A GREAT RECOVERY. HOW RUSSIA GRAPPLED WITH THE SHELL PROBLEM.
EXPLANATION OF THE MIRACLE.
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MISUSE OF SHIPS. BLUNDERS MADE BY AMATEURS.
[BY G. HOPE BOBINSON, EDITOR OF
FAIRPLAY. THE WELL-KNOWN
SHIPPING JOURNAL.]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. BATURDAY, APRIL 18T 1916.
The Germans have already celebrated
The haphazard, logical requisitioning "liquidation of the Russian corepaign."
of ship, coupled with an almost total ab- The German-Russians (and Russia blessed with millions of hyphenated Teusence of ordinary business knowledge on the part of the Admiralty, is responsible for tors as well as the United States were atrendy whispering into their un-hyphen- the presen, high freights and scarcity of ated neighbours cars the cunning sugges ships,
Passenger ships have been requisitioned tions of a separate peace with Tho beatable" enemy. It is no good our for carrying nitrate and boats specially trying to carry on the was unaided, they built to carry large light cargoes have been eaid. "We cannot beat the wonderful requisitioned for carrying cargoes in which German organisation and perfect mechan the balk is small as compared with the ical equipment by cur own efforts. It is weight. Quite recently these "dendweight" ao good opposing the German heavy howit carriers have been used to bring home from rers in their thousands and machine-guna tho River Plate hay so badly packed shat in their hundred thousands even by mil the vessel will not carry one-fifth of their lions of hire Russian breasts. Our alliesenpacity; while, further, the hay has been so poorly pressed that it has occupied two will not help us, and that is the end of
and a half times the space that a similar it;
cargo from Canada or the United States It means that ten wou'd have taken. steamers, are required to do the work of four.
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Even the most sanguins friends of Russia never hoped that Russia would soon recover from that shattering months' drive during which dozens of Iortresses erumbled to the ground, thou sands of square miles of territory were overrun by the invaders, and millions of combatants were placed burs de combat, anga a Russian, writing in a Home paper,
THE OFFENSIVE RESUMED And yes, before the arton leaves had fallen, we had seen the Russian Army firmly bolding the Austro-Germans before Riga and Drinsk, where their winter quarters were to be and now, in the mid- de of the winter, we are watching again the stendly progress of the Rassiaŭ offen- sive,
These accounts inny be supplemned by a few extracts from Russian soldiers' lotters supplied to a Russian journal by an officer whose business it is to read Ivan's letters daily. He gires them as a representative selection of thousands of Russian soldiers letters which have passed through his hands during the last few weeks,
BLOCKADING OURSELVES. Here are a few instances of the manner in which ships have been used by the Goy- ernment. They illustrate the way in which. we are blockading our.elves by car inability to grasp and manage a difficult situation. Some of these instances have been brought Others have to my native and verified. been referred to in Parliament. The names of vessels are not given exetpt where they have been mentioned in the House of Com-
men's
OUR SEA POLICE.
THE PICTURESQUE SIDE OF A WAR PATHOL.
DESTROYERS WORK.
We slipped out of harbour at the darken muddy street, for we showed no lights, and ig, picking our way like a girl crossing our big brothers were lying around, and to bump into them at fifteen knots an crumpled bows and a month in hospital.
Where are we going? What are we out for! Ask the skipper, but I think we're on the solitary, and we'll run up the Dutch coast, have a look at the Bight, give our Four days out-a week. love to Old Man Whiskers, cut across, and. kome again, Plenty oil, plenty baecy, pleaty shells, and rounds a minute! Wo tand up to twenty the best of guns semi-automatics, thirty * Hold As we turned out for the open, tight,” yelled the Guardian Angel as we Wong yound and were welcomed by a real nor'easter that sent the seas smash into 114.
But they are nothing if not game, those stendes rakish, oil-swilling marvels of seaworthines His Majesty's detroyer patrol.
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CHURCH SERVICES,
The water was all over us. but we took it like a bird and shook free. And here's a parting kiss from the shore--the sleep-Vas x Read less, shimmering searchight, nosing here. and nosing there, like a sheep-dog hunting for its master's trail, At last! The light stops dend. The seas between us and the thing that sends that magic beam are a track of malten, twisting gold. seconds and we are left blind and binking as the light shines. The was man's victory over night, Had we been something else than what we are a shower of six inch tyditite would have been our portion
Twenty-five kno's, and the ship is quiver Her steen is mostly ing like an aspen, under, and her thin high how parts the waves like a knife, and makes them show their teeth The wind razor-keen has freshened to a gale, and, despite the team. forts" from home from the cottage of the peasant and the palace of the peer-gets at the skin. The spume, with a bit of old. Emog Neptune behind it seems to freeze ere it hits you. And you can only say thanks and hold tight when an extra big fellow comes along.
(1.)-A high-class cargo boat was regu.si. fioned and fitted for the purpose of carry- Friendly war correspondents have sup ing horse Three thousand tons of conl
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDEAL. Hongkong. 46 plied us with the explanation of this were put on board, The cont heated and airacle, They have toki na of the wonder 1,800 tang of coal were substituted for it,
Sunday in Lant, 2nd March, 1016. Holy Com munion (8.5 a.m.) Matims (13 s..) Responses ful change wrought in the whole situation The ves el completed uno yoyage after this
Ferial; Venite, doas; Paalma, Oakley Talli- on the Russian front, and especially in the with horses, the fittings were removed, and spirits of the Russian army, by the ndeshe has beer since employed by the Ad-
and Oakley; fe Deum, Oakley in F Jubilare, Turle 19th morning); Anthem, "Come unt qants supply of shol's which has, ce Inst, miralty in all parts of the world or general
Him G unod; Hymn 197, N.B-Fealm. 9. cargas The 1,800 tons of coal have never
verses 1, 9,7 8, 19 and 10 in unison; Psalm 20 replaced the bare breasty" of the Rus sian soldiers
been unloaded, with the result that the
veras 1. 2, 7, 10, 12 14 19 and 20 in uniton.
31 the Kug
Holy Communion (12 space occupied has been entirely wasted.
Feb.
Responses, Ferial; (2.) The str. "Hellapols was negu rol by
God Save Government before the war for conversion into a hoqital ship. In reply to a que tlon
Psalm, Tarle and Fino, Magnificat, Copko in Parliament, Dr. Macnamara raplied
(16thning): None Dmitti, Riatait, (16th mɩrning); Hymns 254, 238 and 256,
ST. PETE'S CHURCH, West Point, Sun- that "owing to more pressing needs for the fighting ships for the Fleet it has not been
England's lost in the dark miles behind, 27. 2nd April:- Bely Communion,
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Prayer and Sermon. possible to proceed with the work for some
Preacher,
Ring
E. W. L. Martin, MA. months, and as the future does not hod outer millions sleep in safety, and this is part of the price, perhaps a small part.
UNION CHUBOR, Kaanedy Bond Sunday, any early prospect of proceeding with the
From the frozen North to the Bay hund April. Sunday Services. Morning Servior, work and the ship would be usefully om-
dreds of ships, all sorts and sizes do the at 11. Hymns, 554, 454 and 200; Falm 121, ployed in her original duties as a car work of the sea patrol-silently, effectively. Communion Servies to foliow Evening ship it has been decided to sell her." Accordingy a bont of 4689 tons gross has They leave port in storm or in shine, and Service at 6. Hymns, 374, 19, 384 and 230. been laid up for over eighteen months and come back again, and the interval between Preacher: Rev. J. Kirk Mizoensch & the nation has the satisfaction of knowing their coming and their going is filled with the it will have to pay for the useless re the glamour and the mystery of the war at Head The seas that smite are the sens that fitment already carried out.
(3.)--A steamer with a deadweight curry.save, and the fate that was Belgium's will ing capacity of apprommate 0 tons never be the fate of England, This storm was damaged in the early part of last year may roer death may lurk in she iron sphere and has been lying at Alexandrie pince of the mine but the spirits of old walk the arns to day Nelson, Blake Collingwood April waiting for the, necessary repairs to be carried out, Full tire is being paid Rodney, Camperdown, and Drake! Steal Under ord sary business inpagement it is for good, oil for wind, lyddite for round perhaps needless to add that the repairs chot would have been put in hand at once, so as so the vessel free for the carriage of cargo to and from this country.
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"We are having rare times now, writes one Russian soldier, "we have mountains of shells, and we do not wint thom. We are giving it back to the *Swabs" with interest."
"Do not fret,' little wife," writes an-
other to his lonely consort, "the war will Don be over, Every day train-load; of shells are arriving for our battery, and in- side each box there is word: Do not spare shells. With plenty of shells .WO shall 'soon' finish off the Germans,”
And another :----
"We have new guns and ris and plenty of shells. Lemberg will soon be oura ngain.
"
** BUSINESS MEN VEKAUS OFFICIALS,
Such is the miracle of Russia's recovery Who are the magicians who have worked
this miracle
To be sure Russin has much to thank her noble allies and friends: England and Franco-for sparing all they could from their far from overstocked depots; Japan-for her unremitting labours i supply Russ with shells; uyen tho nêu. tral United States for placing a part of thair great manufacturing resources at tha disposal of the Russian War Office, not forgetting the watchful British Navy which enabled the millions of shel's for Rain to reach thoir destination safely.
Bono help from without, no matter how great and whole-hearted, could have solved the Russian shell problem satisfactorily, could have been adequate to supply the requirements of the huge Russian army On a scale corresponding with the titanis tank before il. Only a united effort by this whole nation could suffice, and such RA effort has been made, or at least initiated by the Russian nation,
In the spring of last year the first. Rus minn: "War Industrial Committen" was formed in Moscow, followed by similar commit.ces in Petrograd, Odessa, Kieff, Kharoff, and other large cities of Russia. They correspond to the loest munition coin- mittors in this country, with this great difference however; here they have been called into being by a Cebines Minister who realised that the Government along could not coun with the task of supplying national army, but required the help of the best business brains of the country, whilst in Russia these war-industrial com mitters have been formed by "captaing of industry themselves in the teeth of
in the te official opposition, det
(4.)-A boat constructed for the Mediter ranean and Bay trades and employed for taking conl to lay and France and bring ig back ore to this country is requisitioned and ordered to proceed to the Tropics and fetch back a carge of sugar. The owners explain that the vessel is in no way fitted for the trade; that the crew are not equip ped to make the voyage, and that extra stores will be required. The protests are ignored and tonnage in fatuously mis. applied. A vesset suitable for the voyage was at hand and had been lying id'e for some time in the same port.
Darkness
GOSPEL HALL
10 AND 12 FEDDER STERIET.
Weekly Services-- Sanday-Breaking of Bread for Believers
ouly, 11 a.m. Bunday: Children's Sunday School, &
p.m. Monday-Gospel Meeting for Chinose, Sunday: Gospel Meeting, 8 p.m.
7:30 p.m. TuesdayExposition of Scripture. 8 p... Thursday: Bible Class, 8 pm. Saturday Prayer Meeting, 8 p.m.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 31st at 11.12 a.m.-No returns from Japanese stations
There are still indications of an anti-cyclone Over B. Mongolia,
Lights ahead The sudden ery of the starboard watch is chived in the wind, Three onles away, rising and sinking in the swell, are the pinprick lights of a ship. Course is altered sightly, and in a few minutes the searchlight opens full on the Cnly a home-trade carg). stranger boat, Rotterdam to Harwich. agan, and the pinprick lights go dancing on their way..
Now dawn begins to show in the east, The stars pile streaks in a wintry sky Jade, the sea changes slowly from back to grey. The wind has vocred due north and is keener, if that be possible. There is an Watch is changed ugly lurching swel again, and the men, drenched and numb,Haiphong and Tourans, go below to rest. Four hours on and four hours off, and the one is as good as the ather. It is as peasant to be frozen on the bridge as to be stunned and sick in the large measurement cabin.
(5.)--A vessel was chartered by the Ad. miralty to carry ore from New Caledonia to this country. She was lying at the time in New Zealand, and the owners suggested that, she being
MOULDIES
MORE THAN A MATCH FOR Patrol work in a winter gale is diagree-
There is now one large depression over 8. Chins and Indo-China, with centre between
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FORTALT. 18.E. to E. winds,
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steamer, it would be a wise, and economica) measure on the part of the authorities if they were to ship 8,000 bales of wool, Thy able, but it is wort at night, Daylight Rongkong & Neighbourhord moderate; over- suggestion was overruled, with the resulstrings a slight rolief. Submarines? We that the large ineasurement capacity of the vessel was wasted...
Con't reckon a submarine a match for a It is only destroyer properly handled." when she is taken unawares, at ancher or near it, that a mouldy" ever gets bome in a mosquito craft, Given anything of a chance, destroyer will score every time. Heaven help the submarine that cromes the path of the destroyers, Her life is not worth living. She may submerge, but the destroyer is one of the keenest and most successful anglers.
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BEGISTER. Hongkong Observatory, March 31st.
(6) Last February (the facts in this case were brought out by Sir A William- son in the House in November, 1915) ten oiltankers were requisitioned by the Ad- miralty and at great expense four were fitted up for the truasport of troops and six were roughly altered. The expense was great, and after it had been incurred it was discovered that the boats were too slow for their purpose, In the following. August.
The destroyer is a more wonderful craft they were returned to their owners with than most people imagine, but its wonders out having been employed in any way in may not be told. Wait till the big fight comes off. Of course there is going to he. the interval. The result of this transaction
big fight, voner or later-probably 'a'er i is that the nation is nearly a milion, ponds That is the confident hope and expectation TEK ORGANISERS OF VICTONÝ, in one direction or another out of posket Imagine the annoyance of the bureaucra (7.)-A small steamer was requisitioned of the Navy. And we think wo know Barcus 1.829.67 tin Olympians when some merchants manu- to carry con! to an east coast port Under where it will take place and how. Ther you will perhaps learn something of the facturers, and engineers of Mesow, the businesslike management methods in
people without any rank whatever, rogue at the Admiralty she managed to value of the destroyer in attack and defence, There are two things we pray for May complets two coasting trips in the same
The offered their co-operation to the Wartime that she would have accomplished five the sea be rough and vision good, Navy and General Intendent's depart when the owner was looking after his own
German has proved himself a game fighter ments. Anything more presumptuous than interests,
but he is not a sailor and he can't shoot in such an offer to the Imperial Government
a gale... -could hardly be imagined
formed themselves into a committee and
This is a good boat. A few months ago it was one of our best. It isn't now,
There is a fleet of Dutch trawlers over there fishing industriously. Let's get closer for a peep. Sometimes a German is to be found among them, with more eggs aboard than fish. Nothing doing this time. They don't love us, these Dutch fishermen.
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(8.)--A.beat is sent by the Admiralty to London lo load for a French part. With Nevertheless the Moscow Committee per- the object apparently of assisting to bring sorored with their work. Soon the more about a decrease in freights, she is kept enlightened members of the Russian ging up for three weeks and is then de- ernment came to realise the value of private patched with only a quarter of her dead Co-operation with the central authority. weight, cargo on board, By their abeer ability and public-spirited
(9)-A steamer requisitioned by the work, the war industrial committees hoye Government loaded a cargo of coal at Car earned official recognition and now: diff for the Channel Islands. Having been There is the mooke of a ship on the throughout Russia they are busily engaged kept there for three weeks she was sent to horizon-a German possibly. in organising the victory," as they justly Malta, From Malia, in the hope of finding in, lumbering, contraband carrying beast
some recipient for her cargo, she was sent
The
A few She's only a describe their work of "mobilising Russian industries, while the Russian artillery is
to Alexandria. The coal not being required of a tramp, but there'll be a boarding here already busy firing Russian shells made at there, the was ordered on to ladros. From for a certainty Ah there are the signa's small Russing engineering shops which, if Mudros she returned to Malta towing a
up-Stop or I will fire." the Petrograd officials and line their way small vessel probably worth about £100. beast's going on! We'll talk love to her The would never have risen to the dignity of From Malls this unhappy wanderer was presently. There you are, arsenals,
I know personally a Russian brass ordered to Port Said, but shortly after forward gun spaaks, and a lump of lydite friendly Gorman torpedo goes zipping past her bows Nothing like leaving Malta aя.
lyddite for teaching wisdom. That's brought her up.
founder in a small way of business who in put her out of her misery. time of peace employs see fifty or sixty men in turning out valves and taps. Now his modest plant, with some three hund- ral hands working day and night in thres example by many thousands, and you will shifts are engaged in executing & Gov. get an idea of the possibilities of Russia's ment contract for a million band mobilisation of industry, initiated and or- grons ex "We are now all working for gaused by these committees of business viotory here," he writes. Mutiply this men
The destroyer slips up to within a few hundred yards of the tramp, & big neutral, deep in the water. Not going to board her in that sen 1 Of course we are What do you think we're here for? Yes it is a bit risky, but it's part of the day's work, and we don't think about it.
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PASSENGERS. ARRIVED.
Per Hatching, from Saigon, for Hong keng Mr. E. Colas, Madame E. Vaillent.
Medave 8, Bavetoed,
Per Chinhua, from Philippine Islands, for Hongkong. De and Mrs. Thos B Corrington, Mr. Tina, Misg Read, Mr. wors. G. E. Croke, Capt. H. E. Lawrence.
The boarding party, an officer, petty efficer, and half a dozen men, well armed, tumble into the whaler, leaving the rest to Providence. The wha or is rewed pa nful. ly over that strip of sea but at last they got the lee of her, en ungracious laddor is thrown, and they scrambe aboard.
Thought so. That ship jen't straight, and she'll have to go home for examination, Won't her skipper swear Half an hour, and he would have been nfe and anug in Dutch cerritorial waters, with thousands to the good.
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