A TUNNEL ATTACK. DESCRIBED BY "TUSSELLER."]
For several days the tunnellers had been busy day and night putting in the charge of explosive to blow the mine.
It was no small undertaking, for the gallery in which it was laid was over a hundred yards from the shaft or outlet and only measured about 30ft, high by 30in. wide
All the explosive had to be carried very carefully and placed in position, and the Boches were working so very close to us that it was imperative to make no noise or the whole business would be given Uway.
damaging our own lines.
PENSIONS SCANDAL.
SIR F. MILNER'S BLACK BOOK.
Sir Frederick Milner, speaking at the niceting of the Soldiers and Sailors' Help Society at Caxton Hall, London, said that the Pay Department was in a state of chaos. He had beard of three cases re cently of men who had not received a penny of pay for over twelve months, while there were a number of cases in which no pay had been received for six months or more.
Statistics published some time ago showed that 15,500 men were discharged without a single pension a most dis graceful state of things "although he was glad to say that that had now been remedied to, a great extent.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY JULY 201H, 1916.
SUBMARINE AGAINST
ZEPPELIN,
A TRUE STORY,
GEN. SMUTS' NEW CONQUEST.
GEM OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA.
Wilhelm, the eapital of the sambara [HY A SUBMARINEK..
Highlands, has been occupied by General New-born day had just begun icmute, and as the enemy are reported to shoulder back the mists that cloaked
have abandoned its serport, Tanga, it earth from the early sunlight when a man clad in artificer's uniform walked would appear that the whole of this region, to the edge of the jetty, stretched hit the most settled and most prosperous part arma, gave a mighty yawn, then drop
of German East Africa, will shortly be in ping quickly down a ladder, stepped on- board a submarine.
undisputed possession of the British.
forepart of the boat was singing in a A sailor busy with a hawser on the deep bass
For many brave heart, are asleep in the
'deep',
The bottom of the mischief was that the Pensions Committee was altogether
So beware, beware. too old-fashioned and too choked with Dirge like was the song, and the lugu- red tape. They come to look upon a brious tone in which the singer drawled soldier more as a number or a machine, apparently rasping out the final than as a human being. A soldier is given a number and there the matter ends.
After the explosive a quantity of stemming," consisting of sandhags well filled with clay and rubbish, had to he huilt up to prevent the force of the ex plosion following the line of least resist anco, and simply expending its force along our own gallery and probably This particular mine was so close to the German trenches that you could hear their rillebelts click as they unloaded The Navy was every bit as bad in the after ring. Moreover, with a view to matter as the Army. A man who was a blowing a ready-made communication mine-sweeper contracted double trench the mine was so close to the surmonis, recovered, and was sent nine face that the concussion from the explo sweeping again, and again had double sion of even the lighter shells from our pneumonia and hard to ho discharged guns falling short and anywhere near us He was given a pension of ed a day for put all the candles out.
One of the greatest difficulties connect- ed with these operations is to ventilate the galleries and avoid the noise made by mechanical ventilators or fans, and, no the stemming" has to be passed from hand to hand to ensure quiet, the
one month!
pneu.
**is &
beware " from somewhere near his toes, showed that the sailor was in perfectly happy frame of mind. ping short to make the remark: That's "Well," exclaimed the artificer, stop. cheerful sort o' ditty to start us of with."
A little later a couple of officers and a party of men came over the side of the felty and took their places on board the submarine, Ropes were cast off, and the buat slid quietly past the grey walls of lowering forts on her way to the open
Its healthy climate, picturesque valleys and mountains, and luxuriant vegeta
attracted attention to Usambara tion from the first establishment of Gorman rule, and its nearness to the coast rendered it easily accessible. To-day it possesses scores of thriving plantations, pleasant and well-built towns, excellent: biological station reputed. to be the best equipped in Africa. Its roads, and a European population is about 3,000.
Bordered east and west by arid scrub, covered steppes, worth by upen country and south by denso jungle, the High lands for an oasis in the wilderness, extending south-east and north-west for 5 miles, they vary in breadth from 12 to 40 ziles. The hills rise abruptly "Heavens," commented an artillery 1,50016 to 1,7001t. from the surrounding man, craning his neck through an em- plain, and the most lofly peaks are over look after her, and making 7,5001. above the sea. The valleys, deep
there submarines; you can nostrils, “no need to look for themturesque torrents, and the hillsides are Their scent's so strong
smell 'em. under cultivation; tho native popula
tion is dense, and long before the com- I wonder they
ing of the white man they had flourish- don't hunt 'em down w?' dogs? on his father, obtained work against the awash, sometimes submerged, questing.
On and on went the boat; sometimes ing and extensive skubas. Soon after the proclamation of the German pro-
That said Sir Frederick, scandalous state of things. When the poor old father appealed and wrote a letter it was not answered. He put the matter into my hands and I wrote one of my highly indignent tupeals to the Admiraliy. After three or four weeks new light upon the matter- had thrown no new light at all-and that the man would receive. 178. a week
The man canwhile, rather than live
brasure to
number of men necessary in a gallery the Admiralty replied that I bad thrown grimace as the oil fumes smote his and narrow, through which rush pic-
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hundred yards long is so considerable thas the air is rarely good enough to allow candle to burn.
In this instance we were also without electric lamps, and the work had to be
done almsot entirely in the dark-at any doctor's orders and died at his work on hither and thither about the sea one-tectorate a site in one of the south-
the very day fast he obtained the in-what in the manner of a terrier busting western valleys was chosen as a Govern
rate, during the last twenty-four hours.
The infantry attack was timed to begin at 4.30 p.m., and the mines had to be exploded at 4.25 a.m., so that the infan- try might rush forward under cover of the smoke from the explosion.
In these circumstances, it was very in- portant to have our watches set to the exact time of the Brigade Headquarters
creased passion. That man's death lay at the door of the Admiralty. went out..
"They are no mere isolated cases,” he I have got a thick book full of them. If I have to be taxed 10s. in than see these men badly treated after the pound I would rather pay the tax the splendid service they have rendered
to the country."
so that there would be no confusion and that our infantry: might not start too early and be blown up by our own mines.
General Sir Neville Lyttelton repa The strain of the last few minutes wait-inted the suggestion that the Chelsea
Board treated ing for the exact moment to come was
man as a number or machine. very trying. The seconds seemned to pass like hours.
However, we had just one difficulty. on top of another" to contend with, and it was 4.25 a.m. before we were actually ready to fire. So that we had only four minutes to spare.
OUR MEN IN GERMANY, LORD NEWTON PROTESTS AGAINST VEXAGGERATION,”
The treatment of British prisoners in Germany was discussed in the House of Lords inst month on Lord Beresford's re quest for information.
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Named Willielinstal, in ditch. In truth, it was ment post. rats of a sort that she was in search honour of the Kaiser, it has grown into of timidly, artin water-rats which considerable town, with fine public only left their holes when the coast lay and private buildings and all the clear, and scurried back into them again amenities of a European city. chance did they give for either terrier the moment danger threatened. Little or bigger dog to get a snup at them.
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Our bont had been watching the holes" assiduously for some time, and in doing this had travelled long leagues from home when the big thing" hap pened. She was trawling about as fishes swim and had only her periscopes peep ing above water (one might, indeed, well have taken her for a linge predatory fish possessed of eyes that floated at the surface at the end of long antenne), when the field of the periscope showed huge body floating between her and the
sun.
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In the early days of the protectorate, when the Reichstag persistently rejected votes for colonial railways, Gorman capitalists found the money to build a line from the coast to the Highlands. Begun in 1803, the first section was opened in 1898. Tanga, the port chosen as the starting point of the railway, benefited greatly from that decision, Its exports so increased--they were valued at £750,000 in 1913-that they were worth more than double the exports from any other port in German East Africa As the railway, crossed the 20-CarsING, British str., 1,190, F. E. Jar. mile deep, jungle-covered coast plain rubber, and sisal plantations sprang up were reached other plantations were laid along its line, and when the Highlands out. Of these the Tost remunerative have proved to be coffee, banana, and Keeping his boat as inconspicuous as tobacco plantations. European fruits possible, for he knew that eyes in the and vegetables thrive. A valuable trade air see deep into the water, the comin timber, chiefly cedar, has also been mander gave chase to the great gas bag that sailed shove him, apparently unsuspecting of evil. Either the Zep meant to bomb the submarine. Gradually pelin was unwary or she had seen and she dropped lower and lower until she brought herself within gurrange from the sen
A Zeppelin out souting," reflected the image before him "I wonder if I the submarine's commander as he studied can get her! At any rate, I'll try," he
At this time it was simply raining shells and trench mortars all around, and in the darkness before dawn the vivid flashes of our own gune, as well as those of the bursting German shells,
Lord Macdonnell spoke of the Irish blazed out, even though the air was thick with the fumes and reck of the explosives Women's Association sending parcels to
Still, our men, who had put in such 2,700 prisoners and receiving cards rodeoided. strenuous work for so many hours, weregularly in acknowledgment, but Lord glad when they were ready to get away, Devonport set against this the ominous and left the front line to. down the fact that no letters had been received communication trench with as little con from the Rulebon Camp for six weeks, cern as ever they did, despite the fact and prophesied an outbreak of national that these communication trenches and indignation here unless the Government the second and reserve lines are always took some action is reply, gave the constantly bombarded during an attack Lord Newton, in his to try to prevent reserves coming up to following figures-- the front line.
air.
Fortunately they all got out without scratch, but they dropped a quantity of
tackle-haminers, saw their Pipes shovels, and the like-in their hurry, as I discovered afterwards when I left after firing the mines.
and 4,000 civilians interned in Germany. There are 25,621 military, 1,050 naval, 1,918 military, 7 naval, and 45 civilian prisoners have died.
tary prisoners.
In Turkey 9,957 military, 103 naval, and 10 interned civilians.
developed in Northern Usambara
For
23rd June Moji 10th Jane, Coal- Mitsui Bussen Kaisha.
ESANG, British str., 1,127, W. P. Baker,
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General-Jardine, Matheson à
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FORUTO MARU, Japanese str., 2,201, Suzuki, 18th July-Balik Papan 10th HONGKONG, French str., 789, A. Mar-
July, General.-Dodwell & Co. guerite, 15th July-Haiphong 13th July, General-A. I. Marty.
Whatever the eivissitudes awaiting European enterprise in other parts of from fue first, and besides Wilhelmustul the protectorate, Csanbaar flourished half-a-dozen other model, little towns wore founded towns to which the Ger watched the airship's manœuvres, dog the last 10 or 12 years the Government,
Keenly the submarine's commander which he brought up his family,
man planter brought his wife, and in
In Bulgaria there are 449 British miigedly he followed her, and promptly be too had-lavished brains and money on ucted when he judged her to be within Usambara. In the interests of the re blew out his tanks, a tilt of the planes to protect the native plantations workers his reach. A pull on the lever and hegular supply of labour they intervened and his boat rose to the surface. Up from too harsh treatment by their white sprang her gun enger but steady- nerved men laid it smartly upon
overseers, and at Amani they established the aerial target; a flash from its muzzle,
an institute for biological, agricultural, an ear-splitting bang," and the sub
and general scientific purposes which JINJU MARU, Japanese str., Yatsuya marine's crew, watching anxiously the putation. The
has won a wide and well-deserved re- effect of the shot, saw the great airship
immense Bums which stagger. Bang went the gun again,
would have been needed to build the and once more the Zeppelin was hit, the line skirting their western base, but railway through the mountains led to The gunners could see that she was try by constructing first-class roads, on ingraily trying, to increase her altitude and get away, so they gave her
which a motor service was maintained, another dose--and this finished her.
or by means of light lines, the settle- The huge silvern envelope began to 5 of access to the main line. As few plan- ments, were provided with ready means heavily, then fel. like a bird that has been winged by a fowler.
In order to blow up this mine to form a ready-made communication trench the charges had to be laid in a series, quidis One hundred thousand parcels of food tant and of equal amount, except for go to Germany every week, said Lord those nearest our own end, which for Newton, and this gave a good average safety's sake were made lighter. These per man: Ho could not accept the state charges were connected up electrically ment that but for those parcels of food "in series" and "in paralle! so that our men would be starved to death. That there could be no possible doubt of their was an exaggeration, because if it had exploding as soon as the "exploder or been true thousands of prisoners would battery was used. To make doubly sure be dead already. It would, however. a fuse had been attached, so that if the have been impossible for the prisoners Electrical connections failed the safety to have been kept in good health but for fuse could be employed.
the parcels sont them. The disadvantage of the latter method, The fact must not be ignored that Ger-
a case like this is that the rate of the fire travelling along the anfety fast is many was blockaded and her own people une foot in 30 seconds. As our nearest
must be suffering very severely from charge to the shaft was some forty feet shortness of food. 1t was cruel to the re ff it would have been necessary to leave reletions of the interned men to spread length sufficient for a minute or two the report that they were being starved on the fuse to allow the man who lit to death, il to get out, and, as I have painted out, LA week proviously Mr. Temmant, in we were tied glowit to a minute.
the House of Commicis, specially cor recting a previous statement, said he was advised that if it had not been for the parcels of food sent to the men from this country they would in many cases have starved
Of courst it could have been done with huslautaneous fuse, but it would have required all the length to the shaft top from eneli separate charge, and as the fubiel was exceedingly wet this would not have been practicable,
As it was, we had twelve leads cables coming out of the shaft of which
were a marked and ambered as to
Here we crouched and waited the time when my watelas (we had three all put by (brigade time) should come round
10.4.20€, m.
tations are more than 15 miles from the
railway the cost of transport is reduced
to a minimum.
A queer, uncanny kind of combat this --unprecedented in the world's long. fighting history-between a ship designed A considerable aneunt of British to halle under water and a slip capital-over £2,000,000-as been invest designed to battle in the air. But the ed in the development of Usambara, under-water craft had been handled so and a few British were among the set- eleverly that the airship failed to hitters, though most of the British plan- her and received a death wound herself.tations were in the Moshi region farther mass, upon the water, the submarine's East Africa..........
As she collapsed, a tangled, helpless north and nearer the frontier of British crew forgot for a moment their stole Next in importance to Wilhelmstal self-control and cheered with delight. among the towns of Usanbara is Korog advised noble lords to read the zu Pardonible, fut, was their exultation, we. It is the southern part of the cently published White Papant for had fligy nut acomplished a feat Highlands, and on the north bank of the
I have read every line in it and I not believe it," said Lord Beresford.ever, did not make then anmindful of of the streams which water the High- រៀប never achieved befare Victory how Pangani, the river which receives most the British Nayy's humane practice of lands. General Smuts's forces are with
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of retaliation, was out of the question.
already in No Man's Land lying hidden in a ditch.
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Then what was the use of issuing a ever possible. By working energetically opens up the widest valley in Usambara, seems to interest her, and no dainty -stout poles and props as a covering al
White Paper at all asked Lord New-2 he job they brought on board the sub- any me against splinters,
This valley, six miles across at its mouth, tempts her appetite, you may be certain It contained the impartial testi-arine as many of the Zeppelin's crew is that of the Wengera river and it that she needs more good blood than her
as they could find. of American officials. There were
affords the only, and the readiest, mearis system is provided with. Before long, bad camps as well as good. Any question
of neecss to the Highlands, otherwise her pallid checks, breathlessness and Longer search was minde impossible by than by directly climbing the sides of palpitations will confirm that she is The time came at last, and we pushed
interruption that could not be the hills, as they rise in steep oscarp anemic; but do not wait for these signs down the handles of the exploders. So
ignored. A six-inch shell shrieked anments from the plain. This valley serves to develop; fill her veius at once with rest was the concussion of the shells
grils over the boat and plunged into the rather to isolate the south eastern part good blood. men just beyond her. It caur from an of Usimbara, dropping at the time that for the life
Mothers must remember that neglected of me I thought the charge liad failed, At last the moment arrived, and the
enemy craiser which was tearing wrath. though suchen charge a series of charges order to charge forward was given, and intent upon destroying the victor initut a natural mountain stronghold, ad-
fally towards the scene of the light
Usanbara, it will be seen, is not only anemia is the avenue to worse ills. You a beautiful, healthy, and fertile region, now the difference that goud, red blood as we were firing was sufficient to shake away they rushed. neross the pen, and and in no mood to discriminate whether mirably adapted for defence, and at the health.
makes in the development of womanly down dug-outs several hundred yards in less than half an hour had taken the its shells fell upou foes only or upon outset of the campaign the Germans palpitation, every gasp for breath that Every beadache, every painful first three lines of German trenches,
friend and foe alike. To make sure we hurriedly changed the The sappers, too, had rushed out, and Submarines are sink " of movement.
were thought likely to make their chief follows any slight exertion by the anmmie connection on the batteries, using three with pick and shovel wore busy making This-one was commanded by a master stand in its fastnesses, inces
girl, and every pain the suffers in hor: exploders for each separate cliarge, and the commuetion blown by our mine into of his craft, who had no intention of
back and limbs, are reproaches, if you: thea when our minute's grace was almost a communication trench by which am
have not taken the best steps to give your up we gave up troubling further and munition and reserves could be brought ring a notable success by losing the ***
boat that won it.
weak girl new blood, caine unt from our improvised sletter forward to the lads in front,
When the cruiser reached the spot "Down you go,
New, good, red blood in infused inte feeling that we had failed..
said he to his pri- she found there only the wilted-up the system with every dose of Dr. Wil one pointing towards the conning. remnants of a Zeppeli Gone was the liams pink pills for pale people From tower.
aubmarine, swallowed completely by the the new good blood springs good health, ICE HOUSE STREET. TEL. 230-155, What, in there! exclaimed une, of sea, nus not a trace of her visible any keen appetite, energy, high spirits and them aghast.
Yea, and quick about it."
where. Through the chilly depths she perfect womanly development, Give Although they did not at all like it news and a batch of much-frightened and take them yourself, and note how was speeding for home with her good your daughter Dr. Williams pink pills the prisoners were jammed into the inprisoners to corroborate it. For our part, tired out by the exer ferlor of the boat, whither the commian-
promptly their influence is felt in better. tions of the previous few days, it was der followes le, closing the conning
Nor did the cruiser stay long around health. You can obtain them of dealers, not long before we were back ut billets tower behind him, and the Submarine searching for her. Over the edge of also direct from Dr. Williams*, Medicine und fast asleep, and it was a most plea dived with a celerity that, as one of and the cruiser promptly put on her bottle 81.50, six huttles 85, post free. the_lurison leaped cerizin black hulls, Co., 45, Szechyen Road, Shanghai, one He was the captain of the second line, saut reflection as we lay down to cost that them later admitted, frightened the cap best speed to escape the stings of sex Bend a postcard for a free copy of who were now manning the front-line we had carried out our work with the tives half out of their lives. tretch, while the front-line fellows were best possible results and without a
(Continued on meet Column)~ casualty of any kind.
How pleased we were to meet a cheery capitain as we went along the front line towards the communication treach, who Fold the mine had exploded splendidly MANA
The captain was now in the same state of excitement awaiting his time: In lead his men over the parapet and across, to the dermau lines as we had been waiting
for 4.20 a.m.
This work brought to light the fact that we had blown in a German gallery within four feet of our own and had killed at least four Germans by the ex- plosion-how many more there might have been in their demolished gallery one
could not say.
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