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THE "DEUTSCHLAND'S"

TRIP TO AMERICA.

HOW SHE ESCAPED DESTRUCTION,

The commander of the U-liner Deutsch land, Captain Koenig, tells in his book which has just appeared, an exciting story of his vessel's narrow escape from a British destroyer on the voyage to the United States. She had to mako sudden dive at full speed at a perilous angle in a rough sea whereby she drove her nose into the mud, thus running out of one danger into anothor.

"We bad come up to the surface one morning," he writes.

and found the se very rough. I climbed into the conning Lower to look over the stormy waters. Every moment a wave dashed. ngainst it, raising showers of spray. I was just going to give the order to start the nil engine when-what was that? Was is not smoke? I waited and glued my eyes to the binocular till they ached.

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I saw it again. It was smoke, and there, too, was a slender mast; and now straining my eyes at the glass, I looked along a trough in the waves and saw smoke from four short funnels [

DONNERWETTER." Dounerwetter! It is a destroyer, With one spring 1 reached the tower Latch Alarm! Dive quick-Flood ship! To the submerging rudder!' Go down ten fathoms! The commands followed one another in one breath. But the result! To dive in such a sod way according to all experience is almost sheer madness. But what con I do? The destroyer may already have seen us. We must get down, and as fast as possible..

crew worked in silent buste, The compressed air hissed out of the tanks the submerging valves sung in every key.

I stand with compressed lips, look through the window of the tower on the raging sea, and watch for the fret siga of sinking. But 1 still see the deck, and again and again the waves throw us on to the surface. We have not a moment to luso,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 291, 1816,

DUBLIN SHOOTINGS,

WHAT MARTIAL LAW MEANS.

"NO EXCUSE."

...

FOOD IDOLATRY.

GERMAN STATESMAN ON HOW TO

LIVE ON ALMOST NOTHING

NEW ZEALAND'S RESOLVE.

70,000 SOLDIERS SENT TO BATILE.

New Zealand, with a population slightly exceeding a million, has already The report was issued last month of Professor and Privy Councillor Bous, raised and equipped a force equal in the Royal Commission appointed to in-one of Germany's great authorities on

numbers to that commanded by Welling quire into the arroat and subsequent food values, has been lecturing to a ton at Waterloo. Roundly speaking, treatment of Mr. Shochy Skeffington, number of women's associations on How 70,000 men have crossed the ocean and Mr. Thomas Dickson, and Mr. Patrick one can almost live on nothing." The taken their stand in the fighting line in James Melatyre during the Dublin cut learned professor has been employed by Egypt, Gallipoli, or in France and break lost April.

the Food Distribution Office to allay Flanders. And thousands more are In brief, the Commissioners-Sir Johnpopular discontent, bat Forwards, rallying to the fag, eager to take their Simon, chairman, Lord Justice Molony, while admitting he has proved that one place beside their and Mr. Denis Henry, K.C.-found:

can almost live on nothing, is daubtful fight for the Em low-countrymen and 1. That Mr. Shechy Skeffington had no whether the life so lived is worth living. So said Mr. W. F. Massey, Prime

connection with the rebellion.

Minister of New Zealand, who, accom The professor declared that his main panied by his colleague, Sir Joseph 2. That neither Mr. Dickson nor Mr. object really was to dispel the prevailing Ward, Finance Minister in the National McIntyre had any connection with the apprehension that there was any danger Government, is in London to confer with Sinn Fein movement.

of the national health being irepaired by the Imperial authorities on various im- That, apart from the defence of in-under-nutrition. He contended that one portant questions arising out of the war. sanity, there can be no excuse or pal- could only speak of under-nutrition

Mr. Massey made it very clear, in the liation for the conduct from first to when the pre-war standard was accepted course of an interview with an Earning last of Captain Bowen-Colthurst, who be normaal. As a matter of fret the pretendard representative, that New Zea ordered the shootings.

war standard was over-nutrition, and if land, so far from calling a halt, is still resulted in diminishing girth and weight equipment of men. Reinforcements are in a vast number of cases war food tinut pressing on with the enrolment and these results were really blessings in going forward at the rate of 2.300 n disguise which should not be taken month. In fact, New Zealand is almost tragically.

as actively and seriously engrossed in gates, the war as if the Huns were at her very

Mr. Sheehy Skelington, to whose case the repor is principally directed, was walking in the direction of his home at 8 p.m. on the second day of the rebellion when a crowd began to follow him and oall his name. Lieutenant Merria sente autrition when loss of weight and It was only permitted to speak of him to Portobello Barracks.

circumference was accompanied by loss of physical and mental powers, and, for so far, no deterioration in these respects authority on the ability to exist on next was noticeable. Professor Boas great

named Bindhede, who for several years to nothing is a Danish food expert

potatoes, bread and butter, and fruit, at has supported himself and his family on a cost of a trifle over 3d, a day per per son. Herr Boas implores Gemmans to follow the example of the Dane and throw to the winds their idolatrous veneration for certain foods which they falsely regard as rich in albazuen.

The same evening Captain Bowen-Colt hurst took him out of barracks with his hands behind his back as "hostage," to be shot if the military party were at tacked on their mission to occupy certain premises. The party returned, and Mr. Skeffington, Mr. Dickson, and Melntyre were shot next morning, on 3r. Captain Bowen-Colthurat's orders, in the

barrack yard.

"UNTRUE" REPUIT. Captain Bowen-Colthurst (who has been found by court-martist guilty of murder but insane and is now in an shooting. The Commissioners state that asylum) made a written report after the

his account is entirely untrue."

going to the guard room was not to Captain Bowen-Colthurst's object in examine the prisoners but, as he stated to Lieutenant Dobbin at the time, to have then shot. The armed guard was. not ordered out for the purpose of pre- renting the prisoners' escape but for the

might be able to do were we to get rid Just think, seid Dr. Bons, what we of this food idolatry. It would take some time to accustom ourselves to living on almost nothing but when we have arrived at that point we shall have ob tained a striking victory over ourselves, and from an economic point of view the gain will be immense. The ladies of addressing the

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DEPENDABLE FOOTWEAR.

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FEW SLACKERS IN MAOBILAND. “We have pledged our word to fight have had to look ahead so as to be sure to a finish, and Mr. Massey, and

far, the voluntary system of enlistment of being able to fulfil our promise. So

splendidly, and, I am proud to think, for active service abroad has answered the ignoble army of sinckers would obtain few recruits in New Zealand. Still, in these critical times it is wise to provide for every possible contingency, so have passed the Military Service Act, which is a measure of compulsion rather

between the ages of twenty and forty- than conscription.

"Under the terms of this Act all men' five, both inclusive, who are physically at, are liable for military service. voluntary system is serving so admirably that the Act has not yet been put into operation, but in the event of any district, or districts of which there are eighteen in the Dominiondailing to furnish the prescribed quote, the Government has possibility of the prisoners making their

but the professor had come provided obvious to anyone who has seen it. No the human body daily required might be escape from the yard, a fact which is black-board that the 2,80€ eslories which rectify the deficiency.

with figures and showed them on the faulting district or districts in order to documents or correspondence whatever found in 2,017 grammes of potatoes as supply," said Mr. Massey, "I am not As to how many trained and equip were found on the prisoners which showed well as in 2,857 grammes of beef or in 35 at liberty to speak. I have the figures, men New Zealand is still able to them to be dangerous characters, and eggs. And the price of the potatoes was and all may say is that the numbers any documents found on them could be only dd., whereas the egge cost 118. 2d. thoroughly examined in a few minutes.

and the beef 16s. Beans were fine, he

I have no doubt of our are ample.

in 823 grammes of beans, and the cost, said. You could get your 2,800 calories ability to fulfil our obligations in letter even at war prices, was only is. 9d.

We are bearing the whole cost of our own force's training, equipment, trans- leas the nation ests the healthier will the Imperiel Freuer; and the cost to the turer that, according to his theory, the for nor expect any contribution from the One lady in the audience told the lee-port, and pay. We have neither asked

that this was a fair deduction if carried a month." people become. Herr Bons did not think Dominion is now upwards of £1,000,000 to extremes, a remark which the ladies greeted with mocking laughter.

associations ho

was

I ordered the submerging rudder to be given a sharper angle, and shout; purpose of shooting them. There was no audibly expressed disapproval of this, the power to enforce the Act in the de

Both engines fullest speed forward'

The whole ship trembles with the motion of the engines, and makes verit. able leaps forward. It rolls in the wild sen; will it never dive? Then all of a sudden the bow plunges down and the vessel goes more and more steeply into the depths. Daylight fades away in the tower, and the indicator shows in rapid Bequence--2--6--10 yards. But the angle if the ship still grows steeper and

steeper.

We totter, lean back, lose all bold on the floor, which tilts sharply before us. I am still able to hold on to the eye-piece of the periscope, and below mo the crew cling fast to the wheels of the submerging rudder. So it goes on for

a few terrible seconds.

Wo have hardly realised the new sitaation when there comes a sudden powerful jerk, and wo are thrown to the floor, while everything that is not made fast is hurled about în confusion,

FORGED DOCUMENT.

Before the ontbreak in Dublin much attention had been attracted to a printed pamphlet entitled Secret Orders-Issued state that the document was a forgery to the Military." The Commissioners from beginning to end.

A copy was produced before them with a note attached to it in red ink by Captain Bowen-Colthurst certifying that he found it on Mr. Skeffington. The Com missioners are satisfied that it was not so found, but was added at a later date to the other documents. discovered during the search of Mr. It was probably Skellington's house. "It was conceded We look at each other, and for a document could have hardly failed to before us that surae copy of the printed moment there is an anxious silence. have come into the hands of any Dublin Then, says the second officer drilyjournalist."

Well, we have arrived,' and the appal- Aing strain is relaxed. But we were all

palo as death.

LAXITY AT THE BARRACKS. The Commissionera concluded: The garrison of Portobello Barracks, "What has happened? Why this uninsufficient for the purpose of resisting natural anglo taken by the ship, and why any serious assault that might have been did the engines race so furiously that made, was reinforced by a medley of the whole vessel groaned? Before we soldiers from different regiments, to could make out the reason, Klees, the gether with some sailors who had re chief engineer, had hurried from this ported at the commencement of the week place, and like lightning pulled over the The officers, too, enrae from different engine telegraph to stop. Now sud units and were in many cases unknown denly there was a deep silence, and we

to one another. took stock of the situation.

ANGLE OF THIRTY-SIX DEGREES.

The ship had dived at an angle of thirty-six degrees, and stood, so to speak, n its hand. The bow had hit the bottom, Awhile the stern swung wildly up and down, the indicator showing a depth of the situation, which was anything but fifteen yards. That was how I sized up rosseuring.

According to the chart the depth here was thirty-one yards. Thanks to the angle at which the long vessel lay there must be a considerable portion of it above the surface-a splendid, mark for the enemy destroyer: As long as the engines worked, whenever the ship got into the trough of the waves the screws raced partly in the air, and matt imore noticeable by raising clouds of spray. This Klees had realised: from the furious working of the engines, and by his presence of mind had removed our Worst danger.

It is not to be wondered at that this state of things produced a considerable laxity of control and cohesion within the barracks.

We are satisfied that the state of

The meeting, we are told, broke up in some disorder, and Herr Bras, as he left the platform, had some caustic remarks addressed to him about his food theories.

REVOLT IN MONTENEGRO.

TROOPS RENT FROM AUSTRIA

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as well as in spirit.

·FROZEN MEAT COMMANDEERED.

Zealand is also doing her share towards keeping the forces of Great Britain and Mr. Massey pointed out that New

her Allies supplied with meat, butter, and cheese. Early in 1915, at the request of the Imperial Government, the whole of the New Zealand frozen meat trade was

commandeered by the Dominion Govern-

ment, and during the "eighteen months ended August 31st, 1916, 11,771,000 was paid to New Zealand producers on ac- count of frozen meat.

Montengro show that the signal for the time were greatly congested owing to lack

Details regarding the insurrection in

"Stocks in cold stores, which at one

outbreak was given by the population of failing," said Mr. Massey, and we the Krivoscie region to the north Cattaro, hope to have everything cleared out of shipping facilities, are now rapidly now under Austrian domination. pletely subjugated by the Austrians, and shipped in eighteen months. And it is The people there had never been como fewer than 10,500,000 carcases were before the new season's operations begin. had several times risen in revolt.

interesting to note that from March, 1915, nine insulated steamers, carrying karge to August 1916, no fewer than ninety-

cargoes of meat from New Zealand, ar-

The present movement has spread rapidly in Herzegovina and Montonegre, where the Austrian garrison had been reduced in order to furnish_reinforce ments for the Italian and Roumaniau fronts,

rived safely at their destination. Only one vessel, which happened to be carrying. the Clan Mactarish and she put up a a comparatively sinall cargo, was lost- gallant fight with the Gorman cruiser fucue.

It appears that three of these garri things which rendered Captain Bowen sons were massacred by the insurgents in Colthurst's conduct possible was largely Montenegro, and that numerous bands of caused by the unfortunate but inevitabis these are scouring Montenegro, Herze to the future, our flocks number Cammond, the only officer in the bar from Dalmatia and Pulo. absence (through illness] of Colonel Mesovine, and Northern Albania.

To quell the revolt troops were sent racks whom Captain Colthurst would not have considered himself at liberty

to ignore.

The officers in charge of the guard evokes such a proclamation, is not always were young men whe had recently left remembered. school, and, of necessity, were without Buch a proclamation does not, in military experience; and this fact, comitself, confer upon officers or soldiers any bined with Captain Culthurst's masterful now powers. It operates solely as a warn character and superior rank, docs much ing that the Government, acting through to excuse their failure to offer any effec the military, is about to taka suca tive opposition to his treatment of forcible and exceptional measures as may prisoners who were under their charge. be necessary for the purpose of putting down insurrection and restoring order. As long as the measures are necessary they might equally be taken without any proclamation at all.

A DISCREDITABLE: PROCEEDING.” No evidence as to the raid on Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington's house on Friday evening, April 28th, was tendered to us on behalf of the military, save that Major Rosborough denied that he had given any orders for it--a statement which we accept

have acted under.

roundly 30,000,000, SD we may safely -reckon being able to export at least 5,000,000 carcases-probably more-dur- ing the coming season. Of butter, too, our exports of which totalled roundly £4.000.000 last year, we hope to furnish a good supply, and our wool clip should be well up to the average both in quantity and quality."

DISCHARGED BEROES.

The employment of discharged soldiers now and Inter by settling them on the accorded British exports to New Zea land, the liberal preferential treatment land, and the prohibitive tax amounting to upwards of 50 per cent., which it is proposed to place on goods from Ger many after the war-these and other topics were touched on by the Prime Minister, whose parting words were

"In New Zealand, as in the rest of the Empire, the party hatchet is baried. win." We are all united in the single resolve to

TO SUFFER OR NOT TO SUFFER.

But still, we had marked our posi- tion by a novel type of buoy, and every moment we expected to hear the crash

The measures that are taken can only of a shell against the stern of the vessel

be justified by the circumstances then above us. But the stillness continued.

existing and the practical necessities of The screws no longer betrayed as; it

the case. Yet Miss Kelly told us that still twilight, and apparently the the raid, and it is impossible to suppose her brother's premises he warned those A large number of soldiers took part in when Captain Boven-Colthurst entered stroyer had troubles of its own in the that the facts as to it remained unknown present that as martial law had been Fough sea.

Nevertheless, we made all haste to to all not actually engaged in it, though proclaimed" he could shoot them' as he we cannot believe that the methods em-had shot someone in the street; Captain out of our awkward situation and,ployed were either authorised or approv Bowen Colthurst, in his second report on the vessel had remained watertighted. The discreditable character of the the shooting, claims ataustained no damage from the arine concussion, all went well. The proceeding is intensified by the circum-the belief that he was exercising powers It tanks, which were still partly filled stance that a few hours before, when in-conferred on him by martial law; and quiries were made at the barracks on we heard from the young officer who was in air, were flooded, and thus gradu- Mrs. Sheehy Sheffington's behalf, infor- left with Mr. Sheehy Skeffington at brought the boat into a more famation was refused by the officer no Portobello Bridge while Captain Bower Inible position.

It was not yet horizontal, for it had sponsible for her husband's death, who Colthurst weat forward that he saw bedded its nose very energetically in himself then headed the zaid.

nothing "strangs" in the order that he mud, but we were at least entirely

We think it right to say that, in our was to shoot Mr. Shoshy Skeffington in der water, and could undertake fur opinion, it is a circumstance highly re- the event of anything happening to grettable and most surprising that, after Captain Bowen-Colthurst's party three operations undisturbed Some of the events of Wednesday,

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speed at an angle of 38 in such Proclamation of martial law within the . United Kingdom has often been expound ugh sea, and striking the bottom, ed, but nevertheless, in the crisis which

to thank our wonderfully power- eel frame!

(Continued at foot of vert. Column.).

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