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HOW THE

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"T" BOAT BELIEVED HIT. Shortly after 6 o'clock this morning. (writes The Times correspondent at Marseilles on November 13th) the Mes sageries Maritimace stoamer Ernest Simon, with 30 survivors of the Arabia taken aboard at Malta, was signalled approaching. A launch was dispatched by M. Estrine, the P. &-0. agent, and the survivors were conveyed to the com pany's boat Sardinia until the special train which was to take them straight to Boulogne was ready. The passengers; especially the ladies, bore unmistakable marks of their terrible ordeal.

THE

A DAY IN FORT VAUX.

LIFE UNDERGROUND.

HASTY GERMAN FLIGHT.

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 1916.

KING OF BULGARIA, LONGING FOR PEACE.

Mr Karl Weigand cabled to the New York World last month a report of a three hours chat he had with King CORRESPONDENT WITH Ferdinand of Bulgaria, which, nezt THE FRENCH ARMY.]-

to his shorter chat with the Pope, ho describes as the most interesting con-

[FROM THE TIMES

FORT DE VAUX, Novober 8th. Now that the French lines are pushed out well in front of the Fort de Vaux, it is the turn of the Germits to bombard it and the district round it, and they do, with very little breathing space, night and day.

They have been at it now for the last four hours, since daylight began, and at present there seems very little prospect of getting out of the fort and back to Verdun without running a good chance of unpleasant consequences.

versation of his jonmalistic career. Together, in King Ferdinand's "simple, democratic home, they chatted of the pence of the world, the correspondent suggesting that peace might come from the East even as in the old days the but the King, Prince of Penso came, looking furtively around the reception room and peering from the palace win dows, replied that for the present he saW no sign of peace.

ENGERMAN SLAVE RAIDS. CARDINAL MERCIER'S EXPOSURE.

APPEAL TO CIVILIZED WORLD.:

AMSTERDAM, November 13th.. Cardinal Mercier's open letter of protest to the civilized world on behalf of the Belgian Bishops against the slave-

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* But now" (be adds) "all sound men are taken away without distinction. They are packed into good trucks and carried

slaves." of We know not whither, like a gang of

Peace, yes, we all want it; but when The feeling is rather ignominious, and where ? Show me where lg-the man Inside the fort the conditions are far less who can make peace." The King shook dangerous than, say, at the Marble Arch his head, and then, turning sudden to crossing. Accidents, of course, do hap- the Crown Prince Boris, asked, Can

"In the roof of a gallery 30 yards you see penos in sight, my son ?" "* pen. from this room, or rather this crynt, there

Prince Boris lighted a cork-tippef is a symmetrical round hole open to the. Mr. Prentar, of the Indian Civil Serzky, made by French 400 shell during cigarette, and confessed that he saw vicë, gave your Correspondent the follow the German occupation. More recently nothing doing in the peace document,

than that & sous-oficier has just come in Prince Boris apparently was rather bored The naked truth is this: ing nccount of the outrage:

to report to mon capitaine that one man with the entire trend of affairs, and haa been slightly wounded at the en-looked to Wiegand for a way out, trance, and another in one of the observa- both father and son Wiegand speaks in tion posts, which for the moment is hors very complimentary terms generally de combat. As the position of every stick King Ferdinand is the cleverest ruler and stone in the fort is accurately known in Europe, and Prince Boris need fear to the enemy, it is to be expected that no comparison with any other heir to they should sometimes get a shot home. throne of equal years.

"I was playing bridge. I had a desperately bad hand, and my opponent started off with the declaration No trumpa.

I was saved the difficulty of replying by the noise of an explosion followed by the sound of breaking glass. The first thing that struck me was the entire absence of panic. The ladies were mostly wearing Gieve waistcoats. Look- ing out to sea, I saw the welcome smoke of three steamers. As we stood there. I think the most pathetic thing of all was the ebbing out of the ship's lifeblood. All the engines had stopped except one, which went plunk, plank, slower and slower, till it too was spent.

"Meanwhile boats were being lowered. The first seemed to fall from the davits and it capsized immediately. Exactly the sane thing happened to the second boat. All who should have been in boats one and two were marshalled off to number three, but few other than women and children got into it. This left the men Two rafts were to shift for themselves. thrown overboard. I had my eye on one and went down the rope ladder, but found the raft too far off, so had to swim We all for it, and was pulled aboard. took it in sporting spirit We shrieked with laughter at our plight. I noticed, too, when the shock caro that many men lit cigarettes. As we east eyes over the sen we agreed it looked like a pienic. The son was like a mirror, and the sun shining. The caplain came off in a bont undly splintered by the explosion. The City of Marseilles very pluckily cam up and stood by, but our captain shoute to the ship to clear as quickly as possibl or it would share the fate of the Arabia, The City of Marcille, held on till she bad picked up thres boatloads.

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GERMAN EXCUSEB EXPOSED.

After exposing German treachery, German breach of repeated promises and solemn undertakings, and after disprov Ing, one by one, the lying excuses and explanations offered by the modern slave drivers, Cardinal Mercier says:→→

Every workman taken from Belgium means one Ofaoldier more for the German Army. Ho. is intended to take the place of a German workman, out of whom a soldier is to be made. So that the situation which we now expose to the civilized world comes to this. Four hundred thousand workmen have fallen victims to unemployment. against their will, and, for the most part, as the result of the German régime of occupation.

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Troops of soldiers force their way that they were not driven from it, but left almost a worshipper, of the great and into these pogr homes, tear the young it because they did not want to stay there.marvellous George Washington; and The answer to that lie--or one of the alluded to his two brothers, who have went from their parents, bashard from answere--is in this room, written on a been in the United States a good deal, as wife, father from his children. They serap of paper which will not be torn up, fanatical Americans. But Ferdinand guard with bayonets the doors through It is a memoradum, signed You Eagel found what to hun was an incomprehen- which wives and mothers desire to run brochten," left behind by the Germans, sible gulf between what he termed the and bid a inet farewell to those taken and dated October 19th, 1918. It contains principles of Washington, and what ho from them. Soldiers separate the pris the preliminary instructions for the or- ganization of the fort and the ground characterised as the principles involved in onera into groups of 40 or 50, and lead immediately round it, which were to in-the dual attitude of America to-day them by force into goods trucks. The olude, the installation of barricades for humanitarianism on the one side and engine atands under steam, and when the

signal for departure, and once more &FATHER TUCK'S HAPPY HEART SERIES interior defence in sections, the construc- the prolongation of the war on the other, train is full the superior officer gives the tion of a new surtie, the completion of Wo expected the Prince of Peace from thousand Belgians are carried off into the underrgound passage-burrowed to the New World. We looked to America, slavery and, without formalities are length of only 10 yards when they hur- to that grand nation and great people condemned to the hardest punishment riedly left-which was intended to join of George Washington, to produce the known to punitive legislation-namely, up with one of their communication Prince of Pence who would lead man and deportation. They know neither where they trenches, and the erection of barbed wire exhausted Europe back into the path of are going nor for how long. All they defences, all to be carried out by a com pany of pioneers, 30 men of the garrison,pe, civilisation, and culture. The know is that they work is to profit the world has been disappointed. Penoo-- and-a enrions" touch-company 01 yes; who does not desire penes ? But cyclists. (It is not a good country for when and how? And where is the man bieyeling.)

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Cardinal Mercier eads by reminding of the memorandum, only five days before the French came back into their own. Ultimately I was put aboard

Though an idealist. by nature, cables the civilized world of the great Cardinal trawler on which were about 160 rescued. There is not the faintest doubt that the We set off in a calm sea for Malta, 270 enemy left because they found that the the World correspondoat, King Ferdin-Lavigeria's campaign against slavery, and and to-day strikes one as no illusionist. concludes: May God Almighty's Pro- miles away. The first few hours were place was too hos to hold them. by no means unpleasant, but after night- When the present garrison made their He is what the Germans call a real vidence inspire all that exercise authority, all the command the spoken word, all fall the sea grew rough. Every wave entry into the fort on the night of Novem-politiker.!*

that can employ the pen, to range them Another cable to the World to-day gives selves about our humble Belgian fing for swept the trawler from stem to stern. Wober 2/3--there is a certain poetic justice had fow wraps, and most of us lay with in the fact that they belong to the same a Wiegand interview with tho Prime the abolition of European slavery; and Card Box containing drenched clothes till we reached Malta regiment which tried to relieve it in June, Minister of Bulgaria, M. Radoslavoff, in may the conscience of mankind triumpb

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was still holding it, six days after the which the Minister, like King Ferdinand, over all sophisms and remain steadfastly On the first afternoon the crew of the trawler gave us a good meal of stew, but Germans announced that it had been enlarged upon the role America might true to the mighty word of St. Ambrose, Honour above all. Nihil praeferendum From a wonderful a nation, from honestati."""" that exhausted their supplies, and from taken they found, besides the mongrel play in bringing about pence, e

The frontier correspondent of the that moment we subsisted on ship's dog, now a member of the officers' mess,

which was its only live inhabitant, 1,000 80, great and peaceful a people (he biscuits. More than half the survivors bottles of mineral water, 3,000 tins of said) I had looked for more energetic Telegraaf describes the arrival of slave on tite trawler were women and children. One passenger must have saved the lives preserved meat, & million rounds of efforts to bring Europe to its senses. Is trains at Welkenraedt, on the German of several women. He was indefatigable machine-gun and rifle ammunition, a there real will and earnestness in the frontier, whence they proceeded to Aix in carrying them to the driest spet and huge stock of grenades, and a couple of professed peace movement in America? la Chapelle,

mitrailleuses. Certainly none of these How does a league for the enforcement of The description shows that the men seeing that they were as comfortable as

would have been left behind if the evacua peace after this is over help were snatched from their occupations just possible. He never rested, and smoked tien had been as deliberate and leisurely humanity and civilisation to day? Wo as they were. Thus a butcher boy WES his nipo the whole time, too."

as the enemy pretend. Nor would their want something definite to-day."

stiff in his white apron, farm labourers The Minister alluded to the sacrifices were still in mud-covered clogs from the efforts to blow the fort up before their tive as they were.

to fight for five years,

hewing wood. Large numbers of men CONSTIPATION IS DANGEROUS were seized although they were in full because it poisons the system, causing work, and the Germans said that they sick headaches, hiliousness, torpid liver,

bad complexion, disordered digestion. were taking only the unemployed.

NO WARNING GIVEN..

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Another passetiger, an officer, said that departure have been as futile and ineffec made by: Bulgaria, and her preparedness field, and others were taken whilst i

when they heard the explosion everybody Enew exactly what it meant and what to do.

STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE FORT But over and above all this internal evidence, the position of the place is so impotent that obviously aothing but force majeure could have led to its In the first place, from abandonment the various loopholes of its defensive armament you look directly upon Douan-

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On January 1 this year these tanks con tained 66,250 tons of petrol, 65,000 tons of lamp oil, 30,000 tons of fuel oil and lubricating oils, and 15,000 tons of dis- tillate (unfinished lamp oil). About

Roumania had tankaga here. The Steaua Romana (German, controlled by the Deutsche Bank) held 65,000 tons capacity. The Astra, an offshoot of the Royal The Datch and Shell, had 40,000. Standard Oil group, represented by the Romano-Americans, had 25,000.

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"We had already had two practices, and nobody waited for the blast from the horn. Just as I reached the other side of this chip I heard our own gun fire, and

Misa Norah Desmond Hackett, head of saw the submarine partly emerged. The shell from our gua struck the water so mont, Souville, and Tavannes; it was the Women's Emergency Canteens for close to the submarine that it appeared therefore all-important for long as, they General-in-Chief with the Croix de for the Germans Soldiers in France, was decorated by the to hit it. The gun crew thought so too. The shell made a big splash, and when could. But a further circumstance, the Guerre at Compiègne, on October 30th. The work of the Dames Anglaises the water subsided the submarine had lie of the land, makes its occupation vanished. It was two to three hundred especially valuable to the French, and is known and revered throughout the yards away. This was immediately after therefore, pari pase, to the enemy. the explosion of the torpedo, so, as a sub- North of Douaumont the Heights of the whole of France (says The Times Paris marine appeared after, everybody had Meuse still continue; in a succession of correspondent). Everywhere in the rear taken to the boats, the inference is that parallel ridges, running roughly cast and of the fighting line their generous devo

But east of tion is proverbial. Earn, loft, cellar, any either there were two submarines or else west one behind the other. only the periscope had been knocked Vaux there is nothing but the flat marshy corner is accepted and transformed into away, and that the crew had replaced it expanse of La Woevre, stretching as far a haven of rest for weary poilus, straight as the eye can see, with pools of water with a spare one, I am absolutely cer- tain that no warning was given by the gleaming on it in all directions.

The fort stands at the extremity of one submarine. Splendid order and dis cipline prevailed among the crow, the of the many parallel ridges which stretch only exception being that my boat was out, like the fingers of a hand laid upon On that filled by Lascars, who lowered it right a fist surface, into the plain.

20,000 tons of capacity was empty. Most GRASSHOPPER away without waiting to fill it with pas-plain the enemy troops will pass a most sengers. I was particularly struck by the damp, moist, and unpleasant winter, at his dispensary, like the whole fort, incoercion of labour for their own subject,of the large oil companies operating in calm heroism of the women, who quietly a much greater distance from the French the filthy condition of a pig-sty and one and that for

munitionat " waited till seen into the boats. We un lines than the positions which they still of its scanty cupboards stocked with doubtedly owe it to the calm sea that are able to hold in front of Douaumont Japanese tissue-paper instead of cotton- Strategically, therefore, the capture of wool), and the engineer-lieutenant who is there was no loss of life."

to the looking after the structural repairs and Yaux was even more nécessary French than that of Douaumont,

alterations. That is the feeling, no doubt, which

This last member of the mess, a parti- makes the present garrison so cheery and cularly good specimen of the hard bitten, contented, in spite of the exposure of daring, cheery race of men by whom the their position. Except at short periods French Army is largely officered, was the of the day and night, which are necessari- first man into the fort, and over an ex- ly irregular and unknown, they cannot cellent extemporised lunch, one of the put their noses outside the fort without hors d'œuvres of which was some very running serious risks, and the problem of palatable potted meat left behind by the supplies is difficult and dangerous. But enemy, be told something of the feelings that will soon be altered, and even now with which he plunged into the pitch there is no sort of question of shortage. black darkness of its vaults, not knowing They go about their work in the long whether the German wireless announce dark passages, lit only by occasionalment of its evacuation was only a trap, candles, joking and singing. They sleep and cutting every wire that he came across when and where they eao, either in ex for fear of hidden mines. There was, temporized bunks or on the steps of the Lowever, as we know now, no trap, and steep staircases that burrow deep into the what mines there were had been hastily ground between the various galleries. laid that they were quite ineffective. But sleeping is not easy,

We may be sure, too, that, ezpased an the fort is, this bilwark of the Hauts de Meuse will not again easily fall into the enemy's hands, bombard they never so hotly, for the spirit of Commandant arnall, whose gallant defence induced the Germans to give him back his sword. his fallen on every one of its defenders" and every one of the men whose less show business it is to bring up its sup- plies.

The captain's straps were toru off so bhat he should escape identification should the Germans attempt to capture the ship..

An American passenger on board the Arabia gives the following account of the disaster-

"I am quite certain no warning of any kind was given, the submarine's periscope was not seen before the ship was hit. The sea was quite calm, and evidently the submarine had been lying in wait. The ship remained afloat nearly an hour and half. There was no panic. The Euro- pean crew and the passengers behaved splendidly.

CONSTANZA'S WEALTH. WHERE 180,000 TONS OF OIL WERE

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The Credit Petrolifer, which in spite of . Constanza contained at the time just its French name is controlled by the great preceding its capture nearly 200,000 tons German oil group known for brevity's of petrol, lamp oil, fuel and lubricating sake as the D.E.A., had 35,000 tons of

TO END SCIATICA oils. A great deal of this, the petrol tankage here; and there were other small-

Constanza was, in pesce seems too good to be true, don't it! It especially, belonged to the Allies, who er companies.

time, the bought it at an earlier stage of the war

port from which nearly all tank is good to be save, but it's true, TOO. LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM- when Roumania was refusing to supply steaners carrying petroleum from Rou

mania took their cargo. The Roumanian soothes the stabbing, biting norgest our enemies with this fuel

This was a great financial sacrifice by Government had just finished laying a Roumania; and the Allies acquired at a pipe line 200 miles long from the oilfields Brings instant relief to pain and one- relief. fair price much of the petrol then in to the port, for the easy transport of tinued use bringe permanen

Tako a little in your hand and rub in stock in the country. It was intended to petroleum. This pipe line is peculiar, permit this to remain in storage till thein that it consists of three separate pipes where the pain is. The pain is there no Allies could secure its removal from Hou one ten inches in diameter for crude oil, Many thousands of aufførere have already mania, and much of it was in the tanks and each five inches in diameter, for blazed the path in using this miraculons. at Constangs. The obvious course of the two grades of relined lamp oil

Roumania has other large stocks of oil remedy. To-day they boast about their probably be to set fire to or otherwise in sad near the oilfields about Ploeshti, good health and freedom from pain You will be able to boost yourself, destroy the stocks of oil of various kinds; in Mid-Roumania. but details as to this are lacking. The But if the Central Powers have succeed. LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM will do

the work enemy communiqués in reporting the ed in obtaining arg of the Constanza oil,

it will be extremely welcome to them, as Bold at 18, 4d. per bottle. booty taken mention only men and guns, 180,000 TONS OF DIL

is will be to their ally Turkey, to which The principal portion of the oil at Con-supplies can be taken coastwise from Can- stanza was contained in 39 circular closed start small vessels keeping close in

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

"We entered the boste and got on to rafte, the women and children first, and then we gave three cheers for the captain, followed by

In the officers' meis, furnished only

Roumanians in evacuating the town would Are we down-hearted" which was greeted with a tremendous with a deal table and four extremely hard No! Trawlers appeared and took us sleeping bunks there is, a continual va e aboard. The trawler I was in brought wient of messages for or from the com ns to Malta, packed like sardines. The mandant (who has not had his clothes sea became rough and tire weather cold. off for more than a month), the aumonier For 36 hours the women and children (a very military chaplain who celebrated suffered badly, especially as

food was his first High Mass in the fort last Sun- limited. Great kindness was shown to as day), the chief medical officer (who found at Malta.

(Continued at Jout of nest Calumu)

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