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THERAPION N 2.

THERAPION NO 3

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25TH, 1917.

WEATHER REPORT.

On July 24th at 11.57.-No returna from Japan and Indo-China. Précture bar de- creased lightly at all statione reporting; it is probably highest to the Pacifio to the south of Japan. An area of relatively low pressure covers China and Annam generally.

Bonghong rainfall for 24 houre ending at 10 am, to-day, 3.36 inch. Total since lat January, 48 41 Inokes, agalust su sverage of 48.40 inches.

The forecas: for the 24 heure ending at meor timeday" is no Lo Liwa zime

DIGIT

Hogkong Gap Kees

Formors ‹ banaet

FORMUASS

[S.W, winds, mo- dernie; olondy generally, sonde (min.

Tue 271 2

No. 1

The same 18

No. 1.

South Coast of Chlom between

Hongkong and Limnocka South Coast of China between The ams 6.6

Hongkong and Kanth....1 No. 1.

GERMAN TREATMENT OF

PRISONERS.

THE KATSER'S ORDERS.

BARBARITY TO AUSTRALIANS.

The Kaiser has been visiting the Arras front, and the Cologne Garette has reported something of his speech, but there were passages in it which, apparently, even that journal considers it indiscreet to reproduce, These have reference to the

British.

on no account is there to be any fraternis

HONGKONG'S STORM SIGNALS ing.

A NEW CODE

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march after being given a third of a loaf they had to be sent to hospital. A WOMEN SUPPORT-NEW DRESS

FOR MEN. and a cup of coffee. This time they were Western Australian dropped by the road- told that it was the day's supply. They aide. The men were getting swallon legs

In addition, the dump was TROUSERS SUGGESTED FOR CON- were pinched for hunger by this time, and Faces,

SCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. And possibly the villagers on their route under our sbell fire. When our big gun could see it. For in every little French opened, the German guard would get village through which they passed the under cover, with his rifle and bayonet

Women are going to help men to win and

while our men worked. One poking out, villagers came out of the cottages tried to get a loaf of bread through to day on their way to work they noticed the battle for more rational clothes. The stains. of blood up the road and a smashed them, or at least a drink of water.

infeld gu--that roughly

was suine consolation. Australians were marching, fours, with two closely set lines of guards They noticed the direction from which the These men were shells of that big gun came, and laid their walking outside then,

it was difficult, because a New taken from aresting battalion of a plans. Prussian Guard division, and their orders South Welshman had escaped and been clearly were to stop any food or drink recaptured, and the guard had

doubled. reaching these famished Australians,

been

BACK TO THE BRITISH LINES. But one night the two got elen. They eat rapidly through the night along the

Only one circuit they had planned. away on the tank, they heard a purty of Germans. Shortly before day there was the flask of a man lighting his pipe neat, and the sound of horses and men. They An action had lay up behind a hodge. suddenly burst ont ahead of them. Ger- man batteries were belting into the dawn,

As the columns reached the village the The Kaiser told his soldiers that they

French inhabitants would throng the were to hate us as heartily as their capa strests watching it pass The French city for righteous wrath would permit. would give you anything they had,' on

A little girl ran at and that in future no prisomers were to of the men said.

from a cottage with bread, The guard be taken nor any merey shown. He seems smacked her in the face. The bread they to have been a trifle contradictory, for used to throw into the gutter. A French- mus tried to give the Australians a bucket shortly atferwards he was saying that of water to drink. The guard upset the such prisoners as are taken are to be water and threw the pail over the man A woman tried to give them bread. A treated with the utmost severity, and that ↑ Prussian soldier hit her in the face and and down from the skies came a British barrage the edge of it not so far away. knocked her down. In one place a French They at their last crust as they lay there. priest edged up with a loaf under his arm During the day a man walked past to pass it to our men. A German soldier was watching him out of the corner of his close that they could almost have touched Well on into the next night they start- eye. An old woman, secing this, tugged the priest back by his clothes. And this sort of scene was repeated until the Ansed, this time making for the nearest fare. tralians, however hungry or thirsty, could They worked between the German bat

at the last of these they heard not hear to bring such treatment on the teries: across three lines of newly-dug French for their kindness, but learned to tranches. shake their heads when offered food or voices. The flares were now bright. The twe lay up along the parades the para- drink.

pet behind a trench while a German working party in three small groups Gled past along the parapet in front of it. They went so close that, if the Germans had looked, they could not have missed the two Western Australians.

It seems that these remarks have caused some consternation in the enemy ranks, because the Huns realize that we are doing storm most of the prisoner-taking in these days, nud that there is such a thing as retalis- tion.--Kenter.

New local and non-local

codes signals

will

introduced Le at Hongkong on July 1st, in place of the old Local Code and the China Coast

Code.

The principal change in the Local Code is that the new signals will show the direction from which the gale is expected, whereas the old signals showed the posi tion of the typhoon. The latter will be indicated, as heretofore, by the non-local siguals. The new Local Code is given

below:

DAY BIGNALS.

Meaning.

Signal, Symbol. 1-Red cone-A typhoon exists which

may possibly cause gale at Hongkong with in 24 hours.

9. Black cone.--Gale expected from the

North (N.W. to N.E.). 3-Black cone

inverted. Gais expected from the

South (8. E. to B.W.). 4.--Black drom. ~Gale expected from the

East (N.E. to 8.E.).

6. Black ball-Gale expected from the

West (N.W. to 8.W.). -Double cone.-Gale expected to in-

crease.

7-Black cross-Wind of typhoon force expected (any direc tion).

Bignal No. 7 will be accompanied by three explosive hombs, fired at intervals of 10 seconds at the Water Police Station and repeated at the Harbour Office.

The signals will be lowered when it is considered that all danger is over.

The Day Signals will he displayed the masthead of the storm signal mast on Blackhead Hill, the Harbour Ofice, H.M.8. Tamar, Green Island signal mast, the flagatal on the premises of the Hong- kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company at Kowloon, the flagstad on the premises of the Standard Oil Company at Laichikok, and the fagstaff near the Field Officer's Quarters at Lyemun,

NIGHT SIGNALS 1.White-white-white.

2.

White-green-green.

3.-Green-white-white.

4-Green-green-white.

5.--White-white-green.

6.--Green-green-greon. 7.-Red-green-rad.

(Lamps)

ESCAPED AUSTRALIANS' VIVID STORY.

has The following dispatch heeft received by the High Commissioner for Australia frorn Mr. C. E. W. Bean, Official Press Correspondens with the Australian Force in France:---

Ben Success.

They were taken to a sort of clearing house for prisoners, where for once they were given something like a meal and a good bath.

were

OF LILLY.

him.

The new moveinent aims at making man look both more manly and more pictur esque. Breeches are to be worn instead of trousers, and tunic, fashioned on the lines of the garment worn by British military, officers, will take the place of present- day coats.

As he is dressed now, modern man is not impressive in his appearance. Or the contrary, should be conform to such antiquated conventions as the frock co and the tall" hat, he becomes in most

遞 graceless and unpicturesquo; cases figure.

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MORROKS THAT HAVE TO GO.

The new movement is a revélutionary one but it makes for a healthier and more artistic-looking manhood. Amon the sartorial Horrors which is is out to

vanquish are....

posses

Trousers. Ugly in design, hereditary weakness for bagging at the knees; turn up enda prolific gatherers of microbe-laden dirt.

Frock Coats-Shapeless garmenta de signed to make a man look like an animat

ed board

Morning Cont. The acine of discomfort in whole range of clow fitting garments.

Top Hat.--A decaying relic of the Victorian era.

of

Year:

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Man has endured the tyranny graceless and uncomfortable clothes far THE BLACK HOLES "

too long. He is aroused at last. He is They were in a country of shel-holes determined to break the fetters of con- Two days later they were moved by train

vention and Wear more rasional gar to Lille. Around the station the roads nos--never did that desolation seem eo

ments. BRITISH HEADQuarters, May 27th.

German full of

Boldiers and like home to any man. A little on their

Instead of tubular "baggy trousers There have arrived back from the Ger-

and ridiculous-looking coats, he will mau lines, across many lines of German civilians, as if the town were on holiday flank was a village against the sky-line. trenches, two Australians who were capto see them arrive. Just outside a woman They swerved to leave it 500 yards on By

Breeches.--Graceful in appearance; tured in the Hindenburg line after the in the crowd threw a packet of cigarettes, one side. Two figures passed in front of

which was caught by an Australing them going down a sunken rond. That LITA- brave attack of April 11th. paralleled adventure of infantry against sergeant. One of the guards pointed her good luck our two crossed it later at a

There were Germans 20 yards Worn with either stockings or leggings.

Tunic. Unlike most present-day costs, onbroken wire, without artillery, came out at once to a military policeman, who point when the bank was low and day-nomical wearing; no baggy knees.

arrested her and marched her off. The gerotia. When it failed, the Gerolun marched through the streets of the on either side of them in plenty, but none

Then they almost tunabled the garment bears some relation to the mans captured nearly a thousand Aus- great city-only two houses were noticed just here. traliang cut off by their machine guns. damaged, though it is but a few into a sap full of Germans, swerved across shape of one's body; always looks smart;. They have chosen, in their wisdom, to miles from the British line, where the it, crawled through an unrecognizable most serviceable.

intentional

it near desolation which was a road, and up a treat these Australians to

Australians once garrisoned ILT similarly "punishment. "punishing British troops. They have Armentieres. They swung out of the city bank, when there was a flash. the Australians completely at their and up to a green fort. There was two- merey for the time being-they can starve story brickwork inside, but grass covered and ill-treat them as much as they like. all the roof and rampants. One can only thank Providence that Australians have a long, long memory, and that Germans may regret for cen tries the month when they did their will upon this thousand men.

Mr. Lloyd George.

They

corner.

Flares were going up all round them. They were fast losing all idea of their whereabouts, and they were ravenous with hunger and thirst. In a shell-hole they hit on a German water-bottle full of weak coffer. They drank it, and crawled There was another flash, was hit through the on 10 yards. and the lender

Halt"

The shoulder. They crawled another 10 yards, tone was unmistakable. The leading man when there was a clear

"Are you British? "" put his head

was the answer. The Yes, he asked. on, Stewie," he said to his mate. leader did not wait for ceremony. are home and dry, and ran, withone, his hands ap. straight into the trench.

Come *We

Starchless Shirts and collars. The raffle and stock may also be revived.

"Dressed like this," writes a woman to

The Haily Mirror, nun will look most artistic. I have no doubt that before long the present style of suits will 6nd a com- fortable and useful home as scarecrons on the acres of new laud now under cut tivation.

In that empacity they will no doubt realise the Food Chancellor's hopes for a prove highly effective, and so help to plentiful harvest."

"GUYS LONG ENOPOH." Scores of other women have also written. to The Daily Mirror expressing their de fight at the prospect of men substituting breeches for trousers.

I shall use all the influence, I can (says one correspondent) ** to help on your splendid crusade.' Here are typical- extracts from other letters:

Even an ungainly old man like the famous Dr. Johnson looked aice in breeches."

Within half an hour they were having breakfast and a "tot of rum,

BRITISH PRISONERS ON THE EASTERN FRONT.

HARDSHIP AND SEMI-STARVATION,

Surely men have made guys of them- The following letter shows the terribly

"I hope you will persist in your efforts and make trousers as much out of date severe condition, to which British prison-selves quite long enough." exposed during the winter. We suppress ers of war on the Eastern frout have been the name of the sender and the place of origin, which was a point close to the

Russia:--

"Breeches will make men look like as the crinoline,"

concientious objectors and such unmanly 'weeds.*"*

were At the gate the Australians divided off into parties of 110 each, and each of these was marched into a separate room in the upper storey. For five nights and six days 110 Australians lived in the It is at the end of a long and splendid room where the escaped up were. It is fight that their story begins. The pri the first time in our country's history that soners were marched up a village street Australians have ever suffered organized The room was about 50ft. by Flash torture. into the yard of a big house.

For a few Uhlans on smart hores were quartered in ft. The flour was tiled.

Their only the village, and when the Uhlana had been minutes each day the men were allowed

into the yard for exercise. through them for souvenirs there was not much left worth getting. Some young convenience for all sanitary purposes was

one barrel, which stood in the German ofhers drove up in motor-ears, and the big officer above mentioned came uncovered. The windows had to be abut, out. The young officers mixed with the for they slept on the tiled floor without a blanket, though snow fell at night, and men and made themselves us pleasant as their food was too little to keep life they could talking and asking questions. Que Australian put them off somewhat together. They were given one-seventh of when he answered that our officers had a loaf of bread-that is, one slice per man told them that German officers would with some fermented mangolds ench never ask them any dishonourable ques day, with one cup of coffee at night and. man who attion, A big German ofherr, in a distin-one in the morning. When th

guished-looking uniform, had a fondness took the barrel each day downstairs to it. The cook for barangsing. In the intervals of his clean, it asked for a ginss of water the

guard would not allow work he harangued them about the used a wark offered for a little bread,

He delivered to iniquities of England. the wounded a lecture on the crimes of They were not once allowed to wash trai front in one of the occapied provinces of men. Let trousers be the uniform. for

the last day, when they cleaned up to leave. Meantime the Australians were tearing

Vergeltungs Lager. Easter Sunday. The yard

At the end of it a German corporal came up their letters and papers.

He asked them if they 1917-Things don't get any better with into the room, became suddenly littered with torn

They us and the results of this continual over- papers, when the Germans noticed it and knew what they were there for.

Two men dropped unconscions at told them that if it continued they would said, "No." He said, "You may write working and underfeeding are sudden- be severely dealt with They were and tell your people and your Governing. searched and told that knives, razors, and ment all about it just what has happen work yesterday, and the day before we letters must be given up, but they could ed-and say that you are here as a punish were unable to continue. It is not that Seven weeks ago the German the work itself, shovelling snow, digging krep their watches, money, and pay-books.ment. The activity of the Uklans had long since Government wrote to the British Govern- trenches, etc., is as a rule too hard, though made both this announcement and the ment about the employment of prisoners some work, lifting heavy logs, etc., is search of doubtful value. The searching near the line, and they have not yet really hard, and 1-speak from experience, The Australians but the hours are far too long and the took some hours. They were given a loaf received an answer.

parade at of bread to every five, and coffee was told him it was a lie-there was not a food insufficient. That is my opinion, brought in, but few had anything but German prisoner within 20 or 30 kilo but judge for yourself.

to work about 7, leave at 5.30, and get their helmets to drink it in, and so mest metres of the line. These men had passed 5.25. (Rerally at 4.15, coffee at 4.45), get

They sat in the snow, wet hundreds of times in our back areas com- had none. through, till they were turned into a big panies of fat, well-clothed, happy-looking into Lager at 6.30. The food is 800gr.

A wheel that renders a railway carriage: church. Neither this night nor any other Germans 20 miles behind the British line, (about 11-dfb.) of bread daily, bugr. of

noiseless and silences the shrill screech of night afterwards were they given a single with Australians and Tommies alike jura, and a basin of soup. The men are.

French people, whose homes they have I have written a fall report of matters a trolly as it takes a curve has been perti: blanket-so far as the escaped men know giving them cigarettes, and only the always half-starving. they have none yet. They lay in the

Fravaged, showing the least resentment here and sent it to our Secretary for Warfected by Mr. Edwin C. Madden, who s church for the night

George 1) Many of the men have written the United States, devised the non-adhe no difference.

to their focal members of Parliament ask-

sive stamp booklet. ing them to request from the Secretary

For more than a year a street car in of War a knowledge of the report. Portland, Maine, has been running ou know this letter is not a cheerful one. eight experimental wheels of the Madders Were alone concerned you should hear type, says the New York independent, but little of my troubles, but the situation and the inhabitants of that city refer to glides by without making a noise like a

The Night Signals will be displayed, at sunset, on the tower of the Railway Station, on H.M.S. Tamor, and on the Harbour Office flagstaff. They will have the same signification as the day signals Signal No. ↑ will be accompanied by explosive bombs as above, in the event of the information conveyed by this signal being first published at night.

SUPPLEMENTARY WARNING.

Rook,

Sai Kung, Sus Tau Kok and Tai Po to notify the fact to native craft and passing ocean vesisele.

Further details can always be given, to ocean vessels, on demand, by signs trom lighthouses.

Among the suggestions which reached The Daily Mirror office was one relating to soldiers' trousers.

"Why should an unfortunate infantry nan (writes a wounded "Tommy" be compelled to wear about eighteen inches of heavy cloth beneath his puttees? Why not breeches instead of trousers for every soldier? It would be better for the mat and more economical for the nation."

SILENT RAILWAY WHEEL INVENTION THAT MAKES TRAVEL A COMFORT.

Next morning they were called from But they knew their protest could make (who is we now, by the way, Floyd Third Assistant Postmaster-General in

The big officer, church by battalions.

PRISONERS GLAD TO EAT GRASS, after another harangue, gave the order to

Two hundred and forty of the Austra march, and down the road they went When local signals are displayed in between the Uhlans. Some of the wound lians were sent by train on the sixth day ed were kept behind, but one man shot to work on a damp close behind the front. the Harbour & Cons will be exhibited at through the chest, another badly bit The Lord knows what happened to the the following stations:-Gap Waglan, Stanley, averdeen, Sau Ki Wan through one arm by a bullet, which rest, or where they now are. This double now is far too serious to admit of any No. 404 as the ghost car," because it

expanded, and also through the other company of Australians was put in but serious treament. wrist, and a third who had his fingers farm near a double company of English The men at Mitau have been under boiler factory. It has been demonstrated blown off by a bomb were amongst those and Scottish, troops, and set to work

canvas since February 24th, through all in the course of this extensive test that who were forced to march.

unloading stores from a broad-gauge rail- Seven hundred and fifty-six Australians way on to a dump. The work was in two the rigorious frosts of March, and are the new wheel is not only a nerve-saver for from all States of the Commonwealth wert shifts the Australian company in the now presumably being swamped by April the public, but a money-saver for the Here is what the new wheel means to off into German territory, and it was from morning and the British in the evening. floods. We at least have a warm shack railway.

work.

The German Guards had some railway men :-

Longer service for each whorl.". It is this time that the deliberate German The Australians were turned out at 4.30 with a stove to return to after our day's

estimated that the Madden wheel is good policy towards them began to appear. On a.m. Coffee at a quarter, to 5: march to

it to the prisoners. The abene that fol. this their second day after capture they work at a quarter past 5. Work on the soup left over the other night and offered

for 300,000 miles, while the present standard wheel in ready for the scrap were given a loaf of bread between four dump until 1 o'clock, and then march lowed a mard described to me as unbes- ma and some coffee. They were not told back.

chart. They simply fought for it, anill

pile after running only half as far. warnings of expected changes in the

For this day's work they were given a

ing it over the Guard's legs and snatching

Longer service for the rails, frogs, direction and force of the wind. Uwing, that this was their whole day's ration, but

The bread had been too sout for daily ration of one-third of a loaf. This the ladle from his hand.

and switchoë, however, to the uncertain movements of 15 was.

I do not know if you will ever receive typhoons and to insufficient telegraphic some of them the first day. They were was issued overnight, and some could not resist eating it then and there. At mid- observations, it will occasionally happen glad to eat it the next.

I think the Germans will pass it, for Finally, the elimination of noise and The road was slushy after snow. They day when they came back they were given that signals to 5 may be displayed without a gale occurring at Hongkong, passed a gang of men scraping the mud & stew consisting of horseflesh and a little or even Gap Rock, but the reverse is not off it. These wore civilian tweed caps barley. "We used to count the grains, they naturally require the withdrawal of jar will benefit railway operator and "You could count them their own prisoners. If they are really, public alike, for thegreater comfort given one man said. likely to happen, except in the oss of some had old blue French overcoats,

The asked if our men had any bully beef, easily enough." The result was that these as asserted, treated worse than we are, I to the passenger, the more he will care to typhoons forming in the vicinity and They were British prisoners. Another Australians were driven to beg their should not care to be the man who pleads travel. travelling rapidly towards Hongkong, or gang passed-men in amock frocks har guards to let them cut any sort of grass national emergency for so serious a of a located typhoon increasing its rate nessed up by ropes to a wagon which they that could be eaten dandelions, stinging dereliction of the accepted ethics of of progression abnormally.

were pulling. These were Russians.

The object of the code is to give at less 24 hours warning of a gale (Force 8 by Beaufort Scale. or 40-46 .p.b.. mean velocity by Dines Anemoneter) and al

Signal No. 1 is intended as a warzing to "Stand By" and watch for the next signal.

this letter.

Longer service for the rolling stock. Ease of replacement.

The silent wheel really consists of a springy rabber between the inner and wheel within a wheel with a cashion of nettles, and rans, such as we feed sheep humanity.

outer sections. There are three recesses, on. They picked op potato reelings

A RUSSIAN WARNING.

which are devised to prevent any creep- FRENCH SAMARITANS ROUGHLY HANDLED.

which the Germans threw out. "Potato

Petrorred, May 1st. The congress of ing:: either bsokward or forward, while At a siding they were put into cattle reelings was my strong suit.” one of the In the new non-Local Code the approxi trucks in which they were jolted along Western Australians told me until the lates from the front has decided that, side strain is cared for by the cases that mate velocity of the storm centre will be till after dark. Then they detrained and mob took to it and it ran out. On this if Germany and Austria-Hungary refuse at the same time protect it from injury, shown, in addition to its direction of were marched into certain village cellars. stuff the men became so weak that at the to, tange, the Int of prisoners of war, dirt and grease The effect of the rubber motion, and the position of the centre At a hig house early next day some time these men left they were falling ills Carmen and Austrian prisoners in cushion is to lessen the jar and to desden **Russia will be suthierted to the same treat the sound that is produced by either will be giren in degrees of latitude and hundred were picked from them for at the rate of four a day.

the flanges on the rails. Longitude. The time at which the warn Faxamination, and these were given a good. There was no such thing as light dutyment as prisoners in Germany and nounding of the tyres or by scraping of Tanging was issued will also be shown. ferd. The rest set out, on a new day's for sick men. The men were worked until Austria

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