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THE WAGES OF OUR COLOSSAL ARMY.

HEROIC WORK OF THE PAY DEPARTMENT.

When the war commenced the Army. Pay Department employed 180 officers and 800 olerka. To-day it employs nearly 700 officers and boween 8,000 and 7,000 elerks.

All this new stad have had to bo trained

THE KIEL-CANAL.

RUSSIAN ENGINEER DESCRIBES

WEAK POINTS,

DANGEROUN BRIDGEÁ.

So much has been written and spoken

a sensation.

THE HOIGEONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY ASH, 1915.

PRISONERS FROM SUBMARINES.

A BERLIN THREAT.

COMPLETE REPLY BY ŠIE E, GREY,

The Foreign Office on the and alt. com-

Inmediate:

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about the importance of the Kiel Canal, 0 Dersuaded have the general public- become about the total impossibility of launching an attack against it, that theunicated to the Press the following Notes: recent declarations

P. by Professor L. in the intricate and technical work of

Shishko, one

Russia's greatest The American Ambassador presents his Army pay accountancy. That training devolved upon the pre-existing 180 off engineerg authorities and a man who compliments to his Majesty's Secretary of cors and 900 clerks. At the same time construction and defences of the Canal ander instructions from the Secretary of had the opportunity of examining the State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour; they had themselves to master all the now Army pay conditions created by at first hand only last year, have created State at Washington, to transmit, hereto an- nexed, the text of a telegram, dated March Parliament and cope with the enormous

Thoroughly understanding the strategic 17, which Mr. Bryan has rouxired from the expansion of their regular work,

The moors raising of the new staff-at nimportaneo of the Canal, he says, the German Foreign Office through the Embassy time when all male labour was drained Germans guarded as a sacred mystery at Berlin

Since by enlistment was a matter of great 1904 no book or article dealing with the

everything appertaining to it. difficulty. "We got them where could," said an officer of the Army Pay literaturi.

Kiel Canal has appeared in the military But, thanks to a lucky Department. "The great majority, of course, were clerks, accustomed to figures, chance, I had the opportunity of examin but entirely new to Army accountancying thoroughly both the Canal and its Many, again, were meu of means and outer buildings in 1914, although under position who have stopped into the work peculiar conditions, for I was not per out of patriotism. The training of such mitted to have pen or pencil with me, nor a camora. Only in the evening, hav. a great number by small number of

ing returned to my hotel, was I able to experts versed in Army socountancy was regieter my impressions, and make some.

great difficulty, but we were greatly drawings from memory, helped by the zeal, intelligence, and devotion of all the new mon."

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FIRST COST OF £7,830,000.

The construction of the Kiel Canal was

Accommodation was one of the first troubles. Here was a closely organised really begun in the eighteenth century. | In 1785 the Eider Canal, which foined Government Department suddenly swol len to six times its personne The Loathe River Eider with the port of Kiel, was finished. This Canal was but 7.5 don District Pay Office has twice migrated metres in width and but 3 metres deep, since the outbreak of war to larger and was intended for ships of commerc offices; the Woolwich office alone has had only. The work on the present Kiel to tako eight or nine private houses for Canal was commenced in 1888, and finish- its staff. For weeks the whole Army payed in 1894. The cost reached a total of organisation worked literally day and night. Only by the herole efforts of the 157 million marks, and as a result there was a Cana, 22 metres wide, and B1 metres various paymasters and their clerks was deep. The Canal starts at the mouth of the situation handled, and in their the River Elbe near the city of Bruns lights burned for into the night and Sunbuttel, and ends near the town of Chol- days were as week daya.

tenau. At both ends there is a double system of locks.

In 1912 the German Government com- menced the work of still further widen ing the Canal, and this work was not finished at the time of my visit, that is, about six months before the outbreak of As the Canal was intended for the war. the use of the largest ships of the German navy, its width was brought to 44 metres, and its dept to 11 metres.

According to notices appearing in the British Press, the British Admiralty is said to have made known its intention not to accord to officers and crews of Gorman submarines who have become prisoners, the treatment due to them as prisoners of war, advantage of their rank. especially not to concede to the officers the

The German Government is of the opin ion that these reports are not correct, as -the crows of the submarines noted in the execution of orders given to themy, and in doing this have solely fulfilled their milit ary duties. At any rate, the reports in question have become so numerous in the noutral Press that an immediate.explana- tion of the true facts appears to be of most

SHIPPING IN PORT

EXHAMEDB.

CHANGEHOW, British str., 1,203, G. Mors,

28th April-Bangkok 19th April, Gen eral Butterfield Swire. CHBLAN MABU, Japanese str., 1,100, Oko, 27th April-Hangay 24th April, Cosi, -Order CHUNGKING, British str., 1,011, Boes Lovia 19th April Bwatow 14th April ---Butterfeld & Swice. DALJIN MARU, Japanese str., 699, K. Murakami, 28 April-Swatow 27th April, General-Osaka Shosen Kai-. sha

INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.

Cargo carried on through Bills of Indian from HONGKONG to BHIBA, DELAGOA BAY, JURBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and JAPE TOWN with transhipmant at COLOMBO to Beers of the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE

PROPOSED SAILINGS, Connecting with "SURAT"

FROM HONGKONG>

FROM COLOMED 1 Sard May,

17th June. ExoMLLEET ADCOMMODATION FOR 1ST AND 3RE ÜLAIS PASṇENGERS,

DAIYA MARU, Japanese str., 2,759, Y. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.

Goto, 17th April-Wakamatan 11th April, Coal. Mitou Baman-Kaisha.. RICHUNG, Chinese str., 979, A. B. Baina, 1st

May-Shanghai 27th April, General Chineso FUKUI MARU, Japanese str., 3,500, H. Cherbaki, 30th April Moji 23rd April, Coal-Mitsu Bussen Kaisha. HAIYANG, British str., 1,363, A. E.

Hodgins, 1st MayAmoy 30th April, General Douglas Lapraik & Co. BANGBANG, British str., 1,350, S. Wilde.

28th April-Saigon 23th April, Rice. -Jardine, Matheson & Co HILD, Norwegian str., 790, G. Jensen. 28th AprilBangkok 18th April. Bios Chinese, HoxaKONO, French atr., 739, A, Marguerite, 1st May Haiphong vin Fort Bayani 28th April. General-A. R. Marty. EoNG BEE, British atr., 9,055, Ogden, 14th April-Singapore 8th April, General Chineso

Chinese str. 991, Hogg, 21st April

urgent importance, if for no other reasusingapore and Saigon 17th April,

than consideration of public opinion in Germany

The Imperial Foreign Office therefore m quests the American Embassy to have inquiry of the British Government made by telegraph through the medium of the American Embassy at London as to whether and in what way they intend to treat officers and crews of German submarine boats who have been made prisoners in any respect worse than other prisoners of war. Should this prove to be the case, the request is added that in the name of the German Government sharpest protest be lodged with the British Government against such

The left proceedings, and that no doubt be. that for each member of the crew of a submarine maile prisoner a British Army officer held prisoner of war in Germany will receive Corresponding harsher treatment. Imperial Foreign Office would be grateful for information at the earliest convenience regarding the result of the steps taken.

American Embassy, London, March 20, 1915.

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The

"The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the United States Ambassador, and with reference to his Excellency's noto of the 20th ultimo

respect- ing

..SEPARATION ALLOWANCES. Foremost among the earlier difficulties of the Army Pay Department were the shifting changes of conditions caused by parliamentary alteration and realtera tion of rates of allotments and separation allowances to soldiers families and dopen dents, Outstanding

alterations were the increases of separation allow unces and the inclusion of dependents previously debarred. No sooner had one The change in the Canal's dimensions schedule of payments been prepared than was hurried to such an extent that no was allowed for E. Corres- an Army Order came reversing and time extending the whole conditions. The ponding change in its defences.. во in the bridges, public were bewildered by the changes, particularly

hand in

the consequenco

latter, and great trouble

caused with was Boldiers' wives and dependents. They deprived of their supports, began to show The bombarded the Army Pay Department a very noticeable settling down. with Intters, and very acrimonious letters measures taken by the engineers to coun to, Streanis of women poured all day teract this proved of no avail, as 1 saw upon the War Office making inquiries as in examining the bridge mar Locwensa, to their allowances, so many, in fact, that whore the shaky condition of the bridge Lords Commissioners of the Achniralty that the officers and men who were rescued from apecial accommodation had to be provid. menaced the navigation in the Canal.

of this bridge giving the German submarines US and U12 baye The possibility ed for receiving and sheitering them. Their complaints, reasonable or other way suddenly is so evident that in my been placed in the Naval Detention Barracks not risk in view of the necessity of their segregation wise-aid in the tremendous pressure opinion to Germans will upon the Department delays were un placing their fighting ships boy the from other prisoners of war. In theso quar- avoidable were taken up by responsible bridge towards Kiel, for in this case they ters they are treated with humanity, given were all the will the would court the danger of being com opportunities for exercise, provided with prople

Gertuan world it was impossible to reply to them pletely cut off from their Western base.

books, subjecten te no forced labour, and all, and the poor Army Pay Departmentat It was little beenme unpopular realised by some of its attackers how the staff of that Department was toiling. hind the this why realised it broke into verse, a parody of the Charge of the of his Light Brigade"; here is one

stanzas:-

Pay-lists to right of them, Pay-lists to left of them, Pay-list in front of them, Ever inercasing,

Sworn at by Press and wives (Crousing for all their lives), Dependents and others.

PAY AT THE FRONT,

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I had occasion to watch the work itself, and the hurried way in which it was performed, particularly in regard to the foundations, was even then apparently giving cause for anxiety to the German As a result, many of the engineers. bridges were closed to traffic, for the fear was ever present that they would collapse without warning,

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POSSIBILITIES OF AIR ATTACK.

Judging from the purely military point of view, the canal is no less unsatisfac. tory. All the bridges and all the cross ings over the Canal are unprotected by any covering, and in case of an attack by an aerial fleet of the enemy they can be easily destroyed, und in falling down would make navigation on of the question.

were as

at present.

prisoners from German submarines, has ports in the 'ress upon the treatment

the honour to state that he learns from the

are better fed and clothed than British prisoners of equal munk now in Germany. As, however, the crews of the two German submarines in ques tion, before they were rescued from the scu, were engaged in sinking innocent British and neutral inerchant ships and wantonly killing non-combatants, they cannot be regarded as honourable opponents, but rather as persons who at the orders of their Government have committed acts which are offences against the law of nations and contrary to counion humanity,

His Majesty's Government would also bring to the notice of the United States Govern- uent that during the present war more than 1,000 officers and men of the German Navy have been rescued from the sea, sometimes in spite of danger to the rescuers, and some times to the prejudice of British naval No case hay, however, occurred operations.

any officer or man of the Royal Navy being rescued by the Germans.

Foreign Office, April 1, 1915.

SHANGHAI TRADE.

Messrs. Olbert & Colg Piere Goods Market Report says

Rice. Chinese.

KABHINO, British str., 1,143, G. Byers. 2nd May-Saigon 97th April, Rice.- Butterfield & Swiro.

Lucnow, British str., 1.221, J. Meathell, 1st

May-Shanghai 29th April, Generil– Butterfield & Swire.

MONGOLIA, American str., 8,750 Emery

Rice 3rd April-San Francisco 27th

March, General.-Pacifo-Mail S.8. Co.

Regular Direct Barries from JAPAN, CHINA and 87BAITS to BEIRA, DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN, FAST LONDON, FORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN, sailing at MAURITIUS en route, and affording the Quickest Freight Transport from the ORIENT to SOUTH AFRICA.

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PERANANG, British str., 1,029, H. Flash- MARSEILLES:& LONDON .....—“KALOMO

man, 9th April Bangkok 22nd April, Rice.—Chinese. SHINYO MARU, Japanese atr., 7,996, Wm. C... T-S. Filmer April 30th-San Francisco

April 3rd, General-Toyo Kizen Kaisha. TAISHUN, Chinese str. 1,200, Westerlund,

28th April-Shanghai 24th April,| General-Chinces,

TAEBANG, British str., 977, R. A. Nethens,

97th April-Shanghai 23th April, General.—Jardine, Matheson & Co. TAITUAN, British str., 2,000, P. W. Grier- son, 21st April-Bydney 23rd March, General.--Butterfeld & 8wire.

TAITO MARU, Japanese str., 1,030, T. Furomoto, 20th April-Dairen 23rd April, General ind Coal-Mitsu Bussan Kaisha TAILIN MARU, Japanese str., 2.127, 1. Nogu

chi, 30th April -Dairen 23rd April, Coal

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. Tz, British str., 1,803, Mills, 30th April-Manila 27th April, General.- Batterfield & Swire. TELEMACHTUS, British str. 1,350, A. Fraser,

Chinese

May-Saigon 20th April, Rice- TSINOTAU MARE, Japanese str. 1.528, K.

Kanada, goth, April-Chingwatso 19th April, Coal-Dodwoll & Co. TIMANDER, Dutch str. 3,510, A. W. La

Kory, 26th April-Batavia, General. TWONG, Dutch str. 3,061, A. Olden.

Java China Japan Lijn,

burgen 28th April-Saigon 22nd April, Rice and Wood. Chinese Tour MARU, Japanese str., 2,307, 3.

Ikeda, 28th April-Vladivostock 20th April, Beans-Mitsui Busson, Kai- shu.

TARG, Norwegian str. 873, J. Jobsen. 30th April Kinhan 23rd April, Rice and General.-Chinese. WAISHING, British str., 1,272, M. Pick- nell, 1st May Bangkok 21st April. Rics and Cattle-Jardine, Matheson & Co.

WIMBLEDON, British str., 2,436. J. Cantell, 26th April-Chinwante 19th April, Coal.-Dodwell & Co.

YATERING, British str., 1,493, R. 6. Anderson, End May-Singapore 25th April, General and Coal. Jardine, Matheson & Co.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

THE AMERICAN MAIL.

Manufacturers in Lancashire have The str. Perain sailed from Yokohama The mails have been trans- rise in cost of replacement, together with Hongkong. exhibited great strength recently, and the on Friday, April 30th, vid Manila for

Only the fittest surviver Of those six hundred.--- Or, as another humorist, employed in the Bay Department itself, is reported to have bitterly observed, First it was the Only in 1914 did the Germans build wife, then it was the unmarried wife, now underground tunnels under the Canal the nint. We shall have the next-door These tunnels are very important; for it's neighbour on to us next week"

they cannot be attacked by an enemy, and Grumblers and humorists alike have thus troops can be easily transferred from relapsed into silence, and the Army Pay, one side of the Canal to the other.

a visited these tunnels. They are built Department rising wonderfully to criss and strain beyond all parallel or fourteen metres below the water, and are precedent in a Government Department, wide enough to permit a column of six ur for the matter of that, in say private abreast to march through bein without The construction is isiness or undertaking is day, one any inconvenience. must imagine, not the feast popular, but entirely of cement. The time's are pro the most popular of all Government vided with side chambers for the storing of ammonition. During my visit they Departments.

The soldier receives his pay. if he is differ set empty, though, of course, it wishes it, not only at the front but in The German engineers with whom I the fact that the diminishing amount of ferred to the str. Awa Mary of the stock held in this market is now begin- N.V. K. line, due to arrive at Hongkong the trenches.

spoke openly admitted the faulty co- The cash, in French euriruction of the bridges, etc., but pointed ning to make itself felt in some classes of May 9th. rency notes, is issued by his company

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL. officer in the field, and is accounted for out that they were simply the executor's goods, have been factors which have.com-

tributed considerable tone" to pur The E. & A. str. St. Albani lett Byrney acquittance rulls." The system of of the orders of higher authorities.

A In conclusion, I may state with assur- market. The amount of business passing for this port (via Queensland Ports and Army pay is based on fixed centres. private in the Hampshire Regiment, for anes that in its present state the Kiel has not been large, bat it has been fair, Manila) on the 21st instant, and may be instance, has his record office and pay Caual is so badly built that to put it into and clearances are continuing upon a expected to arrive on or about 14th May, office at Exrier Wherever he is serving, a condition that would answer to the moderate scale,

The principal-stumbling block in the except in the Colonies, his secounts filter demands of modern engineering at least

The str. Glentoyan from London is duo- would be required, path of an enquiry commensurate with here on or about Wednesday, the 5th May. through Exeter, the paymaster there four yours

the agricultural prosperity, throughout debits his account with the cash, and involving an expenditure of several hun

most of the country is the Japanese also compiles the pay list and transmite dred million marks.

demands that are being discussed in Peking. While the present state of Cheongshing, from Wei-hai-wei, is due in the Chinese regarding them, the nativo banks keep their operations with their merchant-clients restricted to a strictly cash basis. Political unrest in one form and another has in fact cast its shadow over this market for so long periods and

is to the local auditor, where thes accounts are eventually audited.

work

Every soldier caries his pay-book right THE DANGER ZONE IN THE general uneasiness exists in the ininds of

through the war. As far as possibl: be Men, the advære d is paid weekly. trenches draw their money, almost us they were in barracks at home, some way or other, they manage to spe. it Fach payment is entered at the time

DARDANELLES.

Sir Edwin Pears, who has lived for over thirty years in Constantinople, and is the most authoritative Western writer on Turkish affairs, thus describes the dan

so many recent years, that absence, of in the pay-book. Should the soldier fall er zone in the Dardanelles:~-

About 11 miles fruin the entrance to the credit facilities amongst ralive traders

accustomed state. Al-

in action, or die of wounds, the heck is, Straits the channel narrows and is less for the carrying on of conuneree is con forwarded to hissed cutre pays than two miles broad. Chanak, the chiefing almost a master in England.

The greatest carton or village on the traits, is at the though, however, track may be and

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is take that this should be done in every i enemy's hands. It is in the knowledg

this that so many men carr: their wills in the paybook.-E.

ANOTHER "SCRAP OF PAPER."

Three quil-a-half miles north of it is a by year throughout the last decade and a

renown as Nagar Point, around half, the business done in compariser to ing, with the outward English mails, and which at right angles the currens runs the huge population and industry of the is due here on the 8th instant, daylight. from the Marmor. Take this three-and country is but a more surface seratch,

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

a half miles as a bus, note the width at The evidences of development of trade are The Narrows, fix a trifle greater width at insignificant, and it may possibly be with Nagara Point end a parallelogram is the object of prodding China's lethargy obtained. This is the chief danger zone that the Japanese demanda have been Monday, 10th May Any ship attempting to pass upwards is formulated, but the deer must be kept exposed to all the batteries on each side wide enough open to admit other coun- of the Straits, there being at least six, tries on an equal footing of opportunity. Moreover, the water is thickly strewn with contact mices. To silance all these

An ordinary piece of paper drafted as a cheque for £3, drawn on Coutts' Bank and signed by a British soldier in a Ger man prison camp, was received recently by the Rev, Arthur Taylor, secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. batteries and clear away the taines is a

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ON RALF. The Linotype Company, the Gramo- Telling the story, Mr. Taylor said this ed no one doubts. But we are sure to phone Company, motor-car companies,

VOLUMES of the XONGKONG the men were so pleased with books sent have a best of foolish telegrams which Chubi's famous firm for making safes BOUND TO PRESE, JULT O DECEMBER, out by the Society that they made a collec ought to be discredited, and progress can- and locks, and other companies, to-day 1914. With InDez. Price $7.50, tion among themselves, and one who had not be rapid. Once this danger zoos are working for, the British War Office, On Sale at the "HosoRose DAILY FES" TRADE MARK REGULATIONS IN in account at the bank drew out and passed, a five-and-twenty miles careful and are producing guns or shells instead aigned the strange cheque which hat run to Gallipoli bring: tho Fleet into the of printing or been duly honoured,

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