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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28TH, 1915

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FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.

Mr. C. O. R. Bell, of Midlands Estate, who has been serving as

private fo Gallipoli, has been wounded,

Lieut. R. L. Cuscaden, attached to the End Sikh Pioneers, is leaving India almost immediately for one of the fronts.

ther.

THE "INEVITABLE" WAR,

INTERESTING DISCLOSURE.

LORD KITCHENER'S TOUR. FATAL FANIC ON PASSENGER

STEAMER. FRANK ADMISSIONS IN GERMAN

ENCOUNTER WITH AUSTRIAN PRESS.

SUBMARINE.

REMARKABLE TRIBUTS.

The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Rotterdam writes:-

WONDERFUL ADVANCE.

GREAT FRENCH FEAT OF ARMS IN CHAMPAGNE

VISIT TO THE BATTLEFIELD. The battlefield in Champagne is strange-

The Allahabad Pioneer's Cairo corre pondent gives the following interesting

the Khedival Mail Line, with any unlike others in the border provinces account of the meeting of the s.a. Berolics, Austrian submarine in the Mediterran between Verdan and the Swiss frontier. It is safe to say that no recent single can Allied action has caused more uneasiness the crew of the Sailor Prince, which hau The mnie, have fought_and_manouvre-

The steamer had picked up 32 of to the German General Command in been sunk a few hours previously by a estimating the probable development of submarine The captain of the Borollas where may of prace have ploughed and over and among fields and hills and woods.. "MEUT," "V." "D," "K, CRADDOCE,

uffxity in the Near East than the sonding hoisted signa's stating that his was a In a letter received from "Lieut. V. of Lord Kitchener to the new theatro of passenger steamer and that he had women they have made roads and built houses harvested and sown and reaped, where D. K. Craddock, dated November 3rd, great prominence to it, and have specuing shots were fired by the submarine, the thunder and destruction of the battle, war. The German newspapers have given and children on-board. Two more warn and churches, and where now, through all the following passage occurs-You will fated in a score of directions as to its which was approaching fast. The cap- they have gone on living their ordinary be surprised to bear I have run across clearly what great importance is attached but, as she still continued on her way,

moaning in a manner which indicates tain was trying his best to stop his ship lives. Lewis (Lewis Craddock, of Hongkong, at his intervention. In no instance havo although her propellers had ceased revolv just paid to the battle line in compa

During a three days' visit which I havo cousin who has been in the trenches since they attempted, as has been done in reing, the submarine fired a shell anrüse last April); and he was quite surprised to gard to every other move on the Allied her bows, the projectile falling. about the thought of the contrast never left me, with a few other English correspondents side, to treat it as a negligible matter twenty yards beyond and raising an see me. We have been in the same The most striking instance of this attiecrmous jet of water. The firing of this writes the special correspondent of The trenches that ho has been in, so you se

tude is an article in the latest issue of shell started a panic amongst the pasion-Time, from Champagne. the Berliner Tageblatt, in which a re-gers, who thought the submarine was the world is quite a small place after markable tribute is paid to Lord Kit going to sink the ship. A rush was made ed by the advance would be en affair of To examine the whole of the front cover- all. He showed me all the best tea places chener, likening him to Wellington as the for the boats, which were speedily filed, weeks, but the three functions of the left, here and we also went to a gonosrt toge embodiment of the military spirit of the but just as they were being lowered over centre, and right which we visited, near

British people.

The following are quota- the side the native members of the crew Auborive, Souain, and Massiges, were tions from one of the frankest and most made a dash for them and cutting the quite enough to give one a real idea of I met Lewis again yesterday after-clear-minded articles that have appeared ropes, jumped in them as they dropped the huge difficulties which the French had

in th. Germain Press;---,

into the water. All the passengers were noon, he was just going into the trenches. "Nothing is more stupid. than to under-thrown into the sea and the terrible scene prepared for the attack and the extra- to face, the thoroughness with which they estimate an adversary, and when England was accentuated by the darkness that had ordinary courage and dash with which sends her best military man to the district set in and by the fact that some of the they set about it. in which possily the war will be decided Levantine passengers still we have overy reason to examine this board started to throw their children into remaining on

On the extrenie left and right, at man, his capabilities, his determination, the we'er and follow suit themselves, Auberive-sur-Suippes

and ·Ville-sur- as impartially as possible. To begin with, Quito lvd persons were foundering about Tourbe, their advanco was exposed in each we cannot but admit that what Lord in the water by the time the submarine case to a converging fire upon their outer Kitchener has done in the course of this got alongside and it was seen with in-flank as well as from their front, and part A most interesting revelation in fegard war us an organiser i deserving of the tense relief that the crew of the latterly for this resson very little progress was to the origin of the war was made in a

greatest respect. One must judge, not were endeavouring to save the drowning made at these two points. On the 30-mile from the German but from the English people, especially the women and child-front between them, although the rate and recent number of Truth. It appears that point of view, for it is impossible to re. Whilst they were doing this the extent of the advanes were not everywhere Signer Barzillai, the Socialist member of apply the same standard to the work of a English crow who had been taken on uniformly great, some ground was gained the Italian Ministry, made a speech at German and an English Minister of War. board that afternoo

working everywhere, with the net result, as every Naples towards the end of September in

A GREAT ORGANISER,

galiantly at the rescue of the passengers one knows, that the present Gorman posi the course of which he stated that the ashamed of himself if he needed so much drowned in the attempt. The captain of the north than it was before the attack. "A German Minister of War would be and two of them unfortunately weretion is about two and a half miles further Ambassador at Constantinople, Senator zimeid trouble as Lord Kitchener has the submarine (he and his crew were Aus Garroni, had, on July 15th last year, re- had to get together a similar forus and trinus) behaved exceedingly well and ceived a confidential communication from prepare it for operations. No such it eventually gave tho Borolles permission the German Ambassador these, Herr von, provuation is necessary in our case, but to continue her journey. For some time Wangenheim. The substance of this com in England, where in times of peace pre- the ship, waited in the hope of rescuing munication was that the Austrian Nete parations have never been made for land more of her passengers, but at about mid- to Serbis, then about to be delivered (it war on such a seale, it must be recognised night she proceeded on her way to was actually delivered on 23rd) "would that Lord Kitchener has created his Alexandria, having lost 23 passengers be such as to render war inevitable." The armies and organisation out of nothing, owing to the panic which the appearance German Government's attitude on this is cuany understood, therefore, why of the submarine had caused. question hitherto has been that while it leading classes are not to be shakem in know a Note was to be presented to Serbie, their confidence in him. At least we can it did not know its contents. It was never suppose that this man is not merely going very probable; Herr von Wangenheim's

on nis journey with dolinite mission communication makes is finally untenable.

but carrics with him pleni-potentiary Ambassador It is clearly incredible that the German Who is this man with whom we have

powers. at Constantinople should have known that Austria had determined German Government knowing it. When to "render war inevitable" without the next to German Chancellor endeavours to turn the minds of his countrymen from the results of the war by one of his ecade mio discussions of its origin, perhaps he will not omit to deal with this curious piecolier of evidence that war had been determined. uper by Austria and Germany more than Serbia, eight days hofore the Austrian Note to

ARMY'S STRONGER POSITION,

A NATION'S RETREAT.

TRAGIC PICTURE,——

came

The

WORK OF PREPARATION, The preparation which led up to this

considerable time. During that time, adds wonderful advance-wholly unparalleled since the war of trenches began-Insted a The Times correspondent, the troops which trained in the rear for the work before were to take part in it, wore carefully them with a specing view to the cultivation of individuality in action, and while the huge stores of ammunition necessary for the preliminary bombardment were being prepared the French front line of trenches wherever it was too far from the enemy's means of winding communication trenches position was steadily pushed forward by

that when the time for the assault came dug under fire and generally by night, an the average distance that had to be covered during the first rush across the open had been reduced to about 200 yards.

Even then the task in the face of modern dous that the Germans believed it to be rifle and machine-gun fire was so tremen-

telegrams from Kragujevatz, Palanke, The Rome Secolo has received three dong struggle in the Eastern mediterranean that before commencing their offensive the bo reckon in the development of the and Kaplana. The correspondent states militariam, which, notwithstanding all aerial reconnaissance services with new Hus is a typical representative of English Austro-Germann were careful to establish declamations, has always existed, and and powerful aeroplanes, while the num once had a similar representative, a man ber of aeroplanes at the disposal of the of the same stamp, in Wellington.

Serbiams was insufficient. After reviewing Lord Kitchener's ear prisoners taken from the enemy the cor- Among the military career the writer continues: respondent has seen soldiers who He first became famous in the Soudestrum Brest Litovsk and Vilna, from the impossible. The wire entanglements pro- campaign of 1808-1899. All the mistakes French front, from the garrisons at Ham-tecting their first line trenches (in many. made in the Soudan in the eighties beburg, Bremen, Berlin, and Frankfort, cases five rows deep) had been battered and examined sharply and coolly, and care while the Austrian troops were drawn torn from their cokserow. iron stanchions fully avoided them in his painstaking from Hungary, Trieste, Dalmatia, Bosnia, by the furious preliminary bombardment RUSSIAN SHELLS ABUNDANT. and carefully, without allowing himseffcame the 67th and both Divisions of the the ground in front of their position, regaining of what had been lost. Slowly and oven from the Italian front, whence which for seventytwo hours ploughed up to be forced by impatience at home, he 8th Army Corps.

buried whole companies of mon in the prepared the campaign against the Altogether the enemy forces are not ruins of the trenches, prevented food and Mandi, and carried, it out methodically numerous, and they are of secondary water from being brought up to them from step by step and secured England's quality, but their artillery and machine the rear, and in many cases almost reduced On leaving Dvinsk, says the Petrograd

Egyptian possessions."

guns are innumerable, and they have im them to a state of insanity. correspondent of the Times in a message South Africa and attributes to him the enemy's action against Belgrade, Semen-

The writer next reviews his services in mense quantities of munitions.

GERMAN DEFENCE SCHEME, dated November 23rd, I noticed that the breaking of the resistance of the Boers, dris, and Gradista was an uninterrupted the number and size of the underground -Ono striking sign of their confidence was town had within eight days developed a

and the fact that in this war General series of colossal gusts of shells of all refuges, more than 20 ft. deep, which they marked increase of activity. The inhabi- Both took the side of the British Em calibres. The enemy invaded, and con- had laboriously, carved out of the solid tants are returning whenever they are per- Fire, su rendering a great service.

tinues to invade Serbia without even chalk all along the line. In one smalt mitted and business is gradually being us on: .

using infantry. Thousands of guns and sector there are 150 of them, strongly buts been enormously strengthened by the abun- resumed. The position of the armies hav

mitrailleuses sweep the country, destroy teased with stout timber props and fitted When this war began the choice laying town, villages, and the fields. danes of ammunition. The gunners show between making Lord Kitchener hoad of to the infantry inscriptions on the ammu- the armies in the field or the chief or- but a desert behind them.

The retreating Serbians leave nothing with double rowy of berths for a large nition boxes written by working mea in ganiser. Estimating that his services as ion--the whole nation, it may be said of the whole scheme of the defence. In The popula number of men. Their solidity is typical

hells; there are plenty more coming this they were not wrong. His best effort filled with women and children, while trenches and light railways. terms like these: Do not spare the organiser would be of greater value han rotire before the soldiers, forming in that twenty miles of front there are Comindes, we are working hard to seep in the past in the Soudan campaign was herds of cattle, sheep, and pigs follow;

in the feld they chose the latter, and in mense processions of ox drawn carts, hundreds and hundreds of miles of you supplied with ahelle. Cheer up! Every man in the trenches is at presenta triumph of technical, wel-carried out preceding the army. It is a fantastic, confident that the guns will no longer buration over svago fanaticism. With tragic picture, but the retreat is orderly, silent in the hour of need,

and machine guns Lord Kitche and is taking place in wonderful can At Illukst Cemetery, where the trenches will triumphed over the death- and silence. There is no panic. The REMAIN, the Russian infantry are using Kitchener, like Wellington, is completely through the valley of the Morava, where

are separated by one breadth of barbed despising people of the desert.

Lord nation is retiring towards the south, bund

oblivious to moral values, and determines the streams and torrents have overtown grenades, with which the Germanə are not supplied. The warfare, here has acts on grounds only of practicabi- their banks owing to the heavy rains. assumed all the tense character of the

lity,"

and the country is flooded. It is hoped trench warfare in the West and each side Germany commanders will not have to ing the eremy's pursuit impossible, or at After suggesting that probally the that the rains will continue, thus render- is sapping the trenches of its rival. The

The Hus has apparently to be careful of indiscriminate "suafeing." He may not strafe even indirectly a fellow-Hun, a a tradesman of the Fatherland discovered to his cost the other day. In remitting an account over which there had been some trouble the man added the universal pray er and added to it his creditor's name, This tradesman took the matter to court, and the Hun was food for wishing God's OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. Punishment to fall upon an innocent man!

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SAYS NO ONE NEED THIN NOW.

THE LIGHT CHOICE.

He

their attack either over fiat ground or up In every case the French had to make slepo, without cover of any sort, and, though the first rows of barbed wire had as. rule been destroyed before the advance, the reverse glope of occasional descente hed further on much of it which was placed on escaped the artillery fire, and in any case been pitted were in themselves & serious the shell-holes with which the ground had obstacle,

FOR THIN. Germang freely use explosive bullets. Ieet Lord Kitchener in the presentenst difficult. It is remembered that in heen the advanced French frenches before

PITYSICIAN'S ADVICE

UNDEVELOPED MEN AND WOMEN.

WASTE AND ITS CAUSE. LAMENTABLE RESULTS FROM LACK OF TRAINING.

Standing on the parapets of what had September 25th and looking across the 15, or 109, or 900 yard, which lay between them and the old German fire line, 1 found it almost impossible to believe that in that long serious series of separate assaults the French armies could have breasted that deadly intervening space as

saw and packed up large numbers of them Balkan field operations, the writer.com this same valley in 1912 de Turks lost all myself in the German trenchce at Plato-tinues:

their artillery novka. The Russian soldiers told me that first degree is the security of Egypt, and, "What interests. Lord Kitchener in the during the battle the explosive bullets Thousands of people suffer from excess tree trunks and branches, and inflicted he will press all the people who are there made a continuous sputter against the in the second place, the security of India, sive. thinness, weak nerves and feeble many ghastly wounds. Our meri ara send into the service necessary to ensuring this stomachs who having tried advertised ing back the German explosive bullets at security unmercifully. Every means will flesh-muisers, food-fads, physical culture which, doubtless, the Germans, as usual, German communication with Constantioconomy, sigured by Miss Margaret Ashton line of further tronehes, some of them De right to him to oppose the danger of stunts and rub-on creams, resign them will enter indignant protests

A letter on the sabject of war-time one man, and then charged over line after scives to life-long skinniness and think nothing will make them fat. Yet their

As I mentioned in one of my previons threatened, he will concentrate there all chairman respectively of the Acaciation and hammering away at them till they sur nople, and if he believes Egypt to bo and Miss Ella Pycroft, president, and rounding un detached bodies of the enemy Army is concentrated on the events in the

case is not hopeless Arroently-discoverages, the attention of the Russian the forces at big connard, withong worry-of Teachers of Domestic Bubjects, has rendered with their guns and stores, while

efficient.

Six

BIG OPERATIONS ON THE STYR..

UNSPEAKABLE AUSTRIAN

BRUTALITI

Confirming my statement that the enlightened War Council in Londen will housewivesuch well-intentioned social Veremchak, and the ennoblement of the

ed regenerative force makes fat grow Balkans. Wherever I went the first ques-about Serbian, Russian, French, or been sent to the press for publication. the rest in many cases swept the main body Consignees of Cargo by the above-named after J of thiness, and is also tion was invariably: "Is there hope for no despicable adversary. He he he letter, after pointing out the cause before them, on and on to the horizon. It vessel are hereby informed that their goods are sickness or faulty digestion and for gars is not only one of the deepest Ministry his undisguised opinion-as-to-The nation has not yet awakened and blood could have done it.

unequalled for repairing the waste of Serbia 7 The foeling against the Bulo

will not of private being landed and placed AT THEIR RISE in the strengthening the nerves

withhold from his colleague in the ways:--

and public wastefulness soomed on the spot incredible that flesh Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown able discovery is milled Bargal.

This remark indignation, but is, perhaps, fiercer than Company's Godoris at Kowloon, where each strength-giving, fat-producing elements of fact should be known, especially at Sofin should he be convinced that discreti thoroughly to the fact that domestic Consignment will be sorted ont Mark by Mark acknowledged morit have been combined I can vouch that the Russian troops it is the best means of success, and, there training.

against the Germans. It is well that this the errors that have been committed, and and delivery can be obtained as the Goods in this peerless preparation, which is would march on Bulgerian soil with feel-

is not the better part of valeur, but that skilled trades, needs a preliminary economy is skilled work, and like other landed This vessel brings on Cargo ---

endorsed by eminent physicians and needings not less bitter than those charactefore, that certain boastfully ananunced given to all our girls, advice on small Had such a training been From London, &c., ex 8.3. "Arabia" and prominent people everywhere. It is rizing their onslaught on the Germans.

undertakings are not to be recommended, points of economy would be unnecessary. absolutely harmless, inexpensive and

he will withdraw his approval from them Some training, in domestic economy is in no mistakable manner, and the then needed for social workers as well as for on the Austrian front has recommended The commander of a Russian Division A month's systematic use of Sargol Germans are concentrating troops on our decide that it is of the same opinion."

rich and poor; the in- pensioning the widow of a priest named should produce flesh and strength by southern front in erder: to divert our

eficiency of correcting faults of digestion and by attention from the Rumanian border, a

work is due to want of technical know- children, in recognition of Veremchuk's blood. Increased nourishment is the situation on the Saray-Rovno front dent to the King, this, from mail paper, more than housebol management, a ambushed, Veremchuk sailed the men supplying highly concentrated fala to the Kieff telegram published to-day says that

lodge But the business of catering and wonderful heroism. The facts are that In reference to the recent riding acei cooking for large bodies of men is, even when a scouring party was abour to be obtained from the food eaten, and the continues strained, and the comy is additional fate that thin people nood are making desperate efforts to establish him of interest; While, some alarm might killed brade, and yot is in in the hands across the river mo his own boat, under provided.

be caused by the accident to the King, if untrained persons, with the dire heavy fire. He was shot in the hip when sels on the right bede og splendid work, the natives of Indis are to be believed men pro-and so fins the soldiers, Russian artillery is doing and in the course of a few minutes de-nothing serious will happen to him for knowledge. In spite of all pro and became so weak from lose of

basta and endeavours towards amend that he lost control of the rudder, and molishes the enemy's bridges at various many years to come. Indian prophecies

ment, a lamentable waste of food and drifted downstream, where he fell into the points. The Germans have built a new come wonderfully true at times. For road for the transport of ammunition and instance, when King Edward axended the that not the thriftiness of all the house next day they found him with his head material is still going on waste so great Austrians hands. Peasants heard cries, and Leave guns to the theatre of war, while throne the prophecy in the Indian bazaars wires in Great Britain can counter battered, and his mouth filled with cler it is also reported that they have trane was that he would reiga for ten years, and balance it. Had the management and His body was covered with gasher, his and other leading Chemiste supply ferred at least two new corps to the that he would be succesfed by monarch supervision of stores and cooking been collarbone was broken, and the knoo Chantoryisle region. Prisoners state that who would reign for thirty-seven years to the bands of trained persons a great tendons out, evidence that he had bear they were only recently brought from the This would bring King George to the ripe saving to the nation would have been testured. other-fronte,

age of eighty-four.

His bodywas siddied by

6 hours.

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E. V. PARE For Superintendant Hongkong, 22nd December, 1915.

A-S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

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