THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1918.
U.S. SOLDIERS AND BRITISH BEER.
A WAR PICTURE.
Dr. Fort Newton Maintalas His
Charges.
The Coavent of Whispers and Sighs.
HISTORIC WAR EXHIBITION.
Over 2,000 Novelties at Royal Academy.
which was opened recently the The Imperial War Exhibition, Royal Academy by Lord French,
BRITISH VOLUNTEERS. "TA'ALIM EL ALEMAN." were fording rivers they were not DIED UNDER ARREST.
Satisfactory-Figures from Japan.
(By Alured F. Ozanné)`
allowed to drink.
The writers of the report Enquiry into Unusual Case. finally lay great stress on the An enquiry was! haid-by A bush is over the french ares;
fact that the Turkish community ED. U. Wolfe, at the Magistror it is the tensa watobful stillness
blames Germany alone, for these this afternoon, into eircumstances Dr. Fort Newton replied re of the evening "stand-to." From
outrages. "Turka and Arabi attending the death of a Clinics, cently at the midday service af behind the low ridge in the rear
“Taʼalim el "Aleman" in the slike shake their heade in dies fish market employee, which the City Temple to the criticisms of the British lines the moon is which have followed his reference rising, fall and distended, ting in the absence of the Duke of Con-ville, Military Attache to H.B.'s
Lient Colonel John C. Smer Turkish tongue siguifice "the approval, and do not conceal their took place under rather auntual
tears when they see a convoy of circumstances on February 12, last Sunday to the sale of drinking the low-lying clouds with its naught, who was suffering from Embassy in Tokyo, has written to teaching of the Germans," and it exiles marching through the city, Mr. Leo D'Almada appeared so
cold, is the most comprehen- the Kokusai News Agency :-* in England to Ameriosa soldiers. yellow glare, and slowly revealing
was this phrase that the Turks the Turkish soldiers using ondgela represant the widow. “ "It is a candid and courteous the desolate horror of the battle war relics and trophies, weapons received through the Kotassior of the a me nisu masses nancy and upon dying people follows:-Mesars F. E. Hall, F. sive and interesting collection of "With reference to a telegram employed in accounting for the apon women in advanced preg The jury was composed as appeal," he explained, to the ravaged groand.
and appliances, models and Regter service and published British sense of fair play, to help On the crest, the little clams
who can 'no' longer drag A. Perry, and S. A. Sephor us on behalf of the boys who have of trees clipped of their foliage by pictures, which has so far been
in *the prese, whereby its from 1915 onwards. The themselves along. They can- Bis Worship, in outlining the come to in your boys in this the German shells, stand like available to the public. It has
That appeare
question authority for this statement is a not- bellave that bean organised by the Joint War
their case, said that the deceased was great conflict
Indinu totem poles against the
WAB uskad in Parliament German subject. Dr. Kartis Niep Government base ordered these employed at Stall No. 28, Whe In the first place, I want to glowing sky; and sa this moon rests Cross Socisty and the Order of hy large numbers of British ge, a Higher Grade Teacher in Germana responsible for all sach he had seen, it appeared that the
Committee of the British Red. by a Liberal Member, Mr. King,
atrocitice, and they hold the tern Market. From the reports help you to winderamand the its greatest breadth on the American point of view. We hold skyline, a broken gabie, stands St John with the help of Sir subjecta of military age were all the German Technical School at outrages, Germany being con- deceased was arrested for street that if the Government has the out in silhouette against it. Alfred Mend, M. P. (chairman of owed to remain in Japan and Aleppo. His experiences at Aleppo sidered Turkey's schoolmaster is gambling, and that whilst on his right to conscript a map, to take The radiance picks off the the Imperial War Museum). The his time, his very life if need be, outline of the rest of the building profits will go to the Red Cross Tero not made to join the Army," during a period of nine months, everything. Even the mallsha way to the Police Station be had I should be much obliged if you from September 1915 to May pot the Sablime Porte but the relations, however, maintained in the mosques say that it was a heart attack and died, Bis It has the right to acuscript his showing up the roofless wings, faode.
would give pa blivity to the follow- conduct and keep him ft to do the broken walls and windows, as
As the axbibits number well ing faote, for the accuracy of 1916, inclusive, have been chroni German officers who ordered the that he was not gambling, bat his work.
over 2,000 it is impossible to refer though the fire which had caused
cled by him, and his pamphlet is ill-treatment and destruction of leaving the market as usual after: "Hence our regnisticne make their rain were still smouldering is a little green, red, and brown jacta resident in Japan who have ment of German" Government
to more than a few. Among them which I osa vonch:-
"The number of British sub-probably the macat soothing indict-the Armeniang."
basinese, with a bag of money. it a criminal offence for anybody red within. Something in the tricolour, high on a wall with
This report was sent by Dr. They allege that he was stopped to sell liquor to any man wearing shape of those illuminated win
a
honourable member."
at
cities. The food is not there. We darkened cornere, and unft sigh large bottles of filtered water FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN.Government had branded the those who had been in the other have been likely to have caused
are having meatless days, wheat-inge in the gloomy corridors; 88 found in German officers' dagonis Less days, engarless deya, denying though the souls of tender aans ourselves, not grudgingly but watched among the tuine, and are to be found among the
gladly in order to ava fool to send to our Allies. In that way, and in no other, 400,000 tons was Bent in December alone. England has certainly mide great pro- grees, and it seems a pity to take a back tract and increase the
miscellaneous exhibits. A "Sai-
marned the destruction of their cide Carner" quiet sanctuary. So the place fire swept has come by its name; and the name bas held it inviolate.
a
The building takes the form of main block with sbatting winge, the two outer forming an
In one corner is a historic little
output of brewery supplies." anbroken facade with the front batter.
the uniform of the Army or Nary.dows brings back a memory of many other flags-the first Tank(for the greater part at their own/methods ever written. Certainly Niepage to the German Embassy by certain persons who demanded On this side you cannot enforce country church lit up for theg. A small table, once highly pense or with the help of the it loses none of its value fromjst Constantin ple. It was sup- money from him. He resisted British community) gone home to the fact that its author is no plemented by some gruesome and was struck, and that, having such regulations. But we want you evening service. It is the Con- polished, but now dimmed and join the forces since the outbreak disaffected Teaton, labouring photographe displaying piles of a weak constitution, the excite to help us to do so. All boys whetvent of Whispers and Sighs.
evratobed, was used by Sir Douglas of the war is 175.
andar some real or imaginary corpeee, among which starring ment and strain accelerated hin her American or English ought to
Baig for map work during the No one goes there during the battle of the Somme. A man whose families are domiciled in of the Kaiser, occupying a crawling about. Similar reporta
"The number of those serving grievancs, but a patriotic subject children still alive were seen death. be able to regist every possible night-time. The big roomy, acript book with a
Dr. Macfarlane spoke to having templation, Most of them are, but cellars could bouse a battalion bale in it was being used ontbreak of war, is 93.
jagged
Japan, but were elas where on the official position in a country came from the German Consulates made a post-mortem examination. not all, so we must not set traps. but the British have never used for recording messages by a young
which, he naively hopes, will be at Aleppo, Alexandretta and He found no external injuries, to catch the loose feet of those them. The owle which hoot
"In addition to these, the influenced solely by Germany Moeal. The German Embassy at but the heart was in a very diseas who fight a weakening will; we mournfully from its tamble down when he was killed by the place themselves as willing to go if French, English and Russians." whatever of these reporta.
wireless operator on a drifter number who have registered
"after the elimination of the Constantinople took no notice ed condition. There was serious muat help them."
recesses, and the bata which of shell which struck the book called
degeneration of the main artery "When the increase in the come sweeping down the ridge As he fell forward his pencil Government ie 325.
012 by His Majesty's Dr. Martin Niepage returned to Meanwhile Dr. Niepage and from the heart. His opinion was patpat of the breweries was an in the twilight, biot of along traced a long, unsteady line down
Aleppo in September 1815, after his colleagues set to work in an that death was due to heart nounced," he went on, "is filled established immanity of their the page. In another case is two first categories who have been Beitous. He then heard, for the agonies of the Armenian exiles. Questioned by Mr. D'Almada,
"The number of those in the three months' vacation. at the people of America with swage reating places from the presence ledger which the Germans ased tilled in setion is 48.
attempt to alleviate the death failure. ment. They know the food sitas of man.
first time, that a new phase of That they did, their beat is witness said that deceased might tion in America, Perhaps you do The place is rather out of the Peronne to record (in English
"I venture to think that, when Armenian massacres had begun, proved by the fact than six mem- have lived for some time if there not. I have before me the report way to be used conveniently for from the British front.
intercepted wirelees
messages the small eise of the British com- and that these massacres threatenbera of the German Technical had been no excitement. Witness of the Food Commissioner of accommodating troops. But the
munity in Japan and the length ed to eclipse all the outrages per School staff died from Spotted- aaw no signs of a blow aver the United States in which he tells soldiers hint of another reason.
A collection of camouflaged and expense of the journey home petrated under Abd-ul-hamid. Typhas, seqaired ín these the heart. He was told there us that every grain of wheat that Buld spirits who have strayed figures, showing the olever dia- are considered, the shove statis. The now-effort aimed at nothing guises by which snipers make tice in themselves form a sufficient short of the extermination of the can be spared from the cron of within its walls, have returned themselves resemble earth or reply to the question asked by the whole Armenian race. Saiz ng German Government into some accelerated death. Assuming that Aleppo. had been a struggle, and any In his endeavour to shame the excitement would possibly have 1917 bas already been sent to Eugawed aud reverent, to tell land and France. There are sugar their
German grace;
and British comrades of strange battlefield signposts; and wine
upon a few instances of trifling sort of action, Dr. Niepage goes the man was unlawfully arrested, quenes is New York and other whispering beard in the
provocation on the part of one or on to relate the experiences of the excitement would, of course, bottles, provision baskets, and
two individusle, the Turkish i
provinces. An engineer work death. It was possible for a man entire Armenian population in
Log on the Bagdad railway re.to be struck and show no bruises. Asia Minor as dangeroas spies, ported that he bad esen.
The constable who made the and had ordered the deportation signpost from Rude Treatment Complained Of. of the Armenians en masse to the corpses of violated women ly. arrest said he saw a crowd of Wyteahsate, is also to be seen.
Kemmel, opposite
ing about naked in beaps on the people near the new Western deserts of Arabia..
railway embankment at Tell Marke: on the night in question. In Aleppo there are many oar- Abiad and Rea-el-ain. Another They, were playing "fan tan,”and- The treatment of some fat-avaneersia, and Dr. Niepage engineer states, that he has seen as he approached they sonttured. with a British flag which flow nection with a motor-car accident some of these and use things gether, fire. Beveral valleys of money from a piece of matting collection of relice from Verdun eigners in Yokohama in con- thought it worth his while to visit Tarke tie Armenian men to The deceased was picking up from the citadel during the great is related in the Japan Gazette, for himself. He tells me that small shot with fowling pieces putting the
money in the Dr. Newton was asked after the It is linked up behind by a high Lord French, in opening the not mentioned, were driving in a crowded
The foreignere, whose names are the caravanserais were literally into the msa, and go of laughing bag (produced). On witness Bervice by 6 representative of wall, enclosing a large garden, exhibition, said if the exhibita motor-car along Leezaki-cho when Armenians who had been left ed in frightful convulsions." The latter agreed to go the station, dead and dying while their victims slowly perish going up to the deceased, the the Daily News whether he and airing an air of privacy to were properly studied the whole the madgaard struck a sailor and behind by the convoys. In the German Consul at Masul related windha putting him ander arrest. would oare to make any addition the place in keeping with its re-nation would be better educated knocked him down. Isozaki-cho, immediate vicinity of the German that on the road from Moral so When actually arrested the bag to his addrees by replying to ligions foundation. Fire has gath to the terribly difficult problems which is generally known among Technical School there were four Aleppo he had seen children's of money was in deceased's hand.
Borutator's" letter in the Timer,ed the interior, little else than the In this letter it was pointed out stout stonework remaining, and wine bad faced on commandera the foreigners is. Thestre Birect, such caravanserais, in which seven hande lying, hacked, of in such As they were going to the station, that he is apparently not aste the stamps of joists and rafters, in the war. Expressing pleasure owing to the large number or eight hundred Armenians were numbers that one could have the deceased tambled down. that his suggestion for catting washed of their char by frequent Goard of Honour of the Artists' situated in the
at having been received by s of places of amaasmens dying of starvation. "We teacheze paved the road with them.
Asked what was the matter, the brewing supplies in two, as in the raine, speak of a confiagation Bifles, Lord French said that this fare, is,may be
thorough and our pupils had to pass them The total extermination of the deceased made no answer, and case of mest, has been already many niontha before the coming more than met by a reduction of the British. Beport has it that corpa had done glorious service always very crowded, the narrow we went out we saw through the of the Turkish Government. In ricksha.
noted, every day" he writes. Every time Armenians is abripusty the aim witness sont P. O, (C), 69 to get Decessed WES "from 36,000,000 barrels to the convent was given to the fire in the war. They rendered him sidewalks being quite incapable open windows their pitiful forms May 1916 twenty thousand exiles, alive then. He, with other's 14,000,000 barrels, and spirits in the first days of invasion, and help of a special kind in regard of have been cartailed in a etail the appearance of the chapel, the to the provision of officers which traffic. The sailor, according to In the mornings our school Bagdad railway, were slaughtered Station, but when they arrived sccommodating the foot emaciated and wrapped in rags, encamped at Basel-sin on the pushed the rickshs to the Central proportion," He stated, however, stone vaulted roof of which had
the story disappeared in the children, on their way through to the last one. Handreds of the man was dead. Deceased did that he would not reply to an beld of the sacrilegious flames,
crowd, so he was presumably not the narrow street, had to push thousands of deported, women not reaist, but witness thought it anonymoon writer.
lenda osloar to the story.
have been only just enacted. No bart, but for some unexplained past the two-wheeled oz carts, on and children were left at that was necessary to take hold of The merk of the looter is every-shell had burst within that reason the foreigners thought it which every day from eight to ten time on the borders of the deceased's collar. where. Images have been prized chamber. The destruction is necessary to go to the nearest police rigid corpees, without coffin or Mesopotamian Desert, where for
The case was adjourned until from the walls, the golden leave the work of Germans. The box, where the number of the car shroud, were carried away, their a season they tried to keep body to-morrow. and balos placked from the little progress of decay dates it back at was given and the driver's came, urma and lega trailing out of the and soul together by picking saints beneath the broken glass least two years. And the French The story here geis very confused, vehicle."
LETTING A GODOWN, grain ant of horse-droppings. In domes by the alter, and the and English came this way only the police apparently wanting to tion between the various armies, cabinets behind, where the sacred two months ago.
take the foreigners somewhere in
The worthy doctor was some fact the German Consuls in Asia the attacks on Lung's troope veerele were wont to be stored, Another doorway at the further their motor-car, with the sailor, what worried by this state of Minor, have estimated that in the Rent Claim In Summary Court, affairs."Amid much surround-course of nine months over, one ▲ case was heard at the Eum- were not marked by comriete have been wrenched violently end opene on a long stone who had turned up again,clingings," he aska," how are massaored by the Tarkish soldiers. Mr. Justice Gomperts, in which million Armeniana: have been mary Court this afternoon, before success. The Tachan therefore open sed the contents removed. corridor, ranning the whole ing on the footboard. To this tesoheta to read German Fairy has ordered a rearrangement and Only one stair is left, leading length of the unner wings, and the foreigners objected as the car Stories with our children, or The latest gridence to hand Shin Yet him and Shia Yam-Ion, all the commanders at the fronts to the opperstorey. The flooring serving numerous small rooms on was too small. However what indeed, the story of the Good comes for Heary Riggs, an ened the Exile Garage Co., for are ordered to carry out the plan. on either side of the narrow stone either side which look down more to the purpose is that the Samaritan in the Bible?" He American Missionary at Kharpat, the sam of 8884 for the rent of
Two military, office, with landing has disappeared, but on the walled-in garden. It is police seem to have failed to afford therefore consulted with his Asia Minor. His report is as a godown. about 100 soldiers, aarroarded a directly opposite is & doorway the pleasantest part of the the foreigners any protection colleagues, Dr. Graeter and Fran recent ar October 1917, and he Mr. A. M. Preston appeared for house inside the city early on the leading into a stone built room. building, and the fragments of against the crowd which assem Marie Spiecker, with the result fally corroborates all that Dr. plaintiff and defendants were re- morning of the 12th, and sirested A stench of decaying materiel, silk blondes atill hanging in the blod, and which, to beguile the that the trio drew up a lengthy Niepage has said. He asserts presented by Mr. W. B. Hind. a man named Wong Chin-ying like the concentrated odour of a presses of one or two of the rooms time, began to yell and spit at report on the situation for the that by this time the Armenian The contention of the plaintif on suspicion in connection with thousand old clothes shops, comes identifies this portion as the them. Finally the party arrived Ching Pih-kwong's murder. through that doorway. For the convent school. The floor of the at the laezaki-cho police station information of the German Em- population has been practically is that he let the whole of the
bassy at Oonstantinople,
premises of defendants.st a rent A reconnoitring army from room was once the convent store-coavent is littered with rabbish, where one of the policemen is Lak Wing-ting, of sight bitt room, and in the capboards and and in the neighbouring rooms said to have pushed some of the cribed as a heartrending docutio slanghter?
This report may well be des Did Germany order this gigan of $240 a month, Defendants We can only deny this, contending that they alions, has arrived at Kwai Yasng on the shelves the stored Tast-cupboards have been broken into party about in a rude manner.
mant. Its authors draw their make answer that, on the testi-only rented the bottom floor and and will proceed to Nat Lain on meats and symbols were carefully and overturned as though by men There is no doubt some reason government's attention to the fact mosy of the German officials had nothing to do with the rest the sath border of Kwangsi laid away. But the cupboards whosearched in haste. The smash for complaint; bas the story would that out of convoys amounting to who were on the spot three of the godown. They only are now broken open, the shelves ed in doors of some of the rooms bear re-telling ingre closely with some three thousand Armenian. things are abundantly clear: occupied the ground floor, under. A notice issued by the higher ripped from their fastenings, and show that the search had the names of the foreigners, walch, which left the plateau, only three fires that the German Gor standing that the rest was for #Judicial · Department states the holy raiment flang kase deep been conducted against unwilling presumably, there is un reason hundred survivors reached Alep ernment was officially informed $140 and taxes, Defendente
that as the former chief of the on the door, torn and trampled occupants, and one thinks of the for with holding.
po. The reason for this was that and kept fully posted paid into Court 3504, being three Department refaces to surrender on as though a wild ball hadavagery displayed in the store.
the men had been slaughter as to the s progress of base months rent and axea at 3140.. the brass seal, a new one has been wreaked its fury there; and room, and shudders.
the WAT
Way, and the atrocities; secondly, that the Ger made and the old one is declared throughobinke between the bricks
One of the plaintiff brothers of the antended roof the rain-
To-Morrow's Flower Show, anacelled
women and girls with the man Government knew well that gave evidence to the effect that Li Io-bon, the Civil Governor, water sa dripped and turned the
In spite of the adverse season thees who are 'etul children had them to hara
szception of the old, the ugly and the Turkish people considered he had an interview with Mr. been the Ellis, the manager of the file left for Shin Eling on the evening whole mass into a coloured cor-
which growers have had to pon- been violated by the Turkish originatore of these outrages: and Garage Company, His (wincesa) of the 18th. It is believed that raption
the long dark corridore, seemed tend with, there is an exceptional Soldiery and carried away to thirdly, that the German Govern elder brother told him the rent of he will sood his family back to In a corner nesrest the door to be laden with sighs and ly large entry for to-morrow harems in Turkish pad Kurdish ment paristently ignored all the godown was $240 a month, way, half bidden by a pile of range whisperings, and the Show, to be held in the Botanical villages, where they were forced commanisations on the subject of and that he would not let Owing to financial difficulties, crumpled silvered wings, liee a listener harried from the place, Gardens. The quality is of to accept lalam. The miserable these alustes. In the eyes of the godown out in portions: the chief of the Financial Depart hissed calvary figure, legs and eager for the open ale and the uprisingly high order and there remnant was subjected to slow her own subjects Germany is tenant would have to take the ment proposes to sell the Govern-arme broken off and removed, the light of heaven, last the spectred every reason why the Show death by hunger and thirst. Their guilty of either ariminal com whole premises all, Eri Mant ment properties on the lottery wound in the side showing up, of fear and horror and deviley, should be supported. The band daily ration consisted of plicity or contemptible weakneeded to more in, bai het, heathe tic cot system. Negotiations are with each startling disticatnees, which his imagination had con of the 18th Intantry will attend, going on with the Chamber of that for moment the horrified jured up, should anddenly burat The prises are to us given away kittimest sprinkled over the in be eyes of the Turks she is said he had be not Commerce and be Benovelent mind imagines the sasie lagedy tum their larking places upon at five o'clock by Mrs. Looker, was to protrace sharyation; and
aude, the only effect of which she instgaler of these stropities had considere
What is the verdict of the giv.lised, waR DECpard Sociones
of two thousand years ago to him.-Lésus, F, 8. Bleeth. wite of this year's President
CANTON NEWS.
Our Canton correspondent writes as follows:-
Owing to the lack of co-opera-
Province.
hia native village,
he would never forget,
*
It may have been the influence
of this latter thought, bar the
breeze which stirred in the nooks
and crannies, and blew down
Bd on
exterminated.