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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 2ND, 1918.
WHY THEY CHANGED THE SLAVERY UNDER THE HUNS
GUNS ROUND.
ISY CAPT. S. GOLDINGHAM, R.MLI
PLIGHT OF OCCUPIED FRANCE
From i trustworthy Belgian citizen, who has recently reached London from It was the Captain (a lieutenant-com in Northern France, Reuter's Agency has the German Army zone of Valenciennes, mander in command) of HM gunboat reveived an account of the terrible cur Widgeon who first conceived the brilliant ditions existing in the occupied pro- idea of using the for ard 3-pounder as a
vinces, which no one is allowed to enter or leave, and whence news scarcely ever duck gun; and as such she was necessrenches England. The escaped Belgiau, fully employed for more than a year. wan and emaciated, and still bearing Packed ahrost to the muzzle with slugs, traces of a heavy blow on the jaw from the butt-end of a German rife, which old nails, and small stones, she awakened resulted in his teeth being knocked out, the echoes of various peaceful rivers on made his statement with great difficulty. the China station, and did fearful exeen France) a few weeks ago," he said, the When I left St. Amand (Northern tion among the feathered inhabitants. It conditions had become unbearable. The was good for the stock-pot, it did not Germans have organised slavery in the improve the barrel of the gun.
army zone. All the men from 17 to 50 to Douai to work on a railway line others to Alsace. The unmarried women nuder 40 are obliged to work in the fields, and even the little girls, from 19 to 14, are prevented from going to school and sent to collect acorns and nettles. Everywhere you meet civil prisonera or deportees under the guard of German sentries. These of Lille are making concrete at Mortagne, and wear a yellow brassard; those of Valenciennes wear a red brassard. If you refuse to work you are first, condemned to pay a fine. IỆ you cannot, or will not, do this, you are shut up in the cell of the prison until the fine is paid or your time is up. If Lou refas a second time, then you are
The First Lieutenant rushed into the tiny wardroom one morning with a dis tracted air, clutching a signal pad in nervous grasp..
The young Doctor surveyed him with a professional eye. You look," he re marked critically, like a man whose very richest aunt has died and left all her money to found a Home for Indigent Inebriates,
It's worse than that, gioined the First-Lieutenant, Waving the signal pad. The Admiral announces his intention of coming aboard to-morrow, to inspect us, bringing with him the gunnery lieu tenant of the flagship.”
Well, what's the odds said the Assistant Paymaster cheerfully dare say we shall survive it.”
short then, said the First Lieutenant You forget the condition of
the for'ard 3-pounder
sent
had been taken away. Some were end
back alive Irony and one seldom comes
from Germany.
Besides the evil prisoners, the Germans have brought behind their lines
great number of prisoners of war, whom they compel to work under terrible
Whew! The wardroom looked at one another in consternation for the barre) of the gun was worn and scored like the surface of a pond after a week's sumstances. There were eighty Eng- lish and sixty French at Mortagne, remarked the
and 200 English at Saint-Amand. First Lien- tenant. You'd better sel your addle The English were specially badly brains to work; the Captain's
's ordered treated, ind they were all in me to find some way out.
want of food. We buds also some Russians. Their sufferings were so ter rible that some of us decided to take them some food, though, God knows, we
It was the Gunner who finally devised scheme which if all went
prove their salvation. But had carcely enough for ourselves. I
very big element of chance
The morrow came, and with it the Ad miral and his staff. After an exhaustive inspection of the mess decks and the fifty odd men composing the ship's company, the dreaded moment arrived. The Ad miral ordered his gunnery lieutenant to examine the two guns in his presence and their condition.
report upon
They took the after gun first, thanks to the skilful manner in which the cap tain manœuvred the Admiral on to the poop. The examination wag successfully concluded, and the great man prepared to move for ard.
to
The Captain barred the way swiftly "I have a very special brand of cocktail, sir,” he murmured in the Admiral's ear "Before we inspect the for ard gun would you care Thanks
I never touch alcohol in the forenoon replied the Admiral stilly He started to go forward, but the Cap tain interposed his bulke
**No, no, of course not, airy, he said I meant to say a lemon
began desperately to impel
took a bundle in my hand, and, at night fall tried to throw it over the fence of their cage. young fellow, and asked me
A sentry Baw me, quite a business was there. When I told him, he what my
the butt of his rifle that I lost all my gave me such a blow on the mouth with teeth. Yes, he grinned, showing his from his pocket, that was last May. toothless guns, and producing his teeth
**All along the Franco Belgian frontier are posts of sentries, who shoot at sight anybody attempting to cross the line. This has been the cause of many tragedies. On the same day, at a place called Maulde, two Belgians, one the father of four childden, the other the father of six children, were killed in this way. The first one was not deus, so they finished him with the butt of their rifles. Not far from there, a girl of 13, an orphan, who was looking after two small children, was killed without warning, as she was trying to cross the frontier in
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The Admiral hesitated. It was 199deg, and the the names of the people, but it in the region. I could give you the dates: in the shade beneath double awnings he had had er, perhaps aging forenoon. Well might do a great deal of harm with t
But the Captain had
adding anything to this statement Be him half-way down the ladder before boides, these fire only a few examples to could finish the sentence.
show you the kind of life we lead over, The suspense of the next ten minutes there. Wherever you turn your eyes, it was pure torture to the Captain. The is everywhere the same tragedy of star- deck overhead shook with the trampling ration, slavery, and untold brutality.?. of men; inufled orders penetrated to the cabin. Once the Admiral started haif out of hig chair us some heavy object was dropped with a crash exactly above
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getting the quarter-boom said the Captain, hurriedly He smiled a sickly smile and began to talk at random his manner was so extra ordinary that the Admiral began to wonder whether he was suffering from a touch of the sun-Gr even something worse. He moved restlessly, and was just announcing his readiness to
continue
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An expression of relief crossed the Captain's face, and with a step which no longer faltered he led the way towards the forward 3-pounders inspection
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The Captain sank
cabin Phew! He mopped his brow "I never thought we should pull it off, First Lieutenant
I had a few anxious moments myself, sir," confessed the latter. "Especially
ROYAL when they dropped the after gun as they were taking it for ard. I have the
his afternoon, sir it's not much guas changed back to their proper places trying to shoots, gand To this day the Admiral does not know that he inspected the same gun twice that forenoon mounted in two different posi- tiona
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