SAHERO OF JUTLAND,
(LOFTUS JONES, V.O, OF HAS
"SHARK "
DESTROYER THAT FOUGHT A GERMAN SQUADRON.
The King has approved of the post humous grant of the Victoria Cross to Commander Loftus. Willian Jones, RN (killed in actiori), in recognition of his conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in the course of the Battle of Jutland on May. 31st last.
The Distinguished Servies Medal has been awarded to the following survivors of the Shark for their services during the
action
Stoker P.0. Charles Filleul.
A.B. Charles C. Hope,
A.B. Charles H. Smith,
A.B. Joseph O. G. Howell,
Stoker, 1st Class, Thomas W. Swan, PO. William R. Grifin,TNT Commander Loftus Jonus' widow has
ESCAPE FROM GERMAN
PRISON.
BRITISH OFFICER'S STORY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 27TH, 1917,
WHAT THE ALLIES SHOULD
OBTAIN FOR GREECE.
A FREE PRESS NEEDED.
*THE HIDDEN HAND.
GRACE HARK
QUESTIONS PRESSED AT A LONDON MEETING.
Last June CaptainLrom there still remains for the Allies to do insion to investigate the identity or ideati-
with a
GEBOCO.
ties behind the influence of the "Unseen Band, also the dismissal for the period of the war of offelals in the Foreign Office married to German subjects or having Gorman associations.
Captain H W. C. Lloyd, D.S.O., of the A recent number of The New Europe Wiltshire Regiment, who was taken pri- contains an article in which Professor. W last month enthusiastically adopted A crowded meeting at the Queen's Hull, soner in the autumn of 1914, has recently returned to England after two years in RM. Burrows points out how much a resolution demanding a Royal Commis- the officers' which he escaped last month.
prison camp at Crefeld,
He insists particularly on the Russian officer, made an unsuccessful need of a free Press. His article runs as attempt to were court-mortalled Diced They follows
at Düsseldorf and Bentenced to three months imprisonment, Till the fifteen days are up which have not for attempting to escape, but for been allowed for the transport of army having cut their way through a cellar, and breinery to her that auspices of the Women's Imperial De
The moeting was held under the The oficers appealed against the sentence, not be taken as certain that King Con- fence Council, and Mrs, Parker, Lord and were ordered to Court-martial
go before
Districe stantine and his Government mean to Kitcheners bister, presided. at Münster. They engaged he did not put in an appearance. At a German barrister to defend them, hypotheses, however, this, at the moment, carry out our terms of the two
Münster they were charged with mutiny, and the sentence was upheld. On the
to
Dr. Ellis Powell, editor of the Finan
in the most probable, and it is time for us eit? Jews, said: We have been playing to consider in what way its fulfilment is pitch and toss for nearly three years with likely to affect our attitude to the two William the Baby-murderer, Down to the recent change of Government William
defend that they had been unable
themselves, their barrister not throments that divide Gresce betweeways won crnein) tosses.Iam going
having put in an appearance, they again
been able to prepare a full account of take their barrister with them. tionate an amount than usual of the time the coin used for the first two and a hal
the Inst fight;
bis
The natural man at least the natural be suggest to you, deliberately and plain- appealed, and on January 20th they were man of Allied diplomacy will approach ly, that the reason of your losses in this seat to Munster, where the appeal was to such a discussion with boredom, if not colossal game, where the result spells life be heard, arranging on this occnsion to with irritation. For six weeks Greece has or death to civilisation, was that, in been occupying even more disproper consequence of soms infernal jugglory, For safety the officers were sent tal About 8.30 p.m. the Invincible gave for the night in a coll. At the Court and tast have walked band in hand; with ous Prussian head on both sides."
Münster during the day and imprisoned and the energy of the Entente. Vigour years was a German penny with the hide- orders to open fire.
The captain of the Shark (Commander of imprisonment was quashed and a fine been brought into line! Now, at last, the he asked Who facilitated the return martial on the following day the sentence immense difficulty the lukewarm have After a reference to the German banks Loftus Jones, R.N.) left the Invincible of 30 marks substituted. The same night much discussed and often record Notes of reservists to Germany? Who prevent- the German battle cruiser squadron. left atid took his division into action against the oster by train for Grefeld
with a guard of three soldiers, there is a general lassitude; surely, it Who, by that infamosta compliance, ent have not only been delivered but accepted.ed the Fleet from stopping their journey? Directly be turned to attack, a shell hit the journey they met a Russian officer may be asked, we have done with Greece hundreds of your cons and brothers to n the engines, and another the bridge, from Hanover, who was escorted by two for a little Is not Venizelos dare we which took the steering wheel out of the soldiers, so that the guard was increased whisper it rather a naisance when spaswain's hands and wounded him into five. When the train halted at a june partisans seize islands like Cythera, and the spending of your money tonged for soldier's grave? Who protected German the right hand. The destroyer Acastation Captain Lloyd escaped He had get 8 into fresh trouble with the Edgar Speyer on the Privy Council
firms and companies? Who arranged (Commander J. Barron), secing that the worked out the details of his scheme Royalists ? Shark was badly hit, came between the previously, and
PARA Who arranged for the appointment of a they were based
When
we see the cables which tell us naturalised German to be a British sol Can I give any help? The captain first visit to Münster. He proceeded to
the cheering and patronising news that of the shark signalled back,No; look make his way across country in a north tone towards the Entente and read them. after pouinslf" Acasta, and other de westerly direction. He ran and walked cynical articles such as that in the New Mr. Arnold White also spoke vigorous- dly can be had, if you insist upon having stroyers, obeyed orders.
at night (Captain Lloyd represented Cat Constantine is, after all, no worse a rules y. During the evening large numbers of
Statesman bridge
which explains to At the same time the coxswain, Grin, 1910-11-12), and at dawn reached a village than the Greck people deserve, we pictura letter cards in the sense of the resolution
his that King 12 cross-country running in which he recognised on the map. He hid to ourselves how different would have been were sold for posting to the Prime Minis all day in big pine forest, and started the tendency if our terms had been ter
at night, travelling in a westerly refused. It would not only have been "Boot and saddle?" and Decks cleared for action," but first and foremost, "Long live Venizelos!
on
enemy's fire and the Shark, and signalled, experience gained on the occasion of the Athens Press is adopting a friendly dior's Judge of Appeal? The answers
direction.
said, The wheel has gone, sir." The captain replied,Man the other wheel, The coxswain obeyed and left the bridge, followed by the captain, who helped to connect and man the whole of the bridge the coxswain was wounded in the face and thrown down. He picked himself up, and, as he was going aft, ho mot the torpedo instructor, who said he had fired two torpedoes and thought he had got a German cruiser; and Hammel, the chief stoker, who said that the engines and steering gear were out of action, The pipe which connected up steam was blown away
BETWEEN TWO PIRES.
MISLED BY A BAND.
STOKES GUN.
THE MAN WHO MADE IT
at a village close to which was a fairly At 1 o'clock the next morning he arrived wide river, and as he passed through the enemies as most assuredly ours are his Accounts of recent fighting on the Bri- Now, if the bedrock of our position; in streets be heard a
Greece is the Venizelos' enemies are our was the Kaiser's birthday, and he took it is natural and right that we should ask tish front have referred to the deadly
band playing. This it that the band was playing in honour bim to rejoice with us when they give work of our Stokes gun. A sinister of that event. Concluding that he was way to our demands. We shall ask him weapon, the Daily Mail special corres still in Germany, he retraced his steps, to return to the methods of peaceful propondent has called it." It sends: although the weather was bitterly cold, paganda in Old Greece which have once the air, like a group of lead pencils, a up into and on his way met two men who flashed more been made possible for him. King flight of bombs which stil down on te electric torches in his face and asked him. Constantine's surrender, it proven, has their objective with deally accuracy and if he was a Russian soldier. He replied transferred the situation to a new plane, a terrific explosive effect, war bis that he was not, and they then ordered and we can all unite in thankfulness that description of its nixtion. The Times cor- him to go with them. They spoke in the victory has been won without blood respondent has written of the "corusca German,
and he imagined that he was still shed
tions of a hail of Stokes bombe most awe-inspiring both in appearance
aftor the action started, the focale andmised as Dutch. He spiately recog shall have for moving freely as citizens weapon we possess,
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The captain of hearing this gave orders for all to komo
pom up on deck, go to their stations, and put out the boste The boats werd blown away as they tried in Germany until sine of the men guid, THE VENIZEL1STS MUST BE FREE to put them out The Shark all this time You know you are in Holland, don't was under very heavy fire. Three cruisera were, aring on her at one time, Shes yout Suspecting this to be a trap, he bedrock of pur positions Les De At the front the gun has been regarded
Only let it be clear that this is the and effect." helpless between our own Fleet and that replied that he did not know where he thoroughly understood that, if the Veni- the many months with increasing mibu- of the enemy and so got us well the was, but the men got out their electric zelists are not to seize islands, they are siasm Officers and mon have said that shots which fell short. A few minutes uniforms, which he
torches again and shone them on their to have every facility which we ourselves 1 is by far the most effective short-range fo'o'sle gun with gun's crew, including the guardroom, and on the next day went meetings, and for publishing Bou A wounded soldier wrote home: "Tell
that the officer, Sub; Lieutenant Irving Vance, to hospital as his feet wore frost bitten papers At the present moment there is the way his gun blew the Huns to blazen.
night in about the country, were all blown away, except one min. To the bitterly cold weather which pre- not a paper appearing in Royalist Greece The Germans can't stick it at any price. their news Dad to let Me Stokes know that I saw who was badly wounded, evailed throughout his escape Captain that does not applaud the events of
The expisin ordered the rafts and the Floyd largely attributed his salvation December 1st and 2nd. Every one of the Stokes guns and get them in action. collision mats out, assisting in everything The frost was intense throughout, so much great Venizelist dailica has had
All you could bear was: – Bring up the us he gavo the orders, and cheering his so that the trousers of his uniform froze ing press smashed and its office destroyed. The boys thought. I was mad, for every mon all the time. He was seen about stiff from the knee and he had to out there it would be scandalous if we patched up time a Stokes shell burst I kept shouting. this time to drop the confidential books off with ʼn knife, st overboard. He had been wounded badly.
our truce with the Royalist Government in the log when leaving the bridge, and
Captain Lloyd states that while of late and freedom of speech for our friends and gun, lives at Cekham, near Ripley. Sur without ensuring freedom of moventent Mr. Wilfred Stokes, the inventor of the bis leg, was bound up by Hammel, and the food supplied at Crefeld has gradually Allies. To insist on such things would be roy He has said that, had it not been later on by Filleul. The captain noticed of the prisoners has improved to a corres already declared terms. Release and vention might have airman and man-to-day is as follows
gono from bad to worse, the treatment that Grillin was badly wounded in the
na policy of pinpricks, no addition to our for Mr. Lloyd George's foresight his in- eye and cheek, and said to him. Get prisoners have had no butter of the reparation, must include that, or they heap. Mr. Stokes is chairman and your eye dresson."Griffin said, "There There are just over 200 English offers
meen is no doctor." The doctor must have in this camp, including two brigadier
nging director of Messrs. Ransomes been killed, the last time he was soen he generals; 400
to emphasise Rapier, Ltd, engineers, 32, Victoria 30 obvious
a condussary to meal a day, which generally consists of understands the old hereditary devics af of the East Anglian Munitions Commit They have one good only, how well the Athens Government sociated since 1988. He is also chairman and that not once Ipswich, with which firm he has been as soup and fish. On one day a week, how unravelling in the night what has been tee and a member of the Munitions Inven ever, they are given a small slice of meat, woven in the day. This is not the first in Department. He was formerly with and on Sundays they pork
the British officers
the fact circumcnted our policy It encourag Railways gas, the other guns and everything else on the parcels which come from England, transfer of army and artillery, we are Mr. Stokes, caid "A friend of mine entirelying to read that, in the matter of the Asked how he came to invent the gun, on the deck having been blown away, and he remained there till the end with Mid-will be relieved to know that the parcels what is transferred is the real thing, and was convinced that this war was a battle English people with friends at Crefeld at last taking precautions to ensure that came back from France and told me hë Shipman Smith, Petty Officer Griffin, and arrive regularly. He believes that every that innocent gentlemen in plain clothes of wits and that the side which could Able Seamen Hope and Howell. The 1st parcel sent to him reached its destination do not saunter back in twos and threes Lieutenant Donnell. Smith, A.B., Stoker The parcels are opened in the presence of to dig up the arms, they have buried produce the most effective death-dealing in ammunition, of which there were They generally take about a month in step in advance in our dealings with wished to invent a gun that would so Swan, and Petty Officer Filloul were past the prisoners, and they arrive intact, Granting however, that this vigilance is machinon would win plenty
and had Ach allowed to order parcels from English
transmission. Originally the officers were King Constantine, it is vital that we de mach as lift an eyebrow, but this idea juat
am a peaceful man Hope was at the mid-ship gun from the firms, but this has now been stopped, and weary of the unusual exertion. Our unmo to me aftor what my friend had beginning till the end of the action, and the only parcels allowed are those received statemen at home and our agents in said. A good deal of experimenting. Greece must keep on repeating to them-chiefly on my own ground at Ockham, dred rounds of ammunition fired from room, but the conditions are not harsh way, it is not from change of hearts gun, the chief characteristics of which 4 Barometer efficiency There were more than a hun. In some cases there are
selves that if the Athens Governments has ended in the production of the present The captain was so pleased and apart from the food there is little Germans have been unable to help their simplicity, lightness, and quickness in with Hope that he at one time patted him cause for complaint. A cinematograph friends in time King Constantine and but because of te int nse annoyance, the
It
may appearY
DIETRICT
was binding up the arm of a seaman, Russian french officers, and 000 sery. We have lean it is not unneces- street, S.W 1, and Waterside Ironworks Hongkong to Gap Rock
torpedoman, who had been hit by the ex plosion of the third torpedo. All the men at this torpedo tube, except Smith, had been killed or wounded by this ex- plosion.
Formon Channe
¡E & SE winds, mederete fair,
WAY.
The une 08. No. 1
The captain now went to the mid-ship Captain Lloydy have time that it has accepted our terms and the Great Western and Hull and Barnaler ScuthCenet of Chins between. The we as
DOWN WITH THE FLAG FLYING.
18 overcrowded:
distinguished himself, by his coolness and from relatives. The ne officers in o
this gun.
on the back aril said, azn doing splendidly.
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Captain Lloyd was awarded the D.5.0 on December 1st and fod, but, for the love us no more than they did Ten German destroyers and light in December, 1914, when he was a second first time, they have begun to fear any means to check or combat the Weather cruisers came up out of the mist at close lieutenant. The official notice of his Their policy will now be to try to percalumnies spread by the Royalist Press.
appointment to the Order and
October 10th an attack important lodgment
the Shark. Howell was badly wounded in the leg, and a few minutes afterwards effected
who have poisoned our minds. in the captain had his left leg shot away enemy'a lines, from which he was subse IP GERMANY HAD PROMISED HELP above the knee. Hope rushed to him with quently withdrawn, as general advance a pince of wood, and Griffin with rope was checked. Has acted for adjutant for mid, ko mast do it for your, good, sir, performed good work with information a month and has always volunteered and hoping they might stop the bleeding and patrols. save his life, loding, and
Raid
We
Iscs
The 1st
proclaimed that it was the Venizelists who began the firing on December 1st and 2nd - acceptance of the Allies terms throw any bombs had been found in their houses, It will perhaps be asked whether the that thousands of rifles and stores of
Venizelista It would be dificult to argue Venizelos himedence as to the aristones light on the strength and prospects of and that an autograph letter from that King Constantine has been influenced documentary evidence as existence by any doubts that his people were with of a treacherous plot, which was only just him. It is true that the majority of the nipped in the bad. In reality, there was
not
Nor
HAR
Highest open sr Temperature on 25th 66 Lowest open-air Temperature on 28th 04
An the captain was sitting on the deck he said, "What's wrong with the ensign Boating away. He gathered them up and population in Northern Greece vere and no plot, no bombs, no stores of rifles. In Hope answered, "It's shot down. Bir gave them to the survivors. The captain, are Venizelist in sympathies. It is true, no single case did the Venizelists begun The captain gave the order" Hoist asked him what he was doing Filleul too, that a large body of the Reservists the firing. The letter of Venizelos which another The midshipman cleared the told him and put a life-belt round him themselves perhaps the largest body was scattered broadcast in facsimile way, and Hope hoisted another. (There and put him ou one of the rafts. There were against Venizelos; not because they throughout Greece is, as can be shown in were always spare flags kept for any were two other men with him. The other wished to fight for Germany, but because details grotesque forgery both in style emergency. The captain then said, survivors, with the 1st lieutenant, who they did not wish to fight at all. The and handwriting Once these facts can That's good, and appeared content, had not been wounded, got on another efforts of a section of the Press to work be made known by a free Press, there fleeing the ship was beginning to sinkraft. The captain said, very quickly and a German destroyer was song,
Let's have a up a definite movement for alliance with bound to be a tremendous reaction coming daite close, the
started Germany undoubtedly met with small will that resetion be lessened by the fact, Fri, order
Save yourselvain gave the Nearer, my God, and they all success None the less
The German Bang until they were exhausted warm temper that has been the ground itself strong and terrible, and that the this luke if at 18 fact that the Entente can prové destroyer came near, find a torpedo into Some chips came into sight, and the for decision. The Athens Government, if Entente, and not only Germany, can show her, there was an explosion, and she sank captain asked Filloal if they were English could have obtained active material itself true to its friends. with her Ang fving or Germen Fillent told him they were help from Germany, could have counted Hence the imperative need for Vent-
English, and he and That's good" on at least acquiescenco on the part of the relist propaganda Hence, too, the great Ms. The action lasted for about an hour and These were his last words. The ships majority of the population desirability of an official statement of the half. There was no panic whatever passed on, and shortly afterwards Smith If this is the case, how can we explain evidence from our representatives on the Tool
all obeyed orders promptly and saw him sucenmb to exhaustion. The it, and how can we hope for a Venizeligt snot of what actually happened i Imly Fillen), Griffin, Smith, and temperature of the water was 46 at noon revival 1 The answer is that we have not Athens on Docember tat and 2nd It Wod. Howell aw the captain in the water on Mayors remained in the water for try the thoroughness of the Royalist our hands of Greece just when we have yet sufficiently appreciated in this coun would be the gravest blunder if we washed several hours and were picked up hardly terrorism, and the absence in Greece of at test a chance of enlightening and conscious by & Danish steamer, the Vidor (Continued at foot of next column.)
conciliating public opinion.
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HAVE A SONG,
We had his life saving waistcoat on, which The survivors.
kent him ofeat. Killen] asw the lifebelts (Continued as foot of neat column.)
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