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THE HONGKONG DADY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 1917.

WEATHER REPORT.

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BRITAIN'S WILL TO WIN.

THE RISE TO REAL DEMOCRACY.

Germany miscalculated when she ignored the British. She has written more and known as about human. psychology than any other nation in the world's history. She thought the British were too slow, too sodden, to, get into the war before Belgium had been stolen, Frano had been defeated, and Hussin hat hun checked. Eng land has made many mistakes. She has kept wages too low and the drink bill too high, and her people for a long time couldn't see that this war against Germany is a war fer progress against retrogression, for humanity against brutality, But though the Englishman is slow, when he starts he can't be stop ped. Momentum will carry him much further than it will the Germans, the

French, or the Americans.

This tributa is from a remarkable in terview Mr. Edward Marshall has had with a great American-Thomas Edison- and published in the Observer.

Mr. Edison think England is as dan gerous to the German aggressor as she "ever was. Germany thought when Eng- land rose from her lethargy that it was a case of revolt against her Government.

BENCH OF TRENCH.

"What nonsense The Englishman is his own government. When his Govern ment fails to satisfy him he changes it, and he changes it without revolution, for he has the constitutional machinery with which to change it peaceably-and it would't matter if he hadn't; he would change it just the same if he really dig

liked it.

“But believing that no shock could wake him, Germany directed at him the greatest shock the world has ever known At first it looked as if she might en beed. But England had to windo the Government stopped in and became the general employer in vital matters, running up the wages to a tempting point and keeping the beer down to a safe point. As soon as this was done the English workman went to his bench or to

his trench.

** BOARDERS

AWAY!"

THE STORY OF A PATROL",

Crouching behind the apology for a weather screen

on the bridge of his Majesty's destroyer Loch, the signalman of the watch sought what little shelter be could from the blinding snowstorm which raged. "No wonder they call me Jonah," he muttered, referring to the nickname by which is shipmenica knew him. "I never come on watch but what it bloomin' well snows, or we drag our anchor, or go to sra, or sme other joy happens to make my 'appy lot an ecstatic bliss Thank goodness there's only five minutes to go for sight bells, then hey for a basin of cocoa and a hand at nap in the warm."

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hore" commented the captain, with a

The open sea reached, the weather grew grunt of disappointment; ""1 wonder it. will and anything. No rapidly calmer, and speed was increased the whaler

the challenge. to thirty knots. The lookout stationed lights: can't on the bridge blow on his Angers to try Umph Tlicre's something wrong, some

I'll leave it to the sub in the and infuse some warmth in their frozen where, parts.

A ware lapped neatly inboard bunt. The searchlight was switched off, and flung him again the guard rails, and the destroyer commenced to circle to which be clung with the tenseity of round the steamer at slow speed, await A second waveing the whaler's return. Meanwhile, the impending disaster. enveloped him and almost tore him from whaler had approached within hailing. bis hold Disgustedly, he regained his distance of the mine-layer. "Get station dripping and panting. "Light ladder over; I am coming aboard," The kon-oyed yelled the youthful sub-lieutenant. ia off sterboard bow." signalman had spotted a glimmer of charge. There was no immediate answer light dipping between the rollers. Tell to his request, so, steering quite close the Mere to examine her," ordered the to her quarter he repeated it, only this lamps, but this time with a much dimmer Somewhat to his surprise, a wood at captain. More winking froin the signal time in language slightly more forcible. light than was used in harbour, and the tolerably good English answered

shadow astera glided off in once: You'll find a ladder, sir, the black obedienco to her senior's order. When starboard side, just before our bridge." the Mere returned she reported the name and nationality of the steamer, her car go, her destination, and all the other particulare it is necessary to know of ships passing through an area patrolled by British warships. The next stranger is examined by the Lock, the following by the Mere sgain, and so on over every inch of the area ordered the ships carry the orders given in harbour, sa con- scientiously as though the eyes of the millions of sleeping people in England. whose safety depends on them, were focused on every separate individual

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bours.

In a few minutes he had climbed the ladder, the boat's crow following close on his heels. Everything was as dark. and silent as the grave. "Strange!"

"no- muttered one of the boat's crew,

They ons here to show us around." wore the last words he ever spoke. A. sport of flame in darkness, and a bullet pierced his throat, sovering his wind- pipe.

and

What's that I wonder? Just my luck. I bet a steaming signal. The winking of the flagship's

The soone that follows bafilos masthead light indicating that she wish

all attempt at adequate description. ed to send a signal to the Lock, caused

With cutlasses unsheathed, revolvers at his last exclamation. He quitted the

the ready, headed by their youthful.

What comparative shelter and tapped out the

officer, the six Britons made one dash at the spot where the flame was seen. answering sign. "Dot-dash-dash-dot-

a reception they met! A hundred men. THE MINILAYER ES SEE A seemed to spring from nowhere, Shoot. dot," winked the light, and thesigual;

Something to port, air, and showing ing hitting, slash ag, bleeding, cursing, man cursed his luck afresh as he read the mesange.

no lights." It is the lookout this time. dying, six against a hundred, they "Flag to Loch and Mère. Lock and Biere will patrol the area Instantly all binoculars on the bridge fought, like mad; the piercing gutteral between latitudes-deg. and-deg, and are focussed on the spot the lookout's shrieks that followed their blows and. longitudes-deg. and deg., until day outstretched finger pointed to Blacker shots seemed but to encourage them to light All ships are to be thoroughly than the blackness of the night, a vessel further efforts. Unfortunately, flesh and examined. Report when ready to pro-was dimly discernible a short distance blood, no matter how great the soul is ceed."

Scribbling the message on a pad, away. On board her the Bocne was a contains, cannot perform the super Abaft her bridge, Innatural. Weight of numbers told at orderly TOWE, were length. The last of those gallant six he hurried down the ladder, and on to strange one. the messdeek:

"Hi, messenger! he teatly stowed, avlod with all the strength of his lungs, hundreds of black spherical objects, look fell; but as his spirit returned to render you loan lump of mischief, take ing, at a casual glance, like the channel account to its Maker the life blood he

King A closer inspection, however, spilt for

country Was this down to the captain, and don't let buoys one sees dotted around our bar and his companions had so liberally me find you on the messdock again, would reveal a difference. Instead of gloriously avenged.

buoy would when you oughter be on watch."

the light holder that a In the ward-room the officers were carry, the objects possessed four long dinner. The captain was entertaining prongs, that struck out at right angles the other with humorous stories of his to the rim. A seaman would recognize last ship. "I remember once, the them at once as mines. In darkness, admiral made a--" "Signal, sir." every now and then from a small electric "I was just about to remark the same torch, a crowd of mor were working myself; but carry on, messenger, read it swiftly and silently. The prongs of the The messenger promptly obeyed, aftermost mines were being unserowed, amid the grine of the offers. The sensitive detonators were inserted inside captain's little witticisms were always the mines, and the prongs screwed down Moorings were adjusted, and appreciated, more on account of his good again. followship than anything else. He was then the whole deadly contrivance care- a typical captain of a destroyer, Afully lifted over the stern and lowered But the banter was stopped witte strong brown beard covered a firm chia, into the water. Occasionally the noise dramatic anddenness. The sound of a and Blue eyes looked straight out from of a man stumbling over the chain shot, and, a few seconds after, a ragged behind a shaggy pair of eyebrows, moorings which lay on the deck would volley was heard aboard the minelayer. usually with a humorous twinkle in call for

D'you hear that? a harsh guttural rebuke trom

There's trouble them, but occasionally assuming an ex- the thick set foreigner, who seemed in pression so stern that it showed a master charge of the nefarious work, ful and strong mind lay beneath his gold-edged cap.

Loved by his men, he maintained the efficiency of the ship by taking a personal interest in the welfare of every man aboard.

"If it was the beach he went to, he found that something had been done to it. No longer was it littered with archaic tools, to be used in working out archaic plans. No. Eergency was out." really at hand. Shock had worked again

"There is still another and a greater gift which Germany through this war has given to the placid nation which she enried. She rad British wages, she forced labour saving machinery into Eng land, she suddenly lifted Britons from the slough of sodden drunkenness in which they had been wallowing, she saved her from a sr-war, and more than doubled her effective industrial popula tion by presenting her with a womonhood which she had refused to reongnise in days gone by.

BRITAIN'S NEW SOUL.

"Raise steam with all despateb, Mr. James"; this to the engineer. "First Lieutenant, get all the boats hoisted and secured for sen. Have the whaler ready for boarding. Quartermaster, pine the watch to muster on the fo'e's'le. Sub,

shortened into the cables shackles,, and report when you have done so."

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ORDERS OVEYED. While the destroyer wes carrying out her cnclroling of the ship, her crew were employed reeving the boat's falle and. getting soir fenders over the side pre- paratory to her roturu. Sufficient men, of course, remained by the gune to serve and fire them should occasion necessitato their use.

The usual grumbling and chaffing that is evident wherever a few. high-spirited men are working together was taking place.

with the boat's crew." The destroyer was directly abeam the other hip, and only a few hundred yards away. One word from the captain and it would have bodo the work of seconds to send her to the bottom. The men at the tubes and guas awaited for it expectantly; but, through the captain's mind the signal kept repeating " All ships are to

"Only another two miles to do, and we will finish for the night, men., Hurry, or one of those confounded patrol boats will be nosing round here. As he spoke, the man glanced apprehensively up. "And doing all these things she did

Another mine was laid.. Two minutes later another followed. Noiselessly and the greater thing, she gave Britain a new soul. It is the soul of real democracy.

skilfully they worked, and the long rows be thoroughly searched." In an instant the modus operandi of and the impulse

grew less and less and the deck clears. his decision was formed: "We'll board toward a real co-operation..."

Steaming so slowly that she made hardly her. "Stand by to board!" the abril! In France Mr. Edison sees a nation

any eddy the ship held a straight course cadence of the bo'sun'a mate's pipe was " which has sought and found more of

in a line which all shipping would have a signal for à rush to the carbine Lod cutlass racks. By skilful manœuvring the real than any other nation of the

to cross to enter the port.

the destroyer was brought alongside. world, and if they are not exhibiting

The CIOW We 3 mixed crowd-Forty blue jackets loaped as soon as the the advantages of not worshipping money

German the majority, with a sprinkling distance was sufficiently short, and as we in America do, or blood as the

Sullen landed by the ladder the boat's crew had of nondescript cosmopolitans. British do, or militarian as the Germans Within wo minutes of the orders being do, they are showing still more clearly issned, the gene was entirely changed. and hang dog, their physiognomy showed used. Then followed a scene of carnage, an admirable patriotism-devoted to a The deck, deserted a few minutes bo clearly their type Picked up from a horrible in ita intensity, even to write degree, superb to contemplate.

fore, now hummed with activity. The Continental seaport, where they leafed of. There lay what was left of their Only three European Governments creak of the blocks as boats were hoisted; ready to do anybody's dirty work for a six shipmates, lying in the grotesque will endure, I think the British, the the rhythmic tramp of the men on the price, their souls were barren of any positions that death assumes when it French, and the Swiss Britain is as falls; the clanking of the cable as it feeling higher than money, their hands overtakes men in the height of living Besides them surrounding republicat as our own, United States. was hove in; the noise of the capstan stained with every crime, from pocket passion.

murder: "Two more mines, them, almost enveloping them, lay the picking The King is its social head, but Egylia-engine--all combined to make the ship men, and we will clear away out of it." toll of their gallant fight against over- meat makes its laws. A new order is appear as busy as a hive of bees. In They lifted up one, gingerly, when whelming odds. Dirty, treacherous blood coming everywhere, and it will be the re the stokabolda stokers were switching on publican order. The non-republican the wheels and levers which control the man let go and started back as though mingled with that of clean, honest, hu- "Look," be gasped, "we're mane then, making an over-increasing Governments will dis They will die oil-fuol the ship burned. The gaugea

A tiny light was blinking pool, slippery to the foot and offensive hard, perhaps, but they will do ere long.were showing an increasing pressure of caught."

to the eye. Behind this ghastly heap The people of the world undoubtedly have steam in the boilers, every second, and at them out of the night, and its mean willed that they shall be their own mas

sullen and obstinately determined, stood ters, and what the people will is sure to which indicated sufficient steam available"]

soon the pointer covered the red line, ing was only too plain.

the minelayer's crow firing rapidly at the new renate. The boarders saw little come to pass,

for full speed. In the engine-room, Down came the destroyer's captain's of the gruesome pile at their feet. A Tant same modern science which is brown over-alled artificers worked like binoculars with & jerk. "Port twenty, fleeting impresion axing indelibly on making this great war so terrible, those Trojans, Huge cranks and pistons, coge midships, steady Steer south forty the mind, and they were the thick of same developments of modern thought and TRUTILE, wheels and indicators, sound spun the wheel, and the the foe. Outwarilly cool, they set about which have been used an elevorly by began to move under their skilled touch ship heeled over as she sawered her the work of retribution in a manner fit sophists to bolster up the German On the bridge, the captain, surrounded helm. Steady on her new course the for better opponents. theories, are working toward this end by his staff of special sea duty men, Loch tore towards the stranger. "Away, This war was planned by the masters of carered in oil-skins, waited the different boarding boat'scrow." The shrill cadence had been despatched every hole and Not one escaped! After the main body two nations of Europe as a means with officers reports. Shortened io to two of the bosun's mate's pipe and voice corner was searched for skulkers. Mines. which to thrust upon the shoulders of groat masses new burder, but it will work out siz" comes the bail from the forecastle sounded sharp and clear or the silent the discovery of which occasioned little to be an instrummt through which the

"Stand by to weigh," replies the cap ship. By the whaler's davite sat six men or no surprise, were handled like nine- people will get rid of some of the burdens the first lieutenant.

**Ship secured for sea," reports which they have borne in the past. The "Clang"

Tery good." Waiting for the order to man the boat pins, and rolled helter-skelter in the With the agility of cats they swung pursuit of cowards. Then came the after- goes the engine-room ball. world, I think, is now throwing rider Hello" cries the captain from down themselves over the jackstay and sat on nath. The dead were collected and laid who has bestridden it for a thousand the voice tube.

the thwarts, with ests ready, revolvers reverently on the clear part of the dock. All boilers connected and steaia for full speed ready. Ask and cutlasses beside thom, Boat mas- A young probationary surgeon was stil permission to proceed. The signalman ned and ready for lowering," reported fully tending the wounded,

the coxswain. "Challenge her." The lieutenant and a small party were com- taps the key, and the request is flashed signalman winked out the challenge, pleting the work the whaler had been across to the flagship. "Approved" comes the reply, immediately followed to seconds perhaps ten passed, and sent do. The marked charts showed ex the only only was a sudden increase of actly where the minefield had been laid': swed from the challenged ship. "Stop the number of mines and other valuable ber." The order was curt and terse, information was obtained from different rapped out like a pistol shot. The gun papers in the chart house A prize crew layer of the twelve-pounder to whom it was left aboard to steam and navigate. was addressed pulled the trigger. A her into port, and the remainder re- thudding din and a blinding flash: the turned to the destroyer. As the first

years,"

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Mr. Edison was asked if he did not

feel that some understanding might in the future be desirable between Britain

protection and that of he world.

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by the curt Weigh." The anchor bumps home in the hawsepipe, half the telegraphs, and, speed shows on through the anchored flotilla, the two ships gather way and steam into the night,

**BOARDERS.

The first

THE FEONE'S CONVICTIONS. "I don' believe we need any official understanding in the cense in which you use the term," said he.To all intents and purposes the people of the British dominions are Americans that The mow had now stopped, and the shell screamed ite lightning passage grey tint of approaching day streaked the LOW WATKI is, they find their animating impulse in weather showed signs of abating. The across the bows of the target, and a Eastern sky the two ships simultaneously the same source from which ours is deriv powerful searchlights from the forts column of water shot up on her farther dropped anchor is the harbour, neither ed-love for and belief in democracy as showed the two long, sinuous shapes, as side, and the minelayer immediately outwardly showing the least trace of the the best form of government. In the they left the lee of the harbour, rolling hove to, realizing the utter uselessness last night's work.

Start the falls. convictions of the two peoples we now heavily in the fury of the fierce, amaah of attempted flight.

Paragraph from the issue of a daily have a treaty more binding than anying waves, that still ran high from the Lower away. Out pins slip.

paper published two months later: one could put on paper. I believe that

recent storm. Can you see anything In less time than it takes to tell, the Yesterday the steamer Benidyje (7,000 every really good American recognises the ahead, quartermaster!" asked the cap whaler was away from the ship, ber crew toan) was sold by auction in the prize fact that Britain and France really are tain. The quartermaster was trying to pulling lustily for the vessel, which had

court. It secured the fair amount of fighting our battles, and I think that

achieve the impossible. By assiduous now. entirely lost all her way, and was $8,000, which will be placed to the those who do not believe this either are

credit of the Naval Prize Fund. not good Americans or are very ill-in-turning of the wheel, be kept the ship's lying motionless a few hundred yards. formed Americans. . . .

Thus our silent Navy works. The head in line with a tiny point of light from the destroyer, The powerful beam that shoved where the correct channel from the latter's searchlight revealed an earping critics who whine in the Press **British sea-power has been a good through the harbour defenses lay. Too ordinary steamet of some 7,000 tons of blunders and muddling" know very 28thing for the Dalted States. It has been much her and a beam ses had swung similar in all respects to the hundreds little of the tasks our destroyers under-

as valuable to use it has to Britain. It

unhesitatingly mad cheerfully has been valuable to all mankind, includ- the ship off her course at an angle of of ships which trade between England take

On her topsides paying the price of those same critics ing the very nations which are now fight 20deg. Fearing a rebuke, he swore and the Continent. 10 # 2 8 ing against it. Personally, I hope, and savagely, Terrific bumps shook the ship was painted in bright, staring colours safety with a spirit that has proved am sure that the best Americans gea- as she lowered her head to the elements, the flag of a neutral nation. The beam its worthiness. time after time, to sail erally hope, that it never will wane in only to be lifted again by a hugo sea, swept her from tea to stern, and the under the White Ensign; proud in the force or in moral, To me the Jutland which slammed the anchors into the eyes that followed it could not find any knowledge that they are able with their battle was one of the most glorious in all hawsepipes and left her swaying and thing at all to confirm their owner's lives to let as sing with meaning Britain's history"-Daily News.

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