OVER HEAPS OF CORPSES."!
MID-DAY AT NIGHT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4rn, 1916,
GERMAN CONFESSIONS OF GREAT VIVID PEN-PICTURE OF MODERN.
LOSSES
DESPAIRING LETTERS.
Ccneral von Below, commanding the
WARFARE.
An oflicer, writing home from France,
says:-
THE SUPER ZEPPELINS.
MADNESS OF THE GERMANS. EITHER DRUG OR MACHINE-
DRIVEN MANIACS" The second-in-command of a battalion which has been doing some hard and bloody fighting on the immediate Bank of our Allies, down Guillemont way, was among the cot cases which arrived at Southampton the other day
We live in exciting times now, and all German 2nd Army, in Orders of the Dav that I experienced before 1s as nothing hitherto utilised. The information, 60 He gave it as his opinion that the folk
as compared with this. It is quite impos issued on July 3rd, acknowledged the able for you at home to get any concep "enemy's teamrary superiority in artition of what is meant by the newspaper phrase Terrific bombardment along the lery infautry." To make up for whole front." The effect both to the car
and this. Gorman soldiers were ordered to and eye is such that the mon is not born
description of it
TRUTH ABOUT THE MATTER. Among the units composing the squad ron of Zeppeline which raided South Eastern districts of England before dawn on the morning of August 24th, thoro Are stated to have been two airships of new and more powerful type than any far as it goes is probably correct (says the Aeronautical correspondent of the who talk about the Huns as the mad dogs Daily Telegraph.) The fact that the Ger of Europe are not really exaggerating so man Navy possesses at least a couple of much as one might suppose, I believe powerful craft which for the sake of con
a tremendous mumber of Boehes are to all venicase may be classed under the dentents and purposes mad, he said. Tell you why. Their worship of eff- testable. The first of these giant wirina isation has carried thent so far that they engaged on its legitimate function of Now, when a man really losess all vestige made its appearance over the North Sea live entirely lost all sense of humour reconnaissance-about a month Reliable information is now to hand of the cone of humour I tell you he's too supplementing and confirming previous When the Hun was practically having
nearly mad to be good company reports from neutra urges regarding things his own way a year ago, the nows the construction, capabilities, and ama he gave the world was quite intelligible, Roughly speaking, they are double the and a great deal of it was to be relied on size and possess nearly twice the power Holes like the devil now in all his news, Ho says our offensive line bei maish
khown particularly high degree of in. who could commit to paper an adequate signation super Zeppelins" is inco ciency and thoroughness-machine organ-"'
difference to the number of their own casualties The enemy should have to curve his way over heaps of corpses." ↑ No one who knows the facts will deny, writes a well-informed correspondent, that the German troops engaged have as a rule, obeyed this order.
The Allie troops have repentedly had to carve their way over heaps of
Tittle of the fact
php
If you try to imagine all the most ter rific thunder that ever rent the air and try to concentrate it into one place and on period of an hour or so, you do not even then begin to get an idea of the noise which begins to shake both heaven and earth, while a mental picture of aliment of these craft, the most vivid lightning you have ever seen, coupled with Brock's most magni
ago.
has been
Government has grown anxious to make you the half of the effect of the "strafes" to pre-war times, two of which were fost od; that we have given it up, having by stress of weather off the coast of Den-accomplished nothing at all; that we have mark in the autumn of 1014. From one failed to injurs him in the least have I point of view that of aerodynamical gained nothing and are so appalled by able advance; in the case of aircraft of us that we have finally given up in des- efficiency, the new type marke a conside the terrible casualties he has inflicted on such gigantic bulk, the cuormous dimer pair. Well, I ask you, do we look like sions of the gas-containing hall offer at Everybody on our side knows we serious bar to any increase in the speed of hold the initiative and dictate every travel by their excessive air-resistance move. We keep going forward; we never This latter detrimental factor has now go back, and every hour, day and night, been to some extent eliminated by the we are inflicting inore casualties than adoption, for the hull and its appendages, wo suffer. ore casantjes, such as the cars, of what is known as a
the battle were
FORMERLY ON THE LUSITANIA.!!
In its daily wireless to the eye. The other night I was on dute messages it has habitually understated the at a bertain point while a final half-hour's German casualties at points where their concentrated bombardment raged, ani. extent has been known, approximately, to realised as I have never done before what the Allies. And it has said that up to modern warfare means. In front of me the sort of Inis the total Geraian losses in were field guns which cast forth their pro- nothing near" 350,000 jectiles in one continuous stream, while No exact figures are available. But, to from behind and at each side of me came check the German offeinl estimate, we the death dealing shells from our big have evidence of the rate of wasiago guns The noise was stupendous, the a typical German division.
frack and boom of the guns in front and the terrific reports from the guns behind, coupled with the shriek of the A man of the 10th Company 38th Keahells us they 38sed over our heads, made sorve Infantry Regiment, who was once one great pandemonium of noise, and in employed on the Lusitania, and is now the superlative degree at that. personer of war, puts the losses of his. own company, frem July 2nd to uly 12, DESCRIPTION DEFISH,
A certain increase in speed and in at 130 out of a total of 300. He says that The sight of it all was just as gigantic efficiency has thus been secured by aban two other companies of his battalion lost about the same proportion of their as the noise; the whole front was a blaze doning the old cylindrical construction and pricks from their herdsmen, beg for of light. The bursting of our own shells with which everyone is familiar bat pany, which was only 258 strong, was and those which the Germans were putting even so the newer airships are lamentably medium left: To the last gasp our chapu almost destroyed, having only eight men over, together with the glut of star abclls Such information as is available by Allies will win, if only because of that.
strength, and that the remaining com-
left. The two other battalions of the ro- giment were less exposed and lost only 500 men enca, making a total casualty list of about 1,700 for the regiment. He had heart that the 23rd and 51st Reserve In Tuntry, which were the two other regiments of the 18th Reservo Division, had lost, more heavily-about 2,000 men ench. This would give a total of some 5,700 casualties for the Division, or 57 per cent, of its original numbers.
streamline form, that is, the shape of which, being tapered at the stern and with a bluff bow, offers the least resist ance to the wind.
OVER THE NORTH BEA,”
deficient in both qualities.
which both sides were sending up, made means of the ordinary channels points to up a sight which will, to me at any rate, the fact that the first two vessels of this make the most magnificent, display of fire new type were laid down at Friedrichsha- works at the Crystal Palace seem as tame foo early this year. Both were due for as a night-light, And the feature of a completation at the end of July, and it bombardment like this is the way in which was this period that the first airship. the country in front is revealed in a light of the new type was seen performing its as bright as the midday sun. You stand trials over Lake Constance The second in darkness yourself, and in front you airship has been completed since. The see niiles of country like a huge and trials in both cases are stated to have eerie, panorams. MATAN been eminently satisfactory, especially in
This is a feeble account, I know, and I realise it when I see for myself how little idea the best newspaper correspondents give of what they try to describe, The fact is, I suppose, that the whole thing debes description, and the unfortunate correspondent must feel small as he reads his copy" through
is still immensely strong and will go on working and destroying for a long time yet. But his individual fighters-they are. either drug and machine driven maniacs, foaming and fighting as mad dogs, or, in other places, they are broken and despair- ing wretches who, in the absence of blows mercy and capture. They ven
remain human; so do the French The
The German monstrous war machine
WONDERFUL BRITISH
AIRSH P.
our great airships at work, and, although During the past week I have watched
I am unable to make any practical com parisons with the German Zeppelins, our new airships certainly seem marvellously rigid and beautifully designed. They answer the helm or their planes with amazing celerity
On a sunny afternoon it is a wonder- ful spectacle to watch the monsters glit tering, like silver in the sky, pirouetting hither and thither, now up, now down, now circling, or racing away at incredible speed, engaged in practice for the coming
Day
This 12th Reserve Division was, between
regard to the rapid manevring capa July 2nd and 12th, in the hard fighting
bilities of these craft, which possess a between Trones Wood and Favieres. Wood
single large stern rudder and a couple It lost to British troops 344 counted pri-
of elevating fins arranged stern and bow Honers and some more who, unfortunately,
wise. In formation the tail bears the were not counted. But most of its fight-
appearance of a cross, These vessels are ing was against the French, and its whole
stated to be capable of describing a com- losses to the Allies in prisoners alone
plate circle in some forty seconds and to may safely be reckoned as at least 1,000.
An hour or so after what I have de rise, by the joint expenditure of ballast From what could be seen of its losses scribed above the sound of wheels a bed and the use of their elevators, at an angle under other hends, the German soldier's and we stand to know that our first batch of forty degrees to the horizontal estimate of the total casualties us about of wounded, is arriving. One by one the took part in the recent raid, if only for last coast ports are enthusiastic in their There is little doubt that both craft Neutral captains ariving at certain 57 per cent, misy be considered reason cars come up and discharge their pathe the fact that one of them at least has admiration for our new airships. These able.
tie cargoes you cannot begin to under during the past few weeks been obforced mariners frequently have the opportunity That a similar percentage is common instand what is meant by men broken in on reconnaissance duty over the North of observing Zeppeline patrolling in day- other divisions is suggested by the fre the wars until you see these heroes as Sen, which was once prondly known light off the Danish coast. After study- quent occurrence in captured letters of they come red hot from the fray to have across the water as the German Ocean, such statements as that of a man in the their wounds dressed before they are pass- The principal dimensions are these ing our ships as they manœuvre in the 9th Reserve Corps, that our regimented en to a casualty clearing station, and approximate, of course, but trustworthy, skies they consider they are far more is already (that is, on July 12th) half from thence to the base and "hlighty I believe, within a very small percentage readily handled, their model is finer, and wiped out and that of the commander A crowd of wounded men in London with of errot:
the British ship is altogether less cumber- of a battalion of the 16th Bavarian
Gas capacity 1,900,000 cubic feet some than the German craft. The British Regiment that he had on July 13th only their white bandages and blue uniforms
Length
785 feet airship, moreover, appears to travel at 4 officers left. These figures of casualties has inspired pictures entitled "Broken: are duly for the first half of July or less) fres who can produce on canvas the scene in the Wars, but until some genius
75 feet an amazingly high speed. 60 milean hour: and many German divisions have, like at an advance dressing station or field
............... 16,000 feet the 12th Reserve Division, been again heavily punished in actions since ambulance when an attack is in progress freely navigate at this height without By this is meant that these craft can
of the true significance of the phrase, Ait observed, is in practice unattainable the people at home will have little idea their lead of bombs-a beigar which, be
NO, POWER OF AIM few hours before all this they swing past by a fully-loaded aeroplane. There are us with a smiles on their faces and a song four cars, containing in all seven 200-210
Hence it is obvious that the super- on their lips, their bodies the picture of | h.p. Mayback petros motors, giving an Zeppelin constitutes a weapon of great life and energy, an dtheir uniforms clean aggregate of 1,500 h.pas The complete destructive potentiality, to which, once and smart; and now they have come out weight of these craft, fully loaded, it has winged its fight by night, there again with bodies aimed with shot and amounts to about forty tons; the useful This would be true but for two facts
is no known effective counter-measure. shell, and with their khaki stained with load they are able to carry in the shape rarely appreciated in the first case and the mud and blood of battle, 197
of crow, fuel, and bombs to about fifteen tons at the outside. Six of the motors never yet in the second, though the Ger are coupled up in pairs in the three front mann know it to their cost, while the ears, and drive one propeller apiece the it which are the facts that, owing to the absonce of military damage goca to prove single propeller immediately in rear of height at which a raiding Zeppelin is Just car contains one motor drivingka the af car or gondola.
compelled to fly, by reason of its fear from land-batteries, it is absolutely de
to aim its missiles at
It is safe to conclude that on the aver age those German units which have fought in the front line in Picardy have loss half their strength. In other words, to arrive de the probable total of the Ger man losses it only remains to know how inany out of the 122 or more German divi- sions on the Western front have been con centrated against the Allies near the
Sominó since June: 24th.
DECLINE OF GERMAN MORAL..
GLORIOUSLY BRITISH.
Master diameter Speed
Climb up to
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THESE ARMAMENT,
This bigh commendation by foreign opptaion accustomed to appreciating: navigable qualities is significant. (D. Ex )
The latest signs of a decline of murat.
Sad, pathetic, ghastly Yes, it would in the German army must not be taken bo but for one thing, and that something for more than they are worth; but they so gloriously Britisa. All the horrors of are worth something. They are of two the fight and the agony of the wounds kinds signs of discouragement and signs have not broken their spirits, or taken of disunion. Of the former there are the smile from their faces and the cheery these new vessels differ materially from any clearly
Now as to armament. In this respect prived of all power target of restricted TURDY in captured letters from officers words frein their lips. They are magni older, familiar types. Whereas in pre-dimensions, and its slow speed renders it and men
fioent, even more so in their weakness vious vessels the armament used to consist hopelessly ineffective, an A man of the Guard Fusilier Regiment than in the strength in which they went of machine-guns placed in the cars, the ... The latter point is worthy of emphasis, asks anriously whether there is talk of out. The only time the smile leaves their new craft mount a number of quick if only for the reason that it runs counter penco at home, for he is fed up with faces is when they inquire anxiously firers of small calibre (probably in the to all accepted ideas. The pre-war Zep the whole business," and has long given whether their comrades are holding the region of 1 or if inch, ., three to six pelin of the naval ie, the most efficient up believing in pegre """meaning ap-ground and whether the regiment is up pounders), and machine guns for anti-type was generally estimated to have a parently the triumphant peace promised holding its proud traditions. It is just aircraft defence But these guns are no speed of fifty five to sixty miles an hour by the Kaiser, *This war," he says, the same as Lieir wounds are dreased longer mounted in the ears as heretofore or over in still air. In point of fact the will never be settled by weapons, and No complaints, no peevishness, no regrets they are placed on gun-platforms arrang speed of these craft in the lower regions even if we win ten times over and Eng It strikes the onlooker na sonething more ed in the hull itself, a couple disposed of the atmosphere (which are best suited land closes up our overseas trade we are than human, and be feels that on either side, near the bows, the other to the proper functioning of motors and nothing but fools.”
something almost divine in a race that two for stern fire near the tail an hour. According to the best aerody propellers) scarcely exceeded forty miles The commanding officer of a Bavarian can produce such men as these from fac cumming device these gun-platforms are battalion letters from Bavarians show tory and office, field and market place of the disappearing variety, in so far namical knowledge of to-day-of which, more dejection than any others writes The RAMC is just as wonderful. All the embrasures can be concealed by by the way, the Germans do not own a bots that he has "
monopoly the new super-Zeppelins have down" under the strain of this hell," the livelong day these splendid men werk means of a shutter.
The great difficulty in regard to the use maximum speed not exceeding fifty- he has citly four officers left, and that for and a cheery word for each, and are as viding them with sufficiently spacious and of eighty and ninety miles an hour so on without rest or food, they have a smile of airships of large size is that of pro four miles an hour, as against the figures some days he had despaired of coming gentle, in spite of the rush, as the gentlest equipped harbourage, without which they frequently quoted out alive, as the Englishmen systematic. ally destroyed the dug outs by artillery woman. Well this is all inadequate, I are useless, and become the sport of the Let us, for the sake of our national fire."
know, but I wish I had the power to winds. At the outbreak of war Germeny sanity and dignity, preserve some true *** Already," a soldier writes after the publication in some widely-read paper, the possible excoption of Friedrichshafen) times when our civilian life, far removed write it in such a way as to be worthy of possessed not a single airship shed (with perspective in this matter. There are Bghting of the first week of July, no that our people at home could realiso capable of accommodating these giant from the stress and incidence of the war, hardly find pleasure in anything. it. I am sure that if this could be done craf Lately, however, it is stated at may appear to be unduly tried by these One could write lots more, but it is there would be no one who would not least one new airship, shed of suficient aerial attacks at the hands of a sneaking not permitted. The English," saya throw the last ounce of energy and the size has been erected at Hagenau, to the foe; a cry will inevitably arise for another on July 10th,have indeed taken inst copper into the fray, so that all this north of Strassburg, though others do prompt measures of reprisals and a wail. the offensive now." Dar regiment, men of the 163rd says two days later, shall not be in vain.
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completely broken
already half wiped out."
we
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