THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH,
AIRMEN STRANDED IN THE ARCHANGEL IN WAR TIME.
DESERT.
A RUSSIAN "KLONDIKE.'”
THE SHIPS AND THE WORKERS.
[BY STEPHEN GRAHAM.] When I last visited Archangel six years ago it was a dreamy, fifeless, melancholy port. One felt that, like its
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THE TYPHUS CAMP AT GARDELEGEN.
WILFUL BRUTALITY. OF THE GERMANS.
GERMAN SUBMARINE
OUTRAGES.
VIOLATION OF THE PLEUGE
GIVEN TO AMERICA.
u mechanic who was with him, they show sal. But to-day I To-day the vision has bullying of the prisoners seem to have with the general principles of visit and
OFFICER'S SELF-SACRIFICE. The death of Second-Lieutenant Stewart Gordon Ridley, Royal Flying Corps, in the Libyan Desert at the age of 18 was announced in The Time of June 28th The circumstances in which and in the opinion of his squadron com mander and of the captain of the Im- perial Camel Corps, who had charge of the search for him and for J. A. Garaide, that Mr. Ridley shot himself, and that this act was one of self-sacrifice prompted by the hope of saving his subordinate.
Mr. Ridley, who had landed in Egypt at the beginning of June, was sent out on June 14th from an oasis in the desert as escort to another pilot, who took with him the mechanic. They were to fly to an advanced landing ground, to which supplies had been sent, and were to do connaissando work on the following morning. They failed to find the ap pointed station, and, as darkness was ap proaching, landed without being certain of their position. Next morning the engine of Mr. Ridley's aeroplane would not start, and a slight fault was found in it. The other pilot decided to go back alone to the base, leaving with the others all the food and water which they had It was arranged that he should return on the following day and take Mr. Ridley and the mechanic separately to the landing ground, When he arrived again at the place at which he had Durted from them he found that they had gone, leaving some odds and ends, but no message. Search was made, and it was ascertained that they had flown with their aeroplane for 2 miles, landed, and Bown on again after having patched up Nothing more was discovered until June 2011, when the aeroplane and the bodies of the two men were found by a search party.
In a rough diary kept by Garside it was recorded that an unsuccessful at- tempt to start the engine of the aero plane had been made in the morning of Sunday, June 18th, and thay later in the day, on Mr. Ridley's suggestion, they had walked to some hills and returned xhausted Hardly any water-about a spoonful. Mr. Ridley shot himself at 10.30 whilst my back was turned," wrote Garside, and the entry continued:-"No water all day; don't know how to go on; feeling very weak; wish someone would come; cannot last much longer.
the machine.
fled, the tempo has changed. All the ships of the world find anchorage in her strects that the war has brought about, A year before the war 50 vessels entered Archangel port. During the last 12 months many ships have entered. Great
and transports and weather liners beaten tramps and three-deck river boats stand in majestic pride. Their smoke and steam make a dome cover that of Archangel when you approach it from the north,
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Commenting earlier upon the White
In the House of Lords on Octobër soth, Paper about the prisoners' camp Gardelogen, The Timer says:-Gardele Ltd Sydenham asked the Government gen is a camp midway between Hanover if particulnea of the circamstances at and Berlin, which was swept last year tending the sinking of the Stephane and ho laid down his life are now known, sister city Kholmagora, it had ones been by a typhus epidemic lasting frora Teh other British or mentral vessels by thei
great, but its greatness had finally act.ruary to June The callousness and German submarine 753 had been receiv could feel the melancholy of cowardice shown by the German authorid, and if these circumstances were in Russia there, the sadness of material ties equalled the shameful, record of conformity with the pledge of the Gar- man Government that in accordance failure so characteristic of the Russian Wittenberg, and the starvation and
search and the destruction of merchant. been worse; but the epidemic was of vessels, recognized by international law, mild type, and the mortality rate was such vessels, both within and without the not excessive for an outbreak of typhus area declared a naval zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without say- under such, torrible conditions.
The over
ing human life unless the ship attempts Ho camp contained about 11,000 prisoners,
to escape or to offer resistance," of whom 260 were British. crowding was appalling, and at night the drew attention to the statement of the men lay packed like sardines in the huts
gress on April 10th last that, unless the The food was very insufficient, at a time President of the United States to Con- when there was no marked scarcity in
German Government immediately declir- Germany. The scale of diet was
ed and effected the abandonment of its sufficient to keep an adult in a normal method of warfare against passenger and state of nutrition. Men struggled
freight carrying vessels the United States There are Norwegiang and Yaokecs, over scraps of potato. Hanger does not
Government would have no choice but to with their colours flamboyantly painted produce typhus, but hunger, filth, and
sover diplomatic relations with the Gov- on their bows to warn the submarine off; overcrowding are conditions pendinosins ernment of the German Empire. Those Russians and French, with their tricolors to the spread of the disease The
were strong and plain words coming from streaming; but most of all English ships, under-officers had established" "reign
the head of a powerful State. Among among the prisoners, and
the grave offences which the President with their proud rain-washed Union of terror Jaoks lolling in the wind. After I re-bullying was continuous, Colonel Brun
were that even vessels of neutral owner. turned from Ekaterina I was taken ner, the camp commendant, was brutal charged against the German submarine through the whole harbour in a little, and violent, and Dr. Wenzil, who was
ship bound from neutral port to neutral criminally. steam launch-from the in medical charge, was
Again and The arrow-like
The latter suffered for his port had been destroyed. Thames! How often it had shot under neglectful.
disease and died. the arches of our little bridges, and now apathy, because eventually he caught the again to warnings had been given.
When the epidemic President, concluding his address, said it was, puffing and ranting on the vast
Three officers of
regard of their own rights as a nation, including the guards.
repre brown Dvina, bedwarfed by huge ships, was discovered all the Germans bolted, that the United States owed it to the due driven short of steam and getting bethe Royal Army Medical Corps, Major and to their sense of duty as
sentative of the rights of neutrals, to Dary, Captain Brown, and Captain take this stand. On August 18th Lord calmed far from either shore.
Scott-Williams, were brought to the
Crewe made the very serious statement into the chief restaurant of camp, together with seven flussian and
that since the pledge was given, no fewer Archangel, and as like as not all the French military doctors, and they were customers are English captains, and they practically left to shift for themselves than seven ships had been sunk in cir There were hardly any drugs or dress cumstances which directly violated the are reading back numbers of the Dayings, no invalid food, and for a long In the sinking of those ships at least 48 pledge given by the German Government. Mail and talking "ship." And the time no bedsteads. The details aro
lives were lost. Thus, before the recent Café Paris there is a "skippers' table." sickening and almost indescribable, and where they are also captains all and the we do not dwell upon them. The one exploit of the US, the pledge by the
who
behaved well was Dr. German Government had been torn to waitresses quarrel as to who shall serve German there, though none of them knows two Kranski, an elderly ran who had been in shreds, and the Government of the United
Tea French States had made no sign whatever. words of English. In the Alexandrovsky practice at Alexandria
He did not know whether the statement Gardens the English sailors have found Roman Catholic priests volunteered to Russian girls, and their only language work among the sufferers; eight contract was correct that the Stephano received Another ship was a is that of looks. Bailors tell wonderful od the disease and five died. Of twenty her first warning by a shot being fired stories of feminine conquests, and it is two British soldiers who worked as hos- into her hull
to neutral port. Her case was exactly evident the Russian girls are partial to pital attendants, only two escaped the neutral vessel bound from neutral port infection. Of the sixteen doctors who them.
worked in the camp at various times, one of those which President, Wilson ex Two pressly condemned and barred. To sink only four were not struck down. died. The three British officers appear tained contraband or enemy property was of the doctors and two of the soldiers her without ascertaining whether she con to have done noble work, and we trust an outrage on all neutrals, and an outrage their devation will receive suitable fe committed under the eyes of the powerful neutral which had described herself as of cognition.
the representative of the rights neutrals all over the world. The sinking. of neutral ships-Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Danish, and even Spanish-went The Norwegians on almost every day,
What bad lost 15 vessels this month. must small neutrals think of their power- The Germana bad fal representative? gone on sinking every unarmed ship their submarines came across. The only difference they had made was that they did not now appear to torpedo at sight. They destroyed ships just as before, but did not commit murder quite so fre quently. On August 15th the noble mer- quess spoke, of the time when it would be possible on behalf not only of this country, but of all the Allies to make a definite declaration of the policy we pro posed to pursue with regard to the monstrous proceedings. He submitted that it was in the interests of the Allies and the unhappy neutrals who had no champion that the declaration should be made with the least possible delay.
On Monday, the 19th, Garside bad written a few more lines, concluding: "Could last days if had water." It was in the afternon of the next day that the bodies were found
KOWEIT IN PROSPERITY.
Even at the theatre, in front of you are sitting auch unlikely persons as a fireman and a stoker, and one says to the other with disgust, "I can't understand a blooming word. Can you!" Some Eng lishmen have exercise books with Russian words and phrases laboriously copied out-an-impossible language 1.
It is difficult to write calmly of the horrors disclosed in this report. The All is going well in Archangel. The can be no excuse for the wilful brutality Russians in spite of their inexperience, of the Germans orginally in charge of are handling the immense quantities of the camp, nor for their shameful neglect materials woll, and the "stuff" is all and the intense suffering they compelled steadily proceeding to the places where their hapless victims to endure. Black GERMAN NAME EFFACED IN it is most needed. Now quays have been records of this kind will ring through the built and loops of railway run along ages as examples of the inhumanity which PERSIAN GULF.
them, and some ships, carrying nothing seems inherent in a certain type of Ger Neutral nations, we trust, will weighing less than three tons, yet dis-mane.
the charge all their immense articles of note that Geron quilty of producing
belligerents has been cargo in considerably less time than it such tragedies as Wittenberg and Garde- took to put them on at Liverpool or
legen. They will do well to ponder these Dundee or Newcastle is the case may revolting stories, and to learn something be..
The Russians earu unheard of wages in of the meaning of this war to humanity the docks, and the rumour attracts thou- sands of workers from all parts of
A journalist writing in Russia. Anerkoe Slova in July called it the Dus- All Russians who go sian Klondike. there are pleased with it. The port in its present grandeur is a sort of promise for Russia, and it flatters her commer- cial future.
(FROM EDMUND CANDLER.]
The Arabian Continent has felt the shock of war from the Euphrates to Yemen and the Hedjaz, whole districts of Persia have been in a state of anarchy for the last 20 months; but there is no thing in Koweit to show that strife, has | penetrated to the Persian Gulf. Peace reigns in the ports; life and property are accure; freights are high; the sea faring Arab has never been so prosperous; even the pearl industry has recovered.
At first thore was certain amount of uneasiness in the Gulf. The pearl trade collapsed, as no one would buy, and the interruption of the mail service, due to the movements of troops, was associated in the Arab mind with the activities of the Raden. German intrigue insinuated tales of naval reverses. It was whisper ed that England was no longer mistress of the seas. Then Turkey came in, and it became known that we had sent troops to Busra. At Bandar Abbas, between mails, the extermination of the British force was reported, and each report was credited until disposed of by the arrival of the next ship. But our rapid occupa tion of Basra could not be concealed. The craft from every small port which make their way ap the Shatt-el-Arab in the autumn for their date carge, the staple diet of the Gulf, brought back their own tale: A British steamer fired shots; at the first shot ao fell; at the spend shot 400, and then the two Valis and every one fled."
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A TRAGEDY OF WOMANHCC D
Every young woman must recognise" that the likelihood of a happy marriage is enhanced by cultivating robust, re- gular health; and that ill-health acconta for many of the bitter tragedies of mauri- mony. Again, it goes without say that men are by nature attracted by per fection of figure, clear, rosy complexion, | bright eyes and vivacity.
There is, however, no nood for pale, delicate girls to despair. It is, indeed, to the anernic, despondent girl, that this article is addressed--those who endure, without complaining, continual head- aches and backaches, those who are always tired, troubled with palpitation and have no appetite for meals. For no woman can enjoy full health and the charm of
Lord Beresford said he had always Mr. Stanley, the Church Army Com missioner on the Western front, says the thought that the German Government French and English troops have develop bad it in mind eventually to bring the If the I was invited by the town council to ed a peculiar language, known only to United States into the war.
United States came into the peace con- glass of toe on the themselves, which answers all their com partake of a
But for the gallantry of occasion of the opening of the electric mon needs. The words nonplus the off-ference they would be a considerable asset
cial interpreters, but an English soldier to Germany. tramway. All the notables of the town with no French at all can ask a French the American Naval Bervice lives would were accommodated on board a special soldier with no English at all for prac have been lost during the German sub- marine operations off the American coast. steamer, and went slowly along from the tically anything he wants--and get it.
That being so the United States were Cathedral pier a mile or so to the new electric power station. Her priests met CANADA'S RESOLVE TO TRIUMPH rather siding and abetting this very But for the shocking state of affairs. us with banners and ikons and holy i
rescue work of the American warships In a statement inade after his return waters. A service was held in the power- station, and the smell of burning incense from England Mr. Hearst, the Premier of the Germans would have broken their The sub- mingled strangely with the smell of new Ontario, says: Many of us are fol- pledge. He hoped the matter would not
Holy lowing our daily avocation but little be allowed to rest as it was. paing and oil and machinery. water was flung in all corners and over inconvenienced and little disturbed by marine menace was getting more serious our heads, and then the dynames were the terrible conflict apon which the future every day, and he thought we were bound set in motion and the whole place buzzed of the British Empire and the happiness to take notice of a fact that did not far as the United States and groaned. I thing Ropin, the en- of the world depend. Surely it is time appear to be quite within the bounds of gineer, proud of having constructed the to take the war more seriously to heart neutrality, most northern tramway in the world, and bend every energy and make every
DISCUSSION DEPRECATED, was a little anxious leat the holy water sacrifice that many be necessary in order to supply more men and munitions and
Viscount Grey.-We have no under- should spoil his engines.
But all went well, and we tenk our to support our men in every way pos- standing with the United States Govern- seats in the virgin trams to make the sible in the field, so that the present con- ment as to what information they are first journey, all the notables of the flict may be brought to an end as to get or what they will do with the in-1 The Gulf folk believe what they sec.
formation when they have got it. All we Every trace of the German has been town and with thein every beggar and speedily as possible. "
labourer and tatterdemalion dock-hand In this (says The Times correspondent) can do is to obtain information for our- eliminsted from the coast-German that could get a footing. In Germany Mr. Hearst expresses the temper of the selves from such sources as are open to fired at them without warning, and in her sex unless rich, rod blood flows names, German ships, German people. I can imagine how swiftly these gentle vast majority of Canadians. Never have us. These sources are in this case, I im- some cases loss of life occurring from the through her veins, and it is in making When the Germans intrigued to have men would have been dealt with. But in there been so argent a demand for reagine, the officers in charge of the mer-
crews being placed in open boats, the new, good blood, and thus halping the Englishmon murdered in their bede, it Russia all is permitted."
We went craits and so deep and general a recog-chant vessels that wore sank and the became necessary to remove them. In the cheerfully along on our parade journey. nition that the country, must exhaust its
passengers in one case on board a mer only chance of safety when the vessel is girl whose strength and good looks are sunk. These instances are occurring in failing that Dr. Williams pink pills are Whether so successful. There are thousands of different parts of the world. interior of Persia when they were send. The conductresses in brand-new uniforms resources if necessary in order to assist chant vessel, all of whom have survived,
and from whom we can get their indivi' they occurred off the coast of the United healthy, happy women who admit to-day ing out the Mujahidin to preach the Holy and thining metal clips and punches in bringing about a trimphant peace.
dual statements of what happened. War from Mesied to Kermanshah the stood with their money bags and their
States the other day is a matter on which that these blood-enriching pille have been That I understand is being done on the
we can pronounce no opinion till we get a boon to them when ill-health threatened steadiness of opinion in the Gulf reacted full rolls of tickets. Directly following
other side now. Fall reports will reach the full facts from the survivors. It is their future. on the campaign inland. The Bakh- tinri Khans were incited to seize the oil open to the public, and fares would be in the stream of the river. The brown the Admiralty in due course, and when undoubtedly the cries that they are Bo to those who suffer to-day, the fields. Why be content with shares?"
content with shares collected Car after car drew up there, river became white, and within 24 hours they reason why they should not be occurring in other parts of the world advice is to begin a course of Dr. Wil- is any reason not be Instancos have been published quite late liams' pisk pills for pale people without you could drive a horse and cart over they were asked.
They can be obtained of any the whole of this wealth is yours. The and we came out and walked up the stone Captains and their crews thinking made public in this country or that there
stairs to the long tables and the glasses
ranean or elsewhere. I see no use at this dealer, or, post free, 1 bottle $1.80, 8 of leaving in tribesmen argted that the oldfields would of tea and the prond speeches of the condemned to remain idle for months; the Admiralty or any Department con moment in discussing the question. The bottles 30, from the Dr. Williams Medi-
few days were auddenly will be any reluctance on the part of y of their occurrence in the Mediter delay. be no use to them without the company great men of Archangel. and the engineers. "We will work for Now the trams are in full operation, their ships, dotted here, there, and earned to give the facts obtained from pledge was one between the Government cine Co., 98, Szecituen Road, Shanghai.
of Germany and the Government of the you," the tempter suggested. But the and bring in Khans were politely diffident; one old Archangel is united, and friends within aspect, and looked as if they were sait actually sunk and treated by the German United States. It is not a pledge given the title of a helpful booklet offered free.
about £1,000 & week everywhere in the ice, had a processional survivors, as to how the vessels were submarine. Lord Sydenham quoted a diplomatist pointed out to the Germans the city have become nearer,
ing out and yet never getting forward.
August to us. I do not think that at the present that they had no ships, and that without the trams carry passengers, and all night avenues from their ship to the shores, been sunk by German submarines since of the United States is or ought to be
all night The men out pine branches and made statement made by Lord Crewe in A moment it would do any good whatever to all who send a postcard to the above
to discuss the question what the policy address. flect the oil would be valueless, as it they carry goods, so I am told. could not be sold. It is known through-
well-trodden roads with names. The the German Government gave a pledge out the Gulf that we have swept the
Russian Government paid the owners of to the United States Government in May with regard to the German Government on this subject. It is a matter for the Germans off the sess; the disappearance Soon the harbour will freeze again these boats hundreds of thousands of last year, under circumstances which ap
and I do not think that the Allied in- of their flag is a phenomenon which even and the rails will be laid on the ice all roubles damages for this unexpected in parently were not in accordance with Government of the United States itself, the political missionaries cannot explain the way to the Economy Fiers, and there cursion of Jack Frost. It was highly that pledge. These cases included firing terest or the interest of these merchant away.
for a time ships will unlade till the frost unprofitable to Russia, but every one torpedoes at ships without warning and vessels would be served by raising any conquers that also. Or perhaps the ice-made the best of it and no one grumbled, insufficiently providing for the safety of discussion in this country at this moment breakers, on which always so much faith The happy cooperation of the Russians crows or passengers when the ships were with regard to a matter which is between
I am sure the Admiralty can Several lines of the important Belgian is pinned, will keep it open all this and the English shows to advantage in sunk
German Government. It is a matter for steam-tramway system the centre of winter. Last year they failed hopelessly. Archangel. Russians and English like multiply instances which have occurred the United States Government and the Thiruday, 30th Norge which is at Aerschot, have been closed. and a great number of ships, including one another and get on
well together since the middle of August-which are the United States Government and not there, though the sons of the common occurring every week-of Allied for us to say what is the policy and action
so different from our own. Times.
(Continued at foot of next Golume) United States Government to take..
our trip to the Town Hall the cars were
WHEN THE FROST COMES.
Locomotives and rails have been sent to ico-breakers. themselves, were frozen up people are so different and Russian ways neutral merchant ships having torpedo which the circumstances require the
Germany in spite of the protests of the management of the tramways.
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