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THE HONGKONG DAILY VEZES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12TH. 1915.

CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO BRITAIN'S "SURE SHIELD,"

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GRAPHIC STORY OF A VISIT TO

FOR THE FORCES AT THE FRONT.

OUR GRAND FLEET, Mr. Frederick Palmer, the well-known The following is the Subscription List to American author who is the necredited

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GRAPHIC STORY OF RUSSIAN RETREAT.

Ara Austrian officer who has taken part in all tho loading phases of the late - fight

HARDEST DAYS OVER, Officers whom I met spoke in the same strain about the situation. If the Gor- man Fleet ever had any chance of success, It was at the outset of the war. With every passing month the British Fleet hal growa stronger and better organized lo meet any emergency. Though tho sub marines had played a more important parting in Russia is quoted as describing the than many had anticipated, the methods Russian retreat as 16 6. second 1812." of countering their attacks and of des-

"It is, he declares, a masterpiece of troying them had also developed beyond terrifying and systematic destruction. expectations.

The line of retreat is one seething sea of fans. For miles without end the roads are bordered by houses on fire.

At one place, over 200 chimneys mark the spot where stood one of the largest factoric In the country; all the rest was bare and. blackened.

General Mischenko's army is brought P by a detachment of Cossacks, whose orders are to destroy and burn everything behind them. These orders are implacably carried out.

The hardest part of the war for the Navy was the early daye, when the Fleet was continually at sea looking for battle, Now, securely ready, it could steam out to action immediately the patrols, which are continually sweeping the North Sex, reported any signs of the enemy,

THE * LJON "IN ACTION. Officers in Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty's flagship Lion, which received the roughest handling in battle (in the North last January] of any major British

"When the Hungarians entered Kiylob ship now afloat, dwelt on the dificulty career of the submarine is ended.

Whon I asked the officers "How did you mander after the action had begun up any attempt to march through the they had in persuading the young com the heat was such that they had to give get them they answered:-

descend from his exposed position on the town, and lost precious hours in having Sometimes by ramming."

bridge, where he had unhampored vision, to go round it. It was the same s "Sumtimes by gunfire,"

to the armoured protection of the con-Vladimir-Volinski and at Verbo. "Sometimes by explosives," and

ning tower.

This sea of fire rolled on wave after "In many other ways which we do

Their account of how the Lion was

wave across the entire plain of Kovel- not toll,"

towed home at five knots an hour after nothing escaped it. For days and days Officers and men on board the battleships sinking the Bacher, and of the sucess our men were unable to find shelter of amy 7,006.12 and armed cruisers are envious of those of the destroyers in foiling all efforts of kinda thoroughly had everything been

engaged in submarine hunts, which is the submarines to reach the crippled razed to the ground.

leviathan, was not the less thrilling for "The roads themselves were, in an iff Balance in hand .....$288.17 regarded as great sport:

In all, England has 2,300 trawlors, mine the quiet way in which it was told. The describable state. How we ever got any D. W. CRADDOCK,

sweepers, and other auxiliaries outside cffocation of the injuries which he received Chairman. the regular service on duty on the blockade is no longer discernible in sonic places ling along them is a miracle. Convoga Hongkong. th October, 1015.

from the British Channel to Iceland and owing to the reconstruction of the section crawled there somehow, but hours and days in keeping the North Sea clear. Their where the shells burat; again; they are after they were due. Often it was nevee- The following copies of two letters itat reservist crows have been most zealous in evident where patches have been put oversary to tell off fifty men simply to pull a . performing their important port in over injured plates. A very small percent-single waggon out of the mud. Sometimes received (among several others) will doubt-coming the kind of naval warfare which age of German shells hit at 18,000 yards it was literally to our neck. The range in the early stages of tho battle, railways were little better; Juckily wỡ gåt Germany has waged.

but the screams of the salvoes passing the Sokal to Volinski line running just and the blasts of their own guns made in time, or irretrievable disaster would GALLIPOLI, August 23rd.

an inconceivable tumult of sound to the have overtaken us." Six,-1 have much pleasure in advising

As tho destroyer which carried the guests ears of those stationed on the bridge. you that tho Cigarettes forwarded by means of your Fund arrived safely and were d's- after, a cruise at sea following the coast The Tiger had fewer scars to show as the tributed to the members of my Battery turned its head towards land into the result of the North Sea battle than her

harbour where the Grand Fleet is anchored sister battle cruiser. yesterday. It would be impossible for me

In the Queen Elizabeth the only visible

of ker experientes to fully express how much your kind act is we saw a target being towed in the cus-

in. appreciated and how very grateful mary manner for firing practice by some signs

"We keep at it all the time," Dardanelles are a round space of new each and all of us are to you and your sub-cruisers.

planking on deck where a shell pene scribers for thinking of us and to a great ex- the officer with me explained. tent relieving us of one of our more or less

The cruisers' practice finished, they took rated, and a dent on one of her 15in. OFFICER'S ADVICE TO PARENTS. guns from a glancing shot. The numerous hardships, I thank you all on their place in Deet formation among the Inferible, the flagship of the Falkland behalf of my Battery and would ask you immenso held of grey shapes at anchor in Islands battle, suffered less injury there also to accept my own personal thanks.precise order, which, as one drew nearer than in the Dardanelles, where she was became line after line of Dreadnoughts.struck by a mine end was under heavy Painted a colour which melts into the so find from shore. A piece of the mine is even the Queen Elizabeth, back from the kept in the wardroom as a gouvenir, and Dardanelles, looked small for her toanage all the ships which have been in action and gun-power, unless compared with the bad fragments of German shells which

ecame ou board, Inflexible, the flagship of the Falkland hate

nounded as Islands battle, or with the vessels of the light cruiser squadron which had just come from "sweeping" the North Sea, as scouting is called.

less be of interest to subscribers:

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) F. G. HUME, Major, R.N.2.A. Comdg. 2nd Battery, N. Z. Field

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To the Secretary,

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"PRACTICE AS USUAL."

As our destroyer threaded its way through the fleat the turrets could be seen. turning and the guns elevated and lowered in the course of drills,

THE CAT SQUADRON." The seaplanes which were sailing over EL famous the fleet had their home on

mementoes.

3MALL NEED FOR REPAIRS.

the

The necessity for attending to damage received in battle had always been for seem by the British naval authorities, thus ensuring prompt repairs when any ship should return injured in action:

ASAHI BEER requested by the men to convey their heart. Atlantic liner, which has carried many Fleet," an officer remarked

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Dardanelles, August 20th.. SI,I have very much pleasure on behalf of the Unis mentioned below to se- knowledge receipt of the kind donation of Cigarettes made by your Committee,The "Woodbines were handed to us a few days ago and woro greatly appreciated by all the men of our Battery. The kindly dona- tion came as a welcome surprise and I was felt thanks. I am. Yours faithfully, thousands of passengers. In their places

(8gd.) Wm. J. STARKES,

in the battle cruiser squadron, which Quartermaster Sergeant;

known in the Navy as the Cat 7th Battery Field Artillery.Squadron," were the Line and the Tiger,

9rd Brigade F.A.,

which sink the Blücher in the North Sea Australian Imperial Forces. battle. This seems to be sufficient denial of the German report that the Tiger is To the Hon. Secretary,

Cigarette and Tobacco Fund.

at the bottom of the sea," said the officer Hongkong.

with us, Looking exotic among the homo- geneous types of ten-gun ships which unnecessary, as it is appar-belong to the regular British Navy was he former Turkish twelve 12-in Dreadnought, ent how greatly the Hongkong contribu- which was taken over at the outset of the tions of Smokes "are appreciated. Who war. will assist in keeping up the supply?. There is on hand about a half of the sum required to allow of the despatel of an other consignment and any donations to the Fund will be gladly received.

Comment

A "KING-MAKING" BILL.

AN IMPORTANT MEASURE REPORTED.

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NURSERY FIGHTS AS TRAIN- ING FOR WAR.

Queen Alexandra has written expressing. her cordial approval to the National Doit League, a demonstration of whose ancor scious doll exerciser" was given at the Savoy Hotel recently. The profits from its sale go to the British Red Cross Society. and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Captain Sir William Wiseman (6th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry) sald that in his brief holiday from the trenches he would like to further the cause of tho

British doll industry, hitherto in tha hands of the Germans. It might seem trival to talk of toys at the present moment, But we had few repairs to make, and our energy and resources could be turned but this toy had the advantage of exercis to the rapid construction of new fighting ing the muscles of children in a very bene- units, which continue to increase ficial way. His experience in Flanders ratio of superiority over the German had shown him that, though the Germans were our masters in the subtleties and I heard repeated sympathetic references inventions of war, when it came to a hand- to the sacrifices and the hardships of the to-hand encounter they were outwitted; Army in its year's war, while the battle-in rough-and-tumble with Tommy ships marked time in their long wait. Atkins they always went off in the However, if battle comes it will not last opposite direction. After a charge of the long, and every day's delay only Liverpool Scottish he remarked on this to sharpens the eagerness of officers and one of the officers who was left, and was men.

While we were on board Sir John told that it was a result of their Saturday night "scrops." He urged parents who Jellicoe's Bagship: a message was brought saw their children fighting in the nursery to the Commander-in-Chief, who called

few words not to reprove them, but to encourage his flag secretary and spoke to him, after which we learned that the them. If they did not learn to fight then, whole Fleet was ordered to proceed to they never would.

Later, on board a destroyer at the entrance to the harbour, the pruests watched that unprecedented procession of naval power make its exit, led by the graceful light cruisers an the fitillus of destroyers,

Are not German submarines waiting outside? we asked.

GERMANY'S MAN POWER.

"WILL NOT HESITATE TO SACRIFICE EVERY MALE.”

A Paris correspondent writing a month ngo said:--

As we approached the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, the officer pointed out Sir John Jellicon as one of the two officers walking on the quarter-deck, who carried From the a telescope under his arm. quarter-deck he can keep an eye on all those grey monsters which form the fight

No doubt. Two or three are always ing part of his command; while the others of his host are abroad on different errands. there," an officer replied, "but the des

THE ADMIRAL'S TELESCOPE.

broyers know how to keep them off." Quick of movement and speech, tanned Blithely cutting the choppy waves, by the year of exposure on constant duty, and with broad, foaming wakes, the

The eternut question of how many more enly & broad gold lace band differentiated destroyers, attendant avellites of the men Germany posscases is again under dis

they received great fighting ships, ran in and out oussion. It appears csikblished that no their guests at the gangway. Whether it among them by virtue of superior sped, fewer than 300,000 men have to be sent was Beatty, Sturdee, or any other of his as confident in their volutions as the According to the Kuo Min Kung Pao squadron commanders, their youth was

up from the depots every month to fill the Indeed, hovering gulle on their wings, wherever we had been on our trip we gaps at the front. Even for Germany (Peking) the Tsan Cheng Yuan will in- most impressive.

The Commander-in-Chief at fifty-seven had seen the destroyers always on the this is a formidable figure, and cannot be troduce a Bill regarding the procedure is the senior of all. He is rarely without move, forilla blinking its signals to kept up for long. Since the offensive int flotilla It seemed that if a line had Russia was started, the enemy's losses have to be adopted to decide the question of the telescope under his arm, his officers been drawn between the stern ad she been on such a scale that he is unable to monarchical restoration. Full details of say, when he is on deck, and nothing bow of any two battleships of that keep pace with them the Bill are not yet known; but the which the officer on watch sees but he sees stately column issuing from its secure Other signs are not wanting that Ger principal provision of the measure 49 also. He escorted his guests through the anchorage, it would exactly measure the many has reached the high water-mark of pears to be that, after the qualified voters flagship, showing the men at drill, and distance between any other two, so being her effectives, and is now on the down are elected at the primary election for OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.ubers of the Citizens' Convention in particularly called attention to a special out of sight added to the impression grade. One of the most conclusive proofs machine for giving gunlayers practice in created by the grey armour and the of this is that all men who can legally be each hsien distric the latter will ́SOLE AGENTS ;

called upon to fight are now under arms, assemble in the capitalei firing, where results of each shot are dis mighty guns. Of cach province

and that there only remain the recruits Cast their played.

We were able to identify the Dread of 1917 and those of 1918, none of which votes for the final election. MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA.

The

Stepping into a small room, where tele- qualified voters of each hsien dis graph keys clicked and compact wireless nought and others of all types of pro- HONGKONG,

trict will elect one representative from apparatus was hidden behind armour, wogress since the revolution of naval war. has yet been called up, but hundreds of among themselves; and all the represen- saw one focus of communication which fate, up to the Queen Elizabeth class whom have volunteered for service and tatives so elected will be called upon to brings Sir John word of any submarine Entranced, one still watched the spectacle boon incorporated long ago. It is believed vote for or against the re-establishment sighted or of any movement in all the seas with the head of the Fleet lost in the that if driven with her back to the wall, of a monarchy in China. The votes thus around the British Isles, and carries the mist of approaching nightfall st.d the Germany will not hesitate to crifice every black clouds from the funnels. Eight, malo capable of handling af rifle, and that gast will be collented by the Tean Chon Commander-in-Chief's orders far an 18, 20 Dreadnoughts were counted as consequently she will be able to muster Yuan in the middle of November. If bear.

they went past with clockwork regularity, many more men then she is generally given the result of the voto is in favour of a

out of other smoke clouds in the harbour credit for. monarchical restoration and no name

The bluejackets were invariably sturdy, more Dreadnoughts were coming before Imperial Candidate" is named, the

long-service men of mature years. Their the King Edward 11, and other pre- Tsan Cheng Yuan will submit a memo health is better than in time of peace, as Dreadnought classes had their turn. The rial to the President requesting the

a result of being kept on board under a commander of the destroyer on board latter to accept the sceptre. After this.consistent régime, with sufficient exercise which we were locked at his watch, and certain formalities will be gone through and good food, Misdemeanours of said that it was time to go, as he must at to arrange the "Transformation"

sorts have decreased since the war began a given moment take his appointed place Peking Gazette.

One feature of the usual routine alone in the Fleet. At 30 kuets an hour he Am Amsterdum correspondent of a is changed. The decks are washed only cut amartly across the bows of a battle London paper writes: The officers hors twice a week instead of every day, which ship to take the guests to the landing.assert that all ranks of the German army Our last limpse as we rounded have been circularised with an autograph. FEWER CROSS THE ATLANTIC.allowed the men less freedom of move place,

ment and kept their surroundings to the headland was of that seemingly letter of the Kaiser, accompanying a copy andless column of ships, which stood of a speech he made recently emphasising

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Imagination errand in the North Sea.

The following are the figures for trans- The aim is to keep always up to thetween German ambition and the seas the necessity of all Germans exerting them Atlantic travel during the first six months maximum of efficienty, the officers explain. of this year: From Europe to the United States: First-class, 8,795 passen-ed, and not to overtrain to staleness, or to geus, a diminution of 23,525 compared permit of any slackness. The patience an with the corresponding period of lathe application of the men in want of

Second-class, 31.197, a decrease of sction are amazing.

year.

became feeble at the thought of the declares that the Headquarters Staff is actuality of that Armageddon should the always open to suggestions from both officers and men as to means for shorten- Whether in the Gorman Fleet ever give battle,

10g the war or rendering the German offensive more effective. Propositions will always receive the cloest attention, and when feasible will be put into practice, no matter what change of plans or expense they may involve,"

83, 181. Sterrage, 68,471, a diminution of turrets, on the bridge, or below deck, Io all the many pictures of war and 440,856. Leaving America for Europe thure was a significant absence of even prepscedness for war one had ever wit there were: First-class, 8,503, 62,934 the minutest thing to the civilian eveneseed, this was the most pregnant in its fent than last year; second-class, 23,50% which did not serve the purpose of battle.uggestion of irresistible and conen a decrease of 68.202, and storage. 80,841, Only in the Commander-in-Chief's cabic, trated power, and the most impressive a decrcase of 107,580.

with its numerous sex maps on the wail, as a spectacle.