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ASTANA, British str., 9,207, Wm. Dunbar,
B Moy-Chingwontoo Bad May, Coal, Dodwell & Co.
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AWA MARU, Japanese str., 2,913, T. Hori, 10th May-Shanghai 7th May General Nippon Yusen Kaisha. OHSIAN MANU, Japanese str., 1,095. M. Oka 9th May-Hongay 8th May, -Coal-Mitsu Bussan Kaisha CHEONGSHING, British str., 1,088, V. Mac Liddell, 6th May-Woi hai vei 30th April, General-Jardine, Matheson
CHIYUEN, Chinese str., 477, Ross, 4th May
-Shanghai 30th April, General. Chinese. DALJIN MARD, Japanéen str. K09, K
Murakami, 28th April-Swatow 27th April, General-Osaka Shoson Kai sha. DENODDOUS, British str.. 4,950, A. E. Dodd, 7th May Singapore 2nd April, Gneral.-Butterfield & wire. EASTERN British str. 2.279, F. Carter,
11th May-Moji 6th May, General, Gibb, Livingston & Co. FAUBANG British str., 2.410. H. S. Malking 11th May-Saigon 7th May, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co. HAIMUN, British str., Gil, A. I. Stewart, 19th May Swator 11th May, Glen- éral. -Douglas Inprnik & Co. HALICIS. Dutch str. 1.070. Bakker. 8th
INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS.
BY MR. BELLOU
THE PROCESS OF ATTRITION, held by so small a number as 6,000 men. The calulation is a very rough and confused one. of course, because a defensive front is not held by ono fixed number of men, who are woted there-like-trem, but by a minimum actually on the spot always, with considerable reinforcements available in a comparatively pressure short time, whenever serious develops upon them.
Mr. Hilaire Belloe, writing in Laud and Water, saysIt has been pointed out con- tinually in those columns for many wooks
The troops on the spot upon that Wednes past that the affort aganist the tronches in The West was not, in the main, an offort at day morning were taken completely by wearing down. In the ultimate analysis, surprise-For thirty-five minutes they vera victory consists in the imposing of the in as had a storm of heavy shell as has fallen This, in on anyone in the cares three weeks ago. except possibly victor's will upon the vanquished. its turn, is only possible by the military at one moment near success of the victor's army over the van- A further belt. of shelling mediately be quished, and this last phrase only means,hind them forbade retirement, even in dir when it is translated into terms of real orderly groups. The moment the shelling things, the disarmament of your opponents ceased, the British concentration was upon Of prisoners taken, apart from in a larger measure than of your own foroos; them. and in proportion to the extent of his dis- all other casualtios, you have some 3,0004 armament, compared with your own, is your and under a shelling from which there was na victory complete.
escape you have the greater bulk of the mon who were holding this first line of trenches. Next following upon this completely suc cessful stroke of the Wednesday morning, you have three successive days, if I am not mistaken, of attempts to re-take the positions. lost. There is here no question of surprise; the enemy is not able to concentrato un watched, as the British, either from weather conditions or from the polity of the enemy's air work, we believe concentrated unwatched, before the mainaction. The German's counter
granted. offensive is expected and taken for It is met us every such expected attack can be mat. It is poured in from reinforcements and still further reinforcements and is regi larly and methodically repelled. That means: apon the face of it continuous leavy losses, necessarily exceeding those of the defensire, and particularly exceeding them in the case of troops who come on, as we know, au tho enemy does in this campaign.
the
Now an enemy is disarmed (by compulsion rather than persuasion, which is another matter) by one of five methods or by any number of them combined. These five are death, disablement from wounds, disease, capture, and the destruction of his organien tion or cohesion. Supposing your enemy meets you with a number of armed, equipped and organised men equal to your own, and that in any fashion, after such supposing and such a lapse of time, you have reduced the number of his armed, equipped, and organised inen to one-half of your own. You have lost, of course, heavily, and it is the difference between his losses and yours that has put him into this unfavourable posture. All war is the attempt to disarm May. Bulk Oil--Asiatio Petroleum tonomy, and we al casals of we me of as a special case when we mean that the process is a continuous and detailed HALDIA, Norwegian str., 1,600 4. Sveen.
one instead of a rapid and wholesale one. 11th May-Seliman. Borneo. 5th May.
What happened, for instance, at Waterloo General.--Javn-China-Janan Lijn,
-a decision arrived at within ten hours HINANG, British str. 1.583. A Whathappened was that a Franch force acting
Kennedy, 9th MayBandakan dr in the proportion of about seven to six (if May. Timber-Jardine, Mathea & remember rightly; founditsopponents swelled by the advent of their Allies till their HIROBAT MARU, Jananese str. 2.215. S. fighting, no longer more than seven to nine, Entisaki. 12th May-Mon 6th May broke under the strain (that is, lost cohesion Cool-Miten Bussen Kaisha, HIRANO MART, Javanese str. 8.500. H. and, upon reforming after the pursuit, stood to their opponents no longer as seven to nine Fraser. 11th May-London 3rd April, but as less than three to ten: The Duke of General. Nippon Yusen Kaishia. Wellington's command and Blucher's had Heinow. British str., 1.218. Shane. 9th disarmed the French by killing, by capture, May Wei-hai-wot 2nd May, General. by disablement through wounds and by -Buktørfield & Swire.
scattering them. They find lust a great 3umber of men themselves but they had maile the enemy lose a very much larger number in proportion, with the result that two or three days after the battle with the figures stated in this extreme con- about three against ten, nothing more could be uttempted especially to the numerical disproportion was added. of
shoek. course, the moral
...
Co
There is an inevitable tendency every
Wo know what the losses were upon the successful side in the first surprise attack and in the defensive work which succeeded it, and it lasted, I understand, for three days. The enemy asks us in his statement of his own losses, to necept for these losses a figure only two-thirds that of our own. That is nonsense, and does not even, as has often. been the case in the past with the enemy's figures, accomplish misguidance.
No one will believe it. If the enemy
Ind said: "Our losses were not 18,000, ne you invagine, but very little more than 12000," the statement would have had its due effect, man who always tends to react against every und would have weight with that kind of confidence; but when he says that his losses- were not 6,000, there is nothing doing. Those who are interested in this point may further Soine note a very characteristic detall. weeks ago the French published their estim- ate of the German losses on the Perties front. The Germans issued a statement in which they use the very same phrase, that the losses were not u third of the French estimate."
HUPEH, British str., 1,205, C. F. Cole, Pth Mar Bangkok 1st May, Rice-Hut tarfield & Swire: KANE British str., 1.143. Monkman, pth
Mav-Saigon 4th May, Rico.-Butter field & Swird. KWANGTAH. Chinese str. 5.315. Stewart, 10th May-Shanghai 5th May, Gen- Gral.-Chinese. KWELIN. British str. 1.07% McGarity
8th May-Saigon 2nd May, Ric-where, are perhaps in the higher command, for armies and the civilian opinion behind Butterfield & wire. TORBANG. British str., 079. D. W. Ritchie, them to be struck by the adjuncts of military
8th May-Haiphong 8th May, Gen-success more than by its fundamental char-enemy's misstatements of this kind are no
acter. Whether the enemy retreats of goes eral--Jardine, Matheson & Co.
forward: whether he loses gune; whether ho MEXICO CITY. British 7.900, N. A.
Starkey, 5th May-Saigon 1st May, is fighting on his own soil or on ours: Rice and Flour.-Chines
whether a success is achieved quickly or PERNIA, British str. 4,355. John. Hill, tardiese things live their value, for they
11th May San Francisco 9th May,
General Pacific Mail 8.8. Co are of moral effect, hat ultimately the real test This from Fraude obra 1964. Rebanlt this "How do the numbers of armed, equipped enemy,
and of the materials at May-Saigon 2nd May, Rice-Brad- and orguaiserl
their disposal, stand les & Co.
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All
In conculusion, it must be reiterated that the devices of this sort for misleading an enemy are perfectly legitimate and that the more unworthy than the calculated reticenco which is so striking & feature in the Allied accounts; but there is apparent in this German work exactly what you get in the great bulk of German historical work and textual criticism-to wit, the sharp contrast between reinstaking and bad judgment. The (and particularly in as a general
RANGDON MARU. Japonese str., 3.361. H. by your method of ac fither side, and if stages of the campaign), givCHUSVANU
aha.
Nomma, 12th May Shanghai alh May, General-Nippon Yusen Kai SEATTLE MASU, Japanese str. 2,819,
Nemoto, th May-Manila eh May, General-Osaka Shosen Kaisha. BELON Norwegian str.. 885. D. Horbronder, 11th May Bangkok May, Rice. Thoresen & Co. SHINY MARF, Japanese str., 1,335, R. Taguchi, 11th May-Wakamatsu 4th Mur, Coal-Order. BINGAN, British str., 1,055, H. Trow bridge, 7th April-Newchwang 29th April, General Butterfeld & Swire SONGKIANG, British str., 987. J. Robin son, 10th May-Haiphong and Hoi how 0th May, General Butterfield
& Swire.
The real loss in
car statements of acceptable detail. He whether Fabian
us false s sometimes gives us sintements carefully or Napolanic (though the phrase is hardly thought out, for the sake of producing effects may reasonably be expected-eg fair to Napoleon, who could be as Fabian as anybody), you are more and more tending to when he tells the public at home that leave your enemy in a lower and lower pro- Scarborough is a fortified port, or that Portion numerically to your own men, you Londen, having been in fear of Zeppelins are heading for victory, and, if the contrary, (which it is), was hiding in cellars (which it was not). He has also often given us, and you are heading for defeat."
In this particular case of the trench fight sometimes continues to give us, false state- 4thing across North Eastern France you have ments which sufficiently resemble the truth as pitiless, but as clear an instance of this as to be acceptable, or which go refer to last principle as history has ever afforded. matters we cannot judge as to leave us in The Eye Witness with the British forces doubt-eg, his statement that the whole of has at last set it openly for official publica- the Russian 20th Army Corps had gone with tion, and it has been for months past in all a loss of some 50,000 men.. the work of the Allies: the work is a work of that particular case turned out in the attrition. There might be a collapse at any long run to be something under 24,000. But he also puts in-(and particularly-of moment in some section of the enemy's defensive line. There might be therefore a late, since le bas begun to feel embarrassed) breach achieved there. If that comes off statements which do not belong to either of unexpectedly, so much the better. But it is theso categories and which it is stupid for improbable, and it is not the main calculation. him to put forward, as that the whole Russian The main calculation is directed towards 10th Army Corps had been wiped out; that. TAKBANG, British str., 977, Mathews, sth perpetually lowering the number of the the German prisoners in Russian hands were as compared with the numbers only a sixth of the numbers officially given enemy May-Hoihow 7th May General opposed to him both in men and in materin! by the Russians, and this last protest about Jardine, Matheson & Co.
until at long last the tide shall have turned. his losses at Neuve Chapelle comes under
la TIENTAIN, British str., 1,228, J. Cogan, the French formula "the eneiny, such a aheading
Tientsin 3rd May, General-Butter having beer drawn to put forth the feld & Swire.
soaximum of the effort before your TITAN, British str.. 5,130, J. Read, 12th own maximum of effort against him is May-Seattle 19th April, General-reached, the growth of your effort to a maxi Butterfeld & Swire.
with the decline of mura shall correspond TOKYO MARU, Japanese sr., 2,294, I. his Nakamura. 19th May-Moji 5th May, Coal-Mitsu Bussan Kaisha. WENCROW, British str., 800, P. R. Purslow,
10th-Hoihon 9th May, General Butterfield & wire. YOENGANG, British str. 1,128, PH. Rolfe, 11th May-Manila 8th May, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co. YUNNAN, British str.. 1,220, French, 11th MayShanghai th May, General Butterfield & Bwire.
TAISEUN, Chinese str., 1,200, Westerlund, 28th April-Shanghai 24th April, General--Chinese.
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return from this digression to the policy of attrition, we know, and it has been analysed in these columas why one can calculate upon the proportion of losses of the enemy being cearly always greater than that
the Allies, although the Allies are the ttacking party. It is due to the facts that he attacks are carefully calculated to m local affect alone; that superior air work It must, therefore, whether after such a allows them to concentrate with gr sharp local success as Neuve Chapelle the security than the enemy; that the other day, or after a sharp local reverse such artillery on the Allies side is now at least as that of Soissons some months ago, be equal to that of the enemy, and, usually, perpetually repeated that what counts (sup- from the excellence of air work in correct- ing the shots, surpasses it in effect; that pusing discipline and all moral to remain unaffected) is not the local defence, or retire-the Allies work with larger reserves than the ment, but the proportion of total losses Cernaus in the West, and that the German even at Soissons, where against a single counter-offensive is nearly always undertaken depleted French Division certainly two, in massed formaation. and possibly three, corps converged, and Now, so long as this principle of attrition. where reinforcements failed through the can be continued successfully, that is, so long breakdown of the bridges in the foot of the as the tenacity required for so strict a plac Aisne, the enemy lost about three men to avails, neither the command that orders it the French two. A French body of about nor the public opinion behind the command 14,000 men beyond the Aisne lost in killed at home will change their policy, for the and wounded, and in prisoners, half its effee Allies in the West are heading directly for tives. The blow was severe, the enemy the aim of all war, which is the disarmament advanced over an area almost exactly equal of the enemy in greater proportion than one's to that seized by the British a fortnight ago own disarmament, in a given time. at Neuve Chapelle. But the enemy gained this The policy will be working both in the local success at an expense of not less than incans and in the end. It will be working.. 12,000 men. That is the estimate of men who in the ineans because the ceaseless fretting were not engaged iniativeireing publicopinion at the lines is continuously costing the but surveying as eye witnesses the nature of enemy more than it costs the Allies. It will the action of men who saw the dense Gerhe working in its ends as well, because the man masses swarming down the valley to fruits of such policy, unless the enemy can Conchy at its narrow mouth, and who saw achieve a decision in the East and bring the play of the 7s upon those masses from back masses westward, must be ultimately the spur above Soissons which was ultimately the breaking car the shortening of the Ger abandoned. At Neuve Chapelle, tacitly and man lines, with the consequences frequently locally a success, you have the saine principle being described here... at work as at Soissons, which was tacitly arid locally a defeat, sare that at Neuve Chapelle the proportionate enetny losses were more than three to two-more nearly two to
The P.M. str. Siberia sailed from Toko- one. The enemy has told us that Sir John
hama on May 12th for Hong- French's estimate of 17,000 to 18,000 losses kong vid Manila. She is carrying the upon the German side is ridiculous, and that mails and is scheduled to arrive at the real losses were more like a third of that Hongkong on the 24th inst...
amount.
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The E. and A. Bir St. Albans from The advance at Neuve Chapelle was made against a front of over 4,000 yards and Sydney, left Manila for this port on the covered a depth nearly a mile wide at its 19 inst. at 8 am and may be expected
to arrive here on Saturday morning. maximum, I believe, or possibly a trifle more.
The P.M. str. Korea will sail from The total area rashed was, I suppose, nearly two square miles in extent, and the succeed Mails for Hongkong on Saturday, afternoon, making her due to reach ing lines of trenches occupied were not far
Hongkong on Monday, the 17th inst, morningi
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suppose that this front was at first being
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