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BRITISH OFFENSIVE IN RETROSPECT,
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AUSTRIA'S. PLIGHT. INSUFFICIENCY OF FOOD.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1916.
BRITISH ARTILLERY WORK. "NO PRUSSIANS NEED APPLY
GIVING THE ENEMY NO BEST.
TRIBUTE TO MUNITION WORKERS.
WIDESPREAD PRIVATION. Interesting and authentic information. In former dispatches (says The Times recently received, says The Telegraph, as special correspondent at British Head So little action has there, been on either to the situation in Austria Hungary, quarters in France) I have spoken of the side to-day that it is almost as if both
shows that the plight of the Dunlenergy with which the enemy works at partics had agreed that the day should Monarchy is considerably worse than that the making of new trenches and the im- be given to reckoning up the gains and of Germany.
proving of his defences, and captured Tossed of the month (says The Time Food supplies are steadily dwindling, terman Orders of the Day from which I special correspondent at the British prices are exorbitant, industries are have quoted insist on the urgency of this ou the August anguishing, from want of raw materials, work. Every day new frenches are either Leadarters artting 1). 11
be and the less well-to-do sections of the easy mask, cause for the first the, perhaps, in a population are suffering severe priva: made or in the course of making. Our Lions. Hopes of a good harvest are likely guns then start to knock the new work to The zwo years of war, we have the results- of a battle clearly before us widle to prive illusory, and in any event, milits preparatory to eat, infantry attack- battle is still going on. For the first tary, necessities have imposed so trending, if it is in a bandy josition, and con- tae a British operations the public lasus a strain on the man power of these dating it with our system. In what known accurately from day to day jest country that it is doubtful, if sufficient ever the enemy tries to do our guns never inal has urred.. It is a month's labour is available to secure 1. Altoge-give him any rest.
ther the outlook is of the blarkest descrip- work of which we may fairly be proud.
tion, and the invasion of Hungary in We may quite justifiably compare iur
with the Gruan attackfarer by the Rusisus would in all prole Werdum. We have attacked positions, ability precipitate the collapse which
scens sooner or later to be inevitable taboriously prepared, which, as the cap turer, des testify. The enemy was will ang to make every possible sacrifice to paid. One after another he has failed to had them. We have broken his front, and at every point beaten him in fighting power as emphatically he has not beaten the French At Verdun he failed. Here wo have succeeded and continue to Aklet. The result of his assaults on Verdun has been to increase the confd- euce of the Finch that they can beat hid. The result of unr attacks has been to increase our confidence. Whether in alack or defence, has has lost,
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A BRUTAL ENEMY,
One point which, without seeming angraverous, I would like to urge is this Fr the beginning of this battle 1 sary instance, which I could find of sought opportunity to give prominence to chivalrous conduct on the enemy's part. They were very few. To his stubbornness in arfensive fighting 1 have borne ample feciony, but that is another matter.
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THE REACH OF THE GUNS.
unpleasant
a wider area benind his lines.
1) has secured to us out here us if at home there was something of a tendency obervable to be over lenient to the erreased from 10,150 in October, 1914, Loving our guers test. In any diren mans, to magnify each case where British and German wounded have helped each other, and, my our British way i8, 10 strive to regard our adversaries as sports men and gentlemen. They are nothing of the kind.
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lividinis here are among them, of curse who are humane and geutic hearted, and have the chivalry of brave But in the nigss they are a brutal and uncivilized enemy, Perhaps the murder of Captain Frynti sill have help et to correct one point of view, to take us Again to remember, and to check a serial Natimentalisan which has seemed to be growing up in England.
Heaven knows, I would not make war hidrous than it is. But we must be Lathe under misapprehension as character of the German, He is damned daily in his own handiwork. And the British Army knows it--even though no: thing will make the individual British soldier other than gentle to the Individual enemy who is at his merey..
OUR ARKIES.
As for our Army, I have extolled it fill, in the retrospect of the month, there is nothing left to say. One can repeat en- vortibus, pile up adjectives of praise, und
streerd iss saperlatives. And at oniy says what has been said before.
It anything new is to be told of our Army it must be in other ways than in prose sperch. Qay sught to be able to
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Bavaria and Southern Germany are a happy hunting ground for the Berliner and his family at this time of year, but North German need apply is the motto of the hotels and restaurants of Bavaria Advertisements are actually appearing in the Press from Bavarian summer resorts and watering places in- dicating that Berlin tourists are not wel- come. The reason is, of course, shortage TJIMANOEK of food, but undoubtedly there is he hind it the profound dsilike of the South German for the Prussian.
· Great irritation has been caused. by this Bavarian boycott of Prussia, and the bad tumper was brought to boiling point a few days ago by the report that the Burgemaster of the Bavarian sum- ater resort of Ruhpolding had issed a uk," as the Berlin papers called it forbidding the sale of bread and meat to Prussians. This "ukase" has since been annulled, but the heat engendered. by the incident has not yet died down.
The Berliner Tageblatt'a hondline to the subject Boycotted North Ger mans," and sufficiently explains its feel- inga uftresentment. It prints the follow- ing narrative Frera a correspondent:-
"In the middle of May I was possing through Aschaffenburg (Bavaria) on business, and picked up the menu card in a respectable hostelry, whereupon the waiting-maid put the question:- Where are you from?' From Frankfurt-on-Main. Why
Why, does it matter to you where I come from and whither I go I retorted. "Yes, I must know if 1am to bring you anything to ent.' 'From Frankfurt am Main, I replied. The Waiter For Prussians we have nothing
Next to the way in which our infantry has taught, are may conjecture that e quaty u our artillery has been the | enemy, a inust
surprise Of the dire straits to which the poorer trong..out these operations, We know classes in every province are reduced in their daily search, for food there is eind not anticipated Lho weight abundant evidence. The stricter control our preliminary tombardment, Still exercised over the consumption of grainless ca. he have expected that we should im slightly (be able to follow it up with increaking in- and four has resulted
bread supply, and tensity throughout a whole month, our ameliorating the
guns: following him up in his retreat, su potatoes of this year's croy are now be ginning to come on the arket; but soat, at tre. beginning of tae new math, we not only have action more guns, far as meat, milk, and fat are concerned, no efforts of the Government can bring out each day they are poanding ruthless any permanent relief until artificial lod- der can again be imported and the herda. Apart from the trenches themselves, of cattle replenished from overseas. Rice there is practically nu village between disappeared from the market in Vienna here and Bapaume, no place which we during May, and eggs and potatoes are know that he is using on any seals for I asked in turn. becoming a costly rarity.
The plain fact is that the sum total oflats, no accumulation of stores or im-Everything is off,' was the waitress'
portant point in his communications retort. food of all descriptions is insufficient to watch is not every day subjected to was in hoste, po anatched up my hat feed the population, and whatever may punishment by our guns, either by a few and went to another restaurant that I be the produce of the new crops the shells dropped irregularly, at long in knew, and there to, I picked up the Government is powerless to provide an effective remedy so long as the blockade ments, and by our aeroplanes: We learn who put the same question to me, Where tervals or in sudden hurricane bombard menu card, This time it was a waiter remains in force.
According to a statement issued by the from prisoners and from other sources are you from 7 municipal authorities of Vienna, the
much this incessant shelling worrieshin, namber of poor people in receipt of free
Nothing, of course, can be said about daily meals in the public kitchens in- one system for getting up new guns or 54,000 at the end of May last. It has is ances they have to work very hard in also proved necessary to cater for people deed. No praise can be too high for Lae able to pay a proper price for plain food unflagging devotion with which they In Moravia and Silesia, it is stated, all have borne their great share in this the game has been requisitioned. and battle, and steadily their shooting has most of the cattle were killed wine grown hotter. It was very good at the months ago for want of foodstuffs. The start. It was even better in the prepara peasants live on eggs, vegetables, citas for the second gmat advance of July which they produce on their holdings, and refuse to sell anything edible.
In Prague the efforts of the municipal authorities to mitigate the famine of foodstuffs have proved wholly ineffectual, Maximum prices are openly disregarded by dealers and public alike. The bread and milk actually distributed have been Indicrously insufficient. During the third week of May, in eu districts of Prague, one small loaf of bread per ad of the population was revived. In the following week the inhabitants of one of the poorest quarters of the town received less than half & lont apiese. The supply of milk was infultestul during May,established some way behind the lines in the Somme front," somewhere in and the sea reity led to sanguinary rints. It is reported that every gun in all the the rear of Perudne. To some slightly Butter has been at famine prices. The batteries was subjected to a direct hit Wounded soldiers, some officers, ambulaner price of soap has increased sevenfold.' and all the batteries destroyed. From drivers, and so forth, the Kaiser
{% FABINE THIS. Conclusi telimony as to present onlievable. That our counter battery work
other cases which I know, it is quite be said ditions in I gary is provided by a fiat les been throughout, and is, much more of provisious
4 their prices attached effective than the enemy's is certain to a petition an increase of salary while in many particular instances we presented to the ungarian Government know that our shelling has caused very by the National A veintion of Civil Ser
Heavy infantly casualties. From this document it appears
In all that I have written about the that since the mitbi ak of war beef has
vants.
enemy
eat. But I am in fact no Prussian true I lire in Berlin, but was born in Offenbach, was my answer.
Then you can how lunch."
The writer says it will be a long time before he goes again to this
end, where hospitality is so under- 14ta, when, besides pulverizing the vari-stood. But the whole episode is signi- ous villages and so forth just behind the ficant of the mutual hostility and resent German lines and almost obliterating his ment that Jas been created between North trenches, our guns had so, destroyed his front line, cmmunication, and support and South Germany by the foed problem. wire detenes all along the line that at evers place where observation had been
sible, our infantry went over almost w.hout cheek.
HİGHT ENEMY BATTANIES DESTROYED, Finally, only yesterday (August ist)-- as evidence that we have not. fallen off- certain guns concentrated on a large batch of batteries which the Germans had
KAISER'S CONVENIENT
DESTINY.
From Berne the Wireless Press receivey a report of a speech made by the Kaiser during his last visit to the German troops
life that I am unable to take a more active It is the most poignant grief of my
to take my place in the trenches and to part in this war; it is my earnest desire deal such blows at our enemies as my aga and strength would permits
infixpat at in colmars, to pain the spirit risen 670 per cent., veal $20 per cent. Artillery in this battle and the ironense leave any mark on the enemy:
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of shells, I have not yet eggs 20 potatoes 200 to 900, onions 640,rawn a moral for the munition werkers. dried plums 880, rice. 000, and garlic For one thing, the moral was too odvious. Into my care has been committed, For another, the nusition workers bare by Diy na destiny, the leadership of our 2,53 per cent.
At a meeting of the Budapest Cemamit done so splendidly that to lecture them country, of its armies, of is forces un
land and at sea. tee of Ten, held on June 17th, it was would be impertinere, One thing I Iannoned that the capital had only 29 would like to say, however, not only to leading has been laid upon; and The burden of Chinking, deciding, wagon-loads of grain left, while 236 more the njunition workers themselves, but even were on their way, so that, as the weekly more to some others connected with the realising this, I know that my life must consumption was 140 wagons, the sup furaishing of shells, and that is: Try to not by risked in the foremost line of lies in sight were not even sufficient to spare the men at the front all the labour battle, where may feelings, if unrestrain cover the requirements of the eity for the that you can! Whatever the pressure oned, would carry me swiftly. My life must next four weeks. The supply of pigs was you may be, it is a fraction of the pres
be conserved, carefully, "for the welfare! described as constantly diminishing sure bere behind the lines during the pro-
of Germany, to carry out duties astigned quantity, quality, and weight, while the supply of milk was again falling off, and pare! with the prescate un a battery in
gress of a battle, and nothing at all com to me by Diving appointment.") eggs were both scarce and dear.
with tints of Bamse and glory. One should be able to sing it in measures as stately as the endeavor of the million macbing feet, riving to tristali such as Milton may have dreamed. but surely arver muldet. ston lo he cast in bronze gigantie, pion ving the elouds to clearer sunlight far in the upper skies. It should be set to music more splendid and uzuultus than was ever written with the irresistible rushing of ten Thousand strings, the organs pealing praise, and all the brasses of the world oraying, victory. One must have some other medium than prose,
It is almost a commonplace that our Firs Expeditionary Fere was probably The finest fighting Army for its size that lf world ever kW Our Allies do-nur tie mies will allow to work. Either Price of Germany, perhaps, might love akry the pick of all their million and ade-ancher Array of the same contemp Uble dimensions and wiguenchable spirit, in such ather. Army was not and never has beet in existente,
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Meat prices continue to soar.
I bave heard a szone if artillery allieurs Vienna further advances were recorded in June for all kinds car beck. In express themselves about the unition his last monthly report the Burgomaster workers since this battle began and not admitted that the supplys of cattle, bat has been most extravagant in sherp, and jigs had fallen far below the his praise. I have been with gunners for demand, and that so long as this was the large part of today and have been case prices must continue to advance.shown over certain stores of ammunition. Many eating houses have been obliget to Like other things in the organizing and engtail, or even discontinue altogether, quipping of these Armies, it is almost There are those who fear dist the the serving of hot meat dishes,
Incredible that we have done it. splendor of the old Arng may in far- In Hungary meat appears to have gotten in the majesty of the new. There ceased to play any part in the life of a
of the popula
old Argy is secure to all time. And it tiun The Zeit
Wan
CORROBORATIVE DETAIL.
A story, which suggests Pooh Bah's r source in curraborative detail is told in the Empire Review of a dressmaker who suggested only very warm cloth for a wedding outfit for New Zealand. When the bride objected that the climate of New Zealand is a beautifully mild one the dressmaker fortified her argument thus: assure yun, madim, you are mistaken, for that, * course, is where the frozen
u danger of that. The honour of the considerable reported that in South June 9th. says it is feared that in the meat comes fc."
its example, its precedent and Hungary wild birds of all kinds, indud achievement, which made it possible, foring crows and singing birds, were bring these new Armies to be what they have caught and eaten by the poor people, and proved themselves.
one correspondent refers to a He is often dirty and gged and very made of blackbirds as being a popular disreputable to look at, is the British forms of food in the Bekes district. private geldier I have seen him with his How retail food prices have mounted bloodstained clothes in ribbons, so tired up in Venus is graphically shown in the that he gold bardly move his feet, with appended table, compiled from data broken bayonet and his treneh hat tost, issued by the Austrian Ministries of Com- German helmet on his head, above a merce and Agriculture. I contras the fac u grlined with dirt and perspiration prices gling of the outbreak of war with
uit Baďa fitures Exerit fuck dyes | Hush pupage in May last:-- And a mouth-iwn eyes which danerd with victory and a mouth, which laughed. The enemy by this time kuows him well,
Root (per by I sat upon a bank only two days ago Yeal (per lb) when, down the road below me, they Pork (per lb) came by, as I have described them, back Bacon (per 1b) ..... from the fighting line in what was left of Land (per 1) a battalion. The leading company, as it Milk (per quart) passed--such a sight as it was-sang. Butter (per 1b) and it sang "God Save the King!" I Margarine (per lb)
Flour, whent (per 71b) wish that the King could inve heard it. Burely he would have fight play by was i 150 (per 4b) honoured as no King or Emperor ever args (po dozen) ....
RUINEN KANG | Haricot Beans (per 15)
Onions (per 1b)........ Sugar
gur (per by
BERLIN FOOD TROUBLES Fresh riots took place on August 2nd in The northern quarters of Berlin an ao- count of the lack of food. Women armed with sticks went in prosession to the local headquarters of the Socialista. woman carried a red flag and they all shouted, “Long live Liebknecht; give him freedom and give us pence." police had to interfere to restore order..
One
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Hungarian lowlands the harvest yield will be below the average.
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An estimate
by an escaped Hungarian officer puts the
HINTS ON HEALTH. gulasch" entire agricultural output of Hungary for 1918 at 15-20 per cent. less, and the crop of sugar-beet at 60 per cent when one is ill. Many people These step towards being well in to less. than in 1915. Another infequut says that the harvests of Austra and adly need medicine, and some are in Hungary confined guy Brave sufficient real peril of contracting dangerous ill- to feed the people through the coming esses because they do not know they are & little year but only on condition that grain ill, but only think themselves
run down. is exported to Germany.
But being 4. Alike in industry and agriculture, the
run down is being it. shortage of labour presents a serious Watch for signs like these. As you tired Ja problem.
anfficiency of barvest instead of refreshed in the morning when 0101382. workers is a matter of supreme import- it is time to red w Does your head 1 1.8 0. (70.0ance: yet Count Tisia has openly admit- ache at night, when tired with work? ... 1 3 18ted that, even after tapping all sources Dogs you hart beat too fast when you
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Are yaar, lips pale and open to them, the Government are far ran upstairs! 236. from being in a position to replace the bloodlesal, 1s your longue white grey 54-9 millions of men withdrawn by the war. instead, of being red, all over? Do you HH The Hangaria Minister of Finance sise have a pain, or a sense up fullness after 3000gnited that he had extreme difficulty eating?
I appetite poor-caring Pedagon 1993 in secaring sufficient personnel for the more sweets, than wholesome fundi
10 740 administration of the Laland RevenueHave you, (especially if a woman) back 17 Service, and that he had ja vence aches and dizziness? Is your hand un 1917 been compelled to farm out the State lot-steady, especially in the morning? Do 110tory se private brads.
you grow tired too soon? Are you There are indications that the necessity aus, shy, and bashful? Is your spine of finding further supplies of mejais re-weak? quired for wać purposes, such as cojner," nickel, and th, is coming urgent, since the system of voluntary surrender has all
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As to harvest prospects, i spems 10 be, had to be replaced by compulsory requisî- generally admitted that the grops have suffered from mildew, that the weather
May and the early part of June was Hersary to place the entire clothing unfavourable, and that the harvest is trado under Government control. in not likely to be above a good middling" " order, as the Zeit says." to prevent the
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