ARM ALL SHIPS,
THE REMEDY AGAINST SUBMARINES.
HEAVIER GUNS NEKDED.
BY THE TIMES NAVAL, CORRESPONDENT.]
The arming of all merchanimen which cannot be convoyed is been urged upon the Admiralty and the Board of Trade in these coleuns from almost the begin ning of the war.
To same extent guns for self-defenes were furnished ships last year, but it
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY Dau, 1917.
"THE BLOOD-BATH:"*
the first carriage, behind the engine, kill- ing and wounding several men. A second
GERMAN VIEWS OF THE SOMM bomb hit the station buildings, and there
BATTLES.
[rnou vnifi cruise]"; Before the ending of the test phase of the Battle of the Summe the second phu gins, I imagine, with our great advance on September 15th, frour the Poziéres-Longueval Guillenunt line the German troops had invented a terrible name to describe this great ordeal; it WAS The Blood-Bath of the Suunnie. The name and the news could not be
· BRITISH V. GERMAN.
3 BOER COMPARISON, was a great clatter of broken glass, the randing of wood and the fall of bricks.
Writing on the Passing of the Drill All lights went out, and the Germun
Sir R Baden-Powell, of Roldiers groped abont in the darkness Sergeant," amidst be splinters of glass and the Mafcking famq suys In the Hoer talken bricks, searching for the woundel War just after Pance was signed I mis by the sound of their groans. It was batu old Boer friend who had ben fighting scene along the way to that blood against us, who aid that he could not bath, through which they had to wade to remain in the country any longer new the trenches of the Somme.
DEATH FROM THE ERIES
Figlas of British aeroplanes circled over the villages on the way. At Grevil fell in the market square so that the centre of the village collapsed in a stake of rain burying soldiers billeted there, Every day the British airmont paid these visits, noting the Germans far up the roads on their way to the Somme, and swooping over them like a flying Death Even on the march in open country the German soldiers tramping silently along
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SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.
[BY
Th the following article one who has known "the Commander-in-Chief-a 'prent number of years angle line had unique opportunition af porsonal contact with hig junrivalled military capacity and general- ship put forth his grent faith in the "on: who can whack the Bache."
I am quite convinced that the most. valuable military assel of this country to day is Sir Douglas Haig, a bat horne it is high time that every man and women knew of the faith in the ran who can whack the Bothe which insp every British soldier in France; it is high time that the soldier's faith std to the soldier's home.
that if was firder the British rule. His reason was that he hated as because we were so particularly stupid-* Atesmu '
called it, which means super stupid He said that the British soldier are
have everything done for him. He can do nothing himself. He has to have somebody to show hiar the way, someone to bring his foud, someone to cook it for him. He has to have tents or huta to
If any untoward thing should happen weaken his present authority by live in. He is told where to go and what ti to do, even what sight to take for his reason of influences one need but hint rifle and where he has 10 aim. In fact,ut, I should regard it as the greatest the only thing he does for himself is to possible national calamily
all the trigger and very often he may
I have known the Cominander-in-
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was to a very small extent. Principally,hidden frean the people of Germany, whiliers, in August, eleven 132-16 bombs the ships so provided were those requis had already been chilled with horror Lioner For Government work. The oficing by the losses at Verdun, nor from the explanation why our ships were not soldiers of reserve regiments quartered in armed was the scarcity of guns and am- French and Belgian towns like Valen- ronnition, her requirements being more ciennes, S. Quentin, Cambrai, Lille, pressing. The guns provided in almost Bruges, and as far back as Brussels, every case were of small calibre and waiting to go to the front, nor from range, write the urinment as placed the sivil populations of these towns at the stern. The value of protection of field for two years by their brienly these this kind, even nader torse handicaps, blonde young men who lived in theirno singing in spite of orders were not do that without the word of com-Chief since the beginning of tris kread earlier campaign was amply proved over made love to their women. The news aviators, who flew down very low, pour-after himself in the open, he could not has rapid promotion been more thorough, the result of many years' experience. against the crony udmurines in the houses, marched down their streets, and bomber) and shot at by the British and over, again. The experienes of many was brought down from the Somme, fronting out streams of machine gua bullets have truck with such beings-and he ly earned and deserved. He holds the that the enemy submarines did not consuccession, and packed with maimed and times, and scattered into the ditches,And he went. But in a few months he because he is the man of outstanding The malt not only has food raine, but is, of all captains in the mercantile marine, was by Red Cross trains, arriving in endless The Gernins lost their nerve at such off to German South-West Afrien. highest command in France to-day solely 3-The hops have a norvo soothing value. tinue to attack Steamers provided with mangled men German military police falling over each other, struck and was bade again. He had been there, and military ability, one who throughout his foods, one of the most quickly and easily turned gans. They werd afraid of them. It men forined cordons round the railway case by air untereizieren, und had found that the Germans were even life has placed Army matters first and by digestion into nourishment.
the British. He said everything else second. night has been expected therefore, stations. pushed back civilians who came leaving their dend, and wounded in the reefom
Though always keen sportsinan he hus that this mongur having proved its star with sombre eyes it these roadway. As the roads went nearer that at any rate after six months or value, ever merchant ship world have blanketed inndles of living flesh, but the battlefields they were choked with British began to fool their feet, buinariably made sport subservient to when the ambulances rumbled through the traffic of war, with artillery and the Germans never. Fritz fiddled about duty. From his earliest days in the berated This, however, has and been
the stats towards the hospitals-long transport wagon and harse ambulances, currying out orders, and never using his Hussars he has studied and mastered 'doks and jirobably very few of the mer
processions of them, with the soles of and always thousands of grey men march on rains, util he ended up in the work of military value published in any ahto ships beinging Rodstuffs to Eng Jund are sted at the present, timeshe men's boots turned up over the stretchersing up to the lines, or hack from them, iform way of getting them kicked out
ful, we are face to free with on which they lay quiet and stiff the exhausted and broken after many days the bitines-end of mules. The falling stone of that knowledge which ultimate
through his stupidity in dealing with another and more dangerous submarine tale was told though no word was spelen, in the fires of hell up there.
who was drilled merely to carry only will be the indoing of the Buche. He pnign in which the enetay boats age
The tale of defeat, of great losses, of
was then a captain in the 7th Hussars, larger, caery heavier guns, and are a grave and increasing anxiety, was told
orders, was no use?!
and after a long term of service in India able of operating at a long distance from charlyngh as I have read in port, the position has become more, urgent captured letters by the faces of Gerinin
got six months furlough. Anyone else and reportant. The newer submarines officers who went, aliou in these towns
would have made of that furlough a well- no longer He in wait under headlands behind the lines with gloomy looks, and
carned holiday. Not so Haig--he spent and in shilies waters, but attack the who lompers, tier of the sweetest, be,
be six months in Germany, living with ships in as open sea. Sevres, offenses
came irritable and unbearable, so that
German regiments and studying Con tinental systems of military science, have menstrated the danger to
the soldiers hated them for all this cur- Gaubing trails Morover, a small sing and bullying. A certain battalion gus-tinted astern is, it has been de monstrated, a longer suficient proteccomander, has a nervons breakdown be
The guns carried by the newer ery submarines jutrange such gus, which carry at the farthest abimit 8,000 yards, whereas the gans carried by the submarine have a range of from 11,000 to 12.000 yards. The out, there Ipere keep 67 safe distance and sla!! the mergant steuner till she sinks her. The mead is for heavier guia, or at least gons of longer range, mounted both in 1. how ani tern: It is unfair and unlike our British praedies to oblige our gullannerchant seamen to run away from the enemy before they can bring their protect d'armament to bar. Fur thermore, it is éxceedingly likely that in urder of nefunny this operation the mer cha ship iff base to present ber along the bratside to the enemy is a target for shall or torpedo. There may be diplomatic difficulties to surmount before British erchant ships can be arned ns they should bet but these canist weigh in the balance when the gravity of this matter and the interests of the Elagsins are considered.
tius.
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How grave the matter is can be shown from ocial statements. Seven montits ago na Maj Srl, 1916 Lard Curzon, pl. plying to Lord Beresford in de Horse of lords, made the statement then the nun- Iker merchant ships we find lost at that date was altust exactly intaxed by
the narcantile mari daring the pro gress of the FRP.
The
Officers sat on their horses by the rond sidy directing all the traffic with the usual swearing and cursing, and rode alongside the transport.. wagons and the lets the atenei through. In some places troops, surging them forward at bodies le quite uncovered in a trench quicker pace, enyse of stern orders recess, and no one seems to trouble about veived from headquarters demanding them." One sees horrible pictures - here quicker movement. reserves it an art, here a foot, here a head, sticking seemed, were desperately wanted up in out of the earth. And these gre all Ger the Times. The English, were attacking man soldiers-heroes! Not far from us were buried, of whom three were dead. again. God alone knew what was hape at the entrance to a dug-mit nine mon cause he has to inget his colonel in the rening Regiments had lost their way.
All along the trench men kept on getting morning. He is dying with fear and had a ward Into the midst of buried. What had been a perfect trench Wounded were pouring back, Officers anxiety." writes one of his comrades. Other men, not battalion commanders, all this turmoil shells fell-from long-few hours before was in parts complete
were blown in
The men are getting are, even muze afraid of their superior range guns. Transport wagens offer, upon whom this bad news from blow, to bits. The bodies and fragments weaker. It is impossible. La huld out any the Soma has an evil effect. The had of artillery horses lay all over the roads anger Losses can no longer be reckoned news was spread by divisions taken ont. Men lay dead or bleeding under the accurately. Without a doubt many of of the line and sent back to rest.
That only on out of thousands of The debris of guy whools and broken bricks. Deople are killed." non reported that their battalions had Above all the noise of this confusion such gruesome pictures, true as the death been cut to pieces. Some of their regis and death in the night the hard, stern they described, which have gone to Ger ments had lost three-quarters of their voies of German offers rang out, and homes during the battles of the
Somme. These German soldiers strength. This described the frightful German discipline prevailed" as men
grind letter writers, and men sitting in wel ditches--in" fox-holes, ' effect of the British artillery the smash marched on to greater perils, ed trenches, the shell-craters, the great
as they call their dug-out-" up Horror.
mud," as one of them described, scribbled pitiful things, which they hoped fight reach their people at home, as a voice from the dead. For they had had litte hope i escape from the
timiy turn.
HAYAHIANS AND PECSKLAŊA. It is not good for the moral of mon who are first going up there to take The man who was afraid of his colorel sits, all day long writing home with the picture of his wife and children before his eyes. He is afraid of oder things. Bavarian soldiers quar rolled with Prussians, accused them (un justly) of shirking the Summe battlefields and leaving the Bavarians to go to the blood bath.
All the Havaristu troops are being sent to the Somme (this much is certain, you ca no Prusians there), and this in spite of the losses the 1st Bavarian
how we did suffer!
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blood-bath.
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In the old Army it was a fashion tó talk of the Hoig luck. In reality it was the kind of luck that commands the help of Providence only when a man has fully helped himself. That is the secret of the Haig, forturin a striking and coth mading personality allied to agains for consentration. He leaves nothing to chance.
I remember during the first terrible battle of Ypres how he packed off his generals to bed, ne 300 nights, lik
many reclamant children." There's big work to be done and you, gaundt be fit nt four, in the morning without proper rest overnight, he would say And he saw that his greyasized generals went to bed, too. Month in and ont. moreover, he himself practices early habits.
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Officers at his sido say they will hover forget those days along the Menin Road, shelled incessantly day and night with
IN THE SHELL ZONK" They were in the shell zone now, and sometimes a regiment on the march was tracked all along the way by British gun-
There is little pomp and circum weigh what you should, you have given fire directed from aeroplanes and captive
stance about CHC to-day; the keynote the real cause of your anhappy feel- balloons. It was the fate of a captured officer I met who huch trained at
When you get this I shall be a corpse;"
ings. If you only had a reserve of fab is simplicity and frugality General this would give a quieting and reassuring Bapaan for the french at Contalmai- wrote and of them, and one finds the Ba son. At Bapaume his battalion was it foreis,ding in many of these documents. Haig els tim paen. He is a un amoker influence to the vital forces, and you and taken only the most inderate amount would then be happy, contented and by fragments of 12. sells. Nearer 10 Even the lucky ones, who could get some the fine they came under the fire of Bin, cover from the incesant bombardment by of stimulant at the evening wal-no-optimistic and Gin, shells. Four-point sevens found English guns, began to lose their nerves thing at any other time. These is no Then, too, you realize that the pro- them sumewhere by Bazentin.
At Con after
day or two. They were always in thought around him of aught but the per distribution of fat on, the body and limbs makes all the difference between balmison they marched into a barrage, feur of British-infantry, sweeping apogi. war, and all the Staff are imbued with and here the other was taken prisoner. then suddenly behind the Tromniel the Commander-in-Chief's" singleness of beauty and ugliness, and you envy your plump friends. As a liberal allowance of his battalion there were few men leftfeuer." rushing their dug-outs with purpose.
Beatrics became Advanced G. I.Q., is a simple country of fat is one of nature's wise precautions I was so with the 3rd Jarger Battalion, hosts and bayonets.
to enable us to hear some of the trints of "jumpy," and signailed attacks when dwellingham tucked away unasterata- deed up hurriedly to make a counter attack near Plers. They suffered so there were no attacks, The goalarmtiously a few miles behind the British life, you should do all in your power to the new shites which lui been wilded to † Corps suffered recently at Yerdan Aud/heavily on the way to the trenches that no was sounded constantly by the clang lines' and within easy mach of a little get fat. I know nothing so valuable to attack could be made The stretcher a bell in the trench, and men put French villages Domiciled here with Sir make people fat as a preparation of It appears bearers had all the work to do.
their heavy gas masks and sat in them Douglas Haig are just three Staff officers; On 15th of Nut.
that we are in for another turn, at least The way up to the trenches became until they were nearly stiffed.
the remaindey are hilleted in the aciengland the 5th Bavarian Division. Everybody | more tragic as every kilometro was pass- Here is a little picture of life in a bouring village. Dr. Macnamara, in the House of Cuni song, that the total British gross, has been talking about it for a longed, until the stench of corruption was German dug-out wear the British lines,
It is a wonderful organisation, this Every wafted on the wind so that men were written by a man now dead. #ummage a merchant ships of 1,000 tons time. To the devil with it!
Bavian regiment is being sent into it, sickened and trieil list to breathe, and
The telephone bell rings. Are you arhive of Haig's. For purposes of and over at the beginning of the war
and it's awitidle.
marched hurriedly to get on the len side there? Yes, here's Naa's battalion. G.II.Q. the Army is divided into certain To encli one an officer, of show a jet less up to September 30th,
of its foulness, They walked now through Good. That is all Then that, ceases, partitions. This 1916, of slightly over 25 per cum-
It was in no cheerful wood that men places which had once bern villages, but now the wire is in again, perhaps the Staff is apportioned, and it is bis washes to all causes. The development went away to the Soume battlefields, were sinister ruins where death lay in for the twenty-fifth or thirtieth time. duty to have at his finger-tips just all of the anemate to the melant marine. Those lattalions of grey-clad men en wait for German soldiers. One of them This the night is interrupted, and now there is to be known about his particular and the increase in the peril from the trained without any of the old en wrote:
..they come alarm nusages, one after the army. Thus Sir Douglas Haig has at! action of the never sabunarines, are shownthusins with which they had gone to
Et sens queer to me that whole vill other, each more terrifying than the kiss an intimate knowledgi by these Sgures. Whereas, as in- May earlier battles. Their gloon was noticed ages close to the front look as flattened other of enormous losses through, the whole British front. of this year, the net lose was insignib the flisers. Sing, you sheep's head, as a child's toy run over by a steam bobs and shells of the enemy, of huge/Upetirnes in the morning, he repaira
they shouted. They wore cores roller. Not oue sta fient, it is now 21 per cent, and it sing!
minains on masses of troops alvancing upon us, of his private study immediately after could do more. cannot be supposed that the ordinary led to sing, by order. A man of the another. The streets are one line of all possible possibilities, such as a train breakfast. Here he interviews in varius," were the words often on his Fips, risks of the sea have increased to atiy
15th Reserve Division wrote:
| shell-holes. Add to that the thunder of broken down, and tortured by the torrors ons hends of departments. Sometimes hot and no one to day acknowledges more
inverit We had to go out again; we were to the guns, and you will see with what of the day can Jarge extent.
Our nerves reuing hard at work there till lunch humbly that supernatural aid way - What is happening to our own mer- Henry to sing. The greater part id aut feelings we eme into the line-into quiver. We clench our teeth. None of us
time; on other days, interviews over, in corded than General Haig ingel, T cantile marine is happening also ju aj in, and the song went felly Then trenches where for months shells of all can forget the horrors of the night."
Flers is a serap Heavy rain fell, and the dug-outs away early in one division or all was the help of God for a man whoshna greater or lesser deg te ta reliant and to march round in a circle and calibre have rained
other. Here, again, one may aate his helped himself. shipping of our Allies and uf neutrals. ing. and that went no better.
becarne wet and filthy. After heap. Su far as the former are concerned, it that we had an hour off, and on the way at fast, above that river of the Bomire water.
They had reached the Bath of Blood "Our sleeping places were full of finnate dislike for military circumstance, We had to try to bail out the Tiere is little dashing about to day in whether the back to billets we were to Ring Deutsch which as long as the history of this war has become a question British Government should no strongly land uber Alles, but this broke down lasts will be coloured in the imagination in the water with G
trenches with cooking dishes. I lay down high-powered
We were togiai never enters une himself unless General Haig. One offer states that, impress upon the French, Italian, and completely. One never hears songs of the of men by the crimson flow of life spilt have worked on dug-outs, but not a soufit be to take him to a distant part of while he can recall fearless horsemislili the hunting-feld and counties ftussian Governments the necessity | Fatherland any more."
on these battlefields. though it runs silver could do any more. Only a few sections the front which only petrol will achieve in arming their mercanti garine. With
bright between the high rushes, on ite get coffee. Mine got nothing at all. in the time it di posal. Very probably episodes during a long friendship of an iron self-control, it was on the Monin the neutrals there may be dificulties: in
They were silent, grave-eyed men who hanks. In the firestrenches and support was frozen in every limbs, poured the the way of doing this. If, however, the activities of the enemy submarines in this arched Farough the streets of Freach trenches and communication trenches un water out of my bouts, and lay down
Bond he learned untold things of his by Thiepval. Martinpuich, and Cource again.
general's priceless nerve. As I well be direction: are not effectively, checked we and Belgian towns to be entrained for lette, by Flers and Gueadecourt and
lieve, it is the nerve of a super-man who, may see the neutrals casing to trade the Sorane front, for they had fore Morval, even farther back by Grandeurt
German generals and their staffs within three or four miles of 0.8.Q, maybe, has some intuitive, sub conscious with this country and using their ship. bodings of the fate before them.
and Le Sars, British shell-fire came in could not be quite indifferent to all this then dismount and finish the return on knowledge of things well done, founded ping to pick up that large volume of none of their forebodings were equal in great storms, plouhing up the earth, welter of human sufering among their foot. Seldom a day passes but he visits upon a supreme and abiding faith in a foreign trade which can no longer be intensity of four to the frightful reality burying living men, unburying dead troops, in spite of the cold scientifi
fearing man. Commander-in-Chief makes it a carried out by Britishi vessels owing to into which they were flung. The journey men, searching for German flesh and spirit with which they regard the probe of his corps commanders. I think God above. Without doubt he is a God- thic conditions which have demanded their to the Soming front on the German side blood, many days before the British in- lem of war. The agony of the individual special point to know by name as many
Not far from advanced Generul Head-. Was a way of terror, ugliness, and death. fantry leapt from their own trenches and soldier would not trouble them There offers the any one human brain can quarters there is a little French church, Not all the imagination of morbid minds began the second phase, or, if you like is no war without agony. · But the searching obscenely for funlness and to reckon differently, the third phase, of paycology of muss meets to eli amazement froin some, one or other who simple service of the Church of Scot masses of men had to be carry. Offen have I heard expressions of and every Sunday morning is held there MERCHANT SHIPS. TO BE blood in the great deep pits of human their advance, on September 15th.
ciency of the machine. As I shall show, in passing has been addressed by name land. Sir Douglas Haig never misses agony could surpass these scenes along
that simple Sunday service,! ARMED.
Again and again men lost their way the German General Staff on the Weat by Sir Douglas Haig... the way to the German lines round
tern front were becoming seriously
He is a supremely just map In re- Courerlette and Flers, Gueudecourt, up to the lines. The reliefs could only
Never has the British Army of all gard to new commends wid appointments made at night, lest they should he diy alarmed by the declining moral of their Morral, and Les Beufs. Many times, ofered by Eritish airmen and British infantry under shas increasing strain of ranks had such a sublime had almaust no man was ever less moved by: pressure long before a German battalion, haganners, and even if these German sol- the British attacks, and adopted stern said bind faith and confidence in its or influence from without... He judges an arrived near the trenches, it was but a diers had trench maps the guidance was asures to cure it. But they could not mander-in-Chief. It is the leaver of officer solely upon the value of his It was stated af Lloyd's last month collection of nerve-broken men bemoaning but little good when many trenches had hope to care the heaps of German dead the First Army which has permeated the military record, and in many uses from that the arming of merchantmen, bow, loss already suffered far behind the been smashed in, and only shell-craters who wore lying on the battlefields, nor whole. For days and nights, which ran his own personal experience.
and recommended by lines and filled with hideous apprehen could be found. They stumbled through the maimed who were being carried into weeks, awful days of Unlike the majority of mankind, he beat, sed quarter, as my meeting the sun. Far Britisa long-range guns were the darkges and into these pits, round back to the dressing stations, nor to bring tree, during those he desert welcomes new things, fresh ideas; novel- previous week, has been definitely decidurting high-explosives into distant vil times waist-high in water. The British back the prisoners taken in droves by
batman and the last coble from the field ties do not cause him to shink. His lages, barraging, cross-roads, reaching flares shot up with a vivid white light the French and British troops. Before kitchens had been flung into the trenches, shure, for instance, in the great use of It is not known whether the Govern-out to railheads and ammunition dumps, and the men crouched low and still be the attack on the Flers line, the capture his contact with all ranks way of so close the tanks is scarcely appreciated; P ment will bear the cost of the arming while British airmen were, on bombing tween the rockets, and then crawled on of Thiepval, and the German delnicle at at the boats, but the general impression flights over railway stations and rest again Shells burst over them, and theve Beaumont Hanet the enemy's command and intimate a nature that his presence newness would have appalled most men. at Lloyd's is that the cost will fall upon billets, and high roads down which the was the chatter of English machine-guns. was already filled with a grave anxiety or them then-has left an indelible It is that quality of mind that make
him invaluable put the western front. the shipowners, who are not likely to German troops came. marching at Cam A letter written by one of these Germans at the enormous losses of its fighting impression.
strength, was compelled to adopt new The full story of those awful days has today the grumble at this expense in protecting brai, Bapaume; in the valley between says:
In domestic life Sir Douglas Brig is a their property.
In the front line of Flers the mer expedients for increasing the number of yet to be told, but I think I san break- Irles and Warlencourt, at Ligny-Thilloy were unly occupying shell-holes. Behin its divisions, It was forced to withdraw ing no confidence in telling, to-day of devoted father. The mutual affection Busigny, and many other places on the there was the intense smell of potretas troops badly needed on other fonts, and, General Haig's fervent conviction, Every that exists; between him and his two lines ol, route.
tion, which flied the trench-almost w as I shall point out, the successive shock sunog of British resistance was being children, is idealistic. It is that human German soldiers arriving at Cambrai warably. The careses lie either quite of the British offensive as far strained to breaking point, every means element in him that makes him
ram-found itselves under the fire insufficiently covered with earth on the ay Germany itself, iso 4kgs den erfind that military geflus-backed only by Jealous of the lives of the soldiers ho fa single acroplane which few very edge of the tronen or quite close under
shell-famished guns-could devise had commands. I think the power of seeing flaw and dropped bombs. They exploded the bottom of the trench, an that the earth
been requisitioned a buiau, power i through the uniform to the father whe with heavy crashes, and one both hit
"(Continued at fout of next columat. ).
(Continued at fout of that Column.) wears it is always with him.
use for other services,
GUNS ON BOW, BEAM, AND QUARTER.
ed upon.
One well-known London shipbroker said that what was wanted were emal grus sufficiently powerful to sink submarine at fairly long range, but not
calibre which would endanger the safety of merchantman when the guns were fired
FORERODINGS OF
Yet
RELIEFS ONLY AT NIGHT.
The
́DENERAL STAFF ALARMED.
its recruiting system had be betted to fill up the gapa tóru ent of the Gorman runks. Daily Telegraą į
motor-ears,
tourses will have been sent on to an ap pointed place, and, arriving there, the chief will proceed on horseback, In returning he will probably ride in to
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