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* Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 s.m. to-day, 0.06 (nches.

DIATION

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South coast of China between The same as Hongkong and Lemooks. No. 1. South coast of China between (The same as

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METEOROLOGICA

CHINA COAST

REGISTER

15TH MARCH, 1915, A.M.

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5 Homiarra, in percentage of saturation, tà humidity of air saturated with molatore being ICP.

4 BIRROTION OF WIND, to two pelats,

5 FOBOR OF WIND, according to Beaufort Bonia.

THE HEART OF BELGIUM,

UNDER THE IRON HEEL.

The following article and its succca- sors, which will have recently appear ed in The Times, are an attempt to depict, for English readers, the actual stuto of Belgium under the hipel of Gormany to day.

As a neutral citizen who has latoly béon permitted to visit the country, the writer has deliberately refrained from any adverse comment on German methods. Nevertheless, his narrative speaks for itself. It is a straightfor ward record, as it appears to a visitor, of the greatest national tragedy of the Wat

[FROM AN AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT, ]

Please tell the English not to judge s by certain types of our refugees," Belgians Lept repeating to me while I was in Belgium.

Certainly it required as much courage for a Belgian to remain in his own grun try as to take a steamer to Folkestone or

impressions of life under the Germans as the result of exceptional opportunities of observation not to share them with English

roaders

THE NEUTRAL HARVARD MAN,

A LAND WITHOUT LAUGHTER.

Red lanterns took the place of red taga swung by the Landsturm sentries on tha run to Brussels. There was no relaxation. of the watchfulness at night. All the hours the systematic conquerors hold the My companion on my inward journey not tight. Once when my companion ra from Rotterdam to Brussels was a young peated his Again! and held out the American out of Harvard last year, and

It was

going to Cambridge this; but youthful pass in the lantern's rays I broke tute a spirits found Cambridge altogether to laugh, which excited his curiosity for you lonely when there was a call for volunteers 600 got out of the habit of laughing in Belgium. It has just occurred to ma for the relief work in Belgium, which is an undertaking requiring the strictest that my guide book states that passporte Beutrality, Ho had been warned by his not required in Belgium! Iere superiors not to talk; and certainly he plained. The editor of that guide-book did not not to the Germans.

will have a busy time before he issues the probably his inherent taciturnity which ext edition. For oxaniple, he will have led to his being chosen as dispatch rider a lot of now information about Madinas, for the American commission. When I whose ruins were revealed in shadowy mentioned Harvard's victory over Yale in broken walls on either side of the main football last fall, however, he was almost street by the motor lamps. Other places loquacions. Oh, my, but that was a where less damage had been done wore smcar In their new Stadium, too" At equally silent, In the smaller towns and rst be seemed not to know that a war villages the population must keep indoors existed, so very neutral was be. But at at night; for egress and ingress aro mord length I did ascertain that he had a decid difficult to control than in the largo cities, ed opinion. To repeat it would be a where guards at every street suffice breach of neutrality. However, it was not watching, watching, these disciplined

of remorselessly, efficientl tarism watching every human being, în Belgium,

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pawns

"Once again," he said in an automatic a train to Havro. Some seven millions of then did remain. All they had in the undertone, as he dropped his pass-holder world was in Belgium Who was to guard over the frontier for inspection by a had left the day before the city's fall

an ancient

Wo went to the hotel af Brustols which

their property if not themselves? They round-faced Saxon under stuck to their farms, their shops, and their helmet, which must have been brought out English railway signs on the wells of the homes, or to the ruins of them. Those of the garret when the Kaiser set the bld corridor had not been disturbed. Morg who had food and shelter must succour reservists to police the Belgians in order ancient relie still seemed a bulletin board that the young men could all be in the with its announcement of seven passages a destitute and homeless neighbours.

No one knows so well as the Belgians trenches "And again?" he repeated half day to England, traversing the Channel in Belgium that, with many real sufferers, a mile farther on, And again!" 1 in 55 minutes via Calais" and three the refugees include able-bodied mon fond think he was getting a little stale in the hours tid Ostend," with the space blu of a sedentary life with meals free; the business of showing passes to middle-aged where the state of the weather for the timorous, the smug well-to-do of the type Bavarians and Baxons." Naturally, which seeks refuge at the first sign of because we were in a hurry," he said, in trouble, and others not recognized as among dry philosophy, when our car broke a the pillars of respectable society in their spring ball-way to Antwerp in front of a communities. In any country such are the farm-house. first out of a theatre in a fre; they were the first to rush to the railway station at Hartlepool and Scarborough after the bombardment AM

despair or the delight of intending Voyagers had been chalked up in wors happy days. The same men were in attendance at the office as before; only they seemed older and their politeness that of cheerless automatons. For five months they had been serving German officers a guests with hate in their hearts, and in turn trying to protect their property.

AMANDA BELGÍAN FARM. While he and the Belgian chauffeur, with a Belgian peasant who was vainly

Without having soon a single broadline "Stories of the surprise of some Eng trying to assist, were patching up the lish families at the habits of their broken spring, I had a look at the farm. vet, glimpses from an automobile journey Belgian guests have filtered back to us. The winter crops were in the cabbages had told the story of Belgium under the Please say that not all boys of 10 in and Brussels sprouts in the garden wore Germans. I recalled a young man who Belgium smoke cigarettes, though sue in untouched. It happened that the scorch had been in a railway wreek saying that Antwerp do," said a Brussels woman who ing Enger of war's licence had passed by that was the first time ho lind soon depth; was busy with relief work. She had money this little property. In the yard the wife and only when you have seen death could enough to be a refugee if she chose, and was doing the week's washing, her hands, you realize what it was like. So it is with reason too. Her house was occupied by in hot water and her arms exposed to invasion, which means a living death. German officers; her limousine was with weather so cold that I felt none too warm Belgium made me an advocate of consorip

At first sight she tion even in America, in order that a mat the Belgian Army; her husband at in a heavy overcoat. Dianude in the trenches. But she was a gave me a frown, which instantly dismay have something better to defend that philosopher and a soldier as well, who sipated into a smile when she saw that I castle, his house, than the passive resist ance which the Belgians exort with such said that he did not need a big house was not German. when she was not entertaining. The glow If not German, I must be a friend. Yet stubbornness and shrewdness as we shall

if I were I would not dare to talk-note. with German sentries all about, lifted her hand from the suds and swung it out to the west toward England and

Sho

on hen sheeks as sho led the way on the round of her charities attested the truth of her assertion that walking was much healthier than riding, while her black eyes snapped at the mention of the Germans, France with an eager, craving fire in her

I go to look at my house once a week (she explained); and the colonel in com-

eyes, and then she swept it across in front

of her as if she were sweeping a spider off

EXULTATION OF THE

BABY-KILLERS.

DEEDS.

mand allows me to see that my pictures table. When it stopped arm's length GERMANS GLORY IN THEIR FOUR and furniture are still there. My friends there was the triumph it hate in how we are horrified when I tell them that I've I thought of the lid of a caldron raised to talked with the colonel. How could you let out a burst of steam as she asked: talk with a beast of a German ? they" When" When? When would the demand. But someone must keep an eye Allies come and turn the Germans out?

"You have been here all the while since on my property when my husband is away at the front. One day I mentioned to the the war began!" I asked..

"Yes" colonel that I had been fond of German opera and personally I was rather sorry that we should have no more of it in Brussels. He was quite surprised and asked why. Wasn't that like a German

"Did you explain?"

Yes, I said that the Belgians had had enough Wagner to last them a thousand years. He answered "Krieg ist krieg, and what had war to do with music.

GETTING INTO BELGIUM

And you saw the great exodus from Antwerp pass by

Yos. Our house was full of those who fell down from fatigue. We had a baby born here. Their fright was terrible terrible, Monsfour!!!NANTLY RE

"Yes you had no thought of running away yourself!" lace Do you

"Never! It is our place. Do you think we'd let the Germans turn us out

Two children, a boy and a girl, had come" out of the house and stood on either side

A despatch, dated from the cruiser Moltke, February 1st, and entitled "Our Outposts in the North Sea," appears in most of the German newspapers, having been circulated broadcast from somi official courses.

It contains the usual fantastic states:

ments concerning the alleged inaction of the British Fleet and repeats the German. claims to have sunt a battleship, a orniser, and a destroyer during the action of January 24th.

The most interesting passage is the following reference to the now avah warfare of Germany, which is fnote- worthy by reason of the semi-oficial authority behind the words quoted -

Iron times call for iron hearts which

**What matters to us his whming

England and France have seen only the TMFRATORE, in the shade, in degros refugees, nothing of the Belgians in of her, staring at the stranger who was Belgium, since the German avalanche not & German. She made a picture which swept through Brussels. No British recalled a stage picture that of the subject may now pass the frontier line mother in Maeterlinck's Blue Bird, anihilate the enemy without pity. of Holland, where old Landsturm guards, coupled her, at the other extreme of the who are still pretty large about the middle social scale, with the wealthy Brussels lamentation over the British baby inevit but not so large as when the war began, woman who kept watch that the Germans ably struck down by each blow of our What care we for Belgian face the Dutch guards. Beyond this is did not requisition" her paintings and Weapons?

refugees the meat for whose dinner was the real world of Belgian suffering the furniture, and that old English saving salted by the 7918 world of a civilized people under military which we in America are foud of, recurred

to me "A man's house is his castle." - So Belgian refugees should be regarded An American, however, being a noutral, used are we all to freedom, to speaking ing them into the service of the forces as contraband, because England is press- may enter Belgium if his passport has the our minds and travelling freely 30 right sort of visés to accompany assured by law and customs of individual allied to her, jest or in former tirer sho

snatched up sailors for her fleet." Bescheinigung according to the form of and propists Lighty that these privileges Central News-

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7. Rais in inches, t tenths and hundredths of their enemy

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, March 15th,

Prosions On Date On Date

Day at

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1st 2 pm. 6 BI

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30.22 30.19

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Highest open air Temparstare on 14th .. 62 Lowest open air Temperature on 14th

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31st Oktober, 1914, Sect. 016, Nr. 1088," have ceased to have any except-Lremini signed by the German Consul at Rotter-scent significance of the struggles of dam. If there is anything wrong with another age. In Belgium they have again your pass and the first set of Landsturm. a living menning. sentries do not detect the fact, or even the second or the third, some one will before

NO ROMPING CHILDREN.

GERMANY'S COPPER,

IMPORTANCE OF STOPPING FRESH SUPPLIES.

The pressing need of Germany for cop- per and the means by which she works to

you reach Brussels. Then you are brought From the moment we had crossed the before the Kommandantur, very likely frontier a grey day bad suddenly becono after a night in a cell, with the result that gloomier. Yet there had been no destruc you find it is much easier to enter than tion along the Rosendaal-Antwerp road. to leave Belgium It is in going rather blon were moving about in the villages, than in coming that you might carry and their absence from the fields you ex- supply that need are discussed in the military secrets to our pected. in winter. But I noticed no However authoritative your passes, children romping; I do not recollect they permit travel only in what is called having seen any romping children any the zone of occupation, which lies eastward where in Belgium. I wondered if this of a line drawn west of Antwerp and anomaly had occurred to any of the Brussels to Mons. Beyond is the military Landsturm guards, who must have Zone One may get his fl of human children of their own at home. misery without entering it.

Times by one of the first living authorities on the statistics and use of copper,

If consumption exceeds production, copper must be imported, however large the accumulated atores, and if the blockade of the eras institutul by France and England is effective that is, if no copper can reach Germany, either directly or through routral porta then Germany's fate is sealed And for this reason: Without copper there can be made no ammunition; and, the expenditare of ammunition being immense, this consumption of copper in immense. To face her enormous nead Germany has, of course, accumulated stores, but these are not inexhaustible Germany in time of peaco can produce ennuslly 20,000 tons; that production may possibly have been raised o 26,000 fons. With Austria's possibly 4,000 tens a total is obtained of 40,000 tons. The annual need of the two Empires for the war is, however, 72,000 tona

In Antwerp that night the streets were While the average Englishman has kept as brilliantly lighted as ever. No fear of informed about the Ship Purchase Bill bomb dropping here German barracks and the Durie affair, he is hardly aware had safe shelter from aerial raids in a of another pest, not one of trade or the population which were allies of England laws of contraband, but of the heart, which and France. Most of the refugees from the United States is playing. English Antwerp who had comes or property generosity may go only as far as the Belgoworth guarding have returned. The shops Dutch frontier. It may not even give food were open, crowds were moving in the to a Belgian starving on the other side streets with nothing of Antwerp's old except through a neutral agent. Where assistance from the Mother Country ends Salety, but as if moving were all there was to do. At intervals marched the that from Ameriös begins.

German patrole. When our car stopped Any one who makes the mistake of donht before a restaurant a knot gathered ing that America is pro-Ally will hardly around us. We looked as if we might be ftin

doubt that we are pro-Eelgian. Isn English, certainly we were not German. being pro Belgian being pro-Ally? Such Those faces asked the question which the 325 20. 10 36 44318 was the appeal of the situation in Belgie tongues dared not ask: When the consumption of copper increases, Eng- Wed. 17

this winter that the American fund for the 10-425947) 18

relief of Belgiers in Belgium is greater Inside the restaurant a number of land and Francs keep the polico of the Thurs 18 10 21 153420 than the total subscribed for the sufferers German officers were dining. They all sea with the utmost vigilance, so that 20 Fri 19m 10 37 5 9 4 50 26 from the San Francisco earthquake or any looked up with a stare of indignant copper at all can reach Germany and 35 20 other national calamity in our history inquiry. Who was our little party? Austria, the fats of both Empires crema Bakar, 20 in 10 566

629 Our reward is the knowledge that 1,400,000 What were we doing tore and speaking certain. No sentiment of false Inmanity 2422 destitute Belgians who go daily to the English, the Eated tongue of the hated should interfere with the chief duty of the 42 m

enemy? Oh, yes, we were Americans con police ships; for the more rigid te polica 143

the shorter the war. bread lines are kept alive 60 2424

I went to Belgium primarily to see how nected with the relief work. 5 7 m 612 | | 36 American was doing this work and to abyss between this stare of the rulers and Since the commencement of the war the 60

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learn the true extent of Belgian distress; the wistful look of the ruled outside in price of copper in Germany as Teased and I returned with too many vivid the street l

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