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LOSS OF THE BALLARAT.”

EVERY MAN AT HIS POST,

LONDON, May 3rd

CASTAWAYS.

GERMAN INHUMANITY,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FEIDAY, JUNE 22xD.

The Presy Bureau last month, an- nounced:-

The troopship Ballarat floated for Fourteen and a half hours. A destroyer The steamer Anatol Castle was tor- prevented the submarine renewing the pedoed without warning 320 miles from the Scillies, the nearest land. Those on attack. The explosion was so slight that board, numbering 1891 were placed into the men forward were unaware of what boats, including a baby three months old. had occurred. When the alarm signalCaptain Chave, muster of in the

Castle,_in_reporting the sinking to sounded it was thought that the simmons owners, gives an unvarnished tile of the was for ordinary host-drill. During the horrors which his boatload of castaways endured during four days exposure to disembarkation the men were as cool as gales and bitter weather. Captain Chave if the ship were in dock. The engine had taken the precaution to install in all boats a supply of milk, beef, biscuits. room was flooded, and the staff worked and blankets; but the sufferings of those waist deep.

on board were intenso. They were con stantly soaked with ice-cold Everybody gradually weakened, several died Captain Chave narrates that the whole of the second day was spent by the crow fighting the sea. It was impossible to hoist sail, so they lashed two oars together, and formed a sea anchor

A military officer, interviewed, stated Every precaution had been taken aboard the Ballarat a fortnight before she roached the English coast The men thought wo were making too much of the danger by compelling them to wear life belts so long before, arrival in the Chan- nol However, they had been so well

an

And

IN THE SALIENT.

{ST AN OFFICER

THE WAR BURDEN. RECORD CREDIT VOTE.

Through a dreamy, hot Sunday after In the House of Commong last month, noon in summer officers and men Jazed Mr. Bohar Law, Chancellor of the Ex among the leafy surroundings of a chateau chequer, in moving for a credit vote of Eco0,000,000, said, This is the largest about a couple of miles behind the front singlo vote of the wai. The first vote of line. Some slept, some bathed in the the financial year was expected to suffice to the end of May, but the expenditure artificial lake; and some read books

axceeded expectations. The unexpended, wrote letters, ball lying, half-sitting m balance on Saturday was £60,000,000, the shade of the trees. It was modern which will suffice for a fortnight. We chatena such as the bourgenis love, tur-expended £261,000,000, which included reted, jerry-built, and doll's house like army navy, and munitions, £173,000,000); but Inxurion withal in its greenery and and loans to the Allies and Dominions,

£68,000,000. The alarming feature of the silence,

figures is that they represent a daily aver

go expenditure of $7.450,000 compared. with the recent estimate of £5,500,000. advances to Dominions which will be re- prezented £2,000,000 daily, compared with 1,000,000 daily 2 year ago. "Neve ince the last vote we have had no American assistance, but America has now icted with a promptitude for which we could not be over grateful. One itemiz of 230,000,000 could not be regarded as on balf of Dominion forces and certain advance, to Dominions which will be re- turned during the current year. Deduct

Save for the constant buzzing of sero planas overhend, few sounds were horse on the light westerly breeze which blew towards the trenches. But all afternoon reports kept coming in from the front line; the trenches were being pounded to nothing, nobody quite know what to ex pect. Last night there had been a raid and now the Bosches were retaliating. To-night there was to be a relief None

drilled, that it became practically secondi On the third day thirat intensified the dooked forward to it and the ceaseless real expenditure--notably, expenditures. mataire to them to take up their boat agonies of exhaustion, exposure and roo-coo-roo-coo-coo of woodpigeons in stations As we were getting ready to sleeplessness. Pitiful appeals were made their leafy fastnesses made ore long for hold the Anzac memorial service at 2.30 for water, but I was only able to issue the infinito pesce of an English summer. pm, the men were dressed in their an extra ration to a few of the weakerThen evening cane, and an hour being these items the daily averrge expondi- uniforms instead of in their knockabout ones. A hailstorm commenced, and the dusk the men paraded for the trenches ship's clothes. The adjutant was busy hailstones were eagerly scraped from our in the grass-grown farmyard. By allure is about £6,600,000, but the periodic checking arrival.

the stores and getting ready for clothing. I ordered a sail to be spread parties, a platoon at a time they morched expenditure has ao fluctuated that an At 5.5 p.m. a small out to catch the water, but unfortunately sway, some to follow cross-country tracks average over short periods is an unreli explosion was heard aft & slight tremor the rainstorm passed over. Several drank towards the canal, others going by the able guide. There is to reason to assume ran throughout the ship from

The men aft were thrown dowe Salt water in defiance of orders, and direct road. It was a calm and lovely that the Budget estimate will be greatly became light-headed. Next morning most aftermath, the sun setting in a golden accurate. The greatest increase com- Those forward did not know that any of the men were helpless. Severnl were haze, blue mists creeping up all around; pared with the first period of the year is thing had happened. A bugler sounded in a raving delirium and one died. One the heat of the day was succeeded by a £2,000,000 to £4,940,000 This vote will in army, navy, and munitions, from the alarm and advance, which were the the boat was swamped during darkness delightful freshness. Nevertheless, clouds pie-urranged -⠀⠀ signala. Within four I thought all was over, but a moms of of dust rose from the road for as dusk suce until August 1st."___ minutes every man was at his station despair arose in the darkness, and fell, the great evening Lide of traffic get mistakes, especially her failure to under- The Chancellor referred to Germany's › awaiting orders. The torpedo struck the shunted, Bale! Bale!" Finally, by

towards the trenches. Ration parties,stand human nature. The success of starboard side of the Ballarat, almost supermuman efforts the boat was saved. astern. It was aimed amidships, but was By morning several had collapsed, in file; motor-lorries, ambulance, motor mean that the people of Britain will be lieving parties, fatigue parties all moving the submarine warfare," he said, might observed from the bridge about 300 yards more lost their reason and climbed about distant, and the vessel's course was alored sufficiently to prevent, the missile the boat, threatening to fight. Their cyclists, officers on horseback, orderlies reaching the origine-room. As all the appeals for water were so angry that I bicycles, quarter-masters and quarter. obliged to show their staying power gave an extra allowance of water, which master-sergeants driving mess-carts and suffer barships hitherto unknown. lower ports had been closed five days pre was served out and much cursing and the formed part of a steady stream that America has already shown that she is

viously, it only remained to close the

flowed through the first battered village prepared to organisa her full strength. snatching, watertight, doors, at

At the cross roads the main stream ceased Mesopotamia is now one of the most

brilliant and most successful operations

**Only one ration remained. Another

afire

other age have been regarded as a great victory. We are still pressing the enemy with undiminished force. The number

1917.

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PHONE NO. 92 FOR SAMPLES.

always stationed which mea

The boats vera ordered to be cleared man died and others were dying. No one the reliefs turned to the left heading We now hold steurely practically the There were no heroics, Boice of the men anything solid. Everyone's throat was more you could hear the pat-w patter pit battle on the west front would at any These were got out with fine precision could now eat the biscuits or swallow straight for the Canal bank. and onco whole, vilayet of, Bagdad. The present

his lips fürred, limbs numbed, a patter of trench boots. Queer Chinose started to sing, but this was instantly bands bloodless, and feet swollen to tivico figures the men locked in their round stopped, so as not to interfere with the their normal eize. On the last day three tin hats honry-laden with kit as they "orders. All the boats except three got died

were, the rifle slung on the shoulder. away without Ma bitch. It was unneces sary to put out the remaining three

THE HOUR OF RELIEF. becauso a destroyer came up and took off the balance of the troups. After the

at this, the hour of the relief, the road

Now the pervous work began.

began, for ofter, Sorpedo strunk the vessel the destroyer

would he sprayed with shrapnel Evory- circled in the direction whence the sub

body much preferred to travel by the bur trying a second torpedo y ribed

grass tincke had there been room for all Mr. Reginald M. Kenna, Chancellor, BUTTONLESS (FROX) NECK or shelling

A cable published on March Although we had a gun alt it would have stated The Union Castle Liner Aluck less, not a sound but the distant ratio of disturbing, especially as the Budget esti- However, the twilight is still and breath said that the Chancellor's statement was been impossible in the vessels, disabled Castle, 5,000 tons, was torpedoed without trafic and the pit-a-patter of the mosmates had been exceeded, but this was condition to manœuvre the

gun against

warning on March 19th in the Atlantic feet on the road. An occasional star due to the great rise in prices owing to the foo

the demand for indispensable commodi The sce was very calm. Within half 320 miles from land: A day previously

The French horse boat Fenezia piered up 18 survivors in the afternoon, who walk All were hoisted aboard, and were so enfeebled that they could not landed at New York.

Captain Chave does not know whether the other five basta were picked up

of Germaan divisions in the present battle ure double the number engaged on thỏ Somme. Half have been withdrawn heavy, but they are 50 per cent. to 76 per owing to losses. Our casualties have been

cent less than in the Somme

See our more destroyers arrived and the vessel and rescued the crew of snotherlight rising and falling in the direction ties exceeding the supply,S

picked up the men from the boats. By torpedoed British ship. One boat laod of the trenches, a low rumble far to the Mr. Dillon complained that the coun-

on the Spanish coast, and three other this time the ship was pretty low down by boats were picked up some days later, the olen, but she remained steady and he remaining boat has

Without a list. We thought at the outset

It would be possible to keep up steamed for......

Y and bring the vessel in, but tho engine- room was flooded, the staff being waist- odeep in waler. The destroyers towed the Ballarat and got within nine miles of load I powerful tugs had been available

not been account

INVENTOR AS BULLET TARGET.

IN TEST OF ARMOUR

southward, and a passing flicker on the horizon which might be the reflection of German guns firing beyond the ridge or merely the playing of summer lightning aro almost the only signs of warp sently, you pay the stark shell of a ruined house, guardian of a rusty railway-line, overgrown with vegetation, and then come

GAUZE VESTS.

THE TRIUMPH" IN A FULL RANGE

OF SIZES FROM 34 TO 40 INCHES.

try was not being told the whole truth

alcoline The Position in Greece Price $7.50 Doz. Salonika The was going from bad to worse. The Tempi newspaper had accused the British Government of standing behind King Constantins and preventing adequate

I believe it would have been possible tosave the ship. The highest praise is due to the Ballarat's officers and crew for the way in

In the presence of ordnanes officers, which they get the boats out. Mr. representing the United States Govern Hulton, chief officer, was indefatigablement, and representatives of steel mills, and it was due to his smartness that and of the United States Rubber Com everybody got away so quickly,

pany, a test was made at Dover, Nude & weeks back, of a bullet proof jacket Soma70+4, our troops participated in and headgent, the invention of Dr. Guy men to travelling this way that they the true. The Alfies could not add to the

At dinner time our men were ordered

they are inconvenient to dine in. The

was struck on the starboard side. Her

naval vessels. also appeared

CAPTAIN'S PRAISE.

to the engineer's dump where all trafic support being given M. Venizelos SUPERFINE GAUZE VESTS, ceases. A congestion of troops in single Mr. Benar Law said that Mr. Dillon's file in waiting to cross the bridges. One statement that we bullied Roumania into seems to hesitate here on the threshold of the war at the instigation of pro-German Fate. ALSO Russia was a cock and bull story. He did Size

A Busche machine-gun is trained on the not think that any intelligent man would wooden bridge which 30 of 40 yards ahead have repeated an utterly unfounded Price spans the Canal. It may sweep round at statement. Regarding King Constantine any moment, but so accustomed are the Mr. Dillon's statement was equally un- not increase their pace by hair's number of their enemies by using troops breadib Rather are they inclined to to effect a revolution in Greece and put and wonderful of pictures: the Canal by Pause in wonderment at that most weird M. Venizelos in command. Bight=

to be expected, but the minorworfer, that

AERTEX

he Southingu viisaster, and were return ng to dub Not half-a-dozen of the Oris Brewster and Emil Heller, both of cops got bet, and those who did got Dover. The test was made by shooting at et fort, and those who did got theirs wet Dr. Brewster, who wore the jacket and rough & hung on to a raft, which was headgear, at a distance of sixty feet with upcessary all the canteen fuads and Springfield rifle, lended with regula

Does it remind you most of a quiet heavy shelling and many casualties. It personal kits, but this was unidable at a velocity of 2,740 feet per second backwater in Venice or of a scene from is bloody Hell up there, they matter

ords were saved The met lost this tion ammunition, which carried a ballet for two reasons, the first being th, it was. The shat was fired by Sargeant George the Earl's Court Exhibition, or of the the trenches are blown to bits inadvisable to go below in case the bulk Shiswell of Company C. Fifth Regiment imagined Styx where Chaton ever fer So, they are and far more than the honds gave way, and, secondly, there was New Jersey National Guard. The bullet no rocin aboard the boats or rescuing was deflected from the jacket without people from shore to shore; this old greatest pessimist among us dreamed. vessels. Eventually the bulkheads yield injury to the wearer. It failed even to waterway with its counties little lights The first sign of it is when one comes blinking against high mysterious banks to an immense hole right on the line of ed, and the vessel settled until the fore make an indentation in the plato

After the shooting Dr. Brewster, while and its sullen stagnant lapping wafer the communication trench itself, utterly part alone was visible. The air forced off the batches, and the Ballarat dis wearing the armour, gave a demonstra which reflects the lights, the stars, and blotting it out. This hole would easily Lion of the usts to which it might be put sailing above, the cold moon. It looks contain the fanndations of a fair-sized appeared.

in battle, and of the resistance it afforded seductive, exotic, populous, compared to cottage, and one has to work round and when struck a hard blow with a ten-pound the bleak, perilous world outside. The beyond it to discover where the trench to don lifebelts, much to their disgust, as simmer and more on fall high banks are honeycombed with dug. King again. Somebody grants Min merits claimed for the armour outs all around is the busy hutoa nio-wafer and somebody else says, "No, Tenson was apparent when it was seen inelude its shock-absorbing qualities and hum, shuffling, scaling, mysterious it's a big trench-mortar. 2. Then one that the Ballarat was in trouble. So the even manner in which its thirtyThe Canal 18 to clear cut border-line remembers that this sector has a sinister distress signals brought up numerous pounds are distributed. The inventors between humanity and tus shadowy reputation for the most terrible engines Two French aeroplanes say their device will not only prevent nether-world of Ypres. Now the lack of war, not the trench-mortar, which is penetration and overcome the paralyzing clack-clack of the machine-guns is heard super mortar which is one of the most shock effect, but will enable the soldier & stray bullet or two whistles high over frightful weapons the fiendish ingenuity FINE to charge from the trenches, shoot, use the road, and the star-light seem much The captain of the Ballarat talegraphed the bayonet and sabre, and throw hand closur. An occasional raile shots pane of the man has produced to Australian headquarters: Kindly grenades while wearing it. Another point turos intervening silences. It is tight brand new 5.9 holes, and beyond these Beyond the center there is a chain of inform Colonel M'Vea, officers, and is that the soldier may

kneel, he downs and with night in the Silent there come two more craters, one running into the troops that their admirable behaviour and rise to charge with alacrity,

a sense of loneliness and neighbouring ether, after which the trench is virtually and efficient help contributed materially Dr. Brewster has been working on his death, take to the expeditione disembarkation and device more than eight years About two All scenes close behind the trenches at an end. Here and there you may come Buhsequent ante landing by the destroyer years ago Emil Heller, a local business much the same, and this one is as others work still standing and a machine-gun

upon a short length of sandbeg

breast of the entire ship's company without loss man, became associated with him..

void, barren, desolate. It possible to travel all the way to the front line by moon reveals the ghostly naked walls of remains practically intact. A shining communication treno, bus perversely the

but we will be ashore to-night

I am sorry that the concert in spoiled, allowed to along the road. Well, the road by clustered round's courtyard, and these man prefer to walk as far as they use certain form buildings which in days gone is quicker even if a stray billes or two now are the only key to distance and wake, noticed the ship changing its headquarters, Jumbled collection of stray parties of men just relieved-stum Two soldiers, watching the torpedo's docs come that way. But beyond trench direction Constantly, too, you most course, and they shook hands, mutually more or less spacious dug-outs, it would bling thankfully to the rear. By mis congratulating each other on the fact

unit missed. The Dirt women be sheer madness to walk on the top of take as it were, you find yourself in a explosion occurred

playing across it, and at times the belt the ground. Machine-guna are constantly short remaining section of front line trench The rest parapots, parados, Sydney lad, Michael Kearns, was flip through the air like a flight of birds. dag outs, sandbags, communication: The troops in the Ballarać came from among the last to leave the ship. He was A number of troops are congregated berghell-bole succoeds another, clustering

trenches are utterly wiped

qut One all parts of the Commonwealth. The playing rag time on the planet but as long as they keep down they are regard the sinking as the most trivial Patient, who was suffering from the after fairly safe. Here, too, is the field round some enormors crater in meriton effects of shell-shock, was prominent dressing station, and a row of canvas moonlight, kindling the pools of water at adventure, and they only see the amusing assisting other patients into the boats

que confusion, and were it not for the features, They declare that a man who

shrouded figures Wing on stretchers and the bottom, falls and involuntary wettings summers first saw the torpedo, which ex

looking exactly like mummies, bespeaks ploded before he could give the warning

the daily harvest of the trenches They The sentries and Lewis gans are a last

would be frequent The Australian conception of disciplinoing from the

Bandmaster Heydin, as he was departare waiting to be taken down to the Canal

Tolstock There is no time to lower The sailors gave the tro

troops the heartiest cemeteries volcome and shared their rations with

MAGNIFICENT DISCIPLINE.

The Press Bureau states that the Ad amiralty, in announcing that the Bellarat

was torpedoed 15 miles from the rearest land, mays that the magnificent discipline and steadiness of the troops were in unison with the finest traditions of the

British army:

TORPEDOED SHIP FOR 24, QU

BO LONG LEITY/

·was not found wanting in the crisis The So Long Lettyayed on the cornet bank and then carried away to the Parties are immediately told off to go back

AWFUL WORE..

explosion woke up severa] men who were

sleep on the hatches.

for the rations and if possible to gain While standing at the boat stations a

Hank communication. The rest of the humorist pat the Ballarat up to auction. It was a wonderful sight when the along the communication trench towards wearied by their long walk.

them, A A trawler brought in 150 men. *** It is awful work pushing and shoving men sink down in one of the saps utterly The first bid was threepence, but are vessels steamed into harbour hours later the front line, since with full balk of dreads stumbling by mistake into the ... Everybody tually Robert Lee became the purchaser

2. od. This indicates the spirit of under scopes of searchlights from the land equipment there is barely room for two German lines in the mysterious halflight,

Lasteries to pass at a time. Eence tong halts when Fortunately all so far is quiet, but socor Colonel Yea declared that they were story that a French seaplano located and way! The men coming down from the haunt the unusual stillness. An old Several of the men corroborate the everybody shouts, Heke way Make thing sombre and for boding recus to the best-behaved troops as ever saw in tried to bomb the submarine. It is gener-treaches look jaded and worn-out. They soldier remarks half-humerously; The his lip. Addressing the men he saidally believed that the submarine was sub- have had a nerve racking day and night, night is yet, young, boys!"-Land and

(Continued at foot of next column.) sequently destroyed.

(Continued at fort of next column.) Water.

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