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WAR BREVITIES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15тa, 1914.

All Netherlands reservists have been warned to report themselves to their Consula.

It is alleged that Germany has paid Turkey the price of her intervention in the war--40,000,000 dollara ZOLTAN

The Federal (Canadian) Cabinet has practically devided to follow the example. of Australia by purchasing four warships From the United States for the protection" of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canado.

An Amsterdam despatch says that the Dutch papers confirm the statement that the German are transferring their cavalry and artillery from the western to the eastern frontier to meet the oncoming Russians.

Admiral Von Spec, of the now ill-fated. Scharnhorst, was awarded the Iron OroBE of the first and second class for his Chilean exploit. A number of these decorations were also bestowed in the officers and men of his equadron, as well as the captain and grow of the Karlsruhe.

Copper shipments from the United States to Italy, if consigned on order and proven to be destined to a belligerent, will be seized and detained by Britain. This has been announced by Mr. Spring Rice, the British Ambassador, after a conference with the State Department.

Le Matin's Petrograd correspondent reports that a War Council, over which the Kaiser presided, appointed the Crown Prince Commander-in-Chief of the Germans and Austrians against Russia, General Von Hindenberg commanding the left wing, and General Dark the right.

The Morning Post's correspondent at Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, says that a deputation of university professors and former Cabinen Ministers, following an audience with the King, organised a committee of national action whose. avowed purpose is to prepare the country for intervention in the war.

It is reported from Amsterdam - that many trains are leaving Belgium, by way. of Louvain and Brussels, marked To Russia, and crowded with guns and infantry and cavalry. The soldiers say that fighting on the Yeer front is now impossible, and that they are going to give the Russians a turn.

The hospital ships which were sent by the Chilian Government to the vicinity of the naval battle between the British and German cruisers when the Good Hope and Monmouth were sunk, reported on their return to Coronel that they had round no trace of any of the vessels which 4ook part in the battle.

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LONDON TRANSFORMED.

A LONDONER'S IMPRESSIONS ON: RETURN FROM A VISIT TO

home

AUSTRALIA.

Many times in the voyage of thirteen thousand miles which separated us from home wo had wondered what home would be like. Home for us was London, though for the travelling Englishman holds out its hands thousands of miles from the four-mile radius, for thereare few ports of call along the great diagonals which run across the Eastern Hemisphere, from the

Antarctic to the Scillies, where he does not

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ee the English flag fring and hear English voices speaking. In this time of war they spoke of Home with a new voice The men who earn their livings there had only one thought-how were they to help England? Many had found an instant answer. Merchants and shippers and clerks sweated side by side beneath tropic suns drilling, so as to be ready to answer the call to lay down their lives for A messago from Athens says that Turkey the little island in the North Sea. Many is much depressed by the damage done by other things bore witness to the altered the Russiana, and the unpromising nature world which has been bare for all of us of the present situation. She is already since August, but nothing was clearer than repenting her rash venture, and may thes that everywhere the British fighting refrain from further military action, ruan (and the British man who hates Nothing definite is known as to Russia's fighting) was preparing to go in as soon understanding with the Balkan States, as they would let him. which is on the verge of conclusión.

A prominent Copenhagen business man, who has no German sympathies, says that there is no denying the fact that when travelling in Germany, and speaking to all kinds of people, including soldiers, one gets an impression of strength and determination that is somewhat appalling Ho is certain that it is a mistake to think that Germany is drawing near the end of her resources as far as men are concerned A German shipowner offered to bet me," ho said, "that the Germans would be in London before Christmas, and I took him

up,

WHY IS IT ALL SO GARK} */

Bat of how Lendou would be taking it we had no inkling, or very little, fan a succession of accidents had cut us off from letters, and from nearly everything else, except the censored telegraphic news- runch of it from Alien sources. So that when, after detentions and examinations, our ship at last entered the Thames Estuary we sighed with expectancy 83 well as with gladness-and with some unrelieved anxiety. We had got but a very little way before once more we were hailed and stopped and examined--as to our cargo, our nationality, our next port of call, as well as our last and our first. Writing from the front a British officer But whom we had run the gauntlet of says: Armchair people at home with launches and tugs-all of which carried a the cry of universal peace, there never man in khaki-we came at last to Grave can be a European war, and the small send. Here the door of London Port shut armyites and little navyites, ought to be behind the ship. A bridge of lighters with qur here now to see the miseries and a section taken out of the middle stretched horrors the peasants cudure, the number from shore to shore. Beyond the bridge of wounded asid killed, and a few other wo must not go. It was closed altogether sights, with villages and farms blazing all after a certain hour, we were told; but over the country. If we had only had though we were still on the seaward side an army of a million and a half up to our of it, our ship was held tight enough. So procent standard the Germans would be on were all on board, we found. Officials the Rhine by now, and the war would be youcared in the saloon. A new type of nearly over.

official this. Not the conciliatory Customs, but an official with a concise military manner. And an interpreter. Everyone of the Kaiser's many remarkable speeches on board was examined. Papers of identi- When he was in Belgium at the beginning fiation were demanded. British born of the month the Emperor reviewed his subject? then you can go on chore. Alien large force of cavalry there, and, address-sorry, but you can't, unless you can ing the men, said Perhaps we made a establish satisfactory reasons for stopping mistake in failing to foresce, during time thers. I don't know anything about the of peace, all that the cavalry, would now | back-door ways, but it was pretty clear be doing. Our cavalry has fought it no inquisitive Alien could enter both with the bayonet and the Loudon by its front door. It took us, who spade and it is to be hoped that it may were harm there, a very long time. again use the saddle and the lance if, with the help of God. Who has given us so many victories, we succeed in surrounding the enemy.

Publicity has just been given to another

! KITCHENER'S NIGHTLIGHTS.” So long that it was dark before a tug packed to bursting with baggage dumped its load ashore. But it was darker, it A clever, accomplished woman, speaking seemed, than it had any right to be. “Why fluent English, and dressed as a Red Cross on earth can't this passage-way be decently nurse, met a number of British wounded lighted!" we complained as we stumbled at the Gare du Nord, Paris, and invited up the covered tunnel that leads to the officers to dine, with her. While they Tilbury. And the station, that was dark. were under the influence of her charm and too. We had thought that this line of hospitality she tried to wheedle military railway, so used to carrying passengers to information from them. She also visited and from the liners that ply to the Fay the hospitals and attempted to discourage East, would have been better equipped for the men who were lying there. It was their needs. We continued to grumble as discovered that she was the divorced wife we passed the long string of stations, each of a German officer of British and immer than the last, which end at Russian descent. She was tried and Fenchurch Street, as dim as the rest; and sentenced in Paris to two years' imprison in the station yard we found ourselves ment. She is the first woman spy who has groping for a cab. The gloomy streets been detected in this war:

hrenght no enlightenment. That cams only with the Thames Embankment, where, though the orderly constellation of the river's lights had vanished, the darkness of the Burrey side was stabbed by as uprising searchlight. The driver turned round to us. Kitchener's night lights, said he, and then we under- Trot stood. This was darkened London. It is familiar to all of you who read, but judge

THE NEXT DANCE. Italy says that she cannot do the Kaiser's Goose-Step, but she will wait for the Sultan 6 Turkey (Laughter.)

of the appearance of the Strand to us when wo looked down it at ten o'clock at night and saw it as solitary as a suburban road.

THE TRANSFORMATION,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ All was new to us the shuttered shops, the public-houses in bed, the extinguished clock faces, the curtained windows of clubs, and howls. If you ask me what is the greatest alteration I perceive in London, one has been so striking from a material point of view as this darkness-but I have Yet been back only forty-eight hours. other taings quickly crowded into my consciousness. There were the cheerful recruits who crowded into our train up from Tilbury there was the cricket ground & hundred yards away from my house covered with bell tents, and only a few lights to say it slept; there have been the parks and squares occupied with the

new plain-clothes battalions at drill all day, there have been my friends whom I discovered as special constables; and the lady ari-students who wear uniforms. Tho baker's cart was a small surprise. The German name had disappeared, 50, I found, had the shop-taken over by an English firm. My world is full of mach emall surprises; but perhaps the truth is that they are submerged under others that appeal more directly to the mind than to the eye. I am learning how, and why, this wat as lit a Gre of slow unquenchable wrath in the hearts of my countrymen, and that knowledge obliterates other impressions. But one other, a small one, remains. It is that London not only has far fewer people in its streets than when I left it in June, but far fewer vehicles. It is very much easier to cross the road E.S.G.

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS:

ORDERS DY LIEUT.-COLA CHAPMAN, V.D.

MUBKETRY (Standing Tešt). 1-Musketty (Trained men only) wil bo

carried out as follows:-

Sofarlay 19th-Right Section 3.0.

Coot 2.30 p.m.: Sunday, 2011 --Centre Section M.G.

Co, at 9.30 am,

All members of the Artillery Battery who failed to attend Inst week-end must stiend on one of the ab re dates to completo their course. Members must attend paactusily at the times stated above; any man attending late will not be allowed to fire Note:Only members who have fired Part 1

can fire the Standard Test Ofeer on duty in the Butts: Saturday

19th, Lieut. Wright, Ofear on duty in the Butts Sunday,

20th, Licut, C. Smith, A O.Cs. Sections will see that ons of their officers attends to take charge of the fring point and that sufficient

·N.COs.- attend to assist the Instructor.

/ SPECIAL NOTE

2 Every member of the Corps, including these exempted from attending parades, must fire the Muskatry Course. They must attend on the days allotted to their respective units.

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Ivery member failing to fire the course

will be counted un-efficient.

PARADES.

3.-Terudes for today (Theday):

6.15 am.No. 1 Section Artillery 10 pdr. drill Remainder, Musketry Exercises under Company Oficers.

6.15 p.m.-No. 2 Sention Artillery and Left Section 3.G. Co. 10 pur. Scouts Co., Musketry Exercises

under Company Officers Centre Section 3.6, Co. parade st Kowloon Docks at 5.10 p.m. ?! Launch leaves Statue Fier at 4:30

PATA.

4.On duty No. 1 Section Artillery, Kight Section M.G. Co. and Civil Service Officers on duty Capt. Churchill, Lieut.

Kennett and Liont. Smith, Orderly Oficer: Lieut. Kennett. To furnish Guard to-night: No. 1 Sec-

tion Artillery Battery Orderly Sergeant to-night Sergt.

Crawford.

G. E. STEWART, Capt.,

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