THE GRAND ARMY.
MAKING THE FORCE THAT BEAT
THE GERMANS,
(KOM A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT TO
MORNING POST."']"
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 4TH.
U-BOATS ORDERED TO KILL SAILORS:
Sufficient evidence has now accumulated to convince American officials in the THE State and Navy departments that the German submarine commanders uro now acting under instructions which go to the limit of ruthlessness. 25
HORRORS OF INVASION. FRENCH WOMEN SPEAK.
BY & ALMAZ STOUT.
GERMAN SUSPECTS IN USA.
POLICE ACTIVITY.
The gaols are being rapidly filled with German suspects, says a New York paper, Miss E. Almaz Stent is the first British Throughout yesterday and to-day the women to visit those parts of France re-Secret Service of the Federal Govern conquered by the Allies from the Germans ment kept up their bunt for undesirable
Huus held for so many months in the big palatial Fifth Avenue home of Mrs. Some few miles from the line which they of their first visits was to the
kliens,
salient in the region of Roye, Lassigny, Hugh Reisinger opposite the Metro and Noyon lies a village where, in one politan Art Museum The daughter of sector. is to be found horror-stark naked Mr. Adolphus Busch, America's richest horror
honours from the Kaiser, the chief soon! German brewer, a recipient of frequent has long been known as the chief
accustomed to foregather in her magnifi tinguished visitors from Germany were cent home. There Count Bernstorff and iscal agent in this country, used to hold Privy Councillor Albert, the Emperor's important conferences,
Many of the men of the New Armies who conquered the German main forces The sailors on the torpedoed ships sunk at the Somme and Ancro were in 1914-15 by gunfire are now not being allowed the without uniforms or rifles and carried poor chance of escaping by means of open their equipment on stout string. Bobost or life preserver It is believed, tween the two periods lies world of From facts which have come to light in effort and organisation which is summed
reports from abroad, that the German & foreign Attache as being the Admiralty has ordered the death of sail- up by &
of all time. TELEN WAY only counted on the fact of sailors is reduced the more difficult for a vast militery hospital in the days asset of Germany in New York All dis
ore, because the more the available supply that, short of a miracle, it would be im- becomes to operate ships. possible for Britain to raise an armiy of Continental strength it to combat har First it was only cargoes which the trained troops in time to be of use. Mili-Germans went after then it was tonnage. tary opinion, generally agreed with her, Now it is all three-cargots, tonnage and
sailors,
Close to the village station is a little township of long wooden hats, destined
battle line many miles farther north before the Great Retreat carried the And now these huts are put to a different but no less heartrend in their hundreds and thousands, are old men, women, and
For there, collected in
the Huns have so systematically and so children from all the country-side which devilishly hourly
well asted, and the
the. Kütenin 15
and failure perhaps would have been the portion of most nations in the under. taking. The exception was Britain, who upset all calculations, and began to turn out fit armies at the rate of one every months from her untrained popula tion Accdstomed to bind herself with the military theories of other nations, she boat and exploded ten feet above it thr years ago they were bappy of their information but declared that abe
went
cast sade all tradition and word to the business of army, making an a grand scale against time. There is sound, reason for the German hatred of us, because our small Regular force chocked the great wheel on Paris and gave the New Armies time to put the imprint of defent on German arms, thus crown- ing Le Cateau, the Marne, Ypres, Festu- bert Neuve Chapelle, Hooge, Givenchy, La Bassee, and Loos.
THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND
The writer witnessed the wonderful mo- bilisation of the Regular Army at Alder shot and elsewhere, and saw it depart in Aligust, 1914. Later the writer stood Hospital Hill, and saw the first batch of the First Hundred Thousand come in to Aldershot Camp They were the salt of the earth; no martial music had fired there no tramping legions had atirred their blood; they were just the men who on August 3th had left bench and office and walked through the barrack gate before anyone was ready for them. The very anti-part of the conscientious ob jectors, they looked what they were theant to be; the conquerors of the German Inist The leisured classes in morning coats, workers in rap, clerks in straw hate, and men in corduroys were in the ranks, and as they disappeared into
ps the first of the New Army
"SLOW AGONY IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR AN
ENGLISH BOY"
ktream
∙this
once of the wireless installation. It was
wireless
A case in point was given out by the State Department at Washington recently A freighter which had been overhauled by
formed that a powerful wireless station The Secret Service officers had been in- a submarine was sinking, and the crew were in the boats. The last shell, a shrapnel shell, was directed at the part
was established on the roof of her house. Mrs. Reisinger admitted the correctness Three of the crew were wounded. Later prosperous little community.
hard-working members of as ignorant until recently of the exist
emaciated en affitt prisoner on the deck of the submarine wrecks clutching their email bundles, MASTER GERMAN SPY." were left struggling in the water when sole relics of their once happy the submarine dived upon the approachs 1 passed from but to hut, each of a British patrol a
their attenuated arma crowded to overdowing with its human cheering and sympathetic word so eagerly wreckage, my step grew heavier, and the looked for came with more difficulty
First I visited a couple of huts con taining, roughly, some hundred old men minds. Many of them, sick and diseased. and women, mostly quite out of their had lived for 30 months in a cellar, some with such appallingly open wounds that the condition in which they arrived beg use pretty words, but if I gars description. I am not out" to truth it could not be printed; superintendents of the Humburg-Ameri
вроке the naked Captain Eno Bode, one of the pier
thing coherent from these. They just He was taken with Mr. Heinrich von It was almost impossible to get any can Line, was the next to be arrested. wept when spoken to, or kissed my hand, Stade, another official of the line, to Ellis or merely bowed their heads in a hopeless Island, where more than a score of misery which could not yet appreciate suspects are now confined, the fact that, the days of their greatest hardships were over.
An amazing story is told by John Duff, fifteen-year-old cadet of the British merchant service, the only survivor of the marine torpedo off the French coast who British ship Thracia, sunk by a sub has arrived at a French port. With six others of the crew the boy managed to get away in a partly wrecked lifeboat, half full of water. wounded they soon died; the fifth perish
Four wore
so badly ed of exposure and the sixth was washed overboard by a great wave and drowned. Alone in the wrecked boat, in the dark ness (for the Thracia was sunk after nightfall), with the eens breaking every moment over him, young Duff mauaged to hang on for a long time he thinks two hours at least. Suddenly a huge dark body loomed up out of the gloom and a voice hailed him. He replied with what little voice he had left, but the sub marine commander merely asked him a few questions as to the ahip, her cargo and her destination, and in response to yiyor, said: I would like to shoot.
THE YOUNG, STRONG MOTHERS. Another hut was filled with women and children, most of them ill, some dying from privation. For 30 months they had not touched meat or unten sufficient of body and soal decently together, das
One mother, tending in turn her three
was to Dr. Karl George Frank, one of One of the next visits of the detectives the best-known German electrical experts is head of the company which controlled in the United States. Mr. Frank, who the Sayville arrested, together with Captain Arthur -station, was E, Bielkowski, an octogenarian officer on Captain Bilkowski, celebrated as the the retired list of the German Army. master German spy, was taken to the Tombs Prison but was subsequently released on parole.
Sixteen others were taken to gaol in the American citizen, was caught as he was course of the day. One of them, an
Several others in Brooklyn were found trying to enter the Brooklyn naval yard. in possessing of arms and explosives. Their activities, thus nipped in the bud, caused the authorities to issue a
pro clamation. with a nap warning enemy
Stanhope Lines. one mentally marked his statement that he was the sole sur- any sort of food to keep aliens to keep away from the vicinity off
them off
ing
field"
which ever entered
The
You
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to a less pleasant death. Slow twelve hours after the submarine dissp peared Duff clung to the bout before he and
mo
two of them
They camo in on the heels of the depart down with my machine-gun, it that dran, mites whose skeleton bodies and naval yarda. A list of streets which they]
Expeditionary Force, which was the death would be too swift, so I'll leave you bite faces with prematurely old and may not enter is also published."" best, trained Army ente
inding the men was no difficult good enough for an English boy fear filled eyes haunt me still; told including two women, were lodged in gaol At Chicago more than 50 Germans, between her sobs that they were all she after the discovery of a plot to destroy had left in the world.
Hor husband was property and to poison the ment at the a prisoner, her
atock-yards. Another arrest was that of little treasures had been taken from her. and nothing more. She came from after the outbreak of the war She had the clothes in which she stood up Deutsche Bank, who came here shortly village which the Germans had left some what hurriedly tou hurriedly to destroy before their departure and so when thew had gone a little way they stopped and bombarded it till soarcely a cottage was left although they know better than ang one else there were only women and child ren and old men left in its girls in one corner and three small boys She pointed out to me two ragged little
which threatened to swamp the authori was picked up by a French trawler. were obvious burned, and all her Mr. Hugo Schmidt, the director of the
wis
mett
trouble lay in dealing with the stream, tiea
The first problem was to house them, na with all the squeezing possible not more than 202,000 could be accomo date in barracks. The Territorial Force mado complete in ninety hours, and began to double itself. About 45,000 per week poured in, and Canadians also arrived, until 80,000 men were in train in They were placed under canvas in the winter or
in houses or build inge until almost
red men te very village had its built in Home Counties. Wiltshire, and the North, and this accommodation was
rifles were made for drill; things which could not be got officially were borrowed; harness and saddlery were begged locally rough dial sights wore fushioned in the batteries; semaphore flags were made by the mos themselves; and the officers pooled cash to buy old kit and gear from second. hund shops. In short, the early armies trade the quicker for it. They refused to half a million were found themselves," and learned their he discouraged, and the watchword was
rapidly extended for a million men. The Effeiency, then France, Such deter-These children are worse off then mine
Vale of Wylyo became the aren of a population overnight like in some great gold rush, and in the Midlands a wild tract hitherto atihabited suddenly took 40,000 men on its hosom, cut its
crust
first roads, had its first railway laid, and gave the first of its water through the Pals battalions grouped them selves to go down the valley towards death together. Class and trades batta- lions multiplied, and soon the numbers were well beyond the first million.
THE RECORD HUSTLE.
mination is unconquerable by man or circumstance
MAKING THE LEADEDS,
4 naval patrol to-day seized the 38-foot. yacht Sparrowhawk and arrested its crew of three on a charge of plotting to cut the Transatlantic cable linee off the Massa chusetts coast. The prisoners are Ernest Bathge, formerly & member of the crew of the Hamburg liner Cincinnati, and two Swedes hired by bira.
1917.
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THE STRUGGLE FOR AIR SUPREMACY.
MACHINES LOST IN MARCH.
Only once since the beginning of the Battle of the Some have the monthly
ber, when the figure for the French, the corded in March. That was in Septem- y losses of seroplanes on the Western front exceeded those which were officially re-
Germans, and ourselves, was 322 March the losses numbered 282, made
ITALIAN PREMIER ON GREAT
BRITAIN
In
Britiah airmen accounted for 84 Ger- man-machines, and these were officially classified as follows: Destroyed, 14; driven down, damaged, 34, and out of control, 11 brought down, 22; fell in our lines, 3. Of the 58 British machines,
homes of several prominent German
At Cleveland the police raided the Americans, and confiscated hundreds of rifles and bayonets secreted in cellars. Their mothers were young and strong and they have both been taken away by trom El Paso. A German boarding-bouse General Headquarters in France), 58; A large number of arrests are reported follows: British (acknowledged by the German officers to work in Germany, in the Mexican quarter was entered by French (on the assumption that the Ger Matters of supply could be tackled more How they wept when they were dragged the police, who, after arresting the man reports are trustworthy), 71, Ger expeditiously than the preparation of their little ones by the tenants, confiscated several irunks con man (bused on the British and Frenen officers. All trained ranks had been sent
away from to France, and our mibilisation scheme ed to un old woman clad in a few wretch, had provided no expansion plan on an
My eyes were dim with tearg as I turn.aining incriminating letters and papers daily communiqués), 133, adequate scale. And so the new other rags and said, You will never want to had to train themselves and also their I was almost frightened at the result
see a German again? men. The rapidity of the formation off my words, for her face became frenzied new units increased all difficulties, The as she cried, "I live now for only one To feed such a host, to cook for it, was 1st Army was constituted on August 21st, thing, for I have lost everything my tographs ilustrating the efforts of the eight were brought down in air fights or gigantic task, but luckily a system of 1916; three weeks later came the second husband, my sons, my home, my only Allies in the war, Signor Boselli, the by anti aircraft guns, and 50 were re-
At an exhibition in the Capital of pho- war feeding had been studied two years three days following came the 3rd; and daughter, who was ruined by a German Italian Prime Minister, made the follow- turned as missing." The 84 to 58.com- before. The method of supply was tho then the 4th and 5th. Men poured in on devil. I am going to pray M. Poincaréng remarks about Britain:Ifpared with 41 to 24 in February, to 15 central depot system, and some of these these new officers, but soon & system of that one day he will give a German into Shakespeare held converse in true Roman in January, 35 to 10 in December, and 57 depots distributed food for us many as progressive training was established my hands that I may tear out his eyda 250,000 then. One advanced depot ratio which began with the squad nad ended with my own fingers can, what I have discerned imilarly, in the Great Britain the proportion was at least 100 to 46, and
340 lokery turned out 70,000 leaves per diem, learn without gals, thrived on theory, written on for is that woman had quffer her sony, individual has having been destroyed.
the spirit of ancient Rome may be to 32 in November. In September of 1916 or 160,000 men, and its in battle drill. The artillery had to Ixt any woman who reads what I have of to day-that Great Britain which rear of the 100, 53 were specifically reported Every day brought fresh demands, and and when the firing tests were made the ed, and I think no one will dare to sit but constrains them at the same time there
was waste, but in the end the A.S.C. results were surprising. We made every triumphed. The clothing for the men thing from nothing, and none of the
in judgment on her.
The French secured 19 German zero- Suddenly I heard a voice cry out in devote themselves to their country, think planes, which were reported in the fol made extraordinary demands, and stocks
ing, with Adam man bocanus exhausted. The dozen armies has failed my own tongue. Ah, madame, strely Oliver Cromer, Smith, white ainuke lowing categories: Destroyed, 10:, fell makers of khaki became 200, and mean The supply of omcers and N.C.Ol. was
By fostering liberty 4, while blue suits and overcoats of civilian
Point Ply of ouers and N.C.O was mish Come and speak to among her Colonies, Great Britain has ghFrench lines 4; brought down in air patters were bought and served out. One ly anticipated failure. They did not be-tears rolling down her cheeks as she held of Britain, who have so often extended German Main Headquarters, for the
I turned to see an old woman with the Boselli paid cordial tribute to the women multiplied her own strength. Signor firm turned out at short notice 400,000 Leve that we could hustily prepare lead out her arms to me, and I went to her a gracious welcome to Italians exiled in first time, asknowledged losses in its daily of these suits, and America also was iners fit to cope with their well-trained bedside, dented for help. The twenty five firms cadres. But, we did it, and turned our asked after her husband, but she England. making army boots became 350, and while civilians into technical and Infantry shook her head. "I do not know. He
reports, But the admissions were obvious they laid down now plant unsuitable civi officers with unheard of rapidity We was in Paris when war broke out, and
ly only intended to magnify their suc lian boots were
cesses, and cannot be taken seriously. called to our aid all the retired men for nearly three years I have heard been fed and tended in this first clear shield as presented by the British and Here they are with the other side of the necessarily lesnews
under sixty, and they came oven from nothing. Without doubt he is dead. ing station was getting ready to start, French reports March 4th-German India, Canada, and Australasia to train told me how she was ill in hospital and I talked with many of the women claim, 18 admitted loss, 4; British and the men and the young leaders. One in the village which he had made her leaning eagerly out of the windows. French claim, 17 German machines. they stole every metal utensil from the woman's story arrested me more than
March 6th-German claim, 15, admitted
and
Wa
In the preliminary stages the great host
up
Blood
clothed like a Bocr not so well armed,
The
Army, but pre-war stock
of
you are English ?
tured, one.
800,000 rifles had long since given out officer of fifty-five had to use a chair to home when the Germans entered, how Each had her own pitiful tale, but one loss, 1; British and French claim at least nd the weekly output, was only 200 mount his horse and could not stay long hospital, even the knob of the doors, and most me, X was an intelligent, force 7, March 16th-17th-German claim, 22; then war began While rifles were bein in the saddle, yet he trained fine. officers sent the nurses and house, doctor to careful woman of about 55, and she told me admitted loss, 3; British and Freach
to
"THE PERFECT WOMAN.”
married, and the mother of five children.
three men the 2nd, one among twelve leave were impressed also; the military French sick and aged utterly untended. just been faced by the English made the 1st New Army had one among Two hundred Indian officers at home on
for their own wounded leaving the mon for a time. But the great hustle colleages were expanded, taking 780 cadets HUN TOTAL OF PRISONERE.
she came from one of the villages that had claim, 30. began, and things came right gradually, and 340 cadets; the age was rassed to rm that is how the conquering twenty-five, and the course shortened f
During the long, terrible years that might had the pans for the following been put in prison for fort began, with bayonet
three months. Woolwich, Sandhurst, these people lived in German bondage not offenco. During the Huns' opation often held by a piece waist until leather was
e of £ained.'
round the Quetta, Wellington, and Kingston quad- one word reached them of the outer world the French inhabitants were fed with MOTHER OF 5 CHILDREN AND AN
The rapled the supply; men wore promoted save what the Germans chose to let them marvellous accounts of German victories tale of the gune was the came. normal, provision was for eight divisions Public Schools; the Universities sent he showed me several extracts, one in of the numbers of prisoners the Germans Miss Rhys, headmistress of the Belvedere
Our from the ranks, the O.T.C. emptied the haye. Their sole newspaper was the now and of the number of French prisoners
ADMIRABLE CRICHTON only, and no
famous Gazette des Ardennes, of which they took daily Mme. I kept a diary plant existed for increased 6,000 the Inns of Court, 25,000; and so particular pointing out that the Germans had made according to themselves and School, Liverpool, at a staff conference output. One division of the lat New on Technical oflcers were supplied by and French were really good friends, and at the end of two or three wooks she on education, attended by pupile.
A perfect woman" was described by Army had six gung instead of 54, some such bodies as the Institution of Civil only the treacherous English prevented totalled them up and said, with inimit batteries had two guns, some none, and Engineers, the Institute of Chartered dummy wooden guns wire made for the Accountants, and the Mining Institute, them from making the peace that two able French humour, to the officer quar Mies Rhys perfect woman, is forty,
practice. In
ine, by and the medical profession came forward would otherwise make a Tiens, monsieur, since you have made She is in happy circumstances, living in
brave enemies who respected each other tored on her. unequalled effort, we. sights, and
gun in blocks. The railway companies did All of the problems of supply and equip of Britain was drilled and harnessed, and fowls and rabbits, and when the sister in than our whole population
ammided
Each and their share and so the professional brain the food from their hospital, the live in France, for you have captured more centre of a good home in which there is! She told me how the Germans stole all so many prisoners, there is no one left a beautiful country district, and in the ment mentioned were colisal, and one of the great men in this trying time was when the 1st New Army embarked nine charge expostulated, saying she must feeds Then the train rolled slowly out, every for and where good taste is everywhere a high standard of cleanliness and com recently revealed officially in Parliament months after embodiment it did so as one her sick, the officer answered, I loo as being Lieutenant-General Sir John of the best armies of the day, which had must feed mine. Your alck have.
had all
window crowded from out of a mob of untrained civilians, needs be, they must starve. One German Vive la France! Vive l'Angleterre ! "a gift for friendship. She is religious
arms waved as the cry wallpapers, ornaments, clothes,
hundreds from
of throats, The army thus beset with dificulties unclothed, unarmed ungunned. The people. And remember you are the train steamed slowly in to the opposite towards God and towards other people, She is a delightful companion and bas did not despair while waiting The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th followed, having vanquished and we are the conquerors platform and a fresh stream of homeless Together with other delightful qualifirs company officers especially the juniors, overcome the same immense difficulties by and can take what wa please." trained themselves at night; the mo magnificence of spirit, I left the many rows of sheltering huts derelicts staggered out, dazed and tremble, she walk, cycles, rides, climbs, swinis, taught themselves much during spare
The only dificulty left them was the and walked over to the station, where a homes they had just left, waiting to be She can drive a horse and motor car, ing with the recollection of the burning dances, skates, sculls, and plays games. time in barracks out of books, wooden enemy,
train isden with about 600 souls who had taken to the long empty huts ready to she can use a typewriter, and speaks (Consued at foot of next column.) They overcame him, Morning Post. (Continged at foot of next column.) shelter them-Daily Mail,
three languages besides her own.
the
Cowans, the eulogy of whom has placed raised itself by unquenchable enthusiasm they needed for a long time. Now less, and leath heads, mostly hat visible, in furniture, carpets, curtains,
went up
him in the first rank of soraying under canvas in the winter mud, soldian is woria moro than a your old and even at that same moment another woman and tries to fulfil her duty
victory
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