CONTEMPORARY
OPINION.
In the Dardanelles.
The following is taken from the Philadelphia Public Ledger dated March 6, 1915-
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The progress of the allied fleets in the Dardanelles has not only a value bearing on the alrategy of the war, but above all, firas the imagination of the world as no thing ele can do in this day and generation
Whether Constantinople comes into the hands of Christian forces, now at its watergates, within this month or not, every one can see that the long-delayed vengeance of centuries is at last mounting to its fiery close, and the placing of the Ornes above the Crescent cannot be long held up.
There is perhaps no stretch of water that is so supersaturate with glorious as well as inglorions memories as is the famous Strait now reverberating to the boom of bostile guns. It is bound up with the most, remote tradition of the race, running back to the earliest days of poosy and pre historic romance. Through ita narrows patred Jason in search of the Golden Fleece and arch-type of all bold pioneers for centuries to come. Within sight of the boats lies the camp of Achilles, and the Hill of Troy, the famed Ilium, rises on the horizon of the invaders! Here it was on these ramparte that Helen looked out,
whose was
"The face that launched a thousand ships
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And burnt the topless towers of Ilinm."
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And it was here that she took old Priem up on the walls, and in the most moving passage in Homer, describing the Grecian leaders, esid:
"Clearly the rest I behold of the
dark-eyed sons of Acbais, Two, only two, I see who walk not among the commanders- Castor, the fleet of the foot, Poly-
dences, brave with the ceatus,' And the poet adds "she, wot not that they, ber brothers, were at rest in the dark ground, in the
And this wa home country."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1915.
THE WAR.
COUNTRIES ENGAGED.
Germany
Austria
Turkey,
against
Britain.
Russia.
France.
Belgiuni.
Јарап. Servia.
Montenegro.
ARMY TERMS EXPLAINED, Army corps is a complete arm
on a small scale in itself. The strength varies from 35,000 to 45,000 men: « Division is a force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, usually with a strength of from 25,000 to 20,000 men... Brigade is a force of infantry or cavalry. The infantry brigade is from 4,000 to 7,000 strong. Tue cavalry brigade is from 1,000 to 2,000 strong. Regiment of infantry is from
2,000 to 4,000 strong.
A
cavalry regiment is from 50 to 1,000 men strong. Squadron of cavalry is from 156
to 200 men strong.
Battery of artillery in the British
and French armies has 6, gans and abour 200 men. La the Gorman Army consista of, 4 gans and 150 men. In the Baasian Ariny it consists of 8 gana and 250 men.
PRINCIPAL EVENTS.
June 28-Archduke Francia Fer-
dinand assassinated, July 23-Austria sends an ulti-
matum to Servia. July 31-Russia ordera general
mobilisation.
Aug. 1-Germany declares war on
Aug.
Russia. French Cabinet orders general mobilisation.
2
German forces enter Luxemburg. Germany de- manda free i assage through Belgium.".
Aug. 4-England sends ultima
tum, demanding observance of Belgian neutrality. Ger-
only the first of sorrows and the beginning of great tragedies Aug. ihar marked the eternal feud belsern Europe and Asia culminating in our time. For Aug.
many
rejecta ultimatum. German troops attack Liege. 5.-England announces a ebate of war with Germany:
-Germans enter Liege.
French Ald.co.
invade
southern
Aug. 8. — Italy realhrms
neutrality.
Aug. 15.-Austrianaenter Servia,
Japan sends altiniátum to Germany.
after Hium faded, Byzantium lam ed, and then, with the divi min of the powera of Imperial B. Constantinopla gemmed The Eastern s'raite, and what with the rise of Greek Obristianity and the new baptism of Rome under the Crusades, the triumphs of the Venetiane, wie seized the Empire of the East in 1203, incident piled on incident and everything that men in and cut of power could do Aug. 20-Germansenter Brussels. to impress their own, and later aug. 23-Germans enter Namor times, was part of the throbbing
and begin attack on Mons.
Aug. 17-itie expeditionary force completes its landing *in France.
Ang. 19-Beginning of battle of
Lorraine,
life of this great centre, until, Aug. 24-British begin retreat with its fall into the hands of the
from Mons.
followers of the Prophet on May Aug. 25- French evacuate Ma 29, 1453, the most humiliating houseo.
chapters in the history of civilisang. 26 Non-partisan French.
Cabinet organised. Germans
tion started to unroll.
"The ebb and flow of the Mos lake Longway, km wave in Europe, now over Aug. 27 Louvain burned by whelming Hungary and reaching|
Germans. Japanese blook-
the gates of Vienna, now con- ade Tsingtau.
tr ced, now exjanded, as rival- Aug. 28-Battle of Heligoland. ric mong Obristian powers gave Sept. 2-German advance reaches the hated Infidel his opportunity;
all re part of that larger history in
which even the New World has its
due alare, since it was the die-
Saulis, thirty miles from Paris, and swings eastward. French Government moves to Bordeaux..
covery of America by Columbus Sept, 3-Russians occupy Lem-
that meant the downfall of the
berg,
supremacy of Constantinople as Sept. 5 Battle of the Marne the great empoiian of the East, begins.
which started the decay of men
and material things which contin- Sept. 7-Maubeuge taken by the
Germans. ues to our day..
With the rise of Russia and har Sept. 12-German retreat halts religions and racial protectorates on the Aisne. over those under the domination Sept. 20 Germans bombard of the Turk osmé the beginning Rheims and injures the famous of the final settlements now under Osthedral. way. Even the foolish diplomacy Bept. 22- German
of the Crimean War in the '508, or the repetition of the blunder of" patting the money on the wrong horse "in the Russo-Tark- ish War of 1877-78, has not been able to check manifest destiny The green flag of Islam is doom- ed to disappear from Europe.
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submarine
sinks British ornisers Abou-. -kir, Creasy, and Hogue, Russiana capture Jaroslav and invest Przemysl.
Sept.
28-British troops from India land at Marseilles... Sept. 28-Germans begin siege of
Antwerp. Oct. 2 Germans defeated at
Augustowo.
Oct, 13 Belgian Government transferred from Ostend to Havre
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Oct. 14-Allies occupy Ypres. Battle begins on the Vistula. Oct. 15-Ostend occupied by
the Germans, Oot, 18-British craiser Hawke aunk by Gorman submarine. Oct. 24-Ten days' battle be- fure Warsaw ends in Germ: u defeat.
Oct. 27 Russians, reoccupy
Lodz and Radom. Oct. 29-Turkey, begins war on Rassia by naval attacks pa Odessa and in the Crimea. Oct.30-Col. Maritz, rebel leader driven out of Cape Colony. Nov. 1"- German naval vistory
off the coset of Chili.. Nor; 3-German squadron makes
a raid on British coast near Yarmouth.
Nov. 4 German oraiser Yorck
strikes mine in Jade Bay Bud sinks.
Nor. 5-England and France de-
clare war on Turkey. Dar- danelles farts. bombarded. Russians reoccupy Jaroslav. Nov. 6-Tsingtau surrenders, Nor. 7-Russians enter Eset
Prussia.
Nor. 10--The Emden destroyed. Nov. 11-Germans capture Dix
mude.
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Goniboura Dec. 13-British submarine sinks the Mersudiel in Dardanelles. Deo. 14-Servisns capture large
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Deo. 2-Austrians occupy Bel. grade. Gen. De Wet captur
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Dec. 18 -Egypt proclaimed a British protectorate. Gen. Botha regarde Boer rebellion &B at BD end.
Deo. 20-26-Severe fighting on
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Jan. 8-French advance across Aisne, north of Soissons.
Suez Canal.
به برخشت
Jan. 1, 1915-British battleship Feb. 6-Allies resolve tɔ noite
Formidable anak in the financial resources. Channel,
Feb. 8-Total British cueaalties Jan, French capture Steinbaob. 104,000. Turks retreat from Jan, 3-4-Russians win decisive Suez Canal.
viotory over Torks in the Feb. 10-Germans execute the Caucasus, Russians overrun rebel Maritz. Bukovina.
Feb. 17-Canadian contingent
Iands in France. Fab. 20-27-Over 10,000" Ger-
mang surrender in France. Feb. 27-Allied Fleet enters the Dardanelles after destructive bombardment. Mar. 1-House of Commons votes supplementary credit of 37 millions and a fresh credit of 250 millions.
Jan. 13-Tarka oooupy Tabriz.
Count Berchtold resigns. "
Jan. 19-German air flest bome
barde Yarmouth and other Norfolk coast towne,
Jan. 21 -General Falkenhayn, German War Minister, resigns.
Jan. 24-British naval victory in
North Sea: the Blucher sunk:
March
8-British seroplanes atteok Ostend. Myroh 9.--Second Canadian cor-
tingent lands in England. March 3-10.-Four German sub-
marines accounted for. Jan, 28-Germans lose two bat-Neuve Ohapelle.
March 10-British captare
talione at Givenoy and Cain- March 14.-Announced that Ger- man losses in La Basses region total 10,000 in three days, March 14. — German bruiser Dresden sunk off Juan Fer- nandes Leland.
oby.
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Ostend.de
begins.
Antwerp ocoupied by the Germans.
the Luccessful repulso of the Frate-British Fleet in the Dar- Oct. 7——Bombardment of Antwerp dancites" tho Bultan has conferred upon Alarahal Von der Goltz the Oet, gold and silver Imties medal, this being the highest military order Oot, in Turkey. Central News!
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ANXIOUS
OVER WAR SUPPLIES.
Dearth of Labour Hampering Work of Equipping Armiis.
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there has been a marked diminu tion in the outout, due in a mess- are to drink, but "on more than one cocasion the failure of work to a high standard had been due to the restrictions of the trade anions." Ho esid he was satisfied that to mention this restriction on the output of war material would remove the difficulties which seriously hampered the London, March, 15. feature of a review of the war progress of reoraiting.
ituation delivered by Earl Kit- The health of the British troops
The
French battleship Bouvet chener in the House of Lords this was remarkably good, said the wank by floating mines in evening was his statement that War Secretary, and a striking Dardanelles. Admiralty an progress in the work of equipping testimony to the value of inocula nounces that it has resson to Britain's new armien had been tion. Speaking of the Russian believe the Karlsruhe was seriously hampered by failure to campaign he remarked that the Bank of the West Indies in get sufficient labour and the neces German attacks were either well November.
sary factory facilitier. The Sacre held or had been driven back. March 19-Russiaraenter Memel,tary of War said do. And
Earl Kitchener said that only The supply of war material is treich fighting had been possible East Prussia. March 21.-Futile Zeppelin raid now, and for the next month or so for many weeks, but that this had will be, a very serious considers not affected the morale of the tion. It is causing me serious British troops. Recent occur anxiety. It is absolutely essential rences in the fight around Nonve March 24-British airmen carry that the output of ammunition be Chapelle and Epinette showed cat successful attack on increased. To do so is of the how successfully the British troops German submarine works at atmost importance to the opera bave been able to take the of Hoboken. A
tions in the field "fensive, March 25,-German submarine Continuing along this subject,
U29-ank with all hands. March 20.-Russian Flest bom
bar is the Bosphorus. Ger- man enhmarine sinks West
March 22.-Przemysl carreaders
to the Russians.
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African liner Falaba.
other contingent.
The Minister of War referred Earl Kitchener arged firms in to the gallantry shown by the certain lines to place their spate soldiers of In 'in, and he spoke labour and machinery at the dis- eulogistically of the Franch army, posal of the Government. He said which, he said, had made im- he considered that men engaged porfant progress at various points March 31-Australia offers an in the supplying of munitions along the line, especially in were surving their country & Champagne, where the soldiers of April 6-His Majesty the King ach as the men in the field and the republic bad given evidence
forbids consumption of that a medal would be issued to of marked tenacity, wines, spirits and beer in workers on munitions of war on The situation in the Dardanel
the successful termination of
les was well in hand, the speaker hostilitie
Earl Kitchener said the Governadian division he said:
declared Beferring to the Can- ment was considering arrangée boken, mente by which armament firms. “They have shown their metile
any of his houses
8.-Prinz Eitel Friederich interned in Norfolk Navy
April
Yerd, U.S.A.
March 16-Sir John French April 12-Kron Prinz Wilhelm should come under Government and received the warm some Ad
pats in at Newport News. control and their employes reap ation of Field Marshal
John Feb. 3-German destroyer sunk estimates German loased in
by Ramisa submarine off 0 La Bamenregion to be 17,000. Announced that second some of the benefits which the French for the i
with which they * Denmark, German suxiliary | March 18. British battleships Canadian contingent will be war had automatically brought to brav foruiser sunk off Fatagonia. Free Trronistible and Ocean and despatched in the near future, their employers. In some cases rpark
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