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ON THE VIMY HEIGHTS:

VIVID DESCRIPTION OF A BRITISH SUCCESS.

ago.

FUNERAL OF YUAN SHIH-KAI, WHY MILITARISM MUST BE

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AND

CRUSHED

PROCESSION

th Dealing with the ceremonies, the Peking correspondent of the N... Daily fewn wrote:

The coffin was carried on the small bier to the Haihua Men, where the President bowed as it passed and then returned to his offe

"THE ALLIES' VICTORY:

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BAND AND ORCHESTRA.

coming Promenade Concerts have been arranged. Members of these units are not required to attend any kind of patrols, drills, or musketry, nor must they voluntarily perform any of these duties on a date fixed July 10th--Rand practice, 6 p.m. abarp.

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The ground gained by Lancashire men The funeral ceremonies in connection | WORLD'S FUTURE DEPENDENT ON The following practices for the forth- on the night of May 15-10, in an attack with the removal of the remains of Yunn which was splendidly organized and carShih-kai took place at Peking on June ried out with the greatest courage and resolution, comprises an important post

UY SIR LEO CHIOZZA MONEY, M.P.] tion, writes Mr. Philip Gibbs, corre

For us, who have lived to see Arranged- spondent at British beadquarters. It is After President Li Yuan-hung baddon, the wish is most properly father to on the Vimy ridge, for which the French tendered his condolence, the chief mourn the thought when we speak of the Euro fought with desperate heroism and with er, Yuan Ko-ting, announced the removal pean.conflagration as a war to mid wäre great sacrifice of youth more than a year of the of which was carried out of the We-must either make such a detersinn French soldier stormed up Huni jen Hall and placed on a small ion of the matter as shalt rid the Old tuc slopes, flung themselves into the bier carried by thirty-two beaters." World of the standing menace of asshalt on La Folie Fors and all but

militarism, or be resigned to a new era thrust the enemy off the heights, which

of war and preparation for war which ran like a hog's back between the plain

will pale all former human experience. of Lens on the one side the German side--and the low-lying ground on the The coffin was then transferred to aus, some of them having command of There are well-intentioned people among other side, where Bouchez and Oblain large bier covered with a red silk canopy St. Nazaire are now in our hands. I and carried by eighty bearers to Pekingly or covertly are seeking for peace at certain printing presses, who either open- remember the breathless anxiety with Hankoy Railway station. which we waited for the news of French

any price. It would be well if they con- The procession was extremely pie-sidered what that price might be. progress on the heights of Vimy last Septuresque and in many respects & curious tember, at the time when we were nk mixture of Chinese and foreign styles. ing our offensive against Loon, which According to Chinese custom, the mourn depended so much for its complete success ers walked ahead of the coff, the chief upon the French possession of the ridge our being immediately in front of They gained all but the crest, and be it. The leading portion of the proccasion cause they could not get that last rise consisted of banner-b of ground in spite of all the ferocity of naval guards of honour, several bands, r-bearers, military and their attacks, the enemy still held Lens

hoth Chinese and foreign, and our victory at Loos was no more ing the Dead March" from "Saul

the latter play than a push forward. into another and also Chopin's Funeral March salient, hard to hold and without a grea

The ceremonial: chair was escorted by strategical result

mounted guards.

Since we have held this part of the front, relieving the French troops for service elsewhere, the enemy's position on the ridge of Vimy has been a serious disadvantage to us, and on both sides there has been a prolonged and deadly

struggle, underground as well as above

ground, for the highest slope. As the general of the division here told me to day, it is not only worth while to gain a few yards of earth here, but even 15in. may make a world of difference to the of inches there may be a wide Geld of lives of men. From that extra height: observation and a new field of fire for machine guns. Well, the Lancashire men have gained more than a few inches. According to the most accurate measure- ments of the mining experts the gain is even more than the 930 yards in length given in our official despatches, but quite 360 yards. Our business is how to hold that--and there is no doubt that the enemy's counter-attacks will be fierce..

MINING OPERATIONA

For a fortnight before the assault of the Lancashire men the enemy had been very active with his mines, and had blown up several big craters, which formed a scurcircle opposite the line held by our troops mitil their assault on Monday night. From the lips of these craters, which were soft. neross, the enemy could direct accurate fire upon our lines, and had great advantage of observation. It was therefore determined to thrust him back from those positions. The Lan cashire men in this division are wonder ful miners, and the assaulting brigade commanded by an officer who is not only full of enthusiasm it is fine to hear the way in which he speaks of hese Inde, whom

trained long before they had their uniforms

at home but has previously directed many suc cessful mining operations Attached to him is a company of Royal Engineers and some Weish pioneers, who could, and did, give priceless aid in operations of this kind

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The President's horse, priests and Jamas followed. Theu came the sedan chair containing, the tablet, followed by the robes and decorations. Following these were seen prominent officials in frock-cents or evening-dress, military

officers, the Diplomatic Corps in uniform.

After the coffin came a number of lady mourners in chairs

fake dos The coffin reached the station about 10.30, where it was entrained with the mourners, the deceased's tablet and the wreaths and decorations.

The train departed some time ater, when a salute of 10 guns was fired and all the temples in Peking tolled their bells 10 times,

Because we have entered upon an era lopment, it matters immeasurably more of big scale production and rapid deve- to civilization than ever before whether peace or war reigns among men. Because science is coming into its own it matters ventions which are now the common pro everything whether the magnificent in

the one hund to the increase of wealth, party of mankind should be devoted on the reconstruction of the material frame- work of society, the preservation and tion of every rational means of happiness prolongation of life, and the multiplica or on the other hand, to the piling up and use of weapons of offence and defence, the destruction of life, and the prolife ration of misery and distress.

This is the issue which stands.

before us, on stands nakedly

We

the members of the Cabinet and the late President's sons. The latter were dressed change in scale means as applied to war

may remind ourselves of what entirely in white and walked under a fare by recalling the number of soldiers white canopy, each supported by two who fought at Waterloo 100 years ago. attendants, Chorted by ful rei silk canopy on the red vir United Kingdom contributed fewer than The allied troops commanded by Welling- The huge coffin covered with a benutton were 68,000 in all, and to these the carried by the eighty bearers dressed in 30,000 Napoleon opposed them with green presented a splendid and impres perhaps 16,000 men. To-day we fight in sive spectacle, PA

fortified lines that stretch across contin- eats and demand the service and sacrifice of millions of men. And in the material of war the change is even more remark- able than in regard to the numbers of men at arms. On the material side war has passed into what may be called the factory stage, in which death is dealt ut on a large scale by machinery, just as standardized parts are made on a large scale for the purposes of peace,

Whereas, in the opening years of the nineteenth century, all

the countries of all the world produced only a few hun- dred thousand tons of iron în a year, we have reached a period in which we find Germany in a single month of war conversion into the apparatus of war making nearly 1,400,000 tons of steel for

It is just because we had failed fully to adapt ourselves in peace to the new scale of world affairs that this war has proved so hard a trial for us. Indeed, in the opening years of the twentieth entury wo narrowly escaped the lose at sea power because so many well meaning many was beginning to apply to naval people failed to grasp the fact that Ger- affairs the large scale conceptions which she had already applied to industrial affairs. CONDITION a

RESOURCES OF CYPRUS

The British annexation of Cyprus has that island, and the Imperial Institute directed attention to the resources of has been investigating the commercial possibilities of Cyprus salt. Salt has for a long time been extracted for local use in Cyprus. Is is obtained from two snl lakes, and is a Government monopoly. There is no regular market ontside the island at present for the crude salt to Turkey and Bulgaria before the war though a certain quantity was exported The ressit of the examination of Cyprus salt at the Imperial Institute was very satisfactory, and it is considered that when refined it should, at a suitable price, find a ready market in the salt importing countries along the Mediter anean and possibly in India and Fast Africa.

ballroom, Another second lieutenant, a champion bomb-thrower, with a range of forty yards, flung his hand-grenades at the enclay with untiring skill and with cheerful contempt of death until he was killed by an answering shot. But the N.C.Cs took up the command of their two young heroes, and the men carried

on

SAPPER DYSON, IN. Prior to his leaving for hoine, a sum of

over £00 was hunded to Sapper. Dyson in the name of the Hongkong- Police Reserve.

DISCIPLINE ·AND; DEFAULTENS..

This department has been taken over by Captain Franks, A.S.P. (R.), assisted'

All reports as to absence from Patrol

by Staff-Inspector McEwen. duty, drill, ole, must be reported either direct to the A.S.P."' (B.)," Victoria Gaol, or

through

the D.S.P's. office.

TRANSFER

Trooper 722 Goldring is transferred to No. 2 Section, and will report to Crown-Sergeant Wilks for duty, RESIGNATION, P. c. 600 Moore is invalided out on the

certificate of the Surgeon Superin

fendent.

HEADQUARTERS CLUB.

A number of Chines gentlemen have un- dertaken to become Founders of a Police Reserve Headquarters' Club, and it is expected that the premises. will be ready on about August 14.

F., C. JENKIN,

D.SP. (1)

not the case that while Europe is in flames Americans can afford to be on- lookers, viewing the sufferings of other nations with more or less of emotion, and supplying them with food and munitions with more or less of proût.

The United States has even now to enlarge her armaments. It will be in- possible for her in the future to avoid enormous warlike preparations if the issue of the European conflict is either

prefer to call & truce, adverse to the Allies or ends is what some people call a stalemate, but which America has the liveliest interest in preventing the recurrence of a conflict which even now, with submarine and aerial, warfare in their infancy, imperils the lives and wealth of neutrala.

I should like to think of a

determina pean pact, with its 800 millions of people, tion which would add to the great Euro- the 100 millions of the United States, and with them, perhaps, the greater part of the seventy millions of the Latin Americas, a combination could The new

lingering and the new hold the peace of the world in its hands, chemistry have added enormously to the and enable men to devote their ener- terrors of warfare, and created pos-gies not to destroying each other's efforts, sibility of death and disaster to every but to that eternal contest with Nature household.

which we call civilization:

NEW CONDITIONS.

Man has not yet conquered the world. in which he lives. All that he has suc eceded in doing is to wring from its reluctant natural forces a poor living for the majority, a moderately comfort able living for a very small proportion of the white races, and what in comparative sense we term riches for

Aerial and inder-sen navigation have in a few years, and while yet these inven tions are in their infancy, led to the butchering of thousands of non-combatant men, women, aud children. If we fail to SLEY these horrid developments the Warfare of another generation will be a thing in which no ship will be safe upon number of families so small as to possible, and in which no inland city of the magnificent intentions which the scus, in which no commerce will be be quite inconsiderable. This in spite surface work of whatever kind or pur characterized the nineteenth century, and pose, or however far from seaboard, will to which the twentieth century has al- be secure from attack and possible ready added so great an endowment. destruction, sang ebble, self from these command of the world and its materials? What has stood in the way of a greater

A nation, to guard: perils, which should be sufficient to rid us from the never accurate proverb that there 28 nothing new under the sun, will have to make preparations against possible war on a scale and of a kind which will darf all former efforts. nineteenth century, by spending upon Whereas, even at the very end of the the Navy about one-fourth of what we spent on beer we could make our shores have now to face the coming of a time inviolate and our security absolute, we

a large proportion of the wealth which when, if the menace of war is to continue,

needed to give it not absolute but reason means the work of the nation will be

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Always the explanation is to be found the dor employment of known theans of creating an abundant supply. of commodities. In that under employ ment war and preparation for war nre

dom. factors which must be eliminated before man can advance to his proper king

RULE OF PEACE

The United States of Amerien, to whos larger and richest areas of the world clovernment is committed one of ba

the new factors of warfare which will cannot afford to view with complacency

creation of gigantic armaments if this make it impossible for her to avid the

war enda in anything but the complete I am not speaking in terms which have overthrow of unitaris. The adequate application to one nation alone. These defence of the new warfare, exercised lesnes are world issues, and they concern upon the scale of twentieth-century the comfort, safety, and happiness of

able security.

It was on the evening of May 15, after two days of wet and cloudy weather pre- venting the enemy's observation, that our heavy artillery fired a short number of rounds to send the Germans into their dug-outs. A few minutes later the right group of mines exploded with a terrific roar, and blew in two of the five old German craters. After the long rumble of heavy earth had been stilled there was just finis enough to hear the starcate of a German machine gun. Then there was a second roar and a wild upheaval of which was astonishing nt such a time.

with a quiet and cool resolution soil when the left group of mines de By 9.30, only an hour after the attack stroyed two more of the German craters, begun, the lips of the two craters on the and knocked out the machine gun. The left centre were firmly held, and the men morient For the infantry attack had enme, there had formed up with the Loyal and the men were ready, The first to North Lancashires in the third crater get away were two lieutenants of the on the extreme left. About half an hour Loyal North Lancashires, who rushed before this the party in the two craters forward with their assaulting parties to the remaining crater on the extrame left those in the crater on the right, so that on the right centre had joined up with which had not been blown up. With the whole chain was held, on the bea little opposition the assault succeeded, side, in spite of the enemy's contigul and was followed up immediately by endeavours to bomb out our troops. working parties, who built up bombing They were hours of anguish for many posts with earth and sandbags on the Germans who lay dreadfully wound crater tip and began to dig out com and half buried, or quite buried, in the munication trenches leading to them chads of earth made by those minerizers The assaulting parties of the Lancashire now doubly upheaved Fusiliers were away at the first signal, and were attacking the other groups of above the guns, the frantic cries of men Their sercams and invans sounding craters under heavy fire/

The enemy had been thrown into 2 kept them prisoners in deep pils below maddened under tons of earth, which stata of nerves, not without reason, be the crater lips, and awful inarticulate cause the explosion of the mines End

noises of human pain coming out of that killed and wounded a large number of lower darkness beyond the light of the his men, and through the darkness there rockets, made up a chorus of agony more rang out the cheera of masses of men who were out for blood. Through the Lent of battle. They shouted across to than our men could endure, even in the darkness there now glowed: Erlet the German gretudiers: "We will cease light,

flooding all that turmoil of earth fire if you will; and let you get in and men with a vivid, red illumination, your wounded. as flare after fare rose high into the wounded! The shout was repeated, and Cease fire for the sky from several points of the German our bombers held their hands, still wait line, Later the red lights died down, ing for an answer.

Given such a rule of pesco as in theso and then other rockets were fred, giving a new storm of bombs, and the fighting But the answer was

words I have dared to write of, the a green light to this scene of war. The went on, and the moaning of the men

What is there of hope for

possibilities of human development in the Gertúnu gunners were now at work in who were helpless and unhelped

view of the direful possibilities of which poses unlimited. Let it be considered twentieth century are for practical pur answer to those beacons of distress, and The fighting men were wonderful, I have spoken. This that we have allied, with every calibre of gun from bowitzers usual. Lancashire will honour her sons.

in a pact for the overthrow of a military this country in a brief period of twenty-

what we we have made of engineering

in to minewerfers they shelled our front But not less heroic I would almost dars despotism, nations which number some two months because we have been put lines for two hours. They were too late

to say more heroic except that there are

thing approaching one-half of all the to stop the success of the assaulting no degrees in real courage were the 450 millions of the Russian Empire, the has been accomplished. Things made of to it by the exigencies of war. It would world's people. The Allies count, in the seem to the anthinking that a miracle troops

GRIT OF THE LANCASBIRES working parties who followed up

the The officer leading the assault on one

assault to consolidate the position.

140 millions of France and Italy and iron and steel have been multiplied as of the craters on the right was killed darkness under abominable shall fire the Japanese, the Servians, and the Mon- because we are at war might have been They did amazing things, toiling in the their colonies, nearly 800 millions, to say never before in this country. It is no nothing of the Belgians, the Portuguese, miracle, however. What has been done very quickly, but his men were not and their labour was lifesaving tenegrins. To break by this alliance, t checked, and with individual resolution daylight they had built communication and initiative, with the usual grit of trenches with ample head cover from the the Lancashire man in a tight place crater lipa to our front line trenches, so

at peace fought on, and won their purpose. Be tha tho chiefs and supplies can go up inforcements of men and homb were

to shelter. It was a superb achievement. sent up as soon as they were called for and as fire as anything in this war: It and all the preliminary organization was is a song of the spade which should be instined by the machine-like way in which it now worked Machine-like, yet put into a ballad to be learnt by heart.

There was a haze over the battle-held depending utterly upon the individual to-day, due to the heat of the sun, which strength of sont, a second lieutenant, & has drawn the moisture out of the earth very noble young officer, fell dead from and the heavy foliage, so that Artillery bullet wound after he had directed his observation was not easy, but the con- men to their posts from the lip of a new tinual crash of guns came across the mine crater, as coolly as though he were fields, which are all gold and silver even master of ceremonies in a Lancashire to the edge of the battle-line. So far,

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all civilization. They matter as much to engineering is a thing which the im the citizens of America, who still falsely Against the direfal prospect of a con-

Ivagination boggles abonmanag feel themselves to be mere spectators of tinuance of war and armed perce, det velves, who are now actually at war. In an Old World conflagration, as to our-

us picture the results of the bright fighting the war-makers we are in a new

alternative. and greatly enlarged sense battle of civilization.

the

power to extend over the whole of the

military power of the Central Empires dons, but was not done, while we were and to create a fule of peace among the It is not that our power victors rule which they will have grown, it is simply that latent power produce has

Old World is the aim to keep steadily has been shown how in a very little while has been utilized. In actual practice it before us. We need not be perturbed by labour can be organized, in spite of the its dimensions, but rather encouraged to withdrawal from work of millions of believe that this century of large doings men, to much greater purpose. What may witness the largest treaty of peace then, might not be done if a rule of ever made by men MARLIN AMERICA'S PLACE.

peace, combined with the determination Americans are increasingly realizing set free our energies to create wealth for to make the best of known inventions, the truth that no part of the world on the community to breed things for the in these days afford to be indifferent to preservation and maintenance of life the sufferings of any other part. It is instead of for the destruction of our best

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