the lar decorations, up in the air, and enteli- ture of much strong language-not to ing it. He dropped it, and there it lay, and mention time-one can purchase excellent remained for a few seconds till sinceno ele oranges at an average price of ad per picked it up. down and other fruits at an equilly
፡፡
reasonable figure), through the scent manufacturers habitat, and eventually brought up in a thoroughfare sacred to the silk weavers-and-spinners It we now the East with a vengeance! One bad only to shut one's eyes, open them again, and
one was transported straight into the atmosphere of the Arabia Nights"if one only possessed a single grain of imagination.
Just outside the bar, in the palm-gourt of the hotel, were the American Military Attachés,, and I wourier what would have happened if they had come in when their do was lying on the floor or being thrown about. On mother occasion, during the interchange of American-Clermann Notes, German oficer was sitting in front of the bar, playing with the American Hag, hauling it up and down on the small cord attached to the pole. One of his friends called across and said: “ Never mind her to-day, blax, she is behaving herself," refering to the second American Note, which bad somewhat re- lieved the tension and the feeling against Americans..
*
IN VINO VERITAS,"
-
Here eat an old man. a hundred as least if he was a day (at least he looked it), busily engaged in weaving a rich sbowl, his talonlike claws darting to and fro with a quickness that had something uncanny about it, A few feet away? another, equally ancient, worked a home In every instance, of course, they were all made contrivance for spinning the thread, in a more or less advanced state of intoxica- his partner in labour, an unhealthy-look- tion. In that condition many of them ing boy, passing the aforesaid thread come very communicative, and, to use a through the interstices of his front teeth. colloquial expression, "will talk their heads Over yonder a family party discussed the " Much of it is rubbish, but in sever..l events of the hour with noisy intensity instances the adage In vino verita" ny what time they occupied their hands be recalled. Major Herward von Bitterfeld, with the production of fancy work in whom I have mentional before, is me of Usually otheers of the which silk of as many colours as Joseph's those instances. coat predominated. Truly it was a General Staff are tired enough to stay at strange scene, Eastern down to its very home at glit, but our major was in the Hotel Adlon till all hours in the morning. incongruity of setting.
With a colleague of mine he used my rooms A short walk brought as to the regious on-Feb-9-last-rill 3.30 am, and he talked a ancred to the brassware vendors. Here great deal more than was good for him or one saw every imaginable form of brass Germany.
THE POLITE PROMIETOR.
utensil exposed for sale, from a tiny I took a trip to Von Hindenburg's head- medel of an ancient obelisk (if an obelisk quarters in allowed to me baked again and
a "utensil") standing some three again to be allowed to go, but a inches in height to hug candelabra and excuses were made to me. One evening lordly water-carriers and all antifully staff officer told me the name of the place where Hindenburg's headquarters were
carted and chased. One could have stockblished, a name which is most secretly
a fortune here without reducing the stock
to a great extent. Having it in our
and I do not believe one German in
minds to purchase a few knick-knacks to a million knows it. The next day I went off send home we sat down on a richly-carved talkative staff oflicer.
and reached my destination, thanks to my settee and were immediately deep in the throes of a business transaction à ta Cairo.
to the
009
To come back to the German intelligence. The proprietor was politeness work in England. Aa oliver who has made itself; a coloured satellite appeared as if gaite a study of the different spy systems of by magic from nowhite, and in less the nations offered the following interesting time than it takes to write this we were observations to me: "It's the English social partaking of Persian ts and Egyptian System that lends itself so admirably cigarettes, both excellent in their way By collection of information. It is with great dint of hard bargaining we managed to British spy raids on unsuspecting and, in
gice that we bear and read of the periodical make quite a respectable show with the for
essay out of 100, inocent German waiters, piastres at our command, and eventynil barbers, clerks, and other perfectly respect left the emporium with light bear's (and able but no over intelligent. Germans in lighter pockents) buoyed up with the England. The average German is too direct, feeling that our friends at home would too thick-skulled, and absolutely unfit for probably know the exact amount in coin any work. For example, take our diplomats, of the resim each article represested. who are the worst in the world, and we know After all, curios are "curios" all
it.
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the world over, and it is an ill policy to
To the foreigner who comes with a well- lock a gift borse in the mouth. At the filled purse to England, and is willing to same time, I have little doubs but the empty it, all doors are thrown wide open, no the same stuff would hare cost a lot more matter what his nationality may be. The in London.
English family life is auoiter ally of the Having dispensed with the services of foreign intelligence department. The Eng Ahmed-quite a work of diplomacy mixedlishwoman, shares to a far greater extent with a considerable expenditure of breath than the women of any other nation the -and paid him off with one-tenth of the knowledge of her husband's affairs, whether sum he at first demanded, we partook of political, legal, or commercial. Very often a frugal meal à 7a Tommy Atkins, and she is the innocent, ignorant victim of the wended-our-way campwards in company foreign spy." with jovial crowd of Australians
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