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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1915.

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WEATHER REPORT.

On the 15th at 11.10 km £Pressure has continued to increase throughout the area especially over N. Chias, which ik het

how covered by an anti-eyslone of moderate intensity. It i relatively low in the Pacific to the east of Hokkaido and over the contral portion of the China Sea

Fresh to strong E. and N.E. winds will prevail over the north part of the China Bas.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours anding at 10. to day, 0.00 Inclin

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BRITISH NAVY AND ITS

PROPAL WORK. A

GERMANY'S PROBLEM.

SEA AND LAND POWER.

[BY ARCHIBALD HURD IN THE

"DAILY TELEGRAPH.")].

Several incidents of bid life in the

trenches have been colloated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and issued in their quarterly, Bird Notes and

News:-

A blackbird's nest built is the body is field gun is vouched for by Private

That means that the High Seas Fleet was | BIRDS IN THE TRENCHES, considerably weakened in order to enable this concentration to be made in the Baltic.

BLACKBIRD'S NEST IN A FIELD Owing to the fortunes of war, Germany possesses only four large cruisers, two of

GUN. which are old and of small value, and she has lost thirteen of her light, cruisers-| which, with one exception, were launched She is left during the present century. with a comparatively small number of effec Two considerations are suggested by the tive oruisers. Including the four vessels news of the action in the Baltio which -3 of the 1912 and 1918 programmes, she has issued from Petrograd In the first pla available probably less than a score, and the Germans attach, as their nowspapers half of those are beyond the limit of their. Pickering, of the H.A.C, whose letter have confessed, great importance to the full efficiency as steamers, besides being seisure of the Gulf of Riga as a part the lightly armed, carrying nothing moro

pro general offensive scheme on land; and, a powerful than the 4.1in, gun, with e the second place, they employed in Sun-jectile of 35lb. The names are not given day's oporations for this reason an impos of the cruisers which were employed ing force, including nine battleships. The this mission, but it is revealed that one of **them with two of the accompanying de number may be significant

Last month it was announced that a Bri-stroyers, was damaged by mines, and that tish submarine, under Commander Max the three attacks on the Russian defences

were repulsed.". Hortos, D.8.0., had sunk one of the battle-

Germany is meeting with no better for ships of the Deutschland type in these tune in the Rabic, the Black Sea, and the waters, The Germans, though not as of Bar has attended her cially, denied that statement.

It has always been understood that the efforts in the North Bes and the outer German naval authorities Irad mobilised in Even where she is in superior force readiness for service in the Baltic the ten she is receiving heavy blows, and is failing to reap any advantage from the limited sea battleships of the Deutschland and Braunscommand which she cinim-to-posseRE. wety types, which are practically identical. While British transports steam freely an i Each vessel is of about 13,000 tons dis without loss, here. there, and everywhere placement, and wounts four 11in and four the Germans, even in waters where they teen 6.7in. guna, The ships are of light thought themselves to be immune from dan draught, good speed, but limited coal capacity. They were ships admirably er, are discovering that they or their Ott

mama Allies cannot move a man-of-war or adapted for working in these restricted waters before Russia built her Dread-submarines or other destructive embarrassa dug-out, and have hatched five eggs. a transport without encountering British noughts..

In view of the strength of the Russian have! fames, the Germans could not co template entrusting their fortunes in these

waters to the ten older and wenker battle-

ments.

Everyone, including the Germans, nor knows that we have submarines, and that British officers and men are fully, able to employ them whenever a target is offered. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS.

BID FOR AMERICAN FAVOUR. ›

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quoted from the Bucks Advertiser: "There are five eggs in the rest and the bird should start sitting soon, bas I don't know how it on. Aa artillery. inan told us that they did not fire for about four days, during which time the nest was built and three egg-laid. They have fired each of the three days since. then and two more eggs have been laid.

"He said that last night when the bita came back to her nest they were stand- ing to and getting the gun ready for aa- tion. The bird sat on a tough above and waited till they had finished. It hardly. seems credible, but the nest is there right enough."

ROBIN'S NEST IN A DUG-CUT. There is also the story of a robin' nest in a dugout, noted from Keene's Bath Journal —

"A resident in Clifton has received a letter from one of his sons, telling a striking story of a pair of robins in the trenches. This venturesome couple have. elected to build their this year's nest in They further show their sympathy with the Allies by fourlessly accepting food from the hand, and in other ways proving themselves very much at home--" obus' ur

noobus.'"

INDIFFERENCE TO FIRING.

Two or three stories, which seem to indicate that the constant sound of heavy. firing is no more to birds than the ram- rows that nest among the girders of rail- bling of trains is to the pigeons and spar-

ships of the Navy, armed with nothing heavier cham 9.din, guns, and it has always been assumed that, relying upon the Kiel Canal es an instrument of strategic sur prise, the enemy had periodically utilised the latest battleships of the pre-Dread-The following mesanges, sent through the nonght ora in the Baltic as circumstances wireless stations of the German Govern-way stations, are given from an article by dietated. The General Staff have no doubt ment, have been received, says The Times, consoled theroselves with the reflection that by the Wireless Press in an emergency these ships could quickly be transferred, by way of the Canal, to the North Sea.

STRENGTH OF THE DEFENSIVE. DAA

August 7th.

be

May we respectfully urge upon your Majesty the immense possibilities existent in the pressure of neutral opinion for peace, when definite and just terms can be formulated?

Canon Vaughan in the Outlook

"An officer, who for three months was in the tronches on the outskirts of the Forest of Sabion. tells us that there the game seemed entirely unaffected by the

It was, he says, a good-sized orchard. directly between our lines and the enemy and frequently, swept by both rifle and artillery fire, yet I think never a day passed but that I saw at least one or two fine, birds strolling about quite uneon- cernedly, and on many occasions I have seen several. Hares and partridges were also very abundunt, and apparently war hati no termors for them.

From New York, to His Majesty the

Emperor, Warea, Poland. Now it appears that in the recent opera The United Press, serving seven hun-constant and heavy artillery Ate. Indeed, tion, to which great importance was attach-dred of the principal American news one exposed spet seemed to be the favourite ed, only nine battleships were employed. papers, respectfully asks your Majesty to promenade for cocks phassants. Why nine instead of ten is the question telegraph us at this moment of Genny's which naturally occurs to one. It may be great triumph, an expression of the his- assumed that the answer has already beer. toric significance of the German victory in Polant or a statement of the basis supplied by Commander Max Horton..

which Germany considers necessary to Time and again, in considering the post-secure European peace, and civilization

the surest advancement. tion in the North Sea, emphasis has been laid upon the fact that modern develop. ments in naval warfare have strengthened the defensive of the weaker Power. This week's action in the Gulf of Rigs and the incident reported yesterday as occurring in the Sea of Marmors, when a Turkish To President United Press, New York. battleship was sunk, illustrate this conclu His Majesty the Kaiser regrets not sion. In both those water areas the Allies being able, for reasons of principle, to are weak and the Central Powers are comply with the request of the United strong, No British battleship has entered Press for a personal proclamation on the the Baltic, and the Russian fleet is inferior occasion of the sucess of the Allied Ger- to the force which Germany can oppose to man and Austro-Hungarion annies, it on occasion Similarly, in the Sea of While having the honour of thus advising Marmora, if not also in the Black Sen-you. I may add the declaration that Ger. thanks to the facilities offered by the Bosmany, before all, hopes this victory will

basten the termination of this war phorus-the Turco-German forces are a superior strength.

་་:་

August 8th.

At the same time I beg to remind you how the Kaiser, in all his proclamations, and recently, on the 31st July of this year has declared that Germany is fight for a Pence which will guarantee her, and with her the Powers which are fight the great battle on her side, such firm safeguards as she needs for a lasting

What has happened Blow after blow hes been dealt by the weaker naval forces against the stronger naval forces, with this resule that no enemy warship can move in either one of these three areas without sering Qua risk. In the Baltic Germany has lost à battleship, two cruisers, and a number peace and her national future

Far

Another observer of birds writes home from the front: We have a favourite blackbird, who sits up in the tree about us, and answere when the men whistle vo him, no matter how heavy the firing may be"

GRAVES OF OUR HEROES. PROPOSED STATE PURCHASE AND

UPKEEP OF CEMETERIES,

In the course of a discussion on the projected low authorising the Minister of War to acquire, in the name and a the expense of the French State, a suffe cient amount of ground for the bariat of British and Belgian soldiers who have fallen in the war, the Temps taken the opportunity of eulogising the British.

It says: The French Government by,

I BAROMITIA, radnoëd to 32 degrees-Fakiez. of torpedo craft; in the Sea of Marmora across the frontier of Germany this peace, this law will undertake not only, the on the level of the acs in inches, tmtas aid and in the Black Sea two Turkish battle for which we are striving, will guarantee acquisition but the expense of the enclo inches, the ships have been sunk, together with to all nationalities the freedom of the sure and upkeep of these crimeterice if shade, in degrees couple of cruisers and an unspecified numovewins, and will offer possibilities to contrary to all belief, England does not ber of fleet auxiliaries, carrying coal and every nation of serving the work of pro-wish to share the expense. By the pass

grees and civilization by means of a freeing of this law the entire French nation tamnunition.

world-wide commerceBETHMANN HOLL will participate in the spontaneous work begun and carried on by the peasants and communes wherever British soldiers have been interred on French soil.

8 BUKIT, in pervenings of mataration, Humidity of air BATUTALOG WANG moisture bemą, sve

& DIRNOTION OF Winn, to two points.

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RONGKONG

METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

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PRICE OF ADMIRALTY. LABOUR OF MILLION OF MEN TO

ENSURE PREDOMINANCE

INCREASING EMBARRASSMENTS. The incidents in the Baltic and in south-WEG. ern waters must have proved a grave source of embarrassment to the enemy. He assumed that he had the command of these areas, and, as the German papers have confessed, military plans were drawn up on that assumption. In Southern Europe, so recent telugrams disclose, the Turco German authorities have been panie stricken by the action of British sub marins and Russian torpedo-boats, and for the time being the use of the local sea communications has had to be abandoned. Hongkong Observatory, September 15th. What the consequences will be on the

operations in the Gallipoli Peninsula can-ritory. Previous On Date On Data not yet be judged with any degree of ne But, at any rate, the enemy Day

curacy. st #pa

must have been compelled to reconsider his 6,201 2 p.m.

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE

From 16th to 22nd September..

Mouth

HIGH WATER

H'kong. Mean Time

b. m.

Thara 16 m 0 50

Lays o

LOW WATAR

H'kong.

Mesa

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Height.

valleys of the Aisne and the Marne, the On all sides, but particularly in the tombs of the British huge been the object of the greatest care, which has deeply Mr. McKenna, the Chanceller of the Ex moved the British people, who are secus- chequer, speaking at Preston last month, tomed to reverence for the dead. No mate said the task which we undertook on the bar where chance has placed these tombe, outbreak of the war required time for its whether in a ploughed fold or in u Our enemies had made carsgarden, they are tended with the same fulfilment. tain geographical gains, but they had lost amount of reverence as those of French in time more than they had gained in ter- Bolthere interred by the side of their cont

grades in arms.

Our Allies will see here a just tributa Every month that went by brought the paid to the heroism. It is for their forces of the Allies nearer in equality, until own, country that they face death, but it finally they would surpass in men, gun is upon French soil that their blood bas mad and munitions the whole power of Gor-

been shed. We cannot forget that they care and ranged themselves by our side The situation in the Baltic is, however, many. (Cheers.)

during the dark hours of adversity. In of more immediate interest. The German army has made considerable progress on

providing for the fallen peaceful the coast, and it may be assumed that the

burial-ground where their families may military commanders have now called

come and pray we are merely fulfilling upon the Navy to give them assistance,

our duty. We are only knitting more When our closely, the ties, already so close, which somewhat resembling that which the British Fleet for twelve months has been assuring

unite the cwo nations in sentiment as well the armies of the Allies. "You claim,"

as in policy." they may say, to have superior sea power in the Baltic; translate it now into land" power."

"We are now spending upon our Navy, in excess of what we spent in times of peace, at the rate of nearly half-a-million a day, That meant that the labour of one million men is required to ensure the pre dominance of our Fleet at sea.. new armies and the additions to our Novy are completed they will absorb more than half of the total productive powers of this nation under ordinary conditions, and our self-denial must be drawn upon to the uttermost. We must produce more and consume loss"

PRINCE LOUIS' ORDER. "NOT MR CHURCHILL WHO TOLD THE SHIPS TO STAND EAST,”

.

It aray be reculled that the Fleet was mobilised for inspection by the King on July 19t 1914. During the week follow- ing the

anobilisation order was issued and son steps had been taken to dis perse, then the new order was given to stand fast.

Grand Admiral von Tirpitz and the offi- cors associated with him have been able to make out something of a case for inactivity The machinery of government was going in the North Sea Count Roventlow has

on smoothly, powerfully, and efficiently. ever had the courage to assert by way of People spoke of failures-it made a gool excuse that the German foot at the begia piece of gossip-hut all the while there were thousands of enses they never heard ning of the war was hardly half as

With reference of because there was nothing to complain of strong as the British." to the Baltic he wrote with caution. He and the great mass of the work done by stated that "in view of the number of Ras the departments was excellently done, an i. sian ships in Baltic harbours, the Russian speaking with some knowledge, he could

I has been generally assumed and fre fleet could by no means bo taken lightly,' say it was done without extravagance. He and he added that since the autumn of thought the Expenditure Committer would quently stated in print that it was Mr.. 1014 English submarines have been station find that they had been to a large extent Churchill, then First Lord, who took this Hi ia

tt. in, ed in the Baltic." Finally, he confessed forestalled by the Civil Servants of the stop. in spite of the letter he wrote on October 29th to Frince Louis of Batten- 7 0 m 916 9 0 that it was necessary to leave a portion country in the matter of economy. 4:40 4 3 -6-17 × 4×3 of the German feet there, and to be "I have been told," said the Chancellor, berg on the latter's retirement as First Fri, 17 m 2 8 6.9 10.01.1.8.

steadily prepared to employ still more forces "that I should impose taxes because that. Sea Lord. In that leter Mr. Churchill No infer, high nor low water in the Baltic should occasion arise." On prevents people spending money. That is said

The first step which secured the time- Satur. 18 m 3 436 9m 918

We are bound to bear No true. (Laughter.): Sunday the occasion foreseen, arose.

ly concentration of the Fleet was taken No infer, high-|"cor len-] water error will he committed in asserting that our fair share of the cost of this war, and

by you. 19 5 187 1 1 01 4

the German military authorities have this I do not think I should be fulfilling my 7:30 48 11 63 44 month called upon the German navy to duty if I shrank from the task of submit 10 6 287 2 13834

play its destined role in the Baltic in co-ting to Parliament proposals for such taxa 8 15 a 5 1

operation with the army, 2m 7 257 3 m 0.55 3 ė 8.33 5 3 212 a 16 29m 8 1917 am 1 42 13.2 9 0a 5 6 13 36 1 8

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And the result? For the effort to seize the Gulf of Riga, uine battleships were employed, in association with twelve cruisers and a large number of destroyers,

tion as may seem just and necessary. But I would rather in the first instance make ar appeal to my fellow-countrymen to cut down their own expenditure rather than leave it to the tax-gatherer to do it for them.”

Now the following letter, written by Prince Louis to Dr. Payne, of Sheffield, on April 20h last, is made public

To be quite accurate, it was your humble servant-and not Mr. Churchill, who was spending the week-end at Cromer with his vile, who ordered all ships to stand fast insteed of demobilis- ing as ordered.