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WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE

GERMAN TRENCHES.

GERMAN DESIGNS ON SPANISH ISLANDS.

A GENERAL'S ESPIONAGE,

There is another detail. As recently as last July negotiations were in progress on the part of a big German shipping company to acquire the whole or a part of the shares of a Spanish line of steamers carrying on a mail, passenger, and cargo Algiers. By that means they hoped to A well-known resident in Palma (Mavic between Paima and Marseillos and jorea), Den. Jeronimo Pou, a writer of no obtain possession of a neutral line, sailing mean merit and Provincial Deputy for under a neutral flag but controlled by German capital. The company in "ques- Mahon, has published the following tion was the Talena Maritima, of Palma, article in the Correspondencia do Es. Majorca, but no one could be found on the board of directors of the company to second the apparently, artless proposals of the Teutons-Daily Telegraph.

For twelve months the ton departments of the north-east of France have been wholly cat off from the rest of the country by the wall of steel that the Germans have put up round them, Now and then some civilian has escaped from the occu-nang- pied territory, and has brought news of one commune or another; but as to the conditions of life there nothing was known.

SPAIN NEUTRAL

GERMANY'S OFFER OF MOROCCO AND GIBRALTAR.

We have strong reason to believe that Give instructions, please, to throw to the Russian soldiers large numbers

Germany looks upon Spain as merely an other Belgium, whose neutrality, in view of proclamations. I hope that the secret

of the defenceless state of the country," order of the Emperor Wilhelm in this

may be violated and trampled upon with respect will be carried out. It is neces- sary to do everything possible to Now a little light has been thrown upon impunity. The Caroline Islands incident wenken the Russian Army, which is the district by a young Red Cross nurse, is fresh in our memory, but without look escaping from our jaws and is drawing who has got through the German lines ing for proofs in other epochs, we have The after a sojourn of eight months in the in Majerca te-day recent and significant when our position will become un-zone. From her report it appears that data which enable us to judge German endurable is nigh, ambition with respect do ourselves, be compelled to draw up a peace treaty approach of the enemy, when, in August, the praction certainty of being at on terms dictated to us by our enemies. they crossed the Belgian frontier and affirm that the object has been occupation Government, said: To speak frankly, from a distance of 1,600 yards fired four and conquest, at least, so far as Majorca in concerned. It will be remembered that cannon upon the little town.

two years ago a couple of large German Two of the four shots fell upon the cruisers remained for a long time in our hospital, ono upon the barracks, and the bay (Palma), and their frequent move fourth on a workroom occupied by a numments excited lively comment in the city ber of girl,

TASE FOR OUR GRANDSONG,

Men who recently dreamed of con. quering the world think no longer of the capture of London, or Paris, or Petrograd. This task is reserved for our grandsons, and not for the splen did German warriors who are laying down their lives every day on the limit less fields of Russia, h Another distinguished member of the German General Staff writes:-

It is terrible. We have no more men. Do you know what this means? The Russians have guessed our echeme in good time, and, without accepting a decisive engagement, are retreating to the depth of the country, and in their retreat are causing us to suffer horrible losses.

Wilhelm has taken from Germany all that she can give, and now in the streets of the German

towns you will find only the old men, women, and children.

NO MORE RESERVES,

We have no more reserves. Duri

lusses are coormous, and soon we shall not be able to make them good. There was a time when the Russians had no shells, but now they possess them. As for ourselves, soon we shall have no

"After this challenge, the troops marched in and took possession without further ado. No resistance was offered.

But as a village in the neighbourhood, where the British troops had made harricade with the peasants wagons, the Gormans collected the owners of the carts, and with their wives and children twenty-one persons in all-they were hot out of band.

The first step was to requisition the bakeries, but the governor proved to be a humane and just man, and until Merch the inhabitants were able to get white bread. Since that date they have only a small and insufficient ration, of barley bread. This bread is distributed once in five days.

Lens, not far off, fared worse. There the inhabitants had to make their own bread, grinding their corn in their coffee mills for want of millers and flour mills, requisitioned by the enemy.

There were house-to-house visits, under the pretext

In an interview accorded to the Journal

Count Romanones, Premier of the Spanish our interests well as our dignity ca upon us to resist German pressure, and to maintain a friendly neutrality towards the Allies. Germany's cynical bid for public opinion should not be allowed to go unanswered. That answer is not to of Pahna. Above all, I remember the inabandon our strict neutrality, but yet bo numerable soundings taken all road the rise up against a campaign of intimida- coast, the vessels even entering station and lies.

* Long before the war Cormiany organis- coves and inlets quite useless to large modern battleships, bat excelent bases da persistent propagands which sought and hiding places for carrying on sub-incessantly to create prejudice against France and England. We are not accus- marine warfare in the Mediterranean.

Many good More recently even, it will be remember tomed to such mancUVIES. ed that at the beginning of July, 1914, people were caught napping, and should the German Consul addressed a series of now more than ever be put on their questions to the president of the Harbour guard, for the German zeal manifested Works Committes, some of which legiti-discreetly before the war has during the ing, and even vulgar character. Priests, mately referred to commercial relations, past year become of an insolent, annoy- and others, which had for their object women, and the army are the chief objects the acquisition of data which would only of this propaganda, It is sought to make be useful in the case of a military expedi-the clergy believe that the triumph of the tion.

Another incident, not so well known as those which I have drawn attention to has served to open our eyes. For several years past a German gentlemen, whose position and profession were equally difficult to find out, lived amongst

ecopying quarters in the Caserio del Terreno. He made frequent excursions dale in all directions.

Allies would be that of Atheism, that religion is threatened by every French success, and the like. There is something sad as well as comical in the display of made by the Lutheran Catholicity Empire.

The army also has been bewildered and dazzled at first by the German reports of victories, every hour, and of more Our army is a very fine and very courage- ous one, restive in inaction, and it has natural tendency to admire victory.

thing but the guns. Our troops are of searching for arms; but nothing | all over the island, exploring hill and Prisoners takon than there were soldiers.

advancing with feverish haste-why, no one knows. The Dardanelles are doubt less on the eve of falling to the French and English, who are only awaiting the moment when our Eastern forces are exhausted to fall upon us and crush us. God save Germans "

SO HOPE OF PEACE.

A letter from a well-known general con- tains the following:-

The only path of safety lies in a speedy peace, and the Emperor his high hopes of this. He consents to evacuate the localities occupied by the German troops, and even to give up the Colonies, but the Allies are not anxious to meet him, and desire to parcel out Germany ameng

This 18 themselves... horrible.

Your communication concerning the insubordination in some of the detach ments has been reported by me to the Emperor. The shooting down of restive soldiers is necessary, but this would only assist in the annihilation of the

army.

Think of some other means, and write a detailed report, But don't forget the proclamations, although I have only slight hopes in them, as the Russian soldiers are full of courage and of a determination to fight until they finally triumph over us,"

The Speciato, quotes a nursing sister's letter from the Dardanelles, stating that the Red Cross Saint Bernard dogs have been a great help in finding wounded men. She adds: "It is remarkable how they know the dead from the unconscious. When they find a living man they give a low, mournful howl to fetch us. Some- times we cannot see where the man has been found, but if we do not ge the dogs come up carrying a cap, by which we know whether the man is a Turk or a Britisher. They then lead us to the spot.”'

HONGKONG HE TF OROLOGIVAL

REGIFTER.

Hongkong Observatory, November 9th.

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escaped the eye of the inquisitors, and every bottle of wine was noted and num- bered Long since then the inhabitante have been reduced to drinking water. Meat in the region is not dear, pork alone being rare. But groceries have gone up, and petroleum and benzoline have entire Candles, ly vanished.

at fourpence apiece, are the sole means of lighting the houses, and for some time even these were forbidden.

In the east of the Aisne, a large part of the male population was carried away prisoners, but women and children have for some time been finding their way back again through Switzerland. German bos- pitals have been established everywhere.

All the machinery has been taken from the factories; houses and shops whose owners had led have been pillaged. The gas works and suger factories round Saint-Quentin are being worked under This town, too, has German overseers, had to pay heavy war indemnities: five million of franes ($200,000) and heavy daily charges for the support of the troops of oeenpation. In Hirson the inhabitants are getting only a quarter of a pound of bread served out to them daily, a heavy war tax his been imposed; mea is getting scarce, and groceries have become incre dibly dear. Petroleum lamp oil, coal, and candles are charged at exorbitant prices. All the English soldiers who were found in the district were shot. The Germans force the peasants to work on the land.

NEW HYMN OF HATE,

THE CHANT OF THE GERMAN

SWORD.

Germany's Hymn of Hate" has been supplanted by The Chant of the Ger man Sword composition brought out in Leipzig a week of so ago, and which has already run into half a dozen editions.

During Jane of last year the Teuton stockbroker in referred to wrote to a Palma (Majorca), ardoring him to sell Spanish interior four per cent. bonds; ho was doing this, as he did not scruple to explain, because the European war in August, and shortly after its com was imminent." The conflict broke out mencement we found out that the German tourist who had passed a solitary exist ence amongst me for five years, apparently without profession or occupation, was a general on the active list, belonging to the Engineers Corps of the German army At the present moment, or, rather, a short time ago, he held a command in the army of occupation in Belgiura.

A ROYAL DEGREE.

Germany would not send a general be longing to a highly technical corps to reside for such a long period in an island like ours if her projects in the near future had not absolutely demanded such a course, and I am convinced that the this archives of the German General Staff would throw considerable light on man's doings in Palms.

Taking these details into account, it may not be considered extravagant to affirm, or at least to presume, that the occupation of Majorca was a part of the German plan, for it would form an ex- cellent base for cutting communications between France and her African colonies, thus preventing the Republic of a number. of first-class fighting mon, and, at the same time, paralysing all trafiu from the southern ports of France.

The intervention of England in the war which Germany, in principle, had not counted upon, made such an expedi tion impossible. Since Britain is indis- putably Mistress of the Beas, the island of Majorca has been preserved to Spain, and any attempt at brutally violating her neutrality, as happened in the case of martyred Belgium, has been definitely knocked on the head. The service which the British squadrons, almost without leaving their ports, have rendered to this of those who weep at the sight of the Rock of Gibraltar.

and Morocco,

Alongside these artful suggestions the Germans have had recourse to bribes and generous offers of what they do not pos

They offered to Spain, Gibraltar CSS,

Why not also Portugal 7 It is to be said to our credit that thes vague and excessive offers repelled rather wise reserve and correct attitude of the than attractel Spanish sympathy, The French and English Corsuls are gradual- ly being appreciated. in marked contrast to that of the diploma- Neither tic agents transformed into commercial travellers in the glory line. the Government nor the leaders of the Opposition have ever allowed themselves to be caught in the nets, which would have been dangerous were they not visible. a thousand yards away.

Such attitude 14

Count Romanones added that the vari- ous pacties would doubtless ask tho electors to declare at the ensuing elections certain that if the following formals be on the question of neutrality, and it is submitted, ris, the policy of Spain it will obtain an immense majority should remain one of strictest ventrality, the people's suffrages.

WONDERFUL CLAIMS FOR "MOTOR TORPEDO.”

SEARCHLIGHT UNDER SEA:

The new diminutive submarines invent- ed by Professor Herschel C. Parker, of New York, and recommended by Henry Ford, the motor-car millionaire, for adop tion by the United States Navy, is in reality (says the Central News New York correspondent) a submersibly which nets it the water very much as an aeroplane acta

the sir.

In his application for a patent, Pro-

fessor Parker calls it a motor torpedo and he says he has also invented and patented a searchlight which can be used under water, and which, used in combina der the present type of submarine obso

This is what its anonymous author makes the German sword" say - country may serve to appease the anguish tion with his motor torpedo," will ren-

It is no duty of mine to be either just or compassionate; it suffices that I am sanctified by my exalted mission, and that I blind the eyes of my enemies with such streams of tears as shall make the proudest of them cringe in terror under the vault of Heaven, a

"I have slaughtered the old and the sorrowful; I have struck off the breasts of ,women; and 1 have run through the body of children who gazed at me with the eyes of a wounded Hon

Jete

Further inquiries have only served. tot is Professor Parker's desire to give confirm the truth of Senor Pou's state his invention to the United States, ag his contribution to the country's defences. He ments.

Disappointment at the turn of events also wants the Government to test his could not make the Huns forget the undersea searchlight, which he calls a "helioscope," claiming that it will make possibilities" of the Balearic Islands. About the middle of May the rumour was possible the detection of lurking submar- confirmed that an endeavour had been ines and obstacles to navigation at a dis made to sell one of them to an agent of Lance of perhaps more than a mile.

baby "In a description of the new "Day after day ride aloft on the Germany. The island in question was shadowy borse in the valley of Cypresses; Cabrera, situsted at a distance of about submarine Profesor Parker said the craft und us I ride 1 draw forth the kin blood ten miles to the south of Majorca, which designed by him would weigh but a very It will be propelled by a gaso- from every enemy's son that dares to dis-had without doubt been likewise thoroughline engine with a cruising radius of fifty pute my path.

ly explored by the ubiquitous von

fow tons,

It is moet and right that I should Schultz. The attempt failed, however, miles and a speed of perhaps forty miles. cry aload my pride, for am I not the fam- for the Spanish Government, being noti an hour.

messenger of the Lord Almighty?

fied of what was going on, promptly de Germany is so far above and beyond elared the property

In defensive operations a small fleet ot as of public these vessels could be carried on the decka all the other nations that all the rest of utility, as forming part of the Spanish of another ship and sent out to meet the the carth, be they who they may, should realm, and as such inalienable. The de invaders. Because of their speed they feel themselves well done by when they

are allowed to fight with the dogs for theclaration was followed by the publication could easily elude destroyers and other crumbs that fall from her table."

of a Roval Order in the Gazette of June submarines, run close up to the vessels of "When Germany the divine is happy, 25, 1915, of which the following is an ex- the invading flect and discharge their tor-

peddes with great accuracy,&* His Majesty the King, in then the rest of the world basks in smiles; agreement with the Council of Ministers,

tract:

On the other hand, the submarines of an but when Germany suffers, God in person. is rent with anguish, and, wrathful and has deigned to approve your Excellency's invading fleet could be detected by the beams of the helioscope, sweeping under- avenging. He turns all the waters into the Minister of War's) proposition to

This detector, the professor. rivers of blood."

declare the island of Cabrera, of the pro- seas. Bress.. vince of Baleares, as of public utility, says, is readily adaptable to torpedo boat and as such subject to compulsory ex destroyers, which, by its means, could propriation, in the terms of the disposi casily locate submarines and destroy thern. tions contained in the law referred to and In the opinion of the professor a thon-- the regulations for putting it into force." sand submersibles of the small type, which he says could be constructed at the cost of a single modern Dreadnought, would make the United States invulnerable to attack. by sea.

"CATSKIN" EARLS.

SUPPLY BASE QUESTION.

Lord Derby, the new Director of Recruiting, is one of the three "Catskin”

It is curions that at a time when there earls, the others being Lord Shrewsbury, and Lord Huntingdon, Their ancestor 18 recrudescence of German submarine

He claims that is submersible will do were privileged to wear four rows of activity in the Mediterranean, the ermine fur on their robes; because of Spanish Press should be again calling the able to dive and rise to the surface with their ancient descent, and these quatre Government's attention to the fact that the ease of a fish. Each "motor-torpedo" 246-4-3 skina changed to catskins." This is one of the Balearic Islands, Minorca, is would require a crew of but two men to like the change of Douglas into Digg es being used as a supply base for those operate, one a pilot and the other a gun-

vessels. and Thorkill into Turtles.

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