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TRAVEL HUMOURS IN SPAIN, FRENCH CAPTURE OF THE
BY HAMILTON FIFE.
MADRID, May 2nd.
HUG'S BACK,, TOPOGRAPHY OF THE BATTLEGROUND.
TOUPEDOPLANES.
[BY RICHARD THUIKKEL)
A German seaplane off the Suffolk coast the other day introduced to us a The country sub of Laon, as for us method of naval warfare which is a pure the Aisne between Soissons and Berry-an novelty to the great majority of people Pa, is a generally hilly triangle, within this country namely, the afinck with sides of 18 miles from Laon to Soissons, torpedoes from ift. 16 miles from Lace to Berry-au-Bas, end
The Admiralty have since told us that 6. base of 20 miles from Soissons to this mode of attack was successfully Berry-nu-Bac One side marked by the employed by our own airmen in the Boissons-Loan railway, the other by the Dardanelles nearly two years ago, but I Laon-Reims road. The base is the great ridge which runs east and west from above believe I am right in saying that the the Soissons-Laon railway to Craonne. whole idea originated with Rear-Admiral It is a regular hog's back, along the Bradley A. Fiske, of the United States whole length of which runs the Chemin Navy who in 1912 executed patent des Dames," This rond rises and falls covering both method and an with the undulations of the ridge, but apparatus delivering submarine the gradient is nowhere worthy of the torpedoes from an airship. name of a hill. The ridge varies much in This now type of fighting craft, whose breadth: above Craonne it is very nar-possibilities can as yet be only vaguely row; it broadens out, above Craonnelle, realised, will be known quite naturally ag
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS
„ORDERS'ÜY: MAJOR," P, « MACDONALD, V-DE-
LEAVE.
No. 1682 Plc. E. A. Britton is granted leave from 9th July, 1917, till the end of August, 1917 No. 149 Pte. U Henderson is granted 1 month's leave from 30th June, 1817. No. 1763 Spr. W. N. Fleming is granted
1 month's leave from 4th July, 1917- No 1833 2nd Cpl. D. M. Mackay is granted I month's leave from 5th July, 1017.
Spain and Russin are the ao mast, in- teresting countries left in Europe for the traveller, who enjoys the humour of life, They are so different Ironi the set,
Where bub in Spain, unless, truced, in Russia, could this happen? An American jumps out of a train at a small railway i station. He is desperately thirsty. Ho na old woman with a basket of sees
How much are they" oranges.
They are five centimos, a halfpenny, each. I'll take the lot," the American
"All of them? echoes the naya
old woman, "Oh, no, I can't sell them all What should i do the rest of the
day Where, except very rarely in Paris, could you see in the streets of a great city like Barcelona flocks of goals being driven from door to door to be milked In all southern towns the tinkle of the goat-belle le familiar. In Barcelona, too, I could show you a public letter-writer's to 300 yards or movie, and then contracts the torpiedoplane. Generally speaking: Monday, 9th inst stand where men and women who cannot write for themselves go to have their let ters written for them.
In Madrid I look out of
my window
to less than 100 yards at the Hurtebise farm:
It is the Hurtebise neck, and the broader plateau just west of it, which are of Craonne in 1814, West of this point
for
the
the method of carrying and firing torpedo is much the same as that which was used in the small and early types of torpedo-boats, and which was put to such effective use by the picket-bents of the and neslie when they
on to one of the fincat open squares in famous as the scene of Napoleon's battle and destroyed the stranded
the
the ridge varies greatly in width, owing in the Dardanelles in April, 1915, to to generally level, open spurs which prevent her from falling intact into the alternate with valleys leading up from hands of the enemy. The torpedo is stung the Aisne, about 350 feet below. These in an inverted cradle, where it is held by spurs are practically all on the southern tongs, and at the requisite monient ita side of the ridge; the northern is much tongs are opened and the weapon, steeper, and the spurs not long enough engines simultaneously: set in motion, materially to affect the width of the drops into the water and heads away for plateau. The platean of Vregny is the the target. broadest part.
- HARBOUR ATTACKS.
dusk
DEATH.
The Commandant records, with deep re- gret, the death of No. 1595 Sapper C. Woodhead on. 1st July) 1917.
PROMOTION. YO No. 1684 Gr. G. Gerrard to be meting Bonbardier, dated 3rd July, 1017.
DRESS.
trousers and putties, instead of shorts" Guards on duty at night will wear and putties, until further ordera, PARADES
5 pm. Centre Section M.G. Co. at King's Park Range. Annual Musketry Course
5.30 p.m. Right Section M.C. Co. and Scouts Company on Murray Parade Ground under unit Commanders. Aiming Instruction and Firing In. struction.
3,30 p.m. Left Section M.G, Co. und
Civil Service Company at Head quarters under unit Commander. Firing Instruction.
3.30 p.m. Mounted Section at Jockey
Club Stables,RAM CA
5.30 pm. Hecruits if all units on Murray Parade Ground under Cpts. Grimes Edgcumbe and Edmonds and Ice-Cpl. Meade.
710 m. Scouts Company M.G.
Detachment at Hendquarters.
5 p.m. Left Section M.G. Co, and
Civil Service Company at King's. Park Rango. Annual Muskotry Course
5.30 p.m. Stretcher Bearer Section at:
Headquarters.
4.46 p.m. Signalling Section, “Ă” and "B" clasecs at Happy Valley.. Wednesday, 11th inst
5 p.m. Centre Sections M.G. Co. at King's Park Range. Annual Mueketry Course.
the city. I se among the motors and electric street cark earts drawn by huge. slow-moving oxen, strings of mules, bays and men riding on donkeys, flocks of little black sheep, herds of woolly red Digs.
The oddest mingling of old and new.!
Spain is a country that offers so wide a variety of scenery, of people, of food, of everything. As you travel you see all kinds of landscape. In the north the
In the torpedoplane the drapping gear prevaling note is one of sombre reserve
Craonpe itself is not on the plateau, would be suspended between the floats. In the south all is colour and gay, laugh- ing sunshine. The same difference marks but on the road leading along the suuth The lifting power of modery aircraft is off the Castilian, grave and proud, from ern slope of its eastern extremity, in consuch that it would be quite possible to Tuesday, 10th inst, the catering, smiling, quick-tempered tinuation of the Chemin des Dames, to carry two torpedoes, weighing up to Andalusian, always
rendy 10 make Chevreux and Corbeny, which may be 1,000lb, each, one on either side of the friends. Then, if you are wise and ent considered as the eastern limit of the hilly body Aiming would be done in the same the food of the people in preference to country in this latitude. La Ville aux manner as with a fixed taie in a sub- marine- that is, the plane would have Bois lies in the low ground south-east of to be brought dead head-on to the target. the imitation food which is served in
A captain in the Italian Navy, experi- hotels, you find that many districts have Crnoone,
The north side of the ridge leads steep.menting with a torpedoplane a year or their own special dishes. There is the
paolin, for example, a stewly down to the level of the Ailette, a two back, is said to have made nine hits Valencian of rice with ment and snails and shrimps, brook which is very little above the level in ten attempts at a range of 3,000 yards.
must appetising mixture served in of the Aisne. In this valley, north of wide pan taken night off the fire Hartebile, is Vauciere, which was recent Operating between the lights-
fried Malaga has its "boquerones,"
Cartagena smacksly mentioned as the sector of a German or early dawn--a Botilla of torpédoplanes anchovies, delicious. its lips over octopus. All through Spain counter-attack. But the mill of Vauclere would be an unpleasant adversary to meet is perched on the ridge above. Ailles, the at sea. Approaching at a great height, puchero, or national stow, good,
scene of another counter-attack, lies Ho the aircraft would plane steeply down to with special favours in different parts.
close under the precipitous northern slope reach the water at a distance of three to that it is scarcely visible from the plateau ve thousand yards from their objective. At the railway fondas" (inns) a decent meal is generally served and, if west of Hurtchise. Troyon is below the High-angle fire would be ineffective one is doing cross-country journeys, une southern edge of the plateau, hurt the surat such tactics, and although
destroyer screen would be useful (nosun- is grateful for this. One of these fendas famous sugar mills, which have been held ing the aircraft to have to alight on the I know too well though. There is a june by English or French troops since Sep water, which does not necessarily follow) tion, a sort of Crewe or Clapham June- ember, 1914, are on the plateau itself, he destroyers' inferiority in speed would tibu, through which pass the trains from Past them runs the road which ascends he a grent factor in favour of the attack. all parts of Andalusia, Its nume is descends, past Cerny-en-Laonnois, In any case, the loss of thirty torpedo Bobadilla. It is just a railway station Chanouille, on the north side of the planes would tiot equal the loss of a either in men, plumped down in the open country, Ailette valley. Hence it ascends the money, or time to From Bobadilla could not get away. northern bank of the valley and leads to single destroyer. To be effective the was always finding myself in its fonda, Laon,
defence would have to meet the attack it This, northern bank quasists of its own element in other words, a flect swallowing hasty meals. One night I ha to stay there. A coal truck off the fine broader plateau of more irregular shape would need to be protected in the air by hrow us late and I missed my connection than that on the south. It rises to a torpecioplane destroyers, as it is pro I have slept in worse places. (No che geheight, about equal to that of the hog's tected on the surface by torpedo-boat for using this
as a testimonial.)
destroyer. One afternoon I had to wait four hours back only at its custers end. Over this There are some who will see in the used to be known in the neighbourhood torpedopiane a possible means for effec as the route strategique, connecting tively attacking feets in harbourg where they cannot otherwise he reached. Flet the fort of Montbérault with the Soissons-bases nowadays are strongly booned and Loon road to the five or six miles of atted and mined against submarines, marshy plain which surround Laon on and, generally speaking, are not suscept
Bible to attack from the water, whether on the south.
the
THE FRIENDLY PIG.
at Bobadilla 1 went for a walk,d I decided then that Spain was a more amusing country than most. I discovered a friendly litle stream and followed its bank. Small boys looking after grazing hors.s eyed me with suspicion. Then I met a friendly pig, who cheered mo much. He was tied, as the custom is, by one of his hind-legs to a stake. Pigs always remind me of home. I mentioned this to Home friends one day and astonished them greatly But it is so. If I were allowed to do so by my wife, I should set down my recreation in Who's Who" ns.
Breeding pigs."
plateau, from east to west, runs what
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Laon itself stands up from the plain to the surface or below. No boom or net a height of 50fa It bears a strong would keep out a torpedoplane. Given resemblance, when seen from the north, to the necessary conditions, it could dis the Indian fortress of Gwalior. It was charge its weapons within the defences; a strong place 200 years ago, and even and if the torpedoes were sa adjusted as. in Napoleon's time. The town covers the to move in circles instead of in straight. whole top of this curious outlier. Many lines, the chance of doing considerable
increased.
Prussian pursuit, after his disastrous managed to put some check on the defeat in the Hurrah Athies,
Scott said:"With a flotilla of sub- marines commanded by dashing young officers, of whom we have plenty, I would undertake to get through any boom into
5,30 p.m. Right Section M.G. Co, at, Com- Headquarters under unit mander Aiming Instruction and Firing Instruction, Thursday, 12th, inst
7.10 .1). Scouts Company M.G.
Detachment at Headquarters.
im. Left Section M.G. Co, and Civil Service Co. at King's Park Kange. Annual Masketry Course, 6:30p.m. Mounted Section at Jockey
Club Stables.
Friday, 13th inat. :—
p.m. Centre Section M.G. Co.
Anwal at Kings Park Range. Musketry Course.
6:30 pm. Right Section M.G. Colat Headquarters under unit com- mander. Aiming Instruction and Firing Instruction.
5.30 p.m. Recruits of all units on Murray Parade Ground under Opls, Grimes, Edgeumbe and Edmonds and Lee Upl. Meade,
6.30 Signalling" Section, **B elnas,
at R. A. Theatre.
DETAIL.
On duty 8th instScouts Co..
Right Sec. M.41. Co. --Scouts Co.
Oth
10th
J
11th
--Scouts Co.
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12th
,, 13th
-Right Sec M.G. Co. -Scouts Co.
14th-Scouts Co. -
Lieut. Kennett.
G. E. STEWART, Capt...
Adjutant, H. K.V.C.
· Hongkong, 6th July, 1977.
HONGKONG RESERVES.
ONDERA BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, Q,C., E.E‚V.R/
who have gone to Switzerland by the damage inside a harbour would be greatly orderly Officer from 3th to 14th July I have therefore, a special gympathy Calais-Laon route will remember it just with this maligned animal. I said as south of the railway- Eastwards, the A few weeks before the war Sir Percy much to the pig by the roadside, and he hilly area is generally bounded by the warmed to me at once. He showed no fcxt. He los me scratch his car and Laon-Reims rond, though, near Festicax, I know mo other the hills cross it for a mile or two. It grunted gratefully,
yas at this point that Marmont, in 1814, country where pigs are re friendly us this sies. Whether they had decided to stop. Next overtook, two vanloads of gir for the night or whether the sight of such a strange object as myself made them pull. up, I canuct tell. Anyway, they turned but by the roadside, lit their fire, and grouped themselves obligingly round an old fellow who scraped the fiddle, just as if they were doing it for my special bene fit, while troops of children, more by far than you would have thought it possible
That offer does not seem to have been damage all the ships in tant materially
taken advantage of, but it certainly suggests one of the most momentous
DETAIL
Westward of the valley, running from south-west to north east, which carries possibilities of the torpedoplane.Daily On duty from the morning of Sunday,
tht Laon-Soissons railway, is the wooded region of Coucy, extending right up to the fort of Laniscourt, high above the edge of the plain, some three miles south- seat of Laon. This is mostly a thickly wooded hilly entry, on which are the
to pack into the vans, played in the dust,pper Forest of Coucy and the Forest of dancing and rolling and cuffing one an other with the grace and lithe activity of a litter of fox cubs..
I
St. Gobain North of Laon, the almost orel pitin stretches as far as the eye con reach.
From the hills west of the railway, above the canalized Ailette, which here makes a sweep to the north, one looks right along the valley north of the hog's back, and modern artillery on them would certainly enfilide the greater part of that valley. whilst its northern slopes wern under a frontal fire from guns on, or south of, the hog's back.
THE STOLEN BELL All who meet on the ronds of Spain offer Vayn Usted.com kindly greeting. Dios, is the usual form. ("God be with ). If you paze people who are eat you ing they will always invite you, if only a formal courtesy, to share with the came to
bend of the stream where several fishermen were trying their luck. I watched a few moments. Immediately they called out. Come and drink a glass The French have gained a wonderful We talked fishing at least success in capturing, as they appear to of wino," I think we talked fishing. I asked them, have done, nearly the whole of the hog's as best I could, about their crich, their hack. They have still a difficult task bait, and so on. They answered volubly before them, to master the northern all at once. They may have been talking plateau and to push through the wooded politics for all I know. Anyhow, we parted great friends.
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hills north of Coucy, before they can look
broken in its counter-scarp. They have still to cross it and mount the second glacis beyond which lies the plain.
So, when my train came, I had got down on the plain around Laon. They through the long wait most agrecably. outer ditch of the Ailette and in placea have conquered the glacis of the great felt no grudge against Bobadilla: hoped even to pay it another visit. All the station folk knew me The on who rings the bell for the train to start begged me, with tears in his eyes, to return.. The Timer, starting of Spanish trains, by the requires a vast effort. First aubau dbol 18 rung, then a large bell is tolled. Then
is & shrill whistle is blown, to which he engine replies with a hoarse blast Final ly, there is combined waving and shout ing by all the officials, amid which more ment begins at
was hunting for the precious bell, without which the train could not start The traveller cant back, slipped the bell into its place again, jumped into his compart wagment and the journey was reused
Nobody much Nobody much minded. Until the handbell has been rung no engine driver may put on steam. At an minds anything in Spain. What would other junction, called Albacete, arrived armed to a joke by the radiance of hius one elsewhere under grey ekies is commercial traveller one ddy with half
and gold in the clear, exhilarating air. an hour's business to do in the town.
In such a climate peevishness is impos The train was scheduled to stay only five sible. Foreigners in Spain wonder some- xinutes. He picked up the handhell nut times why the Spaniards put up with it in his overcoat pocket, and went and their system of government. There would did his business. At the station everyone have been a revolution long ago if it were-
(Continsed at foot of next column.). not for the san-Daily Mail
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE
HONGKONG AND CHINA DISTRICT.
Y.M.CA. DIVISION.
Tuesday, 10th inst,
8 pm Squad and Stretcher drill. Thursday, 12th inst.
8. p.m. Gyrunasium Monday, 9th inst
BAIYINGPUN DIVISION.
6.30 p.m., Squad and Stretcher drill Tuesday, 10th inst.:-
4.16 p.m. First Aid Lecture by Div.
Surgeon Lim.
Wednesday, 11th inst.:
2 p.m. Band Practices 6.30 p.m., Squad and Stretcher drill. Thursday, 12th inst
4.15 p.m., First Aid Lecture by Div.
Surgeon Lim.
Friday, fath inst.
4.16 p.m., First Aid Lecture by Div.
Surgeon Lim
6.30 p.m., Squad and Stretcher drill. Saturday, 14th inst,
2 p.m., Band Practice.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE DIVISION. Monday, 9th inst.--
4.15 p.m., Squad and Stretcher drill Tuesday, 10th inst.
YEA
4.15 p.m., First Aid Class, Corporal
Kong in charge. Wednesday, 11th July.
7 pm.. Gymnasium. Friday, 13th inst.
4.16 p.m. Bandaging Practice. Saturday, 14th inst. ----
2.15 p.m. First Aid Clase, Corporal
Kong in charge, po
A VICTORIA DIVISION. Tuesday, 30th insty 5.15 p.m., Stretcher drill,
ing Practice.
Pandag
(90.) E. BALPRE, Officer in Charge of District.
July 7th, 1917,
8th July, to the morning of Sunday, 15th July-H.K.V.C.
Next for duty-"B" Coy, H.K.V.R. Orderly Officer Lient, C. H. Blason.
FARADES FOR WEEK ENDING 147H JULY.
Monday, 9th inst
Recruits on the Cricket Ground at
5.15 p.m. under Instructor Sergt. Oxberry Dress Drill order. Signalling Acction: The whole sec
tion will parade at Happy Valley for Station Work, Fall in at Monument 1,30 p.m. Dress: Clean. fatigue
Machine-gun Section at Wellington.
Barracks at 5.10 p.m. Dress: Cleani fatigue
Mounted Section at Polo Ground at
5.30 p.m. Dress Drill order; Tuesday, 10th inst
A and B Coys at the road outaide the Orderly Room at á p.m. Kowloon and Taikoo Sections of D." Coy, outside the Ferry Wharf, Kowloon, at 5.15 p.m. Dress Drill order
N.COs and men of A Coy, who did not attend the Distance Judging. Practice on Tuesday, ard July, will fall in on the left of "B" Coy.
Wednesday, Ith install. Thursday, 19th inɛf. :—
Signalling Section: "A" and "B"
Classes at Volunteer: Headquarters. at 5.15 p.m., and "C" Class at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. Dress • Clean fatigue, biasan Machine-gun Section at Wellington Barracks at 5.15, jim: Dress: Clean fatigue W Mounted Section at Polo Ground at:
5:30 p.m. Dress Drill order, Friday, 13th inst.:
Recruits on the Cricket Ground at 5.15 p.m. under Instructor Bergt. Oxberry, Dream: Drill order. Saturday, 14th inst., net. -
(8d) C. CHAMPEIE, Capt.,
Adjutant, H.K.V.H. Hongkong, 8th July, 1917.
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