THE UNITY OF FRONTS.
VICTORY IN SIGHT.
THE EFFORT NEEDED.
(UY "THE TIMES MILITARY CORRESPONDENT,
A.COMPAR130% OF STRENGTRS/
WAR NEWS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER èra, 1916.
THE WORK OF SPIES IN HOLLAND
HAD THE U.S. BEEN THE
CULPRIT VA
TREASURY ROMANCES.
GIFTS OF ANONYMOUS PATRIOTS HOW
Government.
[BY JAMES DOUGLAS,]
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR
With regard to Lance Corporal Henry Victor, Middlesex Regiment, formerly of the Hongkong Daily Preis, the London and China Express says there is just a ray of hope that he is a wounded prisoner in Germany, according to late information.
Lieutenant George Reginald Stuart Layng, Gloucester Regiment, killed on August 18th, aged 20, was the third sur- viving son of the late Dr. Henry Layng of Swator, and of Mrs, Layng, of Eldorado-road, Cheltenham He was articled in 1913 to a firm of solicitors at to joined the Public Schools Brigade, and Cheltenham. On the outbreak of the war he afterwards received a coinmission in one of the battalions of the Gloneester Regiment. He went to the front last October.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN
• TJIMANOEK
„THLATJAP
KEGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE BETWEEN
JAVA, CHINA ▼ AND JAPAN.
EXPECTED] With Luavn
FROT
ABOUT
ON OR ABON
SHANGHAI
in port
ath. Ost
JAVÄ
KOBE
10th Oct.
16th Oct.
JAYA & MAKASSER
JAVA
8th Oot
12th Oct
PHANGHAI
Tith Oct.
14th Oct
KOBE
TIITAROEM
TJILIWONG.... JAVA &
MACASSAR
Wire Telegraphy.
The Biazzars are all ditted throughakt with Electris Light and havs ecaɔmmodation for limited number of Baloon Famengers, All steamers carry duly qualified surgeon. Carge taken at through rates to all ports in Netherlands India und Australia.”
Far Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
York: Buliding, Lah Floor,-
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN
Best Talapkous No. 1574K:
The Echo Belge learns from this most. reliable sources that the capture of the the history of the war would not be steamer Brussels was the outcome of Ger- complete without a chapter entitled man espionage in Holland, German
Voluntary Contributions to War Ex engineers, says the paper, were sent into Pensc The materials for it are in the Holland dressed as escaped Russian archives of the Treasury. They consist soners of war, and managed to get them ments. Each of them records a free and
of dated, numbered, and annotated docu In order that the combined attacks of selves enrolled among the crew of the spontaneous offering which has been Lieutenant W. N. MacL, Corpin, who the Allies should succeed against enees Brussels. When Captain Fryatt was at gratefully accepted by his Majesty's went home from China last year to tako holding a central position we must have tacked by the submarine these men ren- superiority of force, first generally, and dered the machinery useless, so that the normal times men do not send gifts Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers has been up a commission in the 6th Battalion then at the decisive points. This super Brussels was unable to escape. If this to the State. The war has created a new transferred to the general list and ap iority may be greater or less, according tonformation is true, and there seems to kind of citizen hitherto almost unknown pointed Railway Transport Officer the judgment which we form of the be no reason to doubt it, it is to be hoped to the Trensary. He does not lend his billet for which he is eminently qualified. lative efficiency of all the armies conecTIK ed. But it must certainly be great, and and expected that severe measures will at money to the State he gives it This He was Traffic Inspector of the Chinees the greater our margin the better for us, length be taken, and that the stores and now citizen is sometimes a man, sometimes Government Bailways when the war for he who is strategienlly the assailant scores of notorious spies in Holland will a woman, sometimes a child. He lives started. has usually to attack, and to attack is a bo expelled..
- in all parts of the Empire and in all parts of the world. - These, then, are the costly procedure, as most of us know, although the costliness may be minimized,
fanterinis for the writing of Treasury by such fine handling of artillery as that
romances. Shadowy romances they must in which General, Foch has excelled dur-
be, and their heroes and heriones must ing his recent victories in Picardy on our The New York Sun gives prominentebe veiled. If the shadows are vague the passion in all the shadows shines clear right.
to the following frank letter from a These gifts are the voice of our world correspondents med
No better evidence could be had of the They are given to the ideal which we call fellowship, They are not given to us. lack of nationa unity, national spirit, the British Empire as and national self-respect among the Merely to name the places from which people of this country than the reception they come would be a lesson in geography accorded by the Press and the general There is romance in the sound of Sanda public to the German submarine and its kan, and surely it was romance that crew which recently arrived at Baltimore moved a firm in Sandakan to send £500 R.C.J. writes of the Rev: HO To recognise the genius of its builders to the Chancellor of the Exchequer with Spink, formerly of Kowloon, Army Chap- and the daring of the crew is most fitting this message of the x but to greet with enthusiasm and hos-
lains Department, whose death we have In this territory we contribute nothing already reported: It probably sur pitality counterpart of the weapon towards the Imperial finances white at the prised none of those who know him best NETH. INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. which caused the wanton death of scores same tinto we enjoy all the benefits of Bri-that it was by being killed in action that of our innocent women and children of tish protection. We are, therefore, anxious High Spink finished his course, as he the Lusitania, and for which crime, to have a share, however small, in the fiuan, would be sure to be found wherever the murder, the Government owning he cial burden which par fellow countrymen peril of his Lancashires was greatest. Ho machine has not been brought to book is have to bear at the present time, nel by was indeed a whole man, a fine athlete enough to dishearten and disgust any disposing of the shore sum for as you will and accomplished gymnast, serious and American with red blood in his veins and be assisting us to disclirgo a welcome duty. possessing a minimum of self-respect At Summit, New Jersey, an American young men drew close to him spontane sunny an such happy proportions "bat Had the boot been on the other citizen is found writing a cheque payable ously as to one who saw deeply into the foot," and the United States Government to the British Empire From New Jersey invisible whilst remaining intensely murdered German innocents, without to China, where we discover a husband human and sympathetic. His friends at having made immediate and complete reparation, it is more than probable that and wife taking counsel together and Gipsy Hill who in his carlier days insist- war would have been declared against as jointly resolving to send a draft in foured on his forsaking a London bank for quickly or failing that, a visitor from gures to the Motherland From China the Church's ministry, knew what they us of the Deutschland type would not we hurry to Canada, where we surprise were about, and the men are probably to only have been denied clearance from a writing cheque for 200 to be counted by more than hundreds to day German port, but its crew would have cover moneys received by me whilst on in Liverpool, in China, and in France, needed police protection from the sponhalf a century ago. Then to Saskatche- sunstifying of their manhood by the in- engineer student at Korham nearly who are in his debt for the saving and taneous and just wrath of a united and wan, where we look over the shoulder of fluence of one in whom lady and spirit patriotic populace, whose God is not an old man who is writing a cheque for were to be seen at their very best." money and whose national spirit knows£20 to help us to beat the Kaiser, whom no bounds.
If we regard the strength of the enemy's armies and of our own, and if we estimate the probable residuum. of reserves fit for drafting on one side and the other, we must certainly conclude that the wearing down of the enemy's mhr-power is not beyond our attainment, nor is so immes Hely far ahead of us as once it seemed and was. But our superiority in the field is wave adequate, still lips annihilating, and there's the rah. But a comparison of heavy guns on each side would be present conclusions quite so favourable, and it must be candidly admitted that considering the superiority of force quired by theory for armies on the offen sive, the superiority of the Allies on the whole, respectable though it be, is not such as promises us yet decisive issue since it does not give us that annihilating preponderance which is necessary, other things being equal. for victory,
COMPARISON OF RESERVES,
The question alters when we consider the potential reserves on the two sides, Getas, in order to keep up the number of her divisions has had to reduce the Timber of battalions in each division from 12 to an average of 10. She does this to conceal the appearance of weakness and to blaff us all, but no one on our aide is dereived. We know that it is evidence of failing strength. We in the United Kingdom alone still have 3,800,000, men of military age who do not yet form part of our armies. There are others in the Dominions, and there are vast andi untapped sources of supply in India and in Africa. Italy has ample reserves to keep heredivisions going, no matter how hard the fighting while from Russia's vast population innny, millions can still be drawn, and the difficulty in lier case is not man power, but arms. This diff culty time will overcome, and before next spring, having completed our men sup plies, we can, if necessary, set to work to arm Russia with a wil
GIFTS FROM OLD AND YOUNG,
he racily portrays as a compound of Nero, Judas, and Arianina. He re marks that "it is a small thing to invest a general offensive along our whole line in War Loun and draw a dividend when in Flanders and in France cannot success-brave men are laying down their lives," fully be undertaker until all our armics He begs the Chancellor, to print notes or further north have the same proportion stamps for those who prefer giving to of heavy guns, trench mortars, and muni- lending. tions as the armies on the Somme. Some hundreds of heavy guns have reached our. armies since July 1st, but, taking all our Many of these cheerful givers are old One of armies together, and reckoning in me.men. Some of them are poor. guns, and munitions, we do not yet them writes - Possess the annihilating numbers and I see plenty about lending tuoney to our armament which the Service Laws on the country, but, so far, nothing about giving one side and the activities of Mr Lloyd it. So here go for a cut 10s from al promise us in, the future, ed greatly that on This is inde use, as I have no debts. George and his assistants on the other old man whose income is 30s per week; and
Can
I hapo to be able to send some moro Ister
Yours, Seventy Years
Those of us who desired
Y.C'S AMUSING EXPERIENCE
An amusing story is being sold with, reference to Private George William Chafer the smallest man to receive the V.C. Some little time before joining the Army he entered tailor's shop in Rotherham to purchase a now suit of clothes, and was straight away led into the boys department. Not only is he the smatirat VC, but he is probably the only one who has been rejected as physic- ally unit when seeking to enlist.
to cure chronic coughs, bronchitis, and chest colds is to apply LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BAIM.
Given continued effort and a great military disaster or internal convulsion bet lies in asured, because, while the before next spring, he eventual success of
IT'S A BAD SIGN. spirit and the determination of the Allies sire at least equal to those of Germany, we should have 30 fresh divisions to want no compons, our ring cough which will not be shaken off.
When you have that obstinate, linger- our population and resources are much throw into the field this summer have of Age larger and into the balance must be had to keep silenec because compulsion Even the children's mite linkles in There is no cough at any stage, whether thrown our naval superiority with its came so tardily, and its effects march on Treasury romances, It is properly classi-old or young, but what needs attention. grinding and demoralizing effects. We with such leaden feet that it was early fied Gifts from children towards war. A cough soon wrecks strong constitu can fit out armies for 1917, and clear that most of this year was necessary funds." Schools club together to pour tion, som makes one helpless, in fact a 118 which must in the end crush to complete our existing effectives, which their pence into the war chest. But in cough is a very dangerous ailment, yet the Most frantic efforts of the had fallen scandalously in arrears, and this Wonderland Alice sometimes scrapes many hardly notice a cough.
The way disturbers of the peace, and: as we to prepare in advance the other necessary together her own savings, and sends them can last so long, or longer if need be, we drafts for troups already in the field. to the Chancellor of the Exchequer with can be satisfied with mining but the com- Moreover, it was known that the provi a letter painfully written in nursery plete satisfaction of our demands. We sion of all the guns would not be com-hand. Here is a letter from Alice her; Rub it well into the chest and bank. It. Allies must, further, end up such for pleted until the beginning of winter, and self
penetrates immediately to the inflamed midable military Powers, and so superto possess infantry without guns is not I am sending you one shilling out of my parts. It stops the pain and drives cab abundantly provided with veternas and profitable now General Foch told the pocket money to help to pay for the rar, the inflammation. The cough, the hoarse- war materials, that, failing some gross writer the other day, on the Somme, that Daddy says you are collecting for it. Iness, the tightness across the chest go negligence on the part of our Govern when given a mission he no longer asked seven years old, and I have two uncles away. Shivering, feverish Ausher, and ments at the peace, Germany will never how many divisions would be allotted to fighting
difficult breathing all ceam Expectora him, but only how many heavy guns,
tion of mucous matter is stopped. For this fighting we need, over and above
It cures every case where a cure is, possible. It often cures when nothing else will. Can anybody afford to be without i, in the louse all the time?
Sold at 1, 4d. per bottle.X Agents for Hongkong: Messrs. A. 8. WATSON & Co., LTD. 914-179
ТНЕ "ДОММЕ.
"And here is daddy's footnote:
This is entirely her own idea for one.
My lords did not return it
They initialled it Thanked, and issued the command: Prepare R. O" This, being interpreted, ineaus * Prépare Re- ceivable Order. The Receivable Order was prepared. The gigantic Treasury machine was set in motion to also little that I can do. I do not wish to Alice's shilling Her name, remark, is unke money out of this awful war. To me it would feel like the price of blood." Is it therefore permissible for me to send the enclosed, but decline to accept Exebquer honds in orchange? Recep
be able in our time to face war again,
Our success, the accidents and surprises of war apart, being reasonably assured, the 18-pounders and the 4-in. howitzers, regret is that it is so little, bat it has cleared and since is with us, we have nothing 50 heavy guns per division, and there other money-box. Please don't repuraşit, to do but go on killing Germans, while for the problem of the further expan-whatever you do, or you will give krist avoiding rash adventures, bad tacties, and sion of the Army is not of personnel offence the strategy of the cinema. Germany, on alone: her side, must desire peace, and her sole hope, or almost her sole hope, is to resist victoriouly, and so to frighten our de-
Critics are accustomed to hear them cadents and our weaklings by the price selves called pessimisty when their shafts of our victories that we, from lassitude hit the mark. But they do harm when and cowardice, shall consent to a prema they run about, as many do now, asking ture and unsatisfactory peace Many what is the profit of our expensive achie soldiers in the Allied Aries fly bevements on the Somme, and why should not Alice Bat it is a very pretty name, lieve that the politicians will sell the pass we not save up our armes for the olten- There are many gifts from officers on in the end. They are certainly wrong, sive of next year, or the year after, or utive service. Some senil a year's ph; because, apart from all other considera Heaven knows when. The profit has beta, Among the contributions from retired tions, such is the force of public opinion let us repeat, that we have compelled officers is one from a very Kallua gentle. fehind this war, so grøst have been our neutrals to understand that we are going man in a far country. He writes: --- racrifices, and so enraged are we all with to wing that wo have killed many Ger- I have twice applied to be taken in the the faithlessness and infamies of Germans which is the only known means of Army Reserve, but have been refused on many, that the public would think ending the war; that we have relievedcount of ny heuring. I was a gunner thing of taking all the members of a Verdun, which was hard pressed that officer for several years, but having been Government and hanging them in a row wo have thrown, Germany, everywhere without a peusing was thrown a
WW
thrown aside if they showed any inclination to throw upon the defensive and that we have without a pension, away at a peace the fruits of our stupend-made an end of the shuttle-and-lovin Perhaps out here we get a clearer vies ous efforts in war. The public have be strategy of Falkenhayn, and have pre-of the war than they do at home, for wo come hard as granite under the pressure vented the Germans from terminating the just get the news without the pages of phd of events. On this granite the Prussian triumphs of our Russian Allies. But this ding; and when one realizes the wonderful has bitten, and no one shall save bin we had to do, and who amongst us would fight our troops are putting up and from the consequences of his acts. have accepted the mission of going to glorious deeds of courage they are perform
Paris last June, or to Rome, and of ing, it makes one feel sick to be cooped up saying that we were sorry, but on the here, and not able to help whole we preferred to wait until 1917, As my service has been refused, I hope when all our men under the Service Acts thy money will be accepted, and am there and our mimitions from the factories fore sending you what money I have in the had reached our armies in the field innka
PEACE HARBLE
Great is the patriolism of the poor. There is a golden letter from a Golden Donkeyman which utters the very soul of the merchant seaman to whose valour tramp and trawler the Navy owes much and the nation owes more. He profast apologies to the Chancellor his unpacks his heart in wrathful worde, with taking the liberty of responding to his Kentlemanly appeal in his poor un- learmed way. There is a very heroic ring in his anger. Sir, he writes. *** I have just, come back from hell. I mean, from amongst the dirty curs in Then he strikes the professional note:
the submarines."
I have the honour to have been în a ship
which has brought 11,000 tons of ment from Australia, and I am going back for more very soon. Do not mind the grammer, Grammer does not excunt as a rule with
Let us not be deceived by all this Tom Fool talk of an early pence. We know in our hearts that there can be to peace worth having until the Gorznou: armies are decisiovely overthrown and are left It is known, of course, that everyThe same spirit is visible in this anony without hope. Let us admit to ourselves, politician thinks he knows all about war, nous letter front a working marktlemen. I enclose a poned as a start and frankly, that we have still much to although war is an art more difficult to I am sending £20 10%, which I should like Assuredly and emphatically "grammer do before this result is attained, and, excel in than any other cult to it give to the Government or anywhere else. does not count. The nobility of this above all, let us understood that neither branches - extend with indeterminato where it may be wanted. I thought of lead Golden Donkeyman ought to make all in men nor in munitions have we yet limits in every direction. Soldiers doing it as a War Loan, but I would rather the German pedants blush
The most touching gift of all comes attained to the strength necessary for a not pretend that they can paint pictures, give it. I know it is unly like a drop in crashing victory. We should also recog or regulate the financial affairs of the the ocean, but every drop may help us to from a poor old Irishman. His letter is moving mixture of unconscious pathos nize that "though our young armies have country, or preside over a court of air, the victory in this great form and humour done right well, they have still much to Justice, or discourse upon religion from Many of the giffs are sent in the learn, and that we are triting to troops pulpit, or perform surgical operations of monthly donations. There is a man still to some extent amat and impro-yet the politician thinks he can, conduct somewhere in Asia who has instructed his vised, to troops which will not all become more difficult operations than any of bankers to pay a certain sa to the Tren thoroughly trained much before next these, and he is for ever fuming and Miry every month till the end of the war, spring and have only done so well be fretting and trying to interfere and run Some of the most munificent contribu cause the conditions of trench warfare the campaign in spite of the fact that ho tions are hermetically anonymous. One have tempered the campaign to their had his turn during the early part of tho a gift of £5,000; another is a gift of imperfections, and because the German war and plainly made the most appalling,
many gifts from worch Kerntruppe of earlier dayk Let us look Naturally it would have into things a little more closely, behind Russia best to wait and to get on with 100 since new angiling of charty. The back of the communique and between our building, but in allied operations I am one of the Womer of England to now send you a subscription of I pound, its lines, and understand that we were it is the general good which rules and whom your circular letter is added. I trusting you wil get it all right, but I have not so ready for this offensive one those who look to one sector alone are 1 ean, but I am very oldstly, and there is may have one of they have if you think they long to help my beloved country in any way offer myself if I could be of any use so you an money for exchocer bonds and would: Somme as we could have wished, and that in the old rut and are false to the prin-
(Continued at foot of next Column.)- ciple of the unity of fronte, c
(Continued at foot of next Column)
There are many
As I was not, Able to answer your request owing to chronic catarrh it my head and heumatism in my blood which has ensod me much trouble.
I have two boys as home. They ous has
jaundice in his stomach, and they other's head is not right, going about talking to I am willing to help in any way I can and
himself
infantry latterly have not been the hungle of it, feedited us and a letter came with a cheque foras given liberally to every chartible cause
are of any use. This is a true statement.
JAVA-PACIFIC LINE
OF THE
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
MONTHLY SERvice Between
Next Bailings for SAN FRANCISCO via NAGABAKL Eubject to Change Without Notios.
8.8. "TJISONDARI”
-8 8.” KARIMOEN---
8.8. TJIKEMBANG
8.8. “ARAKAN”
12th October
11th-November.
12th December.
1917 11th January.
The Steamers have scommodation for a limited sumber of Saloon Passungen and cazzy a duly qualified surgeon,
Cargo" taken on through Ellis of Lading to all Overland Points in the United States of America and Canada.
For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to
York Building,
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
194
MANAGING AGENTS.
CHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS
་་
8.S. CHINA
WILL BAIL FROM HONGKONG FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
VIA SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI AND HONOLULU,
NOV. 11-JAN. 18. 1917.
THE
AR UNSURPASSED HIGH-CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE AT INTERMEDIATE BATES.
0. H. HITTER, Freight and Fassenger Agent,
Prince's Buildings Ice House Streek.
£629
AUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL
LINE.
HONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES AND AUSTRALIAN PORTS.
BAILINGS (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION).
Arrives Hongkong trom Australia.
Stanamer.
“CHANGSHA
Loaves Bongbong
for Australis
7th Cotober.
This Biesmer is fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, ansaring a plentiful supply of Toe, Fresh Provisions, etc, and has superior socommodation with Electrio light hroughout and Electric Fans in the State-Rooms. A duly qualided Doctor is carried. Reduced D'ares Cargo booked througħ for all Australian, New Zealand and Tamanian Ports.
For freight or passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
TELEPHONE No. 36.
Shipbuilders
Halvors, Bepairers,
Boilermakers, Electrical
and Mechanical Engineers.
AGENTS:
1163
Graving
78716, by 88ft. by Zeit, Singa Patoni Slipways taking Vasols up to 8,000 tons. Electric Cranes lifting up to 100 Tons,
SHIPS
ENGINES
TAIKOO DOCK
BOILERS
MOTORS.
Agenta for John I. Thorayorola & Co., Limited
Hongkong and m
ment
-
The Taikod Dockyard and Engineering Ca, of Hong
kong, Ltd.Butterfeld & Swire, Hougkong,
China and Jensa. Agants - Telegraphic
Add
“TAIKOODOOK.”
Telephone