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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 18T¤, 1916.

THE MORAL TRIUMPH OF FATHER VAUGHAN'S GHOST VERDUN PAST AND PRESENT. EVACUATION OF GALLIPOLI.

BELGIUM.

CARDINAL MERCIER'S LENTEN PASTORAL

STORY.

NUN WHO APPEARED TO AN

OFFICER

JOFFRE'S GENIUS.

GENERAL MONRO'S DESPATCH

General Monro's despatch concerning

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 17th at 11.50 a.m.-No Yekorns from Japanese stations.

A depression lies over Tongking,

Pressure has increased dightly to moderately in all diekriote

Hongkong rainfall for 14 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 0.47 inches.

The foreoset for the 24 hours ending at Ncon to day is as follows:

Disanior

FORROAST. Edwinds, mo-

Hongkong & Neighbourhood derate: cloudy.

Formon Channel

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Sonth coast of China between The same 16 Hongkong and Hainan... No. 1.

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To appreciate the part which is at present being played by Verdun in the the evacuation of Callipoli has been pub While our khaki men are in the campaign on the West, it is necessary lished. In this the General states that Although extracts from the angry re- monstrance written by Governor General tronches I have felt that we ought to be (writes a correspondeat of "extrinster) he was instructed on the 20th October

in the benches. While they, with their von Bissing to Cardinal Mercier in requick bring guns, are moving down the to look back to the part the fortress has to report as to the military situation gard to the Lenten pastoral to the Belgina onemy, we with ours ought to be storming fulfilled already. During the opening at the Dardanalles and to advise whether heaven. But I fear we lack the munitions weeks of the war attention was absorbed the army should evacuate or persevere. by the advance of the German right elergy were published in England en of prayer, March 21st, adequate account of the con- In this fashion Father Bernard Vaug towards Paris Little or no attention He was also asked to advise the number tents of the pastoral has hitherto been han opened a conference on "The Call was bestowed, at all events in this coun- Available. We append, therefore trans of the War to Prayer, which he had try, on the events which were at the of troops required to carry the Peninsula same time taking place on the German and to take Constantinople.” He found lations of the more important passages convened in the Bolian Hall. Among left. Nevertheless, it was on those events that the position of the troops was unine from The Timesed them those present were King Manuel and

After expressing his joy at being once Queen Augusta, Queen Amelie, the Duke that the whole campaign turned. in history, as it possessed every possible and Duchess of Norfolk, the Japanese By now the scheme for the invasion of military defect. It was completely sub- more among his fellow countrymen, and

ying that his journey to Rome had Anibassador and Marchioness Inouye, France, so long and so carefully elabojected to the Turkish artillery fire and been blessed beyond anything he had and many other well-known people, rated by the German Staff, is beyond any had no depth, while its communications dared to hope," Cardinal Mercier

**When the thought for this conference kind of doubt. The enemy's own actions were insecure and dependant upon the udz] = ["

first-entereil my brain," explained Father have revealed it. Certainly part of it weather. There were no means for con was the advance through Belgium upon cealing troops or deploying fresh troops Vaughan, "I said to our Divine Lord.

Paris Thar, however, was only a part for an offensive. Further, the Turks had 1 am going to have a conference, and I want You to all the hall. If You fill The complete scheme, while it costem full powers of observation and they had it I take it for granted that You want plated the investment of Paris by the supplemented the natural advantages of more prayer. If it is empty it may be armies forming the German right, relied the position by all the devices of field for the humiliation of my san), and 1 at the same time on the ability of the engineering promise You not to try this sort of thing German left to force the Eastern frontier General Monro found that the troops south of Toul, cross the Moselle, and were suffering from various causes. Therr again. When I learned that the badebouch into the Haute Marne, and to was the strain of continuous exposure to was booked up," he added. I really felt it was a pal on the back from our the plateau of Langres, the real key of shells from which it was impossible to blessed Lord, and I felt that He wants the Western position. It was, we cannot withdraw them because every corner of no doubt, calelated that the the the Peninsula was exposed to hostile fire, this sort of thing."

advance from Belgium, would leave the The men were also much enervated by thrust through Nancy and Luneville a epidemic summer diseases and they were comparatively easy task. From the Haute gravely under-oficered owing to losses Marne and the flateau of Langres the in the earlier battles. Also the makeshift Germans could have advanced along the mingling of foot and mounted men neces valleys of the Marne and the Aube, and sary for holding the front did not tend

to convince Genoral | shzodata while their right closed round Paris their to efficiency. There were other irrefut centre and left would have swept round able arguments to the south of the capital, enclosing in Moaro that complete evacuation was tha

Konbi the sweep, as in a vast drag-net, the only course. The Turks were able to hold French and British forces opposed to Gallipoli with a small force and to pro- Nagutaki se them. Thus the campaign was to have secute their designs upon Egypt and been ended at one great, and overwheim Baghdad A British advance for their ing blow.

present position was improbable and an N advance upon Constantinople was quite labl In addition, the Boal out of the question, troops could be more usefully employed Che elsewhere.

There are many things which I can say. You will understand me. Our abnormal position prevents me from lay ing before you open-heartedly exactly what is in my soul-that is to say, what is best and most intimate, what, cotning From on high and affecting you, most early, is my armest support and would bo for you, could I speak of strongest comfort. But you will not doubt my word: you will believe me when I tell y that my journey has been specially hlessoil, and that I retuça bappy, verg

THE POPE'S ANGUISH FOR THE BELGIANR The Holy Father's kindness was

touch ing From the moment of my arrival he took me in his arms, asked me to visit him as often as possible, allowed me to tell him everything, to confide everything to him, to think aloud before hun, Paternally he consoled, enlightened, ano encouraged mer He understands and shares our care for our religious liberties patriotism. His deepest thought which sagerly gathered for

and duri

What does England think of God?" was one of the points of the address People said that if God was slight He would stop the war if He was all loving He would certainly do so He argued on the contrary that, being almighty. God permitted the war, and being all-loving. He was drawing good out of it

Concerning the Angels of Mons, Father Vaughan told a story for which he quoted Lard Portarlington as author rity. A distinguished officer of the Irish of matter-of-fact Guards, & man

was sitting at his headquarters it a dedication habits, you, was summed written with his own hand below his at the front when a man entered the portrait Upon our venerable brother, room and told him that we could at Cardinal Mercier. Archbishop of win the war unless we prayed more. Malines, we bestow with all our heart the The officer dismissed her, and the next Apostolic Benediation, with the assurance day complained to the Mother at the that we are always with him, that we neighbouring convent. The Mother share bis sorrow and his anguish, sine denied that any of the nuns were out at his cause is our cause also."ERENTS the Time, and, in order to prove this, summoned them all for the officer to The pastoral continues by stating that identify the visitor. He was unable to the Pope, on being told by Cardinal do go, but as he left the room he saw a Mercier that the Belgian clergy would ask their flocks on the first Sunday portrait on the wall. That is the lady, he told the Mother." But she is dead, May

was the reply. She was the Reverend the intentions of his Holiness,

And as for me, my intention iswhom we placed-great reliance."--" *** Belgium." Encouraged by this reply.

"God can do these things, Raded Cardinal Mercier wrote to the Cardinals in Paris, London, Armagit, and Italy, in Father Vaughan, and even if they are order that the same Eucharistic prayer not true that should set us thinking, may be offered on the first Sunday in and make us put our house in order." May. He believes that this prayer will hasten the glorious resurrection. "of Belgium.

Turning thến to the position of Bel- NEW RUSSIAN WAR MINISTER gium, Cardinal Mercier speaks of the

ON HIS TASK. Reclamations with which the Belgian name was received everywhere on his

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The despatch deats briefly with Anzee G Boss and Suvia and gives several fresh facts Mang with regard to Cape Helles. It mentions that the evacuation was retarded by the Ho loss of a large British warship accident- ally sunk by a French battleship. Every thing depended upon the weather. When

It is the merit of General Joffre that he saw through this bold scheme from the first moves. An inferior commander might have allowed himself to be drawn

General Monro assumed the supreme: off. In that event he would have fallen into the trap and France would have command of the Mediterranean armies Kakang w

The fate of the country and appointed General Birdwod to the Umaga, uson been ruined and the destinies of a noble people hung command of the Dardanelles. He order Shangha at that moment on the mind and the evacuation on the 8th December and Gutarr nerva of one ruan. Happily he was a great man--the man designed by destiny General Birdwood proceeded with the Sharp Peak for the hour. While we in this country work with the skill and promptitude Amoy were watching the advance of Von Kluck which have characterised all he has towards Paris, absorbed, as it was the undertaken. It had been previously de- interest of the enemy that we should be cided that the faint attack which the text of the French forces was thrown along vacuation would be worse than useless the Eastern Frontier into a vigorous as it would certainly arouse the Turks offensive. On August 21st the French suspicions. had pushed back apon Nancy. On August 23rd the Germans occupied Luneville That, however, proved to be their high water-mark The French, under the com mand of General Pau, held the line of the Meurthe in superior force. They proceeded at once to the attack. In the great battle what has been called the Battle of Luneville, though the front really extended from Pont a Mousson to of Bavaria were first, on August 37th, driven out of St. Die; then thrust beyond the line of the Mortague; next, with both flanks turned, were forced on September 5th to abandon Nancy, and finally, on September 12th, were driven out of Linne ville itself The crisis of this battle occurred on September 4th. The issue in that day appeared to tremble in the balance. But not all the desperation of the Germans could hold a front by this time battered into an acute angle. They them nearly 30,000 dead. and all other military supplies to the tember 3rd General von Kluck turned maximum, the Minister romarked: aside from Paris to march to the Marne, and many guesses have been made as to In the business of war industry we

this alleged mystery. There is no mystery must, however shameful it may be, learn whatever. The French Commander-in from our foes, the Germans, who have Chief having declined to fall into the adapted their industry to the require trap set for him, there was nothing for ments of war-time, thanks to an organi

it hut to assist and if possible secure the zation perfected in time of peace..

success of the German operations round General Shuvaieff expressed the opinion Luneville by this thrust towards the Marne at what appeared to be the left that Germany is beginning to show ex- haustion, but he promptly added :— flank of the main French forces barring

WE SHALL HAVE TO FIGHT FOR St. Die, the troops of the Crown Prince

A LONG TIME YET."

was ready on the night of the 5th Inuary, a storm unexpectedly works up and washed the piers Away. A sub- marine reported in the evening that on quitting the Straits the battleship Prince George with 2,000 men on board, while sailing towards Mudros, was torpedoed but the torpedo did not explode. The ex pedition left 500 animals at Caps Helles, but most of them were destroyed at the last moment

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Let us even suppose that the final issue of the gigantic duel now being fought TH Europe and Asia Minor should be All the available indications point to uncertain, one fact is already established the intention of the new Minister of ja civilization and in history-the moral War to pursue the policy of his prede triumph of Belgium. In unison with cessor, based on the closest possible co your King and Government you have operation with the public organizations, anade an immense sacrifice for your coun- says The Times correspondent at Petro try. Out of Terpect for your word of grad. honour, in order to afirm that, in your In conversation with the Petrograd consciences, right goes before everything, and Moscow journalists General Shu- you have sacrificed your possessions, your vaieff personally confirmed the foregoing retreated in disorder, leaving behind aim was to save the men, guns, and am

earths, your sons, your husbands, and, pression. Speaking of the necessity after 18 months of constraint, you remain of augmenting the output of munitions It has often been asked why on Sen. Thus the evacuation was completed. It as proud of your deed as on the first day heroism seems so natural to you that you have no thought of gaining by it glory for yourselves. Had you been able, like me, to go beyond our Frontiers and see Belgium from outside you would realizu better the magnanimity of your bearing, and your souls, would have thrilled with joy and even. I think, with pride,

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The despatch mentions that as a result of rain and blizzard on the 21st Novem ber, there were 200 Ceaths from exposure. Ten thousand sick men were among those

You may remember that 15 mouths age Do not imagine that the war will soon the frontier. For upon these German who came chiefly from Suvis. At an I said ought to have judged things from a loftier point of view did not scruple to say,But why did Belgium need thus to sacrifice herself for the defence of hes soil? Would not a verbal protest have most will conquer. sufhcer, and would it not have saved her from the havoc that has brought her in the verge of ruin? This language re- volted me, as I told you, and more than once I then let my indignation have free

LYNN OF LANCASHIRE.”

General Joftro has used the Eastern frontier as his sure shield, and by its means saved France. But the value of the frontier is no longer simply de-

In no quarter is such language now to AING'S LETTER TO SWEETHEART fensive Its value is rather that of a

be heard. The moral level of neutral

early furnish The dapat h covers the Serbian expe- his distinguished conduct list. dition to the withdrawal to Salonika. It shows bow, the 10th division from Buvla was sent to support the French. When the French effort to link up with the Serbians failed a withdrawal was order- cd in accordance with previous arrange ments with the Allied Governments.____

are tough, not rigid and smashable, as the defences of Liege and Namur were mashable. In the assault upon Verdun the Germans have been set a task still more formidable than that at Ypres and with smaller forces Except for the chance of surprise failure was foregone..

A jumping off board. Even if the Ger gentiles, or of peoples formerly neutral, The military distinctions won by the mans were to force it by taking Verdun. late Private J. Lynn, of the 2nd Lanka which nobody competent to judge over has risen. The spirit of sacrifice is understood; homage is done to it shire Fusiliers, have been received by supposed they could take, they have not Others are grateful to you for it: you Miss Alice Mason, who was engaged to now on the West, and never again can are admired; your generation has taken be married to Lynn. The marriage fix have, the strength in numbers needed to its place, gloriously an history. Is noted for November, 1911, was put off on exploit the advantage by an advance

Never had there been a campaign as that a conquest, my brethren And, in account of the war, Lynn, a reservist, towards Paris For that purpose the same measure that moral welfare is being called to the colours very suddenly superiority in numbers of four to three to the bearings of which the public bas superior to material welfare, are you not It was one of the tragedies of their case is the admitted minimum Instead of been so poorly and so badly instructed the most glorious of conquerors that Miss Mason who had been on a visit being four to three in the West they as this campaign on the West. It has I know that you weep, that mourning to Blackpool could not towing to railway are not more than two to three. They been a campaign in which the highest

breakdown) get back to Manchester in have no more than half the minimun.

qualities of brilliant generalship have and spreads, that the hearts of mothers wives are broken. Lives are being lost time to see her sweetheart off Her Impossible to revive the plan which been time and again displayed a cam claim to the relics of the soldier who went to rain in September, 1914 for paign which Napoleon himself would on the banks of the Yser. The imprison would have been her husband but for the ever impossible. The importance of Ver have declared a masterpiece; a campaign ment of the nation on its own soil is sadly prolonged. You will admit that war has been admitted by the military dun in its place as part of a system in which crushing initial superiority was

authorities. One of Lynn's comrades, I have never hidden my fears from you Manchester mau, heard him say that all Isolated it is of little account. It is a beaten by brains alone. Yet the public I have preached patriotism to you, his possessions were to go to Miss Mason. a bastion of the frontier that it counts imagine it to have been a mere flounder because it is a derivative of the main Private Lynn was described by Eye-Had the Germans won at Luneville ing in the alough of dirty tranches, ani Christian virtue, charity. But from the beginning I have let you see that, accord-Witness" se Lynn of Lancashire Verdun could not have been held except the man who is chiefly responsible for The memorials, as one may call them of perhaps as a temporary breakwater it a stick-in-the-mud. That man has ing to my presentiment, our ordeal would this brave soldier, who sacrificed his life When the Germans lost at Luneville made no mistakes, and the Cerizon he long and that success would be attain through continuing at his post and firing Verdun and the rest of the frontier barmies, beld where they are by the ed by the nations who should most is machine gun at the oncoming Ger came of consequence in forcing them to master-stroke; which in October, 1914 endure. The conviction, natural and

when nearly all his comrades had direct their efforts at recovery against pinned them down on a front from which supernatural, of our final victory is,

in a gas attack, includo the Vie Ypres as apparently the easier thing of they ungt advance and cannot retreat, have for months past been melting lik anore deeply than ever, anchored in my foris Cross, the Distinguished Conduct the two soul. We shall win but we are not Medal, and the Russian Cross of St. And it is with the attack against Ypres snow in summer. Doubt has been cast yet at the end of our sufferings, France, George

that the onset st Verdun must be com upon the leadership of General Joffre by England, Russia have pledged themselves With the Victoria Cross came the folpared. To class Verdun with Liege, individuals who are intellectually not to make no pense until Belgium has lowing letter from the King-—~~- Namur, Antwerp, and other fortresses it to Lin his boot strings. But it is the recovered her entire independence and has been largely indemnified Italy in "It is a matter of sincere regret to me of that type is uamformed and misical miracle of Western democracy that t it is the damnation of Prussian despot her turn, has adhered to this pact. Our that the, death of Private J. Lynn de ing. Verdun is not a fortress of that has been able to throw up such men, and Inture is not in doubt, but we must pre prived me of the pride of personally con- type. It is another and a strǝager

ferring upon him the Victoris Cross, the Ypres stronger because its defences rism that it has not. The superstition pare for it."

greatest of all rewards for valour and scientific instead of being morely extem about armies acting without brains at

Column devotion to duty, potised; tough as the defences of Ypres their head is worse than ignorant, it is

GEORGE, BL

The pastoral concludes with an injuno tion to trust God and to continue instant

in prayer.

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