10:
HOW LONG?!
What the Allies Need.
The Press Bureau bar issned Another communication from a British officer whose work throws him much into contact with the French troops. He writes :-How Jong? The answer is simple. The war with Germany will last until either ber armies are beaten or har nation starved. Germany is "short of wheat now. If measures have been taken in good time- which we must sesame to be the caso, in deference to the admir-i able foresight which has marked all her preparations-Germany can reckon on being able to con tinue the war until the middle of 1916. Can we defeat her army while the 80,000,000 of people are still hungry and before the next barvest is gathered? To this gnortion there oan be but one, reply that we can do it if we have enough men and enough ex- plosives. No line of defence is impregnable; if it can
be
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THE WAR.
sufficiently battered firat, its (Continued from back of page 8.) bapture is a simple, matter; than comes the task of the men, to hold March 3-10.-Four German süb-
it against counter-attacke, and to broaden out the amount of front won. And sinoa these lines "of defence are successive, it means that a continuous and sustained effort must be made, until the enemy has bad enough. Thus the question reduces itself to the number of days that the resources will last out. A general may say "I have enough men to attack on a front of five miles for ten daya: I have enough explosives to keep these attacks going for six days."
marines accounted for..
March
10.-British capture Neuve Chapelle.
MAGE WHICH MAY BE DUE TO THE AUT OF THE KING'S ENEMIES, UN- TILFURTHER NOTICE NO LETTERS BOXES, OR PARCELS FOR HELGIUM BRAZIL, CRETE OK MONTENEGRO AND NO LETTERS, BOXES OR PAR CELS FOR MALTA"CAN BE ACCEPT-
| BD FUR INSURANCE,
Singapore, Lat GenChinese. Phamiui, B.,, 4,268, J. W:Smallwood, 8th fast Yokohama, Gen.-B..
3. Ohenan, Br, aa, 1,355, W. G. Jones, 8th Inat.Shanghai, 4th fast Gen- B & S.
Hokuto Maru, Jap., 9., 2,426, K. Morits, 7th lest-Sourabaya, 1st last. Sugar D. & Co.
X
Chipshing. Br., a., 1,199, T.-M. Meyrisk, 7th inst. Tiantain. 31st ult. Gen. J. M. & Oo.
War risks are not covered by postal Yingshow. Br. a., 1.216, Jones, 8th inst, registration or insuranos.
-Canton, Gen.-B. & 9.
THE FARCEL POST ÅND INSURED. LETTER SYSTEM TO BRAZIL IS SUS- PENDED.
The services to Germany, Austria, and
DEPARTED.
April 6.
Jinson Murn for Robo via Moj
their Colonies, and to the Ottoman Em-Haliotis for Singapore March 14.Announced that Ger-pire are suspended as are also the Parcel man losses in La Basses region Feat services to France & Tsingtau. total 10,000 in three days.
March
14.➡ Gorman oraiser Droaden sunk off Jaan Fer- March 16.-Sir John Frenob
· nandez Island,
:
It is these reserves of men and explosives that France requires from us; it is for us to ensure, by a timely supply of these reserves, that the enemy is defeated and driven back while the German"
estimates German losses in
March 18.-British battleships La Bassee region to be 17,000.
British Postal Orders are now on'snis at the Sal Yung Poon Branch Post Office.
Sungklang for H'phong via H'how&P'hel, Dagun for Haiphong and Bangkok.
CLEARANCES AT THE
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WEATHER REPORT.“
On the 8th at 11.30- Pressure has in- creased quickly over Japan, the Looobose and Formosa, owing to the advance east- wards of the antioyolone, which is now central to the south of the Lonchoos. Do- presses are general over the remainder of the area, more especially over 8. Man- churia, which is covered by an area ofłów pressurs. The depression of yesterday has passed into the Paciffe,
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.00 inchems. FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District.
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The Public are advised to post early as Irresistible and Ocean and danos missing the mail owing to the can- | French battleship Bouvet sorship sank by floating mines in Dardanelles. Admiralty an. nounces that it has reason to believe the Karlsrahe wa sunk off the West Indies in Novembar,
nation is still hungry. If March 19.-Russiansenter Memel, you tell a Frenchmon that s million or more men have been
Est Prussia,
recruited in England since the March 21.-Fatile Zeppelin raid
on Paris,
The Pillar Box formerly, at the junction of Kimberley and Nathan Roads bas been
Sul Kai for E. C. Wan. Yingchow for Suanghal. Taring for Iloilo.
Wonchow for Pakhol via Holhow,
boginning of the war, he is March 22-Przemysl surrederen removed to the junction of Austin Avenue Kashing for Hongay.
greatly impressed, astonished pren, that voluntary efforts should have produced such a force. But
to the Russians,
A School of Midwifery
"for China:
and Kimberley Road..
Malls for Europe via Slboría aronow bg. |ing dispatched from Shanghai, on Tues- 'days at Noon, and Wednesdays & Batur days at 9 para.
Tuesday's dispatch connects with the
if you tell him that the process of putting this army into the field maat be slow, owing to the diffi- cally of producing rillos, guns,
Miss Chow Suicio, a returned explosives, and other necessaries, stulent from England and a he is incredulous. His belief in certificated mid-wife, considera the manufacturing power of Great that the educational institutions Britain is unbounded. If a mile of Wushing are fairly perfect lion men are ready to give their except that a school for teaching Trans-Siberian weekly express at Har lives, are not the remaining mil- the modern scientific ways of bip; the others connect with Post trains, lions prepared to give their receiving the child at birth is Jabour, for a pittance, if need be, wanting. Accordingly, in coa- to attain the end desired? junction with some of her friende,
The requirements of the Allied abe bas started a special school in pondence for New Britain (formerly Until further notios Registered corres- Armies are enormous, and Britain midwifery which will have known as German New Guinea, the Caro- must be, to a large extent, the accommodation for twenty-four line Islands and Marshall Islands) cannot manufactory, the general store, students. Any female students be accepted for transmission.
for the whole. If we are to aged between twenty-five who altempt to keep pace with the can write idiomatio Chinese will requirements, our powers of pro- be admitted and the course of duction must be organised first instruction will be two years. and foremost with a view to pro- National Review. viding what our forces, and those
of our Allies, require to enable
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Wind Direction... NE
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