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17908 L'Arlesienne Suite... (Bizet) Part 4.)
Caprice Espanol
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Twilight-Crepuscule, Violin Cello – Harp
....Violin Flate--Cello-Ha
17784-Album Len
Norma-Fantasia
Harp Solo
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74182Thaío-Intermezzo. 04594-When the Boys come Home. 70116-Bonnio Maggie Tamson
11 Song
Butterfly's Death Scene
Violin Folo
Song Comic Song
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THE HONGBONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1918.
Vessell's Italian Band.
Venetian Florentine Quartet Lapitino
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MOUTRIE'S
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THEATRE
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THE THEATRICAL EVENT
A FEAST
ROYAL.
OF THE YEAR! AND OF COMEDY
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THE HOWITT PHILLIPS REPERTORY CO.
IN THE LATEST LONDON SUCCESSES.
TO-NIGHT
TO-NIGHT!
HOW THE STRUGGLE WILL
BE WON.
Let us now see how the struggle will actually be won," says the Observer.
Since Napoleon's • ralzent, from Mosgaw there has never been such a trans- formation of the fortunes of waras dur ing the last few months,
RUSSIA'S NEW SIBERIAN
PORT
IMPROVEMENTS IN BRITISH AIRCRAFT.
Sir
A BRITISH SHIELD.
Conan Doyle writes to the Press as follows:--
The Russian Government have just WORK OF THE AERONAUTICS opened a new Pacific terminus for the
ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Trans-Siberian Railway - This is the port of Nikołniersk, at the mouth of the The report for 1915-16 of the Advisory Amur River, near the head of the Gulf Committee for Acronautics of which of Tartary, about 850 miles north of Lord Rayleigh is the President, has been tions yet on both sin fronts it is as be transported injand up the Amur River able but largely technical record of the well to remember this but the Allies to Stretyinsk, which is reached by a rail work of investigation and experiment. for always including our new armies, will -move steadily on converging lines from road that connects with the Trans the improvement in the design and con the beginnings of victory to its goal: Siberian line. The new port will be able striction of aircraft and their auxiliary Why will this happen 1-It will happen to handle 72,000,000 pounds of freight apparatus-work which has been greatly ncreased in amount and extent as a re- because the whole foundation of German and it will thus help considerably fo thought and method in connection with relieve the pressure on Vladivostock suit of the war Some new problems, the European war has irreparably collapsed The Trans-Siberian Railway is one of Committee state, have required attention EVERY ASSUMPTION BEOKEN DOWNte great engineering achievements of during the course of the year, but in the Now every single assumption in the the world, and a monument to the vision, main be work has been directed to meet over weening calculations of Potsdam has perseverance, and skill of the Russian ing the immediate needs of the Services broken down. It is the end of the true engineer. The double tracking of this in regard to the design and development Prussian tradition. The original nd 6,677 mile-long railway was begun some of aircraft. Progress with a number of vantage of internal lines and railway years ago. When the war started the investigations of a general character and transport means little or nothing new sands of additional men were set to work of considerable importance has in con- that the Germans, fully engaged on every to hasten this vast undertaking, and the sequence been unavoidably delayed, but hand, already want more troops on many second track in just been Anished, increased facilities for experimental work sectors than they can supply, and hence time to facilitate the shipments of the provided at the National Physical Labor forward are certain to be more and more enormous stores of artillery, projectiles, airy will, it is hoped, render possible out-numbered.
there as they are ontnumbered explosives, machinery, and goods of nil ni more rapid at hops, ponder possible will they be more and more gunned, kinds from the United States and Japan Infing to the general aerodynamic char million acteristics of the aeroplane which have though Krupps' has been the very nani and England. Thirty-one and symbol of the German desire for
direct bearing on the improvement of domination. Krupps have saved Ger-
all types of machine. many, said one of the Kaiser's cathu siastic officers a few months tgo, but though for a long time the advantage derived from the enemy's extent of wea pon making plant was prodigious, wo have come to different sequel. So much for worship of mechanism and disdain of moral wisdom.
There may be some strong ductus. Vladivostock. Goods received here will issued as a White Paper. It is n valThe distance to traverse, was only about
OUR GIANT ENERGIES.
Upon July 1st several of our divisions were stopped by machine-gun fire, their losses were exceedingly heavy, but hardly any of them were from high explosives.
250 yards. The problem, therefore, is to render a body of men reasonably immune to bullets fired at that range. The Glor- man first-line trenches were thinly held, so that once across the open our infantry would have had no dificulty whatever.
Now, sir, I venture to any that if three intelligent metal-workers were put to- gether in consultation they would in a few days produce a shield which would take the greater part of those men safely across. We have definite facts to go upon. A shield of ate of 7-16 of an inch will stop a point blank bullet. Far more will it stop one which strikes it obliquely Suppose such a shield fashioned like that. of a Roman soldier, eft. broad and Bit. rep, admittedly it is heavy well over 30lb, in weight. What then? The man has not far to go, and he has the whole
progress as modern battles go, What day before him. A mile in a day is good does it matter, then, if bo carries a heavy shield to cover him?
1000,000) tons of freight arrived at Vladivostock in the first four months of
The report, as indicated, is of too tech- Suppose that the first line of stormers. 1915, compared with 2,193,009 tons in the corresponding period of 1914 Thousandsnical a character to allow of reference carried such shields. Their only other of workmen have been struggling night being made to it in detail, and only an armament, besides their helmets, should and day to enlarge the docks and port outline can be given of the Committee's be a bag of bombs, With these they clear facilities, and the wharves are being tre activities. In the sphere of aerodynamics up the machine guns. The second wave bled in length to accommodate at least much time has been devoted to measure of attack with rifles, an possibly with- forty great freighters at one time. Some ments of the wind forces on machines and out shields, then comes along, occupies of this congestion will be relieved by the examination of the results of modifica and cleans up the trench, while the routing of shipments to Nikolaicvsk which tion of individual parts. A new op heavily armed nfantry, after a rest, ad- has become chief port of supply for the paratus for the measurement of moments Vance upon the next one. Men would, of mining district of Chits and other pro has been designed and constructed, and course, be hit about the legs and arms, sperous Siberian communities previously apparatus has also been devised for mea and high explosives would claim their served ria Vladivostock.
suring the velocity and direction of flow victims, but I venture to my that wo in the air current. Some further ques should not again see British divisions held tions in connection with the stability of up by machine-guns and shrapnel. Why the aeroplane have been investigated, and can it not be tried at once? Nothing ela in particular the effect of the use of con-borate is needed. Only so many sheets of trols has been examined. The stability steel cut to size and furnished with a of kite balloons is another matter which double thong for arm grip, Shields are has been dealt with, and the Committee evidently better than body armour, since state that the conclusions should over they can be turned in any direction, or Form & screen for a sniper or for a wound- come some of the difficulties hitherto ex- perienced in the manipulation of this ed man
ELOQUENCE IN CHURCH.
The Latest Comedy by HORACE ANNEALLY VACHELL, from the Haymarket Theatre, London, to superior leadership and professional ed to declaiming fiction as if it were true,
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27TH,
QUINNEY'S
THURSDAY, SEP. 2871,
"CAROLINE.
FRIDAY, Szer. 29′′fi,
Somerset Maugham's very Latest Successful Comedy from the New Theatre, London, fluence and system have allowed Germany
W. J. Locke's Delightful Comedy, from the Garrick Theatre, London,
THE MORALS DE
MARCUS."
SATURDAY, SEPT. 30TH,
Martin Harvey's Great Adelphi Theatre Costume Play, THE
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SO. 2 COMPANY
ance on the General Parade fixed for Friday, September 29th. In lieu thereof the Company will attend Church Parade on Sunday, October 1st. The Band will also attend. Fall in at Central Station at 4 p.m. sharp. Members residing in Kowloon will fall in at the Ferry Pier, Kowloon, at 4.25 p.m. Uniform with helmets,
Band
28th at B p.m.
Practice-Thursday, September
GODA TOOTNALE. Crown-Sergeant R. 1. Wilks, cure
Messrs. Showan Tomes & Co., hn's undertaken the duties of Secretary
JOINED.
No. 2 Platoon R-S. Guktin, 11. Buta,
and A, Din,
The work of the British Ministry of Munitions, as created by Mr. Lloyd George, is going to show what can be done by the giant energies of a free society when challenged upon an issue of life and death to compete with the Prussian speciality of organisation. All the in- genuity of Count Zeppelin and the poison-chemists has not done as much for Germany as has been lost for that nation by tyrannous cruelties, the slaughter of Canadians have been discassing in the non-combatants, the murders of Nurse newspapers the propriety of having the Cavell and of Captain Fryatt, and all Scriptura lessons read in churches by the ghastly pedantries of the Toutonic tramed clecutionists and real actors War-Book Attempts to imitate the in the insie important places of worship machiavellianism of Frederick and Bis. This brings to mind the story of an actor
TOWARDS INCREASED SAFEZZ marck have only led to suicidal bungling, who was once asked to read the lessons.
What remains? Not the superior When he had done so, the rector asked A large umber of investigations have fighting-power of troops. Never again him how it was that his (the actor's)
been carried out during the year, at the will the Germans be allowed to imagine reading made so much more of an impres request of the Service Departments, into that they surpass other races in the sion on the hearers than his own did I methods and processes employed in the quality wherein quite naively they suppose," said the actor, it is because I construction of aircraft and engines. No. 2 Company is exempted from attend. thought themselves unmatched. There remains not even a vestige of the claim read it as if I believed it I ara accustom Some of these nvestigations have led to important restilts of raoré general value. capacity in war. Several military chiefs while you read truth as if it were fe Continued investigation into all ques of the Allies will be remembered as on. I have heard (says a party to the tona affoeting the strength and dura greater and more far-sighted soldiers discussion) that when Sir Henry Irving blity of the machine tends constantly to than any whom the present Emperor's in went to Oxford to receive his honorary increased safety. By the courtesy of the LLD; he was asked to perform a similar Agent-General for Western Australia, ex- to bring forth in this war, Hindenburg office in one of the college chapels. Of periments are being carried out with cor has hitherto been strong and able, but course, f he had chosen, he could have tain Australian timbers wheil it is claim adopted, for the nonce, the conventional ed exhibit special properties which may clerical manner. His histrionic abilities render them of value in aeroplane con- are two military theories of would have enabled him to read the lestruction. Great attention has bon paid what must take place within it somewhat sons just 1ke a clergyman. Instead of to the test ng of all metals used in con shorter or somewhat longer period this however, he read the Old Testa struction, An Either the enemy28 present lines will eng ment lesson as if it were a scene in a
Experiments have been carried out on until they break up at last at several play, in suca a dramatic fashion as to the aerodynamic properties of bombs, and points, enabling the Allies to roll up the produce a great sensation among his investigations and calculations have been enemy's forces section by section and so hestars. It was a selection from one of made with regard to the flight of bombs, make an end. Or the Central Empires the historical books I forget which and with a view to increased accuracy of aim- will try to prolong the struggle by a fight there were characters in it, and some diagn ins retreat and by making successive logue. And out of the dinners of the Questions connected with the aeroplane stands on shortening lines, which would ancient past Irving made those charac-compass were laid before the Committes be served, of course, with increasing rail ters stand forth, as if they were men of by the Superintendent of the Royal Air- way efficiency. This latter attempt might or might not retard the issue, but could today. I have been told that those who craft Factory in the autumn of 1913, and The General Committee will meet at 5.10- in no event change it. were there will never forget the impress the result of the experiments a type
* Let us now, look at these
sion produced." two theories of the enemy's fate. Suppose first, that he will not retroaf, or cannot retreat without risk of speedier disaster, und elects to fight it out like grim death more or less where he stands, West and East. As his casualties increase and his power to reinforce rapidly diminishes until it 28 extinguished, ha present lines would become as a whole thinner, more rigid, more brittle. The pressure upon them. would increase. Any threatened sectors could only be temporarily strengthened by denuding others in a fatal manner car. tain to be detected. The Allies would effect a total rupture of the enemy's front at some point, when there would be no hostile man-power to fill the breach, and would drive clean through've MARTIAN THE CAVALRY'S DAY,
Before this took place the enemy's Fries would have come to an awkward conformation Other broad ruptures would speedily follow. The long-deferred day of the Allies' cavalry might come at last, and in a great destruction the enemy might.he requited for all. That is a perfectly thinkable end of trench war Fare within the next twelve months. It would mean a cataclysm,” It would be the débâcts of the enemy; the crash of the Central Empires. But fhough this is by no means mooncsirable and it would be the sequel most to be preferred, wo are not yet to assume tant it is the inevitable process of victory, socce
THE CIGARETTE END,
THE BEST FIGHTER I EVER
SAW.”
Augustus F. Beach, the Ve York American correspondent, who has recent
returned to America from Berlin, sends to his paper a noteworthy tribute of a German oficer to the bravery of an Aus tralian soldier. Captain Lep Selimidt, who tells the story is a Chiengo man,
of instrument specially adapted for em- ployment on an aeroplane under the varying conditions which arise in flight has been produced and standarized.
PROSITING BY EXPERIENCE
HEADQUARTERS CLUD.
p.m.un Thursday, September 28th.
FUJENKIN, D.S., (Reserve).
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE ARAB REVOLT AGAINST TURKEY.
and its completence to German:
New machines an 1 new wing sections have been desigred to take advantage of new knowledge and appreciable improve- ment for a giren engine power and weight has been obtained. In new types guidance
The following telegram has been receiv has been received from the experience of tu from the Sceretary of State for the
Colonies:-- the Royal Flying Corps in the field, and in all cases it has been found possible to For many years The Arabs, chafing secure stability under ordinary flight under Turkish mistule, have looked for- conditions Special attention has also ward to the day of regaining their former been given to the provision of suitable freedom, and revnits against Turkish landing gear The improvement of air domination in Arabia have been of fre who crossed the Atlantic as a steward on cooled and of water-cooled engine designquent occurrence: The analeeds of the Constantinople, a Dutch liner when war broke na Here and construction has her the subject of present Government is his story The best fighter I ever continued study, resulting in new designs influence, have forced Turkey into di saw was a Australian were fighting and the development, with the help of astrous war and have brought matters to in a narrow street in Trans, two small the firms concerned. Two new devices a climax Sheriff Mecca and other orocs of us. We had been sniping each are being tested for improving the per- ruling Chiefs in Arabia now have decided other for a long time and suddenly theformance at heights.to throw off the Turkish yoke and assert British scrambled out and started for us. Two wireless telegraphy sets of very their independence Great Britain has We got out and went of them. I could light weight have been designed and test always viewed Arab aspirations sym- see a big fellow literally wading throughed and the investigations relative to find pathetically, but hitherto her traditional the company, in front, and I swear Iing the true vertical on aeroplanes in friendship with Turkey compelled her to thought he'd wipe out the kit. He used fight have progressed satisfactorily, as stand aloof. Now Turkey, by joining up all his ammunition and broke his gun well as the evolution of optical systems Central Powers, has left Great Britain over the second head it hit he threw the for convenient observation of bomb drop free to give practical evidence of synna- weapon away. He fought with a pistol ping from aeroplanes
thy to those Arabs who have ranged them- until he picked up a short fron bar. Experiments with various types of selves with the Allies against the enramon When all was quiet. I went with other fabric have been in progress in connection enemy officers to look over the prisoners and with visibility and with a view to lower wounded. There in the middle of the ing the weight of the fabric covering of street was the big fellow, right where he wings, and decreasing the amount of the Some writers, on the other hand, had dropped. He was plugged clean tightening and protecting Blm necessary deng that the enemy can conduct any through, and pretty weak, but he was It has also been found that a method of aghting retreat on shortening lines game, that fellow. I asked him if there abandoning the use of poisonous ingredi They think the mechanical dificulties was anything I could do for him. Well, ents can be relied upon. would be too great. They think also that he roused himself, opened his eyes a little the moral effect on the German nation wider and sort of half sat up. Then dig and forces would be too disastrous, since ging into his trousers pocket be produced the whole monstrous fabric of deceptions cigarette butt and said: Thanks; and self-deception would have collapsed I'd be much obliged for a light." "`-- and there would be no prospect but doom. About this we are by no means so sure, That wonders in retreat can be wrought has been proved by all the Allies in the present war. The Germans fulling back would have an incomparable railway sys tem behind them. I the enemy lingered too long after his lines had been steadily pushed back pretty far by such operations, as are at present being carried on in Picardy, general retiral without general destruction might indeed proje tini- possible.org
TOWARDS GERMAN SOIL SON
But, if need be, this system and any sys tem like it will be turned through the Balkang from the south by the stronger cooperation of all the Allies. We have often shown that the doom of Turkey and Austria will so restrict the chief enemy's resources as to ensure that Germany shall be beaten to the earth
“The Allies ought to stand on German Boil well within the next twelve months, and the British nation will expect that such eloquent and stern words eg wero used by the Premier and Mr. Boner Law shall be inflexibly fulfilled. Never has been committed so frightful a crime against the human race as this war, in which pan-Germanism planned to wade to world dominion through a wide sea of blood and tears. This struggle was avoid
If the German positions can be forced in Picardy, they can be forced anywhere Again the Central Empires have marked cut, no doubt, rearward positions on the East and are employing hordes of labour ers to fortify still further the courses of the Niemen, the Bug, the lower Vistula and the passes of the eastern Carpathians
(Continued at foot of next Column).........able.”
The assistance of the Committee has been given to the Air Department of the Ad miralty in connection with a number of importat problems, in which laboratory experiment was desired in conjunction with investigatory work proceeding co the full scale, Among the questions dealt with may be mentioned the design of air ships, both rigid and non-rigid, the moor ing of airships over the scapoints in conection with the design of seaplane carrying ships, the design of wind screcus near airship sheds, and the equilibrium and stability of kito balloons. New types of aeroplanes and seaplanes have also. been developed by the Air Department, with the aid of wind channel tests at the National Physical Laboratory.
It rentains the fixed policy of Great Britain to abstain from interfor- ence in religious matters and spare no effort to secure the holy places of Islam from all external aggression. It is an unalterable point of British policy that these holy places should remain under independent Moslem rule and authority The present state of war has caused many difficulties and dangers to intending pilgrims, but Sharifis action gives ground, for the hope that arrangements may be made whereby pilgrims may in future visit holy shrines, in peace and security '-BONAR LAW.-
FROM PRESS GALLERY TO CABINET.
Mr. Duke, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland, is the first ex-member of the Press Gallery to enter a British Cabinet. Others who worked in the Press Gallery before making a reputation on the floor of the House were Lord Russell of Killowen, Sir Edward Clarke, and Mr. REPORTED NEW OILEFIELD." Justin McCarthy, Everybody knows that Dr. Johnson was the father of Parliamen- It is reported, says the Nagasaki Pres, tary reporting. It is not so widely that a kerosene oil field has been discover known that among his legitimate succes ed in Wakamatsu Mura, Goto Islands, sors in the Press Gallery were Samuel and that application has been made to the Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens Wil author tier for permission to prospect liam Hazlitt Allan Cunningham, Gerald over an extensive tract of land, A Griffin, and Mark Butherford