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DEATH OF MARQUIS OF CLANRIGARDE

The death at the age of eighty-three of the Marquis of Clarricatde or Clanri karde as he preferred it to be spelt recalls a period of strife which now

seems very remote,

Lord

A RUSSIAN HERO.: BAVING A GERMAN RED CROSS NURSE

An extraordinarily vivid and dramatic battle picture is drawn in the Russkoge

FRENCH LIGHT RAILWAYS.

WHY JOFFRE WAS AGAINST A

BRITISH ADVANCE

Mr H Watuor Allen, the representa

tive of the British Press with the French my, gives the following interesting de scription of how the French War Office is tackling the supply problem in Cham page,

enormously greater than that of main taining the light railway tenk Of course, if there came from the front a sudden, urgent demand for extra ammu- nition, the motor lorries would at once be invaluable, as they were at Verdun, has very considerable advantage over the automobile

BOY SCOUTS, EFFORT.

Since the last acknowledgment the Boy. Scouts Lave received for the Belgian Children's and Blind Boldiers' Fund the following amounts:—Mr A. B. Crew, collected by his grand-daughter, $40.00 Collected by the 1st Hongkong Troop, 19.70; Collected by the Fox-Patrol,”

Collected by the Dove Patrol, *

310; Hon Mr. E. Shellim, 810; Ret: -

35: Mr Ho Fook, 85; Mr Ng-Hon Tss,

Father Monnier, 80 Mr. J. W. Stewart,

HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS CORPS ORDERS BY LE. COL. A. CHAPMAN, V.D.

NOTICE. 1Engineer Corellefs at Stones cutters and Belchers for June have. been posted at Headquarters,

by M. Gregory Petroff, the incident which forms the basis of the story being a desporate struggle for a village finally seized by the Russians, during which the Clanricarde succeeded to the Germans, bombarded a hospital in which title as far back as 1874, and it was then their own, wounded wers lying A derte that he paid his last visit to his Irish attle, he writes, was being waged around estates. Portumna Castle, near Loughren, the mansion of a country gentleman whose one of the finest houses in Ireland, was-estate lay in the zone of fire. The man Speaking generally, the ordinary traffic Bially co neglected that it was alleged son was being used temporarily as from the rear to the Bring zone passes the rain penetrated into the family vaul Red Cross bospital The wooden out-

His Irish estates reached from Athenry buildings were on fire and the dates over the Decauville railways described Astor House Hotel, $10; Foreign to Woodford and were about 50,000 acres. Everywhere on the estate it was possible reached the verandah where sonte German in a preceding despatch, while motor Coinage at current rates, 84.87; Pre-

wounded were lying Thố German transport is mainly reserved for cases of vionsly acknowledged, 8468.15-595.62 to obtain a story of a tragedy in the wounded crawled from the burning man emergency and for supplementary re- Land War. Successive Governments dealt sion, uncertain where to go and these quirements: motor lorry carries on an with land purchase, but Lord Clanricarde who were unable to rise from their beds average about three tons, while a singlo was adamant, and it was only within the were shrieking because the firo bad reach Decauville truck will carry about three past two years that he was beater in the on the interior of the building. A using up the roads for the motor lorries is stinies as much, and the difficulty of keep finn court of appeal ard his estates tan soldier cried, “ Comrades, there bought for $238,210

Red Cross Dag on that house. There His arbitrary action was a thorn in the are wounded there" Another shouted lesh to the Conservativa GovernmentThey are Germans," but the bra an thirty years ago, and Sir Michael Hicks swered, "What of it; if they are Ger Beach, the Chief Sesreary, refused the mans they are wounded and are in danger forces of the Crown to aid Lord Clanri of burning," "But what can we do that property had is dubtes ad ng hins said another. The Germans are firing

as well as on the

The upshot was that the its rights During this time Lord Clan Russian soldiers decided to go to the ricarde was a recluse rescue of the wounded Germans, despite After Wyndham's land scheme was the danger from German bullets and ** taking effect in Ireland, & Bill was in shells, and a few moments later our mon troduced into the Commons to expro were seen dragging out the leds on which priate the Clanricarde estates This was tay the wounded In 1907, when Mr. Birrel said: I would take from him the management of the estates, which, in my opinion, he is hold Lord Clan- wholly incompetent. ricarde replied on one of his tare a pearances in the House of Lord, blue patch in the dirty sky" he said, that the Bill will at last deck the brow of Mr. Birrell with legislative laurels, but even such blessings may be bought too dear at the price of a Bill so tainted with inept, callous levity He had a

ey reception and went back to his art collection.

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We take the following from the New

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Reports from Berlin of newspaper comments, and of individual expressions, on the controversy with the United States are of all shades of opinion. We must wait a few days to see which of them will be represented in the reply of the German Government, but we need not tot ce all to point out the significance of the position taken by Maximilian Har. den, as given in dispatches on Monday. Under the guise of an imaginary message to the German people by the President of the United States-beneath the cap tion, "If I Were Wilson (extracts from which were given in the Daily Press recently); be reads a sharp lesson to his countrymen. Over

Now Harden is much more than the irrespressible blurter out of disagreeable truths. This place in the German Press is due to something other than his ter- rible frankness, his biting criticism, his occasional appearance of a sensationalist and notoriety-secker Above all this

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GERMAN OFFICER'S AGONY

One of our men, who had had two fingers of his left hand shot away, brought a German officer to our dying hospital. The officer walked with diff culty his leg had been pierced with a bayonet, his shoulder shot through, and his hand crushed. The wounded man was bandaged, bub fainted during the process As soon as he recovered he saw the flames bursting from the burning mansion, and made a desperate effort to rise,

break the window glass and the room is

Thanks to this system, railhead is now often practically in the front line trenches, if only the ground wil; provide sufficient covet. Failing cover the two- the trenches themselves by sixteen-inch feet gauge line can be supplemented in gauge rails, with hand-drawn trucks. These rails can be laid without difficulty in the communication trenches, and in- crease a man's working power many times. It is estimated that one man with a truck mounted on these rails can do as much work in the way of hauling up am munition, material ele, as twenty-five or thirty men could do without this me chanical aid The difficulty of carrying heavy loads along the narrow winding trenches is obvious, and it is likely that, as time goes on, the main trenca arteries will almost all be provided with raila.

A military station where the ordinary and the Decauville lines meet behind the front is 2 Curious and interesting specta

JOINED:

2.Pte JPY Remediosharing joined is allotted Corps No. 2003 and posted to Right Section M. G

LEAVE

3 No 1546 Gur. Humphreys is grant- ed: 4 weeks leave with effect from

No. 1963 Pte. Whitmarsh is granted 6 months' leave with effect from 6th

No. 1470 Pie Henderson is granted 2 months leave with effect from 10th inst

PAPADES. 4.Parades for to-day

7.00 am. Signalling Section 5.15 p.m. Civil Service Co. drill on

Class at Headquarters. Cricket Ground, y

6.00 pm, Scouts Co. No. 1 Section Musketry Instruction at Head- quarters, AY MAY

DETAIL

5-On duty till 8th inst.-H.K.V.R

Nest for daty oth fast-Scouts Co. Orderly Officer 9th to 15th inst. Lt.

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APPOINTMENTS.

The doctor urged him to be calm and held him down. But my wife, oried was with Labouchere the officer. She is in the house among at the Embassy at Paris for a time, but the flames The doctor tried to reassure retired in 1863. One of his last public him, but the officer continued to assert appearances was at a Red Cross Sale at that his wife, who was acting as a Sister Christie's. He was a descendant of the of Mercy, was in the blazing building.de. I visited such a station which pro great Canning and never married.

It was dificult to realize of late years The doctor inquired whether anyone hedvides for the revictualling of forty thou that the quaint, almost miserly, dressed shen anything of the lady, and was in sand, men in Champagne. There was

A F. CHURCHILL, Capt. little about it to suggest the civi figure frequenting art sales-rooms could formed that the mansion was believed to very

Adjutant, H.K.V.C. have been one of the best-dressed men be supty. Then a German shell flow over lian's ordinary notion of a railway sta about town in the mid Victorian era. The wounded Gernian officer was still and the only building was & mul the beads of the group, tion. It was unenclosed and roofless

VOLUNTEER RESERVES. If his treatment of the Irish tenantry on gazing at the burning mansion Sudden wooden hut, in which everything, that is joined on them a most drastic dietary he cried, Look my wife in at the received and everything that is given out: ORDERS BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, D.C., E-X.V«B, Lord Clanricarde, despite his £30,000 B year, certainly set them an example. He window of the garret. She is trying to to the army commissariat officers is

checked on transported his maid-Victorian silk hat full of smoke. Looking up, the ductor into the delicate finery of this contur saw a white Bgure wearing a red cross. it was

was a very tall hat without fur or gloss and with the smallest straightest reservist of about forty years of age, off his overcoat. She is in great brim. His cloak could no resist the

he said "Just hold my mat and. ravages of time, yos darning cotton wai requisitioned to heal a breach in the

must catch her in the coat Site rooms with

burning would shiver with cold Because his lord house, while his companions, good is though petrified. Several minutes passed, ship would not spend

a few shillings coal.

We then the reservist appeared at the of his attacks upon pubite evils.They Lord Clanricarde was never window, and there was a noise of break Just room for one cart to pass Another As in Corps Order No. 49 aid so in the case of his writing, years vehicle. His walks took him daily to head, but no one paid any heed to them pod driving and no little tact and com ing glass. Two shells screamedove on the platform, and it took miracles of EVERYWHERE of them materialist and decadent which not one of the chairs for which id was attempt to rescue the Red Cross nurse regulating the trade to Prevens CoREU-

ago, against the military clique song Regent's Park There on a public seat-veryone was eagerly watching the monsense on the part of the gandarmes As in Corps Order No. 45 had the car of the Kaiser. They felt that charged-would ait the owner of some The reservist managed to drag her to the thing being blocked in hopeless confu-

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The platform consisted of a long bank HE the Governor has been pleased to Paised suzne four feet above the railway, aliny with mud and covered with what

to the house and throw her form, but it was much worse in the

hatting off the thoughts and foclinometelt at The brave fellow rushed into

great any Germans. They mily rosent what they thing is imprudences but they respond to the ardour and the force

and!

window, she was unconscious. – Several

appoint Mears. Robert Sutherland and Francis Henry Thomas to ve 2nd-Lichts in the Hongkong Volun- teers Reserve, with effect from the 23rd May, 1010.

STRENGTH,

seemed an inextricable mass of carts and The mud was bad enough on the Belds beyond it, where, as there was not

port for everything ou the platform No. 601 Pte. W. Johnson is permitted overal hundred commissbrine wagons to resign leaving the Cololly had taken up their position. There was

TOOM

BREAD DISTRIBUTION

PARADES FOR THE WEEK ENDING 10TH INST.

G. KH. BRUTIOr, Capt..

Adjutant, KYR

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

EQUIPMENT BOARD. Section and Unit Commanders are re-

quired to send forthwith to the Orderly Room Clerk the names of their men who have not attended with their Sections or Units before the Board. Thursday, June Eth, at 6:15 pm sharp,

BAND PRACTICE.

to the Motor Patrols

KOUNTED - PATRÓLS During the absence on sick leave of Inspector Gegg, Sergeant Kes will take charge.

T. C. JENKIN.

D.S.P. (R)..

he was getting on the raw when ho ex-60,000 acres and an ever-growing and posed long before the war, the ineptness hoarded fortune watching the squirrels, of German diplomacy, and pointed out He carried himself into a cold and men held the outstretched overcoat A long line of goods trucks, suffezent how the policy of the Government was frigid loneliness. His sole companions beneath the window, and the white figure to provide the daily needs of forty thou fell into it Everyone was now concerned sand men, had been run in alongside the leading straight to a war on disadvan were his china and pictures, in the for the safety of the gallant reserviste platform, and everyone was hard at work tageois terms for Germany Ho that collection of which he showed a wonderful, ICE HOUSE STREET. TEL. 230-155. when, to-day, Maximilian Harden de business acumen. He was a law to him but une of his comrades said, He will loading the commissariat carts with all votes an entire isane of bis Zukunft self, with ways and ideas singularly his get back all right; he knows the way that was needed by the troops. There to come very plain speaking about the own. His runner was cold and his ton Even if he should singe his beard a little were trucks of hay, and straw, and oats,

no great mischief will

hief will be done, for it is wood for fires and coal, and thousands of differences which have arisen between the gus could be very biting.

rondins hewn logs used for the making Garman Government and the United

Living in rooms in the Albany Chang one

of the roads throughout the Champagne States, we may be certain that his words bers, off Piccadilly, he spent no more than LIFE FOR A POE pouilleuse, since they afford a foundation

MOTOR PATROLSHEN? will have a wide echo in Gerisanya pound or two a week, save when he Carry the lady to her husband, which will keep above the mud Not P.-c. Rus Tang Ping Wood is transferred-

What Harden sets out to do is in the went to the saleroom and bought a pie ordered the doctor, and do it quickly, the least important of the trucks was first place, to show the utter hollowness ture or a bit of pottery Art was the for the Germans have got the range the postal van, round which meri had of many of the complaints which Gee only thing he ever spent money on, and shall wait for our hero perhaps ne is gathered with the greatest eagerness to mans have made of the conduct of the this he would sell again if good oppor injured. The soldiers took up the ace what parcels and letters had been United States during the war. Upon all tanity offered. Valuable old pictures were nurse, who was still unconscious, and sent to them from hothe the whining about our sale of munitions frames It is said that one old taster Inter & German shell struck the buming per EKCEMEN

stored in these rooms, often without hurried from the courtyard. Augment to the Allies he sets a heel of conterant was fastened on a door with nails, building, a deafening explosion was There were everal truckloads of bread, The thing was perfectly lawful Ger- The last time I saw him," says one heard, and the walls of the house tumbled. fresh and appetising The distribution many had often done it, and would do who knew him, he had on his old silk The reservist had no time for escape and of the bread is an exception to the general it again; and it was not the fault of the hat and carried 3 bulky and bulging was buried in the rains. A fet, Tamutes system. As a rule all provisions are sent smaller shell What beautiful shells CHRONICLE by Tar supplies in this country as war down to the wood. He had on an senses. She explained that on the arrival however, every division has in reserve me round; it makes me quite happy ill United States that the Germans could umbrella of which the ferrule end was later the Sister of Mercy recovered her direct from railhead to the troops. As, said an artillery officer who was showing freely as thair enemies. Harden, more old blue coat, wide in the tails and of the Russian soldiers, she had rassed three days supplies with the divisional see them and to think what they will over, has some very telling things to sav trousers very bagged and shabby He upstairs to escape their expected violence convoye and three days supplies with give the Boches. There is nothing in the about the foolish and even criminal acti always walked with his head well for But it was one of these soldiers who the regimental convoys, the bread in these world like a good eight-inch shell vities of German agents in the United Ward, giving him round shouldered saved you, the doutor remarked reserves must be changed from time to Suppose there is a move somewhere up States seeking to interfere with the look

Where is he the lady asked. In time before it grows too stale for human among the hills in the north and word is manufacture and delivery of ammuniHis hair, thin but long and grevish Heaven said the doctor if there he consumption. Consequently every few sent down for several thousand rounds

He shows immense dieser out at the back from under, bis tion Levy, what one in dien hat. He had very hard grey-blue oye for fast cenie down their lives Crops their stoof of bread and then obat the telephone and a little train, with heroes who lay days the distribute the be brought up immediately. A worl and make the apt comparison only set deep under heavy grey eyebrows. When the doctor told the wounded tain from the station fresh bread to be its absurd engine, will be up in front ask would Germany have allowed, during He was a striking man to look at, and officer and his wife what had occurred held in reserve of the sheds. In a few minutes the trucks the Manchurian War, Japanese agents his gate was chilling. They say that he they both wept. The officer said, Doc The railway station is a junction with are loaded and are off to carry, fresh for to work in Prussian Poland, and by never gave away a £5 note and that if tor, here is a pocket book; and in it you a two-foot Denville, and the start to the big guns that are stirring up the agitations and endangering munition he lent money he expected a good re- will find 2.000 inarka. Give them to the ing point of hell a dozen small gunge Germans sonte fifteen or twenty miles factories frighten Germany into enmity turn. For some reason~he generally | commander of the regiment and ask him lines. Provisions as a rule, are, as I away. TO E OBTAINED FROM THI-

Thanks to organization not 20 stone to send the money to the family of the use old von on by Borse da arts, minute is wasted against Russia 1 A. inore sovera rebuke fastered on a pieno co tape He was dead man. Give ms also the addrets of Sometimes, however, truck or two on CLEARING HOSPITAL HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE to the attitude und activities of Ger

mats in this country, with theit plot fond of skating and often visited like hit family-I swear that I will provide the Desanville must be devoted to them. Alongside the principal railway sta

With the death of Lord Clarigarde for cool off her Washer The efore when men in particnlarly wwkward post and conspiracies in open violation of

title of marquis becomes extinct, but wife took off her ring and asked the tions in the front lines have to be retion of which I have been speaking is our laws could not well be written that of Earl of Clanricarde goes under a doctor to give it to the reservist rela tualled. As yet wounded men are rarely dical officer in charge explained to me

a large clearing hospital, which the me We have as yet only fragments of Har special remainder to his cousin, the fives. The officer asked how it was that brought back by the light railways It is to be regarded as a mere waiting room. don's long appeal to the good sense of Marquis of Sligo The latter's grand- the Russian guns had been trained on the may be sometimes tha German people, and do not know if he mother was ister of the thirteenth mansion, seaing that it was flying the only slightly wounded, can be brought beds for the seriously wounded, others two, It consists of a series of sheds Bome with had anything to say about what other Earl of Clanricarde, created a marquis Red Cross flag O

Our guns replied down from the front on German editors are continually making in 1825

the doctor, sharply. They are your truck, but as a gene

ordinary with benches for the slightly injured. *rule they are left There is a makeshift operating room, sq the burden of their complaints-name plies by blockade. Indeed, Harden coull ups, and our roon have been rescuing to the motor ambulances. However, trucks that in case of urgency operations can be that England is adopting a policy of

your wounded while your guns were bomas being prepared specially for the performed, but as a general rule the pur starvation against Germany, yet that tell his fellow countrymen that nothing barding your own men and ours. This transport of the wounded on these Decan pose of the hospital is to sort out the the United States has made no protest has befallen them which was not expli- is how your Kaiser makes war The ville railways, against it. What Harden could do with citly predicted by their most aagadious officer and his wife were astounded. The main business of the light railway drain on the effectives that men suffering wounded. In the past it was a heavy this absurdity if he let himself go against advisers, in case Germany got awar Surely you are jesting, said the man the carriage of ammonition and ma- from insignificant injuries or ailments HAUNTED BY PAINI

it can easily be imagined. He could with England Princes

It is no subject for a jest,” the doctor Your waking and sleeping hours show that when the German whimpere example, in his book published shortly replied, unless your Kaiser is capable terial for the engineers. Immediately the had to be transferred to the interior

ammunition reaches the station it is un- where they would probably pass several haunted by the awful dread or the worse say starvation they really mes before the war, pointed out how aurels of making such

the husband loaded on the Decauville trucks. With months before they rejoined their units. reality of bodily paint partner blockade, that the latter is a recognized the English navy would sweep, German and wife made a gest

surprising rapidity, a small engine, is Now

Now all slight cases are

are despatched st Mondsche backache, toothnobe, neural- and lawful means of war; and that the commerce from the s985, and Ledus the officer throwing

hitched on and steams off, gaily to an once to nei gis, sciaticos, rheumatism, sons throat, United States, having enforced the grant trial and importing Cormi great arms, cried Kaiser and other external sober and pains sro est and longest blockade known to his peril

You made this war 1. quickly soothed and oured by

fory and thereby starved into subnus sion the South-which, by the way, over squesled over it in the German fashion could not without stultifying itself ob Cleat to Great Britain's using the same, & signs. Strain, sprains, and swellin apra method of warfare. Tu so far our considering what zack erick in the backend when you rub u LITTLES ORI

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ammunition depôt, where some twenty or motorcareishurlig sambulances by

to birly men are waiting to meja Tur with cool minimuco of delay Certain too, for which a train trucks stop exactly opposite the sheds serious where the shells are stored.

Journey might be serions are treated at

evacuated to the

These tri provide accom

Each calibre of gun has its own par special hospitals in the Army zone. The

men who have to be ticular shed. In the first shed one may hospitals of the interior are transferred see rows of six-inch shells nestly arrang directly from the antbulance to a hoa ed thousands of them together, readyjital train which is drawn up opposite to be sent forward to the front at a moat menca notice. Togy are painted an ugly modas yellow colour, and dry of several shapes and types. In another shed-will Hound hundreds of really looking eight inch projectiles, even uglier than --- iConissued on next. Column:)

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