OUR LONDON LETTER.
[TROM OUR OWN (CORRESPONDENT.] THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. MOMENTOUS WEEK FOR THE ALLIES.
LONDON March 19th: The week has been full of tremendous events for the Allies
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9TH,
OUR WOMEN SURGEONS IN THE GALLIFOLI "GAMBLE."
FRANCE.
(LY BEATRICE XERON-MAXWELL-] The medieval and the modern join handa in wonderful accord at an old abbaye within thirty miles of Paris, where the romance clinging to an a
WHAT IT COST IN BLOOD AND
MONEY.
ENEMY BANKS,
BUILDINGS TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION.
1917
THE SLEEPING SUBMARINE. CUTLER PALMER & CO
The submarina lay sleeping on the bottom like a tired whale onjoying a
Bitsta a tired
At the end of May or the beginning of When at the surface she seemed a grey. June the business premises, occupied by lump of pugnacity, Couched on the floor the Deatsche Dresdner, and Disconto of the son she appeared so inanimate Gesellschaft Banks in the City of London that the strange aquatic ereatures, which are to be and by auction to the highest stared at her with round, unwinking eyes hidders. Instructions have been received as the ground currents swirled them past
Son &
Stanley, auctioncom Some of the more inquisitive of these
[BY H. W. WILSON.) Ircommended it to the War Council and to the French Government not as cortainty but as a legitimate war by
and
HM Stanley, of Messrs. her sides regarded her with suspicion. There have been cient building of beautiful architecture | gamble," said Mr. Churchill in his de Threadneedle-street, from dwellers in the deeps halted & moment, big happenings on the Western front. In once the sanctuary of peaceful devotees, fence of the Dardanelles Expedition the Public Trustee, in whose custody the touched.ber with their noses, then settled of the sale will remain the fearfully away. A creature that romain- Mesopotamia the Union Jack Beats over is transfused into the living drama, of the House of Commons ch November 15th, heroic men and ministering women whose
-yard, Lombard-street where the point of the 1015. It is now 40 glory, and the magic of Eastern romance.eword.
This Abbaye de Royaumont is now one Nor do these things stand alone. As I
of five hospitals financed, initiated, or and the Allies. write there is the feeling that more stiranteed Hospital Fund for our wootti
Women's ring newa may come to hand any moment from one or other of the theatres of war. The fear is opening well for us But while there is enough to warrant au article pitched in a key of pride and high
Bagdad, the city of old renown and parts are written that gamble" cost the British Empire years ago, is a relic of old London. It is the oncoming water yet moved neither
Fund our wounded Allies in their own country. It is known. 88 Hopital Auxiliaire No. 301, affiliated to the Société Française do Becours aux Blessés Militaries, and under the British
COST IN BLOOD.
The fighting at the Dardanellen www of Down to December the forcest the casualties were extra ordinarily honvy 11th, 1915, a few days before the close of the expedition, they were officially stated
25,270 Killed Wounded...
75,151 Missing (really killed). 19,451 112,912
confidence for our cause. everything in Red Cross venerable cloisters, thus:-/
overshadowed by the dramatic story of the Russian Revolution. At the moment the question is asked here on all sides how this upheaval is likely to affect the he actual waging of the war And as far as the question can be dealt with in the light of present knowledge the answer is that the triumph of the people over Test of dom is equivalent to the addition another great Power to the side of the Allies; and, furthermore, that the birth of freedom in Russia assuredly sounde the knell of doom to Pruesianiem in Europe.
BEGINNING OF THE MOVEMENT.
Picture a square
clothed in creepers, enclosing a garden with a fountain playing in the centre, in view of a ruined abbey tower (one of the three highest in France), and further surrounded by a wooded park, and against this background rows of beds on which wounded French soldiers lie, re gaining their vitality in the pure air and sunshine, while to and from the vast bulls, one chapels, rafectories, and stu dies, now hospital wards, pass the staff of women ander whose sole initiative and control this British war work is carried
DA.
The surgeons, with Miss Ivens at their
Add sick
90,684
209,596
AAN 180LATED STRONG ROOM.
"island"!
gill nor fin, seemed uncanny to them, and they gave her a wide berth. Inside the boat, where the electric light made a brilliant illumination, the submarine's. crew were whiling away time after the fashion that seemed best to them, waiting a chance to be up and off in safety.
One man softly touched a mandoline. and hummed a lively ditty which he had picked up during his last visit to a music- hall in port. The second coxswain sat absorbed in a week-old copy of answers, the golden cover of which was tattered by much thumbing and finger-printed all over from the many brawny hands it had been through during the boat's trip. Some of the "hands" stretched on the
floor in bed ashore. Others swapped tion with war or war's effoots. yams about things that had no connec
*
entered by a narrow passage from Lom bard-street, and its exit is a covered way under the famous old George and Vulture, one of the City's best-known Pickwickian Originally built for the New City Club, taverns, the marble palace was sold in 1880 the Deutsche Bank, which started in Lon don on a second floor at 50, Old Broad- street in 1870. Between 1880 and 1899 the bank took a building lease of land at the back, with a frontage on Bell-yard, and extended its frontage in George
an area of 7,308 yard, until it square feet
Below the street level of the bank are The French loss is not stated, but was its strong-rooms, including an perhaps one third or one-fourth that of room covering 1,500it. This is possibly fitted with safes and is so isolated that the British, in which case the loss of the the finest strong-room in London. It is expedition in battle was nearly 150,000. total German loss in battle in the whole by an armed guard. Within the safe
than at Gallipoli. In the lusso- of bearer" securities the property of sitting by the periscope and talking with the sub," displayed an air of uncon- No money was spared by the French medical servion on their col- so that the casualties at the Dardanelles
Sh-sh Hear that 7" said an A.B., din Bat courtesy and policy forbade tars. Comely capable women, as sincere were only a few thousands less than The manager's room is panelled with alert ready for prompt action.
months of fearful uahogany and the banking offices are
furnished and panelled in oak. On the prodding the mandolinist's arm. detailed discussion of the matter in her although there were frequent nohen tre skilful at their work, they are Japan's in eighteen
The men whose lives were sacrificed at ground floor are desks for 100 clerks, two music stopped as the thud of screws over neration to the malevolent activities of no longer supervised in operations (as battles
first) by French
surgeons, because De Forces."--meaning,
of course was recognised after a few days that their Gallipoli were among the pick of our managers' rooms, and two private rooms, head penetrated into the boat. One of The flower of Australia and New and on the mezzanine flour is the the sleepars on the floor raised himself The reactionaries and pro-Germans in profession was backed by expert perform-
"She's gone over us," he remarked ence. The badly wounded men who come Zealand fell on that blood-stained coast. manager's luncheon room. On the second, on his elbow and listened. high places. The Revolution may be said to have started last November. Its pro there feel confidence in these marvellous The conditions, too, were so appalling third, and fourth floors the rest of the staff of 400 worked, while the caretaker survivors suffer gress was marked by a succession of in- fingers, whose dexterous accuracy of touch that the health of all the cidente full of significance, and was help-
to the incident. From time to time the ed on by the deliberate acts of the Dark is enhanced by softness, and they are ed. Towards the close of the expedition had a comfortable suite of three bed casually, then resumed his nap. Nor did
soothed by the feminine voices
1,000 men day were being invalided rooms and a living room, with kitchen any of the others pay greater attention Forces who were themselves finally de-
These lion-hearted women are perform through dysentery, and the great storm of on the top floor. tro by the measures the organised ing as many as a hundred and fifty or November 28th-20th, 1915, is said by The George and Vulture will be includ- beat of more screws came filtering into for the purpose of repressing progress at more operations in a work. They avoid friendly critic, Mr. Masefield, to have ed in the sale, the freehold having passed the boat, showing that vessels which the to death on the spot, per in 1913 to the Deutsche Bank, whose submarine had no desire to meet were home and for concluding a separate peace amputations wherever possible, of course, frozen 200 med 10,000 more, and was to add to its premises by searching the waters about her. And on the site. Dickens was fond while she thus lay" doggo" to avoid with the enemy in this letter. In time and one man whose hand seemed hopeless manently to come it will fill contless volumes. Aty crushed owes the restoration of three
of the George and Vulture, and made it them, never a one of her crew showed by few words must show the meaning of angers to their expert method of repair.
a resort for Mr. Pickwick and bis friends his demeanour that he worried about the It was here that Messrs. Dodson and peril that encompassed him. Closed what has just taken place.
Fogg's clerk served subpoenas in the case within steel walls from which there could Part of the be no escape if the worst happened, lying of Bardell Pickwick. Deutsche Bank is even now on the site fathoms deep in danger-infested waters, Of the inn as Dickens knew it hold unable to go hoering much that was see anything outside their Lean interest attaches to the property of the Dreadner and Disconte disquieting, these iron-nerved men com- Banks. The Dresdner occupieg・・ an
ported themselves as unconcernedly as if important position in Old Broad-street, they had been sufe within the cosy shelter. held from the Beclesiastical Commission
of a stone frigate" ashore The Disconto cre at a rent of
In the Franco German War of 1870 the it can bo patrolled outside day and night Smoking not being permissible, each
For months past it was known in well, head, numbering, with the bacteriologist, faign was only 129,700 men. It was have reposed millions of pounds worth killed time in his own way. The skipper; informed circles here that internal affairs seven, wear a simple uniform of grey Japanese War the loss of the Japanese enemy and neutral owners the Deutsche cern, yet one got the impression that fór in Russia wore in a very disturbed con-izen, with the silver badge on velvet of (excluding cases of sickness) was 195,319, Bank in the equipment of its premises.all his quiet indifference he was keenly
say
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE NATION.
nt
it
When fret the Scottish Women's Hos pital Fund accepted, the kindly loan of From the commencement of the war the these vest premises they had much to Russian people, as all the world knows, organise, for only the shell of the enter were determined to get rid of German prise was there. It was necessary, there damination in the country. The Armica, fore, to replace the huge old water wheci, inspired by the will to conquer, have admirable as a relic, by a smaller efficient stood up against the German onslaughts, one, to put in all the requisite appliances even when short of shelle and guns,
during in, in
a courage beyond all praise. This high one thing, heating, and lighting
fashion
2
flected yet another 30,000 men severely In fact, it the expedition had not been withdrawn, weather and disease would have wiped it out.
COET IN WARSHIPS.
Drowned.
The following battleships were sunk with no result whatever to show
Nationality. Tone Crew
600 French 12,000 British 15,000 1
200 British 13,000 British 13,000 500 British12,000-240 British 15,000 36
to
No
Bouvet -Irresistible
Decan Goliath Triumph Majestic
They
*Estimate.
Pink-is-in St. Daley, but it calls
52, Cornbillets leases for 60 Half 53, Corn years unexpired, at n rent of £1,425 All three premises will be offered for use as banks, and there is said to be no doubt that the Deutsche will pass into posses sion of some British bauk..
in fact, at the
beginning. was displayed in notable
was accomplished in six weeks.
of Hôpital Auxiliaire the great retreat of 1915. It also enabled The ladies Brusstoff to gain his sensational victories 301 are all antiring in their energy, and themselver 6-for their strenuous krep early part of last year. On the the in other hand, the Government were cor laboura by walking, swimming in the rupt, anti-national, and prepared to play Oise, and other forms of
exercise. the German game. Still there was reason are wall loved in the neighbourhood
capacity that the resolution and hope to
acity The children of Asnibres-sur-Oise who of the people and the bravery of the need surgical treatment are welcomed at Armies would make up for the shortcom Royaumont, and a French visitor to the ings of the Government. The Zemstows abbaye was touched at the vision of a
Councils
little baby orphan nicknamed beaches, which were the bases that when Bir Ian perary, whose father had been killed and who needed operative treatment, sleeping peacefully in the arms of an adorable young
hondecottish
organised the supplies for the Armies, which otherwise would have been over taken by disaster complete and irretriev able. By this means and in other wasa cordial relations were established between. the population and the troops. THE "DARK FORCES,”
at belonging to
80,000 1,890 Though they were all old vessels they were of value for many operations To them must be added seven pubmarines and an indefinite number of lighters, barget, and boats These were destroyed in the work of loading on the open surf-swept this unhappy force possessed. For whole days when the weather was bad it was im possible to land anything at all, and there were moments when the position of the force, mary oned on a little strip of desert, waterless coast, seemed desperate.
30T IN MERCHANT SHIPPING. Abous a million tons of merchant ship-
and pressed forward under highly satin- ton's despatches show that his position On June 6th Mr. Churchill went farther was critical on that date, ka and declared, "Our troops ... ure separated only by a few miles from victory such as this war has not yet seen, though on the previous day the British had suffered a sharp check.
Even after the great failure at Suvla
carried work as is being carried on by British women abroad must surely bring But the efforts of the people were England into close and sympathetic touch thwarted by the Dark Forces, who gained with her Allies. The men who leave the ping were latterly required for the sex the support of the Empress and poisoned abbaye healed of their wounds (for only vice of the expedition, at a cost which the mind of the Tsar, representing that 3 per cent. have succumbed hitherto) will was immense because of the dearness of the Dums by becoming more powerful not fail to remember, and to tell the freights: All this shipping had to be and imperil the stability of the dynasty. those other women with the strength They found in the notorious monk, of silk who came across sea and land Rasputin-an illiterate, back-stairs wire
to bo sisters to the brothers-in-arms of puller a ready instrument for their their country.
In November, when the Duma. designs. re-assembled, the state of Government panalysis and betrayal in regard to the
would change the system of Government women at home who are dear to them, of carefully protected against the .chemy are within little September 9th, “wo
submarines.
The actual losses in ships were not hitavy owing to the energy of the Navy, but among them was the Royal Ed ward, sunk with 1,000 troops on board
Bay in August, which was hidden from the country and by some newspapers re presented as a victory, Lord Robert Cecil a great success which ventured to say,
all parts would have an enormous effect in of the world." The chorus of unfounded optimistic assurances was completed by the Secretary of State for War, who said in the House of Lords on September 18th, "there is now abundant evidence of process of demoralisation having set in among the Turks.”
W COST IN TREASURE. No figure of the cost in money have conduct of the war was publicly exposed. Despotismi miscalculated The people of been published, but as from first to last
THE POLITICIANS MISTAXES The Prime Minister, M. Stuermer, was Petrograd did rise, but the troops sided 300,000 men were engaged in the expedi in disgrace with them, and the Dark Forces with tion, with a large fleet of warships and
The mistake of the politicians lay in relieved of office, apparently own by a their spies and reptiles were swept away merchant.mn, and as the difiu' tres of their disregard of the science of war and Later, Rasputin was
dition band of patriots with whom were asso-like chaff before á gale. Thus the Revolu plies was great owing ciated some whose connation with the tion in Russia was born, with an amaz-landing and storing, it seems probable assumption that men could perform im and half times possibilities. They had not enough Imperial family revented with the clearingly small loss of life, and, so far, with that £300,000,000, or one aby brands to machine gunk, bomba, artillery, men, and
a searchlight the true scope and no violent disruption of the national the total indemnity
shells for the conduct of the war in ness of
They
therefore proozeded to character of the hostility to the forces of activities, so that at one stride a mighty Gormany in 1871, was thrown away shell
There is another fact to take into ac-France. But instead of reform being Enipire numbering 180,000,000 souls has out, M. Protopopoff, a staunch entered into the possession of political count, It is at least possible that if the waste what resources they had by squan supporter of Raspatin, was promoted freedom by the side of the great Democra300,000 men wasted at Galipoli had been dering them in a held where there were
Fcles of Western Europs
employed in France in the offensive or no Germans to be killed and where success Minister of the Interior, armed with in-
September 1015 decisive results might was out of the question with the available limited power-and assisted by puppets
A STUPENDOUS EVENT.
have been obtained. With more men and force
bernes, like Prince Golftein as Premier, to do any other time except the present more ammunition Loos would not have The idea that 50,000 her with few little artillery, his bidding. Protopopoft did his best to foment strikes
munition factories what has taken place in Russia would been a defent. If this view is correct, bombs, few machine guns, and revolts in the towns. He increased have set the world ablazo with excite the Dardanelles Expedition coal rent and insufficient shalls, could dislodge the number of secret police in Petrograd ment. But the war is such a tremendous Britain thousands of millions of pounds 200,000 well-stand Turks from the
and hundreds of thousands of li
of liver alone to 4,000; and, acting under orders, thing in itself that scarcely any upheaval and his emissaries tried to bring about a can now shake us. A week ago the cur Revolution, the intention being in that tain was rung down on Russia; all tele was stopped.
CUST IN ALLIKS,
strongest natural fortress in the world Was grotesque Napoleon III's Minis tera committed a smaller blunder in 1870 when they sent MacMahon to his fate, It is known that Greece in February, who quith's and Churchill's of anarchy and confusion, and conse geantly, as there was so much trouble at bebold! Teardom had disappeared, and on the side of the Allies. But no sooner home, Russia must retire from the
after four days
case to represent the country as in a state commune ved lifted, and 1915, was preparing to come into the WTable was only saved from a similar
THE TRUMP CARD OF BEAUTION popular Government was seen in the did the Greek Staff learn the plan of Mr, great surrender, by the stealthy and skil-
the
making in place of an oligarchy which had Churchill's gamble than it refused to ful withdrawal of the entire British been solidly entrenched for centuries. It take any part, declaring that such force.Daily Mail, seems almost incredible, and indeed such methods could only end in defeat and
nation over”-
The Duma, the Zemetoys, and even the Councils of the Nobility were not, how a change could not have happened if those that to throw 50,000 Allied troops ashate ever, deceived. They saw through the were not days when history is being made in face of 200,000 well-armed Turks was plan. The people, obeying the warnings from hour to hour affecting the destinies sheer insanity When the gamble” They of nations and shaping the fature of man- failed the Greek Staff announced openly of their leaders, remained quiet. refused to revolt to order. Protopopoff kind. Of coarse there are many pitfalls that it was not going to join Allies who thereupon resolved to play his trump in front of the Progressives in Russia, conducted war in such fashion.
extremists who card. He endeavoured to create an artil- but it is hoped that the
Bulgaria, convinced by the spectacle of Although Rossia has vast are for a Republic will be kept within the failure at the Dardanelles that the ficial famine. Rasiah, three bounds, and that the dangers of internal Allies could to hurt her, threw in Be #bores of grain,
after the Bavla Bay harvests which have not been exported, strife will be avoided. The solidarity of lot with the enemy
population
of Petrograd, Moscow, the
like
a hoop
FFICIAL and, other centres, were reduced to the making for stability id factor reverses. Verge of starvation. The police,
the various parties toge- acting of steel
Throughout the British people was the Tear has acted, told the peasants to keep their foodstuffs, nobly, and nothing could be finer than cruelly misled by the official reports and
the statements of British Ministers as this was the wish of the Government; the way he has emerged from this crisis On March 22nd, 1915, the country was and the railways wore deliberately die His abdication has saved the country told that the power of the Fleet to organised so that no food could be from Civil War and made easier the path dominate the fortresses by superiority of brought to the capital History supplies of the new Government. The Kaiser and many instances of the close relation the Austrian Emperor must see in the fire seems to be established.? which exists between hunger and revolu downfall of despotism in Russie the writ. opposite was the truth.
On May 3rd it was assured, we ro tion. The Court Camarilla gambled on ing on the wall as it was seen at the the expoolation that, faced with famine. Feast of Belshazzer und among the now advancing into the interior of the the people would rise, and that then the people of the Central Empires there are peninsula," which was not more correct. forces of reaction would triumph at the assuredly none so blind as to fail to read that the operations are being continued point of the bayonet. But for onco aright the meaning of this stupendous
(Continued at foot of next column) event.
under orders, went into the villages and ther It is
The very
On May 8th Mr. Asquith announced
(Continued at foot of nest column.)
The
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