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RUIN IN FREED FRANCE.

THE GERMAN'S WORK

WHOLE VILLAGES WIPED OUT.

FROM THE TIMES' SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT-

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH, 1917,

TRUE STORIES FROM THE

FRONT

THE INCORRIGIBLE HUMOURISTS.

INVISIBLE PAINT.

A DREAM WAR INVENTION.

[BY TWELLS BREX,1

POINTS OF THE BUDGET ALL BRITISH SHIPS REQUISI TIONED

Mr. Bonar Law made his first Budget The tanks. Good Heavens!" said statement in the House of Commons on the sergeant slowly. The tanks stagger-May Sud. There are no new taxes, and ed us when they appeared but Invisible additions only to existing imposts in the Paint he opened and knotted again his three following cases big bands in mute expression of the

You were in the Paint Push?" asked the stranger.s

Entertainments Tax increased no admissions... Free tickets to be taxed. alteration to one penny and two penny Tobacco-Duty increased by 18, 100, Excess Profits. Duty to be sur për cent. per 1b

from January 1st last, instead of 60. The impost to begin as

"Aye, from the beginning. I was one base The major comes into quarters one of the first men they tried it on down at night, flushed-like and excited. geant, he says, you've heard all those steamers, are to be requisitioned by the

Ber rumours of the wonderful new war inven Government, which will thus take exces

All Ships, excepting small consting |

now sort of tanks what can fly in air, hip OWNERS' PROFITS,

Yes, sir,' I says, ironic like; sive burrow underground, and do fifty miles

shipping profits.

an hour.ZA

Stop talking,

An attack by the Boches being expected some men of a London regiment had been kept in reserve for nearly 20 hours in The last time that I visited Chauny, the an underground excavation, which more day after the French hind come into their closely resembled a tunnel than a trench own pgnia, it was not possible, or at least. It was almost quite dark, inches deep 10 futility of words. it was not advisable, to explore the whole water, and the ruen-cold and cramped town, as party of it were still under by reason of the fact that it was impos- shell-fire To-day, although it is still not sible to stand up straight--were physi more than seven miles from the enemy's cally miserable, if mentally checry. lines, and therefore within range of their They were relieved at nightfall by som heavy guns, it was a quiet as Novon or mea from another regiment, and as they Roye, and one could examine at leisure were filing out of their inferno one of the desolation of ruin to which it had been the new arrivals inquired of an outcoming reduced

Tommy," Who are you?" meaning what Not that any examination was neccs regiment. The questioned man was potion ! sary. The thing stares you in the facesibly a frequenter of entertainments of The whole of the north and east sides of which two are given nightly, for he the town have been shattered and mangled promptly replied sourly, "Oo are we ? by German explosives, German flames, Can't yer see? We're the second house and German vileness almost past the a comin' awt of the pit.” "p possibility of restoration. All the way to How is So and Sol" I inquired of Bt. Quentin it is the same. Every village along the Ham road has been practically mentioning a friend of zaine who, at the a senior officer of a Territorial regiment, wiped out.

age of 47, took his commission just be Of Jussy,, where there was a stilf fight fore the war, and has been out from the between the enemy's rearguard and the first. "He's very well, and no longer Cuirassiers and cyclists who followed close on their heels, nothing is left but with the best. Coolest man under fire I a young 'un) has made good as a soldier heaps of broken bricks. Nothing in the least like a house, or even a fragment of ever saw Never winces or ducks, whe wall, is to be seen. For about three-ther it's shell, shrapnel, or whizz bangs; quarters of a mile the road passes between and when the biggest thing of all, a two.crambling borders of red ruin with Minnic, comes over, and nearly gets out a single trace of life or human habit up, shows, fotball, for the wind tion. Not even Guillemont, on the up he shows. But he swore himself Bomme front, which was exposed night faint because a man who shares his dug

is to the incessant out snored to be fire of hundreds of British guns, was more totally obliterated

Even more melancholy are other places, such as Aumont, Faillouéi, Flavy-le Martel, and St. Sinion, where the remains of what once were houses and shops and manufactories and churches just hold Logesher enough not to fall crashing to the ground.

The brick piles of Jussy are like the ashes of a body that has been cremated. "The towns and villages where the work of flatnos and explosives was not quite so thorough are as dishonoured and as piti ful as the blackened and broken bones of dismembered skeleton that has been Burnt and trodden into the mud.

+

says the major.

* Collect half a dozen men, who can keep their mouths shut (that was one for me, So I rounds up ter men, gets them in of course), and bring them round to the laboratory at three o'clock !

bunch, and tells them, First man what opens his jaw about this here day's pro- ecedings gets shot at dawn. oath of secrecy man step out in turn and swear his solemn And cach

Each man steps out and swears differ. ent, according to his education, but all horrible and blood-curdling Know what a base camp laboratory is like? naked the sergeant. No, replied the airanger.

Well, just like one of them college rooms, said the sergeant. No sigu war Pale young chaps in spectacles and of war. Pale young chaps in spectacles and It was the most wickedly cold day of parlour on a week day. Well, when we nl the wicked winter, and freezing iron gets there, the major was in the back- hard. The Sniping Officer, going his ground. And a whole company of big- rounds, came upon a Tommy on Ob wigs and brass hats was there. And even servation edging the highest point thereabouts, and look ng at a little man with bottle should- duty, just under the parapet. they stood modest in the background, all overlooking a huge wine crater in Noers, Long hair, thin face, and a frock-coat Man's Land. He had his eye glued to and silk hat. The sergeant gave a a periscope, and enfiladed as he was by a gesture of amazement. very assassin of a wind, looked the most ilk hat-think of it.

Frock-boat, and forlorn, Irozen and abject being on earth,

See anything?" inquired the officer." "See anythink!" Tommy repeated sarcastically, without looking round, and unaware that he was speaking to an offheer. Wiy yor blinkin' eyes a run nin', and yer blinker' nose a runnin', and yer blinkin' tin at a tumbling every minute over your perishin nove, the

In some cases there are special features where not content with blowing thlighted perishscope froze up viv mud at of ugliness, as at Bray-St. Christophe, church of the cemetery to atoms, to the bloomin' peephole ow the blazes 19 departing invader tore the covering stones a blighter to see heay-think?? from some of the tombs and took out of them and destroyed the effins, presum ably for the metal that they contained.

*

A LESSON FOR THE PACIFIST.

*

Little chap secate in no way umble. Talks abstracted-like to the ceiling. Ruba his glassch, sticks them on, atira home sort of mess in a paint-pot with the brush, and says dreamily, I think 1 may safely yes, safely--that we have come to fruition of the experiment in invisible first man we painted used his invisibility paint. There have been disappointments gratify private ends and-er-did not dificulties-and-er-accidenta The

reappear. The paint fades in-er patches. He is, I imagine, in for trouble, wherever he is, when that happens. To night I understand we are experimenting with reliable men, and we hope for better results. The little man said we but there was only one of him-unless other professors what had made themselves

nvisible were in the pool.

A company officer (mentioned in dis patches and awarded a Military Cross got pneumonia in the trenches, and was taken to the Base Hospital, where, when In all there is the deeply marked trace he was supposed to be asleep, he over ofa de humanized people who have no beard the doctor and the nurse conferring pity, no scruples, and no respect for the his east. The doctor expressed the works of Glad or man. I wish with all opinion that the patient would die, and my heart that I could take the blind fouls was dismayed to hear a fechle voice from professor.

Will the ten men step out? says the who prate of pacifism, and still more the the got:

Give you five to one, led, and they files out, in nerow, standing Get a move on you, I order selfish and the cowardly, if there really sovereigns, I don't, doctor. Pos pa

are such people, who are trying to thirk A pause. Then: You won't? Hix the sunlight from the windows. Blinking between the professor and the big-wigs, duty to their country and the whole ce and show them some of those things. They would understand then, as

in their eyes. they apparently never will from what they may read in the newspapers, or see On the not by theatre, what President Wilson meant by saying that the German race has ru

Points of Mr. Bonar Law's Badge! speech sro as follow: --

The rate of the total war expenditure por day was £8,276,000, as against £6,022,000 last year.

Estimate of advances to Allies and Increased expenditure is due to muni. tions and l

advances to Allies

Dominions has been exceeded by

$100,000,000

Since the beginning of the war £822,000,000 has been advanced to Allion und £149,000,000 to Dominions.

An excess of £1,500,000 from the revenue of tobacco.

National Debt Dow stands at £3,854,000 less advances to Allies and Dominions.

Of the total of £4,318,000,000 expend ed during the war £1,127,000,000 was money derived from revenue.

price which has to be paid for "the These figures represent part of the

greatest act of madness, the greatest crime ever committed in the history of the world."

WEATHER REPORT.

On June 14th at 1150-No returns from Japanese stations Premare han decreased Shanghai and increased slightly from alightly along the court from Weihaired to Focehow to Haiphong. It is only stationary over Borneo, the Philippines and §. Anna,

A depresios still los over Indo-Chine, and there are indications of another over N Chin

10 km to day, 0.01 inch Total 1st Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending si January 22.40 Inobes, against an average of 2045 inches.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noop "fay is as follows pan

DISTRICT

Hongkong to Gap Brak

FORBOLET Southerly winds. moderate, aqnal. to showery. The vime an

No. 1.

Formosa Chanel

South Coast of Chius between The SouthCosus of China between The

Hongkong and Lamooks No. 1.

Hongkong and Hisinan.....

CHINA

Station,

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No. 1.

COAST METROBOLOGICAL

BEGISTER.

14TH JUNE, A.M.

-

Bock..

Hour.

Barometer

11 Sen Lerol |

Temperature.

Humidity.

Direction.

Forme

Weather

62860 61-

629.67 66

• 39.76 20771 50.99.70 ‚» - 29.60 99.79 **39.79.

29.76

- 29.77]

29 76 80 00 29.76

29.78 79 92

The total of the five per cent, Loan issue was £968,048,000, and of the Vladivostock four and a ball

Nemuros Loan per cent £321,003,000.

Hakodate War savings certificates had produced Tosin over £72,000,000.00

Kosha Excess Profits. The new excess profits Kagoshima

Nagasaki tax rate will be retrospective, and will Oshima take effect from Janaury 1st this year. business since the war an addition of

Where new capital has been put into a ishi'jma...

Naba

three per cent. will be allowed

Bonin Is. mora in raising the last loan than the RROW ....

There was no class which helped him Weihaiwel

Therefore he thought it not unfair lust, Shanghai shipowners, said Mr. Bonar Law, but Kukus

Ichang they had undoubtedly got large profits Chan in the case of the shipowners, this pro GUSAAF AS, vision of the excess profits tax should not Sharp Feak... apply, and they should not be entitled to get back out of previous profits the Swatow

Amoy amount of any loss they might make this year

is Tainoku

hoped, come to an end after the war, the Roshun Though the excess profits tax would, he Tainan Taichu

income-tax was not charged on the excess Pescadores profits duty, and if, by good fortune, the Canton same incomes were made after the war Hongkong

In conclusion, Mr. Bonar Law said we there would be an income-tax available at:

could not go on indefinitely on this senle Hoihow

in the £ of 250,000,000 sterling.

Macão Wachow

stops up with his paint-box and begins to which would prevent out victory. Wa Turane

Without saying no more the professor tin that

expenditure Bill it was quite cer Pakhoi would not be want of money Phulien "No sportsmen, these MO's Capitut if he was washing a statue. The serenemies.

splash his paint on Private Mustian, as should be able to go on longer than our chap, clever doctor, but can't kill me, if geant paused for suitable words." Evur The Chancellor added that the Govern Dagupan

Capet James the Boche couldn't. Seven to one, doctor? had one of them Christians cards, goverment of the United States bas promised. Nothing doing? Wash at, ch Wet nor with a little tab on them that you to help us in meeting the financial wants. Lega I should like to take them to a little doctor. I'm going to sleep and pull and the top half of the card slides of our Allieeeing the round hill, 10 miles from St. Quentin,

down and an angel appears? Well, think standing about ft, above the plain and

of one of the cards when you push the commanding over scores and scores of

A Minnie" had come over and knock

Lab up and the angel disappears-fect square miles un uninterrupted view of all the stuling out of a sentry He That's how Private Mustian disappeared fits tax up to 50 per cent.

firstthen legs--then body then head. the surrounding country.Three aurumers staggered to his feet-except for the treas the professor painted him, Shut your ago this slice of desecrated France was amendous shaking practically unhurtmouth and eyes, my man, saya the project to the increased amusements tax and patchwork of green orchards and brown fighting for breaths, which he could not ploughland, dotted with towns of grey get back for some minutes. While he was stone and villages of red brick, and, propled by a race of happy peasants.. turned the corner of the trench. There so standing a young officer, newly out, Now the whole of it is an ugly uniform was a heavy bombardment on. The us grey, the grey of grass that has grown experienced young offent, not knowing and withered because for three seasons it what had happened, and, seeing the bus neither been cat by man nor grazed sentry rifeless (his rifle had been blown by-eattle

lap, eyes half out of his head, and mouth many yards away), knees bent, body (half full of dust) gaping open like a nd ship, or turned into shapeless, roof. loosened sack-head, inquired" Well, quoping into them, swearing and mutta passed very hardly on the working classes lightning, overcast, p passing showers, a aqua

Amoking

The grey and red houses are either gone altogether, like the people and the cattle

to one,"

Another pause, followed by s disgust ed grunt, after which came

to get well."

And he did.

THE DISCUSSION.

Mr. McKenna said he rather feared that Mr. Bonar Low had gone beyond the breaking point in putting the excess pro..

fessor, when he comes to Mustian's head, and tobacco duty, but the excess profit Sir J. Walton said no one would ob-

And then he paints Mustian's face, not was most unequal in its incidence. think there is much visibility left, gentle quarters of the burdens of taxation last touching the eyes and mouth. - ' I don't

Sir F. Banbury said that about three- for the big wigs to see. There was and excess profits tax and the death men, says the professor, stepping back year was borne by payers of income-tax much for them to see-two eyes and an duties. He wanted to see the basis of open mouth; nothing else in the sunshine taxation broadened.

hastly cried the sergeant.

tobacco taxes should be revised, as they Mr. Clynes thought the amusements and

whose incomes were in many cusos very

Well, when they had done the row and the big-wigs had walked roun them, what's the matter with you?" and gone away whispering as if they had low.

to themselves just like human beings, breath to do so, and, knocked silly as he The man tried to answer, but had no was by the shock, gaped helplessly and them-play tricks.

seen a miracle, the major said, "Go out

Mr. Baldwin. replying to complaints idiotically at the officer, who said again, divulgeman who divulges shot at dawn. parts of the Empire had to pay double thema among the men-ry it on that Dominion citizens resident in Great this time more sharply What's the

you like but don't Britain and who owned property in other matter with you"

"You can guess what tricks we played,'

tax said the Imperial Conference had de

like that." years, none of us will ever have a barney should be taken in hand immediately mused the sergeant. Live, a thousand cided to recommend that the matter

after the war.

xy, useless masses of destruction and dirt. Over the whole face of the wither- sed grey desert that the enemy has made are strewn thousands and thousands of what look like black faggots--the mur dered Fruit trees that in a few weeks would have become if the enemy that conceived this vileness bad not been driven back, a mass of white and pink Minnie, falling sufficiently near the At that proment over came another blossom. It so happens that from this officer to serve him exactly as the pre- particular place the view of the crime of vious one had served the sentry As, half thes stricken trees, which never loses its blinded. wholly smothered, and three poignancy in the wing, whatever may he the case in the telling, is particularly Tharters stunned, the officer stumbled to

·FRANCE · ELTEL FRIEDEKUN E SHOOTING-BOX.

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the stranger, impatiently,

"And the great Paint Push?" askel

The sergeant litted his arm and dropped

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T. E CLAXTON, Director, 1. BáBoxerak, reduced to 32 degrees Fahren- and hundredths.

2. TUMPARATUR, in the shaile, in dagenes Fehrenheit.

8 Humidity, in percentage of eaturation, thi humidity of air miurated with moisture bein. 100

4 DishorioM OF Wind, to two points

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alonde'd drissling rain, fog, g gloomy, h hdl ! KORAN OF WIND, Mocording to Beaufort Bcali STATE OF WEATHws, b blue sky, ● detached

rain, snow, t thunder, vidhility, dew (wet..

in taches, tenths and bundtede.

7. BA

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER...

Hongkong Observatory, June 14th

Previous On: Dace On Dase

Day

6 am. ཊྛཾ

Baldwin announced that a concession With regard to liquor licences, Mr. would be made to licence holders.

The Budget resolutions ware agreed to. it with another gesture of infinite futility BUDGET IN BRIEF

£2,230,281,000. Barometer

638,600,000emperature

Humidity: Wind Dretion.

Forou

· Weather Rein

impressive because it is here more wide his feet, the sentry ran forward to help You can't imagine it, not if I talk Estimated expenditure:

hun. Then standing the regulation else in the devastated country

attention and, ceremoniously saluting paces away, the sentry came smartly to said

Beg pardon, air; I couldn't an. But there is a further reason for choosewer before, but that's what was the ing this little hill as the place from which matter with me."-Daily Chronicle. to contemplate the object-lesson of this

side of the war. On the top of it there

is a neatly built log-hut of white-barked of its Prince Eitel Friedrichs and its beech trunlas, fitted with glass windows, Prince Eitel Friedrichs themselves. and adorned inside with given, canvas' hangings framed in gilt mouldings. On For let there e no mistake. Until as

This eligible country residence was con- structed as a sort of week-end, shooting box for Prince Eitel Friedrich to which he and his boon companions could retire when they were exhausted by the strain of the war.

loans

horses, scores of invisible tanks, squadrons Balance to be provided by of invisible guns, thousands of invisiblde of invisible aeroplanes, and two hundred thousand invisible mon all painted up,

right and fresh, that very morning.

Butter he cried, contemptuously. From non-tax sources

To be raised from taxes. through the Huns like butter! They are "People have written that we wen talking of hard work compared to tha blessed day. Fighting! It wasn't fight

Total

1,051,781,000

·560,700,000

9,600,

PLAINER

THE MIRROR SHOWS

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THE PHARMACT,

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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE

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the narrow terrace round it are fixed a ruling family and caste their reign is ing. Massacre! That's a poor word for wooden benches and tables of the kind caded there can be no freedom for the it. Casualties! The only castaities we that belongs by right to the German beer world and so peace for its nations, and had that day perhaps a hundred or ta garden

least of all for Germany and for England, was through our own guns getting on

RIOTS IN BULGARIA, whom the Prince Citel Friedrichs at other--being invisible; and the tow we following details of disturbance, which since all peoples

English the most

each From

an authentic lost when the Huns got blind panic have taken place at Bohn Rad Burgas princely log-hut and all that it means at the sun and horizon. as far as that Enormous crowds parade the streets, This afternoon, with the taste of that stricken and began firing at the blue, and (writas G. J. Stevens from Abone), still in my mouth, I looked at the Church goes", of St. Quentin at a rather shorter range. There was, of course, no reason why With the French night communiqué calls

es was it an awful panion

earrying real skulls and cross-bones on they should not build their hut wherever a lively artillery duel was going on....

Day of the Last Trump will be a reat and "Down with the war! **** Down they chose. But there is a cynical signi other words, great spouts of black smoke gravely. See them poor devils now The military charged the crowns, and cure compared to it," said the sergeant with Germany!" and "We want peace *** ficance in the fact that it alone in the were constantly shooting up into the air can, white ne chalk, blubbering like repeatedly had to whole visible landscape remains intact, on the English, or north-west, side, and babies, screaming, lying clawing at the. There were numerous casualties, amongst with the one exception of the massive along the ridge that marked the French ground, running lower and slower, and them being many women,

use their firearms. structure of the Church of St Quentin, left,

A stopping, like you stop in nightmares towering in the far distance. Everything But there was also another kind of to stare at Nothing Nothing running, succeeded in clearing the streets. The else of the works of God and man is smoke, rising from St. Quentin itself in breathing hard, at them. Nothing using most ruthless methods are being employed After a considerable time, the military destroyed. Even the wonds, so far as was endless clouds, and carried clong far British swear words, Nothing crying out to crush the movement, but, as yet, with possible in the time at the disposal of the away from the town by the free wind. Rementer the Lusitania, enemy after he found that ho could no that was blowing all day. It looked like Nothing yelling the sergeant f Il

boys out success. longer stand his ground, has been wilfully the smoke of a bonfire, the kind of bonfire through smashed and damaged, and the people that all through der of bonfire-thinking and yet, sometimes I think,

among em, and who are responsible for this crime are, saw in village after village that French he said softly, that I pitied the prisonarins they could not see, who felt hot, Wid the Prussian and Frussianized officers of and English soldiers have since won back ers most of all the Huns who found voices coming from lips floating in empty Thur the German Army, the boon companions for France.

panting breath on their faces, and heard (Continued at font of next column.).

themselves amber, but in the grip of air, crying Cheer up, Fritz, you've been

(Continued at foot of next column.):

And that, of course, was what it was,

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