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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 14TH, 1917.

SINGING. IN THE FACE OF SWATTING THE SUBMARINE

DEATH.

DIEHARDS" ON THE MINED

TRANSPORT

The Cape newspapers publish full re

IDEAS FOR AMERICA'S NEW CHASER.

THE BLOCKADE,

A VIGOROUS DEFENCE. NO CHANGE OF POLICY. In both Houses of Parliament the sub eject of the day (March 27th) was the

Whoever beats the Germans must beat the submarine, says the

Digest.

BLIND MARKSMEN.

RTLEBS V.C. IN THE FIRING

IANE.

ports of the splendid behaviour of the Whether or not to have Blockade of Germany. Was it possible enrolled for National Bervice, and in

28th Batt, of the Middlesex Regiment when the Tyndareus struck a mine off Cape Agulhas The following is taken from the Cape Times :-

As soon as the roll had been called and a motor boat. the order

We are

lege for the Higher Education of the All the students of the Worcester Col- Blind who have reached the age of 18 have have experienced in their previous efforta to obtain war work, they are hoping that pite of the many disappointments; they

the services of some of them at least will be accepted ch

"Stand easy-!" had beentually is prevalent on this side of the would continue at his pushen the One blind man at least was privileged given, some one started "The Long for submarine-chasers which have come to Trail," and in a few seconds the whole fight recently-cute little toy bonts, for Atlantic is proved by some of the designs gathering from end to end of the ship the most part, and utterly unsuited to the had taken up, the haunting refrain of. the latest marching song. Then came rigours of dffshore work, wie dam the oldest favourite, "Tipperary," and for balf an hour afterwards, while the ominous incline of the deck towards the bows became more and more noticeable, chores after chorus swept along the lines and over the sea, where both the other atcapers were racing to the rescue,

our try at it, the possibility of derising to increase its stringency! Could the interesting as a subject of discussion Mimister of Blockade do more than he an efective weapon of defence is certainly That it must be a small motor boat of has been doing during, It appears that about fifteen minutes decided; but of what sort? The sub twelvemonth?

some sort the authorities scomte be before the accident the vessel had passed marine itself has developed, since the war being produced in Gorranny? Was the vices were offered as atretcher bearers,

thecis past And what effect" a steamer and was being followed by an-began, into an armoured craft with dock other, which most of the men

When war broke out the students' sor- watching at the time. The Tyndareuseet these changes. In an article, under point where he would have to give aped the head master of the college (Mr. were guns; its opponent must be prepared to enemy near starvation, or near to the gers. Their military enthusiasm prompt- was rapidly leaving the latter in the be above heading, contributed to the owing to the blockade? Buch were the G. C. Brown) to devise a blind target. listening post observers, and trench dig distance, when an accident occurred that 25th) by William Washburn Nutting, the very frankly and effectively by Lord

Motor Buat Now shook the troopship from stem to ateru.. author describes the type of bout that he Robert Cecil in a closely-reasoned speech peak by pulling a string at the York February leading questions. They were answered The bull is made of steel, and is made The "assembly" was at once sounded, thinks is destined to the chat of an hour and a quarter's duration, at the and the troops, each man wearing a life the Future," belt, lined the decks in perfect order. It substance:→

Writes Mr. Nutting, in Lord Robert has been attacked with lead, the

at the sound. The tin, and the range. The blind sniper aims appeared almost certain that the vessel

"inner" 18 made of would sink before assistance could reach scientific statements which have appeared cinls of his Department had some pest impact. Shooting was sometimes quite

If we were to believe all the pseudo-tain quarters, as though he and the of their own scores

much persistence and bitterness in cer

"outer 37 her, but, though they must all have in cortain Sunday supplements and line tenderness either for the energy of good, but experience showed that the

of pie

wood. Competitors can keep realised their imminent peril, the de

es by the

Yarring sounds of meanour of the men suggested, not that seem that swatting a submarine is the to these attacks at the close of his speech accuracy than a rifle, because the aiming omasculated pastry periodicals, it would for the rights of neutrals He referred blind can use a revolver with far greater they were facing death, but that they simplest kort of an amateur pastime to be in terms which betrayed extreme sensi-is fore instinctive. It is declared that were parading for long leave.

indulged in by any one in possession of tiveness, and said that as long as he feat night a blind man with a revolver That such an idea, tained the confidence of his chiefs he would be a more dangerous antagonist

present Government was formed to sup port it as a private member. would have preferred, he

though he than a sighted man.

the effectiveness of the blockade, he had never been one of those who believed that As for

many people have clung to the old idea place of victory in the field, but he was Although the conditions have changed, sion, or that the blockade could take the Germany could be starved into submis that the runabout or hydropiane equipped comedent that it would prove to be of with a machine gun or a 1-pounder some small assistance match for the modern U-boat. But the reckoning. This was a curiously dopre fact is that while the motor boat has ciatory phrase, especially as he had just in the final become one of the most efficient instru- spoken of a very great shortage of ments for hunting down the submarine, food" and other highly important com is an entirely different sort of boat modities in Germany, which had led to more, the development is still going on, discontent than is popularly imagined. and there is no way of telling how soon agrees broadly with Mr. Hewins, who in Further-ricting in many places and to profound the most efficient submarino destroyer of speech of marked moderation expressed the present will be obsolete.

Apparently Lord Robert

Germany, and that tion among the actual war workers in the opinion that there was no real starva- of stuff is the knowledge of this which has led

was still Gnding ts way in.

very fair amount

is rather a side-show of the Forcign some people to believe that the blockade It

the war. Office than one of our major activities in

SEAHAN'S HEROISM,

it

to serve in France. Capt. E. B. Towso, South Africa, was sent to the bar hos pital, where he typed letters home for the who gained the V.C. and loat his sight in

and has been mentioned in dispatches. portunities of going into the firing line, wounded. He has since been given op-

for food production.

The Worcester students are now dig ging up an acre of their playing field

RED CROSS

BANDAGES

POISONED BY SPIES.

Cross, addressing the local Red Cross Atlantic Division of the American Red Mr. Albert W. Staub, Director of the

organization at Philadelphia recently, said:

You women

The vessel's wireless had not been damaged, and "S.U.S." signals were immediately sont out, while boat after boat was lowered to the water. One of them was upset in its descent, but a young seeman, without a moment's heai- trawlers to call upon that England had "We haven't the immense fleet of steam tation, jumped overboard and succeeded at the start of the war, and whils we have in righting it, and the same man, a little ocean-going tugs and the like, most of later, distinguished himself by diving our from a lifeboat and rescuing the regi-actually available or being built, and the

clean house. Go over the list of your vessels, besides those destroyers menta! dog," Paddy."

must be built, and it stands to reason that comparatively few private craft suitable

members and make sure of the loyalty of of Philadelphia must. the smallest unit that will do the work is the one to choose. In other words, is it not better to have fifty 88-footers than

everyone. Under THE REAL DIFFICULTY.

no circumstances. one destroyer, especially when they may himself to remove by

allow any one in your board rooms unless This impression Lord Robert Cecil set out of the workrooms who have no right he had in a small fraction of the time?of what he and his Department have to be there.

you know who they are. Keep partons detailed statement To devise a suitable boat for our present done, since he took command. need. Mr. George Crouch and the writer that true for the first eighteen months of such precautions. Recently I found in studied the designs which have alreedy Departament, and considerable friction been prepared at one of the Red Cross Before I'll tell you why I am insisting on we are quoting got together, recently, and the war, there was no propez Blockade a New Jersey town bandages which had been produced. Since the boat is solely arose between the Foreign Office and the headquarters and which had been soak- that the torpedo-tube may be

Admiralty. Now there is and one ed in poisonous chemicals and then dried

Another example of pluck was given by half a dozen of the troops who, engineers by profession, voluntoored to assist in the engine-room and, exchang- ing khaki for over-alls, did splendid work in the most dangerous spot in the ship.

"A TRADITION OF THE ARME.”

In a leading article under this heading in the Daily Telegraph the following passager occur:-

to destroy submarines, they crised beneficial result of the dought so that when, they were put to use they

So vast is the panorama engaging our attention that we are hardly con- with in favour of as large a gun as can scious of all that is involved in the be carried Experience has

to be the extinction of the popular fallacy would kill the person on whom they were hands of

movement of troopa by sea in face of Nutting thinks that a thinch that if only the blockade vere left in the used. In addition, some of the dressings

an enemy utilising the greatest conquests with universal mounting is about the boat of science in pursuit of his policy of for the purpose, the others say nothing outrage and murder. From day to day less that the six-inch will do. He bids us thousands of men of his Majesty's Forces remember that the three-inch gun shoots & are afloat, cheerfully facing porils such shell which weighs in the neighbourhood difficult international qucations are per the last three weeks. The results of our

J

The Executive Committee of the local organization later had a protracted ses sion behind closed doors.-A. F. Fines,

well. The fact is that it would uldimd been filled with ground glass, go lutely impossible to turn it over to has that when they were used on open wounds

the Admiralty Al-would be

Admiralty without converting the At they would cut and cause suppurating miralty into a new Foreign Office, for sores, as have never been experienced before. The world is full of anger; the sea

of fifteen pounds. He goes on:--

petually

Those discoveries were made within is full of wrath"; the menace of buttle tions with which Mr. Crouch went to last thing that the Admiralty desired. department is about to institute prosecu

arising Sir Edward Carson These, in brief, were the considera foolish suggestion, and said it was the the Department of Justice, and that

poured ridicule on is not more than the menace to be met work. The first feature of the boat is hor

this particularly investigations have been turned over to with on our lines of sea communication, size. She is 8aft in length by 13ft 6in. where mines and submarines lurk in bena, which was found to be the smallest front us in the matter of the blockade extremes to which those who are against

The main difficulties which now con- the pathway of every heavily-laden graft that would carry the equipment we arise from the fact that we have to us will go.”

tions. You do not realize the desperate transport. The wide sweep which the had decided on, and be comfortable in blockade Germany across neutral coun- Germans are now taking in pursuit of any weather. their treacherous aims is illustrated by

tries, which are largely permeated with this narrative of the Tynde reus.

In the second place, she is of a form German influence and intrigue. There is ship had on board a battalion of the speeds up to thirty miles an hour, but and we now have to deal with &traffe The of hull which could be driven easily at That has all been out off by the blockade, no direct overseas trade to Germany. Middlesex Regiment, memorable if only with sufficiens underwater body to make for the spirit which led the Volunteer her capable of keeping the sea in any battalion, then commanded by Colonel weather.

commodities Sir Reginald Hennell, to proffer their

through neutrals Commandant Bellairs reaching Germany services to a

“Her third feature is that she is built all. Europe is at war, we should forbid man for duty in South of steel.

boldly

proposed that inasmuch as nearly Africa at a moment of emergency not wood for such a boat are several fold off all their imports if they refused.

The advantages of steel over neutrals to trade with Germany, and cat the Dardanelles Report Colonel bir Mark Speaking in the House of Commons On twenty years past. The vessel was steam Although it would take longer to get our Lord. Robert's reply was that, apart from southerly point of the African continent, parts could be standardized and erected would

Sykes said he was sent for to see Lord when she struck a mine.

and moral considerations, this business. Lord Kitchener said to him, Kitchener one day about some other It was night would enable a great number to be turned

be that the neutrals, especially

af

A DECIDED IMPROVEMENT.

export,

LORD KITCHENER'S SLEEPLESS

NIGHTS.

had the picture before my eyes the whole. and massacred on the beaches at

ing off Cape Agulhas, the most the first boat, the case with which the milt very doubutal economic beney head aches vory badly. I have had Lite-eight.p.m., when the men would out in much shorter time than it would it, because the immediate result would ne sleep for three nights because I have be preparing to turn in; a strong south-take to build them of wood. Then there and Holland. would send to German time of those poor men being drowned easterly gale was blowing. Cape Agulhas 18 the matter of splinters. Every one their food products available for is one of the death-traps on the Cape knows the advantages of a steel car over and we should get none; while. If the Cullipoli. What a relief to know they route, visited by frequent fog and ancom & wooden one, and the sarae applies to a import of feeding-stufa were cut off, are solely off." That was thesis of passed by rocks round which sweep. un- the feature of safety from fire--an import Germany a ready buyer of the cattle they Lord Kitchener's career, yet he was not Vessel ander fire. Furthermore, there is Danish and Dutch farmers would find pertain currents. In those conditions the ant one in a fighting vessel driven by could no longer feed. In other words, thinking of his reputation or place in soldiers heard, the explosion, tearing gasoline,

way with terrifying noise the steel plates of the bull. They watched the "The fourth point is the armament, the enemy. The moral aspect of the proposal hp was thinking of his men. (Cheers.)

hozoic action would merely benefit the history, but, like the good soldier he was, wessel settle by the head, her propellor described above. We wish particularly to and the Lord Chancellor, huth of whom feature of which is the three-inch gun, as rising well out of the water. What hap-call attention to the foundation for this were glad that the Government proposed to an agreement with a responsible body

was well dealt with by Lord Lansdowne kad pened? These soldiers of the Middlesex Regiment were not sailors, but landsmen; gun, which is mounted directly above the to make no serious change in the methods of traders in the neutral country, who if there had been confusion and excite-steel bulkhead An arched steel

alto excites over the door ties the parts of the bulk

pursaed by their predecessors, g the darkness the Assembly" was lockers, on either side of the door form it is clear from the figures which Lord as could be expected. It is a mat-1 themselves see to the distribution of the sounded, and the men put on their life what amounts to large built-up T beams Robert laid before the House that a very then trusting to their honour

gooda

imported has worked as success- belts. Then the roll was called, and to support the weight and take the lack." considerable improvement has taken place good as their word. Listening to the

upon the order Stand easy being In all the new submarine-swatter seems

ter of bargaining with the given, the whole battalion," we are told, to be an efficient and formidable vessel. and Denmark to Great Britain in the he did not see how the

neutrals in the export of foodstuffs from Holland Minster for Blockade, ono gathered that began to sing." There is a picture for some artist of the future, Death larked in every wave that smole against

ter. It was most unsatisfactory eighteen further pressure was to be exercised upon bue sides of the stricken ship. Would as

months ago, and it still loaves a good deni

or how any sustance come in time? Not a man knew, but he was conscious of one clear call to

of room for support the tradition of the British Army rendered famous in our anauls by the fate of the Birkenhead, which sank, hy coincidence, almost on the very spot where the Tyndareus lay at the mercy of the search

A man must face death to realise that succeded, the

sentence the regiment receives a new

and

be as

last year, and notably, in the last quar blockade was to be increased of the

King has expressed his deep admira therefore, indulged in some sharp critiche doubted whether the effect produced tion of the conduct of all ranks at Cecil said he was aathorised by the Gov-assured the House that no feeding stuffs

Several speakers, shod over neutral

pared-which they are not to ride rough- in so doing he has given expression to

ism of that country, but Lord Robert would be the effect desired. Lord Robert rights; and even then the sentiment which will move the nationament to say that they saw no reason were being sent from Great Britain to to-day. When the history of the war has to modify the blockade policy in respect become stale, and experts have censed of Denmark, and he added that he him neutrals, and he is not prepared to stop discussing why this plan failed and why Danes, who had kept to the terms of that neutrals on the ground that part of the self made no charge whatever against the their import of feeding stuffs from other agreement with admirable fidelity" produce in the shape of pig meat will

eventually reach Germany.

battle honour-won by sea. The regards provement, especially as neutrals, unless the Government are pre

-・・ THE NAVY QUITE SATISFIED,· Such was the burden of the speech, and

The

how slowly time movca. Only those who Tyndareus will be retold. It will take The Minister also gavo figures showing have been brought to the edge of the ita place alongside other episodes in the that in respect of corn, grain, cocos, hasm separating the two worlds know tale of British heroism as an heirloom of animal fats and oils, vegetable, cils and ow long a minute may be sixty laggard the race. The nation does well to fertilisers, the gross and net amount of econds. These meh, prisoners on board gild the pages in its annals which are imports into Holland and the Scandina ito effect was manifestly increased by ship gashed by a violent explosion, two now being written by the men and the vian Countries, taken in the lump, was Sir Edward Carson's emphatic repudia- olds being full of water and another women of a country which, we were decidedly less last quarter than it bad tion of what he called the ridiculous doc aking, and with her screws rearing warned less than three years ago, had been before the war. This very pertinent trine of Bebe every neutral ship-and emselves out of their element, waited lost its sense of discipline, and had turn fact had a niarked effect upon opinion in take out the tiently for whatever fate might be ed its back on the glories of the past, the House. In the House of Lords, Lord said, war irs. The troops, it is stated, main-immersed in the clash of party politics, Emmott strongly deprecated

goods. That meant, he with everybody.

Ad- cipline during these poignant moment of the football and cricket fields. the present debate could not have occur working in thorough harmony with the nts when their fate hung in the The test has come, such a test as comes

said that is being done that can be done, and is Lance Would it be life? Would it be to few generations. In the light of the The answer of the Government, there-tacks on the blockade are belated, and the red at a more untimely moment, Minister of Blockade. In fact, the at ath? No one could answer story of the Tyndareus and many an fore, to their critics is that the principle attacks on the personnel of the blockade the official narrative it is recorded other incident of this great war, will of rationing which they have adopted is department are scandalously unjust. It of never was a tradition of the anyone dare to suggest that the race cap the only practicable method, and that was Lord Robert Cecil's frat opportunity Aish Army more worthily upheld than able of such heroisms is not true to this occasion." In that constrained the noblest traditions of its past history

their way of procedure that of coming for nearly a year to answer his critics. Jontinued at foot of next enlumn.) and the highest ideals of humanity?

(Continued ut foot of next column.) he put up a strong and, indead, an un- hoth inside and outside Parliament, and BILswered case. -Daily Telegraph.

ned the same steadfast courage and the barter of the mart, and the excite on Denmark and Holland and attack miralty is quite satisfied that everything

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