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WEATHER REPORT,
September 26th, at 11.50.-No retains from Japan Presme han increased lightly si Weibalwel, and decreased slightly elsewhere it remains highaat over S. Manchuria A trough of low pressure now extends from the Annam cast serces, the Philippines into the
*Mcderats to fresh monsoon will conting along the Chine coast and over 1ke N. Chini Sen.
Hongkong rainfall for 86 homme ending m 10. to-day, 0.00 Insh. Tomi'asseo Inf Jannary, 75.21 inches, against an average al 74.23 Inches.
This forachat for tias, 24. hours ending at 2003 to-day is as follows jie
DISTRICT Hungrong to Gay Rook
Formous Channel
FORSAGE JE. winde, fresh;
ELIT. |Northwinds,
fresh.
The same as
No. 1.
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Hongkong and Hainan...{ No. 1.
HONGKONG'S STORM SIGNALS.
A NEW CODE.
and Now local
non-local signs!! coder will be introduced at Hongkong on July 1st, in place of the old Local Code and the China Conit: Cods.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1917.
THE DEPORTATION OF
FRENCH WOMEN.
SHAMEFUL PROCEEDINGS. VIVID STORY BY A VICTIM,
The only first-hand account that has yet been obtained of the fearful sufferings of women and girls deported from their Homes in Northern France by the Ger mas is publisted in La Herne fex Dens
NELSONS IN THE MAKING.
POSSIBILITIES OF. SALVAGE.
BRITISH PROPOSAL FOR RAISING SUBMARINED SHIPS.
Some hundreds of merchant ships, tor
ALESSON IN DISCIPLINE.
Five forty-five am The sun peeping through the windows of the long bunga low-dormitory gives cheerful greeting to two long rows of beds--one on cach side pedoed by German submarines during tho of the building--whoso decupants are three years of war, are now lying with enjoying the deep, sweet sleep of sariy boyhood. For a room tenanted wholly by their various cargoes at the bottom of the lads of an age at which tidiness is not sen, says The London Observer. •Must instinctive is the youthful male this apart they lie there forever, or can they be re- mont has an unusual air of neatutes, ba
Car courage in not weeping surprised the sentinels. It's funny they're not sad, these girls, they said to one an other. Nevertheless some of my com panions in the hope of obtaining free duma, naked to soothe surgeau. No mitter what serious illness they might claim to be suffering from the surgeon merely replied: Country air will do you gol It was in the morning and we were informed we wouldn't leave Lille until 5 in the afternoon on conflicting ** I myself was torn between conflicting desires. Remembering what my mother had said. I felt I ought not to abandon my sisters in misery if I could aid them in any way, Still, I didn't want to let myself be deported without some protest; that I considered 1 owed myself and my family. I went to Capt. T., who was the typical figure of a valgar end. Red in not the face and in a frenzy of fury, he Mlle. Yvonne's first intimation of the rashed about Imflying men and women, in, existence. Compared with him Shat in many cases, it, the labour were barbarous schons the Germans were about soldiers and civilians alike, I caught to put into effect was received, she anys, him, fortunately, between two spasms of Because he has shown capacity for our available, they, or at any rate their car- on Easter Sunday, when German soldier rage, when he was more tranquil. In commed has been entrusted to him, goes, could certainly be saved His cost-
and though a mere slip of a he is the
buy
strengthened by many ex- observed defiantly. We'll be requisite to el glanced at my sternest of disciplinarians, strikin
viction was "One!" he counts sharply striking a amples of sultage în pre-war gong, und out of bed spring the boys
Mandes in the form of a diary, kept by one of the victims. The authoress, Mlle
youre events in the most vivid fashion the torture of body and soul to which she and her companions in exile were subjected by their captors. Beyond affirming that she is a dughter of one of the best bourgeois families in Lille, the Herne for obvious reaspas does not dis close the writer's identity,
L
tioning the little misses pretty soon.”
TURN FROM HOME AT NIGHT-
abducted. He
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The counterpane of each cot (that is floated, as Germany is reported to have what they really are) bears the occupant's relented, and taken into Antwerp hur- inifinds, and among the peaceful sin
bour, the____ German - Lloyd steamer beners under these madest coverings re more than one scion of royalty, as well Gneisema, which was sunk at the begin as many cadets of noble houses.
Sharp at six the culet-captain jumpsuit of the war in the Scheldt i out of bed and begins rousing his fellows The question was put to one of the best à cadet captain is, the greatest martinst authorities de salvage, and his reply was
Old Fritz were easy-going mastere,
identity card, favoured the with an in-
**Two scalls the cadeteaptain, and There was the $2,500,000 in specie that was On the night of Easter Monday," the sulting her, and said, 'I can do nothing
again the goug hooins, Away-ruh-thefrecovered from the P. & O liner which continues, They came to our street. Wy you whatever and turned away
boys through n door at the lower end of went down in the channel off Beachy Head, had no warning other than the noise APPREHENSIVE OF WORSE FATE
the dormitory. One heats, a mighty and the $500,000 worth of copper taken of the soldiers knocking at the doors of At a 'clock we were put into the splash as they tumble into the plunge in twelve fathoms of water in the Azores. houses near us, and the cries of the train, presumably beaded for the Arden- jhnih. Another thud on the gọng and they | As to ships themselves that have been inhabitants. It was 4 in the morningnes. With mock obsequiousness Captain come hurrying back to their bedsides. Į salvod, he recalled the French transport before they reached our house. Mother, waved me and the three girls with There, by means of his time-table, the wrecked on a rock) which Ing for six with whoma, I was sharing a bedroom, 1 whom I was grouped into a exttle car on cadet-captain takes them through the months under water and was able to steam storm | sprang out of bed, shrieking, Tacy's which was marked in cmlk. Eighteen routine of dressing,, minutely and quickly away in less than thrw weeks after
here At the same moment our Doll wonen. There were my steps into the with, he diets, and tooth famous case, also to mention but one was raised to the surface. There is the rang frantically. Impossible not to open car, so we were hoisted up into 16 roughly.
* Clean the doors Ey order of the Military by soldiers, who picked twenty-four of brushes are furiously plied** Prayers."ather, of the Milwauker, a remakable ex- us, including four men for there were and each boy drups promptly on his kuca naple of ship surgery, which way strand. | Governor, door, must always be open
to the Germans." Mother went down among the deportes into space in beside his bed. Manwhile, the endered on rocks, had to have the forward end stairs and fannel herself confronted by sufficient for the eighteen for which it was captain, keeps his eye roving keenly over cut off by denmito, and a new seven sulifiers of the Sixty-fourth intended. Three soldiers of the Sixty them all and prods up the laggards with joined to the old, and is now, after twenty
yours went, practically as good as ever. fantry Begiment. They were all young fourth mounted guard over us, and one sharp aduenitions. and seemed exhilarated by the nature of them, who understood a little Frenchi, of the task dry bad to carry out : Luter translated our remarks to his curious For the Lilk is Jered that all the
colorades. married men lad wked to be excused from this duty, and ong the officers to sob he said. We couldn't do her gathered in the Cafe Bellevur there were-wise; it's orders. Don's ory: things are several dnels about it..
worse in Germany A young Sergeant with a fatuous Bir asked my mother how many persons there or in the house. She told three herself and her two daughters. Show mo!' he ordered; but before she had a chance he rushed, upstairs and into the room in which I lay in bed.
The principal change in the Loon) Cots is that the new signals will show the direction from which the gale in expected, whereas the old signals showed the pool tion of the typhoon. The latter will be indicated, as beretofors, by the non-loest signals. The new Local Code is given
below:
DAY HIGHALO.
Signal, Symbol,
Meaning. Red cone-A typhoon exists which diy possibly cause a gale at Hongkong with.
You, nie Mife. Genevieve," he oli,
In 24 hours. 1-Black cone-Gale expected from theserved.
North (N.W.. to N.E.). 1.—Bluck cone -
inverted Gale expected from the
South (8.E. to 8.W.), 4-Black drum.--Gals expected from the
East (NE to 8.E.). 6-Black ball-Gale expected from the
Wast (N. W. to 8.W.). -Double cone.--Gale expected to in
Grosse,
tion)
Signal No. 7 will be accompanied by these explosive bombs, fred at intervals of 10 seconds at the Water Palies Station and repealed at the Harbour Ofies.
·
** No... Yvotine, my mother corrected
Mademoiselle, get up immediately; The officer will be here in ive minutes,
Then he turned and went off to my "sister's robin and started to walk in. My mother pushed him aside and knocked on the door. The man laughed sneeringly at so much respect for a young girl's privacy, s
conscience.
One of you young ladies must fallow us immediately to go to the country," he said in bad French;
40% Where? .... I exclaimed,
Silence yelled the Sergeant,
part.
UNDER SEA PRESERVATION.
The fact is that neither ship nor care,
Now, Smith, be garter ?? * Jones. you are falling behind, the gong," and so on. The cadeteaptain's duty is to have Walk anthem all properly dressed and out of the gots, except perishable materials and food * When one of the younger girls began
dormitory in a given time, and he intends stuffs, deteriorate very much under water. to do so. - He can umsage it himself, why The chief damage that n ship, suffers is. not they also? Down on their knees, i when she is only half submerged and the Smith, and other delinquents struggle engines at low tide are left to dry in ** I am thirty years old and not a child; | wildly with refractory clothing, wonder: Llar wird. Usually, when a vessel that Therefore, somer than my rotangering why is that ties, will not kudo por has been wrecked is being refloated, if "fellow prisoners, 1 realized the kind of perly and buttons prove so troublesome, | barrel of oil is poured on the surine of dangers to which we were exposed, It These problems any he rire in their the water in order to leave a deposit over wasn't long before all our thoughts began minis at the moment than their prayers be concentrated on these perils, and are raven may overlook omissions suddenly one cried! They say it is made by the sumall boy in a hurry; endel bot really to work in the fields that they captains de not have taken us? I determined to be. ready for death in preference to a worse fate.
After this fashion are the sucking Nelsons of the British Navy tough smartness and discipline. And that, too without any respect to persons. Naval casiet colleges are quite demceratic in this
WEDICAL INSPECTION."
Mile. Yvonne then describes the arrival | particular.
Gormans.
the machinery. Repairs are quickly effected, and sections Lern by rock or slint- tered by torpedo present no great diffi cults in the work of salynge, for they can be completely re-placed
Valuable as are the ships themselves that now lie at the bottom of the gea, the cargoes of cotton, rubber, wool, Manches fer goods, iron goods, machinery, and so on are considered to be more valuable still The question is, Can they be re covered? In many cases, yes, they can this authority repented, but at the present time it is all a matter of labour, and there, is not inbour, to be had, In ninety-nine cases out of every hundred you require divers, and diyers, like other tomed to handling cargoes. worth four men who are diving for build-
A Din acus
if any, salvage divers left. What salvage piers and dock walls. There are few, labour and machinery there was has been taken by the Admiralty, who have ap pointed a special adviser, and are doing, it is believed, in great deal of valuable
of the train at n-village in the Ardennes at 5 the next morning. The captives had had nothing to eat or drink save what
One young girl was in bed they had brought with then kincs leaving Ten minutes later the officer arrived home twenty-four hours before. German gravely ill. She was dragged into the accompanied by ten soldiers with layers, who came in automobile from street, bed and all, put aboard the tram nets fixed. Outside a military band was Vervins, separated the women on the train, on her bed, and then on the train. Now 7-Black cross-Wind of typhoon force playing. The officer seemed shamed of from the handful of men, the latter, being she is at death's door. In Lille terror
expected (any dirio his job. His pallor attested to n troubled sent off to work in a nearby factory: The reigis. Parents have gone insane over ac, specialize in their work water is:
soutien were left standing in the road the loss of their daughters. There was une girl who was suddenly driven mud outside the station, surrounded by a curious group of peasants and German and fled through the streets in her soldiers, one of whom seemed to have nightgown, pursued by German soldiers
I have heard only one humorous note. any idea of what was going on, c
Hours passed and still we waited. At the station a peddler cried. Buy the My God, but I was weary! Sundenly official account of the great Lille victory; there came a frightful rumour. There prisoners without the loss ut a was to be a medical inspection. Be single mina e oss of a
"Nothing, therefore, can be done except Our nerves were constantly on edge,"
what the Admiralty is doing until two end We were to be taken, one by one, com village. That is easily explainable tims for salvage work on a considerable pletely divested of clothing, before at our door the Germans posted a placard scale, both in the North Sea and in sou I couldn't ascertain, but the most glinatly knew who was in the bontse Sol-sufficiently shallow for diving for cargoes, German surgeon The purpose of this reading, Six women. Thas every pas-parts of the Channel. The North Sea is. theories were advanced. I spoke to the diers came in and investigated us but there would be no chance of salving Frenchman who was acting as mayor of Once when I was alone two of them forced vessels that are covered by more than eight the village
their way in and tried to begin what or ten feet of water, because at a greater they called a flirt Fortunately Me depth than this the decks will not stand. Darrived at that moment and drove the pressure. There are, however, a good them off. ht
I protested sigerunty, but the officer. The signal will be lowered when i interrupted me and said we must make is considered that all danger is over. our choice quickly. The soldiers, angry should go. The other marked my name with blue chalk on his list, and said;
work.
The Day Signals will be displayed as at my protests, insisted it should be I who bribing soldiers we learned the details Mile. Yvonne says of her stay in the of the war. Then there will be possibili-
the masthead of the storm signal mus on
Blackbend Hill, the Harbout Ones, H.M.B. Tamar, Groen leland signal mast, the fagstaff on the premises of the Bang kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company at Kowloon, the fagstaf on the premises of the Standard Oil Company at Laichikok, and the fisgstal near the Field Officer's Quarters at Lyemuz.
MIGHT BIGNALS." (Lampa), 1-White-white-white.
-White-green-green.
B-Green-white-white.
4-Green-green-white. -White-white green, 6.--Green-green-green. 7.-Red-green-red.
The Night Signals will be displayed, af sunset, on the tower of the Railway Blation, on H.M.8. Tamar, and on thi Harbour Office flagstaf. They will have the asma signification as the day signala. Sigust No. 7 will be accompanied by explosive bombs as above, in the event of the information conveyed by thin sigund being first published at night,
RUPTCYMRETARY WAINING,
When local signals are displayed in the Harbour Cone will be sahibited at the following stations:-Gap Rock, Waglan, Stanley, Aberdeen, Bau Ki Van, Sal Kung, Sha' Tau Kok and Tai Po to notify the fack to native craft and
passing ocean vessels.
Further details can always be givan to ocean vessels, on demand, by signal from lighthouses,
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You can take thirty kilos (sixty. pounds) of baggage. You will also take a spoon, a fork, a glass and a blanket You have twenty minutes to get ready The soldiers will wait, and if you're not
Is there so way of escaping this eady they will carry you off forcibly.
"He went away, and the soldiers shameful indignity { mediately began urging me ja hurry. He made a gesture of powerlessness, Finally, the terrible moment of parting and replied The Germans are masters came I didn't know where I was going here, Mademoiselle. Whatever their will may be, we must submit their will what I would have to do, when I should return, whether I should ever see my. toother and sister again. Yet our leave taking was a simple, ore. Mother blessed u nad said: Be brave, my child. Try to help those about you. We embraced one another and separated without tears We were resolved not to weep in front of those jeering Germans.
ACH A BEAUTY
I was overcome. For the first time since my departare from home I wept Then I pulled myself together, and with my three comrades questioned one of the women who had already undergone the inspection. She said it was terrible, that the excuse was we should have to sleep two in a bed, and that two individuals had already been marked as medically suspect. A
The outcries of the captives were such that the surgeon was obliged to modify the brutality of bis examination. My turn came toward the end, at about noon,
many ships sunk in comparatively shallow water, which could be raised now if there were the men and the plant to do it.
MIXED WITH WOMEN OF THE STREETS. **On one occasion we were summoned to the Kommandantur for an inspection There is no reason to suppose, it was. along with a group of newly-arrived added, “that Germany is better equipped deportees. We were shocked to find they for this work than we are On the con were all women of the streets. That was trary, the best equipped salvage associa really too much, for these unfortunates tion in the world is that in Liverpool, didn't even lure the decency to heave Some of the German companies have more in a quic manner. They laughed loudly steamers, but they have not so large an amount of machinery. When the time is and joked with the soldiers in the coars ripe, therefore, there is every reason to est language,
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suppose that this country will salve its own ships and their cargoes."
Among the others were two women heavy with child. A gardener insisted upon caroling them to work in his, garden, end only an outburst of all the others prevented his abominable demands.
*Many of them emerged from the me
GIRL CLERKS' SHOCK.
PAY
It
1 followed one of the soldiers. Tha streets were deserted and at each corner sentries were posted. At one turning caught sight of a confused mass of soldiers and civilians. At another point by that time it was no longer necen 1 was forced to make my way through sary to completely divest oneself of one's dical inspection, which had evidently he WOMAN WHO OBJECTED TO MORE an entire company of the Sixty-fourth clothing. It was nevertheless a revolting come ever more painful, in a hysterical Regiment amid sneering or insulting performance, as barbarous as anything state. Three young girls were sobbing jests Ach! You've trapped a beauty the Germans have conceived, I believe bitterly. When I asked what was the they shouted to my coaductor. Ma
Mile. Yvonne and her companions matter, they could reply only: They
A necting of 200 Government women. I was finally taken to a court, where
were eventually sent to a neighbouring marked us Good for everything several other girls and women were village, where they arrived late in the There have been too many pitiful stories clerks, held at the Essex Hall, Essex assembled. We waited a long time in afternoon, after a sleepless night, very told before young girls since the invasion street, Strand, recently to domand higher the humid cold proceding the dawn. I scant rations and no opportunity to wash for them not to have understood the signi- wages and the same war bonus as men, talked with the young girl alongside me. themselves after their painful journey ficance of these words, For instance, She was a chamber-maid, and informed They were assigned to cotta they are well aware of a fact of which, in had a surprise me that most of the others were servants cupied for two years and full of dirt and when a woman has been violated by ang unanimously to send its grievances France bone is ignorant, namely that The meeting was on the point of decid- removed from houses in the Place de dust. The residents of the village gave German and a child has been born, the to the Prime Minister, when a strong- Tourcoing, S
them a cold reception. It wasn't until back appeared and ordered us to march reason for this. The Germans, by
"After an hour an officer on horse several days later that they learned the child, if a son, is sent into Germany to looking woman, wearing a large picture be brought up as a future soldier, where hat and a handsome gown, intervened. Surrounded by soldiers with fixed
got to grumble at," she declared The object of the code is to give at least bayonets, we marched away to 's big hallment of malice, had said. These as if she is a daughter she remains with "I don't know what all you women have Be hours warning of a gale (Force in which were hundreds of captive girls, village, Mre. D. finally agreed to supply FHER AT LAST,
seems to me that the AEsociation of Women sre women of eril life. A woman in the her mother, LATE Beaufort Beale, or 40-45 m.p.h., man scarcely more than children, women of the captives with food. She also volun-
slocity by Dines Ausmometer) and also all classes. We were told that no minors teered to go to the Kommandantur towere treated with favouritism, compared ng tus mecting, might very well devote
Mlle. Yvonne and her companions Clerks and Secretaries, instead of promot itself to teaching the members how to warnings of expected changes in the were to be taken, but I saw a great many learn what they were supposed to do with the treatment accorded other de-spend their money. direction and force of the wind. Uwing, whom I knew were not over eighteen and There she was informed that the command portece, ale says. In one village three however, to the uncertain moremanis of others looked still youager.
The only things I see them buy are ant was away and that there was no need young women who refused to work in the blue glass carrings and face cream (A typhoons and to insuficiant telegraphie Toward 8 in the morning we were of the girls until his return.
fieldly were three times stood against Voice I've never bought a ha porth of observations, it will occasionally happen re-formed into line. I got into live with The villages were quite capable of wall and obliged to face a firing squad powder in my life) Instead of collect that signals 9 to 4 may be displayed Mlle de V., whom I knew; her maid and doing all the work necessary in the com Each time the cartridges fired at them ing bere and talking like a lot of without a galo occurring a Hongkong, the chamber-maid with whom I had munity, the diary continues. It was
were blank. In most villages prostitutes Suffragettes (abouts and bosing)-you or eren Gap Book, but the revome la not chatted before. We decided to stick evidence that in their deportations of and honest women were deliberately should depend upon the principle that likely to happen, except in the case of together, Fatigued by the weight of young girls the Germans were not im mixed and obliged to sleep in the same efficient women will get as much as eff- typhoons forming in the vicinity, and the baggage we had to carry we stagger-pelled by necessity, They merely sought beds. Frequently several men and one or cient men (a shout: How much do travelling rapidly towards Hongkong, or ed along through the Rue Colbert to the to impose a new Calvary on the civil two girls were lodged in the same house, you earn?" and not dewand high
wages of a located typhoon increasing its rate Place Catinit, where we took the tram populations; they hoped to foment aand in other places women were obliged for unskilled girls. You are trying to of progression abnormally. only for the railroad station, Parents, re-revolt which they would have brutally to take soldiers Fresh Verdun as boarders. take advantage of the fact that the men
digual No. 1 is intended as a waming latives and friends were gathered on the sumpressed. The Lillois will never forget Finally, for reasons which are as yet are away, fighting and dying for you. to "Stand By " mad watch for the muni sidewalk looking anxiously for their loved this phrase, so often heard uttered by unknown to Mlle. Yvonne, the order ar- “No! no!" was shouted from all parts tands among the eroval of slaves. The German officers What must we do to rived for her and a few of her companions of the room In the now non-Lord Gods the approat soldiers would not let them come anywhere drive them to desperation ! " "
to be sent back to Lille. She was akiong A dozen women and girls rose in oppdel mate velocity of the stum sentra will w near t, however. I was so cold and
Mile. Yvonne describes as follows the the first forty-eight, out of 0,000 depor- tion. But the interrupter walked out, shown, in addition to fin direction of tired I think I should have fainted if arrival of other captives from Lille : ters, to return to her home. There are the girls anger subsided, and they adopt- motion, and the position of the centre we had had to walk any further.
Regardless of the state in which they still several thousand enduring in various ed their resolutions calling on the Govern will be given in degrees of latitude and
found themselves, they were treated in | parts of the North of France and Belgium ment for just scales of pay and an end of longituda. The time, at which the yarn
the most outrageous manner by the the odious alavery to which she was sub- the discrimination between, men and ing was insuod will alan ba showa: 2
(Continued or foot of next column.). jected.
women so far as war bonus is concerned.
VULGAR CAP. In the Station they put us in the freight sheds We were 600 to leag