FERING NOTES.
[now on OWN CORRESPONDENT-]
PEG, July 14th.
THE PARTY HTLIFE.
to
the
TSINGTAU
PEKING AUFFRAGETTE.
A trace seems to have been proclaimed between the two parties during the past week. This may be due either to the Anhui men being afraid to push their success too far, or to the Cantonese "admitting their weakness, or
Presidential advice to quit quarrelling. but whatever the explanation, the fact
Miss Shen, whom I mentioned last week remains at hostilities have coased, and
ay having been sentenced to ten weeks' the political world is comparatively
hard labour and ten months' banishment, quiescent, Of course, another reason
has petitioned against her sentence as be might be advanced, namely, the greating too severe, but it is open to doubt heat, which is not conducive to energy, if the judge of the higher court will be and perhaps induces the ordinary peace-persuaded by Miss Shen'a eloquence, or loving Chinese to refrain from any form
her beauty, or a sense of justice, to inter- of activity-oven from hating his enemy fere with the decision of the lower couet,
AN INTERESTING PROMOTION. The appointment of Dr. Wellington Koo. Councillor of the Foreign Office, as Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, was announced on Sunday, and has elicited vory-favourable compcut, as that gentle- man has followed up a distinguished scholastic career in China and America, with a very brilliant record of service in Government departments, particularly in the Wal Chiao-Pu He is a capable and well-balanced man, and should quali- fy-for-higher-positions-imthe_diplomatic service. It is believed that Dr. Keo will proceed to Washingtor, and remain there till conditions in Mexico permit of his entering that country. His departure. will be regretted in the capital. -
TREASON LAB".
There has been much content, upon a clause, in the recently-promulgated Trea son Law, which makes it penal for a Chinese subject to engage in enterprises
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESSHURSDAY, JULY 22ND, 1915.
IS THE RIFLE PLAYED OUT ?
HOW GERMANY IS USING THE MACHINE GUN,
BY JAMES DUNN
ROTTERDAM.
(ches, clambers over walls. He profors machine gun to the rifo, for not only The problem of Tsingtau, ia boing seri
is enable him to sit down comfortably ously tackled. The Japanese Goveru
tha squirt death at
fay is squirted through. Ai hos- ment has proposed that the Chinese
but also it gives hima Maritime Custums should function berc
sense of superiority, that pleasant as under the German régime, with the
Jing of soeurity which the possession of In this war of surprises nothing is uperior weapon always conveys to, the addition that the Commissioner already certain except the uncertainty of all sting man. acting under the Japanese apie should be things offensive and defensive. Military modern warfare and particularly in retained. This raises all kinds of diff-science develops so rapidly in modern war ach warfare, with its accompaniment of fare that nothing is so unstable as fixed brt, swift rushes against barbed-vire en- culties and problems for the Inspector ideas and nothing so unreliable as tra nglements, the soldier who can fire a Ceneral, and is a subjecti for negotiation.
dition. Douilleas the Chinese Government will
So far the Germans have been our nety-five chances of coming out of the Indred shote to his opponent's five has masters in the art of making to-day the ruggle unscathed. In the compilation accept the Japanese offer.
weapons of to-morrow. Instead of casualty lists the machine gun talks seeking to adapt new circumstances to old ith a hundred tongues. There was theories they change their theories to meet hy when we smiled a superior smile when the circumstances, and that is one of thefe learned of the German soldiers shoot- chief reasons they are able to put up suchhg wildly from the hips. Once more wo stubborn fight against a world in arms. lave learned to our cost that there was Now one of the pet theories of pro-nethod, in the apparent German madness. fessors of the great German military In 1870 the Germans surprised the school is that in the warfare of to-dayFrench with the needle gun. Is it too the rifle is doomed. just as surely as the muzzle-leading gugurprised the world with the machine gun
They argue thanuch to say that in 1815 the Germans have was replaced by the breech-loader so wil There is one consolation; it is not too Inte the automatic-rifle be replaced by th to benefit from the teaching of the enemy machine-gun, and what the professor and from the circumstances of war. Wo have foresten military tactics have cof want more machine guns, many mora firmed.
The suggestion to abolish ti machine guns, and we want them now”. rio is, of course, a shock not only
Daily Mail. military tradition but to the popul sloping rifle and the gleaming bayonot. coriception of soldiers and soldering. T the fixed symbols of an army in bein and it is difficult if not impossible imagine Tommy Atkins going into acti with a yard or so of iron piping a several yards of leather belting under arm. But changes come quickly wh science takes soldiering under its ca Many years passed after the discovery gunpowder before bows and arrows we sent to the museums, but in these daysf scientiac slaughter conviction comes. the swift wings of sudder death.
FRENCH FATE.
Naturally there was no elaborate cele bration of the Fourteenth to day by the French community. The officers mess hold-a-reception in the morning followed by a reception at the Legation, at which His Excellency M. Conly delivered so appropriate speech,
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE WEST RIVER FLOOD.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG
DAILY PRESA."]
S-Nothing is further from iny mind at the present moment har the idea of checking the charitable inclination of eny who think of contributing towards the relief of the unfortunates in the food
But when things are unfair ed area. to both the givers and the sufferers they ought not to pass unnoticed.
And
HONGKONG AEROPLANES. THREE INSTEAD OF TWO.
The Colonial Secretary forwards to us the following letter:→
The Oversens Club, General Buildings, Aldwych,
London, W.C.
June 15th, 1915.
TOUR EXCELLENCE. On behalf of the citizens of Hongkong, on June 1st, we for- SPORTSMEN BEFORE SOLDIERS. warded to the Secretary of State-for-War the! Why are the Germans manufacturg, remittance of £4,500 you. were good enough machine guns by the thousand to send. us. The Director of Military do the Germans no longer pay mch Aeronautics at the War Office has selected attention to the cult of the rifle by three 70 hp. 2 B Aeroplanes, instead of are the Germans working night and jay two of the larger machines. Each of these to turn out a machine gun no heavier fan machines costs the sum of £1,500, on which the old Brown Bess and more deal a brass plate is being placed, saying that than the concentrated fire of an enre they are due to the generosity of the people
The answer to these questors of Hongkong. company 7.
Only recently, owing to was given at Neuve Chapelle, at La military exigencies, it has been decided not Bassóc, at the sector of Yprca; it an to paint the titles in large letters on answer driven home with deadly sect neroplanes. I am, Your Excellency's from many ruined cottages, many disobedient servant, mantled farmhouses, and many copted trenches wherever the hordes of Germany. are facing the Armies of the Alies. Among the many German spies sering their country here in Holland sro bine men of military experience, and hese men are always ready; nay, cagó, to
hobby.
They talk about weapons and tieties
with foreigners that raight be regarded Year after year, the public of Hong as detrimental to the interests of China.kong are asked to subscribe large sums -The Japanese Government, who naturally of money to relieve those unfortunates
watch affairs in China more closely than who live near the banks of the West discuss the development of miltary other Powers are able to do at present, River, who happen to survive the catas-science, as a man will ride his favorite asked for an explanation of this amtrophe, and are for ever ruined. biguous clause, and received a verbal all this simply because the Chinese Gov reply that it was not intended to applyernment will not go thoroughly into the legitimate industrial or commercial enterprise, but simply to seditions opera- tions. I am led to understand that this reply may be embodied in writing, a proceeding which should be urged for the interests of all foreigners cogaged in commercial and industrial pursuits in China.
BUMMER HEAT.
Summer is with us in real earnest, and those who are not lucky enough to be able to make for the hits or the seaside ars sweltering in a heat of anything from is to 102 in the shade. As usual, Govers mont offices have reverted to summer hours, which are frein eight to twelve in the forenoon, as the parental Government admit that it is too bot to work after
the sun has reached meridian
CONSTITUTION DEAFTING,
question of building dykes, etc., but occu- pies itself rather with discussions and the passing of lews about Ceremonial Dress
business.
and Rites! Surely, in faco of the present precedented calamitat it is time that the Chinese Government dropped some of its nonsense and attended to more urgent Instead of thinking about the kind of dress ke ought to put on when making sacrifices to Heaven, it would ne better if the President would devote a little time in consulting capable foreign engineers as to the means necessary, to prevent the waters of the rivers from flooding rich and populous areas.
It is also time that the people living in
these districts bring pressure to bear on the Government to get a carefully planned conservancy scheme started with ous delay. Yours, etc..
J. X. B.
THE FAR EAST OLYMPIAD
It has been definitely decided that the Far East Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo in May, 1917. Count Okuma will be asked to accept the post of Brian President, while Prof. Kano, Presitiont of the Tokyo Higher Normal School, will be President. The total cost is estimated at V.15,000.
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Bir Francis H. May, K.C.M.G.,
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The Tung Wah Hopital begs to they discuss what they consider to be the acknowledge with thanks the following weaknesses of the British Army, and donations to the Kwangiang Flood Relief always they agree that one of the chief gu weaknesses of our military caste is that we are sportsmen before we are soldier. Sir Robert Ho Tung......
is ngkong and Shanghai Bank- Corporarás th because it is the wes rifle sportsman more than the arm of a soldier. Par Kwong W's Horga Said one of these ex soldiers to me a week Green Island Cement Co., Ltd..... or two ago,
You English are highly Mr. Chan Kang Yne elated because the war has proved your Lady He Tung men can shoot straighter and quicker Mr. Chu Pik Tung..... than oura Oh, yes, I adurit the fact, but Shan Shau Tong Preserved
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Ginger Exporters' Guild large percentage of the time occupied in Messrs. Tai Yuen training your troops is spent in teaching, Mr. Chan Kang Yue's family them the construction and use of the Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co... rifle, while our men are being taught how Masara. Kwong Un Cheung
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The present war will see the end of many things as it has seen the birth of many things," he replied, "and although the rifle may not disappear before peace is signed, its doom as the principal arm of infantry is sounded. You may smile: It looks as if a serious attempt is to be
that is one of the faults of you English. made at last to draft a constitution for
You invariably see an absurdity in a novelty until the novelty has become an China. The Tsan Cheng Yuan has had
institution. Oh, yes, I know you will a special session and has elected ten men
say that you have been first in the field Bui Wa Club a Constitution-drafting Commission,
with many military inventions, but these Meesra. Joseph Bros. inventions were more on the lines of China Merchant 8. N. Co. but the noteworthy fact is that they have
inevitable developments than in complete Wantani Government School gone outside of their own number to
revolutions. But you will go on improv. Kik Lok Bhi select suitable nuen. Coupled with that
ing the automatic rifle when it ought to Wing Hing Bank as hire of a be scrapped.
atcom launch loaned to fact is the impending arrival of Prof.
I ask you where is the argument
Messrs. Kwong Mow Tai for to the Goodnow, Political Advisor
against the gradual substitution of the 5 days.... light machine gun for the rifle? After Mr. C. F. Chinese Government, who is returning
all a Maxim is merely an improved, Mr. E. C. T. bore from America for a short stay in.
automatic rifle with a water jacket. The Mr. R. P. Harrison soldiers who won and lost Waterloo order to assist in the drafting of the
carried a weapon heavier and more. new constitution. According to a report
elumsy than the latest machine gun. A from Japan, Dr. Goodnow has indicated
mani who could fire a kick gun of In commemoration of the Coronation the period of 1815 could fire and carry that the general lines of the new constitu-
oeremony, the current year's naval man- Maxim with less effort than he could tion will be modelled on that of Japan. cures will, according to the authorities fire and carry the old smooth bore. And It will not enhance its popularity within the Kure Admiralty, he carried out are we not told that the concentrated fro cao side of an Eanglish square upon the largest scalo over attempted, the on field of operations extending from Tokyo emptied less than a score of French sad Ons moderni Bay to the southern end of Kyushu. In dlea at effective range? the manoeuvres there will participate, machine gun would have wiped out an besides the Standing Squadrons, all the entire squadron." Peking is now becoming accustomed to vesels on the reserve list belonging to
WE WANT MORE. MACHINE GUNS. the sight of Boy Scouts parading the main different naval ports. Aeroplanes and So spoke the German military expert thoroughfares. This movement has re- submarince will also play their parts Let us see how his theories are sustained throughout the maneuvres, the whole of hy facts. Already it has been stated that cently been inauguated at the suggestion which will be as far as possible on a com- the German Army is supplied with 50,000 machine guns. I am in a position to know of the President, The youngsters are plete war basis.
Upon completion of the maneuvres, the that while this number was approximately smart and business-like, and seem to en-usual Imperial Naval Review will be held accurate two or three months ago, it just joy the training. Moreover, they are off Kobe His Majesty the Emperor will be enormously increased today. Machine very conscious of their new uniform, and probably inspect the Fleet from on board guns are cheap, the parts are easily
the Ikoma-Japan Chroniclṛ. Beem quite pleased with the interest they arouse when passing the usually crowded streets,
the Chinese to learn that they are getting their constitution from Japan.
CHINESE BOY SCOUTS.
CIGARETTE SMOKING.
This evil, which has become very pr nounced within recent years, las engageil the attention of the Chiness authorities, with the result that the police hare issued a proclamation prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes by lads under fifteen years of age, while older women and girls are not permitted to smoke in the streete of the expital at all The police here evi. dantly believe that the people can be made good by regulation.
ENEMY'S HUGE LOSSES.
duplicated, they take up little more room' than a ride, and the Germans claim that it is just as easy to make a serviceabl machine gun as it is to make good rifle. The best soldiers in the German. Army are placed in charge of machine
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The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspon- gans, but the German shows none of the BRITAIN'S REPLY TO GERMANY. dent gives the following list of enemy sentimental devotion for his Maxim that casualtice up to 25th April from a very the British soldier has sequired. reliable source
Filled Wounded Prisoners
Killed Wounded
Prisomers
GERMANS.
AUSTRIANS.
TURKS.
Killed Wounded Prisoners
1,636,000 1,883,000 490,000
870,000
895.000 $30,000
110,000 140,000 ....... 95,000
For a The Germans are developing their
British battalion to lose a machine gun machine-gun service in order to balango is a grave calamity, and lives will be their enormous losses. They will depend sacrified to regain it. A Gorman soldier upon machinery rather than men in the looks upon s machine gun, as a personal second year of the war. The reply of the weapon, and its loss is a personal loss, Allies will be both men and machinery. and no more affects the honour of his All those arrangements for production
ride. battalion than does the low of
satisfactory, says a London messago dated To him his Maxim is a glorified rifle, the 6th inst. The German breaches of and when it proves defective he is supplie war usage have hardened the nation to with a new one, Wherever he goes the its task, and the country is showing na
chine gup goes with bin He takes strength every day. The Was Las ik under his arm or over his shoulder. indicates that the Cabinet di canet upon With it he leaps over ditches, oreeps along vast armatia futura.
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