1915-03-26 — Page 7

SIX WEEKS WITH THE ENEMY.

UNFERTURBED BERLIN.

THE GERMAN MACHINE

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 261, 19.5.

KENT HEROES.

TRIED TO SAVE A DROWNING. ENEMY.

We opened fire at 4.10 p.m. at 11,000 yards range, but were still short of her, he soon got our range; then things got

trifle warm. rango we were put into independent firing.

As soon as we got their

Then we drow blood, and you should have and we began to put shell all round. seca our faces! Her shells were coming mighty near us and we were getting spray into the foretop, we were get

GERMAN DIPLOMACY AT A DISCOUNT. That the empire sufers thereby, parti cularly in its foreign affairs, was told me by distinguished German The open criticism of German diplomacy by all classes seemed to me extraordinary. That A mid-hipman in H.M.S. Kent, a vcasel the haute financo was not advised of the war in due time, in order to call in

well-known on ho i

the China Station, gives tons, etc., rankles in their minds That the following details of how his ship s nk the country was not informed of the the German cruiser Nurnberg — English point of view or was falsely advised is felt bitterly. In fact, German A journey to Berlin in war time diplomatists are in such disrepute at the most hazardous undertaking, I was told. Present moment that I heard more than one person emphatically declare," We Four or even five days were suggested to will have no diplomatic peace and I me as the time required, and at least 48 and commercial men of Germany expect know that the great industrial, banking, hours from The Hague to the German to be consulted, should the occasion arise capital.

For not a man of them but believes that I armed myself with patience and a the end will be favourable. passport and determined to see

Yet strangely enough one here little through. From London to The Hague talk of victory little boasting over the took 30 hours. That was a bad beginning. Prowess of the German arms, and, stranger particularly as on the short stretch from still to a foreigner, the Emperor's name Blushing to The Hague I was obliged to rarely, it over, igures in the conversation, chango trains twice. It was with many in point of popularity with the people misgivings that I left the Dutch capital rietor in Poland, is of course the national ranks about fifth. Hindenburg. The We bumped along the road through hero, though among the well-informed, Amsterdam, past countlass guarding the permanent way.

soldiers his Chief of Staff, Indendorff, is given noon the dreaded frontier was reached war on the Easterr. frontier is, to the Towards the credit for these victorios. For the The Custorns examination was, if any. Berliner, of far more interest and import thing, more mild than in peace times. A than the campaign on the Western front, little blue label marked "revidiert" was Next comes the Crown Prince, ani posted on my bags, my passport was nothing could attest to his rising fame scrutinized and stamped, a porter placed more strikingly than the fact that the iny luggage in a cua murked Berlin, and bristling moustaches à la Kaiser have to my intense surprise 20 minutes later we practically disappeared, all officers hay were steaming at fall speed over the flating clipped their moustaches to the lands of the Ems valley. The dining saloon attached to the train served me the Imperial Throne,

toothbrush style worn by the heir to and not a soul seemed to have the slightest All our people were wonderfully cool, an excellent meal for three marks, and running a close third, comes Count using a good deal of lyddite, and so had After him, and doubt about the result. We had been I returned to my compartment to await Zeppelin, the man who has made England they Our hammock nettings wore quite shiver and quake with four, and mope about in the dark, to the delight of all low from luddite which exploded from Berliners. Then, Crown Prince Rap precht of Bavaria and the Crown Prince of Wurtemburg, both having prove themselves great military loaders. the Emperor.

evonts.

and it is a wonder we were not very badly Their, shooting was very good indeed, hit. About this time we carried her fore top mast away and began holing her badly She was running full pelt, and we were doing twenty-four and a half knots after her; considering that we have been out at sea over two months this was as near a miracle as anything I have ever a belt just by the fore turret and unship beard of. Then we caught her a devil of ped her turret and wrecked her conning tower, killing her captain.

now, and she was showing signs of being We were hitting her very frequently in a bad way; then she hit as twice for ward by the forecastle, beautiful shots, which made quite large holes,

their shell. The fore turret landed her a lovely smsek just by the quarter-deck. 1 She was now undoubtedly done for. Then yond it was hauled up again and she opened she began to haul down her ensign, but The Crown Princess is undoubtedly the fire at us. The range now was about 8,000 most popular woman Germany has had yards, and when we replied her decks since the days of "Queen Louise," The became a shambles. One shell alone killed. Smile of Berlin," as she is called, and her fifty men. We could not miss her, and four sturdy little sons, all in military pumped in shot after shot, dress, arouse the wildest cathusiasm when

Snow lay deep in the district around Osnabrück, where we caught up with the storm. Hanover was passed on schedule time, and at a little station near there wo came to a dead halt. At last thought wo were in for it. I saw a long Red Cross train fourth-class carriages converted into sleeping cars with a great red cross painted on a motal shoot at each end, and wounded men staring out of the windows near the top. Five minutes, ten minutes we waited. Then with a jolt we started off at full speed. I inquired ever they appear. of the guard whether wo would be very late Ob, no, all stops are provided for,"

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came the answer, "Near Stendal 1 A CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. saw 20 small black freight cars with the words Louvain, Etat Belge," stencille) in white letters, parked on. Beiding empty.

It was still snowing, but we kept up our express pace, and Berlin was reached on time to the minute. I alighted from Mr. Justice Bargrave Deans pronoun the train 1 hours after leaving The ed a decree nisi last month on the petition Hague. A porter, two, struggled for the of Gladys Horspool Rodesse, whose privilege of carrying my bags, and iden name was Aldis, for a divorce noticed they were young stardy fellows, from her husband, Francois. quite of the arms-bearing age. Evidently Antoine Maurice Rodess, station I saw few or no troers, no mili. on the grounds of his decertion and At the registrar of the High Court of Singapore tary guards, and the usual routine of adultery. brass chock for a taxi-cub-delayed mo sume moments, and then through the brilliantly lighted, thronged streets I was driven to my hotel. The hazardous journey was over.

some had not been mobilized.

And so with other journeye. I crossed the country from one and to the other, and never was my train late. Every fast train was equipped with a dining saloon and all-night trains with sleeping cars.

LIFE IN BERLIN.

Mare

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SHIPPING IN PORT.

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CANADA MABU, Japaneso str., 3.547, T. Suruga, 20th March-Shanghai 17th March, General Osaka Shoson Kaisha,

CHEIAN MAST, Japanese str., 1,000, Maka,

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CHINA, American str., 3,188, H. Thomp- pon, 23rd March-San Francisco 20th February, General-Pacific 6.8. Com

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DAIGI MARU, Japanego str. BAG, S Tokushige, 24th March-Swatow 23rd

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Shearer, 23rd March-Saigon 19th HATAN, British str., 1,188, J. W. Evans,

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24th March Swatow 23rd March, BEROULES, Norwegian str., 2,429, R. General Douglas Lapraik & Co. Wilhelmsen, 23rd Maroh-Chingwan-

HONGKONG, French str., 742, Marquerite, tao 16th March, Coal Dodwell & *Co.

HUICHOW, British str., 1,222, Share, 21st 14th March-Hoihow 13th March, General:-A. R. Marty,

Marchiontsin 14th March, Gen- IXION, British str., 6,627, G. L. Stout, 18th

eral,Butterfield & Swire.

March-Manila 16th March, General. -Butterfield & Swire KORINA MARU, Japanese str., Yamashita, 18th March-Nagasaki 13th March, Cost-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. KUMI MANU, Japanse str., 2,426, H. Tominaka, 22nd March-Dairen 14th March, Genoral-Mitsui J

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Then she was seen to list heavily to th March, General-Dodwell & Co THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD

atarboard and dipped her onsign. The list was how becoming steadily worse and and half-righted herself only to go over worse, till about 7.27 p.m. she capsized

again; then her bows came up in the air and she went under for good. We had ceased fire at 0,37,2

We did all we could to pick up anrvivors, but alas our boats were too damaged to ap temporarily and managed to get ten get out for some time. We patched them survivors, three of whom died of exposure. name, very pluckily went over the side One of our midshipment, by for a drowning man when the water was rawer, a pair of flannel trousers, two not pull round. I had on two pairs of freezing Laluckily the poor devii did

vests, shirt, waistcoat, and sweater, with a boiler suib over that, and yet I was awfully cold

INDIGNATION.

Mr. Grazebrook, who appeared for the Fitioner, said that the parties were married at the register cffice at East bourne on September 28th, 1008, aud there was no asue of the marriage. The diately after the marriago the respondent" VIRTUOUS " marriage was a clandestine one. Imme informed the petalioner that he intended to associate with other women in the same way as he had done before marriage written by Deputy Erzberger, one of the Tag, of Berlia, contains an article On the petitioner's remonstrating, the respondent told her that she could leave leaders of the Reichstag Centre, in which him, being compelled to do so through his War must of necessity be a hard and if she did not like it. Thereupon she left he says conduct. That in law amounted to deser tion on the part of the respondent. The rough instrument. It must be waged ES respondent fad subsequently committed pitilessly as possible. That, after all, adultery at a hotel in Paris. After the is the most humane principle. present proescdings had been begun she responsient, who knew something about annihilating London in its entirety, that If we could discover a means of law, sent a so-called afidavit to the pofi-would be more humane than to allow a tioner's solicitor, Mr. J. A White, which hattle, since euch annihilation would he, the learned counsel, handed to the ad to a prompt peace. Courtitioner in bor ovidence, stated nises neither the law of nations nor even that she was at school in Switzerland international conventions that she herself "England spares nothing She, recog when she eloped with the respondent, has ratified. She regards these conven- whose acquaintance she had made prvi tions as mere scraps of paper which to England with him to get married. The the winds, ously in Singapore." She had travelled she is at liberty to tear up and throw to respondent had always told her that he considered that England was his home, and that he aways went back thers when he got his leave.

The

I expected to find Berlin the throbbing heart of the Empire. Instead I found the cold, metallic, precise click of a great machine., One gets no impression of per- sonal feelings, personal emotion, Merely the slow, grinding rotation of dutica, each carried out with perfunctory energy, but the whole the most magnificant organiza tion the world has yet seen. It is man reduced to an equation of effeiency. Of cach individual is required just about one-half the effort of which he is capable: The result is that, not only are they amply provided for any emergency, but that ordinary life is less disturbed than in any other belligerent country.

Berlin is more its true provincial self than at any time since it has become a world capital The large foreign transient population is lacking, and the immaculately clean white marble ances tors of the present Kaiser, which he has arranged so neatly in rows, vis-à-vis, in the Tiergarten, must be content to smile or frown down on the daughters of Berlin. Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane, after dressed" auf Deutscher art" in Gor-reading the respondent's affidavit, said. man fashion.

that it might have been meant as an answer to the suit, and that the respon dent perhaps wished to defend it.

Though the life of the people goes its round undisturbed, in higher circles about the Court all social life has ceased, except for small parties given for the entertainment of officers invalided bonic Officers on leave without serious cause I

Her father also corroborated her evi dence that the respondent always cuid that his domicile was English.

She has embodied in her forces troops

SAINT EGBERT, British str., 3,503, G. Aitken, 18th March Manila 16th March, General-Dodwell & Co... SABINE RICKMERS, Dutch str., Echaurman, 17th March-Swatów 16th March, Nil

Asiatic Petroleum Co. SETON, Norwegian str., 966, D. Hevbren- der, 22nd March Bangkok 13th March, Rice. Thoresen & Co.

SUANG, British str., 1,770, H. Simpson,

TAKBANG, British str., 987. McClure, 24th 10th March Singapore 13th March, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co.

er Jardine, Matheson & Co. March-Hoihow 22nd March, Gen- TAISHUS, Chinese str., Westerlund, 24th

March-Shanghai 20th March, Gen- eral-Chinese.

TAIVO MARO, Japaneso str., 1,620, T. Fumoto, 23rd March-Dairen 16th March, General. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. TAIWAN MABU. Japanese str. 1,145, H. Sakai, 24th MarchHnokoho Bay

1st March, Salt-Chinese

TosA MARU, Japanese str., 3,610, Takano, 23rd March-Moji 18th March, Gen- TITAROEN, Dutch str., 1,000, J. N. Bru-

eral-Nippon Yusen Kaisha.

TIPANAS, Dutch str., 2,440, A. de Lange, man, 17th March Batavia; Sugar- Jave-China-Japan Lijn.

22nd March-Hoihow 21st March, Sagar-Java-China-Japan Lijn.

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24th March-Shanghai 19th March, General Butterfield & Swire.

VESSELS EXPECTED,

· AMERICAN MALL. The P.M. str. Manchuria left Yokohami of all races, yellow, red, and black; she on the 19th March via Manila for Houa would even enrol a spotted race if there kong. The mails have been transferred to existed one in the world. That is why the NY.K. str. Tumba Maru, which is Germany is authorised to make use of all scheduled to arrive at Hongkong on the the known means of warfare to beat her 28th March adversary,

Since we are under sea masters, even if not masters above the waves, let us boldly assert our superiority. Let our ing parago in the respondent's affidavit

The learned Judge then read the follow peridious foe without respite.

Zeppelins and our submarines strike our dated June 22nd, 1914, at Singapore

"England has taken from us about 400 merchant ships. Our reply must be this. My domicile of origin is Mauritius. For every stolen ship a British town or BLW none, so that the war conversations but I possess also a domicile of choice, village will be destroyed. Let as sow luck the thrill of personal contact with that you are in full possession of the with the aid of our dirigibles terror and which is the Straits Settlements. If non a real warrior fresh from the trenches, above information, you feel justified as death in the hearts of the British people. who, speaking in the first person, recounts his adventures to admiring listerers an officer of the Court in advising your "All means must be good for us. Even The wounded who reach Berlin are un client to proceed with her petition, and if we possessed the secret of shedding unusually reticent lot, compared with in concealing the real facts of the ease fire-rain on the British soil, why should those in other cities, though they must be from the Divorce Court I shall not enter we not make use of ibi"! the heroes of the war, for every other any defence, as I do not want to spea soldier in the capital has been decorated any of my money about a wife whom I with the Iron Cross, In fact, mot to should be only too glad to be rid of. But, have the big black and tin-edged bauble should any trouble arise in consequence dangling from a long black and of these precedings, the whole matter, white ribbon from the third button which I have already made known to the hole of the field-grey" tunic, is Registrar of the Supreme Court hera becoming mark of especial will be made public, whatever the cons: distinction. The national song will have queve may be." to be changed to Kreuzigad, Kreuz land über Ailes" if the war continues, a wit has recently suggested. Whether the Emperor preters his Prussians to bis Bavarian or other troops, as has been suggested, is difficult to say though the fact remains that one sees many Iron Crosses in Berlin than in any other city of the empire.

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He would pronounce a decree na with coats, but would send all the papers to the King's Proctor.

RUSSIAN FINANCE MINISTER'S PROPHECY.

METAL SHORTAGE. PUBLIC STATUES FOR THE MEETING POT

The Germans are also taking drastic steps to deal with their shortage of metal. Everything which can be melted down and turned into shells or bullets is finding it way to Krupps. The German clock makers in the Black Forest were early warned of the course that was to be adopted. All their socks of brass, copper. pewter, nickel, antimony, aluminium. and otherwise, have been sequestered. And this is only a minor, though a

GERMANY TO LOSE HER £65,000,000 Avery thoroughgoing, example of the whole-

YEAR TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

The striking absence of a warlike spirit in the capital, a certain emptiness and lack of enthusiasm, can be explained in

sule scouring that is going on throughout part by the fact that the Emperor, estab

the empire. The German authorities are fished at his Grosses Hauptquartier, then M. Bark, the Russian Finance Minister, pots and pans. Speaking on the requisi- In an interview published by the Matin, to contribute to Krupp's her superfluous also encouraging the German housewife comewhere on the Western front, has declared that the war will by no means taken with him as part of his staff his end with the military operations, but will lots

of metal to a gathering of Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, etc. in all, I am told, some 100 inevitably be continued on the economic metallurgists in Düsseldorf, Dr. Schuster persons. Here in a little asbestos hut for

ground. N. a well-known public man, indicated the The Emperor and other even less desirable tically closed to Germane, and the factories

Russian markets will in future be prac carried. The lead roofing, he said, would extent to which the order was to be and cramped quarters for his Ministers, Foland, Belgium, and France which he stripped not only from the churches the whole executive administration of Germany is being carried on. Berlin, take over the German trade to Russia, metal statues and monuments are also to they have ruined or sought to ruim will in the invaded districte but also from politically speaking, is merely a deserted

the places of worship in Germany, while annex of Headquarters."

amounting to ЕВО million roubles (£85,000,000).

be thrown into the melting pot.

nt the Town Office.

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The A.O. str. Changsha left. Port Dar. TJILATJAP Philippine ports, and may be expected arrive on or about 28th March.

THE FRENCH MAIL. Tho M.M. str. Ernest Smons (outward mail) will arrive here on the 28th instant, and will probably sail on the 29th inst.

HEROHANT STEAMERS.NE

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5.16 Hongkong Club Extradinary

General Meeting.

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Monday, 12th April

Noon-Hongkong Ict Co., Ltd, Meeting of

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