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We are
SHANGHAI ROWING CLUB. GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN MEMBERS.
the purpose of considering the following resolution: "That in the best interest of the Club members of Gorman nationality be asked not to use the Club premises until further notice." About fifty members were present. Mr. D. C.. Hutchison presided, supported by Messrs. R. Bouncken, O. B. Boerwald, JB.. Chevalier, F. R. Nowman, S. Borry, and E. Strassman (secretary),
The Chairman informed the meeting that. a potition, in the form of the resolution quoted above, had been sent in by over. forty members to the Committee with a request that it should be dealt with by them. The Committee did not feel able to decide the question, and therefore that meeting had been called.
to it. Thus they are anxious to get nahove and retch their limbs in a real fight, when these teroporary discomforts will be forgotten. In a letter one of them wrote home the other day the following was found
A special general meeting of members of by the sensor: We are having an iron time; we live to an iron ship, sleep on the club house on the 17th instant for the Shanghai Rowing Club wan bold at iron Boor, have nothing to eat but our iron rations, and now, to crown all, I hear we are commanded by a fellow called
Iron Hamilton."" EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, April 2151. The whole expedition is still assembling! Everybody is, in fact, getting very in Mudros Day, and we are waiting every weary of the suspense of waiting, and it hour, for the signal to start. There are will be a happy moment when the order however, so many details to be worked is given to start. An expedition of this out, and so many important matters to be sort gives endless scope for originality, considered that no one knows when the and the invention of ingenious devices to naval and military authoritics will hawaist the landing of troops and stores. All completed their final arrangements. these suggestions and inventions are care- fully considered by the authorities. We Up to yesterday, Tuesday, April 20th, are almost within sight of the plains. of for eight days the weather has bo por Troy and although we cannot have our fect for landing operations on a large wooden horse filled with eager warriors Bente. There has been no wind, it has to take the enemy by surprise beon delightfully warm, and the aca as calm as an inland lake. Now, just when going to have a ship which will be utilised
in much the same manner. 2. everyone was hoping we were about to
The Secretary read the petition, and the There is u vessel hore called the River Chairman declared the same start, the weather has broken. Yesterday,
open to strong cast wind arose, and a consider Clyde, which just escaped from Smyrna discussion.
She has been Mr. S. G. Berry proposed the resolution. able sea got up, in the face of which it at the outbreak of war. would have been impossible to land troops, painted a khaki colour, which is hard to It was not put forward in any aggressive even had the authorities been ready to distinguish from the beach round the manner at all, he said, but simply na start. To-day there is still a wind and have been protected by sandbags, and ning pretty high, and the time might Dardanelles. Her decks and machinery a preventivo measure. Feeling was run. heavy rain, and a considerable sea. Therefore, it will be impossible to do any great doors have been cut in her sides. come when trouble might be caused and thing antil the conditions improve, and She is to be filled up with as many soldiers trouble they did not want (hear, hear), we are assured of severnd days of compara as she can carry, and then she will be In the circumstances, he thought it would tive calm.
run on shore and left as high and dry be only right that the minority should as circumstances will permit. The troops give way to the majority (applause). The weather this spring in the Mediter-will be disembarked on pontoons if the Mr. Chevalier said he had been a raucan-is-playing-strange tricks. The water is too deep to allow them to wade member of the Club and of its Committens winter was very mild and calm, but a
In this manner 2,000 should be got ashore for three years, and he had been happy Naval Reserve officer who has spent many in a minimum of time. The River Clyde to work with the German members und years in Eastern waters tells me he has will then play aucther important role if committesmen, none of whom were held never known each an unsettled April. This she is not knocked out by the enemy's in greater respect as sportsmen and ours. sudden break in the weather is discourag-
guns. She has powerful condensing en than Mr.
Baerwald and Mr. ing, because the moon is getting fuller machinery on board, which can turn out Bouncken. The utmost had been done to overy night, and if we attempt a surprise forty tons of fresh water a day, and this keep the war outside the walls of the with the first landing parties it is essen-supply will be used for the army if they Club, but in spite of all their best efforts, tial to have a dark night. However, those find a scarcity on Gallipoli, or if the it had intruded. He had been asked to who know the Mediterranean hope that this Turks lure tampered with the springs read, and ho did so with regret, the mild storm will be succeeded by an an idea, the Germans are almost certain following statements on behalf of the brokon period of calm long enough to to give them. A number of machine guns German and Austrian members of the allow of the whole army and its muni-will also be disembarked from her. Club: tious and guns being safely got ashore. If the weather goes on playing these unna- tural tricks it will add cormously to the By the time this letter reaches England difficulties and responsibilities of the the efficiency of all the arrangements admirals and generals. For instance, had which have been made to ensure suc0092 we put the first landing parties ashore last will have been put to the test. If the Sunday and Monday they would have been cut off from all supports owing to expedition fails, we must accept the
nevitable with the best grocs possible It is our opinion that no self-respecting the gate which sprang up yesterday under the circumstances. "This is not a member of any club can submit himself to They might have held their positions question of If at first you don't succeed, such a decision and we hereby declare tlab, sovored by the guns of the ships, but the try, try, try again," because unless if the resolution, which is to bo submitted enemy would meanwhile have had ample enormous reinforcements can be spared to the special general meeting on the 17th warning, and could have brought up any from the Western theatro of war Con-instant, should be passed, wo the undersigned reinforcements available with which to stantinople will have to be taken from the resilen German members shall consider oppose a further advance. These conting Black Ben by a Russian army landing in ourselves as being expelled from the club; encies may arrive in the future, and have Thrace. We shall have to admit that we protesting against violation of the club sules. to be provided against as far as human undertook a task that was beyond our and reserving all our rights. ingenuity will allow.
powers with the forces available, and leave Should the above mentioned resolution it to others, or only strike again whon be passed, we request that all absent German It seems to be the general opinion that the Russians can co-operate at the Bas- members be scratched from the metabors list the success or failure of these operations phorus. It will not be fair to blame the and we shall ask the two Honorary German will be decided to the first twentyfour admirals and generals, who have done members: Messrs. M. Haynemana, Ha hours. That is to say, if the original everything in their power with the ships, burg, nad F. Ruckel, Bremen, to send in selected landing parties are able to carrymor, and material at their disposal. But their resignations. at the first rush the positions which the involves enormous difficulties.
judged from any standpoint, the task Shanghai, June 14, 1915.
Signed. military authorities consider must be held
We have to land an army in the face to allow of the disembarkation of the main army and its guns and munitions, then of an enemy who has had ample warning. may NERVU "Z CUTULT Who do not anticipate much trouble expect such an attempt. We have to put - will ha
in landing, but who think the army will on shore food, water, guns, horses, muni be up against a much stiffer proposition tions, ammunition, and all the thousand when it moves inland away from the coast odd things necessary to keep an army to try and seize the const up to the Nar-in the field, besides making arrangements rowe. Although the final plans are kept to remove a large number of wounded and a profound secret, it is now known that the sick. In this we are very largely depen disembarkation will take place at several dent on the state of the weather, which, pointa simultaneously, and that each will, if it continues capricious, may leave one of course, be covered by the guns of the part of our army ashore, whilst the from the use of the premises of the Clab ships. The original landing parties, remainder and the supplies are held off those to which are assigned the role of the const by a rough sea.” Again, an army rushing positions which must be held to which has perforce been kept on transports 1 BAROMETER, Looed to 32 degrees Fahresinallow of the disembarkation of the for a long period cannot have the man- remainder, will be landed from warships, ouvring efficiency of an army, which has on the level of the men in males, tenthe en
and have been practised daily for their bean trained and handled by its generals hundredths
task.
on land. The command will also be a The warships have been divided into very difficult one to exercise, and will several divisions each under a separate depend largely on the efficiency of the In this event, we also request that the -- emmander, and the divisions are divided leaders of brigades, as when the Army is name of Mr. B. Molnar, who is rhsent, ba in turn into landing ships and covering finally ashore at various pointe, widely scratched from the members' list. chips. That is to say, some will carry separated, the Headquarters Staff will Shanghai, Juno 15. ****
Signed. troops and will more close in to put them only be able to exercise a very general- ashore in their boats, which will be towed control.
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OWOWOWOWOWOW Hright.
LANDING FLANS.
THE WORK TO DO.
"Wo, the undersigned German membera aftho Shanghai-Rowing-Glub-have-learned- with regret that a movement is on foot amongst the members of the S.R.C. to 'exclude the Gorman members of the S.R.C. from the use of the club premises until further notice.
G. Boerwald,
Itwichul,
R. Brill,
C. Stephazius, R. Bouncken,
Carl Frisalen, P. Kamp,
R. Herrlinger, J. Pfof, Lud. Voigt,
I.. Ahrens,
G. W. Richter, H. Borna,
Friederichs.!"
With reference to the resolution to he put before the special general meeting on the 17th instant, excluding Gorman momberg
until further notice, we, the undersigned Austrian and Hungarion members of the S.R.C., hereby declare that wo consider our- selves as one body with the German members of the Club.
"Should therefore the above resolution be passed, we shall draw the same conclusions as the German members.
Otto Hauer, Holy,
by steam pinnaces, whilst the covering I do not believe we cani hope to surprise
Ludwig Peter, ships will keep further out and endeavour the Turks, led as they are by German offi
J. Morscher, to dominate any artillery the enemy may cers, by the sudden arrival of this huge
E. Neumann, bring into action, and also to shell his foren off the shores of Gallipoli. We may
L. Mueller, infantry entrenchments.
W. O. Moebius, effect a local night surprise, and that is
E. Otto." You cannot keep, the news of the Every evening for some day's past well. have had a full dreas rehearsal of embark. Deserbly of a huge expedition such as this Mr. A. Hide seconded the resolution, ing and disembarking at night time from from leaking out in the East. The news Much as members regretted the circum. the warships which are to convey the of the concentration of this mass of war stances which had arisen, he thought the covering force ashore. At dusk about 600 ships and transports in Mudros Bay has petition submitted to the committee a very Australians are brought on board, and undoubtedly found its way by a hundred right and proper one, and he was sorry stay there until after dark, They are different channels to Constantinople, the committee did not deal with it in the then formed up by companies on places Neither can we overlook the fact that the right away considering the signatures that which have been painted and numbered enemy is fighting for his very existence, it bore. He did not want to question the He on the quarter deck. Each company has a and will therefore bring-overy available wisdom of the committee, however. separate wooden ladder by which it must man and gun into the field. The moment had considerable experience of the club; descend to its particular boat. When all the first British ship is past the Narrows, and with the possibility of regattas com are aboard the stean pinnace take the the Turkish Empire in Europe has ceased ing cn and men training together, he knew boats in tow and conveys them to the to exist. No one knowe this better than perfectly wall how, towards the end of shore, when they disembark, form up, and the Turks themselves. Had they their training, men's tempers were upt: to rush some selected position in absolute own way they would probably prefer to stretch, and how from very small begin. That, quiet, The men are then practised in make an eleventh-hour peaes rather than nings serious trouble might arise. the dark, and are afterwards rapidly re-put this tremendous issue, affecting as it in his opinion, was what they wanted to embarked and conveyed back to the trane-does their very existence as an indepen- prevent, and what should be prevented at
dent nation, to the test. But they know all costs. #KERN AB MUSTARD."
Without further discussion, the resclu they have gou too far, and can only Sir Ian Hamilton generally manages expect terms which would leave them very tion was put to the vote, a show of hamle to snatch the time from his heavy labours little better off than if they lose all by being ngrood upon, and it was carried, to have a short walk on shore most days fighting. Therefore they must fight and forty-two members voting in favour, and Yesterday when I met him he was full of stand or fall by the result. They are in three against.-C. Daily News
**expected Praise for the Australians, whem-ho-con-ja deperate position, and may siders a magnificent lot of men, and as to fight like desperate men, keen as mustard for the job He told me be considered they had reached a very
POTÍA.
high standard of efficiency, especially in THE PORTUGUESE MINISTRY.
which require good
these landing operations and, above
great rapidity,
An official telegram to the Governor of all, no utise. In fact, the general, who facao gives the following information as himself looks very fit, is delighted with to the organisation of the Ministry fellow the spirit and efficiency of the troops ing the recent General Election: under his command: The Australians, of course, have their grumbles, like all other
Premier, Minister
of War and Act- ing Minister of
the Navy............Dr. José de Castro. Minister of Interior...Dr. Ferreira de
Minister of Justice ...Dr.Catanho de
ft, in. soldiere. They are very weary of being' cooped up on board the trazisports, where any of them have been, off and on, with brief intervals ashore, for six weeks past.
Life under these conditions is no bed of roses, especially when the ships are crowded and the weather hot. Although foed is plentiful, luxuries, which make so much difference to the soldier's temper, Minister of Finanoc... Capt. Victorino
and becoming scarcer
tearcer.
are
Minister of Foreig Affairs M
Silva.
Menezes.
..Dr. Augusto Scaires,
Guimaraes.
Mator
Tobacco, cigarettes, and cigars are run-Minister of Colonies Major Norton de
On many of the trans- ning very low. perts whisky and beer
quite unobtainable.
have Been Minister of Agri-
culture... exhausted, and other wines and spirits are
Now these Austra
..Dr. Manoel
Monteiro. lians like their drink, and äre accustomed Minister of Education Dr. Lopes Martens
CASUALTIES IN THE EUROPEAN WAR. According to an investigation said to have been made by the Department of the Army of Japan, the member of prison ra of the European belligerents since the commencement of hostilitics is folewa,
Allied troops:
French.
300,000
British between 10000 and 50,000 Belgian about
Russian
The Enemy's troopa:-
Germany
Austria Hungary
Turkish about nine mon
50,000
670,000
200,000
400,000
50.000
39
The number of casualties is as follows:-
Allied aropa:-
Wounded
5,300,000
illed
1,300,000
The enemy's troops:-
Wounded
4,100,000
Killed
1,150,000