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WAR OF EQUIPMENT."

ALLIED CONFERENCE.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE ON OUR

GROWING OUTPET.

A conference to discuss the equipment - of the Allied forces was held at the War

•Office last month.)

Joersetth

THE HONGRONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15mm, 1916.

THE DIABOLICAL DEVICES

OF THE GERMAN.

GAS-HELMETED CRUSADERS.

An officer serving on the Western front deals thus in a letter home with the dis bolical methods of warfare now being pursued by the Germans:

"Every man bis gas helmet in good order ?

**Yes, sir.

Every man his gas goggles?" Yes, kir

Then, walk, march."

"KOVEL TO THE LAST GASP.”

GERMAN PLANS ON THE STOKHOD.

STORIES OF THE GREAT BATTLE.

TERRIFYING EFFECT OF THE GUNS.

WORSE THAN VEILDUN.

The talk always reverts to machine guns Again and again our men have swept the enemy before them, only to be held up ur seriously weakened by streams of bullets from machine-guns which have been left to hold the fort" until the

WEATHER REFORT. \

On the 14th at 10.88. – Pre-sure has degrensed slightly over Central and nonth Japan, and has increased elsewhere. Considerably over the Begins sod Formons, and slightly at other stations.

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Both typhoons have moved north-ematward. 6 am. this morning one was central in Latitude 20 deg. N. and longituda 137 deg. E. and the other between Tokie and the Banine.

Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 006 inch, Totul sinos Int

January 65.18 inches, against an average of 5.75 inches,

The forest for the 24 hours ending at Noon to-day in as follows:-

DISTRICT

The fierce struggle on almost the whole length of the Stakhod and on both banks is now assuming the character of Further stories of their experiences trench warfare (wrote The Times corretold by the wounded brought back from spendent at Petrograd on July 19th), the battlefield north of the Somme are

given by The Times. The Germans are massing all the avail- able reserves from other fronts and aru evidently resolved to defend Kovel to the last gasp, sines the fall of that june tion would give the Russians the key to Brest-Litowsk and thence to Poland.

The correspondent, of the RusskeeThey stick to their guns well, they Hongkong & Neighbourhood winds, moderate Slove, describing the German counter lads, conccded a Scottish private, who offensive on thy Kovel front, which was was qualified to express an opinion by brought to an end by General Leah's suc- the pussession of three machine-gun bul- cessful stroke, states that, in accordance let wounds in his thigh.

A man on the next stretcher looked with a plan elaborated at Kovel at a

"You must, military council between Linsingen, Mao up. He was a corporal. kensen, and Hindenburg, the Germans their guns stick to them!" be observed decided to attack General Kaledin on quietly. two sides--from Linierka and Bokui on the north, and from the direction of the Vladimir Volynsk-Lutsk road on the west

lust,

Mr. Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War, presided.

were: M. Albert Those Thomas, representing the French Govern- ment: General Relyheff, representing the

i have a temptation to give the order Russian Government: General Dell'Olio, representing the Italian Government as "Then onward, Christian soldiere"; the Right Hon. E. S. Montagu, Minister, and going in advance to judge whether of Munitions. representing the British at Stane shell-infested urner gas helmets: or only gas goggles are nooded-I think Government: together with representa- tives of the War Office and the Ministry over old stories of knights who went out ofy Munitions,

to fight loathly dragons which breathed In this The Secretary of State for War wed-fire and mephitic vapours. comed the Allied delegates in the name of mortal struggle with a race of scientific his colleagues in the Government, and ourang-outangs, a race which having invited a statement of the requirements killed peace has killed war" it requires of each country. He then sticl': ---

a shutting of the eyes to externals and a Since our last munitions conference looking reward to see the nimbus shining Not a held in London there has been a consider from the brow of the soldier. able change in, the fortunes of the Allies heroic figure to outward seaming this At the date the great Champagne offen gas-helmeted, eu-goggled Crusader, errespectively. sive in the West had just failed to attain velpeed in the weird protections with

For this purpose powerful offensive its objective, and the French and the which science-mournful at how her nobile British Armies had sustained heavy losses teachings have been prostituted by the groups concentrated in these regions, witlust the achievement of any conspi- Hans has hastened to provide aim. But each not fewer than five divisions strong. Te the East the enemy how more splendid than that of any be The Kovel group concentrated almost had pressed the gallant armies of Russia plumed caparisoned soldier of old, is his openly, in order to rivet Russian atten- back some hundreds of miles, of the courage as he rides or squats in mud ortion at this point. During the prepara Balkans had just been overrun by the dust, swathed in his chemical bondagestion of the operation the Germans made Central Powers. I need not dwell upon) time been achieved in the fortunes of the ing not only shot and shell and steel, but the Stokhod and the Styr. Bupported by whether be would go or stay.'

Hammenwerfer, asphyxiating gas, lachthe terrible fire of hundreds of light and The overwhelming victories, won

merely unimportant by Be valinnt soldiers of Russia have matory gas, stink gas, and the other heavy guns, while in the Vladimir

truck terror into the heart of out fors, hellish instruments of German warfare: Volynsk region and these victories, coupled with the im: mortal defence of Verdun by our indomit able French comrades and the brave re- sistance of the Italian troops against overwhelming odds in the Southern Alps, Wranged the whole complexion of the

enous snecess

Allies.

Innisenpe.

KNEMY'S LOST INITIATIVE.

And now the combined. offensive in die Eust and West has wrenched the initia- tive on of the hands of the enemy, never. trust, to return to his grasp. We have crossed the watershed, and now victory.

Enchaps one day sque Rodin will have the courage and skill to sculpture Poilu or Tommy or Ivan thus in his war gear. Perhaps he will succeed in showing the heroism of the soldier beneath the mask. Certainly he will not fail to show the beastliness of the Hun who has forced on to the face of chivalry this hideous veil, and made war a contest of poisoners and vitriolists,

SUGGESTED EXHIBITION OF THE GERMAK DUTFIT.

I do wonder if the amiable Mr. Wilson is beginning to how in our direction. It and other folk, who seem to look upon is relevant to the object of this conference this was as a sort of duel or boxing con to inquire why our prospects have im- proved. The answer is: the equipment test, after which victor and vanuished can shake hands and be friends, have any of our Armies has improved enormisty and is continuing to improve.

When we met last, the Russian Armies were facing a hailstorm of iron with flesh and blood. The British troops were con-

our

men.

plete, and most of the machinery has been

you

TYPICAL MUN METHODS.

What way could their guns stick to them? inquired the puzzled Scot. "I'll tell you. On Saturday morning we went through the dug-outs in one of their front-line trenches. We found a German machine gun, and its No. 1 gunner. He was dead and he was chained to his gun. The end of the chain was locked to his wrist

Formons Channel

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(to light; fine.

JS.W. winds,

moderate.

BonthCoast of China between The mama ne Hongkong and Lamooka, { No. 1 South coast of Chins between The came.

Hongkong and Hainan

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER

Hongkong Olmazvatory, August 14th,

Barometer Temperature Humidity...... Wind Direction ...

There was silence. Then the Scat spoke agan. Being chained to a gun," he observed thoughtfully, "would certainly help a doubtful man to make up his mind Our men are full of admiration for the French.

"It was wonderful to see them advance. said a wounded

Our division went into action on the west Free .... extreme right of the British line, so we were touching the French left Bank. had met hundreds of them back in billets, in coffe, and the Hk. To look at them strolling down a village street in their

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skirmistus occurred between advanced units. In order still further to mask the the sector Zubilno, oocentration in Zaturtsy, on the west side of the salient, the Germans amassed troops in the dis- tant rear beyond the Bug, and only on the eve of the advance suddenly buried them against. Zaturtay partly by light uniform, with their hands in their pockets, laughing and chatting to the railways and partly by motor lorries children, you would never have thought Nevertheless, all the hostile attacks were they were such tigers. I remember one repulsed by our local forces, without

big "ellow a few weeks ago, home on the aid of reinforcements. The German pass-premission, they call it--who used hope of diverting troopy from other to go about with a big umbrella ander neighbouring sectors was therefore unfulis arm! I suppose that was to keep filled.

the rain off his tin hate But when they went for Maricourt the other day there weren't many unbrellas about-only

GERMAN FIRE ON WAVERING AUSTRIANS.

the storm broke on the At 1 ..

Many, after frantically dashing to and fro between the two fires, rushed to our trenches with uplifted hands. In this manner about 300 were saved.

bayonets! I tell you, they were marvels!"

VALUES OF TIN. HATS,”

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idea at all, even the most vague idea, Zaturtsy-Zubilno front, The enemy's are of the actual conditions of warfare which was of unprecedented viclence, and the

The tin hats," already mentioned, the Hun has imposed 1 should think Russian first-line treaches soon reserabled

have come to their own. Six months agu, not: and that it would be a valuable a ploughed field, so that the gallant du educative mission to send a complete femters were obliged to take refuge in when frst issued, they were far from demned to an enforced inactivity becauerman fighting outfit on a tour of the their sholl pits. The first assailants were

to keep in position; in short, they were munitions were not equal to

United States (and it coull with ad the Austrians, who were allowed to ap popular. They were heavy, and dificult sustained attack; and although France had bestirred herself early in the canvantage be shown at Union of Democratic proach to within 60 paces, when the Rus

Regiment, with his head bound up de- paign, and under the guidance and Control meetings in England). Let it all sians volleyed at point blank range tilla fatigue." But experience has proved inspiration of A Thomas had achieved be shown; beginning with the oil spray the cutare space in front of the trenches their value. A private of the Middlesex prodigies in the way of equipment, stillers and incendiary tabloids which proved was strewn with corpses. The Austrians livered himself as follows:

Nasty scalp wound? In a manner o' even her resources were inadequate to the so useful in the organised burning but offied in disorder, but the Germans greeted task in front of her. In this country we the Belgian towns, and ending with the this human herd with a tornado of shrap speaking, yes; but by rights I did: 't were in process of adding to old factories flammenwerfer, which is designed to nel, which mowed down the victims by ought to have a head on at all to day. and setting up new ones. We had order-spray burning oil into the yes, and the hundreds ed the machinery with which to fill them. lachrymatory" shells, which are mostly

How? Well, I got a direct hit, fair on But few of these factories had then been used on the village in rear of the fighting

top of my nut, from a shell splinter. It I was on the parapet at the tmic. But erected, and one of them was con-line, and therefore find most of their vit

knocked me off my porch, I can tell you; it never touched me! What am I band- leted for work.

tims among the civil an population, The

On the German side a prominent partaged for! The splinter knocked a deat I think it right to point out at this daughters of France have made it a mat- juncture that the Navy until recently ab-ter of pride not to weep over the ape in this fighting was played by the cele in my hat and the hat twisted round urbed more than half the metal workers thesis of their husbands and sons, dead brated 20th Braunschweig Division, he and gave the a bit of a scalp wound. But in this country. The task of building on the field of honour. But German longing to the 10th Corps, and named to 1 didn't grudge it. A scalp wound's bet neay ships and repairing old ones for a science knows how to make them weep-Steel Division" by the Kaiser on acter than no best, and that's a fact."

Navy, and fitting and equipping weep to the very destruction of their eyes. count of its exploits on the French front. One hears, many tales about the com- Kigantic them, occupies the energies of a million

As coincidence would have it, the Rus platetences and ingenuity of the Beche At the beginning of the war the

stan so-called Tron Division," com- dug-outs, "We were clearing out a bit Ary unmbered a low-hundred-thousand-Pending such an exhibition. I can-giremanded by-General-D-successfully bure of their second-line trench," said a ser.. and our arsenals and the equipment of

some idea of some typical Hun the brunt of the terrific assaults of the geant of a London Regiment, when the Army were in proportion to its size methods. The Hummenwerfer in the first Braunschweigers for four days running, came on the entrance of a deep dug-out. We had therefore to create mut of next to plaer. Its devilishiden is to spray the and all the efforts to drive us back to I couldn't see whether there was anyone nothing arsenals to provide munitions for face of the soldier with burning oil. Bat Lutsk were abortive. The Teuton wave- there, so I stopped and listened. 1 could

behind

wben wo were

the in the Lugo Army now in the field, whilst its intention is far more devilish than its broke with bloody foam against the rock hear nothing, so 1 started to explore. Th did. Some of their guns were right up at the same time the bulk of our best performance. Protection against it is of the Russian defensive. During a brief nement my foot stepped on the still of

fourth linu. Their teams stood engineers, are working in maintain and to

like very simple matter: for the spray of lulf in these encounters the Germans ex- the doorway I heard an electric bell ring ready, and they limbered up increase the Navy

That decided- hurning oil cannot be got to describe a hibited a placard reading. "Your Rus somewhere down below.

us, racing lightning and were after Most of our new factories are now font- carye dormracts as a jel of water does:sion from is not worse than our German me I called up one of our lads who was over trenches and communication trenches the spray cary's upwards, and if you steel, but all the same we shall mash carrying bombs, and we dropped a Mills as if they were on a bigh road. We had Set up Hundreds of thousands of wen

They tho ay low like Brer Rabbit it passes you to which the Russians replied, grenade into the dug-out. and women hitherto unaccustomed to

Well then, just try, German sausage boniber and I stood back, one on each side got some grand boys behind us,' we said A Mills to each other, and we never doubted metal and chemical work have been harmlessly overhead.

Prisoners affirm that the 10th Corps of the doorway, and waited.

them. Everything worked in perfect ani- Every trail for munition making.

The gas clouds you know about. They

on. A parado could not have been more month we are turning out hundreds of ary discharged from cylinders when the during the four days' battle lost three grenade takes about five seconds to ex- guns and howitzers, light, medium, and wind is favourable, with the idea of poi quarters of its officers and more than half plode, but before that period was

It's standing still that gets on its men, while the regiments of the "Steel seven Germans had come out of that dug orderly. We want to get the job finished. heavy. Our heavy guns are rolling in at soning the combatants on the ether side.

out. It was the best bit of emergency- a great rate, and as for ammunition. we The Hun used at first chlorine: then a Division" were reduced to 300 each.

exit work I have ever seen. are turning but nearly twice as much am-variety of gases, It would not be wise munition

A private of a Welsh Regiment talked ja Д single week- and to mention in a letter all of them; but what is more, nearly three times a phosgene has been mentioned officially,

with admiration and envy of the Boches out also paid a tribute to the destrue much heavy shell as we fired in the great and can be cited as another typical poi

"They are better than our tion wrought by our artillery. It was dug-outs. offensive

than to walk through September, although lie a son-gas. Some the of

To guard against lachrymatory shells homes," he said. "I only wish I hadasier to run through the German barbed sunnition we expended in that battle was set of the gases used art, it is necessary to have another line of de- anywhere so comfortable to live in. As wire," he said,

ours. It never got lapped round your the result of many weary weeks of if inhaled, incapacitate at once, they

fence special goggles to protect the eyes. for the cement earthworks, you could see

feet." He had been through Neuve would ultimately cause serious illness, and

The chemicals in your gas helmet do not shells bouncing off them like footballs." probably death. It is well to keep that stop the lachrymatory fumes. (benzyl This battalion had taken a major pri-Chapelle and Loos, but our bombardment there was child's play compared with " OVERWHELMING SUPPLIES.

in mind; for there is a distinction, a

But with goggles under your soner who could not censeal bis surprise this. When you left our trenches you bronide). The new factories and workshops we further depth of devilishness, in the em

helmet or with the new type of helmet, at our Buccess. 14 If you cau...break have set up have not yet attained one-

which combines goggle protection against through here, he said, "there's not a felt as if your head was going to be blown third of their full capacity, but their out-plount of a gas which does not put benzyl bromide with chemical protection place in the line where you can't berak off. If any German stayed in the first Mi E. G. Laubdan

you out of the fight at once but does kill put now is increasing

against the various. poison gases, you can rapidity. Our main difficulties in or-you afterwards.

face anything, and you can come to harm through. He had been at. Verdun, and line after that bombardment he deserved rats along their tunnels. Our men were ganization, construction, equipment. What is satisfactory to know is that the only through carelessness. Of course, as during the bombardment had wished him the Iron Cross. Most of them ran like fabour supply, and readjustment have British gas Helmet gives full protection is uncomfortable, with burning, amarting self back there. Then he added with aired and had little to eat or drink, but

note of despair, "Why don't you go on been solved. If officials, employers, and against all the poison gases that the Hun eyes, and the smell of bad eggs in a cow- workmen keep at it with the same zeal is known to use or is likely to use. It byre. But one is safe and can shoot and finish the business now?

"The Germans are good fighters to the and assiduity as they have hitherto em- lias stood

All that the Hun has gained test of some hours' duration straight. ployed our supplies will soon be over- in a very heavy concentration of German from his poison gas-since the first sur last 10 yards," said a sergeant from Berk- whelming

The fact that after months of the most on gas. True, life is not pleasant in prise attacks at Ypres has been to make shire, but they won't fight then. Of all a gas helmet. It is, to say the least, war as he wages is more beastly, and to the men wounded in my battalion only But their appalling and unceasing expenditure of stuffy and the by-products of the Ger strengthen the conviction that he and his two ad bayonet wounds."

"He's very ainmunition as Verdun France has still man poison gas make strange disconcert ways must be brought to abject rain machine guns were terrible. a sufficient reserve to conduct an indepening stinks within the helmet.

canning and he has his tunnels from the But before the world can smile again. deat offensive on a considerable scale is these are not dangerous, They sug

The Hun's lachrymatory shells are fired first to the second line so that he can

An officer lying in his cot on board teh the best proof of the success. of M. gest that even when the Hun has from a 6.9 howitzer. The shell holds drag his machine-guns about and use Thomas effort. I cannot help thinking all his fangs drawn, still he will about six pints of liquefied benzyl them in either. You think you are all hospital ship looked the picture of bap- that the improvement in Russian am-leave

a bad smell. Natural history bromide.

A small explosive charge lets right and then they begin to play on you piness and satisfaction. He was smok- munition has been one of the greatest and has so far failed to produce an animal this out on the shell striking anything, from behind. Some of the prisoners tolding dready, as he put it, to talk like sustained, and we know the efforts Italy and the pole-cat: all the poisonous rep hours after. I have found the effects of dun for a rest! most unpleasant surprises our enemy has that united the worst points of the cobra and the noxious vapour is given off for us they had been brought there from Versin. It was difficult to believe that bus We've had to stand had a wound in his thigh which Inoked,

as he said, like the inside of a hat. has put forth and the happy results of tiles I knew before at least smelt clean the lachrymatory shell obvious and un- many a bombardment without getting

a famous regiment from these efforts in the recent struggle in the But where natural history failed German pleasant twenty-four hours after it had anything hack, but this time it was our longed to

Tyneside and he had been in the thick of Alps.

fatlon. It is the Hun's sweet habit to turn." ***

the fighting. Still, our task is but half accomplished, Every great battle furnishes an addi- in mixing his gases,

The Hun, by the way, is very cunning use these shells on the villages behind the

THE ARTILLERY WERE SPLENDID."

"There were only about 10 men of my tional proof that this is a war of equip he will send out a stink gas which is

With poison gas lines, and the poor civilians suffer far

more than the soldiers. It is wonderful, Alance-corporal of a Yorkshire Re

company left," he said, "and yet you. ment; acre ammunition means more vic harmless though unpleasant.

would have thought our artillery had by It goes

the way, to note the courage of the tories and fewer casualties.

through the helmet, brings Germany right

French in keeping up their homes. With glinent was struck together with a brother smashed the Boches to bita. Thirty-four lance-corporal a few moments after leav-thousand shells and 12 minutes burri- He then dealt with the needs of the home to your nostrils, and, if you have their men away at the war, the women, Allied Armies, and ended: -These are the not been forwarned, makes you think that young and old, stand by the farms and ing the trench. He put his comrade incane fire on one little bit of country. But

on he reach other to a solation by mutual effort. Let list, for the poison gas gets to your lungs. Han scads over poison gas,

We must help each though, and you are on the next casualty under constant shell fire, forced always the third line, when he found himself reach, and they played the devil with us, to have gas helmets ready in case the covered whith blood, and thought it time But nothing could stop my men, or break us probe thoroughly the requirements of The stink-gas you must learn to put up

to take his wound a little more seriously their spirit." Many, ot

Certainly nothing had We believed in our artillery," aid broken his, although he had had to crawl the various armies; let us help each other with.

The others carry the Yorkshireman," and they were splen on his stomach for 10 hours from shell-

(Continued on nezi Column.). hole to shell-hole.

accumulation.

these conferences.

with

great

to supply those requirements. Victory anywhere means victory everywhere.

science has succeeded.

(Continued on next ('olumn.)

LACHRYMITORT BNELLS.

course, are killed on." Balute to the bonnie brave women of France!

they never faltered. They had a stern day's fighting all Saturday, and on Saturday night we turned our guns on to ed through. Nothing was left but stumps Fricourt again, and on Sunday we walk- of poplar trees and scattered bricks." TABIA

17 "MACHINE-QUNS PLAYED THE DEVIL

WITH US.

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Mr T. N. Gregory Mr & Mr. T Guna Mr & Mrs Hammer and

children

Mr T van de Graaf

Mr F. H. Howard Mr Wm. Japkso dr J. Joseph Mr A. Lambden

Mr D Muchall

Mr E C. Norms

M W Pummora

Mr C. E Richard Bon Mr J. Bim Arr. M Sowers MrEM Saigh Mr J, Stalker

GES ott Mr C. Starkey Mr H. Thornton Mr Van Vliet

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