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WAR CALLS AND STAFF LOYALTY.

F.M.S. PLANTERS WHO BROKE

THEIR CONTRACTS.

BRITISH PRISONERS IN DARKNESS.

A PENALTY FOR DILATORY

WORK:

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY JUNE 27.# 19167

report by representatives of the United States Ambassador at Berth who visited the carap on April 5th.

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THE NEW SERBIAN ARMY SON OF A NATIONAL" HERO

A MIRACLE OF ORGANISATION

(BY CRAWFURD PALICE.]

Three months ago the survivors of the their way over the Albanian mountains. Serbian army were painfully beating Tired, starving, and weary men these, in

down under the demoralisation which

SENT TO PRISON.

STIMULATING DISCONTENT AMONGST WELSH MINERS.

James Robert White, 38, only son of th late gallant Field Marshal Sir George

AN ADVANCED DRESSING STATION.

Base hospitals may be a great way From the firing line, as much as fifty miles; these are generally located in or near a large town; a dressing station is the trenches, half to a mile off. usually a house in a village. Just behind

A deserted onfe forms the headquarters

WEATHER REPORT:

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and all credit is due to them for their wore complaints of the bad quarters, the very foundations of our Western civilisuthe fate of the leaders of the Irish rebel· { house intact; so ruined are the majority South coast of China between The same a

Writing recently in the Financier, G.V.W, said:The very large number of planters from the Federated Malay States who have temporarily and spontaneously given up lucrative positions to come to this-country to join the Army probably forms a greater proportion of their whole class than bas heen given by the members of any other civilian wals in life to the military service of the British Empire. Over 50 per cent, of the planting white population has obtained commissions or enlisted. The fact that such planters have bron accustomed to an outdoor life and to the management of men particularly fits them for the exigencies of military work, patristic self-sacrifice. Estates have this Leon depleted of a considerable number of their best men. On the other hand, un fortunately, I have heard several sem. plaints that among those assistants who have not joined the Army, but have re- mained on the estates, are some who, not- withstanding increased remuneration for extra work, have taken advantage of the local shortage of men to put forward exorbitant demands for increases of zulary, additional allowances, commis sions, bonuses, and other concessions not contemplated by their agreements, which they wish to have throatening, as an alternative, that they cancelled some will leave their estates in the lurch.

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are brought by the regimental bearers vi From the trenches the sick or wounded

sported by the R.A.M.C. bearers to the the communication trench to one or other

café, where the M.O. sees them. Severe of the dug-outs, thence they are tran

cases are at once despatched by motor ambulance, between seven and eight miles Vladivostok.... away; they are either dealt with there, Nemuro or are sent on to the base, vid a clearing at at the café till enough others came in to Koobi make a car load.

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it is regrettable that there should be yanGunt of work which the camp authori-unbidden guests. They, who on their wicz, James Connolly, and others, but it hospital it may be. Slight cases are kept. Tokio SEISOE

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The unfortunate lot of six-British sul diers under arrest in the prisoners of war camp at Dyrotź is described in a very truth & phantom army, weighed White, and formerly a captain in the here, the medical officer, his sergeant, and Jannar, 65.11 inches, against an avenge of comes of a hard tussic against over British Army, was sentenced to threeight orderlies occupying these premises, whelming odds, harried marches in isolat mouths' imprisonment in the second divi-The bearers are in dug-outs, so-called, in ed groups

The forecast for the 24 hours eading at Noon over snow-clady readles camp 754 are British, and of these 426 cheer them in adversity. Rather the vivid tions. The prisoner resigned his com

Of the 4,448 prisoners attached to this height exile from home, and empty in at Aberdare last month for offences dred yards up the road, just at the head

another part of the village, a few hun-to-day is as follows: stomachs. No memories ware there to under the Defence of the Realm Regula

of the communication trench-eight bearers in each. One of these "dug-outs" the camp itself and

the recollection of dire fatigue and suffering mission in the Gordon Highlanders in the cellar of two shattered buildings Hongkong & Neighbourhood

consists of the ground floor, the other of others are in working camps. The con ditions at Dyrotz are, on the whole, satin-lantern-jawed warriors, you would have famine-stricken comrades, and the agony of defeat. Had you seen them then, those 1009. The substance of the allegations and

designated by our men The Chateau "

The White Farm" factory, but at one of the working camps, counted them for nought in the great against the prisoner was that he visited One may have been a farmhouse and the respectively. a rubbish-sorting plant at Boctrow, there struggle for liberty which is shaking the South Wales to stimulate discontent to say what they were originally.

other a chateau once; now it is impossible food, and the nature of the work.

among the Welsh miners at a time, when. American visitors found that six men,

In the entire village there is not one including one corporal, had been returnsidered it possible that this human wrack-

Certainly, you would never have conion was in doubt. ed from this working camp and were age of yesterday could to-day be it and White, the prisoner's mother, his wife

In the well of the Court were Lady used for little else than the firewood that the beans and broken floors could be under arrest at Dyrols. The Command ready to take its place upon the battlefield and two sisters.

which is now their destiny. Most of the ant at the latter place stated that the and share the task of driving the invader. men had been dilatory in their work. from the Serbian lands. Yet the miracle secuted; and

havoc was wrought by the French when Mr. A. Iver Parry, solicitor, pro

they dislodged the Bosches many months been read to them by an interpreter, and physique of the Sorbian peasant has coin- The regulations regarding the work had has been accomplished. The wonderful defended

Mr. Trevor Hantar ago. Since then things have been pretty. the men had been warned that any infrac bined with the organising genius of the tion of these rules would be followed by British and French missions and there which he gained the D.S.O Later, ho

quiet, the firing on both sides boing Mr. Parry stated that the prisonce meaning.

intermittent and without much apparen disciplinary punishment, but, notwithsources of the Grand Allianco, to save

served in the South African War, in standing this, they had failed to observe from the Serbian, retreat no fewer than adopted extreme Socialistic views the rules, and had been withdrawn to the 150,000 hale, hearty, and well-equipped also took an active part in the transport parent camp and placed in, confinement fighting men, full of renewed courage and

which he gave violent expression. He a full camp ration on the fourth day the order to march homeward, for seven days on bread and water, with enthusiast, and waiting impatiently for strike in Dublin und had served in the The men, on the other hand, stated that:

Irish Citizen Army and the National they had obeyed the regulations and, as

Volunteers. His activities brought him far as they could see, were withdrawn

into close association with James Larkin because they had been unable to do the

Sir Roger Casement, Countess Markie at all, because, by general consent, a more considerate and generous body of en

ties had decided was a day's work beautiful island live a tranquil life at the was only fair to the prisoner to state that ployers than the directors of rubber com-

namely, two men to anload a car in a exponse of a German potentute and pass he had maintained in speech and in before these proceedings were instituted panies could not be found anywhere.

day.

ing tourists, rather resented the intrusion. Many of them have spent a considerable small building made of boards, the floor vice men, and stricken Serbians. They the best means of securing Home Rule for tolanus. A temporary dressing is always haveans

The six prisoners were confined in a

of French chasseurs British Army Ser. Print that he and Casement differed as to given an injection of serum, to prevent Nahumatera part of their lives in the East, and a number were planters before they became space approximately ft. by 8ft, with a feared disease, devastation, pillage, and directors It may be remembered that atas a window, which had been closed there are distinctions to be drawn bewere that he came to South Wales with and the bleeding has stopped, it is not gabled roof 10ft. high. Over the door outrage. But they have discovered that The allegations against the prisoner

applied in the trench before the wounde the time of the boom in 1910, when the with black tar paper. The only ventila-tween armies, and though they have the avowed object of inducing the miners interfered with till the patient reaches man is moved; if this looks pretty clean,

Luetoo supply of trained planters was not equal tion possible was through the cracks be suffered inconvenienes enough, the in tu come out on strike in order to compel the field ambulance. to the demand, much the same kind of tween the boards.

Weihalwe ****** Haako thing happened, and men refused to enter N.C.O. was asked why the window was of the Serbians, and marvel not a little the leaders of the rebellion in Ireland connection with the field service is that

When the German habitants are unanimous in their praise the Government to show leniency towards into agreements for a number of years' closed he replied that darkness was one that they have had to record no instance Most of the persons he intended to ap remembers that, during

One of the most surprising things in

Ichang Bervice, preferring to remain free to leave of the specified conditions of the state of theft or violation. Some, indeed, have proach were described as Socialists or

Kinkiang their jobs at a month's or three months'

niore men do not go sick. When one Changsha notice; but when the slump in rubber the window could be darkened and still to overlook discretions; but for the No-Conscription Fellowship

of arrest. It was then suggested that made fortunes, and might so be tempted nerobers of the L.L. P., and members of the turn in the trenches, and, while on their Amoy the winter atala

Shanghai months, men have been doing & four days' ume in 1912, and after, those same men left open for ventilation, since otherwise vast majority the cost of living has Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Sharp Pesk clamoured for long agreements. Planters proper ventilation could not be secured. doubled and even trebled, with no coroner saw Mr. D.. Tyasul Davies, and, opportunity whatever of getting a change Tasha two hours' duty in the fire trench, have Bwato in the Malay States are exceptionally for No blankets or mattresses

The prioften been waist deep in water, with no Taiboka tunate, inasmuch as there is no income-furnished, save on the day on which the their appreciation of our Balkan allies that he ought to be fighting for his coun- till they return to their billets, it might Koshan to be responding recompense, which renders in reply to that gentleman's observation of clothing or of drying what they wear izan tax in those States, and they personally men received their full ration: The door all the more welcome and trustworthy. are not burdened with other taxation of

was locked and a sentry posted outside any kind, nor are they faced with the the building.

try, the prisoner replied that he would be expected that half would become seri- Föreg. Ever since their arrival in Corfu the rather be placed with his back to the wallously ill; as a matter of fact, not more ever-increasing demands for financinf self-

losses among the soldiery have been in- and be riddled with bullets. He also said than half a dozen men per day get bougkung... sacrifice which the public at home ment tish prisoner was confined.

In the camp Arrestanstalt one Bri-evitably heavy. Many of the physically that when his late father was Governor of rheumatism or trench feet. at every turn. The present trouble is a

He was ruined men came only to die, and the Gibraltar he was present at an interview undergoing seven days! solitary confine cemeteries, which here and there dot the between his father and the Kaiser, who when they come off duty. temporary one, and will certainly dis- ment on bread and water, with a full la d, often recall the aftermath of a complained that he never could under. mud and of ooze is over the whole man

A sorry sight the poor fellows present Momongamecnt] appear at the end of the war, when the

ration on the third day, for escaping battlefield.

A mould of Woodow men who are now with the Army return

from a working camp at Gross to the estates where their billets have been

Ziethon.

In the early days arrange-stand England and had never been able-hair, face, and hands plastered with Pakho Hoihu The prisoner agreed that conditions there ments were primitive, food scarce and to secure her friendship. When arrested, it-drenched, dirty, depressed they might Faulien kept open for them, and they will donht were satisfactory and that he had no hospital accommodation inadequate; but the prisoner tore up a document, which have been just fished out of less be reinforced by a large number of

valid reasons for leaving and desired to French missions speedily set a termen, inciting them to violence and mur-

to this disorganisation the British and appeared to be a wild appeal to the wor they bewail themselves? Not they, they Cape St. James

sewer. Do Courana... men who left their desks in this country not seem to have full normal intelligence. Epidemics were successfully kept under, der.

be reassigned there. This prisoner did to take part in the war, and who, having

know their officers and their pals are Aparri acquired a preference for an open-air

enduring the same conditions, and each and it is no exaggeration to say that 90

Dagupan... life, will snuk it in a planting career with

sticks it, and has got to. This seems to Maal per cent, of the troops are now as healthy

be the universal feeling, no man dis-gpi those planters with whom they have made friends at the Front. :

and strong as ever in their lives, old

graces the regiment by grumbling.

І влюблю Any attempt at comparison between the

café have been converted, one into a Barigao The rooms on the ground floor of the Lolo twe official agencies which have both put forth a most laudable effort, and which

surgery, where the drugs and dressings Labuan The Paris Daily Review of Events of an almost ideal co-operation would prisoner say he would like to have the where eight patients can be accommodal-

have achieved complete success as a result

first coming down, the other into a ward are kept, and where the sick are seen on states:---

be invidious; but the work of our R.E. Welsh miners out to save Connolly's life, ed on stretchers. The third room is the

T. F. CLAXTON, Director. Frisoners in Germany. Additional with pardonable pride. Jetties have been stating that at the police station the prifies sleep upstairs. The M.'s room

and 4.8. Corps fills the Britisher" and a detective officer described the arrest, medical officer's sleeping room, the orderheit, on the level of the des in inches, tonthe 1. BAROMETER, reduced to 32 degrees Fahren. testimony comes to hand every day con-thrown out from the island and coupled zoner refused to give an account of him- busts a bed with a spring mattress, a cerning the downright criminal manner

and hundredc. up by light railways to an assembly of sell and struggled violently when tre, several chairs and a large mirror, substantial warehouses with a speed and searched

-the-last-adorned with three bullet holes, of war. To-day Ze Mutin voices the cortion of Allies and neutrals alike, The that the prisoner had no connection with un occupant of the room.

For the defence Mr. Trevor Hunter said

an evidence of the artistry of a former plaint of a French prisoner who, by a vast majority of the motor lorries and the Citizen Army while it had any lucky subterfuge, has come through from business intent are driven by British was not in favour of brute force. The ambulances which dash here and there on weapons, and his writings showed that he Munster into France. "We have," he chauffours, and in all respects we have fact was that the prisoner was a man with PHOTOGRAPHS OF BEATS. says, "witnessed on the 8th and 7th of amply maintained our national reputa grst sympathy towards down-trodden April really inconceivably dreadful in the Serbian Relief and Wounded Allies causes. He had a great affection for Con- tion for thoroughness. The missions of The danger of accepting as recruits men cidents. The men who refused to go to Committen have worked heroically for Welsh people being Celta, he thought he whose hearts are not sound enough to work in the factories were savagely the salvation of the sick, and the former might arouse their sympathy towards the nolly and came to Wales because the stand the rigours of soldiering has been beaten with the butt ends of heavy sticks organisation has also rendered much Irish people. obviated by a new scheme recently put or dragged by the feet until they pitifully assistance in the clothing and transport into operation with great success at the gave in and promised to consent to going of destitute refugees. There have National Hospital for Diseases-of-the-On & complaint being brought to his been humorous touches, too, as witness Hoart.

always be so whenever the men refuse to of some 309 odd boots and shoes, the dis- notice the Colonel replied" It will the contribution by English sympathisers obey." plight of those wretches forced to work assumption that we should be burdened You may imagine the dreadful patch of which was justified by the against their brothers and against their with a large number of one legged speci- country."

TAMAAN mens of humanity.

In the meantime it should not be neces ry to adopt the suggestion, which has been discussed, that the Rubber Growers! Association should be invited to open a register for recording particulars of the worst of such offences of agreement- breaking, but directors are determined to make a final stand, and it is to offer a friendly word of warning in ting to those in need of it that 1 refer to the subject.

RECRUITS HEART TESTS.

Not content with the routine examina Lion every recruit undergoes at the enlist ment depots, the authorities have arrang ed with the hospital for a must complete series of tests for all men whose hearts vary in the least from, the normal.

Every afternoon the candidates attend at the hospital in Westmoreland Street, Soho, where some of the greatest special ists in heart complaints in England take them in hand d

"Please run up those stairs to the roof and back," the recruit is told.

On his return to the ground, flour his palse rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure are taken and compared with the pulse rato, etc., obtained before the candidate. went stair climbing. After a rest of three minutes the pulse and blood pressure are again measured.

were

GERMANS' METHODS OF

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in which Germany treats her prisoneran ability which have evoked the admira

equipped as to-day. In this connection, The Serbian army was never so well as in the bearing of the men, the enthu- sasm of the visitor is necessarily aroused, for the contemporary Serbian soldiers are a living embodiment of our alliance. The

French horsemen

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statement, and James Ivor Davies, bis Mr. Tyssul, Davies bore out the opening

was in sympathy with Germany and hoped gon, said that the prisonor told him he the Germans would win the war,

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4. DIRECTION OP Wise, to two pilatu 6. FORCE OF Wind, according to Beaufort Scale, the trenches, gives a martial air to the spartment, and, at first sight, makes the elond, a drizzling rain, f fog, gloomy, a hail,

6. STATE OF WEATHES, o blue sky, a detached new arrival think there are stirring times lightning, o overcast, p pasing showers, 9 squal, ever, and nothing replies to our howitzer in front of him. As the days pass, how-r rain, snow, t thunder, v vidality, w daw (wet). battery pounding away at the back, save

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Eve evidence supporting Mr. Trevor Some fifty yards of the road to be travers-

Lady White and the prisoner's wife

Each day, after breakfast, the medical officer visits the bearers in their dug-outs. prisoner was not disloyal, but that he felt away, and Fritz, Hans, or Karl some- Hunter's statement to the effect that the

ed is in view of the enemy 800 yards the sitution keenly!

rifiths) said he would have been glad, ger. On returning to medical quarters Temperature

times tries to pot the pedestrian, but The Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr. Rowing to distance he is not in much dan for the sake of the prisoner's mother and he finds the morning sick awaiting hito. Humidity.... memory, if they could take a lenient view the village, or are detailed from the B.E. Wind wife and for the wake of his father's These come from the working parties in of the case, but that was impossible. or other sections that have no doctor of

their own.

tasketry

manœuvres in Corfu, and these exercises. in so far as they are necessary to an army which has learned its lessons in the hard. school of experience, will be carried out in Macedonia.

to swell the heavy list of so many others, This is but another infamy which goes and on which it is aseless to offer com ment. And what can one say as to the treatment inflicted upon the Russian prisoners of Germany as revealed by the Journal de Debate from in infantry are garbed in British uniforms with the exception of a small percentage loro This is nothing short of the most have replaced the gaudy native hose, and for Salonika, the army is exclusively formation contained in the Russkole complete even to the buttons putties who are being weeded out on embarkation abominable martyrdom as attested and Balkan sandals have given way to Englisli comprised within the former categor vouched for by numerous recitals and bouts. A French rifle and overcoat add Since their return to health and strong letters, and even illustrations which have to the picture, and only the national head the troops have been kept well employe been supplied by some escaped prisoners dress remains of the familiar make-up at company, regimental and Russian prisoners are made to travel of King Peter's battalions. The cavalry drill, and a feature has been made of under such disgusting and horrible con- The knowledge of the general condition from inanition and asphyxiation. They ance in the silver-blue tunics of the There is, however, no suitable terrain for ditions that many died during the journey present a smart and businesslike appear class instruction in military tactics of the heart obtained by them and the die, but their corpses are left standing. other routine methods of heart examina supported by their contrades since 30 tions is not enough, however, and the soldiers are crowded in a carriage which, candidate is next taken into the electro at the best, could nocommodate only 20.

A REORGANISED ARMY, cardiograph room. Here he sits with one.

With an eye to its future plaer in the bare foot and his two hands in soparate three nights. On arrival at their desti- reorganised from top to bottom of the and the journey lasts three days and scheme of operations, the army has been basins of water. Wires lead from the nation, the prisoners are subjected to old general staff, who passed through ric- basing to a very complicated electrical convicts labour and abominably fed. tory to defeat, there remain only the men are encouraged to spend their leisure Outside of their military duties, the apparatus which, in a word, photographs The Germans compel them to work on the Crown Prince Alexander, as Commander in the decoration of their camps, the cult on a moving sensitised film the electrical manufacture of shells and the prepara-in-Chief, and the genial professor who of personal cleanliness, and their nation currents generated by the different chamtion of asphyxiating gases, They are forsook his hair at the university to al games and dances The depression bers of the heart in beating.

From all these data the specialists then trenches under the shrapnel and gun fire hostilities commenced with the Austrianrxistent for there is not a Serbian on driven in hundreds to the digging of direct the Military Press Bureau when which one might expect to find is non- decide whether the candidate is fit for of the Russians. If the prisoners refuse

they are unmercifully beaten and starved, for years a martyr to suffering, has hand-than temporary. To this race of peasant ultimatum. The aged Marshal Putnik, the island who regarda his exile as other and condemned to solitary confinemented over his charge to more youthful keep- proprietors, deeply attached to their own w their right hand fastened by chains tong. Armies have been reconstituted and little patch of earth, the call of home and the left foot. In this pitiable condition divisions modelled and staffed anew, for loved ones left behind makes an over- Class IV-Labour purposes and sedentare left for whole weeks at a stretch the last campaign consolidated some increasing appeal. They know that the

of Jhey are suspended from a torturing Or is unfit for any Army services.

rack All this the poor, miserable Dri- putations and made others. Thus, with way back will be arduous and bloody :| "Briefly, our duty is to sort out and ouers endure most heroically. It is their the army reduced to half its former effer- but none can doubt that when once they classify correctly all doubtful hearts best chance of avoiding still greater tives, some commanders with European see the shadow of the mountains which among recruits in the London area. To similar cases, and these repeat themselves infamies. There have been hundrede of

reputation have had to stand aside stand between them and reunion with make doubly certain of not admitting every day. Boldiers in order to escape

The division of the rank and file into farm and family, they will sweep for- anfit mèn each case is separately examined working against their country, have cut

1st, 2nd and 3rd Ban has, of course, been ward with such élan that neither Ger- by two physicians," my guide informed off either one or two of their fingers, or

abandoned; the only distinction, no mans, nor Austrians nor Bulgars will be made is that between fit and unfit, and, l'able, to withstand the fury of the on- even the whole hand.

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Class I.--General Service at home and

abroad

Class II-Field service at home.

Class III-Garrison service.

taw work.

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When these have been treated, the main work for the day is over, eave for the cases coming down from the trenches, which may arrive at any time. remainder of the twenty-four hours spent as may be. For exercise a stroll

the German guns only occasionally offer to the village about two miles back affords the main opportunity, and to this any opposition, Sometimes a visitor may arrive, and then one tastes the joy of social life..

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