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SIDELIGHTS ON THE GREAT and yet made an average
an hour, which was certainly pretty good going."
WAR.
On the 26th at 11.40 am-Pressure has de- arcaned quickly over the Loochoos, and moreated AN ENGLISHMAN'S EXPERIENCES
elsewhere, especially in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, it remains highest in the Pacifle to the east of Japan.
DISTRICT:
Formoss Channs!
33
(W.&S.W.winds, Bongkeng & Neighbourhood light to moderate;
fine.
The same
No. 1..... South coast of China betweenƒ The same a
Hongkong and Ismooks. { No. 1. South coast of China between Theme
Hongkong and Hainan... 1, No. 1,
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CHINA COAST
REGISTER.
many upon
IN FRANCE,
"In the morning two huge troopships passed 18, their sides lined and their dooks packed with British troops, making one
Are
ARMOUR FOR BATTLE.
HELMETS AND SHIELDS IN THE TRENCHES:
It
the
great curved patch of nakum-coloured khaki. They cheered, and we cheered them this war has been the return which has One of the most remarkable features of The typhoon is probably filling up over. PooTSALS AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE FIELD.
hack.
I had taken out my little Gaumont been made in various directions to older, Koren, and another typhoon, is situated to the
eatorn to snapshot them, when a stentorian if not to ancient, methods, south of the Loochoos; ite direction of motion
voice from the ranks roared ont: We'll fort has been discredited and the earth- The ateol is not yet indicated.
So far, this is the most entertaining book die hearty! What splendid phrases this work justilied; the strength and direction Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at Rolling, in soine parts, Arthur Young's simple non. I did not take the photograph
relating to the war that has reached us. war is bringing forth from the throats of of the wind has become a leading factor 10 m. to-day, 0.00 inches.
atscriptions of France during the great I couldn't. It would have been a descora and arrows, since aeroplanes are affected once again, as it was in the days of bows The forecast for the 24 hours ending si noor
Revolution, it enables us to visualise the tion. A sesae with an utterance like thut by the wind and gas attacks determined to-day less followsTM
effects of the declaration of war by Ger- in it mutat la terred in the memory in by, it; band grenades and bombs have FORECAST
the French people, and, its entirety, with no element left out!!! incidentally, enlightens us on the psycho- There is much of humour, many touches question of armour for the fighting ma
assumed real importance. logical effects produced upon a nation sud-of true pathos, many shrewd remarks that himself has come up for for considera Finally, the denly plunged into the vortex of a great one is tempted to reproduce, but we have tión. international struggle. lived many years in France in intimate Strong's book, which is well worth reading should arise, and the astonishing thing is Mr. Strong has quoted enough to show the charteter of Mr. It was inevitable that this question relation with some of her most prominent One last quotation we must make, however, public menandi fiterary geniuses, and it is to show how the French people appreciate bec.so long postponed.
that discussion of it in this country ha hat strange, therefore, that his book should the noistance rendered at a critical moment
Burly in the contain illuminating sidelights of more than by the British army."
war visitors to the Belgia front saw a ordinary interest. It is not merely a
We found Th... abe play su
form of shield which was used by the active soldiers; chronicle of rumours and events; it is chutty role in the public life of Nice, wildly ground when in use and the nan lag This shield was fixed in the and reminiscent of other things than war, enthusiastic over the performances of the hind it and was protected by it. and it is to be hoped Mr. Strong will follow British Army. This was in November) was employed by cavalry and, it is un- it up with other volumes as the war pro- He insist that. without any doubt, they rob«t]
From what he says, it is quite saved the situation for the French. You evident that the English people are not see,' he said, wo Frenchmen permitted to know many things as they fighters, but we are easily discouraged. We happen from day to day, and some of his cannot stand temporary defeat. comments prompt us to wonder how long just this stituning which we nee the prople will hour with the exercises of dismal operation. like a rettrent, that the the censorship as at presem applied and cool imperturbable English supplied us: how many reputations will be broken when with The Faglish get it from love of the truth is fully revealed at the nod of sport and particularly football. I was the war.Mr.Strongs-review-carries us much struck, and greatly pleased, with the vate inventory and was finally submitted from the outbreak of hostilities down to answer given a few days ago by a sergeant
to the authorities of several of the nations the end of 1914, and though must af histo his tieneral, who was complimenting him 145 wor. During the private tests a Lime is spent in Nice and in Southern on the splendid dash and pertinacity" with revolver was emptied at the shield white France, - Dis Fisits Paris. London, which he had rallie and led his men in a it was being worn. The shield was also Bordeaux and other places enable him to successful charge against the Germans after subjected to rifle, fire with, on the whole, present impressions that are fresh to most all the officers in his company had been good results, The resuks were certainly Killed off his font had won for him tře
s goud as te merit more extended trial. Writing of spies and the search for them. Military Medak. Where did you learn jet the outbreak of the war Mr. Strong the art of keeping your men together?! asked the Genera}. From the practice of There is not a particle of doubt that football,' replied the sergeant There you both France and Great Britain hard for have it. And, believe me, that football pany yours past. been honeycombed "with | spirit that the British soldiers put into their German
mesta. At Dover, for work was not only a splendid example and instance. about les years #go. anyone jonensragement to our inen, but it saved o arriving at the heat station from abroad retreat from becoming a rout.* ́* would have noticed that all the lads selling tea-baskets on the platform wore young Gef | The Diary of on Duns, speaking almost perfect Buglish, dressed in a uniform which was nearly iden- tion with that of the British Field Artillery. The hotel that sent them out was kept by
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a German. These young men had taken the place of English boys belonging to a much
It WRS
in
serstood, answered the purpose for which it was intended. Continent; & shop window in Calais a good The idea grew in popularity on
breastplate was exposed for sale many it would turnside bullets and pieces of months ago for which it was claimed that. shrapnel. A shield of this kind WER tested very carefully by a group of pri-
English Besident Finace during Twenty-twr Werks of War Time. By HOWLAND STRONG. London Eveleigh Nush.
MISSION OF THE FRENCH AIR SQUADRONS,
400 HOMBS. ON ENEMY LINES.
SE BY FRANCE AND RUSSIA. In The Times of Qutober 28th, 1914, there appeared a message from Renter'a correspondent in Paris to the following effect :--
"A Rennes newspaper says that the shield which has been placed at the dis posal of the French infantry in Argonne is a protection against bulls which has already been adopted by the. Russian Government, and of which the French Government is at present having a large camber made by the works at St. Hilrice
n-Harcourt, which have the monopoly of the shield. Work is proveding actively at the factory."
lower social category than themselves, but "GUNS OF IMMENSE RANGE.!! Since that date references to the use of they were probably cheaper, which would
armer have appeared from time to tim have been the ostensibl
reason their
in medical communications from employer would have given for having
thu front, and alm st invariably these y engaged them. How came it that they were
ferences have been of a favourable. cheaper? They had no need to feare Eng
character. The high velceity of modern ish, for they spoke it thuently already. Belling ten-baskets was not a trade to which
bullets causes the to ricochet from the shields, while picers of, shrapnel, which they would have sought to be apprenticed. I asked me of them in German win!" he-
often inflict large surface wounds, ard A feature of the operations along the turned away, or at any rate has the was really doing in England. He instantly led from the earringe, tea-basket, and all, front during the month of July, tele shields for the bark and legs have from. force of the impact broken. Metal bf without making any reply. A fat, impudent graphed the Paris ettrespondent of the time to time bien mentioned in connection
bully sitting apposite possibly a German. wanted to protest, patil told him very is, was the active use by the French with trench warfare, it being in chend plainly to mind his own business
of their air services and the may indications that soldiers are frequently hit Assam for a moment that there was
by exploding shrapnel shells. tions given of the progress which has in sudden invasion of English lads, clenti, well-accomplished in this branch, of the ervisal edented speaking remarkably good Ger since the outbreak of the war
The latest entration to the armour mon, in a ferman frontier town, faking the Realising that for fighting purposes the question is of an exceedingly interesting place of younger German Inds for a lower; chief mission of the aeroplane is to act caaracter, because it deals with this and less than a living wage, and suppose like a gun of immense range and that results secured by the use of this pro that their sole excuse for being there was bombardment requires swarms of acrotection. Dr. Devigne, says the Lancet, to hawk fond up and down a railway plat-planes and not an isolated machine, the hips now systematically studied the value forma, what do you think the German mili-French have equipped and organized of headpieces of metal issued some time tary authorities would say or do about anmber of air squadrons with the objec: ago to the French troops in the trenches,
communications, either during or on the metal-lignes to of disturbing and destroying the enemy's He has found the value of these culottes · ove of military developments, so as to examined 57 cases of head injury, in
he considerable. Ho impede the arrival of men and shells from which 42 of the wounded men had no the reserve points during the progress of headpieces and 13 wore belmots. operatitis.
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Hongkong Observatory, August 25th.
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE,.
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There is another good personal spy story, and some strong comments on spying and hysterical spy-hunting as soon as war was declared. Another paragraph
41 According to a telegram displayed at the Eclairer the Chinese have disarmed the Vaterland
Germana gunboat). This is the Yellow Peril right on us. What a humiliation for Germany Diddly enough,
KOMB, BUN AND CHASER PLANE.
For this purpose the squadrons are co- posed of the different types of machine the names of which indicate the special
PRACTICAL TESTS.
Of th 42, 3 suffered fracture of the skull, and most of these died. The remaining 10 had scalp wounds only. In the case of the 13 armoured vien, eight wore suffering from "cerebral shock of
no ano in Nice seems to catch on to the duties of each type. They are the bomb-a more or less, severe character, but none hitter irony and delightful humour contain-plane, the gunplane, and thier of them died, while the remaining five ed in this announcement."
In view of the efforts which the British: plane.
had merely slight superficial wounds or Government are now putting forth to supply ous weather which has prevailed through-
These squadrons, in spite of the boister
scratches. munitions to the army in the field, then the month, have raided no less than following paragraph may be quoted as ter important German milway, centres in giving some idea of the enormous resources needed by a modern army
received re visible head wounds at all. Other soldiers, who wore helmets, had The Lancet comments:
the area of operations, throwing over 400
"These figures do not, of course, prove bombs in their flight, while the chaser that the culotte is an absolute safeguard lancs engaged any protecting enemy air against fractures of the skull by bullet. craft that tried to interfere with the wound or shell wound in the trenches, operations.
"It is calculated that the 75in. gun fires 700 to 300 shots in an ordinary indocisivo battle. There are 120 guns per army corps, and 25 army corps, which gives 3,000 gaus. The centres chosen for bombardment but, as a matter of fact, in the series of The ammunition reserve of the French Griny were mostly situated in the robe of the ture of the skull among the protected cases studied there was not a single fruc- contained 5,000 shells per gan, which for
Crown Prince's army, and it is hoped 3.000 guns makes 15,000,000 shells. Assume that thanks to the raids, some of his men, and Dr. Devraigne concludes that ing on an approximate calenlation that one-
the value of the metallic headpiece has inexhaustible Mock el third of the guas
been absolutely demonstrated and that it shels may have been
should be much more generally employed.". That this conclusion is. a sound one seems to be fairly obvious. The objec tion to the use of armour has been to a large extent founded upon the fact that it was heavy and difficult to make, but modern conditions of warfare have dis
artillery have been in action from the con
in the cutire French apparently
asphyxiating destroyed. mencement of the ver, each firing 500 shots per day, that gives 500,000 shots per day, and on a calculation of 20 days fighting.. 10,000,000 shots must already have been expended out of a total of 15,000,000. The Genres for the rifles show a towel of
REVIEWS.
4.000.000 rides in stock, with 400 cartridges The Holiday Adventures of Mr. P. J. counted the questira of weight to a great
for mgh ride, a total of 3,600,000,000 cartridges.
On September 6th. Mr. Strong was near- ing Paris and met the British tivops for the first time in France:
Parent By Loun FREDERIC
AM-extent. Anyone who has visited our
British hospitals knows that head wounds Ton, London: Eveleigh Nash
are very Frequent indeed. We should These are four rattling good short stories. certainly reduce the incidence of these Young Dayenant is older than his years, and wounds if we followed the example of our "At Melun and Lieusant a number of it is amusing to road of how he counters the Allies and gave our men helmets similar British soldiers were stationed along the plotting of German spies. No one can fail to those served out to the French soldiers, line. A man in the train living at Fontain- to extract entertainment from the adven- We have already had eight months in bleau told me that the British General Staff tures of PJ. and his maturer friend, who is which to consider the question,
as close by, but he did not know whether an Assistant Commissioner of Police, and wo French was there. The soldiers looked very hope to make P.J.'s acquaintance again out- fresh and clean, also smug and werryside spying and detective work Apart little shy and self-conscious as is natural
to Britons, but eager to return hand from the intrinsic worth of the book itself, warings and burrahs with saintes and it ought to find a ready sale, for the Author's certain curious twistings of the fingers and profits are to be handed over to the Marchio wrists, which they apparently think to he now of Lansdowne's "Ocers' Families' the gestures thes the French populace will | Fund. “ understand and expect of them.
"TOLLY" """AT THE FRONT.
AMUSING ANTIES OF A LIST PONY.
The antics of a Uist pony at the sut
of war in Gallipoli are 3 source of delight to a Tobermory tedy, who owned
A captain on
A steamer in which he The White Gioue. By WILLAM Le Ques. the animal before it was commandecret. erused over from Barre to England told
Mr. Strong this story:
London: Eveleigh Nash,
She knew Polly to be acute enough, for she often watched her as she robbed-car-
He had escorted Kitchener to the land-Though it has reached a second editiontain hen roosts of newly laid eggs. The already, we cannot say that Mr. Le Ques's pony stalked likely Lens while pretending" novel takes high rank in the realm of fétion. to be busy gathering her usual food clus He certainly displays considerable ingenuity by h
ing stage some days previously (early in September), he told us, and had hear Kitchener say on his return to Le Havre
*
to some officers of the French General Staff:
Now, you've got your orders, and hope you will carry them out. There's too much damned red-tape in this country There is in all countries, I am afraid, and it is not so much the quantity as the quality. of the red-tape that matters. It is precisely in its quality that the red-tape made in Germany is showing itself, saperior. J when the tape breaks at the first pull that Disfortune follows. Kitchener, according to the Irish captain, was stopped fifty-five to weave a German element of spring into Tobermory gunner on her broad chestnut times by sentinels on his car-drive to Paris,
and introduces us to a great fariety of very At the Dardanelles, to the intense unpleasant people, but judged eres on the abusement of certain sections of the low level of a mystery novel it cannot be transport service, says the Morning Post, taken out of the rucs of the commonplace. Felly lies down when she hears the evream So many extraordinary things happen now-of a shall coming in her direction, stretches out her forelegs, puts her hand to earth, days, and the modern unmarried woman be nd shuts her eyes.
She is apparently haves in such an extraordinary manner at
dead, but she leans to one side, nisking & times. that we should not be surprised at hiding place for her, rider till the danger anything; bus Mr. Le Quex taxes our credul-has passed.
ity and intelligence too much. The attempt Then Polly risce again and takes her
the main plot is not altogether successful back.
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