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·GERMANS · AND PEACE,

CANDID CONFESSION OF FINAN- CIAL ORGAN.

HARD LOT OF INVALID

PRISONERS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21m, 1816,

OVERCROWDED AND ILL-KEPT

GERMAN SANATORIUM...

U.S.A. REPORT DISCLOSURES.

A few months ago the great mass of the Gertan people, spoon-fed by their offi- cialty-inspired newspapers, really believ-

The Foreign Office has issued a report ed the war would end in Detober, as the German Emperor himself promised them, which has been made to Mr. Gerard, the American Ambassador in Berlin, by Dr. Russia, they were told, was about to he Ohueaborg and Mr. Minst with regard to shattered, the German legions were too of the British divilians supported

tion of turn westwards, and France and Eng- there by British Government funds. land deprived of their Eastern Ally, would be forced to terms,

came swiftly on the heels of the 'Russian renaissance in the launching of the third war loan and the announcement of a winter campaign. ·

The sanatorium comprise, three build- Disillusionings, the main one-the best of the three

containing about twenty patiente. rooms and wards were clean, well venti- The lated and modern, but were often over

The visitors, however, found crowded. that no effort was made to segregate com municable diseases. Thus in one room there was a case of tuberculosin quartered with a patient suffering from a cardiac disease and two other patients.

Then, fearing the effect of the reaction on the people, the Government allowed Maximilian Harden to break to them the truth. Not one of our enemies is dis- England, the armed, be wrote.

RUSSIA'S RESERVE OF STRENGTHI

"SOME MILLIONS MORE OF MEN.

[Lord Kitchener, in an Athens tele gram, is represented as having stated that England will be in a position to arm and supply six million Eussion troops by March next. The information given in the following article written for the Daily News by Colonel A. M. Murray

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strongest of the lot, cannot even be con-made that the cases of tuberculosis be re-swing to deaths and emigration there are

sidered badly hurt by our blows. All our foes believe, as honestly at any German, that victory will be theirs, and they are determined to do everything to that effect, This must evidently be a war of exhaus tion. The human eye cannot fathom the Nail these ideas into every ond of it. German brain,"

"PEACE WITH HONOUR." What was the effect of this cranium-pierc It has ing operation on its victims? become clear in the last few days, wruto Mr. Leonard Spray to the Daily Tele. graph from Rotterdam on December 7th. It was not that intended-the reconcilia- tion of the people to a war of exhaustion, its and obscured in depths to human eye can fathom. No; the German people had boen promised peace, and it is peace they are demanding. They know now there can never be a peace imposed by their con quoring will. But they still believe in the possibility of a peace with honour," though not with victory, and they are foarfat least their rulers, blinded by the possession of military assets that can nover be realized, should deprive them of the promised boun.

In a previous visit a suggestion was moved from immediate association with those not so afflicted, but this has not been done, and there did not appear any like lihood of it being done.

Another point brought to the attention of the authorities, without result, was the depressing effect for ordinary patients to bo immediately associated in their living quarters with those suffering from mental diseases...

been taken from published sources chiefly from Veltae's Armee Almanaca.]

M. Goremkin, the Prime Minister of Russia, is reported to have said that the centrate some millions more of mer" Itussian Government would shortly con at the front, and so far as numbers are concerned there should be no difficulty in doing this. In Ruseis liablity to mili- tar service cxtends from the beginning of 6114 dhe end of the word year of a man's age, and us on an average 1,800,000 men reach the age of twenty-one every year, after allowing for wastage no less, and probably more, than 28,000,000, Accepting the during time of peace. men at all times available for service Agures of a recent German writer, who estimated the total permanent Russian loss of men after 16 months war, includ ing prisoners, to be 4,000,000, there would remain 24,000,000, and if from this num bar we deduct 8,000,000 who are physically unit for military service, or who are in- dustrially employed on war work there is a balance of 18,000,000 men of fighting nge who are either enrolled or available for enrolment when called up by the military authorities.

A

THE DEVIL'S WALE

NOVEL GERMAN DEVICE FOR ATTACK.

The following article has been received from the Exchange Telegraph Company's correspondent in Petrograd

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The latest captures by Russky's men of German positions at Kemmern, west of Rigo, and on the Middle Dvins, have brought to light new German peculiarities methods of attack and defence. Thanks to improved technical methods, the Germans are holding all this front and even counter-attacking with very anty FJIKINI ..

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At Kemmern were seven successive rows of trenches and a whole underground city, TJILATJAP which gave the defenders shelter when our high explosive shells blew the trenches to bits. A prisoner says that when the Kaiser was in Courland in October he uttered this epigram

**

́ ́ Soldiers, whatever they do, must dig, Men whe will not dig their comraden shelters must dig their comrades graves.

WATTLE ENTANGLEMENTS., The German entanglements near Riga As this would consume thousands of miles of

are sometimes 200 yards' deep.

of a tough wattle, which takes as long to wire part of each entanglement is wate break through as it takes to clip through wire. The rear part of the entanglement immediately before the trench is always Prisoners say this is because wattle.. the wire blown to bits by shells has dis figured and wounded many men.

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On the Middle Dving the Germans set light to the forests, barn off the dry leaves and small twigs, and plant the bushy pointed branches as

These strange plantations are a frise, mile deep in places. Our men when at- tacking had to march through and ever them, while underneath their feet "trend exploded. They were, hidden mines under a sprinkling of soil. Machines to

One is called by Germans TJISONDARI prevent loss in attack are being used more and more.

The Devil's Wall." It is an elabora- tion of the Russian engineer, Pletnaff, which was used with effect near Warsaw.

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DINGY AND DIRTY SITTING-ROOM, Of another of the buildings the visitors report that it is an old double villa mado Proper steps had not been into one.

were they contemplated, taken, nor

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE. towards placing it in a good condition.

The terms of service in the Russian It was not kept clean, and as the ten rooms used for patients were filed up aroy should here be explained. Those practically to the limit permitted by re who are taken for the conscription serve cognised hygienic laws they were, there- three years, with the colours (four years fore, overcrowded for the comfort, if not in the cavalry and Engineers), after for the health, of the patients. Previous which they pase for seven years into the female nurse was in attendance dur-lat Army Reserve, followed by eight

WALL WITH ARMS." y ing tho day but latoly this has been years in the 2nd Army Reserve, making

The Devil's Wall" is a steel, or steel- changed and a nurse comes twice daily to a total of eighteen years service altoge give out the prescribed medicines and do ther. For the remaining five years of sheeted breast-high barrier mounted on the necessary dressings. At least one their obligatory period of military sex wheels. It is from 10 to 15 yards long. nurse should be on duty here day and vice they are passed into the 1st Bap of Sheltered by it from all missiles except night.

the Imperial Militia, or Opolchenie. Be hand grenades, the men march to attack AFAKAN... aides the colour service men who have The latest Devil's Wall" is ingenious On the front side of done their eighteen years in the active and complicated, army and its two Reserves, the 1st Ban the wall are artificial arms, also clipping and hacking appliances, which are mani- of the Opolchenie is composed of all men who are physically fit for military ser-gulated by soldiers in safety behind. vice, and who have not been exempted for Small trees, forming obstacles to the family reasons, but for whom there has Wall's advance, can be sawri through, been no room with the colours. The 2nd and wire entanglements can be chipped to Ban of the Opolchenie is composed of all bits. If the space of level ground which men who have been exempted for family the "Wall" needs for advance grows "Wall" narrow owing to obstacles the " reasons from the conscription, or who have been passed as medically unfit Though without any military training whatever during peace, all men in the 2ud Ban are liable to be called up on mobilization, and many have doubles been summoned to the depôts during the past year.

That the desire for peace is now the dominant one among ever-widering circles the same room with other patients.

Two cases of tuberculosis were found in Que of the people is witnessed to by every

case of erysipelas a man of sixty-odd traveller whom you meet returning from Germany,

But what is of real signif-year was under treatment in a room oe cupied by five other men and through cons at the present ment is that this which seven other men had to pase to their longing for the end of the war, even with no conquesta to show in return for theaters. appalling sacrifices of blood and trea- This house has only one room used sue is finding open expression, True, ita sitting and dining room combined, is little more than a whisper, but it is which is inadequate in size, dingy and Many of those interrogated cow- whisper that is daily becoming more dirty. Insistent, a whisper that has at lat pass. plained that their physical condition had ed from lip to Jip in the Reichstag itself,

not improved and that the medical atten- aat had done little or nothing for them. I have already recorded how only a very small majority in the Social, Democratic PECUNIARY GAIN THE FIRST CONSIDERATION. party defeated a proposal that the Gor-

In some general remarks on the three ernment should be forced, on the threat buildings the report states that the of rofusing to support further war patients say that the quality of the food credits, to define exactly the terms on

is good but that the quantity is insuffi- which they are ready to enter into pence cent, milk, eggs, and butter being parti negotiations. As it is, the party have cularly limited in amount.. There ar agreed on a vaguer interpellation on the pears to be little attempt to provide subject, and it is clear that the minority special diets for cases which need this. ready to push to extremes is growing in strength, ET

Meantime there are straws which show hich show

the German Empire than Prussia Already, some time ago, the Socia). Ds- mocrats of Saxony made an angry protest against increased taxation Now there is divulged auther incident showing their atitude towards the war. Yesterday the Upper Saxony Chamber met, and the Minister of the Interior made the follow- 3ng pignouncement:

**This last visit," concludes the report,

EIGHT. MILLION TRAINED MEN.

German prisoners boast that, despite can be telescoped and narrowed. the thinness of their lines, no more mon are wanted.

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Till the war broke out the Russian NOVEMBER BEST MONTH OF THE SHIPBUILDERS, SALVORS AND REPAIRERS, BOILERMAKERS

Government never attempted to train any more than a fraction of the men who reached the age of 21 each year A few years ago, in Veltze's Armee-Almanach, Captain Bugo Kerchnawe, of the Aus trip General Staff, gave the actual re-

how the wind is blowing in other parts of more for pecuniary gain than the human/cruiting, figures for the year 1907 as

under:

who reached the age of 21 on the January 1st, 1907 (b) Exempted for family reasons, absentees, and unft

the proprietor of this sanatorium cares hae convinced us more than ever that

tarian side of his works."

Sir Edward Grey in a note to Dr. Page, (e) Number of men U.8. Ambassador in London, requesting him to convey the thanks of the British Government to Mr. Gerard for authorising the inspection of the sanatorium, states that he has received the information con veyed in the report with deep concern,

physically Germany did not and adds that he does not think it neces begin the war. It was forced-upon us sary to dwell on the various discreditable by our adversaries, who thought to rob features of the hospital administration. Germany, and to suppress our nation The Government, he says will learn with existence. That object forces as to act pleasure the favourable jesue of the efforts soordingly, and to bring our enemies in which, it is understood, Mr. Gernard is the recognition that they are beaten and

now contemplating with a view to obtain- conquered.!!

Now, that has been saiding the transfer of invalid prisoners to before. It was much the sort of non-an institution in which the conditions sense to which, at the beginning, the will be less open to grave objection. Socialista lent a willing ear.

But this

time it had no such reception from the Socialists of Saxony. They received it

in a marked silence-a fact duly record-

ed by Forwaerts without the comment that,

for military ser -vice:"

1,289,006

1,389,006

Transferred to the und Ban of the Opolchenie

587,092

(0) Passed fit for service inall respects

701,914

(d) Postponed till

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A STRANDED WHALE,

(e) Taken for the

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701,914

(f) Transfered to the

let Bon of the Opulchonio

[219,019

it were free to do so, it would gladly A large whale was seen swimming is

WAR PERIOD,

The Board of Trade returns for No- vember show a substantial advance in British exports-in fact, the month waa the best in cast respect since the cut

break of the war.

Imports and exports for November. 1915, with the increases compared with the corresponding month of 1814, was as followe:

Imports

Nov, 1915. Increase £71,647,160.£16,129,030 British exports .... 35,639,306... 11,037,547 Re-exports

8,312,703 2,639,708 Compared

the with

corresponding month of 1813 the imports in November, 1916, increased by £3,180,085, while ex- ports declined by £9,117,022.

How our overseas trade has fared in the eleven months of war in 1915 com- pared with the corresponding eleven months of peace in 1913 is shown in the following statement:-

11 Months, Inc, or dec

1915.

on 1913. £782,040,937... £85,021,000

8,8$1,973

Dags. The reason why the Democrats the port of Lungkou on the morning of could not give assent is obvious. They December 25th, says 'the Manchuria Daily though not a very large one, of men is exports are down this year by £53,251,980, know the declaration meant, "We must continue the war to the end."

FREEDOM OF THE SEAS,

Imports British exports. 250,699,817...--131,434,883 Heexports 91,095,222..

Total...£1,224,735,078.£65,245,850 Compared with the eleven months 1914 Since 1907 there bas been, an increase-party peace and partly war-British News. The tide had ebbed fast before

In the matter of raw materials the the mammal got out of the shore water category (a), and a corresponding in-

crease in category (e), the total for the highest increase in November, 1915, was into which it had indiscreetly entered. past three years averaging in round in cotton, viz., £2,858,831, tim increase opinien, it is always necessary to bear in wieldly body, about eight fathoms long, for these two estegories. The average being £1,300,020. The largest increase in

In searching the German Press for Presently the upper half of its hugo un-

numbers 1,300,000 and 480,000 respectively in the exports of manufactured cotton mind the iron censorship under which it was the abure water. The Chinese di- number of men in category (1), including manufactured exports were in iron and

tecled the monster in its compromising peal-- works. For that reason a paragraph, or tion and soon swarmed about a postponements, has been approximately steel (£1,586,873) and in wool (£2,354,105). a mildly, expressed comment, is of much

250,000. Taking these figures as a basis As regards food, our imports of wheat greater significance than would be columos vampires around their prey. Every for further calculation, and allowing in November increased by 018,017wts, of invective in an English journal of the of flesh was cut or scraped off the whale for a 25 to 30 per cent. normal pesos beef by 46,304ents, rabbits by 60,013:wts "pessimist" schoola. There is, therefore, in quick order, and only the bony frame wastage during the 23 years period of bacon by 77,777cwis and hams by

was left. no danger of attaching too much import

obligatory military service when war 28,217cwts. Butter increased by 87,865 ance to a recent remarkable utterance of

broke out last year there must have been and margarine by 112,782 cwts. the Frankfurter Zeitung, the principal

approximately 7,500,000 men, between the organ of the financial classes. As no peer from that part of Germany has Pan-Slavist treachery, towards the West trained for three some of them for four, Finally, the speedy resumption of the ages of 21 und 44 who had heen fully- reached the outside world for several is not to be feared. It is true that last years with the colours. Deducting the have had any military training previous days, the original article is not to hand, ing security is wanting, but we must be wastage of of 4,000,000 during the past to being called up, for seeing that there is the Forwaerts. a quoted at length by the st. in itself it careful not to look for this along wrong afteen months of war, there still remain are eight millions of men in the field and roads. Certainty, we can, as a matter of 3,500,000 fully-trained men, besides some in reserve at the depots, there is abundant. Greatly daring, the Frankfurter dis fact, never have, and it is because that 4,500,000 or more men of the 1st Ban of time to give these men six months or a before their services will cusses that offically forbidden topic, "ob must be recognized that the teaching is the Opolcheuje, all of whom are believed year's jects of the war." It quotes first Beth-so much to be stigmatized as false which under training for the past year. With of her heavy losses, Rusia bas a surplus to have been now mobilized, sad been be wanted. For the time being, in spite mann Hollwog'a famous declaration, would make us believe that Germany may out calling on any of the 2nd Ban of the of trained men who are more than suff

Germany must so build up its position, not put the sword into the sheath before Opolchenie we may take it that Russia cient to replace wastage in the armies so strengthen and fortify it, that other Russia has been torn into pieces. Powers will lose their tendency to enforce would lead us along the quite un-German has now either in the field or in reserve at the front, but who cannot he organized the policy of an iron ring around Ger-road of a conquering imperialism, which at the depôts from 7 to 8 millions of men in new formations owing to the difficulty many. Then it proceeds, The policy we never intended to follow, and which is who are all of the fighting age (21 to in equipping them.

What is to be noted is that, them num- of the iron ring has suffered complete at variance with the words, defeat. French intrigues will

bers are far from exhausting the fighting agala prop the revenge' ides on to its It is no matter for wonder that this

strength of Russia if the war goes on for several years, for even if the present rate of permanent wastage is continued four millions of men in fifteen months she can still maintain her army in the field with

nover

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practically fully trained,

TEN MILLION MEN IN HESERVE, The above calculation takes no account it down to the ground, and brought it widespread attention throughout Ger of the large serve of strength which is into discredit. Therefore, ther now

For it is a clear pronouncement to be found in the ranks of the 2nd Ban question.

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that Germany has done, all it can ever of the Opelchenie, and which is composed its reserves at its present strength (eight whole theory of the domination of the sea hope to do that it can never dream of of the men who were excluded for family millions) for 21 years more hy drawing rests upon out-of-date analogies with conquering Russia, and that the cry of the tessons from the conscription lists, but on the 2nd Ban of the Opolcbenic, with- former cording 18 4 question of being "Freedom of the seas." in the dare who are physically fit for service. Mak-out discounting the future by calling up guided according to the real conditions when, owing to the deeds and policy of ing a liberal allowance for peace wastage classes in advance of the normal time or and getting rid of all ventimentality, England freedom for the whole world on and for those required for industrial em by recalling men over 13 years of age which just as blind hate, can be as dan the ocean highways is an accomplished ployment these men must total up to The Central Powers have both done this gerous as blind love."

fact is so much humbug. In other words, something like 10,000,000. It is not known to a large extent, and so has France in the Frankfurtes Zeitung, standing for the how many, if any, classes of the 2nd Bau a lesser degree, but Hissis has more than RUSSIA UNCONQUERLELE. From great commercial interests of Germany, have been called up, but many of the men sufficient men to carry on the war, oven Having thus neatly disposed of German tells the German Government to silence have come forward as volunteers, and the single-handed, until attrition has done

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