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ROUMANIA'S POLICY.

M. JONESOU’'S VIEWS.

THE HOUR HAS STRUCK."

In reply to my request.for his views on the present situation, M. Take Jonescu gave me the folowing statement (says the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in Bucharest:--

Rou mana's hour has struck, and that any further delay would only do us harm. The Quadruple Alliance has no need for us, but we could assist in shortening the war. It is true that there still exist ques tions of delay in the despatch and trans port of certain articles of equipment, and it is also true that we have the right to deman that the Allies should help us in this direction. But nothing of this kid should he allowed to deny our entrance into action. In a couple of weeks the harvest will be finished, and that consideration will accordingly no longer exist.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2ira 1916

MOBILISATION OF SCIENCE.

BRILLIANT

CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WAR.

WHAT IS BEING DONE IN FRANCE.

A British M. P. writes in the Evening. Stunturd:--

THE FIGHT AT THE LIPA.

DISPATCH FROM THE BATTLE-

FIELD.

FROM STANLES WASHBURN, Į

During the present unimportant phase the ghting on the Stokhod I have been paying a visit to the next army to the south, covering the front from a mint south of Radziviloff to the flank of the neighbouring army on the north.

I reached the Headquart midnight on tain Siberian Corps about midnight on July 15 to find the artillery preparation, which had stared at 4 p.m., in full

blast.

GLADSTONE'S GOLDEN RULE.

That Gladstone lived to be an octogen- arian and was able to hew down giant trees as a recreation at an age when most men are incapable of exertion was largely due to the excellence of his digestion. To preserve this digestion Gladstone took extraordinary pains; for instance, he told Sir Edwin Arnold that he always bit everything twenty-five times before swallowing it.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

CANADIAN MAILS,

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SHIPPING IN PORT

STEAMERS. CHINOCHOW, British str., 1,105, J. W. Doyle, 10th August-Port Parseval 16th August, Lime Stone-Shewan, Tomes & Co. |-

Diva, Norwegian str., 833, J. Jargensen, 18th August Bangkok 13th August, Rice, Order,

GLENFALLOCH, British str., 1,434, A. Mc Kenric 18th August Singapore 13th August, General Chinese. GLENOGLE British str., 2,398, W. McChio,

21st August-Singapore 16th August, General Order. HAUROTO, British str., 1,270, J, G. Smith, 21st August-Penang 15th August, Jos D. Ancun, American str., W. J.

General Order.

Davis, 22nd August-Calcutta 9th August, Bailast.Standard Oil Co.

kami, 6th August-Swatow 18th August, General-Osaka Shosen Kai- sha RINKOSAN MARU, Japanese str 2,035,

sha.

Nakagawa, 15th August-Miike 9th August, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kai- KUNCHOW, British str., Marting lath August-Tjilijap 6th August, Sugar.

Order. KONGPINO, Chinese str. 1,741, J. B.

Flower, 20th August Bangkok 14th. August, Rice and General-Order. KWANGLEN, Chinese str., 1468, A, P

Sangster, 12th August-Shanghai 9th August, General-Order. LOONGBANG, British str., 1,005, E. R. Night, 22nd August Manila 18th August, General Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

In the embarrassed and hectic reports of the great battle of Picardy, which Ger many has circulated in neutral countries

One of the most brilliant chapters of The commonest misstatement concerns the

the history of the war is that of the new British araties. It is admitted that

**1-m happy to see my predictions ful-mobilisation of science in France. This

The trouble with many people is not how to preserve the digestion but how to the old expeditionary force was fine

was has been carried on with a higher material, but the new armies raised in filled. The victory of the Allies is now.

restore it. Indigestion and Dyspepsia the past two years are described as andis-Parent, to everybody; one can see it grade of science and of intellectual power

are the most prevalent ailments of the age and, unhappily for themselves, ciplined and feeble in attack, and irre-here by the deep discouragement of the than any known to history. I am not

sufferers from these troubles too frequent solute in defence. They are formidable, pro-Germans, the majority of whom now referring merely to the wonderful aay the German reports, only because of would like to prepare for a change of story of the invention and the gradual

lydy to purgatives for relief, their numbers, and these numbers are attitude. I know some important pre-improvement of the famous French 75

organs instead of giving them the help vanishing under the German fire. Germans who declare that if the Russians for instance, I will deal with sciratife

result that they weaken the digestive arrive in Lemberg Roumgain must imme-improvements which have been produced

they need, thus making matters worse. No item of this statement is true. The intely enter the war against the Central since the war began, and which have

- OPENING OF THE ATTACK.

There is only one way to eum disorder- casualties have not been out of propor

Powers.

arisen vat of the necessities created by its Sitting in a tiny room in an unpre-ed digestion and that is through the fion to the ground gained, and in the

*I do not state this," M. Take Jonescu developments. The number of inventions tentious cottage with the Commander, 1 blood, for attack of July 14th, witch carried a large

and strength upon the blood. part of the German second line, the Bri- continued, “as 4 proof of moral perfec-and devices in various fields is extra-following the preparations which were its heal the digestive tract depends for KAIJU BANG, Japances str.. 1,020, Mara

being made for the assault. The ticking and therefore only pure, rich, strength- tish lossen were extraordinarily small.tion, but as evidence that the victory of ordinary, and all the departments The individual fighting value of the Brithe Allies is plain for all to see. Man of chemical, engineering, medical have vicd of the instruments gave news from the giving blood eau restore it to a healthy

with each other to produce the best; but, the window by flares and ruckets bud

front, the line of which was visible from condition It is because they purify and tish troops has been equal to any in the common-sense understand that

since we cannot command the flash of burning villages.

enrich the blood, and make new good campaign. For example, wood was

By midnight 10 blood at every dose, that Dr. Williams taken by the Germans with nine barta

genius, I will seek rather to indicate the breaches had her made in the barbed Pink Pills for Pale People have earned Lies; it was recaptured by the British

organisation which has festored these wire, each approximately 20 paces broad, their world-wide reputation as being the with tw, and the British New Army,

activities. which showed its merit at Loos last Sep

When the war began the necessity of and the attacks were ordered for 3 o'clock most successful remedy for Indigestion

i the morning.

and Dyspepsia of the age. Your dealer tember, has won great glory in every

utilising highly trained brains to thedising at am. I accompanied the sells them, or you can obtain a bottle for phase of the Picardy battle.

utrost was recognised, and voluntary Commander of the Corps to his obser$1.50 (bottles for 28) post free from the In a later phase of this battle & eer,

associations of scientific men were formation, point on a ridge. The attacks Dr. Willians Medicine Co., 90, Szechuen ta historic British divisin advanced

ed. Good work was soon produced; in had already swept away the resistance Road, Shanghai. the line between Bazentin-le-Grand

ventions appeared in considerable num- of the enemy's first line. and fougueral The expert Frog

ber, nd the production of munitions was

Thousands of prisoners were in our To be

multiplied enormously. The demands of hands, and the enemy was already retir- with, they managed to cross the interven ing ground and get up to within 200

the war became more and more intense: ing rapidly. He therefore halted but a yards of the enemy's wire 'enfangicinents

the appointment of M. Albert Thomas, few minutes, pashing on to the advanced the Minister of Munitions, caused a gent positions, The Commander praericals without casualties, which was

stopped As I am not in power and not in the quickening of production, and at length repeatedly by the roadside, lapping the a remarkable proof of discipline. When

the work of all the scientific experts was field wires, and giving further instrue- at dawn they attacked with superh vigour accrets of the Government, I am not in a

tions as to the dispositions of the troops. and devation, in one place the German position to speak in the name of official coordinated by the new Ministry of In-

As we moved forward we began to meet wire had been imperfectly eat and they Roumania. But I know that official Ronventions, technically one of the sub- had to make their way through it under mania would commit ал unpardon-sidiary offices, but really at present the the flood from the battlefield, first the a deadly fire, but by a little after midable mistake if it failed to follow the most important, of M. Paul Painleve, lightly wounded, and then Austrian pri- day the work was done, and the German opinion of the vast majority Rouman- the Minister of Public Instruction. Msoners helping our heavily Second position was in our hands, as well ans. I believe in the rights of reason Painlevé supplied the elements that were who were in carts. as 663 unwounded men, 38 officers, in and of the moral laws, and therefore I wanting to render the co-operation of the cluding the battalion commander, four believe that the opinion of the nation will acentists as effective as possible; he is howitzers, four field-guns and 14 niachine-eventually triumph. I can see signs to one of the firest brains of France, a high- guns.

That is an achievement of four show that among the public there exists ly trained scientific mun great Battalions of the New Army which had not arrely a profound desire to take part mathematician, and, what is more rare, never before been in action.

It should i remembered that in thot in the war, but the actual conviction that one in whom scientific study has not section the Germans were.

I new blunted the keenness of appreciation of some Germans. not weak.ch participation is inevitable. Misty weather had enabled them to mass

also that with their usual bad taste the any of the phases of national life.

TRENCH AND · LABORATORY. guns whose positions could not be detected Pt-Germans are spreading the rumour

that in the Ministry that makes war a The system that M. Painlevé has work Ty aerial reconnaissance and which were firing a registered marks. They had place would be found for M. Marghlio-ed to realise is that by which a communi- Th's would be impossible; it cation might be maintained between the brought up some of their most famous man. troops, including a division of Verdun would be a gross insult addressed to our superior officers at the front and the The latter was a faithfully dealt Alles, and would injure Roumania in laboratories, so that the men of science with by the new British battalions as by the publié opinion of Europe. It is need should concentrate their intellects upon the French 20th Corps in their famous less to say that weithiot M Filipescu nordeânits requirements, and so that on the counterattack on Danaumont plateau. myself would agree to such a thing. I other hand, fall encouragement should be Attention is called to the Briitsh New have no idea as to the intentions of the given to their experimental work and to Army which showed its merit at Loos Government or if any changes are contheir inventive genius, What has been Jast

September and which has won grent templated. So far as I am concerned the result? Consider, for example, the glory in

every phase of the Picardy Romania will go to war with one Gov work of the chemists, who have played Le

a great role in the war, for, to them the production of explosives is finally due. Apart from experiments, every

erment or with another; but she will To talk of new armies, to-day, do it. My only anxiety, M. Take indeed a misnomer, The Whole British Jmusce concluded, is that my country force in one sense is new. The famous gould act time." old regiments of the line have been renewed completely since Mons, and their drafts are drawn from the same source The as the men of the new battalions. anly difference is that in historie barta- lions there is a regimental tradition already existing, whereas in new batta- lione ha tradition has had to be created, and it has been created. A reputation seccad to none in the army and in dozens of new battalions, has been laid in Piquely on

a fighting foundation of proud saadition. Take the great fight of July 4th, when, from Pozieres to Defills Wood, the German sceart line was carried and the third line pierced. It was an enterprise as old as it was successful.

BRITISH METHODS IN FRANCE.

METHODICAL DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN DEFENCES,

to say.

To grasp properly the reticenor of the official bulletins from the British frant, i, must be understood that there is little Though the bombardment has been intense along the long line from Armentières to the Somme the new tactics adopted are not lending themselves to sensational publicity.

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"AN IMPUDENT DEMAND.

Germany and Austrin are claiming from Roumania payment in gold for all imported m-rehaucise, on the pretext that R unania demands the payment of the tax on exported cereals in gold.

new

wounded,

The str. Monteagle arrived at Kobe on 21st instant, at. 5 a.m., left Koba on the 2nd instant, at 9 a.13.

THE KROLISH MAIL.

The- str. Vore left Shanghai for this port yesterday at 5 am. with the home- ward English mails, and is due here this morning..

AMERICAN HAIL.

Before we were half way to the posi- The str. China left San Franciscs on tious a cavalry General splashed with August 1st, and may be expected to ar

had met the Commander, and informedrive in Hongkong on August 29th. kiut that six guns were already in our hands The next report from the field telephone increased the number to 10 guns, with 2,000, prisoners, including

.

MERCHANT STEAMERS. The str. Shirata from Calcutta left Singapore on 20th instant, and may be expected here on or about the 26th inst."

SHIPPING REPORTS. The British str. ing. reports: Moderate to Fresh W.S.W. winds and squally,

By noon sufficient details of the fight

chemical manufactory in, the country has enemy, whose isld-gun shells were burst-faulty, and it was therefore impossible

..

NANYO MARE, Japanese str., 1,983, Takay nashi, 20th August-Wakamatsu 14th August, Coal-Mitaui Bussan Kai-

sha.

PENANG, Maru, Japanese str., 3,281, 8.

Kushibiki, 17th August-Singapore 11th August, General. Nippon

Yusen Kaisha.

ROMA, Norweg. str., 049, 5. Tolk Muss, 19th-

August Bangkok 11th August, Rice-- Chinese.

SANTHIA, British str., 3,353, J. W. Robert-

son, 22nd August Moji 17th August, General--David Sassoon & Co. SHANGHAI, Chinese str., 243, McLearn, 17th August Swatow 16th August, General-Order.

SATSUKI MARU, Japanese str., 1,300, T.

Fuinoto, 19th August-Dairen 5th August, Coal and General.-Mitsui Bussan Kuista.

SELUN, Norwegian str., 866, D. Hoviren- der, 22nd August--Bangkok 14th August, Rice and MealThoresen & Co. SHANTUNG,

str., 1,068, J. Meathrel, 22nd August-Amoy 21st August, General Butterfield & Syiro.

Saxon, British str., 1,103. Saugster, 14th August-Saigon 10th August, Rice- Order TAISANG, British str.,-987, Matthews, 19th August-Hongay 18th August, Coal. -Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. TANSUI, British str., 010, J. Oudney, 18th August-Chefoo 12th August, Gen- eral-Butterfeld & Swire.

TILL WONG, Dutch str., 3,600, J., Kareles,

22nd August-Japan 16th August, : General-Java-China-Japan Jijn. TONGHONG, British str., 1,315, E. J.

PANORMA OF THE BATTLEFIELD. At quite an early hour the entire coin- try was alive, every department of the Army beginning to move forward. Al the roads were choked with ammunition parks, batteries, and transport follow-attached to the 22nd Reserve Corps, and ing up our advancing troops; while the came from Verdun two or three weeks

British ago. They describe the battle there as a stream of retuning caissons, the wound- ed, and the prisoners equalled in volume hell, especially the French artillery fire. the tide of the advancing columns.

The Commander took up his position on a ridge which but a few hours before me are available to indicate that this five thousand prisoners and 20 guns, of had been our advanced line. Thence thes alone had taken between three and country could be observed for miles, which four are said to be howitzers. Each road was black with moving troops, When one is near the front the perspee pushing forward on the heels of the

five of operations is nearly always ing on the ridges just beyond. Been turned on full blast, and the pro- fere, I met the Commander of the whole, but I understand that all the to estimate the effect of the movement as duction of explosives is now forty times Division and his Staff Plans were im other corps engaged had great success as great as at the beginning of the war mediately inade for following up our and everywhere advanced. Incendiary bombs have been invented success. Evidently the size of our group.

My own impression is that the Aus superior to those of the Germus; I saw was discernible from some distant enemy

trians are simply refusing to fight now one which burned fiercely beneath the observation point, for within five minutes after the initial resistance, and surrender waters of the Seine. Explosive bombs of came the howl of an approathing, pro-in blocks rather than risk being cut to great bursting power-as, for instance, jectile and a fin. shell burst with a the Bombs Claude have been fabricated terrise crash in a neighbouring field. Its nurival, which was followed at regu on new systemies various kinds of "tear " gages and asphyxiating shells have been lar intervals by others ranging from 4in. invented. There, again, the Germans have upwards, was apparently unnoticed by the General, whose interest was entirely been surpassed at their own game. On a former isit to Paris, M. Mouren, the emi cempied with pressing his advantage 30 swift was our advance that nearly nent scientist who directs the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacy in Paris, showed half an hour elapsed before the newly strung field wires were working pre me some very strong tear-producing com.

perly. pounds; on my most recent visit he let me see a new product, asking me to sniff at the cork of the bottlo cautiously. The caution was necessary. A strong sniff acts like a knock-out blow on the "point." This product, christened "papite," has passed the experimental stage, and will soon be tested on the Germans. They will Lord Kitchener's estimate of the numbe sorry some day they started suffocat-operator ber of women in Britain who would be ing gases. made widows by the war was mentioned by Mr. Hayes Fisher, on June 21st, whun presiding at a meeting of the Royal Pat riotic Fund Corporation at Middlesex Guildhall.

The Roumanian Government, in reply, states that the tax was independent of

this price and was paid in Roumanian money. Moreover, it is impossible for Roumania to pay-in gold, as it is for hidden by law to allow gold to leave the country:

It is believed that Germany and Aus tria will come to an agreement on the point, as they are in need of Roumanian products.

50,000 WAR WIDOWS.

LATE · LORD KITCHENER'S ESTIMATE ÎN 1914.

VALUABLE INVENTIONS,

Prynn, 21 August-Saigon 17th August. Rice. Order. Tosa MARU, Japanese str., 3,610, 0. Bakamoto, 19th August-Singapore 13th August, General. Nippon Yusen Kaisha, TUNGSHING,

British str. 1,178, Hussey, 16th August-Saigon 12th August, Rice and General-Order. WOLLOWRA, British sir, 1,678, B. W. 8.

Pritchard, 20th August-Saigon 18th August, Rice.-Order.

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pieces in retreat by our cavalry, whien is rendering extraordinary services in all these movements. The fact that we cap tured two.commanders of regiments with one entire regimental staff to-day in- dicates that the officers are hardly more enthusiastic for the war than the so- diers. One commander only took com- mand of his regiment at noon and taken prisoner at daylight the following TFTA morning,-Times. The fire had become so persistent that our group scattered and hundreds of

mass could be prisoners, whose black seen by the enemy, were removed beyond the possibility of observation. Then the Corps Commander, stretched on straw on the crest of the ridge, with his maps spread out; dictated directions to the at the field telephone who erunched beside him.

Before and beneath us lay the abandon- In te same laboratory means have beened line of Audrian trenches, separated found to dispense with nitrates, from from ours by a small stream, where since the heroic engineers were Chili or elsewhere, in the fabrication of daylight

One of the greatest labouring under, heavy shell are to con high explosives. I well recollect, said Mr. Fisher, in the triumphs of the chemist, however, has struct a bridge to enable our cavalry and A high French military authority early days of the war, I was consulting been that, following the restriction on the guns to pass in pursuit, praised enthusiastically to a Press Asso with the members of the Government as sale of absinthe; the surpus stock was eiation correspondent the plan adopted to the number of widows that in all prob chemically treated so as to obtain th by the British,

He said that the Gerability would be created by this war.

pare alcohol used in preparing the ful. maus tried the same plan of sending out They did Hut number more than 3,000 minutes of the shells of the "75's." I patrol parties at Verdun after a bour bardment, but they did not reckon on the then, and the highest estimate of anyone another department of chemical and artfulness of the French infantry. When was 30,000, a suggestion made by myself. physiological research, M. Charles Tellier the patrols went back and declared the When that figure became known to Lord has been able to solve a difficult question Kitchener, he sent a message to those who of food supply by keeping all food fresh ground clear, the German troops came on

were responsible for making fovision by a frigorific system. Then there is the ip close-packed masses to be mowed down by nitruilleases.

for the war widows, saying that they general question of steel. At the beginning My informant said that the British muat make provision for at least 50,000 of the war the kemand for steel for all method was new in war was better Since the war broke out, added Mr. purpose was intense, and the trouble studied, and more effective. British Fisher, grants had been made by the was that though there was abundance of raiding parties push right on to the line Royal Patritic Fund to 34,662 widows steel, from America for example, it was of German trenches and search them of soldiers, 3,000 widows of sailore, 84,737 of an infer or quality. Some of it was thoroughly till they are convinced that children, and 21,606 other dependants used in spite of not answering to the upe-file. On the opposite bank waited the,

guns or men remain. As the correa-The total cost of this had been £358:840.cifications, and many of the shells burst fondent to the Liberte at the British The Admiralty had just informed him in the guns, causing damage, not to the Various front says, it is the methodical destrue that as the result of the recent great enemy, but to the gunners. tion of the enemy's defensive works.

Naval battle there had been added 1,550 authorities, inelud ng M. Le Chatelier, The infantry only comes in to clear ap widows to the list and 1,200 to the list the famous chemist, and M. Chesneau, and complete the work of the artillery.

of other dependants. Grants to these the steel expert, applied their minds to were being sent week by week, and the the solution of this difficulty, and the grants would apply to all whose claims problem of steel may now be regarded arouse before June 30th.

As in a satisfactory condition.

OUR NEED OF AIRSHIPS, LORD BERESFORD ON THEIR ADVANTAGES,

proceeded,

CARSIGE AT A RIVER, Living the General Our troops had forced the line here at am wading under machine-gun and rifle-fire in water and marsh above their waists, often to their armpits. The Aus triar end of the bridge was a horrible place, as it was congested with dead, dying, and horribly wounded men, who, as the ambulances were on the other side of the river, could not be removed. A sweating officer was urging forward the completion of the bridge, which was then barely wide enough to permit the wait- ing cavalry quadrons to pass in single ambalances to get across after the troops had passed. A number of German a bulance men were working furiously over their own and the Austrian wounded;

of whom, many

I think, must have been wounded by their own guns in an attempt to prevent the bridging of the stream. Amore bloody scene I have not witness- ed, though within a few hours the entire place was probably cleared up.

I have but lifted the veil, here and WIDOWS' PENSIONS. After June 30th the Patriotic Fund there, on the activity. of French mien of grants would no longer be available. The science; the whole story becomes the more. new Statutory Committee would deal with fascinating the more ene enters into it Admiral Lord Beresford, in an inter-all subsequent eases, and be boped they What I have desired rather to indicate is view with a representative of the Press would have the necessary funds to make that the aim of the French Government auch provisions as would make the is to make effective the great amount of The scientific knowledge and active thought widows better off in the long run. widows' pensions would be 108., 12s. 6d., that would be lost without classification or 15s. per week, according to age, and it of work and co-ordination of efforts: anda would be in the power of the Statutory that under the watchful eye of M. Pain Committee, which succeeded the Royal leve this fine conception is in process of Patriotic Fund, to make additions to that realisation. flat rate where the amounts were found to be inadequate.

Association, said t

The British looks-out" are cruisers: we have no suitable nirships. The Ger mans have a great advantage by using Every minute Zennelins as "lookout." of time in the report of a "lock-out" in a sea ficht is priceless jewel. The German can tell the allocation of our fleet. while we cannot be certain of the allocation of their feets unless our erui- H hoped the Statutory Committee sers are in the radius of action. We would see to it that no case of genuine must serid, heavy craisers as outside scruts distress arose in the cases which it was on account of small cruisers being driven called upon to consider. So far as that in without retting information. A large

Committer could govern the matter, there eraiser can fight and get the information. In the brush off Jutland the Germans would be no return to the bad old days of making much of the soldier and sailor could tell to a second when it was time when their services were fresh in the so run before the Grand Fleet could pro-

(Continued on neat Colurin.) perly engage.

mind, and then forgetting all about them and allowing them or their dependants to drift into the workhouse.

Among the pensions which the fund had been paving till recently were four to survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, but the last of these four pensionere was buried on June 20th. He lived to the good old age of 86. und had drawn a pension of 14s, per week.

Passing on 1 for the first time witness- ed the actual taking of prisoners, and watched their long blue files as they passed out from their own trenches and were formed in groups allotted to Rus sian soldiers, who served as guides rather than guards, and sent to the rear.

T Near here I encountered about 50 enp- tured Germans and talked with about diyen of them. Certainly none of them showed the smallest lack of moral or even depression. All seemed to feel as though their personal lot on this day had been unfortunate, and that the war would be won by the Germans abortly. When told of the British successes not a single one was in the least moved. All laughed, stating that they did not believe it. One officer said: Possibly the British have taken a single mile of line, but if they have we shall drive them back to acrrow: while the French are utterly beaten now, and we except to take Ver- dun in a few days. All these men were (Continued on next Column.]

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