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SERBIAN HEROISM.

WHEN BESET BY THREE ARMIES.

Aftor three days most tenpeious resist. anco by the Serbians, Nish,, their war capi- tal, fell into Bulgarian bands. Our splen- did little allics fought from street, to street It is better to die before they left it.

RUSSIA'S WINTER.

PROVES A VALUABLE" ALLY,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 618, 1916.

The continued failures after the ex- tromity of the effort before Rigs and Dvinsk are beginning to tell heavily upon the Germans. Their enormous losses have disheartened the troops to such an

in beauty than to live in shame," said M. extent that it would appear that Dvinsk Pasitch, the Serbian Premier, recently, has been already given up as a practic and the whole people are living up to the able attainment. The Gormans have been motto, The Austrian fores advancing nearly two months at work without mak.. from the west joined hands with the main ing any impression even upon the Rus German body advancing south, which inaian firat line defences, wrote the Petro its turn met the Bulgarian army ost of grad correspondant of the Morning Post on November Jat. After repeatedly mov ing up reinforcements, even bringing up additional batteries of heavy guns and cannonading furiously without intermis sion for several days and nights, the Ger maas find themselves precisely where they were before, hat with an appalling list of killed, wounded, missing, and sick,

it

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GERMANY'S NEW DRAFTS.

WHY THE WAR KEEPS ON.

TO EXHAUST THE ENEMY AND ECONOMISE LIFE:

[BY SIR JAMES VOXALL, M.P.]

Our war against the Boers insted two and a half years. We went to war for five years, from 1756 to 1761. We were

seven years at war, from 3775 to 1782 From 1730 to 1748 we were at war zine yedru. the quarrel of the Spanish Succession. With the French Revolutionary Govern ments and Napoleon we warred for twenty-two years. Yet there are poople among us to-day-peers and House of Commons men, too who shake and struggles lasts as long as sixteen months. "grouse

becauito this vastest of all Buch tremblers and grumblers. ca these are obviously neither fighters nor thinkers, his toriuos nor statesmen, and the spirit of England is not in them; their spirit, if contagious, would stop the war,

We were twelve yours at war in

A

BATTLEFIELD HORROR.

AND NATURE'S ANTIDOTE,

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 5th at 11.90 sm.--A strong sati crofona lesiill contral in the neighbourhood of Weihsireis

The American United Press publishes A geral iner:ase of pressure is shown in the following article from its Paris coral districts exoept Indo-Chin, where it in

denly sta fonary. respondent, Mr. William Philip Simms, who has returned from a tour of the

battlefield Champagne

think the soldiers at the front, living with death and the dead about thou all the time, would go insane,"

"How can they stand it? I should

One frequently hears such a remark us that. The answer is simple enough: The men very quickly get used to all Take this as an example: At sundown to-day, as a party of us returned to our motors which we had left so that we might walk over the Champagne battlefield, a pair of two-wheeled carts were pushed hurriedly past us. Upon a canvas stret her suspended under the horschoe-shaped axe of each push-cart lay the form of

soldier, fully clothed.

coast of China and over the Cuia Ses

Strong moznoon is infested along the east

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"Wounded!" someone asked. "Yes," an officer replied; and changed the sub- CHINA ject.

The Sorbians offered a magnificent de fence at Nish, fighting successive notions as the enemy advanced. The first line of defence, extending from the south on the Suva Planina mountains to the

Yet the issue is plain; as they say in the north beyond the rond Nish coming

Navy, we have but to carry on." For Whatever the Germans and their friends Time and Fate ars with us still. from the north-onst, was first held. The

may say, the Russian campaign has becu Bacon wrote: "He that commands the sea enemy continully encountered obstacles

disappointment. Beginning with Smoi, at great liberty, and may take as much lensk as goal, the Germans have been or as little of the war as be will. Whereas caused by the Berbian defences, but ad-

forced to transfer their hopes successive those that bo strongest by land are many vanced beyond Bela Palanka towards Nishly until now their eyca are fixed upon times in great strails." Sixty years after by two routes, the Bruits-Nish rod and the costline and the Port of Riga. The wards, Louis XIV. found that to be true; that through the Nisaya Valley. The Ser coastline no longer possesses any strate hundred years more, and Napoleon and, seemed ever on the point of being bians' last stand was on the fortified hills

found it true; now, a century later, Wil around the town ito.i. They succeeded in

helm II is finding it true-oven in the retiring in good order before greatly cups

Baltic. rior enemy force,

Mr. George Renwick tells the story of the earlier Serbian resistance in a de- spatch which, owing to the interruption of the usual routes of communication, has had

strangely careless in their handling of But the soldiers pushing the carts were wounded men. They wore walking very rapidly, and took little pains to keep the wheels out of the smaller shell-holes which everywhere pitted the ground. The forms rocked and pitched and swayed, tossed out on the ground.

LAUGHTER AND DEATH.

to go through Nish, Prishtina, Prizrendment, nor have those very large bodies consent to think that they can be beaten rirt these aring waved about rigidly, never |

It will always be true, but so infoțiate were the German vanity and cocksurenoss a year ago that even yet they will not confess it to be true. They now know that they cannot win, but they will not yet Therefore they play the military fool Military sagacity suggests that their one thing to do is shorten their lines and stand lately lengthened their lives by 200 miles; on the defence; înatoad of that," they have and just at the very time when they begin to run short of men they waste whole Army Corps in fresh and futile attacks. There fore the war keeps on,

gie value, as the Gulf of Bign is en tirely closed to the entrance of German ships. Riga as a rest-house for the winter is the object now being vainly sought. The schemes of conquest have evaporated and the boasting ambitions reduced to hopes of a roof to cover the exhausted troops orginally employed on the Rigs Dvinsk front have no cold weather equip subsequently moved up from the centre Eastern Albania, Dibra and Ohrids, and to fill the complements and increase the hus involved the use of all methods of strength of the attack upon Dvinsk. The travel from the automobile to the native only German troops provided with warm bullock-cert; the journey including four clothing are the last drafts moved up daye hard riding on horseback through from Germany. These men, however, murd and across mountains and torrents of though adding to the numbers of Ger- the wildest parts of Eastern Albania. He mans, have not brought any correspond says, and no doubt justly, that when the ing addition of strength. They are half- story of the way in which wat-ringed Ser-disciplined, highly discontented last bia has struggled is written, fully there reserve men. Their talk is that they have Think of the long Austro-German lines will be sot forth an epic of heroism which boon deceived, that the war ought only as the shell of a great ogg, and the yolk will blaze on the story of this world war to have lasted six months, that they never of the egg as being gradually used up in with an undying lustre and magnificenco ought to have been called to serve. They stopping holes and cracks in the shell. The nil its own. Looking backwards," he are foremost in pillaging and marauding shell is repaired again and again, bat writer, actes a fortnight of varied and nd the officers are no longer able to meanwhile the egg is becoming holow. Be memorabic experiences, the main impres control them in this respect, being com- fore very long 6 must collapse, with the pelled to wink at offences which are sion which rercains fixed and living in my strictly forbidden by general orders in emptiness of don't you remember birda mind is the superb courage and endurance the hopes that the men may fight none the nesting an egg that has been blown," of the Berbian army and the Sorbian

worse for the little laxity which makes Till that collapse comes the war must keep people in the dark days of trial which are

for the growing deficiences of the Gerox. With that collapse will come Ponce theirs just now, and the magnificent man supply organization Orders issued for us, but unspeakable, unimaginable cea human qualities with which they faced from the German Headquarters very nomic and financial ruin for our enemies, denth, homelessross, wounds and hunger, stringently forbade any acts likely to It is the price of Peace for a century that, and all the terrible tragedies of war which arouse the hostility of the people, and until then, the war should keep on. fortune is now dealing out to them with the German soldiers frankly declared not such a heavy hand. I have seen much of long ago that they were on good behaviour this war in its various theatres, but no so long as they moved forward, but that thing quite so magnificently inspiring as

if they had to retire they would waste the behaviour of the Serbian nation at this and destroy everything and kill man, dire crisis in its history. One must rowoman, and child indiscriminately. With mamber that here is a nation which has the arrival of the last reserves from Ger- been at war practically for three years, and many there is no further protenos of

treating the inhabitants decently." still its fortitudo is something to marvel nt,

Its heroism still lives undiminished and all its determination has known no

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Also, the strange attitude of one of the forms fascinated me; the soldier was on us back, and his arms were crossed in did the arms touch each other. And with every drop of a wheel into hole or front of, but not touching, his face. Nor

changing their relative position in the Koch air; awkward, and minus all support, Nag the arms stuck just where they were, cle making four soldiers in all, and this A second man accompanied each vehi-thin these two extras, not paying much at tention to the forward and free ends of

Chatoo the stretchers which they were along to handle, wero"kidding" each other. One Banko vercrim Weihains..... threw a clod of dirt at the second, and the second replied by flinging his metal Kinking

Lobang helmet at the first, There was a burst of

Changsha laughter, and as the cants came to a step Shanghai to permit the pushers to mon their per Gat spiring brows the two youngsters thev

Sharp were not much more than twenty years Ancy 9.30.18 10 N old either of them--began to chase cach

Swatow other round and round the stretchers.

Tsiboku In the meantime we drew up to the Talchu .....

The soldier on the Tainan Commu little procession. stretcher, the one with his arms crossed Koshun before his face, still beld. his position, Pesonderes without moving..

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A ETRAY DULLET. " Lifting a torn cap from the face of the soldier with the crossed arm, someone asked: "How did it happen?

Barigno sponded laconically. "Whew.

"Stray bullet," the eart-pusher to Labuan added, "it's pretty warm to-day!" temple of the man who had caught the There was a black spot in the right

stray bullet, and a blackish streak ran His death must have been instantaneous, and he had Cain and stiftened just as he had fallen, his arms before his face. He had been but a very young man, and a small and young moustache, waxen light in colour, was on his upper lip. The cap was re- placed and we went our way, leaving the living and dead to go theirs.

brave Berbs the honour of sending his bost demoralisang the men and officers, the Allies are not boing uted up, propor down the side of his face.

2 rt

T F. CL XTOK, Drostor,

BABOMETER, reduzad to 32 dogross Fübrinha!, on the level of the non, in fuchos, teatan a:d andredths,

A TREZBATUES, -in- the sisäs, in degras sammheit.

-8 HUMIDITY, IA percentage of saturation, the hamidity of Mir sukursindi with moisture belag 300,

& Dinmonton or Wewn, to two počata.

Of course you have guessed it the soldiers on the two stretchers, were dead, dead as doornails. They had been killed Lafo and blood, treasure and trade, all the night before in the front trenches. the internal entity and material of life in Under cover of the twilight haze, a pur Germany, Austria, and Hungary are being ple mixture of damp vapours and cannon used up by a furiously disappointed Raimoke, these four members of the company sor to maintain a battle line that he madly were evacuating them to the rear, where extended east of Warsaw. He thought they would be buried in one of the name himself a strategist, just as he thought rous new Champagne cemeteries, himself - Divine, but what his generals think of him may be read in a lettor found. One of the main points urged by the on the body of a German officer, written by nbasement. Among 1ople of all classes German military critics against Napoleon a general at the Grand Headquarters of thero is not the faintest sign of weariness nor the least desire to say that the sword and the principal cause of his failure the German Army It, is terrible," the against Russia was precisely the break-letter began: We have no more men, and and the right arm can do no more, This up of all discipline. The Germans were you know what that means, Wilhelm has struggle of theirs will go on if need be to going to prove that Russia was not un- taken from Germany all that she can give the last yard of Serbian soil and to the conquerable to German discipline.. last cartridge of the last Serbian patriot." facts are proving, as always, stronger ldren in the streets We have no more and now you only see old men, women and The Emperor told a Balkan diplomat than German theories. It is very evident some little time ago that he would do the that, both

reserves, and our loases are enormous." But is spreading among the general against them. He soon found he men and officers,

is spreadtionately, like that, we are not left hollow, was up against the most serious piece of ing among the Germencibles suffer-drained, and blown. We, from month to work he has had. Never indeed was a line ing and helpless befors Riga and Drinsk, month, can take as much and as little of of battle so gallantly and stubbornly de- The activity of the English and Russian the war as we will, Thera is trus a good fended. Against Ram three furious at submarines in the Baltic has temporarily reason for no hearing of continual, costly,

1 #o 300 OF WIND, socording to Banfort Basle, tacks had to be directed before success was cut off regular supplies for the German mortal British attacks. We lament our achieved.

Gstrabid Semendria held out against troops. Attempts to forestall this danger dead, we honour our heroes, but also we

·E STATE OF WRATHNE, b bine sky, olond, d delwaling rule, 1. fog, a gloomy, h kaii, ly three onslaughts and only succumbed to by establishing large magazines betweencap and must keep on living, working and

lightning, o overonal, p passing showers, q kunst", the hellish artillery fire with which the Mitau and Libau have only very par trading somewhat normally, meanwhile, Now don't misunderstand. These four, mow, i thunder, v vizibility, w daw (wok fourth was accompanied To obtain tially succeeded, owing to the activity of

The coming in of Bulgaria, like the keep- en escorting their dead comrades to the

(7 Babe' in inahes, & tentku and kundredthr. footing at Zebrisle three, attacks were

the Russian " Dreadnought acroplanes ing out of Greece and Rumania, con have graveyard were not unfeeling, pitiless All these efforts resulted i of enormous strength, necessary.

Artillery stores no desiding effect, these things delay the men in the ordinary sense. Taken from heavy losses to the Germons, and com-

more particularly suffer from these air Austro-Gorman confession of defeat, but relined homes, very probably where the pelled Mackensen to send an urgent re-raids, with the result that the German they aac prolong the enemy's agony. In sight of anyone in pain hurt them deoply, quest for reinforcemente.

attacks never have any success nowadays, the interests of human prace and decency, and from an environment where the pre- from behind the Semlin batteries, 10-inch drafts, being very much more than any

attering grade the German soldier, especially the later it is desirable that Germany shall be whol-sence of the dead was depressing and guns rained hell on the city, the huge other soldiers dependent upon machinery ly exhausted, utterly worn out; and ren-wesome, they were suddenly plunged into scenes of war and slaughter, and shells throwing up debris to the height of as the inspiration of that courage which dered torpid, the general population as five-storey houses. Every square yard of wins in attack and holde fast in defenco. well as the armies, by this war; for Ger- death and agony until their senses were deadened. Their power of appreciation the city was systematically searched by The Germans are now with most feverish mans now, and Germans of the future. had been practically nullified. Dead men machine-gun fire. When

energy endeavouring to hurry the commust be taught that spying, buccaneering no longer awed them; blood no longer fugees were streaming out of the

lotion of the restored railway services murdering footing, torturing and violatickoned them. Natum, which makes mon man airmen dropped bombs on the

their rear which were being leisurelying do not pay in the long run, and are fight and mutilate and kill each other, there was no panic. The Germana hao fed forward under the belief that the never worth the while. The Kaiser count had furnished its own antidote for win the Capital street by atrest, and it is sent needs would be adequately served ed on a short war; therefore the langor horror; otherwise these men, instead of Barometer no exaggeration to say that they had to by the transports to Libau and the light this lasts the worse defeated he and the kidding each other, would have been ¦ Temperatures pay a price for every paving stone. Every railway thence to the front,

Prussian spirit will be...

ibbering lunatics,

Humidity A The temperature now prevailing · is street corner scented to be a citadel,

I know one nian-his wife and Little Wind Direction ... girl live in Paris-who, after passing2 boy of fifteen with five comrades and a what in England would be called severe

It was to have been a jolly little war for through the battle of Champagne, had Weather zato imes supply of hand grenades kept a whole winter weather. Warm clothing for the German company at bay for two hours. bulk of the troops cannot be got up to him ein frischer, frohlicher Kreig, a to be sent to a special hospital. He Bain Once in possession of the city the Germans the German front for weeks or perhaps frisky, frolicking sort of war. The frisky was not wounded. His nerves had been opened a terrifs are on the position behind months, owing to the disorganization of little war" has always been the Prussian shattered; his mental balance upset. He

the communications above mentioned. ideal. it, but the capture of the hills was

had not been able to adjust himself in frightfully expensive business and every organizing victory. It is recognized that

Russia will quietly spend the winter in Should this war last another twelve time. Nature bad let him go on weigh- knoll was covered "with German dead by the Germanus, compelled to undergo the months Germany will be left torpid for ang and appreciating all that transpired.

about him, But Russia, Italy, century, probably.

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THE STRANGLING OF GERMANY,

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Rath and family

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Ms J. T. Smith

Mr&Mrs Hammes and Mrs. Sylvester

children

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Mr & Mrs H. P. Harria

4r E. W. Hookrath

Mr & Mra Jackson

Mr V. Jeffery

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He J. Lennox

Mr A. Lsmbden

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Miss E. &. Lambden' Mr P. M. Marsh Mrs E. J. Mitchell

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Mr & Mrs Spender

Mr Blardly

Misa Squara

Ari. Soper

Mr E. M Sigh

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Mr & Mrs Carmlohnel Mr. F. W. Carg dr& Mrs C. D.Cami Lt & Mra Cooney Col Darling BE, Mr Denman Faler Mr 8. H. Ekis Mrs-Furniva'l

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tr W. C. D.siel Mr A. Dunrich Mr E., S. Ellaz. Mr LE George Mr J. Hands

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

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GERMAN DOMINATION IN VIENNA.

fore it was won. Indeed after twelve days rigours of a real Russian winter under France and we can well last them out. We of laughter Mackensen won little more

The other condition is the only pos the constant annoyance of Russian at- than a foothold. On the Drina front he tacks, will lose more men by sickness and shall suffer meanwhile, but suffer much less sible safeguard against going insane; it is found his task equally heavy. Time after suffer a deeper demoralization than comes than the Germans. If the war lasts an- the War God's own anaesthetic. time the attacking forces were driven back from over the worst defeats in the open other year, more than half rhe manhood with appalling losses. Captain Milano field. It is evident already that the An- of Germany will have been laid low. At manovitch, who was wounded in that ra glo-French bold stroke of a month ago least one third of their fighters and at gion, said the Germans at times were was only an attempt, not an accomplish- least one-fourth of the whole male popula staggered by the opposition they enment, and that the work there is still all tion of efficient age have been done for al- countered. In the encounter-in to do. The Russian winter is henceforth ready. Those here who cry out that we are which he was wounded the Germans Russia's belt ally and the wearing-down not winning are no less foolish than those launched & force of 500 men across the process, though silent, is recognized as who-cry-out for a fiercer and quicker Bri trating the increasing German domination

A Staresman cable states: more certain than the gallant dash for tish offensive for why should we expend in Vienna a former Berlin correspondent river. Not a single man of that body re- tuzzed alive. A Malskerna, south of victory which characterized the Russian men's lives rather than time and money of the Times states that Germany is at- ondria, after showering tan thousand fighting earlier in the war. The Germans To save money at the east of British blood tempting to solve at a single stroke eco- hells on the Serb position, the enemy took are already suffering terrible hardships would be the policy of a cynical millionomic problems which in the past in Thare 6m 11-17

"and" the consequent deadly waves of it. No sooner were they in possessioness from weather which the Russian con aire, not of patriotic wisdom. The Allies volveu bitter Tariff disputes with Austra however, than a strong force of Serbia in sidetre war-namely, the outer fringe war-plan is working out well.-7. P.'s Hungary and still more bitter disputes Fri. fantry which had been concealed in the of the coming winter. That snow and Weekly. forest attacked and drove the Germans out.

frost have set in so early in exceptional,

between Austria and Hungary. Berlin is endeavouring to overce Vienna into Satur agreeing to the formation after the war

of a great central European State stretchen

of the position they had dearly won. While and adds confidence to the courage of the the enemy reireated the Serbian cavalry pious Russians. The meaning of this got in amongst them and did heavy execus early appearance is that winter, when Bjorn Bjornson, the well-known pro-ing from the Baltic to the Adriatic and tion. In the evening, leaving three gans it really comes, will be what even the German agitator, was engaged to speak Aegean. A joint custoas tariff would be Mom, on the fold, the German left had to retire hardy Russians call severe-pamely, such at a public meeting at Copenhagen. He established and small States compelled to six kilometres as a result On the same frosts as only Aretio-explorer, speak of was received, however, by the large au join by irresistible economic pressure. evening, however, the enemy advanced in England, frosts which bring birds on dience which had assembled with so much The Times points out that such union

gain in great force and partially made the wing dropping dead like stones upon whistling and other hostile demonstra would rest on the sword and would pro: Fed. good the loss of ground, but again at the three foot crust of fins of hard motions that he was unable to deliver the yoko far more powerful counter-com-

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