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GERMANY'S FAILURE TO UNDER

STAND THE SEA.

[BY JOHN LEYLAND IN THE DAILY QUAPHIC."]

GERMAN LIES IN AMERICA.

EFFORT TO CONFUSE OPINION.

The Times correspondent at Washing- ten waiting a few weeks before Germany's rather humiliating apology to the United States said:-

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I-Pte. J. Johnson from H.K.V.R, to

Engineer Company (No. 1917).

The German Imperial Chancellor recane- ly declared that Germany was fighting fo

the freedom of the seas," and likewise for free and world-wide commerce What he really implied is not clear. The seas and oceans are new free to the shipa of all nations save those of our enemica and those neutral ships which may trade with them in the matter of contraband, If the Chancellor meant that the freedom It was noted from the first that the ho spoke of would come with peace and Teutonic promises were somewhat condi- he seemed to think that the fall of War- tional. It is for that reason that the Pr anw would bring peace appreciably nearer aident has always insisted that any -no one could dispute his conclusion, attempt as a solution of the submarins even though he implied that British so-controversy should be prefaced by a satis power, by diplomatic or other moans, factory explaination of the Arabic incid would be " niedergeworfen," and that eat. For this explanation the President German sen power would take its place, is still waiting, and it is noted with some For the point is quite clear that the apprehension that the Germans are taking phruss command of the sex" has no advantage of the delay to bunch a charac significance in time of peace. Its effect terístic campaign for muddying the is found in waz, whe the Flect diplomatic waters.

the communications of the grips enemy. Until the present war WAY declared the seas were free to every 18,

The horizon, though comparatively |

As indicated in bright, is still clear;

messages, the journalistic. previous optimism produced by the assurance of Herr von Bethmann Hollweg, Count Bernstorff, and giber German officials was never entirely shared by Washington.

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The chief moyo in the campaign, sa already anticipated, is an effort to sprend the impression that the settlement will include a bargain with the United States to use all her influence to mitigate the British blockade Having started a com- prehensive discussion in the Press regard- ing the possibility of some such bargain, the Prussian ngents to-day produce hints that a successful American stand against British Orders in Council may be the bar- binger of an early peace, in the arrange- ment of which the United States may Lies are being expect to have part. spread that the real reason for the inter- ference with neutral trade with neutral countries is that Great Britain may have that trade so as to bloster up her financial position, If, it is argued, sho is unable to do this, the Allies may be forced to sue for peace.

PARADES.

NOTE..

Patrol men are required to supervise all

regular Indian and. Chinese Constablo on duty on their Sootions. For thig purpose one patrol man mult frequently travoras certain of the stroots and alleys within his Section, mooting his com panion at agreed points on the Section boundary.

OVERHAUL OF BIFLES,

No. 3 Company The 3rd Platoon will draw rifles and the 4th Platoon will return rifles on Tuesday, October 12th, at 5,80

3.Parades for Monday, 11th inst. Nit. Parades for Tuesday, 12th instant:- 5.16 p.m. The following rearaits

Gunners J. V. Brags (No. 1 Section Artillery Battery) and H. Mol. Me- Torish (No. Section Artillery Battery), Private F. E. Eanger, W. P. C. Trafford (Scouts Co.) and N. S. Jacobs (Bagnalling Section), Musketry Instruction on Kennedy Road Raige. Uniform (Drill Order) to be worn. Service Rifles to be. carried. Corp. Grimes, R.E., will attend.

5.30 p.m. Recruits of all units (except

Right Section M.G. Co. and Signāl ling Section, and, these detailed for Musketry Instruction at Kennedy Road Rango), Squad Drill and Rifle exercises at Headquarters under Ser- geant Major Higby and Sergeant- Remmy.

5.30 p.m. No. 1 Section Artillery Bat

p.m.

No, 2 Company-The 3rd Platoon will draw rifles at 5.50 p.m., and the 4th. Platoon will return rifles at the conclusion of the parade on Wednesday, October 13th,

A. Fyfe.

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JOINED.

F. C. JENKIN, D. §. B. (Reserve).

LATE SIR CLAUDE

MACDONALD,

The Times, in its obituary notice of the tory and Loft Section M.G. Cute Sir Claudo Macdonald says:— (including N.C,Os, and

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Belcher's Section), Inspection of The great administrative ability, he had. arms, ammunition and equipment on displayed (as Commissioner on the West Tuesday, 12th inst. Parado at Headquarters in light marching Coast of Africa) as well as the diplomatic order, ie, tunic, shorts and puthier, qualities of which he had given fresh proof helmet, rifle, bandolier, waterbottle, when he was sent by the Foreign Office to haversack, belt and sidearms, 4 Berlin to assist in the negotiations for pouches and 150 rounds ammunition, the delimitation of the Anglo-Germani Every member of these units, except frontier of Cameroon, had attracted the men specially exensed, must attend attention of his superiors, and especially, this parade.

it is said, of Lord Salisbury. He had 3.30 p.m. Right Section M6, Coalready been made a K.C.M.G. in 1899, Section drill and Skirmishing on and he was known to be marked out for Cricket Ground.

Nevertheless," early promotion. 5.30 p.m.

the Civil Service Company, appointment of Sir Claude MacDonald Lecture at Headquarters,

to one of the most difficult and respon.. 5.30 p.m. Scouts Company. Company sible posts in the diplomatic service, whes drill and Riße exercises on Cricket the Legation at Peking became vacant in 1896 by Sir Nicolas O'Conor's promotion to the Petrograd Embassy, caused at the time widespread surprise. The collapse of China after the Japanese War had created an entirely new situation in tus Far East which had already led to con- On duty until 16th instant: Centre siderable friction between the Powers and

Section M.G. Co.

threatened to affect most seriously the political and commercial interests of the British Empire, Peking had become the cockpit of international diplomacy, and

-Ground.

6.20 p.m. Stretcher Bearer Section,

Instrnetion at Headquarters. Remainder: N

DETAIL.

3-Gun Club Hill, Kowloon.

DETENTION CAMP, EOWLOON.

official, and must be well acquainted with this elementary condition of the relations between States. But it is perfectly clear that his utterances and other like state munts have been seized upon, ad captan dum vulgus, by the German gutter Pross, in order to spread the idea that we have been ogres or tyrants of the seas. Naw, notwithstanding the great offort which has been made to illumfaate every cranny and That public opinion is swallowing so dog-hol of the German mind, as Carlyle obvious à bait is not, of course, the case. might have said, with the innumerable It is widely pointed out that if in the last rushlights of the German Navy League. Note the United States did invite Ger- there exists in Germany a vast amount of many to help her to maintain the freedom. ignorance upon naval affairs, and the of the seas, she also stated categorically most extravagant notions prevail as to the that her relations with Great Britain present situation. Because Furtive sub

could have nothing to do with bar relations marines send to the bottom a few fishing with Germany. It is correctly argued that craft, or even a Lusitania, or sink a trans- the only way in which the settlement of port full of troops, or throw a few futile the German controversy could affect the shells at Cambrian villages, or Zeppelins British controversy would be to leave the drop their death-dealing but finally President free to make the protest against ineffective bombs on East Coast towns and our procedure upon which he long ago summer resorts, it is believed that the decided-affect it diplomatically, that, is British Fleet is at bst powerless, and is to say, for it cannot be denied that a Ger- hiding or asleep, and Germans ships and man surrender to the United States would HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVES. submarines are sweeping the seas. Strengthen the American case against u intense in the ignorance and so rayless the to the extent of the prevalence of the dis Cimmerian night that enshrouds the naval torted opinion that the German submarine! truth, not in Germany but in some neutral blockade is a reprisal for our food blockade. PRISONERS OF WAR CALP AND GUN CLUB HILL countries, that intelligent observers aro

The real resalt of the German intrigues frequently urgent that the real facts has been to cause apprehension as to the The H.K.V.C. relieved the HK.F.R. on of the West River to foreign trade, the should be proclaimed.

STRATEGISTS AT SEA.

It is not necessary to proclaim them to English readers; but it may be useful to point out, amid all the

sincerity of Berlin, and therefore as to the outlook for a friendly solution. It is bélieved on all hands that the Administra tion is determined to have a clearout settlement of the chief points at issue with as little delay and discussion, es posible Though much has happened to encourage the theory that Berlin also realizes this, it is rather generally pointed out that 140 time for undiluted optimism has not yit arrived.

ARMIES.

Officer on duty: Lieut Wright On duty 11th inst, Scouts Co. Officer on duty: Capt. Hutchison.excellent On duty 12th inst, No. 2 Section

Artillery Battery.

OfBoer on duty: Capt. W. M. Scott Orderly Sergeant until 16th inst.

Sergeant Schnepol.

G. E. STEWART, Capt.,

Adjutant, H.K.V.C.

ORDERS BY MAJOR WAKSMAN, O.U.H.K.V.E.

TICQUET.

Saturday the 9th inst,

NEXT FOB DUTY.

PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP".

Saturday, 16th instant, Sections 1 and 2 of

"A" Company, Sunday, 17th instant, Sections 1 and 2 of

"B" Company. Monday, 18th instant, Section 1 of "C" Co. Tuesday, 10th instant, Sections 3 and 4 of

"A" Company, Wednesday, 20th instand, Sections 3 and 4 of

"B" Company. Thursday, 21st instant. Sections 2, 3, and 4

of "C" Company.

DUN CLUB BILL.

Saturday, Idth instant, Sections 3 and 4 në

"A" Company. "B" Company.

The Siamese Court circulty of Beptein-Sunday, 17th instant, Sections 3 and ber 15th contained the following:- Monday 18th instant, Sections 2, 3, and

On the 23rd inst, a telegram from His

ofC Company.

"A" Company.

of

Wednesday, 20th instant, Sections 1 and 2 of

"B" Company,

Thursday, 21st instant, Section I of "C" Co.

uncertainties of the situation, that our sea-power is the one decisive factor. It has decided the war against Germany. the Navy had failed, the struggle by this time would have been at an end, and Ger- many, with her unparalleled military resources, would have been dominating Europe. As things stand, we grow stronger every week, and every week the isolation of Germany becomes more con- THE BRITISH AND SIAMESE plete. The military consequences of our- ability to control communications at sea are simply incalculable. The sinking of the Royal Edward is the exception that proves the rule. Not only has the fog of Germany disappeared, and her shipping is rusting in harbour, but her colonies and all her external activities are at an end. Majesty King George was received yasday, 10th instant, Sections 1 and 2 of Not for this did the Germans Admiralstabic Majesty the King asking his Majesty plin. Tho conclusion is irresistible that the 4s testimony of friendship and in German military machine moved too rapid.remembrance of the King's association ly for the Navy, which was taken by sur- with the British Army, to accept the prise by the outbreak of war. German appointment of Honorary General with soldiers played their game badly by their the permission, if the King should precipitancy. If the Navy had known desire, to wear the uniform of the Durham what was coming the Austrian Fleet would Light Infantry, to which regiment his have been invited for some festivity to Majesty was formerly attached. Kiel, a sudden stroke would have been prepared for the first day of war, and the attack on our commerce would not have been entrusted to a few cruisers seatte ed throughout the world, but to a greater number of swift armed vessels co-ordinated in a network, with hetter supplies and more cruisers working with them and faci- fitating their action. What was accom- plished shows how much more effectively things might have been done. There was failure from the very beginning. The submarine campaign was really an after thought.

His Majesty July replied to the Royal message expressing his appreciation of the honour thus conferred on him, and as a proof of friendship, also asked air Majesty King George to accept, in return the appointment of Honorary General in the Siamese Army.

Another Royal message by cable from his Majesty King George was received by the King on the 23th ult. expressing his great pleasure to avail himself of the honour conferred upon him Majesty the King,

by his

Commenting on the above the Bangkok Times said:

his Majesty's own subjects. His Majesty has never forgotten his association with appointments announced to-day certainly the British Army, and the honorary remind all of the reality of the friendly feelings and good will that have so long subsisted between Great Britain and Siam.

PALADES,

"A" "B," and "C" Companies will parade on the Cricket Ground, at 5.15 p.m., on Friday, the 16th inst. Dress: Drill Order, Shirt Sleeves.

RECRUITS.

Recruits will parade on the Cricket Ground, on Wednesday, the 13th inst., and Thursday, the 14th inst, at 5.15 p.m., under Sergeant-Major Bond Dress: Drill Order, Shirt Sleeves.

A class of instruction will be held on the Cricket Ground, at 5.30 p.m., on Tuesday, the 12th inst., under Sergeant Major Bord, Dress: Drill Order, Shirt Sleeves,

CLABS OF INSTRUCTION.

SIGNALLERS.

Signallers intending to qualify will parade a Volunteer "Headquarters, at 5.30 p.m., on Tuesday, 12th inst., and Thurs-

lay, 14th inst.

BEBIONATIONS.

Privats J. TRANSFER.

Johnson was transferred to H.K.V.C. Engineer Section on the 14th May, 1915.

JOINED.

Sir Claude MacDonald's record had doubtless been, both as gal- lont and able officer and as a successful administrator in the Dark Continent, it was felt that the Foreign Office was making a bold experiment in transferring him suddenly to s post requiring an altogether different order of ability to thas of displaying. which he had hitherto had an opportunity

SKILL AS A NEGOTIATOR.

In Anglo-Chinese circles, however, both at home and in the Far East, Sir Claudo MacDonald's appointment was rocsived with genuine satisfaction. The opening

settlement of the likin question. at Canton, the formal recognition of the rights of British subjects in regard to the naviga- tion of inland waters, the lease of Wai- hai-woi, the negotiations with reference to the Anglo-German loan of 1899 and to pessions granted to British companies, and the various railway and mining con- notably the valuable concessions obtained by the Peking Syndicate in Ho-nen and Shan-si, bear ample evidence to his per- severance and skill as a negotiator whor ever he was tdequately supported by his Government,

Although the Boxer Rising in 1900 proved the confidence which he repood in the loyalty of the late Empress-Dowager to have been misplaced, it was largely due to his forethought that, when the Lega- tions, were besieged, the British were able

to shelter so many refugees and tre dhe

so prolonged and heroic a resistomes. Created a G.C.M.G. in May, 1900, Sir Claude subsequently received the China medal and clasp, together with a Military K.O.B. and the rank of colonel, for the defence of the Legations, which he had so thoroughly organized.

The following October he was transferred to Tokyo na Minister, and five years later he became the first British Ambassador to Japan. After representing Great Britain there for 12 years, he retired in December, 1912. Under his auspices was concludi the Anglo-Japanese Agreement of August, 1905 (reneved July, 1911), by which ara regulated the rights and intereste of the two Powers in the Far East. For his ser-

vices in this connexion Sir Claude was nude a G.C.V.O. and sworn a Privy Councillor in 1906. Im 1911 he received the Coronation medal. The Emperor of Japan had conferred on him the First: Class of the Order of the Rising Sun

A

SURGICAL CURIOSITY. Corp. C. W. Bratt, Co. "B" Section 4, is

permitted to resign on leaving the At the Tower Bridge Police Court Colony.

London, recently Hednrich Kreon, 22, a Russian subject and ship's fireman, was committed for trial on the charge of wounding a Korean by stabbing him. Hospital Greenwich, said the case was The senior surgeon at the Seamen's surgical curiosity. The injured man bad a cut on the chest three-and-a-half inches long and three inches deep. The lung and the apex of the heart were peno- trated and both had to be stitched. The men was unconscious for three days from loss of blood, but had now quite recovered. No one but Korean would have survived. The prisoner was committed for trial.

Pte. H. Cheetham having joined is siloted Corps No. 580 and posted to Company "B" Section 1, Pte. W. Sinclair having joined is allotted Corps No. 37 and posted to Company "B" Section 2.

NAVAL AND MILITARY CO-OPERATION. Admiral De Robeek speaks in his dea

The announcement in to-day's Court patches on the Dardanelles operations of circular will naturally give much entis the perfect understanding and co-opera-faction to British residents as well as to tion that exists between the naval and military forces, and also between the Allied Navies. Nothing of the kind w#N. visible in the working of the German THERE IS NOTHING TO

services, The German soldier is a bad sen strategist, and the Great General JOKE ABOUT

Stoff did not realise what the sea meant HR VOLUME, which consists of 45%,

Pages, and includes a Sketch Ples cularly with women.

in a backache. It may be serious, parti. in this war. In the Baltic an effort his of bistorical interest showing the dispost

In all events it is recently been made to co-ordinate naval. tion of the Fore at the battle of Kwalls, work or at play.

to handicap your activities, at and military operations, but co success Is dedicated to Bir

There is no need to has yet been attained, and the Gulf f BomT Har, suffer.

The following is an extract from a G.C.M.G., &zd Dr. A. Bagik

Riga has not been seized and made a huge letter written by General Gordon in 1882 Speedy relief is found in

for the German Army, German soldiers to Mr. James R. Purdy:Every Briton - LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM, Its description of

may der ve some comfort in their mis- should think of the future of his coun; Chinese Boslal Dastome sad Superstitions, sombined The sovereign cure for all-external aches agent of the great lines of their cam-try and cause each one to insist on the with the insight it givas into political and pairs,

paigns from the inability even of the great | Government passing a measure for com- wonditions in China, makes “CHILDERI Why endure pain when you can stop Napoleca to appreciate the things of the Pulsory universal military training! So It was not expect. d by the Germans far as England is concerned she need That's what LITTLE'S ORIENTAL that vast armies would reach the seat of not, for the next quarter of a century. The BALM does.

war from this country and her Dominions,

under any apprehension of serious And it does it quickly..

ditficul des arising with any of ber Backache, Looking back upon the war, we can see neuralgia, rheumatism,

European neighbours, but in 1910 cr sciatics, sore that our real success has been in o ganisa thereabouts there will have arisen a naval throat, and headaches speedily and position and co-ordination. Every Govern Power which may prove mightier than For Monday, all Patrols are as detailed tively relieved. You will be sorry you

ment office and department, every railshe, and should she (Germany) in the had not heard about it sooner.

way and shipping company, and every supremacy, England will become extinct bank and office fell into line not because both as a sea and a land Power, and all war was expected, but because the Comter dependencies, including India, will mittee o Imperial Defence had laid down fall into Germany's clutches.

You mes the lines and prepared the system aponive to see this.. I shall not, but when; which day war could be conducted. that time comes, remember my words.”

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PARADES.

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PATROLS,

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· THE VICAR'S RETORT.

Speaking at a recruiting meeting recent ly held at Loughborough, Leicestershire, the Rev. R. J. Studo, vicar of St. Peter's, Loughborough, said that this war was no ordinary war, because we wero not fighting human beings, but Germans. A member of the audience interjected the word "Devils." The speaker retorted: "No; don't insult the devil! We are fighting Germans f