WITH KING ALBERT'S MEN.
AMPHIBIOUS WAR
NO MAN'S LAND A VAST LAGOON, [FROM THE TIMES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
September 5th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1478, 1017,
THE FRENCH MINISTRY.
M. CLEMENCEAU'S ROLE IN THE
CRISIS,
[BY THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE
** DAILY CHRONICLE.
CLOTHING IN GERMANY.
THE USE OF PAPER YARNS AND CELLULOSE.
An interesting artisle, based on in- formation in German official publications The nan behind the. French Mini and the German Press
appears in the Taking advantage of the comparative trial crisis is M. George Clemenceau, Labour Gazele fasted in September. U
the veteran polumist His attacks on M. Malvy, the Minister of the Interior, have been of such point and purpose that the Ribot Cabinet had to fall, Every day in L'Homme Enchaine M. Clemenceau found special adjectives with which to the least piquant of his articles visit of the incriminated his Implacable critica
shows how the scarcity of clothing materials has been growing in the Father land for nearly two years, rendering necessary first Government control, then
shguns from the sea, the Belgians express his objections to Mobi requisitioning and rationing, and finally
quiet on the main British front, spent yesterday in the Belgian lines in the flooded country between Nieuport and 16 was here that in the last Dixnude.
of October, 1914, with assistance of made their final stand, and forever barred to the advancing German hordes route to Calais. It was stern, breath less fighting, for the Belgians were immensely outnumbered, and had they not been able to hold on to the line of the Yer through the days till their inst the floods, could be and ancicat
their assistance, the Ger summoned to
Ger mans must bave seized the coast at least as far
as
the use, even for military garments, of
storsuch substitutes as paper yarn and cellu
Yesterday, wrote the journalist in lose. The article says:-- his trenchant style M Malvy came
C
to wipe his innocence on my doormat, The fact that Germany has licen cut off One can imagine the conference between during the war from some of the prin- them The Minister slender, rather pallid and anaemic looking; Clemenceau cipal markets to which she exported tex- with bullet head, calm and composed fertile manufactures has helped materially
who might inse for 30, but who, in
to relieve the serious crisis in her textile
Calais, and the whole story tures an amazing old tv is trade caused by the stoppage of have been vastly different. But the Belly 20 years older.
held, and the fine which they so
of the war on the Western front would
gians
gallantly defended the practical the they hold to-day, along
I went yesterday.
water,
and
DROWNED WURTEMBERGERS. Beneath the leval, mirrorlike surface there still lie hidden the rusted remnants
iration.
imports of leste raw materialartsqm abroad. The German Government has nevertheless found it necessary to adopt various measures for economizing stocks
STATE CONTROL
saw himn few weeks ago, and
youth. During our con marvelled at his
rsation, which lasted the best part of An hour, he outlined the situation in Here the River Yor marks the actual France with a robust courage and vigour, German front line. The Belgiau front and a piercing intelligence and of both the raw materials and the manu-
compre- line runs along the railway with slightly hension that awakened my profound ad raised embankment which cuts from 2011
His youth was as apparent factured products of the textile industry Nieuport in a direct line to Dizmude. in the full-bodied voice as in the livali: Between the two is No Man's Land, or neas with which at the end of the inter-in order to ensure a sufficient supply for No Man's Water, which varies from view he sprang to open the door from neval and military needs, any by these barely 95 yards at Dixmude to 2.500 yards his sent in the centre of his famous measures the textile and clothing indus loops farthest table For, like its owner, the table has tries have by degrees been brought under estrada. This No More lonte faint ont
the
paint where the
distinct character, original in colour na iu form, which enables the ex-Premier The war had bech in progress for a little practically complete Governemnt control. lagoon, with great patches of reads vast inarking the shallow areas and hammocks to
to sit
WIDE AT WORK
more than a year before the shortage which look like sandbanks here and there
THE TIGER brenkimhouses
the surface and dotted ruins of Here he is at work as early as 3 in to make itself felt amongst the forlorn and awash in the the morning! That is the hour at which the Union of Berlin Housewives' Societies
civilian population. old
In October, 1915, "waste.
ste. Out there in midwater both sides he commences to write the article which have a series of advanced posts, access to will which is reached, chiefly by perilous, Homme Eschaine on the organized an exhibition of textile sub-1
morning. It is a standing joke stitutes employed in German households, rated pathways over open water.
with confrères of the Parisian Press Strange, amphibious struggles at close that his comments on events are always quarters take place out there when one day late, for he retires to bed at 8 By Military Order, dated February ¿ét, side the raids an enemy's post, o'clock at night, after an egg and a 1916, the entire textile industry and a and all day
night shells sing heross cup of milk. But such considerations do great part of the clothing industry were tha
not weigh with eau. He is prob-placed under State control and stocks ably the only big
were requisitioned at prices fixed, in cano in the world wer who is independent of time and tide. of dispute, by an Imperial Arbitration After his article, which is finished at Ufice. Besides clothing suitable for the of many German guns with other grimsix, comes his morning walk and he Army, Navy, Civil Service, or for pri mer relics of von Beseler's army and the returns between seven and sight for his soners of war these requisitions involved his blankets, bedding material, and other Wurtembergers who were overwhelmed by frugal breakfast and to commence his the rush of waters in the last tragedy,
household linen, handkerchiefs, etc. The of daily receptions, Not uncommonly ne October 31st three years hopes are Lloyd George has taken a leaf from the ployees was at the same time stopped. By
Other gives appointments for 7.15 am Missus of uniforms to many railway things besidue buried there.won th
Germany's * hopes!
Bane book, with his breakfast conferno Order of February 25th, 1916, it was Meanwhile, between the faces of the
ences, but
any contending urmies, wildfowl make this to such practices are new in Pri- made a peual offence to advertise or held kind of stocktaking or bargain sales, and an appeal was made to
to the patriotism sinister lake their home. Great fleets of
t
of German women to maintain a moorhens dut the surface everywhere and Clemenceau's attack on Malvy was
simpli- wild duck at some sudden louder shot. inspired by the thought that the Minister city of dress more in keeping with the
splattering from among the reeds
was not sufficiently severe on German seriqueness of the times. Later in the Tall:
Ministry blue
in mid intrigua in France. This was herons stand motionless
spring of 1010 the
of War gove Partly sea. I heard the crying of sandpipers founded on the Minister's supposed con its approval to an Order axing a maxi
-du nót, know how many green nection with the notorious
mum length of material to be employed and youre are till some shot which the editor of the Bonnet P chose in making each article of dress for women plovers comes too near lifts flocks of them, more
children. By a and
a Federal Order dated June nervous than other
10th, 1915, the Government added clothing to the large list of articles b of clothing tickets was accordingly system ciple that while there could be no standard introduced It was laid down as a of consumption applicable to all classes of the population it was possible to
estab individual
the minimum requirements
of were enjoined to
and local authorities Brant permits for es much clothing as might be considered a minimum for each class. As a tule people were not to be permitted to go wer
beyond aus landmark in the waste of waters being fortunately, such an enterprise, however Persons applying for permits for the first 20 per cent of their normal requirements. is pleasantly known as the Ferme dudableault was wrongly directed, time were to be what
lies in the shade of a clump of elm trees who was a which now stand ankle-deep in water. Under that made what mulding
wailm into
ordinary sight,
one sort and another
some
thousands of
hands, record Occupy
It is an ex of pugning the good faith of H. Malvy his jected to rationing in Germany, and "a.
Jester
ble
striking
death in prison (at bis own
to the official inquiry) is still birds, wheeling dad ing
ing attention Without in the ""least" in am sure that,
critic suggested, both in Continu speeches in the Senate and in his articles usly the air: and water
to the in his journal, that he was morally assi
assist Hound of the guns And high overhead ing the wrong sort of propaganda in other birds circle unceasingly, the dron- Frange. And to make the matter plain,
of whose fight makes a
inderit may be said that M. Malvy, in common current to all other noin
with man other members of the power ill see the From
A dozen
the fal Socialist Radical group, appeared to Points one could windings of the with the German look kindly upon the efforte of certain front line, quite plainly and the enemy journalists (amongst them Almereyda) advanced posts nearer still, one compieu to promote an atmosphere of peace. Un
aux
chons, where the ruined buildings is alleged that both Almeroyda details of their de
As
to the Anarchist, and
and only if were in touch with they were found not to posteak an nude the Germans
have the enemy. Weighing upon one or other quate stock of clothing could the permit be veritable concrete is the accusation
be issued. Well-to-do people were to be of barracks; for the Ferme aux Cochous large cheque from a doubtful source (which were embargo free) rather than
having received a
directed to purchase articles of luxury deserves its name, and
whole In season out M. Clemenceau
Fave droves of Germans.
the astonishing spectacle of a man of Bogor, Thigh were in general demand.
Before Yards of
WAB long
found of nearly 80 urging the Government to
the differ water is a Belgian advanced post which greater activity in the
entiation Prosecution
between
rich we had hoped to visit, but the Germans the war and in the seeking out of
maying clothes why
supplies in the autumn
greater
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They are extended to second hand clothing partners in orime. Whilst Clemenceau underwear. Under an Order isased on answered by a burst on the other.
and RAMSCAPPELLE UNDER FIRE
was butchering the Ministers (he is Nor, for similar reasons, could we enter known as the Cabinet breaker or Christmas Day ordinary trade in second- the ruins of the little. village of Rams Tombeur des Ministers). Ribot played hand clothing, linen, and footwear was cappelle, for the Germans had two
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neas was transferred to the local authori ties, Second-hand clothing could only fold og chase authorities against a permit February, 1917, fresh
haps the Germans hate Ramscappelle, for or organ outside to drown their put an end to, and the old clothes busi
guns on the approach to the village. Por
NEW ENERGY WILL RESULT Clemence, therefore, it but fol. 1914 lowing his own precedent in
-bringing the
it was the storm centre of the fateful fighting of October 30th-31st, Yesterday
sholls were
be
falling on it Ministry to the ground: (consequent once of the progressive exhaustion of the all the
columu on bursting has occurred
which clans will tell us how many times this in
ad Olfband one might under mado no great black were
little thin olond only, as state the
but mixed with others the withdrawal of M. Malvy), Statisti-in
but threw
energy
of clothing materials and clothing Germany. Purchase permits for obtainable with great
and
were only stocktr ups shells
not
mord is the way of gas no place to visit, so we sat and watched ever sense the crisis is resolved, it to any one person in three months, a The and hoped the German gunners thinking of 1914 and their failure the hardly fail to satisfy the demand for through the Press to deliver up every
well-to-do were appealed to "oficjat I was extremely more energy and still greater efficiency.
to visit art of clothing and
keep pace with the soldiers in unremit
they possibly could spare. porting and unmeasured efforts.
Certainly it was will the bag The effect of his
it in others. In what than two pairs of stockings being allowed
day
were
GLEMENTS AND MATERIALS REQUÍBITIONED.
By an Order dated March 22nd, 1037, a general requisition of clothing and clothing materials for civilian use was instituted. On April 2nd a series, of
ruin the course of the
of Pervyse, and Furnes with its The temper of France, in face of the beautiful square now untenanted and heroism of her troops, and the weakness in the desert, which I had last seen so populous of the Grand Ally, is such that nothing e exciting times of three autumns short of perfect union, and mastery of Some of the old buildings wh
damaged all internal troubles will be tolerate Spanish have been wrecked: The nuclent framed that Ministerial changes do not maximum of wearing apparel of all kinds botnice, formerly one of the show places involve confusion in the Administration for men, women, and children and babies. of the town, has had half its front carried or even in the political life of the count from tuning parchase permits to any
and the local authorities
were prohibited away by a shell An aeroplane bomb has try. The great departments of State are s ripped off hart of one face of the belly, almost autonomous, but there is still person already in possession tumbled
and there is almost every street room for an original impulse, and for authorized
edmaximum. Simultaneously w regulations were issued prescribing that remain of one and brick are ill
• generous vitalising in mINUTE de amount of tutorial
detail the whole, Furnes has been lucky for the veteran Parliamentation and that might be used in any garment or is still a town, if a town of the dead, and journalist M. Clemenccan, has contri-article of household linen and
footsteps echo now in the visitors
Furnes not much look 80 Happily the French Constitution is so drastic regulations prescribed the absolute
· or two.
8.
on
it
www.absolutely deserted streets, whore grass Puted to that he has deserved well of his prietors of hotels bou
Byte country. His organ still petulantly were warned that they
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