GERMAN PLANS,
"THE ENEMY'S FORCES.
EAST OR WEST?
The superior numbers and resources of the Allies no longer compel them to take the law from the enemy's initiative, and
a
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
EXPANSION OF THE GERMAN
ABMY
10,000,000 MEN IN THE FIELD SINCE 1974%
I have had an opportunity, ALYS Router's correspondent at British Hond
of
THE MESOPOTAMIAN FLY
MR CANDLER IN A NEW ROLE.
WAGING WAR ON THE SOLDIER'S
SPEST.
¡BY EDMUND CANDLER. ] -
Tly Expert, Tigris Oorpa, Ita rather an awful title have thrust upon one, but who am I that I should dispute with the powers that be
MONDAY
FEBRUARY 10TH, 1017
ENSLAVEMENT OF BELGIANS.
BRUTAL TREATMENT IN
GERMANY
TEMPTATIONS SCORNED;
Compulsory lábour has been instituted in the interests of the Belgian workmen consequently the chemy's appreciations quarters, France of seeing some interest
themselves. Beren von Bissing and plans, for the future are of much lessing and important figures, illustated by
a diagram chart, showi
showing the degres of
According to information received ur own. All the Germany's military expansion since the consequence to us than our own,
Last spring the troops in Mesopotamia same it is necessary to study the war outbreak of war. The latest returns a suffered vast discomforts through these from occupied Belgium, it appears thint continually from the enemy's point of her peace establishment are taken as the winged tormentors, so here su 1, dragged some of the deported Belgians who were view, and to frame hypotheses of the standard of comparison, these, of course, from the congenial gloom and dustineasil. have been sent back to their homes. courses of action which are open to him, including all the effectives available on of my laboratory, tarust 300 miles p If in the raging torrent of impressions mobilization in August, 1914 914
the Tigris, and handed a roving commis. They return from Soltan. There are now which, a great waz brings with it, we are The infantry has been multiplied de comprehensive generality the fly. refuse to work for the Germans
sion to put salt upon the tail of that at Soltau 11,000 deported Belgians who able to krep our heads and preserve some to date by 31 times its peace footing; This discrimination in our judgment, it is feld artillery, by 31 times; the heays The duties of a fly expert Welly just One morning the Germans, Ending that occasionally possible to understand what by five times; and the pioneers by four as you will fall to find mo in War 70 of their victims were newly dying, the anomy is about, and not to be sur times. These are not precise ratios, but establishments so also will you fail to fuddled them into a cattle truck attech prised when he sets about it, are approximately correct. There wng find these duties, laid down in Fielded to a goods train. At one station What is the situation of the enemy from very slow and uniform rate of increase, in Service Regulations or any other volume after another, as the train passed the dis the question the Times military corres-16, when an extensive organization discover, and deal with, by fair means or taken, they were made to get ont. Some ponient set himself to answer on January we carried out, divisions being reduced foul-vindictive folk prefer them foul of them took three days and three nights 70th during almost the whole of the from four to three regiments and heavy the fouler the better-all beasties that to get to their destination. In ordinary automer of 1918 he was on the defensive absorption of man-power for the infantry the comfort of our brave amies 10 tomes an express train takes six hours to
made to create new formations The constitute a real or imaginary menace, on his main fronts, and his successful incursion into Wallachia in the autumn has, on the whole, been at a more uniform a noble aim, and people who realize this to from Soltan to Brussels. They were did not fundamentally alter this position rate of progression than in any other inherent nobility raise me to the dignity scensionally given bread and water; that of affairs. Aided by the weather, he held arms ho chart shows a steep rise just of 0.0. Elica To the ribald I am the journey
wes the only care they received during up at last the attacks of the Allies, and after Neuve Chapelle, owing to the com- merely the Bug Strafer thanks to his comprehension of the fact ing in of the reconstituted divisions, and that the continual developinent of new since then a pretty steady slope of ascent forces is necessary for that persistent The heavy artillery, on the other hand, action and that renewal of effort which shows the sharpest and most spasmodic are the chief means of ultimate success, rate of development. There was a re The deployed, some 27 new divisions in the gular lull in expansion between the Battle autumn of 1916, and was therefore able of Loos and the close of the Serbina cam to make the stroke against Roumania paign. Then came a rapid increase of which was so successful.
progression down to the time of the In mid-December there were not count tailing off is shown. The field artillery has Somme offensive, since when a gradual ing the cavalry, 128 German divisions in front of which 65 were: Gorman, The biggest jump was in March, April, and the dies which he produces juggle the West 106 divisions on the Russian been also rather erratic in its development, Penetrate into his Angean fastnesses
and two
levice
coughing. They were received with tears, They arrived home thin, emaciated, and
spot as Kurne, the river boats have to Down among the date palms, at such a put on snow ploughs to cut their way secured to their families and their through the clouds of malaria bearing friends that it was but their ghosts which mosquitoes. A flaming sword is no longer had returned, Some of them have needed to keep people away from the described their adventures, and these Garden of Eden. You cannot drag them descriptions agree in all points--a con- there with a traction engine. And in the clusive proof of their veracity towns, where the Arab riots in insanitary For food the Belgians were given at equator, your remedial measures cannot the Soltau camp at .., a decoction litre (about a pint) of soup, composed of boiled acorns only; at noon, hull u
litre of the same soup us at noon, some- on this abominable diet even the strongest decline in health, and the weak are not long in failing seriously ill and succumbing Some die overy day Two went mad in the first week of their captivity. These unfortunate men are so tormented with hunger that in the evening they creep into the kitchen like thieves and collect the parings of potatoes the potatoes themselves are in tended solely for the German staff the turnip and carrot skins, which they
appease their hunger share among themselves and eat raw to
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Philip Snowden were the chief speakers Mr. J Ramsay MacDonald and Mrs. at a meeting at the Co-operative Hall, Walthamstow, on January 8th, organized by the Union of Democratic Control which was ultimately broken up and had to be abandoned.
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Austrian, and two Turkish so divisions pad Mof of over year during the fiercestor and T- stores, at de dumps atostog mostly of water with some turnips, cer- A PEACE MEETING BROKEN UP PETER
phases of the Verdun fighting Then, fol- the all rots, shrimps, and camphor, without German, 11 Austrian, four Bulgarian comes an ascending sende again since tho on the Roumanian front, including lewing an almost horizontal chart line, the river front
bread or potatoes, at 3 o'clock, 250 gram- But we of the Tigris Corps have no mes (about 1b.) of black bread, very bad 18 on the Macedonian opening of the Roumanian campaign. mosquitoes to worry is. So we have this and often mouldy in the evening, half eight or nine Bulgarian, The latest pre-war statistics give the dice at the corps ares are all our own times containing brun or maiza front two to three German, and one
connolation, if consolation it be, that the and Rually 83 Austrian divisiong in the strength of the German Army as follows: production. Alone we did them. And Italian
theatre. Now that the Rouman Professional standing army 672,000; inns have joined the Russiang and form total of first line and reserves available alone I have to undo them. part of their line we must admit that on mobilization 2,250,000. Taking a TINOUBLES ON A FLY EXPERT 135 enemy divisions oppose Russia if no rough average of expansion of four times As long as all refuse is completely divisions have been transferred elsewhere the original mobilization strength of the burnt, or otherwise satisfactorily dealt in the course of the last for night. This different arms enumerated in the fore with, there can be no flies, as they will distribution shows that not even the going, we find that the German Empire have no piece in which to breed. And central situation of the enemy, and his has put 10,000,000 men into the field since there is a large medical personnel who more perfect unity of command, which is the beginning of the war. These figures should see to it that all refuse is so Inseparable from the
suggest that the German official casualty treated. Therefore a dy expert is up geographical situa tion of the belligerents, allow him more lists have been very conservative indeed. than relative facility for massing here
necessary, a waste of the country's ar there. After satisfying all the defen
money and should certainly be written sive claims of his various fronts he
about to The Times. Quite so! Never able rangnitude for throwing this way and to the 33 Austrian divisions facing Italy for the fy is still with us. So he pro retains a strategic reserve of inconsider reserves, because 20 more divisions added thelegs, he would appear to have his uses, that, and even this reserve can only be would give the enemy a good chance of to exist, and, beginning as a sanitary attempted to escape and was brutally One workman, tired of so much misery, ceeds to see why breeding places continue safely used in this mamer when the doing something. Some faw Austrian autumn rains immobilize the Allied
have recently trickled back into inspector, becomes finally a sanitary de- killed. He was shot and finally dispatch
Say it isn disgrace to Walthamstow I wish this so that officer whose sanitary show is absolutely In spite of such martyrdom the men may be anxious to
A recover their
protest to be recorded. I am a citizen of By his loss of men, by his increasingly offensive, but this time with
ground and to recommence the May perfect, who inspects it every morum still refuse to work The most temptinging for you and Mr. MacDonald
Walthamstow and I have two sons fight serious economic situation, and by then the I
weight regularly at 6 o'clock, and who is way offers, with good food and high wages, absence, to say the least of it of die Switzerland also needs attention and must happens to it at 4 clock in the after made them. The great majority pre
Isonzo, front. The aittiation surprised and indignant en learn what enthusinan for the war among the mans not be disregarded, since neutrality counts noon. He is up against the Britisk of his people, the enemy is certainly very for less than nothing to the Germans, Tommy, who may be inerticulate, but Various methods are adopted in order mark was greeted with loud cheers and Whisky la the whisky with a
Armies on the principal fronts to is
possible that the tective. He is up against the medical (en with buyonetas
vertain extent and for certain time
hard hit, and there can be little doubt
lost
tha Hindenburg told big Imperial master O LUNBIA
when Bukarest was taken that German
demand with increasing insistence. Th
victoriously, but
not, indeed,
**
can certainly look his contempt for all the fuse mado about a little bit of food the lnd an, who says that the dahib, of thrown a nulla. He is up against
and the gods made flies, and the Sahib
Mr. Valentine McEntee (Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners) was in the chair, and when he rose to: man in the middle of the håll got up and, addressing the chair, stid before open- is the proceedings may be allowed to,
hall to be used for the purpose record a protest to the Co-operative Society against the letting of its public of a peace crank meeting Th
ting 1 There were crics of Hear, hear and
of
pter proceeder Order! but the
Amid some uproar a lady shouted="I have three sons fighting, and endorse for to face hunger and death the purpose of the meeting This Fe
some cries of Order.” *****
want a dishonourable porce but one tha: The meeting then proceeded, and Mrs Snowden in her remarks said they did not had at least an element of permanency They aakel that the nations engaged in ances as to what they wanted and declare in plain and simple lasgunge xhetly what out boys were fighting for woman. We don't want peace until Belgium in evacuated.?")
Another interrupter alleged that Mrs. Snowden had gone to America to obtain Prove it," replied Mrs. Snowden, and money to start a peace agitation here. I will give E10 if you can. Not wanted, Madam," was the retort,
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THE
SOLE AGENTS RUTTONJEE
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to obtain the consent of the men to work One day 40 artisans were taken away. - A arms had reached the culminating point tion, we may well believe that Hindenburg,
their comrades that they had been taken But, in spite of these centres of attrac
week later they returned. They told of victory and that the time had come to who has always afirmed that the greatest course, kaows, but the gods made worms to the Grand Duchy of Baden, where make the peace which the German people danger threatenis from Russia, wishes to
they had been given abondant and excel. German Area with erect, and it was in the autumn of 1915. With 135 divisions ing nies. He is also up against the LO were informed they they would receive
continue in 1917 the campaign broken off cannot pull his leg shout worms becom lent food for a couple of days; then they the war should cease their vague utter obviously the best thing to do to sell out on the Russian front he has the power who is sick to death of these banked the same amount every day if only they
decesary for conducting a fresh campaign could be found. The strong improbabilite with vigour, and the current operations specialists, and it the blankety War Office would consent to work. On their refusal
in Boumanie
tend to throw she wants re-wash, way can confine it they were sent back to Soltan, remaining of final success, and the increasingly cruel
Russing left and to place the Austro espobents to the base. Taking it alto 35 hours in a cattle truck without tool cost of continuing the war made peace Germans in a far better posture for con- gether, combined with a temperature of and without being able to get out.
necessity for Germany and for her com- federates. · Even if the defensive had been tinuing an attack on Russia than that 190 degrees in the shade, the poor fly On another day a man appeared in the
which they could boast last autuma. or less successfully
export has a thin time camp dressed as a sergeant of the 8th maintained
ined The Germans declare that they are im Yet he ang some measures of success Belgian Regument of the line. In ex the numerically superior Armies pressed by what they term the internal with which to console himself. During cellent French and Flemish he harangued of the Allies in
and West, the undertaking of an offensive campaign in the
disorganization of Russia, and affirm that last summer's beat the sanitation was the captives, telling them that they were either theatre was quite a different pair short of ar material. It remains always the possible leakages, and took measures one would be grateful to them for it; Russian Armies are exhausted and tightened up. Medical officers, learned very stupid to endure such sufferings; no of shoes, and would mees with immense true that the Austro-German railway against them. And so we have had no that the middle classes in Eelgium, were difficulties. The Central Powers not only system is far superior to the Russian, and autumn dy pingue. Wo have flied car still living luxuriously; that the Govern had not the great numerical ponderance necessary for success in such that the German Auxiliary Service Act, mainly, and we have them in moderate ment ne Havre did not care what hap 20 enterprise, but were actually much already in operation while inferior in men and in war material, and enemies have done little hit talk W cooler. They pirouette joyfully on our
numbers now that the weather is getting pened to them, and would take no steps to intervene on their behalf, because it supply the drafts needed for an offensive was commin knowledge that the deported campaign: Russia must certainly be pre moment when you nearly knock your eye Belgians would be doing nothing co pared to find herself in 1917 the anvily of the Allies Bat because this armament the German hammer, and most make her out do a Turkey Trot across your close, trary to the dictates of patriotismo, in beon Hindenburg point of view we must plans in conformity with the leading opped and sensitive scalp stepping accepting peaceful work in Germany, and
from under as you endeavour to give so on. iden away with the idea that the enemy was exhausted. He was, and is, in Meanwhile the present German design Gaby area
yourself concussion of the brain; and Later the Belgians, discovered that this a position, to resist, militarily, for long, is obviously to secure the line of the Gelly Glide over a sale free of your individuals Fogians des covered that, this It was simply that the future asendereth, perhaps the Pruth, and in any homicidal mania. When you jump mergeant disguised us a Belgian soldier. There are older men than you in the and Cargo for the e forta, Puntongers
pro-
to become more terrible than ever, thanke to increasing numbers and
mot run a
have
Germany's
and even to gain some further
contained event the mouths of the Danube Thereby in frenzy, armed with every lethal wea no reasonable prospect of decisive victory the German 80 intolerably extended and that the internal condition of Cer when Roumthin
**** pon upon which you can lay your hands to its least possible
many had become so bad that the whole shortened to its ey razite to inaccessible positions nader
The Times.
* At this stage a number of soldiers
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Replying to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, STEAM FOR STRAITE, one of the men in khaki shouted, "Let him go and talk that stuff over on the Samme
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The soldiers moved nearer to the plat-Tuzovon form, and wars followed by many of the audience, (588)
The Chairman: Mr. Lloyd George once
declared that the British people were sportsmell (A voices 5o they are.:)
A soldier then shouted at the chairman :
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carted support of the war by the people many enemy divisions coat be restored to unbil vou czim down.expand done there are 180 Ways. The ear of Platform, and there was considerable con- will be omveyed by this Steamer proceeding
THE Homeward Mail Steamer, carrying His Majesty's Mail, all s Fed from this port er usual, taking Fusengers sccommodation in the connecting vessel secured The uproar increased to such an extent before departure from Hongkong that the Chairman was toable to proceed. Bilk and Valuables the ridge of the tent, and chew straws gets itself done. Where things are not
and Cargo
for Several of the soldiers made a rusk at the Italy, France se London (under Arrangement) general reserve, and Hindenburg will be more free to use them where he will. The TEE O.C, AND THE ANTI-FLY CRUSADE authority is mine, and I am awful in fusion, one of the reporters being injured. vis Bombay to Marseille and Louden, seizure of the Lower Danube, and the Of course, some people will never lift
The reporters table was lifted high in |-- Fargel will be received at the Ofos until 3 use of this river as a means of entrance a hand to tree themelves from my wrath.
the air and thrown aside. The soldiers the day before sailing The patents and into the Black Sen for Germen hub You sail in to a bored OC, and, after that is a horse of another colour Durried him out of the building, and the For further partionlara, sailing dates, o
As to what will happen next spring, sized Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and har ralus of all package are required. marines would be an attractive pro- having finally convinced him that, you ing, and after, the rains many places Chairman was treated in a similar man spply to gramme, affecting adversely not only the have nothing to do with the Flying But it takes two to make peace, and Russian campaign in Armenin, but also Corps, you see a pale gleam of dawning which were sate before will become puten-ner The soldiers gained possession of the
ET. D. PABR she writer is here only concerned with other campaigns of the Allies in the interest and amusement ligh, bis weary tial breeding grounds owing to the addi platform, and beating time with their what Hindenburg will do if the war con Eastern Mediterranean. We can hardly the
inues. Is it to be the West, Saloniks he whole Russian front, as Hindenburg's Wait a moment.
tion of moisture. For the same reason canes sang Rule Britannia" and God expect a a winter campaign by Germany on, you've come to strato our flies incineration of refuse with the improved Me, Snowden managed to get
Save the King the
means at our disposal will become more
would no longer be counted upon How bad things are we do not know, but many reports from good sources leave no reason able doubt that things have taken a great change for the worse in the last few weeks
THE WESTENAG
Way
Italy, of the East that will the past experience of such an undertaking He selects a cheroot, settles himself in dificult. We cannot anticipate where before the uproar roached its worst
attention of the Marshal
that we thought the same in the opening
the Tigris Corps will be, although the There were free fights in all parts of the pessimists have their opinions. Old foulhall, and some men who were taken for
street. Eight or mine soldiers took posses
audience.
„Serience of tropical sumitation would
Buperintendent,
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Dail] Pram --
chief spring ands the whole of his enemies must have left unpleasant memories, but his roorkee with his to the mantel,
imp prepared to meet him with their fall in May all the Armies will be in move and heats upon you. strength? - W6 account, first but the West out of ment, and Russia is not likely to excludeWell, carry on I'd like to su how ground, new clean ground-imere 18 Peace cranks were hustled out into the
because the Germans have from her calculations transfer of had such a secondly beca
gruelling 10 France, and German weight to the left by rail and you do it
tremendous difference between them. Thesion of the place, and addressed the CG NOOT HAN 4) Then I have to explain to him, gently production of new troops with less because a German offensive in an advance or Petrograd in co-operation this quarter would suit ug so well that wo with the German Navy.
and firmly, as is demanded by the dignity cannot dare to hope for it It true
THE KEA of my position, that I am purely, adake one more factor. Too much is of visory, and could not dream of corean the knees of the gods. The fly expert and that Verdun ollowed, but
THAT PAIN BEHIND YOUR ing myself by swatting a fly is you can only hope for the heat, and wrestle Görman moral was then better,
Leaving saide the Turkish theatre, the but if he will ask his M.D. to com with new problems as they arrive. Falken only other operation of the enemy that
SHOULDER hayu then ruled, and there is no parti, has to be considered is an attack at en pay me round his camp and conser had meant to say something about cular reason to suppose that Verdun. the Somme have given
A break but by the Austrian Navy should any area, I will give the M1.0 some kinds of flies-flies that buzz and keep is probably due to disordered hver. the enemy any nos be successful, b but it may
keer advice on the matter,qu away flies that buzz and cannot keep Pinkettes dispel « livorishnese, Constipa- desire whatsoever to recommence their either in co-operation with or foreBut now, people are very kind and long way, flice that bite, and flies that merely tion, Biliongresa, sick-headaches, clear the experiences against and Britain. What would suit bine paration for, German activity in the autoring. They accept the orcalars that tickle. But we are so worried by many
armies of
ara the outcome of my hard von experi- kinds of flies. I intended to say a lot complexion and sweeten the breath.
due reverence, and carefully | abont, the sand-fly (Phlebotomus papa- hot read them but, | taas), and he deserves every bit of it, but too much | be- demands a Hynn of Hale all to their real himself. I wished to deplore the unholy artet war that 18 waged against my rustling,
the
would be rever to hear the West men Austria and Germany are as
best North Sea If the economic conditions sioned again Meanwhile Kis plan is to they seem to be, we must naturall anna heavy gone, shells, and en, so before long a violent effort by the No that his inferiority in the West may be the Central Powers to break less sensiblo in 1917 than in 1918,
ITALY
We cannot exclude Italy as a destina sion for Hindenburg's floating balance of (Continued at foot of nest Column) –
blockedo which is strangling them. T attack if it comes, will be delivered all forces united and with the last dag of energy. Nothing must turn our from constant expectation of this act despair.—Zhe
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