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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 11ra, 1915.

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GERMAN PRISONERS RIOTOUS.

A Fukuoka - message: to the draht reports that among the German prisonera. of war quartered there are about fifty from Alsace Lorraine Between those and the other prisoners a scuffle recently took place, the parties being finally pacified by the oficere in charge

INHUMAN MODE OF WARFARE.

The attacks delivered by German sub marince on British merchant vessels month ago created a disagreeable impres sion in Holland, where this kind of naval warfare is not approved: The Handel blad said: It is not yet cortain wie ther this is a deliberate and methodical violation of international law, but the for FIVE YEARS action of the Germans off Havre, wher they did not allow the crews time in which to leave their vessels, must be earnestly reprobatedove

The Nieuws Van Den Dag kny's England has one more reason to rail at the inhuman mode of warfare practiced by the Germans

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GERMAN TRAITOR'S

EXECUTION.

Corporal Kurth, of the Foreign Legion, apponred before the court-martial of Hanoi at the beginning of February Fiji colonists, numbering, fifty-eight, Kurth has been a naturalised Frenchman who have volunteered for active service, since December, 1911, and to prove his arrived at Liverpool by the Allan Liner gratitude to the country which had made Scandinavian last month A London him one of her children he fomented a paper says:They are all well-to-do men plot with three or four other Germans Government servants and farmers, of the Foreign Legion to assassinate the receiving from $1,000 to £2,500 a year, officers and non-commissioned officers of They have relinquished houses and the port of Nam-Nang, cut the nailway- positions to do their sittle bit for the old bridge, take the arms and ammunitions, country, and have fitted themselves out and especially the maxim-guns, of Lang with khaki uniforms and equipment. One son, and then pass to China. The court raal was even paying his own fare from martial was unanimous in finding him far off Fiji to work hand-in-hand with the guilty of high treason, and condemning Allies. Their officers ar: Caplain C-Ahim to be shot to the Bronch Swinburne and Lieutenant Miers. The Corporal Kurth, general bearing of these volunteers is that Foreign Legion, condemned to death for high treason by the court-martial of of thoroughly good soldiers.

Hanoi, was shot on February 5th at Langson, Tonkin. Before dying, Kurth, TURKEY TRYING TO BREAK AWAY who was a naturalised Frenchman (since

REPORTED DECLARATION OF WAR BY PERSIA,

of

December, 1011), declared that he had previously been a German officer, and belonged to e princely family. He gave A Brindisi message published by Lathe andross of his father, colonel in a France de Demain, says that, according to the statement of an officer in the service of a neutral State, who has arrived from Constantinople, it is learned from a good source that Turkey is at this moment endeavouring to break away from Ger many

Saxon regiment, the name too of his sister," Princess of, begging the military authorities to transmit to them his last will.–Avenir du Tonkin

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The articles of association of - Behn,

The death is announced, in his eighty fourth year, of Major-General Sir Late O'Connor, one of the first to receive the For the Sultan, says this informant, it Victoria Cross. He enlisted in the 23rd is a question of saving his throne. The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, at the age of seventeen, and went through the Crimean march towards the Suez Canal is only

simple demonstration designed to satisfy War He won his V.O at the battle 01 the Alma. He took a flag from a wound public opinion in the capital, and to Meyer & Co. Handel Maatschappij,' ed officer, and planted it on a redoubt impress the Turkish people which was registered as a Netherlands Persis' declaration of war against Indian limited liability company at in face of a heavy fire He was wounded, and was given a commission while in Turkey is being carefully kept a secret. Batavia at the beginning of January on hospital. Sir Luke also served in the The ancient antagonism between the two the instigation of Theodor Helferich, Indian Mutiny. He became in 1884 com Mohammedan sects, the Sunvites and the acting as attorney for Behn, Moyer & Co. mander of the 2nd Battalion of the Shiites, which lius again become acute hus regiment he had catered as a private made a holy war impossible Ho retired in 1887 with the rank of Major-General, and was made a K.C.B. in 1913-Standara.

AVIATION ADVENTURE

THE GERMAN AND THE CAMERA.

Though the weather has been generally unfavourable to aviation (says Eye wit ness in a recent report) several recon naissances have been made during the past work, and there have been three encounters in the air between British and German aeropianes, as a result of which the hostile machine has in each case be forced to go down in the German lines On one occasion our machine chased Taube, and having attained the favoar able position for shooting the observer emptied his automatic pistol at the enemy without any visible result, at about 150 feet range. He then prosceded to take photograph, and the appearance of the camera sœems to have alarmed the German aviator, who at once fled. Upon another occasion a somewhat difficult situation arose when a bomb which was being drop ped caught in a string and remained suspended three or four feet below the aeroplane. There was no way of reaching the bomb, and it was impossible to land, Finally the observer kicked a hole in the floor of the fuselage, hooked the string with his foot, and abook it until the bemb fell off

NO PRISONERS"

GERMAN BRIGADE ORDER.

There has lately come into our posts sion, says The Times, an original docu- ment which appears to contain authentic first hand evidence of a German Brigade

IN SAWN PLANKS. LOGS AND FLOORINGS. Order instructing the troops to take no

GERMANS TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

The Bulletin des Armées publishes a

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Ltd., of Singapore, provide that the head quarters of the company shall be at Batavia, the directors being authorised to establish sub-offers at places to be selected by them. The company is established for a period of 75 years and the authorised letter from a Swiss who visited a camp divided into 1,000 shares of 1,000 guilders for French prisoners in Germany. Hoesch, of which one share has been allotted ays that they are badly fed. They are to Behn Meyer & Co., Ltd., and 100 shares allowed only 250 grammes of bread a day to Emil Helfferich, merchant, of Batavia The vegetables are not cooked, and the On these 200 shares a call of 60 per cent. cupply of soup is inadequate. They are has already been paid, and the balance capital of the company blows from sticks or are set upon by the must be allotted within ten years from dogs belonging to their guards. Their date of formation, unless special exomp quarters are not heated, and a thin layer tou is obtained from the Governor of straw serves for a bed. There have been General of Netherlands India. many cases of sickness, and the death rate The objects of the company comprise the is high. In order to disclaim all respon- transaction of all general commercial the acquisition and ability, the German doctors declare that affairs besides their patients are tuberculous. Postal exploitation of estates and mining pro orders sont to the prisoners very seldom perties in Netherlands India, mineral reach their destination. It is quite untras prospecting licences and other similar to say that French prisoners are treated concessions Straits Times. and fed like the German prisoners in France. The letters which the former write are either dictated by their guards or are read before being posted. If a letter contains a complaint it is promptly torn up. The Swiss informant adds:- It is better for soldiers to die with their arms in their hand than to be made prisoners.

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prisoners, but to shoot the wounded and others who might fall into their hands It is the diary kept by a lerman soldier of the 132th Infantry Regiment from the outbreak of war until the beginning of

Timer reproduces in facrimile) he tha written his name Reservist Reinhard All, they were given to eat, as they Bronnciten Fourth Company 112th described it, were the leavinga" of their Regiment, Mülhausen, and the words captors, and when the appetites of the * The most important of my experiences latter wore particularly keen they got during the campaign of 1914 nothing. One of the men who asked a

advanes over the ground of the previous

for

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(HONGKONG BRANCE),

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Telephone: 769.

On August 21st Brenneisen records an German for a cigarette alleges that all he Leave, &d-Members should address the ASAHI day's fighting, and proceeds to say got in return was a blow under the jaw.

There also came a Brigade Order that all French, whether wounded or not, who fell into our hands should be shot. prisoners were to be made

No

Brennelsen goes straight on with his narrative, making no comment of any kind to this order. So the story purses its rather monotonous course....

A TROOP HORSE STORY.

BOLTING CHARGERS-HALT AT THE SOUND OF.

DIFLE CLICKE

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They were determined to cecare, and reizing a favourable moment when their guard was under the influence of drink, six of them made a dash for it. Un fortunately, a sentry used the alarm and, the guard turning out, two of them were shot down. The other four get clear.

For seven days they crawl aong under the cover of darkness, hiding by day in hedgerows and ditches, and sustaming life by munching mangold-warzels and ang- thing they could pick up from the fields. Eventually they reached the coast.

0.Cs. Companies and not the Adjutant direct. In the case of long leave being dosired application must be made 30 days before the leave is to commence.. The Provost Marshal will not issue per mite to leave the Colony unless the appli

cants produce for his inspection the Passes issued to them by their Company Commanders Equires Any member having in lits

possession short rifle or bayonet No. 23 or any part of the Web Equipment No. 23, is requested to communicate with the Adjutant

(8d-) W. L. CARTER Capt

Adjutant, H.K.VR THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS. the military authorities, who provided CORPS ORDERA BY LIEUT, COL. A CHAPHAN, Við them with fresh clothing and uniforms, their own being in such a condition that they were consigned to the flames. ***

Their passage occupied twelve days, and * As an example of the intelligence of the they were landed at a coast village from horses employed by the British troops, the-which they ultimately got into touch with following story is sent by a British trooper

BOYCOTT OF JAPANESE BY CHINESE.

A patrol was keeping its nightly vigil when upon the air was borne the thunder of clattering hoofs. Nearer and nearer it. came, until it became only too obvious to the patrol that the sound was that of galloping horses. Concealing themselves until a convenient moment, the watchers, stepped out, and in the night air, mixed up with a multitudinous beat of hoofs on

TOKIO, March 1st. the stone setts and unmistakable snorts,

The reported boycott of Japanese by rang out the time-honoured and atentorian "Halt No response came, and the Chiness is believed to be due to rumours charging steeds continued to advance startet by a portion of the Chinese "Halti was again shouted, but this students in Toko or by German. The boycott of Japanese steamers in Canada time, owing to the clatter, it could not be by Chinese has been started owing to a heard to distinctly. No answer coming rumour that the Chinese in Hongkong out of the blackness, the patrol eased over have boycotted Japanese goods flow- their safety catches and opened the cut ever, as the rumour about Hongkong has outs of their rifles, the click of their bolts been found to be untrue the matter has betokening the possibilities of what might been peacefully settled. At present many, very soon happen. That click had a articles from Europe and America are magia effect as the roar ceased almost not coming to the Far East and this is instantly,

SGPCry good chance for the merchants of On advancing with their rifles at the China and Japan to extend their busine firing position, the men of the patrol wera and the Japanese business mou do not astonished to hnd that the cause of the believe that Chinese merchants will adopt urbance was about a score of horse any extreme movement to cause obstrue, They had refused to obey word tion to China's own development, and thus of mouth, but consented to stop when the the reports about the boycott of JapanEZO metallic ring of several Lee Enfield rifle goods are not taken seriousl

Eastern News, Avency: appliances reached their ears.

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1 The undermentioned having joined, the - Corps are allotted Corps numbers and

posted as follows

No. 1767 Sapper J McCormack to

Engineer Company.

No. 1768 Sapper W. Lyle to Engineer

Company.

No. 1769 Private WT A. Kuopios

to Left Section M.G. Co.

2. OCs. are reminded that the weekly state is required at the Orderly Ru not later than 6 pm today.

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3.Parades for to-day (Thursday),

Units on duty at Headquarters and Mount Austin - Barracks, unter Officer on duty.

5pm. Civil Service Co. Table C

Machine Gun Course on Kennedy Road Range Corp! Grmas, R. E., will attend 5.15 p.m. No 19 Section Artillery 10

pdr il 6 Headquarters. Remainder Bayonet fighting under

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