NORTH SEA CORDON,
TIGHTENING GRIP OF THE
BLOCKADE
STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL DE CHAIR.
SCARCITY OF MEAT IN GERMANY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 2Örn, 1916.
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The German Press is now devoting the same sort of attention to the scarcity of! ment as was devoted until recently to Rear Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, appear almost to encourage this concen- the scarcity of butter. The authorities who was on the outbreak of war appoint-tration of the public mind uponi. · Ose ed to the command of the Tenth Cruiser economie problem at a time--presumably Squadron which carried out the blockade with a view to obtaining in due course of the North Sea, and who relinquished fall credit for its solution. Even a semi- his command on March 6th last to be official paper like the Berlin Lokalan- come naval adviser to the Foreign Office in inatters of enemy trade, has made the tiger is allowed to complain bitterly, following statement to Mr. Henry Suy
In Berlin, in view of the discontent ex- dan. Loudon correspondent
pressed at Easter, the police have been of the Brooklyn Eple:-
instructed to take immediate action The British blockade in the North Sea
against poniterers or butchers who at is concentrated chiefly throughout an.
tempt to charge prices which show an excessive margin of profit. area to the cast and north of Scotland, have power to shut shops and to proceed The police maintaining a guarded district which against the shopkeepers. Meanwhile the Prussian Ministries of the Interior, of completely intercepts all traße to and Commerce, and of Agriculture have from the Banadinavian countries and issued a circular about the present and Demark. Immediately upon the
e-temporary scarcity of meat.' elaration of wat on August 4th, 1914, 1 that the results of a census of cattle They say was assigned as commander of the naval which was taken on 13th April are not patrols in the North Sea, and hoisted yet known, but that it can be assumed ny flag in .M.S. Crescent, shifting
that, if
i people are duly modest in their afterwards to H.M.8. Alsatian. In these er
demands,
the existing supplies will two ships I spent the first 20 months of suffice for the needs of the Army and of the civil population. It is explained thas a few months hence there will be
war al ses.
When the blarkle was instituted our essentially small, but quite adequate to the nature of our work." Gradually, how ever, the blockade was pulled very much tighter. The number of patrolling ships increased month by month, until we now have a complicated network of cruisers scattered over the North Sea areas: network through which it is impossible for any steamer, sailing ship, or trawler, to pass without coming under our direct observation.
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A STATESMAN OF THE
EMPIRE,
PERSONAL SKETCH OF MR. HUGHES.
I
BIRDS AND GUNS.
A SPRING VIEW OF WAR.
BY BEACH THOMAS
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 19th at 11.10.-No returns from Japanese stations.
Pressure but decreased slig tly along be rast count of Chiun, and increased moderately over Tongklag It has igersmuod alightly
elsewhere.
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL'
REGISTER, Hongkong Observatory, June 19th.:
Previous On DatejOn - Pate
Day st
∙at
at 9pm. 6 am.
2pm
The
The southern depression has filled up. -
Barometer Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending a Temperatura January, 29 inches, against an average of Wind Direction 10 a.m. to-day, 0.20 inch. Total since 1st Humidity 3410 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours anding a Noon
Weath to-day is as follows: --
Bain
2974
19 75
99.74
78
B1
85
88
East
P ESE
Force
4
0
026
DISTRICT
Foaroa.T
East or valable wind, moderate;
Highest open-air Temperature on 18th. Lowest open-air Temperature on 16th
Et
77
first, imp oving ister.
There must be something personally interesting in a man who, a pupil-teacher
Spring which makes the world now, ex
of in England, goes way to Australia aggerates I think in everyone's mood- 10 years of age beories
and who, after a series the staleness of this terrible war. adventures,
L Afty-one, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth or absence of change is iterated by the and one of the recognised statesmen of activity of change in nature. the Empire. That is the story of Migrate but not the men.
The birds Hughess, now on a visit to England.
The 'fresit went up to spend an hour or so with him leafage blots out old targets for a battery at his hotel, and found out the secret of that has not shifted for eleven months. his power (writes Frank Dinot in the Daily Chronicle). It is the segret of all. The world is alive with the songs of new great men.
idiot boom of the cannon, sotefia and north warblers, unheard for ten monthia; but Hongkong & Neighbourhood to light rain at steady-almost continuously to-day the and east hammers your ears with the the atmosphere.. same detestable note as if it were part of
Stevenson refers to the rarity of per In one of his stories Robert Louis sonality, and how one is exhilarated by who possesses it. His heart would have the sudden discovery of the human being lifted at the first sight of Mr. Lughes. for the latter, beneath a modesty and a camaraderie which is very pleasing, has for wantonness," that all things shall re Men seem to have determined, " Merely that magnetic touch which is both inco-mains they were. Let St Clof stand for be strange if he lacked it, this man who the successive fights in this grim region marienble and indescribable. It would example. I had thought in Eugland that has driven sheep for a living, worked as had at least bent or straightened the old a, navvy, suffered poverty and hunger, contour. It is not so All this desperate and finally, while in the prime of life fighting, the tons of explosives in the come to govern a nation, Picture n slim mines, the continuous shelling, the bomb- figure in frock-coat, with spare, darking and infantry charging, the loss on complexioned face, in which the effect of both sides of some thousands of mon, bas a commanding curved nose is lightened left a situation that differs little from the
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once lies chiefly in an exaggeration of the which the enemy peer one at the other ugly turbulence of the evoked gulf across through the refra ted angles of periscopes. The gap has received marks that will re- main, obvious and ugly, for centuries.
organization of patrolling squadrons was plenty of fat eattle, but that there will by humorous eyes, and a sensitive mouth, situation of six weeks ago. The differ
of July be difficulties until about the beginning is a mobile face, scarred by rugged searcity of fudder.
account especially of the lines of experience, lightened by refu that it would be whateful to alaughter friendly, happy manner is one of his
It is pointed out ment and quick understanding. now animals which have lacked sufficient charms; it does not conceal the lines of fodder, but will soon have plenty of a fighter-quite plain to see in that slim. pastare, The Ministries invite even the erect body quiver with life and the Army to practise special economy at this poised hend ready for all emergencies. season. Some of the papers are allowed can imagine Mr. Hughes a very had to say that this circular is mere talkenemy as well a very excellent friend. for the sake of talking" that the demands of the public are already modest enough; and that the official organization is defective.
METHOD OF ACTION.
Our North Ben blockade consists of the strategic placing of units of patrolling quadrons, all out of sight of each other but within
easy steaming distance. Usually our cruisers are about 2 miles apart, and as each eráiser is afforded a clear view of 15 miles to the horizon, no blockade runner can pass between thent without being seen by one or both.
ITALIAN GIRL'S VENDETTA AGAINST AUSTRIANS.
Pass, says the Geneva correspondent of To maintain our blockade, we have chosen a type of warship known as an days a slim Italian girl, aged about the Daily Express, noticed for several auxiliary armed cruiser; usually converted passenger-ship
Aeighteen, and armed with a rifle, climb trader, covered with war paint, and the Austrian frontier, where she spent Inerchanting the snow-covered paths leading up to - Dounting several guns of various calibres most of the day.
sufficient to their duties.
or
Bach ships are not properly warships at all, for the superior fighting craft of the British Navy-superior in armament, rdnance, and speed-are kept inviolate for the long-anticipated engagement which we hope to fill with the German Navy.
Although there is an adequate sprink- ling of Royal Navy men in command, by far the majority of blockade officers are dawa from the Royal Naval Reserve. These men, inany of whom have had splendid careers in the British mercan Life marine, are peculiarly fitted for blockade work; they are accustomed to manifests and ship's papers; they know how to make a quick, comprehensive, and judicial inspection of cargoes."
': STORIES OF 'EARLY LIFE.
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No. 1
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLF.
From 26.to 28th June, 1916
HIGH WATER
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by bits of metal shard, of wire, of the Craters and pits and dikes, reinforced human body, compose an intolerable bar rier, which arises more irresistible from groundwork of a good education, he Eloi, at the Hohenzollern, nt Fricourt A young men of nineteen, with the very shattering blow. The craters at St. went out to Australia in 1884, and he was are all an addition to the terrors of au promptly plunged into a struggle for obstacle that evolves terrors and strength physical existence. He found no path of from its own apparent and intended de- roses. Here are some of the occupations struction. The old giant of mythology, by which he found a living for the next who grow two heads for each that was cut Bix or. seven Blacksmith, Ship's Cook, Waiter, Agri-battle of giant nations. The decapitated years: Sheep Drover, off, might have been taken as type of this The Swiss Alpine troops in the Stelviocultural Labourer, Oven Maker. The salient at St. Eloi is to-day a double calling, and with a laugh Mr. Hughes latter strikes one as a peculiar kind of terror. hotel for 15 hours a day for about 15s, explained it. I was working in an
week, and decided that an advertisement in the paper for & happened I must get out of it. I saw whatever
Colonial over maker.' she was doing. The Italian girl replied sud applied for the job and found it One of the Swiss soldiers inquired what what a Colonial oven was, but i went I had no idea fiercely, "They have killed my wo brothers and my sweetheart, and I am
was to do with the making of hinges for taking my revenge. I think I have killed.
oven doors and so on, and after some four Austriaus, but that is not enough.a resping machine gathering up the I shall continue shooting until I am ny
explanation
took it on." knows what it is to follow behind self killed"
with thistle pricks continually and out the other sile without finding Bongkong corn,
He walked clean, through his own, town || Dalton one's hande and a never-ceasing. backache. He has laid metals on the Only the slope of the ground on the Gap Renk ....... railway and lifted sleepers. or wins. famed from him the inter for the streets he had just traversed with Hakow
He has far end warned him that he had passed eating detail that in driving sheep Thout noticing. It seems impossible that
flocks of shop reheneands throughy and how retract his stops to look Washaw
Less than six miles in a straight line in be the ease of an effect whose principal Ja Australia you must not let them travel such passionate fury of destruction could. aa day, a precaution which prevents the attribute is staleniss
sheep eating up all the grass on their line of route though this precaution is minimised by a skilful drover keeping his sheep as widely separated as possible.
the British Navy engaged in blockade work were to treat the captains and greatest possible courtesy and considera. crews of suspected neutral ships with the little danger or inconvenience as was tion, and to place the neutral in consistent with the proper maintenance of our blockade.
I shall decribe for you exactly, the procedure in the case of a typical block-carrying contraband, an officer and an Whenever a ship is discovered to be ading cruiser. You must imagine us steaming a beaten track up and down
armed guard of five men are put aboard to conduct the blockade runner into our a bit of open sea; in total darkness at nearest port, where examination usually night, and during the day keeping a sharp look out for mines and submarines to the disposition of the cargo and the takes from two to five days, recording of the enemy. The weather in the North consequent difficulty of removing it. Atlantic in mid-water is very severe, and The weekly average of ships passing most of our ships remain at sen continueastward through our patrols is 50: in ously for 50 slayu betore proceeding to
summer time about 8 per cent. of these port to recoal and re-provision,
are sailing vessels.
OVERHAUSENG à sare,
DEVICES OF BLOCKADE KUNNERB. Sometimes thing happens for days of days on end.
With regard to devices adopted by At 11 o'clock every blockade-runners to elude the vigilance nights or wireless is not too busy, we
of our examination may mention some pick up the day's war bulletins from of the chief ruser:-(1) Double boltoms, Foldha, and the Eiffel Tower, or some decks, and bulkheads, concluni: German Blation. Finally, one day there rifles, and other firearms or is a blotch of smoke on the horizon. Astion; (2) copper keels and copper plates we keep in touch with our neighbouring on sailing ships; (2) totion Thests; (4) units by wireless, we know that this rubber onions; these cannot be from the funnels of one of our when one of our officers dropped one on were discovered down cruisers, Word passes that a ship the deck; the onion bounced 10ft, into is sigated, perhaps attempting to elude the air: (5) rubber concealed in coffee ur blockade. Overhauling the merchant sacks: (6) cotton coneraled in barrels of man, the critiser fires two blank cartrid flour; (7) rubber honey, ges. Accompanied by an armed guard of five men, the boarding officer goes over the cruiser's side, and often at Some neril to life and limb manages somehow to elamber up the trainp's deek. I have often seen the craiser's dory stove in, and the boarding party thrown into the
water.
made. in
the
form of honey-comb filled with a curious liquid mixture; (8) false manifests; this is the most frequent form of faking, In several cases where the captain of the neutral realized that the
game was
up" he produced both the genuine and the fake manifests for our boarding oxcers to compare a form of frankness quite amusing.
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But so it is everywhere. For myself, | Dsgepa months ago at the time of the first and Legal I was in Arras almost exactly eighteen | Manila most wicked bombardment of its old and Taclobne beautiful buildings. It seemed to me In the towne, on the sea, in vineyards, then that sheli a thunderstorm of savagery is rigio
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these conditions Mr. Hughes has labour flames the stench could not long endure. under tropical skies--in ench and all of event ong way or another. The noise, the among productive farms, in the desert must end soon, very soon, in some greke ed. It was not all plain sailing. Here Rat today in Arras is yet no sign of any is the kind of incident he had to meet, result at all. The fires have burnt out stances were left far away up, country pieces. In place of General Pétain, whom He and a friend by force of circum and more buildings have tumbled to remote from evilisation, and had to find then met, is an English general. But their way back on foot over desolate that is all. The guns are as loud. The stretches where there were no means of neroplines fight overhead, and after they sustenance. creeks, and they lost all their outer green and white and red, now and then They bad to swim many go be to roost the same strange lights, mente in that struggle homewards. ten days all the food they had was the soot up into the darkness. period of 24 hours they could discover no to distinction, are now acclimatised. The little shellfish they could find. For one The elie inhabitants, then frightene water to drink Had it been the hot accept war ux permanent, and make what Season They could not possibly have str living is to be made by selling fruit and through eventually, fancy Mr. Hughes | fair and beautiful child that smiles up vived their privations. But they got picture postcards to the soldiers. get through. is the kind of nian who generally does into the visitor's face is not aware that war should be a more ephemeral thing her if as was the shifting from the than place. The change from blue univery long continue a drawn battle. brown bed to the blue to the Vicar of bored that next spring the note of the form, tt khaki is just que quiet event in belief, the faith is strong although we remember that last spring-as this we cuckoo, when he came, would be able as of old to "beget the golden time again" The truth remains that to day I hear him! once again against a boom of gung that have shifted as little as the hedgerows HONGKONG
garden" are establishing themselves on their seccnd crop of grass; and "rock There are saad-bags that are growing
ruins half beautified by a second spring. spring is green whatever happens, and who is fighting in trenches to feel that Well, it is something even for a soldier
the song of the lark exaltant, though he nests in a crater.
the
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public speaking. This was at the time I cannot forbear to tell the story of
when he had begun to take an interest our of Mr. Hughes's early attempts at
in political matters. He and a friend Waked and his lady, had come to the decision to give a Revolution. Mr. Hughes had read lecture in a certain town on the French the 'subject very thoroughly, and felt war torlar is such stale inertness, seet well-equipped to present an interesting against the freshness of a nimble spring Here and everywhere the effect of the up Our boarding officer interviews the exptain merchantinan. The crew is some-
and reasoned speech. On four diatinet ocessions which have to do his best, because a considerable on giving an impression, not making 4imes mustered in suspicious cases to
He was anxious Nevertiefoss, let me make it clear that I determine whether any German subjects tion our blockading patrols have rescued Kaged and all the preliminary arranget is n obvious to the eyes, and though
come under my direct personal observa-audience was expected. are aboard. Finally, the manifests are neutral ships from
A hall was er judgment Change is real enough, though carefully examined. Whenever there is tion by German torpedoes in the North the lecture approached Mr. Hughes and a half gainst this callous barrier. For
imminent destruements carefully made. fair doubt about dhe eargo, we are leni Sea. The merchantmen were lowering his friend had a sudden fear that
As the time for both eremy have battered for a year and ent in releasing our temporary capture their boats, with the submarine standing crush of people to get in might present the greatest event in war is not an ad In the case of fishing trawlers, which off waiting to fire. A few well-directed difficulties at the door, inasmuch as theyvancera retreat, a shifting of lines, swarm the North Sea, it is possible to shots from our guns soon disposed of the had not provided themselves with cash sallahasse examine the cargo immediately; and menace, and the neutrals were able to to give change. So having a kindly and man. German ambulance have been where ships are partly in ballast the ex-
It is the life of a amination may also be done quickly, about their business.
rehoist their boats and proved safely trustful landlady, they borrowed £2 worth watched busy at their work, busier this But it is absolutely impossible to examine
of smaller coins from her. Confident in spring an for many months; and nearer a large cargo in mid-ocean and in heavy Scandinavian with masts broken off store, and with all the practical arrange other, e to-and-fro patrol of our con- the knowledge of the subject of the lee at han have watched, one after the weather. My experience as Commander the deck and the crew lashed to the bulments. complete, Mr. Hughes was without roy these things is the true change, of the North Sea blockade for 20 months warks, while heavy seas swept her from approached. And the horrid soquel was will be obvious as well as real.
Dist all neutral captains invariably bow to stern. Our men saved the crew at the audience consisted of three
embarrassment as the fateful moment and the preparation for a change which refer to be sent into a British harbour at some risk to their own lives, and people only. “It was a really serious barser is going on a change in spirit as The delay is reduced to a minimum, and stood by until the gale abated, and then the inspection safety and dispatch.
Of other side this seeming changeleen matter," assistance and repair. We towed one the rent of the hall."
said Mr. Hughes, with a American ship, which had been drifting coal or food, into a British port through about helplessly for 12 days without the worst sort of a sea.
On another occasion we came upon
is accomplished with towed the wreck to a British port for quizzical smile, "We had paid £2 for great the invisible change which is
GERMAN METHODS.
Regarding German submarines in the North Sea, my experience is that they favariably sink at sight; or give the The correspondent asked
Which neutral nation has been the worst offender against the blockade ?
British
crew only three minutes to dear out fore the ship is torpedood. German sub- marine commanders within the North- Sea areas have respected no flag; have dopted the same merciless attitude to ward neutral and belligerent, alike.
British Admiralty orders were issue i the very commencement of hostilities to the effect that all officers and men of (Continued on next; Colunın.)
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we woking the miraala within the chrysalis. possesses a penetrating discernment with shisigns of the season; and never sine With a real gift of humour Mr. Hughes as response of many merry soldiers to On the Allied side anyone may note the regard to serions affairs, and I have met no man who probes more swiftly to the WAZ Fegan have seen auch fine al heart of a subject. He has moreover
dis in such pink of condition as to-day: that unmistakable gift in a leader of intai Wat may be the feeling on the German tively
appraising other men. He knows of the line we can only guess. The a human force when he sees one. He will by shooting of the hom which the A "I could easily tell you that, but I men or women," though those who meet thains of the men that fire it. But one make few mistakes, in his judgment of Roy chiefly relies gives no message of The shins of one natral have attempt niche they have been very swiftly pelaps at this season, that this fight is sha'n't," replied Admiral de Chair. him will very likely not know to what somehow more and more, especially ed to carry in more contraband through allotted. One came away from Mr. in rory real perke & fight between spirit our blockade than any other, but I can Hughes stimulated by his quafitica. That andnatter; and those two cannot for scarcely name the offender.
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