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child Mr&Mrs F. E Daris Mr. Danison Mies M. E. Duffy Mr H. C. Ehrenfels
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1915.
WEATHER REPORT.
THE GALLIPOLI LANDING,
On the 17th at 11.35 am-Pressure has COUNTLESS DEEDS OF BRAVERY liffs, which then rise vory steeply for decreased slightly over Shantung and S. Japan; slight increases are general elsewhere. It is! highast in the Pacific to the East of the Bonins, and relatively low over Annám; depression covers the Gulf of Peckliƒ..
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10. to-day, 0.04 inches
The forecast for the 24-hours ending at our to-day is as follows:
DISTEIOF.
Hongkong & Neighbourhood-
Formosa Channel
FORMCAST.
(B.E. winds, mo- derate; fair to cloudy, some showers..
(The same
No. 1.
South coast of China between ) The same Hongkong and Lamochis. No. 1. South coat of Chian between (The same na
Hongkong and Hainan...1
CHINA COAST
Station.
Mr H. E. Somerville
Mr V. Sorry
Mr A. B. Spigno Mrs O. Stevons Mra Stirling and child Mira J. W. Tagler Dr & Mr H. de Valin Mrs Walton
No. 1.
METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
17TH JUNE, AM,
Viadrostock Namuro Hakodate ...... Takiosk Kochi... Nagasaki ... Kagoshima HOskima nuna.
Mr & Mrs B. Wobb Mr & Mr A. Woil
and family Mr & Min HL
White
Mr. F. W, White Mr S. F. Whittier
Mrs R. F. Wood M: G. G. Wood ETUP
ROTEL.
Mr W. H. Lockey Mr P. G. Molen
Mr R. Pola
Naha Ishi'jms
Bonia
Chofoo Weihaiwel
Wind
Hour..
Barometer
Temperature
Humidity.
Direction,
Weniḥer,
Force.
7.29 87 57 629.831
29.89- 29.93 30.03 #29.99 30.04 30.04-
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29 39
30.14
Lahang...!
Kinklangi]
» 29.64
Changtha......
Shanghai Gutaladi....
Sharp: Peak...
Mr G. Odner
Amoy
62
Swntow
Mr C. Pallesan
Taikom
Mr C. W. Reynolds
Taichu
n
Mr F. G. Rocze
29.28 5.29.89-77
29.
Mr M. G. Steen
Mr V. D. Vildo
"MYS." H. Wright
KING EDWARD Hon.
Mr B. Aimord Mr & Mr W. H.
Bettison
Mr O. W. Brown Mr W. Budge
Mrs Beale & child Mr A. A. Claxton Mrs. L. Cooke Mint J. F. Cooke
Mr & Mrs C. Leurot
res
Mr W. D. Leg
Mr '1'. H. Los
Mr J. Lennox
Miss Lennox
Major D. Macdonald
Mr H. Murphy
Mr R. Nakai
Masters G. M. & J. F. Mra W. C. Paremore
Cooke
Mr A. Course
Mr F. F. Duskworth
Mr & Mrs G.. A.
Dutton
Mr W. Y. Ebon
MIA A. Fay Mr C. Fritz
Mr A. A. Fyle
Mr P. K. Hezlitt
Mr 8. Hashimoto
Mr E. C. Hendery.
Mr A. Hoshing Mr & Mrs J. Hunter Mr&Mr
Jackson
Mr J. Joseph Mr F. H. Kalas
Mrs Lambert
Mr H. R. Bastor
Mrs Bowdler
Mr P. R. Butler
Mir A. L. Penning
Mr H. Radford
Mr B. A. Ramsay
Mr & Mr Richardson. Mr & Mrs E. E.
Bigge
Mr C. H. Boper
Mr R. Stewart Mr W. D. Sullivan
Mis &. Sylvester
Mr H. Tanso
Mr F. Taylor
Mrs Threlfell
Mrs E, L. Tourtello
Wa
Mr S. Tands
Mr & Mrs J. H
Underwood
Capt West
PRAX HOTEL.
Me H. A. Cartwright
Mr & Mr. Carmichael
Mr F. W. Cary
Mr G. Clair
Men Clivecrans
Miss Lambert
Mr A. Linton
Mr Marriott
Mr T. L. Perkins
Aiman
Koshane Pescadores. Canton .................. Hongkong Gap Book.....
Wachow Hothow............. Pathol -Pholion
Tourans Cape St. James
Aparri Dagupan Manila
Legaspi........
Tacloban......
Iloilo
Surigao Labuan
9
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29.75 91 29.74 77 39.20
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29.79
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89.81 B1 87
29.81 79 93
29 78 81
29.81
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ENENYOROMĚ
OVERSEA TROOPS" FINE FEAT.
POWERS OF LATEST SUBMARINE.
4,000 MILES WITHOUT REPLENISHING.
ashore through an avalanche of bursting shrapnel you land on a bench about 901 yards wide between the water and the Bevoral hundred feet. There are regi- ments
waiting to move to the trenches, fatigue partics unloading boats and lighters, others making great pyramids of In the following messages a Special Oor- tinned moat and biscuits. others fetching been described by the skipper of the outlier respondent in a battleship off the Dar water, of which a supply has been found Fulgent that was sunk by
She was of the latest type, painted gray, den stist by the Australasian troops endeavouring to drag field Funs to over 400 feet long, carried six torpedo. in the neighbourhood of Gaba Pepe on the position, Indians in charge of mountain tubes, showed no number, and carried a
Canelles describes the manner in which the on shore.
Lish-opposition.
There are trains of miles
stations the wound
One of the boats that are believed to have been lurking off the Irish coast lus
consolidated in the teeth of a furious Tur-azo hastily tended before being piled into Chronicle.
Other
The details correspond to those of a sub- barges and sent to the ships fatigue parties are laying telegraph an!
marine of the USG type. Such a vessel is. telephone wires, and still others carrying as long as a modern destroyer, and must displace about 1,000 tons. In effect she is supplies up the cliffs.
DANDANELLES, April 28. Throughout the night of April 20 the Turks barassed our lines, creeping up and ondeavouring to snips the Australians and New Zealanders in their shelter tronches, but never daring to press bome an attack, although in overwhelming numbers compared with our force ashore. At one section of the line they paid dearly for their temerity, for the New Zealanders chargd them with the bayonet and drove them off in disorder.
You run across your beach parties from a sort of submarine cruiser. The Falaba the battleship, and see young midshipmen was sunk in the Bristol Channel who have been working incessantly for of these later boats.
These vessels can keep the sea for many days now building themselves bombproof shelters and complaining that their last weeks without having to take in supplies Their effective radius is one was considered such a perfect model of any kind.
In other words, a of its kind that some superior officer no about 4,000 miles. sooner saw it than he appropriated it for modern German submarine could go from Thousands of hardy New Liverpool to Newfoundland and back, or his own use. Zealanders and Australians are concen an equivalent distance from a German trated on this narrow shore, cach engaged naval base, such as Zeebrugge. in some occupation, for no sooner does a man get ont of the front trenches than he is required for fatigue work, and very few have had more than a few hours' sleep for days past.”.
Their surface speed is supposed to be from 18 to 20 knots. When submerged, it is considerably less, probably about 10 Head would be doing about 25 knots, it or 12 knots. As the Lusitania off Kinsale might seem difficult for the enemy, moving at only two-fifths the speed, to hit her.
On the other hand, it should be remom-
OIL-TANKS TITTED OUTSIDE,
It was obvious on the morning of the 27th that the Turks had not recovered from the terrible hammering they had Toocived on the previous day," and had no "GENERAL BIRDWOOD'S-PRAIRE................... stomach for another big attack on en-
The Generals and Staff officers fare no trenchments now firmly established on a Boi-circular front which covered the better than their men. General Birdwood bered that the German skipper had the whole of the famshoro which is being used has a high opinion of his troops. He told advantage of knowing to the half-hour me he could not praise the courage, when and when his prey would he at 2 for the discabarcation of the troops, anduranos, and soldierly qualities of his given moment, that he could be in wait supplies, guns and amenition, sul Colonials enough, and said the manner in and that he could move athwart the liner's ported by the fire of many warships. Also the position of the Colonials had been which they hang on to the position the path so as to meet her.
According to the German Naval Press immeasurably improved by the landing Arst day and night was a magnificent fent, which has seldom, if ever, been surpassed of some of our field guns and several considering their very heavy losses, the the latest boats are fitted with double- Tadian mountain batteries.
deficiency of water, and the incessant acting Diesel oil engines of a thousand The Turks evidently had intended to shrapnel fise to which they were exposed horsepower or more. These engines are drive us into the ses on the previous day without cover, not to mention unceasing as simple and run as smoothly as the by a great concentration of infantry aflacks of the enemy's infantry, That marine steam engine, and are as easily supported by an unceasing shrapnel fire night, when they were obliged to retiro controlled. expecting to find a line thinly held by men to a more contracted fire, and when that exhausted by their losses and exertions line was reached, they set their teeth and
But they were refused to budge another foot. on the day of landing. soon disillusioned, for these Australians
The whole scene our the beach irresistibly and New Zealanders gero determined from the first rather to die to a man than reminds you of a gigantie shipwreck to surrender the ground so dearly won looks as if the whole Army with its stores on April 25, and every man knew that his had been washed ashore after a great gale eq only hope of safety lay in victory, as it or had saved themselves on rafts. All this would have been impossible to re-embark work is carried on under an incessant the whole army, once the ring of hills shrapnel fire which sweeps the trenches and hills. The shells are frequently commanding the beach had been lost
bursting 10 or 12 at the same moment, Most troops under fire for the first time, making a deafening noise and plastering The only safe and more especially volunteers with only the foreshore with bullets. a few months' training, feel their losses very much at the beginning, more especi- place is close under the cliff, but every ally if they occur before they have had one is rapidly becoming accustomed to time to settle down and to become accus- the shriek of the shells and the splash of toned to their new surroundings in the the bullets in the water, and the work fold.
But these Australians and New goce on just as if there was not a gun
within miles. Zealanders are an exception, and although many battalions have losses, the survivors. far from being discouraged, are just us keen and full of fight as ever.
C. W. JESERIES, Dirastor,
1 BABONETER, reduced to 22 degrees Fahresbal
as the level of the new in Ingles, tentka am baudrod the
2 TEMPERATUax, in the abado, ia. deres
Fahrenheit.
10
A BARRAGE OF SHELLS.
BATHING UNDER FIKE.
the
Largo stores of off are carried in oil- tanks, fitted outside the hull. It is thought to be safer to carry the oil out.
These external tanks are also side.
believed to add to the stability of the craft and to make it much less cranky at As the oil is drawn off from these tanks, sea
Taus sta-water is admitted as ballest, the oil-tanks co-operate to some extent with the diving tanks.
So strongly built are these craft that they can plunge to a depth of 150 fort,. at which the water pressure is enormous. security weight (as it is called) is one- ried of about five tone. released from the inside of the vessel at
an airship. & moment's notice, and the effect is like that of dropping a mass of ballast from
This can be
LIKE A GUNBOAT ON THE SURFACE. On the surface the submarine, with her These Colonial, aro extraordinarily cool conning tower, upper deck, quick-firing under fire, often exposing themselves gun, two wireless masts, sharp prow, and rather than taking the trouble to keep inflat-free-board, looks not the least like One of the the conventional submarine, but a form When submerging, the two hatches are On the morning and throughout the on- under the shelter of the cliff. tire day of April 27th the enemy resorted strangest sights of all was to see numbers of gunboat
closed, the wireless masts folded down, to new tactics in the hope of driving us of them bathing in the sea with
This Colonial colony suddenly planted the electric motors, run from accumula the shore or preventing supplice and shrapnel bursting all around them. reinforcements reaching the beach. During
The whole face of the raised, the water-pumps set going to 611 a definite form. the night he bad brought up, and got on the shores of Gallipoli-is now assuming tors, started, the air pressure in the boat into fresh positions, a great number of cliffs is being cut away into roads, dug-the ballast tanks, and the diving planes In the latest type of boat, though not field guns, and with these be opened up a
outs, and bombproof shelters. Thus a adjusted. tremendous bombardment of the foreshore kind of improvised town is rising up as and sea in front, whilst he kept up, un the troops slowly dig themselves in and in the earlier, the whole operation takes As you less time to achieve than to describe. incessant rain of shrapnel on the trenches, make themselves comfortable. He could no longer enfilade the beach, as limb up the newly-made paths to the front When in diving trim, that is to say, wher every attempt to place guns for this pur tranches you realize some of the difficult'es she is awash, an up-to-date boat can pose was immediately checkmated by a few the Australians and New Zealanders had disappear under the water in 15 arconds. well-aimed salves from the warships.
to face when they first advanced from the and reemerge in 20 seconds.
We are holding a retain under water for a whole day and The gunners tried to put a great curtain beach on April 25.
It is believed that a new and vastly of shrapnel over the sea between the war semi-circular position. The trenches are night, or even longer. ships and the transports and the shore. well made and provide ample cover, but It was truly an amazing sight to watch if you show your head above the parapet improved form of multiple periscope is caméra obscura picture of the whole hori- the shells bursting, dozens at a time, above for a second you are certain to get a bullet being used, which gives a vivid and steady the water, and then the spreading ballets in or close to i..
zon. The sinking of great warships and liners by a single torpedo shows beyond churning up the water as if a great Some
question that this, deadly weapon has been speed, range, accuracy and explosive improved by German engineers to an
3 HTMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, thailstorm had suddenly come on humidity of air maturated with moisture being 102.
6 DIENOTION OF Wien, to two points.
* FOX OF WIwo, socording to Beaufort Busla
fell far out, being aimed at the warships and transporte, without ever making a hit, whilst others, concentrated nearer the
TAX TURKISH SNIPERS.
This incessant siping is one of the great puzzles of the men in the trenches, with at the present time,
Apparently
She can
L STATE OF Wharnan, ħ blna sky, o detached ghore, made a great danger zone through and presents the great problem to be dealt almost incredible degree in respect of cloud, d drizzling rain, i fog, a gloomy, bail, which all boats and trawlers to and from even when an advanced post is thrown out power. The range is believed to be about
lightning, overenet, p panaing showers, a motel," Train, smow, thunder, v visibility, w daw (watc
! Base in inches, & fanths and hemd redthe,
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, June 17th.
Previous On Date On
Day st
at 2 p.m. 6 6.403
Barometer.......... -29.86 29.67
the shore had to pass.
to hold some commanding point the five or six miles, and the initial speed Bat this hall of lead made not the enemy's sharpshooters remain behind and little short of 50 miles an hour. smallest difference to the gallant crews continue to pick off any unwary man who,
of the pinnaces, boats, lighters, and tugs, either through carelessness or indifference THE GERMAN 16-INCH_GUN.
Volunteers go out at manned by men of the Royal Navy and in exposes himself. charge of our sub-lieutenants and midnight and hunt about for these snipers, shipmen.
2,300 MEN KILLED IN ONE SHOT!
Gunners, engineers and doubtless a good÷
There was nover any hesitation but up to the present they-have-not-been or delay for the storm to moderate. They able to keep them under.
The cheerfulness of the men in the many others will be interested in a few took just as much notice of this hail of
They feel they particulars of the German 16-inch gun, bullets as they would have of a tropicaltrenches is most marked. thunder-storm, and although the specta have overcome the initial difficulties and of which so much was heard in the earlier cular effect of this bombardment was have paved the way for success. Date extremely fine the material damage in Colonial divisions now occupy a position
Bicted was practically nil.
st
Mr & Mrs Moss and
child
Mr
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7. & Mr E, Mitobelmare and child
2 pm.
29.86
Temperature we
#1
85
Humidity........ 1o. 27
91
73
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Mr Courland
COL Darling R.E.
Mr Ellie
My F. A. Hassland Mr & Mrs B. A. Hala Major Falonina
Lt. Col. Gordon Hall,
BAM,O,
Mr W. T. Haarex Mr B. A. Hind Mr Humphreys Mrs T. J.B. Johns Mr Lee Jones Mr E, Kadoorie
Eng. Lieut. & J. Lambert
Mr B. N. Pourtney
Major Pynt, R.E.
Mr & Mrs E. Ralphe Mr A. Sinclair Miss Skinner Mr C. Skott Mrs Squaer
Mr & Mrs Grace
Smith
Mr & Mrs A. Findlay
Smith
Mrs EW. Tisdall Mr G. Tisdall
Mr J. A. Traha Mu_Mr&Mr Vand en Pol
Wind Directions van
South
Highest open air Temperature on 19th – 86 Lowest opan air Temperature on 16th ..
Days of
Week
Daya
Month
Height
El'kong
Mean
Time
b. m. ft. in.
EQ
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 18th to 24th June.
HIGH WATER
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SCIENTIFIC GUNNERY.
Throughout the day the warships kept up an incessant fire on any of the enemy's infantry who attempted to advance. and who were frequently "spotted." by the hydroplane, which did excellent work. The fire of the warship is an interesting study of scientific gunnery.
Every day the ship's gunners become more efficient at this indirect firing en land, and so great is their accuracy at the present time that nothing can live in a section fired at, provided the target has been accurately spotted."
and have entrenched it so thoroughly that all the Turks in Thrace and Gallipoli will never turn them out of it-The Times.
-AGAINST HEAVY ODDS.
These stages of the war, more especially in con nection with the reduction of the Belgian fortresses on the Mente. The particulars before a number of Austrian and Cierrean were supplied in an address made recently military engineers, by Dr. Seyme, chief, German military engineer, who is the inventer and constructor of the gun.
translation is from the The following The weight of the whole Haugsche of the ordnance (gun and mounting) The Times correspondent at Cairo writ amounts to 18 tons and that of the foun ing on May 7th said:The spirit of the dation platform to 37 tons. The length British wounded who have arrived here, of the gun from axis to muzzle is 16 feet.
57 even among the maimed and the more The bombshell weighs 8 cwts. ard inches. In the itself there severely injured, is splendid. Notwith its length is standing their terrible experiences inordnance what to many of them is their first ac separate parts, and twelve
Liege was foundation 9 yards deep. quaintance with active warfare, all are waggons are required for transport pur- extremely keen to resume their part in a poses. The gun has to be mounted on a campaign which they realize to be one of bombarded at a distance of 144 miles. The the most important in the present war,
chance of hitting the object fired at varies The heavy toll of officers has been due to between 3 and 10 feet.
172
railway
The
When
The Turks frequently fire guns of heavy calibre from the other side of the Pein sula, hoping to hole a transport, but have never yet succeeded; and if this firing comes from a ship in the 8traits she is
the fact that they were picked off by crack
The first shot on Liege killed 1,700 man, speedily forced to fly up the channel by a salvo or two from the big guns of one German snipers, who were skilfully con the second shot 2,200 men. Altogether, of the warships. Our most persistent cesied. Some of our men who were at fice shots were fired on Liege, two on
Antwerp declare that their experience Namur and two on Maubeuge. opponent is a ship..
With her heavy guns every morning there was nothing compared with what mounting occupies from 25 to 26 hours, sed between 6 and 7 she fires three or four of they had to face in the Gallipol: Penin the training, after the range has been
fixed by other guns, six hours. Bula. The her huge shells right amongst us.
Our home troops pay the warmest firing, the gunners have mouth, eyes, neso screant they make passing through the air:
Over it in the tremendous splash as they hit the tributes to the work of the Australasians and cars protected by safety caps and all water, and the tremendous detonation if It is freely stated that, if the positions have to lie flat on the ground.
window panes were broken by the dis they happen to burst arouses every one had been reversed and if the British had a radius of about two and a half miles all prematurely from his slumbers and there had speh defences, natural and artificial charges. One shot, inclusive of the shell, The whole cannen je is a rush to the deck to see where they to hold at a single invader would have costs up to £350. have fallen. Sailors generally find a maintained a footing on land. It appears mined and in case of danger the command- ing officer is required to blow up the pier. appropriate name for everything, and that the Turks repeatedly lost an op this ship is now known throughout the portuuity of pressing home an advantage. For serving one gun, 260 gunners, are The tremendous difficulties Flet as
"Chrstians, arise
The incidents related show that the Ger. necessary. The stretch of foreshore and cliffs occupied by the Australian and Newmans, with the Turks, are emulating the involved in moving this massive weapon Zealand troops has been manied the Folke tactics of their compatriots in the West, and all its component parts, not to men- stone Leas, and the ground certainly does and that they endeavour to create a divertion the great expense, probably secount bear a striking resemblance to what sion by donning the uniform of English for the fact that it has been seldom used, again be heard of when the Germans think Falkestone must have looked like before and Australasian officers, mingling with but it is possible that the weapon may
it will meet their purpose.. the town was built on the cliffs. On going cur men and giving false orders.
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