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AIR RAIDS AS SEEN BY CHILDREN.

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Glimpses of Zoppelins through childish sergeaut puts his hand in at the door eyes were given by Dr. C. W. Kimmins. of the hut. Pack up at once and stand Chief Inspector of Schouls for the London ready to march at half an hour's notice. County Council, in a lecture to the Child A baboj of talk arises as the sleepers Study Society at the Royal Sanitary In awake. We only came from the trenches stituto. Dr. Kimmins' subject was The two days ago, and the general opinion

stand to" is a interest of London Children at different is that this

try on Ages in Air Raids," and the lecture was on the part of the authorities. However, Parcels have only just on 95 essays written without pre we pack up. with 15 minutes, by boys and arrived from home, and although a good

from eight to 13 years age

dead has been spoilt by the rain, which attending five schools in the neighbour comes in a continuous drip between the hood of places in London where bomb ancovered boards of the roof, a lot of were dropped during the Zeppelin raids things have to be left behind. One docs of 8th September and 13th October. At not load onceclf too heavily for a ten least 98 per cent. of the children had mile march. actual experience of one or both E the raids. The essays were written from to 14 days after the raids.

At eight years of age, Dr. Kimmins aaid, the noise of the firing bulked very largely in the essays. No personal feel ings were expressed and there was no evidence of lear Even at that age the girls looked after the younger children, At nine the boy thoroughly enjoyed the raid, spending as much time as possible in the streets; occasionally among the virts great fear was expressed. At 10 the bey was very talkative and for the first time there was distinct evidence of fear, though not nearly so marked as in the case of the girls. part in looking after the younger child ren. On wrote:-

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fo Jous's Cathedral, Hongkong. 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, 16th January, 1916, Holy Cammannion (8.5-a.m.) - Matins (11 s.m.) Responses, Ferial, Venite, Kempton Palma 79 and 80: Te Deum, Oakley to F Jubilate, Hayes in F; Anthem, I waited for the Lord." Mendelssotn Hymus, 81. Pealm 79, vertes 1, 5, 6, 9 and 14 in uniton, Prolm 10, Verses 3,7

the King. d 19 in unison. God Save Holy Communion 112 Noos). Evensong (5.5 1,} Responses, Feral; Pelar, of the 16th evening: Magnifost, Tarle, Fard morning) Nine Damilie, Wesley; Hymns, 169, 75 (T. 09) and 31,

Packing done and water bottles filled we all lie down again to get what sleep we can. Almost at once it seems there is banging at the door. Are you the 2.0. Turn out and fall at at once Hastily we pull on our equipment, size our rifles, and fall in on the road outside. It is just dawn, and although the rain has ceased the air is damp and raw,

Fall in there!" says a voice. turn! Quick march

We are off again along the road we know too well which leads to the trenches. This time, however, there is a change. The first few miles is along the cobbles. Again and again we have toiled along

Chant, locul lusit in the daylight. One or two of us at a time, we have straggled in at five in the morning dead to the world with fatigue. Farther along we have never before genu it in the light of day, and now for the first time we see the artillery dug-outs on the left, and on the right the old chatean seeing scarcely to have been touched by the shells.

A picture over mother's bed fell on let head and in the baby. The baby went unconscious, and my mother shook her, and then she was alright.

Girls of 10 were much frightened, and began to be bellies, making vigoroas protests against German spies; they go to bed in their clothes lest the Zeppelins should return. One gaid

People were all running alat like muud bulls and the windows were falling out like rain,

THE POLITE, COUSIN.

At 11 years of age the boys showed no sign at all of four. The following was uts

extract:→

My cousin pointed to a star and said she thought it was a Zeppelin. FAL- head," said 1, politely. It cannot be a Zeppelin. It does not move."

The girls said much about the care of children, but no fear appeared now to be felt. One wrote!

We enter a communication trench, and now the walking is easy, for we tread on duck-walks, which form a wooden foot path along the bottom of the trench. We reach a deserted village, and just beyond a halt is called, and we sit down at the side of the trench, It is ten o'clock and we have had no breakfast, but no one seems inclined to eat more than a slice of bread and the eternal jam. For three hours we try to sleep, but at last the order to move arrives. Leave your packs by the side of the trench with one man company on guard."

In the debate in the French chamber on the Bill for the incorporation of the 1017 class General Gallieni, Minister of General Joffre. The demand for the call to the colours, he said, does not mean that the 1917 class will be immediately sent to the front, but this class must be trained in order to be ready by the spring of 1916, when, he said, in agreement with our Allies. our reinforcements and armaments will allow us to make a decisiva effort,

AUSTRO-GERMAN EXPENDITURE

IN AMERICA

According to statements made in the Providence Tourna, Count Bernstorff has, during the last four months spent in the United States between £7,000,000 and £8,000,000 in the campaign against the Allied Powers, Privy Councillor Albort is, according to the Providence Journal, the director, under Count Bernstorff, in The words are ominous. Packs are al. this gigantic campaign of bribery and cor ways discarded before an attack, But so ruption. Documents exist to prove where at least £2,000,000 of this huge amount has far we know nothing of our object,

Near the end of the communication been expended. These documents are in trench we pass a company of "kilties" the form of receipts from the banks which a new draft apparently, for they are act as the intermediaries. The Providence rather spick and span. And now another Journal reproduces a wireless message word is passed down the line: "The dated September 5th. ostensibly from a Scots will fight without hats to-day." It commercial house in Berlin, but in reality. is the old story apparently. The Huns from the German Secretary of State for kilt and bounet together will be the mark bank to pay Mr. Albert the equivalent in are fighting in stolen clothes. To-day Foreign Affairs and ordering a certain

dollars of £400.000 The samo, newspaper reproduces a wireless message from Dr. he asks the Austrian Minister of Foreign Dumba, dated September 22nd, in which Affairs to send £120,000 for the "Hungar an Postal Administration which obvi

of the beast

Mother said she did not want to see or hour the Zeppelina again.. I do.

Afterwards (said another) I knew what our brave soldiers and sailors bave had to go through day after day. This kind of thing makes our realize what war 15 and yet dropping bombs op harmless people is not war. That night I felt bitter towards the Gormans. I felt 1

At length we are out of the communica could fly to Germany and do the shave seen it a score of times before, but tion trench and plunge into a wood. We At 12, the boye still gave no sign of fear, to-day it is so changed as hardly to be recognisable. Old lines of trenches have but began to hunt for souvenirs.

disappeared. Old 'dug-outs have been

to them

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The bomb did not go off (wrote poe boy). swept away and new ones have taken ously hides another destination. Numerous"

I went to get it, bucand there copper can running round the corner and he took it.

of fear.

The girls now became very critical and argumentative, but there was no evidence At 13 the Zeppelins were described sa midnight marauders.” The following were extracts from the boys' essays-

I was cleaning the stove when the room was lighted up by a lurid glow, followed by a bang. Zeppelins! I exotamed, and straightway rushed into the street.

The air raid was a failure, the idea being to frighten the people of London. It did not succeed, the feeling being vao of curiosity.

The girls of 13 gave a general verdict that the raids would do good because they would show the people what war really was. There was again not the slightest evidence of fear.

PHILOSOPHIC_YOUTH, Throughout the essays there was evidence of the mothering attitude of young girls towards thus, helpless. One girl of nine rusted home and went upstairs to take her Teddy bear to the cellar. There was evi- dence also of the philes hic attitude of children. One girl wrote:-

I was a bit frightened when the bomb burst, but we have only to die once.

Said another:

I could have seen the Zeppelins, but I thought, " If I do Ishall always see them when I look up into the sky," so I would ao look at them.

Particularly striking was the evidence of the small part played by the father in the family. in 90 per cent of the essays no reference was made to him, and evin in the other cases the references were not flattering. For example:

down the trees and obliterated almost all Consular agents are produced ordering. signs of the old occupation, The only Austro-Hungarian subjects to leave the landmark that remains is the little ceme- various American munition works, under fery with its white wooden crosses gleam-sovere penalties for refusal to comply with

this order. ing in the sunshine.

Now we begin to hear things. The South Midshires have lost a trench and wo are reinforcements. The Angles are to

MASTER SPYDISAVOWED.”

The stiffened attitude of the American

..

attack on the left and the kilties on the Government towards the campaign of alien right. There is to be "some" bombing. They march us up another trench into lawlessness and violence in this country- the firing line. It is right inside the nye the New York correspondent of T'he wood, and the men of the South Midshires Times-bore fruit to-day in the form of an who hold it tell us that the Hans are in afficiat disavown)" by the German Gov- possession of about fifty yards of the ernment of the activities of Captain Frans

vou Rintelen. trench just beyond. Our company turns,

The German Ambassador off into a maze of little trenches just be declares that Captain von Hintelen had no instructions to commit acts which were hind the firing fine. We balt teu or twelve yards behind the line. The tren- in violation of the laws of the Uniterl ches are only about three or four feet States.” deep-there-are-no-parapets-and-the bot-Before-hit capture at Falmouth-and-his. tem is a foot deep in thick, drying mad. imprisonment in England Captain von All around us is dense undergrowth. Rintelen was head of the German py sys- One can see only a few yards in any tem in the United States. It has even been direction.

said that his authority was superior to that At three o'clock our guns open fire. The of Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Hun guns join us, and between the two Papen, He hud £7,000,000 at his disposal fires we are smothered by a rain of mud, stones, and leaves, broken branches and and he spent enormous sums in promoting the cause of General Huerta in Mexico fragments of shell. One or two men are and in organizing the trouble in that cau bidly wounded.

The word comes down: "Pass down try with the design of foreing America to that our shells are falling short, and intervere, He niso paid heavy bribes to again, Our shells very short,

men prominent in Labour circles to pro- rt" but.

voke strikes in ammunition factories, bick

goes the reply passed from man to manz All wires broken; have sent mes- senger to headquarters."

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At last after half an hour or more the

fire slackens and at the same moment "All right," comes the answer, but the

The

bombs begin to explodo a few yards away.rides of our trench have caved in and one The attack has commenced. Some of the or two men are dragging themselves out My father was frightened during the bombs fall near us, but none quite reaches of the fallen earth. raid and he ran into a beer shop and gotus, although one can see branches flying The day begins to draw in and in the under the counter and stayed there until into the air close by.

dusk the bombing starts afresh. it was all over.

Huns are making a counter-attack. The Men generally, apart from policemen,

flashes of the exploding bombs follow soldiers, and firemes, were often the sub-

each other in quick succession and our ject of uncomplimentary remarks.

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Jaion after Morning Service. Morning ST. ANDREW'S CHURCE, Kowloon. 18/h 2nd Bunday after Epiphany, Holy

Prayer 11 em. Hymn 837; Responses, Fostal, Vexito, 16th day, Kempton; Pealis, of the 16th Morning; To Dean, St. Judej Jabllato, Goodion; Hymns, 117, 151 and 1; Kyrie, Mounder. National Anthem Erening Prayer. 6pm, Hymn, 375 (tune 40A.M.); Responses, Festal Faalms, of the 16th evening; Bagni- Dimistic, Steiner, W. A. Chant, No. 375. Hymns, 116 and 687 (tane 290 A.M.) 274. Veiper Hymy National Aufhem.

Dr. PetSE'S CHURCH, West Polit. Sun- day, 16th January-8 m., Holy Communion 11 AI.. Morning Prayer and S.Ta on Prescher, Rev. WT. Fatherst or.

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road. Sunday, 16th January. Sunday Services, Mersing Service at 11 am. Hyunɛ 37, 613, 153 and 53. Subject: "Lose Your Enemies." Evening Servist 6 p.m. Hymus 596, 107, 237,155 and 370, Collectioze for British and Korelyn Bible Society, Proctor: Rev J. Kük Maconsche

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WEATHER REPORT.

cyclone has again weakened slightly, and spread tho 14th at 19.15 p.m.-The anti- castward,

all districts, except Indo-China, where it in A slight decrease of pressure in shown in nearly stationary.

A shallow depression lies over the Viss you. Moderate to light monsoon may be expected long the east coast of Chine, and strong monsoon over the Chins Sos.

· Hongkong rainfall for the 24 home anching at 10 am today, 000 inshen. (20

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Another message comes down: "LO.C. bombers wanted: More bombs wanted,' and from one trench and another the boabers crush by us and pass on towards men in the fire-french open a heavy rifle DEVON AND A may came into the public-house and the spot where the bombs are bursting.fire. The messages start again: said. Give me half a pint. If I an Then comes a stream of messages: "More munition wanted at once in the fring going to die I will die drunk."

bombs wanted." "Bead more bombs at line" More kombers and bayonet men Visitors to Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, The essays gave some interesting once. Send bombs. Send down for wanted. Send up more bombs at Bearnemouth, Wye Valley, Bevern Valley glimpses of social life in lodging-houses more combs.

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B.Q. for once this from two directions, "Re Bath, Weston-super-mars, Malvern, Hereford, sad tenements, and they also illustrated more bombs. No more hare L.0.0. serve-small-arm ammunition almost used Worcester, Gloucester, Llandrinod Wells, the danger of suppressed emotion. The stretcher bearers wanted at once. Must up; sead up more slings. After some Llangollen, Aberystwyth, Towyn, Barmouth, Harloch, Úricciata, Plhelli children who suffered most were girls of have more. bombs." Stretcher bearers delay a box of loose cartridges is passed Dolgelly, about 12, who were really frightened but wanted. Two bad - cases."!

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to have been falling nearer than before, are almost continuous; the wood is lighted" Suddenly a piercing beam of white right but now they have receded again and up with the dashes. Every moment the shot across the sky. Guns spat viciously word comes down that the trench has crash of a bursting shell drowns all other out of the darkness at a cigar-shaped body been retaken. We hear that a number sounds. far up in the clouds

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