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THE MARAMA.” - THE CAPTAİN'S REPORT FROM
COLOMBO
The following letter, from the Captain of the Magg, written from Culombo, puts another light on many of the com- plaints from the passengers
as to the scandalous" state of the ship. New Zealand Expeditionary Forces,
H.M.N.Z. Hospital Ship
No, 2. Mamma.
Colour, April 13th, 1919.
The Agents, Singapore.
"
Dear Sir-1 have to report that I
have found is necessary to make Colombo
BEATING THE BULGAR.
THE PURSUIT.
It has been suggested that the Bulgar retirement was caused solely by lowered morat-This was undoubtedly one factor in the case. His adhesion to the Central League was, by this time, a matter of sar more than of loyalty, and of sheer ility to cast himself loose from its Fall Constant calls upon the resources of his country had resulted only is keep ing the wall from the Prussian door, and in the earlier part of last year his men made an appearance as garrison troops on the Western, front. All around him by saw his allies hard pressed and
THE WORLD'S SHIPPING. THE EFFECT OF WAGES ON COMPETITION.
CITY HALL WORK PARTY. CONSIGNMENTS OF COMFORTS TO SIBERIA.
Writing The Daily Telegraph Mr. Daring April the City Hall Work Moreton Frawen says:-Mr. Hurley's Party, received the following:38 shirts. elaborate shipping statisties which are 993 vests, 111 Pyjamas 73.pants, 3 cabled to you to day sggest a formidable overalls (boys), 200 handkerchiefs, competition by the United States in the toad-cases, fly-nets, I scrubbers. days at hand. But seran competition is roller bandages. 591 wany-tailed- very largely, indeed entirely, vontrolled by the rate of wages obtaining on and bandages, 75 pairs sucks, 14 mufiters, 7 States is so phenomenally high that she and that rate in the case ef, the loited knitted waistecats, ar never hope to staff her ships, wicthe warships or merchant marine. The great game of the ocean is not for her: the
The Wesleyan Church Work Party
sent to be packed-49 shiṛta, td womez)'s knickers. 12 food-covers, 39 small mops,
bags,
a port of call, in order to scare more native stewards, the present complement exhausted, while the constant activity of prizes in that land of opportunity archolern-belt.
having proved unable to cope with the work.
the Entente parassed his men to their tmost. Once bis line had been really broken and the turning of his successive
too tempting.
My friend, Mr. Robert Dollar; of the Dollar Line of steamships, which pun the following figures of three sister ships between San Francisco and China, gives
one under American registry, one under
The American
pairs socks, mulers, 1
A quantity of old clothing was also sent in, for which grateful thanks are expressed.
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All the above, with consignments from Our
I am also taking this opportunity to harden up all tanks with fresh water, as an excessive amount has been used in the positivas commenced, his low spirits he has operated during the past year the Naval Yard Work Party last few days, and any reduction of the manifested themselves in no uncertain ritish, and the third under
daily supply would (and did) cause conmanner:
While a chance of escape te
siderable dissatisfaction amongst passer maited he fought well and stubbornly, hand with a complement of Little Bit Society." and the Catholic
gers.
Several deputations from the passengers have come to me with various complaints, some of which were worded in very strong and decisive terms. I have reason to believe that most of the grumbling ori- ginated amongst a very minority of the passengers.
ndds
40 Siberia. April 15th, 1915.
hut when retirement became inevitable through the closing of the jaws which the French, and Serbs were preparing for him on the one hand and the British on the other, be wasted no time in with drawing anything that could be left be. hind as long as he himself escaped
His dumps of all sorts were destroyed, As time does not permit me to enlarge his aerodromes blown up with many of on all of these deputations I will confine their machines, his hospitals Bred, the myself to describing the one which called main Salonika Uskub railway rendered on me in the forensen of the 13th instant useless for at least a month. His trench Their complaints were presented to me stores were left in places almost intact in the form of a typewritten letter. It his observation posts when entered by contained the following statements (I our men still contained their charts and quote from memory) :-
instrumenta; every evidence was given (1)That in the opinion of this cum-
mittee, the ship is in a grossly that the carefully planned organisation of his withdrawal was hurried and ham insanitary condition.
pered by the rapidity of our movements. (2.)-That the ships is overcrowded. (3)-That this committee demand that On the night of September 1st-22nd the ship call at Colombo, andur men received the order to advance. there be inspected by the health Through Oberghel they went, and ever Authorities, before proceeding fur- the Pip Ride towards Bogdana, and on
"PEGS" IN THE EAST. the right to Doiran, through which three towns ran the Bulgar, three main lines
In Britain, although the grip on com As they pressed forward, of retreat.
as before, with. of the nation goes on though they found food, stores, material, oditics is lessened a little, the sobering ammunition, the Bulgar was nowhere it must be ecnfessed, excellent results bone-dry.." для i admitted that the ship's providore be seen. Indeed, judging from the in- We have not sed. department was andermanned, and an.creasing quanty of debris and mani-America proposed to become, but there is abio to cope with the huge and uaforeseer tions which strewed the ronds. the retire atill the same dißculty in buying a bottle ! amount of work that had arisen, owing ment was turning into a reut chiedy to the number of more or less helpless women and children on board. and contended that most, if not all, of the dissatisfaction that had arisen was
to this shortage.-
sent to the League. Were cost him $3,720 Women's rather, 2800 at the new rata British Red Cross in Vladivostock. of exchange) per month: the British, with
Le
The following letter has been received month the thirty-six hands,
hy Mr. Stalb:- A hands, £153 Japanese, with #month.
that in 1913
Headquarters. the perennerican
Eritish Military Mission, operating
on the Pacific was 28.1, and of Japanese 26.05. It has now dropped to Americas 1.97, is against 30.60 per cent. for Japanese,
DRAR MADAM-On behalf of General In 1910 the percentage of American goods carried in American bottoms was 0.5 per Knox and the British Military Mission
but in 1914 that. had fallen to a fraction of 1 per cent. (D7). Again, the may I tender you sincere thanks for the fall at. hand in sterling exchange will of itself bonus our freights and our exports
cases of comforts, etc., received by to America, and will penalise Amérien the War Charger," through "Ordnance, here. The competition on the ocean we have to reckon with is the growing com-
Hongkong. petition of Japan-Japan immensely en riched by the war, and about to be a large purchaser of American tonnage, and also the competition of the rules lów.
ther
on her voyage The committee stated that they east no reflections on the ship's personnel. I said that bad they wanted to do so they could net have "warded their complaint better for that purpose.
duc
ал
BIONS OF A ROCT.
J
They have been handed over to the Canadian Red Cross for disposal up- country at an early date.
May I say how deeply your kindly thought and generous glits are appre riated by all here --With all good wishes, sincerely yours,
T. A. ROBERTSON,
Major). D.A.D.O.S., British Military Mission.
The of spirit, stout, or beer, as last year. In the East, however, you seem to be better off: An Indian Exporter in a letter to The Times tells us we would
different matters are on your side. And vinces) (Beluding the Rhine Pro-
On
same which had been lost to the co
(e) Prices
of
Hungary,
containing
LS IMPORT REGULATIONS.
American Consul-General bus received instructions from Washington Undamaged guns made their appear
indicating that hereafter, under a general ance by the roadside, and enormous
import licence known as "P.B. F. No. 37," quantities of discarded infantry equip ment. A complete steam relles, the fires the o insist on an alteration the importation into the United States from all countries except With regard to statement number one, of which had marcely cooled, was left in the state of affairs, did we know how will be I absolutely denied that the ship was in standing on the very patch of road on he asks the following:-() Quantity of
Luxemburg, and those unsanitary condition, and in doing which it had been working. Carcases of
under Bolshevik control, so I was backed up by both my medical horses, mules, and even lay as they had whisky, exported annually, 1913 to 1918, of all commodities except the following Sugar, wheat. officers.
As to the statement of overcrowding dropped. The most personal possession to India and Crown, Colodies. (b) Dutyntrolled commodities:-
wheat Bou
tin, tin ore, vin con- was able to produce the Sgures apperttan of those employed behind the line were United Kingdom Exchequer.
ining metal alloy centrates in the Bombay and tin, including sin dresses, tin ing to other, and longer, voyagen than the abandoned in their dag-outs and billets of the "peg" present one, which proved that we had And so the rout increased. As cur mes Calcutta Clubs and of astengah in solder dresses, type, metals, and other
more patients than the followed bot on the scent, ther the Singapore and Pecate Clubs. (d) metals camied over
nitrate of soda 100
tin; eager to notice the habits and habitats number of passengers now on board.
that Ted' in Canada; salver- matter ended by the commitee of "Johnny," for whom they entertain-natives), ever to tal ballasts and and nitrats of potash, emery and emery wilkdrawing these charges, apologising. ed a sort of sacaking affection. The Bul. natives) ever had to ask twice in above are, except
дла therefor whisky (e) How much whisky has been substitutes
equivalents for their letter, and asking me to refur gar front line was of enormous strength, places for a drink or even a bottle of sap, nonsalvarsan, atsphenamine, and all same to them, which I accordingly did, provided with deep concrete dug-outs of sank at sen in vessels-bound eastward thereof; dyes und dyestuffs, including dye and the matter ended at that
remarkable comfort and immune against (f) Has exported whisky been 25 U.P.
bases, cruces intermediates, potash It is
beyond question that a number the heaviest shell bre. Ghevgheli, which whilst we have had to be content with except that dyer and dyestuffs and of
the female
passengers are in a semi-
barred the way to the upper Vardar 30 D.P. whisky? If he added a few do not require individual licences when Kingdom, invalid condition and so require 100 Valley, was converted into a veritable words about the good supply on ocean France, Italy, Belgium of Jap siderable amount of Most of
Japan or their them are unused to fendiaz for them fortrees; an impenetrable forest of wire liners, he would have made the mouth possessions; and a commodities which and have therefore been put to consider. surrounded Doiran town, while a fear of our almost tolal abstainers water a
bave been produced or manufactured in ture of his system was the enormous little more still. Bat I suppose you have Germany or Hungary irrespective of the ber of pill-boxes which strewed every and your dificulties for, talking to an present location of such commodities. approach.
officer yesterday who throughout the war. These instructions supersede all re
The production of last Christmas Day was the first he could import licence remember when he had not had cham pagne for dinner.--Times of Ceylon.
able,
must say
that
Behind his line in such parts as were has been kept in. Indin, he said that vious instructionbers is not necessary
"
Board,
announce that hereafter declarations and quired before certifying invoices, certificates of interest are no longer re-
The excessive baggage, labelled Want
and unavoidable, discomfort. ed on Voyage and demanded by the passengers to be left in the wards, have been the cause of annoyance, to the pas cultivable, the Bulgar had been busy sengers themselves, na well as to the exect many well-tended gardens, adding plea
from this data before the certification of invoices at the Consulate General for any tiveble, for the stewards to keep the bully and bistaits.
and made it difficult, if not im-sant luxuries to pur men's unpalatable In the matter of
commodity whatsoever, but shippers ara wards up to their usual standard of bi'ets, too, the Bulgar had shown indus
that individual import licences cleanliness and comfort. With a view to try and resource, and the most enter
are still necessary to secure entry into providing a reedy to this I am now prising efforts on our site of the line at the summit of this pass that the Bub United States of the above-mentioned on only absolutely necessary were easily surpassed in ingenuity and gar made his only stand. His line was controlled commodities, except that (A)
wheat flour baggage, being kept in the wards, and comfort. Many buildings were of a substantially the same as that from which wheat of
consigned to the United States Grain Corporation may be am having the remainder so stowed a suficiently permanent character to solve te shelled our own retreating Tenth Divi. to be available daily, I
under P.B.F. 19, and (B) all Toportetrics
whatsoever in transit most of the passagers have given us all the housing problem on this frontier for sion in November, 1915; but Bow the
tables were turned. No sooner were his through the United States may be he assistance they could to help things many years.
fret the general feeling was that guns in position than he found himself der B.B. 15, and (C) all commodi along, and I feel confident that if this spirit was more in evidence there would the Bulgar bad proved himself a much again outflanked by the Serbs, who had tics may be imported into the United be really no- 1
more go-ahead person than we had im- entered the Stramitza valley west of the States possessions under P.B.F. 2 when for complaint reason Before, arriving bere I communicated agined him to be, but as the back areas town, and he was forced back by a single for consumption and not for tranship- by wireless with you, and as you know were reached the motive force was re British charge.
ment, as heretofore, The town of Strumitza we entered with it has been imposible to secure more than vealed. "The notice and direction boards
General Import Licence F.B.F. 37 and fourteen reliable Cingalese stewards. turned gradually from Bulgar to Ger out resistance. Indeed, the Bulgar in these instructions are the result of the I have also to report the death of James man, German hospitale, and non-combat, habitants themselves welcomed as, for not suspension enemy trade restrictions Robert Glen Anderson aged 10 months, ant unita began to give evidence of their only had the retreating German troope heretofore announced, and they supersede on the morning of the 11th, instant presence, and by the time we entered carried of all food supplies and every all former instructions concerning te Death was due to hyperpyrexia.
The
Cestovo the German, and not the Bulgar, piece of machinery from the town, so that import restrictions of the War Trade body was buried at 9.15 a.. the same
had very evidently been in pośression. not even a sewing machine was left, but The Consulate-General is also able to day, in Lat. 5 degrees 38 minutes north,
Cestova lies in a valley, in which the their own troops had repeated the Ger Jongitude 87
97 degrees 11 minutes east. I hope to leave this port at-1,30 pm. three roads from, the old front converge man pillage on what little remained. The this day en route for Suez, and trust to All the retreating Bulgar and German town was stocked to overflowing with have a successful passage...
troops from the British front passed cheap German trinket ware and with In conclusion I would like to state that through the enormous dump which had nothing else. Down the Strumitza Valley with regard to all complaints touched been established there, and filed past the the Bulgar retreated space, harassed hi upon," 1 am
making
CANTUN NEWS. accusation against palatial headquarters of the 2nd Bulga every turn by our cavalry and airmen no one in particular and merely mention rian Army, with its newly erected, com By our occupation the whole of his
CANTON, May 12th. the matter in order that you may fully fortable villaa, like a miniature garden Strams army was threatened, and the appreciate the situation. The minority city, for the officers, and spacious swim- Greeks, though so far they had done little PEACE CELEBRATIONS.
At a recent meeting of residents on alluded to in the third
of this ming baths and other luxuries for the in that sector, were only too anxious to paragraph letter is chiefly. composed of the more men. From there the road forks to the push forward. To the west the First Bul Shameen to consider the best methods of wealthy passengers and those who are in left into the Vardar valley, in which the garian Army was separated from thas celebrating peace, it was decided that on the day of the celebration, (1) guna health, and who might easily have Serb cavalry was already on the way to opposite us, and was fecing before the should be fired by the gunboats in the stayed behind until a more suitable ship, Urkub, on the one hand, and Sofia on French and Serbs, together with the morning, (2) an open-air meeting should from their point of was available,
of people who the other; and to the right, over the steep Eleventh German Army, which was has be held in Sharneen, and other meat- The remainder, com lew
home, are more or Kostarino Pan, across the top of which tening to join the Austrians in Albania ings in various Chapels, in the afternoon, runs the Bulgar-Serb frontier, and into Every approach to Bons was turned, and (3) the guards of the Military Govern- less content to put up with existing con- ditions, and are only to glad to be on
the Btramita valley, along which the Serb cavalry within twenty miles of the ment should parade on the Eastern board. I am, yours faithfully
Strumitza River flows east, joining the town, where martial law was proclaimed. Parade ground and (4) there should be ar
fireworks The crisis in the political sphere was no exhibition of
night. . (Sd.) R. M. ADWELL,
8truma above the Rupel Pass, P Master
YESTERDAY'S PUBLIC MEETING. BULGABE ONLY STAND. "
Leas acute tban in the military, and the Y Along this latter road, then, tramped peasants were ready for revolt.
The people in Canton held public Capitulation was the only way out. In
meeting in the Tung Yuen Garden yester The Commission of Inquiry into the dif the dispirited cotainns of Bulgar troops ferences which at present exist at Sings and transport. In the Kosturino Pass, the early morning of September 20th all day to discuss the decision of the Peace Conference rengusand people attended. where no escape is pomible, our Bero troops were ordered to stand fast. Short
Tsingtao. More owners of certain pore between the
hundred vessels.engaged in the local trade and planes, by their repeated bombing, causly afterwards the enemy "representatives After the meeting the people, marched to the deck officer and engineers serving inled tremendous havoc, and when our men travelled through our lines in cars, The the headquarters of the Military Govern
scene was nauseating in its following ences and the steps that should be taken litter of mutilated dead, burning wagons, No Greek or Berb troops were to enter with a view to their adjustment, will be and abandoned and overturned guns Bulgaria as Army of Occupation that composed of the following: The Hon. From what was left one could reconstruct was the point on which the Bulgar, re Mr. AM Pountney, (president). Hon theb horror those bombing squadrons ofmembering his own atrocities, seemed Mr. R. J. Addie, Messrs N. M. Beck, Hours caused in the densely-packed line of most immediately anxious. It was the H. Brown, C. E. Craig, H. Duringer, WBulgars, and how greatly they must have British and French who again went for A. Gamble, WG, Hennings, Les Hoon contributed in all stages of the retreat to ward. But what subsequently happened Lecng, Lim Chin Guan, J. B. D. Old his demoralisation. Nevertheless, it was to the Salonika army is a chapter as yet man, and J. M Bime"
C (Continued at foot of next odlumn.)
unfinished,
than a
and the Military Government promised to do what it could to bring about a more satisfactory settlement of the question.
A NEW BANE.
The Japanese in Canton are forming a new bank in Shameen. The banic is to be named The Bouth China Bank, and will have branches in Taiwan, Singapore, and other places.,