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BRITAIN'S AERIAL FLEET,

AT SUVLA,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 157#, 1910.

HUNDREDS OF TAST MACHINES OFFSHOOT OF AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.

READY FOR BATTLE.”

GREAT WAR BIPLANE.

A striking account is given of a visit paid to British aviation schools and fas tories by M. A. Jullien, the Landon cor respondent of the Petit Paristen.

THE MAKERS OF A HARBOUR,

BY CAPTAIN CEW.BEAN, AUSTRALIAN PRÉSS. EEPRESENTATIVE]

I came across them at Bulva; quite apart from any other portion of the Australian forces, They are only about M. Jullien vas piloted by Colone four miles as the crow flies from the C whom the War Office had kindly mountainside, and at the point at which told off for that purpose, and won found the Third Brigade made its famous land passing between two rows of ing. Twenty or thirty thousand of their himself. Pling 100 or 100 yurds long, countrymen, aprs of leas, have, bren which abutted directly on another set of living within sight of them for twe And yet they are part of a Boveral rows of smaller wooden buildings months,

world a separate that I do not think one nearly as long again.

sand knows that they are there, and they Australian or New Zealander in a thost know practically nothing whatever of what happens at Anzac. You can walk any day in a couple of hours from any part of Anzae to Suvla; but in a cani paign like this you know nothing of what is happening to the troups half a mile on either side of you unless it is your bust. ness to go there and inquire.

Last April, witos M. Julien, not a building of any kind was to be seen here To-day we find fifty hangars around which a multifarious crowd of officers soldiers, aechanics, and navva surge A number of British and Belgian aviation officers await us Over our heads the rumbling of tho motora continues without interruption.

lines.

WONDERFUL PROGRESS.

the

the front of which they are mounted mes.lians or New sure not less than sixteen yards and have

THEIL LANDING,

A BITTER WAR.

SPIRIT OF THE ARMY GRIMLY CHANGED.

COLOSSAL DEFENCE WORKS,

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house nearly all might be as it was two summers ago. The General talks of the. thoroughness of the Germans st trench- ing and at their extreme care of their soldiers' lives. They man the front trench very lightly now, but keep plenty of strength in the lines and dugouts

Their com behind in case of attack. munication trenches are wonderfully good, und cable them to rush men int the front trench at any moment. So they Heal-suffer relatively lightly from a heavy shelling of the front line, and yet can be When I was here last March many hope there immediately the fire ceases. Such not last a year, Today, as the struggle it possible to hold the line with very few ful oficers assured me that the war would a practice; supported as it is with en unlimited number of machine guns, makes enter upon its fourteenth month, men troops. They no longer throw men away • TJIKEMBANG longer prophesy. They are content to re on this front, as they did at the begin- double their efforts at the strengthening ning of the war. "On the contrary." There and the whe is a sudden

ve drix months ago insisted that that the General with laugh, Come Germans were past the top of theiron. He dashes at his top for cover. strength, and that each week would see the always leave the cellar door open," superiority going surely, to the Allies, now he adds as we gain the shelter. He has admit that the encray is still an unknow been one of the hardest fighting and power capable, despite his reckless waste successful of our young loaders. of lib, of effective offensive and surpris..

Killing has been his sole occupation for This does not mean that one finds pesa year or more, and has work becomes simian at the British front; pessimism more deadly and aggressive as the days could not exist in the mids; of this cheer go on. But the bursting of shrapnel can army. But now, when the war is suf still move him to aughter.. ficiently old for men to tell you what hap- pened this day a year ago, you find al ranke resigned to a struggie of indefinite length,

Upon the anniversary of its glorious re treat from Mons the army is serious, even grin. There is no longer talk of speed and decisive victory; there is nowhere hint of suffering defeat. Both the French and the British are as sure they will win one day as they are confident of the righteousness of their cause. But a year in the trenches has taught them that pa tience and endurance are the first essen tia's for victory in a war of this nature.

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A GRIM ARMY....

TRENCHES BECOMING STRONGER,

The growing aggressiveness is the firit. strong impression you get upon returning to the line after having been away dur ing the saintcr But now, as in March. and April, the most signicaul thing is the unecapromising strength of the trenches. One runs no risk of censorship in saying that the two great gralemng d trenches which traverse Frence and Flanders are now immeasurably more powerful than they were a few mouths ago..

Every day they become more formid- able; every day the dficulties and cost of breaking through are increased every day on either side the defensive secures further advantage over the offensive. One would gladly write otherwise, but it is well that we all should recognise what is ahead of us.

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Tacre are inches of altins posserseil by Australia had already stant flight.

been used up, the Australian navy pro types-Farman, Avro, Morene Blériovided a bridging train, and sent it off Curtiss, and thus they d British in June, with its pontoon all built at manufacture, which bear merely initian Cockatco Dock, it waggons, and its 300 and number: swift but small R.E, 7 bi

men, en route for the British dockyard at planes and imposing B.E. C. machines, Chatham, There it was to finish its the pilots of which speak onthusiastical training. At Port Said on Sunday, July ul their stability. These are machines 18th, the ship was stopped, and orders which fifty or se students are taught to were given for her to sail in a different iske to pieces and put together again direction, and jon quite a different en when they have made themselves thorough. terprise. And at 'clock on the night of August G the men of the train found

During the summer the spirit of the ly acquainted with their management dur

themselves locking over their bulwarks,

army has undergone a profound change ing morning and afternoon flights.

It is no longer a rollicking, light-hearte just as night was falling, watching the first of a line of great transporta windy which looks upon the struggle wit: put between the mountainside of an.

Germany as a huge sporting enterprise Notwithstanding their very arduous

island harbour and turn their heads It is still a very gay army with n itself, and constant ocupations and the fastraight for, a disant coast line, which but it no longer shares its jokes with th that they are expised continually to wine was fading into night.

Germans. This is brought home to one by the marked difference in the character of and weather, their sole distractions being the newspapers, a piano of doublful ton,

the trench warfare on the sections held und a nasal phonograph, these young mo

By daybreak they were moving ints by the British and the French Observers of twenty to thirty-âve years of age are Bavla Bay Away to the north side and have always been impressed by the bitter charmed with their life, and eagerly awai inland of them ray great scrubby ridges ness of the French towards their enemy the opportunity for conducting their date all brown and yellow after the long du It is as you would expect it to be. gerous reconnaissances over the enommer until they faded into the purple

The French soldier hates his adversary, circle of the more distant hills. From and exults in his death. For some months The factories at A were in existence ball around them, from a mile or two north after the war began there was no such feel. fore the war. They made a specially of right to the distant south, where ing in the breast of the British. At the

ergínes turning out

for motor-car-3, the Anzae troops were breaking out into ontest the British regular took more wagons, anki motor-kouts, and employed An aeroplane flew high overhead with fought the German because he was a na- get the same stor

hills, come the noises of a big battle. sporting interest in the proceedings. He Everywhere along the British front you They are digging 1,840 men.. Now there are very nearly black crosses pained on the underside of tional foe, and because the German hai like mades."

They never cease work- 2,500 men and women at work hero turn her white planes. A bomb whirred down broken so many of the rules of inter-ing"

Some of our officers take this ing out by the hundred scruplane motor and exploded astem of the ship. Another naticul decency, but he fought him good-activity as evidence of German fear. But of every possible power, as well as all sorts followed it on her beam. Presently

The Germans- of aoroplung parts from the simplest to the shrapnel from batteries inland began to humouredly, and with a ridiculous ad this in a minority view, most complicated..

arat their shrapnel over the ship, and herence to the promptings of chivalry. To accomplish this work the factors she had to move to avoid them. All day. Today the position is quite changed. The French still hate the Germans, ani have been almost doitbled in size during long four great grey warships were mor the past few months, and the War Office ng backwards and forwards into posi. fight them, as they will continue to fight has instated vast workshops provided within between transports and the shore, them if need be, for years, but their war

they might one day be in a post- ali the most perfected instruments neces

drawing the fire of the Turkish batterice fare is not now more truceless or more bit on to sury to the construction of aeroplanes

upon themselves, and away from the ter than that of the British, Before the tion to bargain for the return of their transports..

einking of the sitaria there was along colonies in the Pacife and elpowhere.

A year ago the French, assisted by the It is here that the famous six-cylinder

For the Australian navy bridging train the line a lot of live-and-let-live procesimal Eritish army were able definitely Beardmore motors are manufactured, with had been sent on quite a separate enter dure; both sides often abstained from to check invading German armis estimal- which our English friends are so just prise from that of the rest of the Austra nagging, and reserved themselves for biged at gå millions strong. The invader proud, are furnished.

These monster lian troops. They were part of the Bri. events. Life at times became quite tolo was stopped apor this line, almost motors, which are water-cooled and move fish force which landed at Surba Bay, on able over long distances. I heard the other by a four-branched propeller, are of 135 the night of August 6th. That force was day of a regiment which held teacher exactly where he still is to-day, He was WELDING AND CUTTING OF METALS BY OXY-ACETYLENE hp. and weigh Bowts. The aeroplanes to distinct one. There were no Austra within 500 yards of the enemy, and suffer stopped by a fores very inferior to his

own numbers and equipment. arresting armies had ever most of the line Estimates given for quick construction and repair of Ships, Engines, bridging train and a certain number of Such quiet, spots are still to be found, but no defence works beyond what could he

Boilers, Railway Rolling stock, Bridges, and all Classes a mean velocity of seventy-six miles picked shots who were afterwards lent to

you would seek for them in vain along the thrown up in the course of that desperate hour.

train snipers. The naval bridging train British linos.

fighting. Since then hundreds of thon- came under the ordem of the officer com What has been accomplished at the third commanding the engineers of the army

ands of men working hard under military discipline have been engaged in defend- factory we visited is not less marvellous corps which landed at Suvia The Royal

ing the opposing lines, New buildings and workshops have been Engineers who were with the corps went erected, the staff has had to be increased straight inland to work on roads and to enormous proportions, amost incredible defences, and the Australian bridging difficulties have successfully been sue train became responsible for all the work. mounted, and the factory is now working of the beach. They became, and have practically ever since, an additional com At, where a few years ago there any of the army corps which first made existed only a few workshops and an aithe Suvla landing. ship hanger, a veritable town has arisen, and is daily attaining larger. poportions.

The first work of the bridging train was There are offices where hundreds of draughtsmen and engineers are at work to get into position a jetty composed of

wires. From without respite; immeno workshops have barbed

that moment been built where the most perfected, for awards they were up to their waists in midable and costy machines are construct water landing stores and explosives, ed, and there are innumerable hangers worth shore of the bay, until the bridging ixing up further piers all round the where aeroplanes may be placed in pos:quipment which eft Australia prepared tion by the hundred.

for the Rhine, or whatever rivers the Six years ago forty workmen were alarmy came across, had found its final use ployed here; to-day 3,000 men and women in the making of a busy harbour. are at work day and night. The output of

It has not been done without loss of machines at present is sevenfold that which was attained at the beginning of the life-that reaches every part of this cam war, Here moters are built up piece by pign. The whole of the work has

been done within range of the Turkish understanding with the enemy. Only piece, and tested; and wings are covered shrapnel, within sight of the Turkish an enemy which is very sure of itself col and varnished by women workers with n observers. The men here, too, told me lectively and individually will deliberately TREMENDOUS ARTILLERY WORK special varnish that renders them immune that, so far as they were concerned, the decide to make trench warfare as hot na from deterioration by exposure to weathe Turk had played the game. On the third possible all the time. Best of all, perhaps Mr. vou Wiegand, the American war morning of the landing a very big job such tactics tell their own good story of correspondent, cabling to the New York STARS IN THE AIR.

had to be done in very quick time. There gua, munitions, and other equipments A little further is an airship henger care a message from the chief hospital The pace can only be forced by a great World on November 4, says the great which has been transferred into a general saying that nearly 300 wounded were outpouring of resources,

battle for Gorizia, on the Doberdo Pla- tean, began two days ago. The weather storehouse where aeroplane wings of all awaiting to be taken off, and asking. shapes are arrayed by the hundred side by "Can Australian bridging train erect a

conditions were probably unexampled on The train at once side, together with thousands of steel pontoon for us?"

But the British soldier is very good-tem. any other front. It raised in torrents tubes. On the other side is an immense made up the pontoon into rafts, and as perod and gentlemanly in his hate, Even for two weeks, and the low-lying places on the ridge of the plateau, and have experimenting hall, in which an enormous them ashore themselves with care for a today, with terrible memories to stir him, along the Isonzo were seas of mud, advanced somewhat at terrible cost, but Monday, 20th Dec --

there were no pinaces available, pulled

which were often hip deep in places, their progress elsewhere has been unap- Albatross captured from the Germans ex-distance of a mile and a halt The khaki he continues to fight smiling. His manner tends its bullet-pierced wings.✨

colour of the pontoon probably made the is still reserved, even a little detached; he while the trenches, which had been preciable. Desperate fighting is taking in the hangars where are installed the and they shelled them.

A few steps further on we find ourselves Tarks think they were filled with troops, still gives you the impression that whilst binsted through the rock, were converted place on the slopes of San Michele

But the raft he is making life in the German trenches into mountain torrents. Into this mess Fogdora, and San Sabatino, which types of latest construction and of the ut reached the shore and within 20 minutes as hideous as possible, he has time for the Italian batteries poured a hail of take means the loss of Gorizia. San Ho comes ont shell and shrapnel day and night. The Michele is known as the Mountain of most perfection. Here is the R.E. 7, the of touching it a jetty 130 yards long, had thought of other things.

which lie in front of the⠀ Austrian repid biplane already seen elsewhere, with been put together, anchored, and connect with great zest still to his cricket and foot- concentrated Italian artillery was splen- Corpses, from the heaps of Italian dead

didly served, and it surpasses anything its machine gun in front and we ingenious od up, and the hospital ship ball in the shell zone behind the trenches. I have seen, even when the Germans trenches, and into which a hall of shells ly arranged that the airman is enabled to embarking wounded from it before the the sniper laughs in a shamefaced way as smashed their way through the Russian is flung, rending and bearing and throw- fire while remaining under complete ahel last bays wore fixed. Near that pier a red he tells you that he shot a German through fines. These who participated in the ing fragments of long dead bodies in all ter. There is the B.E. 2 C, the famous bi-cross flag was pat up. The Turks shel- the chest that morning, "and as he did not battles on the Russian front declare that directions. The picture is beyond in-

agination in ghastliness and stench. plane whose automatic stability is obtain led it, and afterwards sent a letter apolo move for seven minutes I reckon he was they were child's play compared to this.

The Archduke Joseph. estimates that ed solely through the design of the magising for doing so, but saying that they

dead."

over 10,000 unburied dead are in front of chine, and not by the use of a stabilising to pass along the beach through the with laughter at the recollection of getting must shell it again if troops were allowed

The young R.F.A. luctenant shouts

hig lines. He also states that the Italians apparatus.

The Doberto Plateau and a portion fighting is increasingly improving. They The English pilots call this the father ground which this flag covered.

fairly among an enemy supply column on

of Monte Pogdora is called hell, and the charge with great elan and the shock is of the family" aeroplane. It is, however, The shell fire has meant a certain num an exposed road. There is the semblance name is justified. General Cadorna, the greater than the Russian charges, but if Barometer none the less a terrible engine, for it is ber of casualties fortunately few-four

of a guie on the staff officer's face when Italian commander, is concentrating 1,500 the charge is withstood the Italians They

Temperature constructed to carry, together with it killed, and, I think. 10 wounded.

he warns us that a certain road in the guns and the full weight of the army quickly retire, while the Russians more Bamidity an motor, weighing some 6-cwt, a larg them in the way that has become familiar have taken their luck when it fell against

Vores district is constantly shelled; and against the plateau of Gorizia, on a front on until they are shot down. The Italiane ind Dirretios bomb,

he adds, "That is all I need say about not exceeding 19 miles. The bravery of some days fire 70,000 shelle and shrapnel. Foros We saw many other things which it

at Anzac An able seaman named Atkin-

it, you can go that way if you like." We the mon is unbelievable, and the endur- until the rocky surfaces look as if they Weather ... would be indiscreet at present to describe one of the piers One of his legs had son was hit by a shell while on duty near

sit with a brigadier in the pretty garden ance of the Austrians under indescriba bad been shaved with a gigantic razor. Fain and we carried away a profound impres been blown away, but be sat up and asked of ble headquarters, Pears and phims ble conditions beyond imagination, and Sapping and mining in the rocky ground sion of the extraordinary progress which the doctor for a cigarette... Well ripen on the walls; the sun shine bright-revises the widespread idea that the Aus is practically impossible. The effces of has been made in British aeroplane con doctor he said, I'll have to sell lys the guns are momentarily still; but trians will not fight well unless under the shell fire is more terrible, as it hurls

German officers.

showers of rock, which crush the men. for some fresh damage to be seer upon a peanuts now in Little Bourke-street."

at its maximum capacity,

struction.

MAKING A HARDO UL,

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One would be well within the mark in saying that in France and Belgium there are upwards of 100,000 miles of trenches of various kinds. Then the transport and means of communication have been per fected to fit in within the defences. The defensive strength on both sides is actual

Every man in the British Army is now out all the time for German blood. The Bosche is getting back his hate, and some thing more. When occasionally there have been changes, and lines have been taken over, the British have sometime found the new ares calm and "healthy," and have within a few days, by their challenging aggressiveness, turned it into a hell. They at once make it dangerous for a German to show himself within a few thousazaly and relatively stronger than it was at yards Upon a line which has been for a the beginning of the year. There is no

pessimism here.. week in the hands of the British you sel dam see & German. Men who have been bera since Christmas, in and out of the trenches all the time, have in most casp never had a glimpse of the enemy. The selves, but the sniping is soo deadly for the kill him daily, and suffer casualties them least exposure.

Our men are forcing the fighting in tha treaches; the whole line increases in acti vity and deadliness, apart altogether from the big attacks. You have to know what trench conditions are to appreciate how great is the temptation to acquieses în an

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Every man knows that victory is sure. If the But there is a square of facts. decision in the war is to be reached on this western front, the British Empire must be prepared for a long and heavy patience, its full sacrifice, and its grin job. The army sets us the example. Its yet amiling fighting day by day and month by month are superb.

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The Italian conflict, he continues, ap- pears to be greatly under-estimated, w pecially with regard to its bearing upon the general situation of the Central Powers il General Cadorna takes Gorizia and Trieste. On the Isonzo the Austrians have held lines for six months against three to one odds.

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