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DESTROYER'S DANCE UNDER | GERMANY'S FJULEST CRIME.

FIRE.

RECONNAISSANCE UP THE DARDANELLES.

for

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD ON ABUSE OF PRISONERS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16TH, 1915.

THE ANGLO - FRENCH ADVANCE.

BEGINNING OF THE SÉCOND STEP

OF THE ALLIES SCHEME.

Lord Charles Beresford sent the following SCENE FROM PREVIA

letter to the London Press last month:- Following is another interesting vignette

Sic, The recent debate in the House of Com- of life aboard a warship off the Dardanelles, vns on the brutal and ferocious ill-trent- from the pen of Mr. E. Ashmead-Bartlett really left matters as they were. No attempt and French forces on a front of not less than Colonel F. N. Maude, C.B., writing on May ment of British prisoners in Germany has 12, su privileged by the the Loulon Progovernment to represent is to be made NOW to compel the Germans

The welcome news of the advance of British We are now lying just off the entrance of teel the barbarous proceedings. The twenty five miles marks the beginning of the the Dardanelles-About-nine nebak a.stir mothers, and rant absolute terror of wives, second step in the Allied scheme of attrition. becomes evident on hard. A actrine enters The Government do not appear to understand recapitulate the stages by which we reached my cabin, shuts the port Ludes, and carefully the intense feeling of the British public on relatives isin no way alleviated.

To appreciate its full importance, let me screws down the steel shutters find others this question. Drastic action should replace explain their significance. engaged in a shuilar task in the ward room. uoffective talk What the public wish for i have been testing the strength of their this new starting point, and in doing so On deck I find the crew busily clearing

Ever since the turn of the year the French netion, which emsist in closing the compan-ng to be done NOW, and done AT

ways and skylights, fastening down the steel shuttertail removing the deck rail so

Our gallant oficers and ment a dying from points which in their opinion require to be that there is nothing to interfere with the with no ventilation. By the end of the war

opponents' lines, and ascertaining the fire of the gaus. Suddenly General quarit may be that 30 per cent. of them will have been compelled again and again to concen- starvation, cooped up in insanitary buildings,

maintained at all costs... ters" is sounded, and the whole party double died owing to ill-treatment. The White Papertrate forces at least four times greater than I may not enumerate them all, but it is common knowledge that the Germans have roam about active posts, leaving me to

has been issued, and contains horrible illus ship at will.

fons are treated worse than galley slaves. In such sectors as Soissons-Les. Eparges, the trations of the manner in which honourable those which were opposed to them against all the worki no men are in a more terrible position than British prisoners in Germany.

Vosges, and so forth, always sacrificing at relatives and prisoners themselves.

I have received numerous letters from continuity of their lateral communications.

least four to one in their efforts to save the arise the contents, which no heart.gether with the many incidents tlust followed

I will

The British threat at Neuve Chapelle, to closely after it, forced the enemy to play gium of not less than a quarter of a million namely, to concentrate a large army in Bel- what I believe to be his last big trump-

men, and probably considerably more. With

bave made enormous demands on their nene ass in hand they attempted their great most elaborate preparations, which must

off to their

breaking.

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towards the coening- tower. The captain is starling just outside seat. Others contain the following informa it, and invites me to enter. d myself in tion:Devilish treatment, cowardly and Many letters beseech that bread should be a little round steel chamber, with an opening malicious ilfusage, insulted all day, forced to about 8in. high, all round at the top. It iso filthy and disgusting jobs of work, clubber gaseous surprise on a front of live miles, aften Hon, ME, A. Howeit, Mrs A. G. Smith

packed with eleven officers and men. One is at a tiny little wheel, which looks hardly big enough to control a Thames launch, but the great ship is responding to every turn.

DUT ON THE SHROUDS.

BRUTAL TREATMENT. "

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attack, this fact, that the front selector consists of massing every available man, Since the very essence of German strategy

measured only five miles, gives us a fair horse, and gun against a chosen point of calculation as to the number of troops they could spare for a single effort, and knowing their ideas on this subject, I am fairly certain 150,000 men for this particular assault, with that they employed in all not less than 100,000 more available at short notice to complete any success secured by the first line.

with rifles, fire at, bayonetted in the arms and legs, spat upon; great coats, tonics, money, and tobacco taken; do to travel in horse boxes deer in filth, their eyes ling For my final destination, which is the control or water, or without a chance to relieve 1-shen-lower the coming tower and make for thirty hours in trucks without food affected by the monts arising: confined station on the foretop. The ascent is made nature, marched through the streets on show, by a steel ladder, and before you can enter and insulted and assaulted by the populace, the fighting up you have to turn a corner, the guards not interfering. At ille the elimb out on the shrouds, and then up British wounded were found quite naked, through a kind of small coal hote, such as their identification discs having been cut off, you see in any London street. climb, which is terrifying to anyone who is Wounded men fell down at the railway I hate this many of them having died from exhaustion. not accustomed to climb great heights in stations; they were kicked in the stomach wind on a pole stuck on a masing and and face, and then kicked back into the car very often highly unsteady platform. The ringes. At one station a blind man put his weather has been very bad all the morning, with storms of wind and rain, which at this in his face. The punishment cells have con- employed, the Canadians, on whom a portion head out of the window, and the crowd spat monicat almost blot out the shore and the crete floors, and prisoners are confined for of the attack fell, met it spontaneously, In spite, however, of the clenient of surprisé. hattered forts of Seddul Bahr and Gaba Tepe. soventy-two hours with one blanket. The exactly as their forefathers used to meet the On safely negotiating the shrouds and the food is filthy, and there is very little of iourush of Napoleon's great-eavalry hordes Cal-hole, I find myself in a small oblong There are often thirty in a roon; the filth chamber of thin steel, which would not even and dirt is disgusting and horrible, and the keep out a bullet fired at close range.

at Waterloo, for example, Open all-mund at the top, and has a similar with lice and vermin, and have got the itcli, It is is no ventilation. Prisoners are smothered thin steel roof Inside are a lieutenant of At one prison the exercise yard, 100 yards marines, a naval lieutenant, two midshipmen,long, is one huge pool of black mud over the and three sailors, a rangefinder, several pairs ankles. When prisoners dio there is no of glasses, some telescopes, and the eternal inquiry; they are just taken out and buried. voice-pipe, navyphones, and telephones speaking to the conning-tower, the engine von, the batteries, and the tranunitting on the part of the Germans to allow prison There appears to be a deliberate intention station. We are very crowded, near temers to starve or die of disease. In some pers are ruffled by the heavy rain.

LIKE A MAD DERVISTE

CRGENT REMEDIES WANTED.

camps the treatmeal is better than others, are incapacitated by disease, sickness, and but all are foul. Many civilian prisoners age, One or two with heart disease were made to travel, and eventually died. The young and strong may get through; the that somethin aged and infirm are certain to die. In order

forming two sides of a square, and poured their fire into the enemy's ranks as they They threw back their left-flank, thereby rushed past them.

The French, on the other side of the gap took similar action, while those who ad been obliged to retire from the vicinity of Germans for the flunking fire to do its work. had passed the danger zone, and held the the gaseous fumes, rallied as soon as they upon them

confusion, but in the end this

FIGHTING QUALITIES, The surprise of course, occasioned much supreme fighting talent of served to bring into gmater

only

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We are now well up the Straits, and wondering when the enemy will begin. The destroyer is about 200 yards ahead when someone shouts out: "They're off," just as if it was a race. You hear the whistle of shell, and a jet of water rises up just astern of her. At the same monent there is ding should be done af Con Culs show the same hereditary strain Mr G. 37. Brown. leafening roar, which makes you to bring the Germans to their senses, I make of fighting grit as their old Mother has made Mr W. Badge

part in the air, and you hear one of inch shells roaring its landwords

the following proposals; to wait till the war

over is futile-

Confiscate the £84,600,000 of enemy pro perty in this country, and suggest to the other component parts of the Empire that they should confiscate all German property in their hands.

or var six-is through space, we watch for the explosion, kon, knowing the position of the battery on the chart, we are to signal the proximity of the shot down a speaking tule. Then we hear the screech of inore shells, and mor "gront splashes of water rise up ahead, astern, and at the side of the destroyer. You eny watch her small bridge crowded with oicers, for they are taking up samo officers to 1 make

a reconnaissance. Our gan now blaze away freely at the Asiatic and European shores, and the noise is deafening. There is a medley of sounds caused by guns being fired, shells soreaming overhead, some hitting the water with a flop, others bursting in the air. the oterual Gregorian chant of "Foretop to Y Battery," Foretop to H Battery," from the three sailors.

Intern the rich Germans in this country, and hold them as hostages for better treat ment of British prisonera

Enter into diplomatic negotiations with

neutral Powers, and ask them to help in stopping Germany's barbarous proceert- ings against prisoners of war. Nentrala are equally concerned in the maintenance of international law.

Send a joint Note from the Allies con- taining an unmistakeable pronouncement that, those responsible for the brutality of prisoners in Germany shall be tried as criminals after the war.

a most profound impression throughout their ranks. all know the danger-radius of the gas, and As far as we ourselves are concerned, we

to let the fumes pass, and then attacking can repeat this process of breaking the line from the flanks just as often as the Germans choose to give us the opportunity.

Whether this new great advance is íctend. ed to anticipate a new concentration of Glec-. man troups and to engage their attention on a front where the north-cast wind will not directly help them, or wheffier our Staff knows that at last they have called the enemy's King, it is impossible for me to decide.

DRAWING THE TRUMPS,.

The evidence is very closely balanced; but if the latter is not yet the case, the results of the next few days will soon reveal, for ade- quate forces on a twenty-five mile front Condemn and take over under the proly with the present temper of our men.

should take a good deal of stopping, especial. visions of the Prize Court all merchant vessels at present interned belonging to

If the resistance encountered shows that Germany, a suggestion to this effect being

wo have not as yet drawn the enemy's big made to the Dominions. Owing to the Adump then at some other of the several miralty having taken over a very large mile front, and so on.

points we shall advance on a thirty to forty uniber of merchant ships to do men-of-

The enemy's fire is concentrated on the destroyer, whose movements are interesting and instructive to watch. Sho is writhing about on all sides, as if she had,& bart pain inaide her at other times she reminds you irresistibly of one of Gaby's strange dances, Therr it dawns on you that she is engaged in putting the enemy of their nim. One war duty, the price of freight, and conserlays when a strong north-easter in blowing, It is certain that we shall not advance on moment she is steaming slowly thend, and quently food, has gone up. If the interued a shell drops astorn of ber, and she shoots off at full speed towards the Asiatic

ships are used on the trade routes both the sweeping those sectors of the line where cost of freight and food might be relieved. we know the enemy has prepared his gas coast, when another drops in front, which As the Government seen unable or unwill: installations, We shall wait for a south- sends her scooting towards the Europeaning to act NOW, the people should take this wester or choose some other point where She is so sooner over there when a battery question in land, and insist that some drastic these devices are known not to exist. on that side drops some quite close, whereapon action on the lines I have suggested should time. Prisoners have told us that the gas They cannot be everywhere at the some She turns suddenly in her own length, and he undertaken at once. I believe these sug cylinders were arranged at forty metres dashes back towards us, which brings the gestions would be backed up by the whole interval. So for 600 kilometres of front some enemy's fre just ahead of our ship. This nation. Your obedient servant, sends her straight ahead again, and so on,

15,000 such installations would be required, from side to side, up and down, twisting

and if they really have wasted their transport and turning, dancing about like a mad

in bringing this number to the front we can Dervish.

only congratulate ourselves that there will be so many fewer guns and shells directed against us.

ENEMY'S HAD AIM.

CHARLES BERESFORD, Admiral.

J, Great Cumberland Place, W.

GERMAN ABUSE OF LORD KITCHENER.

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All this time our din. guos ate blazing away at both shores, the gunners firing at the flashes of the enemy's guns, as it is difli, cult to pick up their location from the foretop. The Prince of Wales, astern of us, has also come into action, and fires some rapid sal voor, which cause a terrible disturbance to some body's property, even if they miss the Turkish guns. We have now almost reached the point where our instructions have told us to stop,

invalided from the front, is renewing his The Jan of Nawanagar, having been and lot the destroyer-go on alone, whilst wo afford her what protection we can. She gora

acquaintance with Sussex County, for on some little distance, with shells dropping

which he did so much on the cricket field, all around her, but is in luck and is not bit.

He was recently one of the speakers at a Then, having apparently accomplished her The Hamburg Nachrichten, which was patriotic meeting at Eastbourne, and was mission, she torus and dashes past us down Bismarck's organ during the later years greeted with much applause. "It pleases the Straits. This brings the enemy's guns of his life, and still enjoys a good reputa me to think," he remarked," that directly on us, and the shells scream overhead. tion, writes as fellows, says the London Sussex people do not forget old friends. You imagine that each is coming direct into Morning Post-It is only fate to say that It is as a sick man," he added, "that I the foretop, but they all miss and either Lord Kitchener, whom we formerly re- burst short or in the water beyond. Then garded as an undaunted warrior, as harding at the request of the promoters have come here and attended your meet- we slowly and majestically turn under a as iron, has proved by his public utter desultory fire, and follow her down to the ances that he is an impudent, lying street to-night. I am going to ask you to do no entrance. The enemy's aim is very bad, some urchin who is undeserving of respect or

more than what I have done myself, not of their shells passing right over the Straits, esteem of any sort whatever.

only as & Feudatory of India, but as an and hitting the opposite shore. The Prisce

The eminent Hamburg journal recom-old Sussex man. I had the privilege on of Walce comes up astern, and follows us mends Lord Kitchener to cast a glance at March 10th to be about two miles from round, and after a few more shots that Dahomey, where, it asserts, the English Neave Chapelle, and I can tell you for fire" is sounded. It has only been a sou have copied the bestialities of the 40 minues we gave the Germans the long affair, and we have not been hit, but it as French, and where old and young de handle. (Cheers and laughter.). But it is interesting as a big battle to those who have fenceless Germans have been reduced by not for 40 minutes we want to give them never seen a battleship in action before.

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