FRENCH COURAGE AT VERDUN
A SERGEANT'S BAG."
COTOXEL'S GALLASTRY.
[By II. Warter Allen, Special: Cor-
French Armici.].
WHAT ABOUT THE NAVY ?
GERMAN PLANS AND BRITISH PREOCCUPATIONS.
[BY H. W WILION.]
Thng in the nape futurs we may reach
respondent of the British Pres with the the crisis of the way and that the issue of that crisis may depend Con, the success or failure of no great paval stroke by the enemy is now widely believed among neutrals.
Verdna
VERDUN, March 4th. is being bombarded to-day, as The has been for the Inst 12 days. German have poured hundreds of tons of steel and high explosive into the town. At present they are devoting their main atten. tion to the gates, no doubt hoping that n Lucky but niay fall near enough to a motor
We have just been lorry to destroy it. Kunding under one of the gates buils by Vanbay. In about five minutes some 20 or 30 din, and sin, shells have exploded with terrific violence within an uncomfortably ama!I ring around that gate. They have mown down large trees, torn big holes in sodden meadows, and rained splinters all about the place; but apart from this they have not done a pennyworth of damage. Al over Verdun a steel rain of splinters is falling on the roofs and in the roads.
The German advance made at such tremendous cost represunts almost zero from the strategic point of view. They are be tween two and three miles nearer Verdun, and the is all. They are at the same dis tance from the coveted town as they were in January, 1918, and all the they have done is to recover the ground which the French won between January and April that year, with comparatively insignificant Jossex.
FRENCH TROOPS' SPLENDID 'COURAGE...... When one talks with the men who come down to Verdun straight from the fring line, one realizez how tremendous must have been the German losses. Never have French troops fought more magnificently than the
под
who retired so grimly from the Haumant Wood, the Bois des Caure, and Herbébeis, to the line of the Côte du Poivro aid Dousmont. They fought to gain time and gladly gave their lives for This object. Two divisions he'd ap two German Army Corps for several hours. Every yard of ground yielded was paid for by the enemy a hundred times over.
The British Navy is the keystone of the Allions. Wers its hold on the sea thaken Great Britain would be ruined Russia would be isolated, the French front turned,
Italy
The crushed.
German and Admiralty and the German Governinent fully understand these fads. In the early days of the war they attempted to over- come the fighting force of the British Fleet by attrition. That plan failed. Next they tried a submarine
THE JONGKONG DAILY PRESS: TUESDAY APRIL 2# 1916.
ROOSEVELT'S BOOK OF THE WAR
FEAR GOD-AND TAKE YOUR
OWN PART"
A KNIGHT ERRANT OF THE AIR.
THE STORY OF A DUEL
The following is extructed from a loiter received from an Oxford undergraduate Mine eyes have seen the glory of the who is serving in the Royal Engineers
This arming the air was full of German coming of the Lord;
plades. I saw one flying overheat at a great Fal- height. Gun after gun picked it up,
He is trampling ant the vintage where the
grapes of wrathi are stored.
terrible swift »word, He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His
His truth is marching on.
owed it acruge she sky with the deadly
SHIPPING IN PORT
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April, Coul-Mitaui Bussan Kalba. CELOROW, British str. 1.105, Joe. Doyle, 15th April-Port Parseval 12th April Limo Stone.Shewan, Tome & Co CHINHUA, British str.. 1,360, J. V. Bid. ford, 14 April Manila 18th April, General-Buterfield & Swire,
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VISITORS AT HOTELS.
HONGKONG HOTEL.
Mr Ma&. E. Adair Mra. Athol Anderson
and muid
Mr F. W. Aiburat Mr B. L. Atkinson Mr H. Murray bain Mr J. H. Baring
Men B. B. Belibion
Kz B. E. Belllios Mr C. D. J. Bell Capt E. Bout
Me: C. W, Boswick
puff-balls, and then gave it up to the tender mercies of the next battery as it passed out of range. The Boche Rew on quite undisturbed, waking for the town
bout three miles back from here,
Then I saw that one of our bis fighting CROSSING, Britishstr., 1424, Woodgett H. Bickerton
18th April Shanghai 16th April, Gesorn-Order. CHUNGANG. Britih str., C, J. Matlock, 23rd April-Japan 13th April, Coal Jardino, Matheson & Co.
stry 833. J. Jorgenson,
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Mr.R. J. Bisbeck Mr. Bleaker Capt B. Bran h #TO 8. Ba Mr. J. H. Bulmer
Mr J. F. Baske Mr M. Bushan Mr. J. Burns Dr. F. di Chneri
A whole bookful of Mr. Theodor Roose | ve'ťa, views on America's position in
regard to the European was published plates bad risen, and, flying low over the by Hodder & Stoughton. It is dedicated was hurrying in my direction as
far away from the German trying to get to the ineuiry of Julia Ward Howe, and as possible. So it seemed for the moment. her famous Battle Hymn of the Repub and then I saw he was getting wel behind lic. written at the time of the American the enemy and would rise to his height to
ok 18th April, Rice, Mr N. C. Bran Civil War, is printed at the beginning, an attack him on the return journey. For voicing. Mr. Roosevelt sentiments for the present was. The hook is entitled "Ferret time. I watched the twer machines EUGENIA, Russian str. 1.220. Weide, 22nd Mr
the one circling slowly over the town lod and Tike Your Own Pu¬,” a phrase in the distance; the other now well away. bockade" This ex-used by the heroine of "Lavengro," and towards the firing line and rising rapidly. podient was not more anccessful. There that, again, voices its definite purpose.ally disappearing out of sight into a remains the possibility that in their next
Taking his title as text, Mr. Rooseveliidud-ban The Boche plane stayed gaine compaign they may attempt to gain com- anys of America —
fidhi unchallenged, then turned in mand of the sea by a dire struggle with the British Flect or that is an alternative
leisurely sort of way and started for home. air calm and very clear, with here and This morning was ideal for flying, the they may eway an attack on our commerce vubmarine cruisers and surface with
there a heavy cloud floating slow'v neres, raiders of the Moewe lyps.
but not threatening rain, and everythin seemed to point for a safe return for the
The success of our Navy in any conflict. depends on three factors; personnel, cam mand, and matrial, which includes ships and guns,
As to personnel, though our Navy is vast lymperior in va experience, the Germans have now had eighteen months of war, which has enabled them to give a hotter training to their large number of short- servico men. They have had some practice at sea in the Baltic and in the mine-pro- tooled area of water off Heligoland, where they can always be screened by their air- craft. trawlers, and luge destroyer folillas.
In command the Germans have a great control and not governed by a committee. advantage. They are under direct naval
The command of the British Fleet is primarily in the hands of the Board of Admiralty, a committee consisting of four naval officers and four civilians. Not one of the four civilians knows anythinw of naval war. One of them, a most brilliant amateur is the political head of the Navy and holds offies as First Lord of the Ad-
aty, with practically absolate power oved the Fleet (as appared from the Dardane log business) if he chooses to 283ort that power.
There was a sergesert who, as his Colonel certifies of his own knowledge, accounted for 00 Boches with rifle bullets. Ha was the crack shot of his battalion, and, when the enemy were advancing, he went up out side the trenches mid stood there, fully ex posed to the storm of shells and bullets. while his codes handed up to him load- In material we started ha war with a ed rifle after loaded rifle from below the large predominance in battleships and parapet. By a miracle he was not touch-guas, though in modern large submarines ed, and after he had accounted for his 60 and destroyere we did not stand go well. termoris he fell back with his battalion ta the second line. He has been recommended for the Croix de Guerre, and for men havaity in force is necessary by auccess. The warned it better,
In the actions fought at a we have found in practice that a marked unperíor-
idea that one Englishman equal to ibres Germions (once entertained by Sir John Spoon, though never by
ought by now to have been knocked out of our politicians. A superiority in numbers and guns is more than over necessary because the enemy has always the initiative at sea. He can decide whether and when be will attack, and he can watch with his
The endurance of the French troop, dur- ing this battle has been beyond all peniso. Alest two days and two nights continuous fighting they still retained their dash and unshakable moral, “ We are going to stay fere, mid one of these points to Staff wificer, until we are killed, and is that: way we die sure the reserves will be able to come up in time." I spoke to a wound-ainhips, which are now constantly patrof-
el man just back from the fering trench. He had lost his right hand, and I condoled with “hi' on his had luck. That is mothing he replied cheerfully, I offered my life so France, and she has only taken any hand, so there I gain."
„In the utter fatigue of the third day, when, under the storia of German shells, Convoys were few and far between at the advrocol positions, the men fought on dog- gedly, without food or drink. An artillery captain lold me the following story of his battery :--
It was in the full height of the assaut, and they guns had been firing round after round at the highest speed. After 700 or 800 rounds the 75's become so hot that it was impossible to fire any longer until the pieces had been cooled, and there was Ho wate; left except in the men's water Bottlen The men were most dying of thirst, and yet, of their own free will, they refund to drink a single drop, reserv na all the water in their flasks for the cooling of the pieces which were defending the in- fantry a mile or two away.
The name of Colonel Driant, Deputy of Nancy, will always be remembered with the battle of Verdun. With his two battalions of picked troops he recovered by a counter- attack the original French positions in the Bois de Caures, but, owing to the with- -tirawal of the French left the Germans begun to surround him. · He. divided-hi; en inte five columns for the retreat that had become inevitable, and he himself mar- ehed in the rear of the last columns. Almost all his troops had retired safety from the wood when the Germans cloud round from the left and from the right, nipping the last French column with, as it were, *gigantic pair of pinears. A hundred Gem Or so were out off, and with them Colonaj Driant, why, true to the ancient maval tradition that a captain should be the last man to leave his ship, had chosen for hilf the place of danger.
There is good remian to hope that Colonel Driant is unwanded prisoner in the that he saw a captured officer belonging hands of the Germans. A prisoner states to Colonel Driant's corps. The description
Driant,
ling the North Sea in fair weather for
good opportunity.
Our superiority son only be maintaiand by constant exertion, Thưo is only one safe hypothesis in this wan thay Germany has done and will do all that human power can do in naval construction and the re armament of her ships with hearter guns.
of fact, we know from the
As rendent att that her yards are Hamburg working as hard as they can. They are roughly up to date and equipped with the most modern machinery, so that they are certainly equal if not superior to anything of their kind in this cousity. They were building merchant chipping largely before the war, and a this contructive capacity will now have been diverted to war work.
In 1000 there were in Germany twenty slips capable of accommodating the largest baitleships and battle-orders. Six of them were occupied when the war began. It was possible for Germany to lay down fourteen additional Dreadnoughts, even if the number of slips had no been increased,
As to Germany's ability to build and com- plate them quickly, we have Mr. Me- Kenna's most significant admission in 1909: Two years ago anyone familiar with the capacity of Krupp's and other great Gerrean firm would have ridiculed the possibility of their undertaking toʻsip- y the compamant part, of eight batile. ships in one year. To-day this produc- live power it a realised fact. It will
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Mr B. W. Cutwright Ar O. Champlin Mr N. Creacher Capt J. Dewar
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Order.
Mr AM F. E. Davie Mr J. Dewar Brad Miss Derkins Miss M. E. Duty Mr A. W. Eaatzoan Hr W. Farley
If this nation had leared God it would have stood up for the Belgian and Arme nians; if it had been able and willing to take its own part there would have been no murderous assault on the Latania, no outrages of our men and women in Mexico
not hostility to other nations, but at a great pace, making an almost impos Kas the quickened sense of responsible goodwill sible target for our "Archies " towards her nations, a goodwill of acta
anti-aircraft guns are always called) and not merely of words. I stand for They soomed to realize this, and hardly a nationalians of duty, to oneself and to shot followed him se bo sped across the sky. others; and, therefore, for a nationalisme passed over my head and made away for hooo, skirting along the edge of a large dark cloud that stretched away towards the horizon. Au old fellow in long waders was standing knee-deep in the ditch at the side of the rand, slowly and thought-
True patriotism canrie with invader. He came towards me down wind | HAIYANG, British ste, 1,362, A. E. HodgM.. flowmd Ford
which is a means to internationalism. The ex-President's judicument of Presi- dent Wilson's war policy is sweeping, a may be gathered from this extract —
When Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan
made this nation shirk its duty towards Belgium, they made us false to all our high ideals; for they acted and caused this Government to ach in that spirit of commercial opportunism which refuses to do duty to others unless there is in it
St
fully lifting the mud up on to the banks
on either side ditching," I believe you call it. He saw me looking up at the now distant plane, and laughed. Looks ns. if owned who place, he said “hut, Gawd! if they did bring him down! ?
A BUDDEN SWKIVE,
preuniary "profit for oneself. This com I glanced up again, and as I tooked the bination of mean tiidity and mean com.plane made a sudden swerve away from mercial opportunism is peculiarly odious, the cloud-bank and a larger and darker because those practising it have sought form speed to spring out of the shadow a chunting to hide it by profuse outbursts of wordy just as you have often seen contimentality and loud professions of a spider dart out of its hiding place and tachment to impossible and undesirable are some wretched insect. It was the ideals, A
fighting plane I had seen rising son tirnė before
ferent
Next Mr. Roosevelt describes what his
Almost before one could realize what was attalade to President Wilson would have been had the policy of the latter bien diffeman was planing madly down the machine guns were fring. the wards for his life. At first I thought it If President Wilson had shown the dis was morely a ruse to help him to shake off interested patriotism, courage and fore- his big oppment, but the vol-plan was eight demanded by this stupendous crisis turned into a spiral, sad I knew that son- I would have supported him with hearty thing was wrong. For a few seconds he enthusiasm But his action, or rather came down steadily and then seemed to lose inaction, has been such that it has Izerce | all' control. The radios of the spira's got Lo matter of bigh patriotic duty to opposeless and less, and the descent more steep
him,
No man can support, Mr. Wilson all the plane was pitching hardlong down- without being, false to the ideals of na wards, whirling round and round as it
folk-like dauging Dervish dropping
through space!
No man on support. Mr. Wilson without oral duty and international hipisniti opposing the larger Americanism, the In amongst the wonderfully varied mix- true Americanian, No man can support ture of the noise of the “Front," which Mr. Wilson and at the same time be really at first seem so strange, but which one in favour of thoreagh-going prepared quickly comes to disregard, there cimo a ness against war. No man can support now sound, a crash which might posilale Mr. Watson without it the same tine sap-bove mant the falling of ® shell some dis- porting a policy of criminal inefficiency tance way, but to ine it brought back as regards the United States navy, of nenories of still fans mursing on the Port short-sighted inadequacy as regards the Meadow at Orford. Do you remher? army, of abandonment of the duty owed ↑ It was the first time that I saw Death. by the United States to weak and well- 1 locker Papagajn at the spot where the behaved nations, and of failure to insist shogzulu).
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M. I. Lory Mr J. Legge Miss Einok
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Mattos and child
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Basterfield & Swire,
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10th April Wakamaten 10th April, Coal. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha NAMUR, British st., 4,138, A. Collyer. 14th April-Bombay 27th March, General,
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Mr J. C. Hiskman “ Mr M. B. Hiden. Mra T. Heyward Haya Mr A. Hicks
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BALAKI, British str. 4,100, D. A Car diner, 17th April-Durban 21st March,
· on our just rights when we are ourselves betted lace, but the sky Goral-Bank Line, b
maltrea ed by powerful and unscrupulous nations
Examining the severa parts the Allier have played in the war, Mr. Roosevelt pray our Navy uurservedly
absolutely inaugent of plans My “spider of the eir" had slipped back to his hiding place again.
LATSH from where he has spent the day. He Msiour has got back in his ** voltura
TO MILITARY SERVICE
says that: siz "civilians were killed this The English Navy was mobilised with morning by a bomb dropped from in Ger that of the German army. It has that lay a rapidity and efficiency as great atan seroplane. I am beginning to realize apide, of the air was realy a driven every warship, except an free-
true Knight Errant after all, sional submarine, and every merchant ship of Germany off the seas, and has kept the scen na a highway of life not only for England, but for France, and OBJECTIONS largely also for Russia. In al] history there has been no such gigantie and suc-. cessful naval feat accomplished as that. which the Beanien and shipwrights of A Great Eastern Railway olerk at Ed England have to their credit during th bonton said that “I could now utteur" a Inst 18 months.
WIN wounded soldier so that he mi hì be men led Mr. Roosevelt also pays honourable tribute to kill another ladridual. I wil de to the achivements of the Er tish Aray and work in the interest of the war" to the greatness of the fort which has made it what it now is in fine, he has nich ta say which will be read with the liveliest interest by English prople,
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Java-China-Japan Lijn. Anzed what I would do if ks mother Tasaus. Chinese str. 1,216, C. A. Wester were assaulted, he replied: No on would | Iund. 17th April Shanghai: 13th
ault my mother unless God permit ed it.Apri. General-Order
If my moher was usnultoj is would be TAINEI MARU, Japanese str., Murakami, according to His will
Mr. Cul-If Gad permitted the war then what are your wishof-If God p rm tted |
The German power of constructing this nearing completion have been hurried then it would be no more than. He slowed by adine, Matheson & Co.
lax the resources of our own great firms the House of Commoss on February 17th the war He did so for Teason, but we are to retain supremacy in Mr. Runciman said that something liks | God has got told me to take part in 16. mpidity and volums of construction, forty-five (merchant) vessels which were TF is was His will that I should be assulted
away, while less urgent Admiralty work own Ban to be assaulted and even has been put on one side for a month or tiled. (merchant segels) which are now declared five or sta torek, We have another 140 The Charms-You realise that God's to be wat work."
particular type of ship is at this time almost, if not fully, equal to our own owing to their rapid development during the last eighteen months,
Navy is being called upon to wait four,
In the seven years since those grave words were spoken Germany has not stood So that naval work is being sacrificed will The Daily Mail in 1909 gave the for the requirements of commerce, press Government warnings, which have since ably by the decision of the Cabinet, and the been only too bitterly justified by events, five or six weeks, Germany is building as to the vast installationg of heavy Horn in the German argument factories building merchantmen instead of warships machine tools and huge the boy warships instead of merchantmen; we are
what is to me an a arming statement
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Karish, 19th April-Duiros 12th
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Chinese str., 1,071, J. 8. Gundersen,
Fan was killed for your redemption--Yes Toro MALU, Japancas str: 2,020, M. 18th April-Saigon 13th April, Rice.
Older. The Chairman-And that it may be neces
· Fujio, 23rd April-Moji 17th April, sary for other people's sons to be killed for the redemption of others 1-I don's follor TONGLAR, Chinese str., 882. M. Honda,
***General Nippon Yusen Kaisha, your point in tipped
The Chairman-He was killed for your
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of this officer tallies with that of Colone that date. The Goverment took no heed: regard to gans Lord Kitchener for all then you must continue to accept DJIMA MAKU! Japanese str., 3,00% 8.
cept the principle of redempt on by One redemption. Chher sorts will have to die for the redemption of others · If you ne-
or abused those who had warned it; and in the House of Lords on February 17th, it now when it is required for the redemp the stupendous German superiority in the CROWN PRINCE'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY."" output of munitions was the result of this
that the construction of anti-greraji ton of the nation of the future,
From information obtained from prisoners
silent, subtle form of armament
guns has now priority over other ordu Applicant-If One died for all is God's aner,"* so that apparently the Nory har-night it is not, necrsamcy for any other to one has evidenco of an interesting change
Behind this tremendoni shipbuilding and to take woond place in the malte, of guns, die for the redemption of another. in the mentality of the German High Cogan-making industry organised to perfec- and its needs are subordinated to those of Recommended los son combatant service. sand. Last April, after the French had, sion, is a steel industry ze vooral that it purely passive defence fitae v me they say, given Verdua room to breathe dwarfs everythin Great Britain. Yet Next we have Lord Crewe confessing
and extended their line î
directions, ak the Germans sent to Verdun a number of reserve regiments which they enden-
voured to cheer by telling them that they were going to carry Verdun by -ssault. All the prisoners taken at that time de eared that both they and their officers were anything but exhilarated at the thought of trying to storm a great fortress at the point of the bayonet. Since Disember last, however, the men sent to Verdua hays been fold that the capture of the town is re- served for the artillery, and thus they are only being sent there to grace the Crown Prince's triumphal entry into the fortified town,
Germany could have empeted
with us at sea, while fighting wo great land that, owing to labour troubles and other Powers, but for the fact that she has can causes, Raval construction has not pres gets and stallurgical remenroe, the we have Mr. Balfour's admission that Belgium with its grout machine gressed as it should have done, and, last y. ateel-producing district of Northern wants at this moment.
* the Navy hơi nớt got all the guns itt: France, and the steel making district of Poland.
There is arious map in Buch are the official statendente They Andrée Hard Atlas showing machine are certainly not resuring nor do they works and mineral beds, which shed a suggest any cause whatever for resting on singular light on the importance of Ger our care,
oy's land enquesta and has a bearing on the usa position.
Now let us turn to the latest statements as to the steps being taken in Great Bri- tajd to maintain our naval advantage. In
What is certain is that an alert, experi- encod, energetic mind is wanted at White- hall and to represent the Navy in the chaos of committees which are managing this war. Daily Mail, gyak
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