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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22ND, 1916,
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A trough of relatively low pressure, extende | from Toogking to the Lesonins.
A Hongkong rainfall for #4 baure ending
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director.
1, BAROMETTE, refaced to 92 degrees Fahren heit, on the level of the ses in inches, tanthe and hundredtāms.
THE PORT OF LONDON.
THE PART IT HAS PLAYED IN RELATION TO THE WAR
ON ENGLISH ATROCITIES.
"A Committee of the Cabinet was ap- pointed some time ago to desl generally with all questions of reconstruction.
Thus the Prime Minister in noswer to a question lately,
An instructive account of the import; † which are likely to arise at the close of ani pari played by the Port of London | the war,” in the trade of the country in war time was given by Lord Devonport at a mest- ing of the London Society held at the rooms of the Royal Society of Arts. The occasion was the reading of a paper by Mr. Arthur Crow, F.R.L.B.A., on "The Port of Lendon, Past, Present, and Future."
Lord Devonport, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Crow, declared that if the achievements of the Port Authority were to be measured by its opportunities, they had every reason to be proud of what it had been able to bring about Between 1909, when the Authority was created, and 1911, when Parliament furnished it with the means of command- ing a sufficient income to provide for development purpose, a programnie was conceived for the development of the whole of its area.
Deferentially we suggest that the Com mittee's terms of reference be interpreted
for the Austrian as a soldier,, and that I did not see many signs of such, wilful nud shameless vandalism by the Aus
ON THE ITALIAN FRONE.
AN IMPRESSION OF EFFICIENCY rians as has disgraced the name of Ger
A NATIONAL ARMY,
FROM THE TIMES MILITARY CORRE-
SPONDENT AT THE ITALIAN ARMY
HEADQUARTERS.}
many in Belgium and. in. Erance. Even towns which are or, have been betwee the contending armies have not, I think, bern wilfully destroyed, but they have naturally suffered when one army ur thes Forher has used the town as a pivo of
defence.
The officers who have to keep the rally
I have been allowed to visit the offices of the Austrian farers and to locate all of the General Staff at Army Headquar-divisions have my deepest sympathy. to 'nclude consideration of the atrocities mother peite, within the war ceased to contain, the old divisions of tors and those of the Administrative Ser-Long ago the Austrian Army Corps perpetrated on the English language zone. This is not a favorable moment peace times, but one now finds Army since 4th August two years ago. We are works; but there is no harm done in say anything from two to eight battalions. for describing how the Army machinery Corps. with as many as four divisions, while the division may be composed of averse from a policy of reprisals, anding that all these services appear to run
A certain number of the divisions. hardly disposed even to punish the offen smoothly, have good men at their head. reckoned to be against the Italians on the ders according to their adsorts. For the
and produce good results.
whole front are composed of dubious elements, and there are some 60 Austrian most part they are eminent leader- writers, and while a leader-writer lives
battalions of riik: clubien, it cannot be seriously maintained that justice has been done. Reconstruction is the hope that Ms. Asquith holds ont, and we shall be content to see the English language restored even to that state of impurity in which it existed before the
war.
int.
Some
i was particularly struck by the maps turned out. They do great credit to the
Geographical Institute Military Florence, and to the offers at
Head-
The Austrians shift regiments about in: quarters who revise the maps as new in-such apparently haphazard fashion that formation pours in. All the frontiers
is hard to keep track of them. They have been well surveyed and nispped on
may take half a dozen battalions from scales of 1: 25,000, i: 50,000, 1: 100,000, different regiments and call it a moun
Cain group. In a week or two they will and 1: 200,000. These maps are very
break it up and distribute the battalions clear and good. I like best the 1: 100,000, elsewhere. They usually follow up their Is it the vision of an idealist, or may which is issued to all officers, and infantry with so-called march battalions, So far as the first programme was con we hope that when peace enters at the which operation orders are based. The serned, it was nearly completed, but for door pacifist may fly out of the wiphotographs are also very fine, and theut, whether these battalions are 100 ar the outbreak of war, by the end of 1914.dow? For aught we care, "pacificist'
panoramas excellent, while the airmen's 1,000 strong seems quite uncertain. The gigantic South Albert Dock, magni- may take wing with it, for though of de- from them, are quite in the front rank.
photographs, and the plans compiled surprise occurs elsewhere, and away NO some of the march battalions. They may Scently constructed, had been opened,cent parentage and respectable antiquity,
lose prisoners, say, on the Russian front, and to the docks four miles of quayage it finds no place in the "New Oxford
The Service of Information at Head and the Russians naturally believe that had been added. The new North Albert Dictionary Walter Pater counselled quarters also appears to me to be good. the regiment and the division to which Dock world be much bigger, and would the yang essay-writers of his college to There are more constant changes in all the regiment belongs are all on the Ru accommodate the biggest vessels which
the Italian staffs than we should considersian front, whereas only one weak batta-- might be constructed during the next mark of Dr, Johnson; but a greater lati desirable, and officers pass very rapidly lion of drafts may be there and all the forly or fifty years.
tude is given to the modern under-
from one employment to another, but in rest may still be against the Italians. The operations of the Port Authority graduate by the mighty work of spite of this practice the information is The Austrians also inke were more varied, and of greater scope cotsman, a Presbyterian, living in Ox-well kept up, and the knowledge of the regiments from a division and send them bodies. since, besides the ordinaryable. The editors have, with faultless of following the really quite chaotic than the customary operations of such ford. Countless news words of avait enemy's dispositions is up to standard, elsewhere, leaving a nere skeleton of the
considering the extraordinary difficulty divisional commanel behind. facilities, it provided dry docks, floating tact, definedSpoonerism in the life organization of the Austro-Hungarian eranes, tags and serially-constructed time of Dr. Spooner, and scores of con- forces, warehouses for frozen meat, tea, sugar,
use no word that Jailed to bear the ball-
number of
a good deal of scepticism muy estimates For these reasons one must regard with
which professes to give an accurate dis- wool. rubber, tobacen, and ather classes tributors in hundreds of honies are
I am not sure that 1 like very much.tribation list of the Austrian Army, af goods, each warehouse dedicated to its Wrestling with bras, zenares, and zoe- the liaison system in Italy. The com- Alse it is difficult to believe that any real particular purpisse, Goods came. to tropes. The old words are there, too:paratively young officers entrusted with esprit de corps can remain when such London from all parts for redistribution, ** peacemaker · and peacemonger, toit report direct to Army Headquarters, practices are common, and We are · ཨྠa". and the Authority carried out the opere suit the innuendo of any whose skin and on their reports the communiqués dured to the belief that the only real tion of sorting them to quality, prguar, pricks at sight'or sound of a neologism, are usually based. These officers remind. soldier of the army is the personal devis ing them for sale, discharging general Is it too wild a phantasy to imagine us of the mini dominici, of the great tion to the Emperor of which I have cargo, including grain, by elevators; tender-writers and the Now Oxford | Moltke, but on the whole I confess that already written. took responsibility for the whole of the Dictionary coming one day into con- the system does not appeal to me very export business on the quays, and for tacti
much. labour problems far more complex than those arising af other ports.
SALVAGE OF TORPEDOEY SHIPs,
REARWARD SERVICES,
I could not find time to study the Italian air service, but foreign officers with the aring speak well of it. The They Austrian airmen deserve praise. watched us daily and bombed with pleas-
.:
TO THE END.
Those journalists who would have forced the Dardanelels without disaster become suspect when we find them writare united under the control of the Ining regularity.
All the rearward, services of the Army After the Authority was created in ing English less accurate than General tendant-General, who is a big personage 1900 there was an immediate accession Hamilton's. E pede Herculem, We in Italy. He deals with movements, of business, and since the war broke out will, perhaps, entrust our destinies to quarterings, railways, supply, munitions there had been a further increase of both Tudor Street, or Printing House Square in transit, and, in fact, everything exfront is that Italy is in it with her whole My view of the war on the Italian business and responsibilities, There had when the leading articles have recovered cept drafts and aviation, both of which heart, and, has forth the will and the been a 30 per cent increase in their the sombre dignity of their, and our, boy-services come under the General Staff. means to exercise increasing pressure on warehouse business, and if with this hood, when the best-known papers on There is a representative of the Inten-Austria, whom she is subjecting to, a increase they had not pursued from the either side in politics have censed peak-dant General in each Army and Army serious strain along 100 miles of difficult outset a spirited policy of development the state of the Port of London would ing of "air stunts" and "ginger como Corps. An order of movement is repeat-country. Lthink that few people in Eng- | have been indescribable.
mittees."Inverted commas make con-ed to the Intendant General by telephone land appreciate the special and serious and he arranges for transport, food, and munitions.
icacus the unsightliness they are in tended to excuse, recalling the new pro multitude of slang.' verb that "Inverted commas enclose a
com-
difficulties, which confen both batants along the Alpine borderland, and especially Italy, because she has to attack. The Italian Army is strong in numbers..ably commanded, well provided; and animated by an excellent spirit As this Army becomes more inured to war, and traditions of victory on hard-fought fields become established, the military value of the Army is enhanced.
There had been and would continue to be congestion, not only in London, but in all ports of the kingdom. It was not
The means of transport include the railways, motor lorries, carts, pack fchronic, and it was not constant, and
had it not been for the great increase in Whea Homer ods, can we blame little quies, and porters. The railways have done well. They had 5,000 locatives accommodation the London dacks would poets who hide in the shadow of his.
and 160,000 carriages available when war have been in a very bad way indeed. mantle ? It was inevitable that the Bud-broke out, and on the two lines running (Cheers.) They had in use to-day storage got levy on tickets for citematograph through Venetia they managed during space for 600,000 tons of goods-(renewed performances should be hailed indignant the period of concentration to clear 120 cheers)--in excess of what was availablely as a tax on movies." We prefer not trains a day. Between Inst May 17 As I think over the Italian exploits when the Authority was created. The to imagine the effect of such language ou June 22, for the purposes of General during the war, I remember that the loyal support of the staff, and also of the scholarly officials of the Treasury, Cadorna's operations in the Trentino. the men who were doing the heavy work, and yet themselves are not altogether the railways carried
men of the Alps, of Piedmont and Lon 18,000 officers.bardy, of Venetia and Tuscany, of Rome, had enabled the Authority to feel, in guiltless who speak of super-tax, as 522,000 men, about 20,000 animals, and Naples, Sardinia, and Sicily have ne relation to the war, that they bad "dene the Admiralty of super-Dreadnoughts," 16,000 vehicles, with nearly 900 gand, all contributed something to the re- their bit," (Renewed cheers,)
or a gourmand of a "super-luncheon."
These figures have been given by the Ita-cord, and have had the houpar of distin When the reconstructio noi English is lian Press, so there is no harm done by guished mention in General Cadorna'S alluding to them. The railway material Bulletins, which are austere in character go to work with discretion, remembering but coal is very dear.
collective salbitions. I find much to ad- that a word or phrase is not necessarily
There mire in the cool and sufident bearing of The motor lorries work well. Haflick" and to Stellenbosch" came to mercial cars, the middle weight lorries fatigues by the troops, and in the silent. bad because it is now. The verbs to
are three types in use--the heavy com-the people, in the endurance of great us half a generation ago; it is unlikely which carry over a couple of tons, and patience of the wounded on the battle- that even the Anti-German League will the light weights taking about 12 tons. held. I fancy that the Army is better in "We look forward at the end of the proot the verb to atrafa," A red These lorries form, an Army service, the attack than in the defence, and I war," Lord Devonport concluded, to hat," too, is an indispensable: term of Each Army park has a group of lorries should trust most with an Italian Army a period of trade prosperity, subject to reproach, and no doubt halfpuy colonels for each Army Corps forming part of the to an athick pressed through to the end one factor, that we are given a sound at Cheltenham will continue to be called Army, and each group has two sections
without halting. national policy as regards our trade, dug outs," because, like the Punch for each Division. The motor-ears of I feel much privileged to have been (Cheers.) Granted that, the trade which definition of a "yorker" at cricket, it is the commanders and staffs are good. I allowed to accompany this young and socrues will, in my opinion, be a continuficult to see what else they could be travelled several thousand miles in them, improving Array on its first great cam ing trade. It will outstrip all previous called.
and having covered 300 miles one daypaign in modern times, and I think that conceptions and records. When this new The nicknames of the trenches, the and 350 another am prepared to give aItaly and the friends of Italy can he trade comes I can assure you on behalf Jack Johnsons" and "whizz-bangs,
good mark to Italian motor-car manu-proud of the manner in which the sous of myself and my colleagues, in no boast will die their natural death are dying facturers, and also to Italian, roads and of Italy have fought and endured on.
Italian chauffeurs,
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade, in degreeships which had been mined or torpedoed taken in hand, let the Cabinet Committee is much better than I expected it to be. and make no concessions to personal or
Fahrenheit.
a. HUMIDITT, in percentage of saturation, the humidity of air saturated with moisture being 100,
A DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points.
5. FORCE OF WING, according to Beaufort Scale, 6. STATR OF. WHagman, bi bite sky, a detrahed cloud, d drizzling rain, 1 fog, 8 gloomy, ħ hail, 1. lightning, o overcast, p passing showers, q squal, r rain, snow, ₺ thunder, v visibility, w dow (wet),
7. RAIN in inches, tenths and hundredths.
HONGKONG
METEOROLOGICAL
KI GISTER,
Hongkong Observatory, Augus: 21st,
Barometer Temperature Humidity... Wind Direction
Foras Weather + 7 =>
Kain
Previous On Date On Date
Day
at 2 pm a
29.71 99.74
2 p.m.
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18
94 B1
East
North 2
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0.97
Highest open-miz Tamporitareon 204h .... 82° Lowest open-air Temparators on 21at ass .77.
Many calls had been made on the Authority in wreck-raising plant for and
mang had been brought back into port which, but for that plant, would never have entered the Port of London again.
A GREAT FUTURE
ing spirit, but with all humility, that we shall stand ready to deal with it
Cheers).
REMEDIES FOR CONGESTION.
20,000,000.
1. Ample and unrestricted means of intercommunication between the docles, the railways, and the manufactories.
2. Rapid means of transit between the central area and all the docks, both for passengers and goods.
3. Rapid means of transit between the industrial housing areas and the dock and manufacturing areas, including tracks for light railways separated from but in conjunction with, the ordinary road traffic.
I may also point out that dhe Army has hitherto administered the Austrian districts which have been occupied on various parts of the front, and has had to deal with agriculture, roads, births, deaths, marriages, police, aru a great many other civil matters. As I had once
nearly 5,000 acres of land I was prepared seen a French Corps of Cavalry farming to see the Italian Army capable of fol lowing suit; hut I fancy that if Signor Bissolati is to take over all these civil duties General Porro will be far from displeased.
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many a stricken field against no meaIL antagonist. I am glad that King and people have shown to Austria that the old days of her easy victories and domi- nation are gone never to return, and E believe that leaders and troops will in the end conclude with success their part in the Allied plan of campaign."
NEW ZEALAND THANKS TO THT
NAVY,
it now; but the Committee must remov **Home*
from its place of undeserved bonour as the universal epithet. And it must deal rigorously with pronounciation In the course of his paper Mr. Crow until it has captured the stress on "ally" pointed out that, on the assumption of and restored it to the last syllable. Else the growth of the tonnage using the part, Isere we flogged at school unjustly. and the population of Greater London continuing to increase in the same ratio be well advised not to interfere. It is With proper names the Committee will
If I have not answered the question why Italy is hot at war with: Germany as in the past, the tonnage in 1975
it is because I do not think that the would be 50,000,000 and the population part of our glorious heritage always to
mispronounce, and frequently to mis
matter has much military importance. spell, there; it is characteristic of the
for all practical purposes Italy is at The essential points in a development rugged insularity that has made us what
war with Germany. All political rela- plan were:
we are. Moreover, a case can always be
tions are suspended, and, as the Italiana have already met and fought the Ger estabilshed for pronouncing a place-name There is the little matter of the 4.000 mans in war, so they will meet and according to the taste and fancy of the ladies who remain at Cortina d'Ampezzo fight them again whenever they appear individual Readers of Thomas In while their men are away fighting in the One formality more or less is of no mili- goldsby, Esq.," know that "Rheims" has Austrian ranks, and there are such ques-tary consequence, and as things are well to rhyme with "dreams"; archeologists tions as those of the Aquileia treasures,
we can all be content to let well alone. (who will say anything) claim that which have fortunately been preserved pres" was pronounced "Wipers" in intact. I must confess that it in a the Hundred Years' War, which, if it novelty and a pleasure to enter prove anything, proves the assertion of enemy's territory and sit down in a room the lady is Punch, that the French marked Militär Wachtzimmer with all the enemy's emblems on the walls, but As for Przemysl, no one can pronounce evitare di fumare explosioni painted by do not understand their own language.
on the whole I liked best the advice 4. The allocation of land for specifiet, and there is considerable doubt whe-some Italian wag on an Austrian guard house, and possibly intended as a hint purposes, namely, for docks and wharves, ther anyone wishes to. for warehouses and manufactories, for. I have had space only to hint at the to Austro-German diplomacy in the industrial, for residential and general work which lies before the Cabinet Com-future. purposes, for allotments, and market mitto The atrocities cited area mero
AUSTRIA THE ENEMY. gardens, for agricultural belts, parks, collection of samples, and it would be The Italians regard Austria as we re ft. In golf courses, playing fields, and other mistake to think the task is too slight gard Germany, and Germany as we re- Tues, 22 38 34 6 0 U DE 2.4
recreative purposes.
to repay trouble. The Prime Minister, gard Austria. Austria is the enemy, but No infer. higa
Bor low water 5. The traffic facilities and the general a very lord of language, is no doubt ex at the same time, while every crime Wed, 23 m 4.45 68
05631 scheme must be capable of extension, officio a member of all sub-committees, attributed to Austria on slight suspicion, N's inter. high our low-water puri paru, with the extension of the and, could he find the leisure, there is no I find no unworthy depreciation of Aus Thurs. 248 50❘ 6 41871 7
9 94 4 4
dock system and the growth of the port. man more apt for the undertaking. We trian soldiers, I am told that while Fil 25m 64467a. 0 10
should welcome his resonant declaration: Austrian discipline is very severe, and 924 4:5 2.111 i
We shall not wipe the pen, which we the officer's revolver is ever quick to Batur, 26 m 7:29 | 69 m 1.3) 3 v
"Which would you rather be in, a colli have not lightly drawn, until English bas aintain it, the Austrian private soldier 9.6
2:43 1 3
sion or an explosion ?"
recovered all and more than all, that she has a sense of deep loyalty towards his Emperor, and that this is a personal San, 27 m 8.9 7.
bes lost.
devotion which will not easily be trane- And, to borrow the accents of Fleet ferred to a successor. In meeting the Street for a moment, to reconstruct our Kaiser Jäger so often the Italians per mother tongue would be some start."-haps see Austria's best, but the fact re- Saturday Review.
mains that the Italian has a good word.
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 22nd to 28th August, 1918.
HIGH WATER
LOW WATER.
H'koog.
Mean
Mena
Time
Time
h. m.
Et in
Days of
Morth
#Long
Height
Mon
9 428 4 8 28 m 8.467 2
9 60% 5%
3241 2
244
2 263 2
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Because in a collision there you are, but in an explosion, well, where are You't"
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The Secretary of State for the Colonies is informed that the High Commissioner for New Zealand had received, up to July, 14th, à sum of £44,102, which has been raised in New Zealand for the de- pondents of men lost in the recent North Sea battle.
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