LETTER FROM LIELT. CHATHAM.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10th, 1918.
AIRMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN where they had taken off their seats and
FRANCE
equipment and rolled up their sleeves and 80% down to it, ready to make a dash for their lives when the time came and then had rushed away and leit their guns and clothes and everything behind. many of them got very far, they seem to have wait too long, as many those killed had dropped on their guns One couldn't help admiring them for their pluck. The wood had a front of about
Tan fallowing extract from a letter written by the youngest son of the Hon: Mc. W. Chatham CM... dated September 2th will be read with interest. Three sons of Mr. Chatham are lieutenants in the Royal Air Force.
* expect you will be astonished to see that I am back in England again, but I had the misfortune to have a nasty crash on the aerodrome owing chiefly to a nervous breakdown in the air, I think. I had hardly recovered from the effects just behind the line near B's balloon
Not
of
CORRESPONDENCE
CINEMA FILMS.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.").
St-Will you permit a little space for reply to Fed-up" whose letter appears in your valuable journal this morning f
yards and I suppose there was a
For a long time it has been the writer's machinegun every five yards and several conviction that the opinions expressed dotted about in front of the wood. I by Fed-up" 'ATA shared-must be fot one of the camouflaged heimets as a shared by the large majority of sensible of the previous crash when I came down venir. It belonged to a Prussian people, and, firm in this opinion, he is guardsman, a huge, strapping fellow, opening fest-class Cinema Thastre in
FAIR EXCHANGE. NO. ROBBERY.
DUCKS TAKE THE PLACE OF THE "OOF BIRD,”
Some amusement was created at the who was charged with the larceny of a Magistracy, Festerday, when a Chinese,
couple of ducks, informed Mr. C. D. Melbourne that "The European captain of a steamer owed me a menth's wages and, as he could not pay, presented me with the ducks in exchange.
Most absurd," remarked the Magi- strate, no Europead captain would do that."
Inspector Gerrard stated that defen-
at Neuville St. Faast, between Arras and who had been hit just below the nose and Hongkong very shortly at which the pedant bad stolen the ducks from the Yau-
that my had dropped right over bis gun. of "Serial" complained of will be It will remain to be seen noticed that several of these fellows bad barred. in their pockets armlets with the red whether the public supports his venture, eras on them, like those the doctors wear. and prove the accuracy of the opinion
Bethune, The CO. told me nerves weren't nearly good enough to so be stand the strain of scout work alvised me to try night-tying as it is steadier kind of job and not nearly no strenuous. He recommended me for a course in it and I came back bere about 10 days ago to be instructed in the art.
As for accidents, I've been on the go
saw one fellow who actually had one on but evidently our Tommies knew too well that it was a ruse to avoid being shot at and had sniped him.
I got back to our aerodrome and felt
of "Fed-up" or not.
It seems desirable to add two points:- (1) apropos the Conundrum" fer
· our Chinese friends" it is the Chinese themselves who are by far the Principal supporters of "the penny
for two years now and, during that time, dead-beat as I hadn't had any food altareadful" type of "*Movie"; (2) the
I've been down twice on äre, crushed into a tree when doing a hundred miles an hour, been lost at sea, lost in 'a 'Eng.
at T8 year
day since breakfast and it was about 10 when I got back.
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I
I had another similar job to do-to and crashed into a railway bank, crashed go up and letek a fellow who had crashed
ago last January,
in the line in front of Lagnicourt. besides having many forced lapdingset up as far as Lagnicourt in a car. which I've been lucky enough to get away The Hun was shelling pretty heavily- with. So I've had my fair share of illand."after we almost got blown of the luck acestapanied with good luck in. so road. we decided to seek cover until far that I n still alive! I expect to be going back to Erance in about six works as a night-bombing pilot. I'm look ing forward to it as it is quite a good
job.
I get fits of nervousness usually brought on by poor sleeping which is the result of witnessing other people's crashes and thinking about them, too much, I fancy We had most appalling luck while I was with... squadron, we lost 10 fellows week, six of whom were killed for
As for the others, no a certainty. knons yet what their fate was.
I had the very morbid job of going up into the line to identify one of our pilots
in: flames in no-man's land but we
things quietened down a bit. I got hold of a Welsh Guardsman who showed me the way up to the Guards Divisional Headquarters where I ran into a Staff-
Major who was awfully kind and took
Exch
me and my driver into his dug-out for shelter. They were quartered in an old Hun Army Corps Headquarters. It was the most perfect thing in underground residences that I have ever seen. officer had a shell-proof office about six feet below the ground where he worked when the shelling was not too heavy, Lead- ing from that there was a passage down about 80 feet to a dugout which con- sisted of a bed-room and sitting room. a Capt. Bunbury, who had been shot down Id the bed-room was a proper bed, a nice. advanced at that part of the line and little wardrobe, a chest of drawers, and his body and machine were found other articles. All the furniture was of tocks car up as far as possible, in fact polished oak and suitable for any private rather too far. We went down the Arras house. Beside each bed was a table with Cambrai "Road and turned off north to an electric reading lamp on it. In the Monchy-le-proux and going down the sitting-room was a nice easy-chair, an slope out of Monchy, we got shelled a electric store and every modern conveni- bit. They bobbed one on the road about ence. Telephones were fitted in each bed- 20 feet behind the car and we got a few room and office, - bits through the hood. Just then I saw one of our balloons brought down and found out later that it was the next one The conserver got out in his to' Be parachute all right.
present writer has no cognisance what- ever of the identity of "Fed-up,” nor has be directly or indirectly inspired the latter's letter, pleased though he was to see it. I am, sir, yours, faithfully.
H. W. RAY Hongkong. December 9th, 1918.
-** HEATHER DAY.”
CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION BOXES.
mati Ferry boat.
Defendant denied this, adding that bej
was a comparative stranger to Hongkong. Mr. Melbourne sentenced defendant to fourteen days hard labour.
ASSAULTING
EUROPEAN
A CONSTABLE.
"A DESPERATE CHARACTER." At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, a Chinese was charged with being in unlawful posses- sion of two zine buckets and with assaulting P.-c. Hudson with a view to preventing his apprehension.
Inspector Gerrard stated that on Sun- day morning the constable was patroll- ing acar the Taumati railway station and noticed defendant coming towards him carrying the buckets. The constable, tried to arrest defendant, who there The amounts contained in the boxes upon assaulted him. The defendant used at the "Heather Day collection then traversed several streets, but was were as follows, the number of the baserentually arrested by a Chinese detec
tire Defendant was -a desperata being given first in each case:
character and made several attempt to estape. He had given the Folie a lot of trouble.
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$11,888.35
We stayed down in the Major's bed- room till tea-time and then went up to It was about 20 feet the mess-room. below the ground, with "shafte let down to ensure lots of fresh air. The walls It was a Hun balloon that spotted our were panelled with oak, and there were car and ranged a battery on to it. We vases in which they had had flowers. turned and rushed back into Monchy and All the table linen was really good stuE. put the car behind the ruins of a house General Fielding bad tea with us. and the Enns started putting small shelle had had the nearest shave that after- all round it. I started on foot then and noon that he had had in his three years walked about a mile up towards the line in France; a shell had pitched right in through shell-holes, trenches and barbed the doorway of his office where he was. wire--the country is a pathetic sight sitting. but it didn't explode. They just a barten wilderness, gutted from dug it out and found it was a .9.2 in. stem to stern. There wasn't much shell howitzer shell. We had a jolly good ing going on from the Huns I expect tea-hot toast (bustered) and ten out they were too busy getting their guns of a China tea pot and China tea-caps, hack. We were at it strong and the shells all of which had belonged to the Hun were crackling overhead, several to the about three days before. They had minute.
evidently had to move in a huge harry. I found a corporal who directed me to General Falding said that be believed Brigade Headquarters, where I found the that the Kaiser had been a guest there Brigadier comfortably settled in an old at some time which accounted for its Hun deg-out about 100 feet below the splendour, or that he was expected there ground. He told me exactly where the to view a big battle which they contem- machine was so I struggled on, passing plated having if we hadn't upset their astranded took which had been hit plans. I might mention that there were rather badly. I it last ran into a Chap quite a few signs of women having been lain who was out on a search for dead. I
present in the living quarters the Han psseed quite a lot on my way up and is nothing it he isn't thorough The stuck their rifles in the ground upright aansing part was that he left no wide-. by their sides to call the attention of the wine cellar only contained soda the burial parties to them. The padre water and empty cases of French and took me along to Jig-Baw Wood where German wines. the machine I was in search of was, and
In the evening the shelling lessened a we found it after some time, it was poor hit so we found our way up to the place Bunbury and we carried him down to where the machine was, only to find that hollow where they were starting a new it wasn't from our squadron at all. I cemetery and arranged for his grave to
searched round a bit but couldn't fad be dug
All this ground had been won only never heard anything more of the fellow any sign of one of our machines. We've Low hours before, so the padro and I re I went in search of from that day to connoitred the old Hun positions. They this. I expect he was brought" down sean to have held their line at that point the other side of the line and was made with machine-gunners who were installed prisoner if he was still alive, in shell-holes just inside the wood (or I saw Bjust before I left France wather what was once a wood but was he was down charging his wireles in struments at a neighbouring squadron.
then just a mass of stumps and fallen He had been on the go for three days and branches). The gunners had camouflaged nights and looked very fagged. He just stool helmets on and even the shoulders came into our mess for about half an hour of their coats were camouflaged. They and I fixed him up with a good stiff evidently stayed in their positions till he had a long drive before him so it whiskey-it was about 10 at night and the last minute because you could we would doubtless help to keep him warth.
75.99 Proceeds of
$21,944.34 & 220
10.70 55.95 71.55
11.00 18.00 1,165.00
18.40
23.70
21:00
36.25 $28.70 40.10
Defendant stated that he bought the buckets from a marine hawker in Lower Lascar Row, three years ago. He denied assaulting the constable,
*
Inspector Gerrard drew the Magis- £trates attention to the fact that the
backets were quite now.
Mr. Melbourne sentenced defendant. to seven days hard labour on the first
charge, and to 21 days hard labour on the second charge.
ALLIED BANQUET IN TOKIO.
SPEECH BY THE FOREIGN, MINISTER.
The Joint Allied Societies of Japan gave a banquet to the Viscount Uchida, and the Allied Ambassadors and Minis- ters, on Nov. 95th.. There were seven hundred guesta.
Viscount. Uchida said that it was a privilege to speak before. Representatives who were authorized to, represent the great nations which had vindicated the reign of justice in the world. If nations' greatnem were to be measured by no- bility, none would deny the name of great to the nations which had brought low the arrogance of selfish power. The intricacy of modern commerce up to few years ago had interwoven the nations ina web as a band to keep the peace, -but the insensate ambition of the German zulera defied justice, and blasphered the spirit of right. Therefore, within four years, that Empire had been levelled, and the War Lord had become a helpless fugitive. Viscount Uchida paid a warm. tribute to Great Britain, Italy, France, and the United States in fact to all Allied countries drolling especially upen Bussia, which he placed second on the list. He said that Russia had earned an erorizating debt of gratitude which: "under Providence, we hope to repay."" Ea said that France, the eldest child of Europe, was glorious in peace, wonder- fal in distress, and magnificent in vic- tory. While for Belgium, praise was "touched by great reverence. In conclu- sion, Viscount Uchida, said that much might be hoped for from Germany, which wag most truly great when divided into peaceful. German States which could work out their problems in quietude. Ho arged his hearers to meet the future in the spirit of generous mutual regard and self-sacrifica. " Then the family of nations would not be mere phrase, but a simple expression of fact.”-
Bir HL Conyngham Greene replied on behalf of his colleagues. He said in- finence which for a generation had pre- pared dreams of universal conquest, the illusions of militarism had vanished. He saluted Japan as a true and loyal com- fade, and expressed the firm conviction that relation between her and the Allies would continually be strengthened.
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Both speakers received an ovation, es- pecially the British Ambassador, the Japanese, guests, who were largely in the majority, recelving him with tre. mendous applause. Viscount Uchida's| references to Britain and the other Allies, each called out distinet and · generous applause. He made a long reference to Italy's achivements, which, he said, were more splendid than guy-recorded in the annals of Rome, and this received special recognition.
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