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SIR IAN HAMILTON,

BRITISH COMMANDER IN THE DARDANELLES.

A STORY OF MAJUDA.

At the moment that Englishmen aro awaiting the development of the eggja for the Dardanelles, with the 1 of Constantinople and the Turkish Empiro in the balance, it is announced that the Commander of the Expeditionary Force is Ġeneral Sir Tap Hamilton, says T'he "Observer:

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton is a Scot. His father, Colonel Christian “Hamilton, once commanded the 92nd

Highlanders. An ancestor on his father's | side was aide-de-camp to the first Duke of Marlborough. So that the commander before the Dardanelles is by heredity and upbringing a soldier.

Born at Corfu 62 years ago, he was educated at Cheam, and later went to

Wellington College, From thence he proceeded to Germany and had the good fine cld Hanoverian General Damers, from whom he learnt the language and much of the art and strategy of war. In

Much has been expected of this strong, determined, brilliant officer in the past. With his condjutor, General D'Amade, in command of the French Colonials and the. Benegalese, his force has before it one of the most difficult operations of this greatest of wars. Lord Kitchener knew his, toan when he chose him. Lord Kitchener does not make mistakes in that matter.

THE NEW ENGLISH, ENEMY'S PRAISE OF OUR TROOPS. The opinion of a German officer who took part in the battle of Nouve Chapelle on the new British Army in France is quoted at length by Mr. Herbert Corey, who is with the German Army in France, Mr. Corey states that the battle is still a topic of constant conversation among the Germans. The officer in question declared:--

WAB NEWS.

THE COST OF TORPEDOES.

AN INTREPID FRENCH AVIATOK.

MUTUAL AID SOCIETIES

IN CHINA.

PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL

SALVATION FUND,

In ni illustrated article in the War Budget some arresting facts are given with regard to torpedoes. These terrible engines of destruction cost from. £700 to

1,000 to construct. The internal NEW SCHEME STARTED THIS WEEK. mechanism include a high-speed rotating engine, shafts and gears, a gyroscopic ap.

The promoters of the National Salva paratus and from 200 lbs. to 250 lbs of tion Fund continue to urge its claims isigh explosive. In some of the latest German submarines, torpedoes with a

upon all classes of the community, and in diameter of 2lin. are carried. They Shanghai, at any rate, enthusiasm for the travel at the amazing speed of 48 kuota, scheme is being kept up, in spite of the have an effective range of nearly seven criticisms of those who think that the miles and contain a contrivance for warm.proposal does more credit to the hearts ing the air during their flight.

than the heads of its originators For the purpose of enabling leading merchants in various branches of business to discuss methods of raising money for the fund, The Matin reproduces an aviation offi

a meeting was hold on Thursday afternoon cer's account of how he prevented an

at the Cotton Yarn Merchant Guild.

The meeting which was of a privalo acroplane from raiding Paris. He was a member of the new rapid squadron. character, was attended by many provis The enemy acroplane was 8,000 feet up: cial merchants, commission agents, and I having the faster machino rose to 9,000 Customs brokers, says the Chinese Press. feet and rapidly overhauled the enemy; Mr. Yu Yaching, provincial secretary f enemy within thirty feet and got a bullet plained the purpose of the meeting, and in the shoulder; the enemy tried sinking Mr. Chen Jon-fu, banker and es-Chairma got in a few over him, my lieutenant of the Chinsee Chamber of Comunera

a volley point blank; the enemyreported the progress which has been mad machine plunged headlong to the ground since collections for the fund began

on 0000 ft and crumpled up bounded marths ago,

He informed the meeting that over one along the hillside like a rabbit; the a'r. men were both killed; one was Buelow of bundred branches of the League have la the Imperial Guard; the machine carried established. In Shanghai, about $640.000 ten large bombs and forty, grenades.

have béon deposited with the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications, and more than $700,000 had been promis. rd.

OUR NEW MODELS Duck to form a close friendship with the of a surprise for us. It is that the new I had such a way on that I shot past the the National Salvation Fund League, ex-

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There were two lessons to be learned from that engagement. The first is that entrenched position can he taken if the price is paid. The second was a bit English troops are better than the cld. We hadn't expected that,”

The Germans believed, incredible as it 1873 he entered the 12th Foat, and later may seen, that the "now British" troops consisted of raw, undisciplined gutter- his father's pid regiment, the 22nd, even-snipes. After explaining thin, M. Corey tually with the 2nd battalion, the Gordon proceeds to quote the German officer as Highlanders, following the drum from saying: These men who charged us at garrison to garrison and working his way Neuve Chapelle were not gutter-snipes. up. He went to India and had his first They were not slum

They taste of active campaigning in the were the best blood in England Afghan War. Hamilton was but a suba); tern when the Boer War of 1881 broke out. With his regiment be was present at Majuba. He was in command of a weak-picket That-dismal story needs retelling, except that towards its close Hamilton rushed up to General Sir George Calley in the impetuosity of youth: Forgive my presumption, sir," ho said, "but will you let the Gordon Highlanders charge with the bayonet ?” No presumption, young gentleman,' replied Colley with freexing calmness, We'll let them charge us; then we'll -give-them-w-volley-and-charge."

He said he saw their fnoes both in fight, as priscaters, and as they lay dead in the field. They were lean, full-templed, long- jawed men. Those who went first under. that hellish fire were youngsters for the most part, men who looked as though they were sons of good fathers, or eliy clerks, or boys who had played in the open air. He was enthusiastle about them.

ENEMY'S STARVATION SCHEME.

100,000 TO GO FOODLESS IF BELGIAN BAILWAYMEN REFUSE TO WORK.

The amount subseribed in Teking had reached $1,040,000, and the contribu tions from various totalled-$2,100,000-Mititary-adutinis

provincial cities

The Amsterdam Telegraaf says that iftive, police, and other Government off- the Belgian railway employees continue cials had arranged to contribute to refuse to work under the Germana the month's salary to the fund," and th latter will prohibit any further assistance sum expected to be derived from to be rendered by the town councils.

this source (the Chairman is reported to

INCREASE OF FREIGHTS,

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A WONDERFUL FEAT. -... "Let me tell you of one thing I saw.

This means that if the employees cou-have said) will exoxed It was the most wonderful deed I have ever heard of on any field. I think it was tinue to refuse to serve 100,000 people will Already, $20,000,000 of the $50,000,000

The enemy's starvation sought is assured. the West Kent Regiment. They charged have to starve, aeross the open field against us. Our fire scheme has already been started in Nyvel, The whole scene changed and broke. bullets upon them. As they came across refused to obey the command to discon ber of Commerce (Mr. Choo Clin. was as though-wa-had played stream of where the Burgomasterand a sonator have: The Chairman of the Chinese Cham- that open space, cheering and waving tiane any further relief, and have conse their rifles, I could see the men stumbling quently been placed under arrest. and falling forward on their faces and

The Telegraaf says that this latest dropping sidewise. Gaps opened in the scheme of the Germans will result in nn line, so that I can remember seeing the international protest. Exchange Tele landscape behind them. But they always graph Company's Special, closed.

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The Englishmen took cover at last, having gained the last possible inch; but they were hopelessly exposed; they could not stay. Finally the order came to fall back. They had 100 yards to go. What do you think these brave god-like fools did? Instead of crawling back as the men of any other nation would have done as trained soldiers are told to do-they ross to their feet, they walked back. No, by heaven, they strolled back. They stopped to light, cigarettes, they picked up their wounded and carried them home. They were cut down by the score, but they did not hurry their prec."

OUR QUA-FIRE. The officer continued:

You cannot imagine what that fires English fire was at Neave Chapelle It burst upon ns like a sudden storm in the early morning. We had not known that

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brought forward that proposal, rejected by the shipping com panies some weeks ago after protests had been made by the merchants, that freight- age be increased by twenty per cent., the increase to be voluntarily subscribed to the Salvation Fund. The proposal was -received with great favour and was unanimously accepted. It was agreed Commenting on the great Austro-Ger- that for the present the proposal should man movement, the Times military corres apply only to imports from the Yangtze pondent on May 28th said there may be ports, and that it should gradually b in all some thirty-four or thirty-five receipt is to be held by the bong or 1- extended to other cargors. The banker's corps, amounting at the outset to not lesschaat making the contribution, Branch than 1.250,000 men, engaged, and the at- offices are to be notified as soon as the tack evidently was meant to be decisive scheme is in operation. The Austro-German wings hitherto have heartily thanked the merchants for their The Chairman been checked and driven back, but by

generosity and public spirit in agreeing bringing up a mass of heavy guns with an to the proposa!, almost unlimited supply of ammunition Yesterday afternoon a meeting held at and by reckless expenditure of human life the headquarters of the League was altyd the Germans crossed the San. The mosted by a number of prominent Chinese important, however, and perhaps the residents in Shanghai and substantial more critical are the Austro-German at additions to the fund were mads tacks which are developing south-east of Przemysl. Here not less than seventeen and there is nothing at present to show whic that the Austrian armies have been weakened by withdrawal to face Italy From the facts at present known penetra tion into the Russian centre is more to be leared than any misfortune upen the wings.

ANOTHER PATRIOTIC SCHEME. Another patriotic movement is that to

in a Jun" and a volume of veiser "The 1 they had concentrated their artillery en Austro-German army corps are engaged to which the name of the Mutual Help

Ballad of Hadji and the Boar," which won high praise from Andrew Lang, wh dedicated a volume of poems to hum, in the following lines:

To you, who know the face of war, You, that for England wander far, YourHint-Katsisyon the Ghazis-fysma From England lads not sworn to die, You that have lain where, deadly chill.: The mist erept o'er the Shameful, Hill, You that have conquered, mile by, anilệ, The currents of unfriendly Nile, And cheered the march, and ensed the

sirain

When Pulitics made valour vain, Ian, to you from hanks of Ken, We send our lays of Englishma í

TAG IN SOUTH AFRICA

our front. Now we find from their own papers that they had more than 350 guns on a front of perhaps 2,000 yards---that is, at the rate of one gun for every six yards. It is not possible to jam then say cleser because the servers need elbow room. The clamour was maddening. It beat upon my temples as though with a hammer. I did not think at nl the danger I was in. I prayed for this hellish nois

Cras

There was one maskesi German battery almost in the centre of the arc of British We always fire. It replied, of course. reply. Under the swift flow of that can nomading, concesiment was simply wached 'away. The men at the battery were killed. One gun was struck fair on the side by a heavy shell and thrown high in the air. The captain of the mattery and one officer alone lived."

THEMAD ENGINE DRIVER."

GERMAN PARABLES AND THE CENSOR,

"MORE-WARS-TO-FOLLOW

PROPHECY OF A VAST SERIES OF STRUGGLES.

of China has been given Amongst its incombers are

inny who admire the idea, underlying the Nation Salvation Fund, but who are strongly of pinion that, even if the full amount of $60,000,000 is collected, it will be hopeless ly inadequate for the objects in view, viz. the reformation of the army and unvy, and the establishment of industrial enter prises.

The Mutual Help Society proposes to take quite a different line A provisiona Professor. Ridgeway, speaking at, committer, consisting of Messrs. Tang meeting of the Eugenie Society, said that Shao-yi. Wu Ting-fang, T. H. Lee, S. K the nation had been brought into the per- Tsao, Y. Tang, Wu Chialis, N. Y. sent étruggle by 蔺 combination of Chang, Chu You-yit, and Chu Pao-kang, millionaires who were frequently alive in was forged some weeks ago and instructeut origin, and their dupes the masses, while to draft a constitution for the new Bog'ety. the same forces were exercising a banoful This was done, and the result was submit infinence on the prosecution of the war, ted to a meeting of those interested who Far from this being the last war, the assembled at the Chinesa Y.M.C.A. on hard facts pointed rather to its being Wednesday afternoon.. different from those yet known. The the first of a rast sarics of struggles

earth's waste spaces were now getting] filled up, and the struggle for existence, not merely kingly ambitions, was the great stake for which Germans and British were now fighting Hencefor ward each new struggle would be more desperate,

Discussing recruiting, Professor Ridge

He weat through the Chitral Expri- tion and the Tirah Campaign, command- ing the 3rd Brigade, in 1997-98, He had ben at home only a few months when the As South African War broke out. Lieutenant-Genéral he commanded the eotuan on the flank of Lord Roberts" main army from Biseinfontein to Pre Criticism of the Emperor in Germany terin. Ils force overcame the brunt of says the Paris correspondent of the Boer resistancy marched more than 490 Morning Pust, is a dangerous occupa miles, fought ten general actions and 14 tion and, with the vigorously vicious gen- smaller affairs and captured five tow.sership in force, difficult to achieve, evenway said the voluntary system, nevera Before Johannesburg General French though the editor of the newspaper good one, hud now become a great danger, enine up, and as long senior to Hamilton sponsible is willing to risk the pains and would automatically assume command. Fenalties involved. Such was the good feeling and mutuol The Free Blatter, according to the confidence between these two soldiers who Liberté, has frequeally found itself and its had been together at Ladysmith that the editor, Otto Schiff, in difficulties with the possibility of misunderstanding leserenser, and has often appeared with un- arost, After that

Innightly blanks in its page Last month, Hamilton spoke

a few brief words however, it came out with a sensational series of headlines: "Terrible catastrophe of thanks and Traigo to the

Engine-driver goes mad-Numerous Gordons, “the regiment my father

victims. The letterpress described a commanded and I was born in a terrible railway accident in the United Lord Roberts wrote him, "I am delighted States. The cagine-driver had gone mad, at your repeated successes." He was pre- and had driven his train full tilt into one sent at the triumphal entry into Pretoria, coming in the opposite direction, All and came home after serving as Chief of the passengers were killed. Staff to Lord Kitchener,

victory.

WITH THE JAPANESE ARMY, ̈ ̈

The terrible losses of this war all fell on the best breeding stock of the race. We Our chief hope of safety must soldiers. must widen the basis for our supply of be in universal military service

PROMOTION OF EDUCATION. The Committee's suggestions were that the organization should be called the National League of China, and that is general aim should be that of creating 2 better understanding and unity of pur poss among the people of the various provinces, and promote eireation. One of the suggested methods towards promot- ing national interests was that the Society should establish a department to investi gate home and foreign industries with a view to the encouragement of Chinese The proposed constitution, embodying the suggestions stated, was enterprises.

vigorously discussed. One or two jucn bers of the provisional committen insisted that the Society should be entirely non- political, In order that complete freedoms of action for the general welfare might Mr. F. C. Heffer, for many years a well be secured, whilst at. same time remov known resident in Shanghai, has joined ing all obstacles to influential official the 8th Battalion Royal Berke Regiment, support. A point of special interest is which, according to a letter recently that the committee proposed to admit to received from him, was in training on membership foreignors in sympathy with Salisbury Plaiu with the expectation of the movement.-C. Daily News. leaving shortly for the Dardanelles. Mr. Heffer, who was a member of the firm of Hoffer & Co., Kiukiang Road, was for

SHANGHAI AND THE WAR.

CHINA.

1. Schiff pointed the moral of the extreme unwisdom of rutrusting so many He has done many things since. With human lives to one man, whose brain, like some twenty years engaged in business TRADING WITH GERMANS IN the Japanese army in Manchuria he that of other men. was liable to become here as a silk merchant, and took a leading He added, too, that the part in the affairs of the British com- deranged. brought home the lessoas of that cam passengers would have acted, wisely in munity. He was for some time a member paign sen as tieneral Officer Cam- getting rid of the driver before the express of the Municipal Council, and rendered

An Exchange Telegraph message from maxding-in-Chief Mediterranean

In social life he was Peking published in the Home papers on and started, as he then was showing signs of valuable service. Inspector-General Overseas Forces in mental disorder.

popular, and much esteemed, and all May, 20th states that Manchester goods 1910 he has visited the Colonies and

branches of sport claimed his active consigned to Germans ars continually Dominions. It is accurate to say that

interest and support. The news that Mr. arriving at Tientsin, thereby damaging no officer knows more about the British

Heffer is with the army will no doubt Britain and enhancing German prestige Army at home and abroad: none hisa

come as a surprise, since he left Shanghai amongst the Chinese. Britishers hops gone few fenys ago with the intention of the Government will take action and better vision of its capacity.

retiring.

promulgate drastic regulations forbidding Dr. A. F. Cole, of the C.M.S., Niegpo, trading with the onemy. has been recommended for a commission is the R.A.M.C.

Tall and distinguished, his features are arefeetion of his versatile mind and amiable character, Essentially alike able" man, he has met almost every distinguished soldier of his day. The Kaiser has decorated him with the 1st

Class Order of the Crown of Prussia and

week later the Freie Matter die covered and described a similar accident that had occurred in South America, and again the week after in China. Language

were almost description, and comment identical, The censors said nothing. Presumably, however, they must have realised that the astonishing railway disaster was an allegory, the mad engine driver being the Emperor and the unhappy passengers the German Empire. But so far no action has been taken, doubtless in order to prevent the censor looking ridiculous, and apparently Otto Schiff will be able to go on describing such catastrophes as occurring week after week in remote countries all over the world save and except only in Germ.

the 1st Class Order of the Red Eagle. His medals and clasps and his " mentioned in despatches" would fill much spac

It is one of the surprises of this secret war that Hamilton has appeared to command one of the finest fighting forces

And several of his readers ever gathered under the British flag, appreciate the meaning of his allegory.

will

Dr. B. Score Browne, also of the CAMS. Niugno, who left China to volunteer for active service with the RA.M.Chow in France.

Dr. U. F. Strange, of the Hangchow Hospital, has been recommended for a commission in the R.AM.C.

The Governor of Ceylon has received news that his eldest son, Capt. Chalmers. Suffolk Regiment, is reported wourded and missing since May 10th, and that is second son, Lieut. Robert Chalmere, 15th London Regiment, died of wounds on May Mr. C. D. Dixon, son-in-law of Dr25th. Lord Kitchener has cabled sym- Timothy Richard, who is a 2nd Lieutenant pathy Captain Chalmers was wounded in the 9th Somersets, is in training with shortly after the outbreak of war, but his regiment in Cornwall

returned to the trenches.