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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 1917.

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"TAKBANG" Friday, 10th Aug. 7. YUENSANG" Saturday, 11th Aug., 3 P.. "LOONGSANG" Saturday. 19th Aug., 3P.M.

BERLIN TO-DAY, HOPES UNREALIZED. TIRPITZ'S LACK OF FAITH IN U-BOATS

TY, SEFTON DELMER'

One after another the reeds on which the German people have leaned have broken in their hands.

All their trust at first was in their

Ob immense military striking power. the delight on every face, the beansing self-sufficiency, the mutual congratula tions of those Auenst words of 1914, in Berlin!

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Hongkong rainfall for 24 honns eddleg si⠀

Total since Lat Fac. 680, against an average of 140 * today, 0. inob

50.031 ofe

The form the 24 heure andiný at no

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Last night I was granted the distine tion of being admitted into Durn co Palace, which is been seized and is being beld by anarchists (wrote a United- Press July correspondent at Petrograd, on

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22nd), The Government had given antil clock in the afternoon to surrender, but the fortified anarchists (elephoned to Seven factories in the vicinity, and 3,000 workinen armed with rifles arrived. The then were prepared to defy the authority

No. 1 of the Government. The garden sur ShCoam f Ub as between The saus rogabing the palace was dotted with huge black banners, bearing the metto

Death to all Capitalists! As I approached the gate a youth, with rifle said, “Come an in. old boy, you

Groups of people eager for the very Interi news clustered raid smiling policemen wuddenly transformed fron Ther ogres into models of benevolence.

with ferocious tore the newspapers impatience from the hands af their ven- dors to see what new fortress had hillen, what new guns had been captured. As one read in the streets one suddenly found faces of unknown men perring over one's shoulders into the paper, without nor did one even a "By your leave, dare to resent it or find it strange. From balcony to balcony on, those fair suminerare American." When I explained I was An American reporter the welcome be of Victory flew words

"What are nights "Advance! "Cities captured!" "Paris cam astonishingly hearty.

I asked. ncaring!!!!

you acting Eke this for ?" They replied: We are anarchists and always were in the United States, but never had a chance of action. Now that we have our chance we are making the best of it," "Don't you believe in the war, and doesn't your present netion pre vent Russia helping the United States ?" asked. The answer was --''To'hel! with war. We have got a bigger war against Do you favour' a the capitalists." separate peace!" was my next question. For answer. I was told. We favour any old kind of peace. We are all likely to killed here to-morrow, or as soon as Government calls out the troops, and

One teil-tale word on every lip, "Alles kopp!! Alles klappt! Not a hitch anywhere! Not a hitch!"

ally

Streets full of waving flags and joy bells ringing; but a bitter time for is English who had to witness these things. In our hearta we prayed silently, not for And then the ictory, but for Faith: Marne.

And gradually; gradu dawning certainty that the the world was saved.

Did England ever realize, as we did stranded here in the heart of Germany, the moaning of that wildare word, "Gottbe Strato England The devilish political intent behind this blasphemous prayer was to fanaticize the German hordes into the belief that they were to be the scourge of God and to prepare them for a raid of rapine, conflagration, and bloodshed through England.

A RELIO OF MONS,

Whenever I hand to go to the Komman dentur in Berlin during the last year or 50, on leaving Dr. Braumüller I always walked to the other side of the broad street and went into the Zoughaus, the it great Arsenal Museum. One spot ia becamo place of pilgrimage to me. For in one corner there stood a British field gun captured from our little army of heroes who had kept the bridge" in the Its shield was brave days of Mons dented and pierced by shrapnel fire from front and rear, the wooden spokes and rim of the right wheel were smashed with shot, and the wood had been ripped from the gun-layer's seat. Oh 1 gallant Eng- tish men who died there surrounded but undaunted! I always stood there with bared head.

German soldiers on leave caine and gaped and passed on without a shivalrous word for this British gun Crow that had died at their posts. Nal, ster That Keet but uz abyckriey!!!! fellow got a nice mauling, said.

whs all they

In the summer of 1915 they turned to their next great hope. Egypt was to be theirs and England's main artery was to

We are not cowards,”

The palace had been turned into a filthy hole. The men were unwashed and un- shaved. They told me that they were in the taking of the Busskay Volya offer, but finding that the Petrograd· public; would not stand behind them, they sur- rendered "What do you think of this?" said a youth from an automobile factory at Detroit, showing me a big revolver..

That's the argument we are going to! use, and we have get a lot of hig potators Russinn jargon for hombs] upstairs"

eins have stated that the American anarchista wore the most violent. To-day's I saw experience proves that they include the moat extreme New York gunmen. several young and pretty girls about the I was offered vodka, of which they said they had plenty. They are having the most inrid time of their lives.. Petrograd agrees with them in the ex" pectation of seeing a pitched battle at the place

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REGIMENT OF GIRLS.

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"The "Command of Death," which is the official title of the women's regiment raised by the twice wounded girl officer,

CHIPSHING"., Saturday, 18th Aug., D'light be cut. In those days the Press comforted Vera Buitchkareff, will be reviewed to-

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the people with Egypt as a tiger com forts its hungry cube with a sight of browsing antelope. I remember a certain Berlin professor, who boasts of Lord Haldane's friendship, telling me, with quiet assurance, that his son Georg hoped

day (says a message from Petrograd dated June 21st) by Minister of War Kerenski: The reriment will leave in a fortnight for the front, probably for the Minsk sector,

The Associated Press correspondent

in a month or so to be in charge of railwho visited the barracks in TorgVAYA. ways in Egypt, and his knowledge of Street, found posted at the vale a little English will be quite useful to him, you blue-eyed sentry in a soldier's khaki know. But Egypt was a mirage, and blouse, short breeches, green foragoTM cap. ordinary woman's black strekings and Georg only got as far as Bulgaria.

The sentry was Marra naat shars.

daughter nf Skrydloff.

Admiral Skrydloff, former Commander of the Baltic Fleet, and Minister of Marinn Inside there were four large dormitorice, the beds without hedding and strewn with heavy soldiers' overconts.

ZEPPELING AND U-BOATS.

Then England was to be terrorized into despair by Zeppelins. London, that newly discovered English fortress w to he fired from the sky.

Even as late as last August our family doctor assured me that a time of horror was coming for England. "I hope you have no friends within sur Zeppelin radus," he said. "for the time is come when we are going to panish England as Sodom and Gomorrah were punished with

THE GOUBE SIZP-

In the courtyard 300 girls were at drill, most of them between 18 and 25 years of age, of good physique and, many of them pretty. They wore their hair short or had their heads entirely shaved.

a hail of fire from Heaven, for this wThey were drilling under the instruction of starvation she is waging against our women and children." But the Zeppelin hope, too, slowly, fizzled out

Then came the hope in the submarines and the ruthless U-boat warfare. The Pan-Germans and the official cla nos

of male sergeant of the Volyusky regiment and marched to an exaggerated goose step.

Commander Lieutenant Buitchkaroff explained that most of the recruits were

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instrument for bringing Great Britain to for secondary schools, with a few peasants, servants. Some ita knees, and they converted the whole of factory girls and

Germany to their way of thinking. But

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The ordinary soldier's food is fur shed by the guards equipage corpu,

who had children. The girl commander when the new ruthless U-boat policy was frankly declared and greeted by the Press said: with such acclaim and relief, one man **We apply the rigid system of disci there was at least who no longer believed pline of the pre-revolutionary army, soldier in it, and this man was von Tirpitz, now rejecting the new principle living in his Berlin Patmos. On Febru self-government. Having no time to ary 2nd he, in conversation with two inure the girls gradually to hardships, we members of the Centre Patty, declared impose a spartan régime from the first. This comes a year too late! And his They sleep on boards without bedclothes, words, although it took months, were thus immediately eliminating the weak gradually whispered abroad in Berlia, The smallest breach of discipline was And the cocksuredness of the newapapers punished by expulsion in disgrace. began to be a little discounted. If it in. true, as some any, that England has large food supplies stored up, dann and We rise at 4 and drill daily from 7 to 11 perlures! then we're done for, School masters openly declared to their classes in Mawh, 1917, that the new U-boat war was Germany's last, card (unsere letzte The signs on the now show that this last card has been played in vain, and the German authorities are no doubt straunty setting their wits to work to din cover some now popular cry in the hope of keeping the confidence of the nation alive What the new panscea will be do

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fort for them when the Kaiser says that it is England that is making the last desperato effort. In the back of the minds they know

Germany that

Ts in this plight

But what do the German militar authorities now really hope for! I ask myself. I can only think that they have urned into military Micawbers and an trusting to hold out until tentething turns up. Not in their own offensive streamh do they now out their trust, but in some miracle of folly on the part of

beir enemies Timer

and again from 2 to 8 The girls carry the cavalry carbint, which is five pounds lighter than the regular army rifle. In our first parade requested any girl whose motives were frivolous to step out. Only one did go, but Inter many whe were unable to stand the privations left

EXPECTS TO EXCEL MEN, MEN "We are fully official and are already entered on the list of regiments.: Uni- forms and supplies are received from the Ministry of War, to which we render account and present reports. Yesterday the Commander of the Petrograd mili try district reviewed us and expressed his satisfaction. I am convinced that we will exeel the male fighters

The regimental clerk is Madame Far- bara Rukovishikoff, editor of the week ly Woman and Economy and author of some admirable stories. She said that Mme Kerenski intended to join the regiment, not as a soldier, but as a Sister of Mercy

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