"IS ENGLAND MAKING GOOD?” TIGHTENING
[EY LORD NORTHCLIFFE.)
Whenever I am asked by Americans about or raising of the British Army and the question of service therein, its equip ment and transport, I infer them, and have been so doing for fifteen months, to the history of their own country from 1881 until the end of the Civil War.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 131#, 1916,
OUR GRIP IN THE BALTIC.
[ny JOIN F., POLLEN, THE WELL-KNOWN NAVAL WRITER.]
In this war of wars there have often been, and indeed always will be periods when the naval activity on both sides seems to ha restricted to a few isolated events in no way connected one with the The parallels between our respective other. We are passing through just such casex are sts numerous that it is quite easy period now and through the whirl of events in the land campaign very little for any Ameright to understand-the-great.
Of the two submarino campaigns in the difficulty of raising any from a demo-news of our fleets-is vouchsafed-us tracy well organized as we are, for sea warfare, but almost unprepared for wor Baltic and in the Mediterranean we hear
on land.
little or nothing, but it is in these two spheres that the main offensive-defensive action of our Navy is at present cones .- trated, and though the veil of secrecy is exerting ourselves to the
PEACE TALKERS.
[BY AN ENGLIBINIAN.]
Already the Germans are crying "Peace, Euch new peace in feverish accents. effort on the weat front or on the east, we are told, will result surely in a separate treaty.
There are strange ramours of mediation. Now it is the Pepe who is engaged in the fruitless quest, now it is Mr. Wilson There are vague reports of comings and in Holland and Switzerland. Even Herr Maximilian Harden, the one goings
writer in Germany who at the outset had the candour to proclaim that the war was
THE BRITISH ARMY.
AN INTERESTING FRENCH VIEW.
The following appeared in a recent issuo ofle Figaro, and is a typical specimen cf French appreciation :--
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L'AMITIE FRANCO-ANGLAISE,
VISITORS AT HOTELS.
HONGKONG HOTEL
Mr W. F. Alexander Mr A.D. Allaa Mr&Mrs Athol Ander
son and masid
Mr Geo. E Anderson Mrs Arntren
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Mr B. L. Atkin Mr H, Murray hain Capt & Mrs F. Baner Mr J. H. Baring Mrs E. B. Balle Me R. E. Bellion Mr G. D. J. Bell Mr & Mrs K. W. Bean Mr M, Bennettt Mr & Mr C. W,
Beswick Mr R. J. Birkeok Mr.H. Bicke fon Mrs Ling
in Black
any German ship, mereuntileer naval, from lifted, it is certain that we 3 Germany's war is in favour of peace, the British soldier. And like this, the Mr A, H.
When the war brake out we had a per fret Beet, which since then has even been a fleet which prevents greatly enlarged. showing itself with safety, in any sea in the world, But we had an Army, by com
arison with European armies, not very much larger than yours. We had sudden- ly to call to arms and equip these millions of young men, very few of whom under sind anything about the war and its cause, and who were, at first simply fired with anger at the outrage on Belgium and the horrible atrocities revealed by the Ger- mans hemselves in German dreuments which becaine public.
re-
At the outbreak of war many peoplo shook their heads at the prospect of these young clerks, stenographers, stock-brokers, store-keepers. nctors, doctors editors, porters, artists, miners. fetory hands and others being of any use against the highly trained soldiers cf Germany. But, as n matter of fret, in the supreme tast of the long, terrible winter in the trenches and the advance against the machine-gua re of the enemy, the young men probably because we are, like you, a nation of game players, football and the like-have done at least as well as the Germans, In all
utmost in
tightening our grip in the Baltic and in He declares that neither side knows why clearing the Mediterranean of the murit is fighting, and computes the value of derous boats,
three months fighting saved as qual to a vast indemnity.
The German Navy has recently treated us too little display of forea at the southern end of the Baltic Reports tel of cruisers and destroyers dashing hither and thither, now attacking the British steamer Thela in Swedish territorial waters, now steaming up through the Sound and into the Cattegat, only to come, flying back helter-skelter to German waters as if the devi were after them" It ap
devil pears that in this case the
Was
flotilla of British destroyers, for w hear that our ships have been seen in force in this eastern arm of the North Sea, and that they have escorted two flotillas of sub. marines right down the Cattegat as far as Elsinore, at the north end of the
Bound.
Baltic blockade.
reason
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LA BEAUTE MORALE DE L'EFFORT ANGLA 188.
These soldiers have gone to their death on their own acceptance. You must go back to the Crusades or the tragic and im mortal epoch of 1792 to find a voluntary "levée, en innssoas fervent as this one,
The people of that part of France defended by the British Army leng contact makes every day stronger. snow to our Allies a sympathy which a The British now is not only the Ally, but the Friend, The inhabitant who gives board and lodging to the young men of the new contingents retains with devotion the names of those who have not and will not come back from the trenches The Mother associates in her heart with her son the French soldier, the other, the Friend, feeling of the people of the ecuatry where the British are fighting anticipates the superior motivo on account of which France and England are becoming inti When Herr Harden says that neither mate friends, stronger than any clause nations, the pure British blood mixed with side knows what it is fighting about be drawn up in concert between the two tells a half-truth
Germany, I eau well believe, wonderss on the noble soil of France, creates an affection which the cleverest diplomacy She began the war could not produce. Let us not forget that and is in doubt.
300,000 men of the British troops have which is her war, at her own time and on her own terms. She will finish it on.
fallen since the beginning of the war, ours,
The
why she declared war 50,000 at Loos, only.. wantonly upon a large part of Europe is clear enough; ahe aimed at universal de- minion. She failed to reach her goal when her attack upon Paris was broken; and never again will he come within masurable distance of it. In vain does she transport her treips from east to west,
The active solidarity of the Bri- nud then eastwards again in a tired, maancholy procession. In vain does she tish Colonies, this loyalism to the Empire over fresh countries. That which she circumference of the world presents that distribute her forces in new fields and of millions of men established an all the and Herr Harden is right when his insists in countries which are not surrounded by hoped to achieve she can never achieve, almost unique fact of an ardent patriotism that Germany does not know what she frontiers exposed to aggression. This band established without any compulsion is fighting for.
He is very wrong indeed when he between races, so diverse in everything, in charges the Allies with a like ignorance. the "grande victoire morale de l'Angle We are not, we never were for a moment, terrie," in this terrible war; without any in doubt. Our duty lies plainly before coercion she rallies them, by millions, us, and we accept its burden with a light and persuades them to lay down their lives heart, because we understand very clearly for her sake, The British volunteers are what would be the payment of defeat. Les Frères en Mcrifier of the soldiers of When Germany a year ago hegna hir the Revolution, Le us be proud to shake carefully organised attack, she badly declared that she meant to enforce her hands, with them. The union on a The reopening of the enemy's trade civilisation upon a humbled world. Now any of France and English is the guar- routes to Scandinavia is becoming or there is one thing which no country will anteo of a superior civilization........ ever accept until she is broken to the dust, A humanity relying on the British tena- city and the French spirit of "dan and and more essential, but the waters of the
aud that is another's civilisation: Baltic are swarming with our submarines,
After the and this reopening is as far oll as ever twag pain, then, from the beginning that "allégresse" would produce and in-
pawer. we were fighting for the right to live and destructible Could Germany close the Sound effect think as we choose, and though Ger- shameful horrors thrown on the world by tively our submarines and could the many cannob succved in the plot which the German brutality, if one remains stift then raise an impetrable wall of mice she prepared for fifty years, we know the proud to be a man, it is by the example and nets from her coasts to the limit of cause for which we are fighting: we know of the French unlinchingly facing the Sweden's territorial waters there might also that, if we do not crush Germany enemy and the English coming deliberate rot be some hope that German merchant before the terms of peace are signed, she men could cross the seas in safety. Past will begin her preparations anew andy to join them.
rcreate her wild ambition to conquer the events seem to indicate that Germany can
world. never raise euch a barrier, for in naval warfare, apart from the unenviable credit- of initiating a campaign of murder-vo the high seas, she has shown a such in- genuity in her plane as can lead us to way compete with ours in dash, spirit, or in that wonderful faculty of adapation to circumstances that has been the out standing feature of our conduct of this targe.
We have an enormous number of sub When the war began, it was understood that the censor was chuployed for the laud-marizes at our disposal, a number far able purpose of preventing the Germans greater than many of us realise, and, from knowing what we were about and what is of more value, we have an almost These are the became a machine for screening political and crews to man them,
It has hidden factors that will turn the scale and that and other blanders from our people and from the world gen- will teach Germany the bitterest of lessons erally many splendid deeds our men have to reap where she has sown! accomplished, dreds of which the enemy full well knows the weight. On the other has concealed from us misfortunes known to the Germans, and to the Ameri
I am entirely daring expedient of arriving unexpected- | presentatives of a people which, wherever Even our slowness makes at us all, "de mans med all other neutrals in favour of a censorship. I know well dy in broad daylight,
This Gertas parade of force is, on the face of it, merely another attempt to co with our submarines, but at the back there are signs of uneasiness and even of Germany is getting very nervous of the antiers where individuel eurage and re-
they have It has not "petered out as sho ez sponsibility are concerned proved far more efficicy than our enemy,pected, but on the contrary it is growing Germany's counter-mea- in intensity. It is notable that the saying should run through Germany, No on returns from sures have been totally unsuccessful, for single sub. we have not as yet lost Ypres, for it is at Ypres that we face them and have barred the road to Calais, matine; above al; the need of iron ore, The difficulty of the men has not been cotton, and foodstuffs is being daily more open road to the It is felt, and perhaps the so great ns til of the equipment, only when you get in the trail of an Army East is not producing the supply of raw that you realize how much soldier needs, materials that Germany anticipated. There is the boot question, the belt ques tion, the matter of summer and winter. clothes, underclothes, more than one kind of cap or hat, and, now, armour. There is the soldier's rifle and there are his ma- chine guns, trench mortars, field artillery, heavy artillery, bombs, periscopes, ever short daggers, which are now taking the place of bayanels in some parts of the fir- ng line, I have made several visits to the seone of war, and each time have come hack amazed at the gisut appetite of the monster which cats up material as quickly RR it eats up men. The whole business is
horribly wasteful, but one must take it as it is. It is war.
was.
BRITISH NAVAL DASII,
SANCTITY OF THE DATTLEFIELD.
It
ROPINIATHE TENACITE ANGLAIBE:-
In front of his men, ready to go to the trenches of the first line, an officer told us;
We have made the mistakes of a demo eracy, obviously the worst form of govern ment for waging war We have made the zustakes of our slowness of temperament and in our belief, in politicians, who seem suppose that her naval officers cau in any outrages precisely what boasted civi- The British soul is like that not.
quite big in times of peace, but have that they are up against something really
shrunk to the size of very xins men now.
Bea war.
I
Do not reproach us for arriving late.
fougueuse" (fiery), but irreductible. is because we are slow to come to a deci. sion, that, after we have taken it, we never give it up. We have lack of agility some
our persistency. bow, bat confess that we are invincible in
And ever since the war began Germany has shown us in a series of dastardly. lisation which she would have forced upon athers at the sword's point amounts to. she has openly proclaimed her contempt for the most sacred treaties; she has broken in pieces the whole body of inter national law; she has marked her advance
Well, we have bitten Germany so hard across Europe by rape and murder; a hundred sanctuaries of learning and theos in order to make us release our grip.
be able to cut off our head.. bear witness to the savagery of our foes the murder of non-combatants, men and shall be meted out to it, Noen alike, calls for the vengeance which
You must behead
what preparations we had made. It soon unlimited supply of highly trained officers logy, outraged in heartless brutality that with her wounded arm, she will not.
hand,
It seems that the already large number of our submarines in the Baltic has now been augment through the Sound by the which slipped
"The swarm of submarines is going to what happened in the Franco-Prussian show Germany what a submarine blockade War by the leakage of military informais, and the lesson will not be too pleasant. Several unfor-Dady Mail, tion through the Press. tunate incidents involving the death of ren have resulted in this war through the leakage of military information. But the British censorship has become a macans by which the public has been chloroformed anta the belief that the task before us is comparatively easy.
"LAST
GERMANY'S
RESERVES."
With the men who have done thest
of
•
Mr N. F. Blanch Capt B. Branch Mr H. Bridges Mr B. Buchsa Mr T. W. Carington
r
F. di Canevi
Mr C. Champiin Mr II. Chcetham Mr. M. Collison Capt P. W. Cowan MN, Croucher Mrs F. E Davis Capt J. Dowar Mie M. E. Duffy Mr L. E. Duroiset Mr Dubreuil
Cap J. W Evans Dr G. R. L. Filz
williams
Mr James Finlay Mr': A. Foulks Mr Danmom Fu ler Mr. Gibb
Mr 1. P. G'ass
Mr Y. Gouldbourn Mr & Mrs J. Goald Mr G. Gor, an Mr. Urandy
Capt T. P. Hail Mr C. Hawken Mr & Mrs I. Hallward Mr & Mrs W.
Hannibal M&Mrs V. E
Hariton
Mr & Mrs Tempman Mr C. auriksen Mr H. F. Lawson
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 12th at 12.25 p.m.-The anti- orolono bas weakened slightly. It is contral over the lower Yangtze Velley.
Pressore has increased considerably over Ne Japan. It is depressed moderately along the
and Borneo.
Capt & Mre T. fffordst of China and slightly over the Philippices
Laws
The monsoon will moderate long the east coast of lana, but remain strong over the Chira Sea.
Mr B.
Mr. MacKellar Mr K. Mackensie Mr A. McAlister
Ales B. R. Mana end:fa
FOR
Dr & Mrs O. Marriott MrB. I. Martelat
Mrs J. Marchall Mrs McCulloch
child Mr D. MoMurray Mr J. Merreki Mr B. K. Mehta
Dr Li. Nolagoo
Mr J. Ormiaton
Mr Jar, Ormiston
and
Mr & Mrs E. V. D.
Parr
Mr&Mrs E. T. Pitcher
Mr J. G. T. Poolby
Mias F. Rosy
Mr E.B.Ray
Mr & Min Rees
Mr W. J. Roberta
Mr.J. A. Russell
Mr & Mus T.
Seiler
Mirs Sailer Mr F. H. Bawyer Dr. & Mrt A. W.
Scall F
Mr & Mrs JR Shaw Mr R. D. Sheldon Mr T. W.Simmons
Men M Blade
Mr W. H. Smith
Mrs H. Semma
Cept 1 Somme
Mr V. Sorby
Mr A. B. Sorez san Mr J. Stalker-
Mirs N.. Soutier Mr H. H. Taylor Mr Y. Ts alo
lonwar.g
Mr E. M. Tozer
A.
Mr A. Hicke Mr LG Holgate Mr W. J. Boage Mie A. E. Hodgins Mr G. F. Hunglin Mr J. St. C. Hunt Mr Robert Hanter Capt B. Innes Me E. M. Joseph Mr & Mrs J. F. Kobler Mr & MIHF Keith
Capt. Trowbridge Mr&Mr. S. R. Waller
Mr J. G. Ward
Mr LL. W. Waxe
Mr A. Watkinzon
Miss K. P. Wolls
Mr T. Woll and
Seriant
Mr J. Wilkie Dr. & Mr Lizdy
Woods
Mr. G. G. Word Mrs B. F. Wood
Mr A, K. F. Vap Mr J. F. Wright
KING EDWARD HOTEL. Mrs Russel Almond Bir G Banzerman
Mr & Mrs. Cheng Mr A. Course Cat & Mrs Donaldson MY R. A. Donaldson Mrs C. Foo
J.J. From
Mer. Finoor Mrs T. Grants Mr T. N. Gregory
Mr E. GrivS
Mr. Guá Mr Hayne Mr & Mrs Huiesand
children
Mr&Mr B. P. Horria Mr E. W. Leckrath Mr & Mrs W.
Jockeon
Mr V. Jeffery Mr J. Joseph Mr A. Lahden Mit E. G, Lambden Mra W. D Lee -Mi "PM. Maah
Murphy
"Ba patient. We are inexorable. The whole British Empire, on which the sun- never sets down, works for our triumph. We never change our mind, and we bure, throughout history, brought to a success. Mr.
ful end everything we have undertaken. Mre Newman irréductibles." We belong to the country
I'ZAK where you remain fünce for seven years,
"fiançailles" (engagement) with Mr & Mrs W. Arm
strong Victory is protracted, but nous l'épous prons magnifiquement" (our wedding Mrs Howdler
We shall Mr. & Mr Carmichael will be magnificent). know how to display an implacable obstin- Ar FW. Cary
Lt & Mm Cooney Acy, to pass over all obstacles, to surpass Arm O. D.Calls ourselves and everything, we have done. In Col. Darling EE. our tenacity wo guess that higher than Mr. Denuen Feller
Mr S. H. Elis ever was the enmity between France ond
Mrs Furnival England, will grow in future their friend- ship.
Mr&Mr B. A. Hole Mr. F. A. Hazeland
The jewels of victory will be yours, for
grandeur" of France,
parée and conquest, will equal the beauty and
ever reconquered............
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things we cannot make terms. As little of a future understanding with these it has gone and worked during the last half-century, has done itg utmost to lie, defame, and embroil. War was once Our trial of skill and strength. The Germans have added to its weapons the tools
the the forger, ahe dynamiter, and assassin. So little suspicious were we A year ago that we would not have be lieved the stolid, over-disciplined German capable of the unnumbered crimes which he has committed not only in the field but in every neutral country where he has After the great losses in personnet been permitted to sojourn. We know him My own personal view of the war, which
for whom no crime is too base, if only it may, I dere say, be of very little account, which Germany has suffered in the course better to-day as a desperate crackeman, of sixteen months, there exists a natural as that which I have strongly expressed in curiosity as to the physical quality of her helps him to attain bis unworthy cad, the American newspapers since the com- latest recruits. Various encouraging, who with a knife at his belt and explos mencement of the conflict.. I have said re- peatedly that I thought the intense Ger. though, it must be feared, ill-founded, sives in his pocket lurks in the by-ways Ornée" with Alsace-Lorraine at last for
The Allies, therefore, understand com currency, but an article published in man attempts to reach Calais would prove reports have from time to time gained of America that he may barn and murder. an utter failure, and that they would The Times from a correspondent who has pletely what they are fighting for. They never reach Paris. They are within a ring had access to the publications of the are fighting not only for their of steel on land and are blockaded by the medical and scientifp Press-in-Germany-freedom but to restore to the world law British feet. They are trying to make puts us in possession of facts which must and the comity of natious. If Germany their escape in a gamble to get to Buez, be resolutely faced. In view of these were to win, or to exact from us an in- where they hope to hold up the British facts, all rumours of anything like a conclusive peace, we should accept her Empire for an immense ranson by the seir general deterioration in the physique of view of warfare, we should bow our knee ing of the canal. I believe that they will the German soldier of the line must be to the vile god of cynical brutality get much further on the road to Suez than dismissed. Though certain fundamental which she and her Kaiser have raised they are at this day of writing, but with a distinctions in the classes under military aloft. In other words, we are fighting cannot be misinterpreted why great deal of knowledge of Germans and command have been obliterated in the pro- also for the sanctity of the battefield, Harden proves himself a sorry judge of of Germany I have never had any beliefgress of the war, and though certain re that when next men take up arms one our intelligence and our resolution when in their ability to defeat the Anglo-Saxon laxations have been made in the physical against, another Germany shall not be he hints that the Allies do not know why Indeed, we know, and the knowledge in war or any other greng test of character, standard required of recruits, no one who an example but a warning of terror. they are fighting.
cause of the Allies' obduracy, let him re-strengthens our arms and fortifies our We do not under-estimate the They are a world-nuisance, and will be is permanently unfit is accepted for aer-And if Herr Harden wishes for another world-nuisance for years to come, for the Vice. The medical examination is search, war cannet, in my judgment, be a short ing and thorough, and is, moreover, con member that Germany has from the very hearts. one. They have produced death and havoc ducted in such a way as to make the best first exasperated all her adversaries. So stern tack that lies ahead of us. We are
national use of the material submitted to on a scale unknown in the world's history.qe manhood of Germany is now along as she thought she was sing article faced by a ruthless, implacable foe. But parently catalogued on a scientific and experation was indeed, the first article we are united in aim and purpose, nu They are causing an upheaval that has no
learn to her cost that it is an ill-business and freedom, we can never make peace precedent during the Christian era.
Nor need We shrink from the fatigues and hardships of the bad for the world. It will prove an abid are selected for actual fighting: to Bar- trying to make peace with an exasperated except at our own time and in our race
rison duties are assigned those who are te
Not only are the Allies y Since the Allies are fighting for justice Icyal to one another, not only is the mere
H. J, B. Johns
Mr Len Jones-
GRAND
The officer then walked in front of his MrE, Alcock men towards the trenches swept by the Mr CR Arnols German artillery, and drawing his sword, Mr O. EL. Booth he said slowly, detaching every syllable Mr A. Cameron
"TIVA LA FRANCE**
Mr A. B. Grow
Mr W. O. Dariel Mr A. Daarion Mr K. S. Ell Mr L. E George Herr MJ.Hands
Mr D. Harray
e F. G. Xumn
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I am not sure that the upheaval will be practical plan: Only the permanently fit of her policy, and she will presently since, as I have said, we fight for justice ·
ing advertisement of the evils of a military either permanently or temporarily fit for oligarchy. It will also show the free and theas; and on work in general and often easy nations like the English and the ou a full day's hard work in subsidiary cccupations are engaged all
ordination and a little less freedom-those-
FIGHT TO A FINISHL
M. J. M. Maokay Mr J. Manteiro
Americans, that a little more national com who are capable of ardinary civil and clean conduct they can admit na thought of a separate peace ridiculous, treat with an bonourable opponent; you as Germany cannot, for the right moment might be for the welfare of the State. But it in
cannot cry quits with a malefactor. Mto deliver the final blow. Meanwhile, the and efficient, to imagine that prople with the horrors of rest" Germany appears to have taken be neck or nothing You might honestly upon our side. We can afford to wait, Louvain, Termonde and the rest in their stock of her human resources in a manner systems can ever dominate is to attempt which we cannot but admire. When we Painlevé put the case of his country the British Fleet, relentless
"will never yield preserves, unconquerable, the sovereignty. said he,. "France,"
So that Herr Harden may to prove that Magna Charta, Cromwell, remember how far behind Germany we the Faritan Fathers, 1776; Trafalgar, have beea content to remain in the mattor other day, in the terms of eloquence tightens its grasp upon our enemies and
of registration, a comparison, unfavour The principles for which she is fighting of the sea. Waterloo and Lincoln wero vain and worthless. I do not think that any able to us, is not surprising. But it need admit of no compromise or bargaining, put way from him all hope of speedy American of English Scotch or Irish not give us cause to despond. Our human You cannot compromise with right and and undecided peace. We shall fight to
M. Pain-war, or twelve. Not until we have Geral descent will be inclined lightly to tear out reservoir has always been more dit justice. When you are the champion of finish. We shall not risk the chance of those pages from that history of freedom, to tap. But the system.depicted certainly such an ideal you must conquer or die, ultimate victory to save three months of
the advisability of a less in-
and our ideal is immortal. which each of us carries in his mind from table division then that which now eve, in speaking for France, speaks for many humbled at our feet shell we offer us all, and explains in language which or consider terms of peace. Daily Maui. childhood upwards. Independent.
obtains between the fit and the unfit,
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Mrs Robinson
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NNE 6.00
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-1 BAGOMETNE, reduced to Sa dogross Fahrenbef, on the laval of the son in fualise, tentia and enadredtha.
3 TEKTAKATEAN, in the shade, 'În degies | Fañcomum:S.
* HEMIDITY, in parentage of entation, ammidity of air maturated with moisture being XV0.
A DISBOTION OF Wixp, to two points. S FORTH OF WIND, monording to Beanfork Scada. 1 BRATE OF WEATHER, b bine sky, o detached sloud, d drissling zalo, £ fog, g gloomy, k hall,i, lighting, a oroccant, p prasing mbowem, q egan india, & now, 1. thunder, 'v visibility, w daw (wet). 7 Barr in inoises, & tamils and hundredths,
DONGKONG
METEOROLOGICAL --
REGISTER.
Hongkong Obervatory, January 12th
Previous On Date On Data
Day
Wind Directios... NNE North WSW
at
at p. 6 m
Barpazar LÀ N Taispersaturs
2084 3.36
30.39
es
DI
62
Hudity.
04
69
56
Foros
3
Weather
COL COM
Highest open air 'Femjarstæus on lith. 63 54 Lowest opin sir Temperature on 11th ...
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE,
From 13th to 19th January, 1916.
HION WAZER
Low: "Warmu
H'kong
B'kong
Mean
Mean
Time
Time
Days of
b. EL ft. in.
Chu 33 3.59 4 6m 9 27
14
4 145
67 11 5131 548 4 1m 10 9 5.136.1
LOGIN CANON EO DARƏ Hig
2 6
10.02
Batar, 1 72440m0:8
39 16 m Örn.
$85
29 1 43 6396 8 m 11-3). 9:20 14 02
16 m 7) 1
0.17
10 6 4.0m 2 68
Mon.
17 m
18
-53
19
10 34
4:12
v#
277 0
20