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Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at | 10 sm. to-day, 0,05 Inches.
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WAR NEWS.
COST OF THE WAR TO FRANCE.
PROPOSED MONGOLIA BANK.
The
IN A GERMAN HOSPITAL,
INTERVIEW WITH WOUNDED CANADIANS.
According to a recent issue of the Torgovo-Promyshies nave Gazete, Petro- grad, the Russian Minister of Finance The report of the French Senate national bank of Mongolia by a financial fus fully approved the formation of a Finance Committee on the provisional group in which the Siberian Commercial. estimates asked for by the Government Bank is largely interested. The capital evening paper Ving with the German for the third quarter of 1915 conthinga has been Axed at 1,000,000 rouble armies in the Western theatre of war de The correspondent of the Hungariad statement on the financial position. The ($515,000), and the directorate of the bank payments now amount to £2,000,000 per is to be in Petrograd, with branches ascribes a visit to a German base hospital, daly. Treasury bonds cover 60 per cent. Urga, Uliamutai, and Kobdo. of this expenditure and the budget Mongolian Government is to receive 15
where he had an opportunity of talking revenue 16 per cont. The remaining 18
with English and Canadian wounted pri per cent. has been advanced by the Banks with the kuwe passed.
soners of war, and gives an account of his of France and of Algeria, in conformity
When I entered the large room those who were recovering," he said, looked up at me with great criosity. The doctor who accompanied me to that he had some Canadians and English under his charge, and as I expressed the wish to see them he took me to them first. Here you'll find your Canadians, he said, as we entered and the patients must havO heard the word Canai ians, for they looked ap. their young, intelligem faces full of curiosity. Their eyes seemed to asks Who can this be? What does he want! I stood beside the bed of a pale-faced, fine- looking young chap.. full of life and joy
Between the last months of 1914 and the first of 1915, the report continues, the market for our Treasury operations underwent gratifying modification, show ing the country's unshakable faith in-f victory and its resolve to carry on the wer to the end, whatever the Ginuncial cost on the duration of hostilition.'
GERMANY'S FINANCIAL
POSITION.
One of the best informed international bankers in New York has informed the Daily Telegraph correspondent that the
· German-financial position is very, very
taitt
The country is completely off a gold basis, and the German people, notwith standing their ardent patriotism, are getting suspicious, despite the vigorouN. efforts of the Government to conceal all disagreeable matters pertaining, to the country's finance.
No one
appreciates the hardships already suffered untside Germany really by the people as the result of the war. The majority, however, are optimistic as regards the outcome of the struggle These are buoyed up solely with the Government's official statements, which they do not think to question. A free Press no longer exists in Germany.
"This cannot last, however, and my personal opinion is that the end of the war wild be in sight directly the German porple fully realise their position. This, I think, will be much sooner than is generally expected.”
A FRIENDSHIP WITH ENGLAND LEAGUE IN GERMANY.
per cent of the net annual profits, and bank ngon the expiry of fifty years from impressions. will possess the right to purchase the the commencement of operations,
GERMANS BURN FATHER" AND DAUGHTER.
That atrocities are still being committed in French territory occupied by Germans is shown by the following extract from an Amiers paper;—,
German pw-rul ik, the streets of renne The Germans insisted that they had been fired upon from a house occupied by a bailiff called Derbecq, although the latter endeavoured to show by the marks of the bullets that they could not have come from his house, Mad with rage, the Gor mans puid no heed to his explanations, but lucked him and his daughter in the house, to which they sat fire after spray- ing it with petrol.-Reuter,
CONSCRIPTION FOR WOMEN.
The Socialist Vorwärts is opening a interesting campaign against the strong the war for the drilling and organizing of movement which has developed during
Gernian women, The Formarts declares that the whole non-Socialist womanʼS movement in Germany is becoming devoted to schemes directly borrowed from thusiastic articles are being written about the German system of couscription. En
the need for giving German women a streng dose of Potsdam.". is insisted that coinpulsory training in household and other duties must be introduced, and sonte authorities recommend a regular system of training" in barracks" for either ou year or two, followed by periodica trainings.The Forwarts regards al organization gone mad, and declares that the movement would have disastrous consequences,
This
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NEW BIRTH RATE OF PARIS.
STATISTICS NEARLY HALVED SINCE LAST. YEAR,
spite of his bad wound. Where wero said in a faony English way. He came you wounded? I asked. Ypres," ho from Canada early in the war, was trained for a few months in England. and bas been fighting for a few months already. Why did you come over from, Canada P To fight. of course,' he answered, smiling, and added: What did you think I came over for?!
Of course I know you camið to fight; but don't you see it is of no use censing over, you didn't help England's cause with your All you got is a bullet fa your chest.' He smiled again. are mistaken oven in the bullets,
1 got three As for helping England, well you are mistakes still more. I killed at least
feel sorry for them? I asked. No doubé a duzen of your people before they had a ge at me, and I am still alive.'
I do now, but I didn't then, They wouldn't have felt sorry for me either, and another broad grin followed.
THE FALL OF CALAIS,
You
Do you
14 The one beside him was not in a con dition to answer questions, but the third was quite eager to have a talk. He Was the first to put a question when I stopped before him. If you are a journalist probably you could tell us: Is it true that the Germans have taken Calais? I koked at the dortor so as to ask for his co- sent, and, as I did not see anything con his face to prohibit it, I said in the Eag lish I learned in Whitechapel some years Don't believe that." Again I looked at the doctor, but he didn't seem to follow the conversation. Canadian evidently guessed that I was not The German,and-again-he asked You don't seem to be a German.
What are
A league has now been formed in Germany whose object is to bring about an understanding between that country and England. No particulars concerning is members, their number, etc., bave been
The low birth rate in Paris is causing permitted to transpire, but the news-real worry to thinking Frenchmen Silly ass! papers reproduce extracts Iróní
reply While it was expected that the births, for made by its President, Herr von Topper; the present year would show aesider Laski, to Count Reventlow's violentable diminution in comparison with pre- artioles in the panfierman Dutch eeding years, still the statistics for the Pageszeitung.. These extracts prove at
least that criticisms of the Government oils of May and June have produced attitude are now permitted to appens they do a total of 3,981 births for the La somewhat staggering effect, showing as German newspapers. Herr von Tepper Laski is reported to have said that he has sight weeks, as compared with 7,800 dur endeavoured from the outset to repel then the corresponding period of last year suggestions that have poisoned the mind tion in the number of births during a There is always a noticeable dimini of the classes during this terrible time, He contends thut only careful historic" said a well-known French statisti research can settle the questior as to who can, but this diminution is of particule. These Canadians were all fine- really ariginated the war, but he adds: importance both for us and for our We do know, however, that shortly, since it is the first time in history that entire nations are ranged against -before-the-outbreak-of-hostilities-we-were- nearer to an understanding with England rate continues, the class of 1935, as we ven muother. If the present low birth
call those born during this year, will not Tageszeitung knows as well as be doce, be very numerous, although there fa con- the President of the new league continued, that it was not the people who invented solation in the fact that there is usually and introduced the watchword Goltage increase in the number of births strafe England, while that journal also during the years immediately following knows, he adde, that the watchword was intended to have and has had a prevo- entive effect.
than we have ever been." The Deutsche
WAR OF CLAWS AND TEETH.
GAS POIBOXERE' TRIUMPH.
Professor Wegener, war correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, publishes a charac. teristic description of a visit to British trenches captured in the great German gaa attack on April 22nd. The following Passages speak for themselves:
It was along the ame road that we walk ed that the stupefying gases crept on the evening of April 22nd. What can compare for mysterious terror with this uncanny greenish well, which looked as if the vary soil itself wene walking, and us if the trenche, which for so many months had remained unmoved, were now suddenly set in motion! Airmen who followed events from above have told how extraordinary
a var
FRENCH AND THE RHINE.
all right. I gained their confidence very we then-Don't you trouble. Lim quickly. When I moved further I saw the big-chested, good-looking fellow whisper to kis seighbour something about Calais, Some fool must have told them that it had
spirited, excellent soldiers, The doctor told me that they were the best patients Nice, clean, he had ever come across. manly fellows, who suffered silently and were very grateful. If you tell a Caha- dian not to smoke for another week, ho will obey, A German soldier would sneak out and smoke in some hidden place
When they they fight like real heroes. get caught they suffer, but take it cheer- fully. Their wounded bear pain and out- fering like heroes. Never a word of com- plaint.
And
Another Canadian when I auestioned him about his wound said: It's only bayonet. nothing, nothing serious, thank you. I know I would rather have two bullets then a bayonet wound, but he dit not share my opinion. Why did your come over 1 I asked. I wanted to
opinion of the German soldiers?" I asked
Our heroic Allies are advancing at great strides in a region to which of late too little attention has been paid by the British Press. We mean in Alsace, along the banks of the Fecht, towards Münster, Colmar, the industrial capital of Middle Alsace. The Fechi valley was defended by special mountain troops from Bavaria, drive you Germans out of France, that's both highly trained and of exceptionally you mind, we'll do it yet. What is your including the Bavarian Guards, troops all. But you see you couldn't. Never strong physique. But the dash of Franco's famous. Blue Devils as the Alpine Chasseurs have been nicknamed, and the hail of high explosives rained down into the valley from the heights above by the French howitzers and heavy guns, have proved too much for the Bavarians, and it looks as if oar Allies' sweep would soon bring them to the last slopes of the Vesges and within sight of Colmar and the Alsatian plains, The cutting of the impertand Strassburg Colmar-Mulhausen nizin line would be an
achievement of the greatest military value,
Good soldiers,' he answered.” “And what about the gas? We blew that away, he answered with a contemptuous gesture. “I had three doses, and it didn't harm me a bit.. You ought to tell them to find out something more effective. The doctor re- turned from a conversation with the aureo so I turned the conversation again on to his wounds. His arm and head wero bandaged, but the blue English eyes were- as clear and calm as ever. Toronto is very far away,' I said, and the girl will surely forget you by the time you return.”
When I left he shook my
it looked when the clouds came up to the enemy trenches, then rose, and, after as as it would force the German garrisons of Ho smiled sadly, but had no answer to it were peoping curiously for a moment Alsace right back upon the Rhine. The this remark. over the edge of the trenches, sank down Rhine would also be easiest of access in hand with his left hand. and they all into them like some living thing. Until this quarter, where it is narrowest, runs
Very Dica then the enemy had shown only blank through lerel country, and is not defend-modded smiling to doctor. astonishment. Suddenly there was a wilded by any first-class fortress south of and very grateful fellows thoss Cana
dians,' he murmured as we passed into the Neu-Breisach. shrick of terror and then tumultuous flight.
next room to the Brzegalese.” With a cheer our men were after them, and in irresistible. German assault, left the enemy no possibility of pulling himself together, but overran his second and third positions
AN AMUSING EPISODE
The following story takes from the fromley Times relates to a son of the late Mr. Ford Duncanson, of Gibb, Livingston & Co. in.
COTTON AND SHELLS,
"A GREAT FRAUD
Remarkable statements were made last month at the conference of the Society of Chemical Industry in London by Mfr. W. F. Reid, a past president of the society and the inventor of the process by which smokeless powders are made. It has been stated in some papers," he said, "that cotton is ab Rotately necessary for the production of high explosive shells, and you will hardly believe me when I my that there is practically no colton used in the manufacture of high explosives. The
I am not going into the silly chatter about the unlawfulness of our new weapon To the adventurous the adventure," of attack. Why should a stupefying gas, was proved by. Mr. E. Ford Duncanson, which one sets openly and slowly ap- of Sundridge-arenne, just recently. I proaching, and before which one can re- will be remembered that when the war tire, be less humane than the invisible and unavoidable gas which bursts shells and with their splinters tears bodies into bloody shreds? Or the gas which games up under one's feet from a steretly ex- ploded mine and huris thee and dozens of thy comrades in atoms towards the Firmament? What if it were 'poisonous" and killed I do not go into this chatter in dealing with a band of enemics who ince the beginning of the war have beet misusing human speech in order, as Te gards us, to turn into their opposite the most simple moral conceptions and values. What is "law" any longer in this most unmoral-with the exception of soure Ens lish Colonial ware-of all wars of modern times, in which Italy's intervention, au of a greed that is an longer cloaked, shows | miles walk between an armed guard, with
The Bavarian Minister of War has for even the biggest fool what is the spirit of the knowledge that his work was being bidden any publication by the Press, er the coalition against us that has been left undone, we will not try to guess, but pamphlet, leaflet, or otherwise, af Ger- "made in England "18o you want to Mr. Dunetason is not a man easily "Mb-des get at our throats Very well then you exered, and that, with his sense of humman Army and Navy losses, the penalty
shall feel our claws and teeth, And now
our, doubtless saved him from more than for disobedience being imprisonment not more thoroughly than ever.
the passing vexation.
exceeding one year.
broke out Mr. Duncanson and his brother offered the use of a motor launch, and their services with it, to the Admiralty, and their offer being accepted they have, of course, been absent from Bromley on duty stuce, and the course of those duties recently gave Mr.Ford Duncanson a true adventure. A little while age he was detailed to take observation of the lights of a house of which the authorities had
whole thing is a great fraud. There some suspicion, and in the course of his may be some trace of cotton in the explosive, investigations he landed, and found it but the bulk of it is coal products. Eminent cry to conceal himself in a cutting. scientists have made erroneous statements But here he was discovered by a picket on the subject. If people associated with going its rounde, when he was hailed out, science waald only speak of the branches explanations disbelieved, or at least dis with which they are connected the advantage regarded, and marched four miles to the would be very great," nearest place of incarceration! What hig feelings were during that compulsory fourso