OUR - DARDANELLIS DIFFICULTIES.
WISDOM AFTER THE EVENT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23RD, 191D,
WAR NEWS,
ENGLISH FAMILIES AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH THE NAVY.
In his account of a visit to the Grand
It has been left to an American to tell me all about the Dandanelles why we fail Fleet, Mr. Archibald Hurd comments on ed and the full measure of our failure. the fact that there are sailors serving in it Captam Granville Fortescue, formerly of who no believed to have bad direct an the U.S.A. Cavalry, and Aide-de-Camp to President Roosevelt, has put down the repert." A still more remarkable caso is cestors serving in it under Prince Ru aults of his observations, and these will that of the Seymours, who have been re- be published in book form by Messrs. Hod-presented in the navy ever since 1844. der and Stoughton, under the anterroge There are other naval officers belonging to tory title of "What of the Dardanelles such families as the Parkers, Scotts, Hat Captain Fortescue saw the Gallipoli hams, Watsons, and Bedfords, which have campaign from the Turkish side, as war supplied men to the senior service for over correspondent of the International News two centuries without a break Byndicate of America; but in setting a right estimato of the value of his unre- strained criticism it is necessary to remind British readers that his previous war writ ings have not seemed to be entirely free from a friendly bins on the side of Ger many and her joint conspicators.
ALUNDER NOW 1
Britain's "intial blander" in the Dar danellos, we are told, was in having no hand attack planned in conjunction with the naval assault:
GERMAN SUBMARINE LOSSES.
OUR IRON WALLE.
MR HURD ON THE FLEET.
way
could count on using all the seay to their ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO SELL advantage, drawing from them every- thing they required.
ILL-FOUNDED CALCULATIONS.
ARMS IN SHANGHAI
TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND GERMAN
RIFLES Fivhte
ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF AMMUNITION
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 22nd at 11.55 am.The Mongolian doyrewsion: bas moved nostward. It is now? certaal over N. Japan,
An anti-syolone has formed over Chion, and premare gradients are steep in all directions,
Proszara has decreased slightly in toathern diairiot.
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Were their calculation ill-founded i | There is no better of concealing In one particular they were. They the truth than to uso trite phrases which sumed with confidence that the British have passed into everyday speech. They They were wrong. That one error of
Fleet would take no part in the war
pression on the mind; no one pause to mans the victory they believed, in thecember 15th, before Mr. Grant Jones are so familiar that they make little in- judgment made all the difference. It is more than probable that it cost the Get-
At the Mixed Court, Shanghai, on De think what they mean. Just now in all last days of July, 1914, to be within their British Assessor, and Magistrate Yu, Yu the Allied countries there is talk of the grasp. Why 1 When the war broke out Ching-foo, Tong Yong-thang, Char Abu command of the sea. Who stops to con- was almost in the proportion of two to Too Ling vi and Thaung Tsung
the relative strength of the British Navy chau, aider what the words mean? Who ever one in comparison with that of Gerber 2nd, attempted to sell firearms in the
having, on Decom calculates what the cost in human life many Think what that meant. All the Settlement, without having obtained a conditions at sea were instantly revere licence from the Municipal Council to and treasure would have been had the ed. German hopes were doomed when the do so, and, farther, with conspiring to Allies not had command of the sea1 Germans anticipation as to the use which keep rifles without official permission.
proved unfounded.
v prosecution, Mr. G, D. Alusso watched the case on behalf of the Chinese Government, and Mr. H. D. Rodger defended one of the accused
If there is one thing for which the Nare/ Who, again, ever examines the facts to would be made of the British Navy Mr. K. E. Newman appeared for the
justly entitled to congratulate itself it is the manner in which it has coped with the submarine difficulty, anys a correspondent. The unexported seagoing powers of the problems which the Navy was acted upon to meet. For a short time the German U bont worked have with our merchant shipping. The Navy got at grips with the Did the originator of the action believe enemy, and has never looked back. It that the font alone could fores the pass-grip has tightened until the last few gs and capture the land forts by the same manœuvre? Were there no land forces avilable? Under such conditions the naval assault should have been post poned.
It is obvious to any student of this campaign that the British command start- ed out with an imperfect know edge of the conditions which confronted them." The fow troops in the vicinity of Sedd-u-Bohr and Kum Kale in mid-March would have been a mouthful for two resolute divi- sions.....
It is the lack of foresight shown be the mine that conceited the plan of smashing a channel through to the Black Sea which is appalling. This mind worked either in ignorance of the facts, under serious mis- information, or in absolute contempt for all military and naval procedents. The latter is probably the fact, N
SHIP AND LAND FORTS.
What our American looker-on describes as the second misen culation" deals with the matching of ships against forts. He tells us that before he ever saw the Darda nelles he had been assured that a battle ship stood no chance of running the gaunt let of the forts at the Narrows. Two seu- tral officers who had studied the conditions came to the same conclusion, go that it was to be inferred that the mind that planned the attack on he Dardanelles by sex alone must have acted upon Information hidden from men who had made the problem a study. Unfortunately, if this was the
months have seen almost a throttling of the murderous beast of prey. There exist Admiralty charts which show the precise history of the submarine blockade." Every appearance of an eremy submarine in the North Ben, its career, and its fate are recorded. Those of the spring months are rich in the number of reported appear ances Then with each passing week there have been appreciably fewer reports; the explanation is to be found in the beauti fully growing record of submarines ac counted for, The Navy is reticent as to the numbers as they are silent as to their preciso methods. The German Admiralty admit the loss of over forty of their under- sen craft, but the British Navy is not con- tent to accept even this highly-antisfac· tory figure
E11'S ADVENTURES, HOW SHE SANK A TRANSPORT.
A thrilling account of the deeds of the British submarines in the Sea of Mar mora is given by the American correspon dent Mr. Granville Fortescue in his **Russia
the Balkans
and the Dardanelles a book which is of peculiar value for the light which it sheds on Bal kan affairs and the position in the Galli poli Peninsula. The best story is told by Mr. Swing another American corres pondent, of submarine £11, and how sh Bank the Turkish transport Nagara.
the con- ping tower and grey deck of a is more, the English people were sadly blo zee slowly out of the placid waters. befooled va
As it mented the "Nagara, the America & The one thing demonstrated by the who was the only one on board who could naval action was the strength of the Tur-speak English, was bastly appointed kish defoners. The result filled the Ger-interpreter. When the submarine came man commanders and the subordinate awash four men appeared from the steel Turkish officers manning these defences Interior One wore white sweater with a confidenos no development has since Nagara
his hands as a megaphone be hailed been able to disturb. The whole operation was as unfortunato as it was unnecessary. Who are you?.. I' going to sink to sink
case, that mind was misinformed. What Not a hundred yards awayabmersi
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Why do the Germans hate the British people more than French or Russians What course, for instance, would the It is not because of the wealth of Eng. war have taken if the British feet bad land, or her trade or her colonies, or her Mr. Newman said that the cash was one stood by, had not intervened in the strug en-it is because the British Fleet eo known.
shipping, or her armies of 3,000,0000 of the most difficult that he had ever The first two were carrying on gle? The naval situation at the moment decisively turned the scale that from the negotiations quite apart from the other
date of the British ultimatum when Germany determined to trample on £300,000,000 which the enemy had spent and treated with the police agent who CBINA
the three, but they ultimately met together Europe's freedom was not a little remark on naval expansion became profitless, eventually effected their arrest. An in- able. By means of successive naval acts, owing to the majesty of the greatest gen received, met four of the defendants. Germany realized as in a flash that, terpreter of the Central Police Station, the Germans had so completely outdia power, she could not obtain the rich
in consequence of certain information tanced all the other continental Powers dividends from her naval expenditure on They were arrested in a tea-shop, and the of Europe in ships of war that, on the which she had counted with complete fifth was apprehended in the mouth of an outbreak of hostilities they, with the confidence. In those fateful days of alleyway. The interpreter had negotia solutely assured of the command of the with the diplomatists of England: brought along the other two. They were operation of Austria-Hungary, were ab July, 1914, German Ministers argued tions with two of the men and they sea, if the British fleet did not move. This is not your quarrel, you are not taken to the Police Station and there they The relation of the four navies is not a Continental Power; leave us to settle made statements which showed that a man generally appreciated. The following matters between ourselves on our side of named Too Ling-yi was the person closely statement showing the ships of the four the North Sea and English Channel, conserned and he was subsequently arrest countries on the outbreak of war reveals and you stand aside and you will be safe, ed. Detective the preponderance possessed by the Cen-in fact, you will be able to ranke buge Tuco, were found th
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we i' The hardships of this Gallipoli campign. Can we get off I piped the journalist on paper than real, and in scouting ships only made our characteristie British pour-
opponents.
GERMANY DEFEATED.
In the present war the two-to-one British feat, with the co-operation of the much weaker but splendidly manned navies of France, Italy and Russia,
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Tsoo (Choo) made a full statement as haiwa) autos Chefoo♪ had signed his statement. In it he also gave the names of two other foreigners with whom he had bad dealings in arms. Kukang Those principals were Germana, one being ganghal
Clangulin called, Young Behratter of Schrotter & Co, B. Kianges Road, and the other Sharp Pack ...
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29 Piscadores Sea command is still exercised by arrested victory from Germany because card of Loescher's which bore the follow-
searched Tsoo's residence and Anding moured shipe and cruisers. In the first it divorced her from the sea. The great ingwritten ca. it: Call at once at line of battle, the Dreadnought class, the English sailor and statesman, Sir Walter my office as I have news for you. odds were 24 to 4 at the outbreak of war; Raleigh, once declared that whosoever Loescher was a German subject and Hothow in the eccond, 32 to 27, but of the Has commands the sea commands the trade Schritter was an Austrian. sian ships several were shut up in the whossover commands the trade of the first prisoner was arrested he wrote out Phalen ***
Before the Baltic. In armoured oruisers the strength world commands the riches of the world. a list of the arms he was prepared to sell Tourna of France and Russia the ships being and consequently the world itself. The the interpreters they were 21,000 Ger- Cape St. Jam
that statement as one of the greatest of of ammunition each, Tia. 62 each: 1,600 journalist mainly obsolescent--was more apparent German Emperor believed profoundly in man rifles, 1898 pattern, and 500 rounds Драг the Central Powers had no mean advant politics] and economic truths. Owing to Browning pistols with magazines to carry Manila age more conspicions. It is not surprising A boat was hurriedly lowered and age. Even if Italy had joined the Powete the British fleet he has learnt that the seven cartridges, and one hundred rounds Lead **** therefore, to find this American officer everybody got in. Then the submarine of the Dual Alliance, Germany and Aus- converse is true. Germany commands no. of smmunition, $62 each; 2,100 Browning upt author paying a passing tribute to our steamed slowly nearer the transport, then tria-Hungary, with strategical advant thing but an army, which because it is
stopped. Buddenly a bubbling line, liko fighting men.
British history, he says, has no more the wake of a racing shark, ran from the of no mean value, would have pcs cut off from the sea must be defeated. He Pistols with magazines capable of holding brilliant rage than the story of the fight bow of 11. Then a deep. prolonged sessed a sufficient: margin against their has seen the ships of his merchant navy, of ammunition each, 807 ench : 600 second.
nine cartridged, and one hundred rounds Batigno second only in size to England's mor band Mauser pistols with 100 rounds ing in the Dardanelles. Thousands of men flame appeared where the transport lay.
roar shook the waters, 4 sheet of orange There would have been no blockade of chant marine, cither destroyed or com each lots of 400 and 30 Brownings at have touched the highest level of heroism When the morning breeze swept this away the North Sea. What of this? it may be pelled to fly to neutral ports; he has seen
various prices, and 15,000 Hanyang milles in the battles that raged back and forth bits of blackened wreckage marked what said. Well, it would have meant that the German commerce strangled, representing almost new with 300 rounds of ammuni
T. E. CLAXTON, Diretor, Boross the cliffs and gorges of Gallipoli. had once been the Vagara."
age marked what adds could, with slight risk, have an enormous loss; he has seen almost all tion onch, Tls: 50 each. Op of the rel of asbe 1 BASOKNTAR, redzoed to 21 dagresa Pahraaba! Bravery is a by word. Self-sacrifice has Eir had a perilously narrow escape on transported troops at any point on the his colonies wrested from him
Evidence was given bearing out the amnistika, become an eagerly sought privilege, No her retreat in the Turkish minefield French coast. The value of superior cen Germany, with a fleet infericy only to opening statement
MEMPERATURE, in the shade, in degases unec an write of the unflinching courage, which blocks the Dardanelles. Rising power in amphilious warfare is the cle- that of England among the navies of the Thomas Francis Morrison, clerk in the Fahrenbaite the unwavering devotion to duty, the un- just above the surface, Commander ment of strategic surprise which it confers world, is imprisoned by British sea British American Tobacco Co., said that 8 BUMIDITÉ,in percentage of antrustion,” thi complaining sufferings of the Allied troops Nasmith made the disconcerting discovery on its possessor. A German army might power, while in Southern watere the be knew Too, had known him for ton in the Dardanelles without being fulsome, that he had run the bow of #if directly have been secretly concentrated at Ham naval forces of France and Italy, with west and had had business dealings with The attacks of the Allied ships were now into the chain that moored a mine. Any burg or Emden on a Saturday and early the assistance of England, have reduced him. He recognized the two papers pro recognised failure. The capture of the saddin jar would mean an inglorious in the following week might have been Austria-Hungary and Turkey to the same duced by Mr. Newman. They referred forts from the land and was, the only end to his adventure With sailor-like landed on some portion of the French condition. The Allies are using the seas to transactions in firearms Taco was face of clotting the passage of the Dar. decision he reversed his engines and coast, taking the French army in the rear-which provide military, and economic to bring the Brearms to the witness to danelles. Obviously a land attack must dived. This manovre disengaged the or flank. The advantage of the Germans strength-almost as though, they were not whom he was to sell them. That was the be tried or the expedition abandoned. Sur- bow, and the submarine pamed out in would have lain in the ignorance un confronted by two of the most consider only transaction he had had with Tsoo prise, one of the greate t elements of suc safety to the fleet, The incident shows avoidable ignorance of the French au- able fleets of the world. They, and not relating to revolvers. It was probably thorities of the spot chosen for disembark the Germans, as the history of the war has true that he was in witness office and cess in military operations, was lost, It the stamp of the English sailormen.
ation. The French fleet would have been revealed, possess the power to land overheard a conversation between himself would seem that the lesson of the Germani
dammunition must be tied up in the Mediterranean by the soldiers when and where they like. They and Schratter. He asked witness whether Mr. Newman-Then I suppose we ein
mensos of Austria-Hungary, and the We are told next, without reserve, that Gorman navy would have had no diffid not the Germans are able to enter he had any arms for sale and whether be put two and two together and presuine They and could sell them for him, it was also true that your principal was Young Schrat- the great neutral markete. culty owing not to superior seamanship, the Balkan crisis comes at an opportune but to superior numbere, in seizing the not the Ger they will inel of the and that Too introduced the two other ter That may or may not g
ships where they And ses Chinese, who wanted the armis delivered time. The evacuation of the Dardanelles command of the North Sea and English per which is the foundation of the con- at Woosung. The dead never went
The Assessor-If the transaction done can now be exaused Ag & military Channel The main itself is no detence fidence of the Allies in victory, England through, Tooo had been engaged in at son should hold back as much.
proper one, I do not see why Mr. Morri necessity. He who pushed the plan can to a country like France, but a menace has contributed just that overwhelming least three attempts to sell arms for the
cape the indictment of his folly. The in the absence of naval protection, for
Witness I don't think it would help gigantic failure, and its cost, 100,000 armies can be moved in these circum-margin of esfety which has rendered the witness and in one attempt to get arms
fifteen years of German naval expansion, for him.
matters very much if I were to give my casualties, will become history."
stances more casily by water than by with all ite grandiose ambitions, a mere Mr. Newman-Where is Schratter I principal away. In spite of the many difficulties of Sir
land.
waste of £300,000,000-New York Herald. do not know, mu
Mr. Newman-When a person uses the Ian Hamilton's army early in June, Cap- Something much more to the point fol-
Are you now prepared
to
say where the words "give away" it usually menus TRADE ADVANTAGE. tain Fortescue consider, that he had a lows a reference to Germany's gaus at.
aring came from T-No because they are that something has been done wrong. gambler's chance of success, based on pos- the moment
not mine. I simply was acting se agent There is nothing wrong here, But that is not all. The Germans sible exhaustion of the Turkish ammuniIt can be accepted as certain that the would not only have obtained this over-
for someone else,"
Then why use the term-That is wa tion. The Turkish Landsturm forces were German General Staff know the whole-whelmingly military advantage, bat
in a p armed with old-fashioned Remington truth about the situation in the Dard would have been able to that of all rifles, and supplies were limited. Here nelles. They know that the Mediterranean French overɛen commerce. Nor again is again we overlooked the Gorman touch.
Expeditionary Force must be withdrawn that all. France and Russia had po * The train this carried me to Constan or it will be exterminated. If it is with-men-of-war of great fighting weight in the tineple had all the second-class compart drawn, it returns to the Western battle outer seas; the Germans were represented ments filled with Germans A glance to line. At the present moment, Germany by some of their most powerful and me they were not soldiers; they were train has her hands full in that zone. She must swift cruisers. What would have been od munition workers on their way to tako prevent this completely organised army the fate of the mercantile marine of over the ammunition factories of Turkey
from reinforcing Sir John French Once France About 10,000 sailing ships and been in As soon as the German system was in- 2.000
touch, as exemplified by the improvements serve suplies
of the defences of the Straits, was forgot stored.
ten when the English commander proposed to get astride of the peninsula.
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Another great disadvantage under which
the Allied staff worked, says the writer,
was the inferiority of their mapa "Until they captured a large meals Turkish staff map of the Gallipoli peninsula they were working in the dark.
GERMANY'S POLICY,
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Obervatory, December 22nd.
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Do you think you were employed as American expression agent for some one else, or have you been. If there is nothing wrong in the trans- hoodwinked into being a sub-agent for action then there is no reason why you someone I think I was a sub-agent; 1 should nos disclose the name of the 1rin- was hoodwinked.
cipal 7--I would not like to disclose his Are you prepsmed to say or not that the name, until I ask him, as I would not supposed principal was a Chinese be like to get him into trouble principst was not a Chinese,
Mr. Newman-Do you claim the rivi- Continuing witness said that he did [Previous On Dats On Dats not know whether those rifles were still lege of a witness. You must answer the questions unless they are such as the court in Shanghai or not there were other may deem likely to disclose your guilt as besides himself. He having done something wrong. Do you agents in the master Bom
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the question. This is a Chinese court and
Mr. Newman- How is it that you have you are a foreign witness. We cannot not heard of the existence of these rifles take proceedings against you, but we can for the last Bionth if the party, who had ask a sister court to examine you upon thes, wanted to get one third of the cash onth and they can force you to do so. down before making the deal? That was
Witness-My principal is J. O. Lewis.
ezsctly why I thought the rifles were not In addition witness said that stand
in existence,
Is
there nothing else to make you think the transaction between
Lewis commenced on September 7th, he that the rites are not nxitenes took Tsoo to be an agent for him He Nothing else,
sugurated, the three principal Turkish slready the Allies have bean distracted anger agent with their TRO factories were turning out enough small German General Staff ank themselves: What the fate of many of them would arms ammunition to supply all the needs Can this manevre bo repeated with suc. have been may be judged from the Barber of the troopa in Gallipoli.!
poss?" King Ferdinand is paid his price,ploits of the Eden, Konigsburg and Temperature The spectator oritio dismisses as of no and the experiment is made, By the at other enemy cruisers before they were Hamidity account the rumour that if certain divi- tack on Serbia Germany hopes to draw destroyed. Russia's merchant ships would wind Diretion. sions had been reinforced at a critical these troops into the Balkan theatre of have shared the same misfortune. moment (after the Suvis Bay landing) war and so destroy their usefulness For the period of the war-how long they might have gained and held a com against the main objective
would it have lasted 1 Russia and France Bain manding position. Turning to the present "If this war is to end in something would have been, to all intents and pur- situation, he says:—
more than in inconclusive draw," says the poses, besieged. Neither country would Sedd-ul-Bahr must be held at all costs. ex-A.D.C. to an officer of the Spanish have been able to use the sea for any pur It is a key position in the Dardanelles. American War, fermany will have to be pose. That condition would have reacted Some dey it may be more important than beaten in France and Flanders When on their military and economic power They would have been in a position to Gibraltar. Holding this point. England ever pressure is brought to boar in this bring in no food, raw materials or mani
Did you see your principal with regard to this matter upon the subpoena being commands the entrance to the Black Ses. zone the far-flung German corps fly back
served on you this morning No For political reasons, the few miles that to it like springs suddenly released Bat Lions The Germans and not the coun
In view of the special conditions creat Why did be try to get you to make have been so dearly won zeross the toe of if the Tueton Staff can induce its on tries of the Dual Alliance, would have the peninsula must be held. This will be posts to exhaust their energies in other the run of the neutral markets of bed by the war, the Gold-mining Commit sile of these rifles if they did not ex no easy task. Sodd-ul-Bahr must be sur Bolds the lost section of France and Bel World for munitions, men and my toe of the Ministry of Trade and Industry I do not know I have given up hope
Life behind the lines of the German has declaced in favour of provisionally of the rides being in existence. plied against a siege. The defences will gium will never be recovered."
armies would have continued mach as have to be consolidated and made im
There is sore significance in the fact under peace conditions. The population suspending the regulations forbidding the Witness again admitted that it was pregnable Winter quarters will have to
that Captain Fortesene's book has been of the German Empire were eager for employment of yellow labour in the mines probably true that Tico overheard the be erected. Hospitals must be built and passed for publication by the British war because they believed that even if of East Siberia and the adoption of mea conversation between himself and Schrat furnished. An enormous amount of re Censor-
Italy joined Russia and France they res to facilitate the transport offer. That conversation was part of the
Chinese workinen to the gold diggings, transaction.
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ould not tell if Lewis were the ultimate principal or only an agent. He did not know why this transaction had wo many agents.
Mr. Grant Jones said the agreed
with the prosecution that the stories told the defendants were incredible. The
the country. They had taken their defendants knew well the state of affairs the country and of the those outside lanes and had seen the possibility Cl making their profit, He found them guilty, but deferred sentence.
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