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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2187, 1918,

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Dr & Mrs. Marriot Mr D. MoMurray MY H. V. Mokoen Mr J. Moreckl

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Moorhead Mr & Mrs W.

Neighbour

Mr A. Nissim

Mra Nissim

Mr.E. G. Norman

Mr J. Ormiston Mr Jas. Ormiston

THE GRAND FLEET.

VISIT TO THE EMPIRE'S SURE changed her best dress for working rig

SHIELD

READY FOR THE DAY."

BY LOOPE CORNFORD"] When one has been acquainted with the Fleet for a generation or so in time of peace, suddenly to bobold it in time of

WAR TRAINING OF CHIFE" ORAWA, What has happend is that the ship has also The work itself has changed but little. Part of the drill, and exercises, which are called evolutions, instead being evolutions are constant conditions. Instead of being praction for war they aru practice in war. Part of the peace routine has been aholished or preter witted; thers in less of the work that makes the ship ornamental. Bear in mind that neither officers nor men get leave.

CONCEALING DEFEAT.

GERMAN CHAMPAGNE ATTACKS EXPLAINED.

The following despatch has been receive hom Mr. H. Warner Allan, the Special Correspondent of the British Press wi the French Armies :----

Since the offensive of September 35

According to prisoners' statements, the troops had been informed that the Emperor would be at Sedan during the battle; they were also told that they were about to take part in a very important en- gagement: The average company effective. was about 200 men, and among the soldiers there was a very considerable proportion of old men, recruits of the 1915 contingent, and men of the untrained Landsturm pany, and the battalions were commandel There was only one officer to each com by a captain or an oberleutnant. Of three Btellvertreter captured, one was a former ron-commissioned officer, aged forty-eight,

officer of the activo army, of unhealthy ap depót; a scoond, was a non-cununissioned

war is like meeting a soldier newly roA couple of days in the year, por and the succeeding days in Champa who till then had been stationed in the

The men com***

MSI Mr & Mrs E. V. D. and ragged, the mud of Flanders oaked stand zuything, and the sailors encounter enemy's part to recover a part of the plained that during the attacks their of..

Mr. Chootham

| Miss M. Clarke

Mrs Cornelingsen and

child

Mr.N. Crouchior Mrs F. E. Davis. Med. Delcaire Mr J. Dewar Mr F. B. Doug isen Miss M. E. Duffy Mi J. E. Edvards Capt J. W. Evans MF Wallace maloy Mr Finney

A.C. Mr. James Finley Dr G. A. L. Fitz

williams

Mr A. Ganier

Mr & Mrs H. George

Mr J. Gith

Mr V. Gouldtourz Mr & Mrs J. Gould Mr B. Grundy Mr &

turned from the trenches, You know not more. There are opportunities for Kwhat he is; you may meet him anywhere exercises on shore, football or route-

now. But a year or less ago, he plunged marching, that is all. Certain rules have and Artois the most important engage B. gaily into the troop train, serone of coun- been made which bring the sailor-sea-ments on the French front have been Gor

tenance, smartly uniforma, raw stuff men, Royal Marines, stokers-under much

Then upon the same conditions of life as the con un counter-attacks in Champagne. It paranos, and the third was suffering going into the furnace.

there emerges upon the dull turmoil ditions to which the pugilist conforms probable that these counter-attacks, of from a malady of the heart. The two last of civilian streets, the wild, bright, and when he is training for big one which the principal were unside of Cetober. Lad until a few weeks before boon to se figure of a fighting man, yellow-brown sailors are in high training, and for theeth and November 4th, will be followedtain the recruits in the depots as being cers remained in their shelters or shanimed from head to foot, his uniform stained same reason. Men in high condition can by similar desperate attempt, on the tufit for native service..

1st ground and of his lost prestige, and upon his boots. He has been through the their two adversaries, monotony and

received from an authorized source wiian Division had suffered very severely

in Bussib, and the moral of its men hai Mr&Mrs E. T. Pitcher fire. Such an one I saw come out from uncertainty, with an indomitable chear the following information which I have illness the day before. The Fourth Prus- Mr & Min G. Dthe railway station of a Northern town on Fulreas that is perpetually victorious.

The Admiral and his Flag-captain have enable anyone who reads the official com & rainy, misty morning, and people stop Fitzipior Mr & Mrs A. Perten ped to shake him by the hand: all sorts both served under one of Queen Victoria'snum ques to realize the German position bon affected. In January, 1916, the 4th Mr & Mrs G. U. of people; clerk, and shawled women, and Admirals; one of the officers who, when and to understand how those spasmodic Company of the 49th Regiment was before Frager and sbild portly business men, and pretty girls, they entered the Navy, were taught their forts are forced upon the enemy by sheerWarsaw, and was only 28 men strong; it Carpathians, where it was seven times re Mr. A. W. Prior and dear old ladies in black silk. You trade by the men who had served under necessity and are a sign of weakness rather was made up to 80 men and sent to the inforced. Thirty-five men were frozen to the admirals and captains of Nelson's than strength. would not see the like in the South.. Mr & Mrs

During the actual battle of Champagne death in the Carpathians, and on May time, or under Nelson himself; and whose like the next generation will not know. The Admiral in question was a great the Germans, overwhelmed by the splendid 1th it was before Przemysl only 47 maa seaman, a glutton for work, sparing work of the French artillery and the bril-strong. No wonder that the spirit of ta

The quite unable to attempt any counter- neither himself nor anyone else. He never ant dash of the French infantry, wer thought of anything but work sailors invented a brief name for him attack on a large scale, though such an which embodied that inflexible charactempt was the only possible measure of teristic. He is gone from the sea, but his defence that could have been effective in pupils remain. There they are, in the the face of so vigorous an attack. The the utmost that they could do was to throw flagship, which is somewhere on

a point at forward a few partial counter-attacks of Northern sea, tempered to which they know that, whatever befall, 20 purely local nature at the points where were most seriously threatened. work can be harder than the work they they have done. Like all other admirals and sens to accomplish this they were forcel captains, they live in a perpetual shot, break up their big reserve units and to storm of signals, which arrive out of the throw hastily into the branches that open void by day and by night. The lieute

Raymond Mr E.H.Ray Miss F. Reay Mrs Reardon Mr. Reed Mr W. J. Roberta Mr J. H. Rale

Mr Salle

Mr F. H. Sawyer

Mr W, F. Schroder

The Fleet, or a part of the Fleet, is somewhere up North. It has been there fer some time; and may be there for some time yet. The general public, rather a pathetic body just now, somewhat like a flock of sheep in the market-place, hasin kind of warm, comfortable feeling that the Floet exists somewhere up North and that is all. Or to be more exael, perhaps the mental image presents some Mr & Mrs J. R. Shawdim reflection of great ships in a har Mra Shooker

bour and other ships cruising here and there. No letters from the front, no series of pictorial despatches from privileged correspondents, enlighten the public, They have heard a good deal about sea-power, and unassailable supre macy (an Asquithian catchword), and so

nourishing.

Mr T. W. SimmonA

Capt H. Sin pson Mr & Mm L. Sicstedt Mrs M. Slade

& Mrs W. A. Mr. Statley Emith

Mr W. H. Smith Mr T Serby

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Mr. F. Hartman

Mr & Mrs T. Hallward

Mr W. J. Haynes Hr W. Heyllem Mr A. Hicke Mrs A. E. Hodgens Mr W. J. Hodge Mr A. H. Hifmeister

Mr L. G. Holgate Mr J. S.C. Hunt

Mr Robert Huster

Capt R, Loree

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After the failure of October 30th and

31st the Germans on November 4th attemp

another attack; it was of the same nature as that already described, but it as made with smaller forces and on a less extended front. The front extended about one mile, from the wood cost of the Ouvrage de la Defaite to the Caterpillar e an objective was the recapture of Hil Wood, east of Chausson farm. The Gof- 99, Ment Tetn, the highest point of the Plateau of Massiges. After the usual

forth; very well in their way, but not nant-commander in charge of signals based in their line bodies of men detach bombardment the enemy got a footing in

4,000 AUXILIARY SHIPS.

Let as listen, first of all, to the Admiral, for he speaks as one having authority. More. He spenky as one who since the outbreak of war, has accomplish- ed one of the greatest works of organi sation among the naval achievements which have still to be recorded. That matter he does not mention. But beyond him, whence the cold. light falls upon him as he stands with his hack to the glowing stove, looming through the rain and mist an ordered array of ships mutely witness to his work.

information. poured over him without cessation, Sheaves of the white forms intrude upon his plate as he sits at meat, are thrust into his hand as he goes on deck, follow him wherever he is in the ship, and fill his cabit.

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Only the Admiral and the Paymaster, who is the Admiral's scoretary, know the vast tags of detailed information, in- structions, and routine connected with a squadron with which they daily wrestle. Tho volume and extent of what is known as paper-work are inconceivable to the layman. And all the time the flagship It is the first time, in the northern and the rest of the squadron, are either theatre of sea wariare, that an admiral at sen or ready to put to sea instantly has addressed the British public. He time of pease senior officers occas- sionally obtain a little leisure. In time

none at all,

from their main organization of brigads, division, or army corps, in accordance not with a fixed plan, hut with the require ments of the moment.

CAUGHT NAPPING.

the first line tronches north of Mont Totu; few small sections, by the French counter- he was driven out again, except from a attacks, despite his use of burning liquidi.

ENCOURAGING TO THE ALLIES. These engagements may be considered as

most encouraging nature. To con his defeat the enemy was bound to attack, and he has brought up sufficient reinforcements to make it probable thes ring the next few weeks he will repeat, Thorks to h's costly and unprofitable. un experiment that he has already found" atillery and suffocating shells bo may o a footing in the first French line, but his infantry is: incapable of making the most

of such an advantage, as the French in- On October fantry did last September.

tells them that upon the cutbreak of war of war they get none at all, absolutely at the German check in Champagne hath and 31st me Germags attacked what

the Admiralty found it necessary to add to the Fleet some 2,000 vessels of the mer.

The porthole frames a soubre picture cantile marine, for transport, supply, and victualling purposes; that, in addi- of tawny sea and the gaunt lighting tion to this great auxiliary feet, another shapes of ships, mear and for, fading into numbering about: 2,000 vessels, was mist. Within every one goes forward the requisitioned for mine sweeping, patrol sume composed and incessant cou, like and despatch work. That these immense the steady burning of a fire. Far away increases, drawn mainly from the mer in the haze a round eye of flame opens, chant service, should impress the country shuts opens, stares, shuts. More signals. with some idea of the value of that Looking back from the deck of the splendid service, the mercantile marino. torpedo-boat one sees the flagship tower- Mr O. E. Richardson That as to the Fleet itself, wherever it ng high upon the curtain of lowering Rer. & Mrs C. Emight be, it occupied a strategical posi-cloud Little black figures stand beside tion which enabled it to keep effective the rail; groups of men, working amid the guard upon whatever movement, in what formidable fabric of steel, dwindle as the quarter soever, the enemy might design torpedo-boat recedes; a hoist of flags, That the Fleet conducted sweeping opera discoloured by the rain, slides up the Lions throughout the North Sea, and that halliards; above, the wireless kites make since the action of January 24th no symmetrical cobwebs on the sky German man-of-war, other than smal eraft, bad been observed.

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CHART OF LOST SUBMARINES.

The German High Command had been caught napping, and their men, hurri!. into battle, not as units of a define organization, but hapazard and confused as chance required, were the first to per ceive that their leaders had failed them The moral of the Army suffered severely, and to restore at a well-planand, methodi cat attack, which would give fresh con Ruence to the troops, was an absolute neces sity. A fow local successes, the recovery one or two of those points which the communique have made famous, would en- able the German authorities to declaro been wiped out, and the German publ would forget the extent of the defeat and the heavy losses in men and material. It 13 probable that the enemy also hopes by is activity to retain as many men as

gered the French line on the west and on possible on this front, and thereby to in- de the despatch of troops to the aid of For these reasons the Germans withdreihe south. What they actually achieved-a Berbia, a number of divisions from the Russia front, and, thanks to these reinforcemen 3, are able to prepare for operations on a ernsulerable scale. There are still some of ese divisions which have not taken part in the counter-offensive, and it is therefore probable that though their efforts have to fa proved extremely disappointing they have not yet abandoned their plan, and a more engagements of a similar chara

are to be anticipated.

prisoners

as presumably the wearest portion of tho French line, since it was the most recently.

Their purpose, was An riedly fortified. taken from the enemy, and the most hur carry the defences of Tahure Hill and the... Toothbrush Wood, and consequently ip ture the village of Tahure between the tw

hills. Such a success would have endan

e mere capture of the top of Tahure Fill-is utterly out of proportion to the effort made, and it is noticeable that on: the second day, the 31st, the German at. ticks met with no success whatever, German infantry had reached the limit of its endurance, and after its heavy losses could not be brought back to the attack.

Tho

THIN MEN AND WOMEN.

HERE'S A SAFE EASY WAY TO GAIN 10 TO 30 LES. OF SOLID, HEALTHY, PERMANENT

FLESH.

For and near are ships, and still ships; ranks of battleships, ranks of cruisers, col- great cruisers and lesser cruisers;

Even after the main assaults of Septem hiere, their derricka rigged like V's on Facing the Admiral, pinned upon a either side of the masts; supply ships; her 25th and October 5th the French con The store ships, nameless cargo boats; the tinued to make progress in the district board, was a tracing of a chart. diagram was spotted with red and sown low, very long, orowded decks of des between Tahure and Le Mesnil. Thus on with noughts and crosses in blue. The troper leaders the orderly array of des- Cetober 29th in an attack on the Courtine red dots marked fishing vessel, and others troyers, with their parent ships stationed an advance of over 10 yards was mad sunk by hostile submarines. The other at intervals; torpedo-boats; more colliers; with insignificant losses (three killed, signs denoted the fate of the said sub- more supply ships; more store ships; thirty slightly wounded, 267 marines. The admiral, having explained here and there a lightship, swinging were taken), while the enemy's losses in

Thin, nervous, undeveloped men · and and that the chart was out of date, but that pallid lamp in the fading light; always, killed and wounded amounted to nearly

women everywhere are heard to say, " it conveyed na accurate notion of the at one point or another, the round oyo of 200 men. Four counter-attacks attempt l that night failed completely, and the Ger-

can't understand why I do not get fat. submarine warfare, observed that the flame winking signals. Germans admitted the loss of forty-three On a desolate sea, under a droopingmans, to check the French advance, dooi.!

I eat plenty of good, nourishing food, The reason is just this: You cannot get submarines, which estimate, said the sky, in the slanting ran driven by aed to try an offensive on a large scale.

People admiral, was not an overstatement of the bitter wind there is the Fleet,

This counter-attack was made along a fat, no matter how much you eat, unlese have seen the Fleet at Spithead, dressed front trenches of the Vistula to the Cour your digestive organe assimilate the fat There was one ship, said the admiral over all with flags, glittering in the sun-fine, and it was preceded by an extreme-making elements of your food instead of whose name might be mentioned to, tad light, rolled in the smoke of salotingly heavy bombardment, in which asphy passing them out through the body es world, including Germany, without in dis guns; the waterway stretching far as eye

What is needed is a means of gently cretion. That ship was the Tiger, battles can see between the spired vessels, busrating and tear-producing shells playe waste cruiser. It seems that the Germans con with yachts and populous with boats, a very important part, It was particular tinge to believe that she is no more. A They have not seen the same Fleet, strip-y severe on Tahure Hill, Toothbrush urging the assimilative functions of the visitor could, however, satisfy himself of per for instant action, in time of war; its Wood, and the Mamelles. The infanter stomach and intestines to absorb the oils menace that attacks were made sucoessively against and fats and hand thom over to the blood, more existence holding a her existence by walking on her deck Neutral naticus might be reassured. keeps the world in check its long school different points of the front and not in where they may reach the starved, shrun- The French troops The thin person's body is like a dry Thus the admiral, doing his kindly besting put to the trial; hard at work day catinuous line, as in the French assault ken, run-down tissues and build them up. in the midst of an unresting day, which and night, cruising, exercising, patrol- of September 25th, begins at five in the morning, to tell the ling, hunting submarines (a most popular Eid suffered severely frem asphyxiating sponge, eager and hungry for the fatty by the failure of the alimentary canal to country what can be told under diffical: sport), overhauling merchant ships, lurk as, and the enemy succeeded in reaching materials of which it is being deprived take them from the food. The best way conditions. The present writer has done ing in the depths of the sea; and still the top of the hill.

to overcome this sinful waste of flesh- his best to convey these general but withal preoccupied with the one question:

building elemente and to stop the leakage significant indications. There is no public When?

In modern warfare the top of a hill is of Eats is to use Bargol, the recently dis- in the world less avid of illegitimata news than the British public; none more

a rule untenable so long as the enemy covered regenerative force that is recons heartily grateful for a message from the

helds the receding slope, which affords a meaded so highly by physicians here and almost impossible target for the artillery abroad. Take two little Sergol tablets sailors, which is like shaking the hand of an old, tried, taciturn friend.

and the French still hold the slopes of with every meal and notice how quickly Tahure Hill, Consequently the result your cheeks fill out and rolls of firm, these violent attacks of October 30th is healthy flesh sre. deposited over your following day endeavoured to retrieves jecting pointe

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No one can answer that question, or, rather, there are various answers. Some think that the German feet mayoms out; others think that it may not. It would be as useless to prophesy definitely one way as the other. So the question re mains: When t

The

AN INCONVENIENT QUESTION.

THE TOP OF A HILL

A HILL

the eastern extremity of the Courtine was driven back by hand grenades. Other attacks made at noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p on Tahure village, on the eastern extremi ty of the Toothbrush Wood, and or the crat north-east of Tabute respectivels were eut short with heavy loss to the chemy by the tire de barrage of the French artillery. Three hundred and fifty-six prisoners (including three officers) wer taken. With this complete failure th German offensive came to an end.

Who is this? Of course, no one knows. He wears two and a Half stripes now. When we last met he wore one, and the As the dusk thickens a destroyer glides squadron was of Flores in the Azones, from her moorings, then another, and where Sir Richard Grenville lay, and another. The wind is rising, the fog forth, and where His Majesty's ship Ther blows cold, the rea is getting up. which was not her name) also lay, 1 destroyers curve into their course, and At 6 am.. on October 31st an attack on having gone wrong in bez inside. That their pace quickens, and presently they was long ago, when the Fleet was practis- are gone.-Daily Graphic,

again. ing for what might be. Good-bye Once mere the familiar picket boat, throbbing banks the water in her wake, and the familiar figures of the seamen, helmed and cloaked in cilskins, balance on the narrow ledge of deck, and pre- sently fend off from the accommodation ladder of the flagship, on the top of which stands the officer the watch. was a time when the great ship, shone like jewel: her paint-work immaculate, her

decks white. her bright-work gleaming, Now ber tell sides are sea-stained; there Now, boys," he said, don't be shy; it's your turn now, Ask me any question not a wink of bright-work anywhere the forecastle is cumbered with gear; the you like on any subject yon like, and if

decks. I car I'll answer it.'** wat runs dark from the slippered with After hesitating, a small but courage pictures, adorned with silver, and em- ong boy het up his hand and blurted out bellished with out flowers are stripped to "Why are you not in khaki 1" the white bulkheads. So is the ward- room. All over the ship men in soiled, working rig are being drilled,

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A school inspector, who did not look beyond military age, got a Roland for his There Oliver the other day. He invited a class he was examining to pat questions to him (Mr. Gossip says in the Daily Sketch).

The German forces which took part in it were roughly speaking equivalent to a army corps,

One Prussian division, brought back from Russis, which had entrained for France at the begining of October.

Four Reserve regiments which had already teen in action on the Western

No answer was given as they say font. Parliamentary reporte

One company of Pioneers.

GERMAN PLAN FOR FLEET BABE

AT: NEW YORK.

Assistant Federal-Attorney Woods an- nounces that he has over one hundred witnesses to testify that the ITamburg- American Line clearing house distributes huga sumy to German Consuls for pro- paganda purposee in America.ja

The directors planned to make New York the headquarters of a feet to raid. the Allies' shipping