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OLD
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ESTABLISHED
1745.
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and from ALL WÌNH MERCHANTS.
APIOLINE
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TEL HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. 1917.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 10th at 11.45-No returns from Inco Chica Pressure has increased consider. ably over N. China, slightly to moderately over the south Ind
allgbtly over the Philippinen; moderata decreased have occurred and Japan, tha Loochoos and the Bonins,
The anil-orclone has pemed into the Facile and another anti-cyslene har formed over N Chins. The depression noted yesterday moved into the Sea of Jajan and partially filled up
Modersie susterly winde will prevail over the north part of the Chiu Sta
Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at
DISTRICT
FORF CART.
E.. winds, mo. Hongkong to Gap Rock atrato cloudy,
(womeʻrain, (N.R Pormous Channel
fresh. South Coast of China between The enme as
Hongkong and Lemckahe kamu sa
No. 1 Bouth Coast of China te ween;
Horgsong at Hainan, No. L
METRUROLOGICAL
CHINA
Statten.
COAST
REGISTER
10TH APRIL," 4MG
*KED H
-Wind
Barometer-
at Ben Leve
Temperaturo
Hamidity.
Direction.
Foroo
ZUZENA SA
ALPINE WARFARE.
ITALY'S "HANDY” SOLDIERS, (FROM DE. MARIO BORSA, ITALIAN GENERAL
·HEADQUARTERS.]
One of the most typical means of trans port in Alpine warfare is the ono our soldiers call "wite ways," These consist of steel cables, slung from ridge to ridge, that span yawning depths or reach almost vertically into the cloods. Up these
THE SUBMARINE CHASER. RUTHLESS REQUISITIONS AT
FINE IDEA OF AMERICAN FIRM.
550 BUILT IN 150 DAYS. When the various purchasing agents of the Allies came to this country early in the war, says & writer in the New York Times, some of them had specific things in mind that they had been commissioned by their Government, to buy, Others had roving instructions to look over everything
light that would be practically immune itself to the torpedo of the submarine, and
BRUGES.
OLD AND SICK PEOPLE TURNED INTO THE STREET.
BRITISH SECOND LINE,
THE NEW BATTALIONS. Mr. Philip Gibbs wrote in the Daily Telegraph of February 18th We have received from an authorised The British armies in the field are always correspondent (says The server) the growing, needing, new camps, new billet following particulars concerning the ruth- ing areas, increasing the tenfio on the less requisitions made quite recently at roads by new columns of supply wagons,
new gros, new men, new boys, marching: Bruges by the Germana.
The present desperate character of Ger with ʼn steady tramp te plocea old and
That is a
-new phase of the war. An astounding
with which we welcomed the first of
remain for ever we a memory of British
spongy kind; it absorbs the rain and something that could catch the other boat tresses. asylum was requisitioned boyhood, splendid in courage, and of this
in a surface chase, or lis in wait for it when it submerged.
very with an
The Bruges
the street.
enblea travel guns and food, as well as America had to offer that might be useful man policy finds its counterpart in the evil with war. The Second Line or some -10 am, to-day, 0.00 inch. Total nincs 1st timber for the huts and men for the in warfare on land or sea. In other words, irégime inflicted on occupied territories of it has been coming ont.
The recent events which occurred at January, 3,84 Inoder, against av average of tranches. Down them come the wounded, they were shopping on a scale, hon. more especially in Belgium,... 7.55 inghes
There are about 300 fixed installations of ing to find something that they did not Bruges are characteristic from this point phase to men who remember, as I do, the
of view. Without preliminary notice the thrill The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon wire ways some of them have already know about to help in the aging German authorities turned out two hun the Territorials, ond, then the first of the to-day is as follow-
length of seven miles and a carrying One of the agents saw Henry R. capacity of 800lb. Besides the fixed ones, Sutphen, Vice-President of the Elen Com red incurable old women who were looked Kitchener crowd." That was nearly two after in the hospices by Sisters of years ago Since then the first-line regi- there are also the movable wire ways,pany, and asked him what he had 8 Charity. Those who had some relatives atments of the Territorials and the Ner These are in sections easily mounted and goal Up to that time it bad been Bruges were sheltered by them. The Arme livions have fought all along the dismounted, and can be transported from Stuphen's business to build motor yaelts
sent to line have been in scores of little shows,” one place to another in 20 hours, for American sportsmen and submarine war others, nearly a hundred, were
After a journey of nineteen
een stormed, the German lines, broke them, In their gradual and costly conquest of boats for any Government that sent him Marplex, a reformatory in the Antwerp end hiring the battles of the Somme the heights held by the enemy the Italian an order. He mindy a mental combination province. troops had to carry everything with them of the two types of craft when the British hours they arrived there in the middle of stond fast against ferocious counter attacks. food, water, timber. Water is lacking. agent asked him what new thing he had the night, and the directer, who had not held in to captured around, though it was them with any accommodation These poor theirs of Ficourt, Contalmaison: Ovillers. not only on the Carso plateau but also to suggest and replied that the mose useful been warned in time, was unable to provide on fame of shell fire and left bloom of he could think of at the rest on Thienval, Longueval. High Cen) other sections of our front, as for would be submarine sliner, something old broken women were chliged to post or Proel, and Devil's Wood, there, and in a instance, in the tableland of the Sette Comuni. There the earth, is of a strange,
Uidden the Sisters to remove their mat-score of other captured strongholds, to
sends it to the plain through natural
under still more painful circumstances, war's tragedy of sacrifice. galleries hidden in the depths of the mountains. Several attempts have been
The idea appealed to the British Govern. In vain dig their guardians ask leave to Now the second line battalions are com- The Territorials used to eve the old Regular made to reach these galleries by drilling ment, and the upshot of the matter was 80 and prepare some houses in which the ing along, and just as the first-line the undersoil with all sorts of machinery that the Elco Company built 550 such Dad people could be looked after.
as necessary boats for the British Admiralty in some herches refused and these regiments who had fought down from Mons. look yen others who have passed through therefore, to establish here and there big thing less than 550 days, at a cost of about unfortunate wretches were turned out into and along the Aisne-ayed them as reservoirs and a vast network of pipes 822,000,000
The Bishop of Bruges sent a strong pro- Gery orteils and are old in wisdom and remembrance and honour, so now these During the Austrian offensive of last May 100:000, gallong of water were daily And now, the United States is contem-test to the military Guvernor, pojating out***
į regi- 5 sent up to the tablelandsven mailar to provide itself, wack that most of the buildings requisitioned wey-sumers measure up the weather-worn,
belonged to religious communities, and war-worn fellows of their first-line)
ments as they pass along the roads or Timber, too, had to be provided in adequate const patrol fleet and large could not be seized without the Pope's con relieve each other in the trenches. The great quantities. More than 10,000 huts groups of chasers to help to protect the sent The answer way that the authorities have been built for sheltering the troops cities along the Atlantic coast against the merely requisitioned the use of these builder solliery, older in knowledge of war, though not in years glance back at the ings, and that they would see that no march discipline of the new crowds, at I have seen a good many of them, Some Gorman U-boats,
It added that some their physical qualities, at the cut of are hidden in the snow others in the Mr. Sutphen is one of the many men damage occurred. thick pine forests, Some are large and of the country who are making things who more buildings in the town would be wanted their ihs." comparatively comfortable; others small have been summoned to Washington to at an early date and asked the Bishop to and bare. I could no help admiring explain to the Government just what they see in this timely warning a proof of
could do in an emergency. He was ques, their consideration. how clean and tidy they are kept.
During the long vigil the carpenter tioned by Lieut: Europe, Assistant Naval soldier delights in ornamental work. Constructor, who examined all the plans
of the clisser and then asked the mant The regimental or brigado badges are facturer of the boat if he might keep theu generally carved above the door entrances in the Navy Department for further con- of the huts. Here and there the carving sideration, the
de is more ambitious, representing as it does coats-of-arms, trees, flowers, or animals. It is altogether a trious architecture, re flecting more than the dread of death the love of life of this varied, luminous, sontimenta, Italian life that has brought up to the inhospitable Alps all the sweet and longing memories of its golden Gelds and brown vineyards, of its blue lakes build something a little different, using the Guards, outside the Royal Exchanges hich I have seen for two and a half years. and enchanting seashore, where the dear plons left by Sutphen as the basis, and just opposite the Bank of Englands out here in the fields of France, This type
We don't know how this boat of our women and children are now waiting andar Worked in the naval war abroad said praying
Mr. Sutphen,”
**** beenuse the British Ad- mifolly will not disclose any of the results, but we assume it has been a success. Our Brst conract with the English was for fifty
DEEDS OF VALOUR, bots. Although we don't know just what they did with them, we do know that soon
The first of the Second Line have already been here some time, and have been blood- after the first of them had been delivered and put to work the British sent over
ed to the grim adventure of this war, rush contract for 500 more just like the could t hear that laugh.
The laughter was due, however, not After hard training in a base camp (all first fifty. and finished and delivered
the Hymn of the science of war is taught them by pro- fessor, straight out of the trenches), they
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THE NAVY EVERYWHERE,
SIR EDWARD CARSON TELLS THE FRENCH WHAT IT IS DOING. The Petst Parisien publishes an inter Sir Edward Carson on the view with BB Fish Navy The First Lord of the Admiralty said
MAYAID TEST OF MERIT,
I realize that I am asking for every- thing you have said the naval officer, but it is for the Government. He kept the plans, and now the department is con- siderang whether it wants to duplicate the ont accepted by the British Admiralty or
we
THE HYMN OF HATE.
The verdict is favourable. "Good stuff." They'll shape out all right after they've been knocked about Abit
Put 'em in the unlient That'll teach em Lord In a couple of months, after a bit of trench mortaring and whizz-banging and blowing up in mine-cruters, and burying in dug-outs, and no grub in the forward posts, and trench feet in the shell-craters, they'll be just like ourselves, and you wouldn't know the difference in the mud," Yes, they are gond stuff these second-line battalions, the The music of the famous German same good staff of youth that came out in Hymn of Hate was played in public the beginning and has been coming out in London on February 10th, for the all the time, with the same grey English same old look of ardihood and humour first time, by the band of the Coldstream eyes, the same Scottish sturdiness,, the
GERMAN MUSIC TO CHARM MONEY FOR THE LOAN.
the headquarters of the great War Loan.
It was just the kind of British joke dug not change. These new men are the which the Germans are never able to un-same as those who came before them, derstand, for it was played to encourage except in training in tradition, and in
Not a doubt of it. people to go and invest their money in experience. They will get that all right. the War Lons. Thousands of people as sembled to hear it, and when the playing was finished they gave a great shout of Iaughter It was a pity that the Ger-
the last of the batch on October 1st, lash to anything comic in a comic, por to
although the contract did not
one fine morning were ordered to support
for the delivery of the entire outfit until its absurdity, for it is not even absurd; were put into an old part of the line, and Our Nary? Why, it is every where It December 15th. The English declared all it was due to the ridicule which the is in the North Bea, where it awaits the enemy who keeps out of the way, on the that it would be a physical im Guards' baud cast on the heavy-footed an attack of some, importance. I was hot
possibility for us to do the work on time, German. Iste hymn by a simple and
a great success. Some of the Second Line men. got tangled up in the German wire. Some of them poor Ists, are there will.
it all, the price of mistakes.
coasts of Brasil, of Americs, of West but we finished six weeks ahead of time,expected device. Hymn learnt their lesson, saw the
As the solemn, notes of the TF. CLAXTON, Director
1. BAROMWERS, reduced to 28 degrees Fabrot- hait, on the level of the ses in inanes, tenth, and hundredtar.
& TEMPERATURE, in the shade, in degre Farenheit,
100. A
value
on in
Africa, near the Cameroons, where is it and in less than 530 days after getting the
thing helping the French, of the Dardanelles, first contract. After we really got under at. Saloniks, and East Africa. It is way we turned the bouts out at the rate ale died away the shrill voice of the
fifes piped a little phrase of eight notes of discipline, the difficulty of getting with the Italians in the Adriatic, near of three a day.
The little tune is familiar to everyone the face of machine-gun fire and heavy THREE BOATS A DAY, AN Archange, it is with the Russiana--io
a smaller lot of
A that with which a small boy derisively barrages. After that the Second fact, there is not a single corner of the We are now making a sea throughout the whole world where the chasers for another European Govern. calls attention to the presence of a police Line men could say to the First Line 'men, 8. Humidity, is peronstage of saturation, the our ships do not sail. The Germans are ment, one of the Allies, and we could add man. It might be translated into "Go" All right. Not so much swank We it is said to go with the words, soldiers don't use the word except with humidity of air minsted with moisture beinwild with rage, and, reduced to direct to that contract another from the United and get your hair cut, cocky! although know all about it, too. Herbes? Well, comes & cop-humorous chuckles. But if you like an ** Hurry, boys, here necessity, will not recoil from any crime States and start on it tomorrow at a This 4 DIBBOTION OF WIND, to two points. 6. Fondsey W189, according to Beaufort Balcanent hide from you any more than I three-boats-a-day rate of completion,
to make will find them wirendy and it's
pretty & STATE OF WEATHER, b blue sky, a detached can hide from myself the great danger is possible because we have standardized per! The immense crowd instant old-fashioned word and want some herbc- aloud, d driving rain, f tog, g gloomy, huil. of the new submarine campaign. These everything in the craft from the keel up accepted it as a struke of good-the men would say " stout, fellows "you There is Sergeant George Cartwright, of lightning, a rexcast, p parining showers, 9 gas bartaruus attacks create on us a most The size of the British emtract enabled humoured mockery, meant rrain, snow, thender, visibility, dew (wet difficult and serious problem. There is us to standardize more thoroughly than fun of the Hun heaviness. A moment on in the Second Line out here.
Thai in inches, tenske and hundreds nut ut sca a single British sailor, nor at had ever before been possible in bunt later the Guards band struck up the the Worcesters, who has been given the the Admiralty a single member of the building. The industry became a much a tirring strains of Rule, Britannia D.C.M for organizing party to fetch in Board or staff officer who does not work matter of making and assembling uniform and the thousands of people enthusiast Lance-Corporal Howells, lying wounded Britons never shall be away over No Man's Land under the Ger day and night in the hope of solving the parts as is the construction of large, num- cally sang
man wire, There was a bright moon problem, and our anxiety only serves to bers of automobiles. Because of that we slaves!?
ing so clear that he faces of the German sentries could be seen, and when Sergeant incite us to stil greater efforts. In this produced those 350 boats for England at
Cartwright crawled out with his party. connection, let me in my own name xa cost of about 840.000 apiere. Since that contract was taken labour and material
they came under rifle and machine-gun press to you my entire admiration for have increased in price about 80 per cent. the splendid courage of the merchant 1f we were going to do business with the The speed of the German submare, fire and failed in their attempt Next day, seamon. Despite the illegal and bar United States Government now OR of the U-boat type, many of which would the battalion was relieved, but Cartwright barous acts of the enemy pirates, despite strictly business basis the cost of the same be available for hostile operations along stayed on in the trenches and made two ype of boat would be about 250,000 apiece, the east coast of the United Sutes, is only more attempts to ge the wounded man, Private ran not a single sailor has yet finobed; da and. I am certain in advance that fresh designed by Irwin Chase, the naval a margin of three knots an hour in pur-Douglas Gathergood, of the same battalion, menaces and new dangerous will find our architect of the company, after I had told suit. Aside from its tornadoes the German was with him and gained the same reward. brave seamen a resolute as hitherto to him what the bout must be able to do an U-boat carries at least one 4-inch gun, with A young second lieutenant of the Royal sacrifice their lives in the service pl. patrol and intense we had some which she could hammer any town on our Berkshires led in sult in the German
mersibles Simply because done our their country.
best in making the submarine itself effect of course our coast fortifications trenches, were further than,
craft, for it could simply dive and stay three men, whom he shot, and bombed a would be no protection against such a fought single-handed with one officer and under till within, easy shooting distance dug-out (it has to be done) then cums for herself and entirely out of the range back safely though wounded in three places. of our coast defence guna, which have only by a bomb. e seaward range. The U-boat,
reserves ps
of
Bovril develops big strength
IT MUST BE BOVRIL
BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
A Good Digestion
A MARGIN OF THREE KNOTS,
the daily increasing risks which there is submarine chaser of ours was sixteen knots. That would give the chaser and at lust brought him back.
tive we had some ideas of our own as to the bess cort of a bent to cope with the sub- marine and put it out of business..........
Six Edward alluded to the vast mine field placed in the North Sea, and added that Great Britain had destroyed a very large number of enemy submarines, while the activity of British submarines was constantly increasing. The British DETAILS OF THE CRAFT. Minister remarked that his own son was the cheser is a boat of thirty-two tons, eighty feet long, with a beam of twelve and a half feet, and she draws only four against
an officer on board a submarine.
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Sergeant Daniells, of the Royal Berk example would fave no difficulty in com shiges, showed great gallantry in an attack on German trenches fought at the bayonet ing by Sandy Hook and the forts at Varrows into the upper bay and the rivers point with two of the enemy, destroyed a themselves and taking pot shots at the dug out, and
until the attack was at
and a half feet. It is in her hollownessings on Manhattan. She could diverfused to leay Wounded in the head.
that we have her chief protection the torpedo of the submarine che is com by Fort Wright and attack New London an end, Corporal WH Nash, of the peting with. Torpedoes are arranged to from the Thomes River, where no const Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, was travel much further under water than four gun could touch her. And so on, all up severely wounded during a raid, but re nd a half feet, partly to make sure of and down this coast. No city is safe from fused all assistance in No Man's Land, striking the vulnerable part of a big ship's this new form of bond attack with our pre-begged that others might be rescued first. hyll and partly because a torpedo is not sent equipment for defence and then, not troubling the stretcher-bear- manageable unless it is moving through If we had chasers on this conat theyers, crawled back alone. Corporal Hitch- olid water. If it gets too near the our should operate in small fleets or packs, non and Private Arkell, of the Cloucester very Cool face, especially when there is a heavy see, with twenty or twenty-five boats in a group Regiment, after behaving with a part of it at least is apt to get above and each lot doing hunt and patrol duty courage in raid, were wounded in the surface and then there is no telling with an important harbour as its head the German lines, but stayed until all the whnt direction it will take
quarters and rendezvous. In that way others had got back safely Each boat is equipped with two gaso every city and town would be protected these are but a few out of many who have line engines, of 250 horse power each and It may seem out of proportion to have so gained rewards for valour in the Second ngle sub Line battalions, and of many who have making 450 revolutions à minute. With many boats on guard against a single this power, low enough to be reliable under marine, but it is not so in reality gained no rewards, but did well They all ses and weather conditions, we get a Remember that the chasers cost 840,000 are old and familiar stories. I have been speel of nineteen knots an hour. And the piece, and can be turned out at the rate writing them about our men for nearly boat can travel at that maximum rate for of three a day The 180-ton German two years, The new men are like the old, 650 knots. She can travel a thousand a Uhoat costs a million and a half, takes a and their courage is the same. Give them miles at fifteen knots. Her fuel tank long time to build, and the damage it could and leadership, and they will fight as capacity is 2,200 gallons,
de to a port in a very short while would those who fell at Le Cateau and checked far exceed the value of a fleet of chasers,” the bull rush of the cuemy's pursuit. (Continued at foot of next column.)
And