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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, TUESDAY NOVEMBER 2360, 1915.
SAPLING FOR THE NAVY. THE DANUBE AS A FACTOR INCOMPARABLE NEW SHIPS.
The Standard's reviewer writes this of "A Tall Ship on other Naval Occasions," by "Bartimeus," published by Cassell'a at a shilling
"Bartimeus is becoming the vates sacer of the Navy, as Mr, Kipling is, or was, of the army. He has no competitor, since Major Drury and Mr. George Stewart Bowles have retired from business, and the author of "Lanyard Lyrics," who may, for aught we know, be "Bartimeus" under another guise, hos favoured the public with no more of his mocy work. We cannot forhear to quote from Crab-pots" some of the deseription of the end of a torpedoed It might have been very likely cruiser. it was drawn from the experiences of those who survived the Cresty or the Hawke:-
The ship was lying over at an angle of sixty degrees, and the men were clustered along the bulwarks and nettings as if looth to leave their stricken home even at the cleventh hour. A muscular leading sca- en was the first to go nude, pink figure, wading reluctantly down the top ing side of the craiser, for all the world Hike a child paddling. He stopped when Er, he waist deep and looked back. shouted, 'ow far is it to Yarmouth? No more'n a hundred an fifty miles, is it I gotter nunt livin' there.
IN THE BALKANS.
RUMANIA'S POSSIBLE ROLE.
Mr. Fred. T. Jane, the well-known naval authority, writing in The Stand ard, says: -
GUNS THAT WOULD REDUCE HELIGOLAND TO DUST.
A vivid description of the work of the Grand Fleet and most interesting details
from Edinburgh.⠀⠀
FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.
LETTER FROM CAPTAIN J. C. E.
The Archbishop of Canterbury visited men see it.
DOUGLAS.
**I forgot to say that earlier in the day op our way up we passed hundreds of wounded wandering back with their wounds all bandaged up, the more serious cases were taken back in motor ambulances. Well, we were feeling excit ed going up the road, but before we knew where we were we left the road and deployed for the attack behind the old British trenchce which we had occupied. We passed over the ground in extend- ed order and shells began to drop all round us, as, we advanced over a ridge. old British front which we had captured, and it was only about 100 yards. It was covered with dead, mostly of some Scotch one could imagine that the Scottics mist have charged like blazes.
the Fleet, and a party of Frenchmenfternoon of Satyany, September 2500 regiment. It was not a nice sight and
cruisers.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 2nd at 1.19 sm.-The anti-oyatotle continues to move eastward,. It is now contral over the Ess of „span.
Pressure has decreased alightly in all districts. A shallow depression lle ver the S. Chins
Fresh monsoon in fadicat d along the bonst and over the China Sea,
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SNIPERS AND WHIZZ BANGS. We carried on, and at dusk we dug ourselves in on the crest of a bill afte,
go at the Buna. There were snipers. all over the place and shells were being put into the village of Loos behind us every few minutes. Whizz bangs were also going ever us and fares going up ns well. The men had to dig hard end. it was the only thing to do as it kept CHINA Us Warm too. : A lot of the men and
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The following letter has been received from Captain d. C. E. Douglas. Writ of some of our newest ships of war arding of Major Dent, he says up to that morning, San It is curious how little attention has been given in a long account which a special he has been the making of our battalion paid to the Danube in speculations an
always keen, smart and energetic, "how- to future Balkan events. In the Tür correspondent of the Standard sends ever tired and fed up. he was (and VS We soon reached the space between the Russian war of 1687 Makaroff and his
were all often tired and ted up with the constant strain of it all), he never let the torpedo-boats made possible the crossing of the Danube and the keeping up of the Russian communications which n
As we were going into action on the
by Turkish monitors. more then one occasion, were menaced were also privileged to see it, but none
we were ceting the full backwash of of them as points out) told anything the battle going on in front. Straggiers, Had Serbis possessed a Danube flotilla about it that was not known before the wounded en just able to walk, field war to even the longshoreman ambulances and knots of prisonera, atf of sufficient force Belgrade would still be
They told us nothing of the wonderful streaming up the road-horrible sight in her hands. As things aro, the water-
new mine-sweepers, or the equally won- coming in evidence to gaping British question never seems to have entered the heads of any Sorbian authorities; such derful new submarine destroyer. They workmen (turned into soldiers) who had were silent about the guns of the new- never seen such things before, and more defence as has been extemporised a battleships and the speed of the battle-over, shells were begining to drop pears to have been entirely due to the
around us,ght his pop alongside British Navy, which in some way or
The new mine sweepers need, not now Dent brought pony up other got the handy men into Sorbin.. This, so far as is known, resulted in be employed upon the sweeping of the of one (of course I knew he did atun wines from our estuaries or the open purpose) and began chatting about the big typhoon in Shanghai. He pulled out the blowing up of one Austrian monster the Temen. Unfortunately seven others, for the German mine is a very of his pocket some shapshots of The Bund thrown away their coats and packs and
are old, thing, and the special boats constructed
and Garden foreshore and showed them so were drenched throughout th remain, possibly nine. Two
I was also soaking through to the dating from 1871, and only of 8-knot to deal with the submarine pirates wore speed. However, they are armoured, but to plans after our vivid experiences to me as we went down the load, chat- and high speed is not necessarily very
of destroying them, and are not at all ting about them. Shortly afterwards we skin, as trained hard all the time and were switched off the main road, extend did not have time to put on my oilskin Theo necessary to combat the few remaining subed, and advanced under a very heavy fire until late, soaked through--wet-cold-- essential for river operations."
I next saw Dent in the village of no food since breakfast and no water- two boals are the Warns and Leitha, of marines the Germans can send to sea.
Luos itself among the houses, getting the the next morning before it was light we 310 tons, armed with one 4.7 inch gun ach and 2-inch belts. They were ro
battalion to re-form and exposing tumeftouk up a position to attack. We had a These destroyers are possessed of incre-recklessly. We were being red at frcin pretty thin time of it: advancing up in constructed in 1891, and to some extent dible speed, and they turn almost con There are three others. their own length What little remains
extended order, and lost quite a few modernised.
men. During the action we lost the Szamos and hörer, built in 1892 d
of the submarine menace is not a prob-
Colonel killed, shot through the neck, the Bodrog (nister of the sunk Temes), lem for the old boats, and the new
and Major Dent, als killed, shet Inunched in 1004. Two others known a craft are going to be used somewhere.
through the side somewhere. A and were building about the time So, too, are the guns on that great. new battleship which joined the Floet that war broke out. By now these aro
not many days agu certainly complete, and it is believed more are either complete. that two
The fow on shore who knew of the For nearly so. Al these monitors are of leviathan's unheralded coming watched
about 150 tons and carry a couple of with well-justified pride the passing on London Regiment, who One he re-
In addition, there are a 4.7's each.
its way to the battle squadron of the number of fast patrol boats.
supreme word in naval construction, and Bulgaria has half-a-dozen torpedo boats as the bulwark of the ocean went one Germans which are normally stationed at Varna, they said to each other: The guns She may have muggled one or two up aiunted on that beat am not intended the Danub, otherwise the Russians may to hit ships." be relied on to see to it that they
Then came the rush together with a roar of voices, shouts, and cheers, cries for help, Tip valiant, quickly stifled snatches" of " perary," and, over all, the hiss of escaping
steam
She wouldn't be def pleased to see yor, Nobby shouted a voice above the hubbab. Not arl, she wouldn't! Nah then, 'oo's for compulsary bathin'? Gawd ain't it coll!.
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Thorogood had long parted with his sup port-the broken km of an oar-and was floating on his bark when be found him self in close proximity to two figures ding- ing to an empty breaker. cognised aga midshipman, the other was a bearded chief stoker. The boy's teath were chattering, and his face was blue with cold.
Ww-what were yon g-g going to have
for b-b-b-breakfast in your m-r-mess??? he were asking his companion in misfortune. Hang it all, a fellow of fifteen had to show somehow he wasn't afraid of dying. "Kippers." replied the chief stoker re- cognising his part, and playing up to it menfully. "I'm partial to a kipper, me
lf-an fat am."
The midshipman caught sight of Thoro gend, and raised an arm in greeting. As he did so a sudden apasin of cramp twisted his face like a mask. He relaxed his grasp of the breaker and wank instantly.
The two men reappeared half a minute later empty handed, and clung to the bar. rel exhausted.
It's all chalked up somewhere, I sup nuse," spluttered James, gasping for his breath.
remain where they are.
RUMANIAN RIVER NAVY..
A Danubian Power, little inferior to Austria, perhaps quite equal to her, is Ramania possesses four 600
Rumania.
Rumania
WONDERFUL DESTROYERS.
No, and neither will they They whi hit something else, and, by heaver they will cramble what they hit iute, ashes and into clust
NEW GIANTS.
we had to do. all sides and nobody knew quid what Dent, howers, sad, Come on, we must get out of this and up that mil. At the top of the hill saw him again as I went to where some of the London Regiment were to get stane information, and went back to report to him
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Then under na direction about. ** I can't tell you what happened real thirty of us crossed the road and took up as one lost. ace unt of all time and our position on the right bana of the things. It was a gorgeous day and we were digg were a it until dark, when we were themselves in. It was then getting dark relieved. The regiment was scattered all and we were being suiped at from al along the line and it was not for a few days after that we knew who was killed or who was OK. We lost five officers killed and eight wounded. As you will see by the papers. Cornaby was wounded hansung
We had a rest for a day. in the hand, some way back from the front line, and then came on here by different stages, At present, October 5th, we are resting and waiting our turn to go into the trench.'
in act in the game trench, but abuut forty cards in from the road at the edge, of a wood. We dug in this trenen, au vancing a bit up it until we got bombed and had to stop as the Germans had bombs and ours had not come,
como away,NEM
It appears that the battalion got orders to move around to the other aide of a big alag heap, and about 9 o'clock
but the two Brigades on the lets, of us they took part in a big attack on Hill 70. I understand that they went ap wel!, could not get through the Germans qur tain of shrapnel
TELEPHONE,
HOW GENERAL JOFFRE LED THE ADVANCE IN CHAMPAGNE.
A graphic description of the manner in which Goncral Joffre conducted the great French advance is contained in a Bertelli, which is published in the Paris cable despatch from Mr. C. F Toronto Globe
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"Dent sent us a machine gun and late In the French journalists account about 11 o'clock-be and the Colonel the visit to the Fleet they mention desme back and saw the whole position four lionts--Jellicue's Iron Duke, Bentty's mad what we had done, and gave US. ton monitors of 14-knot speed, carrying flagship Lim (the bout the Germans directions On Monday we But aiders three 4.7 guns each, also a couple of sank off the Dagger Bank), the from a different Brigade from our own CONDUCTING A BATTLE BY 4.7 howitzers. These monitors, the Juan Tiger, and the boat the Turks destroy- to hand over the bit of the trench and Bratian, Mihail Logninicheanu, Jed in the Dardanelles, the Queen Elizo- ander Lahovari, and Laskar Catural, pro
beth altogether superior to the Austrian vessels, swifter and better armed. They have also slightly thicker armour. The factor of speed in river warfare is diffiappened to their imagination, and there They may have been the ships that cult to estimate. but were involved in the conflict it would not he was perhaps method in mentioning by these strangers, the fact that they saw Child murder, sir. I reckon that is, tactically difficult to keep the old 8-knot these vessels in actual commission. It was here that both Ben; and the as the tense reply. That's on their slep Austrian monitors, Hers and Leith outlaid by the heels the accesses claimed Colonel were killed. The last seen of fickat e' right.
Kippers,' I sez.of any pitched bittle, and this would mean kylarkin' like ane sinks like an equality of gun-power plus slightly current in this country, but it will give Dont blive, was his for our stains on bant, with his crooked asharica extra spoed nad lightly better armour.
# Of the two battle, waged in France," Among the wavelps six hundred yards To that extent, therefore, Rumana is joy in our Overseas Dominions to know raised, eilling to his men to come un
when we come to strike the next hlow He was hit, but, game to the last, tried writes Mr. Pertelli,that in Champagne Tasioban away a elendor, apright object turned in a somewhat the derk horse of the Balkan
on the sea that the Colonies who have to rise to his feet again. He died almost was by far the fiercest and biggest. Gen-Lolo „ wide circle and moved slowly northward. situation, especially as, in addition to To the south a cluster of smoke spirals ap her monitors, she has three torpedo already won imperishable fame in Fland immediately and without speaking.eral Joffre himself conducted.
"We are now resting in billets-alas advance, not as a picturesque general on ers and in the Anzac of the Gallipoli peared above the horizon, growing gradu- bonts recently reconstructed which are Peninsula will be given their opporsadly depleted, but being made up to a white charger, but sitting attentively ally more distinct. The party in one of suitable for Danubion operations, also tunity to strike for the freedom of the strength again by new arrivals. It at a kitchen table in a wine shop behind.
RADIO TELEGRAMS VAZD the cutters raised a wavering cheer.
sixteen river torpedo craft. ⠀⠀⠀ Unfortu
won't he long before we are back at it the lince, while his aider-de-camp, with Tjikini as ₺ 4. 20.02 97% 20
We must see telephone receivers attached to their ears, Cheer up for Chatham!!! shouted a nately, the guns of her monitors are f
When I looked on the Flect the other again in some form, clear voice ncross the grey waste of water. Austrian make, taking Skoda ammun day Beatty's Lion crouched,, the farthest it through, but for those of the Shang-shouted the latest developments from the
Sticktion, which means a strictly limited
be the same various attacking columns. A staff off. cer states that the General sat impassive- supply should she throw her let in with out abip on the anchorage. Immediately hai crowd it can never
again." at her head lay the Tiger and the Prin- the Allies; an unlimited supply should
2ND LIEGT. V. D. K. CRADDOCK. ly with his eyes glued to a huge map, cess Royal, and then further up the line
making no comments, but giving concise she side with Bulgaria. Further, how-
The following are extracts from a let orders in a quiet, unemotional Voice. ever. should Ramania join the Allies, double line that stretched for miles
-came the Canada, the Australia, and ter trom 2nd-Lieur, Y., D. Craddock, For twenty-four hours General Joffre did Russia, who commands the Black Sen. is
of the 10th Battalion, Yorkshire Reginot interrupt his close study of the situa in a position to reinforce her with the New Zealand
ments---- submarines and other craft suitable for Danubian operations.
'n stone.
"Here eons the destroyers ! it my hearties!!!
Perhaps Bartimeus wil and time hereafter to give us some novels of the modern Navy. The ships of steel and steùm must net for ever lack their Marryat.
DURATION OF THE WAR,
AMERICAN VIEWS.
GEORGE MENACE. TO... BULGARIA-
sens,
To the Dominion especially the new that the Canada is in commission will be peculiarly pleasurable. Their man-bf war I may tell them, does them proud. Formidable as the Lion, the Tiger, and the Princess Royal were, the giant of the maple leaf appeared to give evon one more vivid touch of fighting power.
WHEN BHALL WE STRIKE?
When will this vast Armada strike i
(says the correspondent, finally) When will it cast off from its moorings, not for a practice cruise-far it is useless to look on the sea for a foo that skalks within land-but for its real mission Where will it unshackle its mighty charged up energy!
This is my letter after being in action; my last was written before we left our last billets September 23rd. The following evening we left and were told we should probably be in action in a few days. The Colonel addressed the batta lion before we moved off and told us all to do our utmost. He made an awful- ly good address and I wish I could re member all he said. march that
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tion, even for a sandwich. It was only when he was satisfed no mote could be achieved that he smilingly remarked: Well, that's done, Now for a snack, After a perfunctory mer! he slept for four hours."
The acuteness of the house famine in Newcastle, consequent mainly .OR the We had a rotten march that night. great influx of munition workers into The roads were all blocked with huge the district, is illustrated by the fact A.S.C. motor-wagons and troops, etc., that there were 250 applicants for a and it took us some time before we small house which was advertised to be reached our final bivouse, which even then was some way back from the front
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The position of Bulgarin depends en- tirely upon Bumania's attitude. Bulgaria bas from 250 to 300 miles of river front, Bar Kitchener asertion that the and nothing whatever afloat to defend Germans had almost shos their bolt that front with save such support as seems to be forming the text for many. Austria could afford.. Add to this the interesting article by American strato Frot that Russia can land troops where gists who have followed the war closely she will on the Black Sea coast, that, from the first. The conclusion at which thanks to sea power, the Allies can these independent, neutral, and, for the attack vid Salenika, and it will be seen most part, very competent observers how, thanks to Rumania's prevision in arrive is on the whole, most encourag equipping herself with warships, Bul ing to the Allies, but they all insist that garis has a deadly menace to the north.
line. We passed lots of Red Cross motor much depends upon preventing Germany It will probably take half her army to
ambulances going in the opposite direc getting a decision over some foc with-
watch Rumania, and guard the river
They talk in the Navy with hushel tion with about fifty yards between each. in the next ten months. One motes front from
"It was fairly late when we reached a possible invasion which breath of what the Navy has done. that the statistical situation upon which might come from anywhere. It is that Since January last no German man of the birouac field and it was a dismal the American exports base their argu
Almost everybody experiences times ment is very much the same as that anywhere" which is Bulgaris's dangor.war has come out into the open. Con night, with the rain drizzling down all the time, and I got a puncture in my accepted in England-it is by no means All the way from Widin to Selistria they come out! Has our strategy been
Fortunately the luggage wagons when the organs of digestion show accepted as quite accurate in detail, but there is danger, and small hdp of any their own waters? Time only can an
too rouch for them? Are they sealed in tyre 1
came up and we were able to get our painful signs of weakness. Some slight rompurotury Austrian assistance getting below Widin,, should a Russian submarine or two have swor, and no one can conjecture whore valisep. I slept on my waterproof sheet disturbance of health starts the trouble: barred "the gate of the Danube."! or when the next blow will be struck at first, but it was so cold that I undid then the patient turns against food, and
warning that the stomach is unable Will these terrible guns first blew my valise and got into
It rained hard all night but cleared do its proper work. Sometimes a false rain that rubbleheng of the blow into clothes, hots and all my sleeping bag. dull heavy pain in the abdomen kive and leave the waves to wash away theup at 5 am. We could hear the bom craving for food arises; if satisfied, the Flata dust? Will the Grand Fleet come from its hardment all night and see the flares result is additional torture. natural and God-given, harbour and wins which were sent up from time to time.lence, a drowsy depression, sick headaches from the face of the hen the patched-up We knew the big attack was to take place and nausea are other signs of indiges- shelter of concreto and steel of Helige at dawn next morning, and about breaktion
The foolish practice of flying to drastic, land, or will we go right on and cut fast time we received news to say we our way on another const? These are had driven the Germans back Our weakening purgatives at such times Indigestion arises Jellicoe's secrets,
orders to move reached us at 10 am, and should be avoided. we proceeded to a place Lear some of our from stomach weaknessca, and the only batteries where we halted for lunch, but effective method of remedy for this orders to move on and attack Hill 70 deblitated state is to strengthen the feeble arrived 2000 afterwards. The East organs of digestion by supplying thein Yorkshires (who are in our Brigade) with richer, better blood, so that they are were in front of us and we were about made fit to perform their work. 200 yards behind. We marched in is the true tonic treatment of Indigestion, columns of fours up a big road-quite 1 by which natural method Dr. Williams good road with trees on both sides and Pink Pills achieve great results. bread too. There were several Blocks as there was such a quantity of traffic on the road, getting stuff up to the front.
Similarly it is all very well for Ger-
is regarded as a basis for calculations.
It is conceded the Austro-Germans are possibly, nay, probably, as large to day us they were in the opening months of the war, when their field forces were com-
many to have get into Serbis, but pletely organized. The deciding factor Rumanin's Danubian паку must ever of the situation-providing Germany, as remain as a possible menace to her com- we expect, fails to get a decision over munications. Supplies can only be got some foc-ise question of reserve power, norasa a river like the Danube if Inter
WINTER, 1916, OF SPRING, 1917
ference from hostile floating defence can And here American observers contend,
be provided against. Hence the pres with much craphasis, that reserve power
Bure which Germany is exercising on is altogether in the Allies favour. The Rumania, She may pour armies inte Austro-Germans, after drawing upon the Serbia, but were Rumania with us the But the Fleet which has grown in 1017, or 1918 classes for their require Danube and ships upon it could be strength every week since the war ments, have, they are convinced, only 1.200,000 in reserve and 3,200,000 in the trusted to see that few if any of those started, and now is so formidable that field, to face 5,000,000 in the field and soldiers ever returned to the Vaterland its power on sen is as immeasureable as 5,000.000 in reserve. Making all allow
Sea power has its limitations, but also it is incomparable, will not have its ener anors, it is argued that in the winter of has advantages which yield incontestable gies held long in bolts. Its Ningars of
In the case under notice. power will soon belch forth. 1916 or the spring of 1917 the Germans superiority. will be unable to hold their present
"river power" might be the better word lines, and will have to
or the apter word; but the principle is narrow their front both East and West. If Germany exactly the same. Nothing can be done should get 2 decision, and eliminate on land, nothing can be moved with the Russia this winter, then she would be mobility of transport which water con- able to meet her other foes about on an fer. An army, as Napoleon once raid, equality-certainly at no better-ratio. "marches" on its helly." A navy, on
All things considered, the best inform- the other hand, is relatively self-con ed and most reliable of American experts tained. It is on the land, that the seem-agreed that Lord Kitchener my ultimate fate of Bulgaris depends have a little anticipated German dis tress but not much" In this estimato they have accepted the best figures avail able, and subjected them to rigid seru- Ladies who ring Safan's front door bell tiny, and to some extent, revision, and, and then run away, says a home writer, speaking generally, have accepted the are those who make an appointment with view most favourable to Germany All a man whom they know to be in love with emphasise the vital importance of the them, and then turn up with a present and next few succeeding months, chaperon.
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These Pilla make the rich, new bicod on which the digestive system depends to carry on its work of assimilating food and because of this special power, Tam. 23m 11.26 46m 4 26 14 Dr. Williams' Pink Pills strengthen weak digestions, impart a healthy appetite and Wed dispel all the painful disorders that arise from Indigestien, Nervous Dyspepsia. Than 25 and Stomach Disorders.
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Lloyd's Register of Shipping report The first shell which dropped near that, excluding warships, there were 432 as fell in a field about 100 yards to our vessels of 1,638,177 tong gros under con- left and about thirty yards in front of a struction in the United Kingdom at the whole artillery pack, the next shell fell close of the quarter ended September about fifty yards farther on and right 30th. This does not include vessels of in the middle of the horses and limbers
Begin to day to strengthen your Diges less than 100 tons. The tonnage now etc. I expected to see quite a number tion by starting Dr. Williams Pink Pils. under construction is nearly 30,000 tons of horses and men laid out, but on From the first you will enjoy a better datar. more than that which was in hand at the one or two were touched. There are all appetite and your food will do yon, more end of last quarter, but about 187.000 sorts and kinds of shells of course, and good Sold by all dealers, or supplied tons less than the tonnage building thess were just small ones which lay out direct by Dr. Williams Medicine Co., twelve months ago One vessel being just a few near where it lands, and it 96, Szechnen Boad, Shanghai, 1 bottle Mon built exceeds 40.000 tons, and another vill only makes a hole about six feet in for 81,50, 6 bottles 83, post free. be between 30,000 and 40,000 tons.
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