AIR HEROES.
FORTY FIGHTS IN EIGHTEEN 'DAYS.
THE SIAMESE TWINS."
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4to, 1915.
Most of the encounters between opposing seroplanes take place early in the morning or at about sunset.
WAR NEWS.
A NEW TALE-TELLER.
The Münchener Neueste Nachrichten learns that a company has been forged in. Berlin with the title of the Trans- Oceanic Company, and with capital of
German nows overseas.
LOOKING ROUND.
A FEW NOTES ABOUT OUR MOTHER, THE SEA.
Sun
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 3rd at 10.30 am.-No returns from Indo-Chins,
by 150.72 per cent over the correspond- ing period of last year? That is the pre- sent cost to Dresdenery of the best fat park. Owing to the efficient work of Sir John Jellicue and his officers and men, Germany is tightening ber belt.
Prerstve has decreased quickly over N Why has Rangoon rice, which was 2d. China, Japan, the Looooos and ile Benlos, in 1914, increased to 7d. in 1915? Why the anti-ayelone having broken up; a weak has the price of bacon risen in Germany enti syclonic contre is situated in the Ses of of by 100 per cent.—ir., from Is. Ild. Japan, light increase have occurred over
You can hear these early birds hum- ming overhead at dawn before the army
[BY ARNOLD WHITE] is awake. You can see them hovering above the roofless farm-houses and naked
The story of sea-power is a narrative woods that mark the enemy trenches at
of surpassing interest. Yet a almost any hour of the day, heedless of
cation, science, and art without issuing wake. You can hear them again at night.
one school primer on the subject of sa-that it can hardly be obtained Why has Philippines,
smoked beef in the course of fenirteen air heroes and their work was writtet fall as they wing their way homewards
KINDNESS A CRIME.
power. Our rulers still refrain from months of war risen from 74.-old. to 15. A typhoon is crossing the Visayts on a for the Daily Graphic by Mr. Percival
over the yellow fields, flying steadily and
teaching children that National Security Phillips, who is with the Army in France, serenely across the evening sky.
The German soldiers on the frontier stands before Social Reform or Constitu- d.-s. Old. Why is Austrian fresh meat Forty aeroplane fights in eighteen
Frequently they come bore with pierce between Zeeland and Flanders have beeptional Change. The last Education Min. either unprocurable or so rare and costly Legaspi al presen*, This is the record of the Royal Flying wings and metal work scarred by bullets, replaced by other troops because they ister was a member of the Society of Rs to he dat of reach of the average said. | Corps with the British Army in the field sometimes with a wounded pilot slicking behaved too kindly towards the popular Friends, to whom the exercise of scale class and working class families t during the first three weeks of Septoner. grimly at his steering wheel, his bi Footy battles in the air fought with strength just sufficient to bring him to ordered not to speak to the people.
The following thrilling story, of British the clouds of shrapnel that mark their a million marks, for the circulation of £19,911,500 was spent last year on edu 28, 70. 1. Why is fresh, meat now so scare SE China, and quick decrosses over tho
days!
machine-guns and revolvers, a mile and a-half to two miles above the stagnat Northern in Flanders and
trenches France.
Four enemy acroplanes are known to have been destroyed; at least seven others were sent hurriedly to earth and are belioved to have been destroyed, and all
earth.
They sail into the jaws of death and out again as coolly and lightheartedly as they Lest their new machines. They know that. each desperate adventure may be their last, yet they set. forth with an air of
ulter concern.
tion. The new soldiers have been
THE KING'S RECEPTION OF ESCAPED SOLDIERS:
the survivors were chased ignominiously story of these splendid exploits of Britishceived Sergeant Alfred Birley, of the Georgiau times. We deserved the fate.
I hope the day will come when the full flying men can be written-when they will no longer be the anonymous heroes of the
into their own country.
This is not an attempt le glorify our Aying men unduly, but to give sonic idenir. of the work they have done during the so-called quiet days along the British front. Many thrilling stories of these life-and-death struggles in the sky can be found behind the brief oficial reports of the Commander-in-Chief of recent vie tories won by British pilots and their passengers.
It is a rule of the Royal Flying Corps that no names shall be mentioned. in describing any of the deeds done by its members. appreciate the motive, but regret teless, that I cannot reveal the identity of these netlest heroes-for example, of the young pilot who sing handed, has already brought down and destroyed six German geroplanes, two of them in one day.
GE BOme
FIVE BATTLES BEFORE LUNCH. One pilot had five fights in one morn ing. He beat off the first four Gereon machines that came up to grapple with him, one after the other, bat when the
TREASURES OF ASIA.
BUDDHIST DISCOVERIES IN
CHINESE TURKESTAN,
Sir Aurel Steia's latest comtannication to the Royal Geographical Society on the work of his expedition during the past winter shows that one of his first tasks was to carry out a detailed survey of the Turfan depression (in the north-eastern corner of Chinese Turkestan), which was accomplished successfully by one of his
indiau surveyors.
Sir Aurel Stein himself carried out a series of archeological investigatious in the ruined town known as Idikut-shahri. light interesting The systematic clearing of the deeper strata brought
tu
men.
W.N.W. track, its centre is situated near
Fresh monsoon will prevail over the north- part of the China So
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 houra ending at 19 am, to-day, 0.09 Inober,
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows:
"
DISTBIOS.
FORECAST
nongkong & Neighbourhcoctorate to fresh;
E. winds, 10. toloudy generally.
N.E. winds,
fresh.
Formosa Chancel South coast of Uhine between The ins tiongkong and Lamoozs. Į No. 1. 5th out of China between The
Finally, why did 1,625.003 tons of rice power is of Satan. Thus England slept.
The en
is our Mother and our Father. since January 1 arrive safely in England, of rice arrived wha only 1,218,000 tons We have been ungrateful children to our Mother the sea. Ong hundred and aine for the corresponding period of last Plantation grade indiarubber years passed over our heads between the year! battle of Trafalgar and the battle of has had a quiet market in Loudon and First Heligoland, and we slumbered and slept. tended slightly against sellers, but closed "LIKE CHATTING WITH A FRIEND.'
In the Victorian age of sham education, steady at a fractional decline, sham art, and sham politics, we reached latex crepe on spot sold at 9s. 43. to 28. The King at Buckingham Palace re-
a lower level than in Tudor, Stuart. ord."
SUICIDAL POLICY If the Navs were reed as it might be Gloucestershire Regiment, and Private Germany had prepared. Howorth, of the Coldstream Guards, whe
The charlatan was extolled, Clear usd, and our national policy wers ad- recently arrived in England' after escap thinking was bad form. The unorgan-justed to the power of our son arm, food ing for a German prison camp, and con-
and fe in Germany would soon becomie gratulated them on their pluck and goodised Navy was as hollow as the king-post and goods in Britain would be cheaper
of a bungalow ravaged by white ante, fortune.
The first Jubilee Naval Review by intolerable. Humanitarianism that con- suzes fourteen months of time to intern Sergeant Birley afterwards said: - 1 was much surprised at the way in which Queen Victoria in 1887 saddened wise
The Fleet was unready-not th: Baron von Rissing, the brother of the late
COAST It was feel men--at a time when the German German Governor of Belgium, has played HINA his Majesty put us at our case.
friend. He just like chatting with congratulated us and showed that he took plot was already ripening to the harve 4, havoc with British sea-power. It is und a keen personal interest in the welfare As we steamed through the lines of the humane to spare a dangerous enemy, great Fleet at Spithead the majestic whether in Berlin or in London. It is
not humane to prolong the war. strength of England's power was of the British prisoners in Germany."
Sergeant Birley was captured by the vaunted by members of Parliament, able not humane te cosse, feci, or enrich
Whatever war
is produced Germans while attempting to retake editors, and the rulers of public opinion. lost trorich at the battle of Ypres Bat the Fleet in the Sulent in 1897 wa
an empty sham. With the exception of during the war, with small exceptions. on October 29. In telling how he came to think of escaping, he said: While
a few ships, none of theas had war stores A Goverment may horrow money and I was in camp one day it came to m
on board, most of them were without is up a national debt for posterity to- patch rider in France, had been awarded ammunition except for saluting purposes. pay, but no Government can feed soldiers knowledge that my brother, who is a dis
and sailors on next veng's rice or corn the Distinguished Conduct Medal for de- Gunnery was despised.
cuit clothe soldiers and sailors out of livering his dispatches after having his
erops or next year's exen and pigs. Nor nast year's output of its factories. What motor-cycl sinashed by a shell and con-
a great war consumes must be made while war goes on. fire. After hearing that I thought, tinuing his journey on foot. under heavy
to do something. So I made up my mind to escape, and here I am."
1 was a com
when quarterly gun practice made un practice for admirals to go shore pleasing din
The Ficet was a shain, England was a sham. Only a voice here and there ery
fith bure down on him he had exhausted retsing in the shape of fresco pieces, Well, if he could do that, I'm going in the wildernes beauught the nation
all his machine-gun and revolver ammanagments of paintings on paper and tion, Instead of ertreating to safety be euth, stucco relievos, and the like, boldly turned and lived to meet the instrating Baddhist art at Turfan. He eneury, holding his empty pistol as though also recovered manuscript remains in the Uigar, Tibetan, Chinese, and Manichæan ready for antiun.
The noise of the engines drowns the scripts, a heard of well-preserved metal report of revolver, and the Germanets, and a large number of coins, pilot who saw him go through the wotions of aiming and firing did not realise that The German the weapon was useless. fired twenty or thirty rounds and then The British airman finished Kave it up. hiy reconnaissanes in penie and eame back to lunch.
One furious battle in the air witnessed by thousands of soldiers, and resulting
in the total destruction of the German neroplane, took place on September 7th. This machine had been particularly active in ranging
the enemy guns.
It could be seen circling and signalling ubova sume of our positions.
The
which enabled him to fix with approxi- nate accuracy the date of its deposit in the time of the Sung dynasty (about the (Cth century)..
In numerous rock-ent caves once used for Buddhist worship in the picturesque Toyak, he recovered a considerable quan- relieves. From the important site below ity of fine fresco paintings and stucco Murtuk village, which had already been rifled by Professor Grünwedel on behalf f the Berlin Ethnographical Museum, Sir Aurél recovered a good many speci
of
BULGARIA AND THE WAR. Mr. Angelloff, Consul General statea reently at Manchester, where Bulgaria, made the following public he is in business:---
We can never
Lo return
tu the teaching of Pitt, Kipling and Kipling sang
was
a
gress
DEIRING THE MASSEN,
Gormans
1 is
Germany's great trouble is clothes. Warm cualy for the trenchs were worn out or destroyed by the million last -winter How is Germany going to re- place those svercoats! It cannot be done. There is a famine in clothing in the a'national distat r before long. Pressare waist be kept up by our Fleet. Fatherland, and that famine may become
mun as beiuous polo-cats."
FITT'S PROTEST,
severe
bisboa
19
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In 1897 the Diamond Jubile, review scored. country held. Still the sented tradition in the exercise of sea power and in the exaction of efficiency Pitt was ignored because Pitt repre-
Many honest politicians have revelu. tionised their opinion because they had It is inconceivable, it is unthinkable, from Kings, Ministers, sailors, soldiers, that Bulgaria should join the Central and public servants. All this was anu-
rever thought out the relation between As a Bulgarian thema to the new progressive welco
an security, security or sea-power and the social European Powers.
our then rulers bribed the masses until refories or the abolition of the Constitu knowing the sentiment and feeling of the Despising Pitt's teaching
street dwellers were dazed into draining tion upon which they had set their hearts. people, 1 say you will never find one
Before the war, Sir Walter Runciman, We that nothing mattered so long as levies
on the comfortable classes provided pro M.P., and his son, a Cabinet Minister, against this country or Russia. single Bulgarian who will take ap arms
vender, fiquor, joging, clothing, ducto.s were orthodox Progressives. The sun, ór know that the Liberation of Bulgaria is due to Russia, and we can never forget and insurance for all who narcned under October 23, 1012, administered a it; and we know that when 30 years ago
banner blazoned with the legend, castigation to Lord Roberts for his warn
ing to his countrymen to prepare to meet Rights without Duties."
death the Bulgaria became united with Eastern
Mr. Runciman the sins of Germany. After Queen Victoria's
AL of the Turkish dominions--the nation
rumble of the coming sturm last informed the world that he would like existed. At another site be explored an
of the fine art reuning which still Rumelia which had been till then part ancient burial ground containing torb which befriended us and made that an chambers cat in hard sandstone, belong-accomplished fact was England, through reached the cars of the thoughtful King ermany to know that it "Lord Roberts A British . E. acrepläne went out and
When Scarborough was bombarded. Mr. without entity as an aun en- ing to a period when this was an impor Sir William White, the British Ambas Edward listened, but the party of pro-warning] i resented no less in England. Kave battle at 9,000ft. over the German
tant administrative centre and garrison sador in Constantinople. lines. It was a clear, bright day, and
1014, to report to his Hun master that Eustern forget the great support which England abled the German Annassador in Juls, Runciman's father denouneri the Ger of the Chinese holding the twe arroplanes were very distinctly seen as they darted acres the sky and Turkestan. The greheological find strik gave to us.
An incident arising out of Bulgaria's the time hall come to strike home at Hng- lish sea-power by the invasion of Bel-
The weapon with which thesheinous back again like angry birds, now climbingly illustrates the position which Tur
can be reduced to impotence all the while belt fan occupied at that period as a place ingratitude to Bussia has furnished a ing, now gliding.
They
is by the Navy cabling other forces to ing each other with bullets.
of trade exchange between Western Asia subject of popular talk in Russia jest um and Ireland and the destruction of gradually came lower and lower.
and China. Finds of Byzantine and at present. A Harbin dispatch to the London. This plan had been prepared pole-cats troups on both sides watched the deadly Sassauian coing were frequent. Equally Mainichi states that the daughter of the by the German capture of the, Itadical
late General Dragoniloff was given the Press How that capture was fective work behind the shelter of the Navy. Cape St. Jamaa on February 2, 1901, when Pitt asked in Dagapan ....... But we shall struggle; it was one of the most thrilling curious is the abundance of brocades and episodes of the year.
other decorative fabrics showing designs name of Sophia and a quantity of jewels and effected is a question that is being The naval problem is exactly what it was Aparri
What Pitt Legnapi ........ was to receive contrabandl. usually associated with Persian work by Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria on the hushed up. No wunder.
Occasion of the 25th anniversary of the drag out the truth, and we shall know the House of Caurons whether France Manila Sassanian times.
Then came the war. Our late ruters said on that day Mr. Asquith might re peat without the change of a word, ex- independence of Bulgaria, in recognition who are the traitors.
cept the substitution of Hamburg and of the services of her father who fought
favourable to unconsciously were
Bremen for the the two French ports so valiantly in Bulgaria's cause, The either did not understand sea-power or
named:---- recent developments in the Balkans have Teutonic hegemony of the world. Minis- As a rule, they
care to pert given much umbrage to the Russian
The question is whether we are too busy to think about trifles such lady, who has returned the jewels to the ters are busy persons..
as Pitt or security. When a Minister it the Navy of our enemy to be supplied name of Sophia. The jewels are accom Tsar of Bulgaria and renounced the
he is impressed with the might and blockaded forts to be furnished with war panied by a letter in which she gets furth sees a great ficet steaming at full speed and recruited--whether we are to suffer majesty of sea-power. He thinks of the like stores and provisions-whether we a flag upon a cloop or a fishing-kont, to arms against Russia, who has always bothunder of gans, looks upon the foct's are to suffer neutral nations, by hoisting Fahrenheit.. the ingratitude of Bulgaria in taking up
only function as that of fighting. Belch
convey the treasures of South America to ing tons of steel and high explosives at
the harbours of Spain, or the naval the ships of enemy Powers is not the only
It is or even the chief, function of a fleet. Istors of the Baltic to Brest or Toulon."
Naval efficiency is no accident. the worst comes to the worst fighting the result of scientific adjustment of occurs, but no naval war breaks out unless
human effort to the inexorable laws of the aggressor thinks he is going to win. The Fossische Zeitung lets out a tre The reason we are spending 0,000 % mendons secret for the benefit of Mr. day on the Fleet is that we may starve Lloyd George--the secret of Germany's Germany and the Germans by sea-power. newest and most terrible engine of war: If one or a dozen fleet actions are neces-
"In the heart of Germany, in the very sary, then the Royal Navy goes centre of the imperial capital, we employ action, but if Germany can be beuten 33 an explosive agency not powder nor without fighting then the purpose of the and lasting dynamite, but water, and not for water-Royal Navy is achieved, ing the streets, but for smashing massive peace with Attila will follow the sur- bettreses into pieces.
Suddenly, the German scruplane was seen to dive erratically. It came down, down, at increasing speed, and at a tragic
Sir Aurel Stein' on February 16th set but for the Kuruw-tagh and was able ungle. We cannot say positively that it was destroyed," said the oficer wine map a good deal of ground which had remained still unsurveyed in the first told me of this incident, "but when last it was diving nose downwards, at
week of March he made his way South to seen 150 miles an hour, about 20051. front the the salt spring of Yardang-bulak at the ground."
Another battle, which ended in the extreme fout of the Kuruk-tagh, where he napped an ancient river-bed and explor annihilation of the German machine, tacked two cemeteries, the bodies in which place on September 5th.
ous population of herdsmen and hunters aeroplane was flying at 9,000ft. when thedoubtedly belonged to the autochthen enemy was sighted approaching at 7,500ft.
inhabiting this tract until its final drying her herefactor..
On his The British pilot obligingly dropped in
up in the fourth century AD. order to get into action without delay; return to Yardang-bulak one of his native There was a brisk, ding-dong business nf
surveyors turned up from the Lou-lan machine-guns and revulvers; then
area with abundant archeological finds Band a detailed plane table survey, which German staggered, slanted over Bodeg, angle, and dropiod, blazing ko a bonfire
The British
to
the
DESTRUCTION OF AN ALBATROSS. The pursuit and destruction of an Albatross on September 13th was another 1t ventured very spectacular episode int British territory about 10 a.m. One of our pilots (you may hear his am skne day) pursued it steadily, and although the Albatross ducked and tacked, it could not escape. The observer worked his Maxim repeatedly, but Bri- tish bullets drilled the petrol' tank and radiator, cut the wings, and eventually killed both pilot and observer just after the machine had dropped very low and was trying to rise again."
in conjunction with the previous year's mapping will help to show the so-called Lop-hor problem in a different light
Sir Aurel Stein reached the large oasis of herla on the last day of March, and later the expedition started in three separate parties for Kashmir. Sir Aurel Stein himself kept along the line of oases which extends from the south foot of the Tian-shall, and his survey work, attended also by archaeological ands, has convinced bin that the area under cultivation in Buddhist times was greatly in excess of the extant irrigation resources, of which he secured careful measurements.
GERMANY'S SUBSTITUTE FOR
COTTON.
DR. TUBBEN'S EXPLOSIVE WATER.
"Mr. Lloyd George on learning this will chuckle to himself that it is because we are in want of cotton that we are
into
render of the German fleet and the ex- clusion of Germany from the sea.
BUDGET BLUNDERS.
nature.
In the old Nayy efficiency was segured fogging the last man to reach the
deck after reefing topsails. To this day the Navy scenres efficiency by informing a few engels, midshipmen, sub-lieuten- ants, and lieutenants that their further services are not required. The result is that it is difficult to say which is the best of the batch when all are good.
juprovement is a new cockpit for the be hopes to reach Meshod in Persia. The dam Bridge in connection with tunnel alized. These tuxes are levied on com enough to reward virtue and courage.
Times.
DEFENCE OF LONDON.
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JONGKONG
METEOROLOGIUAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Okterratory, November 3rd.
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
Something like that syster has to be introduced on shore and in the Arts. The French discovered Napoleon and If the late Ministry did not under- Murat by wholesale dismissal of ineoni- In 1792-3,, after a driven to have recourse to water as an stand sea-power at all, the Budget which petent commanders. A later letter dated from the Pamira on August Stl states that he was pro- explosiva agency. Not so, Mr. George; has rightly wen general approval sug year of heavy reverses, the French put we use water pressure, or hydraulic gests that the Coalition Ministry does not $50,000 men into the field, and during Taxis are that, war in three years they cashiered Hadpenny 600 generals, one after the other. I saw the captured Albatross yesterdayceeding towards the Great Pamir source
of the Oxus. He proposed to follow the power, if you prefer that designation, to fully understand sea-power.
To win this war the lessons of rea- postage is to be abolished. The cost ot in a shed alongside one of the latest Bri
power must be applied on land. It is not tish machines. It affords an interesting latter down through Wakhan to Khorok,show that we need none of your contra- placed on communications.
"The explosions are now being cartelegraphing is raised by 50 per cent. illustration of the progress made in Ger and thence to visit Roshan, Darwaz, band cutton.
The most interesting Karategin before going to Bokhara and Inan aviation.
It is essential ates that we penalize fail- About the end of Octoberried out by water-power on the Weiden- Provincial newspapers are heavily pen- the railway.
Bre In the expenditure of our money gunner-observer behind the pilot's seat,
winter he proposes to spend in Seistan, construction on the North-South Rail munications, but the British Empire which revolves like the gun turret on a battleship. The Maxim gun is mounted and hopes by March to return to India way, where enormous, blocks of granite exists on communications kept upon by the there is practically no discipline, vet the The-Russian Govern- and concrete succumb in a few minutes to Royal Navy, Therefore all taxes on cam waste of money by Government is a worse on the ring of the cockpit, and when the and to England.
which is directed on theus by special bitants of our far-fang Empire. They individuals observer is crouched inside behind the ment has given him every facility. The the concentrated pressure of the water munications are hurtful to all the inha crime than the waste of money by private
pump machinery invented by Professor are united, not separated, by the Seven
Seas, but higher postage and telegrama When Mr. Balfour told ns that he had gun he can work it with one hand, and
Dr. Tübben, the mining expert. with the other swing both cockpit and
for us plays the game of our enemies by just discovered that he was responsiblo denying the root principle of our power. for the aerial defence of London, after gun around in any direction with great
It is safe to conjecture that the strategi-fourteen months of war and any raids, cal effect of imposing taxes on communi- it was clear that somebody should have cations was never referred to the inte been cashiered. What the Navy has to ligence department of the Admiralty, do with the defence of London on London it ought to have been, Yet poor emi-oil is a puzzle. The Navy, however, is grants and their families, and person fitter to manage the nation than the na- who have migrated from provincial towns tion is to manage the Navy. Therefore to other parts of the United Kingdom, Sir Percy Scott's appointment is good. To an ignorant outsider it is possible that are penalised by the rise in price of com- munications which should be made not Sir Percy Scott's highly efficient gun- nery may kill more Londoners than Ger only efficient but cheaper during and after war, if imperial trade is to prosper man bombs
Surely the defence of London from and grow.
The chief function of the Fleet is to Zeppelins, if undertaken by the Navy, Bater. keep open communications for the civi- should, give to Sir Percy Scott the com-
ease.
The largest of the new German gero.
been (which has
christened planes
Fritz has been seen several times. It is a kind of" Siamese twin" of the air. i resembling two ordinary aeroplanes lashed together. There are two, bodies, two engines, and two rudders with one It mounts fore elevator between them. and aft machine-guns, and has a roomy cockpit for pilot and ubserver.
THE FRENCH BUDGET.
ANOTHER HUGE VOTE PASSED BY THE CHAMBER.
to
"So successful is this method of ex plosion proving that it will probably soun be adopted by our military authorities in active offensive work in the field."
The Deutsche Tageszeitung also scouts the idea that cation is an essential of German warfare:---
We Germans can afford to treat the whole cotton contraband question with cool indifference.
From 4th to 10th November.
HIGH WATER
o
Morita
G NÊNCI
H'kong,
Mean
Height
6 51 6 3
7 14 7 0 123
Height,
Low WATER.
B'kong.
Mean
Time
Time
tt. in.
Fhare.
4m 6 18 6 3 m 0 29
Fri.
5m 71863 m 120
6 8 11
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to white savages. The Navy has begun Zeppelins in order that he might co-
Mos
8 10
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Jai
0 15 4 9 m 5:24 10.6
The French Chamber recently adopted unanimously the Bill for a two months' vote un account for the fourth quarter
We regret the course adopted by the of 1915. The credits voted amount
Quadruple Powers, not for ourselves, 6,868,000,000 francs (£274,720,000). One of the five fights on September 12th During the debate M. Ribot said the however, but in our solicitude for neutral manner which gold was flowing in was States whose interests have been made to was with a large enemy aeroplane, which is described as looking like a Wright quite satisfactory. Expenses were in suffer. So far as Germany is concerned, twin-engined biplane. It opened fire creasing constantly on account of the her magnificent organisation, her illimit on ore of our machines at 2,000 yards war, but less rapidly in France than in able powers of endurance, and her fight from a forward gun, and when the fire Great Britain and Germany. "We shall," ing strength will certainly not be im-lised world and to forbid communication plete control of the area traversed by
duty paired by the cotton embargo, was returned it retreated towards the continued M. Ribot, do our
the starvation of Germany, but the pro-ordinate the arrangement for destroying German lines with its adversary in pur- calmly. We shall find the meane. Dur-
ing last month national defence bonds foolish enough to think that such a piece oess might go further and faster. Why them when leaving or returning to their is copper £80 a ton in London and £200dens. Under the present system the Ger suit.
The British airman kept it in sight yielded 436,000,000 francs, while the of jaggling can affect German warfare,
amounted to 157,000,000 we shall not trouble ourselves to disilly-in Berlin The Navy. Why is rubber man Zeppelins are under one British -until it was within 2,000 feet of the obligations
a great sion them. Defeats all along the lines, 6d a pound in London and 308. jurisdiction in Flanders, another in the There is therefore ground behind the German lines. It had francs,
will make their error clear enough to Berlin? The Navy. Why has meat cold North Sea. a third in the English, pro twin fusillage, a monoplane tail, and no patrotie uplifting in the country."
and eaten at Dresden increased in price vinces, and a fourth in London. Reuter.
there! elevator.
If England and her satellites
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