THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY JUNE 22ND, 1915.
THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS.
GREAT GAS-BAGS.
If, on the other hand, the 2,500lb. of bombs wore dropped in equal proportions from two airships, then the normal bomb- be reduced fram 4,480lb. to 1,25016.
In the first ease the offensive poten tiality of the Zeppelin world be only Mr. L. Blin Deshelds, writing on the about the hall, and in the eccond case only about the fourth of the normal Bubject, says :--
offensive potentiality, as defined above,
A SACRIFICE TO. SAFETY. In the case of the Southend raid, thero
Some of the Special Police Reserve. HANDOM REFLECTIONS.
received the shock of their lives recently Who in Hongkong has been poisoning when the comandant agnounced that SMALL OFFENSIVE POWER OF THE carrying capacity of each airship would the wall of Truth 1 Somebody has com they would be expected to attend lectures municated to the Editor of the journal in the Law of Evidence, acquaint them- which enjoys a reputation for its castige-selves with Police Court procedure, and
There must be no under-estimation of tion of public abuses some information perform patrol duties. Rumours had been
in circulation that the inmates of the the very great offensive potentiality of about the censorship and other war precautions in Hongkong and he informs German Camp were developing quite an the Zeppelin airship, and it is only a may have been other causes, besides anti-airchait organisation which can the diminished beib-carrying capacity, or bis readers that there are some heads aptitude for civil engineering, and, in strong well-planned, and ever vigilant increased altitude, which contributed to The fact, however, remains that, appeared to foreshadow guard duties at are, no doubt, aware of the value of our ships.
No wonder a growl of disati-craft force, and no better evidenco wherever it exists, an efficient anti-air- Hunghom,
could have been obtained of its moral craft organisation could force a Zep content arose in the ranks! How, in each effect on the anomy than the method which pelin commander, even at night, to travel circunstances, could the Palic Reserve the Zeppelin commanders were forced to at a very great attitude, thereby compel held up to the envy and admiration of the adopt to carry out their raids on South-ling him to sacrifice to safely the offensive
Taurs, however, were pår- end and lamsgate,
| potentiality of his airship... Deadbeats? tially allayed a few days later by the Deputy Superintendent's explanation that the idea was simply to acquire such
of government departments in Hongkong. conjunction with this, the new Orders reduce that potentiality. The Germans offensive potentiality, of the German air-
who, through being employed on special serviço connected with the war, are draw- ing ten times the salary they had before the war! I think I know most of the mon who are employed on this special service, but I cannot "spot " a single man who is receiving oven double his former alary. The allegation that some heads of departments are drawing ton times their old pay is what Cousin Jonathan would enll-some-yarn-1 Bucely it belongs rather to the realm of Fiction than of Truth?
IKUT,-U9). A, CHAPMAN, VID.
The German airship possesses & Broat. THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS. can carry a large supply of explosives speed, has a wide radius of action, ad a knowledge of police work that, if oceaand of projectiles. The maximum speed cors Os aion should arise, the Reserves could do of a modern Zeppelin in still air is from something better than provide the public fifty to fifty-five miles
per hour, and with a pantomime That explanation, when carrying a load of explosives of conveyed as it was in rather picturesque about two tone, it can navigate at a height language, hvid be sufficient to satisfy of from 5,000 to 6,000-feet for about ter even the most timid.
Such is the dash hours, and, under such conditions, its
radius of action is about 300 miles. Thes jare the main f'gures relating to the
offensive potentiality
of a moderu Zeppelin, and it may be both instructive and useful to examine them with some
ing spirit that animates the majority of the force that they would cheerfully sacri- fice two or three-hours a week to cl The following letter which has reached ciency rather than waste one hour in me may seem ironical, yet, like the par-acquiring just suficient knowledge to
make mistakes. Eh, what? son's story, there is something in it:-
There seems to be a little difference of opinion among the share brokers as to whether the local share market is strong and huuyant or depressed. Vernor & Smyth's report says;
Messrs.
eare...
ALTITUDE' OF GUN-FIRE,
In the first place it should be retnem- bered that an altitude of from 5,000 to
by the gun-fire of ordinary artillery; 5,000 fect is one that can just be reached and by the term "ordinary artillery is meant that branch which is not specially devised to deal with aircraft.
I am always an admirer of enterprise, nud especially enterprise by a public body, he cause its possession by such is so rare. There fore, I hasten to congratulate the P.W.D. on its pleasing addition to local industries; the odorous asphalt factory is Statue Square between that beautiful garden proper, aud
There has been no abatement in the renurkable tributo
The particular kind of artillery which the finest site is a to these workers in streets and roadways, demand for weak-investment securities dur Only as recently as Sunday morning-1 sauating the past week, but though rates hare in lias been brought into existence for ti most instances, again adrared, the difficulty special purpose of bringing down or ward- cred forth to hunt for a breeze on the Pray awhile the Hongkong Club was mask of obtaining shares owing to the reluctance ing off air-craft is now known under the
of holders to sell has become still more came of anti-aircraft artillery
At the beginning of hostilities the anti- ed by a thick veil of yellow and black smoke. and a peculiar imagination conjured up acentuated and the volume of business trans-aircraft artillery had only just been Hun raid. And the fumes! Minus a steel acted has, in conscience, been comparative evolved, and it had not been tested. helmet I gallantly rushed through the ly small. In the speculative section, the was very much questioned whether it fragrant veil and discovered his black position is still dominated by the approach would be more efficient, or rather, less furnaces burning fiercely and belching farthing June settlement, and beyond low busing inefficient than the ordinary artillery" rates no very stable quotations can be given. in attacking aircraft. The argument which their sickly smoke just as if they themselves
wae thest in favour, was that it did not Messrs. Moxon & Taylor say: were on piecework. And above, or mingled
matter very much, whether a shot reached with, the smell of bilious-looking smoke, was
a height of 5,000 feet or one of 8,000 fest if the heary fragrance of boiling ter.
it could not be directed with certainty. against a target moving, at that height. at some fifty or fifty-five miles an hour.
I suppose, however, you can no more make asphalt paving without having tar-boiling on the spot than the encient brick could be made without straw. The best that can be hoped for is that the P.W.D. will do its best to execute the work with the utmost dispatch.
Kowloen, it would seem from inquiries I have made, might easily organise a Ratepayers' Association, hut-cui bono? Its activities would be confined to talking only and sending in memorials to the Government with a hope for the best. A householder on the other side of the water
Our market continues depressed under the influence of the approaching June Settle mont, and a smaller volume of business has to be recorded. Rates on the whole have horn fairly well maintained, but no marked adraner can be looked for until the Settlement lus boen safely negotiated.
Messrs. Wright & Hornby's comment
is:
Business transacted during the periodi under review has been on a small scale.
although values in many instances show in improvement on those of a week ago. The market closes firma with an upward tendency.
RODERICK RANDOM:-----|
THE SALE OF OPIUM IN
KWANGTUNG.
It
In fact, the whole matter of anti- aircraft artillery was in its infancy and completely untried. In consequence, when the war broke out it was accepted as a military theorem that aircraft travelling at a height greater than 5,000 feet were sale from the guns fired from the sur- face of the earth. And it had become the practice to estimate the offensive potentiality of aircraft with reference to that altitude of 5,000 feet.
--TWO-TONS-OF-EXPLOSIVES..................
can travel with that weight.
The influence of altitude upon the offensive potentiality of an aircraft will be realised when it is remembered that an airship or an aeroplane can carry a given weight at a curtain height only. The As already decided by the Government, lifting power of an aircraft is limited; with whom I discussed the question is the opium stocks in Shanghai and Hong and, consequently, there is a limitation quita keen on an Association, but at the kong will be permitted for sale in Kings not only to the amount of weight it can
Kiangsu and Kwangtung as same time he admits that such a body drug, and Mr. Tsai Marang hacial lift, but also to the height at which it
Lately
Relatively speaking, an aircraft of would have no real powers, in the way of appointed chief opium delegate. being represented on the Legislative the Kwangtung gentry raised objections given lifting power can lift a small Council; it would, legally, have no to the Government's plan on the ground weight to a great height or a large weight that opin has already been strictly to a small height. In practice a com- focus tundi as an elective body. This prohibited by the Kwangiang provincial promise has to be made between the weight gate householder recalled the occasion, Government, and such a measure out and the altitude.
tend to relax the prohibition. Dissatis It was thus that Count Zeppelin, taking now long, long ago, when long-suffering faction had also been expressed by their for granted that aircraft travelling at a ratepayers made up their minds that the regarding Mr. Tsai's appointment le height of over 5,000ft were immune from only panacea for their governmental evils withstanding Kwangtung's opposition the artillery fire, designed and constructed his Government is determined to pursue this latest airships with a view to their being The more policy in the belief that there is only a able to carry a load of about two tons of Municipal Council. courageous spirits drew up a memorial limited stock of opium now stored at explosives at a height of about 5,000 ft. which was quickly filled with names. The Shanghai and Hongkong which is destined on a journey of about ten hours' duration. į for these provinces, and as the opium is to be sold as a special drug, it is not in contravention to the Anti-Opium Laws, elsewhere, Kiangsi. Kiangsu and Kwang- tung cannot be allowed to oppose it. The Government has instructed Mr. Teai Nai- huang to explain the matter satisfactorily to the people of Kwangtung so as to avoid misunderstanding.-Peking Gazette.
was
Now it has become evident that
same memorial was forwarded to the local Government, by whom it was sunt Hone. The arguments for a Municipal Council As the new, measure is already in foresnot at all immune at a height of 3,000ft,
wero sympathetically considered by the Becretary for the Colonies of the day, but the proposal was vetoed, though certain modifications resulted in the constitutions of the Executive and Legislative Councils with a view to mesting to some extent the aspiration for popular representation on the Colonial Councils.
is some
Zeppelin airship some 600 ft. long, travelling at fifty-five miles an hour, is
of our Allies. from our Buil-aircraft artillery and that
NEW DREDGING WORK ON na regards aeroplanes, which are much
THE HUANGPU.
PLAN TO FREE THE RIVER-OFF NANTAO BUND.
Eye-witness," in one of his despatches aeroplanes, must fly at an altitude of sent a little while ago, said the enemy's 8,000 feet so as to be fairly safe from our anti-aircraft guns. If such be the case less than 50ft. long, and which travel at some seventy or eighty miles an hour, it is evident that at a height of 8,000ft, an airship which is some 600 ft. long, and travels only at fifty to fifty-five miles per hour, does not possess immunity from gun- are to the same degree as an aeroplane.
over an
But it can
An important dredging work which has There is nothing, however, to prevent
Exactly how much less immune fro the formation of a Ratepayers Associa-long been on the programme of the
Whangpoe Conservancy Board is to be anti-aircraft artillery an airship is that tion if a sufficient number of persons can be found to take such an active interest begun at the end of the present month, an aeroplane at an altitude of 5,000ft. it
It is the dredging of the constantly is at present difficult to say. iny local affairs a would make it a body extending bauks on the Shanghal side of be admitted as an established fact that the river just off the Nantao Bund, a part no enemy airship would dare to venture adequately serially where the free flow and action of the tide itself of some influence. According to one Kowloon householder, "what is wanted during the last few years has been gradu, defended territory at an altitude of less sort of body which will ally impeded. The enormous number of than 8,000ft., and the chances are that, to junks, rafts, timber, and beggar beata in leave a roargin for safety, it would try prevent the landlords indiscriminately this reach of the river has greatly to keep as much as possible at a height
Board hae long viewed raising their rents. There are some who increased the tendency towards silting nearer 9,000ft. than 8,000ft. have actually raised their rents because of the increasing throttling up of the Absurd! Some of these Kow-river with alarm. The sharp brad at this loon landlords are far too independent place has also been the reason of the deteriorated condition of the river in this and Scrooge-like." It is an old griev reach and a rectification of the bend will
result from the work now planned. ance, but what practical plan could a Association--devise for Ratepayers' remedying it?
the war.
A friend of mine, whose noble mission in life it is to teach the young idea to shoot, tells me that to two questions which
one pupil that have caused bin some embarrassment, because he cannot decide whether they are due to facetiousness
and the
AGREEMENT ARRIVED AT.
ENGINEER COMPANY, --Na orense, will be nccepted. from mon late on Relief or absent from duty, with -'the exrepčina of those hering a cortif- ente From the Medical Officer of the Corps. In these cases substitutes muist be arranged for by the absentees in order that the Electric Light work may be carried on in an efficient manner.
PROMOTIONS.
2-2nd-Corp). J. E. Eldridge, Engineer Comparty, to be Corporal, dated 19th Jane, 1918.
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Sapper A. Whitelaw, Engineer Com
pany, to be Corporal, dated 10th June, 1915,
Sappor C. H. Murphy, Engineer Co., to be Corporal, dated 19th June, 1915, Sapper F. H. Shaw, Engineer Co., to Le Corporal, dated 19th June, 1915. Sappor L. J. Blackburn, Engineer Co., -to-be-2nd-Corp, dated 19th June,
1915.
Sapper J. S. Chiapaian, Engineer Co., And-Corpli, dated 19th June, 1915. Sapper D. Austin, Engineer Co., to be
Ind-Corph, dated 19th June, 1916. Sopper W. J. Hill, Engineer Co., to be 2nd-Cerpl., dated 19th June, 1915. Sapper T. Young, Engineer Co., to be 2nd-Corph, dated 19th June, 1915. Sapper JT. McMillan, Engineer Co., to be 2nd-Carpl., dated 19th June, 1915.
Sapper J. R. Kinghorn, Engineer Co., to be 2nd-Corp., dated 19th June, 1015.
Seppor D. Day, Engineer Co., to bo
2nd-Corp., dated 19th June, 1915. Sapper E. J. Surman, Enginear Co., to be 2nd-Corp., dated 19th June, 1015. Sapper J. T. Toskor, Engineer Co., to bo Lee. Corp., dated 19th June, 1915, Sapper T. F. Mathewman, Engineer Co., to be Lee.-Corp., dated 19th June, 1915,
Supper W. Brown, Engineer Co., to be Lon-Corp., dated 19th June, 1915, Supper L. Blake, Engineer Co., to be Lee Cor dated 19th June, 1915. Sapper P. Jex, Engineer Co., to be Lee. Corp!, dated 19th June, 1915. Sapper A. Davison, Engineer Co., to be Leo. Corp., dated 19th June, 1915.
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Sergt. Lammert ...... 3-Sergt. Wei Wing Sam 22 The result of thus forcing the Zeppelins 4-0. Chan to travel at a altitude near 9,000ft, is,5-H. M. M. Remedios... 25 as it can be easily realised, of the 6-C. J. Coške more difficult to carry out observations at extremest importance. Not only is it 9,000ft. then at 6.000ff., but the offensive value of the airship is also diminished for two reasons.
DIFFICULTY OF OBSERVATION.
26
F. C. JENKIN,
D. S. P. (Reserve).
WHEN GERMANY IS BEATEN, ALIEN MANUFACTURERS' COOL-PLAN TƏ KILL BRITISH TRADE.
Recognising that their nation is bound] to be defeated, German manufacturers are
In connection with the actual Con servancy dredging-work, the Board has
In the first place, the carrying capacity made an agreement with the Nantao
accurate bomb-dropping Municipal Tax Bureau to dredge close up of the airship, at the greater altitude, is to the readjusted normal line, inside much reduced, and, in the second place, which a stretch of new bunding will be the difficultice of
We have evilence of this forced reduc A certain area will
8. Sewell, constructed, with addition! bunding and are much increased. wharfage facilities. he put to his class he received replies from also be reclaimed. From every point of tion in the lifting capacity of the German readv plotting to kill British commer which has just closed, said that in view, the Board's action in this matter military airship in the case of the recent cial enterprise in Great Britain as soch & concerned. The thorough cleaning up of ther one or two airships were concerned speaking at the British Music Convention will meet with the approval of everybody raid over Southond. It is not clear the hostilities cease. Mr. J. this area will assist traffic on the river in the raid, so that it is impossible to say February the German manufacturers as a to a considerable degree, and looked at whether all the 100 bombs dropped on that whole agreed to a new business campaign only from the point of view of smaller occasion came from one or from two should their country be beaten in the war. native shipping the work will readily be airships.
Anyhow, on the assumption that each Their huge stocks are to be sent over bomb weighed about 25lb., the weight here as soon as possible and acid at any recognized as a most necessary one,
The contract for the dredging has been thrown overboard would be about 2,000 sacrifice in order not only to get money. Should they find the prejudi entered into with the Netherlands Harbour If there were only one airship present the but also to destroy prejudice and kill Works Co. on the same terms as the last reduction in the bomb carrying capacity British enterprise by unprecedented com
minimum of loss to their work people. contract (c., Taels 0.24 per cubic yard of the Zennelin under Formal conditions petition. dredged and pumped up), and it is expect(namely, altitude 5,000ft, radius of action too strong, they will partially manufac ed that the schema will occupy at least 300 miles) would be about 4.480b, minus ture their goods in this country, but at a
2,300lb., equals 1,980. nine months.-C. Doily Nerk.
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Question: What do you call the system
under which a man may have hundred wives!
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