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'THE WALLIES POSITION.-

WHAT WOULD THE GERMANS DO:

[BY A NEUTBAL]

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY MARCH 10TH 1917-

WILL THE GERMAN FLEET NEW AIR PLANE RIBES 2,000

COME OUT AGAIN?

GREATEST SEA BATTLE OF ALL

TIME" IMMINENT:

[BY HECTOR 0. BYWATER]

la Jel fated to witness the greatest sea battle of all time, a battle which like Trafalgar, will settle the question of aval predominance for generations

TEET A MINUTE.

THE ALLIES“ GREAT: SURPRISE!"

Corps has done very efficient work in these night raids-ongines have been blown off the tracks, trains wrecked and much other devastation accomplished.

FATROLINO,

A neutral who has an intimate knowledge of the German General Staff and its ways of thinking, makes the following anggestion of what Germany would probably do if he were now if the position of the Allies.1 What would the German General Staff do if it had to face the situation which the Allies have to face to-day? It would Among naval officers opinion is divided great things are claimed by the Alliedries to cross over our lines. This patrófi at first proceed to examine how many will come out in fores to accept a decisive and a half tons and are driven by two have gone up in a seventy-mile wind in

to the Balkans in the quickest, safest, and most economical manner. At the same time

ab would instruct the commandors of the allied armies in Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt to do all that they can in order to prevent the Turks from sending roin forcements to Europe. With thla/object in view, the Staff at Berlin would farther ntiliss all the troops that it could pos- sibly gather east of the Sues Canal, be 16. From India Australia, New Zealand, or Bouth Africa, for a landing at Alex-

andretta, from where they would be able to threaten the communications of the

Turkish armies in Asia.

the railway line of France and Italy would make more difficult the provision- ing of those countries, the Staff would naturally conclude that the Italian troops ahould be brought by road na close as pos sible to the Balkan Peninsula. In other worda, they would have to march to those ports on the Adriatic from where they could be shipped over to Albania in the shortest possible way. From there the four or five Italian army corps would be able to mach the neighbourhood of Monastir about the beginning of April.

sa to whether the German High Sea Fleet

Those who favour the latter theory argue that, after experiencing the Judland, the Germans winery devastating effect of British gunnery at atomach fur another cocounter with the Grand Fleet especially as they know this yes to be outnumbered in heavy something like two to one. Nevertheless, there are indications that momentous navel developments are approaching

FOUE CLASSES OF WORK

“The last important work dong at Details of the latest serial develop the front is the petroling. This is done. ments and the work of the Royal Flyingy two machines acting together and ly Corpa along the battle front in France gate to six thousand feet. High Faulkner, Royal Flying Corpe, who was shout 20,000 feet, are some of the little were given by Flight Lieutenant Lloyd above them, soaring and watching, at recently invalided after being shot down fast fighting machines. There wo know near Abele, in the Ypres salient. He netetralors, and it is their object to told also of a new aeroplane for which drop on to any German machine thos airmen work, like all the other regular dying, "Our battleplanes," he said, weigh two done without regard to weather. Pilots "troops' it could space for the Balkan opera-

tions from the other fronts. It would thengagement, or continue to lurk behind Rolls Royce motor of 250 horsepower now, sleet, and rain. Nothing stop the its shore defences and mine fields, leaving rach They have twin propellers, and pilot at the front except death or the work out a plan to dispatch these troops the active prosocation of the war to sub can make more than 100 miles an hour smash of his machine

marines and aircraft.

Their motors are water cooled Other bi Phosphorous bomb raids are very planes have 300-horsepower motors day popular methods with us for getting rid ing one propellers

of the sousuge balloons the Germans only a pilot, are much faster. The tomb is the best thing that can be used The smaller machines, which carry sefur vóservation. The phosphorous Sopwith pup mukes 139 miles hour to strafe these balloons. We used to the Nieuport bullet 135 miles, the Spaweit for dark days for this work, Then 140 mies and the new machine, whose swoop down on the sausages, which name may not be mentioned, makce. 138 were usually tied at between 5,000 and miles an hour. This is the great sur 6,000 feet As we'd drive over them we'd prise. It is only arriving at the front pull the ever and let a shower of bombs now. It can ascend straight up, withous drop If it was hit the sausage would quarters tells of incessant netivity at the seven and a half minutes. This makes lot of fat old Haus drop out of it Information to hand from trustworthy banking, and has reached 10,000 feet in burst into flame and then you'd nee German bases. The capital shine of the it the ideal machine for Zeppelin work, as observation car in their parachutes High Bed Fleet are frequently see

KEEN + BEL

it car get height quickly enough to catch The sausage men hate and fear Having found that it could spare, la, us within the wat triangle, practising the dirigibles. This unnamed machine is dar sexos, and if they hang them co say, 600,000 British and 200,000 Italian tactical evolutions and attended by a dense the greatest fighting machine in the world in time their train pulls them down. troops for the Balkans, the German Gen-screen of light cruisers and destroyers, and will guarantee that we maintain Five or six or oven more of the the eral Staff would work out the transport, while overhead the ubiquitous. Zeppeline the supremacy of the air so necessary we often attached together problem in the following way. Knowing scan the surface for

train and can be pulled down that tonnage must be saved as far as pos- Daring October and November heavy and

periscopes in this war.”

We used to catch them pretty often. sible and that even the full utilisation "of sisstained gunfire audible in the western

It was goodstrafing, section of the Baltic denoted battle prac work was divided into four classes battle of the Somme we got rid of thy Once at the front, I found that our "During the first three months of the tice on an extensive scale. It will be remember that similar activity was which we sometimes flow from 100 to 150 and we generally had it our own way in The first is the reconnuissance, during sausage as fast as they were sont up, observed in the months that preceded the battle of Jutland,

**** miles back of the German trenches. This the sir. The only Germans who ever work is done by regularly organized fought us were the large squadrons, and DOUSTFUL NEWS FROM NEUTRALS,equadrons, in which the most important then only when they had us out num Speculation na to the present strength machine is the one carrying the camera bered of the High Sea Fleet is necessarily The reconnoissance unit is composed of futile. From the beginning of the war five battleplanes and ten or twelve Nieu- Germany's naval ports have been port scouts or Sopwith pups, little hormetically sealed, and extraordinary fact machines, making close to 140 miles pains are taken to hide from the world an hour and carrying only one pilog and the nature and extent of the work that machine-gun. These little machines are is in progress at those places. At the the destroyers, or guards, for the big same me, a great deal of dubious battleplates The big machines each information has been circulated from building policy adopted during the war.mation the reconnoissance squadron le German sources with regard to the ship carry at least two men and two guns

"When in flying and working for a particular, the Scandinavia Press arranged in this way: The camera battle has frequently asserted on the basis of plane flies at about 5,500 feat, with a special information" from Germany, Eghting battleplane on either side, Aying that practically no large warships have at about 6,000. To the rear, directly been laid down in that country since the behind each of the fighting battleplanes, outbreak, and that new construction is confined to light cruisers, torpedo craft 7,000 feet. These five machines y 100 are two more battleplanes, flying at and submarines

rovers with their laster speed By all about them, always ready to attack in If the little fellows happen to be enemy squadron It is in fact, precisely the sort of intelligence ope would expect the enemy in squadron sees enemy machines, off on a hit of their own and the battles to disseminate if he were devoting his the pilots are, their alarmy pistols and entire resources to the production of super Dreadnoughts That submarines call the destroyers, who drive off the continue to be built in large numbers it enemy, unless he is in much superior known positively, but the output of such force and then there is a fight. craft most be enormous indeed if it in Flying at six or seven thousand feet, monopolising the attention of the German the observation machines are always be shipbuilding industry gingarchied, which means they are being

If you had the prospect of settled Another suspicious" item of news which shot at by every sort of gun, even those income of five thousand pounds & your, reaches us from many neutral quarters is ring 5 pound shel's Hits by anti-air you would, doubtless, be prepared to to the effect that, although the building craft guns are one of the natural rises avear that you would be extremely happy of great men of war, has been practically and we used to bank back and forth, or It is tantalking, isn't it, that more of suspended, the German yards, re working zig zag through the air, su as throw they cannot at least try the experiment for at full blast on merchant vessels large gunners off. That does not always work,

ou and I and all the world bear more than 60 per cent of this traffic or launched in the last year or two. This one of my ailerons and I landed in a plete happiness. Doubtless we should of the French-Italian line. The natural we are told, is in preparation for the smash that sent me to the Royal Flying be in agrement if we said that at least and stations of this line are Havre and struggle for mercantile supremacy which Corps Hospital, it would be helpful to that end. We are Brindisi, But in view of the foregoing Germany believes will follow immediately While doing this reconnaissance work told by the sages, and experience proves the necessity of only dispatching

half of

the war. It sounds far from con it is always necessary to look out for it, that health is the biggest and best She transported troope to Patras and send icing. With almost the whole of her Fokker. You'll see five or six black spots asset in life. All the more reason, then, ing the other half by ship to Salonika, oxisking mercantile feet lying idle in up twenty to twenty-five thousand feat way it should be jealously guarded. We Brindisi would only serve as end station home or foreign ports, with new capital and when they get over you they sud should all, therefore, grpan health with

premum, and with the - growing

THE PLAN OF OPERATIONS, Starting from Monastir, this new Italian army, basing its communications to the coast towns of Albania, would be on the new roads built during the winter able to push on is the general direction of Ukuby, and thus set free she present Forces of General Sarrail for other pur poses. The 400,000 men of whom he now disposes would, in fact, be sufficient to march against Prilep and, by way of Doiras, etc., cover the flank of the new British army of 600,000 men, or twelve army corps, which would he available for a powerful offensive against the line of Adrianople-Lule "Burgas-Emos, sup ported on the right Bank by the allied

The concentration of this latter eray at Salónika the main problem. How As each one of these twelve army corps including all but the very heaviest artil lery, which would have to be sent straight from England by ship would require about 150 trains of thirty carriages each, it is evident that a specific railway line through France and Italy must be set apart for the purpose, and that, further- more, half of the forces transported by ril to the south of Italy must be sent directly by ship to Salonika, as the Grock system from Patras by way of and Larisan to the point

would the German: General Staff kolvo iti

of con

Similar Bows often

appears in the American, Dutch, and Swiss papers, Such unanimity highly suspicious, pointing as it does to go men onigin, which can only be German.

to 100 miles on hour. The little de-

AIRMEN LED BOMME ATTICE. **** There as the Somme our seroplanes

were used for the first time in conjunc tion with the artillery and infantry attacke After thirty hours of incessant gunfire, which badly battered the German trenches, the signal was given and squad-

flow at 100 to 300 feet, and each one rong of alty to 100 ceroplanes flew over our lines to the German trenches. They it machine guns and dropped bombe Following the devastation of the gund this raid had a damaging effect on the German morale, and made it possible to recover the territory we got back during infantry. These had their bayonets and the early days of the battle

Following the aeroplanes came the bombs and completed the work. In some places we broke through to beyond the factory attack hour-curtain-fre in German third line. While this aeroxin-

order to prevent the Germans from bring were maintaining ing up reinforcements.

THE WISHING CAP.

3 you

Version canvet possibly be expected to numbers of which have been laid down as I found out when a shell, carried away know, money alone cannot bring com

be directed to Tarent

at ä

for the former half while the latter might probability that the Allies, if successfadenly nose-dive and drop. These For both hands, as it is above and beyond, We Acording to the German method, the ping loses at the expense of her morean firing as they go, ar, then they scutele affect, us all at one.)

will indemnify themselves for their chip kes drive by ut a tremendous speed,

to divert skilled labour and precicus rav material to the creation of new merchant shipping

THE ONE CHANCE."

XOX

UN EQUAL TERMS,

richer, For the every day ailmente which

**

victam

or another there routs leading from Havre to the two end

nothing that will aid you better than Beigel's Syrup. This great paints of Brindisi and Tarent should be

stomach and liver tonic can and does help ranged as follows. Each period of

***The only times the Germans fight as you to retain and regain health.” Nature twenty-four hours would be divided into six portions of four hours each. Ong of

in the air is when they have forty o niya goneral rule is not unkind to us pro- Nemal "We take note of the warnings she these portions, called the day interval, Even the most ease-hardened German acroplanes to our twenty or thirty.

The daily headache, if not arrest would not be filled up with trains, in militarist upw realises that his country is they will stand by iou a Gue, bu, nevered, will surely lead to worse trouble; pur.. order to be available for adjusting break bound to fail in the war unless she ran for long.

hapa biliousness may follow, which is a dos, repairs of the line, ets, without achieve some measure of success in the The second important use for acrouro indication that all is not right with necessitating the upsetting of the whole naval area. Since the blockade has nianes is artillery observation won your disestige organs. The proper tims-table. During each one of the other become so in fact, we do not hear so much Before going up the pilot arranges his thing, therefore, is to act at once and do five effective portions one train would be of the former boasts from Berlin about signals with his battery uses wire thousands have done take a course of dispatched every half-hour with the ex the land conquering the sca of the less, what we call a clock Morse coue, Mother Seigela

Sup

and thereafter your home as

family ception of one period left empty for the triumpa of Moltke over, Mahan: Unless and as soon as he finds his objective) augustmen; ut malaya, in the surylee, Germany has gone stark mad, she will usualy, German batters, he feels remedy.

Taking into cingidoration the needs of be binding every effort to suntch at least ginners know where to fire. In connee I think you will be interested to learn the districts which lie alongside the long active blow in this element would do 15-inch howitzer shell weighing about for me. I don't think that anyone could esemblance of victory at per Ons really tion with this, I learned that it takes a what Mother Beigel's Syrup has done fine from Havre to Brindisi, this general schedule would probably be altered some more to rehabilitate her cause than

ton, forty-five seconds to travel 22,000 possibly have suffered more keenly, from what as follows. There, would only be accession of victories on the battlefields yards. I'd give the directions and during long period of my life Right the paine of Indigestion then have of the Continent des signal, and forty-five seconds later the from young woman four periods for each twenty-four hour As the pressure of the blockade becomes shell would land. If it destroyed the to this complaint until twelve years ago,

I had been each of six hours. The day interval

Mother Seigel's Syrup. I one or two traits serving the needs of the poot of a really decisive military succese move on to another place that needed at completely localities. Owing to the longer duration East or West grows ever fainter, tention from the howitzers is nearing it years of age you will ste that of the periods two traing in each would Germany is bound to turn her eyes Observation pilots also watch every I was in its grip for nearly 40 years. not be filled up. Consequently the act towards the Fleet, her last remaining movement behind the enemy's lines. It Three bottles of your remedy made me a result would be that only 30 military card: The reward of a success at sex has been arranged that if they ate a new woman when I had got into a very

would be prodigious; the consequence of failure would add but little to her plight. the march of an army division or a large to take food, but also through fear of large or important movement, such as low state through not only being unable THE QUESTION OF TIME."

By every law of logic she is constrained to action of transport, they can give the consequences of pains that would The transport of the twelve army corps strike with her utmost power at Bea

follow

if I did. To-day my health and by rail from Havre to Brindisi and When, where, or how this blow is to be certain signal which will call for help appetite are both excellent.Mary A-

great would therefore in all take 6i delivered can only be conjectured. But we were this meant that at least 500 great Stroud, Glos, July 12th, 1916,

from every gun in that section. Where

Cripps Well Cottage, Longridge, days, assuming that the time spent on the that it will be struck at no distant date guns would be slamming away in no journey including stops for taking water is the conclusion to which pite is driven and fuel and for feeding the troops with after careful study of all the evidence time. Three hours is the flight time for 103] three hot meals a day would amount to change at the tunately in the recetit en observert is Barve wrecking Work B3 hours, and that eight hours: would

thus nation has and fow can stand it longer. The machine suffice for loading and unloading This pledge that the control of ong naval forces is always being fired at transportation would immobilise in all is in thoroughly capable, hands, and can A third us to which we put our $40 complete trains, or altogether 7,200 thus await with calm what may prove to machines is night flying, which is mostly carriages, without counting the necessary be the final attempt of the despairing bomb work. The Germans, for some TONDIVES MAL

reason or other, do not fly at night. Dur bombers travel in aquadrons of 50 to 100. They start out in the dead of night and fly very low, not more than 200 feet up. tons of chipping, that between Taront and le is practically impossible to hit them Salonika about three times as much, while and there are few casualties among bur about 200,000 tons would suffice for the men. This night bombing was forced on carrying of the very heavy artillery and us by the fact that the Germans more the general reserves of ammunition from their troops and stores at night, We England to Salonika. Unloaded there, a usually tried to destroy some railroad grear part of the ships would be able to function, or station, or a depot where continue to India and Australia to bring ummunition was stored. Zeppelin sheds home wheat and other supplies.

were also sought after. The Royal Flying

would thus allow for the interpolation of more and more intolerable, and the pros German battery or other object, we'd what anaied it. As 1 am now

trains could be sent each day

At the arrival at Brindisi and Tarent the troops would be given a rest of two or three days The Journey to Salonike by way of Patras, or directly by ship would require three to four days, so that the whole business including the weaks anecessary for the strategical concentration along the Greek frontier, would be accom plished in three months.

The transport of the troops from Brin (disi to Patras would require about 35,000 (Continued at foot of next column.)

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