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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1017.

HOW KRIPPS WAS BOMBED. WHENKHAKI IS UNWELCOME THE VALUE OF MACHINERY

FRENCH AIRMAN'S THRILLING

FLIGHT.

SOLDIERS" WIVES OBJECT TO

OBJECTORS,

TO ESSEN AND BACK;

The people of Lewes, still barning with resentment at the billeting on the Lieutenant Daucourt, who, with Cap town of 100 members of the Non Combat- tain Beauchamps, recently few to Essenant Corps, have heard with relief that and back and bombed the famous Krupp thers in a chance of the conscientious Works, contributes to the Daily Chronicle objectors being segregated in the work- this thrilling story of his daring exploit. house, wrtes & correspondent of the How I bombed Essen? Indeed, it Daily Mail, under date of September was very simple, as you will see by these 14th. extracts of my log-book, where I consign-

The plain fact at Lewes is that ed some of my impressions during my soldiers wives and mothers or other journey. I would remind you first that relatives cbject to making beds and two French seroplanes, one piloted by preparing meals for conscientions ob Captain Beuchamps, the other by me,

jectors... effected the raid.

*The workhouse may not hold more Although the distance to be covered was pretty nearly 500 miles it was not to than 300 persons comfortably," said a I haul in extensive train-member of the local council vestern, frighten me. ing or seven years, and have always been hit early in the war it had to give w specialist of long distance Bying, as accommodation to 800 Lancashire witness my participation in the Circuit miners, mill hands, and the like--who de Paris (400 miles), La Coupe Pomery, volunteered for service at the first call 1912 (540 miles). Paris-Berlin, in, 2013 I fear that many of those heroes have (000 miles), and my great journey Paris since been killed or maimed. What was Vicuna Budapest-Bucharest-Varna-Con- good enough for them ought to be stantinople-Ionin-Adana, and hnally sufficient for the objectors in "khaki." Syria (over 3,000 miles),

NOBODY LOVES THEM,

11 a.m. My friend Beauchamps has

The conscientious objectors walk just gone mil I followed two minutes

and threes, later. One thousand yards up, 2,000-about the town in twos 3,000 we keep on getting higher and high detached from the rest of humanity, By or. The weather is clear with just a few people on whom they are not billeted clouds over 2000 ft. The air is distinctly they are regarded with curiosity sa cold.

though they were freaks of nature.

Some people find it hard to remain silent, and the objectors are assailed a soldier long, with, "Have you been sir?" or Why don't you wear your medals?" Other peiple give them un- mistakable glances of ridicule or tempt.

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IN WAR

WITS MUST BE USED AND RISKS DARED FOR QUICKER ENDING OF WAR

BY WINSTON CHURCHILL

Mr. Churchill wrote the following article in the New Tork Times to remove misconceptions caused by certain com ments he had made on the Jutland Battle, but the importance of the article lies in which Mr. the suggestive method in Churchill developes his these and applies it to the land war. His position may be summarized thus: () The dominant strategir fact of the naval war is that the British fleet delivers a continuous attack

the vital interests of

Germany, Germany produces no whereas

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ponding effect on England, The strategic compulsion to fight battle is on Germany (2) Gomany having decided to suffer rather than fight, Sir John Jellicoe fought the Battle of Jutland became considered his superiority justified him in facing the disadvantages of fighting off The event profed the enemy's coasts. him right. (3) But since the enemy will not fight a decisive battle, even when it is offered off his own coasts, other methods must be sought, though nothing must be done to jepardise the solid nd vantages of England's main and primary positions. Then Mr. Churchill goes on to discuss the land problem.

Every day since the war began events have occurred which justified the largest The great type ever used in printing. facts energe gradually, but noue the less Looking around, little unmistakably. that is definite can be discerned. Look- ing back, even from no great distance, the true features of the stupendous panorama stare you in the face. We see them now stretching back like a range of mountain peaks to those far-off lands of August and September, Anno Domini 1914.

limitations. For the rest, there is only the heroism of the soldiers and the rath- less character of the wars

In these conditions, it is clear that only the absence of other possbilities have thrown the armies in the west back upon frontal attacks.

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"It is worth looking a little more ntr- rowly at the German attack upon Ver- dun, which was described as the anvil attack The power of the artillery to kill men, and by killing men to wear down armies, is limited only by difficulty Therefore, it of finding men to kill. seems very important to discover those spots which the enemy feels bound to bold at all costs, and make him expose his divisions one after another to be battered to pieces upon them."

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He may

Also, it is clearly necessary threaten these spots with infantry, so as to force the enemy to hold them with numbers. But it should be recognised that once the energy has been compelled to place himself in this situation, the next step is to kill him there. just as well be killed there as anywhere. else. In so far as the Germans in their attack on Verdun applied this method, they inflicted most serious and formid- able injury upon the French; but when carried away by the desire to gain quick-

certain particular pieces of ground they launched heavy mass attacks, they er scale than the defenders, and they themselves began to suffer an a far great threw away the proût which their shrewd- by conceived form of attack had at one time and in certain phases given them.

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APPETITE AND HEALTH.

Loss of appetite is a sure sign of ill- health

12 a.m.-I am full over the Bocho lines, We are seen and the anti-aircraft guns start a enrtain fire a little forward but too high. The white puffs of the 77 make A line of smoke which I have got to cross Boon the shots become more and more numerous. 30 shots at least must have been fired is a few minutes. Time after

They parade near the railway station time I get right into the smoke of the bursting shells, and I can hear pieces of every morning at least, it isn't exactly Oh the parade; they just get together," said steel whistle near, very neat. Boche zunter rectifies its range, Put railway chcial-- while three or he is too for now, so I go higher still, four gangs are taken by train to work some ruiles away the others are escorted and I pasa....

Now there are shots on my left, which for drill to a remote part of the downs. seawaid fank: Tammenberg: the Serbian to their prestige and the surrender of tite fails.

Lewer has been found a very conveni- They are cnt centre by some of them. able to attend the gatherings of Ply- mouth Brethren, which are held there regularly. They used to travel long distances for that purpose.

ATTICKED BY ENEMY AIRMAN,

It is usually assumed that the Germans will be able to relieve themselves of pres- sure in the west and reduce the strain by what is called shortening the fine At a certain moment it is thought there will be a general retirement to a new sant straightor line saving, perhaps a hun- dred miles of front and releasing 500,000 men. But this view ought not to be too readily accepted. It is by no means cyi- dent that any substantial relief will crue to the Germans from such a retire- ment and contraction, while the injury Buslaconquered territory will be a most serious disadvantage. Broadly speaking, the struggle in the west is between 9,800,000 Germans and 3,500,000 French and Bri- tish,

The Gorman invasion and victoria; the salvation of Paris; the struggle for the

Warsaw; morale; Przemysl Champagne; Ferdinand of Bulgaria; Verdan; Brussiloff and nearest of all, towering and beedling above our beads shrouded in darknes and storm the giant battle in Picardly which history calls the Somme.

But although we are still so close to this slopendous episod that it is in its general mass under what has been called a fales angle of vision, there are some features which can already be discerned and appreciated. The sombre difficulty of the task and the brilliant achievements of the troops leap oat to us in vivid

Let juxtaposition.

136 theasure the achievement by the difficulties.

In the old ware of Marlborough and Frederick and Napoleon the differences between the offensive and the defensive

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burst with black stocke. 105 calibre shells. This is getting mow serious point toward the eft 8hots get mirer, slightly, and, all of a sudden, I go 90

These immense armies are locked degrees to the loft and drop straight

in conflict with each other, They can towards the ground for 300 ft. The game

bring their maximum power to bear upon is finished and the gunners done. Out of

The glands that secrete the each other equally well on a 350 mile i spile they shoot all over the place, and the shells burst now at the back of me

front. If the Germans. by shortening digestive fluids are strengthened, not. It looks as I was going to get out of 2 o'clock. The sentry of the works

their line, save 300.000 men, the same merely stimulated, and you once more. trouble without much difficulty.... pass. I drop my torpedoeg in rapid sue

process will liberate at the same moment enjoy a good appetite Looking forward about 700,000 French and British troops will pleasure to meal time is the first Now where is my friend? I cannot secession. My friend who is over me and

now opposite them. These sign of returning health, strength and him. Has he been brought down? Has little on the left drops his ako.

guess, more than I can exactly see, as I

who are

he changed his line!

am so very high, that underneath in the

700,000 pen would be pressed into the vitality. works the people suffer from a sort of

attack on one of the existing battle fronts, or alternatively a new battle front madness There are rushes of people

will be opened, and the 500,000 Germans A little ander me can see a big, at soon hidden by elonds of smoke which

saved" will be required yellow plain. - Black crosses! It's arise fran many point. Nearly at the

who had been. Boche. Another one follows very near centre it seems that there is a formidable

to meet their old antagonists in somewhat The distans between us is about 600 feet, explosion, followed by intense fire. What

diverent circumstances.

Wir is a struggle of armies. How the a joy to have attained one's ním. but they in much slower than I am. Clac-clacne. It is Mr. Boche open

Krupp has been bombed, in full day and its drawbacks. But, broadly speak lines ace drawn, where exactly they ran ing fire. The short bursts of his machine- gun keep capitating. The brute does light, in spite of its anti-aircraft guns, army of sixty or seventy, thou-whether they are long lines or Elort lines, wo shoot badly. Shall I engage him in and of its planes. I suppose that now sand men had no hesitation in attacking whether they are straight or serpentine will do well to begin a course of The malt not only has food value, but is, of

an army of fifty or sixty thousand; and does not, within certain limits, affert the Tore are now, perhaps, two a fight! It is really very tempting. Bat the Beches must be mad with fury and there are many instances where succesful problem. Do, Essen my only torget, and I have will try to chase us

attacks upon troops of equal quality great concentrations on the western front Verdun and the Somme. If the front have been made by skilled Generals with a smaller army. Then came the improve were contracted by a hundred miles, meat in firearms; and already, in the probably a third or fourth would de- The essential character of the American civil war, at Fredericksburg, velop at Gettysburg, at Cold Harbour and conflict would remain unaltered. Here elsewhere we begin to see the arrest of the they would fight spread out in long, thin offensive by bre. Thus, in 1870, frontal lines. Then and there and here again attacks were hardly ever the means of they will be battering at each other like victory, and the German method of gain-rams. It will be the same struggle be ing lattice was wen to consist mainly tween the same combatants. in the strength of large turning or en Further, the longer the defensive lines veloping

by very strong the less concentrated is the artillery of forces,

the attack.

Never mind, my mission has been fulfilled, 1 will fight Ienemy planes if they come.

no right to compromise, by a passing en- gagement, the success of our raid. open my engine right out, and lose soon. Here I am again over Dusseldorf, As 1 fly over Treves I but not going so fast as in coming. The any aggressors

hich has wered, bampers met just distinguished on my left the outline wind, of another plane. It is getting nearer A quick verification of my oil and petrol and neare. The san prevents me from tanks. All is well. I can keep up for swing it tharly, although I seem to re another six hours. The clouds get denser cognise the silhouette of my companion's and denser. There is at some moments machine. No doubt it is him, I can now a thick mist. which veils, completely the se his blue white and red cocarde. And ground. My only gaido is now the cam all of a sudden I feel very happy. One pass, &.S.W. is so very lonely up there, very very high A little mor I change my direction and go straight worth, leaving Coblenz on my loft. Far in front of me I can

The Rhine. it a small grey ribbon. looks henyliful from up here. Somehow my confidence increases every Sure, everything will go well.

ver the right bank. On the river many long conwys of barges go up towards Coblenz. If only I did not have a con signment of bombs to deliver. I should go down to gan them. It is funny how #trong thee temptations are.

minute, I cross

were small.

Each had its advantages

movements

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AFTER-THE-WAR SHIPPING. Proposals to be laid before all the Prime Ministers of the Empire by the Executive Committee, British limperial Chamber of Commerce, include:-

Ton-for-ton as part of peace terms. Lower charges m British ports for Bri- tish-owned ships and for ships of Allies and neutrals in proportion to the privi leges these countries give to British ships. Double dues in British ports for enemy shipping,

Inter-British trade in British or Allied ships as far as possible,

Here are the sharp prongs of thought: Either an effective method whereby three men can advance continually against two, or a war of sheer extermination. Every year 600,000 German youths reach the military age..

Until this annual increase

the talks about 130 miles an hour. Soon the two others are only black spots. | the contrary, their power has increasing outflanked or overlooked In fact he been consumed-and every life costs

Here in Bonn. My friend and co rider is still on my right. My engine keeps on turning merrily, and I marvel

Have wounded my opponent ? at the care with which I have direred these first 200 kilometres. A quick caldon't think so, as he seems to be flying calation shows me that we are going at straight again, but very much lower

good speed, The weather is cold ut here. My thermometer shows 16 degrees below zero. To try and get warm Infove Bus and legs as much as I can that camped space. A few drops of nermin which I drink warm. My inskie and tool ing mouth,

As I am browsing, some explosions thunder louder than the noise of my All the theory of modern war, as taught

Always remember this is war of engine I turn right round, so that the in the nineties, dvelt on the holding of Boche gunner losses the range. Bub as

an chemy closely in front till superiories of amies representing the life energies of nations, and it will be decid- I turn I see 1,500 or 2,000 ft, under me forces had overlapped and threatened toed only by the killing and cowing of men, three loche planes tho are giving chase. Burround him; and in the Boer war it It is not a war of positions. There are

Their machines are as fast as mine but was held a crime to make a frontal at-

no vital and decisive keys. There are no as oo as they try to go up they lose tack, on account of the severity of the strategic points, which, even occupied, ground. I slacken for a few seconds and fire anil the feats inevitably eurred; paralyze the resistance of large forces of going straight towards the most forward These ideas received their largest and

the cherry, There are no railway juachould look for something else. We can of them, I serve him at about 150 yards intest application in the war between tions around which deviations cannot be

not be content to leave the riddle here. with three burst of my machine-gun. Russia and Japan. All the great battles made in a short time. There are Unnerved, be prefers not to engage a of that war were simple adaptations of heights which dominate larger areas of fight and flies towards the left. But the the German method of 1970 upon a much

country. Trench warfare has robbedi others are attacking me from the lack. It greater scale.

even the topography of the actual bat- is time to go.

What has happened to alter this slowly tlefield of mnich, if not all, its old tactical Imatured, profoundly studied, universally significance. Almost way positions can

held opinion or Rh hard facts upch

he defended by entrenchments and held which it rested? Certamy it is not any at a certain increased rental, in spite of diminution of the power of firearms. On

at least a life no progress has been made one is only to look along the western lines

toward the final exhaustion of the capi- The chase has lasted over 20 minutes, by leaps and bouds, Improvements in to see examples of every kind of Man-

tel. It is only the excess loss shove tho and I have got a real stiff neck, so often weans of all kinds, improvements 12 tonable position, according to old ideas, did I turn round....

It is their use, the magazine rifle, the automa-being held month after truth, almost annual increment which constitutes de-

finite progress toward the end. tie rifle, the machine-gun in all is formis year after year, by both sides.

ssary, therefore, if the extermination. ani in undreamed of numbers, barbed

This is a war of machinery, General-plan is followed that the pace of the wife, entrenchments of marvellous cau ning have multiplied several times the ship in this war consists largely in the struggle should be urged to the extremo application of machinery to men. The in order that the period may be shortened. power of the defence by firearms

way to win the war is to beat men by For instance, if the war so languished The fire which arrested decisively the machinery. The way to lose the war is that not more than 600,000 Cermans wore Japore frontal attack at Liso Yang to try to bead machinery by man. Wher- destroyed or disabled in any one year and blasted away their furious ssults on ever your entry is forced to oppose flesh there would be no reason why their sup Port Arthur, was child's play to the fire and blood to steel and fire, you are gain-ply of men should ever run shert. The through which the British assaults on the ing. Wherever you have to rely on flesh pace of the struggle has already forced Somme have been pushed forward. and blood to resist steel and fire you are them to add largely to the number of This is the abrow dent taxt by their divisions. The German armies in What, then, are the new facts? There losing. appear to be three. First, the extraor which to try all operations on the western ponse to the strains of 1916 Lavo been dinary development of massed artillery, front. whether offensive or defensive, by greatly augmented, and it is probable particularly heavy artillery, with unima, or by the enemy. The ma fund is that their field catablishment comprises agined quantities of shell; seconilly, the large, but it is limited. It cannot honorly 223 divisions, compared with indifference to loss of life exhibited by all replenished. "Il faut menager les perhaps 180 at the beginning of the year, the nations engulfed in Armageddon, kommes."

Each division is a lamp burning upon the and, thirdly, the devotion and super-

Here is a bullet flying through the air. fuel of national life, or it is a tap through huma courage of the troops.

It is only a bit of metal in motion, Here which the manhood of Germany bleeds After five How far have these facts affected the are the ribs and lungs and heart of way; The more numerous the divisions, the more rapid the exhaustion of men, minutes of waiting some people come run-conclusions about modern defensive fire soldier who is also a son, a Hrisband, s ning towards me, peasants. I shout to which had been so generally accepted father. The two meet in collision. But gun, azamnition, clothing, books, equip

ment, medicines, of wealth and power in Where am before the war I have called attention it is an unequal content.

The ribs and ita kores.

The Yordun blunder, the exctories of

Now I have been up six hours. Time drags dreadfully. My eyes hurt, and I suffer from the cold. Evidently I am over Belgium now. But where I must know, I come down, engine stopped. How sweet is that silence after six hours of tempest!

Four thousand feet; it is low though.

Underneath the Rbine and still noro boats. Now we pass a town which eems enormous. It is Cologne. What a splendid target it would make But there are women, children, old people,

6.30-I carmot stand it any more, I and I am soldier, not a pirate. I must am coming down, 7.000 ft., 5,000 ft., 1,000 only aim at destroying the military ft. I sannot hear the guns any more. power of the enemy.

But what are them? Biviouaca. Am 1 Now I point straight towards Dussel- in France? I keep on for another quar dorf. Tut all the district disappears ter of an hour, going south, and finally under a pool of smoke. What an extra-alight in an immense field, far from a ordinary agglomeration of works! Here village. If I am on the territory invaded are Solligen, Elberfeld. Barmen, black by the Germans I'll By away under their

antry criss-crossed by innumerable rail-nose. way lines and with hundreds of high chimneys like guns, pointing to the sky Down the s tremendous amount of arms of all soil. guna, munitions, etc., all to be directed against us. are produced with a tremend activity.

ESSER AT LAST!

considered as the heart of Germany, over

start again in case of alert. I have kept I am at the end of the field, ready to

my engine turning slowly.

them at the top of my voice, 17 "At Champaubert,'

me.

What a joy is mina newer recently to some of the conditions and the rest have been made for many par

I am inimitations of the latest form of the artil-proses, some of which are important, but Fast last. I am over what has been Frame, back, after having succeeded in lory attack-bow. overwhelming it was stopping bullet is not one of them. The Brusilor the entry of Roushis, the the town which stands as the symbol of what seemed to me an impossible enter upos the troops and areas subjected to bullet, on the other hand, is made for trendous pressure of the Bomme offen

prise

it but how ponderous and slow moving one purpose alone-namely, to pierce the ive have extorted these now intense exer- brutal arcs. Where or ars the

i in Krapp's works? There, at the west of the My notes finish here. There is anyhow and how considerably it could be miti burns behind them. That le il sole voes my

spplication and how local in action said rib, sad extinguish the file that ions and increased expenditure from the And Le should not be supposed town How large they are! The whons little to add. I jumped from my and buildings between which trains are machine, but my legs were so sumbed gated by an elasticity of defence which tion. "Ah," but it is said, add courover if the Allies can and no letter way allowed for a certain limited sin of age, devotion, discipline, training to the of winning than by the erada processes of running sem innumerable. •The·nt. that for some time they would not any

ground I have shown also that it soldier. The bullet has nous of these exhaustion and extermination that, they tempts to disguise it are indeed foolish, port me. However, after a few minutes, It is the most perfect target one can im. I felt quite well again, and, cheered reaches its aximum intensity in caça Quite true, but courage, deration dis are not able and not renty to tread that where the defenders, as at Verdun, are cipline, and training do not alter the terrible road. But the obligation to seek ngine

Now I suppose I am sing in the ebo by the villagers, who had arrived resolved not to fall, an mich hat where, woeful inequality of the contest between Saskter methods is imperative on the chiefs he “stered:** I look here and there for in large numbers. I left again to repast by continual unter-attacks and the the bullet and the ribs Precious of the Allies a generalship content bursting shells. Nothing. They nim ton to my chiefs, and heard that my friend pouring in of sew troops, they stride these quslubs are, they are of no avail Javier, However, sora very violent water had arrived quite safely, and landed with the utmost desperdid to hell and there. Indeal, too ofter they only multi- of air, of which I do not understand the about 60 miles from me. My kappiness regain their fixed positions No one ply the opportunities for the ballet to cause disturb for a moment my bombing was then complete

must underrate the terrific power of the engage in its unequal duet. Surely we preparations.

artillery development as a new means of l offence; but neither must they forget fiontinued at foot of nest Column.)

(Continued at foot of next Eoluran.)

And now. Mr. Krupp, to the pleasure of weing you again soon.

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