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ENLISTMENTS FOR NEW ARMY

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A further notice will shortly be publish- ed and circulam forwarded to those who have already registered their names, giv ing full particulars.

RE-OPENING OF HONGKONG, STOCK EXCHANGE.

WAR NEWS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21TH, 1914.

TALES FROM THE

TRENOHE

BOOT FOR A BOSCH.

::GERMANS" HALF-HEARTED OF LATE.

The following was communicated last month by an eye-witness present with General Headquarters

of the

MAJOR'S DASH

VA CYCLE KIDS. WITH ONE FOOT WOUNDED.

As the fighting flows back more or less along the line of the retreat, wrote a correspondent in France early last month, it reaalls to the people many episodes which in the strese of that arst period had. been forgotten, or at least antold. Walk ing eastwards I have beard a strange variety of tales of individual heroism and udaranes One of them was told me by a farmer and merchant with whom I have Up to September 21st the air mileage some acquaintance, and as his family were made by our airmen since the beginning the good Samaritans I may, I think, rely average of mounted to 15,000 miles, an on the detailed

British Major of equalling nearly four times the circuit of Hussars. Ho had gone forward on a the world. The total time spent in the special mission of observation towards the air was 1,400 hours

on enemy's lines west of Ho acquired The Hongkong Stock Exchange re- opened yesterday, and on page 8 will the fighting methods of either side that advance of the enemy was quick and he There are many points connected with information of importance, but the A con- may be of interest.

was badly shot just below the ankle He The following description was given by had chosen for his work a push bicycle siderablo slump is shown in some local a battalion commander wie has been at as the most trustworthy machine, and in stocks, though the quotations for the the front sine the commencement of spite of his wound he set off towards a majority show but a moderate decline, hostilities, and has fought both in the distant renderous that he had made having regard to the existing circumcn and behind entrenchments. It must, In the course of his ride his foot, became stances Buyers are in the market for represents the experiences of a particular remove the boot. Later he found it however, be borne in mind that it only so painful and inflamed that he had to many stocks at the new quotations. unit. It deals with the tactics of the necessary to rig up a sort of sling for the

enemy's infantry.

round his body, and under the shin, He foot by means of string and stuff wrapped could now pedal with only one foot, but in spite of all difficulties he rode his machine twenty miles in all, when he began to feel he could not get much farther, and seeing a light in a farm-house too frightened to take in a soldier. They had heard that to house one rendered the house liable to be burned and themselves

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WHY WE LOVE OUR OFFICERS."

COLONEL'S GREAT DEED.

A British motor car driver at the front sent home the following description of how a British colonal risked his life to are a wounded French interpreter.

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

Monday November 23rd. BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR WILLIAM REES DAVIES, K.C.

A MURDER CHARQE Toung Kun Fo was charged with the murder of Tang Chun at Kamtin on October 5th. He pleaded not guilty.

prisonci Alabaster (instructed by Mr. Baker, of Mossrs. Ewens & Needham) was for

He was driving a motor-car containing proter through a district" where the an officer with despatdies and an inter- booming of a gun shakes the apples from the trees. The interpreter, haring left his maps behind, lost his way, and was sent to inquiro at a cottage, The jury was composed of Messrs. J. He immediately rushed out, having Hyde (fowman), A. Leach, H. F. Hick- found Germans inside and was wounded by them. He fell in the road and canded man, F. Soares, P. F. da Cruz Prata, into a ditch,

Lapsley and W. F. Ford. The Germans came out (writes the Mr PM. Hodgson, Crown Solicitor. driver) and I stopped them all right with

represented the Crown, and Mr. C. G.

IfI fail, deliver the despatches yourself." I have no rifle. You are a fine shot, Keep me covered and I'll get him So spoke a British colonel (wonder if he minds me putting his rink 1) who was on his way to give his life, if necessary for was the younger brother of the accused

Mr. Hodgson cxplained that deceased

A French private soldier. God bless both of whom lived in Kamtin Hut, a you, sir, and good lud, and with the words to the Almighty leaving my lip village in the Now Territory, with their miss, for they were heaped in the gate not on very good terms, and the evidence I dropped another, absolutely could not families Apparently the familice were hampering their own movements. Only similar circumstances can realise how quarreled On October 5th, prisoner, those who have recharged a magazine in went to show that the wife of each brother long it seems before the last cartridge i pressed home, and although a very cold with his son, went to the deceased's house, morning, I was now covered with sweat taking a long pole. Prisoner assaulted yet cool and collected. I'm positive deceased hitting him with the pole, a only missed once, and I fired till ther fert

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The important points to watch are the heads of valleys and ravines, woods especially those on the sides of hollow ground and all dead ground to the front and flanks. The German officers are skilled in leading troops brward under selceted to play in a Rugby Fixture at cover, in closed bodies, but does the latter knocked at the door. But the people were was not a man in sight, at least on number of times, and he died shortly

are deployed and there is no longer direct personal leadership the men will not face WRITES Honeyard; Sub-Lieut. Stop heavy fire. Sometimes the advance is ford Sackville: Homeyards Campbell and made in a series of lines, with the man Cleave; Jenkins, Adams Lieut. Wiles, well opened out at five or six paces Engineer Lieut Blackic, Lieut Henderson, interval at other times it is made in a Asst. Paymaster Jelley, Evea, Macdonald, line, with the men almost shoulder to Cave and Duke

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The major was therefore forced to struggio on again. How much farther I do not know but finally at four in the morning he stopped and made himself as comfortable as he could with the prop of the wall, of a house at the outskirts of a village outskirts

The niece of the farmer, who told me this story, lived in a neighbouring house Sho happened to wake carly, and, looking out of the window, saw indistinctly the form of the half-recumbent soldier. She called a maid and together they went out

his foot dressed. But he refused to see a doctor and said that the one thing he wasted was to be conveyed at once to his rendezvous in Lille. His hosts carried out his wishes A earringe was procured and he was driven, in a greatcoat covering his uniform, to the spot desired and there concluded what he had set out to do.

| afterwards. The meditul evidence would

show that death was used, at any rate: accelerated if not caused, by the polo

assisted the son to indict the injuries he Counsel added that if the prisoner

was just as guilty as if he had done it himself

I can sen every now, as I sit her

But they were not finished, for a volley writing, that awful mass in the gateway greeted the appearants of my officers head from the wood, and be being much lower down the road this allowed them to fire at him, at the same time being out of my sight. I just caught one chap who The wife of deceased gave most peculiar apponzed from an upper window, and as evite board deceased scolding witness, evidence. She said that the pritoner's

2 ouer, but I did not go him, as I was saying that she had the countenance of busy myself at the moment. Then I saw a demon. The prisoner's wife, thinking bisiden, he had taken over from a fallen the abuse was intended for her, reporte-1 tree trunk and crawled under its cover

it to her husband, who returned and hallway across the road

But to get to the interpreter he has tion thus offered him. He gives one ing pole. Witness then caused amazement. lightning leap, seize my friend, and by adding,It was not very much. literally throws him into the wood. (prisoner) mado a mistake. He did not hear the crash from my position, and then he gain drops back under the trunk. strike

purposely, It was an Judging by the terrific volley at the accident, that is all." moment he must have been filled with lead had he been a second later, and even now I would dearly love to examine that tree trunk, for nonutmeg grater ever had more holes in ita

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Mr. Hodgson asked-How many times was deceased struck ?

Prisoners have described the fire of our troops as pinning them to the ground and this is certainly borne out by their A fantastic article, dated Kiel, enlivens action When the Germans are not the subsidised columns of the official heavily entrenched, no great losses are The major was carried into the house and to go about three yards from the protec. assaulted witness' husband with a carry- "North German Gaselte, It deals with incurred in advancing against them by * England's ineflective war on Germany's the methods in which the British Army world-commerce

Here are some | has been instructed.

ere are 80

For instance, in selected goms :

one attack over fairly open ground The English business world is shaken against about an equal fore of infantry to its foundations. All the beautiful plans sheltered in a sunken road and in ditches, for the conquest of Germany's world we lost only ten killed and sixty wounded Trade, which were to be carried out with while over 100 of the enemy surrendered that brutality of which only the English after about fifty had been killed. Ench pedlar's soul is capable, have vanished side had the support of a battery, but in thin air. German manufacturers, the fight for superiority from infantry merchants, and shippers

only fire took place at about 700 yards and have ridicale and contempt for English lasted only half an hour. When the threats."?

Germans were wavering some of them put up the white flag, but others went on Another instance of the almost fring, and our men continued to do the incredible preparations made by the same. Eventually a large number of Germans, through the agency of spies, for white flags, improvised from bandker- the present war is illustrated by a story chiefs, picces of shirt, white biscuit bags, which has been brought back to Paris by etc., were exhibited all along the line and many men hoisted their helmets on from a visit which he paid to his depart their rides

**Germany is economically and finan cially armed to wage war on all aides until her politied and commercial future is gloriously and effectually guaranteed England is only one of our enemies, although she is the one whose overthrow

shoesstry above all else,

The trade of Hamburg and Bremen, as far as over-zon business is concerned, is disturbed. Their ships le idle in harbour, but they will not be sold. If the English and the Russians sink a hundred German merchant ships, we shall after the peace be able to build two hundred new ones at the cost of our defeated foes **! The mistrem of the sens' cannot evon guard the routes to her own harbours The surprises which German cruisers bring forth from day to day astonish the whole world. S

In the fighting behind entrenchments the Germans endeavour to gain ground by making advances in line at dusk or just before dawn and then digging them selves in in the hope, no doubt, that they may eventually get go near as to be able, as at manœuvre, to reach the hostile trenches in a single rush. They have never succeeded in doing this against us. If by creeping up in dead ground they de ancceed in gaining ground by night they are easily driven back by fire in the "The military power of England will morning. A few of the braver men some- be broken in France... Hor maritime times remain behind, at ranges of even supremacy is paralysed by the preeminent 300 or 400 yards, and endeavour to inflict ability of Germany's naval forces, losses by aniping" Sharpshooters, also, England's economic position will collapse are often noticed in trees or wriggling as soon as her hordes of mercenaries are about until they get good cover The defeated by Germany's victorious soldiers remedy is to take the initiative and detail and sailors. When England's fateful men to deal with the enemy's sharp hour strikes we shall have plenty of use shooters for our merchant ships.

THE UNSUSCEPTIBLE LONDON SCOTTISH.

NO SOUVENIRS FOR LADIES.

However great may be the political consequences which this war will bring, one thing is certain it will leave its trace on the English language in French.

MARSH LIGHTS.

HOW GERMANS ESCAPED IN THE SWAMPE..

M. Léon Bourgeois, the senator of Märns,

ment

Witness reply was-Buffies it to say that my husband was killed accidentally Anyhow, he got clear just as a relief Mr. Hodgson repceted his question, arrived from a distant outpost, who had guessed the cause. I explained to the three blows were struck, "but it was all heard the firing and wing the car had whereupon witness replied that two or sergeant in charge the best position to accidental." plate the men in the wood to cover our retreat, and a few minutes after they left

Questioned us to the identity of the my officer appeared with poor Francois, police sergeant whom she called to the nearer dead than alive. I carried him to identify the officer in Court, explaining who, although now able to limp, looked scene of the affray, witness failed to the car and there dressed his wounds to that on the date in question she could the best of my ability.

JUST A BEASTLY FOSS.

BEFORE THE PUISNE JUDGE, MR HHJ GOMPERTZ

not see him because of her tears ?? of Thak finished, I told the officer that I After hearing further evidence the jury intended reporting his brave act, and as found prisoner guilty of inuaslaughter, we drove off I was astounded to hear him and he was sentenced to six months' har i formid me to mention i word about it. This I also heard him impress on the

labour, entence to commenco from Frenchman, who, judging by the look in October 19th. his eyes, would obey any order ever coming from that officer again, even st the risk of his life. It wasn't my place, but I could not help telling him that it must leak out,Oh, no, they make just & beastly fuss about it, and, really, Wu Fat was charged with throwing anybody would have done the same. So corrosive fluid, to wit, oil of vitriol at having a tree for cover, there was no risk, until something does ocoar that really is one Leung You with intent in so doing dangerous, I order you to say nothing to burn the same and to do some grievous We took my poor little chum to the bodily harm on October 18th. Prisoter about it church, which was tarzed into a tempor- pleaded not guilty,

I will be remembered that it was expected that the Germans in their rotreat across Marne would suffer great loss by being driven into the marshes of Saint Gond, which are practically impassable to people unfamiliar with the paths. When the German retreat began the French carried out a turning movement which had the desired effect of compelling the Germans, with their artillery, to retreat into the marshes. The enemy was followed by shell fire, and then the French infantry advanced, expecting to fird most of the enemy engulfed in the swamps, certain number of gune and prisoners, but They were rewarded by securing a not nearly so many as hind been expected It was clear that large numbers of the Germans had been able to get across the swamps in safety. How they had done so "A few night attacks have been made of the marches revealed, however, that at ngainst us. Before one of there a party regular intervals there lay along certain crept up close to the British line and set lines across the bog little piles of slates. alight a hayrick so that it should ferm So small and inconspicuous were they that a bearon on which the centre of the at first it seemed hardly possible that they attacking line mirched. Generally, how. evar, in the night and early morning should have served as marks to guide the That's right Give them to me. Now attacks groups of forty or fity men have passage of an army, particularly as part then, kiddies, scramble and that's why separated one from another and making out at night, when these little slate cairns

one group consolimen widely little ela, calling we love our officers.

every

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was at first a mystery, An examination

crowd of small children had assembled

FIVE YEARS FOR VITRICE THROWING,

ary hospital; and on leaving quite a The following jury were empanelled-- with the perpetual ory Souvenir

Got your knife, sergeant; they can have Martin, J. W. Paton, P. R. Murray, C. A. A. Claxton (foreman), G. Messra these buttons; this tunis is ruined now, Tetzee, A Course, and G. B. Colson, and I have another at headquarters.

What will this greatest war of all give endeavour to obtain any advantage would be quite invisible. But when night 11 BONS AT WAR 8 DEAD.

us) ask & Paris correspondent After only eight week: it is too early yet to Bay Souvenir perhaps was not a word that the average Tommy was in the habit of using mich before he came over. He knows all about it now. It is to that

cover, Light-balls and searchlights came the French scouts who had penetrated have on. some occasions been used into the marshes noticed a curious thing. Latterly the atticks have become morEvery one of those little piles of slates and more half-harted. Against us the began, as darkness deepened, to glow with chemy has never dosed with the bayonet. a dim light. They were examined moro The German trenches I live seen were closely, and then it was found that they

war.

MOTHER'S CALL TO SOLDIEL TO AVENUE HIS BROTHERS.

The Attorney General (Hon. Mr. J. H.

Kemp), who prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, said that the facts of the case were simple, and the inference of prisoner's guilt was clear. On the evening of October 16th, about 8.30, two girls, one of whom was Leung Yau, came out. of a brothel, when prisoner walked up beliind, threw something at Leung Yau and then ran away. Before he ran away the other girl noticed a small bottle in

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One of the French engineers attached to tune that his great-cont come to be deep enough to doelter a man when firing had all been covered with phosphorescent the flying base at Rondigny received, last prisoner's hand. Priemer was chased MACGREGOR&C. fastened with alety pins instead of standing, and had a step down in rear paint, and the irregular line which they month a letter from sisters and On his cletics was found what eventually and was caught upstairs in another house. buttons. The word has already become for the supports to sit in. As regards marked was that of the solid ground touching message from his mother, who

turned out to be oil of vitriol. The same one of the little jokes that the British our own men, there was at first consider among the swamps along which a narrow has lost sight out of her eleven sons in the appeared on the girl's dothing, in which able reluctance to entrench, as has always column of troops and even of guns could war This letter, with a simple appeal holes were burned. Prisoner was troops exchange along the read. The been the case at the commencement of pass in safety London Scottish the other day marched

to the remaining sons to continue to do employed at a factory at Mongkok where past a party of Army Service Corps en experience dearly their defences are such district had been carefully surveyed and to go and avenge the deaths of his brothers, fors cognisant of its destructive Now, however, having bought Evidently the whole of this dangerous their duty to their country and to this son oil of vitriol was used, and he was there looking almost anfully neat in their that they can dely the German artillery mapped out. The profest of the depart has been included in the orders of the day possibilities. Prisoner had raised no beautifully draped kilts and their immaculata spats

On the lighter side of the picture is the ment remembered that some months ago a and read to the troops ass noble example: defence of any kind, and when charge Bouvenir, soavenir," called out the following anecdote, which is current party of German engineers had come to

"I learn that Charles and Lucien died at the police station merely remarked, road-stained men of the supply column, though its absolute truth is not vouched the authorities with a proposition that on August 28th; Eugène is badly wounded. I have nothing to say " The jur who had not had a shoulder badge between for On a recent occasion a British they should be allowed to examine the As for Louis and Jesn, they are dead also, might be faced with two superficial diffi them for weeks holding out plaintive cavalry subaltern who was cut off from district and establish a peat-cutting Row has disappeared. Mamma weeps culties motive and intent. There wAS palms The London Scottish smiled broadly and marched on. They are far his men hid in the edge of a wood by a industry if their researches showed that She says that you are strong and will go no evidenco as to motive, which might road. It was not long before he saw on it would be profitable. Fermission was and avenge them, have been Jealousy, and the intent was too proud of their kit to part with unsuspecting amed German soldier given readily enough and the German

“I hope that your officers will not fairly obvious, for prisoner was fully single gaiter button, and all the wiles of patrolling the road. He could have shot engineers disappeared into the marshes, refuse. Jean had the Legion of Honour aware of the properties of vitriol, The the distractedly admiring maidens of the the man without warning, but felt that where for several weeks they worked Follow him. They have taken all of us. fact of throwing vitriol on a human being French villages through which they pass it would be akin to murder to kill him undisturbed. Then they came back to the Eleren went to the war. Eight are dead had only one inference; that the intention do not succeed in wheedling a thread out in cold blood. In order to instil a little authorities of the department. It is too My dear brother, do your duty. That of the thrower was to do harm to the of the whole battalion. In fact, the of the spirit of combat into the affair, early yet to give a definite opinion," they is all that is asked of you. God has given person at whom it was thrown. And if London Scottish have quickly made for therefore, he crent out of over ran up said, but we will return to Berlin and you life. He has the right to take it it was thrown at the wrong person tha themselves a similar position to that held behind the Bush, as our Allies would consult our principals and we may come again it is mamma who says it did not solve the tower from the by the Mounted Riflemen with their call him, and gave him a ferocious kick back shortly.

"We embrace you with a full heart and Winsequence of the action Government sky-blue tunics in France. They are the Instead of showing fight the startled and

ME Frank Browie, we wish greatly to see you again,~Your Analyst, spoke to examining some of the British Expeditionary Force, and if you can find one glengarry pained German-gave a yell and ran for dear life, leaving the subaltern laughing

garments on the 17th of October. On them ho found oil of vitriol or sulphurie acid. One set of garments belonged to the prisoner, and the other to the girl. The bottle produced contained oil of vitriol, which was a corrosive finid and would eat through clothing and fish. and cause serious injury in Replying to his Lordship Mr. Browne and that vitriol was principally used in soda water factories and also for dyeing

nats

in a whole company that is not set a too hard to shoot identically the same angle as all the rest, with the point two inches above the right eyebrow, you may be sure that its wearer will have a terrible shook when his sergeant draws his attention to it.

PRESS ONGS AT WORK.

FORCIBLE ENHOLFENT OF LUXEMBURGERS.

METHODS OF THE HUNS.

CHILD HOSTAGES IN THE TRENCHES,

M. Torzy ex-deputy for the Aisne, who returned to Paris from Boissons last month, relates that the Germans in some cases have taken children as hostages into their trenches in order to oblige the inhabitants to supply them with lood.

Others forced women to march before came in contact with the latter the woman them against the Allies, but when they

Bisters.

THIEVING GERMAN OFFICERS.

VJEWEL CLEES AND CELLLES EMPTIED.

German officers have pillaged

the Chateau Montmort, at Chalons-sur Marne, which was opcapied at the beginning of Sentemwer by a number of stad officers. All the cupboards were were emptied and part of the silver and forted open and rannaked, jewel cases

emplied.

The drawbacks of ignorance of the tongue spoken by the people among whom you live must bave been keenly felt by the two English A telegram to the Temp from Basle privates one of them the chauffeur of a says that, according to a letter from well-known Poer who were seen forcibly enrolled Luxemburgia aged from Laxemburg, ths German authorities have

shell peas and conversing with an open eighteen to thirty-five and sent them to shouted Never mind! Tire all the liner was stolen. The cellars wore he was sentenced to five years hard! helping a very pretty French girl to dictionary between them.

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