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en a correspondent some time ago wrote pointing out that a Router's tele gram was inaccurate when it said that Lieutenant Cyril Martin, of the 20th Company, Royal Engineers, is be lieved to be the only officer who has won both the Victoria Cross and the Dis- tinguished Service Order, we suggested that what was probably meant was that
GERMAN ACTIVITY AFLOAT.
ADDITIONS TO NAVAL STRENGTH.
Writing on April 16th The Times Naval correspondent said :—
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 21ST, 1915.
NEUVE CHAPELLE..
POINTS IN SIR JOHN FRENCH'S DESPATCH.
BY COL, FN. MAUDE, C.B]
The reports of movements on the part of Sir John French's despatch is as measured the German High Son Fleet, of cruiser and reasonable in tone as all his communica squadrons in the North Sre, and of destions have hitherto been; it affords but little stroyers off the coast of Holland, which ground for the many sensational rumours have been received recently, should not be that liave been flying about. passed over lightly. There are dircum-
I do not think these rumours would have been restrained by earlier or faller publicity; on the contury, if the correspondents had they would probably have been very much
stanets which lend support to the idea of increased nativity in these forces."
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Licht. Martin was the first to receive the one thing, it would be strange if the ap-Deon let loose on the field.at the beginning, CoYRANG, British str., 1,424, S. Holni Regular-Direct Sorvice from JAPAN, CHINA and STRAITS to DEIRA, two decorations in the present war. That pointment of the new Commander-in-more profuse at the emotional type of DATIN MART, Japanese-str.
It
view is borne out by the fuller informsnewed brisknres and energy-in fact, in Chiof were not followed by signs of re tion received by mail.
general brushing up of the machine. A son of the Rev. John Martin, Prin- must also be remembered that it is in tipal of the Church Missionary Society this month that the Fleet receives some College, Foochov, he was born in China considerable additions to its strength. It twenty-four years ago. Following the is probable that the Derflinger, Seydláta, retreat from Mons, Lieut.nant Martin, and Fon der Tann are now restored to with a platoon of Engineers, captured the Fleet; indeed, it is stated that they and held a Gorman trench. He was have been to sea again. Apart from this shot through the shoulder and bayonetted restoration, the vessels which were in throught the hand, but stuck grimly to his various stages of completion at the begin task until relief came. For this bravoning of the war should now be finished dood he was awarded the Distinguished nad passed into commission. These units Service Order.
form an appreciable eccession of strength. Movements of the Gorman Navy are never They must not be regarded purposeless, with complacency, but considered in con- nection with the general situation on land. As 1 have said before, in the use of the German. Navy strategical con sidorations may be over-ruled by military exigencies.
Ho was invalided home, and only re- turned to the fronte a few days before the affair at Spanbrock Molen, in which he won the V.C.
ADDRESSES WANTED.
THE VOLUNTEERS FROM THE FAR EAST,
When the war began the German Fleet in battleship strength consisted of 331 units, excluding the small coast defence Mrs. E. Graham Murray, of 18, Clive-vessels of the Hagen type, and there must den-place, Eaton-square, London, has ask-now have been added to it four more ed the Fall stall Gazette to help her in 1911 programme, the Könip, Grosser Kur- ships. Three of these belonged to the tracing the whereabouts of a number of men before they go to the front.
tund Markgraf. They work all launched before the summer of 1913, and even without allowing for any aco-lera tion they will all by this time lave hoist ed the pennant,
their
revelationa.
wood, 19th May-Shanghai 14th May, mind which makes for the most vivid writing,
General.-Jardine, Matheson & Co. The trouble is
Murakami, 16th May Swatow 14th May, General- and excels in word wanting
painting,
Osalta Shosen Kaishia. is generally enable its possessor to obtain a complete
in tho judicial faculty neorary to Darar
Japanese str., 602, S. grasp of all the countless minor episodes of
Tokushi
18th May-Haiphong 18th May, Rice-Osaka Shosen Kaisha an engagement, in which many thousands DERWENT, British str., 1,562, J. Jenkins, are concerned cousequently fails to harmonise a picture of the battle or generally
16th May Saigon 13th May. Rice and General.-Chinese. incident it is describing.
DEMODOOCs, British str..
Even amongst professional soldiers of far: could ever hope to attain, it very often higher rank than the ave
average correspondent happens that certain men loso then grasp of a part-one particular episode of the fight the whols, which is so essential, and see only immediately under their eyes. Hazine, nt Gravelotte, for instance, and Buller, nt Colerso, besides, it is not easy to reconcile the many conflicting claims put forward- without hurting some one man's amour propre. Such things as that will always lappen; mistakes are inevitable in war, and ere doubly so when it is waged under the local and special conditions in the present theatre of operations.
INEVITABLE MISTAKES,
Tetophone wires are always liable to and raessengers are shot down or lose their out by a chance splinter or ballet; orderlies
of consequent disorder: therefore the only direction, with quite incalculable possibilities rational attitude for frients at home tundup?" under these circumstances is to concentrate on the broad general results obtained and on the heroista of the anen who have achieved
the more
4,200, A.' E,
Eiden, Norwegian str., 876, E. Fingalsna
Dodd, 7th May - Bingapero 2nd April, Gneral-Butterfeld & Swire.
30th May-Newchwang sth May, Deu FAITHзOP, Norwegian str..
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601, Y. Kristenson, 17th May-Bangkok eth FORTI MARU, Japancoo str.. 3,087, H.
May, Rice, Chinese
Chisaki, 14th May-Moji 6th May, Coal-Miten Bussan Kaisha. HAICHING, British str., 1,207, W. C. Pass-
more, 19th May-Foochow 18th May, HALDIS, Norwegian str., 1,660, A. Sveon, General Douglas Lapraik & Co.
11th-May-Selimen, Borneo, 5th May General-Java-China Japan Lijn. HIROSAN MARU. Japanese str., 2215, S.
Fujisaki, 12th May Moji 6th May, HINANG, Brith str., 1,886, A. C.
Coal.-Mitan Bussan Kaisha.
Co.
Kennedy, Gib May Bandakan 3rd May, Timber.Jardine, Matheson & Horaze, British str. 1,359, C. A. Robert so, 13th May-Bangkok 2nd May, Rico-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
The fourth new ship is them, remembering that, geretit neerues HGIN CHANG, Chinese str., 1,248, Munro,
the mistakes.nade, the more to those who instantaneously rectified them and carried on, in spite of the confusion and lusses alius entailer).
Nothing lames the initiative of our leaders of all ranks more than public vindictiveness
Leblers have resched the head recruit ing office addressed to volunteers who bava came to enlist from Hongkong or the Straits Settlements. Their names are the Kronpriz, of the 1012-programme, given below, and If any one knowing which has been in the water more than their whereabouts will inform Mrs. Gran year, and must now be ready for active ham Murray she will see to it that letters service, even if she has not actually joined are forwarded to them.
the "Fleet. Thus the Dreadnoughtf strength of the force under Admiral von Pohl is almost certainly 17 battleships.inst the man who fails. Nor is there any reason to suppose that the Lutzow has not now been added to Powell,pleted, thus giving a total Dreadnought the four battle-cruisers already com- force of 22 vessels. Kenny.unit is the ex-Grock fatomis, which had The only doubtful been on the stocks for about a year when war broke out, but whose gun had not been delivered from America...
H. Smart, K. E. M. Gardiner, Gra- ham Denny, M. Lewis, P. 8. Richards, E. Hunt, C. Webb, J. Naylor, of the Malayan Contingent."
S. Poole, E. Stolz, R. M. from Sumatra.
Stanton Johnson, Patrick from Burmah,
E. A. Melrose, Private Jones, C. F. Benson-Straits Settlements.
Frank Soares, G. Jorge, C. Mellin, G. J. Chatham, H. Forster, Herbert Bevan, A. St. Styndham-the long kong Contingent.
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SOLDIERS IN SPECTACLES.
arms as the will and resolation to attempt There is no possession so priceless to an even the impossible, that is, to court failure eases the artillerymen could not exactly It may well have happened that in some
momentarily most nooded identify the points where their support was
This, indeed, was quite inevitable, for it is the very essence of a skilful wire défence to select such places for eutunglements as can Fleet has suffered most during the war, stauces do not justify broadspread calumnies It is in light cruisers that the German be screened from observation; but such in but in this class of vessel the shipbuilding against the leaders; nor do they lessen that resources should be sufficient, if the guns fact that as a net result of the whole day's have been available, to replace wastage
fighting we had achieved a very sufficient Ten light cruisers have gone, but in the result. We killed, wounded, and demoralised most favourable circumstances it should our enemy to an extent that was probably have been possible to complete the six losses, and whereas it is a cortainty that the four times greater than that of our own new vessels in hand when hostilitios bo- gan, and four more as well..
spirits of our troops were enormously raised All soldiers whose eyesight is imperfect Sea Fleet would be handicapped if de- period of
The High by the forward movement after a prolonged The War Office has approved the issue of whether as scouts or flotilla leaders. So to hold a line which they had come to
depressed by their failure steel spectacles (both convex and concave) far as torpedo craft are concerned, the was invulnerable.
believe at the public expense during the war to force of destroyers should have more than ull soldiers whose eyesight is defective, made up its losses, while 'n regard to sub-are quite insignificant in proportion to the As for the losses we have suffered, they and whose vision and efficiency will, in marines, as was lately pointed out, there magnitude of the present operations and the the opinion of medical officors, be thereb improved. A Regular soldier with strength bath ir numbers and in the indi-
must have been an augmentation of huge numbers of nen behind us waiting only for ammunition to take the field; and the spectacles is a rare sight in England, vidual effectiveness of the units. More most certain way to diminish the confidence though it is common in Germany, Many British Territorials are spectacled, and over, that one object of the blockade is of out Allies in the value of our support, and to train and give experience to the crews
our determination to endure, is to indulge in they do not find that their glasses hinder of under-water craft is natural, specially orgics of seare headlines and doleful leaders their work. The present eyesight test for in view of the acession-which the-Float deploring the loss of life.
are to be provided with spectacles free prived of the services of such vessels, corresp action, those of the Germans were
Admiral will have.
is, after eight and a half months of war, stronger than that which his predecessor commanded. His most pressing weed must have been to give it exercise and practice, although the area in which this could take placa was limited.
army recruits is severe enough to bar men will receive in this direction shortly. Buffering from anything more than slight defects. Many men, however, who usually rad von Pohl, therefore, wind -wear glasso, put them in their pockets-- when they went to the recruiting office, and found that they could pass in test Men like these, who have probably kept their spectacles concraled since, will now be able to wear them in the ranks. Many other soldiers who imagine their eyesight to be perfect may find, if they are examin- ed by a doctor, that spectacles would help them. One drawback is that a man used to spectacles would be lost if they were blown away or damaged at the front, The Gorman authorities have ordered that cach spectacled soldier shall have a pair
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of glasses in reserve. The same precau tion will no doubt be taken by the War Mr. Gustay C. Roeder. in the Nw York
Office.
A CONTRAST IN CENSORS.
CAUSES OF DELAY,
suffered far more severely again and again,
The Freuch, it should be remembered, have |
the French Army chiefs are not in the least without one whine of complaint, and though likely to lower their appreciation of the high quality of the support we are always rendy to afford them because of emotional corres pondents and clitors, the French public are not in the position to form the same unbiased opinion,
As for the encouragement this style of criticism gives to our enemies, a glance at the extracts from their papers, which now are a daily
fenture in the columnis of the English Press, is quite enough to convince one of the Essen in
A visit to the Krupp stol works at grave harm that is being dour in stiffening
wartime is
the resolution of those who are not in the fighting line, because it contrasis in the most described by World.
Mr. Reeder is the American striking manner with the silence they them- journalist who was received by Herr selves maintain on the same subject, among Ballin because, as the idle master of the themselves. German Merchant Marino remarked, There is one other point. I should like to
we welcome your mission and because bring out in the detail of the despatch. In France they have their. Censor, an we know precisely whom you have seen active official, whose bureau is the target and where you have been." for Franch wit. They call him" Anasta- Mr. Roeder mentions as an instance of sie and when the festival occurred the extraordinary precautions against some days ago of Sainte Anastasia, A intruders into Essen that any hotel- blameless virgin martyred under Nerokeeper who fails to forward to the pulics he found himself overwhelmed with a full description of any strange visitor flowers, bunches of violets, visiting cards within 20 minutes of his arrival 18 and birthday mesages, A mock depata deprived of his licence. tion of journalists subsequently explain After Mr. Reeder, by means of his ed that these were the tribute of a grate introductions, had passed innumerable ful Press. Now this pleasing anecdote
and private detectives, he was led has a morai.
room furnished with pillars We, too, have a Censor,
into
نماشا
It is clear that there was considerable delay in getting certain of the reserve brigades to their appointed positions; and this empha- ing to drive home again and again in my sises one of the points I have been endeavour-
Previous articles.
arising from soaking fields and swamp, char
Quite apart from the delay-necessarily acteristic of so much of the country in which we have been fighting, comes the appalling disintegrating of the soil due to the mariern heavy bombardments.
and in some aspects he is not nearly su decorated wtih mirrors, by the aid of diameter, and three to six feet deep, arc
the Channel.
Fields pitted all over with howitzer shell craters-anything from four to sixteen feet have as yet sufficient experience to know how not level parade niuch time to allow for forming and moving grounds, and none of us
large bodies of men into their required posi- tions over such ground.
which his xasperating as Sister Anastasis across while is hosts telephoned to Berlin for every movement was watched For Anastasie wipes out confirmation of his credentials. He was Paragrapha and comments and articles in then led through part of the works the soberest French newspapers without and shown a "number of monster 42-cen- the slightest scruple, and does it often timotze guns which were being loaded on so late in the day that the newspapers specially constructed and most powerful Presently we shall learn by experience; have to come out next day with blank steel flat cars."
now it is unfair to reflect on the skill of the Later in his account hear is because unforeseen difficulties sind- spaces. A few weeks ago our grows and speaks of "twe 42-centimetre guns sint demy interfere with pactuality of movements reverend contemporary Le Temps ap back from Antwerp in order to x of troops--Feening Standuril. peared with nothing remaining of minutely examined before being called lead except the title. "Les Deux Alter- matives." The Censor had left in only wine. Why is it, then, that the French journalists and the French public are able to regard this with a kind of bunor ons toleration, while the antics of our
upon to render additional service at the front."
The greater part of Mr. Roeder's narra-
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