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THE HONGKONG DAILY PROJE, FRIDAY, JULY 7TH, 1912.
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MIDNIGHT IN NO MAN'S LAND.
A VISIT TO THE GERMAN TRENCHES,
TUNNELLER.":
It was shortly after midnight and very dark when two small parties about thirty strong erept throught the sallyport! under the parapet and so reached “no man's land"
FETISH OF GERMAN. EFFICIENCY
AMELICAN TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND.
In a two-column leading article entitled The Fetish of German Efficiency," the ou Fork. Pines defonds democracy, as personified by Great Britain, for showing more real efficiency during war than Gier mao absolutisni,
BRITAIN STILL MISTRESS OF THE OPEN SEA.
SIR W. LAURIER'S TRIBUTE.
Speaking at a veeruiting demonstration nt Montreal last month. Sir. W. Laurier said:
What craven says 'defcat'; what un-
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worthy man whispers in your cars. Why does not Great Britain do her duty 17 The greatest contribution [it says There is one way of doing one's duty and Our own barbed wire entanglements that Britain has made to the war is not only one; it is do it. Britain has don had already been prepared for the expodi- the number of men she has put into the her full duty Open your eyes and see. tion, and, with the exception of having to field, or the munitions sho has turnedThe war is 20 months old. For 20 nicnths wade through the icy water in the sally out, or the ships which have sailed the the British Navy has bottled up the Kai- port, we were dear of our entanglements seas, but the unbroken front, solidarity, ser's Arandis. At last the German Fleet. with all good spendi
and stubborn tenacity of the nation as aventured out, and was promptly met by a Our guns had been bombarding the whole. That is a true picture of the Eng squadron of British ships. Huns front line heavily during the day, fish which every one knows instinctively battle ensued. Our hearts are sore as we A terribl mind it had been noticed that the constant to be true. The confusion is in technique,read the cables telling of the gallant sacri- flow of water from a pump over their and that is unimportant. There are fer of heroir lives. Yet our palses quicken parapet had consed, showing that the nations that might run the war better, and our blood ingles when we learn that pump had been broken down by our fire but there is not on that could be more
the Teuton Armada or what was left of We were well aware that any break-trusted to win the war, and that, after it, scuttled inck to safety, down of his description would neces-all, is the thing that counts. sarily quickly Bood their trenches, and it To be sure of this you have only to con was thought that in all probability theysidor what would happen to the Allies if yould be compelled to abandon that part England deserted then and what England of their front-line trench, and thus make would do if the Allies descrted her. She it possible to carry out a reconnaissance would go on alone, as she has been known EVERY WEEK and obtain valuable information concern-
ing iniur operations and the like, while self as inoficient is yet the greatest moral to do before. England denouncing her we should have facilities for visiting the asset of democracy in Europe. SOLE AGENTS:
varbus dug outs and collecting what MITER BUSSAN KAISHA
papers and notices, if any, remained.
The distance between the two front line at this point was about one handed yards, and the ground had been so much disturbed with mining operations and the blowing up of large craters, and also by the almost incessant hursting of heavy sholls, that there were deep holes all over it and travelling in the pitch darkness was therefore most difficult.
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Bodine.
One of the pricipal features of the re- creared a ichtle from central Japan luin quiet, and this is a great difficulty
On 6th at 11.1. Pressure has in-
connaissanes by night is to preserve abso and Lan 23 d. decreased slightly from over ground such as I have described. Sborgun to Tose anest
Thera is ton, the ever present danger of the enemy being out upon a similar ex- pedition, which necessitates constant stop pages to listen; while over and anon this space between the lines is illuminated by Here lights and rockets which make it in perative to remain mctionless or one's presence would soon be detected by the sentries and the sharp crack of a rile or the whizzing of bullets from a machine gur would soon show that one had been
spotted."
Hongkong sinful for a Loure ending a 10 a to-day, 017 inch Total since 18 January, 55.47 inches, ogsinit sa storage of 41.61 inches.
The forest for the 24 horas ending at Noor to-day is as follows: -
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So, after some twenty minutes or so, (Southery) winds | now walking now crawling, now stand Hongkong & Neighbourhood moderate, qualing, and now lying motionless, stumbling [y showary. down holes and tripping over fallen trees or their branches or over still more of the (Suth winds, Forces Canal
overlasting barbed wire, we reached the полетців.
Gerrano entanglements, and, with the aid SouthCast of Clins between The same as
of nippers," soon cut a passage through No 1
and were crawling slowly and stealthily engkang and Lamooks, i
up their parapet. South coast of China between The same 65
No. 1. Hongkong and Hainan...
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No sound was heard except now and again the splash of some loose clay fall ing into the water, or the swish of some water cat, frightened at our presonen, ne, It dived into the water in the trenches to safety,
LOOKING FOR MINE HAFTS. Presently we divided into two parties one going to the right and the other to the left two good trusty fellows going on about ten Fards ahead of the rest in such case, followed by the officer in charge, revolver in hand, at the head of his men, who carried their rifles with bayonets fixed and, of course, loaded, ready for any emergency.
The water in the trenches was well above the waist and bitterly cold, so that our progress, hampered by our efforts not to make any splashing noises, was peces- sarily very slow and painfully numbing
Every few yards the officer would send a sergrant and man back over the parapet to examine the barbed wire and carefully note any place where it had been damaged by shell fire suficiently to make it easy to get through in case wo had to run for
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Against her is arrayed what the world has been pleased to make a fetish of that? How shall it be judged By re- namely, German cficiency, and what is alts Perhaps. Well then its first justi fication would be victory. In this it has failed so far, and is in danger of failing utterly. Germany was remarkably pre- Pared for war, but in her preparedness were fatal defeats, not political and economic alone, but physical defeats "
Who says defeat? The Kaiser's Elect Britain is stil mistress of the open sea is crippled and once more botṭind üp, and
tain had no standing Army. Before en- In 1914, Sir W. Laurier proceeded, Bri- forcing compulsory enlistment she had tinguished spectacle of manning an Army given the world the unique and dis-
of five million men by patriotic voluntary recruiting. That was a spectacle unparal leled in history, surpassing even the far-
vus lende en masse of 1782.
THE WAR RESFRVES.
TERRITORIAL PROJECT.
The repeated declarations of our Mili-
resources she possesses have borit tole tary Correspondent that India has still to organizo for war the great, martiał
attracted much attention there, says the graphed to that country and bavo Timer,
The New Fork Times enumerates these. ammunition, su that by September 1st. defects--first, failure to provide sufficient
second fatal miscalculation was that the 1814, the shortage was a calamity. The
estimation of the strength and resources of war would be short, the third the under- the enemy, the fourth the hopeless blund-
A proposal has been made for adapting crs made in trying to meet the food crisis,
to Indian surroundings the Territorial the fifth the absurd counting on Zeppelins also serve to meet the strong and growing system, under conditions which would as instruments of wanton frightfulness. demand for Indians to be eligible for the "German efficiency is baffled by the un-higher.commissioned ranks in the Army. expected and lacks imagination to fore- The limitations placed upon the rank and see the new conditions; it sees narrowly status of an Indian officer, however meri- and in a straight line and when deflected torious his record may be, debar him by unconsidered obstacles which imagina- from rising above the position of a half- tien might have provided for, it is like squadron or company officer, and all rest a locomotive off the track?
responsibility and control in regimental organization vests in British officers. Pledges have been given for reconsidera- tion of this policy when the war is over, and roeanwhile ang large expansion of the regular Indian Army for was pur- poses is a matter of great diffienlly, as shown in our leading article on 25th May,
the provision of a partly because in present circumstances. of British officers with the requisite quali
a corresponding number" heations is not possible. It is one thing for the youngster fresh from public school life or the ordinary ranker to receive a quite another to acquire in a short time commission to a British regiment: it is the linguistic and special personal quali featinas for the oficering of Indian troops..
-POLISH RELIEF SCHEME
REJECTED.
dealing with the scheme for the supplying A suni official telegram from Berlin, of food through an American Relief Com- mitted to the distressed inhabitants of the occupied districts of Poland, says 2---|
The efforts of the Committes failed because of the conditions impoerd by the British Government, which could not be agreed to by Germany Germany cannot contract obligations on behalf of Austria- Hungary or Bulgaria, nor could she abon- dun her own condition that the army of zen petion in Poland should be mains teined by the stocks of food in the coun
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A SECOND LINE.
It is suggested these difficulties wight bo net by supplementing the Regular forees to such extent as may be required The American Ambassador, Mr. Ger by a second-line Territorial Army, some ard, has submitted fresh proposals to his what, on the model of the Imperial Ber- Government, omitting the British device troops of the Native States, officered manda for guarantees which are not se almost entirely by Indians, but with Bri- ceptable to Germany ”
tish adjutants and inspector8...
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The conditions imposed by the British This plan would provide an opening Government insisted that the relief for young men of the landed aristocracy scheme should apply to Russian Poland and gentry to find suitable carrers as a whole, the Austrian ns well as the the martial service of the King-Emperor. German sphere, and also demanded that At present they naturally hold aloof, nnd arrangements should be made for feeding while Indian officers are worthy men and the starving populations of Serbia, Mon- of the present war attents, they ordin
fine soldiers, aa niany a stirring incident tenegro, and Albania. Pledges were askarily lack the standards of education and ed for that all the American supplies My own pelicular business wits to keep should be consumed entirely by the civil 3. Jook-out for mine shafts or tunnels, sad | population. to note their position in order that they BRINGS SWEET SLUMBER TO might be dealt with on a subsequent occa
sion, This took me sometimes my DUBLIN AND THE PRINCE'S FUND. NERVE WRECKED PEOPLE.
vards behind the front line neering into dug aus, and dark corners where the That ́old devil, Insomnia, 18 the
mine top might possibly be secreted, and greatest booking agent on earth. result of his never ending labour is so Boches dug-outs and trenches were no het The my own impression was that the boasted great that it required thousands of sanatoriums and hundreds of insane ter than ours, if, indeed, they were as soodwars, if indeed, they were us asylums to take care of his bookings The overflow he sends to prisons, work houses, and graveyards.
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We travelled some three or four hun ered yards to the right while the other party had gone out two hundred yards to the left, when they came upon a party
of five Germans in a dug-out
A rifle hallet cracked out and one of ur men was hit, but they rickly avenged him by despatching three of the Boches to the next world and capturing
one, while the fifth got awa
Tummediately this happened hundreds of flare lights went up from the German sond line, followed by the splashing of water as men hurried forward to their front line to see what had happened. So a bad to make our escape as quickly and silently as we could
For my part, with two men I had been come way behind the parapet, and by the we ached the barbed wire the Hass peppering away with their machine
uns
THE DIFFICULT RETUIN,
ESOME-
culture which would permit of entrusting them direct responsibility for the dis cipline and training of regiments. The Territorial officers, drawn from what higher stratum, would come into high sivilian officials of districte and cordial and intimate relations with the
divisions, and would be encouraged to acquire the local patriotism and zoal which the Territorial system is so well calculated to inspire.
A grant of £10,000 out of the National Robuson, Vice-President of the Trish Relief Fund has been sent to Sir Henry Local Government Board, primarily for and indefinitely over the whole Indian Extension of the system immediately
the recent rising. This is the third grant the relief of distress in Dublin caused by
Continent is not to be expected.
The of £10,000 which has been made from the of Burma to the fighting service are in- present contributions of the Bengal and Fund to Ireland since the beginning, of finitesimal, and those of Southern India the war. Board, which administers relief in Ire- mainly from the north, and it is left to The Irish Local Government are very small. The martial races come land as the agent of the National Fund, applied for the grant on the ground of siderably more than half the forces ne one province, the Punjab, to supply con the distress resulting from the rebellion and after some correspondence the grant would be valuable in providing a moans.
ernited in British India. But the system of extending the present limited range of recruitment..
-was sanctioned;
go, and then it was not many moments before we were at our own barbed wire
Here, again, we had difficulty anding a passage through, which was rendered alt the more trying by the constant whizzing of the bullets from enemy machine guns shout our ears, Ta
be possible to raise Territorial regiments There is reason to believe that it would
use a year or so hence. The plan would at once, largely with Indian officers, for
provide a system by which the Army proper could be fed both in time of perco and in time of war, and it would enable us to expand our forces very quickly whea So we crawled along in front of the the need arises. The project scenis well wire, hoping to find an entrance, when adapted to meet the requirements of all at once all three of us went headlong complex situation. It would give into a deep cutting filled with water Indians of good social position the oppor
tunitica, they have long sought for mili- It was a deep rap that had been ent out tary service of the Crown, and would The could not find a place to get through and cloverly covered with branches and the wire, and had just to take "pot luck twigs so that it was not discernible from
meat appropriately an insistent claan. and go straight for it, though we knew we the ground and was about nine feet down, ad to struggle and fight our way through but although we got a good ducking we an entanglement of from fifteen to thirty managed to get under the entanglements feet, made of wire interwoven in a most and hack into our own trenches.
vil mesh. However, we struggled on a We had lost one man and accounted best we could, helping each other, and | for four Germans, and had gained a very
fter what seemed an eternity broke through with many cuts and scratches, but lost nothing except a few pieces of coats and breeches.
thorough and valuable knowledge of the enemy's trenches at this point.
When we got in we found that some kindly friend had made good hot tea Our difcalties then increased. Having ready for us, and I rarely remember when turned round. so many times to get I tasted anything so delicious as that through the wire, we could not “hit on piping hot drink out of a "canteen" the direction of our own trenches for passed from hand to hand round the few moments, and had to lie down for brazier fire that shivering winter's morn- some little time watching the flare lightsing, as we showed each other with great going up before we were satisfied by some give the few souvenirs we had been able outstanding object of the way we had to to spatch during our brief visit to the
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