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GERMANS

TWIN SPECTRES.

TROOPS WAR-WEARY AND

"DISCOURAGED."

Mr. Percival Phillips, special corres pondent of the Daily Express, wrote from France on September 7th:

The German soldiers on this front are beginning to realize that they must face Another winter campaign the hardest

TER HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY.

GERMANY'S LATEST

ANXIETY.

AMERICAN PRISONERS WANTED:

REWARDS FOR THEIR CAPTURE!

BRITISH FRONT, Sent 18th.

NOVEMBER 12TH. 1937,

DOWNFALL OF THE HOUSE THE RNE AND AFTER.

NITH LORD FRENCH-

OF ROMANOFTH

INTERVIE

DO

A few weeks ago this despatch caine ta** Lord French in a remarkable interview New York front Petrograd, says, the Veg York Times of September 9th

in the Paris Journal reviewing the THAT A crowd pressed against the steel rents following the Marne is reported barred fence about Taarskce Belo today the chance of faking Lille because of tho to have declared that he had to renounce watching every movement of swer figures The Germans are offering awards for in peasant, dress who wore doing pendants want of divisions which were sent else the first American prisoners dead or work alive, brought into their lines. The year ago the little man in poueant'

could

out by the crooking spade. A year ago the fragi little boy of one of those fingers that now grasped a was potential ruler over every one of the who came

to-day to watch him dipht For it was the one time lord

ordeal of an unprofitable war--and the Higher Command shows its concern about irreverent gather Wiped Suhe whole and munitions which were less arabitious

prospect fills them with the deepest depression. Reluctantly they are putting aaide the dream of perce in the autum

the imminence of the American Army's entry into the fighting on the Western front le letting it be known in variona

He asserts that his demands for gues

than the programme which has since been with the assurance that it would take realized were received by Lord Kitchener eight years 10 manufacture what was asked for. Fortunately," Lord French

Inte The ex-Commander-in-Chief recalled

Prophecies of about climax that would divisions that the men who succeed in world's mightiest domain, Nicholagados" we found Mr. Lloyd George

give Prussianism the victory are no longer heard in the prisoners enges, There are lower boasts and franker fore bodings, some of them couched in terms

capturing soldiers of this new Aimy will be given money, Iron Crosses, and other substantial recognition of their efforts

who was

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humble form

rm directing the of August, 1914, provided, and the retreat planting The

Mrs. Rontroff, French Armies Joffre und he had but Free Russia now calls Are Romanoon which was imposed upon the British and

now Mrs. Tatiana Marie,

of actual despair. The shadow of winter The General Commanding the Eleventh Alexis Romanol test and one idea, and that was to save Paris

is upon them.

What is the outlook? They are bidden to rejoice over Niga, nnd at the same time warned that the food situation is very grave. They read glowing communiques about British detents, which they know to he imaginary, and the same field post bombards them with pitiful appeals from hunger-ridden relatives,

DWINDLING MAN-POWER.

They see the steady depletion of their

Reserve Division put the price of 400

* In that despatch is well stimmarized the and to avoid also any engagement which marks (290) on the first American secured most sudden and greatest downfall in might have transformed it into an might have in doubtful issue and which history. So sweeping was the cataclyan irreparable disaster They passed dend or nlive, at the end of July, and this that made Tsar Nicholas IL of Russia has since been increased in other units. plain Mr. Romantit that the world, after rough days of uncertainty and anguish,

discloses this interesting offer. He wrote that have burst upon his erstwhile order to gain time for his men to have

The diary of a sergeant of this divisioning and rubbing its eyes, has almost when acthing seemed assured.

Lord French said he was advised to forgotten him amid the sensational entectire and always to yield ground in We are supposed to have had Americans domain, amid the admiration or excern opposite to us for some time now, and two tion aroused by the new signs that have breathing space and for himself to divisions of Portuguese on our right fought their way to the centre of the stage rective further reinforcements and The man who brings in the first Ameri and struggle to hold it, as the drama of material The retreat was a long fight until the day when Joffre informed him Class, 400 marks, and fourteen days leave Think of been promised the Iron Cross of the First of absence.

the Tsar

being sent to defend Paris on the Marne Lord French Siberia exchimed the world. And it recalled the change in direction which let it go at effects Log Invity, his war his piled on Von Kluck made when he left Parts Ch

tag:

udiences are getting his righ the sixth French Army, which, and the entry into the battle

with the English Army, threatened Voo

man-power; the gradani exhaustion of fan, dend or alive, to hendquarters hathe Russian revolution moves forward he was going to stop the retreat and to

war interinly vital to their existence as 4 army the deterioration of their best regiments and divisions. They know they ran no longer attack with hope of success.

at the most they can only delay the pro- gress of their enemies, and the end of every siege is a fresh retirement.

of bombardment and

and the enaciousness that their families enmeshed with wire to provide sites for are suffering greater privations than inflamedoubts and

concreto

has

net

what has happoned to Nicholas and his family between the day

thore

or cholas

vele minst

of the Hindenburg much of what has been wr

hasty retreut

VON KLECK'S IRRESOLUTION. agree with the praises bestowed upon Von Lord French added that he did not tuck on this subject, and he was

the black winter of 1916.

General von Ludendorff has been of civilians, who were sent further into

in the front line wholly cleared vicissit Mr. and Mrs. Ronnor movement of the French and Britisn prenching again about shortages. Before of

bc. Flanders offensive began he the invaded area without being allowed emphasized--not for the first time, but an opportunity to take more than is few more emphatically the urgent personal belongings in handbags. necessity of economizing ammunition, and the

even greater importance of husband-g ·SEARCHING FOR LOOT, ing the reserves of tuen. A

nover

The diary, which covers nearly two months of duty, describes in details the destruction of an industrini town by Germans, and its transformation bý the German Army

Commander into a mass theminenthis.

Months of bitter punishment are before of fortified ruins. Batteries have been when the leaders of free Rusin for Kluck from the flank and forced him to defent, to be endured in shell holes and planted in the cellars of private houses, him to abdicate and the day when he was other exposed defences, as the new order have been partially demolished in order bystanders who were before practically factories, and public buildings, which placed on a train, and the jeera of of warfare requires, with weakened reserves, worknned will-power, shoddy to give a better field of fire, and streets his werfs, and shipped along the hopeless and inadequate clothing, inferior rations,

squares have been torn up and route to Siberia,

by 80

astonished that the German Leneral did thousands of

to not continue his advance and did not machine-gun

any attempt to break a passage. Fortunately The town in question is memban

of-

Of course

Von Kluck did nothing, and the easterly written horr

about the and beik

children is rumour. But e even largely contributed to the success of the shorn of this, the story of the Romanoffe great battle of September 6th, for plan since their fall from high state inning which all the honour was due to WHITE treasure house for

General Joffre novelists and dramatisture monists and The British Army, Lord French con-

Nicholas 11. rubdicated

dicated on March tinued, especially deserves praise for the The sergeant records how he sud his 15th, 1917 During his last moments as npidity with which it moved forward, The lavish use of ammunition by enemy comrades, when not on duty firing railway train, hastening from the front, four days. They were brave men whom Autocrat of All the Rumias he was on a making the Germans retreat 33 miles in batteries in these operations was only machine gune from barricaded windows 1 Petrograd, whence rumour of the grave commanded there, but, unfortunately. made possible by cutting down the and from the roofs of the remaining disorders that were to culminate in his they were only a handful. The Field-

· routing "....... expenditure before they buildings, searched for hidden treasure dethronement had reached in The Marshal spoke in warm terms of the ser began. Gunners are constantly receiving and dug in the ruins for silver ware lie train got as far as Pakoff, some distance vices of Sir Douglas Haig and General fresh injunctions against waste; every discovered gold watches, priceless point from the capital. There it wis boarded shot must tell."

Their own artillery ings from museums, statuary, and other by a deputation of eminent RussineAllenby The French tropps, he remark: officers have asserted in their own defence works of art which the Germans are among then General Rusky It did not with a valour more admirabin than they ed accomplished prodigies, and fought in their dug-outs, hoping for a take the Tony long to see that his reign had ever displayed before. Nothing could

Portunity to send them to eplete other public build

The Cathedral was was over. The same warnings have applied to all sacked as well as kinds of equipment to Very lights,gs. The Germen authorities reinoved petrol, worn clothing, certain metals, teen valuables, but many of the inhabitants the bulk of the municipal and ecclesiasti The German sinff is engaged in a con- staut struggle to make inferior substitutes sold to have pheir possessions, and the de the work of high-grade articles now soldiers have explored, up unobtainable, they must juggle with men.

that they are hampered by the limitation o

of their shell supply and the necessity of preserving their guns,

stop them

LORD KITCHENER'S DEFLY

und materinis in order to cope with thee in the hope of finding the Government, so many of their rainne work was Unter on, he added, "I had to

nereasing deficiencies in both. For

would Blood The

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DAILY LIFE IN PRISON followed the Battle of the Marne was due

A BORBES Lord French said that the full which ** At Tsarakoe Sclo the dethrones to the lack of euectives and of material, imperial family was guarded with laxity The British paid the price for having of their suite, prisound himembers seeused to consent in penge time to con

with the scription and dug up were conspiring against the republicans

removed and the régime under which the nou

commandant de stricter renounce owing to the want of some divi Take Splain which had been sent elsewhere, to Bed Lake Lille as I had the right to hope, Captain Kotzebue, gave a news correspondent who visited the owever, all that is past. Now the men ex-Tsar's prison two weeks after hu ata there and, as to material, we have shdication these interesting Het is about tours than I ever dreamt of having

life of Nicholas and his family.

During 1914 and 1916 I mada continual Sire Heis fairly good spirits. When he it with his A munitions, without which it is im

ex diy of

the

The food question is always of parorated, and it is now practically uneat

Germun amount importance. I have endeavoured able. It is dark, sodden,

and

level smell. among

to get as much information on the sub- jret as possible, and I did not find any the men. Some of the hospitals being

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prisoners taken in the Flanders offensive the Flanders front contain man daily perfectle good health and representations in order to obtain guns Price 9.50 9:50 10.00 10.50 11.00en who looked as though they suffered in any suffering read the otters north own entourage ho has fits of crying possible nowadays to achieve victory

way from Inck of nourishment.

UNDER-FED

having studied with experts my pro bag which was certainly less ambi ticus than that which has since been ralized, deciared it would take eight years to manufacture what I asked. Fortunately we found Mr. Lloyd George, who accomplished the work which will remain to his eternal honour

Lord French concluded I have not the slightest doubt that we shall emerge the terrible catastrophe which & German completely victorious from the conflict And tell me if we were threatened with victory would be would it not be better

point that one day Lord Kitchener, after

from stomach trouble due to-

have eaten. ers captured by Inverness Copse this week were in bad nineteen were distinctly inferior, physin the quality of the bread. In their for recreation In the railed garden

Undoubtedly the hoys of eighteen and physical condition, which they attributed From 11 to 3 daily he is allowed to war remember in connection with this cally, to the older soldiers, and the latter Regiment, one company had 25 per cant. between the cast and west wings of the decinred that scientific under-feeding for of its strength two and a half years had lowered the 28th and

withdrawn between August palam

former Emperor's chief occupat standard of the German, youth. They gastric inflammation due to bad breading is shovelling snow in the garden fought with less decision, and could not All the prisoners taken by the Londoners which he enjoys greatly. He shows boyish be depended upon to stand shell fire were dispirited, and gave a gloomy interest in what is Baid and sritten of The German troops are led best in the account of the hardships which they hun. He does not resent abuse At ure front line and in rearre They suffer for suffered in the Inverness Copse. They sent he is chiefly desirous of obtaining this generosity when in rest, add troops admitted that they had been unnerved by foreign papers which are virtually orcupying back areas frequently complain our persistent artillery fire and by airmen

unobtainable that they are relentlesly pinched in who bred into their craters and trenches. The former Empress is in Otter order that their comrades under bombard Their officers rarely visited the front line. heir to the throne has recovered entirely health. Grand Duke Alexis, the former BOYS OF THE 1919 CLASS

When he heard of his father's dethrone Even the augnmented front line ration

The German divisions on the Westernment he cried bitteris, not, in my opinion, has been insufficient. The troops of front are still receiving large drafts of rom appreciation of the situation, but to die until the last man *** General von Arnim's 4th Army declared boys of the 1919 class to replace the merely because he was affected by his after the beginning of the battle of wastage caused by our heavy bombard parent's misery. The other children are Flanders that on the limited food supply ments and infantry attacks during the better, except Grand Duchess Marie the cost Russia 89,000,000 a year. In addi brought up they could not withstand the British attacks. Their ment ration was

past six weeks. Y Youths were recently All letters and communications to the tion to this, his wife had received $100,000 thereupon increased from four and three captured who were mustered at the Court are brought here first. I am the early for allowance and spreep fees, the

beginning of May and sent to the front censor

Tharavitely about 500,000 a year, besides four months later before their

ROMANOFF FORTUNER special allowances, and each of the

Tent may be antisfied.

quarters to seven and ane-quarter ouncesing was completed. The dilution of Toward the end of March came the imperial children $10,000 a year from the

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SUBSCRIPTIONS TO LOAN OF THO

daily, and they were given an increased amount of exceedingly vile tobacco. They units hitherto possessing a good fighting report that the ex-Taar's lands were today of their birth. were informed, however, that this extra spirit with these boys has had a markedly be confiscated. It was estimated that ration would be issued only during the deteriorating effect, and the older priton Nicholas, who as Tsar had owned By the middle of July Nicholse Roman battle period.

$90,000,000 acres of land and enjoyed an turbing phase of the inevitable winter which failed so

income ranging for up into the millions, compaign Boldiers' letters and the state meuls of prisoners contain many refer

have been

ers admit that the effect on the

Some of the

subjected to

den

apparently become reconciled to

The prospect of famine is the most dia is very badly in the

La Vities. His wife, it was said at the 2005 Government

ences to the menace of beigeace AJENERA

soldier from La Bassé

to nevere

d only about $500,000 in cash and

of repablican government in his domains, for he petitioned the

A measures as a baniment. Fame time, still had somn : 560,000, histo Muscribe to the Russian ser fallided has been bitterly resented by the ton about 19,750,000, owing to the fact freedom. He added that the stmount of wrote a experienced soldiers, who claim that

the that his allowances had

daughters were estimated as

One cannot speak about if no change nerve shaken, badly-trained, and badly years the fortunes of the

during August, we shall drifted into winter campaign. Then we really shall long before the battle were responsible for feel hunger Chur food already does not suffed us. We have to go hungry as it is, Our bread ration is very small,

the defeat. FEAR Murie

Anastasin,

For

U support min and his family and

subscription depended on whether Hot the new Russian Government intend

stated that his personal fortune amounted

to Ris 200,000, while his wife had RUL

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A carious uniformity in time prevails The soldiers guarding the ex Tear were 1000003 his san Rs. 1,300,000, his at present in the British and German rebuked for laxity last May after their daughter Ble, 3,000,000 and his other One result of this deterioration of the Armes, Germany abandoned summer commander had found them sitting about daughters between Rs. 1000,000 and German infantry is an increasing desire time, which is an hour in advantanders. 2.000.000 each. A few

and talking to

au agitation in favour of taking

n extremisty We have not yet changed, from 77 and bis family from Tsarsko

putting them into Kronstadt. Extremists also demanded to that they bo put to work in the gold mine! Sibe

Belo

to shirk duty in the front line. Entire England summer time, last Sunday night, companies have openly mutinied and while refused to go forward. I have heard of summer to Greenwich time The Ger the others that deliberately left their poate mis keep Berlin time, even in the front because they were not relieved when trenches, and their watches and all the promised. Battle police are stationed at clocks in the invaded towns and villages ll exits from the front with orders to are set an hour-faster than on our side shoot every man who cannot give a satis of the line. The Times. factory reason for coming away, but even

this has not been a suficient deterrent.

STUBBOLLY FIGHTERS. *****

published that the

request

August it was stated ex-Emperor and his

com Tsarakos thousands of fri

Nicho

many ad cold climate and the meted out by the hen

Such perfe

of Siberia, only to ho met with hilarity Russian freetom had been deported. destinel months later their wishes were

Yet

to be fulfilled, at least in part, pred Whether or not the Romanoff family, now the n Siberia, are to be set to work inimlides trea remains to be seen:

in

would give them fresh courage would be

I trust not be thought that the the feeling that thoir English enemies. accumulation of hardships confronting were as war-weary and discouraged but

In June, also the question came up as

to whether Nicholas Romhoff, ex-autos

the German troops has weakened them to they realize that the British battalions, crat of all the hosts, fasuld be raiser

They

__still_resist

in and r

the

equality with the humble peasants of

was decided after some debat, thất

should chis extended to

such an extent that they are ready to tituly with equatimity. The winter has his regim by being allowed, jaqla stop fighting Our men find them clinging

no uch terror for them.

Graters under the heaviest wounded

sergeant expressed the senti

to their pill-boxes and

ments of his comrades on the western front

They are still enduring wet and cold and when he wrote in his diary, ther hunger, and though they write and talk he was captured on

on the Pilke despairingly of the future they are by no these words means on the point of collapse.

Yet they are being worn down steadily though slowly. Every month brings them nearer exhaustion. The one thing that ** (Continued at foot of next Column.)

The English keep

and they do not care for weather has no effect on that

Ridge

The

us all the t time, and life la simply hell. They are dovile, rese English and upk Tothing Betus to make them tired.

edy of the Romanolle see

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