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DESERTER HERO.

STEERING CRAWLING BOYS BY. THE TOE

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Captain Bean, the Australian Witness" at the Dardanelles, tells how. a deserter from H.M.S, Australia named Hart redeemed his 3st Australian Batts lion. Hart told his mates at Anzac that the object for which he lived way to write and tell his sister that he had done some- thing for his country which would put him at ease with himself.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12TH, 1916.

NEUTRALS AND THE DEFENCE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW,

SIR E. CARSON'S SPEECH TO AMERICANE.

An exceptionally large company of nearly 400 members and friends attended the American Luncheon Club's weekly meeting at the Savoy to hear Sir Edward Carson, the guest of honour, speak on "Neutrals and tho War."

When I mention America ∙as our greatest neutral I naturally turn to the Hart, who had changed his name to conduct of neutrals in relation to the Elart on enlisting, and another New mitigation of the horrors of war. South Wales boy named Morris were Nothing fills me with dismay when I think chosen by an experienced senut to accom-of the outcome of the horrible period pany him in an examination by night of through which we are passing more than

Turkish machine-gun, position.

the fact-I am not blaming anybody, but They crept past the Turks outpost it is a fact--that international law, which treach and straight for the corner of the main trench where the machine gun had is the product of all, the peace instinets previously been. The scout knew just of all naticus with a view to preventing where it was, for he had spent his time the interruption of progress and civilisa during the previous sorties watching for the flanks of it. At a certain point, right tion even in the time of hostilities, has, behind the outpost trench, he left his two I fear, been entirely abolished, or at any boys lying in the grass and went on a few yards alone. He crawled right to the rate greatly encroached upon, by the im Jouplicies where the machine gun had been potence of the neutrals themselves. and threw two bomba into the mouth of "Abolish the power of neutrals them. No machine gun answered him at all. Only three rifles spoke-two flashed countries are at war and you at the corner of the trench and eno in abolished international law itself. front of it

war from the start has shown the inepti tude and powerlessness of neutrals. commenced by the sacrifice of a little country which had been guaranteed its freedom and its peace by all the Great Powers of Europe..

That was evidence as conclusive ag could be obtained that for sonĻO

reason this night the machine gun was probably not in the trench and the trench itself was lightly held. There was nothing more to be found. But they still had several bombs, and so they crawled back towards the outpost trench and threw their bombs into it from the rear. The Tarks of the outpost had their minds firmly fixed on a patrol in front, and the moment the bomb fell in they blazed over the front parapel the faster the bombs cane: the harder they fired in the opposite direction.

The bombs bring finished and the_cx- pedition thoroughly successful, the chief scout stored it for home. In order to make sure in the dark, he told the boys to crawl ahead of him while he tugged either the right toe or the left of the lad ahead of him and so steered them quietly through the grass in whatever direction he wanted.

They were just getting to Dhe place where they could give their prearranged sign to their own trencies without being noticed by the Turks. Suddenly one of A piece of them caught in something. loose wire twanged. There was a flash ahead in the night-one flash--before the sign could be given. Both boys rolled over one shot through the face, the other through the head by the same bullet

Elart had achieved his honour and Australia's.

CHIVALRY.

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AN ANZAC INCIDENT.

FOES MISSION OF MERCY.

An officer of the RN.V.R, in Gallipoli

when have This

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**WEASELS."

STORIES OF OUR E SUBMARINES.

THE NET AND THE ZEPP.

The next thing we did, we rose under a

Zeppelin,

With his shiny big belly half blocking

the sky.

But what in the Heavens can yon do

with six pounders

So we fired what we had and we bade

him good-bye.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, continuing the series of "Fringes of the Flest articles the Daily Telegraph, tells sama“ sub- marine stories.

The commander's is mory a one man job, as the crew's is more team work, than any other employment afloat. That is why, submarine officers and men are what they Mr. Kipling writes, the relations between aro. They play hourly for one another's lives with Death the Umpire always at their elbow on tiptoe to give them "Out" At a certain harbour there climbed out of a couple of submarines which had just returned three or four high-booted, sunken-eyed pirates, clad in sweaters, generation would have disowned, under jackets that a stoker of the last

*A PERFECT MUG,”? Together they famonted the loss of a Zeppelin perfect mug of a Topp who had come down very low and offered one of them a sitting shot. But what can you do with our guns? I gave him what I had, and then he started bomb It ing

I know he did, another said, "I heard him. That's what brought me down to you.

I thought he had you that last time,'

"No; I was forty foot under when he hove out the big 'un. What happened to

"The war had not been on for more lyon?" than a few hours when you saw the My stoering gear jammed just after futility of these guarantees; and in the I went down, and I had to go round in same way, as time went on, great elemen-circles till I got it straightened out.” tary ailes of great importance, for which "Was he the brute with the patch an nations had been struggling in times of his port side?" a sister bont demanded. peace to take away some of the horrible

"No! This follow had just been hatch results of war, were blown to the winds. ed. He was almost sitting on the water But that was not all..

heaving bombs over,"

THE MAN WITH THE HAND. Mr. Kipling had spent some of the after noon in looking through records of sub- marine work in the Sea of Marmora.

A breach of international law neces "And my blasted steering gear went and sarily in the rules of war loads to re-chase then to go wrong," the other com prisals, and the reprisals know no limit, mander, mourned, and, therefore, the first breach of interna tional law leads on in the downward path almost to its abrogation. Just as you may delude or mystify or lull into a sense of security our own citizens by speeches and by perorations, you will not thereby win a war, so in the international sphero you may, by diplomatic Notes, numerous and strong, satisfy the consciences of your citizens, but you will not by a mers Note maintain the obligations which are put upon you as parties to international law, which is to prevent breaches of civisation

They read like the diary of energetic weasels in an overcrowded chicken run, and the results of each boat were tabulated something like a cricket score.

FRENCH THRIFT.

A RALLY TO THE AID OF THE STATE.

The Loan of Victory is assured of two strong instincts of the French-their a very great success. It appeals to the

the support of their money to the State patriotism and their thrift. To refuse

all recognize, be an act of desertion as in the present oircumstances would, thoy definite as that of the soldier who runs from the Army. To refuse the splendid opportunity of safe and profitable invest men offered by the new Loan would be an act of fuancia] folly.

Traditions cluster very thick around Anance 1Th France, and one of the greatest money traditions of the French is the popularity of the Five per cent. Rente. It is the ambition of every well- years of his life as a leisured rentier ordered Frenchman to spend the last few but of recent years the yield from sound Government stocks has fallen, and the reeds of French thrift have become scrip, the printing and design of which increasingly represented by foreign were as alluring as the interest was great and the security small. Now the French have the duty and the opportunity of in- vesting all they can in Five per Cont. Rente, free from any taxation whatever..

The history of Five per Cent. Rento Cent. was quoted as 81f, 65c. Ten years is encouraging. In 1815 the Five per afterwards, under the Restoration, it was 1081. 230. Under Louis Philippe in 1845, it was at 1221. 85c. On the eve of its conversion into Four-and-a-Half per Cont., under the Second Empire, it stood at 106f. 50., and in 1860, after conversion, it touched 118f, 856. The history of the next Five per Cent issue in 1871 in equally plasing. Issued at 82 50c, it rose steadily until it reached 100f, 60% in 1874. The 1972 Five per Cent., issued at than 10 years. 841. 50c,put on

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But, in spite of the vastness of the war- and its duration, in spite of invasion and the "blood tax,

French wealth and French thrift bevo not suffered so much cians, of course, quarrel that is their as might have been expected. Statisti- trade-but it is, revertheless, fairly safe privato income of France was about to assume that in fime of peace the total THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD £1,200,000,000 and that the annual savings

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been apparent at every crisis in interna tional affairs. The solid proof of it has been established by the really gigantic sums of gold brought to the Bank of France in response to an appeal. In five

bank-notes have also been stored away in months no less than £40,000,000 in gold was exchanged for notes. And silver and cupboards and in stockings.

One came across jewels of prica set in the flat official phraseolgy. For example, he was taking to remedy certain defects, one-man who was describing some step and to mitigate the horrors of war. interjected casually: "At this point I had #I look forward to the results to go under for a littlo, as a man in a beat of this war in its relation to interwas trying to grab my perfscone with his national questions with a great deal hand. No referonce before or after to of anxiety, and a great deal of misgiving the sald men or his fate, age because I should like to ask, if interna

Again: “ Came across a dhow with a tional law has proved futile by reason Turkish skipper. He seemed so miserable of the impotence of neutrals during the that I let him go." operations of the belligerents in this great struggle, how are we in the future ever egain to rely upon conventions as any bar to the terrible horrors which have been perpetrated?

make this appeal to neutrals: Be member me as to tentare Late one afternoon upon the extreme belligerents, and remember that while the right of our line a man was seen in the golden ideal of every real citizen who Turkish zone moving furtively through must be peave,

loves his country and loves his people penco with all its the scrub behind the beach, about half amaguetic influence upon the homes and mile distant, and making apparently for member that when this war terminates lives and happiness our peoples; res the narrow gap which separateg the end of and it is. proved trag neutrals have been ear tronches from the blue waters of the

unable to take their place as those who are the executives of international law, Egean Sea,

there can be but one safeguard for peace in the future and that, I think, eno which is not for the benefit of humanity an increase of armaments, and the maintaining of even greater armies than we have in the past.

writes:-

From the tall summit of the Lonesome Pino Plateau the Australian watchers looked on with interest, wondering what his purpose-might be.

THOUGHT AT THE BOTTOM. There was a bont in the North Sas which rau into a net and was caught by

the nose;

the thing away on the surface. But

She rose, still entangled, meaning to cut Zeppelin in waiting saw and bombed her, and she had to go down again at once- but not too wildly, or she would get her- self more wrapped up than ever. She went down, and by slow working and weaving and wriggling, guided only by guesses at the meaning of each scrape and grind of the net on her blind forebend, at last she drew clear. Then she sat on the bottom and thought.

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Suddenly a rifle shot rang out Tur Lish rifle shot-and the man fell wounded.

"Do not imagine for a moment that I Thore he lay in the open beside them without gratitude to our cousins beach and bound up his wound and beyond the Atlantic Ocean. Heaven The question was whether she should go marsed his pains, a pathetic figure a knows what we owe to them! I could beck at once and warn her confederates piece of human wrockage cast up by the never get through if I attempted to against the trap, or wait till the de- storm and wrath, not of God but of man. describe the many beneats they have constroyers which she knew the Zeppelin On one side lay the army of his friends ferred upon humanity, even if they have would have signalled for should come out from which he was an outcast; on the not done all we could have hoped in this to finish her, still entangled, as they other his foo determined, chivalrous, but terrible struggle. But the latest one is would suppose, in the net f not implacable; while beneath him mur not the kast, when I call to mind the mured the army of Allah-the heed'ess, murder of that brave woman in Belgium, careless sea. To which of these should he Nurse Cavell. turn for help in his extremity? Surely to the forces of neutral Nature. In Englishmen and Irishmen who understand the time she allowed for them, she heard has been floated may be, it is necessary

liquid depths of the broad Egeat his pains would find release his mind peace Slowly he dragged himself, in spite of a hattered limb, towards the waterside, while the red sun droped above Imbros, that happy western isle whose hills seemed to onst their shadows ever nearer.

A BOUL IN PAIN,

retrenchment thrift on a scale which is not approached in England. From this source, too, funds are flowing into the Treasury.

It was a simple calculation of compara tive speeds and positions, and when it was

Satisfactory, more than satisfactory, worked out she decided to try for the Never will depart from the minds of double event. Within a few minutes of though the conditions on which the Loan to utter a word of warning against the which were made by Brand Whitlock and tering shove her, rose, got her shot in heavies, subscription-those of the big the situation the brave and humane efforts the twitter of four destroyers' screws quar-

fantastic figures cabled to London. The Hugh Gibson, who, indeed, fulfilled not saw one destroyer crumple, hung round financial establishments are yet to come. merely the functions of representatives of your great United States, but showed another took the wreck in tow, said They will come, and in thoroughly satis themselves men who hasd engrained in end of her supplies), and reached the ren- that these institutions are not going to good-bye to the spare brace (she was at the factory amounts, but it is quite evident them those qualities and feelings odezvous in time to warn her friends. immobilize their capital for longer than humanity which, even in time of war, are

they can help. implanted by our great Maker, of mercy and forgiveness and comfort."

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Sir Edward's remarks were enthusi

Night full, and in the faint starlight the watchers upon Lonesome Pine looked at one another questioningly. Little they said, yet the same thought was uppermost astically received. in the mind of each. Something must bo done. There was a call for volunteers, and a few minutes later a party of gal lant men from the back-blocks threading their way along the shore through the darkness and silence, broken only by the music of waves and the ory of * soul in pain.

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Private A, Vickers, 2nd Warwicks, who. has been awarded the V.C., said that be

the wire entanglments at Hulluch, though ho received the French military medal. He was just going off to sleep one night in. One of the many stories told about the and were raising him up, when through Discussing the history papers produced a ruined house when some of his friends Prince of Wales at the front is being re- the shadow there loomed suddenly another at a recent examination Sir John remarks ran in and said, Give us your hand,lated in London. It seems that the Prince thought that he has not been under fire.ford, somewhere in France," he speedily band, a Turkish patrol, bont on the same that much vagueness still prevails in the Vickers is thirty-four.

Midge, you've got the YC Private continually was imploring Sir John As a matter of fact, he has heard the burst into the officers quarters with the When the war. French to permit him to go into the first Jack Johnsons" whistling close at joyful news, whereupon a young Marquis, Shots were exchanged, and the use of ecclesiastical terms and that this broke out he tried six times at the recruit

line tronches, but the wise Field-Marshal hanet and has been near enough to ex-intimate friend and school-fellow, shout- newcomers, who found themselves at dis- vagueness extends to prominent personal-

knowing how much depends on the pre ploding shells to make those who keep an ed advantage numerically, were at once supitics. Luther, for instance, was written ing office before he was accepted,

servation of the life of the heir to the eye on him rather nervous. In addition, Bully for you, Eddie; now we'll all

he has been engaged en some rather hazar get a chance to smash the Gerinans!" plied with a wounded man from among about as if he had been Wycliffe Calvin account of his abort height.

throne, refused all requests.

During the height of the fighting a dous missions, acquitting himself so well- camp in place of the one they had missed Latimer, or even John Knox. But the palm

Festulert the Prince again pleaded with that silent Sir John referred to him as for confused thinking of all sorts was

the Field-Marshal to permit him to join a gallant soldier. There is no doubt that easily earned by the author of the follow-

the fighters, and when the answer was the Prince is a glutton for work and he ing:

courteous

No. S

sir," the heir-apparent lets no opportunity escape to do his tired with gloomy face to the society bit" for king and country. of his comrades on mares his failurenadier Guards his comrades didn'teen-

the staff ang said," When he first was attached to the Gry when they chaffed

Oh, it's all right for you fellows to those very much, as there was a feeling but I tell you it is rotten that his association with the regiment have your joke, but It madan kalian berparkling or would keep it out of the danger zone, and to be a prince

Although the Prince is not permitted to when he finally induced K. of K. expose himself needlessly, it must not be to permit him a join the expeditionary

themselves to take hack to the Turkish.

by a few minutes only, while the other party, both rescuers and rescued, had soon reached the Anzac lines safety.

What led these men to hazard their lives in so perilous an exploit, braving certain dauger to save an unknown foc!

Mr. Ben Tillett in a war lecture recently, extolled the bravery of the “When___the_South Sea Bubble was Prince of Wales at the front There drawn up, in the reign of Chattes, the youngster out there," he said, men placed it on the table, and, sending.

who does not seem to have any fear. I believe the old philosopher Epictetus for Cromwell, asked him to sign it. Crom-He goes through where the mud is thickest once supplied the answer under somewhat well, when he saw the document, put on

and the danger great, accompanied by similar circumstances. They have done a stern look, and, swinging his hand in other officers, one of whom remarked. It this," he exclaimed, nos for the man, the air, with a loud voice shouted, Take is all very well for him, but if he were but for the nature of man.??

that bauble," away

killed, we would be blamed.""

After the redoubtable Michael O'Leary accomplished the remarkable feat which made him a "VC." he was presented to the Prince. "Mike" and the Prince had a long chat, which the Prince seemned rejoined his comrades he said thoroughly to enjoy, and when Mike

Sure and it's a great little bou he is, and, Prince or no Prince; there isn't a finer gentleman in all Ireland.”

Which is high praise indeed from the Man from Macroom!