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INTIMATIONS

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20гa,

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EXCLUS, VE AGENTS:

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WHAT THE U BOATS ARE DOING.

· SOME UNKNOWN FACTONS,

WHEN THE HUNS COME.

OVER THE TOP.

BY DRYSUM TH.

4 Oser ile top is a phrase that is

In the twenty-two weeks covered by the new series of submarine returns, wrzics Richard Thirkell in the Daily, hit Ew of household currency. It express Augitst let the Germans have ink 307 British Herghanten, of which only wers of loss than 1.000 zons, and 12 fih-

ing craft.

In addition to those, 10 British slips, totalling 48,000 Kojey, wire aimonsced: za March 23rd as having been sunk by the for while a weak later exine the report of 6 of one ships having been destroyed by the Sheaffer. The are got safely back to Germany. What happened to the Seruller we do not know.

1917.

THE COUNTRY AND THE COMMONS.

BY AN ENGLISHMAN."1.

After one of the acrimonious debates which have of late cast no lastre apo

Free soldier-language ons of the most four- orators, it was said that a serta s nerve-racking experiences it is possible statesman had lost touch with the House. undergo. But that over-the-top" at Commons. The comment keng drivial: feeling is nothing complied with the slow, aut irrelevant. What is far bearer, te PRANA agonies, the prolonged nervous strain.

the point is that the House of Commons or an expected enemy counter-attack.

has lost touch completely with the cour:

Betore the attack is de vered the in aginative mini uogos mom er sichte error-urfor not like that on a chud cowering in darkness he can feel the Nor do we know how many of our ships pounding of the enemy's barrage long have been damaged and beached or other berore it crashes across the parapet, le wise prevented from sinking or how suffers that sensation af paralysis so much is lost in time and tonnage while Fammliter in dreams. He stands veled to such ships are being salved and repaired spot the scorching bayonet, n grey not how ung ships belonging to glost of has brain, is tearing through his Allies and to neutrals have bean sunk;hesh, And yet the same man with ealm nor-most-important of all-what is our courage will unlinchingly expose himelf liss expressed in the only intelligible tree and open rapid fire when the netal attack of tonnag

thegins, e For reasons best known to themselves. the American newspapers are practically unanistons in taking an average fa have faced several counter-attacks, and thing to serve his country or nut. All

It is a curious point in psychology. I

MY MUNKKIJANA were precisely the same on

This prosess of estrangement begin many years ago, and the breach, whic!vi separates the Commons House.from those whom it pretends to represent, constantly grows wider. The reasons for the mai- fest separation are many, and few of those reasons are connected even distant ly with the war. In the first "plaes the House of Commons his for long heen silk- sufficient. It has thought its If a wholly independent body, without dutirs, with out responsibilities, He who can play upp it like an old fiddle, is st: its pre- eminent member, whether he does LY

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If we further ussunk an average of 1,000 fanch occasion. There was first waiting those who meet within its wal's ars basie The Attention of all ranks is drawn to

tous for the ships of 1,000 tons and deve ons for vessels under that gare denying fishing craft out of the reckoning), it will be found that on these bases our loss in

period of acute lesion of unconquerably with playing a certain ganie, whose erybus impotence and agongwhich headles are net obvious to outsiders. With

admirably simulated ine in its grasp, then vanished utterly,

Departmen-al-Orders (Formerly-Stand- Ang Orders) Nos. 34 and 4.

the 22 weeks ending last Sunday, among 1 gave place to, & quoint sensation of one another rage they fail Leoni Stress of busineka; will not be receptest-

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Whatever yourses in entertainment, the Victro a brigs yo losely to the statement of the naval or excited curiosity and detachment from the exactly what you want.

respondens of This Timex on Thursday events that were happening. thil something like 2.000,000 of British I recall the evening as if it were yes gross tonnage has been destroyed in the terday. The details more stereotypind my last six months The higher figure Yeprebrain. The sky was flory with white sents 98,350 tons a week, und as early as clouds. There was nothing in the sun-

ssible si round 5.000.000 a year baked stretch of the chewy's fine, to in

from the dicate that he was massing with fixed unsatisfying figures Summarising the bayonets, four deep in his front line. But 20 werks from March 4th into four periods suddenly his guns opened, and shells of of fyr weeks much, the first thing notics all calibres rushed through the air to able is the striking falling-off in the warsus bursting close at hand rad boz of ships attacked, the numbers for the covering us with earth, small stone, and snetessive periods (excluding craft) being sulphitrous fans. Ine, 8:4, 36, and 177. In other words,

workly average of 63 in the second period. fell to 35.4 in the fourth. The delion may be due to a thinning-out of the houts let us hope it is, for sinking the is the only real solution of the problem th the pher hand, wirely defensive sea sures my nccount for a good deal, such as the belter protection of ships by patrol craft sea and air) in the danger zones and the surer precautions taken by shin mastre. There is no reason to belie: that the Germans fight shy of arned ships, for more than 80 per cent of those above 1,600 tons recently sunk were so defendel.

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ADVANCING, WAVES.

fertile of them have a plentiful stock, to The use the words of which the most wound the pride of their opponents. And then they dine in urity together, to skiw that the weapons they use in their mixe contests arm blunted after all. Nor is this the only sign of their intimate solidarity. If any attack emer from

itle, they instantly white to repel it. It is as dangerous to assail one of them as to intervene in a street fight between nam and wife. You are sure to get the blows of both partive, md are lucky if yo come off with a whole skin. For, Indirals of Tories, they are House of Common en all, and they are ready to defend Mr own interests against the world:

DECLINING INFLUENCE

As an excuse for fibsence from Patrol ar Police Duty, unless exemption has

ven previously obtained under. De- partmental Order 88. Such exemp tion may be grant l by e A.S.P. (Reserve The Order is to be amend

Recordingly a

SERVICE BOARD

All ranks (veluding Medical and other

exempts) to attend in mi at Head quarters Club at ay ime between a and 6 pm. Armlets to be prachters. Wednesday, 26th Sept No Platoon Thursday, 27th Spa No. 9. Plomm. Friday, 28th Sept Alunnel Police,

Buglers and Maxiuis, Monday, 11 Oct.-Nor Plution. Thisday, 2nd Octo, & Pittoon, Thursday 4th Det No & Pintorn. Wednesday, ord Oct.-Ambulance Fridays at Odig No. G Platin

for the next half-hour my pri

eres were glued to my periscope. I shall rever Thus they luv inspired in the enuntry forges that half-hour of vivid exprelates sange of reality.

prayed for something to happen that which seems to dominate them in the The high serious would break the spell. My heart was crisis of an election they reserve for their thirdding in throats Should I be constituents. When once they are at able to kun ny legs firm when they can Westminster they are for the gure and over? How would it feel when the for nothing else. With large faculty bayonet was pushed into my body of self-deception, they believe that they And, above all, what would happen if belong to an exclusive club, arid are con but the line. What world the manent. But this contentment is not reliced May, and the captain and the colonel and in the poor dupes who send them there. the general These were the thoughts and who find their interests ieglected, no shat coursed through my excited brain amtter which side is in power. Isalt ov

HOKE BO:SHIPS SUNK.. There is no definite moveuseni observable in the parcentage of ships caning, Inter-attack scrambled over the engray's the first period a was 392, t the second parapet. A thread mapped in my brain. 36.9, in the third 44.9. and in the fourth rapped out a fire order, (June 17th to July 22nd) 40,5: The com puranive steadiness of the figures is pro

Then the first wave of the expected counery well to provide some tou melars

with a pleasant meeting place, un oppor unity of innocent amusement, and frier ludes of comic sparches; but the time comes when they who make the provisio sound return for their generosity, and

ably due to the fact that as the orming dropped my periscope and stood up forgot that the Iouise of Commons

y men were ning the parapet when A movement rippled down our line

the Brestep. I felt no sensation of Cars only a vas and consuming curiosity a to whether the Huss would reach our trench.

HEPOLIS.

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7. F. HOLOR AS.P. (R).

CIVIL ADMINISTRATION FOR TSINGTAO

of our ships proceds the U-boats trust

some reason for indignation.

about then long ago they have less to the gun and mire to the terpede,

Japan will soon introduce civil adminis so that what we gain by adopting as

And no sooner did the House of Coperation at Tsinghu, which since Japan's of defence against surface craft, or sub

mons enrich itself, at the public expense, occupation in 1914 has been govered by marives acting as such, we lose by, Criving

and marvellously increase its powers, than LI The firm wave advanced fully thirty its influence declined still further in die Akiyama, senior councillor to the The enchay back upon his in reserve,

My commander. Dr. Maeanguks which is his invisibility, Possibly the yards before one of the them dropped country The measures which were Korean Government-General, who is same factors weigh for something fire- A machine gun crackled its stricvatu redesigned to make it permventinyenth authority on international law, will be ducing the number of attacks, for a sub-tret tak fut a rabta-latautus perhaps still respect a body, which forms colony. The regulations for civil adminis and office gave it its death-blow may appointed the Civil Governor of tha marine operating mainly muder water will and several others picked up the erin but one part in a nicely poised Constitu tration there have already been drawe naturally find fewer opportunities for chorus, The leading wave still ran to tion, whose Bills do unt become Acts until up by Dr. Akiyama, med are to be sub- effective work than if relying upon her wards us. But in their centre a wide ap guns, the could openly cruise around for suddenly yawned. In this gap the ground approved by a wiss Scend Clam mitted to consuleration at a

they Victims at 16 or 20 knots.

Buy Englishmen have never loved meeting (says the Juven Advertiser), Cabinet wiirmed and wriggled, others las placid tyfants, they have always looked with a wher they will be decided upon chrisce) The wave of men still proper suspicion upon those who would be promulgated in the form of an Im

was strewn with figures; some of them

concentrate all the power of the Stute is. the parapet of the encug's trench; their own hands, and when the House of Lemmons, already discredited, insisted Then our ava artillery burst forth. It upon the passing of the Parliment Bill. was a stupendous salvo. It rumbled over it signed the warrant of its undoing?

In general wey everyone realises that the enemy is endeavouring to concentrate in death, *- his energies on heavy ships, but the frushed on A second wave poured oves. tank figures, by which his changing it look on this point may be traced am very significant. In the first period (fa weeks) bo sank 35 ships under 1,600 tons and 84 above in the second, 63 and 13shead like gigantie engines hundrang respectively; in the third, 20 and 101:

through the air. In front of us the at and in the fourth, 31 and 81. Expressed banks sounded farther down the trench.

tackers wavered. The detonation of in another way, he sink, for euch a gril ships, 5 big ours in the first period in

I turned my periscope kiden ays H the second, 7 in third, and 8th the bodies were being flung over our parapet. fourth. The change way possibly due My sergeant appeared. to pure chance: but it is also probable

Cleared that, driven under water by defensive armaments and compelled to rely upon the costly and somewhat erratic tard, the bosts prefer to rid them wapo against something that at once offers a bigger target, and holds the premise of more imposing entry on the roll of piratical achievement.

THE KING TO CADETS.

• STUDY YOUR MEN."

That's the end, sir!” chuckled my sergrant.

I thrust my hands into my breeches pockets. I did not want him to see they were trembling. --Daily Mail.

perial ordinenPS,

Nor did it rengthen its hold upon the

JAVA SHIPBUILDING SCHEME.. country by voting comfortable salaries ta all its members. The country does not

There is a movement on foot for appreciate very highly the services of the

the construction of ocean-going vessels gentlemen who pay it brief, infrequent full support of the Government l'arest at the Naval Yardy in Java. The visits in expensive motor-cars. It has an Department has been promised through em out with bombs, sir," he remarked. of it for their purposes, and it turns & the tear-Admiral, who is also in full uneasy feeling that they; are making us the Rear Admiral, who is also full Look, sir!” He pointed to yur front. deaf ear to their load professions of eravert Gdecite publishes the establish- tackers had disappeared. What was lifters of the House, fetting that their in-n exploiteer van schepen" (Society * Cease fire,” I ordered. For the, at disinterested patriotism. And the menuent of the N. V. Mij voor het bouwen. of them had retired.

duence is waning, take the most desperate for the construction and exploitation of resorted to adver isement in a kind of ere, the shares of which will be tested for measures to make it grow again. They have ships) with a capital of 2 million guild- feverish excitement. They have shouted public subscription from October. Ist ba their own names on the housetops, and 18th next, payment, to be fuly completed have been acclaimed on all the hoardings on October 30th. The present intention is The photographer as busy about them from morning to night. "And all in vint capacity of 3,000 tons, fitted with 300 to build two vessels, each with a carrying The inore noisily they advertise themselves horse-power engine. It is hoped to com the more bored becomes the people. The plate those two vessels and bring them Athenians ofraeised Aristides because into service within a year, after which they were weary of hearing him called the further vessels will be undertaken -- Admiral you Čranow, in an article in Just The prople of England will pre- Gentlemen Gailes-It gives me mucha publication called Cermmy's Renaretly dismiss the House of Communs be

*SFF pleasure to see you here to-day, and on urges that the new slogan of the use it is tired of seeing its members: congratulate yen on your snart appear Fatherland should be Down with Eng praised and pictured in the newspapers. ance and steadiness on parade I also land

HAS HE HEARD OF THE WAR AN AFTER-THE-FAR NEE take this opportunity of congratulating the Adintant on his hard work and th

Like another, writing on the wall there

The House of Commons has not dia tinguished itself since the war began minutes' grace in a case at Old-street When a solicitor asked for a few cient training, which have produce this appear before our scared, vision the dates excellent ergulhYou will soon become 1068, 1713, 1805, the years of the destruc. For those members who chose to serve Police Court and explained that conser rommissioned officers in the Army. Astion of the Spanish Armada, the anslave the country abroad there is nothing but for the defelaut was en is counse och you will copy & position of the ment of Holland by the peace of batte have not riser to the height of their optrare, Mr. Wilberforco, Femarked

Those who remained at home military tribunal appeal case, the magis highest responsibility, that of command, en, the smashing of France at the battle portunity. Indeed the country would not others may be in your hands. Here as of Trafalgar, the Royal Military College you have

have been the loser if the debates had been

These inferior tribunals must pot en- suspended, the members of Parliament dis croach on the time of these courts. They learnt the first principles of command,

mined to their homes and the conduct are modern invention and cannot. Do namely, to okey.

of the war left in the hands of these who allowed to affect these long-established manage it to day. For since we now pre end to heal of one party, the House

H.M. King George, addressing the Cadets at Sandhurst College, Camberley, said:

Discipline is the bedrock of the whole

military structure; without it an army is worse than useless. It is the growth of steady training, and above all of mutual confidence between-officers and their men

thu

GERMAN ADMIRAL'S OUTBURST.

Shall England be permitted to add to these sinister dates the year 1917, as the slavement and subjugation of Ger many k

What was the reply to our maghan mous peace offer?

praise.

f Commons has lise to du than ever it

wurts!!

Nothing but sardonie laughter. There had, and whoever impulse the Cabinet word of reproof, to quots an American:

from within the House, What, then, car

writer. A man'd think it was a young ladies' Bible class and had seen a mouse.

deliberative Assembly in Europe.

Always try to realise the individual fore, down with England Down with characteristics of those you command the brute by all the incans, we can lay study their interests, supply, their wants, and on. We shall force the low, dirty the poor House, do! It is forced to diecus It is not thus that it held itself when it sk nothing of them which you are not ing. England, to her knees by our face franchise and other questions, boasted, justly, that it was the formost ready Lợ do yourself.

This wär has shown with what devotion officers and boats, to which to-day the entire Ger which its true opinions may not be ex

man nation locks in proud expectation pressed, since a party truce has been pro So long as the war lasts, the House of men have stood by one another death,

and by our High Seas Fleet, which is claimed. Whatever is suggested in a You have reached the threshold of burning with impatience to measure which bound it to the country must beery much, But after the war? Either

Houss which bus broken the last diak

Commons and its unrealities do not matter your career while the greatest world war itself with the enemy.

accepted without protest. And thus the rust get a better, wiser House or wo still continues. Make use of you op

wist of unreality is thickened

its place. No great country can ho must find something wor hier to put in portunities. Keep in mind the listri

Conscious of its lost influences, the nys soldiers who, like you, have been

Captain George Whitaker, Coldstream

House of Commous, like other bodies in governed by body whose members trained within these walls. Emulate their derds, and do your utmost to carry Guards, was fined £1 for amking a false the same case, has become peevish. It romble at the echo of their own voices Army Bious traditions of the Briti

traditions of the British statement to the aliens officer on duty at recents criticism with extraordinary bit the pleaded piecusly that what- Their Majesties afterwards watched the clothes, and when asked his nationality its wealth and Comnipotence, it thought is ever to enjoy again the respect which Ryde pierhead. He was an civilian terness. It cannot bear with equanimity ver they do they shall not be harthly the ofnsure of the newspapers. Proud in judged And if the House of Commons sadets march to the College Chapel, and replied Chinese. On being detained itself immune from reproach and hoped once was freely given to it, not only must they themselves attended the service by a police constable, he said, You that no suspicion of felly or fear could it curtail the power which it has foolishly After the service the cadets swarmed evilian police are too afficions and ought ever come near it. And now at a single usurped; it must prove to the world that round the Royal car and gave the King to be in the trenches. You would then and Queen a most cordial send-off,

it has recovered something of its ancient have a sense of humour."

dignity and courage Daily Mail.

the

(Continued at foot of next column.)