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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 231D 1916.

S.Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

PIANOS

ON

HIRE

FROM

$10 Per MONTH.

TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION

INCLUSIVE.

FURNISHED FLATS}

THE Undersigned are prepared to furnish

FFICES

[10-3

TO LET.

GARMENTS FROM HONGKONG

FOR THE TROOPS, LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The following letters have been received by Lady May in acknowledgment of various consignments of clothes and other articles sent by the Women of Hongkong, "Our little bit Workers Socisty, Kow "Joon, etc. :--

From Officer Commanding, 10th General

Hospital, Alexandria. - Alexandria, 18th January, 1916, Dear MadamI have just received the vory acceptable consignment of comforts sent by the Women of Hongkong, all safo and intact.

Please accept my sincere and heartfelt thanks. Every article will prove extremely acceptable to the men Colonel Gordon Hall has been removed to Cairo, and I have taken over his charge, but, I hope thin will not in any way affect your patronage to this. Hospital,

THE SALONIKA FRONT.

THE ADVANTAGES GAINED BY WITHDRAWAL.

Mr. G. Ward Price, writing from Balo- aika on December 2tah, says: We are now securely established in our defensive positions around Salonika and across the head of the Chalcidics Peninsula. Work upon thou is already. so far advanced that it needs only a visit to the front line to make clear what an advantage we have gained in withdrawing from our formor position beyond the Greek frontier,

COUNT ZEPPELIN'S PROPHECY ANOTHER ORUSHING GERMAN OFFENSIVE."

is declared to be in preparation and, as Another crushing German offensive a result the Allie, will soon he beaton," Bigger guns, exterminating troduced," and air raids ca

gate bombe more devastating than any vet in

• colossal scale are threatened for the carly days of the year. Count Zeppelin, in a speech at Dusseldorf, is reported by the local nows papers ma saying, This cruel war which has been forced on us by Britain's dupli- city and avarice has now Insted nearly seventeen months. The flower of uur mau This retirement, lasting from December hood has been called on to make bitter 2nd to December 19th and bombastically sacrifices and our women folk mourn the represented by the enemy as a victory im-loss of our dear ones. Our consolation is or by them, became the necessary and that victory is in sight and I can promiss only reasonable thing to do, as soon as you now, speaking for myself and expres the attempt made by the French to join sing the view of our Imperial master, that Serbian army's being thrust back from few months will see German arms march up with the Serbians failed, owing to the the war will not last two years. The next the Babuna Pass.

rapidly from triumph to triumph and the faal destruction of our enemies will be play an important part in future opers swift and sudden, Zeppelin fleets will tions and will demonstrate more than ever their power as a factor in modern warfare, The Kaiser himself has taken a hand in

very difficult country which lies along General Serrail only went up into that the Vardar Valley, beyond the Demir Kapur ravine, with this objective as his Again thanking you for the gifts-Isole aim. If the plan had succeeded, and if the French and Serbians had been able romain, Yours faithfully,

GEO. SCOTT. Lt-Colonel R.A.M.C., Commanding 10us General Hospital.

In im-

SHELLS V CLASSICS,

WHAT FUTURE OFFICERS SHOULD LEARN.

In these days," said Mr. B. J.

at the Central Day Training College. Hough, of Oundle, speaking at the Asso- ciation of Public Schools' Science Masters London, there are practically only two courses open to a" boy leaving school-the Army or munition work. The raining at Oundle had, boon of untold value. How many hours a day should be devoted to munition work was keenly discussed by the conference.

The average boy cannot work eight hours at a stretch and keep up his maxi mum," said Mr. Hough. In my acneol about five hours a day are alloted to each form for munitions work."

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War work at Bradfield College," said Mr. F. B. Sille, has hoon divided into eight shifts, and a number of men past muitary ago are only too willing to come in and help. As a result the work was p.m. there was a shift of women from the continuous from 9 till 5. From 5 to 7 collego, and such masters as could spara the tom made a night of it, working morning. About two-thirds of the school from 7p.m. to the small hours of the

were assisting."

RELEASING SKILLED MEN In the making of simpler tools, said

Mr. A. H. Hall, Woolwich Arsenal, the

would release skilled men. this work the arsenal authorities wore pro- pared to give the schools financial and other assistance.

The following extracts are from a Jotter the French General's daring in attempt potent madness our enemies till strive to f six months of precious time before facing.

to jou hide ever a front covering most News a car, grocting to his armies, in of South-West Serbia. it would have been a great coup. Vigorously though the which he says, Whenever a superior attempt was made, as the fierce fighting number of enemies try to rush our lines on the slopes of Mount Arkangel showed, they fail before your loylats and bravery.

did not succeed, and what sent you

you gained glorious victories. from Colonel Gordon Hall:-

ing this difficult advance, by a precarious "Ever so many thanks for the letter line of communications, is the skill with deprive us of all that and for all the things so kindly sent by which he cxtricated himself from the ad. living. The hope of coin fair authors," said Mr. O. L. Bryant, of venture when the feasibility of its realisa Bghting they buried long ago. On the tion disappeared.

weight of their masses, on the starvation of our entire people, on the influenes af their campaign of enlumay, which is mis can chievous and malicious, they believe they

the Women of Hongkong for the sick and wounded; they will be most useful. Un- fortunately, I was transferred from

Tagine of their Tregunter Mansions (May in POINCE'S BUILDINGS, Second charge of the 9th General Hospital before

Road) Flata to suit intending tenanta These Flats have first-class appointments which include English Baths and Kitchen ranges, hot water supply and water-closets. They are of two kinds, viz.: Flate with 2 Bedrooms and & Sitting Rooms and Flats with 8 Bed- rooms and 1 Sitting Rooza, The latter are specially suitable for Bachelors, Arrange- ments could be made if desired for the use, in common with certain other tenants, of the adjoining fresh water swimming bath.

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KTO. 5, MORRISON HILL. G-Roomed

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a list of articles that are useful for the доп. Should anyone be sending things they could either be sent to the O.C. 18th General Hospital, Alexandría, or if they were sent

wounded, which I do

life worth

it is pitiable. even ridiculous, that

the grim realities of war should be wasted in reading little-understood classical. Harrow, urging that boys who intend to apply for commissions on leaving ehool should be specially trained in military science.

Supporting Mr. Bryant, Mr. J. Young,

The part which our forces played in this retirement was comparatively small. only to a third of thong of the truth, The British troops engaged amounted the things a "ived...............I have been and the distance over which the retire succeed, reckon. Their plans will not Woolwich Academy, said that it was only. ment had to be effected was shorter. In reply to a congratulatory telegram in the Woolwich and Ordnance College, moved to Calro as A.D.M.S, of the Cair? Cansequently the supreme command of the from the President of the Reichstag, the where a certain sumber of artillery District. You asked me to englewhole allied force was in French hands, Kaiser telegraphed.-"1 had the entire teaching for officers. Sandhurst bad the officers went, that there was any scienco Owing principally to the fog and to the German people hope to God that the Now difficult and confused country we had to Year will bring a Sual victory for our honour of being the only military college

where science was absolutely ignored.. retire through, as well as the superiority just causes and a new guaranteed basis for

"Do not spend five minutes on anything of the enemy in light guns, we had the the bencficial development in peaceful fished. But these may be regarded as not Fatherland. insignificant losses that have been pub competition with other nesions of our not directly applicable to the war," he

urged. too high a price to pay for the exchange from our entrenched positions along those folding into gullies and dead ground, up TURKISH POSITION INUNDATED. steep and inaccesible creste, twisting and MESOPOTAMIA OPERATIONS.

which the enemy could creep unseen, to the line which we now hold 10 to 15 miles I have just heard from Canton that

from Balonika, with a broad and absolute- the people there have scat a case of things.ly open field of fire across a bare plain,

Again thanking you all ever so much for all the things you have sent, "etc."

Enclused list.

Cairo. I would give them to some of the ie me A.D.M.S., Cairo District, Abbasis,

various hospitals under me.

Tobacco, pipes, cigars, aigarettes, slip- pory (soft), socks, mufflers, sleeping suits, khaki shirts for officers, khaki collars, TO. 11, GAGE STREET, from 1st January, tray cloths. table napkins, scrubbers, NO.1

1010. Apply to

dressing-gowns, bandages, small brass ash-trays, thin brass pots for flower pots so og to improve wards, wool for working for the men, cards and games of any sort, money to buy easy chairs and cover them, Terrace, walking sticks for those who are lame,

sweets,

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HOUSE in Knutsford

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These are all I can think of just now. Do not send any more warm underclothing as the Government is sending out a lot now, and it is not of much use sending lint and dressing, as there is plenty of

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18th January.

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DAI NIPPON BREWERY

OBTAINABLE

Dear Lady May,—I ought to

come parcel of 6 duzen socks, which reached me before Xmas, They are beaubi- fully warm and soft and I have already dispatched most of them in bales going to Egypt and Malta and Salonika; they will be so delightful for frost-bitten and sore feet. On January 1st a box arrived from your friends, and I am very grateful

rolling up at intervale five or six miles into hills that are thoroughly suitable for artillery positions,

The following message, dated 28th Jan-

1910, was received from Eye-wit it Mesopotamia:--

fuckish position at Kut. Tho enemy have The rise of the river has inundated the

Moreover these new works of ours are General Townshend's north-west front, evacuated the outre length of trenches on not linked with our base at Salonika, as

faling back some 2,000 yards. were the Irish Division's old lines, by Townshend's reconnoitring patrols ad General disjointed line of supply, made up of vanced 1,200 yards, filling up the Turkish train, motor-wagon, horse transport, and

trenches, and founded tity dead in one tule-back. Instead, quite a good road runs straight out from Salonika to a cen-place, lying with ixed bayonets, and wear- Inese were shelled ing their knapsacks.

A STOUT STRONGHOLD.

of

trol point on the line. Others of more dubious quality branch off to retusberg guns, when flooded out of their parts of the front, and money gangs. nearest trunchies a few days age. There Greek labourers are engaged almost deep trenches and miles of communication. were tully twenty-two rows of immensely wherever you look in building now roads trenches honeycombing the whole position, or repairing the old ones.

General Townshend's position being on the aigher ground, bas escaped the worst consequence of the flood. There has been no raid for two days, though the weather is cool, and the sky cloudy. The river is falling. General Townshend is in daily communication by wireless with the force advancing up the Tigris. All is well sinco Townshend came.

Our trenches guard the northern slope of one of the lines of hill that rib the plain. Our principal trenches ke deep and well-bagged, and from the front they are invisible. There hundred yards after you have passed them and look back there Ares behind them, mingling with the mists is nothing but the blus amoke of camp that rise from the clayey soil to mark the ling on which they lie,

TURKISH TACTICS,

A later message from " Eys-Witness** in Mesopotamia reads:--

The rainy spell has passed and the river is falling. There are clear cold days with a dry wind driving up the mud and frost at night. Our column advancing up the gris is in good condition, despite the exposure and severe weather, and is cil

-five miles Gamped within twenty Amara. The conditions of the western General Townshend's force at Kut-8)

front are repeated here, with modifica-

of

Further on across the brown flats that stretch in unbroken treeless monotony to where the next hill ridge rises six or seven miles away, there aro more earthworks, outposts and advanced posts covering possible liars of approach along the folds of the ground, with machine-guns and trenches buried so flush with the surface that even the sun cannot find enough dis- turbance in the earth to cast shadow. fatness and absence of cover make it a It is a most shelterless plain, but its very tions. At Shaikh Sand, by throwing back their left flank entrenchments at right stout stronghold to maintain on the de-angles to them front, the Turks turned our enveloping movement into a frontal

BEER for the contents. This week I have sent salonika one section of it was transferred

CO. TOKIO JAPAN

One effect that our retirement, combined attack, and again at Ummal-Haanah on with the moving of most of the Greek the 21st January, a frontal attack was troops from the neighbourhood of Salo. torced upon us by the Suwatcha marah on nika, has produced is yet another curious which the Turks rested their left. The Turks' trenches at Shaikh Soad were of problem arising out of the close prox- mity of the two armies. When the an excellent description, being deep and greater part of the Greek garrison left narrow and the troops could move quietly along them from point could move quietly to Seres, near the Bulgarian frontier, and along them from point to point without a bale to Malta and one to Alexandria it lies there between us and our enemy. exposing themselves. Some were held by

The and two to Salonika, and in these I put have withdrawn on both flanks and left connected by communication trenches with present position is that the Grecks Arah Irregulars and cavalry: others were some of the stationary, ginger and other

the ground free for the fight of the prin reserves posted in the rear. The position extras, besides dividing the shirts and cipal combatants. The greater portion of was the same on both banks of the river. socks and useful garments. Most of the the Greek army, however, is not far dis. Apart from these Turkish tactics, the tant, and if it old enemy, the Bul- country offers its defenders three natural advantages against enveloping movement quaint slippers have gone to Egypt, asgarians, begin to be notive in operations these articles seem to be in great demand on Greek soll, with the inevitable requisi- by an invading force proceeding along the tions of supplies, shellings of villages, river. The first is the absence of water inland; the second is the presence in many

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Major Brudenell Bruce, who has been out at the front, said that anything that

could be done in the way of instruction for the purpose of saving the lives of "the poor dovile" who went out there would be of the greatest advantage,

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,

CORPS ORDERS BY LT.-COL, A. CHAPMAN, V.D.

LEAVE.

L-Private H. G. Jennison is granted leave of absenco from 19th February, 1918, for the duration of the war. Sapper W. O. Lambert is granted leave of absence from 22nd February, 1910, to 22nd March, 1910

AWARD OF PUNISHMENT, 2—No, 1,630 Sapper T. Gibbison award. cd 21 days detention and to forfeit one day's pay by Bentence of District. Court Martial held on Wednesday, 16th February, 1916, for absenting himself without leave. (19 days re- mitted by Order of H. Ethe Governor.)

BELCHER'S SECTION, " 3-Beroral vacanies exist in this. Mem- bers of the Corps wishing to join 'it are invited to send their names to Headquarters through the O. 0, their Company or. Bection as soon as possible.

MUBERTRY.

4-Musketry Trained Men's Course, Fart II (Standard Test), will be carried out at King's Park Range ns follows:-

Sunday, 27th inet, 2.30 p.m.-No 1. Section Soonta Co.-Uniform (drill order) to be worn. Only men who have fired Part I.: this season may fire on 27th instant.

CA PARADES. 5-Parades for Wednesday, 23rd inst...

nil

DETAIL 3-On duty tonight: No, 2 Section

Arty. Batty'.

On duty 24th inst.: Beouts Company. Orderly, Officer: Lieut. Preston,

G. E. STEWART, Capti

Adjutant, H.K.V.C.

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

MUSRETRY PAET II.

WARNING TO FIRE, All ranks who have passed Part 1. but

are warned to leave Blake Pier at 9 am, have not fired et Ranges A to B in Part II, punctually on Sunday, February 27th.

SERVICE RIFLES,

on account of the insects in the sand op and other things that these necessitate, lacas of impassable sy group the their service rifles, with pull-throughs and

the Boore, A nurse whom I know and 3 who can say whether the Greek attitude

others were sent back from Alexandria

with poisoned feet. The December report

is nearly ready, and I hope soon to send you copies for your friends

The little messages enclosed have

been stus upon the garments, as ping are a snare to the unwary man! The Society

have

воет

would remain passive!

"TO THE LAST MAN."

BRITAIN'S INFLEXIBLE DECISION."

*

has done very well this quarters 3,072 Paris. December 20th-Voicing the besides general opinion in France regarding the given, tras," and I have had most gratefu

British Government's decision to institute letters, as you will see. I am sending compulsory

to within a mile or two of

as at -Hannah Marsh.

The

Staff and Company Inspectors will return is the uniform flatue of the il-bottles, to armoury on Thursday or terrain, and the consequent entire absence Friday, February 24th or 25th, between

5.16 and 8 p.m.

of natural cover to the attacker, whether the movement bo frontal or enveloping. addition to have to attack positions skil fully prepared under German supervision.

ur troops in Mesopotamia are strange

igo to the country, and have to advance ander heavy fire over ground void of any cover upon the enemy's positions. The Turks

ORCHESTRA FRACTICE,

Wednesday, February 23rd, 0 p.m.. Thursday, February 24th, 6 pm, Saturday, February 28th, 6 p.m.

FC JENKIN, D.S.P. (R)

DODGING SUBMARINES.

baleg pretty often to Salonika; 8 have sayservice, the Temps are adept in trench work. They dig deen and narrow. Moreover, the mirage and gone there since November, I fear the Of all sacrifices made by England fatness of the ground

help them. Often contants will soon he wanted! Messrs. since the beginning of the war the ban the first thing one sees of the enemy's Shewan, Tomes have told me that other test. The British have accomplished con- fero there are no protective besoges, vil Maritimes, on its way from Alexandria donment of voluntaryism will not be the positions is the glint of their heyonots. The steamer Karnak, of the Messageries box is on the way. I am so glad to it and will write when it arrives. With siderable evolution, and they are breaking lages or banks, but only fat, cake,ush for several hours by German submarine. aud Malta, was on January 3rd pursued indest regards, Yours sincerely, to-day with one of the tradition, to which mitable sand. Instead of the quick rush,

HEDEN, they were most attached, in order to give measured by seconds over a distance of The commander Lancelin, who WAS

themselves to work which does not please hurdle race our infantry come under formerly captain on board the Paul Leat them, but in which they feel that honour and future are engaged, rifle fire at two thousand yards. Also in ordered "proceed at full speed," and the this moving battle, they can have no com Karnak continued ite voyage, avoiding to *** Nothing could botter demonstrate the munication trenches to curtail the zone of offer Its side to the submarine. The inflexible resolution of the British nation, fire, The climate conditions, too, compare Karnak bad on board the crews of the It is determined on victory, and accepts with the worst that was experienced in British steamers Abelia and Middleton in the winter 1914, lo few sunk in the Mediterraneas. A few days” which its authorised repreacatative [the Prime Minister] used in declaring that dian, been so hardly tie the recent halt, cape. Arriving from Calcuttal with tried, or so valiantly M.M. stamer einam had a narrow, Great Britain, was prepared to give her pro Last shilling and her last man to ensure conditions are becoming more like France, cargo of 8.000 tons of goods for Genoa, it victory. Her latest decision will convince: Commanication trenches have been cut, was tact by a submersible which chased it the enemy and neutrals of her firm dete and second line transport is accessible. According to the commander's report, mination to accept no other peace than For the moment the operations are con over one hundred shells fell around the that hased-on complete victory of the fined to desultory 'saipping and artillery steamer, which could only escape owing to Allies,

fire.

the very heavy swell of the sea.reale

HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO.

The approximate statement of trafo

is as follows' S

receipts for the week ending 19 1Fbruary its conditions. They were not vain wordsigns has our army, British and In before, in the Mediterranean too, th

EVERYWHERE, SIA

SOLE AGENTS MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA.

HONGKONG.

This Year Last year (C638 86]

New Year)

Increase

10%

Decreases

Receipts Aggregate

for

receipts week foe werkя $21,455 #99,661

33,012

1,557

73,549 110 2

proved. Now,