17306-
INTIMATIONS
Ten Victor Records which should be in every home
Arlesdenne Suite (Bizet) Part 4. Caprico Espanol: ...(Beaumont) Twilight-Crepuscule, Violin Cello-Harp
17784 Album Leat
17029
Norma--Taatasin
Lucin-Prelude
74400--Tosca-Visi darte -
87218-Cielo Turchino.i
Violin Flute--
Harp Solo
"Song
87030–Madame Rutterfly → Batterfly's Death Scene,
64136-Menuett (Hadyn)
Violin Solo
7418-Thais Intermezzo
70116-Bonnie Maggie Tanson
64594-When the Boys come Home
Bong
Comic Song
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, GOTOBER 4th, 1916.
Vossella's Italian Band.
Venetian Trio. Florentino Quartet. Lapitino.
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THE LAST PENNY
The Berlin Lokelanzeiger reproduces, from the Felding of the Third Ger man Atiny an interesting letter. from Herr von Gwinner, the head of the Deutsche Bank, to a nephew in the field It shows that Gurman soldiers are
seriously asking whether they ought to
subscribe to the new War Loan anu no to
prolong the war. It also shows how very
Lane is the best reply that one of the most prominent German financiers can.
how make to such an inquiry,
Addressing his dear harl," Herr von Gwinner say
enemies 276.
FLASH OF THE GERMAN GUNS.
AUSTRALIAN'S VIEW FROM POZIERES RIDGE.
The High Commissioner has receivedl n communkation, dated August 14th, con- corming the operation of the Australian Imperial Fetco in France, in which, the
following pasages occur; --
Sands beyond the
Bonic
RUMANIA'S INTERVENTION-
ARMY HISTORY AND CHARACTER.
[BY "THE TIMES", "MILITATES, CORRESPONDENT-
The intervention of Ruhania on the se of the Allies has great importance
from:
addition of this new comrade to our very point of view, and the. moks will be heartily welcomed by all the States and peoples who are fighting. Germany and her dupes,
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
TABLADES, CENTRAL, STATION, 5.30 P.M. Wednesday, October 4th Recruits of No 2 Platoon under 0.8. Major Thursday, October 5th. Reoruits of No 4. Company under C.S! Major, A Friday, October Gth No. 2 Company,
Masin Gunners Recruits of No. 2 Saturday, October 7th-Defaulters Drill
Platoon under C. Major
4.30 par under Sergeant Major Roy- lance.
STRENUTE
0.C. Companies, Ambulance Platoon, Maxim Chunners, Mounted Police and Molór Patrols are directed to send a complete list of the names and collar wunders of the men of their respective Commands (whether on leave or not) to P-e, Haskell, D.S.P.R.'s Office D..
NO. 2 COMPANY,
the supplies which our enemies have An will be a fresh source of inconvenience to them, We Allies now make the cause of Rumanin our own, and look forward to the time when all Rumanians will be united, thanks to the victories of their arms and ours
From her own point of view Rinia hans erininly chosen the best moment for very hard hit on both the Russian and intervening Austria-Hungary has hien
the Italian fronts. On the Torney, she has do divisions, many of them how remnants, and on the latter 2 or 25 also heavily hit. As the total number of Austrian divisions is only 75, and Serbia must still be occupied and Albania còn trolled, it will be hard for the Dual Monarchy to scrapo up troops, to rei- force the 30,000. Landsturm now, on the Rumanian frontier, and to withstand
asian attack. Moreover, the Bus a particularly strong and victorious an eine has cleared, Bukovina, and Ary under General Lechitsky is on the mountain borders of Hungary - and in position to combine its operations with, the of the Rumanian troops.
DAARMY EFFICIENCY.
informal meeting of the members of No. 2 Company will take place at the Magistracy at 6.30 p.m. on Thurs day, October 5th, to consider the fill- ing of vacancies in the Sergeanta ranks, Attendance optional...
--POLICE RESERVE ORCHESTRA. The Orchestra will play on the following:
dates in aid of charity reg Thursday, October 12th St. John's Am
hulance Brigade Concert at the Vie toria Theatre in aid of the British Thursday, October 10th Our Day'
Red Cross
Du
Open Air Concert in the Public Gar dens in aid of the War Charities. Practites, for the above have been fixed for Thursday, October 5th; Monday, October Dil Monday, October 16th; and Wednesday, October 18th. Thi Band will not practice during the
period Databer Ist to. 21st
COMMAND
The A.S.P. (R) will attend daily at the 1.S. P's Office from 1 to 5 pm, Satur- days and Sundays excepted.
J. W. FRANKS,
A.S.P. (Reserve),
Thure have been four distinct battles fought by the Australian troops on the Somme since they made their first charge The free decision of Rumania to join As you write that the question has from the Britih trenches near Pozières.us is a proof that her statesmen expect arisen among your contrades, and that The first was the heavy three days' fight the defeat of the Central Powers, and it has bect anawered in a remarkable by which they took Puzières village the have taken note of the success of the cur variety of ways. I will explain my view second was the fight in which they tried rent offensive of the Allies. The help of to you and shed some more light on the to rush the German second line along the Ariny which has an aggregate of question. You write - Will the conel-hill crest behind Pozitres. The third was 1,000,000 Trained me and 1.500 goyż, is sion of penue be delayed by subseriptions the attack in which this second line was very valuable to us. while the cessation to the War Loans? If a Portuguesa broken by them along a front of a mile asked such a question-thinking of conta and a-half. The fourth has been the long
htherto been able to draw from Humania of Portuguese War Loans one might fight which immediately began along the reply Yes. For the Portuguese had German second line northward from the no ngel, ajd have no need, to inter new position. It has been hard fighting fere in the world war, and if the whole all the way, and what was three weeks people refused the Foringuese Govern ago a Getman, salient into the British inent the means, to carry on the war, the Fae is now a big Australían salicht war would be at an end for Portugal to the German line. But I think If ever the Russians were to ask the same that the hardest fight of all was that of question, one might perhaps give the second and third phases the battle affixuntive answer, for Russin could
for Prziere Ridge, doubtless: have, pence, Although she cer- tainly has pot deserved ji. -
Puzières village itself was not on the Russians could have peace, and if the. It is on the British side of it, where Russian people to the last man refused the German was naturally hanging on means for carrying on the war it would be because it was almost the highest point difficult or impossible for the Tussin in his position and gare him a view over Governmend to prolong the war, and, a miles of our territory. On the other Russia's enemies are ready for peace, hand, the German main second line - Besico would be there. For the French hind Pozières was practically on the sum and for the English it would, indeed; mit-in sume parts farther north it was be much more difficult to give way actually on or just over the summit. It cause of the consequences. Nevertheless, was from 200 to 700 yards they could make peace if they desired.
village itself. But we, my dear nephew, cannel have peace, although we want it. Imagine, to
The German line on the hill crest was yourself our being compelled to stop the attacked as soon as ever the village was war because the German people was tired. Properly cleared. The Australians went of it and the War Loans could no longer at it in the night across a wide strip of be placed. That would not bring this waste hilltop. The attack reached the criminal war to an end. I do not know remnants of the German wire
People are asking questions about the whether you have an occasional oppor- urave men picked a path through the Rumanian armament, and inquiring whe tunity to hear something of the foreign tangle, and, in spite of the cross fire, ther the Bumanian Army has a character newspapers. In them you could read managed to reach the German trench for hard fighting As to the first point, every day what the intentions of our They were very few. We have since found the fact that Humania has Mannlicher and finally to the leer en meer up to the
•In English, Rus-men in the craters even beyond the front rifles nad Krupp Beld guns and howitzers age of 45. The Territorial Army was vian, and French newspapers, as well 43 German trench. It was a brave attack naturally canses some disquiet, but there more like Lord Haldane's type than that in the letters that are captured, the so1 On the extreme left t succeeded. But the are plenty of rides in the country, and of France. It was a young, and not an of Germany is divided up-East Prussia trenches won by the Victorians there were ample for many months of war. There and it incorporated annually a number the supply of small-arm ammunition is aroy. It had a permanent endre to Russia, the left bank of the Rhine to on the flark, not on the hilltop. The is also enough artillery ammunition it of recruits fixed by law, who were only. France, and Schleswig-Holstein to Deur country beyond that crest, sloping present, and although Krupp is not avail trained for short periods near th aar A London financial paper wrote gradually down to the valley of Caurce-able for future supplies, it can be taken homes, and were the passed on into the recently that Germany must pay a war lette and beyond, where the derman field for granted that such a vital question as militio and the feel at the same ages as indemnity of £15,000,000,000. That would batteries were firing and where the Ger- shells has not been overlooked. In fact, those of the men of the standing army. be the whole venlah of the nationis
So you see, dear Karl, what our pra mans could come and go unseen-all this a stency supply is available from other. In 1878 the standing army numbered spect would be if we were not able to con was an far an unknown land into which sources while the mountain and heavy 18,000 all ranks and the Territorial Army tinue the war to a victorious end.It tot one of the British side had peered artillery of the field army conics from 44,000. In the war of 1877-78 these troops would mean complete ruin for poor and since the battle began.
Creuzot, and can be replenished from the formed two Army Corps, cach of two rich, destruction of German trade, andl.
Six days later the Australians went for same firm. The fortress artillery arma divisions, but during the operations German industry, the smashing up of the that position again. They attacked just meal is also fairly large and good, and three divisions were united into a Ru Empire, the disappearance of opportuni- after dusk. They were the same troups should be able to provide an adequate maniai Amy Corps before Plevna, while ties for labour, and subjugation to a who had made the attack a week before, proportion of heavy guns. No arty in the remaining visions acted as a corps foreign yoke. Now you will understand because there was a deterinination that these days has enough guns and shells, of observation. In this war the Ruma why there is only one possible answer to thoy, and they flore, should rench that for one can have enough, but for the nians acquired auch fame, and as they your question that we must aght suffer line, The artitiery had been pounding field she is fairly well found in guns of and far better armed, and trained, there effectives which Rumania can place in the have since become much more numerous. and pay to the last man and the last it gradually, during the week. If was n
IS HO TEGASON TO suppose that they will not penny."
most difficult business to get the various all descriptions,
that the appear do as well bettera parties for the attack into position in the The warlike qualities of the modern ance of their hereditary enemies thr night, and some of the troops behind had Rumanians were tested in 1877 with very Turks in Trauseivania will affright them, to be pushed forward hurriedly. In con- satisfactory results, while the march into sequence the officers out in front had to Bulgaria in 1913 gave the modern Ru After the way the army was largely carry on as if they were the only troops manian staff a fiue experience, and en- increased, and in 1882 regional recruiting in the attack and see the whole fight ablet them to make good those deficiencies was adopted. Four Army Corps were through without relying upon supports which are discovered in all armies when created, and were gradually supplied The limitations of man's intellect do The way in which junior offers and they take the field. We can feel confident with all their troops and services. In But govern the scale of his affairs, writes.co.'s have acted upon their own initia that on this occasion, when so much more 1891 a fusion of the standing army and Mr Winston Churchill in the Sunday tive during some of this fighting has been two years, for her final preparations, and then formed 34 infantry regiments, each is at stake, and when Rumania has had the Territorials took place, and the whole Pictorial, He does what he can he beyond praise. The attack went through must have been convinced from the first with one active and two Territorial bat- comprehends what he can, and to rest, up to t'me. The supports had to come, în
that intervention of some kind would be talions. Beaind these troops there stood, happers
parties organized in the dark on the spur necessary, nothing has been left undone, as before, the Militia and the lever ch of the moment.
whether from the offensive or defensive masse. The men of the Territorials were Airnost immediately after the Austra
point of view, to enable the Rumanian now nominally trained for 80 days in th lians reached the trenches watchers fat Army to take the field with the greatest spring and 30 days in the autumn of their behind guld see the horizon beyond them prospect of success, and to the greatest first year of service and for 30 days eacit lit by five slow illuminations about 10 advantage of its country's cause.
succeeding year. By the year 1902, with minutes interval between each. They
VILITARY HISTOLY AND INSTITUTIONS.
Army Estimates of 15 millions sterling. wore beyond the crest of the hift, I do
the peace strengths were 80,700 all ranks not know, but I think the Germanust and not every one bears in mind the Territorials. These numbers, gradually
Ramania is somewhat remote from us, in the standing army and 75,000 in chu have been blowing up his feld-gun a stormy history of the old Principalities, grew year by year, and there was dis The chaos of the first explosions has munition. The men in the new trenches their perpetual wars against powerful played a constant endeavour to increase given place to the slow fire of trench war may or may not have seen this. What neighbours, their long vassalage fare; the wild turbulence of the incalcul they did notice as soon as the battle Turkey, and the diffent times through army.
to both the ubers and quality of thes able, the sense of terrible adventure has cleared tnd they had time to look into the which they passer! before securing union passed. For nearly two years the armies darkness in front of them, was a succes first of all, and then their independence. of Europe have dwelt close together in on of brilliant glares-from some post-From the year 1941, when the first feudal The reform of 100 to 1911, and a opposing ditches, fed by lavish flood oftion just hidden by the slope of the hill-army poured across the Carpathians and steady increase of money grants, SU tuman life and broadening streams of It was the flash of the German guns founded Wallachia, until the beginning seeded in placing the Army in a much shot and shell, tormenting each other by which were firing at them. It is, as far of the rule of the Phamariot princes in better position, and when the present. ever-growing and improving agencies of as I know, the first time in this battle 1716, the history of Wallachia and war broke out the Rumanians had 3,000 death and behind them their countries that our men have seen the actual flash of Moldavia slike is one of perpetual com- all ranks on a peace footing, with 24,000 have transformed the infinitely varied the enemy s gnus bat and of perpetoni struggle to play horses and 600 guns, while the annual activities of modern civilisation into the When day broke they found beyond of a formidable neighbour against grand divisions had now become Actives contingent had risen to 47,000. The three comprehensive institutions of the them a wire fat stretch of hilltop with a another. barracks, the arsenal and the hospital.. distant hill line beyond. Far down the
It is impossible that a country and a Army Reserve, and Militia, of which the The progress of the way is us longer slope there were Germans moving. And people whose forbears pussed through two first formed the Army of Operations. to be measured by the battles or the posi- in the dista: t landscape the German gus such terrible experiences, and had such The latter included 10 active and 5 re serve divisions, besides two cavalry divi tions of the contending fronts; but main teams limbered up and hurried away with great victories as those of Mirera, Step- ly by the economic and political reactions the field guns which for a fortnight hadhari the Great, and Michael the Bravesions This Army at the opening of which the long and over more tightly
to their credit; should not have inherited 1914, was in a position to mobilize, not. deswn strain is producing in the various
military traditions of a striking kind counting Ersatz troops and Militia, 220 Rumanin certainly has such an inheri- battalions, 83 squadrons, 194: field and nations. Every man, every woman, every workable child is gradually being
tance. If, at the time of the Phanariots, howitzer batteries, 10 fortress artillery fitted into the war machine.
it was temporarily lost, it reappears with companies, and 13 technical companies.. the native princes after 1821, and when These troops gave a fighting strength of Rumanía it was only natural that he and 200 older field guns and howitzers, & Hohenzollern Prince came to rule 250,000 rifles, 18,000 sabres, 600 modern should seek to revise the old traditions, and 300 machine guns. But it was. The object of this B and even the old names. The dorobanti anticipated by all close observers of this Bill is to prevent calaran, granicer, and other tragne Army that there would be a large sur The world is in twilight; and from property belonging to any "chemy arm, titles, mostly of Hungarian origin, given plus of trained men after mobilization, weyond dim flickering horizons comes ate, now in liquidation from being held in modern days to various categories of thanks to the fact that the country had tirelessly the thudding of guns. A hard by any purchaser daring the period of Rumanian troops, were handed down been steadily accumulating reserves since frost-like surface of gaiety sparkles in the war and five years thereafter for and from the 13th century, and, more im the year 1858, and it was supposed, not the cities; and anxiety turns to thought on behalf of an enemy,
portant still, the standing army was one without reason, that a very considerable lessness or to apathy for relief.
To attain this cbject the Bill provides of the first to be created in Europe, and expansion of the Army might easily take The beloved figures of sen, father, that every purchaser of immovable pro not only was national service of very piscop brother, friend descend from trains on perty in liquidation under the priceiial ancient date, but the principle of the flying visits, re-creating around them for Ordinance shall
Slevée en masse was inherent in the mill a little precarious space the happiness of (a) make a statutory declaration that tary institutions of the past. Thus every far-off days before the war. A few hours he is not acting for an eventy and thing was prepared for the gradual tran of safety, and comfort, a vivid interlude (b) give a hond in the sureties that the formation of the Army into a national or home and pleasure, and then back, as purchased property shall not during the force of the modern type, and, moreover a matter of course, sa a commonplace ex-war and and five years thereafter be the people were murtured upon the old pericno, to the slow fire which with in transferred to or held in trust for an fighting traditions which, when hardly
won, are hardly lost. tensifying fierceness consunca the flesh energy. and scars, the hearts of peoples
It is difficult to believe that flerr von Gwinner's letter has done much to raise the spirits of the Third German Army.
THE WORLD IS IN
TWILIGHT,”
When Armageddon burst over Europe probably no single brain achieved a com- plete and "rightly proportioneed view of the cataract of events. The first weeks and months of the general war escaper to a large extent from human control. The forces liberated were unmeasured; the consequences of their exercise un forserable.
been firing upon our men,
ALIEN ENEMIES PROPERTY.
Straits Settlements Free with the The text of a bill is published in the following objects and reasons attached
A sombre mood prevails in Britain.. The faculty of wonder has been dulled emotion and enthus asm have given place to endurance; excitement is bankrupt, to i death is familiar, and sorrow numb.
STRENGTH IN 1914.
These few data, show us that in thinking: of Rumania as a military factor we must not regard her Army as of mushroom growth, since it has been stendily built up upon foundations laid in the remote past and has been perfected in a modest wey by dint of the personal services and sacrifices of Rumanians over a loig period of time Rumania is surrounded The beacons on the road of modern by military States powerfully armed. A military reforms in Rumania are sup country of 50,000 square miles with a plied by the years 1868, 1872, 1876, 1990, population of only 7 millions must not 1801, 1010, and 1011. Let s take, for be expected to perform miracles. But The Morning Post's Petrograd corre- example, the legislation of 1872. At that she possesses en Army of which skilled spondent reports that the Germans at period there was the standing army which observers speak well, and from all that Kreve used a liquid which caused a bura formed the first line and incorporated we know of its deeds in the past and of ng sensation, but was not liquid fire. A contingents from 21 to 29 years of age. its present organization and equipment soldier struck on the arm with it is not | These men passed eight years in the we are justified in feeling confident that disabled immediately but dies on the third standing army and were then turned according to the measure of its power served through the perils, the dificulties or fourth day. The concoction produce over to the militia, until they were 37, it will play an important and an honour- and the blunders of a thousand wears the 'a clotting of the blood
(Continued at foot of neat Column able part in the war life and honour of Britannia's. isle,”
Now one undertanda bow men lived MORE GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS through the periods that seem so terrible | in the history books, and went about their business, and joked and ate their dinners, and filled their theatres. Now, too, age understands how our forefathers, with shoulder hended to the burden, with searching cya fixed upon the enemy, pre-