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TABLE TALK AT VERDUN:
VERDUN
PRINCE
The following account of the opera- tions before Verdun, from the German side written by the Staff Correspondent of the AF Times, is interesting. The extent of the German preparations, the massed artillery and the mounds of am
THINGS WE HAVE DONE WELL
ORGANISING THE SUGAR SUPPLY
of
THE HAPPY TSAR,
PLEASED WITH THE NEW FEELING IN ENGLAND.
Profesor Pares, who is with the Rus sian Headquarters in the field, sends a pen picture of the Tsar:
He was in plain field uniform and top- boots, and wore only the officer's St. George's Cross for bravery, which he was asked to accept by the Army He is evidently very pleased and happy at being with his troops, and this day he seemed to be particularly enjoying hit self, because he was cclebrating the six- friend and Chamberlain, Count Fre tiel nuniversary of service of his old dericks, with whom he was joking throughout dinners
his Majesty talked with me for some. time about England. He was very glad that British sytopathies had turned so strongly towards Russia, and that the great sacrifices and difficulties of his. Anny lund been so warmly recognised.
In a sketch of life in a bomb-proof shelter at Verdun Dr. William Philip WITH THE ARMY OF THE CROWN Simms, correspondent of the United Press of America, writes: Van In the steam-heated corridors, 100ft.
The Government who were in office from the surface, the delenders of
when war overwhelmed the world did Verdun, off duty, are eating their noon- day meal If you know anything about
many provident things, of which, the farms and harvest time, you have seen
people whom they represent, know little similar sight on many an occasion There are long tables with scores of men on either side, enting and talking contented
and perhaps appreciate even less. ly There is no excitement, only every-munition collected, would seem to dis When we declared war on Germany, prove the German assertion, that the at sugar was the one commodity in which, body seems interested.
At the table of the general some 20 tack was not to be pressed to a finality guests sit down. As is the French cusor, that it was a feint, admittedly upon as a result, there was imminent danger tom, he sits at one side instead of at the large scale, to cover operations on an of a famine, for the simple reason that end and the oldest visitor sits at his other sector. The Correspondent says we depended upon enemy countries for right. The next oldest is at his left. There is something aroinspiring about Opposite him is his second in command this battle, raging from Fort de Belle about two-thirds of our supplies. Tak My seat is be this officer. On my right is ville to Hill 384, particularly when one ing the last undisturbed year of trade a major. The tablecloth is spotless; the remembers that this is only one of thre 1913 we imported 20,094,203 outs. service faultless, wine and all No bet sectors of the battle for Verdun. unrefined sugar, and 18,450,897 cwts of ter dinner could be had anywhere. Our The important village of Esues, lyingebied sugar. Of this total of 35,385,190 bread was warm and delicious-smelling, south of Hill 304, is already a smoking.
Cats no legs than 25,927,030 cwt came Fresh from the citadel's underground mass of ruing. bakery. The lights we ate by, the water The unequivocal emptiness and loneli from Germany and Austria-Hungary. we erank, were from the citadel plants ness of vast battlefields give you a creepy It may be noted that of our imports of out of harm's way and independent of sensation, as of plantem armies fighting sugar about 34 million cuts, were en the city's supply. The ventilation was Their presence, as I gazed to-day was perfect. Between the bricked arches and betrayed only by frequent fitful flushes tered for home consumption, which re the rock-and-earth through which the tan fame, like firelies on a summer night. presents our normal demand.
ing two-thirds of our nels were bored are spaces, and the spaces One could sco miles of these fireflies, do The effect of having connected with the outside world by chimpite the bright sunlight, each marking supplies cut off made itself immediately The Professor also had a talk with the neys I lire seen many a theatre the mouth of a gun. They inade one felt Sugar, which at the end of July Chief of Staff, Generai Alexieff, who is church less well aired realize more vividly litan figures possibly 1914 had been selling at las, per cwt., a short, sturdy man, with a quick enay On all sides there was the hun of could, how thickly the fron girdle tighten went up at a bound as soon as the war walk as he inoves away to his work on Voices I listened. It would be curious ing about Vordan is studded with Ger cloud loomed on the horrizon. Even his way from mess-a strong, clever face, to hear what the defenders of Verdun man batteries Not a man, horse, wagon, before actual hostilities prices rose, and with pleasant, blue eyes, and short, were talking about while the Germans or motor could be seen moving about that by August ath, when Great Britain was grizzled hair. He spoke in a plain, sol- hurled themselves against the city; while re-awet zone: bozinded by the rival formally involved, prices of 355 and 40s dierly way of stupid diplomatic muddles actually sold as high as 359. per cwt. Surely the geographical boundaries Our school system is very defective The only human tonch was a giant yel market, while in Scotland sugar was supposed to be always making for India. low Cyclop eye, blinking at us-a German The wholesale price may be said to have are clear enough," he said," and surely in that respect, a French captain holograph in action: Turning about, we been trebled in a week, and the consumer there is room enough anyhow, we have saying to bis neighbour. "Our children are not taught the languages properly saw its mate winking back, but the theme was threatened with an advance at least got our work eat out for us with Tur
as formidable.
The great thing," he said, is that They should be given English, Italian, of its luminous dialogue was not for and other languages, while still young publication by native teachers who know no French
wa should understand each other.”
and who always speak to the children in the language being taught This captain had distinguished himself in the Aghting around Verdun. He was shortly to leave the table to start on a perilous mission,
CONE
The Tear spoke gaily of his own excur- kind welcome, said that I should have signs in the mud He gave me a very no difficulty in visiting the different parts of the Army, and wished nie every
THE OLD FRAR ABOUT INDIA.
the town burned, while shells fell about l'artilleries. A per cwt were quoted on the London in the past when the Russians where
A deep, low, and unchanging basic leit PROMPT ACTION motif was played by the distant guns, from as far away as the Argonne at the right and from Douaumont and the east and south fronts of Verdun to the left.
German gans of various calibres and kinds, but often the size and species of the Freeen hells bursting in reasonable nearness. Among these, I detected a new and dreper bass strange to me, but which
kestar.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS;
PROMOTION.
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month leave from 9th instant No. 1701 Spr. Colho is granted 3
weeks leave from oth instant.
DEFAULTERS.
The Government acted very promptly. They decided that the task of ensuring Bir adequate supply of sugar, und ar, that would be no more unerous to the ranging for its distribution on terms Close beside us a four-pives battery is publie than conditions made inevitable, CORPS ORDERS BY LT. COL A. CHAPMAN, V.D., now singing in a uisun of salvos and could only be performed by immediately The General Commanding Verdun was now separately in a high, sharp staccato. procuring all the available stocks where now speaking earnestly to the oldest vist Out of the welter of discords and bar ver they were to be found in-sugar-pro- tor, the guest of honour, He was sny moaies, the trained ear picks out the dacing countries, and this initial step ing="No, I'm not from the Midi; several strands. Ono could recognize, meant the purchase of about 900,000 tous come from the Department of Pas-de-not only the characteristic notes of the These original purchases were made by Calais. So I am very fond of shrimps
the Committee of the Cabinet for the the little rost coloured ones, fresh from
Maintenance and Regulation of the Food the sea. We have them very fine up my
Supplies of the Country, but the business. was found to be so large and complicated way. Another officer, a captain was discussing the classics of university
that it was handed over to a Royal Commission, which, with the Right Hon. I had wanted to hear for over a your.. McKenna as chairman, has since When luncheon was finished and weIs that the 12 centimeter mortar devoted the whole of its energies to the found ourselves outside, we discovered I asked the Crown Prince's intelligeno matter They were given full power to n shell had struck the corner of a little officer. brick building in which a soldier was I don't know he answered. roasting fengrant-selling coffee
Among the group of correspondents on Hurt you? someone asked.Hindenburg Hill, as the Crown He laughed. Not a bit. Little piece Prince's intelligence officer had called this of shell went through the bottom of my commanding height on the Meuse, were pants there the showed a ragged holy half a dozen German officers, who stood near the turned-up part of the left leg) silently looking at the City of Verdun, and a box of matches was set on fire in an into sine promised land, yet with my pocket. That-unil the bole you 300 features that did not betray their in the wall there is the extent of the thungets damage He went on roasting his coffee. One's impression, after such an ex perience is that the only way to hurt
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an army is to let it alone, not to fight it, especially if that army is of the French kind, which scema gayer and less in clined to loom the more it bus to do in the way of scrapping.
DR INED BELGIUM. THE BELGIANS REMEMBER:
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Most keenly interested was the royal chauffeur, who personally piloted us from Sedau, handling the wheel like a profis
sional. This as Frince Ctto of Schaum
burg-Lippe, old, wrinkle-faced, but still very much of a live wire, and filled with real democracy
Neither the Crown Prince a intelli- gence officer nor the Major of the great General Staff, who was with us, would commit himself on the question whether the Germans would or would not tak" Verdun
act, and, as they stated in their first pubile announcement, they had arranged that the whole body of refiners, should stand side from the market for raw- sugars, leaving it free for the operations of the Government Acknowledgment is due to the great firing in the sugar trade. for their loyal co-operation,
The Bret purchase involved a total expediture of over £18,000,000 Cont trasted with the enormous shims we are now pouring out of the Exchequer, this is a mere lea bite. But at the time it. required some courage, as well as fore
sight, on the part of the Committee of which Mr. McKenna, then Home Secre tory was chairman, to ninke the den!. By this courageous step, it is certain that the Goverment saved millions of posade to the consumer. ______
3. The undermentioned defaulters wil parade in marching order, 150 rounds ball, at 5.30 p.m., 9th inst, at Headquarters.
No. 1873, Pte. Tangap; No 19145, Pto. Pasco, No. 1954, Pte. Ogloy PARADES...
4. Parades for to day.
6.30 p.m.Defaulters drill at Head quarters under Co Sergt. Major Witchell Recruits Right Section M.G. Co. Squad drill at Bead quarters, Artillery Battery Gun drill at Gun Club Hill Sergt. Bradley will attend. Hongkong residents full in 5 p.m.; Star Forry Wharf, Hongkong. Scouts Co. No. Section, Busketry Instruction at Headquarters.
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AFCHURCHILL, Capt
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Since October, 1914 private imports of ali suga have been prohibited, and the| business of supplying the country's needs A has rested solely with the Royal Com- These and other officers whom I had mission, which, as agent of the Govern En opportunity of sounding wers unaniment, has retained complete control of muus in the expression of implicit con the trade. As ar indication of the Gidone in their General Staff, on the con- rang: of their activities, it may be said viction that if the army a lenders really that during last year the Commission wanted. Verdan and meant to get it imported ingar either raw or refined BRDERS BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, O... H.E.V.R. they would This confidence is contagi from Java, Holland, the Argentine, Mozambique, ray of artillery that staggers the Imagination
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31QURNING
Sanatoriums and hundreds of insane and property remain in the power of cus, particularly when backed by an art Dat the Mourning will be worn by all officers
is a grave disease; it means that the great nerve system and the real life of the body is impaired and the diseases should be healed promptly by proper treatment,
I have had a long conversation with a leading citizen of Brussels, who cannot be named as a source of information because while he is in exile, his family the invader, and the penalty might full upon them, says Mr. G. H. Perris Paris It Gergian soldiera enter a church, an correspondent of the Daily Chronicle in or a tramitar, the Belgian civilians quietly go out, or move to a distance They are often timed or imprisoned for insulting the arm by gesture They remember Louvain and Ypres, the whole sale butcheries of the autumn of the con quest they remember, also, the uncon quered army of the Your
Your nervous energy is like a bank account. If you use it up faster than you add to if you overdraw your account:
A friend of my informant was recently Therefore if you suffer from nerves, have sleepless nights, brainfag, or lack of taken with a heart seizure in a tramear ambition-caused by overwork worry, state in the first-class section of the car
A German army doctor sat in solitary over indulgence in alcohol, tobacco, or The conductor drew his attention to the from excess of any kind, go to your cherhist and get a bottle of Sargol Case It's no business of mine, was Tablets and take two after each meat and the reply and the sick man died,
___The economic exhaustion of the coun two just before retiring at night. Good try is due partiv to the interruption of bye tuzospondency hump, and
blues,
difficult, and sometimes impossible even all normal life, which ruskes it -very You eat well, sleep well, and feel to pass front one city or part of the splendid all the time. Sargol will enable country to another, and partly to a de- you to draw every alon of strength, liberate exploitation of the resources of blood, and nourishment from the food the country for the benefit of the Get-
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Swoping the German position vit field glasses one can see miles and mils of ammunition, for which no batteries have yet been brought up
To reach Hindenburg Hill Phad an uncomfortable walk through half a mil lang of ammunition, a double row of shell mounds on either side, the mounds being ten fect apart
Holes, six feet square, wore scooped in the mud, and two logs, with boards the beavy calibre shells were piled right laid across, forming a platform, on which were high. Only out battery was behind this half mile of ammunition, yet more ammunition kept right on arriving and ng being stacked up by longshoremen
GERMANY'S ECONOMIC
STRAITS
Rica, Brazil, Cuba, and
price ranging her ewt from 14s 8d. lo 285. 04. in the case of white sugar, anl from 12 d. to 17s. for raw sugar To this had to be added the Freight, which varied considerably and was, of course, lowest from Holland.
S REGULATING PRICES,
As the entire control of supplies is in the hands of the Government working through their agents, the refiners, and the wholesale houses, there has been absolute power to regulate prices In the circumstances they have been ex tremely moderate. It must be remem bered that apart from the extraordinary rise in freight charges, the tax on sugar was caused from 14. 10d. to £. 4d per cwt last year. That is 90, on 112lbs and the retailer in normal times would of course, have been justified in putting the prices my by at least 1d. per lb. A great deal of the increased duty, owing to pre Budget purchases, would have gone into the pockets of the dealers As it was, the Comtriosion, owing to favourable purchases, were actually able to reduce the brice of sugar out of bond to such an extent that the higher duty entailed an increase of only 1d per lo the whole of the benefit of the to the consumer, while the Exchequer
Now, when the tax has again been bed in the recent Budget by exactly 4 per lb, the price to the retailer, has vanced only by that amount and the hole of the increase goes to the Ex-
your cat. It excels all Nerve Foods min Empire. This exploitation is all GOVERNMENT COMMANDEERING tonics, wines, etc., as the results it gives mitted by German writers, but, system- are permanent and lastingatie as it is, it is impossible so far to ob___ CATTLE.
Don't suffer with your nerves any tain any exact account of the amount of V
but robbery) Letters that are taken on German pri soners continue to show that the econo mic situation in Germany remains ex tremely strained. Thus, a letter, dated March 30, from Doham warns there cipient to make arrangements in case of his death that the send mediatel notified so that the target of sendin packets of food gredless aay be aTO) ed Apparently, such packete addressed to a brother of the
After examination of the markets for a considerable period fter he had broad, we are not left in any doubt as been killed, no notificati having been to what we should be paying for sugar received from the Government The now if prices were ruled by the ordinary writer points out that cattle are being conditions of supply and demand, and
deeree
being reized we were dependent upon privats enter Tom people wh
from prise for importation Buying those prices frent!
FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
They pretend to be military requish tiona, such as are permitted conditional 1 by international law but, in fact, they go far beyond, and often in no way concern, the needs of the army of occu- pation. A year ago Dr. Ludwig Gungho fer this described the working principle of the German authorities To bring TO-DAY
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REVERSIONG. CQM.S. A. C. Franklin réverts to the
ranks at his own regnest.
Lc. Cpl. J. M. Gordon reverts to the
ranks at his own request.
POSTINGS
2nd Lieut H, R. B. Hancock is posted to Platoon No. 1 during the absence of Lieut. Evan Jones, 2nd Lieut AM Thornhill is posted to
Platoon No. 2.
2nd Lieut. F. H. Thomas is posted to
Platoon No. 8. and Lieut. R. Sutherland is posted to
Platoon No. 3
PROMOTION Sergt. Di Tullan 18 promoted Co. Quarter Master Sergt. A Co
G. KH. HRUTTON, Capt.s
Adjutant, EK V P
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE
PARADES CENTRAL STATION, 5.30 PM.
under Chief Inspector Mason on Recruits of No. 2 Platoon will parade
Tuesday and Thursday, June 13th and 15th
Section 33 and 14 and Recruits of No & Company will parade under Chief Inspector Mason on Wednesday 14th June.
EQUIPMENT BOARD
Tuesday, June 13th. All members of the Staff and all other Sergeants and Pea who have not appeared before the Board will attend on this date at 5.15 pm
DEFAULTERS PAR DE ⠀⠀ be following members of the Staff will
attend st Central Station on Satur
use 10th at the bours stated:
ipany Fong at 3 p.m.
importer could rellada can granulated here at under 50 Sergna The Commission's CoAVAD
per ext
fords some indication o
beneating from Gove
Daily Ciomcle
the Inspector, Ba, Hew Tan it :5;p.m.