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IS THE KAISER MAD?

NAVAL. DISASTER. THE LAST STRAW.

Lotus

.HIS RECORD EXAMINED,

GALLANT WELSH FUSILIERS

BRILLIANT GIVENCHY COUNTER ATTACK. - MAMMOTH MINE EXPLOSION,

TRE HONGRONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST SEE, 1918.

British Hendquarter writing on June The Times special correspondent at 24th, says:---

THE OFFICERS' MESS,

A GREAT CHANGE,

[DY

** REGULAR.'']

It has changed-yes, changed complete ly; perhaps not so completely to the out- ward eye as to the eyes of one who knew and lived in a regimental mess in the days before the war.

THE AUSTRIAN COLLAPSE.

GERMANY'S CHANCE OF SAVING HER ALLY..

Mr. Francis Gribble writes in the Eren-

The condition of the Austro-Hungarian Standard:-

the Allies at this present moment; for army is a matter of capital interest to Not mad in the sense in which we apply

although that army is second in numbers The Royal Welsh Fusiliers taught the

and in fighting power to that of Ger- word to any braggart whose head is, The two cut to any way too large for his enemy a wholesome lesson the day before

many, ita collapse must almost certainly boots"; mad in the strict sense in which yesterday." The official communiqué of thu lorm is understood by alienists. Is that date speaks of it as a very gallant

ruin the chances of its greater and more the Kaiser mad in that sense? I ask the and successful" affair; and there are, it used to be I never realised till the wo ask and answer is. What is the How different a meas is now from what important sister. Therefore the question question quite seriously, in the light of perhaps, few regiments out here which other day when I was attached for duty worth of the Austrian army at this pre-

is Iniest speeches and proceelings. Lot have better eamed official praise, not us consider. beginning our diagnosis with murely by this single exploit but by con-

to the reserve battalion of my old regi-sent moment I A survey of the Family history, the pre-sistert stanchness and fine behaviour in a mess the last time was in the days say the army is the people, and if we ment. It was two years since I had been In the case of a national army we may disposing causes, and the previous symp-under all conditions.

of peace-the days when the standing want to understand the Austro-Hun The particular incidesat in question be. Army consisted principally of the old garian Army, we taust consider, however The family history is certainly bad. gun with the explosion by the enemy of original expeditionary force, when some briefly, the people from which it is The Kaiser's great-uncle, Frederick what is probably one of the largest mines pomp and circumstance attended the drawn. William. Jy was deposed from his throne yet used by either side upon this fronte put on a scarlet mess jacket, stiff natar: and, quite apart from that At all events it made a crater about 120ft while-fronted shirt, and patent leather private life of the regimental officer, and રાહ l glaring case, the floure has had more cross, while the area of the debris is over Wellingtons to dine. than its fair share of miscellaneous eccen-3001, by 350ft. This is believed to be at tries. It produces cases of erotis mania least one third large than any former and religious wania; while Frederick the mine used in this refion, and it is exti-regiarent's silver, and waiters in dark Ghent was more than suspected of un- natural tastes and affections. The Kaiser mated that the enemy must have used himself has notoriously had

pileptic ɓte, and suffers from an obscure

The scene of the affair was the Given. alection of the ear which might be ex-chy Hill, which is only a hill at that at some date or other, have is used out here, to signify some sort of Complications; and his public elevation in the ground. utterances have, for many years, been the hill is at its highest not more than 30 In this case auch-t always, indeed, but at pretty or 35ft, above the level of the surround Frequent intervals that people haveing country but in this Ant region any actually asked, from time to time: Is it eminence has importance. possible that a sane man can be so blown but with vanity as to talk this prepos- terons nonsense about the Germans being the sait of the earth and the German Emperor being entitled to a say in the settlement of all imaginable mundane affairs! That is the record, so to say, with which the Kaiser presents himself for examination.

several

WHEN MEGALOMANIA 18 MADNESS."

many tons of explosives.

The maninoth mine was exploded at a few minutes before 2 a.r, on June 2nd, accompanied by the usual heavy, bou bardment, which, beginning shortly be fore the mine was fired, continued, first on the front trenches until the infantry attack was delivered and then, after the usual formula, on the communication and support frenches behind so us to interfere with the bringing op of rein- Vain men, of course, are not necesforcements. The explosion was, as may sarily made nor are men who talk non-be imagined, terrific. The ting, which sense; and even a certain kind of was very deep, was between the old pearl- inegalomania sunt incompatible with craters and our front line, the front of It is difficult, too, to find a de-which was smashed in. The infantry then finition which can be used as a sure touchstone; but perhaps this rough-and-came on to attack and, presumably, to ready rule may serve. So long as the

hold the ground. language of the megalomaniae retaine a certain relation to facts and possibilities, Everything goes to show that the at- the presumption is in favour of his tack had been long prepared and care- sanity. When his language loses the refully organized in very detail. lation to facts-when he speaks au e man

The enemy attacked in three columns abreast, who has ceased to realise the actual world at equal distances apart, each party led about him, and whose mind moves in a by its own officers. world which ho has himself imagined- then we have no choice but to class him with lunates,

sanity.

THE ENEMY ATTACK.

The table used to bg laden with the

in livers moved quietly behind our chairs. Port wine of a certain vintage Was passed round in old cat-glass decan- the colonel was the first to leave the ters: there was a silver box of sunfi: table, and we none of us dared to smoke before he had lit his cigar. After eight an officer had to ask permission to enter could he sit down with the others in such the mess in khaki, and on no account & garh to dine.

EARLY TO BED.'.

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and the most complex political entity in Europe. It is not are Empire, or a coun Austria-Hungary is the most curious

try, or a State, but it is many countries mon Monarch, and each is a conglomera jababited by many races patched together into two distinct States under a com- tion of various principalities and propic which have been driven into each other's political system al various times and by within the Dual Monarchy between them about fifty millions, and various causes, The races represented

consist, roughly speaking, of Germans 29 per cent Hungarians, 18 per cent: Slovacs and Czechs, 20 per cent. Polus 9. per. cent; Little Russians 8 per cent; Serbo-Croats. 7 per cent: Slovens, 3 per

races--the German of Austria and the cent; Rumanians, & per cent; and It lians, 1 per cent. Thus the two ruling Hungarians of Hungary-together man- her less than half, while the Slave num- ber more than one-third, of the whole,

-MUTUAL DISTRUST.

outbreak of hostilities, and the whole trained and only put together on the The Landwehr units were poorly

was a patch-work of discordant frag- downright disaffected. mente, of which at least a quarter vas

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do not buy it; they just buy what they Well, well, it is different now; there is no mess kit. The young oficers of to-day want to fight in, and put their spare pennies in the War Loan (we hope) Messing at home to-day in most regu ments is at 39, per diem, less 1. 7d. ration allowance credited daily to their, accounts. Mess bills now are only a few tually dislike and distrust each other,

Not only do the two ruling races ara-LAMAO, American str., 375, Maitland, 25th fifteen or even twenty to twenty-five (if distrusted by their subject nationalities, pounds a month instead of the twelve in but they are themselves disliked and the officer kept a stable) that they used In fact, all these peoples differ in race be so the old order sust change with which a live to be. And it is quite right this should and language; they are all imbued times of war. It would be impracticality. It is an open secret that the little consciousness of nation ble and most extravagant if it did not.

Russians, Rumanians, Seebs, and Ita- lians, who together exceed one fifth of the whole population, have long desired Yet in the pyre of former pomp to pass under the flags of their respective there are still the embers of old

co-nationals over the horder. castonis; regiments mi home have their

The Austrian Army took the Beld in the King's health is drunk, and all good well equipped, ite officers were intelligent

guest nights, when 11 band in khaki plays outside

thirty-three Regular and sixteen Land- the messwehr divisions. It was well trained and The enemy reached our trenches, or,

subalterns make discreetly merry. rather, they reached the hither edge of merrymaking among the younger men artillery was small, and the gun itself

The billiards-room as of old is the scene for hardy and brave; but its proportion of and well educated, its rank and file were A man, for instance, may boast that he front trenchus had been. On both sides, are great games of fives and slosh and

the great crater at the points whers, our bers of the mess after dinner, and there indifferent. The peace strength of anis is elever, though we know him to be however, quite undemoralized either by pool. How well. I remember the last the Minister of War had declared that stupid, and yet be accounted sane: at the explosion or the bombardment, the time I

was dangerously low-in January, 1012, when we find a man giving out that he Welshmen were waiting for them; and billiards-room gatherings; it

was present as one of these Is Jesus Christ, or Juddas Iscariot, or then there seems to have followed some August of 1914, the night before my

the state of the army was pitiable- the Elder Brother of the Sun and Moon, really great hand-to-hand äghting, in regiment sailed for France. All the old

Waa in and it was only two years before the we know for certain that he is mentally which a small detachment of one of the laves were there. that evening, and the units.

war broke out that steps were taken to deranged Our question is: Has not Pioneer battalions rendered good service.

increase the peace establishment of the Kaiser passed the boundary which The Germans, as is their way on such at Mons and Le Cateau laughed and

TAISHO MARU, Japanese str., 1,859, Naka

thews, ist July- Haiphong. 28th men who in a few days' time were to fall separates these two groups of eases? I

July, General-Jardine, Matheson & Co. believe that he bus, and that his latest casions, were aimed with bludgeons, weed and chalked their mes as uncon spincehes and proceedings contain the bayonets and rifles, and there is no doubt

daggers, and pistols. Our men had their ernedly as ever Drake played bowls

niabi, 20th July-Port Arthur 13th print

But I am digressing; I must go back

July, Coal.Mitsui Bussan Kaitha For years the Kaiser has suffered from tit, in their hands, the regulation was to this little account of a regimental the illusions of the former class. He has ons demonstrated their superiority. mess as it is to-day. Well, then, it is unreliable eliments surrendered by, the

Toxer, Chinese str., 882, M. Honda, believed himself to be mat only a great What the enemy losses were it is impos-much the same in outward seeming as thousand on every fair opportunity, and

At the first great shock of arms these 1st August-Miike 28th July, Coal. Emperor and a great War Lord, but also sible to say. They had made very care day the ante-room is almost empty and sale mutiny occured in Czech regiments. Ly, Norwegian atr., 885, Naraid Anmah, Comir, a Min Feakes & Mrs E. Ralpha agreat painter, a great musical com-

ased to be, save that now during the at least two or three instances of whole-

CSUBUGISAN Manu, Japanese str., 2011, PORPP A great dramatist, and a great and wounded away, but they left enough full. At dinner officers of all sorts and must have lost well over a third of its

ful arrangements for getting their dead

at meal times the dining room doubly In fact, the Austro-Hungarian Army preacher of the Word

A matter of to leave no doubt about the severity of ages sit round the table. Bronzed men strength in killed, wounded, and priUNKA MARU, Japanese str., 2,275, Mori,

July, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha Tac, his paintings are dauba, bis music the kind of handling they got; and, with is jingle, and his pulpit oratory is gas: all their tons of explosives and elaborate the single star of a second lieutenant on

31st July-Bangkok 22nd July, Rice but the contrast between pretensions and preparation, they failed to gain an inch their sleeve; absurdly youthful-looking

from over-seas, men of thirty-five with soners in the first few months of the war.

-Order. performances would not have warranted of ground. In 15 minutes from the time captains, lads of twenty-three who have

doctor in certifying " him.

REFORMED AND RECAST.....

28th July-Moji 21st July, Coal. contrast was a matter of opinion, not of had been thrown back again and were

That when they reached our front line they made good their way on the field since and its own disaffection, the Austro

Shattered by the blows of the enetay YAGA MARU, Japanese str., 1,933, Kanaki,

Order, mathematically demonstrable fact. But, caught both by machine-gun and artillery missioned officers promoted from the shuffled from one end of Galicia to the YLENBANG, British str., 1,128, W. Mesney, at last, we see the Kaiser's mind cutting fire as they went.

war began weather beaten ex no-con Hungarian Army

11th July--Hakata 3rd July, Coal.- was «hocked and itself adrift from facts, and operating

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. with exactly the same disregard to them

ranks; and a few very elderly gentlemen other, but by a tremendous effort, made as does the mind of the man who believes deeds in the dreadful meles. One of the country once more and designated a German officers and munitions the army There were many conspicuously gallant half forgotten, come back to serve their hilation and the energetic assistance-of wearing medal ribbons of campaigus under the inspiration of imminent anni;

1st August Manila 29th July Gen. himself to be Jesus Christ, or Judas cfficers of the Fusiliers is known to have little

eral.-Jardine, Matheson & Co... scariot, or the Elder Brother of the killed four of the enemy before he was shot Sun and Moon.

ungraciously as dug-outs

was reformed and recast, and by the end Early bed is the order of the day now, of 1915, consisted of 76 divisions which INDIGESTION MEANS LOSS. A. Lemialet Mr & Mrs David Wood himself. A private, having broken his and whiskies-and-sodas are not served bad been practically purged of its w We all know what happened how a of the attackers with his fists. A machine have been out all day at training are to victories over

bayonet, is said to have "laid out" two After half-past nine.

Mr R. e. Micmey.... detachment of our fleet engaged superi

Subalterns who reliable elements, and was flushed by its Indigestion means loss as well as suffer- German, Beet for several hours; how gun had been blown from its position by tired to wish to stay up late. The talk partially unarmed and desperately short strength, loss of time, loss of money.

an enemy which was ing to many business people. when the main British fleet began to

Loss of the explosion and lay in front of our

at table is of berabe, machine guns, and of munitions and arrive the German feet, after engaging it lines, whence the Germans were carrying other engines of war; it is no longer bad

equipment.

follow indigestion; and debility con for about seven minutes, and suffering it off. Two men of the Fusiliers went

But the elimination of disaffected races tinues as long as the indigestion remains, Jusses which the German Admiralty dares out for it and both gave their lives. But inner a few play bridge for nominal months of war had led to this army their hours are long, and they cannot shop in mess. After and its tremendous losses in eighteen Workers suffer from indigestion because not confess, bolted for its barbours, in they saved the gun, which is safely in but by ten o'clock the mess is nearly material, and it commenced the year with appetite wanes, digestion grows feeble which it has since remained. The Ger our hands. An officer was buried by the

points and a few others read the papers, being recruited from much inferior give proper time to meals. Then the man admirals know perfectly well that debris of the explosion; he was pinned pty. Fellows are not long enough in less than two million men in its ranks, and the blood becomes impoverished. Bo that was not what they intended when down and partially covered by the that became familiar to the others. 100,000 killed and wounded of its very nervous troubles and sleeplessness follow.

a més now to form the settled habits In the last few weeks it has lost well over the general health suffers; they steamed out from port, and they wreckage. The part of him exposed was There are always some just going out to best men in its desperate effort to break Remember, the whole system relies upon have since been replying to the compli-invisible to the Gerisans, but they saw France, and others away to course

languor. ments showered upon them with a modest our mon trying to rescue him, and, guess-schools of instruction. For this reason munications of the main Italian Army & good digestion. and retiring perplexity which has ating the situation, they played a machine the ante-room fender has no longer it on the Isonzo; it has lost an even larger

or out from the Trentino on to the com- good blood, and good blood depends upon racted the sympathetic altention of the gun on the sput, making it impossible for babitués. Those who sit on it come and number of men in prisoners alone to the world. But the Kaiser-he who used to auyone to approach and evidently seeking go.

Russians; and must also have lost twice as many killed and wounded as it did prisoners on the Russian front.

THE CLIMAX.

was beaten. The first great hammer

1xDiVIDUAL EXPLOITS.

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LIVING ON JAY.

COLLAPSE IN MORAL

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the blood is made rich and red and so The stomach cannot do its work unless new blood alone can cure indigestion. For this reason a remedy that makes new good blood, like Dr. Williams' pink pills, provides the method of curing indiges tion.

tell us that the future of Germany was to kill the man, through the interposing on the water, and all the rest of it! The sand, as he lay. They failed, however, Kaiser hurries to Wilhelshaven, stands and, after he had remained there all day, mong the ruins of his shattered navy, as soon as dusk fell he was brought in by ante-room fender. To those who do not It is, therefore, certain that the Aus and speaks like this:-

No mess would be complete without an. I have never before journeyed to you our men, and is now in hospital bruised know, it should be explained that the trian army has lost half a million men, heartburn and flatulence, make your in such spirits as I do today.

and hurt by the explosion, but un-

ante room fender is a high, brass-railed or a quarter of its effectives, in the last blood rich, red and abundant with Dr. To overcome indigestion, palpitations, What happened The British Fleet wounded.

It was not a big affair as things in this similar to fenders which may be found spondent of the Morning Post is correct You need never suffer in health or pocket settee that runs round the fireplace, few weeks, and, if the Petrograd corre Williams pink pills for pale people. blow was struck, and the nimbus of war are measured; but was evidently in in many clubs. To sit on it with the is stating that no Slavs were included through indigestion. Any dealer can British world supremacy had disapportant in German eyes, from the size legs dangling and the hinder part of the among the prisoners taken by the Rus supply you, also obtainable one bottle peared. Like an electric spark the news of the mine, the weight of the bombard-body balanced well towards the fire was sians, it follows that there has been a for $1.50, six bottles for 88, post free, rushed through the world and caused mont, the elaborate attack in three always the well-beloved custom of certain most notable collapse in moral among from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 06, unprecedented jubilation everywhere, columns, and the detailed preparation, officers in every regiment.

A new chapter in the history of It was a total failure. What is best is point of vantage they would pass the which have hitherto supported their FREE What to Eat is the title of

From this the German and Hungarian regiments, Szechuen Road, Bhanghai, ****** the world has been opened by you the effect on the men of the Royal Welsh hours between tea and dinner on winter's reverses with admirable foriitude

The world was prepared for Fusiliers. anything, but never for the victory of that they were better men than the Ger lunch, and hold forth to the rest of the time among ice-bound mountains and

They never had any doubt these busy times between breakfast and suffered for twenty long months-half threaders who send postcard request to the

nights or sometimes be it whispered in the German fleet over the British. Amane; and now, man to man, they have room on topics of the day, politics, now-clad steppes-and when, after en-

When a whole army has fought and useful Diet Book offered free to all start has been made. Fear will creep proved it, though the Germans came on sport, and the affairs of nations. Al during all these privations, and trials it

above address. into the bones of the enemy,

fresh and many of our mien' were shaken ways in every mess, in the days before is suddenly deprived of a quarter of ing it has rained almost continuously, and of the ante-room fender, whom one was scores of guns, its condition must be and bruised by the explosion. Since then the war, there were one or two habitués effectives and loses thousands of men and the trenches are half-flooded, the whole sure to find there at certain hours glad extremely serions; nor is it easy to see place a horrid scans of wreck and carn- to have a gossip with one and a gin and how on this occasion it can look for much age; but the men are as lighthearted as bitters. men can bo. thoroughly disgusted.

The Germans must be For me, going back to a mess again

assistance from its German allies, after a long absence, the ante-roun fender had an especially tender signifi

do so no more, partly because it was in sat upon it and talked to me and would cance, partly because of those who had

itself a thing of days gone by, for which in these times of great bustling armies,

AK189ING PARADE Thus he spoke; and he was not content ith speaking. Ho held a kissing parade, d embarrassed his defeated naval of ers by embracing them; he sent off an ensive telegram to thank Krupp von alen for the armour plate which iece had smashed; he announced his Zention of designing with his own ade & medal to commemorate the rious Arst of June. He behaved, that

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so very much cheaper to live Dow in a then this; that the battle of Jutland has

the smartest and wast expensive regi Really I can draw no other inference

Army this change has been made, from - Monday, 7th Asig, amm mess than it was. Right through the to say, after his fleet had run away. driven the Kaiser mad--that he has been

meaty to the last-formed unit of the line. actly as he might have behaved if his going mad for a long time, and that this t had swept the seas, forgetting only naval disaster has been the last straw. with all hands at work all day, there was extremely elegant young cavalry oficer order emblematic brooms to be affixed And I repeat that, when I say mad, I no longer much me

Only two or three evenings – ago an the broken funnels of his remaining mean mad in the strict sense in which Yes, the mess has changed now from Westerking of the food they got in his tle cruisers. That, it seems to me, is Lunacy Commissioners use the word. I what it used to be, changed in character, they had. He said that their meat was action of anion whose mind has firmly believe the Kaiser to be as mad na composition, and administration, but the ordinary ration meat issued to the regiment, and saying what good dinners lly, at last, lost touch with the resli that; and I fully expect that his subjects not as regards the purpose that it serves. men. I do not suppose now that there and strayed into a world in which will presently be compelled to treat him Perhaps, however, it would be true to is & marching regument in the Army, sgination is everything and fact is as their forefathers treated Frederick say that the mess of to-day serves its whether guards or line, in which a young hinggangg

William IV-the Continued on next Column.)

predecessor whom I purpose better now than before. It is officer cannot, if he chooses, live upon William II. must closely resembles.

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his pay.

Saturday, 12th August

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