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(THE | HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 3rd, 1917.

THE INTERVIEW WITH SIR THE MEMOIRS OF A GERMAN WHAT ENGLAND MUST DO

.D. HAIG.

LET THE GERMANS COME, IF, WHEN, AND WHERE

THEY WILL

We give below accounts of the remark able interview with Field-Marshal Sir Doughat Haig about which questions were asked in the House of Commons and a belef account of which was given in our telegrams at the time,

PARIS, February 13th.

SPY,

HOW BERLIN. PUNISHED.A BREACH OF TRUST.

an

FOR RUMANIA. NOT TOO LATE

[DY HAMILTON FYTE.]

When the new German military attaché arrived in Bukhurest last spring he made a proposal to the Roumanians that they should join the Central Powers,

NURSE'S “HORRIBLE

PICTURE."

WOUNDED DYING WITHOUT ASSISTANCE.

THEATRE ROYAL.

TO-NIGHT!

APRIL SBD.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5TH. SATURDAY, APRIL 7TH.

He said "We know all about your News. The nurse was one of several cas FREDERIC SHIPMAN.

The Journal tiday publiskos from M. its service, tells a thrilling story of how modern warfare. If you fight alone you, and amongst them were several

Haig. He says:—

· Extraordinary disclosures of Germán Captain Horst von der Goltz, alias

barshness and brutality are made by a Bridgemon Taylor, self-confessed German

Russian Red Cross nurse, who has just spy, and leader in the dynamite plot to

returned from imprisonment in Germany, blow up the Welland Canal, Canada,

says a Petrograd message to the Central nakes further revelations in the New Tork World of the perils of work as accredited secret agent of the Imperial Army Ase sruall Army it was a good tired her Lake Narotch in April last and Government.

poe. You have enlarged it and weakened taken to the German headquarters. After- The captain-spy,

shown the Russian. who is writing his it. You had not a sufficiency of good wards they were autobiography because he feels he has misterial for officers. You could act ex-wounded.

was a horrible pieture," the qursë been betrayed by the All Highest's Govern. pand your equipment to meet the in- ment, and is thus absolved only broaded our ber of mon and the needs of states.

wooden shed bare which was covered only with save Where were regular rows of our André Tudesa, its special correspondent a few thoughtlosely uttered words caused will fare badly. What we suggest, if you on the British front, the following rethe death of a fellow spy. In every case will join us, is this: We will send also then who had died from their injuries. markable interview with Sir Douglas wheed with collateral evidence (anys. The staff and a numbers of officers skilled in impossible for us to work amongst this of his statements could be com-generals to assist your Headquarters We told the German doctor that it was Epared Marshall Haig, who is the commander World they have been found to coincide las soclinical arte of war, ne well as re-dry sewdust, but he shrugged his should-

with the facts as otherwise established.

The fellow ay was Lieutenant Franz regiment. Finally, we will give you two do not need antiseptics; besides, we are at gimental officers, one or more to cachts impatiently and remarked: Soldiers the brother of his chum, Willie von German Army Corps to stiffen your war Toward evening we obtained per Heiden. One sunny December morning.

ipexperienced troops.

4. mission to bandage the wounded in a tent says von der Goltz, we wergull three going out rabbit shooting it the home of Willie's mania rojected it, She threw in her fot wounded.

That was Germany's proposal. Rowhich had been set apart for German father, a junker of Enst. "Prussia, and with the Allies. They welcomed her with while Willie counted shells in the gun much shouting and throwing up of caps. "In one of the field hospitals our room I went to summen Franz from the

They sent her munitions as quickly as wounded were lying and dying without bedroom he used as a study,

they could. But they took no account of assistance. Some of them had been un- the flaws in her military preparedness. Landaged for four days, and even simple They made no such proposal to Rous wounds resulted in gangrene and death. The Complicated fractures of the legs and feet mania as Germany bad made Roumanian Army entered upon its disas- were treated by tying two sticks over the trous campaign with all its imperfections wounded men's boots, In this manner on its head. The result is acer in the overrunsing of Roumania by the enemy and the state of her Army to-day.

of five British armies, comprising two million men, received me in an old castle in the north of France, which the war has transformed for practical purpong intó s telegraph station. The roof is covered with hundreds of wires. The commander speaks French without an accent. and quite fuently

Is the great offensive near, and do you believe it will succeed in crushing the German front M. Tudes asked.

·Immediately came. the reply: “ I doesn't matter who starts the offensive French, Gorman, or British. No matter where the enemy starts-north, south, or on any of the clients formed in his Banks, no feeler, or on the old battle- Held, we are ready to receive bim. His folly will cost him dearly.

À BROTHER KIY.

Von der Goltz, whom Franz, id pot know to be a brother spy, found the young lieutenant busy over some largesheets of paper which Franz shoved side, and excused himself while the stepped in the adjoining dressing room to change.

Von der Goltz, with his usual prying curiosity in his friend's two minutes. absence, examined the sheets of paper. We are keeping our armies in train all through me," he writes new The tingle of a great disouvery shot ug. Our envalry is awaiting the opening that the previous summer Franzs spent of the gate, so that the enemy's defeat long furlough in the Argonne, fishing and may be turned into a rout, The enemy botonising, so he said. He had told us will not have the possibility of entrench-stories of his aport. Now I saw through ing himself even far behind the lines. his bluff:

Will we break the German front?: Why, without doubt we shall, completely aud at many places,

WITHOUT RESPITE.

"The Germans have behind most of their front a powerful network of rail-

"Those maps were maps of a French border fortress. Lieutenant you Heiden was doing important work for the intel ligence department of the General Staff, Like me, he was entitled to the shameful name of spy!

UNBANDAGED FOR FOUR DAYS.,

those who remained alive were taken to Vilna or Kovno.

Subsequently we were taken to centration camp in Germany

Here there was a hospital for 2,000. liness and order, but inside there was a men. Outwardly there was great cicon chaotic condition of affairs. The band aging material supplied to us was terribly dirty. After a time my sister and I were accused of conducting an anti-German agitation, and we were transferred to a

for civil bandages being burn from our dresses.

prisoners, our Red Cross "Here both food and accommodation were dreadful. We had a wooden bed with a dirty bag filled with sawdust and hut no lineti. My

What the Boumanians especially lacks vigorous, resourceful officers. Everyone ed was a sufficient supply of trained, in the country now admits this. The wore many such, but not enough The value of energy and force of character are more to be seen in the field than in any other activity of life: Let me tell you the story of the retirement of a force of two hundred Serbs commanded by a Russian colonel, Colonel Ratir.anoff I made the acquaintance of this officer and his detachment at the front early in "A fatulist Why not! If I had trenches. I had opportunity to see for

November, I was with them in the a thin counterph crysipelas owing to obeyed my natural impulse and gives myself what cool and daring bomb-throw the filthy surrooness, we asked to. myself away by exchanging fraternalers they were. A few days ago I be allowed to work in the camp hospital greetings with my colleague, so romanti

Colonel Ramnanoff again, still on the ally discovered, he might have saved front, and heard the manner of his for Russian wounded the commandant himself.

adopted a Napoleonic attitude, crossed his escape.

arms over his chest, stared at us from bead to foot, and remarked, Ah, I under

In face this insulting remark, there was othing for us but to leave the room"

sister was seized

When

ways with which to defend themselves. The arst attacks of the great offensive may at first be limited and uncertain. It Look months to check this antion of more than fifty million men. It will take several months still to nanihilate it; but we will strike without respite and ter ribly right up to the total destructioncerned When Fropa returned, dressed, rear of the army. He had no railway stand you wish to go to men."

of its army.

"Peace cannot be anything without absolute victory, and this victory the strength of our armies will give to as.

"The Allies must not let themselves be intimidated by the suggestions or menaces of Germany. In offering peace Germany thinks only how to prepare for the next war. If by misfortune we should yield to bor perfidious appeals, in thres years the drama would recommence, bir 'by bit, country by country. In dividing aa, she would again take up her dream of destruction. It would be England first that would be attacked, then France, then other peoples. She would reorganize her blow, which had missed.

** For the tranquillity of the world, Gormany must for ever be broken up. Our soldiers, with their good sense and thair instinct, understand that they are Baling with their blood their desire to establish peace by victory."!

PERSONAL TOUCHES,

M. Tudosq says:- "It was in a chaten in the north, in the private residence of the general, in the clear light of a frosty morning already giving spring, that the interview book place Like house like master. Every thing about the plan was soldierike. The fark is extensive and studded with lofty trees. The residence, hidden away and Covered with snow, was striking in its simplicity.

instead play the innocent, and be the Was it mere chance that made me

innocent, too, as für as intent was.com

was standing looking out of his window

SHOT DEAD.

-TKİCKİNG GERMAN -PATROL, *-*

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GERMANY'S BIG MUNITION

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300,000 WORKERS AT KRUPP'S.

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The fall of Craiova cut him from the no means of transport for his men. To get-away safely meant toarching two Von der Goltz later mentioned his dis hundred and thirty miles. A large part covery to his spy tutor in the Wil of the way lay through country that had belmstrasse, with the result that, a little already been invaded. Colonel later, Lieutenant Franz was shot dead in manoff lost no time in making his mind a carefully engineered "duel" by aup. He started within an hour of the. brother officer in the garrison town of his bad news reaching him. From the start regiment.

his forec came into touch with the enemy's His opponent was Captain von Za patrols. Time after time the Serbs notorious duellist who had been trans-engaged them and beat them off. The ferred to the regiment for the occasion a colonal's tactics were to let the cavalry few days previously.

come on until they were only fifty yards

He states, in particular, that: 200,000 distant. No shots were fired until then. workers, of whom about 60,000 are women, If they came closer they were bombed marshaled in gangs on day and night. with deadly ain. Every encounter menntafts, sweat blood and water in order loss to the Germans of several men.hat the Emperor shall not lack pro The Berks were marching for six days cetiles. All except the women bave been forty miles a day nearly), and they only Smprised by the military authority had eighs casualties.

The ages of the men are from 18 to 46 manufacture of munitions, years, and they are all told off for the

The alleged ground for the duel was that Franz had stepped on the toe of the duelling captain in a ball-room; the enp tain retorted by a stinging slap in the

Ence

Someone who has just spent four months in the Kropp foundries has given his impressions to the Vatiz.

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The veiled explantations of my tutor were not needed to complete my under standing, adds von der Goltz. von Heiden had unwittingly been guilty Franz of an unforgivable breach of trust. I had Ho betrayed him to his superiors, were on their feet?" He marched with of the strictest Pomeranian regime 550 pm-Lecture by Mr. Villlers at the

paid the penalty..

my

But deeper than my sorrow andi · self-abasement was another feel: ing-dread. Dread was to dog me all the days to come.

requirements, but we want more artillery heavy artillery especially. It is not a question on this point of being on un equal footing with the enemy, but of crualling him with all our power.

The Wireless Press quotes Sir Douglas Haig as follows:-

herec, I suppose 1 No he said: I said to the colonel, You had how could I have ridden while my men them every step of the way. It was to Bukharder that this little force marched When they reached there they were received with astonishment by the mili- tary authorities. The incident shows what in leader of determination and experience can do when circumstances one against

him

The discipline is an every way like that

und the least delay is severely punished. Any apie of duty entails, on the part. of the men, being sent back to the front, At Essen there is a special war council for the Krupp workers.

The colours of the Union Jack floated proudly over the main entrance. Series on guard, and innumerable telegraph an i telephone lines converging on the roof like arteries to the boort alone revealed the presence of the Commander in-Chief. The Atriking figure of the mat shat will go down to history. His aris also he the year of peace. We all distown farther north towards which the 200.000 shells of every calibre a day tocratic bearing, which he derives fromic and shall do everything in our power his Scottish ancestry, and that radiating to bring it about." graciousness which the burden of holding

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What particularly struck me was that side by side with the intensive produc tion of shells generally used in warfare I should like to mention another in the open country-such as the 77, 105, episode of the retreat. Here the same 120; 160 and 20 they were above all qualities were displayed, but this time spoeding up the manufacture of guns and by civilians. In a certain railway station projectiles 420. In the month of May, yard were a large number of wagons, 1916, Krupp was constructing simultane This year, will be decisive in the sens, some containing munitions, some food, ously seven howitzers of 420mm. As it that one will see on the battlefield the some oil. Under pressure of the enemy takes on the average from six to eight decisive event of the war; that is to say,

the town to which this station belonged months to make this kind of gun, these an event from which Germany will be

was evacuated so quickly that no measures should be about ready in this month. shown to be beaten from a military point were taken for getting these wagons In the opinion of the head of the of view. It may be that this year will way. When this beenme know the workshop, Krupp alone now turns out army had retired, & Roumanian railway without counting the manufacture of official, more energetic than most under-saallon: took to try to rescue them. With him volunteered to go a Canadian : ́engineer named Rakestraw, u deparamunt manager Americans. They picked up a station in the company called the Boman master who knew points to nat implacable will. It is sufficient to hear even deeper, for even though we have done the switches. He came running back to by pulling out his water-bottle and calling eyes of this leader of men to divine, the strength which we have given you to ho pilos, Ostside the limite of the yard they prisoners, to the amusement and dengat

put the station-master down to arranyc the modulated voice to know what a heart what is really enormous, we still have tell them he saw German soldiers quite out to them in German, which be knew Another soldier, captured two Germans beats in the breast of this warrior. At much to do, and it will always be so in the close of the interview. I understood the course of a war of material like this, that the men whom he had seen were a hands he would bomb them. This I should near. Mr. Rakestraw soon discovered pretty well, that unless they put up their the prestige which he wields and the ad what we have been doing and are mainly few Roumanian soldiers left behind, So have set down as a fable bad I not seen. Journal wrote to the editor, asking, why miration which he excites, Compared doing now in England, is a great effort they steamed into the yard and wit a report of the incident signed by an off-she was peevish blus and discontented, with Hindenburg, one could not help to ensure that the army behind shall be their one engine pulled out 175 wagons cer of the man's company. thinking that each people gets the leader

Here is an- and his answer will interest all thin it deserves-in Germany an old fox, here equal in power to that in front

full of valuable stun. Already in the matter of the produc-NOT TOO LATE.

other instance of coolness in danger, one people #gentlemen,

tion of munitions we have reached the

of a good many which I could tell

when My dear reader,” he said, the I have said that many Ronmanian of credit of Roumanian officers.

are you write that you are thin and do not Anavalry

Jar his hands the destiny of hundreds of usands of men confers, give to his

WAR OF MATERIAL,

slightest, word or action a tone of partiaid to the representative of the Havas According to Reuter, Sir Douglas Haig cular buman grandeur.

It is sufficient to look at the steel Agency at the British front:

I should have liked the impression of

and it intense amount of machinery

ass be marched them until he Roumanian soldier, march." And down edule rear gaard and handed them over as

of his friends.

to

He waited

UNHAPPY THIN FOLKS.

One of the readers of a popular health

One of his first questions was to output we had wanted: On that count eers possess the like qualities of decision. captain with lus troop was left behind weigh what you should, you have given Have you scen 'my soldiers in their tren we have every security. What we want and enterprise. I should add that numbers when the retreat was in its early stroke me the zeal cause of your unhappy feel- ches? question which betrayed the now in greater quantity are guns and of private soldiers have displayed the Either he was forgotten or the message this would give a quieting and reassuring pride and solicitude of a father. The railways. We shall never have too many as well. Take the case of the men cut off to retire did not reach him.he influence to the vital forces, and you

ingu. If

you only had a reserve of tat want on- War is not merely a shock of armics. It is necessary, in order to con

from his comrades in a mountain defle, twenty-two hours. Then, all the The same with rails, that invaluable who found himself covered by the rifles of ing been eaten, he duo it, to make prodigicue preparations auxiliary of the armies in the field. Some loven Bavarians. He had with him one of tut bir way through the enemy. The troop option, too, you realize that the pro- to would then be happy, contented and decided to attempt

Our two gravest concerns at presentweeks ago the network of railways behind the big flat round loaves which are served rode cautiously at sight towards a town ner distribution of fat on the body and

“Then, are railway lines and artillery. We havour lines was notoriously inadequate. out to the troops, He held this above his which they hoped to find held by Roumha makes all the difference between The disproportion between the tonnage head and cried "Eat, eat!" They crowd-manians. They rode in unchallenged. The had to construct in the rear during the landed at our bases and the tonnage ed round him hungrily. The bread was streets were lighted as usual: Very few beauty and ugliness, and you enry your past few months alone more than which our railways were capable of carry far better than any they had eaten for a people were about, but nothing unusual

plump friends As a liberal allowance les of railway lines. Recently I called ing was of a character to hamper our long time past. The Roumanian, cut it seemed to have been happening. At the of fat is one of nature's wise precautions together the directors of the largest rail- fay companies in England. I showed operations. At my request directors of up for them, having first asked them as her end of the town, however, a voice to enable us to bear some of the trials of

life.

you should do all in your power to the English railway companies came over a sign of confidence to stack their them on the spot what had been done and to investigate our requirements, and they As he distributed the slices and fire, eslled through the darkness. Wer da 1 get fat I know nothing so valuable to

(Who goes there) Immediately the what still remained to be done. They all told me, Whatever you want we shall Bavarian were enjoying them he worked riding ahead of his troopers, replied, Bargol, prepared by The Sargol

make people fat as a preparation of understood the urgency and magnitude of

06. Of the task. Formerly the traveller scarcely give you. And, indeed, I got everything round to where the rifles were stacked. Deutsche

Was Ear Dontsche!"

England, thought of taking anything but the main naked for and even more, fore the com The road was narrow-on one side a

is essential; as it has great value as a From the standpoint of health, fat line Paris to Lalle or Paris to Calais Panics carried their patriotism so far steep slope, on the other a mountain rising

high above it. Tha Roumanian The war has overturned the value of en as to strip their lines of ballast, of rifle and nunhed the rest over the slope.

from destruction Ho, by all means try reserve force, and saves the other tissues, things, and henceforward it is the small western front is and will remain the prin: The Bavarians turned upon him, but which we were in want, The They rattled down into the gorge below. and most insignificant lines which see cipal front of operations,

to get fat." times become the main line.

I am convinced that the decision of of, the rife he had seized. They looked found themselves looking into the harrel *****With regard to munitions, we have the war will take place on the western then at one another. No one had the cour realized the maximum At present we Arangoism furnish our allies beyond their front, and that is why we must devote all age to start a rush. "Now" said the

(Continued at foot of next column.)"

car pains to making that front defensive

ly and offensively the best."

the

or

reized on

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Deutsche Reiter" (German cavalry) Where do you come from?" The officer named the village where he had been left,

Durch" (Pass), said the sentry, and the troop rode through,

men whigh must be developed. The Rou

These are the qualities in officers and

manian Army must be reorganized and re- formad with the aid of French and per haps Belgian officers. It is not too late.

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