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64302 Swallows, The (Bingham-Cowen). (Song). 64128-Les Farfadets (Pente)...
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28mm, 1915.
WAR NEWS.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S ADVISERS.
SOLDIERS £5,100 WAR LOAN.
COTTON AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES,
We reproduce the following latters from the Daily Mail : ----
Sir, May I be allowed to point out that I did not use the words attributed to me wamely, that there is no cotton used in the manufacture of high explor sives"! What I said, as was accurately
KNIFE AND BOMB WARFARE, WHY WE NEED THE AUTOMATIC. RIFLES.
Mr. G. Valentine Williams, Special Correspondent of the Daily Most, in a letter fast mouth from the General Head- quarters of the British Expeditionary Force says:
in the beige warfare into which the pre Now and old are most strangely blanded sout-war has developed. The Germans speak of the war of positions" as con- trasted with the war of mevamenti, those days that scom so far off now when they were rushing onward through Bel- gium towards Paris.
In addition to the mms of M. Richard Burbidge, managing director of Harrod's Stores, and Sir John Aird, the contractor, the Christian World gives the following as forming an advisory com- mites appointed by Mr. Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions:-Mr. W reported in the local Press, was: The Cowan, MP, Sir Evelyn De In Rue, Mr. bulk of the material used for charging Alexander Duckham, Mr. A. H. Gold high explosive shells is obtained from finch, Mr. Albert Illingworth, MT. T. R. coul products," Johnson, Mr. Stephenson Kent, Sir Guncotton is classed among the high Gluck George Croydon Marks, M.P. Mr.explosives, and no one knows its disrup Graham Spicer, Mr. George Younger, tive force botter than myself, because I Elman M.P..
It is indeed a war of positions, a grent Will'ams
first introduced the gelatinisation proos Kame of chess in which, generally that tamed its force and rendered it speaking, the Germans are for wer (Song) Whitehill
available for propulsive purposes, for maneuvring for the best defensive posi which it has now supplanted the blacktions, while the Allies seek to gain (Duet). Gluck-Homer
The son of an employee of Electro of preventing the Germans from receiving advantage in the offensiv We stand on powder previously used. I am in favour positious which will give them the Pry r's Bandmotors, Ltd, Manchester, who is in cotton and everything else except our the threshold of the epoch of war by France with the Canadian Force, writes shells and bullets; but they would have machinery, yet in this strang: warfare Pryor's Band to his parents:
do. "You will be interested to know that of powder front materials of which they ready methods of primitive fighting; no difficulty in keeping up their supplies anders are blended the rough-and Pryor's Band Loan this morning and made it payable full knowledge of the subject, having the methods of the Peninsula War, the I invested £15 in the National War have an unlimited supply. I speak with hand-to-hand grappling with knives, and Victor Orch. to you, fur battalion's offer to subscribe more than thirty years' experience of the bomb and sap, which had all but passed
to the War Loan was quite a voluntary explosive industry and having myself out of our military knowledge Kaufman one, and the amount up to date is £5,100 made and seen Germans make powder
Our strong is about 650. Campbell-Burr.
My company from such mnterinla hun bought £760 worth. Mind you, this Vessella's Band is just the rank and file, and has nothing feasibility, and the efforts the Germans It is more a question of expense than to do with the officers.".
are making to keisp up the supply of cotton show that they have not yet adapted themselves to catonless condi- tions.
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IN A LIONS' CAGE. Sergeant Fuller, V.C., who attended na afternoon performance at Wombwell's enagerie at Fishguard recently casually overheard the menagerie proprietor dis cussing a challenge and an offer of a gold medal to anyone daring to enter the lion's He at once accepted the challenge, re right, and I think if it comes off satis factory will get more recruits. -You need something to stimulate the boys down here?!
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He entered the lions den in the evening, and remained several minutes calmly stroking the huge beaste as he chatted.
The pro-
Tuesday, in which Mr. Reid tries to Sir, nitice a letter in your issue of
throw the blame of his indivorcet said This is, however, only the first stage of but I am afraid the evidence is against driven in and the way cleared by the inaccurate utterances on the reporters, the operation. When the wedge has been
hio. It was nce in one paper bull in many cutting of the enemy's barbed wire en-
have said: You tanglements, the smashing in of his part there is practically no cotton used in the are their machine guns, to attacking whole thing is a great fraud." manufacture of high explosives. The artillery has to raise a curtsin. of fire over the approaches to the bombardod There may be sonie trace of cotton in trenches to prevent the enemy from rush- the explosive, but the bulk of it is coling in reinforcements before the assault products."
ing infantry can occupy the position.
Under cover of this far de barrage (cur. tain of fae) to infantry massed in readi- ness for an attack, rush forward into the breach and despatch or caplane the enemy survivors. This is the second stage of the operation.
Eminent scientists have mado
with their keeper. After his exploit erroneous statements on the subicct. If Fulier said that the lions growled, "but," people would only speak of the branches he said, "I kept my eyes glued on them with which they are connected the a as I backed out of their rage.
vantages would be very great.! prietors took all necessary precautions accused people of the highest chemical The essence of the matter is that he has against danger:"
standing and unblemished reputation of being partice to a fraud. That notion has been completely refuted, and I think Mar. Reid would find it to the advantage of his own reputation to repudiate, it formally and in sufficiently humble
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LEGLESS SOLDIER EAGER TO START NEW LIFE
How to start life agair, at thiry-four, without legs, is the problam that keeps a wounded soldier at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London,the cheeriest man theres.
Edward Whitehouse was a miner in theblack country" before he joined the 3rd Worcesters. In Flanders a shell carried away one leg and so injure the other that it had to be amputated.
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MACHINE GUNS FOR GROUSE. COMIC DEBATE ON THE TWELFTH
The Bill to allow grouse shooting to begin a week earlier in Scotland oncoun- tered strong opposition in the House of Commons last month.
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be invaluable. The machine gun is heavy It is here that the tutomatic rifle would sit the square sometimes," he told a visitor," with a pad who got hit The grounds on which the Bill is based and rather bulky, and the men bearing it R Madagascar, in the book. He has got two legs and are that the "
is so heary swiftly forward to support troops held can't feel 'em; I haven't got any and ear this year that disease will set in unless the heavily bombarded position are feg 'an both. Queer, ain't it?'
As an appreciation of his pluck and in birds are rapidly thinned out. Ib was invariably picked off by the enemy. variable good spirits the nurses recently pointed out that the additional automatic rifle, on the other hand, is light and inconspicuous, and a company the food supply.
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chair. Thanks to this" he said, "I've thought out a job when I leave Though I can't go down into the pit without any legs I could work a weighing machine from my chair at the pi mouth. I haven't got the job yet, mind you, but I'm hoping.”
GERMANY'S LAW ON LOSSES.
HEAVY PENALTY FOR MAKING CALCULATIONS.
It has now become a felony in Germany to recked up losses in men, warships, merchant ships, airships, or aeroplanes, or to tabulate in any form the enormous cost of the war in blood or treasure, says an English priest just released from intern. ment. A year's imprisonment, he, ara, is. provided for by a new law against un- patriotic calculations of German Jesses.
The priest, who lived in a Westphalia nobleman's family related to Dr. Hart mann, Cardinal Archisishop of Cologne, as a private chaplain for a year before the war, was interned in August and was re leased recently with the British Red Cross prisoners exchanged for German prisoners in England.
"Without intending to raise false hopea in England," the priest said to a Daily Mail representative, “it must be said that conditions in Germany are undoubtedly growing worse from hour to hour. They
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A VOICE FROM THE TRENCHES,
At Blauk, in Flanders, where I'm set
To dodge the shells from day to day, The Busches piebald parapet
Is only just across the way. But though I'm here to fight and win,
To mo (the party on the spot) The yarns som English papers spin
Do seem the most amazing rot.
The Bosch he is a loathsome, betust,
He plays each dirty trick he can, But I must own he has at least Ascendancy!" I wish wo had; The spin of the fighting man, But that's a scribbler's parrot er I'd like that gay and cherry lad
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a little group of Liberals. Sir Henry hold off cuemy bombers attempting to
These reasons, however, were scouted b Dalziel declared that it was an indecent crawl down communication trenches and proposal" to ask the Houses of Commons recapture the lost pasivion. war time when lime was refused for disbe pushing forward to capture the to discuss extt facilities for sport in
In the meantime fresh infantry would
cussing the conduct of the war.
srcond line of trenches, which at this time have been furiously bombarded by the heavy artillery. No man can live Their wath must there
Sir Arthur Markham, who denied that Liberals were Piccadilly Highlanders," moved the adjournment of the debate.
Mr. Pringle brightly suggested that soldiers home from the frenches should be invited to shoot over the grouse moors.
"THE CRACK OF THE RIFLE."
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** But you can't hit grouse with a rifle bullet! protested Mr. J. A. Penso.
"I don't suggest rifles," answered Mr. Pringle. Machine guns!" humorously inquired a member. Explosive shells suggested another.
There were loud expressions of regret when the Lord Advocate announced that the Government must accept the motion for the adjournment.
....
Sir Henry Dalziel frankly confessed that his opposition was not based on the merits of the Bill itself, and the Lord Advocate replied that the Bill was not withdraw.
The debate way adjourned,
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TO KEEP FROM BRODDING ON MEN AT THE FRONT.
in the open in modern war against machine-gun fire,
fore be through the communication trenches leading to the German rear, their bombers armed with bombs and knives in front.
FIXED BAYONET TOO LONG.
The bombers' game is to lob their bobs round the traverses and then rush round in a swift dash and finish their work with their knives or bayonets. The rifle with fixed bayonet is too long a weapon to give a maa free play in these desperate encountes in narrow and slippery trenches. That is why the short knife is bound to come The French are arming their men with it already. is only a question of time for the British Army to get it, too.
It
As in all wars, it is the men in the fighting line who are evolving the most suitable weapons of combat.
The French soldiers, who spend most of their spare time making things with their hands, from lible models in wood and tin to decorative rings forged out of German fuses, finding that a kuife was a better weapon than a bayonet to use at close quarters for rush through a breach in the creamy's trenches or in the crater of a mine, made their own knives, short, simple contrivances, very sunt and sharp.
Women are registering in thousands for munition work, at the offices of the Women's Social and Political Union, Lia coln's Inn House, Kingsway, W.C., whers a war service register of women is being knives, as ugly a dirk in its way as my- I have seen and handled one of theso compiled. Many of them are working-class thing of the kind I have had in my hands women, but the middle classes predomi- before. It was the same with bombs. uated.
Bombing began in this war, I believe, Many sportswomen have enrolled," with the man who first filled a bully, becf said an official of the Union, "and girls tin with explosive and 2 fuse and who are accustomed to and not frightened pitched it into 24 German trench. Now of machinery. A good many applicants bombing is one of the most important are wives, widows, or swasthearts of branches of trench warfare. soldiers and sailors. These are very keen. It is no use for people at home to gat * Many wives whose husbands are at the impatient about the progress of opera- front say they cannot devote themselves t
biops in the west. This trench warfare is home work now. They want to make shells nibbling here and there up and down the aslow game. It requires infinite one begged for war work to keep her from ne to obtain a certain position which, brooding about her husband at the front.
"I am inclined to say the married volat teers outoumber the single. All have come because they want to help their country That is the dominant note:"
Mr. II. E. Morgan sail that the employ- ment of women was now occupying the serious attention of the Munitions Depart action. nent, which hoped to take immediate
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other things being favourable and the offers a chance of denting or even break- dispositions of our Allies harmonising, ing the German livo.
PURSE FROM ASS'S EARS.
The Kioyin, a small Turkish provincial paper published in Smyrna, in an account of the bombardment of Tcheshmeh by an English warship speaks of a shot which
shaved off both the ears of a donkey belong gan matapti na trda déling to Halil Effendi, collector of Customs. The German Wireless Press says that an' The ass is now the sight of the town, 19) 8,000-ton steamer for the German East its owner is making a rich harvest from Africa Line has been launched at Hamburg the townspeople, who pay a small fee to (from the Blobin & Voss shipyard
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