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GERMAN RAILWAYS AND

THE WAR,

ORGANIZATION IN EXCELSIS.

zation

The Times neutral Correspondent in the following artido describes the organi

of the Gorman, railways, and explains the important part the system has played thus far enabling Germany to escape invasion by throwing huge bodies From our front to the other with the greatest case and rapidity, Before going to Germany. I knew that the rail way system played an important, perhaps the most important, port in the organization of the war. But not until had seen the system at work did I realize the services it renders to the military authorities.

are supreme.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY ¦TM¤, 1915.

BURLINGTON FINE ARTS

Five

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CHINESE ART.

BY SIR CLAUDE PHILIPS, ]

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Halisfaction of contemplating fine sculp Jure in materials unique for beauty and Naturally the usual train services in Germany has been considerably reduced.

farity or in the alternative surrender oneself to the sensuous, charm that enin- The time-table itself shows a high poroen- But the 're

nates from these wondrous and won- tage of trains withdrawn,

drously wrotight jades, of every sande duced service is perfect, despite the de- crease in the number of railway servants.

from. purest emerald to moonstone-white, and even austere black. Two of the finest. who now include very low able-bodied

examples of sculpture in the gallery ar young men. In the booking offices women If a traveller is wise he

the Club brought the Black and Dark Grey Jade Roeum- will take with him only as much luggage together a singularly beautiful and bout Horse (the only know historical as he can carry himself, because porters representative collection of Chinese pot boulder of black jade)," and the Grey- arrive to the minute, and provide the of the earlier Ming period, but entirely serves as its pendant here, though,

There usual accommodation. There are sleeping putting aside the porcelain of the owned by the same collector. and restaurant cars on the important ex- Kang-hsi and Chien-hang dynasties to sculptures, the exact date of which is in magnificently represented in the Salting question, are, to whatever dynasty they pressen between the principal cities. All the German railways are

now collection

in incorporated www

the may belong, in the finest style of Chinese The scope it. A Bottled-gren Jade Recumbent worked on one single system which has Victoria and Albert Museum. been extended to the whole of Belgium of the present exhibition extends proc Buffalo, obviously more archaic than and German occupation, as well as to the tically to everything that is not pottery thess piecra, and impressive enough in its It includes, besides paint- weightiness and generalised simplicity. or porcelain. occupied portions of France and of

Direct express trains, ings, sculpture, and bronzes of the earlier must, nevertheless, appear vastly inferior I travelled one day to a small town in Russian Poland. the west. It is situated in a valler with sleeping and restaurant cars un dynasties, jades enamels, textiles, and to them, if judged from the purely artistic Beautiful, with an almost through which runs the double line of an from Berlin to Metz-Charleville Mézières objets d'art generally,, down to the end standpoint. important railway connecting the western Similar trains run to Brussels and Lille of the Chien-lung period or even later. Fengsical distinction and elegance, is n Nothing is Green Jade Dish Fluted in Chrysanthe frontier districts with Central Germany. With a special permit a civilian can travel This is as it should be. i went by a slow train, and was struck there just as he can travel eastward to gained especially when we are dealingmoid Design," which is catalogued as of

The German time-tables tell hini

with developments only partially unfolded the seventeenth century. by the masses of Landscuri mch who Lodz.

In the writing-room, on the ground flour entered it at the garrison town and who when he can reach pinces as far west as ut in and out at every small station. Noyon, Laon, and Chanpy. In fact, these even to the initiated by relegating

Tubes. "hanging pictures They wein lusty talkative fellows of organization is such that, notwithstand the later manifestations of Chinese art of the club, and it the hall, are arranged mature age, many of them fresh froming the benvy military burden on the rail- en blue to the regions of Freadeace and groups of superh textiles; sumptuous em their civilian occupations and hurriedly ways, one can travel afinst us freely-and artistic death; by treating with contempt froidered

One man in my quite as punctually as if there were or at the most with indulgence, schools in tapestry-woven with the utmost ingemity rigged out in uniform.

In certain towns and fortifed aren which a beauty of decoration, a perfection and skill, temple-hangings, decorative of technique" have been reached that panels, pillar carpets, cle-lnost all of compartiment wore his long working bots,

your passport may be required, but that neither before nor since has been equalled. those being of the Chien-lung period. The He explained that he had been up all

There is a snutrieme (as our neigh-

exemption is a series of five swall pancis night killing pigs, and had had no time

Even to the time-tables the note of bours put it) in the matters to which from a lima's tiara tapestry-woven in to change them

These last Оре It was at the moment when a general pig-killing was ordered so confidence is apparent. The red "Konig"

are catalogued as coming within the This section as to save gram and potatoes for human still appears with its old dimensions. The is well not to give way uyduty. food, and the municipal authorities had summer edition gives all the ordinary is apt to suspect the connoisseurship of coloured silk and gold thread.

after the age of Pheidias, whercognise been commanded to lay by a rewrve of penes trains, but marks with a black those who can sen nothing in Greek art period of the Ming dynasty.

ns little that is new in regard to the ; pickled and preserved pork up to the value circle thos which are not running on

account of the war. An explanatory in Gothic seulpture after the thirteenth is delight to the eyes, but it teaches of 158, per head of the population.

My bandsturm pig-sticker told me this troduction states that: In the light entury, who in Italian painting world history and developments of Chinese The catalogue, moreover, dynastics. he and his comrades were under orders of experience, and in view of the favour-wipe out the entire seventeenth centursfestiles through the long ages of the later

In like de guard the line with its tunnels and able deselopment of the military opera-accepting nothing as excellent that comes

Very strong truces of Chines bridges.

Every now and then he greete tions the storation of many trains tren Tilion and Tiepuko.

influence and Chinese design-are-to-be. some che through the window and on temporarily withdrawn must be reckoned fashion, wonderful as has been the revela affords but meagre details on this impor- looking out. I noticed that the whole line with Buch trains are therefore included tion during the last few years of Chonant point. was guarded thought voluntarily in the time-table. The introduction ends Han, Tang, Sung, and earlier Ming of the way we used to think the Tear's with an expression of the hope thing dynasties we cannot approve those who found in Italian brocades and tissues of MARSEILLES & LONDON.. " CITY OF RANGOON” train was guarded in former days. Nunca not too distant future our Fatherland indulging in excessive and hysterical the fourteenth and early Efteenth cen the preface to the Lucen. Would it be possible to indicato of my fellow-travellers could or would say may attain a glorious prace, under the raptures (the expression is that so apprturies; and expecially in those woven at catalogue), not only set up new altar the prototypes of these Italo-Chinese We may end, why, even in war time, the extraordi- protection of which railway traffic will priately used, in

fer in this they are more than justified tissues, and are any of them to be found mary precautions were being taken so far son regain its previous proportions." inside the country,

as we began, by an expression of opinion but resolutely overturn and deface the in European collections i old.

The present exhibition is of rare ex-that this is certainly one of the most nisateness, and arranged to perfection: effectively organised, as well as one of the each distinct branch being allotted to and most effectively arranged among the many catalogued by a specialist who has made exhibitions in respect of which the that branch his particular study. Never-Burlington Fine Arts Club has deserved theless-and this was inevitable under the the gratitude, not only of English en- conditions imposed by exiguity of sparnoisseurs, but of the whole art-loving it is just the exquisiteness and not the world.Daily Telegraph.

The sections devoted to painting greatness of Chinese art that is emphi and sculpture are decidedly disappoint- sised.

The Britishstr. Haimun reports: Heavy The great T'ang school of seul p-. ing. although they include some charming things.

The British ar. Tukany reports: discovered life-size polychrome figures of ture, su fuely illustrated by recently. squalls and rain.

The British str. Anhui reports: Strong sluzed earthenware (of which the most perfect is in the British Museum), but South to 8.W. winds with heavy rain statues of black bronze, reverently pre- served, ust, indeed, in Chinese, but in 9.8.W. winds, Leary S.W.S. swell, condy still more grandly in certain colossal squalls. ancient Japanese temples-that supranie and rainy,

The mytery was soon to be cleared up. On reaching the little town I went to a small hotel gut a room, and began to dino in the snug beer restaurant of the house. The landlord weled me in the friendly, homely fashion which is 31tractive in the inns of plaes untouched by the modern hotel industry." Then he exclained, rubbing his hands with glow, the Russians will soon get a new licking, Wo are moving masses of trois across to tirir side. Hindenburg has something big up his sleeve. More than 100,000 guing through bere, Do you hear that 1" FROM WEST TO KART, I heard. It was a long troop Pain passing through The railway ru noir the hotel, and upposite it was the station. I went to the window and saw the train, filled with soldiers and with guns, horses,

PRISONERS. ILL-USED, ESCAPED BELGIAN'S ACCOUNT OF

GERMAN CAMP.

ENGLISH WORST OF ALL"

A Belgian soldier, who was taken prisoner by the Germans and escaped, has given the London Morning Post an account of his adventure

Seventy-six prisoners, including hiniself, were placed in a school-house at Verviers last August, when they were kept twenty four hours without foul. Then a party et prisoners, including many civilians, were conducted a train of righty-four indescribably filthy cattle tracks, drawn and transport material.by three locomotives. nutur-cars,

In his story de Baere, the soldier in People in the streets and in the buildings along the railway greeted, the men ente question, said There civilians seemed manifestation of Chinese art at iis siastically. The soldiers lined up head lost their heads with fright and rushed zenith, of which we yearn to know more, the windows and in the open troop trucks out of the ranks, whereupon they were slintis here represented only by small frag to return the greeting. Then they sang dead. The trucks had all sorts of inscripments and statuettes. Then though the "Deutschland über Alles" and other pattions written on them in the German Graco Buddhist school of Gandhara must riotic songs.

Incomplete languag“, such as " Wiliam II, Emperor be classed as Judina, it would have been interesting, seeing how great was its The landlord told my

influenos on the Buddhist art both of stranger, that these troops eam from theraf Enrops," and " Calais, vía Loudon,”

China and Japan, to have some specimens French front, and were ben sent at

straight acres The German military authorities had of it here for comparison with the pure Hindenburg's request............

arranged for us to be taken en-a-sorts Chinese. Germany to the distant Eaglern Twit where huge operations were being tour of inspection over a large part of

During these preparations there pared, was, for a number of days, a strict Germany to show the people, I suppose, Post were, that is to say. and posts and the first fruits of the much-vaunted Ger ordiary telegraphic communications with man victories. We passed sucessively foreign countries were absolutely stopped through Hertesthal, Müuster. Elberfeld,

PRISONERS ON SHOW.

SHIPPING REPORTS.

PASSENGERS. DEPARTED.

Per Haimus, from Swatow, Mr. A. F. Per Ling, from Kub, Mrs. Smith Brown. and child.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

SCULPTURE, PAINTINGE, BRONZEH.-

THE ENGLISH MAIL. Among the Taug fragments there is n

The str. Kashgar left Bingapore for this Subtler and al- fine Head of a Statue," from the Cave together more beautiful is the small port on the Ist instant, p.m., with the temples of Lung-moon, in order to prevent any leakage of infer-Leipsie, Cologne, and Parchim, arriving Head of a Bodhisatira," which still onward English Mails, and is due here

Tir at leigth at Soltau, where we were placeretaus something of the Grace-Indian on the 5th instant, at about 5 p.n.

style.

ENGLISH PERSECUTED,

The Kuan-Yin standing a

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Yokohama for Hongkong vid Kebe. Naga saki and Haails on the 1st inst., and is da

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to the Münster 'coneentration caup. At

21 (Northern Wei or Sui The Australian Oriental Line stTai- troops concerned in the movement, were not

lotus-throne allowed to communicate even with their all the towns we passed through the train

halted, the doors of the fucks were dynasty) is in a way impressive; etyan left Part Darwin for Hongkong užú- own facilit,

£ a part thrown open, and we were exposed to the Then I witnessed the working

The long troop fury of the German pupulags, men and redly-even though it may well, as it Philippine Ports on 20th inst, and may be

July. of the war machine

is not a work of art of a high order, trains continued to roll eastward, one women. At Herbsthal, or believed date from the sixth cratury expected to arrive here on or about ata every ten. 15 or 20 minutes for two days women struck us with sticks and bottles, either as regards conception or execution. and two nights. As long as daslight last. and son of the prisoners were badly-Among the paintings hung on the walls The str. Eastern left Sydney for this and there serve their purpose well enough port (vid Queensland ports, Port Dar vic. every train was greeted with the injured;

as decorations there is really nothing of and Manila) on 23rd instant, and may be Portrait of expected to arrive here on or about 15th applause, and even at night we heard the Hurrah!" 12 soldiers sing aml shout

In the camp we were put on starvation the first-class, exerpt a little

(ut the Ming period), lent July, For them it was the they passed.

fare. In the morning for breakfast wan Official triumphal progress through the country.

The mail for Hong- The remarkable thing was that there had a small cup of very unpalatable by Mr. Eumorfopoulos. Very decorative was no apparent dislocation of the ordi- or cocoa, at noon they brought us each though a little conrsa in execution. is a wary traffic.

The express as well as the a leaf of bread, weighing 13 kilogramunt large Phoenix on Flowering Branch,

dynasty. A beautiful fragment. " slow leal trains arrived and departed (3h 50s), which had to last for six days, placed in the period covered by the Yun

Long goods and sometimes for a whole wek; mod at

on Flowering Plum Branch, and a paint-kong has been transferred to the NY.K. Quarrelling str. Hakata Mira, expected here on the on paper," Recording to time-table

ing in ink

A 9th inst trades with supplies went West, and empty six o'clock we had another cup of so-

MERCHANT STEAMERS. trucks went back. Presently, other long called cocar. Not a morsel of meat wer Birds" are of the Ming period.

we allowed, nothing at all except the

impression of weaderful swiftness and troop trains, filled with new levies, also went West. Is is easy in imagine how items I have mentioned. Those who had charm. "Wild Geese alighting by a Lake in this spectacle strengthens the popular

It is an ceular soap could wash their clothes with it; Autumn," is tentatively put down to the feeling of security.

Bronzes, chiefly of the Chou, Han, and The English prisoners were worst off si demonstration of the power of the military the who had rape had a do without it seventeenth entury

group, though certainly authorities to withdraw forces without danger from one front and to throw them all. The Germans divide their prisoners Sung dynasties, form singularly iuter In the most-superior to that which is to be seen, by by night and day, neras t country to into categories, who are here or legs esting the other front, with absolute precision starved and itrea ed. and without dislocating civiliasi life. No favoured category are the Hemings, whom those who diligently seek for it, in one wonder that the Germans are preaid of the Germans look upon as distantly related of the side aisles of that magnificent and their railways. They know that but for to them by mor; then come the French and bewildering bassar, the Victoria and the cbility which the railways give to Walloons, afterwards the Russians, and

great masses of troops the war would long ngo have had to be carried on inside the German frontiers.

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primitive bronzes are attributed (with a discreet query) to the Shang dynasty (17BG EC. 1123 .c:). A certain number These re Ah, hose English prisoners. When I belong undoubtedly to the prolonged Chou

I say Dynasty (1139 C-256 B.d.), think of them my heart bloeds; one poor fellow who had a bullet in the of a rugged grandeur, an archaic intensity He that has no exact parallel in art-not even The spirit of the soldiers and the extraordinary precautions taken to guard | leg and a bayonet wound in the arm

was in grras pain and weakened by semi- in the archaic bronzes and pottery of Greces. Among the finest nieces are a the line strengthen the feeling of security. The impression produced is that the starvation. and could not work. For this Sacrificial Wine Vessel (No. 3, case

Wino Vase (No. 10, Case G) and a authorities are wide awake and ready for offenes he was sentenard to be kept in all emergencies. Not only was the solitary confinement for fourteen days on railway strongly guarded-1 repeat, well dry bread and water. We Belgian pri For beauty and expressiveness of form.

Peculiar to them is in the interior of Germax cast of the soners never had to empty the latrines in for exquisiteness of adornment, the Sung on or abou, the 18th inst.

are unrivalled.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Rhine-but there were special defensive. posts against aircraft, and at intervals a cur part of the camp. That work, like bronzes, whether derivative or original,

tion by

inlay in good and silver, sometimes Zeppelin travelled as a guard ship up and any other that was particularly hard or

Splendid examples of Friday, 9th July Ever prisoners. On the slightest provocation, down the valley, closely following its effensive, was assigned to the English rich complicated scheme of garface decora

this style and technique are a

G and Vessel in Two days after the troops had passed or on no provocation at all they were also in copper. vessel" (No. 27 through my little town, the expected hap kicked and insulted and assaulted with in the form of an ancient sacrificial

ned. The German official reports from the butt-ends of riffes. Ultimately de the Eastern frontier had for some time Baere and two other men escaped, and the form of a Placents" (No. 3, pedestal J), contained only the stereotyped phrase, managed, after wandering phout for many both of them lent by that noted collector Putting aside the snobbery "There is no change in the general situadays, avoiding towns and villages, and of super-exquisite things, Mr: Eumor tion,"

Suddenly, one morning, all the eating what they could get from the fields, fopoulos, flags in the town were hung out, the to make their way into Belgium. Now form which none of us is exempt in re come to the conclusion that this is the school children were given a day's huli and then people tock pity and helped and gard to styles and periods, one may easily day, and the people heard that the great gave them food,

De Bere was arrested by the Germans most impressive work of art in the offensive in the Carpathians had begun

in Belgium for having been a German gallery; and that while remaining true and that the Russian lines were broken. Soon afterwards I learned that the troops soldier, but managed to escape before he in one's brations in other directions.

sinuous turTS,

4 p.m.-A Snowball Rag Sale in id of the Belgians, in the Grounds of Government HOMA Noon-Hongkong General Chamber of Com- merce Extraordinary General Meeting in Monday, 12th July

the Chamber of Commerce Room, New Government Building.

Large supplies of MONTSERRAT Lime Juice have recently been shipperl WONDROUS JADES.***. The show of jade, in every variety, in

[340-4 evore style, has probably never been from Landan. Order a few bottles from He experts to rejoin his regi-enuated in England. Here one may.

either have the more serious and enduring your storefinger to-day.

officer promised, and ultimately made his way inte Holland whence he arrived in London.

I had seen passing through had gone had to "pay the penalty" the German straight to the theatre of operations in Galicia. Their relatives in Germany had no inkling that they had left the western frcat until letters arrived from the region of the Ban,

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