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Belgium and Luxemburg, thinking that Great Britain would have "tadeen it tho right way."

On the 4th at 10.05 am-The depression mas remained stallenary and has partially fitted GERMAN OFFICERS' VIEW OF AN no territory in Europe not already vocu-

isp. The anti-cycloro has moved eastwards and h central this morning over the Eastern Soo, Slight increases of pressure have occurred over southern Japan and the Loochoos and slight duoreane over Annam and the Philippines.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 13. to-day, 0.00 inches.

The forecast for the 24 hours sading at noon to-day is as follow

FORECAST DISTRICT,

(E. & N.E. winds, Bangkong & Naigh how hood light to moderate;

fine.

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No. 1.

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ALLY.

A LESSON FROM BRITISH TRENCHES.

ÏFROM AN EYE-WITNESS AT HEADQUARTERS)

While it is maintained that she desired

pied by German-speaking people, it is admitted that her strategic frontier in the Vosges must be improved. The most in- portant point of the views now hold, howover, and ens that must be of special interest to Germany's ally, Austria, is has failed so badly in the prestat war. the frank admission that, since the Inter

and has had to be bolstered up by the The following descriptive account, which armed stringth of Germany, she must pay has been communicated by an Eye-for it and will have to bleed (Chustamcich. Witness present with Gonoral Headquar

muss bluten), tors, continues and supplements the narrative published on March 28th of the movements of the British Force and the Franch Armies in immediste touch with ib

March 30th.

The quiet along our front has not been broken by any event of importanes. The weathor has been fine, with brilliantly aunay days and clear, moonlit nights, but there has been a bitter wind, which has brought the temperature down below freezing point,

Of incidonts the following are alone worthy of record :---

On Thursday, the 26th, portions of our front were more heavily shelled that usual, and opposite our contre the Ger man suipers were active. On Friday five bombs were dropped on Essara from a Gorman acroplane, one man being wound. The hostile artillery fire was again heavy in placER,

ed.

VARCELLING OUT AUSTRIA.

These German prisoners hold that the Austrian Empire will cease to exist, and that the Cannons will give away some of its territory to Italy and include, the German-speaking portion of Austria in the German Empire, also Luxemburg.. Other points are that the Germinus will weleene a Grand Duchy of Poland as buffer between themselves and Russia, will insist on Belgium joining the Gorman Zollverein,-and-on-Antwerp-becoming-un-

A great Central international port, European Confederation of Germanic peoples will be formed to include the Scandinavians. In reference to Italy, the Germana look forward to the good offices of the Pope, though the necessity for this is regreted, because it is not. thought that. Papal infinence is patible with the attainment of Pan-Ger manic aims.

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Saturday, the 27th, was also marked by There is no doubt that these views are -activity by the enemy's airmen, based on inspired and highly-coloured, who dropped bombs ou Bailly, killing two newspaper accounts and cleverly edited men. A Zeppelin was seen at night head- official communiques, and that the Ger

man forces in different parts of the front

sults in oach case.

GERMAN ESTIMATE” OF MACHINE-GUNS.

ing north-eastwards.

On Sunday, the 28th, bombs from Geraro kept voll supplied with intelligence man aeroplanes were dropped near Es of successes gained in quarters upon taires and Hazebrouck, with but small re- which they are not acting and of which. they have no first-hand knowledge. But that they should be held at this stage of the war accounts to a great extent for Since mention is not infrequently made the optimism prevailing. So long as they of the capture of machine-guns from those generally maintained, however, by enemy, it is necessary to sound a note of whitover means, the moral of the enemy. warning less more importance than is cannot be said to be deteriorating." justified should be attributed to these minor suocesses. It must be remembered THE SURPRISE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE, that, to the Germans, the loss of one or Among those captured at Leuve several machine-guns does not représeat Chapello were many Poles who spoke Ger- what at the beginning of operations it man indifferently and were not over would have meant to us, with one then friendly to Prussia. They appeared to vastly inferior total and proportionate be deeply impressed with the fact that number of the weapons. It is believed famous Prussian regiment to which they, that, before war commenced, they had belonged should have suffered so heary a available altogether a stock of 50,000 such blow, and learned with considerable sur- guns, apart from any that may since have prise that they were not within seved been turned out by their arsenals. Their miles of Paris. All the prisoners were employment of them, therefore, has, in a struck with the manner in

which our. The com certain senso, heon prodigal, and carried attack had boon carried out. out with a disregard of loss which is only pleteness of the surprise was proved, nat comprehensible when the large reserve of only by their testimony, but by the fact these weapons in their possession is born that the enemy's dispositions showed a in mind.

breakdown on the part of their Staff, for To the Germany the machine gun repre- troops were hastily thrown into the fight sents morely a piece of machinery of m-as they arrived, and without cohesion, mense killing and stopping power which many of them having been without food has cost a cortuin sum of money, but is for hours

less vulnerable and less valuable in every

The Germans are now taking compre. way than the number of men and rifles of hensive measures to remove the whole equivalent killing power. Ons priciple civil population of the territory occupied guiding its employment, therefore, is

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- 2 Tampasatu2n, in the shade, -in Fahrenheit.

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8 HUMIDITY, kin percentage of saturation, i bemidity of air started with moleluro being Re.

4 Disaction or Wind, to two points.

& FORCE OF WIRD, socording to Beanfort Stale S STATE OF WHATHI, b blue sky, o deteta cloud, d dritsling rain, fog, 8 gloomy, h ta', lightning, orget, pezning ebowere, aegrati r voir, senów, 1 thunder, v visibility, w cew init:

7 BAIN in inches, t testbe and bandredthr.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

BEGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, May 4th.

Previous,On Date On Date

Day st

at -2pm."

at 8 pm, 6 a.m. ̄ ̄

Barometer

CERES-

29.03 20.93

29,90

Temperature

71

64

76

Humidity 16- 71

49

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Highest open air Temperature on 3rd... 73- Lowest open air Temperature on 3rd.. 67.

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

From 5th to 11th May.

HIGH WITZE

Height

LOW WATER.

H'kong.

Timo

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Kong.

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22026 4

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Fri.

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69 4 7

11 12

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5 10

5 6

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THE REGIMENTAL SPIRIT.

that, provided a gea has earned its by them in France.

its cost by the or paid for number of enemy laughtered,

destruction dogs

or

the

not

If there is one thing and it has ecomo. its Jess

even more noticeable during the last few count. For then it has boon a mat-weeks--which strikes those who go about for of the change of a mechanison cost-amongst our men, whether in the trenches ing a few pounds, which can be replaced in billets, or in the hospitals, it is that at once, for a number of lives which can- not be replaced within a generation, This, of course, applies to the gun alone and not to the highly-trained-epecialists who handle it,

7,500 BULLETS IN ONE MINUTE.

the thought uppermost in their minds is net of their own hardships and sufferinga, But of the progress of the war in general and of the operations on our front in par- ticular. The first question that a wound. ed man usually asks: is, "How far did It may be of some interest to point out we get "Did we take such and such to those who are unacquainted with the a trepel or position? He may have

been maimed for life, most of his com weapon that a machine-gun, at an ord nary rate, fes 500 sounds minute, rades may have been killed, but those From the sector of the defences of Neuve thing, oberen him little in comparison Chapelle, therefore, where, as reported, with the point of whether his battalion or the Germans had 15 macniae-guns within eompany acremplished the task assigned a length of front of 250 yards, 7,500 bulto_them.

lete could have been poured in one minute,

vious.

Nothing else matters. All thiso qu€S

Ho

in addition to these from the rifles of the tions of hours of work and wages which effe of this stream of lead would have are agitating his friends at home, are accepes been against assaulting infantry, either utterly strange to him. hold up by obstacles or advancing over everything, the heaviest loses to his unit clear ground at the slow prey alone pas as well es his own personat misfortunes, in complete cheerfulness, so long as he sible to heavily weighted soldiers, is ob

knows that we are-winning, Nos that the The German guns are of Maxim type, feeling throughout the Army has ever on a small and inconspicuous sidge or been other than one of supremo confidence stretcher mounting, and are carried overy.in the eventual result, but there is now where where infantry can go. The something more than that. Every man majority of them are built by the feels that the long, dreary winter is past, Deutsche Waffen Fabrik, near Berlin, and and that it is no longer a question merely other factories in Germany, but some of

"sticking it" in wet trouches, under the older ones were constructed in Enga rain of high explosives from above and in the ever-present danger of a mine from underneath. Ho feels that the time for the realization of his hopes. is arriving," and that he is, in his own words, "going to get a bit of his own back.”

land.

KIND-HEARTED FRENCH WOMEN. Allusion-bas-already--b-on made to the good feeling which prevails generally between our Army and the inhabitants of the districta in whica is is quartered. There is one direction, however, in which the kinduess of the Freach, especially of the womenfolk of all graden of society, has been most remarkable, and that is in the aristanco rendered us in the care of our sick and wou.ded.

Most of our clearing stations for the wounded have been slabii hed Institu-

of

SUBMARINE WARFARE

METHODS.

An Amsterdam message published in Australia esys

Hansen, the commander of the German

tons, factories, or paitae comes, and in sabmarine U16, when interviewed at Fel, all-cases the owners, touants, or those said that each German submarine had a merely responsible for the buildings have definite area His was recently in the done everything to help cur medical

English Channel He had been out for authorities. At

one place two ladies. whose private houss has been converted into a convalesien. to pin for officers. have insisted on doing the cooking them selven, because they considered that the efforts of their cook wele not good enough. Many have given up their whole time and energies oooking after the patients and aste dingo their wants, ven to the making of barley sugar for those suffering foul coug-s

On the other hand, for the civil inhabi- tams, both sick and boudd, especially the Belgians; our British voluntary medi- cal org.ui.ations are in some places doing most noble work.

The latur was 'very

ways, but he declined to say whether or Lot suat was a record. The ergana vare gradually learning tho metuds of sub. IDarine warfare, trying upon the nerves, as the aur when heated-became poor and was mixed with the odours of oil. The atricapore was fearful and overpowering. Bcopiness often attacked now men, who required to exercise the utmost will power to remain awake. Sometimes rewers would not eat for three days, because they did not want to lose a moment's sleep. The bad air also produced sea sickness. were no fires on board a submarine, be cause they would burn the oxyges, and as PRISONERS' VIEWS ON THE WAR,

a result the men had always cold food. Conversation with some of the captured To avoid the waste of electric power they officers and better-educated prisoners has steered entirely by chart and compass. He thrown considerable light on the views had sometimes stood for eight hours on the general situation now held by the with his eyes glued to the periscope. German Army. It is freely acknowledg When a submarine was out of work it was ed that Germany started the war, but submerged so that the crow could have a

whother

Before ascending he always. opinion seems to be divided as to

long sleep. she intended to occupy Belgium per ordered silence for several minutes to de-. The belief is that she termine whether or not there vere: DY

manently or not.

There

would not have crossed the Meuse if propellors in the vicinity. The shell-like England bad remained neutral, but sides of the submarine acted as sounding. would have advanced through South boarde