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A VISIT TO VIENNA,
GERMANS AND OUR WEEK-ENDS.
PEACE TALK RUMOURS..
An English friend here at The Hague to whom I a Dutchman, equented in England, was relating my experiences in Germany and Austria last week, ang- geated that I should send them to your great newspaper says Anglo-Neutral in The Times.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, AVLS,
FIGHTING FOR FOOD.
GERMANY FEELING THE PINCH.
The
Forworts says: It is 110 oxaggeration to Say that in Berlin thousands of petsons are fighting daily to procure a small quantity of meat or fat in return for their hard-earned money.
At the municipal market stands the masses orowd like ants hours before the. opening, and tear the dothes from one another's backs in their eagerness to secure the much-desired articles.
Business of a private nature took me to Vienna and back. I was especially asked by the English in that city to communicate
At the corner of the Eldenaer and with English people and to request that Thaerstrasse, numerous women, though such courtesien can be extended to
repeatedly knocked down and injured, enemies be shown to Austrians in England. waited from noon one day until the open Your Government will find on investiga-ing hour at seven o'clock the following tion that the English in Austria are being morning. At eight o'clock in the even- well treated. Austrians say, We are ating the crowd had increased by many war with Italy. The conflict with England hundreds, and by midnight by thousands, is Germany's war." I was present at a
and there the would-be purchasers, most small dinner party in a public restaurant ly women, remained, some of them faint in Vienna at which two Englishmen and ing with fatigue, during the whole of their wives were guests and on my re- the night, braving the cold and the marking to them, "1 understood that all drenching showers.
At 10.30 in the morning the doors of English people here had to be at home by 8 o'clock," one of them replied, "I have the market hall were closed while a hund been in bed sines 8 o'clock-officially. As red or more purchasers were inside you see, it is now hall-pest 11. There Outside, however, more than a thousand were a number of Austrian officers and of the watchers of the night were still others in the restaurant who knew perfect clamouring for admission, and an hour ly well that the party was mainly English, Later the mob of bitterly disappointed ond, in fact, we spoke English, Hungaromen, some of whom had vainly waited for three or four consecutive nights in inns, I am assured, are even more lax with the same spot, crawled home without the English, who are supposed to be in either meat or fat, and uttering impre terned by them.
cations on the burgomaster and the town A sinister feature of these scandalous the aid of their big brother Germany.daily and nightly scenes is that numerous But they like the Germons less now than persons who are to be observed daily in before. They say that they do more than the front ranks of the waiting crowds, half the work, and Germany gets all the contrive on each occasion to go home praise. They are very proud of the suc supplied with whatever they require. while the others have to risk life and limb cess of the Austrian troops in Ruskin.
to no purpose.
The Austrians have now absolute con-authorities, fidence in their ability to win the war,
Are the municipal authorities able to explain this mystery ?
PITEOUS SPECTACLE.
Towards noon day after day a motivy crowd assembles at the doors of these buildings. This crowd is composed aut
LONDON UNDER ZEPPELINS escaped injury altogether. In this area
NO SIGN OF PANIC
FUTILE MURDERS OF CIVILIANS,
The writer appointed by the llome Office to observe, and describe the effect of the recent Zeppelin raid, has pre- pared the following account of the damage in the London arca:-
as, by a curious coincidence, in one other. the effect of the bombs was severely felt in a small restaurant opened in the ins terests of Belgian refugees.
At times of crisis it must be Bovril
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A WORKING CLASS DISTRICT.
The fourth district in which damage was done is one consisting entirely of what may be called working-clase pro- perty, with small low buildings, some of them used as house smalt shops or busi desses, but, in most cases, occupied, and in many cases over-crowded, by private. residents of the poorer classes. In this On the evening of Wednesday, October area more bombs were dropped than in those previously described, and the dam- 13th, another aerial attack was directed age done was exclusively suffered by against London, which differed in no private traders or householders, who material respect from those made on pre-behaved with the utmost heroism and vicus occasions. The enemy's vessel or coolness and who suffered damage, and, vessels, flew high at an altitude chosen, in some cases, loss of life, with no com no doubt, in order to prevent as far as pensating military value for the enemy possible the danger of damage or destruc- whatever. One group of small houses in tion from anti-aircraft
guns. The this area was entirely destroyed by a darkening of the Metropolitan arca, single explosive bomb, and in the ruins, together with the height at which the air above which Boats an evil smel of gas craft travelled, certainly prevented the and drains are to be found, torn and enemy from discovering the exact posi- covered with dust, the account books and documents of some small business which tion of place, of importance
As on the last occasion, the official up to half-post on Wednesday night report issued in Berlin proves the raiders no doubt kept alive the owner and his to have been grossly in error in most family. cases as to where they were dropping In another spot in this district the theis bombs, and if we can suppose that bomb fell on the top of a building used they had really some definite objective for keeping dairy cattle. None of the other than the mere haphazard destruc cattle was killed, though one of them The dairyman, with pre- tion of the lives and property of non was injured. combatants then, owing to the height at seace of mind and coolness, made his which they flow, they entirely failed to way to the top storey of his house near- attain that objective. Except for one by, in which all the windows were broken chance shot, the damage was exclusively and most of the ceilings destroyed by the en property unconnected with the con- force of the explosion, and brought down duct of the war. Of the 127 persons his children to safety below. On his way killed or injured none, save one or two downstairs on his last journey fur- soldiers who were in the street at the ther explosion blew him backwards on time, were combatants. As for the moral to the floor of one of the rooms, but he PANAS... effect, for which presumably the enemy succeeded in bringing all his family out is seeking, that was all to his disadvant unharmed. After the aircraft had passed they returned to their rooms until they vere awakened again by the sound of guns about midnight.
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The raid occurred at an hour when practically no one except children were in bed and, though shops in the principe Bread is quite plentiful in Vienna,
BONDS IN 80 YARDS, shopping areas were closed, places of though there is a shortage of many com
entertainment were full and the masses In the last acea covered by the raid modities, and one aged Austrian lady who
of the population were about their urdin-(this time in a suburb) there is not a had lately left England for Vienna grently
ary evening's pleasure or business. A single factory or business house, and regretted her change. Passing from the
Tho Tagliche Kandschau ̈asks very much larger number of people there hardly any shops. There are no military pleasant Austriane to the bitter and exultan nothing be done that will put an fore were aware of the enemy's presence encampments, no store sheds, no acrial antly confident Berliners is not pleasing end to the pitiful spectacle of which the than had been on previous occasions, but defences, and not even searchlights. All to the inhabitant of a neutral State,
Berlin military depots and barracks are
the population of Landon, though hun- the property consists of detached or semi- Berlin, like Vienna, has passed through constantly the scene?
dreds of thousands hoard the sound of detached houses surrounded by small many changes of feeling. I was there rather more than a year ago when Berlin
the bursting bombs and the guns, remain gardens. It was in this district that for There some obscure reason the largest number was in the depth of depression, which was
ed ecol and free from panic. were, if possible, even less sign of exeite of bonths were dropped, and they must
have been launched by what the only relieved by the fall of Antwerp. To of soldiers in field grey, but of rhainement than on previous occasions. day every German with whom I came in faced drab men and women.
The official warnings to take shelter munder of the Zeppelin in his interview JAVA, MAKASSAR, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. Ancient wrinkled and shrivelled little were better observed, and when the air- on the last raid described ag rapid contact was openly exultant. While one part of the nation is concentrated on grandmothers and old men, young craft had passed and the guns had ceased Bre. The actual period of bombard- Enishing the war, many of the higher numer, and children armed with the mutt Bring most of the people who had been ment did not last a minute, and the dis thorities are preparing organization for grotesque receptacles take their stand watching the bombardment went quietly tance from the spot where the first bomb There have been con- there, and patiently wait for an hour to bed and were undisturbed by the dropped to the fast could not have been alter the victory.
Within 60 yards ferences of bankers, manufacturers, agri and a half, sometimes in a pelting rain. second raid, which took place about mid. more than 600 yards, oulturists, and others, so that whether the until the cookhouse sweeper appears night in another part of the London no less than five fell together, while near war ends in one, two, or even 10 years, carrying a huge tin saucepan, containing area. In the theatres, from which the by three fell in a single garden, which Germany will instantly proceed to com- an impossible medley of soldier's dinner sounds of firing and of explosions could did not measure more than 30 yards
leavings, pieces of fat, ineat, bone, bread, mence to recover her industrial position.
able absence of panic. Altogether, the A striking and fortunate feature of Except for the bread cards, it is diff potatoes, and table offay of all kinds plainly be heard, there was a commend square. cult to realize that Berlin is at wor. The swimming and bobbing about in an unimperturbability of the people of London the bombardment in this district, and, bread card is enforced with the utmost speakable sloppy mess. As appar would appear to offer a striking contrast indeed, of the whole attack on this occa- TJISONDARI
ance a fomentary sparkle of anticipa to the behaviour of the population on sion, is the number of cases in which the rigidity. In company with a Germany
tion lights up the faded eyes of the poor the occasion of the rehearsals" of air-bombs, dropped not on buildings, but on friend I had to make a flying visit to old bodies as they hobble forward to pro craft attacks recently said to have been the ground. In only three cases in this KARIMOEN hotel at Fürstenwalde, We had both for-
sent their pots and pannikins,
auburban area, were houses actually gotten one brend cards, and each had to
struck, though, of course, the force of go through the form of taking a bedroom
the explosion was sufficient to destroy TJIKEMBANG and paying for it, as though we were
whole houses, ever at a considerable dis. really staying at the hotel, before we could get a bread card for the day. During
tance. Here there were many astonish- Incheon my German temarked, "I wonder
ing escapes. In one instance a bomb fell what that miserable, hiding British Flert is doing. Round in Ireland I suppose, as usual." Our bread card trouble to-day," I replied, "is the answer to that question. getting good, honest, wheat bread without
The younger and more robust among the waiting crowd, however, soon elbow and push them aside, with the result that they go as they came, their hands as stapty as their stomachs. Then the try again the next day, and the next, until they collapse,
HUNGRY GERMAN TROOPS,
The food shortage is not confined
arrangements for commissariat
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held in certain German towns.
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a narrow passage separating two houses, the entire fronts of which were blown out, causing the upper bedroom floors to collapse. In one of the upper bedrooms a mother and daughter were
FIVE AREAS OF DAMAGE, When the results of the raid were ex- mired next morning five distinct arcas could be distinguished in which damage had been done. The first of these is an arca in which there is little or no resi dential property, some large buildings devoted to various kinds of business, and bombs were dropped containing high explosives, which in four cases fell upon expand in a fifth upon the back ground-floor window should have been, premises of one large building thronged both escaping with their lives. In the One of the bombs, which next house a little boy lying in his cot with people.
But for the British Fleet we should be Berlin. According to the Tageblatt, the comparatively wide streets. In this are sleeping. They were thrown out on to
But this ticket trouble." My answer con vinced, but exasperated.
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Our troops yonder, though not at starvation point, are suffering from ber ath during the Zeppelin raid, I was serious privations. We must send them was apparently of a large side, penetrat was buried under the debris of the THE TAIKOO food. Compliments on their bravery ed the street into the subways containing wrecked roof of the house, and, in order England was not terrified, and as to the they need not such things give them no the gas and water mains, and in explod to release him, the whole roof had to be total destruction of Liverpool-street Sta-sustenance. Food, and plenty of it, is ing melted the gas pipes, setting alight lifted up, so securely was the cot pinned tion. I assured them thit I had been in what they require, and if a sufficient fire which, though slight in extent, down. There was not a stick of furni
two houses only London on the night of the raid, but that supply cannot be sent them speedily lasted for several hours. The explosion ture nor a piece of china left, whole in
enough by the authorities, individual of the bomb damaged the buildings round either of these I had hardly heard anything of it, that Gormans at home must make more sacri about considerably, and destroyed almost small pictures remained with the glass I had never heard that Liverpool-street fices and hasten with relief for our men all the glaas in the neighbourhood, It unbroken.
The bomb fell right on Station had been destroyed, that the whole fighting in a foreign land, where all is was also responsible for & number of A large house a few yards away suffer-
casualties, which will all be the subjected very badly. affair was regarded rather like a firework strange to them and unhomely.
Nor is it food alone that they want.of inquest. Those who were killed were the centre of it, killing instantly two dren of my host had stayed up the follow. Compared with the English, whose equip either sitting in the front rooms of build- children and severely injuring third WELDING AND CUTTING OF METALS BY OXY-ACETYLENE display at the Crystal Palace. The chil ing night to see the next raid, and when ment is irreproachable, whose adapta ings or working or walking in the street, child and the father and mother. In the The second area contains a large block road in which this occurred 20 houses it did not take place were just as disbility to the exigencies of the elimate is appointed as though the weather had been exemplary, there is much left to be de- of residential flats, some of which are
Like many other house is heavily pitted with shot marks. sired by our forces in several respects occupied as offices. too wet for fireworks.
blocks of flats in London, this one has In one of the houses, where a woman was Bo confident are Berliners, that English other than that of the food supp':
stretch of garden behind the buildings sitting on a sofa, the door of the room and French newspapers are now freely on
and one of the enemy's high explosive was forced open with such violence that. sale everywhere, "A banking friend of
bombs fell in this garden close to the fats the lock was wrenched from its fastening mine, speaking of his perusal of your
themselves. One or two rooms on the and struck the wall within a few inches Press, remarked, "I see that the Eng-
ground floor were totally wrecked and of the woman's head. At another point on the first floor considerable damage where a bomb fell in the street, a young landers are still going on with their week-
was done. Another bomb fell on the top man was saying good-night to a woman house. He was ende as usual-from Mr. Asquith down- wards, I suppose? Does anybody work yet
of one of the buildings, demolishing the at the front door of in England!" I told him that it seemed
top storey. In this area there were no immediately killed by a fragment of the bomb, and the woman was severely casualties,
though soveral narrow teently in London. And do they not L. Brownell, of the Worcestershire Regi-escapes. One elderly gentleman who was injured. At this point also an old, had to me that business was going on very ex work on Sundays yet!" he asked. Dement, explained his presence in the mess in the ground-floor rooting when the bombs who was walking on the pavement, had they not know that we Germans are work- ing doubly during the war, se sa to achieve room of the 30th Battalion recently. The exploded, and who was knocked over by his arm blown off and died in hospital AGENTS FOR→→
the force of the explosion, picked himself shortly afterwards. captain, who has received an appoint In addition to the delusion that the mont on the staff of Duntroon College, English are in terror of Zeppelins and that landed on the Continent in the third the English Fleet is afraid of coming out, vessel of the British Imperial Expedi- there is the constantly repeated statement, tionary Force, and fought with his regi- rando too by men in high places in Berlin, ment through the Aisne and the Marne that members of the British Government and took part in the advance upon and have had conversations in regard to peace retreat from Mons, in which retreat he with certain persons in London. I was con- was so severely wounded that his life was
despaired of. tinually informed that members of the British Government have made ap- proaches" on this subject.
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The third area contains two damaged
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ap and made his way up the broken staircase to his bedroom on the floor
The Laherte', Rome correspondent says above, and immediately went to bed, in spite of the fact that the glass of the a German protest against the British of submarines reached the windows and the shutters behind them in netting his bedroom had been shattered by the Italian Government through a neutral; Germany also protests against the send fores of the explosion.
and admits that she has lost 27 by business premises, the first of them sing of large vessels to sink submarines, Large and modern building constructed netting and 16 previously, Captain Brownell explained that where of reinforced concrete and with a steel trenches are sometimes only five yards and concrete roof and flooring. Two apart, rifle and gun fire is useless, and bombs dropped on this building, one of I replied on this point in every case that so also to a great extent are swords and them actually on the roof and one on I did not believe such a statement had bayonets, consequently science had to step the pavement immediately beneath the vestige of truth in it. It is believed as in and evolve new instruments of death. doorway. The bomb on the pavement a fact in high quarters in Germany, none Ho produced an ugly-locking three appears to have exploded sideways; at the less, and anyone understanding the bladed dagger, and said that every man any rate the damage done, which consist Prassian character will realize the avidity on the western front carried one of themed chiefly of broken glass and plaster, with which a chance remark of any pro- now. It was a most effective weapon for occurred mainly in the houses on the minent Englishman any neutral or other ni-fighting, as its three blades gave the other side of the street. The bomb which in London would be seized upon and a wielder of it power to do a lot of exten- dropped on the roof of the building itself copted as a sign of fear. One recalls that tion. The dagger has a wooden grip, like did little damage. the Prussians say, "When a man shows the top of an ordinary shovel. This is fear, hit him harder, and finish him, Peace held in the hand horisontally, and one blade, about six inches long, protrudes conversations therefore, would mean fresh from between the second and third In this case the strength of the building. military efforts on the part of Germany.
fagers, while from either side of the which was an old one, was not sufficient I so it stated in your newspapers that closed hand protrudes the two other to withstand the force of the explosion. Germany is short of many things. The only blades, slightly longer. The right-angled and the whole of the hotel, which con shortages of which I could hear were of blade is used for driving straight ahead, sisted of three ficors of the building, was indiarubber, woollen garments, and He and should the wielder find opponents entirely blown up. Fortunately in this vana oigars, Germany is obviously in crowding him behind or on the flank he area those indoors had been warned by porting certain supplies through neutral can stab backwards or uppercut with the the sound of previous explosions, and by countries. You are not strict enough. other blades.
taking refuge in the lower floor they
In the same area a bomb dropped on the roof of a small hotel, the ground floor of which was occupied as an offer.
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