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THE HÒNGGKON DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 31st, 1915.

GERMANY AND THE WAR AT SEA. THREATS OF BIG SURPRISES TO

HELP WIN VICTORIES,

[BY THE NAVAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE "BVENING STANDARD.”]

The outstanding feature of the conduct of Germany's campaign on land has been the surprises which she has sprung on the Allies. Witness her monster howitzers, which so easily smashed up the Belgian and French fortresses, her machine-guns and hand grenades, used so effectively in the trench warfare, and her poison gas.

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or less succosa at such devices on land, what Whitehill of the war at ses? Wo are led to suppose that when Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is Williams quite ready he will make use of an artifice or two which he is carefully keeping up his ....Destinn sleeve, but upon which he is counting to help Gluck-Homer his battle fleet in winning vietorica

It is only in the nature of things that ther Williams should be just now a good deal of speculation Boddue to the chameter of the anticipated Bur prises, and matcul persons who have been McCormack granted facilities to visit centres of war in Witherspoon ackl for their curiosity and i

terest in Germany have found hore a fruitful

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The greatest satisfaction is caused by a proclamation sonouncing the redemption of paper dollars at three-quarters of their face value in view of the market valuesible indignation, and this was very wall Being only half.

expressed in the letter from Mr. Barding

in is right to await the report of the Norton which appeared in The English nan on Tuesday. Mr. Austen Chamber-

more, but we trust he will read not only Indian authorities before doing anything the end correspondence that have spH HOUSE OR PRAM. For two or three FIVE RAILWAY PROJECTS INpeared in the newspapers on the subject. months.

What the public is especially indignaat and anxious over is the continued employ ment of aliens in official positions, the The Manchurian Daily News (Dairen) extraordinary freedom given to German Chobar nissionaries, aspecially in We understand that an understanding Nagporo, and the astonishingly slow pro- exists between the Japanese and Chines gress that is being made with the Hiquida- Governments to construct the five-Rail-tion of German firms. The liquidators ways in project in Eastern Mongolia and have now been at work for nearly cleven South Manchuris on very much the same rontham most of these firms. Hef that lines as the Tientsin-Pukow Railway period ought to have sufficed. We trust The settlement of the details of the rail the Secretary of State will also take due Ioan agreement is expected to meet note of the strong and unanimous feeling _with__little difficulty

negotiations now in progress at Peking,

in the present against allowing any of these firms or any other German arms to start business in As referred to frequently already, the British possessions in the Eset ugain. first section to be taken up for construc tion is believed to be the 52 mile section between Saupingkai and Cheng-chatan. It is to be remembered, however, that the We have previously given the list of towns and villages on the proposed route. Germans are no fools. If they are conton Starting at Ssupingkai on the 8. M. R.

The beys of Bradfield College, Berks, have plating surprises in the sea warfurans success Main line, the route proceeds north-west volunteered to make shells. The hende fully as they have done on land, they are mutwards to Pamiercheng, and, after cross-announced recently that he had visited the likely to ninke a song about them in advance.

ing the Liao, reaches Chengohistun, office of the Minister of Munitions and ex- Therefore it is well to take the stories which are related in this connection with a grain of The only piece of work attended with lined what the school wished to do. salt.

The offer was received sympathetically, engineering difficulty over this section is

the Lino. but the department explained that it would Within the past week there has been a the railway bridge over revival of the report that the Germans have According to the precedents of railway be difficult to deal with the school by itself. been fitting some of their older vessels, no construction in China, the construction He interviewed the chairman of one of the all the new ones, with a heavier type of gun expense is estimated to be about S. largest engineering works in the country, than we had known about and prepared foc. X.100.000 per mile, but the Japanese ex- who, without hesitation undertook to put The Eleven armoured ships altogether were under perts believe that half that estimate will the school in touch with the work constraction for the German mary when the suffic Figured on this basis, the total result is that within a day or two the boys war began.

cost for this section will not go ahore under competent direction will be engaged

in shell-making. Four of these were in the fitting out stage,

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the headmaster-also announced that. 50. sind could not be altered in regard to aria-

Chergabiatan, as noticed previously, occupies an advantageous position in old Bradfield boys had already laid down which would not be coranjensurate with the

were serving in the forces. result. The remaining seven, it is asserted, waterway of the Lino under its nose, will now carry the new Krupp 16in. gun. If being only about a mile from the River, this is the case, each of then must be altered On the north it leads to Tanaofu ri in design to admit of the change, for as Kaitang (one of the new marts to be originally planned four of the ships were to opened to international trado); on the have in. and three 15in, guns,

south to Mukden við Fukumen; on the west. in Chilfeng and Chinchow ri Paiyintalai (Palin) and Kailu; on the east to several railway stations on the S.M.R. Lines..

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The 16in. gan was described by an artillery expert in a German paper as far back as January last, and there is no reason to doubt that such a weapon exists. The projectile was said to have a weight of about a ton,

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metres, or about 2,700ft, a second, its rango being three miles greater than that of the best British weapon, the Kin. guns of the Queen Elizabeth,

REMOTE FOSSIBILITY.

The same expert also claimed that the gan had be per cent more muzzle energy than the latter, and that it could carry for a distance of twenty-eight miles. As the Straits of Dover are only about twenty-two miles wide, this went on to assert that the possession writer of such guns at Calais would enable the Germans to "command the English coast."

This, however, is by the way; the point which naval men aeed concern themselves with is the possibility of such guns being usel afloat. Such a possibility is certainly remote, for it may he taken for granted that Germany will not delay the completion of the ships she had in hand in order to upset their designs, and while ahu may be expected to mount in guis in her vessels newly begun, it must be a year or amredefore these can come into service, unless some extra- ordinary acceleration has taken place.

THE TWO NAVIES. When it is remembered, however, that Count von Reventlow was urging the Goy ernment the other day to build more battle ships the presumption was that the surprise would partake of a different character. It is thoroughly well realised in Germany that her navy cannot now hope to moet.ours on terms of equality in the regular types of ships, und therefore when the surprise or surprises come they are more likely to be concerned with other means air methods of warfare.

Just at present, at all events, Grand Ad- miral vou Tirpitz appears to be putting his energy into submarine warfare, and the eir. cumstances of their recent activity, both around our own coasts and in the Mediter point to a great advance having been with the "U" boats. No one can yet see what developments may take place in re- gard to under-water fighting, and in this direction German ingenuity has a fertile field in which to work.

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"OUR MIGHTIEST ENEMY,” HUNGARIAN WRITER ON POWER OF BRITISH GOLD.

The Morning Post quotes a comment by M. Julius Szint in the Pasti Bapto, on the new British War Loan.

The man of to-day (says the writer) has the privilege of boholding two groups of belligerents the one fighting with all its virtues and bravery, the other with all its resources and gold, and one is at a loss to decide which to admire the more--the organi zation of one or the unlimited riches of the other.

If the old proverb be still true, that three things are needed to carry a war to a suc- cessful flaisb-money, money, and money then England, with the smashing power of her riches, the silver bullets," as the calls them, will... (excision by the Hungarian Censor.)

"The rolling rouble," and its legendary meaning, cannot be compared with the power and might of the Found Sterling. We see that that is the only money in this war-stain: ed globe which has grown in value when all other moneys have lost theirs.

And if-Gold help us at the end, money and England come out on top, just imagine what an immense amount we and Germany will have to pay to reimburse this waste of milliarda, the numbers of which the British Minister of Finance has to calculate with the aid of logarithmn tables.

Our greatest and mightiest enemy is the English sovereign, and it has appeared again on the War Market.

It may well be said that the traile of the eastern part of Luer Mongolia is centred at Chengqiatn The Japanes colony nit. Chengchiatun now consists of 107 in 38 households. They contain 13 pawnbrokers, patent-medicing shops, and restaurants.

The construction of the above-mention ed railway sction will serve as the key to opening up the latent natural resources of Chelimu, the "treasury of Immer Mongolin, and the railway is expected to he put on a paying basis in quicker tin than is generally supposed.

IMPROVING HANKOW, Commissioner Yang Tu has drawn up 'a comprehensive scheme for improving the town of Hankow. En a niemorandum to the President. he compares Hankow to Liverpool of Great Britain and Chicago of the United States. To arcomplish this aim, Commissioner Yang proposes to ro claim the marshes of Houhu. extend he are of the native market, and dig out a new rana] connecting the Tan River with. the Yangtse River, hereby securing ship ping facilities for the native market, Thus the port of Hankow will become a triangle with the three waterways as its three sides. With such transportation facilities afforded by the rivers and the railways, it is not at all unreasonable to expect great commercial activities to mark Hankew as one of the greatest towar of China Another ambitious project the construction of two bridges, one over the Yangtze River and one over the Ha River, thereby connecting the three cities, Wuchang. Hankow and Hanyang by land.

A loan agreement was signed with the Samuel Company during last Summer, but the loan bas aot yet been floated on secount of the European War. But ons preliminary survey and one minute sur vey have been made under the direction of Mr. Clive. All necesary preparations. for laying out the siten, digging the ner caal and construeting the river bridge are being actively pushed on-Peking Daily News,

THE PREMIER'S SOLDIER

SONS.

LIEUT H. ASQUITH_WOUNDED.

Herbert Asquith, who is home from the It is officially stated that Licutena al

Dardanelles wounded and whose na INV appeared in the casualty list on June 16th, He was struck in is not seriously hurt, the face by a fragment of shell, which smashed several of his teath and cut his lips.

Lieutenant Arthur Asquith, who was wounded in the leg some time ago, is de ing well, and will shortly be on active service again in the Dardanelles. He was in hospital at Caire for a time, and whilst there was visited by Miss Violet Asquith. Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, Royal Marines, is the second son of the Prime

In 190 Minister, and was born in 1880. he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn and three years later married Lady Cyn thia Charteris, eldest daughter of the Earl of Wemyss. They have two sons, the youngest of whom was born last year. Lieutenant Asquith obtained his commis niou last January. Ho is attached to the Royal Marine Artillery Brigade.

It will be remembered that Lieutenant

RECRUITS OF FORTY. FARM LABOURER'S WIFE AND SEVEN CHILDREN.

A Kent firmer has written to Sir L. Chiozza Money, M., giving the following facts about

farm labourer in his employment :-

a

Hojected on account of varicose veins when he first offered himself for the Army, he was asked to attend last Tuesday at Maidstone, when he was passed by another doctor, varicose veins ad all. He is aged forty in His wife gets August, and leaves a wife and seven children, the youngest six months old. 30s. separation allowance and earns is. ed. a day on the farmi

Writing to The Times, Sir L. Chiozza Money this man is a misfortune. These may be grounds on which the enlistment of gives

somonrised:

1.He belongs to a class we cannot spare. 2.As a military unit he is second-rate,

Ho increases necessarily the current cost of the war.'

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A correspondent writes to The Daily Mail: I know of a battalion in training in eastern county in which there is a private who is a married man with eleven children. At the present scale the separation allowance payable to this wife and her eleven children. would be 30s, a week.”

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INSPECTION OF LEMS.

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