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BRONCHITIS:
WEAK LUNGS
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CONSUMPTION
THERAPION
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GREECE AND WAIL.
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under the
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 16гg. 19in **
standing of the passengers was not taken into consideration the steamer carrying General Moschopoulos, the oficer con manding the Salonika Army Corps, with all his Staff was taken to Modros and detained there many hours, without, s subsequent events have proved; any ade quate reason.
proof to the contrary is that it is now
NO LOTTERY BONDS.
GAMBLING FOR WAR LOAN WOULD
BE A BLUNDER.
WE ORT THE MONEY IN ANY CASEL
From these sources a
BEHIND THE LINES. FEEDING GUNS AND TROOPS IN FRONT
BATTLE OF VERDUN.
FRENCH STRATEGY DESCRIBED.
Mr. H. Warner Allen, Special Cor e spotdent of the British Press with the French Armies, writes
After over forty daye and nights the
they should give him time to organise his expects from his advanced positions inst positions in accordance with the informa- tion be receives concerning the attack as it develops, and to bring up the men and material necessary for resistance. If these objects are achieved the loss of treat on the main position, and the in- ground inseparable from a gradual re
cable casualty lie, which is certain to include many prisoners, are matters of The advanced lines are. small moment. established with a view to their being abandoned as soon as their purpose has heen served, and the troops stationed in them are bound to be sacrificed in order that essential objects may be gained.
AN EVENTIAL COUNTER OFFENSIVE,
TONIGHT
LEGIONS OF MOTOR LORRIES. Objection, was taken in an editorial in Mr. H. Warner Allen writing from Prince Nicholas of Greece has asked
tir de foParis, April 5th, The Daily Telegraph to give publicity To sum up, the great griecause of the the Daily Chronicle to the proposed France, in March, saya
issue of Ereminu Log Bouds, or Bonus All along the roads that lead to to the following letter from his Royal Greeks is that their maritime commun Bonds, for the purposes of the war. In Verdun the smell of battle is in the air. Germans in their attack on Verdun are
Highness
cations were paralysed to such an extent the following interview Sir Thomas There is no longer the comparative tran till battering away at the French a ATHENS, March 4th, 1916 that the country has repeatedly been on Whittakor. M. P chairman and managquillity which set to reign behind the vanced lines, Nowhere can they be suid the United Kingdom liner when French and Germans, sitting to be as yeb face to face with the real DEAR LORD BURNHAM,-1 have a very the verge of starvation, although no facts
justifying such measures have ever been ing director of pleasant recollection of your visit to established. This brings nie to another Temperance and General Provident In- tight in their own trenches, were trying French position. From the French point Greece in 1913, and, therefore, I am ziadanion from which the Greeks have stitution, throughly supports the views to wear down the Rome 20,000 sives battle, which has been carried na opposing army by a of view, the Battle of Verdun is a dafen- of an opportunity which now offers
expressed sking ouro publish these lineaters of suffereil much as substance there she said I am fully in process of exhaustions. What urges me particularly to do so made their appearance in the Mediter agreement with the article. The issue of these roads. To them must be added books. In such a battle the advanced is the fact which certainly could not
caissons, and horse-drawn commie Jinos are bound to play a most import guns ranean and the Egean the rumour has any kind of premium or lottery, bond have escaped your notice during the cones persistently set afloat that they had is, I am convinced, unnecessary, and sariat carts of every description. Yet ant part. They are called upon to break of the greatest and warmest affection their bases for revidialling in Greek would be a great mistake. Cover it up everything passet swiftly along, and the the enemy's assault before he reaches the veraction we had together-that bonds
we may by the use of other terms, a roads are scarcely ever blocked, real line of defonce and to wear down bus. premium boud is in fact a lottery bond. Motor vans loaded with men trundle bind my family to the Royal family of
Such a preference would be explicable England, and that we have always enter these boats needed to have their base nese bonds would appeal to an ex along, each five yards behind the other numbers. Above all things, a commendar tained for your country a feeling of quito
find in every kind of wild cat scheme, there are. I noticed one big lorry that sympathy and admirs close to the radius of their netivity The tremely small class, the class that you and it is amazing how few breakdowns tion.
It is in England that we like to spend commonly believed that the Senoussis parsons, women, and people of limited had taken a dive down a three foot bank our holidays, and it is there that we were supplied with arms and ammuni incomes, who have no knowledge of busi-mto a field, where it lay, wheels in the ness or finance and are tempted by the air, like some wounded monster. The few tion direct from Pola by submarines. count the greater number of friends Now, if these boats can operate on chance of a high return for their money motor cars of the touring type that lose This being so, you may enaily imagine the North African consts while having The investments of these people in war wheels or otherwise come to grief are how deeply we have regretted that any their base in the inmost recess of the loans, at the best, would not amount to promptly taken in tow by one of the onuse of misunderstanding should have Adriatic, they need not have their les much, and are certainly hot worth passing lorries, so that everywhere the arisen between our two countries, and on the Greek coasts in order to operate making a very undesirable departure road is free.
from our methods to
obtain.
All this traffic has
affic has necessarily cut ap how earnestly we hope that the
in the Egan. Moreover, the Bulgarian
the roads badly There were several atmosphere of doubt may speedily and consts with the two ports of Porto-Lago
inches of mud on them that could worthi totally be dispelled
The Greek nation, are
Pain and Dedeagatch, the Sea of Marmora,
Many of the schemes that have been ly compare with the mud of the trenches Minor, cau mentioned for getting the savings of the mud with the density of thick soup ful impression; that full justice has ant and all the coastline of Asia
serve their purposes of the people into war loans are, which splashes over everything and been done to them. They feel that little
urther, any attempt of the German account has been taken of the many and
my judgment, based largely on delu everybody. At the edge of the roads rute inches deep from which our Bumble services rendered by them; they their aimes, whilst quite unnecessars, sion The savings of the people find were child wiriose elf only with dish. It is from this point of view that the ats very sensitive to the difference of would be extremely dangerous. In fact, Bank, the building societies and the culty and much useless turning of rear vicissitudes of the battle round the ad- treatment applied respectively to Bul irrespective of the rigorous measures co-operative smiletics far as the wheels that could get no hold Every vanced lines of the Verdun position garia and their own country they
taken by the Hellenic Government, resent still more the accusstime con will be explaineil hereafter, the German Doople of smaller means are concerned where gange of men were hard at work should be regarded Already the ad stantly made against Greece of not submarines would be constantly, in fear and into our ordinary banks so far as remetalling the exhausted roadways vanced lines have brilliantly achieved having kept
sept the Greco-Serbian Treaty of being defected by the population, concerns those who are in 'n better posi throwing piles of stores into the slime their object. Their resistance has given
tions great
stones that were promptly crushed Bnd, furthermore, of fostering hostile
On the mere suspicion of the presence
at deal of by the passing Cars All Creed in ample time for the organisation of the defence, and has worn down the German intentions towards the Entente, and of submarines, the Allied Fleats have money has gone into war loans. If the working feverishly without a moment's onslaught. The loss of advanced posts liku more especially to the Allied armies taken messures which hampered to a very State gets the money directly from the respite, knowing that their task was of Malancourt or the give and take fighting Tanded in Macedonia,
large stent the seaborne trade of this people themselves, it cannot have the vital importance to the defence of the in the Bois de in Caillette are simply a Happily, however, it appears that the country. The maritime population Bre money, niso, from the banks and instituthreatened fortress.
part of the strategic plan of a defensivo British public has begun to appreciate clever enough to forest why their countions in which they would have placed USE OF FIERY LIQUID matters more justly. If little is kid try and themselves could expect if these it and which would have invested it.
Some men who had been relieved were battle laid down in the military text- about services rendered, the absurdity of
were proved to be well found That is to say, money obtained by these coming down from the front trenches books. The regulations provide for an secret bostile designs seems to become ed
apped to the masses Ce peome is, in and we talked to them at a halt na eventual counter offensivo, and they lay self-evident. A cinger study of the case I was alleged that foreign gold bad a rest part, money that the State would small village. They were full of cherry great cross on the importance that the spirit nor the letter of the Greco-Borblant to their overtime to popilation have got in any case confidence both in themselves and in Tuis on the commander's judgment that
jaterests. To this Trenty obliged Greece to intervene, while may be answered BA, whereas only upon the diguity and financial stability to tell about the highting With them the choice of, this mumot, must means
*** In my judgment, it would be a slur their leaders They had many anecdotes It from a practical point of view was limited number of persons would benefit of this nation to issue a premium or late was a chaplain who had been in the hot and, speaking generalize his mate obvious that such intervention would by supplying the submarines with pra- have brought about a disaster for Greece, visions, fuel, etc., the whole population tery loan now. Such an issue would make test of the fring. He told us of how likely that he should make his inste whilst being of no material benefit to had interest in giving information as to bad impression abroad, and would at one point north of Douaumont the until the enemy has reached at least the Serbia. Iain all the more happy to note their whereabouts, for the promise of the though nancially do were on our last through a communication french which course, the resistance of the advanced encourage the enemy, it would look as Germans were advancing down a hill first line of his main position, unless, of that justice is being done to Greece on British Legation of a pria of L. Slegs and would altogether be a mistake was exposed to the Bre of the French lies has litter broken the enemy a this particular point, as I took an active 2,000 for such information has continurther gambling one of the curses machine guns. The French let the Ger strength. In France (veryone is full of part in the Greco-Serbian negotiations of nously been advertised in the local Press of our country. We have laws against mais come on until the sap was tightly confidence in the high command, and in 1012. But, notwithstanding this change 1.9.2,000 in a very big sum indeed for lotteries and betting, and how could we packed with men, and then their machine its capacity of Siding the exact moment. for the better, there are still many a Greek fisherman, and he certainly with any matters on which, rightly or wrongly the would hasten to obtain it, more especially the coastery, enforce those jawe gus opened with, terrible effect.
with the deadliest effect against a shaken itself opened a lot enemy melted away under the rent when a counterattack can be launched impression in Greece is that the English as he realised that his country's intereste tery It would be a deplorable blunder.
From many sources I have learned that fo does not sufficiently appreciate the were at stake, so soon as the boats made We get the money we need without burning liquids have been used very Crack point of view: I should like to their appearance. It follows fast, had descending to that sort of thing with plentifully by the Germans. They are shot FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
tention to a few of these the Gormou submarines used the Greek
que under sich pressure that they will Aquast as their
them concerns the general fakermen and sailors wouldcreates Women
base, the
Оро carry to a range of thirty yards,
told me that these burning liquids conception of the policy of Greece I failed to delget them, and my would The question of female labour on probably saved his life. He was hold is now freely acknowledged by the be only too willing to report what they farms was discussed at the annual meeting out with a small body of men in a British Press that Greece on several knew to the authorities, as in this 20sing of the Ormskirk Farmers' Associa shelter, determined to resist to the last, occasions had offered to place herself at their interest gora hand-in-hand withition. One well-known Lancashire farmer despite the tremendous pressure of the | the disposal of the Entente, and that their sentiment. In fact, irrespective of stated that farmers were only too anxi- enemy. The Germans brought up these these offers were sacrificed to the chime the gratitude which the Greeks feel for ous that women should help in the cul- burning liquids. The result was that his Frical desire to befriend other Powers. Great Britain, they share to a high tivation of land in the coming season, shelter caught fire." There was nothing
On the other band, every unbiased on degree the feelings of admiration and Lady Derby was keenly interested in the left to do," he said, but to retire. looker has recognised that the Hellenic sympathy of all sea-faring peoples for movement for the swployment of women Against the Boches I could fight, but General Stail-constantly abused as Ger the greatest maritime Power of the in agriculture, and lasp autumn she against fire I could do nothing, for, of manophil-acted purely on military world YON
Elighted from her motor car one day course, we had on water. grounds when, in February, 1915, they The British public like facts; well, the and assisted the garl pickers to gather
Every now and then one would fall foretold the failure of the first Darda fact is that 10 even presumptive evi potatoes from one farm in the Ormskirk upon an artillery column bound for the nelles Expedition, and when, a month dence was forthcoming to back up a district. Mrs Rawstorne, wife of the front, Guns of every kind and descrip- later, they showed that the only way to single instance of information that Ger- Bishop of Whalley, was daily learning|tion-evil-looking little 75's, long grace- reach Constantinople, and even to enlist man submarines got supplic Bulgaria's, active, help, was to march on the Greek coasts from points to plough in order to assist in the move ful-5-inch guns, and squat murderous
ment
looking through Thrace with a large army. How many times the rumour found
ed in tens and twenties, and there were But, to the painful astonishment of the echo in the Press that Achilleion, the
such stocks of ammunition as passed all Creaks, the recognition of all these facte Kaiser's palace at Corfu, served as a
belief. By the side of a mountain of big does not seem to bave materially altered base. The occupation of this island by the unjust way
In conclusion on this poin, I would shells, piled evenly one above the other in which Greece a policy the Allies enabled the latter to convince quote the words of the Naval Attache of rows of ammunition wagons were stand- is judged femalew themselves of the manity of the charge, a great Power to a Greek high official; ing, their horses breathing hard after Surprise is sometimes expressed that Near Nauplia an incident of special | "No day passes but supplies me with their journey from the front. Speedily, the Greek Press has not forgotten the gravity occurred. A detachment of further evidence convincing me that we like clockwork, the wagons were loaded proposal which was made to detach the marines landed from a ship belonging to were wrong to suppose that the German up and dashed back again to provide the Kavalia district from Greece. Setting the Allied fleets, and, without giving me to their supplies A revictualling station on a strategies on the gooners with fresh means of destruction. nside the question of the enormous rich any notice to the local authorities, pro- Greek costs. ness and the paramount strategical im-
If any other Greek than myself ceeded destroy a depot of petrole
myself were railway offers an extraordinary sight portance of this district, which is the made in State for the requirements the writer of this letter he would, no during a great battle. Train upon train key to Saloniks, is it any wonder that of the agricultural station of Tirgus doubt, have specially insisted on another comes pufing in, loaded with the the Greeks should have been so deeply Those responsible for this act have ane point he would have stated how deeply strangest medley of materials fodder, grieved that, in a war undertaken on the had to recognise that this petroleum the Greek nation were grieved to ace petrol, barbed wire, provisions, guns, NOTHING IS MORE EMBAR- principle of nationalities, and aiming at could not be of any use to the German several English papers expressing them anumunition in fact, everything that the
BASSING THAN EXTREME the liberation of unredeemed provinces, submarines, since it was "denature solves with a little consideration for a complications of modern war demands. they should have been expected to aban-petroleum, which could only serve for the Sovereign and a Royal Family so closely At the station which I visited all the
THINNESS. den a purely Greek province which had destruction of locusts
allied to the British Royal family men were in a state of great joy and recently been won back to the Mother Many other similar instances might be To give an instans song a great are bad brought down his sixth who cuts the melons and has the fun that It is the plump, well-developed man Country at such great sacrifices?
brought forward to show that such acta, many A Roumanian paper forged Navarre
though always planned and executed in telegram purporting to be addressed to German aeroplane the second within socially. utmost secrecy, and without great regard the Queen of the Hellenes by the Kaiser, three days. Throughout the battle of anthorities, have invariably resulted in ferred to as Tine. Needless to say, by the difficulty with which serial recon- No dressmaker cati hido a bony, skinn Such difference was manifold. I will proving the suspicion wholly unfounded. such a telegram was never received by naissances, have been met, and Navarre's form
The charge has long been land at the Quees Sofia. Its unlikelihood was ob brilliant skill and courage have accom You ought to test the one guaranteed lunit myself to one instance which,
door of the Greek Government that they vious The Bucharest paper which had plished more than a little in deterring reliable treatment which has made although passed unnoticed in England, performed their duties in a rather easy published it had not heretofore, nor has them from sending up their aviators good for years in England which has made the deepest impression in Greece:
going manner. This surgition led, the since, attracted the attention of the The men working behind the lines have taken America by storm and which has Since the beginning of the Dardanelles Allies so far as to claim the right to foreign Press by the reliability of its good cause to be grateful to the French been awarded a gold medal and diploma campaign, and even before, officers, arms, take over the policing of the Greek information. Moreover, a flat denial aviator's prowess, for the German aero of honour at Brussels, Belgium and ammunition were constantly sent to territorial waters. Yet, notwithstanding was immediately issued both from Berlin plane is their particular foe. They know Nothing in history has ever approached Constantinople vid Sons there is also the infinitely larger number of ships at and Athens, and immediately communi that once they have been sighted by an the marvellous success of this new treat little doubt that, as the Bulgaro German their command, as compared with those cated to the foreign Press. All the above enemy aeroplane they way expect a bailment, which, according to report, has thin folks pinap than all the understanding existed already, the Ger- disposed of by us, they have been unable however did not prevent the English of shells to be dropped very shortly after made man, submarines must have found shelter to discover the supposed, base of the Press from reproducing this telegram, just on the
spot where they are
tonies and ineffective methicines for in Bulgarian waters Notwithstanding German submarines. this, no coercive measures of any import It must be recognised that this country it in terms the taste of which will Headquarters in this district
There's a reason. Plump, well formed ance were taken against Bulgaria has more than accomplished all the abstain from qualifying also constantly roads are deep with mud, and the air eat Thin, scrawny ores do not.
stationed in an unlovely village. The men and women asimilate what they In marked contrast, the Greek mer datics imposed upon by the rules of King Constantine is chantmen were submitted to such a patrality otwithstanding the material being represented as trying to introduce too, is full of it, thanks to the splashing This new discovery aims to supply the rigorous control that the liberty of the imposibility for small dest like ours absolutism in Greece At the death of of the motor cars as they pass Food one thing the thin folks lack, that in the 500 in the Egean became an empty phrase. This was done on the ples of of policing all the coastline at once, con- my lamented father, it was universally there is in abundance, but comfort there power to assimilate food.
sidering the nature of the Greek cosste, kowledged, both here and abroad, is none Every officer under the rank preventing contraband with Turkey, so much indented and abounding in that the establishment in Greece of a of captain has to sleep on straw, but though, the Porte were relying on Greeks gulfs, capes, and recesses of all sorts true Parliamentary me was due to no one minds. Comfort, is replaced by for help. Even admitting that such Very often the suspicions which were his exertions during very nearly half a something for more essential-confidence, measures were the outcome of superior brought to the notice of the Government contury F
For all that how often did A little ripple of satisfaction runs across necessity, it must be cited that those were not even probable they were based King George I, not bear his policy qua entrusted with their execution have often the information supplied by unified as unconstitutional He had, how shown a rough hand, and, bave not
For had their ever, the consolation of siways having always practed with all
all desired, tact
imaginations of the support of his people. Allow me to and expedition.
price ut reproduce here the textual words of 50 miles of Verdun believes in Pétain -
any King Constantine to the President and dge of Committee of the new Parliament on
have Feb. 18 Inst
The resentment was all the greater as this diplomatic more appeared as a new evidence of the very great difference in and Greeco.
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Parupalons S origin in the people who hoped to obta 166 20002 Never".
ly all the Greek vessels which have been fact been brought to the stopped have been released. This how-
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Bride and many papers continuously allude to CONFIDENCE REPLACER COMFORT
out I thank you warmly for what you have said about my action within the any limits of our Constitutional Chart.
am glad to have this
once again
the bodies of bluecoated men grouped in
the streets when General Pétain, with his alert step, and all-seeing eye, PA
cross the road Every soldier within worships his strategical powers, and is prepared under his command to achieve the impossible
We all admire fine figures.
It renews the vigour, re-establishes the normal, all in nature's own way
It is not a lash to jaded nerves, but
a generous uptailder.
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perhaps the view. The men were bearded and dirty, A minute or two later, perhaps, t tall figure of General Herr moves swiftly uniforms were muddied and tattered. and silently towards his quarters He They had a mimarble band, in which prac inity of nas sudied modern warfare in all its tically every instrument had a ballet hole
respecs aspects, and he followed personally the and Balkan campaign. It was he who organis
through it. And yet be added, nothing
in my life has ever moved me so greatly
been fight
hting doggedly for weeks in
the main ad the review of poilus" which Mr to see biode likes of infantry, who
This Chart,
Bu
Buy Lake described in bis FranOS BE
ors, Prince of Greece.
That review be told me was the
perfectly appalling from many points of let: the veeping over the cross
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