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GEHMAN BRUTALITY AT LENS BIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON ON
THREATENING THE INHABITANTS
Looking rather pale, Chinner and grever than of old, M. Busly, the well-known Tabour deputy and Mayor of Leus, who has been repatriated from his captivity in Belgium, arrived in Paris recently, wrote the Special Correspondent of the Daily Chromele
THE WAR,
IF THE ARMY DOES NOT CRACK THE GERMAN NATION MAY
An interesting interview with General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial Generaj Staff, appears in the Air Tork Times.
In reply to the question-Is the defen sive in modern warfare so strong that it is hopeless to look for & unlitary decision ? Must not the armed struggle end in a draw 4-Way go on any longer if n the end the contention must be settled
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB
THE FINAL MEETING.
.on
A MODERN AUTOLYCUS. A coolic, was charged, with stealing The fifth and last Gymkhana of the several pieces of clothing valued at $6 season was held at the Race Course from Miss N. Donies, of No. 1, Gordon Saturday afternoon The weather was ideal, and despite many counter attrac Terence.
It was stated that the clothes were laid tions, there was a good attendance of on the g-n just outside, the house spectators. Some very close and exciting
finishes were witnessed
dry. Derendant, why was passing by entered the gate and, wicking up the clothes, put them into a basket he wh carrying, and walked away Thy com plainant, uoticed him and raised na alarin, with the result that, after a chuse defendant was arrested by a Chinese constable.
A sentence of one month's hurd labour was imposed
FIGHTING IN THE STREET.
*
"The Germans behaved in a seandalius wenzer," he said. “They were always threatening us. During two years we lived in cellars. The population, which was 12,000, annged to get enough to est, thanks to American help and they dipsinacy
Sir William replied: No soldier can itiora we took 3
was a discussion between answer that question. For this reagon, and this Cer officers on the The war is a suggie of nations. The ndof the Kom-idler can speak win a certain amount ung more and more eniteness about armies, but he cannot spea with any denteness at all about Confronted byudvs. Take the case of Russia. The nes, the officers threatened Psychology of the nation, not the discip
line of army, is concerned. And to shoot him," ind finally deported him with all of us, in 1870 you could speak and others to the province of Namur, in of the French army and the German army. Now you must speak of the lava Belgium,
natton and the German nation
dval with the psychology of gosto peoples. The armies in the field are only a part of this tremendous conflict. Behind them is the serye of each separate nation they represent. Suppose we must conclude that no nimmy of mutions can be broken and crushed; is the same thing to be supposed of the nation behind the army? purely we see in this tremendous contest much more than struggle of armed forces. It is a sifting of nations. it is a trial of character. It is a test of racial quality. The workmen and work women of each nation are engaged in the conflict. The forces in the field are only the hands of a vast body in which overy uscle is being strained and tried.
A Chinese was convicted of the larey Suppose you cannot roll up the banks of your enemy's army; suppose it. Can of a piece of iron from the Cement Works at you break his heart Suppose you at Hunghom and was sentenced by Mr.
They had only a very short warning of this step, which was taken on April 11th fast. In now and intense cold the party had to walks ten miles to the station Carriages were promised for the week and indrm, but they were actually used to Cravey, booty, stolen from private houses, The German seized nearly £4,000 out of the public funds, amounting to £20,000. They kept also the town records. They ttempted to flood the coal mines, but did not succeed, but as early as 1915 they blew them up. Later they blew up the muni cipal buildings, the Bank of France and n ́church;
"The Germans destroyed property without the least military reason. Their pretext for blowing up the mines was
You have
The Cup of the Gymkhana Stakes was won by Sir Paul Chater's Windsor Face Australian Dahlia Before the be Chief was leading un points by 10- Lo 8 from Cadrowa Waif and ** Windsor Dahlia," but by coming in
third on Saturday, it lost the chance of the Cup for Sir Eliis Kadoorie, scating in all points as compared with Windsor Dablia's 19.
The Distance Handicap ended in a dend heat between Green Elevator and "Sabre," though the latter obtained
A man and woman, buth sampan a people, were charged with being nuisance by fighting in the street..
An Indian policeman said the defen- start.
Ho The Band of the 25th 3ildlesex Regi dants had a crowd round them. stopped them, but as soon as he moved/ment plnymi selections during the after- away they started afresh, so he arrested den. Results: them.
FIVE FURLONGS Race, Handicap. For China Ponies that have run in any Race at the last Four Gymkhanas. Winners at Gymkhanas of any Hat ences this season, other than Polo Senrries and Ladies Nomination races, harred.
In reply to Mr. Wood, the woman stated that defendant struck, her mother, and she, like a dutiful daughter, thought it incenbent on her to retaliate.
The man denied that he struck the woman, and said he was only trying to evade her blows; she was very aggressive. Mr. Wood-imposed a fine of $5 each.
A ERISONER'S ESCAPE.
(Mr. Kremer) 1 Mr. Polka's Anticipation, libi
Mr. Adams Tittlemouse, 1511
(Mr. Adams) 2
Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin's Ben Bolt
(late King Ben), 15lb (Mr. Knoll) 3 Mesers. G. & G.'s First Violin (late
Ariel), 148tb
(Mr. Sutton) 0
that the inhabitants could. communicate can only drive him: before your yard Dyer Ball-to six weeks' hard labour and Messra. Thomas & Sedgwick's Tom Cub through the cuttings with the British by yard hammering him back to his four hours' stocks.
A my outside. C
Towards the end of September last year, the Kommandatur offered
tu
frontiery month by month; suppose that is all you can do Cannot you destroy. his civilian confidence and break his
The constable in charge of the ease took the prisoner out and left him, along with
furnish about half a pound of potatoes Dalitical will? And if that is the effect of others, inside room just behind the
per head to the population, but demande
big court, while the incarceration order you was being made out. The constable bad
your strategy the decision is a military' decision. You have broken his will; you have etiquered his resistance
(Mr. Bedgwick).
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mency was handed over, but the inhabit ants never saw. the potatoes. N
The
THE GUNS ARE SPEAKING.
But it is too early yet to say that you cannot destroy his defensive in the held, while his civilian will is yet stub born. We on our side, at any rate, don't say that.
Let's
One day," said the deputy; icent commander, Major Koltz, complain
chemently to me that a German suldier had been wounded by a guibcat fired by an unknown inhabitant. As I know that the soldier in question had been wounded Military writers in Germany may by an English ballet, I protested, but it say so, but our men in France, not laying as of no avail. Klotz said to inc, The down the law on the subject, would say town is fined £800, We shall regard the it is too early yet for such a dogmatism. as wait # few weeks. The guns are £200 paid for the potatoos as a payment
speaking now. Let them go oh speaking. account.
And let us remember while we wait that in the field as they were conquered hopelessness and despair.
If the go, the will of nations enn be
does not crack, the nation behind army it may crack. Someone has got to give way in this conflict: On one side or other there must be submission. when you stop to consider the numbers
Klotz was thoroughly German One day when I recalled the existence The Haguo Convention in respect of some new demand of his, he replied,The Hague Convention is for us and not for you.".
The Germans were particular adepts at lifting railway lines, and for 15 miles behind their front only a single track exists."'.
M. Basly left over 200,000 lb. of four and 90,000 15, of rice and other previsions at the Town Hall, being unable to take anything with him for his exiled fellow townspeople, who, nevertheless, maintain ed their good spirits.
Tacy passed the night at Dourges, where they waited outside the railway slation in the freezing cold until 5 o'clock, when they were crowded into filthy cattle trucks and despatched to Havelange, in Belgium. The journey took 22 hours.
WAR NEWS. CZERNIN THE CANDID Count Czernin, the Austrian Foreign Minister, who wants to mediate betwee Downing-streef and the Wilhelmstraser, has a reputation for candour that throws some light on his assertion that Great Britain does not consider Austria 18
whether vest armies: Can
and resources of each side you may fairly conclude that if the nations of the Allies are steadfast, if the civilian heart is sound, submission must come sooner or later, from the Central Powers material odds are on our side at lest But quality is going to win this war. Character will decide it."
The
The Germans affect to despise the value of American interference, I said
but in your reckoning of numbers and resources America must play a prod erous part, if not a decisive part
It is quite natural for the Germans," he replied, to effect that contempt. The higher cotamand know that their defensive depends up the will of the Germne, people.
the breaking of much concerned shot are perhaps n the national will behind them as about the shattering of their defences in Front of thein, They realise that this conflict They is a struggle of national tenacities.
of DOUT. cope to hold us off till the wit people breaks, till the French people, or the Italian people, or the British people fired. That is their only hope. And their most first!
enemy. He used to represent Vienna at have to that the will of their
Bucharest in the days before Houmania came into the war, and he bluntly told both al. Take Jurzesci and M-Filpestu. that it was the duty of Roumania to declare war against his country. More over, he told them that were he in their position he should cortainly eo act, and be pleaded that the friendship between them should not be broken by war. This astonishing candour impressed both the Roumanian statesmen, but it took some- time to convince them that Czernin really meant what he said. He once observed, by the way, that he was no good in diple macy because he could not bring himself to tell a lie
urgent arxiety own people should not
What is your own bepe
naked, from the interference of Anterica?!
To begin with," he said, "it is a nation of a hundred million people. that is something. Then it as nation or very remarkable energy. Americans are very quick in the uptake, they are inventive, they are resourceful, they are "But more than immensely courageous this, It is a nation of moral idealism,
but sale, practical, hard-headed, yes, with the fire of moral idealism in ite
blood. And it has been literally driven
when he returned the prisoner was gone. A hue and cry was raised, but the fugi- tive was not discovered.
Two Chinese fitters were charged by Mr. Bird, head watebman at the Taikoo Dockyard, with converting to their own personal use five pounds of solder which had been given them to be used in the course of their work.
It was stated that the solder had given to the first defondant to ho used in connection with some work. The
record defendant was an apprentice. On Friday they were arrested as they were marine trying to sell the solder to a
hawker al Yaumati.
Mr. J. R. Wood sentenced the first de fendant to six weeks hard labour and fined the second defendant $10, with the alternative of 14 days imprisonment.
OFFICIAL NIGHTS.
The following table shows the standard timo at which official night ends and begins during the month of November, 1917-
Date:
Ends. Begins November Jst 6,1 a.m. 5,59 p.m.
2nd, 8.16 5.58
15 3rd, 6,177,9
China ponies. Catch weights at 10st. alb, Winners of an open race or open griffin race or ponies that have won the Aggregate prike in the Gymkhana Stakes in any season 5lb extra. Non- "winning subscription griffins allowed & Sir Pau's Windsor Dahlin, 16116
J
(Mr. Gegg) I Sie Ellis Kadoorie's Pingwu Chief,
162tb
(Mr. Sutton) Sir Ellis Kadoorie's Australian Chief,
154)h
(Mr. Knoll) Time-min. 11-1-5sups.
Winner: 8.00"
7.30
DISTANCE HANDICAP.
Cash Sweeps Ticket No
1113, 8083-20.
2 ·「2,
107.20
3. 30, 63.60 About half-a-mile
For China ponies. Winners at this meeting barred." Mr. G. Merton Smith's Gres Ele-
vator, 23lb (Mr. Sutton) "1 Mr. Lancelot's Sabre, solh
(Mr. Knoll) ** Mr. Roderick Barton's Biliikin, 40ib
(Mr. Baston) 3' Messrs. Beith, Ross & Swick's Bocial
Schemer, 35lb...(Mr. Sedgwick) a Mr. F. Sutton's Tempe, 60h.
(Mr. Morrison)· 0. Br. J. A. Ridgway's Bonyotera, 951h
(Mr. Ridgway) 0: › Mr. J. J. Fisher's Dumpling, Bolb.
Mr. Adams). A.
Ticket No.
349, 95.50
Time--Imin, Bleess,
Mr. G. Morton Smith
Winner: $31.70
Cash Sweeps.. Ticket No
3.D
5th
4th 6.17
5.57
1
21:
0.16
5.56
1
6th.19
12
*5,50
15.60
Cash Sweeps
6.19
5.55
Winner:
6.19
5,55
$5.40
*1, 50, $420.75
9th.
6.20
5.54
*1.
2,00
2.65, 429.75
10b, 6.20.
·3.54
6.40
11th, 0.21
5.34
12th 6.21
0.21.
JUDGMENT OF PACE COMPETITION.
5.53
13th, 6.22
5.52
„14th, 6.23
5.52
151 0.21
5.51
1-ME WJ Morrison. 2-Mr. T. J. Fisher.
10th, 6.25
5.31
17th; 0:28 18th, 6.28 19th, .27
3.51
3.50
.5.80
218.00
1, 189, 8692.20
0.22
'97
5.50
13.60
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3,
12.20
3, 190,
6.29 S
5.00
5.50
3.50
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round.
5:49
5.49
5.49
5.48. 5.49
3.49
218 6.28 22nd Brd, 6.29 24th. 6.3) 25th: 8,31 26th, 8.31, 97th 6,31 28th, 4.32 29th 8.32 30th, 6.33
GERMAN CALLOUSNESS TO THEIR nation in which Caesarism has never is an army The Germans hare, discip
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180, 10280
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(Mr. Adams)
Mr. Arams Tittlemouse, 1521). Messrs. G. & G.'s First Violin (late
Ariel), 1471b (Mr. Knoll) 2 Dr. Forsyth's Buchanan's 150lb
SH(Mr. Barton) 3 Mr. Horsford's Cloudlands, 158lb
(Mr. W. Johnson) Messrs. Beith, Rose & Swick's Town
Mouse, 1471b (M Sedgwick):
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2,
6.60 12.00
Ticket No.
71, 104, 8728:00
2, 16, 209.00
3, 168, 104.00 A CLASS-One and
into this war. It has not come wantonly. It is not inspired by base motives. It is
struck its roots. No nation in the world | line "in their blood. Discipline fine. is less militaristic. When such a nation drawo to the thinness of docility ranges itself on the side of democratic is a bad thing. A peace, making Among the interesting thing, found on
Powers which are hammering an auto for lavishness, but provides a prople prisoners recently taken in the Battle of cratic militarism in vain, and which are with certain advantages in war. Xpres are two snapshot photographs of absolutely determined to go on hammer Germany is strong, because she is unde- German dead being taken back to ing until the world really is safe for mocratic; and she is undemocratic be CLASS HANDICAP the rear by light railway There are democracy, why the end is certain.?? cause she has been drilled in an iron
a Quarter Mile. views of three truckloads. On one truck,
THE DECIDING FACTORS.
discipline. All those millions of people which is a mere fist car without rides, the You are confident of the end?"
have been forged into a sword for the Messrs. Beith, Boss & Swick's Yid, bodies are laid crossways side by side, Who could doubt it and live But I hand of a king. Terrible as this discip 16216 Mr Sedgwick) 1 their heads at one edge and the feet pro still say that the righteousness of the line is and formidable, there's a discip Sir Ellis Kadoorie's Pingwu Chief, truding over the other Taus laid tide course cannot decide this titanic conflict line more formidable still I mean the 1471b (Mr. Adams) by side about a dozen bodies occupy the It is the fibre, the stuff, the grit, and self-imposed, self-accepted discipline of Dr. Forsyth's Rex (late Merry GRACA & CO length of a small truck. On two other nervs of the civilian people which will a free people What could be more Monarch), 1541b (Mr. Barton
trucks, which have frame sides, they are decide it. And be sure of this the side magnificent than the spectacle which Sir Ellis Kadoorie's Australian Chief, lashed together in bundle, of four and which lasts longest, the side which en America now presents to mankind” She
(Mr. Knoll) laid longitudinally. They are very durea, is the side which will give the has liberty in her blood; she lathes de Sir Paul's Choice Dablia, 152lb
(Mr. Button) horrible to look at, being so tightly lashed character to the future of civilisation.spotism; she could no more bend her neck face to face that the features of one ate The quality of national fire will decide to the yoke of an autocracy than she Mr. H. B. L Dowbiggin's Ben Bolt ground into the face of another There the war, and decide the future of the could turn her broad rivers into puddles (late King Ben), 150lb
Mr. Kremer) @ is, of course, no evidence that the bodies world. Do not let us under rate the and her great lakes into ponds; but look
Time 2min. 45 1-Szech are actually being taken to corpse utiliza Germana because their cause is had, heat her now, submitting herself to the dis.
Cash Sweeps CONGKONGsion factories; but they are certainly because they are guilty of provoking the cipline of war, freely, of her own will,
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and men superintending the operation, are less than ours The whole German now as much to the spirit-of this struggle On Sale at the Hoserome DAILY PR and the way the bodies are tied together nation is as disciplined as an army. Its later its effects will mean to the anal CHIRE.
is callous and inhuman almost beyond (Continued at foot of next column).
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